US12003086B2
Method and system allowing more accurate detection and identification of unwanted arcing include novel processing of signal voltage representing recovered power-line current. In one implementation, arc-faults are detected based on numerical analysis where individual cycles of line voltage and current are observed and data collected during each cycle is processed to estimate likelihood of presence of arc-event within each individual cycle based on pre-defined number of arc-events occurring within pre-defined number of contiguous cycles. In another implementation, fast transient current spikes detection can be done by: computing difference values between consecutive line-current samples collected over a cycle, average of differences, and peak-to-peak value of line-current; comparing each difference value to average of difference; comparing each difference value to peak-to-peak value; and, based on calculation of composite of two comparisons, using thresholds to determine if arcing is present within processed cycle.
US12003081B2
A cable receiving device for a cable harness, comprising: a magnetic element for absorbing electromagnetic radiation, and a plastic molded part, wherein the plastic molded part comprises a cable guiding section for guiding a cable strand of the cable harness and a receiving section for receiving the magnetic element, and wherein the magnetic element is fastened in or on the receiving section in a form-locking manner and/or a material-fit manner.
US12003069B2
A fastening system has a conditioner clamp and a penetrating fastener. The conditioner clamp has an upper assembly and a lower assembly attachable together to define a conductor cavity therebetween. At least one threaded opening provides ingress into the conductor cavity. The penetrating fastener is extendable through the at least one threaded opening. The penetrating fastener has a threaded bolt and a penetrating portion with a proximal end at a second end region of the threaded bolt and a distal end spaced therefrom. The penetrating portion has a frustoconical configuration terminating at a tip portion. The tip portion is configured to penetrate into a conductor positioned within the conductor cavity.
US12003067B2
A system for monitoring the wear state of a carbon brush of a brush holder assembly in which the length of the carbon brush is diminished from an initial length as an end of the carbon brush wears away during use. The system includes a wear state monitor, including a sensor, coupled to the carbon brush. The wear state monitor is configured to rotate as the length of the carbon brush diminishes. The sensor is configured to measure an angular displacement of the wear state monitor as the wear state monitor rotates. The measured angular displacement of the wear state monitor correlates to an amount of diminution in the length of the carbon brush.
US12003061B2
A cable card assembly includes a circuit card having cable conductors at a cable end and cables terminated to the circuit card having signal conductors and ground shields surrounding the corresponding signal conductors to provide electrical shielding for the signal conductors. The signal conductors include exposed portions terminated to corresponding cable conductors. The cable card assembly includes a ground bus electrically connected to the ground shields. The ground bus includes a molded body having tunnels receiving the exposed portions of corresponding signal conductors. The molded body is contoured to control impedance along the exposed portions of the signal conductors.
US12003059B2
A modular plug is disclosed as having a housing, a wire manager, an anti-snag protector, and a load bar each configured to snap-fit together to assemble the modular plug. The wire manager includes a front portion fitted within an internal cavity of the housing and a rear portion having an aperture configured to receive a terminal end of a telecommunications cable. The wire manager includes a plurality of channels, each channel having a gate configured to position a twisted pair of wires from the telecommunications cable in a stacked vertical arrangement.
US12003058B2
One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for a vibration mitigation device. The vibration mitigation device can comprise a shell forming a hollow body that is configured to house a coupled wiring connector and a connector block. The shell can comprise first shell section and second shell section that are operably engaged with each other, and engaged with a vehicle component to which the connector block is engaged. The shape and sizing of the shell and its hollow body allow for a compressive force to be applied to the coupled connectors, to mitigate vibration between the two connectors during use.
US12003057B2
A connector 10 includes a plurality of terminals 12, an inner housing 20 for holding the plurality of terminals 12, a tubular outer housing 30 for covering the inner housing 20, and a bolt B1 for fastening the inner housing 20 and the outer housing 30 by being inserted up to the inner housing 20 while being passed through the outer housing 30 from outside of the outer housing 30. The inner housing 20 is formed with a plurality of cavities 22 for respectively accommodating the plurality of terminals 12 and a recess for accommodating the bolt B1, and the plurality of cavities 22 and the recess are partitioned from each other.
US12003049B2
A fixed insulator includes a plurality of first fixing grooves disposed along an arrangement direction in which a plurality of contacts are arranged, and partition walls each disposed between two adjacent contacts. A movable insulator includes a plurality of second fixing grooves disposed along the arrangement direction. The contacts each include a first base portion supported by a corresponding one of the first fixing grooves, a second base portion supported by a corresponding one of the second fixing grooves, a first arm portion connected to the first base portion and disposed between two corresponding adjacent ones of the partition walls, and a second arm portion connected to the first arm portion and the second base portion. A largest width of the first arm portion is smaller than a largest width of the second arm portion.
US12003039B2
A phased array antenna device comprises antenna elements arranged in a spatial distribution to emit and receive superposing radio frequency signals to and from different directions. Each antenna element is positioned within a corresponding unit cell. The unit cells are arranged in a non-overlapping manner next to each other. A feeding network for transmitting the antenna signals between a common feeding point and the respective antenna element comprises a plurality of antenna element transmission line segments each running into an antenna element and a corresponding plurality of phase shifting devices. The feeding transmission line segments each comprises more than two transition structures distributed along the feeding transmission line segment. Each transition structure provides for a signal coupling between the feeding transmission line segment and the corresponding antenna element transmission line segment, thereby connecting several dedicated antenna element transmission line segments with the same feeding transmission line segment.
US12003037B2
The present invention relates to a phase-shifting and feeding device, comprising a metal cavity, a phase-shifting circuit, and a feeding network board. The metal cavity is a U-shaped groove structure and engages with a ground plane to form a shielding cavity, thereby having the effect of the cavity in a conventional phase shifter. Since the ground plane serves as a sidewall of the shielding cavity, one sidewall is omitted from the metal cavity relative to the cavity of a conventional phase shifter, thereby significantly reducing the thickness and weight of the metal cavity while ensuring the functions of the phase-shifting and feeding device. In addition, the metal cavity and the feeding network board are arranged to be jointly grounded, while a signal terminal is electrically connected to a feeding circuit. Therefore, the feeding circuit may feed the phase-shifting circuit without using a co-axial feeder. Therefore, the described phase-shifting and feeding device has a reduced volume and a simplified structure, thereby facilitating the miniaturization of a base station antenna. In addition, further provided by the present invention is a base station antenna.
US12003027B2
A magneto-electric dipole antenna comprising a magnetic dipole antenna portion and an electric dipole antenna portion arranged to form a complementary antenna is disclosed. The electric dipole antenna portion comprises a plurality of electric patch portions. Each electric patch portion comprises a first patch region of a first conductivity and a second patch region of a second conductivity lower than the first conductivity, and wherein the first patch region and the second patch region cooperate to define an electrical current path of the dipole antenna portion.
US12003024B2
An antenna device includes a casing, a circuit board, and an antenna. The casing has a positioning structure. The circuit board is disposed in the casing. The antenna is disposed in the casing and includes a main body portion and a connection portion connected to each other. The connection portion is connected to a surface of the circuit board. The main body portion is extended on a plane defined by a first axial direction and a second axial direction. The first axial direction is perpendicular to the surface and the second axial direction is parallel to the surface. The main body portion is positioned on the positioning structure and separated from the circuit board.
US12003016B2
A modular monopole for wireless communications includes: an antenna module having a floor, a ceiling and a side wall that form an antenna compartment, wherein at least one antenna resides within the antenna compartment; a radio module having a floor, a ceiling and a side wall that form a radio compartment, wherein at least one remote radio unit (RRU) resides within the radio compartment; and a base. The base, the radio module, and the antenna module are arranged in vertically stacked relationship, with the base below the radio module and the antenna module above the radio module.
US12003012B2
An antenna module includes a radiating element and a dielectric substrate. The dielectric substrate includes a flat portion on which an external terminal (T) to which a RFIC is connected is disposed, a flat portion in which the radiating element is disposed, a bent portion, a feeder, and a ground electrode (GND1). The feeder extends through the flat portions and the bent portion to connect the external terminal (T) and the radiating element to each other. The ground electrode (GND1) extends through the flat portions and the bent portion along the feeder. At the bent portion, a thickness of the feeder is greater than a thickness of the ground electrode (GND1).
US12003010B2
A compact planar balun formed on a substrate including a hairpin-shaped conductive microstrip and a single-ended contact. The hairpin-shaped conductive microstrip includes first and second linear segments integrally formed with a U-shaped segment, and a single-ended contact is conductively coupled at a location along the first linear segment. The first and second linear segments each have a first characteristic impedance and are in parallel with each other having a first end forming first and second differential contacts and having a second end. The U-shaped segment has a second characteristic impedance that is less than the first characteristic impedance in order to achieve proper scatter parameter alignment. The U-shaped segment may be generally formed thicker or wider than the linear segments to achieve a reduced characteristic impedance. In the alternative or in addition, co-planer ground metal is formed closer to the U-shaped segment to achieve a reduced characteristic impedance.
US12003007B2
A fuel cell system comprising (i) at least one fuel cell stack (30) comprising at least one intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cell, and having an anode inlet (41) and a cathode inlet (61) and (ii) a reformer (70) for reforming a hydrocarbon fuel to a reformate, and a reformer heat exchanger (160); and defining: an anode inlet gas fluid flow path from a fuel source (90) to said reformer (70) to said fuel cell stack anode inlet (41); a cathode inlet gas fluid flow path from an oxidant inlet (140, 140′, 140″) through at least one cathode inlet gas heat exchanger (110, 150) to said reformer heat exchanger (160) to said fuel cell stack cathode inlet (61); wherein said at least one cathode inlet gas heat exchanger (110, 150) is arranged to heat relatively low temperature cathode inlet gas by transfer of heat from at least one of (i) an anode off-gas fluid flow path and (ii) a cathode off-gas fluid flow path; wherein said reformer heat exchanger is arranged for heating said anode inlet gas from said relatively high temperature cathode inlet gas to a temperature T3 at the anode inlet that is below a temperature T1 at the cathode inlet; and wherein oxidant flow control means (200) for controlled mixing of low temperature oxidant from the or each oxidant inlet (140, 140′, 140″) with high temperature cathode inlet gas to control a temperature T1 at the cathode inlet (61) relative to a temperature T3 at the anode inlet (41) and at a level higher than T3.
US12003004B2
Fuel cell stack assemblies having a positive end plate and a negative end plate. The end plates can be formed from a central structural element with an insulating end plate cover and an insulating end plate manifold. A plurality of cathode plates and a plurality of fuel cell assemblies can be arranged in a stack having an alternating pattern of cathode plates and fuel cell assemblies, with the positive end plate and the negative end plate provided on either end of the stack of cathode plates and fuel cell assemblies.
US12002999B2
An energy storage device includes a case, an electrode assembly housed in the case, a current collector arranged between the electrode assembly and a lid of the case in Z-axis direction, and an electrode terminal fixed to the lid. The current collector has a terminal connecting portion connected to the electrode terminal and an electrode connecting portion connected to the electrode assembly. The terminal connecting portion and the electrode connecting portion are arranged side by side in X-axis direction intersecting with the Z-axis direction, and a thickness of the electrode connecting portion is smaller than a thickness of the terminal connecting portion.
US12002997B1
A power consuming device includes an energy storage device. The energy storage device includes a supporter, a pole, a stimulus-response member, a connector, and an electrode assembly. The supporter has a first side and a second side opposite to the first side. The supporter defines a mounting hole and a vent hole. The mounting hole is spaced apart from the vent hole in a length direction of the supporter. The connector includes a first connecting part and a second connecting part. The first connecting part is connected to the second connecting part. The first connecting part is opposite to the second connecting part when the first connecting part is folded relative to the second connecting part. The first connecting part is connected to the pole. The second connecting part extends toward the vent hole and partially shields the vent hole in a thickness direction of the supporter.
US12002994B2
The present application provides a battery module, a battery pack, and a battery-powered apparatus. The battery module includes a plurality of battery units and a busbar assembly. The plurality of battery units are arranged in a horizontal direction, where each battery unit includes a plurality of batteries stacked in a vertical direction, the plurality of batteries include a first battery and a second battery, the first battery and the second battery each include a first electrode terminal, a second electrode terminal, and an explosion-proof piece. A busbar assembly electrically connects the plurality of battery units, where the busbar assembly includes a first busbar connected to the first electrode terminal and the second electrode terminal. In a first direction perpendicular to the vertical direction and the horizontal direction, the first busbar includes a first weak zone that at least partially overlaps with the explosion-proof piece of the first battery.
US12002992B2
This application discloses a battery, an electrical device, and a method and device for manufacturing a battery. The battery includes: a plurality of battery cells arranged along a first direction, where electrode terminals are disposed on two end faces of each of the battery cells along the first direction respectively; and a busbar component, configured to connect the two electrode terminals to implement electrical connection between two battery cells. The busbar component includes a flexible bend portion. The flexible bend portion is configured to adjust a relative position between the two electrode terminals. A maximum width of the flexible bend portion along the first direction is greater than a distance between the two electrode terminals. The flexible bend portion disposed in the busbar component can be bent in various forms to meet a requirement of electrically connecting the two battery cells arranged at a variety of relative positions.
US12002989B2
A separator includes a porous substrate and a hybrid coating layer disposed on a surface of the porous substrate. The hybrid coating layer includes a plurality of polymer particles and a binder. Each polymer particle includes a shell and a cavity defined in the shell. The polymer particle can swell and damage when comes in contact with an electrolyte.
US12002984B2
This application relates to the field of energy storage technologies, and provides a battery, an apparatus, a preparation method of battery, and a preparation apparatus of battery. The battery includes a first battery cell and a second battery cell. The first battery cell includes a first pressure relief mechanism, the second battery cell includes a second pressure relief mechanism, an energy density of the first battery cell is greater than an energy density of the second battery cell, and an area of the first pressure relief mechanism is greater than an area of the second pressure relief mechanism. The apparatus includes the foregoing battery.
US12002981B2
A battery pack for optimizing the structure of the battery pack includes a case, a battery module and a blocking member. The case includes an accommodating cavity and a drain hole in communication with the accommodating cavity. The battery module is contained inside the accommodating cavity. The blocking member is mounted to the case, wherein the blocking member is disposed on one side of the battery module in a width direction. At least a part of the blocking member is arranged between the battery module and the drain hole to block a binder for fixing the battery module from entering the drain hole. The reservoir cavity is provided, such that the liquid flow into a reservoir portion to prevent dangers such as short-circuit occurring in the battery module when liquid is accumulated inside the case.
US12002978B2
Provided is an alkaline secondary battery including: a stacked-cell battery in which multiple single cell elements having a configuration of an alkaline secondary battery are stacked; and a box-shaped case made of resin in which the stacked-cell battery is housed vertically. The box-shaped case has a bottom, a pair of long-side walls parallel to the stacked-cell battery, a pair of short-side walls perpendicular to the stacked-cell battery, and a lid part. The lid part has a vulnerable portion having a smaller thickness than other portions of the lid part, the thickness of the vulnerable portion is 0.1 to 1.0 mm, and a proportion of an area of the vulnerable portion with respect to a total area of the lid part in a plan view is 10 to 40%.
US12002974B2
A pouch type secondary battery according to the present invention includes: an electrode assembly; a battery case accommodating the electrode assembly in an inside thereof; an electrode tab protruding from the electrode assembly; a first electrode lead having an inner end connected to the electrode tab; a second electrode lead having an inner end coupled to an outer end of the first electrode lead and an outer end extending outside of the battery case; a connection part coupling the first and second electrode leads to each other; an insulation part fused around a portion of each of the first and second electrode leads, the insulation part bonding the first and second electrode leads to the battery case; and a fusion prevention part located at a position at one surface of the first electrode lead, the fusion prevention part preventing the first electrode lead from being fused to the insulation part.
US12002968B2
The present disclosure relates to a method of manufacturing catalyst slurry for fuel cells capable of greatly improving efficiency in use of catalyst metal and a method of manufacturing an electrode for fuel cells using the catalyst slurry manufactured using the method. Specifically, the method of manufacturing catalyst slurry for fuel cells includes preparing a catalyst including a porous carrier and catalyst metal, introducing the catalyst, a solvent, and an ionomer into a chamber, and infiltrating the ionomer into pores of the carrier.
US12002965B2
Provided is a long aluminum foil capable of suppressing, in a case where the aluminum foil is provided with a region where through-holes are not formed, occurrence of deformation at a boundary portion between a region where through-holes are formed and the region where through-holes are not formed. The long aluminum foil includes, in a width direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction, a perforated portion, a non-perforated portion, and a boundary portion between the perforated portion and the non-perforated portion, in which the perforated portion has a plurality of through-holes penetrating therethrough in a thickness direction, the non-perforated portion does not have a through-hole, the boundary portion has a plurality of through-holes penetrating therethrough in the thickness direction and a plurality of non-through-holes, and an opening ratio of the through-hole in the boundary portion gradually decreases from a perforated portion side to a non-perforated portion side.
US12002963B2
An electrode configuration for a battery cell includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The separator includes an electrically conductive protrusion inhibiting layer and a first insulating layer interposed between and electrically insulating the protrusion inhibiting layer from one of the positive and negative electrode.
US12002954B2
According to one embodiment, a positive electrode active material for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery contains a lithium/transition metal composite oxide that contains 80 mol % or more, relative to the total mol number of metal elements other than Li, of Ni and at least one kind of metal element selected from among Co, Mn, Al, W, Mg, Mo, Nb, Ti, Si and Zr. When a filtrate of a suspension, said suspension being prepared by adding 250 mg of the positive electrode active material to 10 mL of a 17.5 mass % aqueous solution of hydrochloric acid, dissolving by heating at 90° C. for 2 hours and then diluting to 50 mL, is analyzed by inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry, the elution amount of S in the filtrate is 0.002 mmol or greater.
US12002948B2
In a method of preparing an immobilized selenium system or body, a selenium-carbon-oxygen mixture is formed. The mixture is then heated to a temperature above the melting temperature of selenium and the heated mixture is then cooled to ambient or room temperature, thereby forming the immobilized selenium system or body.
US12002947B2
This application relates to an electrode active composition, a preparation method thereof, an electrode, a battery, and an apparatus. The electrode active composition includes: a first component, the first component being lithium cobalt oxide particles; and a second component, the second component being ternary material particles. The first component includes lithium cobalt oxide particles with a particle size greater than 11 μm and lithium cobalt oxide particles with a particle size less than 6 μm, and a ratio in number of the lithium cobalt oxide particles with a particle size greater than 11 μm to the lithium cobalt oxide particles with a particle size less than 6 μm is 0.2-4.8, and in some embodiments, 0.2-2.8. A summed number of the lithium cobalt oxide particles with a particle size greater than 11 μm and the lithium cobalt oxide particles with a particle size less than 6 μm accounts for above 90% of a total number of particles in the first component.
US12002945B2
A lithium-containing complex transition metal oxide forming the positive electrode active material of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary cell in one embodiment is a secondary particle obtained by aggregating primary particles. Ion chromatography analysis of a sample obtained by adding the positive electrode active material to an alkali solution and absorbing a distillate thereof in sulfuric acid results in detection of 2-200 pm of ammonia relative to the mass of the positive electrode active material. When a filtrate of an aqueous dispersion in which 1 g of the positive electrode active material is dispersed in 70 ml of pure water is titrated with hydrochloric acid, the value of Y−X is 50-300 mol/g and the value of X−(Y−X) is no higher than 150 mol/g, with X mol/g being the acid consumption until a first inflection point on the pH curve and Y mol/g being the acid consumption until a second inflection point.
US12002934B2
A rechargeable battery state determination method determines whether a rechargeable battery is in a micro-short-circuit-prone state, which is a state that is highly likely to form a micro-short circuit. The rechargeable battery state determination method includes measuring an electron transfer resistance of the rechargeable battery by applying a voltage or current having a predetermined or higher frequency to an electrode system of the rechargeable battery, determining whether an inter-electrode distance is satisfactory based on a comparison of the measured electron transfer resistance of the rechargeable battery with a predetermined lower limit threshold value, in which the determining whether an inter-electrode distance is satisfactory including determining that the inter-electrode distance is satisfactory when the measured electron transfer resistance of the rechargeable battery is greater than or equal to the lower limit threshold value, and determining that the rechargeable battery is a conforming piece when the inter-electrode distance is satisfactory.
US12002903B2
Provided is a technology capable of improving the quality of a GaN layer that is formed on an underlying substrate. A group III-nitride laminated substrate includes an underlying substrate, a first layer that is formed on the underlying substrate and is made of aluminum nitride, and a second layer that is formed on the first layer and is made of gallium nitride. The second layer has a thickness of 10 μm or less. A half-value width of (0002) diffraction determined through X-ray rocking curve analysis is 100 seconds or less, and a half-value width of (10-12) diffraction determined through X-ray rocking curve analysis is 200 seconds or less.
US12002894B2
A photosensor includes: a support; a thermoelectric conversion material section that is disposed on a first main surface of the support and that includes a plurality of first material layers each having an elongated shape, a plurality of second material layers each having electrical conductivity and an elongated shape, and an insulating film, the first material layers and the second material layers each being configured to convert thermal energy into electrical energy; a heat sink that is disposed on a second main surface of the support and along an outer edge of the support; a light-absorbing film that is disposed in a region surrounded by inner edges of the heat sink as viewed in a thickness direction of the support so as to form temperature differences on the first main surface of the support in longitudinal directions of the first material layers.
US12002893B2
Multiple dispatchable resources such as energy storage systems, generators, and curtailable loads are used to fulfill electricity usage control instructions by implementing multiple different sets of dispatch instructions. The sets of dispatch instructions vary based on individual status characteristics and aggregate status characteristics of the dispatchable resources in order to use the resources optimally. The resources may in some instances be prioritized according to their status characteristics in order to improve response efficiency, improve cost-effectiveness, reduce errors and flawed fulfillment, and improve the ability of the resources to respond to different kinds of electricity usage control instructions over time.
US12002884B2
A semiconductor structure includes vertical stacks located over a substrate, wherein each of the vertical stacks includes from bottom to top, a bottom electrode, a dielectric pillar structure including a lateral opening therethrough, and a top electrode; layer stacks located over the vertical stacks, wherein each of the layer stacks includes an active layer and an outer gate dielectric and laterally surrounds a respective one of the vertical stacks; inner gate electrodes passing through a respective subset of the lateral openings in a respective row of vertical stacks that are arranged along a first horizontal direction; and outer gate electrodes laterally extending along the first horizontal direction and laterally surrounding a respective row of layer stacks.
US12002881B2
The present document discloses a heterostructure for a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT). The heterostructure comprises a SiC substrate, an InxAlyGa1-x-yN nucleation layer (12), wherein x=0-1, y=0-1, preferably x<0.05 and y>0.50, more preferably x<0.03 and y>0.70 and most preferably x<0.01 and y>0.90, formed on the SiC substrate. The heterostructure further comprises a GaN channel layer formed on the InxAlyGa1-x-yN nucleation layer. A thickness of the GaN channel layer is 50 to 500 nm, preferably 100 to 450 nm, most preferably 150 to 400 nm. The GaN channel layer presents a rocking curve with a (002) peak having a FMHW below 300 arcsec, and a rocking curve with a (102) peak having a FMHW below 400 arcsec as determined by X-ray diffraction, XRD. A surface of an uppermost layer of the heterostructure (1) exhibits an atomic step-flow morphology with rms roughness over a 10 μm2 scan area of below 1.8 nm, preferably below 1.4 nm, most preferably below 1 nm, over a 3 μm2 scan area of below 1 nm, preferably below 0.7 nm, most preferably below 0.4 nm, as determined by atomic force microscopy, AFM.
US12002876B2
In a transistor including an oxide semiconductor, a change in electrical characteristics is suppressed and reliability is improved. The transistor includes an oxide semiconductor film over a first insulating film; a second insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film; a metal oxide film over the second insulating film; a gate electrode over the metal oxide film; and a third insulating film over the oxide semiconductor film and the gate electrode. The oxide semiconductor film includes a channel region overlapping with the gate electrode, a source region in contact with the third insulating film, and a drain region in contact with the third insulating film. The source region and the drain region contain one or more of hydrogen, boron, carbon, nitrogen, fluorine, phosphorus, sulfur, chlorine, titanium, and a rare gas.
US12002873B2
The method for adjusting a groove depth includes: preparing masks having different thicknesses on respective top surfaces of a plurality of substrates made of silicon carbide; forming a first opening having a predetermined width and a second opening having a width wider than the first opening in each of the masks; simultaneously forming a first groove and a second groove in each of the substrates by selectively etching via the first opening and the second opening; measuring a depth ratio of the first groove to the second groove in each of the substrates; and acquiring a thickness of a mask such that the depth ratio is an intended value, from a relationship between each thickness of the masks and each depth ratio in the substrate.
US12002854B2
A semiconductor device having an improved source/drain region profile and a method for forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes etching one or more semiconductor fins to form one or more recesses; and forming a source/drain region in the one ore more recesses, the forming the source/drain region including epitaxially growing a first semiconductor material in the one or more recesses at a temperature of 600° C. to 800° C., the first semiconductor material including doped silicon germanium; and conformally depositing a second semiconductor material over the first semiconductor material at a temperature of 300° C. to 600° C., the second semiconductor material including doped silicon germanium and having a different composition than the first semiconductor material.
US12002847B2
A power semiconductor device includes an epitaxial layer of a first conductivity type, a first doped region of a second conductivity type, a second doped region of the first conductivity type, a contact metal layer, a device electrode, a first termination electrode, and a second termination electrode. The epitaxial layer includes an active region and a termination region. The device electrode is located in a device trench in the active region, and is electrically isolated from the epitaxial layer and the contact metal layer. The first termination electrode is located in a first termination trench in the termination region and is electrically isolated from the epitaxial layer. The second termination electrode is located at a bottom of the first termination trench and is electrically isolated from the first termination electrode and the epitaxial layer. Both the first termination electrode and the second termination electrode are capable of being selectively floating.
US12002845B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a fin structure, which includes a stacked layer of first semiconductor layers and second semiconductor layers disposed over a bottom fin structure and a hard mask layer over the stacked layer, is formed. An isolation insulating layer is formed. A sacrificial cladding layer is formed over at least sidewalls of the exposed hard mask layer and stacked layer. A first dielectric layer is formed. A second dielectric layer is formed over the first dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer is recessed. A third dielectric layer is formed on the recessed second dielectric layer. The third dielectric layer is partially removed to form a trench. A fourth dielectric layer is formed by filling the trench with a dielectric material, thereby forming a wall fin structure.
US12002841B2
An optoelectronic device includes first and second light-emitting diodes, each LED having: a first semiconductor portion, with a first type of doping, having a wire-like shape along an axis and having side surfaces parallel to this axis; an active portion arranged at least partially on a top end of the first portion; and a second semiconductor portion, with a second type of doping, arranged at least partially on all or part of the active portion. The optoelectronic device further includes an electrically resistive layer having an electrical resistance that is higher than that of the active portion, covering at least all or part of the side surfaces of the first portion and all or part of the surface of the top end of the first portion not covered by the active portion. The resistive layers of the first and second LEDs are separated from one another.
US12002826B2
A solid-state imaging element according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first electrode including a plurality of electrodes, a second electrode opposed to the first electrode, and a photoelectric conversion layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the first electrode has, at least in a portion, an overlap section where the plurality of electrodes overlap each other with a first insulation layer interposed therebetween.
US12002823B2
A solid-state image sensor includes a plurality of imaging device blocks each including P×Q imaging devices. In an imaging device block, first charge movement controlling electrodes are provided between the imaging devices, and second charge movement controlling electrodes are provided between the imaging device blocks. In the imaging device block, P imaging devices are arrayed along a first direction, and Q imaging devices are arrayed along a second direction. Charge accumulated in a photoelectric conversion layer of the (P−1)th imaging device from the first imaging device along the first direction is transferred to the photoelectric conversion layer of the Pth imaging device and read out together with charge accumulated in the photoelectric conversion layers of the Q Pth imaging devices, under the control of the first charge movement controlling electrodes.
US12002818B2
The semiconductor device includes a driver circuit portion including a driver circuit and a pixel portion including a pixel. The pixel includes a gate electrode layer having a light-transmitting property, a gate insulating layer, a source electrode layer and a drain electrode layer each having a light-transmitting property provided over the gate insulating layer, an oxide semiconductor layer covering top surfaces and side surfaces of the source electrode layer and the drain electrode layer and provided over the gate electrode layer with the gate insulating layer therebetween, a conductive layer provided over part of the oxide semiconductor layer and having a lower resistance than the source electrode layer and the drain electrode layer, and an oxide insulating layer in contact with part of the oxide semiconductor layer.
US12002813B2
A method for forming an SOI substrate is provided. The method includes following operations. A recycle substrate is received. A first multilayered structure is formed on the recycle substrate. A trench is formed in the first multilayered structure. A lateral etching is performed to remove portions of sidewalls of the trench to form a recess in the first multilayered structure. The trench and the recess are sealed with an epitaxial layer, and a potential cracking interface is formed in the first multilayered structure. A second multilayered structure is formed over the first multilayered structure. The device layer of the recycle substrate is bonded to an insulator layer over an carrier substrate. The first multilayered structure is cleaved along the potential cracking interface to separate the recycle substrate from the second multilayered structure, the insulator layer and the carrier substrate. The device layer is exposed.
US12002806B2
The semiconductor substrate has a first principal surface and a second principal surface. The base contact layer is arranged between the base layer and the first principal surface, and forms a part of the first principal surface. The anode contact region is arranged between the anode layer and the first principal surface, forms a part of the first principal surface, and has a second conductivity type impurity concentration peak value higher than that of the anode layer. The anode contact region includes a first anode contact layer having a lower net concentration and a higher first conductivity type impurity concentration than the base contact layer.
US12002802B2
An integrated circuit (IC) structure includes a semiconductor substrate, a shallow trench isolation (STI) region, and a capacitor. The STI region is embedded in the semiconductor substrate. The capacitor includes first and second conductive stacks. The first conductive stack includes a first dummy gate strip disposed entirely within the STI region and a plurality of first metal dummy gate contacts landing on the first metal capacitor strip. The second conductive stack includes a second dummy gate strip disposed entirely within the STI region and extending in parallel with the first dummy gate strip, and a plurality of second dummy gate contacts landing on the second dummy gate strip, wherein the first conductive stack is electrically isolated from the second conductive stack.
US12002798B2
A fan-out type semiconductor package may include a frame, an upper chip stack, a first redistribution pattern, a lower chip stack, a second redistribution pattern and a redistribution post. The frame may have a cavity. The upper chip stack may be arranged in the cavity. The first redistribution pattern may be arranged under the frame. The first redistribution pattern may be electrically connected with the upper chip stack. The lower chip stack may be arranged under the first redistribution pattern. The second redistribution pattern may be arranged under the lower chip stack. The second redistribution pattern may be electrically connected with the lower chip stack. The redistribution post may be electrically connected between the first redistribution pattern and the second redistribution pattern. Thus, the fan-out type semiconductor package may have an improved heat dissipation characteristic with a thin thickness.
US12002793B2
Methods and apparatus relating to integrating System in Package (SiP) with Input/Output (IO) board for platform miniaturization are described. In an embodiment, a SiP board includes a plurality of logic components. An IO board is coupled to the SiP board via a grid array. The plurality of logic components is provided on both sides of the SiP board and one or more of the plurality of logic components are to positioned in an opening in the IO board. Other embodiments are also disclosed and claimed.
US12002790B2
A pixel includes a first electrode and a second electrode facing each other, an insulating layer on the first and second electrodes, a plurality of light-emitting elements located on the insulating layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, a first contact electrode electrically connected to the first electrode, and a second contact electrode electrically connected to the second electrode. Here, a first gap having a constant width in a first direction and a second gap having a width in the first direction that gradually changes along a second direction are located between the first electrode and the second electrode or between the first contact electrode and the second contact electrode.
US12002789B2
A display apparatus comprises an array of micro-LEDs and an aligned array of catadioptric optical elements wherein the array of micro optics is further aligned to an array of apertures of a low reflection screen. Advantageously such an arrangement provides a display with large images of configurable size, low cost and high brightness that can achieve high contrast in high illuminance from ambient lighting while also achieving high luminous efficiency.
US12002780B2
The present disclosure provides a package structure. The package structure includes a base, a device disposed on the base, a lid disposed over the base and the device and spaced apart from the device, and a first metal component disposed between the device and the lid, wherein the first metal component contacts the device and the lid. The present disclosure also provides a method for forming a package structure.
US12002779B2
A multilayer body includes a first electronic component and a structural body including first and second regions. The first electronic component is in the second region. The multilayer body includes a second electronic component mounted via a solder bump onto the structural body with a connection pad interposed therebetween. An outer surface of the first region and an outer surface of the first electronic component have a step difference therebetween in a height direction of the structural body. The connection pad is on the outer surface of the first region, an outer surface of the first electronic component, and a step-difference surface of a portion of the step difference.
US12002777B2
According to one or more embodiments, a semiconductor device includes a first substrate and a second substrate. The first substrate includes a first metal layer and a first insulating layer. The first insulating layer surrounds the first metal layer. The second substrate includes a second metal layer, a second insulating layer, and a first conducive body. The second metal layer is in contact with the first metal layer. The second insulating layer surrounds the second metal layer and is in contact with the first insulating layer. A part of the first conductive body is in the second metal layer and extends in a first direction toward the first metal layer.
US12002770B2
A package includes first and second redistribution structures, a die, a permalloy structure, a molding material and a plurality of through vias. The first redistribution structure includes a first metal pattern. The die is disposed over the first redistribution structure. The molding material is disposed over the first redistribution structure and surrounds the die and the permalloy structure. The second redistribution structure is disposed over the die, the permalloy structure and the molding material, and includes a second metal pattern. The through vias penetrate the molding material and connects the first metal pattern to the second metal pattern. The permalloy structure includes a first member and a second member isolated from the first member, the first member and the second member are surrounded by the plurality of through vias and sandwiched between the first metal pattern and the second metal pattern. A method for forming a package is also provided.
US12002767B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: an integrated circuit die; an encapsulant at least partially encapsulating the integrated circuit die; a conductive via extending through the encapsulant; a redistribution structure on the encapsulant, the redistribution structure including: a metallization pattern electrically coupled to the conductive via and the integrated circuit die; a dielectric layer on the metallization pattern, the dielectric layer having a first thickness of 10 μm to 30 μm; and a first under-bump metallurgy (UBM) having a first via portion extending through the dielectric layer and a first bump portion on the dielectric layer, the first UBM being physically and electrically coupled to the metallization pattern, the first via portion having a first width, a ratio of the first thickness to the first width being from 1.33 to 1.66.
US12002766B2
A semiconductor structure and method for manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate having fin structures. The substrate includes a material having a substrate thermal expansion coefficient. The semiconductor structure also includes an isolation structure between the fin structures. The isolation structure includes a first dielectric material and a second dielectric material. The first dielectric material has a first thermal expansion coefficient and the second dielectric material has a second thermal expansion coefficient. The substrate thermal expansion coefficient is in between the first thermal expansion coefficient and the second thermal expansion coefficient.
US12002753B2
A semiconductor structure includes a first electrode; a second electrode; a dielectric material between the first electrode and the second electrode, the dielectric material having at least one wall extending from the first electrode to the second electrode to define a void within the dielectric material and between the first electrode and the second electrode; and a layer of phase change material on the at least one wall of the dielectric material and in contact with the first electrode and the second electrode.
US12002746B2
A chip package structure is provided. The chip package structure includes a first wiring substrate including a substrate, a first pad, a second pad, and an insulating layer. The chip package structure includes a nickel-containing layer over the first pad. The chip package structure includes a conductive protection layer over the nickel-containing layer. The conductive protection layer includes tin, and a recess is surrounded by the conductive protection layer and the insulating layer over the first pad. The chip package structure includes a chip over the second surface of the substrate. The chip package structure includes a conductive bump between the second pad and the chip.
US12002741B2
In some aspects, the disclosure is directed a module for improving mechanical, electrical, or thermal performance. In some embodiments, the module includes a bottom surface, a side surface, a first solder bump disposed on the bottom surface, and a second solder bump disposed on the bottom surface. In some embodiments, the bottom surface extends in a first lateral direction and a second lateral direction perpendicular to the first lateral direction. In some embodiments, the side surface extends in a vertical direction perpendicular to the first lateral direction and the second lateral direction. In some embodiments, the second solder bump is adjacent to the side surface. In some embodiments, the first solder bump has a first length in the first lateral direction. In some embodiments, the second solder bump has a second length in the first lateral direction. In some embodiments, the first length is greater than the second length.
US12002740B2
A printed circuit board including a dielectric insulation layer having a top side facing a first side and a bottom side opposite the first side that faces a second side of the dielectric insulation layer, at least one conducting track formed on the dielectric insulation layer, and one or more conductor rails, wherein each of the one or more conductor rails is mechanically coupled to the dielectric insulation layer, and a first portion of each of the one or more conductor rails is arranged on the first side and a second portion of each of the one or more conductor rails is arranged on the second side of the dielectric insulation layer.
US12002736B2
A jet impingement cooling assembly for semiconductor devices includes a heat exchange base having an inlet chamber and an outlet chamber. An inlet connection may be in fluid connection with the inlet chamber, while an outlet connection may be in fluid connection with the outlet chamber. A jet plate may be coupled to the inlet chamber, and a jet pedestal may be formed on the jet plate and having a raised surface with a jet nozzle formed therein.
US12002733B2
A heat dissipation structure of an electric component that generates heat includes: a heat dissipator provided along a surface of the electric component; a liquid metal interposed between the electric component and the heat dissipator; and a fencing body interposed between the electric component and the heat dissipator in a crushed state and surrounding the liquid metal.
US12002728B2
An integrated radiator having a temperature gradient is disposed between a high-temperature device and a low-temperature device. The integrated radiator includes a first heat dissipation unit and a second heat dissipation unit which are integrally fixed. The first heat dissipation unit is configured to maintain the high-temperature device within a first temperature range, and the second heat dissipation unit is configured to maintain the low-temperature device within a second temperature range. A thermal conductive path of the first heat dissipation unit is isolated from a thermal conductive path of the second heat dissipation unit, and the first heat dissipation unit is physically connected to but thermally separated from the second heat dissipation unit.
US12002727B2
An integrated circuit assembly may be formed comprising an electronic substrate, a first and second integrated circuit device each having a first surface, a second surface, at least one side extending between the first and second surface, and an edge defined at an intersection of the second surface and the at least one side of each respective integrated circuit device, wherein the first surface of each integrated circuit device is electrically attached to the electronic substrate, an underfill material between the first surface of each integrated circuit device and the electronic substrate, and between the sides of the first and second integrated circuit devices, and at least one barrier structure adjacent at least one of the edge of first integrated circuit device and the edge of the second integrated circuit device, wherein the underfill material abuts the at least one barrier structure.
US12002718B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a first dummy gate structure and a second dummy gate structure over a fin; forming a first dielectric layer around the first dummy gate structure and around the second dummy gate structure; removing the first dummy gate structure and the second dummy gate structure to form a first recess and a second recess in the first dielectric layer, respectively; forming a gate dielectric layer in the first recess and the second recess; forming a first work function layer over the gate dielectric layer in the first and the second recesses; removing the first work function layer from the first recess; converting a surface layer of the first work function layer in the second recess into an oxide; and forming a second work function layer in the first recess over the gate dielectric layer and in the second recess over the oxide.
US12002709B2
The present disclosure provides an interconnect structure, including a first metal line, a second metal line spaced away from the first metal line, a conductive contact over the first metal line, including a first portion, a second portion over the first portion, wherein a bottom width of the second portion is greater than a top width of the first portion, wherein a shortest distance between the second portion and the second metal line is in a range from 50 Angstrom to 200 Angstrom, and a third portion over the second portion, wherein a bottom width of the third portion is greater than a top width of the second portion, the entire first portion and the entire second portion are under a coverage of a vertical projection area of the third portion, a first layer, and a second layer over the first layer.
US12002705B2
A method that forms a sacrificial fill material that can be selectively removed for forming a backside contact via for a transistor backside power rail. In some embodiments, the method may include performing an etching process on a substrate with an opening that is conformally coated with an oxide layer, wherein the etching process is an anisotropic dry etch process using a chlorine gas to remove the oxide layer from a field of the substrate and only from a bottom portion of the opening, and wherein the etching process forms a partial oxide spacer in the opening and increases a depth of the opening and epitaxially growing the sacrificial fill material in the opening by flowing a hydrogen chloride gas at a rate of approximately 60 sccm to approximately 90 sccm in a chamber pressure of approximately 1 Torr to approximately 100 Torr.
US12002698B2
Provided are a diffraction-based metrology apparatus having high measurement sensitivity, a diffraction-based metrology method capable of accurately performing measurement on a semiconductor device, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device using the metrology method. The diffraction-based metrology apparatus includes a light source that outputs a light beam, a stage on which an object is placed, a reflective optical element that irradiates the light beam onto the object through reflection, such that the light beam is incident on the object at an inclination angle, the inclination angle being an acute angle, a detector that detects a diffracted light beam that is based on the light beam reflected and diffracted by the object and a processor that measures a 3D pupil matrix for the diffracted light beam and analyze the object based on the 3D pupil matrix.
US12002695B2
A transport system includes a robot, sensors (an aligner sensor, a protrusion detecting sensor) and a controller. The robot having a hand which supports a wafer and transports the wafer to an aligner apparatus. The sensor detects the position of the wafer before the robot delivers the wafer to the aligner apparatus while supporting the wafer on the hand. The controller determines the positional deviation of the wafer based on a detection value of the sensor.
US12002690B2
A system for fracturing a plurality of wafer assemblies, one of the wafers of each assembly comprising a plane of weakness and each assembly comprising a peripheral lateral groove comprises: a cradle for keeping the assemblies of the plurality of assemblies spaced apart and parallel to one another, along a storage axis; a separation device for applying separating forces in the peripheral groove of an assembly arranged in a fracture zone of the separating device, the separating force aiming to separate the wafers of the assembly from one another so as to initiate its fracture at the plane of weakness; and a drive device configured to move along the storage axis of the cradle opposite the separating device so as to successively place an assembly of the cradle in the fracture zone of the separation device.
US12002676B2
A technique for suppressing a metal component from remaining at a bottom of a mask pattern when the mask pattern is formed using a metal-containing resist film. A developable anti reflection film 103 is previously formed below a resist film 104. Further, after exposing and developing the wafer W, TMAH is supplied to the wafer W to remove a surface of the anti-reflection film 103 facing a bottom of the recess pattern 110 of the resist film 104. Therefore, the metal component 105 can be suppressed from remaining at the bottom of the recess pattern 110. Therefore, when the SiO2 film 102 is subsequently etched using the pattern of the resist film 104, the etching is not hindered, so that defects such as bridges can be suppressed.
US12002669B2
A method comprises: obtaining, from a series of mass spectra including a most recent mass spectrum and a plurality of previously-acquired mass spectra, an elution profile comprising a plurality of detection points each representing intensity of ions accumulated over an accumulation time and detected by a detector as a function of time; classifying, based on a subset of detection points included in the plurality of detection points, a current signal state of the elution profile; and setting, for a next acquisition of a mass spectrum, the accumulation time based on the classified current signal state of the elution profile.
US12002664B2
A cleaning method is provided. In the cleaning method, residues of elements of a group for a common semiconductor material in a chamber are removed with plasma of a halogen-containing gas. Residues of metal elements of groups 12 and 13 and groups 14 and 15 in the chamber are removed with plasma of a hydrocarbon-containing gas. A C-containing material in the chamber is removed with plasma of an O-containing gas. Further, the removing with the plasma of the halogen-containing gas, the removing with the plasma of the hydrocarbon-containing gas, and the removing with the plasma of the O-containing gas are performed in that order or the removing with the plasma of the hydrocarbon-containing gas, the removing with the plasma of the O-containing gas, and the removing with the plasma of the halogen-containing gas are performed in that order X times where X≥1.
US12002658B2
In one embodiment, the disclosed apparatus is a process cooling-water isolation system used in a process tool. The system includes an isolation valve coupled between a water supply and an inlet of one or more components in a process-module water-cooling circuit. An open device allows cooling water to flow to the one or more components, while a close device prevents cooling water from flowing to the one or more components. At least one water-leak sensor is coupled to the close device to detect a water leak within the process tool. A check valve having an inlet port is coupled to an outlet of the one or more components, and an outlet port is coupled to a water-return reservoir. The check valve prevents water from back-flowing from the water-return reservoir into the one or more components. Other apparatuses and methods are disclosed.
US12002652B2
Plasma processing apparatus and associated methods are provided. In one example, a plasma processing apparatus can include a plasma chamber configured to be able to hold a plasma. The plasma processing apparatus can include a dielectric window forming at least a portion of a wall of the plasma chamber. The plasma processing apparatus can include an inductive coupling element located proximate the dielectric window. The inductive coupling element can be configured to generate a plasma from the process gas in the plasma chamber when energized with radio frequency (RF) energy. The plasma processing apparatus can include a processing chamber having a workpiece support configured to support a workpiece. The plasma processing apparatus can include an electrostatic shield located between the inductive coupling element and the dielectric window. The electrostatic shield can be grounded via a tunable reactive impedance circuit to a ground reference.
US12002640B1
Provided are a control system of an electromagnetic relay and an electromagnetic relay. The control system of an electromagnetic relay includes an electromagnet coil, a first resistor, and a first voltage control element. A first terminal of the electromagnet coil is connected to a first terminal of a first power circuit through the first resistor. A second terminal of the electromagnet coil is connected to a second terminal of the first power circuit. The first voltage control element is connected in parallel to the electromagnet coil. The first voltage control element can control the magnitude of the voltage across the electromagnet coil, so that the force to which armature iron is subjected gradually changes.
US12002637B2
A keyboard and a key structure capable of displaying instant image thereof are provided. The key structure includes a display unit, a circuit membrane, an elastic member, a key seat, a first supporting frame, a second supporting frame, and a translucent keycap. The first supporting frame has two first arms and two axle portions. The ends of the first arms are slidably disposed on an accommodation portion of the key seat. The second supporting frame has two second arms and two linking holes. The ends of the second arms are pivotally connected to the accommodation portion. The linking hole is elongated-shaped. When the translucent keycap is not pressed, the axle portion abuts against one hole-end of the linking hole. When the translucent keycap is pressed, the axle portion abuts against another one hole-end of the linking hole.
US12002632B2
An electrical device such as, for example, a battery-powered electrical switch is disclosed. The battery-powered wireless switch includes one or more mechanisms arranged and configured to provide simplified access for servicing (e.g., replacing) the batteries located within the wireless switch. In one embodiment, the wireless switch is arranged and configured so that the batteries may be accessed by reconfiguring the wireless switch from a first closed position to a second opened position to access the batteries. Thus arranged, removal of the wireless switch from a wall-box or a surface of a wall is not required, the user may only need to remove the wall-plate in order to reconfigure the wireless switch. In one embodiment, at least a portion of the wireless switch is pivoted from the first position to the second position to provide access to the batteries.
US12002631B2
A method for forming a solid electrolytic capacitor that includes an anode containing a valve metal composition, a dielectric overlying the anode, and a solid electrolyte overlying the dielectric is provided. The method comprises forming the dielectric by a process that includes placing the anode into contact with an electrolyte containing an ionic liquid and a valve metal salt and applying a potential difference between the anode and a counter electrode to form a dielectric oxide layer.
US12002630B2
A ceramic electronic device includes a multilayer chip in which each of a plurality of dielectric layers and each of a plurality of internal electrode layers including Ni as a main phase are alternately stacked. At least one of the plurality of dielectric layers includes a secondary phase including Si, at an interface between the at least one of the plurality of dielectric layers and one of the plurality of internal electrode layers next to the at least one of the plurality of dielectric layers. The one of the plurality of internal electrode layers includes a layer including an additive element including one or more of Au, Pt, Cu, Fe, Cr, Zn, and In, at a region contacting the secondary phase at the interface.
US12002608B2
The present invention relates to an electrically insulated iron-based soft magnetic powder composition, a soft magnetic composite component obtainable from the powder composition and a process for producing the same. Specifically, the invention concerns a soft magnetic powder composition for the preparation of soft magnetic components working at high frequencies, the components being suitable for use e.g. as inductors or reactors for power electronics.
US12002604B2
A power cable having a central ground conductor. Phase interweave power conductors are positioned about the central ground conductor. Individual phase interweave power conductors have the same diameter. The individual phase interweave power conductors have a cross sectional area which is optimized. Each of the individual phase interweave power conductors is configured to support 100% cross sectional usage to maximize power carrying capability. The power cable reduces the skin effect of the power cable and the proximity effect of the power cable.
US12002594B2
A method for decommissioning a nuclear facility includes: floating the nuclear reactor pressure vessel above the cavity; rotating the reactor pressure vessel so that the upper portion of the nuclear reactor pressure vessel is closer to the bio-protective concrete than the lower portion; mounting the upper portion of the nuclear reactor pressure vessel on the neighboring upper surface of the bio-protective concrete; and cutting and decommissioning the nuclear reactor pressure vessel mounted on the neighboring upper surface.
US12002591B2
Detection of anomalous computing environment behavior using glucose is described. An anomaly detection system receives glucose measurements and event records during a first time period. Missing events that are missing from the event records during the first time period are identified by processing the glucose measurements using an event engine simulator. An anomaly detection model is generated based on the missing events during the first time period. Subsequently, the anomaly detection system receives additional glucose measurements and additional event records during a second time period. Missing events that are missing from the additional event records during the second time period are identified by processing the additional glucose measurements using the event engine simulator. Anomalous behavior is detected if the identified missing events that are missing from the event records during the second time period are outside a predicted range of missing events of the anomaly detection model.
US12002588B2
The present disclosure generally relates to logging health-related events and for health-related coaching. In some embodiments, an event is logged by associating an action with a specific time and a user sentiment. In some embodiments, an event challenge, associated with a log entry, is transmitted to an external electronic device.
US12002581B2
The present disclosure relates to a system (100) for generating a diagnostic model. The system (100) includes a processor (108) configured to analyse a plurality of reference data sets. The reference data sets each include at least one image (230, 240). The analysis identities at least one feature in each image (230, 240). A metric is calculated in dependence on the at least one identified feature. Outcome data associated with at least some of the reference data sets is acquired. The diagnostic model is compiled in dependence on the at least one calculated metric and the associated outcome data. The present disclosure also relates to a method of generating a diagnostic model; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium.
US12002578B2
An augmented reality (AR) content generation method includes: acquiring, with a camera of an AR device, one or more images of a component of a medical imaging or medical therapy device; receiving, from a microphone of the AR device, a triggering audio segment; generating one or more query data structures from both the one or more images and the triggering audio segment; retrieving AR instructional content related to the medical imaging or medical therapy device matching the generated one or more query data structures from a database; and outputting the AR instructional content one or more of (i) displayed superimposed on video displayed by the AR device and/or (ii) displayed on a head mounted display of the AR device and/or (iii) as audio content via a loudspeaker of the AR device.
US12002571B2
Various systems and methods of controlling a surgical visualization system and controlling devices according to the displayed point of view of the surgical visualization system are disclosed. The visualization system can allow users to change, update, or manipulate the displayed visualization utilizing overlapping or multiple images. Further, the controls and/or display screens of surgical instruments coupled to the visualization system can be adjusted to correspond to the orientation of the surgical instrument as visualized by the visualization system.
US12002569B2
Various embodiments provide for decentralized crowd sourced generation of recommendation data objects. An example apparatus receives, originating from an external computing device, a recommendation data object request, the recommendation data object request comprising a user identifier and one or more user attributes. The example apparatus may further retrieve, based on a predictive recommendation model, one or more therapy identifiers associated with a therapy efficacy score exceeding a therapy efficacy score threshold for attributes of a first attributes set associated with a first cluster identifier, the first attributes set comprising one or more of the one or more user attributes. The predictive recommendation model is trained based at least in part on trusted efficacy blocks of a distributed ledger, where the trusted efficacy blocks are added to the distributed ledger when a number of therapy efficacy transaction blocks associated with a given therapy identifier and having a therapy efficacy score exceeding a therapy efficacy score threshold meets or exceeds a therapy efficacy transaction block threshold. The example apparatus may further transmit, to the external computing device, a recommendation data object configured for rendering for display via a display device of the external computing device, where the recommendation data object comprises one or more of the one or more therapy identifiers.
US12002567B2
A look-up table for use in determining an energy parameter for photodisrupting ocular tissue with a laser is generated by determining a plurality of individual spot size distributions, wherein each of the plurality of individual spot size distributions is based on a different set of simulated data and includes an expected spot size of a laser focus at each of a plurality of locations within a modeled target volume of ocular tissue. The plurality of individual spot size distributions are combined to obtain a final spot size distribution that includes a final expected spot size of the laser focus at the plurality of locations of the focus within the modeled target volume of ocular tissue. An energy value is assigned to the plurality of locations of the focus within the modeled target volume of ocular tissue based on the final expected spot size at that location.
US12002554B2
A method of managing consent using a computing device, the consent is given by a subject to one or more events in one or more studies, wherein the consent and the plurality of activities are changeable, the method including: authoring one or more first data forms describing the one or more events and one or more selections responsive to the one or more events; authoring, for each of the plurality of subjects, one or more second data forms including description of a plurality of preferences; forming, for a first of the plurality of subjects, an Informed Consent Forms document by combining the one or more first data forms of a first of the one or more studies and one or more second data forms for the first subject; and generating a manifest indicating the one or more events in the first study to which the first subject has granted consent.
US12002542B2
A device includes a first memory bank and a second memory bank. The first memory bank is configured to operate according to a write data signal and a first global write signal associated with a first clock signal. The second memory bank is configured to operate according to the write data signal and a second global write signal associated with a second clock signal. One of the first clock signal and the second clock signal is in oscillation when another one of the first clock signal and the second clock signal is in suspension.
US12002541B2
A read clock circuit selectively provides a read clock signal from a memory to a memory controller over a memory bus. A pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) driver including an input and an output capable of driving at least three levels indicating respective digital values. A digital control circuit is coupled to the PAM driver and operable to cause the PAM driver to provide a preamble signal before the read clock signal, the preamble signal including an initial toggling state in which the PAM driver toggles between two selected levels at a first rate, and a final toggling state in which the PAM driver toggles between two selected levels at a second rate higher than the first rate, with a length of the initial toggling state and a length of the final toggling state are based on values in a mode register.
US12002538B2
A memory device may comprise: a memory cell array in which memory cells are connected in matrix form to word lines and bit lines; a plurality of mergers connected in series to transfer data that is read from a selected memory cell among the memory cells included in the memory cell array and is transformed into one of a direct current form or a pulse form; and an aligner that synchronizes an edge of first output data, output by one of the plurality of mergers, with an edge of a control pulse, thereby delaying the edge of the first output data.
US12002533B2
Briefly, embodiments, such as methods and/or systems for operations and/or procedures to test magnetic memory devices. In a particular implementation, a bit error rate of a magnetic memory device may be estimated based, at least in part, on an observed bit error rate in the presence of an externally applied magnetic field.
US12002529B2
In a semiconductor device and a shift register, low noise is caused in a non-selection period and a transistor is not always on. First to fourth transistors are provided. One of a source and a drain of the first transistor is connected to a first wire, the other of the source and the drain thereof is connected to a gate electrode of the second transistor, and a gate electrode thereof is connected to a fifth wire. One of a source and a drain of the second transistor is connected to a third wire and the other of the source and the drain thereof is connected to a sixth wire.
US12002519B2
Disclosed is an operation method of a controller which is configured to control a nonvolatile memory device. The method includes receiving cell counting data associated with selected memory cells included in the nonvolatile memory device from the nonvolatile memory device, adjusting operation parameters of the nonvolatile memory device based on the cell counting data, performing a valley search operation for the selected memory cells based on the adjusted operation parameters, and performing a read operation for the selected memory cells based on a result of the valley search operation.
US12002517B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, a page buffer, and control logic. The memory cell array includes a plurality of memory cells for storing data. The page buffer is coupled to at least one memory cell among the plurality of memory cells through a bit line and is configured to store data in the at least one memory cell. The control logic is configured to control an operation of the page buffer. The page buffer includes a first transistor coupled between the bit line and a first node, a second transistor coupled between the bit line and an external power voltage terminal, and an internal operation circuit coupled to the first node.
US12002514B2
A nonvolatile memory may include; a first memory cell array including a first selection transistor connected to a first string selection line, a second memory cell array including a second selection transistor connected to a second string selection line and spaced apart from the first string selection line by a first cutting line, and a peripheral circuit. The peripheral circuit may provide a first program voltage to the first selection transistor, provide a second program voltage to the second selection transistor different from the first program voltage, program the first selection transistor with a first threshold voltage in response to the first program voltage, and program the second selection transistor with a second threshold voltage level greater than the first threshold voltage in response to the second program voltage.
US12002506B2
A DRAM device may be configured to retransmit or not retransmit zero or more of command/address signals, write data signals, read data signals, and/or data strobe signals. The DRAM device may have separate, unidirectional read data signal and write data signal interfaces. Combined activate and read or write commands may be implemented. The configuration of the DRAM to retransmit or not retransmit signals may be determined by the DRAM device's physical location on a module via hardwired configuration pins. The various configurations allows a DRAM device to be used on both a long and narrow form factor module and a DIMM module.
US12002494B2
A device to detect hot-plugging and hot-unplugging of hard disk and the hard disk type includes a connector and a control circuit. When hot-plugged, the hard disk is coupled to the connector, the control circuit comprises delay circuit and latch circuit. The delay circuit delays a falling edge of the third signal and outputs a delay signal, the latch circuit processes the first and second signals and outputs a logical result as a latch signal. The control circuit determines the connected or disconnected status and type of the hard disk according to the respective levels of the first and second signals, the delay signal, and the latch signal. The delay signal and the latch signal work to correct error of the control circuit in determining connectivity and non-connectivity during a session due to asynchronous changes in signal levels of the first and second signals.
US12002492B2
An apparatus including a microphone, a speaker, and a processor. The speaker is configured to produce a sound that indicates an image capture device including the microphone is recording. The microphone is configured to receive the sound. The processor is configured to initiate a sound removal process to remove the sound, produce the sound through the speaker to indicate that the image capture device is recording a video that includes audio, and, after the sound is produced, stop the sound removal process.
US12002491B2
The present disclosure describes techniques for designing effects. A first window comprising a first copy of a first scene may be created. The first scene comprises a first visual effect. A second window comprising a second copy of the first scene may be created. The first window and the second window are configured to enable testing and comparison of different versions of the first visual effect in the first scene at an approximately same time. The first copy of the first scene in the first window may be modified based on a first change to at least one attribute of the first visual effect in the first copy of the first scene. The second copy of the first scene in the second window may be modified based on a second change to at least one attribute of the first visual effect in the second copy of the first scene.
US12002490B2
A method for generating a slow motion video. The method includes segmenting, by an electronic device, objects in the video. Further, the method includes determining, by the electronic device, an interaction between the segmented objects. Further, the method includes clustering, by the electronic device, the segmented objects in the video to generate object clusters based on the interaction. Further, the method includes determining, by the electronic device, a degree of slow motion effect to be applied to each of the object clusters in the video based on a significance score of each of the object clusters. Further, the method includes generating, by the electronic device, the slow motion video by applying the degree of slow motion effect to that has been determined to corresponding the object clusters.
US12002488B2
Disclosed herein is an information processing apparatus, comprising: a feature extraction unit configured to extract features from a sample of a first class and a sample of a second class contained in a source domain and a sample of the first class contained in a target domain, respectively; a pseudo-sample generation unit configured to generate pseudo-samples of the second class in the target domain based on a distribution of samples of the first class contained in the target domain in a feature space of the features extracted by the feature extraction unit; and a data transformation unit configured to perform data transformation in the feature space by machine learning such that a distribution of samples of the first class and samples of the second class contained in the source domain approximates a distribution of samples of the first class and the pseudo-samples of the second class in the target domain.
US12002485B2
The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program that enable easier visualization of a sound field. The information processing device includes: a calculation unit configured to calculate, on the basis of positional information indicating a plurality of observation positions in a space and an audio signal of sound observed at each of the plurality of observation positions, an amplitude or phase of the sound at each of a plurality of positions in the space at a first time interval; an event detection unit configured to detect an event; and an adjustment unit configured to perform, in a case where the event is detected, control such that the amplitude or the phase is calculated at a second time interval shorter than the first time interval. The present technology can be applied to a sound-field visualization system.
US12002483B2
The disclosure is generally directed to a system for reducing wind noise. A system includes one or more processors coupled to a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having instructions encoded thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to obtain signals respectively generated from two or more microphones during a time period, the signals representing acoustic energy detected by the two or more microphones during the time period, determine a coherence between the signals, and determine a filter based on the coherence. The filter is configured to reduce wind noise in one or more of the signals.
US12002480B2
A method for representing a second presentation of audio channels or objects as a data stream, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a set of base signals, the base signals representing a first presentation of the audio channels or objects; (b) providing a set of transformation parameters, the transformation parameters intended to transform the first presentation into the second presentation; the transformation parameters further being specified for at least two frequency bands and including a set of multi-tap convolution matrix parameters for at least one of the frequency bands.
US12002470B1
Systems and methods for providing multi-source based knowledge data for Artificial Intelligence (AI) characters are provided. An example method includes providing a plurality of data sources; receiving, from a user, at least one word during a conversation between the user and an AI character; ascertaining a speech style of the AI character; analyzing the at least one word to determine a type of information needed to generate a reply to the user; selecting, based on the type of information, at least one data source from the plurality of data sources; generating, based on the at least one word, one or more queries; sending the one or more queries to the at least one data source; receiving one or more responses from the at least one data source; forming, based on the one or more responses and the speech style of the AI character, the reply for providing to the user.
US12002463B2
Systems and methods for enabling voice-based interactions with electronic devices can include a data processing system maintaining a plurality of device action data sets and a respective identifier for each device action data set. The data processing system can receive, from an electronic device, an audio signal representing a voice query and an identifier. The data processing system can identify, using the identifier, a device action data set. The data processing system can identify a device action from device action data set based on content of the audio signal. The data processing system can then identify, from the device action dataset, a command associated with the device action and send the command to the for execution device for execution.
US12002454B2
Embodiments of the innovation relate to, in a contact center apparatus, a method for recognizing user intent associated with user interaction with the contact center apparatus. The method includes receiving user interaction data; performing a feature extraction process on the user interaction data to generate feature data; performing an intent extraction operation on the feature data to extract topics included with the feature data; executing a classification engine on the topics extracted from the feature data to classify a user intent associated with the user interaction data; and directing the user to a corresponding working agent based upon the classified user intent
US12002453B2
A method and an apparatus for automatic speech recognition are provided. The method includes: generating a weight matrix for a layer of a plurality of layers in a neural network; dividing the weight matrix into a plurality of blocks, each block including a plurality of weights; selecting a pre-determined percentage of weights from at least one block for block-wise pruning; and generating a block-wise pruned weight matrix by setting the pre-determined percentage of weights selected from the at least one block to zero. The weight matrix includes a set of weights associated with the layer, the plurality of layers includes a first layer receiving a first input associated with one or more audio feature sequences, and the plurality of layers are executed on one or more processors. The method efficiently accelerates model inference using irregular pruning.
US12002444B1
A system that coordinates audio output among multiple devices to perform noise cancellation in one room of noise resulting from audio output of another. The system uses information from the source of the audio output along with calibration information to coordinate the noise cancellation, which may involve delaying of audio output by the aggressor device.
US12002437B2
A display control apparatus includes a change unit configured to change amount of application of a predetermined effect which is to be applied to a selected subject from a plurality of subjects, and a control unit configured to perform control to display a first item which makes the selected subject distinguishable from other subjects, wherein, in response to the change unit starting changing amount of application of the predetermined effect, the control unit performs control not to display the first item.
US12002432B2
An information processing method, including: generating second luminance profile data by inputting first luminance profile data of a spreading of light when one light source of a backlight device including at least one light source is lit, and adjusting a thin-out spacing according to positions in a luminance distribution based on the first luminance profile data. Values of the first luminance profile data are thinned in the second luminance profile data.
US12002431B2
The present disclosure provides a three-dimensional (3D) display system and a display method of the 3D display system. The 3D display system includes a display device and 3D glasses, the display device includes a plurality of first micro light emitting diodes, a plurality of second micro light emitting diodes, and a plurality of third micro light emitting diodes which are uniformly distributed. The 3D glasses include a first lens and a second lens. The first micro light emitting diodes and the second micro light emitting diodes are alternately turned on, the third micro light emitting diodes are turned off, or the third micro light emitting diodes and the second micro light emitting diodes are simultaneously turned on.
US12002425B2
Provided are a pixel circuit and a driving method therefor, and a display apparatus. The pixel circuit includes a drive transistor, a reset circuit, a data writing circuit, a storage capacitor circuit, a threshold value compensation circuit, a conduction control circuit, a light-emitting control circuit, and a light-emitting device; the conduction control circuit is configured to: conduct the threshold value compensation circuit with the gate of the drive transistor, and conduct the reset circuit with the gate of the drive transistor at the reset stage, the threshold value detecting stage and the data writing stage; and cut off a conducting state of the threshold value compensation circuit with the gate of the drive transistor, and cut off a conducting state of the reset circuit with the gate of the drive transistor at the driving stage; where the conduction control circuit includes an oxide semiconductor thin film transistor.
US12002414B2
A display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a data write device, a drive device and a bias adjustment device. The pixel circuit further includes a reset device or an initialization device. The display panel further includes a bias adjustment signal line, the bias adjustment signal line is connected to the bias adjustment device and configured to provide a bias adjustment signal; and at least one of a reset signal line or an initialization signal line, the reset signal line is connected to the reset device and configured to provide a reset signal, or the initialization signal line is connected to the initialization device and configured to provide an initialization signal. At least one side frame of the display panel includes a bias adjustment signal bus, at least one of a reset signal bus or an initialization signal bus.
US12002406B2
A shift register, a method for driving a shift register, a gate driving circuit and a display panel are provided. The shift register includes: a first output device, where a control terminal thereof is electrically connected to a first node, a first terminal thereof is electrically connected to a first clock signal terminal, and a second terminal thereof is electrically connected to an output terminal of the shift register; a first node control device including a first switch device and a second switch device, where the first switch device is electrically connected to the first node, a first power supply voltage signal terminal and a second node, and the second switch device is electrically connected to the second node, the first power supply voltage signal terminal and the first node.
US12002404B2
A scan driver includes a plurality of stages. An nth (n is a natural number) stage among the stages includes: a first and a second input circuit for controlling a voltage of a first node in response to a carry signal of a previous stage and a next stage, respectively; a first output circuit for outputting an nth carry signal corresponding to a carry clock signal in response to the voltage of the first node; a second output circuit for outputting an nth scan and an nth sensing signal corresponding to a scan and a sensing clock signal, respectively, in response to the voltage of the first node; and a sampling circuit for storing the carry signal of the previous stage in response to a first select signal, and for supplying a control voltage to the first node in response to a second select signal and the stored carry signal.
US12002403B1
A pixel arrangement structure and a display panel are provided by the present disclosure. The pixel arrangement structure includes at least one pixel group, and the pixel group includes a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in an array. In the pixel group, a ratio of a number of high-grayscale subpixels to a number of low-grayscale subpixels is 1:2 or 1:3. The low-grayscale subpixels include a plurality of first low-grayscale subpixels, and among adjacent N rows of the subpixels, the number of the high-grayscale subpixels equals to a number of the first low-grayscale subpixels, and N is an integral multiple of 2, an integral multiple of 3, or 1.
US12002400B2
A display apparatus is provided. The display apparatus includes a display, a user interface, a memory configured to store information regarding an area of interest for each game type, a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) provided on one area of the display and configured to emit light in various colors, and a processor configured to, based on information related to a game type being selected through the user interface, identify an area of interest corresponding to the selected game type based on the information stored in the memory and control a light-emitting state of the plurality of LEDs based on red, green, and blue (RGB) grayscale data of a pixel corresponding to the identified area of interest in a game image provided through the display.
US12002399B2
An image display method for handling a dynamic image signal including a plurality of continuous video frames, wherein the method includes steps as follows: Firstly, a first display parameter is output to display an Nth video frame of the plurality of continuous video frames according to a first attribute data of the Nth video frame. Then, at least one of (N+K)th video frame is detected, and when the at least one of the (N+K)th video frame has second attribute data, the first display parameter is output to display the at least one of the (N+K)th video frames. Subsequently, an (N+K+1)th video frame is detected, and when the (N+K+1)th video frame has the second attribute data, a second display parameter is output to display the (N+K+1)th video frame according to the second attribute data. Wherein, K is a positive integer greater than 1.
US12002388B2
Disclosed herein are a stretchable display panel and device and a manufacturing method thereof. The stretchable display panel comprises: a lower substrate having an active area and a non-active area surrounding the active area; a plurality of individual substrates disposed on the lower substrate and located in the active area; a plurality of pixels disposed on the plurality of individual substrates; and a connection line disposed between the plurality of individual substrates and the lower substrate, wherein the modulus of the plurality of individual substrates is higher than that of at least one part of the lower substrate, and wherein the connecting line extends to the bottom surface of the individual substrates, such that the connecting line electrically connects a pad disposed on the individual substrates without a step in the top surface of the connecting line. That is, the connecting line has a uniform height from the lower substrate for its entire length. Accordingly, the stretchable display device according to the present disclosure may reduce damage to the connecting line due to a step of the connecting line, so reliability of the stretchable display device may be improved.
US12002385B2
Provided is a laminate and label for laser printing which are capable of preventing or reducing the occurrence of failure in printing by laser light irradiation. A laminate (1) is at least a laminate for laser printing, including a first layer (31) having a property of shielding against laser light, a second layer (32) having a property of absorbing the laser light, and a base material layer (33) which is optically transparent, which are stacked in the order named. The second layer (32) may have a thickness of not more than 15 μm, and may have a specific composition.
US12002380B2
A card holder floral pick defining an elongate hollow tube having opposed top and bottom ends and openings adapted to provide a funneling function, for funneling any liquid introduced into the tube at the top end out the bottom end under the influence of gravity, with two substantially identical slots at the top end of the tube that are angularly spaced-apart from each other about an elongate axis of the tub, for holding an enclosure card.
US12002377B1
A horizontal cone shift model includes a baseboard having two mounting openings in parallel orientation to a width of the baseboard. A background board is attached to the baseboard along its length to represent a radiographic film. A plurality of magnetic labels are provided for placement on the baseboard and background board. A first rod and a second rod fit into each of the two mounting openings. The first rod is distinguishable from the second rod. A light source is located on the baseboard and is movable along the length of the baseboard such that shadows of the first rod and second rod appear on the background board. The plurality of labels are used to identify the first and second rods and locations.
US12002367B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to a system having a memory, a plurality of self-driving systems for controlling a vehicle, and one or more processors. The processors are configured to receive at least one fallback task in association with a request for a primary task and at least one trigger of each fallback task. Each trigger is a set of conditions that, when satisfied, indicate when a vehicle requires attention for proper operation. The processors are also configured to send instructions to the self-driving systems to execute the primary task and receive status updates from the self-driving systems. The processors are configured to determine that a set of conditions of a trigger is satisfied based on the status updates and send further instructions based on the associated fallback task to the self-driving systems.
US12002354B2
A vehicle system includes an information storage, an information acquirer, a vehicle characteristics extractor, and a vehicle characteristics transmitter. The information storage stores vehicle information of sample vehicles in association with the sample vehicles. The vehicle information is obtained by combining a traveling location or a traveling environment, or both, with vehicle characteristics. The information acquirer acquires vehicle information of a target vehicle and either of both of a first traveling location and a first traveling environment for which vehicle characteristics for the target vehicle are lacking. The vehicle characteristics extractor determines a sample vehicle of which vehicle information matches the vehicle information of the target vehicle and extracts vehicle characteristics of the sample vehicle corresponding to either or both of the first traveling location and the first traveling environment. The vehicle characteristics transmitter transmits the extracted vehicle characteristics to the target vehicle.
US12002348B2
A computing method comprising the use of a type of integrated circuit that implements application specific instructions for processing computation on a deterministic pattern based off inner signal communication. Whereas this architecture for a chipset design can connect to other similar architecture chipsets and process data asynchronously and in parallel. As signals are being transmitted across any networking protocol, data is processed through network packets for computationally valid connectivity events as in signal in and signal out.
US12002347B2
A flush wall mounted fire exit sign and an activation system to cause the exit sign to move outward from the wall when the exit sign is needed for viewing and providing direction to a building's exit. The exit sign may be mounted lower on the wall than traditional exit signage and rotate from the wall for people to view and may retract when a fire event is over.
US12002341B2
In one aspect of the disclosed implementations, a device includes one or more motion sensors for sensing motion of the device and providing activity data indicative of the sensed motion. The device also includes one or more processors for monitoring the activity data, and receiving or generating annotation data for annotating the activity data with one or more markers or indicators to define one or more characteristics of an activity session. The device also includes one or more feedback devices for providing feedback, a notice, or an indication to a user based on the monitoring. The device further includes a portable housing that encloses at least portions of the motion sensors, the processors and the feedback devices.
US12002340B2
Disclosed are a safety service system and a method thereof. The safety service system comprises: a collection unit for collecting position information and image information related to a protected person who is registered by a protector; and a service providing unit for providing the position information and the image information to one or both of the protector and a security company upon detection of a signal that the protected person is in danger.
US12002337B1
Storage units including platforms that are outfitted with RFID antennas and auxiliary sensors detect changes in loading on the platforms based on changes in loading determined by the auxiliary sensors or changes in signals received by the RFID antennas. The platforms include surfaces for receiving items tagged with RFID transmitters thereon, such as items of common types and variable weights. An interaction involving the placement of an item on the platform, or the removal of the item from the platform, is detected by the auxiliary sensors. The energization of an RFID field is triggered in response to the detected interaction, and an item is identified where an RFID signal transmitted by the item is present at one time and absent at another time.
US12002335B2
In an example embodiment, there is disclosed herein a technique that allows the capabilities of an automated banking machine, such as an ATM, to be upgraded remotely. For example, the banking machine may be sold or leased with an initial configuration. If the customer desires to add additional features, the customer can pay for the features and the manufacturer or dealer can send a signal from a remote host to the automated banking machine with data representative of the upgrade. The banking machine then operates with the upgraded configuration.
US12002325B2
A method of wagering on micro markets that are not related to the current play. For example, wagering on the outcome of the third batter due up in the inning.
US12002322B2
An electronic gaming device including a display device operable to display a portion of a plurality of reels, and a controller. The controller includes a processor to associate a first lookup table and a second lookup table with a first symbol and a second symbol from a first reel, respectively, select a first entry in the first table that satisfies a target threshold, convert the first symbol with the first entry, and evaluate the portion of the plurality of reels for a win combination that satisfies the target threshold.
US12002319B1
Various embodiments are directed to systems and methods for remotely monitoring cash reserves within a plurality of cash handling devices, and for automatically initiating change orders to maintain optimal levels of cash reserves within those cash handling devices. Certain embodiments remotely monitor closing transaction data received from those cash handling devices. Based at least in part on portions of data reflected within the closing transaction data, retrieve historical usage data relating to a forecast period; generate a usage forecast for the forecast period, and based on the generated usage forecast and the closing transaction data, generate message data for transmission to external systems to facilitate the maintenance of optimal cash reserves within those cash handling devices.
US12002318B2
A device for transporting notes of value comprises a first idler pulley mounted in the device and at least a second idler pulley mounted in the device, as well as an endless belt running around the idler pulleys, and a freely rotatable guide roller mounted in the device and having at least one connecting area for reception in a receiving opening of the device. The axis of rotation of the guide roller has in a first receiving position of the connecting area in the receiving opening a first orthogonal distance to a plane in which the axes of rotation of the idler pulleys run. The axis of rotation of the guide roller has in a second receiving position of the connecting area in the receiving opening a second orthogonal distance to the plane.
US12002316B1
When attending an event at a venue, the attendee typically presents ticket information that is scanned by a venue scanner. In conventional systems, once validated, the scanner prints a paper stub that typically includes seat location data. Production of this paper stub can be dispensed with, and the associated data conveyed by the paper stub as well as additional information not contemplated or possible with paper stubs can be conveyed by an electronic stub or e-stub that resides on a device of the attendee, generally the same device employed to present the ticket information.
US12002314B2
Methods and systems for authenticating an Internet of Things device, such as an electronic lock, are disclosed. One method includes generating a first challenge at a server; transmitting the first challenge to the Internet of Things device; receiving a first signed certificate from the Internet of Things device, the first signed certificate being the first random number challenge signed with a private key associated with the internet of things device; and verifying the first signed certificate with the first challenge and a public key associated with the Internet of Things device. Mutual authentication of the server from the Internet of Things device is also provided.
US12002313B2
A distance determination method has: detecting a first received signal strength indicator (RSSI) of a first electronic device by a second electronic device; detecting a second RSSI of the second electronic device by the first electronic device; obtaining the first RSSI from the second electronic device by the first electronic device; and calculating a motion direction and a distance of the second electronic device relative to the first electronic device according to the first RSSI and the second RSSI by the first electronic device.
US12002298B2
A system for aircraft maintenance is disclosed, such as for monitoring parts mounted in a turbojet engine, the turbojet engine being accommodated in a nacelle compartment delimited by a nacelle wall. The system can verify parts, each of the parts being equipped with an RFID tag. The verification system includes an inner antenna accommodated in the nacelle compartment, the inner antenna being arranged to allow the exchange of radio frequency signals with each RFID tag, an interface device including an access point located outside the nacelle compartment, the interface device being arranged to be able to be connected to an interrogator device arranged to communicate with the RFID tag, and a transmission line connecting the interface device to the inner antenna.
US12002288B2
There is provided a recognition system adaptable to a portable device or a wearable device. The recognition system senses a body heat using a thermal sensor, and performs functions such as the living body recognition, image denoising and body temperature prompting according to detected results.
US12002285B2
One or more sensors of an electronic device detect a geometric form factor of the electronic device. A fingerprint sensor situated beneath a first display of the electronic device receives fingerprint data. One or more processors authenticate an authorized user of the electronic device using the fingerprint data with one or more processors. The one or more processors select between the first display and a second display of the electronic device as a function of the geometric form factor and unlock the selected display in response to authenticating the authorized user of the electronic device.
US12002276B2
The accuracy of existing machine learning models, software technologies, and computers are improved by estimating whether a particular page belongs to a same document as another page or whether the page belongs to a different document. Such document distinguishing can be based on deriving relationship information between a first feature vector representing the page and a second feature vector representing the other page. This also improves the user experience and model building experience, among other things.
US12002273B2
An apparatus for optimizing workflows of one or more microscopes and/or microscope systems includes one or more processors and one or more computer-readable storage media. The one or more computer-readable storage media have stored therein computer-executable instructions, which, when executed by the one or more processors cause execution of the following steps: implementing, by one or more components of the one or more microscopes and/or microscope systems, a workflow comprising a capture of first data; applying one or more trained models to the captured first data; and making at least one decision in relation to the workflow based on the application of the one or more trained models to the captured first data.
US12002271B2
An identification device includes: an input unit that receives three-dimensional data including data of a tooth; an identification unit that identifies a type of the tooth based on the three-dimensional data including a feature of the tooth received by the input unit and an estimation model including a neural network; and an output unit that outputs an identification result obtained by the identification unit.
US12002269B2
A method and a device for acquiring a vehicle feature are provided. In the method, a to-be-processed image including a vehicle is acquired. A feature element of the vehicle is then recognized from the to-be-processed image, where the feature element may be a side element and an element of a vehicle end, and the vehicle-end may be a head of the vehicle or a rear of the vehicle. Based on a position of the side element in the to-be-processed image and a position of the element of the vehicle end in the to-be-processed image, a side region of the vehicle and an end region of the vehicle are determined.
US12002267B2
Methods, systems, and media for simulating movement data of pedestrians in a district are provided. The method comprises: receiving a district plan for a proposed district; determining a number of users that would populate a building in the proposed district; generating a population of simulated users based on the determined number of users that would populate the building in the proposed district; assigning, for the population of simulated users in the building, groups of simulated users in the population of simulated users to a movement category from a plurality of movement categories; distributing, for the groups of simulated users assigned to each of the plurality of movement categories, a group of simulated users to a first destination within the proposed district that satisfies the movement category by determining a probable walking path from the building to the first destination; in response to determining that the first destination within the proposed district has reached a first capacity threshold, distributing remaining users from the group of simulated users to a second destination within the proposed district that satisfies the movement category until at least one of the remaining users in the movement category has been distributed and the second destination within the proposed district has reached a second capacity threshold; distributing, for the groups of simulated users assigned to each of the plurality of movement categories, trips having the probable walking path of the group of simulated users over time by applying a distribution function to each of the plurality of movement categories; and causing a map representation of the proposed district to be presented, wherein the map representation highlights each of the trips having the probable walking path distributed over time to indicate predicted levels of congestion at a particular time in the proposed district.
US12002262B2
A computer implemented method of generating at least one shape of a region of interest in a digital image is provided. The method includes obtaining, by an image processing engine, access to a digital tissue image of a biological sample; tiling, by the image processing engine, the digital tissue image into a collection of image patches; identifying, by the image processing engine, a set of target tissue patches from the collection of image patches as a function of pixel content within the collection of image patches; assigning, by the image processing engine, each target tissue patch of the set of target tissue patches an initial class probability score indicating a probability that the target tissue patch falls within a class of interest, the initial class probability score generated by a trained classifier executed on each target tissue patch; generating, by the image processing engine, a first set of tissue region seed patches by identifying target tissue patches having initial class probability scores that satisfy a first seed region criteria, the first set of tissue region seed patches comprising a subset of the set of target tissue patches; generating, by the image processing engine, a second set of tissue region seed patches by identifying target tissue patches having initial class probability scores that satisfy a second seed region criteria, the second set of tissue region seed patches comprising a subset of the set of target tissue patches; calculating, by the image processing engine, a region of interest score for each patch in the second set of tissue region seed patches as a function of initial class probability scores of neighboring patches of the second set of tissue region seed patches and a distance to patches within the first set of issue region seed patches; and generating, by the image processing engine, one or more region of interest shapes by grouping neighboring patches based on their region of interest scores.
US12002257B2
Video content screening using a trained video screening model trained using self-supervised training includes automatically generating a training dataset by obtaining predicate screening data indicating a predicate temporal segment within a training video and a corresponding reference temporal segment within the reference video, obtaining candidate screening data for an extended temporal segment from the training video, wherein the extended temporal segment includes the predicate temporal segment and at least one frame from the training video adjacent to the predicate temporal segment, wherein the candidate screening data indicates a similarity between a screening frame from the reference video and a spatial portion of a candidate frame from the extended temporal segment, and, in response to a determination that a determined similarity between the candidate subframe including, in the automatically generated training dataset, training example data indicating the similarity between the candidate subframe and the screening frame.
US12002254B2
A method of training an object detection network, an object detection method and related apparatuses are provided. The training method includes: inputting a training image into a to-be-trained object detection network to obtain detection information of a target object, where the detection information includes a detection class of the target object, a detection position of a detection box of the target object, and a detection position of a landmark of the target object; calculating a total loss function of the to-be-trained object detection network, where the total loss function is calculated according to a loss function of the detection class of the target object, a loss function of the detection position of the detection box of the target object, and a loss function of the detection position of the landmark of the target object; and adjusting a parameter of the to-be-trained object detection network according to the total loss function.
US12002253B2
A feature point integration positioning system includes a moving object, an image input source, an analyzing module and a positioning module. The image input source is disposed at the moving object to shoot an environment for obtaining a sequential image dataset. The analyzing module includes a machine vision detecting unit configured to generate a plurality of first feature points in each of the images based on each of the images, a deep learning detecting unit configured to generate a plurality of second feature points in each of the images based on each of the images, and an integrating unit configured to integrate the first feature points and the second feature points in each of the images into a plurality of integrated feature points in each of the images. The positioning module confirms a position of the moving object relative to the environment at each of the time points.
US12002250B2
A method for processing a candidate digital image includes defining a set of noteworthy points in the candidate digital image. A set of at least three noteworthy points is selected to comprise a notable departure point, a notable arrival point, and a third notable point not aligned with the notable departure point and the notable arrival point. A set of at least one route, between the notable departure point and the notable arrival point, is defined. The route passes through all of the selected notable points. Local characteristics, of the pixels located along the route, are extracted. The signal, corresponding to the variation in the magnitude of the local characteristics as a function of each pixel along each defined route, is recorded in the form of a fingerprint.
US12002247B2
A vision sensor includes a pixel array comprising pixels arranged in a matrix, an event detection circuit, an event rate controller, and an interface circuit. Each pixel is configured to generate an electrical signal in response to detecting a change in incident light intensity. The event detection circuit detects whether a change in incident light intensity has occurred at any pixels, based on processing electrical signals received from one or more pixels, and generates one or more event signals corresponding to one or more pixels at which a change in intensity of incident light is determined to have occurred. The event rate controller selects a selection of one or more event signals corresponding to a region of interest on the pixel array as one or more output event signals. The interface circuit communicates with an external processor to transmit the one or more output event signals to the external processor.
US12002243B2
A method of point cloud coding (PCC) including receiving encoded patch information data; obtaining a patch corresponding to the encoded patch information data, the patch having a patch type; determining whether the patch type for the patch is a last patch type; and terminating a reconstruction process corresponding to the encoded patch information data when the patch type is the last patch type. Another method includes the same receiving and obtaining steps, but determining whether the patch type for the patch is a skip patch type; decoding a reference patch index corresponding to the patch when the patch type is the skip patch type; determining a reference index for the patch based on a reference frame index corresponding to the patch and the reference patch index as decoded when the patch type is the skip patch type; and reconstructing a volumetric representation of the patch.
US12002240B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for determining a pose of an object in a local coordinate system of a robotic machine, the method including: capturing at least one image of a first face of the object and at least one image of at least a portion of a second face of the object; generating a point cloud representation of at least part of the object using image data obtained from the captured images of the first and second faces; fitting a first plane to the first face of the object and fitting a second plane to the second face of the object using the point cloud representation; determining a pose of the first plane and a pose of the second plane; retrieving a shape model of at least the first face of the object; locating the shape model in the local coordinate system using at least in part the at least one image of the first face; and, determining the pose of the object in the local coordinate system. A vision system and robotic machine are also disclosed.
US12002239B2
This application provides a data processing method and device. The method includes: collecting a first image by using a camera; obtaining first point cloud data of the object based on the first image, where the first point cloud data indicates three-dimensional coordinate values of a surface point of the object in a first camera coordinate system of the first terminal; obtaining pose data of the first terminal in the first camera coordinate system based on the first image; obtaining a two-dimensional feature image based on the pose data, the first point cloud data, and the first image; generating map data based on the first point cloud data, the pose data, and the two-dimensional feature image; and sending the map data to a second terminal or a server.
US12002237B2
An object of the present disclosure is to make it possible to ascertain coordinates of facility. A processor obtains two or more captured images of a facility and an object (S101), obtains position coordinates and an actual size of the facility and a size of the object from a database (S104), calculates a distance from each camera that has captured the two or more images to the object using a relationship between a distance from each camera that has captured the two or more images to the facility and a magnification with respect to the actual size of the facility on the two or more images (S108), and derives position coordinates of the object using the calculated distance (S109).
US12002230B2
A measurement method includes measuring a normal vector of a measured portion based on a first vector representing a direction from a measured portion to a principal point of a first lens, a second vector representing a direction from the measured portion to a principal point of a second lens, a third vector representing a direction from the measured portion to a principal point of a third lens, a first value representing luminance of the measured portion in a situation in which the first projector projects a fourth image via the first lens, a second value representing the luminance of the measured portion in a situation in which the second projector projects a fifth image via the second lens, and a third value representing the luminance of the measured portion in a situation in which the third projector projects a sixth image via the third lens.
US12002224B2
The disclosures are directed to methods and apparatuses that allow for one or more of personal sanitizing/decontamination of a user, prevention of the touching of exposed parts of the user's body, tracking of surface sanitizing/decontamination status, tracking of the interpersonal distance, and sanitization of personal electronics (e.g., a mobile phone). In addition, data relating to a user's usage of the various components of the system may be tracked, and artificial intelligence (AI) techniques may be employed to mine for patterns of user behavior in the system.
US12002216B2
Systems, devices, methods, and computer processing products for automatically checking for errors in segmentation (contouring) using heuristic and/or statistical evaluation methods.
US12002214B1
A system and method for processing video data of an object in a movement space comprises uses a plurality of cameras each facing the movement space. An object detection engine running on a processor is in communication with each of the plurality of cameras that transmit video data of the movement space to the processor. The object detection engine determines the coordinates of a bounding box that closely surrounds the object in a frame of the video data from a master camera. The processor then determines, epipolar lines corresponding to points on the bounding box in the frame of the master camera in each of the frames of the video data from the non-master cameras. The processor crops the video data in the frame of the non-master cameras outside two of the epipolar lines to reduce and improve the video data processing.
US12002212B2
An image segmentation method is provided for an electronic device. The method includes pre-training a first initial model based on a plurality of first sample images to obtain a second initial model, the plurality of first sample images including images of a plurality of human tissues, and the second initial model including distribution information of a plurality of target regions corresponding to the plurality of human tissues, training the second initial model based on a plurality of second sample images to obtain an image segmentation model, image information of the plurality of second sample images including at least distribution information of a plurality of target regions corresponding to a target human tissue reflected in the second sample images, and feeding a first image to the image segmentation model, and segmenting, by using the image segmentation model, the first image according to the image information to output a second image.
US12002209B2
A diabetes detection method for forensic identification includes the following steps. A sample kidney tissue slice is obtained and processed to obtain initial processing data; the initial processing data are input into a convolutional neural network model for training to obtain target processing data, and training database is obtained based on the target processing data; based on the target processing data in the training database, the sample kidney tissue slice is detected for diabetes, and a forensic identification test report is generated and displayed. The method can solve problems caused by a use of a chemical staining method in a diagnosis of diabetes, provide helps for a forensic pathological cause of death identification, realize scientific identification, ensure the correct trial and judgment of cases, improve the work efficiency of criminal investigators and the accuracy of identification results, and maintain the justice of laws.
US12002202B2
Methods and systems are described for image segmentation. A machine learning model is applied to a set of images to generate results. The results may be obtained as a probability map for each image in the set of images. The model may be trained by accessing a set of labeled images, each image associated with a label indicating a location of a feature within a respective image. An initial set of parameters is accessed. An encoder is initialized with the initial set of parameters. The encoder is applied to the set of labeled images to generate a prediction of a feature location within each image. The initial set of parameters are updated based on the predictions and the label associated with the labeled images. The updated set of parameters and an additional set of parameters generated using a set of unlabeled images are aggregated.
US12002199B2
The present disclosure includes methods, apparatuses, and systems for three-dimensional phenotyping and physiologic characterization of brain lesions and tissue encompassing one or more enlarged boundaries surrounding the brain lesion to study the metabolic and physiologic profiles from tissue within and around lesions and their impacts on lesion shape and surface texture. The non-invasive biomarker blood-oxygen their impacts on lesion shape and surface texture. The non-invasive biomarker blood-oxygen-level-dependent (BOLD) slope was used to metabolically characterize lesions. Metabolically active lesions with more intact tissue and myelin architecture have more symmetrical shapes and more complex surface textures compared to metabolically inactive lesions with less intact tissue and myelin architecture. The association of lesions' shapes and surface features with their metabolic signatures aid in the translation of MRI data to clinical management by providing information related to metabolic activity, lesion age, and risk for disease reactivation and self-repair.
US12002197B2
A defect detection method based on an image of products and an electronic device can accurately determine the error threshold by determining the reconstruction error generated during image reconstruction and by determining the estimated probability generated by the Gaussian mixture model. The test error can then be compared with the error, since the test error and the error threshold are compared numerically, the existence of subtle defects are revealed in the product image, thereby improving the accuracy of defect detection.
US12002195B2
A computer vision-based anomaly detection method and device and an electronic apparatus are disclosed. The method comprises: dividing a target picture into at least two feature regions according to different region features of the target picture, and forming training sets respectively using the feature regions corresponding to each target picture; selecting generative adversarial networks GAN as network models to be used, and training GAN network models with the training sets of different feature regions to obtain GAN network models corresponding to different feature regions; and when performing anomaly detection, performing same feature region division on a target picture to be detected, inputting different feature regions of the target picture to be detected into corresponding GAN network models to obtain a generated picture, and performing pixel value-based difference detection on the generated picture and the target picture to be detected.
US12002192B2
A method includes obtaining an image of a damaged vehicle and a three-dimensional (3D) vehicle model associated with the damaged vehicle. The method also includes identifying one or more damage markers that indicate damage to the damaged vehicle based on the image. The method further includes identifying a pose of the damaged vehicle within the image. In addition, the method includes mapping the one or more damage markers onto the 3D vehicle model based on the identified pose, where the one or more mapped damage markers identify one or more locations and dimensions of the damage to the damaged vehicle on the 3D vehicle model. In some cases, one or more trained machine learning models may be used to identify the one or more damage markers, identify the pose of the damaged vehicle within the image, and/or map the one or more damage markers onto the 3D vehicle model.
US12002189B2
The technology disclosed herein involves using a machine learning model (e.g., CNN) to expand lower dynamic-range image content (e.g., SDR images) into higher dynamic-range image content (e.g., HDR images). The machine learning model can take as input the lower dynamic-range image and can output multiple expansion maps that are used to make the expanded image appear more natural. The expansion maps may be used by image operators to smooth color banding and to dim overexposed regions or user interface elements in the expanded image. The expanded content (e.g., HDR image content) may then be provided to one or more devices for display or storage.
US12002182B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for processing an image, training an image recognition network and recognizing an image. The method of processing an image includes: obtaining a plurality of original images from an original image set, where at least one of the plurality of original images includes an annotation area; obtaining at least one first image by splicing the plurality of original images; for each of the at least one first image, adjusting a shape and/or size of the first image based on the plurality of original images to form a second image; obtaining respective positions of the at least one annotation area in the second image by converting respective positions of the at least one annotation area in the plurality of original images.
US12002172B2
Systems and methods are described for selecting a 3D object for display in an extended reality environment. A space in an extended reality environment is determined for placement of a 3D object. A set of space parameters are determined comprising: an amount of memory available for generating the display of the extended reality environment and an amount of computing power available for generating the display of the extended reality environment. The 3D object is selected for display in the space based on the amount of memory and the amount of computing power available.
US12002169B2
Techniques are disclosed for facilitating electronic commerce in an augmented reality environment. In some embodiments, a method comprises detecting, by a mobile device, presence of the physical product or the real life service; and presenting, on the mobile device, information to conduct the transaction of a physical product or a real life service via the augmented reality environment. In some embodiments, a method comprises detecting one or more targets in the augmented reality platform using a select area in a perspective of a user, the perspective being captured by a mobile device; and prompting the user to choose an object of interest from the one or more detected targets.
US12002167B2
A method in a virtual, augmented, or mixed reality system includes a GPU determining/detecting an absence of image data. The method also includes shutting down a portion/component/function of the GPU. The method further includes shutting down a communication link between the GPU and a DB. Moreover, the method includes shutting down a portion/component/function of the DB. In addition, the method includes shutting down a communication link between the DB and a display panel. The further also includes shutting down a portion/component/function of the display panel.
US12002162B2
A method for providing virtual contents in a virtual space based on a common coordinate system includes: detecting a base marker for identifying a fixed point of an actual operation space, and a target marker for identifying an actual operation object, from initial image data indicating an initial state of the actual operation object in the actual operation space; calculating an initial model matrix of a target marker expressing an initial position and orientation of the target marker, and a model matrix of the base marker expressing a position and an orientation of the detected base marker in a virtual operation space having a common coordinate system which has the detected base marker as a reference; and calculating a current model matrix of the target marker expressing a current position and orientation of the target marker by using the calculated model matrix of the base marker.
US12002160B2
An avatar method, apparatus and device, and a medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring a target image in response to a user input; and obtaining an avatar corresponding to the target image by using a first generator; the first generator being trained and obtained on the basis of a first sample image set and a second sample image set generated by a three-dimensional model. In the present disclosure, by using the first generator, the generation method for an avatar is effectively simplified, thus improving generation efficiency, and avatars in one-to-one correspondence to target image can be generated, so that the avatars are more diversified. Additionally, the first generator is easy to deploy in various production environments, thus reducing the performance requirements on hardware devices.
US12002158B2
To provide an information processing apparatus, an information processing method, and an information processing system that make it possible to grasp a state of a certain region. An information processing apparatus includes an image acquisition section, a three-dimensional model generator, and a block generator. The image acquisition section acquires image information that includes image data and position information that are associated with each other, the position information being information regarding a position at which the image data is acquired. The three-dimensional model generator generates a three-dimensional model using the image information. The block generator generates a new block that is to be coupled to a blockchain that is formed by blocks being coupled, each block recording therein the image information used to generate the three-dimensional model.
US12002157B2
A computer-implemented method of machine-learning. The method includes obtaining a Variational Auto-encoder architecture for a neural network which is configured to take as an input a 2D sketch and a random variable, and to output a 3D model represented by the 2D sketch. The method of machine-learning also includes teaching the neural network.
US12002156B2
This specification describes systems and methods for refining point cloud data. Methods can include receiving point cloud data for a physical space, iteratively selecting points along an x, y, and z dimension, clustering the selected points into 2D histograms, determining a slope value for each 2D histogram, and removing, based on the slope value exceeding a predetermined value, points from the point cloud data. Methods can also include iteratively voxelizing each 2D histogram into predetermined mesh sizes, summating points in each voxelized 2D histogram, removing, based on determining the summation is below a predetermined sum value, points from the point cloud data, keeping, based on determining that a number of points in each voxelized 2D histogram exceeds a threshold value, a center point, selecting, for each histogram, a point, identifying, nearest neighbors in the point cloud data, removing the identified nearest neighbors from the data, and returning remaining points.
US12002150B2
Methods and systems are provided for rendering photo-realistic images of a subject or an object using a differentiable neural network for predicting indirect light behavior. In one example, the differentiable neural network outputs a volumetric light map comprising a plurality of spherical harmonic representations. Further, using a reflectance neural network, roughness and scattering coefficients associated with the subject or the object is computed. The volumetric light map, as well as the roughness and scattering coefficients are the utilized for rendering a final image under one or more of a desired lighting condition, desired camera view angle, and/or with a desired visual effect (e.g., expression change).
US12002145B2
Apparatus and method for efficient graphics processing including ray tracing. For example, one embodiment of a graphics processor comprises: execution hardware logic to execute graphics commands and render images; an interface to couple functional units of the execution hardware logic to a tiled resource; and a tiled resource manager to manage access by the functional units to the tiled resource, a functional unit of the execution hardware logic to generate a request with a hash identifier (ID) to request access to a portion of the tiled resource, wherein the tiled resource manager is to determine whether a portion of the tiled resource identified by the hash ID exists, and if not, to allocate a new portion of the tiled resource and associate the new portion with the hash ID.
US12002144B2
This technology relates to rendering content from discrete applications. In this regard, one or more computing devices may receive a global scene graph containing resources provided by two or more discrete processes, wherein the global scene graph is instantiated by a first process of the two or more discrete processes. The one or more computing devices may render and output for display, the global scene graph in accordance with the resources contained there.
US12002138B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a speech-driven animation method and apparatus based on artificial intelligence (AI). The method includes obtaining a first speech, the first speech comprising a plurality of speech frames; determining linguistics information corresponding to a speech frame in the first speech, the linguistics information being used for identifying a distribution possibility that the speech frame in the first speech pertains to phonemes; determining an expression parameter corresponding to the speech frame in the first speech according to the linguistics information; and enabling, according to the expression parameter, an animation character to make an expression corresponding to the first speech.
US12002132B1
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that use an analytic approach to determine signed distance field (SDF) representations that represent one or more curves (e.g., glyphs that represent text) and cache the SDF representations for reuse in rendering the curves in similar rendering conditions. For example, the SDF representation may be re-used, based on determining that text is going to occupy a similar-sized portion of the device's display in multiple views. An SDF representation is recalculated if different conditions (e.g., substantial zooming in on the text) occur in different views.
US12002124B2
User activity including both athletic activity (e.g., running, walking, etc.) and non-athletic activity (shopping, reading articles, etc.) may be monitored and tracked by an athletic monitoring and tracking device and service. The user activity may be used to award a user with an amount of virtual currency to encourage the user to continue various activities. In one example, users may use the virtual currency to purchase or otherwise acquire various products, services, discounts and the like. A user may track an amount currency earned and/or needed relative to an amount required to acquire a desired product or service. Additionally or alternatively, a visual appearance of a user device (e.g., a watch or athletic activity band) may change based on the user's activity level, an amount of virtual currency earned and the like.
US12002099B1
Methods and systems for developing profitable convertible term products are disclosed. The methods include the disaggregation of the pricing of existing term products and the use of big data analytics to identify opportunities to improve the acceptance of the product within a particular share of the market. Then, a pricing model and a selling model are built to test the product.
US12002098B2
Systems including purpose-configured controllers that securely separate—functionally, structurally, or physically—data acquisition, validation, and aggregation operations from data distribution operations associated with completing and distributing an insurance application to insurance carriers.
US12002094B2
Systems and methods for generating tree-based models with improved fairness are disclosed. The disclosed process generates a first tree-based machine learning model, which is preferably trained to predict if a financial loan will be repaid. The process also determines an accuracy of the first tree-based machine learning mode. In addition, the process determines a fairness of the first tree-based machine learning model. The fairness is preferably associated with at least one of gender, race, ethnicity, age, marital status, military status, sexual orientation, and disability status. The process then generates a second different tree-based machine learning model, which is preferably trained based on the accuracy of the first tree-based machine learning model and the fairness of the first tree-based machine learning model. The process then combines the first tree-based machine learning model and the second tree-based machine learning model to produce a gradient-boosted machine learning model.
US12002083B2
A visual search recommendation engine utilizes an image quality indication model for a visual search recommendation. Specifically, the visual search recommendation engine receives a search image as a search query at a search engine. The visual search recommendation engine provides the search image as an input into the image quality indication model, which is trained to output an image quality indication based on image aspects of the search image. A plurality of images are identified from an image corpus. The visual search recommendation engine determines an image similarity based on a comparison between the plurality of images from the image corpus and the search image. The image quality indication and the image similarity indicate a search query performance for the search image. A first image exceeding the search query performance is identified. The first image is provided for display at the search engine.
US12002077B2
A machine is configured to automatically generate listings for multiple items. For example, the machine receives, from a client device, two or more images and two or more descriptions. The two or more images depict two or more items. The two or more descriptions pertain to the two or more items. The machine matches one or more images of the two or more images to a description of the two or more descriptions. The one or more images depict an item of the two or more items. The description pertains to the item. The machine, based on the matching, generates a listing of the item. The listing includes the one or more images depicting the item, and the description pertaining to the item. The machine causes display of the listing of the item in a user interface.
US12002071B2
A computing device (e.g., a server) coupled to a digital signage device may receive characteristic information associated with a visitor of the digital signage device. The received characteristic information may be analyzed, and based on a result of the analysis, advertisement attributes may be determined. The computing device may select, based on the determined advertisement attributes, a particular advertisement from a plurality of advertisement bids. The computing device may cause display of the selected particular advertisement on the digital signage device for the visitor. The characteristic information may be generated by the digital signage device utilizing a video analytics. The computing device may receive particular gesture information associated with a mobile device of the visitor who responds to the displayed particular advertisement. The computing device may cause a cloud computing platform to push content associated with the particular advertisement into the mobile device for the visitor to place an order.
US12002067B2
Computer system for providing payments, incentives, and fraud protection within or across industries
A network includes a platform provider having a centralized operating environment including a combination of hardware, software, and a communication device configured to receive information from a plurality of enterprise networks each configured to independently communicate information to the platform provider. The information includes customer information, device information, requested enrollment or application information, requested transaction information, completed enrollment or application information, or completed transaction information, or a combination thereof. The platform provider is configured to validate and record the information in a secure ledger. The platform provider is further configured to, based on the information, identify incentives, advertisements, or other communications to provide a customer, deliver incentives, advertisements, or other communications to a customer, calculate a fee owed by one enterprise network to one of the platform provider, another enterprise network, or a customer, or assess a probability that a requested consumer, device, enrollment, application, or transaction is fraudulent.
US12002066B2
There are provided systems and methods for monitoring device application usage for completion of checkout data processing. A computing device may be utilized to perform one or more actions while utilizing an application executable by the device, including a browser application or merchant application that allows a user to view an online marketplace and purchase items in a transaction. Prior to checkout and transaction processing, the device may be used to browse items, and items may be added to a shopping cart. However, the device may not finish electronic transaction processing for the items, for example, where the device does not enter transaction processing details and/or navigates away from the items or cart. A service provider may utilize past actions to determine whether the action indicates that the device is abandoning use of the application, including electronic transaction processing. If so, an incentive may be provided to continue use.
US12002062B2
A system can associate interests and responsibilities that correspond to a user account with a tag, based on search data originated by the user account. The system can determine content to send to the user account based on the tag. The system can determine that an offering is first offered after sending the content to the user account. The system can determine that the user account has purchased the offering. The system can determine that a portion of a commission associated with the user account purchasing the offering is credited to sending the content to the user account based on the tag. The system can store an indication that the portion of the commission associated with the user account purchasing the offering is credited to sending the content to the user account based on the tag.
US12002057B2
In one embodiment, a predictive contextual transaction scoring system receives transaction review data associated with person-to-person transactions from a marketplace, the transaction review data including feedback information relating to the person-to-person transaction. The system identifies contextual characteristics of the person-to-person transactions by analyzing the feedback information related to the person-to-person transactions. The system pairs a first party requesting a service to a second party providing the requested service by matching a contextual characteristic of the first party to a contextual characteristic of the second party. The system also predicts a transaction score for a new person-to-person transaction involving the first party and the second party, and provides the predicted transaction score to the marketplace to facilitate pairing of the first party requesting the service.
US12002054B1
A method and apparatus for fraud detection during transactions using identity graphs are described. The method may include receiving a document image for detecting whether an identity document depicted within the document image is fraudulent. The method may also include extracting data associated with the document image to generate extracted data. The method may also include processing, by a single machine learning model, subsets of the decoded image data used as corresponding inputs to each of a set of machine learning model backbones of the single machine learning model that generate one or more intermediate signals indicative of whether a subset of the extracted image data input into said each machine learning model backbone is associated with a fraudulent identity document. The method may also include processing, by a second machine learning model backbone that generates a final score indicative of whether the document image depicts a fraudulent identity document, at least one or more intermediate signals.
US12002049B2
A method is disclosed for enabling transaction reversal processes without utilizing sensitive information. Instead of being identified by sensitive information, the transaction associated with a reversal can be identified by a transaction identifier that is generated by a resource provider.
US12002047B1
The platform described provides the security, verifiability, and computational speed necessary to implement transactions involving derivatives of private equity assets using smart contracts. All relevant data necessary for the performance of the transactions are converted into encrypted machine-readable digital identities that are stored in a data storage and a blockchain storage. References to location within the storages of the digital identities are included in a derivatives archetype associated with one derivative instrument. Price of the derivative instrument can similarly be determined using a pricing archetype that references locations of the digital identities of data items as well as the formula necessary for the determination of the price. The pricing engine further leverages digital identities price proxies for the underlying from publicly available data. Data security can further be amplified through a use of multi-primitive crypto mapping. The price and the derivatives archetype are used to create a smart contract.
US12002045B2
Disclosed is a resource management system that maintains records relating to transactions associated with resources, wherein the system is implemented as a distributed ledger arrangement including data processing nodes that are coupled via a data communication network. The records are maintained in corresponding chains, wherein each chain includes a temporally defined sequence of verified entries and each entry defines corresponding transactions. When new entry is to be made to a given chain, information concerning the new entry is communicated to the data processing nodes for verification thereof. The system records the new entry when verified, to its corresponding given chain. The system includes a filter arrangement for limiting communication regarding the new entry to be made only to a subset of the data processing nodes of the system for verifying the new entry.
US12002044B2
An expedited payment service may be accessed through a browser extension. As an extension operates in a manner in which it has access to the underlying merchant data, the extension may allow an expedited payment service to work with virtually any merchant web site to complete payment transactions.
US12002042B2
The present disclosure generally relates to techniques for managing contextual transactions. In some examples, at a sender electronic device, a first user provides authorization to purchase an item for a second user. In some examples, at a recipient device, the second user selects one or more attributes for the item and requests to claim the item. In some examples, an electronic device displays a representation of an item and a purchase affordance for purchasing the item using a payment system that is available on the electronic device.
US12002041B2
A method and system for user authentication by using an authentication virtual code are provided. A user authentication method using an authentication virtual code includes receiving, by a server, the authentication virtual code, searching, by the server, for an authentication card storage location, at which the authentication card is registered, in a storage location search algorithm based on the authentication virtual code, identifying, by the server, a user by extracting user information stored after being matched with the found authentication card storage location, verifying, by the server, an authentication virtual code based on a time point at which the authentication virtual code is received, and approving, by the server, user authentication.
US12002038B2
A processing unit and a mobile identity information controlled financial account device may communicate. The processing unit receives at least one digital representation of a biometric, obtains identity information using the at least one digital representation of the biometric, and determines whether or not to transmit an authorization signal to the mobile identity information controlled financial account device that enables use of the mobile identity information controlled financial account device in at least one transaction involving at least one financial account. The mobile identity information controlled financial account device may be usable for the at least one transaction when the mobile identity information controlled financial account device receives the authorization signal. The processing unit may also receive a first digital representation of a biometric for a first person along with at least one permission to assign regarding the mobile identity information controlled financial account device for a second person.
US12002031B2
Embodiments relate to transactions using image based MMS solutions over a communication device. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving, by a payment provider server, from a buyer device, transaction information associated with a transaction between a buyer and a seller; wherein the seller provides a seller payment provider messaging endpoint identifier to the buyer along with the transaction information for use in processing the transaction. The method also includes transmitting, by the payment provider server, to the buyer device, message content comprising an image displayed on a user interface of the buyer device, the image comprising payment instrument information for use in connection with the transaction, wherein the buyer communicates information included in the message content to the seller payment provider messaging endpoint identifier. And the method includes processing, by the payment provider server, the transaction based on information included in the message content and the transaction information.
US12002028B2
A system and method of providing two-way communication between an isolated POS system and a website are described. The POS system operates as an air gap system. In response to detecting a trigger event the two-way communication is initiated for installation, diagnostic and repair services. POS information for transmission to the website through the internet is generated using a QR code that includes the website address and a data payload that depends on the desired service. The QR code is read by a smart phone and transmitted to the website. The website responds by sending response data dependent on the QR code and desired service. The response data is communicated to the POS system via another QR code for further operations by the POS system based thereon.
US12002022B2
A computer-implemented method for predicting interchange charges includes: retrieving a historical transactions set, where each completed transaction in the set includes transaction features, a bank identification number (BIN), and a corresponding true interchange code; transforming all BINs in the set into a corresponding plurality of BIN features that comprise probabilities; creating a first training set including all transaction features, all pluralities of BIN features, and all true interchange codes associated with the historical transactions set; training a random forest model using the first training set and generating a second training set including rounded BIN features, rounded transaction features, discrete ones of the transaction features, and the true interchange codes; training the random forest model using the second training set to generate a trained random forest model for prediction of the interchange codes; and executing the trained random forest model for new transactions to generate corresponding predicted interchange codes.
US12002009B2
This disclosure describes a system for automatically transitioning items from a materials handling facility without delaying a user as they exit the materials handling facility. For example, while a user is located in a materials handling facility, the user may pick one or more items. The items are identified and automatically associated with the user at or near the time of the item pick. When the users enters and/or passes through a transition area, the picked items are automatically transitioned to the user without affirmative input from or delay to the user.
US12002007B2
A system and method for operating a robotic system to scan and register unrecognized objects is disclosed. The robotic system may use an image data representative of an unrecognized object located at a start location to implement operations for transferring the unrecognized object from the start location. While implementing the operations, the robotic system may obtain additional data, including scanning results of one or more portions of the unrecognized object not included in the image data. The robotic system may use the additional data to register the unrecognized object.
US12002002B1
An apparatus includes solar panels. The apparatus includes a battery system. The top surface of the battery system attaches to a bottom surface of the solar panels, and a bottom surface of the battery system has blocks that fit through apertures within the grooves of a dumpster lid. The apparatus includes a sensor system. The sensor system is attached to a bottom surface of the battery system, and a top surface of the sensor system has a corrugated design that fits into the bottom surface of the battery system. The apparatus includes a microprocessor. The microprocessor sends electronic information to a computing device. The electronic information includes one or more electronic images, and distance information between a top surface of garbage within a dumpster and a bottom surface of the sensor system.
US12002000B2
An unmanned aerial delivery vehicle acquires transfer position information indicating a position at time of package transfer of an unmanned ground delivery vehicle that receives a package in a case where a predetermined condition based on position information of the unmanned aerial delivery vehicle that transports a package is satisfied. A position of the unmanned ground delivery vehicle at the time of package transfer is identified by the unmanned aerial delivery vehicle. The unmanned ground delivery vehicle acquires delivery destination information of the package transported by the unmanned aerial delivery vehicle.
US12001996B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods that impute missing shipment milestones using vehicle tracking data (e.g., global positioning system (GPS data, automatic identification system (AIS) data, and/or the like). In particular, the present disclosure provides improved techniques to impute when a shipping vehicle (and the cargo loaded thereon) has arrived at a transportation location (e.g., port). In some implementations, the milestone imputation process first includes collecting a historical sample of the vehicle tracking data. Next, density-based clustering methods can be applied to identify vessel stops. This historical set of vessel stops can then be further clustered in order to identify individual docking or loading/unloading locations for all the transportation locations around the world. Once these docking locations have been identified, a geofence can be established around those locations and used to determine when a shipping vehicle has arrived at the corresponding transportation location and/or docking location.
US12001992B2
Disclosed is method including receiving digital vehicle data for a fleet of vehicles like trucks, trains, planes, drones, etc., the digital vehicle data being one or more of GPS/location-based data, image data or radar data and combining one or more of pieces of data. The method includes inferring, based on the first combined data or based on incomplete data, a loaded/empty status of a vehicle. The method includes combining other data to yield second combined data, receiving data regarding one or more of supply, demand, and amount of available cargo to yield third combined data, generating information relating to a supply of vehicles available to load at a specified dock and/or deliver a cargo to a specified dock, in each case within a specified period of time and generating suggestions for one or more vehicles regarding future routes based on the data.
US12001987B1
A method, apparatus, and computer program product for improved risk compliance management are provided. An example method includes receiving, by a computing device, a request for an authenticated online session. The method further includes obtaining, by identification circuitry of the computing device, one or more first risk parameters associated with a first session establishment process. The one or more first risk parameters are associated with a first vendor performing the first session establishment process. The method further includes determining, by risk compliance circuitry of the computing device, if the one or more first risk parameters satisfy one or more first risk thresholds. In response to this determination, the method includes modifying, by risk adjustment circuitry of the computing device, one or more second risk thresholds associated with a second session establishment process to be performed by a second vendor.
US12001982B2
A method and system for controlling a cloud-based agricultural database system using a control system is disclosed. The control system includes a local voice input unit, wherein a user performs an agricultural activity, such as with an agricultural work machine in an agricultural environment. The agricultural activity, the user and the agricultural environment may be embedded in or associated with an agricultural context, with state data and/or planning data depicting the agricultural context being saved in an agricultural database system. The user may process, such as supplement, the state data and/or planning data while performing the agricultural activity by voice input via the local voice input unit.
US12001979B2
Terminal (2) used by a user includes a transmitter configured to transmit desire information required for determining a desired facility desired by the user to a server (1) via a telecommunications network. The server (1) includes a destination setting unit configured to set a destination of a vehicle on the basis of the desire information and a facility information acquisition unit configured to acquire, via the telecommunications network, facility information including information indicative of an empty situation of the desired facility. The vehicle includes an arrival time adjustment unit configured to manage a travel of the vehicle on the basis of the facility information to adjust an arrival time at which the vehicle arrives at the destination.
US12001970B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to automated pairing of customers and businesses. A computing platform may determine, based on historical user activity of a user, a pattern of the user activity, and may identify, based on the pattern of the user activity, an anticipated purchase activity of the user. Then, the computing platform may determine a sales offering by a vendor. Then, the computing platform may match the anticipated purchase activity with the sales offering. Then, the computing platform may retrieve user-defined preference rules associated with the anticipated purchase activity. Then, the computing platform may determine whether the preference rules apply to one or more attributes of the anticipated purchase activity. Subsequently, the computing platform may trigger, based on a determination that the preference rules apply to the one or more attributes of the anticipated purchase activity, an action associated with the anticipated purchase activity.
US12001968B2
The described technology is generally directed towards predicting the survival of a storage device (e.g., a hard disk drive or a solid state drive) to a specified time point, expressed as a confidence score, via a prediction uncertainty quantifier framework with a machine learning classifier. The confidence score corresponds to the likelihood of a storage device surviving until a specified time point (e.g., for n hours). In one implementation, a conformal prediction framework provides the confidence score for a storage device, based on survival rate data predicted using recent telemetry data collected for that storage device by an online semi-parametric Mondrian survival forest classifier. Updated confidence scores based on updated telemetry data can be obtained at various evaluation stages to reevaluate whether to take remedial action with respect to a storage device (e.g., replace the storage device). Multiple storage devices can be ranked by their respective associated confidence scores.
US12001965B2
The present disclosure relates to techniques for developing artificial intelligence algorithms by distributing analytics to multiple sources of privacy protected, harmonized data. Particularly, aspects are directed to a computer implemented method that includes receiving an algorithm and input data requirements associated with the algorithm, identifying data assets as being available from a data host based on the input data requirements, curating the data assets within a data storage structure that is within infrastructure of the data host, and integrating the algorithm into a secure capsule computing framework. The secure capsule computing framework serves the algorithm to the data assets within the data storage structure in a secure manner that preserves privacy of the data assets and the algorithm. The computer implemented method further includes running the data assets through the algorithm to obtain an inference.
US12001957B2
Methods and systems are provided for neural architecture search. A computer-implemented neural architecture search may be used for providing a neural network configured to perform a selected task. A computational graph is obtained, which includes a plurality of nodes, edges and weightings associated with the nodes and/or edges. The computational graph includes a plurality of candidate models in the form of subgraphs of the computational graph. Selected subgraphs may be trained sequentially, with the weightings corresponding to each said subgraph being updated in response to training. For each weighting in a subgraph which is shared with another subgraph, updates to the weightings are controlled based on an indication of how important to another subgraph a node/edge associated with that weighting is.
US12001956B2
A method for image generation based on a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) including a generator, a discriminator, and an encoder, wherein outputs of the generator are mapped, by the encoder, to a latent space adaptable to manipulate at least one characteristics of images generated by the GAN, the method including generating, by the encoder, a first encoding E(Y) of a target image Y and a second encoding E(G(Z)) of a generated image G(Z) corresponding to the target image Y, wherein the first and second encodings E(Y) and E(G(Z)) map Y and G(Z) to the latent space having a lower dimension than dimensionality of Y and G(Z), wherein the encoder is trained to minimize the differences between the first and second encodings E(Y) and E(G(Z)), and the generator is trained by using the first and second encodings E(Y) and E(G(Z)) as part of a loss function.
US12001953B2
Techniques for mixed-precision data manipulation for neural network data computation are disclosed. A first left group comprising eight bytes of data and a first right group of eight bytes of data are obtained for computation using a processor. A second left group comprising eight bytes of data and a second right group of eight bytes of data are obtained. A sum of products is performed between the first left and right groups and the second left and right groups. The sum of products is performed on bytes of 8-bit integer data. A first result is based on a summation of eight values that are products of the first group's left eight bytes and the second group's left eight bytes. A second result is based on the summation of eight values that are products of the first group's left eight bytes and the second group's right eight bytes. Results are output.
US12001947B2
A photonic computing system is presented. The system comprises an arrangement of multiple photonic processing units having input and output ports, each of the photonic processing units comprising an array of photonic guiding units configured to define propagation conditions for multiple light fields associated with one or more optical processing tasks. The system also comprises a plurality of optical connectors, each of the optical connectors performing light field to light field coupling between the input and output ports of the photonic processing units, thereby providing a network of communicating processing units. The photonic computing system can be configured as a module enabling its housing in a network rack.
US12001941B2
Embodiments may relate to a system to be used in an oscillating neural network (ONN). The system may include a control node and a plurality of nodes wirelessly communicatively coupled with a control node. A node of the plurality of nodes may be configured to identify an oscillation frequency of the node based on a weight W and an input X. The node may further be configured to transmit a wireless signal to the control node, wherein a frequency of the wireless signal oscillates based on the identified oscillation frequency. Other embodiments may be described or claimed.
US12001937B2
Disclosed are a data processing method and apparatus based on an optical neural network, a computer-readable storage medium, and an optical neural network. The method includes: acquiring initial optical information and final output optical information as well as intermediate input optical information and intermediate output optical information at input/output ports of the phase shifter of an input optical signal in a case that beam-splitting ratios of the beam splitters of the two interference optical path structure satisfy a beam-splitting compensation condition; calculating parameters of the internal phase shifters of the two interference optical path structures in a case that the initial optical information and the intermediate input optical information as well as the intermediate output optical information and the final output optical information satisfy a preset beam-splitting condition of the optical neural network; and performing data processing by using the optical neural network based on the parameters.
US12001936B2
A processing graph of an application with a sequence of processing nodes is obtained which processes an input and generates an intermediate representation a further intermediate representation, and an output representation of the input at stages in the sequence of processing nodes. Graph metadata is generated that specifies a non-overlapping target tiling configuration for the output representation, an overlapping tiling configuration for the input, an overlapping tiling configuration for the intermediate representation, and a third tiling configuration for the further intermediate representation. The processing graph is modified based on the graph metadata to conform to the parameters specified by the graph metadata. A set of computer instructions is then created to execute the modified processing graph on a target processing system.
US12001935B2
A computer-implemented method for analysis of cell images comprises obtaining a deep neural network and a training dataset, the deep neural network comprising a plurality of hidden layers; obtaining first sets of intermediate output values that are output from at least one of the plurality of hidden layers; constructing a latent variable model using the first sets of intermediate output values, the latent variable model mapping the first sets of intermediate output values to first sets of projected values in a sub-space that has a dimension lower than the sets of the intermediate outputs; obtaining a second set of intermediate output values by inputting a received new cell image to the deep neural network; mapping, using the latent variable model, the second set of intermediate output values to a second set of projected values; and determining whether the received new cell image is an outlier.
US12001933B2
Disclosed are techniques for utilizing a virtual assistant as part of a communication session. One or more of the participant users can select to utilize a virtual assistant to assist the participant users with tasks during the communication session. A user can use a communication application to enter a message directed to the virtual assistant. The virtual assistant can analyze the entered message and determine that the message was directed to the virtual assistant. As a result, the virtual assistant will assist the user with the identified task. A virtual assistant can assist a user with a variety of different tasks. For example, the virtual assistant can gather requested data for the user from one or more web servers, such as weather data, traffic data, etc.
US12001926B2
Techniques for machine-learning of long-term seasonal patterns are disclosed. In some embodiments, a network service receives a set of time-series data that tracks metric values of at least one computing resource over time. Responsive to receiving the time-series data, the network service detects a subset of metric values that are outliers and associated with a plurality of timestamps. The network service maps the plurality of timestamps to one or more encodings of at least one encoding space that defines a plurality of encodings for different seasonal patterns. Based on the mapped encodings, the network service generates a representation of a seasonal pattern. Based on the representation of the seasonal pattern, the network service may perform one or more operations in association with the at least one computing resource.
US12001922B2
A quantum circuit includes: a qubit, a resonant cavity, and a feeder, the resonant cavity being coupled to the qubit, and the feeder being coupled to the qubit. The feeder is configured to feed an initialization signal to the qubit, the initialization signal being a modulation signal used for causing a frequency of the qubit to generate a vibration. The vibration causes an equivalent state exchange to occur between the qubit and the resonant cavity, and an excited state of the qubit is initialized to a ground state by using the resonant cavity.
US12001919B1
Selective frequency dissipation is implemented that enables cooling of energy gap protected qubits such that excited energy states resulting from heating or other undesired processes are returned to a lower excited energy state or a ground state manifold, thus reducing the probability of errors. Also, the selective frequency dissipation inhibits leakage from the energy gap protected qubits when in the ground state.
US12001906B2
Copies of a distributed ledger with multiple blocks are stored on multiple computing devices. A first computing device coming into proximity with a particular object triggers generation of a new block to the distributed ledger, the new block identifying a characteristic of the object and including a hash of a previous block of the distributed ledger. The new block is optionally verified before it is appended onto the distributed ledger and transmitted out to each of the multiple computing devices so that each copy of the distributed ledger includes the new block.
US12001905B2
Exemplary embodiments use a single, physical embodiment that compiles independent machine-readable codes together with little to no space in between codes. This physical embodiment is in two primary forms—adhesive tape or fabric strips with hook and loop backing. A code reader device, with software compatible with the machine-readable codes, can rapidly or simultaneously aggregate independent codes together on the physical embodiment in order to assign them to one or more digital addresses.
US12001904B2
Implantable transponders comprising no ferromagnetic parts for use in medical implants are disclosed herein. Such transponders may assist in preventing interference of transponders with medical imaging technologies. Such transponders may optionally be of a small size, and may assist in collecting and transmitting data and information regarding implanted medical devices. Methods of using such transponders, readers for detecting such transponders, and methods for using such readers are also described.
US12001901B2
To prevent shifts in the landing positions of ink in edge regions, two adjacent nozzles to which ink is supplied from a common liquid chamber are restricted from simultaneously discharging ink.
US12001900B2
An inkjet printing method forming a decorative printed layer having a three-dimensional texture on a printing surface is described. The inkjet printing method includes: printing dots of curable ink that cure under a predetermined condition based on dot pattern data indicative of printed positions of the dots to be printed on the printing surface; and curing the printed dots. The dot pattern data indicates that: a distance between the adjacent dots becomes a distance where the adjacent dots before the curing are allowed to be maintained independently without bonding to one another in a first region; and the distance between the adjacent dots becomes a distance where the adjacent dots before the curing bond to one another in a second region different from the first region. Such a method may allow forming a decorative printed layer having a three-dimensional texture with a desired gloss level.
US12001896B2
Computer-implemented techniques for unsupervised event extraction are provided. In one instance, a computer implemented method can include parsing, by a system operatively coupled to a processor, unstructured text comprising event information to identify candidate event components. The computer implemented method can further include employing, by the system, one or more unsupervised machine learning techniques to generate structured event information defining events represented in the unstructured text based on the candidate event components.
US12001886B2
Disclosed is an improved system, method, and computer program product to allocate backup devices for a database system, where an appropriate appliance can be automatically allocated to accommodate backups. The allocation selects an appliance that effectively balances space allocation needs of the database with overall performance effects on a multi-tenant backup system that handles multiple databases of varying sizes.
US12001884B2
A cloud-based management system for distributed datacenters provides remote management of the datacenters from terminals at various locations. A virtual cloud-based operating system facilitates a transparent system call architecture, permitting subscribers to deploy, configure and manage operations at machines operating on different local operating systems. The virtual operating system can canonicalize available resources into a namespace to expose the resources as files at terminals. Asynchronous execution of subscriber commands across a group of target machines is provided with a notification procedure to control bandwidth and resource allocation. A file distribution model without a central controller for a group of target machines is provided to alleviate interaction with the management cluster for file distribution.
US12001883B2
Systems and methods for automated resource allocation during a computational simulation are described herein. An example method includes analyzing a set of simulation inputs to determine a first set of computing resources for performing a simulation, and starting the simulation with the first set of computing resources. The method also includes dynamically analyzing at least one attribute of the simulation to determine a second set of computing resources for performing the simulation, and performing the simulation with the second set of computing resources. The second set of computing resources is different than the first set of computing resources.
US12001882B2
Technology for revising a smart contract, including a set of machine logic based rules for job management of jobs to be performed under an SLA (service level agreement). The machine learning algorithm is refined and optimized dynamically based on intermittently received context data (historical, relevant operational data—may be augmented with projections regarding future events and/or operations). Also, the SLA is self-evolving so that its terms also change based an analysis of the context data.
US12001881B2
Event prioritization for an ordered event stream (OES) is disclosed. Unlike conventional prioritization techniques, the disclosed subject matter can be performed by an OES data storage system to provide direct, rather than indirect, control of prioritization. In an embodiment, a prioritized hashed key (PHK) can be determined from an event characteristic and an indicated event priority value based on a selectable priority-sensitive hashing function. As such, events with a same key characteristic but different indicated priorities can have different PHKs, events with different key characteristics but the same indicated priority can have different PHKs, and events with the same key characteristic and the same priority can have a same PHK. An event priority can be inherently comprised in the PHK without needing to explicitly store the priority value with a written event in the OES. Moreover, the disclosed prioritization for the OES can be compatible with OES scaling techniques.
US12001880B2
A method of controlling an operation of a multi-core system including a plurality of processor cores, includes, monitoring task execution delay times with respect to tasks respectively assigned to the plurality of processor cores, monitoring core execution delay times with respect to the plurality of processor cores and controlling an operation of the multi-core system based on the task execution delay times and the core execution delay times.
US12001866B2
The present disclosure describes a type of virtual machine, which the present disclosure may refer to as a harvest virtual machine, that may allow improved utilization of physical computing resources on a cloud-computing system. First, the harvest virtual machine may be evictable. In other words, higher priority virtual machines may preempt the harvest virtual machine's access to physical computing resources. Second, the harvest virtual machine may receive access to a dynamic amount of physical computing resources during the course of its operating life. Third, the harvest virtual machine may have a minimum size (in terms of an amount of physical computing resources) and may terminate whenever the harvest virtual machine has access to an amount of physical computing resources less than the minimum size.
US12001865B2
Embodiments described herein are generally directed to a controller of a managed container service that facilitates selection among bare metal machines available within a private cloud. According to an example, a request is received by a Container-as-a-Service controller from a CaaS portal to create a cluster based at least in part on resources of a private cloud of a customer of a managed container service. An inventory of bare-metal machines available within the private cloud is received from a Bare-Metal-as-a-Service (BMaaS) provider associated with the private cloud. A particular bare metal machine is identified for the cluster by selecting among the available bare-metal machines based on cluster information associated with the request, the inventory, and a best fit algorithm configured in accordance with a policy established by the customer.
US12001864B2
Containerized software discover and identification can include discovering a plurality of container remnants by electronically scanning portions of computer memory of at least one computer system of one or more of computing nodes, the portions of computer memory being allocated to persistent storage of computer data, and each container remnant containing computer data providing a record of system-generated execution attributes generated in response to execution of one or more containerized applications. One or more inactive container remnants unutilized by a currently running containerized application can be identified among the plurality of container remnants. Each inactive container remnant can be categorized, the categorizing being based on system-generated execution attributes contained in each inactive container remnant. Based on the categorizing, a previously run containerized application can be identified by reference to a database comprising data whose structures map identities of containerized applications to patterns of execution attributes.
US12001862B1
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a user input including an ambiguous mention by a user from the user's client system, analyzing the user input to identify intents and slots based on a natural-language understanding module, where at least one slot is an ambiguous slot corresponding to the ambiguous mention, identifying candidate entities corresponding to the ambiguous slot, ranking the candidate entities based on the user's user profile data, sending to the user's client system instructions for prompting the user to select a candidate entity from a set of candidate entities having a rank greater than a threshold rank, where the selected candidate entity is resolved to the ambiguous slot, and storing the selected candidate entity together with the ambiguous mention as a mention-entity pair as part of the user profile data responsive to receiving the selection from the user.
US12001856B2
A network device has a first OS component, a second OS component is added to run concurrently with the first. The first OS component transmits routing information to the second OS component where it is stored in memory. The second OS component registers with a routing infrastructure to receive packets that are routed to the first OS component. A timestamp and a first ID are added to a first instance of a packet and transmitted to the first OS component. The timestamp and a second ID are added to a second instance of the packet and transmitted to the second OS component. First functionality data for the first OS component is transmitted to a controller. Second functionality data for the second OS component is transmitted to the controller. The first and second functionality data are compared to determine whether to replace the first OS component with the second OS component.
US12001838B2
A method for merging a plurality of software code change versions, where a merging apparatus may first analyze code change areas in a software code preliminarily merged version and two different software code change versions. After change intents of the two code change areas are determined, the merging apparatus eliminates, based on a conflict elimination rule set and the change intents of the two code change areas, a conflict block in the software code preliminarily merged version.
US12001827B2
An information handling system includes a basic input/output system configured to update an attribute of a system-wide firmware downgrade security policy prior to booting to an operating system of the information handling system. The attribute of the system-wide firmware downgrade security policy is used to determine whether to allow or to disallow downgrade of a firmware to a version. A processor may perform the downgrade of the firmware, wherein the downgrade of the firmware includes the processor further configured to check the attribute of the system-wide firmware downgrade security policy and to store a firmware image in a scratchpad. If the attribute of the system-wide firmware downgrade security policy allows the downgrade of the firmware to the version, then the processor may continue with the downgrade of the firmware otherwise discard the firmware image in the scratchpad.
US12001815B2
Embodiments disclosed herein provide for systems and methods for scanning application code to determine cloud platform portability. The systems and methods provide for a rules processing engine configured to perform a portability analysis on the application code and a list of cloud platform dependencies, and returns a score indicating the “stickiness” of the application code to a particular cloud platform.
US12001807B2
Disclosed herein are example embodiments of an improved narrative generation system where an analysis service that executes data analysis logic that supports story generation is segregated from an authoring service that executes authoring logic for story generation through an interface. Accordingly, when the authoring service needs analysis from the analysis service, it can invoke the analysis service through the interface. By exposing the analysis service to the authoring service through the shared interface, the details of the logic underlying the analysis service are shielded from the authoring service (and vice versa where the details of the authoring service are shielded from the analysis service). Through parameterization of operating variables, the analysis service can thus be designed as a generalized data analysis service that can operate in a number of different content verticals with respect to a variety of different story types.
US12001802B2
Disclosed herein are various embodiments for training and enriching a natural language processing system. An embodiment operates by identifying a natural language processor (NLP) trained on a first set of documents, wherein the NLP is trained to perform a set of functionality based on the first set of documents. An industry, set of words corresponding to the industry, and set of sentences including at least a subset of the set of words in which the NLP is to be configured to perform the set of functionality are identified. A set of sentences that exceed a similarity threshold are identified. The NLP is trained with the subset of the set of sentences that exceed the similarity threshold, wherein the trained NLP with the subset is configured to perform the set of functionality within the industry with a greater accuracy than NLP trained on only the first set of documents.
US12001800B2
In an embodiment, a process for semantic-aware feature engineering includes receiving semantic labels for data fields of training data. Each of the semantic labels is associated with a semantic meaning associated with a corresponding data field. The process includes automatically generating at least one new feature using at least a portion of the semantic labels.
US12001799B1
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for optimized graph traversal are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of receiving a given phrase that is input through a user interface by a digital component provider. The actions further include determining an entity that is being referred to by the given phrase. The actions further include identifying properties of the entity. The actions further include selecting a subset of the properties that were identified for the entity. The actions further include identifying additional phrases. The actions further include updating the user interface to present at least some of the additional phrases with programmatic controls that assign one or more of the additional phrase as distribution criteria for digital components of the digital component provider in response to activation of the programmatic controls.
US12001788B2
Disclosed is a solution for diagnosing problems from logs used in an application development environment. A random sample of log statements is collected. The log statements can be completely unstructured and/or do not conform to any natural language. The log statements are tagged with predefined classifications. A natural language processing (NLP) classifier model is trained utilizing the log statements tagged with the predefined classification. New log statements can be classified into the plurality of predefined classifications utilizing the trained NLP classifier model. From the log statements thus classified, statements having a problem classification can be identified and presented through a dashboard running in a browser. Outputs from the trained NLP classifier model can be provided as input to another trained model for automatically and quickly identifying a type of problem associated with the statements, eliminating a need to manually sift through tens or hundreds of thousands of lines of logs.
US12001786B2
Natural language generation technology is disclosed that applies artificial intelligence to structured data to determine content for expression in natural language narratives that describe the structured data. A graph data structure is employed, where the graph data structure comprises a plurality of nodes. Each of a plurality of the nodes (1) represents a corresponding intent so that a plurality of different nodes represent different corresponding intents and (2) is associated with one or more links to one or more of the nodes to define relationships among the intents. A processor (1) traverses the graph data structure to determine which of the nodes to use for content to be expressed in the natural language narratives and (2) determines which of the nodes to use for providing follow-up information about the natural language narratives based on the links of the graph data structure so that the follow-up information is derived from nodes that are linked to the nodes used for the content to be expressed in the natural language narrative.
US12001775B1
A data corpus is partitioned into text strings for header classification. A group characteristic is computed for a text string, and whether the group characteristic satisfies a group characteristic criterion is determined. The text string may be disqualified from header classification if the group characteristic criterion is not satisfied, or one or more font characteristics may be determined for the text string if the group characteristic criterion is satisfied. A font characteristic that meets one or more prevalence criteria may be identified and evaluated to determine whether the font characteristic meets at least one font characteristic criterion. The text string may be disqualified from header classification if the font characteristic criterion is not satisfied, or if the font characteristic meets the font characteristic criterion, the text string is classified as a header, and tagged content is generated by applying a header tag to the text string.
US12001774B2
A method for curing antenna violations on an integrated circuit that includes multiple levels includes: obtaining a design of a circuit, the design including a first element connected to first device and a second element connected to one or more second devices, wherein the first and second elements both receive a common signal; determining that an antenna violation exists in on the first element at a first level of the multiple levels; and modifying the design of the circuit to add a connected between the first element and the second element at the first layer or at a layer below the first layer.
US12001762B2
The methods disclosed herein are directed to an automated method for monitoring performance of a well in a hydrocarbon reservoir for continuous monitoring of well test production data for a plurality of well system performance parameters, trending actual performance parameter deviations from a well system model, and determining most probable root cause(s) of the performance parameter deviations based on the trend of the deviations of a plurality of parameters for an outflow component of a well performance model and a plurality of parameters inflow component of a well performance model. The method automatically notifies an operator of detected root causes of the performance degradation, and further may perform corrective action in the well system based on at least one root cause of the deviation determined by the well performance model.
US12001752B1
In some implementations, a voice assistance device may receive an indication of a visualization change associated with the virtual or augmented reality environment. The voice assistance device may determine that a change value, calculated based on the indication of the visualization change, satisfies a relevance threshold. The voice assistance device may apply, based on the indicator of change satisfying the relevance threshold, a description model to determine at least one sentence describing the virtual or augmented reality environment. The voice assistance device may apply a text-to-speech model to the at least one sentence to generate a digital sound signal and may transmit, to an output component, the digital sound signal.
US12001744B2
A cloud print system connected to an image forming apparatus via a network comprises one or more memories storing a set of instructions and one or more processors that execute the set of instructions to store a print job received from other cloud print system and information indicating the other cloud print system, transmit the stored print job to the image forming apparatus in response to a request from the image forming apparatus, receive information of a execution result of the transmitted print job from the image forming apparatus, and transmit the received information of the execution result to the other cloud print system by using the information indicating the other cloud print system.
US12001739B1
A multi-function device (MFD) is disclosed. For example, the MFD includes a local communication interface, a proximity sensor to detect a user within a detection range, a processor, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions. The instructions when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations that include detecting the user within the detection range via the proximity sensor, scanning a mobile device of the user for a device identification via the local communication interface, determining that the device identification is associated with the user that is authorized on the MFD, and automatically logging the user into the MFD.
US12001734B2
An application to be stored in a nonvolatile storage medium according to an embodiment of the present invention is a print setting application to be installed in an information processing apparatus, the application when executed on the information processing apparatus causes the information processing apparatus to: acquire a printing method of a printer; acquire, in a case where the acquired printing method is a first method, printer information regarding a predetermined item; and display an object based on the acquired printer information on a display, wherein, in a case where the acquired printing method is a second method, the information processing apparatus does not acquire the printer information regarding the predetermined item.
US12001732B2
An operation analysis system, an operation analysis apparatus, an operation analysis method, and a non-transitory recording medium. The operation analysis system acquires information related to printing from a printing device, calculates an operating rate of the printing device based on the information related to printing, determines whether the operating rate is equal to or lower than a first predetermined value, identifies a system configuration model for improving the operating rate of the printing device that has the operating rate equal to or lower than the first predetermined value based on a property of the printing device, and generates screen information of a presentation screen for presenting the system configuration model.
US12001729B2
Useful information on image transmission is provided to a user who transmits an image in a network print technology. Features of transmitted images from a first user are specified for the transmitted images, a correspondence relationship between the feature of the transmitted image and an implementation history of image printing on a second user side is specified for each second user, a value related to an implementation frequency of the image printing is calculated for each second user and for each feature based on the correspondence relationship specified for each second user, a first image is specified among the transmitted images for each second user, two or more second users who have the feature of the first image in common are extracted, a second image having a feature of an image that is not transmitted to a target user among the extracted two or more second users and having a feature of a transmitted image that has been printed by a non-target user other than the target user is specified, and the second image is notified to the first user that has transmitted the transmitted image to the target user.
US12001727B2
Methods, systems, and devices for techniques for managed NAND translation with embedded memory systems are described. A host system may generate a first command to access a logical memory address associated with a memory system. The host system may identify a physical memory address of the memory system based on generating the first command. The host system may output to the memory system a second command and the physical memory address, where the second command may be communicated to the memory device using a protocol associated with a controller of the memory system. The memory system may then access memory cells in a memory device associated with the physical memory address based on receiving the second command and the physical memory address.
US12001723B2
A memory system includes a memory device and a memory controller. The memory device includes a memory cell array configured to store data, a data input and output interface configured to receive a command, an address, and data to be written into the memory cell array from the memory controller, and to output data read from the memory cell array to the memory controller, and a control circuit configured to control the memory cell array to perform an operation in response to receipt of a command while a first control signal is being asserted by the memory controller and receipt of an address subsequent to the command while a second control signal is being asserted by the memory controller.
US12001720B2
A method and apparatus for operating a solid state drive is disclosed comprising receiving at least two commands from a host requiring an action by the solid state drive in a preliminary order, ordering the at least two commands based upon a quality of service classification for the at least two commands to a final order and executing the at least two commands on the solid state drive in the final order, wherein an operational parameter of the solid state drive is modified by at least one of the at least two commands.
US12001713B2
The present disclosure includes apparatuses and methods related to data transfer in memory. An example apparatus can include a first number of memory devices coupled to a host via a first number of ports and a second number of memory devices coupled to the first number of memory device via a second number of ports, wherein a first number of commands are executed to transfer data between the first number of memory devices and the host via the first number of ports and a second number of commands are executed to transfer data between the first number of memory device and the second number of memory device via the second number of ports.
US12001711B2
The present disclosure generally relates to utilizing the host clock signal frequency to determine whether to operate in the default pulse width modulation (PWM) link startup sequence (LSS), be changed to high speed (HS) LSS by a host device capable of operating in either PWM LSS or HS LSS, or ignore the data storage device attributes of operating in PWM LSS and instead operate according to HS LSS. In so doing, the data storage device is adaptable to work with older generation UFS host devices as well as current and future generation UFS host devices.
US12001710B2
Techniques and solutions are provided for updating or augmenting consolidated data that is produced using base data. The consolidated data can include data that is aggregated by various grouping criteria. After a set of consolidated data is determined, the base data may change, one or more rules used to calculate the consolidated data may change, or it may be desired to see data that is more granular than that included in the consolidated data. After consolidated data is provided to a user, a user issues a data augmentation request. The data augmentation request causes the base data, which may have been updated, to be processed to provide updated data, where the processing includes grouping operations used in producing the consolidated data. The updated data is provided to a client in response to the data augmentation request.
US12001696B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to channel architecture for memory devices are described. Various applications can access data from a memory device via a plurality of channels. The channels can be selectively enabled or disabled based on the behavior of the applications. For instance, an apparatus in the form of a memory system can include an interface coupled to a controller and a plurality of channels. The controller can be configured to determine an aggregate amount of bandwidth used by a plurality of applications accessing data from a memory device coupled to the controller via the plurality of channels and disable one or more channels of the plurality of channels based, at least in part, on the aggregate amount of bandwidth used by the plurality of applications.
US12001689B2
An apparatus includes an interface circuit and a monitor circuit communicatively coupled to the interface circuit. The monitor circuit is configured to identify a command issued to a memory communicatively coupled to the monitor circuit through the interface circuit, determine whether the command is authorized, and, based on a determination that the command is not authorized, cancel the command.
US12001687B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a nonvolatile memory including a plurality of blocks each including a plurality of cell units, each of the cell units including a plurality of memory cells; and a memory controller. The memory controller is configured to read second data from a second cell unit in a first block in response to first data being written in a first cell unit in the first block, and reserve refresh processing for the first block when the second data satisfies a condition.
US12001682B2
A Processing-in-Memory (PIM) computing system and a memory controller provide improved memory traffic efficiency and improved PIM operation efficiency by increasing a burst length of a PIM operation relative to a general memory request. In embodiments, the increased burst length allows the PIM operation to be performed in units of pages, wherein a page is management unit of a memory used in the PIM operation.
US12001680B2
An example method of performing read operation with respect to a memory device comprises: receiving a request to perform a read operation with respect to a memory page of a memory device; identifying a block family associated with a block comprising the memory page; determining a block family-based read voltage level associated with the block family; performing, using the block family-based read voltage level, a read operation with respect to the memory page; determining, by performing an error correction operation with respect to the memory page, a new read voltage level associated with the block family; and associating, by a last successful read voltage level memory data structure, the new read voltage level as a last the successful read voltage level with the block family.
US12001678B2
An example memory sub-system includes a memory device and a processing device, operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is configured to receive a memory access request specifying a logical address of a data item and a memory access operation to be performed with respect to the data item; produce a truncated logical address by applying a predefined mathematical transformation to the specified logical address; identifying, in an address translation table, an address translation table entry identified by the truncated logical address; and perform the memory access operation using a physical address specified by the address translation table entry.
US12001673B2
Embodiments of this application provide a split-screen display method and an electronic device, which are applied to the field of terminal technologies. The method includes: receiving a first operation for an application; displaying, in response to the first operation, an icon of the application as a first state on a display screen, where the first state is used to identify that a split-screen display operation can be performed for a plurality of functions of the application; receiving a second operation for the icon in the first state; and respectively displaying, in response to the second operation, interfaces corresponding to the plurality of functions of the application in a plurality of split-screen areas. In the embodiments of this application, an application icon may be triggered on an interface of a terminal device, to implement split-screen displaying of a function of an application, thereby simplifying a manner of opening different functions of the application and improving user experience.
US12001672B2
An interface display method of an application is provided. The interface display method of an application may include: displaying a first user interface of the application; and in response to detecting a startup operation for a second user interface of the application, controlling states of components used to display the first user interface and the second user interface as a visible state, so that the first user interface and the second user interface are simultaneously displayed on a display panel, and the second user interface is a sub-interface of the first user interface.
US12001669B2
An image processing device and method for more easily performing a write operation on an image. Write information corresponding to a feature of an image of processing target is searched for based on relevant information that associates the write information with the feature of the image. For example, it is furthermore possible to search for write information corresponding to the feature of an image of the processing target based on the learning result of the user's behavior. The present invention can be applied to, for example, an information processing device, an image processing device, electronic equipment, an image processing method, a program, or the like.
US12001668B2
A data communication a system including: a stylus including a pen point electrode; a sensor controller; and a host processor. The stylus of data communication system is configured to transmit a pen signal with an electric field by capacitive coupling between the pen point electrode and a sensor electrode group; report, by the sensor controller, a position of the stylus in an operation surface to the host processor in response to detection of the pen signal by the sensor electrode group; supply, by the host processor, data to the sensor controller; and transmit, by the sensor controller, the data to the stylus in a stylus detection period in which the pen signal that is detected by the sensor electrode group indicates that the stylus is present within a predetermined distance from the operation surface.
US12001665B2
The slide bar display control device according to the present invention includes, a display means which indicates a first slide bar including a first slider and a first bar, an input means which can select an arbitrary part of the first slide bar shown on the display means based on touch operation, and a control means which controls the display means and the input means, wherein, when the control means detects that a first operation has been performed in a state that the first slider shown on the display means is being touched in the input means, the display means indicates a second slide bar including a second slider and a second bar, and wherein the second slider is a slider different in a variation amount of a set value per unit moving distance from the first slider.
US12001659B2
Provided are a method of generating a note, an electronic device, and a storage medium, which relate to a field of artificial intelligence, and in particular to fields of information processing and e-book technology. The method includes: displaying, in a process of displaying an e-book reading page, at least one note combination option for a first note generation instruction, in response to the first note generation instruction being detected; determining a second note generation instruction associated with a target note combination option, in response to an operation of selecting the target note combination option from the at least one note combination option; and combining a current character content associated with the first note generation instruction with a target character content associated with the second note generation instruction, so as to generate a combined note content.
US12001657B2
The information processing device includes a display panel, an operation receiving section, a controller, and a storage. The display panel includes a first area and a second area. When a user operation on the first area is received on the operation receiving section, the controller displays an image based on the user operation in the first area. The controller performs second processing and third processing. The second processing corresponds to processing of storing a first image displayed in the first area and a second image which is a reduced image of the first image in the storage, and displaying the second image in the second area. The third processing corresponds to processing of displaying, when a user operation of selecting the second image is received on the operation receiving section, the first image corresponding to the selected second image in the first area.
US12001646B2
According to one aspect, it becomes possible to easily modify a 3D object which is displayed in a virtual reality space. A method is performed by a computer configured to be communicable with a position detection device that includes a drawing surface and that, in operation, detects a position of an electronic pen on the drawing surface. The method includes rendering, in a virtual reality space, a first object that is a 3D object, rendering, near the first object, a display surface that is a 3D object, rendering, on the display surface, a 3D line that is a 3D object generated based on the position of the electronic pen on the drawing surface, wherein the position of the electronic pen is detected by the position detection device, and outputting the first object, the display surface, and the 3D line, which are the 3D objects, to a display.
US12001644B2
An apparatus, method and computer program is described comprising adding an interactive object to an interactive object queue in response to a user indication to add the interactive object to the queue, providing a first control area corresponding to the interactive object in response to the interactive object being added to the interaction object queue, wherein the first control area is accessible to the user, determining whether the user is within the first control area, providing at least one feedback to the user in response to determining that the user is within the first control area, and receiving an interaction input from the user for interacting with the interactive object.
US12001638B2
A display substrate includes a first base, touch signal lines and touch units. The touch signal lines are disposed on a side of the first base, and lengths of at least two touch signal lines decrease in sequence. The touch units are disposed on a side of the touch signal lines away from the first base, and a touch unit is electrically connected to a touch signal line. Resistances of at least two touch units increase in sequence, and the at least two touch units in an increase order of the resistances in sequence are electrically connected to the at least two touch signal lines in a decrease order of the lengths in sequence, respectively. The touch units each include a touch electrode, and at least one of the at least two touch units further includes an auxiliary electrode stacked with and electrically connected to a touch electrode.
US12001634B2
A display apparatus capable of performing authentication in a short time is provided. The display apparatus includes a first display portion where first pixels are arranged in a matrix, a second display portion where second pixels are arranged in a matrix, first and second row driver circuits, and a control circuit. Each of the first and the second pixels includes a light-receiving element. The first and the second pixels each have a function of acquiring imaging data by using the light-receiving element. The first and the second row driver circuits each have a function of selecting the first and the second pixels which read out the imaging data. The control circuit has a function of sequentially driving the first and the second row driver circuits in a first mode, and has a function of driving one of the first and the second row driver circuits on the basis of the imaging data in the second mode. Each of the scan rates of the first and the second row driver circuits in the first mode is higher than the scan rate of the first or the second row driver circuit in the second mode.
US12001633B2
A detecting device includes a sensor unit having a detection region in which a plurality of detection electrodes are arrayed, and a detector configured to supply a drive signal to the detection electrodes and detect a position of an object to be detected in a space on the detection region based on an output value of each of the detection electrodes.
US12001630B2
A touch display panel and a touch display apparatus, including: a substrate; a shielding layer disposed on one side of the substrate and including a plurality of shielding units arranged in array; a touch function layer disposed on a side of the shielding layer facing away from the substrate and including a plurality of touch electrodes arranged in array; and a plurality of electrode wires in one-to-one correspondence to and electrically connected to the plurality of touch electrodes. The plurality of electrode wires include at least one first-type electrode wire including a first lead wire and a second lead wire electrically connected to the first lead wire. The first lead wire is in the same layer as the touch function layer. The second lead wire is in the same layer as the shielding layer and spaced apart and insulated from the shielding units.
US12001627B2
A wearable computing device includes a display, a motion sensor, and a controller that: defines a pose of a simulated input object with selectable input elements; using the motion sensor, determines current poses of the display, and for each pose: (i) based on the pose and the pose of the input object, selects a portion of the input object, including a subset of the input elements, and (ii) renders the portion of the input object on the display; for at least one of the current poses, detects a simulated key press associated with one of the subset of input elements, and generates input data corresponding to the one of the subset of input elements. The device includes a housing containing the display, the motion sensor, and the controller; and a mounting component, coupled to the housing and configured to removably affix the housing to a forearm of an operator.
US12001625B2
A touch panel, comprising: a substrate, a plurality of touch electrodes and a plurality of traces disposed on the substrate. At least one trace is connected to at least one touch electrode, and comprises a first conducting wire and a second conducting wire. A trace insulating layer is provided between the first and second conducting wires. The second conducting wire is connected to the first conducting wire by at least one via on the trace insulating layer. First conducting wires of at least two adjacent traces both have at least one break point, so that a first short circuit point between the first conducting wire is isolated from a corresponding second conducting wire; or, second conducting wires of at least two adjacent traces both have at least one break point, so that a second short circuit point between the second conducting wire is isolated from a corresponding first conducting wire.
US12001623B2
A decorative sheet is a decorative sheet to be attached to a surface of a decoration target part, and includes a base film layer formed of a base film having a sheet shape, a decorative layer representing a decorative pattern, a light shield layer that is provided on a back side position with respect to the decorative layer and that includes a light transmitting portion having a predetermined shape, and a medium color layer formed between the decorative layer and the light shield layer.
US12001618B2
A knock-type electronic pen including a tubular casing, a first position indicator such as a written input indicator, a second position indicator such as an eraser, a knock cam mechanism, and a holding mechanism. The knock cam mechanism includes a knock portion including a part protruding outward from an opening at a second end of the tubular casing, and is configured to cause a tip of the first position indicator to protrude from, or be housed within, an opening at a first end of the tubular casing. The holding mechanism, in the state in which the tip of the first position indicator protrudes from the opening at the first end, returns the knock portion pushed into the tubular casing to a state of protruding from the opening at the second end such that at least a tip of the second position indicator protrudes outward.
US12001617B1
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a communication circuit, a memory, and a processor operatively connected to the display, the communication circuit, and the memory, wherein the processor is configured to detect a pen event for the display to obtain a frequency, to establish a communication connection with an electronic pen using the communication circuit to obtain switch information and a device identification (ID), to obtain an electronic pen connection record from the memory, to determine a type of the electronic pen based on the device ID, to determine an operation mode of the electronic pen based on the switch information when the switch information is obtained, and to perform a predetermined function based on at least one of the frequency, the electronic pen connection record, the type of the electronic pen, or the operation mode.
US12001616B1
A mouse device includes a lateral pressure sensing unit and a base unit having a base seat, a housing, and an inner space cooperatively defined by the base seat and the housing. The base seat is elongated in a front-rear direction, and includes a bottom face portion and an extension face portion surrounding and extending upwardly from the bottom face portion, and having spaced apart first and second lateral sections. The housing surrounds the base seat, extends upwardly from the extension face portion, and includes an operating portion extending upwardly from the first lateral section and having front, rear, upper, and lower pressing regions. The lateral pressure sensing unit is located in the inner space, is adjacent to the front, rear, upper and lower pressing regions, and is triggered upon operation on the operating portion.
US12001610B2
An acoustic field may be produced from a transducer array having known relative positions and orientations In this acoustic field, one or more control points may be defined. An amplitude may be assigned to the control point. Mid-air haptic effect for a virtual object on a human body part may be generated by moving the control point in a single closed curve comprising a plurality of curve segments. The single closed curve traverses at least one location where the human body part intersects with the virtual object. Additionally, a user may interact with virtual three-dimensional content using the user's hands while a tracking system monitoring the user's hands, a physics engine updates the properties of the virtual three-dimensional content and a haptic feedback system provides haptic information to the user.
US12001608B2
A system for haptic stimulation includes a haptic device and preferably interfaces with and/or includes a virtual platform. A method for haptic stimulation includes: receiving a set of inputs; determining one or more parameters associated with a virtual object based on the set of inputs; and prescribing a stimulation pattern to one or more haptic actuators of a haptic device. Additionally or alternatively, the method 200 can include any or all of: presenting information to a user; selecting one or more haptic actuators of a haptic device based on the parameter(s); and/or any other suitable processes performed in any order.
US12001606B2
The present technology relates to a control device and a control method capable of providing a more convenient electroencephalogram input user interface. Provided is a control device including a detection unit configured to perform detection of a brain wave included in a measured biometric signal of a user and detection of a user action based on information other than the brain wave included in the biometric signal, and a processing unit configured to perform a predetermined process based on the brain wave in a case where the user action is a predetermined action. For example, the present technology can be applied to a measurement device capable of measuring a brain wave signal.
US12001597B2
An industrial control system module and methods are described for self-destruction or the destruction and/or erasure of sensitive data within the industrial control system module upon an indication of an unauthorized module access event. In an implementation, a secure industrial control system module includes a circuit board including electrical circuitry; a sealed encasement that houses the circuit board, where the sealed encasement includes a housing having a first housing side and a second housing side, where the housing is configured to house the circuit board when the first housing side and the second housing side are coupled together; and a first sensor component integrated with the sealed encasement, where the first sensor component is communicably coupled to the circuit board and electrical circuitry and is configured to provide an indication of an unauthorized access event.
US12001596B2
The technology of this application relates to a transaction security processing method and apparatus, and a terminal device. The method includes receiving, in a rich execution environment (REE), a screen jump instruction triggered by a user in a first screen, where the screen jump instruction is used for jumping to a second screen, and the second screen can be displayed in a trusted execution environment (TEE), and entering the TEE and loading a trusted application (TA) in the TEE. The method further includes obtaining a first audio file from storage space on an REE side and playing the first audio file by using the TA, where the first audio file is used to represent that the terminal device is currently running in a trusted environment, and displaying the second screen generated by using the TA.
US12001587B2
A conference management system facilitates data compliance in recording conversations between users. A host user can send an electronic invitation for a meeting to participants. Upon accessing the invitation, the participants can be presented with two options to join the conference—a first option using which a participant can join the meeting by providing consent to recording the meeting and a second option using which the participant can join the meeting by opting-out of recording of the meeting. When a participant opts-out of the recording of the meeting, the conference management system ensures that the recording is performed in compliance with a data compliance policy applicable to the participant who opted out of recording.
US12001586B2
Auditing data containing sensitive data are stored in a data structure comprising data objects. Each data object comprises one or more pairs of a name and a value. Pairs that are flagged or identified as containing sensitive data are partially encrypted; the value is encrypted using an asymmetric key and the name corresponding to the encrypted value remains unencrypted. Some pairs that are not flagged or identified as containing sensitive data are left unencrypted. Unencrypted data may be stored in the partially encrypted auditing data as plain text. The auditing data may be analyzed to generate business metrics and identify application errors. The auditing data may also be queried, and data objects containing unencrypted pairs and/or partially encrypted pairs may be returned based on matching unencrypted names and/or values to the data query.
US12001575B2
A first digital asset of a first entity is stored in a blockchain, in response to checking that an electronic option is selected for storing the first digital asset in the blockchain. A second digital asset of a second entity is received and is based at least in part on having satisfied the first digital asset. The first digital asset is validated for agreement with the second digital asset. The second digital asset is stored in the blockchain, in response to checking that an electronic option is selected for storing the second digital asset in the blockchain and in response to the being in agreement. A third digital asset is received on behalf of the first entity, in response to the first and second digital assets being available in the blockchain, the third digital asset being an indication that a requirement is satisfied for the second digital asset.
US12001565B2
Providing an automatic mechanism of invalidating false-positive indications of certain identified portions of source code to reduce the number of errors in a security report. Certain embodiments of the present invention utilize static security scanning as a mechanism for automatically determining which portions of the identified source code contain potential vulnerabilities, and whether these identified portions of the source code are correctly or incorrectly identified with a false-positive indication.
US12001564B2
To facilitate runtime monitoring and analysis of an application without modifying the actual application code, an agent monitors and analyzes an application through detection and evaluation of invocations of an API of a runtime engine provided for execution of the application. The agent registers to receive events which are generated upon invocation of target functions of the runtime engine API based on its load. Once loaded, the agent initially determines the language and language version number of the runtime engine. The agent determines associations of events for which to monitor and corresponding analysis code to execute upon detection of the invocations based on the language and version number information. When the agent detects an event during execution of the application based on invocations of the runtime engine API, the agent can monitor and analyze execution of the application based on execution of analysis code corresponding to the detected event.
US12001563B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing an entity behavior cataloging operation. The entity behavior cataloging operation includes: identifying a security related activity, the security related activity being based upon an observable from an electronic data source; analyzing the security related activity, the analyzing identifying an event of analytic utility associated with the security related activity; generating entity behavior catalog data based upon the event of analytic utility associated with the security related activity; and, storing the entity behavior catalog data within an entity behavior catalog, the entity behavior catalog providing an inventory of entity behaviors for use when performing a security operation.
US12001561B2
Systems and methods for detecting and configuring imaging optimization settings during a collaboration session in a heterogenous computing platform are described. In some embodiments, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include a heterogeneous computing platform having a plurality of devices and a memory coupled to the heterogeneous computing platform, where the memory includes a plurality of sets of firmware instructions, where each set of firmware instructions, upon execution by a respective device, enables the respective device to provide a corresponding firmware service, and where at least one of the plurality of devices operates as an orchestrator configured to receive telemetry data and change an imaging optimization setting during a collaboration session, at least in part, based upon the telemetry data.
US12001560B2
A method and system to ensure correct firmware image execution in a computer system. The computer system has a processor executing a basic input/output system (BIOS) and a baseboard management controller (BMC). A first flash memory device is coupled to the processor storing a BIOS firmware image and a project name. A second flash memory device is coupled to the BMC storing a BMC firmware image and the project name. A programmable logic device is coupled to the first and second flash memory devices. The programmable logic device including a non-volatile memory storing a project name. The programmable logic device is configured to execute a Platform Firmware Resilience routine to compare the project name of the BIOS firmware image and the project name of the BMC firmware image with the stored project name before starting the BMC or executing the BIOS firmware image by the processor.
US12001559B1
A node disconnection rotation may be performed on an active synchronizing node pool of a multi-node replication system. The node disconnection rotation may ensure that at least one node is disconnected from the active synchronizing node pool at any given time. A disconnected node does not synchronize with other nodes during the time that it is disconnected. A disconnected node may, therefore, serve as a designated survivor, from which the system may be restored, when other active nodes are subject to a cyber-attack. Although the disconnected designated survivor node may potentially be compromised, it may be sanitized of any malicious contents prior to restart.
US12001557B2
Example implementations include a method of requesting an instruction block associated with one or more instructions and located at one or more addresses of a system memory, obtaining the instruction block from the system memory, generating a hash of the instruction block, obtaining an expected hash associated with the instruction block, comparing the expected hash with the generated hash, in accordance with a determination that the expected hash matches the generated hash, generating a first validation response associated with the instruction block. Example implementations also include a method of obtaining a secure instruction image including an expected hash associated with an instruction block, the instruction block associated with one or more instructions and located at one or more addresses of a system memory, storing the secure instruction image at a configuration register, and enabling the hardware controller to perform one or more hashing operations associated with the instruction block during runtime of a system processor.
US12001549B1
A system and method for providing cybersecurity incident response utilizing a large language model. The method includes: mapping a received incident input into a scenario of a plurality of scenarios, each scenario including a plurality of sub-scenarios; generating a query based on the received incident input and a selection of a sub-scenario of the plurality of sub-scenarios; executing the query on a security database, the security database including a representation of the computing environment; and initiating a mitigation action based on a result of the executed query.
US12001547B2
A computer-implemented method, and system, for detecting modification of a semiconductor device includes generating and applying an exhaustive first set of patterns to a netlist golden model of a golden device. The exhaustive first set of patterns is developed by a pseudorandom number generator. Applying the patterns to stimulate the device produces a first response serial bit stream in relation to logical composition of the golden model. A signature analyzer compresses the total output to provide a first cyclic redundancy code or answer. The same exhaustive set of patterns can be provided to stimulate the model of an unknown device. The unknown device is shown to be identical to the golden device if its answer matches that of the golden device and modified if its answer does not match that of the golden device.
US12001540B2
Embodiments as disclosed herein may provide systems and methods for component integration and security. In particular, in one embodiment, a native component that presents a network based interface may be on a device, where that native component may expose a network based interface for access by other components. This native component can then be accessed through the network based interface. To address security concerns and other issues, the native component may be configured to determine if a received request is associated with the same user space and only respond to requests originating from the same user space.
US12001529B1
A Counting Machine for Manufacturing and Validating Event-Relevant IDs, tagged with both Trust and Confidence Scores, for Specific Entities (Individuals and Enterprises) and their Prosoponyms using a Managed Secure-Immutable-Nonreputable-Replicated-Verifiable and Fault-Tolerant Distributed Datastore via an Ensemble-Based Network of both Existing and Newly-Created Heterogenous Single- and Multi-Factor ID Validation Services, the Ensemble consisting of both Commercial Organizations (known as Members) requiring valid Entity IDs for use during various events, such as purchase transactions, and Service Providers (known as Partners) who supply technology services for ID validation (as standalone services or as licensed by Members). The instant abstract is neither intended to define the invention disclosed in this specification nor intended to limit the scope of the invention in any way.
US12001526B2
A system and method for secure generation and distribution of digital encryption keys is disclosed. The system may also be used to protect and distribute other types of secure information, including digital, audio, video, or analog data, or physical objects. The system may include a tamper-respondent secure token device, which may be configured to destroy or disable access to the secure information contained therein in response to attempts to physically or electronically breach the device. Outputs may be provided in a secure manner through various interfaces without using electricity (wires) or electromagnetic radiation. Inputs may be provided in a secure manner, including through the use of a gesture-based input interface. Destruction or disablement of the device and/or its secure contents may be provided upon detection of tamper attempts or upon input of a self-destruct command. Proof of the destruction or disablement of the device or its contents may be provided.
US12001524B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide application management capabilities to enterprises. A computing device of a user, associated with the enterprise, receives an enrollment token signed with a certificate. The enrollment token includes an enterprise identifier associated with the enterprise. The computing device receives a package containing one or more applications. The package also includes an enterprise identifier. Installation and execution of one or more applications from the received package is accepted or rejected based on a comparison of the enterprise identifier from the enrollment token with the enterprise identifier from the received package or application. A web service provides validation services by monitoring the installation and execution of applications on the computing devices associated with the enterprise.
US12001514B2
The present disclosure relates to processing operations that execute image classification training for domain-specific traffic, where training operations are entirely compliant with data privacy regulations and policies. Image classification model training, as described herein, is configured to classify meaningful image categories in domain-specific scenarios where there is unknown data traffic and strict data compliance requirements that result in privacy-limited image data sets. Iterative image classification training satisfies data compliance requirements through a combination of online image classification training and offline image classification training. This results in tuned image recognition classifiers that have improved accuracy and efficiency over general image recognition classifiers when working with domain-specific data traffic. One or more image recognition classifiers are independently trained and tuned to detect an image class for image classification. Training of independent image recognition classifiers is also utilized for training and tuning of deeper learning models for image classification.
US12001506B2
Disclosed herein is a novel system and method for website rendering. In exemplary embodiments, the system and method comprise downloading a rendering engine onto a client device. The rendering engine retrieves or downloads website-specific data and website template data. The rendering engine merges the website-specific data and website template data. The rending engine obtains website assets identified by the merged data, and a template .css file. The rendering engine renders a website utilizing the merged data, the assets and the .css file.
US12001501B1
A technique for inspecting screen elements of a mobile device with a laptop or desktop computer displays a screen-shot of the mobile device. Visible screen elements are identified as the user moves a user interface pointer over the screen-shot. Individual screen elements are highlighted and a user may select individual screen elements. Additional information regarding screen element identification and attributes may be displayed. The screen element attributes may be captured for use in generating DAP content for a mobile device.
US12001498B2
There is provided a method for creating a presentation based on grouping of social media content, comprising: receiving a trend represented by at least one term; sending first requests to social network servers, each request including the at least one term; aggregating first user uploaded media content items received from the social network servers in response to the requests; extracting terms from the aggregated user uploaded media content items; associating at least some of the extracted terms with the trend; sending second requests to the social network servers, each request including the at least some of the extracted terms associated with the trend; aggregating second user uploaded media content items received from the social network servers in response to the second requests; and forwarding at least some members of the aggregated second user uploaded media content items to a presentation on a client terminal.
US12001497B2
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for displaying a customized news stream. One method includes an operation for identifying dwell times spent by users while accessing a first plurality of items, each item belonging to one media type from a plurality of media types (e.g., news articles, videos, slide shows, etc.). In addition, the method includes operations for determining statistical parameters for each media type based on the identified dwell times, and for detecting a news corpus having a second plurality of items. A priority for each item in the news corpus is determined based on the media type of the item, the corresponding statistical parameters for the media type of the item, and the profile of a user. The news stream is sent to the user for presentation on a display, the news stream being sorted based on the priority of the items in the news corpus.
US12001489B1
In an embodiment, a set of user posts and associated metadata are received. A parameterized logistic function is fit on the metadata. Each user post associated with the corresponding metadata is categorized, based on the fitted parameterized logistic function. A category-prior associated with each user post is determined, based on the clustered set of user posts. A set of multi-modal features associated with each user post is determined. Further, a feature likelihood for each user post is determined, based on the set of multi-modal features. A final category associated with each posts is determined, based on the category-prior and on the feature likelihood. Post categorization information is rendered based on the final category associated with each user post. The set of user posts is filtered based on the final category of each user post.
US12001483B2
A system for digital content that includes a content management system, an ontology manager and a chat bot, all executing and in communications coupling on a digital data processing system. The content manager stores a plurality of tagged digital assets. The ontology manager stores a list of (or otherwise maintains) plural facets, each corresponding to one or more tags of the content management system. One or more dialog segments and sequence identifiers are maintained in the ontology manager, as well, each associated with one or more other facets. The chat bot drives a conversation with an end-user based on facets identified as associated with assets in the content management system and using dialog segments associated with those facets, while excluding those facets not so identified. The digital data processing system generates and transmits to the user digital assets identified through that conversation.
US12001479B2
A video processing method, including: according to scenes, editing a video to be edited, and obtaining a target video; acquiring feature parameters of the target video; generating, according to the feature parameters, keywords of the target video; and storing the keywords and the target video associatively.
US12001474B2
An information determining method includes: acquiring a feature vector of a target multimedia resource and feature vectors of multiple candidate multimedia resources; selecting, from the multiple candidate multimedia resources, a reference multimedia resource whose feature vector corresponds to the feature vector of the target multimedia resource; and selecting information corresponding to the target multimedia resource from multiple pieces of information about the reference multimedia resource according to the multiple pieces of information, and determining the selected information as information about the target multimedia resource.
US12001473B2
A method for use in an automated media scheduling system includes generating a shots representing potential playlists of media items. Each of the shots includes multiple shot positions. A shot-position-dependent score of a current content item being considered for insertion into a particular shot position of a particular shot is generated, and indicates how closely the current content item conforms to a predetermined set of factors associated with the particular shot position of the particular shot. The current content item is inserted into the particular shot position of the particular shot based, at least in part on a comparison of the shot-position-dependent score of the current content item with shot-position-dependent scores of other content items, and the shot positions of each of the shots are populated with eligible content items. One of the shots is selected for scheduling based on aggregate scores of eligible content associated with each individual shot.
US12001471B2
Methods, systems, and media for lot classification are disclosed. In one example, a classification system for identifying lot listings receives a description for a listing in a publication system, identifies a string in the listing, identifies a quantity word or digit in the string, and converts an identified quantity word into digit form. A normalized string is tokenized to produce tokens, the tokenizing of the normalized string including splitting the normalized string into a series of substrings using a sequence of delimiters. For each substring, an additional split is performed by separating any digit from any other adjacent character, unless that character is another digit, and maintaining an internal character order of each split substring to produce a flattened list of tokenized tokens.
US12001465B2
A response selecting apparatus includes a recording part, a document searching part, an information acquiring part, a score calculating part, and a ranking part. The document searching part searches for a question-answer pair from the question-answer pairs recorded in the recording part using the input question as input. The information acquiring part acquires information for quantifying appropriateness of the search-result-question-answer pair with respect to the input question using the input question and the search-result-question-answer pair as input. The score calculating part calculates a score with respect to the input question for each of the search-result-question-answer pairs from a numerical value indicating appropriateness based on a search scheme and a numerical value based on the quantification information. The ranking part selects the search-result-question-answer pairs in descending order of appropriateness indicated by the scores and outputs the answers of the selected question-answer pairs as responses.
US12001451B2
Techniques for providing data retention services based on a geographic region are disclosed. In one aspect, a location of a computing device is determined. A geographic entity corresponding to the location of the computing device is then determined. A data retention policy is assigned to data of the computing device based on regulations of the geographic entity. Other aspects are also disclosed.
US12001446B2
A data processing system and corresponding method are presented. The system includes a communication module to retrieve a first document and a second document; a first database to store the first and second documents; and a processor. The processor extracts first data from the first document, orders the first data into a first data structure using a set of translation tables. The processor also extracts second data from the second document, orders the second data into a second data structure using the set of translation tables. The first data structure and the second data structure have a first and a second format, respectively. The first data and the second data comprise a plurality of entities, and the processor is configured to compare entities from the first data structure and the second data structure to identify matching entities.
US12001432B1
A database system receives a query. The database system retrieves an old query execution plan (QEP), OldPlan, for the query. The database system submits the query to an optimizer. The optimizer returns a new QEP, NewPlan, for the query. The database system submits the OldPlan and the NewPlan to a machine learning classifier (ML classifier). The ML classifier predicts that executing the NewPlan will result in a performance regression as compared to executing the OldPlan. The database system executes the OldPlan instead of the NewPlan.
US12001430B2
A data engine request is received on a local data system. The data engine request includes a portion of the request that is to be processed on an external data engine system. The portion is forwarded to the external data engine system and statistics for accessing external objects of the external data engine system is acquired. The statistics are evaluated for compliance with a Service Level Goal (SLG) associated with the request. Rules-based processing permits optimization and planning of the request on the local data engine system to be modified in view of the statistics received from the external data engine system to comply with the SLG. In an embodiment, actual resource utilization metrics noted during execution of the portion on the external data engine system is provided as feedback to the local data engine system for re-planning and re-optimizing the request with a modified execution plan.
US12001423B2
A method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for obtaining a hierarchical data structure and processing a log entry is disclosed. The method for obtaining the hierarchical data structure includes: obtaining corresponding characteristic information included in each log entry of a set of log entries and determining multiple log entry patterns based on the corresponding characteristic information. The pattern characteristic information of each log entry pattern corresponds to the characteristic information of a subset of log entries in the set of log entries. The method also includes storing the set of log entries according to the hierarchical data structure so that each log entry is associated with at least one of multiple nodes of the hierarchical data structure. The multiple nodes respectively correspond to the multiple log entry patterns, and are hierarchically organized based on respective corresponding log entry patterns.
US12001420B2
Techniques are disclosed for disconnected operation in a distributed database system. In an embodiment, the distributed database system implements a disconnected mode of operation allowing isolated regions of database nodes to provisionally commit transactions, with the global requirements of those transactions later satisfied by a transparent healing process after network connectivity is reestablished between the regions. The healing process, in turn, enables the distributed database system to construct a consistent global state of the database that accounts for the transactions provisionally-committed in each isolated region during the disconnected mode. Once the healing process completes, database clients “see” a healed version of the database that simulates or otherwise closely approximates a state of the database had the distributed database system performed the transactions during a normal, fully-connected, mode of operation.
US12001411B2
Methods, computer program products, and computer systems for the management of data references in an efficient and effective manner are disclosed. Such methods, computer program products, and computer systems include receiving a change tracking stream at the computer system, identifying a data object group, and performing a deduplication management operation on the data object group. The change tracking stream is received from a client computing system. The change tracking stream identifies one or more changes made to a plurality of data objects of the client computing system. The identifying is based, at least in part, on at least a portion of the change tracking stream. The data object group represents the plurality of data objects.
US12001404B2
Techniques are described for checkpointing multiple key ranges in parallel and concurrently during file storage replications between file systems in different cloud infrastructure regions. In certain embodiments, multiple range threads processing multiple key ranges, one thread per key range, create checkpoints for their respective key ranges in parallel and concurrently after processing a per-determined number of B-tree keys. In certain embodiments, each thread requests a lock from a central checkpoint record and takes turns for updating a status byte while continuing processing the B-tree keys in its responsible key range. In certain embodiments, upon encountering a failure event, either a system crash or a thread failure, each thread restarts its B-tree key processing from a B-tree key after the most recent checkpoint.
US12001403B2
A system includes a distributed ledger storing one or more smart contracts; one or more 5G small cells, each having one or more antennas mounted on a housing, each small cell sending packets of data trackable with the distributed ledger; and a processor to control a directionality of the antennas in communication with a predetermined target using 5G protocols.
US12001399B2
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for managing files stored in a storage medium. The method may include obtaining file information of a file stored in the storage medium, wherein the file includes at least two data fragments, each two of the at least two data fragments are stored separately in two discontinuous storage units in the storage medium. The method may also include determining a first parameter of the file according to the file information, wherein the first parameter represents an integrity of the at least two data fragments in the storage medium. The method may further include determining whether the first parameter is equal to or smaller than a preset threshold. The method may still further include defragmenting the at least two data fragments in the storage medium if the first parameter is equal to or smaller than the preset threshold.
US12001393B2
Described is a technology that facilitates directory level snapshots at any level of a filesystem's namespace. A directory inode mapping file associates a first directory's virtual inode number(s) with real inode number(s). A snapshot of the first directory creates a second directory with a second directory inode mapping file copied from the first directory inode mapping file, thereby sharing the real inode data structure(s) of the first directory. In the event that one of the directories is to be modified, the directory real inode is split to provide a new directory real inode file for the to-be-modified directory, with the modification after the split.
US12001392B2
In some examples, a data management system processes snapshots of a distributed file system, the distributed file system having files, each file comprising multiple data chunks. The data management system performs operations including storing file-to-chunk mapping in file system metadata; creating, for each chunk, a chunk generation ID by associating each chunk with a file system generation ID; in a next-generation snapshot of the distributed file system, incrementing, for all chunks in the next-generation snapshot, the respective chunk generation IDs; and taking a snapshot of the file system metadata and storing an updated file-to-chunk mapping associated with the next-generation snapshot.
US12001378B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device may include an application processor including a first embedded universal serial bus (eUSB) device for performing an eUSB function, and a processor for controlling the first eUSB device. The electronic device may further include a repeater configured to be electrically connectable between the first eUSB device and an external device. The processor is configured to monitor to detect a connection of the external device to the electronic device. The processor is further configured to identify a mode related to an operation speed of the external device. The processor is further configured to control a signal to be transmitted or received in a high speed (HS) mode between the first eUSB device and the repeater, based on the identification that the mode is a full speed (FS) mode or a low speed (LS) mode. Various other embodiments may be provided.
US12001377B2
Disclosed herein is a universal serial bus port controller on a source side. The universal serial bus port controller is compatible with universal serial bus Type-C. A source is equipped with the universal serial bus port controller including a power supply terminal, a power supply circuit, a switch connected between an output of the power supply circuit and the power supply terminal, a capacitor connected to the power supply terminal, and a discharge resistance and a discharge switch connected in series with each other between the power supply terminal and a ground line. The universal serial bus port controller includes an abnormality detector which detects an output voltage of the power supply terminal a plurality of times after the discharge switch is turned on and detects an abnormality on the basis of a temporal change in the output voltage.
US12001373B2
An information handling system may detect whether each one of a plurality of peripheral component interconnect express (PCIe) slots is populated or unpopulated, and update a PCIe bus configuration map to indicate whether each of the PCIe slots is populated. The system may also allocate PCIe bus resources to each of the PCIe slots based on the PCIe bus configuration map, wherein the allocating of the PCIe bus resources includes prioritizing populated PCIe slots over unpopulated PCIe slots.
US12001372B2
A PCIe retimer includes read-only vendor registers with low latency mode entry and exit values. In-band low latency switching logic monitors the output of an elastic buffer for read commands of the vendor registers and, when such read commands are received, reads the corresponding address and switches a multiplexer between a link training data path and a low latency data path based on the return value of the read operation. Read commands, and therefore control of data path switching, is handled entirely in-band. Return values of the read operations indicate success or failure of mode switching to the root complex.
US12001368B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses related to memory operation with common clock signals are provided. A memory device or system that includes one or more memory devices may be operable with a common clock signal without a delay from switching on-die termination on or off. For example, a memory device may comprise first impedance adjustment circuitry configured to provide a first impedance to a received clock signal having a clock impedance and second impedance adjustment circuitry configured to provide a second impedance to the received clock signal. The first impedance and the second impedance may be configured to provide a combined impedance about equal to the clock impedance when the first impedance adjustment circuitry and the second impedance adjustment circuitry are connected to the received clock signal in parallel.
US12001360B2
A method for transmitting data between functions implemented on a first electronic chip of the manycore type. The first electronic chip includes a plurality of execution cores, the execution cores being grouped in clusters, the clusters being interconnected by at least two communication systems. The data transmission method includes the steps of: implementing a first function on a first cluster; implementing a second function on a second cluster, characterised in that the second function is also implemented on a third cluster distinct from the first and second clusters; and transmitting at least one data item between the first function and the second function.
US12001359B2
Increases in efficiency of storage device operation may be realized if the limited number of available high-priority communication channels are better optimized and assigned among hosts that may best utilize them. This assignment can occur in response to an evaluation of the overall zone usage or by received metadata and/or indicia from the host. The storage device may periodically, or in response to a command, reevaluate the assigned priority status of each communication channel and associated host/zone pair. For example, the storage device may demote or remove a communication channel from high-priority to low-priority. This process can be continued during a preconfigured time window which can be adjusted before, during, or after priority evaluation. The continuous operation of this process can allow for adjustments being made to priority levels within the storage device that may further increase total operational efficiency.
US12001351B2
In described examples, a coherent memory system includes a central processing unit (CPU) and first and second level caches. The memory system can include a pipeline for accessing data stored in one of the caches. Requestors can access the data stored in one of the caches by sending requests at a same time that can be arbitrated by the pipeline.
US12001342B2
A computing system having memory components, including first memory and second memory. The computing system further includes a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory components, to: store a memory allocation value in association with a context of executing instructions; execute a set of instructions in the context; allocate, for execution of the set of instructions in the context, an amount of memory, including an amount of the first memory and an amount of the second memory; and access the amount of the second memory via the amount of the first memory during the execution of the set of instructions in the context.
US12001340B2
Methods, systems, and devices for full multi-plane operation enablement are described. A flash controller can determine that a first plane of a set of planes of a memory die is an invalid plane. The flash controller can issue a single descriptor associated with a multi-plane operation for the set of planes of the memory die. The single descriptor can include a plurality of commands for the multi-plane operation in which the first command of the plurality of commands can be a duplicate of a second command of the plurality of commands based on the first plane being the invalid plane. In some cases, a negative-and (NAND) controller can receive the single descriptor associated with the multi-plane operation for the set of planes of a memory die. The NAND controller can issue a plurality of commands for the multi-plane operation based on receiving the single descriptor.
US12001338B2
Disclosed is an approach for implementing a metadata cache in a virtualization system. A self-adaptive approach is provided to keep compressed and uncompressed entries together in cache. Along with adaptive nature, disclosed is an approach to prioritize critical workloads for the cache.
US12001336B2
A memory device includes a page buffer with a cache register and data registers, a memory array with a set of sub-blocks of memory cells configured as single-level cell (SLC) memory, and control logic. The control logic performs operations including: causing a first page of SLC data to be stored in the cache register; causing the first page of the SLC data to be moved from the cache register to a first data register; causing a subsequent page of the SLC data to be stored in the cache register; causing the SLC data stored in the cache register and in the data registers to be concurrently programmed to the set of sub-blocks, where the first page is programmed to a first sub-block and the subsequent page is programmed to a subsequent sub-block; and causing a subset of the operations for programming the set of sub-blocks to be performed in parallel.
US12001324B2
An operation pattern generation apparatus has a generating unit which generates, with respect to a test script to be used for a web application, operation patterns related to combinations of operation elements that cause a transition between screens of the web application and input data candidates for input elements to be used to input data on the screens, and with respect to the input element of which a default value of input data is set in advance, the generating unit combines only the default value with the operation elements in order to reduce time required for specification restoration of screen transitions of the web application.
US12001305B2
Implementations described herein relate to resource allocation for a memory built-in self-test. A memory device may read one or more bits, associated with a memory built-in self-test, that are stored in a mode register of the memory device. The memory device may identify one or more memory resources of the memory device, based on reading the one or more bits, that are to be used for performing the memory built-in self-test. The one or more memory resources of the memory device may be addressable memory resources configured for performing standard memory operations of the memory device. The memory device may perform the memory built-in self-test for the memory device using the one or more memory resources of the memory device.
US12001303B2
A system can maintain a first data center that comprises a virtualized overlay network and virtualized volume identifiers. The system can determine to perform a restore of data of the first data center to a second data center, the data comprising first instances of virtualized workloads. The system can transfer the data to the second data center. The system can configure the second data center with the virtualized overlay network and the virtualized volume identifiers. The system can operate the virtualized workloads on the second data center, the second instances of the virtualized workloads invoking the second instance of the virtualized overlay network and the second instance of the virtualized volume identifiers.
US12001292B2
A system to manage database management system backup objects may include an external storage component storing a first database management system backup object. A database management system node (e.g., associated with a database as a service cluster of a hyper-scalar infrastructure) may be configured to write information to and read information from the external storage component without being able to delete information in the external storage component. A backup housekeeping component, independent of the database management system node, may trigger a request to retrieve backup requirement information (e.g., associated with a maximum backup age, a latest backup identifier, an indication of a newest backup to be deleted, etc.) from the database management system node. The backup housekeeping component may then delete all database management system backup objects in the external storage component that are no longer required, including the first database management object, based on the retrieved backup requirement information.
US12001288B2
Various embodiments may include methods and systems for reconfiguring memory channel routing within a system-on-a-chip (SoC). A method may include obtaining first error information in response to misbehavior in a first memory channel communicatively connected to a network interface unit (NIU) of the SoC. The method may further include storing the first error information in non-volatile memory that is read upon booting of the SoC, and rebooting the SoC including the first memory channel. The method may further include configuring the first memory channel to be communicatively disconnected from the NIU and configuring a second memory channel to be communicatively connected to the NIU in response to reading the stored first error information during reboot.
US12001286B2
A system includes a memory array; and a processing device coupled to the memory array. The processing device may be configured to iteratively adjust an active processing level, wherein, for each iteration, the processing device is configured to: determine a first set of read results corresponding to the active processing level, determine a second set of read results based on an offset processing level different than the active processing level, and incrementally adjust the active processing level based on a comparison of the first and the second read results.
US12001273B2
A method comprises receiving a request for validation of software comprising one or more applications, analyzing the request and generating one or more validation steps based at least in part on the analysis. In the method, a time to complete the one or more validation steps is predicted. The predicting is performed using one or more machine learning models, and is based at least in part on a type and a number of the one or more applications.
US12001269B2
Techniques are described for tuning a Java Virtual Machine (JVM) in an automated manner. The automated tuning may be performed to improve a JVM's performance including to prevent it from failing. An auto-tuning system is described that can auto-detect one or more anomalous conditions for a JVM, and in response, take one or more corrective actions to auto-tune the JVM to avoid or reduce/mitigate any adverse impacts of the detected anomalous conditions. A corrective action taken for a JVM may include changing one or more parameters associated with the JVM.
US12001254B2
Systems, methods, and other embodiments associated with detecting feedback control instability in computer thermal controls are described herein. In one embodiment, a method includes for a set of dwell time intervals, wherein the dwell time intervals are associated with a range of periods of time from an initial period to a base period, executing a workload that varies from minimum to maximum over the period on a computer during the dwell time interval; recording telemetry data from the computer during execution of the workload; incrementing the period towards a base period; determining that either the base period is reached or a thermal inertia threshold is reached; and analyzing the recorded telemetry data over the set of dwell time intervals to either (i) detect presence of a feedback control instability in thermal control for the computer; or (ii) confirm feedback control stability in thermal control for the computer.
US12001251B2
An immersion cooling tank includes a tank body and a liquid flow tube. The tank body holds a coolant and an electronic device. The tank body defines an inlet and an outlet. The inlet and the outlet are respectively located at opposite ends of the electronic device for inputting and outputting the coolant. The coolant flows through the electronic device. The liquid flow tube includes at least one adjuster. The liquid flow tube is located inside the tank body and coupled to at least one of the inlet or the outlet. The at least one adjuster faces the electronic device for controlling an amount of the coolant flowing in or out of the tank body.
US12001241B2
A portable electronic device that can operate even when electric power supplied through contactless charge by electromagnetic induction is low is provided. The portable electronic device includes a reflective liquid crystal display which includes a transistor including an oxide semiconductor, a power source portion which includes a rechargeable battery capable of charge by contactless charge, and a signal processing portion which includes a nonvolatile semiconductor memory device. In the portable electronic device, electric power stored in the rechargeable battery is used in the reflective liquid crystal display and the signal processing portion.
US12001236B2
A work vehicle includes a vehicle main body, a work implement attached to the vehicle main body, an operating lever configured to operate the work implement, an imparting section configured to impart force to the operating lever, an acceleration detection section configured to detect acceleration of the vehicle main body, and a control section configured to control the imparting section to automatically adjust a magnitude of the force imparted to the operating lever based on the acceleration detected by the acceleration detection section.
US12001234B1
In a described example, a circuit includes a first bipolar junction transistor (BJT) having a first base, a first emitter and a first collector. A second BJT has a second base, a second emitter and a second collector, in which the first collector is coupled to the second collector. A bandgap core circuit has first and second core inputs and a bandgap output. The first core input is coupled to the first emitter, the second core input is coupled to the second emitter, and the first and second bases are coupled to the bandgap output.
US12001221B2
A method, system and non-transitory computer readable medium includes obtaining an electronic map of an agricultural field. One or more assignment instructions for each of a plurality of robotic systems in an assigned team are generated to optimize execution of a selected agricultural task with respect to at least one parameter based on the obtained electronic map, a number of the robotic systems in the team, and at least one capability of each of the robotic systems in the team. The robotic systems in the team are managed based on wireless transmission of the generated assignment instructions to the robotic systems.
US12001219B2
An example autonomous device is configured to detect objects within a vicinity of the autonomous device. The autonomous device is configured to move along a surface. The autonomous device includes a body, at least one long-range sensor on the body configured for detection in a first field, and at least one short-range sensor on the body. Each short-range sensor is configured for detection in a second field directed towards the surface. The second field is smaller than the first field. Each short-range sensor is configured to output signals based on detection of an object within the second field. A control system is configured to control movement of the autonomous device based, at least in part, on the signals.
US12001218B2
Provided are a mobile robot device and a control method thereof. The mobile robot device comprises: a driving unit; an image sensor; a plurality of geomagnetic sensors; a memory for storing at least one instruction; and a processor for executing at least one instruction, wherein the processor may obtain, while the mobile robot device moves by means of the driving unit, a plurality of image data through the image sensor and obtain sensing data through the plurality of geomagnetic sensors, extract a feature point from the plurality of image data and obtain key nodes on the basis of the feature point, obtain a node sequence on the basis of the sensing data, generate a graph structure that estimates a position of the mobile robot device on the basis of the key nodes and the node sequence, and correct the graph structure based on the mobile failing in position recognition.
US12001217B1
Methods and systems are disclosed for determining sensor degradation by actively controlling an autonomous vehicle. Determining sensor degradation may include obtaining sensor readings from a sensor of an autonomous vehicle, and determining baseline state information from the obtained sensor readings. A movement characteristic of the autonomous vehicle, such as speed or position, may then be changed. The sensor may then obtain additional sensor readings, and second state information may be determined from these additional sensor readings. Expected state information may be determined from the baseline state information and the change in the movement characteristic of the autonomous vehicle. A comparison of the expected state information and the second state information may then be performed. Based on this comparison, a determination may be made as to whether the sensor has degraded.
US12001216B2
Carpet detection using an RGB-D camera and mobile machine movement control based thereon are disclosed. Carpets and carpet curls are detected by obtaining a RGB-D image pair including an RGB image and a depth image through an RGB-D camera, detecting carpet and carpet-curl areas in the RGB image and generating a 2D bounding box to mark each area using a deep learning model, and generating groups of carpet and carpet-curt points corresponding to each of the carpet and carpet-curl areas by matching each pixel of the RGB image within each 2D bounding box corresponding to the carpet and carpet curl areas to each pixel in the depth image.
US12001201B2
A method for estimating a mechanical degradation of a machine comprises using a drive unit of the machine to move a movable component of the machine during an evaluation period. A drive parameter is measured during the evaluation period to set up a set of input data. A cluster analysis is performed by a processor on the input data and a degradation value for the machine is determined by the processor depending on a result of the cluster analysis.
US12001193B2
Apparatus for extending substrate queue time for hybrid bonding by preserving plasma activation. In some embodiments, the apparatus may include an environmentally controllable space with a support for holding a die or a substrate, a gas velocity accelerator that recirculates one or more gases laterally across the support, a filter, a humidifier apparatus that is fluidly connected to the environmentally controllable space, wherein the humidifier apparatus enables controllable humidity levels within the environmentally controllable space, a pressurizing apparatus fluidly connected to the humidifier apparatus on an output and fluidly connected to at least one gas supply on an input, a relative humidity (RH) sensor positioned within the environmentally controllable space, and an environment controller in communication with at least the humidifier apparatus and the RH sensor, wherein the environment controller is configured to maintain an RH level of approximately 80% to approximately 95%.
US12001185B2
Disclosed are a PLC system, and a method for controlling an input/output refresh period thereof. A PLC system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a memory for storing an integrated operation program in which an input/output refresh run command is added and compiled through a program supporter; and a central processing unit which sequentially performs arithmetical processing of a plurality of control programs included in the integrated operation program, to control an operation of a plurality of expansion modules, wherein when arithmetical processing of at least one control program among the plurality of control programs has been completed, the central processing unit outputs processing result data of the at least one control program for which arithmetical processing has been completed, according to an input/output refresh run command which is additionally input.
US12001183B2
Systems and methods are provided for enabling coexistence of Information Technology (IT) systems and Operational Technology (OT) systems, where advanced computing functionality realized by the IT systems can be applied to legacy applications and incumbent hardware technologies resident in the OT systems. A distributed control node (DCN) implemented between the IT and OT systems may comprise a microcontroller system partitioned into two processor clusters. Microservices associated with the IT systems are provisioned to a high performance processor cluster, and legacy applications running bare metal associated with the OT systems are provisioned to a real-time processor cluster. Partitioning of the microcontroller system allows for interoperability between the microservices and the legacy applications.
US12001178B2
Aluminum oxide production operation optimization system and method based on cloud-edge collaboration
Provided is an aluminum oxide production operation optimization system and method based on a cloud-edge collaboration, which relates to the technical field of an aluminum oxide production operation optimization. According to the system and method, firstly the whole-flow data in the aluminum oxide production process is acquired, the data is pre-processed, then the pre-processed data is transmitted to a local collaboration production operation optimization unit, the local collaboration production operation optimization unit firstly judges working conditions for the current aluminum oxide production process, an optimization strategy needing to be operated at present is automatically switched according to the working condition, and the local operation optimization strategy obtains the actual setting value of the aluminum oxide production operation indexes.
US12001177B2
Techniques are provided herein for creating well-balanced computer-based reasoning systems and using those to control systems. The techniques include receiving a request to determine whether to include one or more particular data elements in a computer-based reasoning model and determining two probability density or mass functions (“PDMFs”), one for the data set including the one or more particular data elements, once for the data set excluding it. Surprisal is determined based on those two PDMFs, and inclusion in the computer-based reasoning model is determined based on surprisal. A system is later controlled using the computer-based reasoning model.
US12001175B2
The subject disclosure relates to techniques for improving performance of a machine learning algorithm that at least receives data descriptive of a 3-D object and provides an output, where the 3-D object occurs infrequently in a training dataset. A process of the disclosed technology can include determining that the machine learning algorithm performed below a threshold performance score when receiving data descriptive of the 3-D object in a real-world scene, wherein the 3-D object is classified as a first type of object, creating at least one 3-D representation of the first type of object for use in a simulation, modifying a plurality of simulated scenes to include the at least one 3-D representation of the first type of object, and training the machine learning algorithm with the modified simulated scenes, whereby the machine learning algorithm has greater exposure to the first type of object.
US12001166B2
An electroconductive member for electrophotography including a support having electro-conductivity and an electroconductive layer on the outer surface of the support, the electroconductive layer including a matrix containing a crosslinked product of a first rubber and first electroconductive particles and domains each containing a crosslinked product of a second rubber and second electroconductive particles, wherein at least part of the first electroconductive particles are present as a primary particle in the crosslinked product of the first rubber, wherein, the first electroconductive particles of the matrix observed in a specific observation region have d1 of 200 nm or more, the second electroconductive particles in the domains observed therein have d2 of 50 nm or less, and 80 number % or more of the domains satisfy specific conditions.
US12001165B2
An image forming apparatus includes a cartridge including a portion-to-be-engaged; a main assembly to which the cartridge is detachably mountable; and an operating portion configured to be operated when the cartridge is disengaged from the main assembly. The main assembly includes a cartridge disengagement restricting mechanism configured to restrict disengagement of the cartridge, the cartridge disengagement restricting mechanism comprises an engaging portion for engaging with the portion-to-be-engaged of the cartridge so as to restrict movement of the cartridge in a disengaging direction in which the cartridge is disengaged from the main assembly; a restricting portion movable between a first position where a releasing operation of the operating portion for releasing engagement between the portion-to-be-engaged and the engaging portion and a second position where the releasing operation is permitted; and an actuator configured to move the restricting portion between the first position and the second position.
US12001162B2
A cleaning blade for an intermediate transfer medium is provided. A cleaning target of the cleaning blade is an intermediate transfer medium. The cleaning blade includes an edge layer and a coating layer. The coating layer provided on a forefront end of the edge layer at which the edge layer contacts the intermediate transfer medium contains a first fluorine-based resin and a second fluorine-based resin incompatible with the first fluorine-based resin. The cleaning blade for an intermediate transfer medium has a Martens hardness of 0.5 N/mm2 or greater and 3 N/mm2 or less at a location having a distance of 20 μm from a ridgeline of the forefront end of the edge layer.
US12001152B2
A processor causes a printing portion to execute test image transfer processing for transferring a plurality of test toner images onto an area outside a secondary transfer area on a surface of an intermediate transfer member, and secondary voltage stop processing for stopping a supply of a secondary transfer voltage. The processor acquires a plurality of first sensing densities. The processor causes the printing portion to execute the test image transfer processing and secondary voltage supply processing for supplying the secondary transfer voltage. The processor acquires a plurality of second sensing densities. The processor compares the plurality of first sensing densities and the plurality of second sensing densities to determine a state of a toner charging amount in each of the plurality of test toner images.
US12001149B2
A method of protecting a component of a lithographic apparatus, the method including the steps of: providing a protective cover which is shaped to protect at least part of said component, the protective cover having a contact surface which is arranged to adhere to a first surface of at least part of said lithographic apparatus or said component; and bringing the protective cover into proximity with the component so as to cause the contact surface to adhere to the lithographic apparatus or said component and remain adhered without the application of external force. It is also provided a patterning device for use in a lithographic apparatus and a lithographic apparatus.
US12001145B2
An apparatus for analyzing an element of a photolithography process, said apparatus comprising: (a) a first measuring apparatus for recording first data of the element; and (b) means for transforming the first data into second, non-measured data, which correspond to measurement data of a measurement of the element with a second measuring apparatus; (c) wherein the means comprise a transformation model, which has been trained using a multiplicity of first data used for training purposes and second data corresponding therewith, which are linked to the second measuring apparatus.
US12001143B2
A lithography system includes an extreme ultraviolet (EUV) light source, a reticle stage, a reflection layer, and a plurality of light permeable protrusions. The EUV light source is configured for generating an EUV light beam. The reticle stage is configured for holding a reticle with a front surface of the reticle facing in a downward direction. The reflection layer is below the reticle stage. The light permeable protrusions are formed on the reflection layer. Each of the light permeable protrusions includes a bouncing surface facing in a direction that forms an acute angle with the downward direction. A first portion of the EUV light beam from the EUV light source passes through the bouncing surface of each of the light permeable protrusions to the reflection layer and is reflected to the reticle by the reflection layer.
US12001133B2
A reflective mask blank includes a substrate; a multilayer reflective film that reflects EUV light; a protection film that protects the multilayer reflective film; and an absorption film that absorbs the EUV light, in this order. The protection film contains 50 at % or more of Rh. When a band-shaped gray scale image parallel to an interface between the protection film and the multilayer reflective film is obtained by imaging a cross section of the protection film with a transmission electron microscope (TEM) and a luminance profile of the gray scale image in a longitudinal direction of the gray scale image is created, a number of peaks of the luminance profile per 100 nm in the longitudinal direction of the gray scale image is 50 or more.
US12001132B2
Fabricating a photomask includes forming a protection layer over a substrate. A plurality of multilayers of reflecting films are formed over the protection layer. A capping layer is formed over the plurality of multilayers. An absorption layer is formed over capping layer. A first photoresist layer is formed over portions of absorption layer. Portions of the first photoresist layer and absorption layer are patterned, forming first openings in absorption layer. The first openings expose portions of the capping layer. Remaining portions of first photoresist layer are removed and a second photoresist layer is formed over portions of absorption layer. The second photoresist layer covers at least the first openings. Portions of the absorption layer and capping layer and plurality of multilayer of reflecting films not covered by the second photoresist layer are patterned, forming second openings. The second openings expose portions of protection layer and second photoresist layer is removed.
US12001123B2
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, an optical member driving device is provided. The device includes a fixed portion, a pivoting portion with a holding portion for holding the optical member, a pivot shaft, a driving portion, and a pivot suppressing portion. The pivot suppressing portion has a first magnet at the pivoting portion, and a second magnet at the fixed portion. The first magnet and the second magnet are disposed in such a manner that the same magnetic poles face each other in the pivoting direction.
US12001122B2
A special effect screen and a photo booth include a special effect screen assembly. The special effect screen assembly includes a supporting frame and a special effect curtain. The supporting frame supports and unfolds the special effect curtain, so that a top projection of the special effect curtain is curved. The supporting frame includes an adjusting mechanism adjusting an arc of the top projection of the special effect curtain. The supporting frame includes a connecting base, two adjusting frames, first fasteners, and elastic supporting rods. The two adjusting frames are respectively arranged on two sides of the connecting base and are slidably connected to the connecting base. The first fasteners are configured to connect the adjusting frames to the connecting base. The elastic supporting rods pass through the special effect curtain. Two ends of each of the elastic supporting rods are respectively connected to the two adjusting frames.
US12001114B2
The present disclosure is in the field of an electrophoretic device for switching between a transparent and non-transparent mode, comprising a fluid and particles, electrodes for moving said particles, and comprising various further elements, as well as uses thereof, in particular as a window blind.
US12001113B2
Provided are a display substrate, a display apparatus and a display method therefor. The display substrate includes: a base substrate; pixel units on the base substrate; and an electrochromic structure on a side of the pixel units that is away from the base substrate. The transmittance of the electrochromic structure is positively correlated with the brightness of the pixel units when displaying an image, such that the contrast of the display substrate is improved, and the display effect is improved.
US12001109B2
The electronic device includes a substrate; an active layer disposed above the first substrate; a first signal line disposed above the substrate; and a conductive pattern. The conductive pattern is in electrical contact with the active layer, wherein the conductive pattern includes a first side extending in a first direction, a second side extending in the first direction, and a third side connected between the first side and the second side, and wherein the third side includes a part that the part is not parallel to the first direction and not perpendicular to the first direction, and the part is located out of the first signal line.
US12001104B2
This liquid crystal display device has a first substrate, a second substrate, a liquid crystal layer sandwiched between the first and second substrates, a seal, and a spacer. The seal includes: a first seal part having a linear shape in a first direction; a second seal part having a linear shape in a second direction; and a third seal part having a curved shape that smoothly connects the first seal part and the second seal part. When a second region is a region surrounded by the outer periphery of a first region for displaying an image, the third seal part, a first normal line that extends downward from the boundary point between the first seal part and the third seal part to the outer periphery of the first region, and a second normal line that extends downward from the boundary point between the second seal part and the third seal part to the outer periphery of the first region, and a third region is a region other than the first region and the second region, the spacer arrangement density is greater in the second region than in the third region.
US12001101B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel, a printed circuit board defining an upper surface, a lower surface opposite the upper surface, and a through-hole, a plurality of light sources mounted on the upper surface of the printed circuit board and configured to emit light to the display panel, and a connector inserted into the through-hole on the upper surface of the printed circuit board. The connector includes a connector body inserted into the through-hole, and a plurality of connector terminals disposed in proximity to the upper surface of the printed circuit board. The connector terminals are configured to electrically connect the connector body to a portion of the printed circuit board, and may in certain embodiments connect a first portion of the printed circuit board on one side of the connector body to a second portion of the printed circuit board on an opposite of the connector body.
US12001098B2
The present invention relates to an LED backlighting system comprising a substrate, an optoelectronic semiconductor chip assembly, a reflector and a diffuser element. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip assembly is disposed on an upper side of the substrate. The reflector has a through-hole that extends between a lower opening on an underside of the reflector and an upper opening on an upper side of the reflector. The reflector is disposed on the upper side of the substrate so that the underside of the reflector is facing the upper side of the substrate. The optoelectronic semiconductor chip assembly is disposed in the through-hole of the reflector. The diffuser element has an upper side and an underside. The diffuser element is disposed above the upper side of the reflector so that the underside of the diffuser element is facing the upper side of the reflector.
US12001097B2
An edge-lit back light unit for a backlit display includes a reflector, an edge-lit light guide film, a diffuser film, and a pair of crossed brightness enhancement films with increased efficiency. The diffuser film has an angular light distribution output that is matched to light acceptance angles of the pair of crossed brightness enhancement films to provide increased on-axis brightness without having to increase power to the edge-lit back light unit.
US12001090B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first substrate, a second substrate opposing the first substrate, a liquid crystal layer and a light source that emits light to the liquid crystal layer, and the first substrate includes a first portion opposing the second substrate and having a first thickness and a second portion not opposing the second substrate and having a second thickness which is less than the first thickness, and the light source is disposed on the second portion, and the light source includes a first surface opposing the second portion and a second surface opposing the first surface, and a wiring substrate is disposed on the second surface so that the wiring substrate does not protrude with respect to the second substrate in a thickness direction.
US12001081B2
The present invention relates to a field of optical lens, and provides a camera optical lens including, from an object side to an image side in sequence: a first lens having a negative refractive power, a second lens having a positive refractive power, a third lens, a fourth lens having a negative refractive power, a fifth lens having a positive refractive power, a sixth lens, a seventh lens having a negative refractive power and provided with an image-side surface as a free-form surface; and the camera optical lens satisfies conditions of: |f2/f3|≤0.07; −0.50≤f2/f4≤−0.30; 0.58≤D12/f≤0.64; and 0.35≤D23/f≤0.45. The camera optical lens provided by the present disclosure has |TV_D|<1.0%, has excellent optical performance, is of wide angle with 2ω>110°, and includes seven lenses.
US12001076B2
To provide, with an inexpensive construction, a lens module which does not require an individual adjustment of positions during mass production and which enables a degree of freedom of arrangement in a set to be improved. The lens module includes: a lens; a lens tube which has a central axis that is parallel to an optical axis of the lens and which is configured to hold the lens inside; a casing configured to house the lens tube inside; a first coil which is provided so as to circle around an outer circumferential surface of the lens tube; a magnet which is provided on an inner circumferential surface of the casing so as to oppose the first coil; and a second coil which is provided so as to circle around the inner circumferential surface of the casing.
US12001075B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for replaceable outer lenses. For example, an image capture device may include a lens barrel in a body of the image capture device, the lens barrel including multiple inner lenses; a replaceable lens structure that is mountable on the body of the image capture device, the replaceable lens structure including an outer lens and a retaining ring configured to fasten the outer lens in a position covering a first end the lens barrel in a first arrangement and configured to disconnect the outer lens from the body of the image capture device in a second arrangement; and an image sensor mounted within the body at a second end of the lens barrel, the image sensor configured to capture images based on light incident on the image sensor through the outer lens and the multiple inner lenses when the retaining ring is in the first arrangement.
US12001066B2
An optical ferrule has a different thermal expansion coefficient than a substrate to which a optical device is mounted, the ferrule optically coupling the device to one or more optical fibers. The optical ferrule includes and/or a cradle in which the ferrule is mounted include lateral and longitudinal engagement feature that ensure alignment with the optical device at an operating temperature, the ferrule expanding relative to the substrate when transitioning to the operating temperature.
US12001065B1
A photonics package that incorporates a liquid crystal lens situated between a light source and a waveguide or output element of the package. The liquid crystal lens may focus or collimate light passing through it. This may be useful, for example, to focus light from a light source on or at an entry of a waveguide. Certain embodiments may include or incorporate routing or optical elements between the light source and the liquid crystal lens, and/or on a side of the lens opposite a side on which the light source is located.
US12001063B2
The purpose of this invention is to create a low cost, easy to use, fiber end face and or connector inspection tool component that easily adapts and converts most all mobile communication devices with camera, screen and software capabilities into a microscope. The invention encapsulates and holds firm a fiber connector body and or fiber connector bodies and or ferrule housing or ferrule housings for the purpose of viewing the cleanliness and quality of the fiber end face and or faces. A Fiber end face is the component area and or areas the embodies the fiber core and or fiber cores, fiber ferrule end and or ferrule ends and fiber related end component and or components that are instrumental in the mating with other like components with fiber connector plug end faces and or related optical fiber components for the purpose connectors and splices prior to connecting and or join optical fibers where a connect/disconnect capability is required.
US12001061B2
A fiber optic adapter is disclosed. The fiber optic adapter includes a main body configured to receive a first fiber optic connector through a first end and a second fiber optic connector through a second end for mating with the first fiber optic connector. The adapter includes a ferrule alignment structure located within an axial cavity of the main body, the ferrule alignment structure including a sleeve mount and a ferrule sleeve, the sleeve mount including an axial bore and at least one latching hook extending from a center portion of the sleeve mount toward the first end of the main body and at least one latching hook extending from the center portion toward the second end of the main body, the latching hooks configured to flex for releasably latching the first and second fiber optic connectors to the fiber optic adapter. The sleeve mount and the main body of the fiber optic adapter are unitarily molded as a single piece and the ferrule sleeve is separately placed within the axial bore of the sleeve mount.
US12001047B2
A light-guiding member includes a plurality of light-emitting portions separated by grooves; and a plurality of light sources each corresponding to a respective one of the plurality of light-emitting portions. The plurality of light-emitting portions include a plurality of outer portions, and at least one inner portion located in a region surrounded by the plurality of outer portions in a plan view. Each of the plurality of outer portions is adjacent to a smaller number of the light-emitting portions than a number of the light-emitting portions adjacent to a single inner portion of the at least one inner portion in a plan view. An area of a single outer portion of the plurality of outer portions is smaller than an area of the single inner portion in the plan view.
US12001045B2
A lighting device includes a plurality of first lighting units emitting a first output light and a plurality of second lighting units emitting a second output light. Each of the first lighting units includes a first light source, a first reflective layer, and a first light converting structure. Each of the second lighting units includes a second light source, a second reflective layer, and a second light converting structure. The first output light has a fist sub peak between 400 nm and 500 nm and a first main peak between 590 nm and 780 nm, the second output light has a second sub peak between 400 nm and 500 nm and a second main peak between 520 nm and 589 nm, and a normal intensity of the first sub peak is less than a normal intensity of the second sub peak.
US12001042B2
Optical bodies are described. In particular, optical bodies having a birefringent multilayer optical film and a continuous adhesive layer with a thickness less than 20 micrometers are described. Optical bodies described herein exhibit reduced occurrence and severity of a non-uniformity defect known as “orange peel.”
US12001038B2
The disclosed patterned wavelength-selective material and process for making the patterned wavelength-selective material uses patterned applied adhesive and a structurally weak wavelength-selective material that includes portions that contact the adhesive and break to remain in contact with the adhesive. In one embodiment, the wavelength-selective material comprises an array of sections with cuts at least partially through a wavelength-selective film at each section secured to the adhesive. In another embodiment, the wavelength-selective film comprises a transfer stack of layers.
US12001032B2
A grating structure and a UV light, where the grating structure includes at least two up-down baffles provided at intervals, the upper surface and the lower surface of each baffle is provided with a light absorption layer, two adjacent baffles enclose to form a light outlet; in the light emission direction of the light outlet, each baffle includes the incoming light section, the light filter section and the outgoing light section, and the incoming light section, the light filter section and the outgoing light section are respectively the first plate body, second plate body and third plate body connected in sequence, the upper surface and the lower surface of the light filter section are provided respectively with multiple upper convexes and multiple lower convexes, the height difference of the top of the upper convexes and the bottom of the lower convexes is greater than 1.5 mm.
US12001031B2
An input device includes a control portion for controlling the input device encrypts image data, which is data of an image displayed on a display surface of a display mechanism, and transmits it to the display mechanism, and a detection mechanism for detecting a position of the user's fingertip in an aerial-image display region encrypts position data, which is data of a detected position of the user's fingertip, and transmits it to the control portion. In addition, in this input device, at least a fraud against a position-data signal line which transmits the position data from the detection mechanism to a control board and a fraud against the control board can be detected by a fraud detection mechanism for detecting that a fraud against the input device.
US12001024B2
An energy-efficient adaptive 3D sensing system. The adaptive 3D sensing system includes one or more cameras and one or more projectors. The adaptive 3D sensing system captures images of a real-world scene using the one or more cameras and computes depth estimates and depth estimate confidence values for pixels of the images. The adaptive 3D sensing system computes an attention mask based on the one or more depth estimate confidence values and commands the one or more projectors to send a distributed laser beam into one or more areas of the real-world scene based on the attention mask. The adaptive 3D sensing system captures 3D sensing image data of the one or more areas of the real-world scene and generates 3D sensing data for the real-world scene based on the 3D sensing image data.
US12001023B2
A wearable display apparatus is described herein. The wearable display apparatus includes an image generator that forms a 2D image, a partially transmissive mirror having a curved reflective surface, a beam splitter disposed to reflect light toward the curved mirror surface, and an optical image relay that is configured to conjugate the formed 2D image at the image generator to a curved focal surface of the partially transmissive mirror.
US12001021B2
In a display system configured to display images at multiple depth planes, images perceived to be substantially full color or multi-colored may be formed using component color images that are distributed in unequal numbers across a plurality of depth planes. The distribution of component color images across the depth planes may vary based on color. In some embodiments, a display system includes a stack of waveguides that each output light of a particular color, with some colors having fewer numbers of associated waveguides than other colors. The stack of waveguides may include multiple pluralities of different numbers of waveguides, each plurality configured to produce an image by outputting light corresponding to a particular color. A display controller can introduce blur and/or change pixel size for images to be presented for at least one depth plane, based on the contents of images.
US12001018B2
Device, method and program for improving cooperation between tele-existence and head-mounted display
A control device generates a first image in which, together with an object in the real world appearing in an image captured by a camera of a robot, a virtual object appears and which presents an exterior appearance of the virtual object while the position of the camera of the robot is set as a view-point. An HMD displays the first image generated by the control device. In a case in which the position of the HMD in the height direction changes, the control device generates a second image from which the object in the real world is deleted and which presents the exterior appearance of the virtual object viewed from a new view-point according to the change in the position of the HMD in the height direction. The HMD displays the second image in place of the first image.
US12001014B2
A system and method for dust mitigation in an environment with high amounts of debris is disclosed. The system may include an optical device disposed within an interior volume of an enclosure. A positive flow of clean air may be maintained into an air input aperture of the enclosure, around the optical device, over a lens of the optical device, and out a lens aperture of the enclosure. The system may be affixed to a piece of equipment, machine, or similar structure via a positionable or pivotable mount.
US12001011B2
The invention relates to an anti-copy optical element comprising a caustic layer and a mask layer configured to simultaneously display a visible image reproducing a reference image and form a projected image containing a visible caustic pattern reproducing a reference pattern, upon illumination of the optical element with a light source, the projected image being distinct from the reference image. The invention also relates to a method for designing a relief pattern of a light-redirecting surface of said caustic layer consistently with the transmission properties of the mask layer.
US12001004B2
A microscope directs light through an excitation objective to generate a lattice light sheet (LLS) within a sample. A detection objective collects signal light from the sample in response to the LLS and images the collected light onto a detector. Second and third light beams are imaged onto focal planes of the excitation objective and detection objective, respectively. One or more wavefront detectors determine wavefronts of light emitted from the sample and through the excitation objective in response to the imaged second light beam and emitted from the sample through the detection objective in response to the imaged third light beam. A wavefront of the first light beam is modified to reduce a sample-induced aberration of the LLS within the sample, and a wavefront of the signal light emitted from the sample is modified to reduce a sample-induced aberration of the signal light at the detector.
US12000997B2
A lens system provides a zoom function (variable magnification) in a low profile camera (lens system height less than or equal to 6 mm), which may be in a cellular phone. The lens system includes at least three movable lens groups that are movable along a common optical axis. Each of the three movable lens groups is coupled to a corresponding actuator. Responsive to a request for a change in focal length or magnification, a controller sends a corresponding signal to each of the actuators that move the corresponding lens group by a corresponding distance in a corresponding direction. The various movable lens groups may be moved by different distances and in different directions of movement. An f-number of the lens system is less than f/3.0. Focusing of an image cast onto an image sensor is accomplished by adjusting the position along the optical axis of one of the movable lens groups.
US12000994B2
An optical imaging lens includes a first, a second, a third, a fourth, a fifth, a sixth, a seventh and an eighth lens elements from an object side to an image side in order along an optical axis. The optical imaging lens satisfies: EFL/(G45+T5)≤8.500, wherein EFL is an effective focal length of the optical imaging lens, G45 is an air gap from the fourth lens element to the fifth lens element along the optical axis, and T5 is a thickness of the fifth lens element along the optical axis.
US12000990B2
The disclosure provides an optical imaging lens assembly, which sequentially includes from an object side to an image side along an optical axis: a first lens with a positive refractive power; a second lens with a refractive power; a third lens with a refractive power; a fourth lens with a refractive power; a fifth lens with a positive refractive power; a sixth lens with a negative refractive power; a seventh lens with a refractive power; an eighth lens with a positive refractive power; a ninth lens with a refractive power; and a tenth lens with a negative refractive power; wherein an effective focal length f of the optical imaging lens assembly and a maximum field of view FOV of the optical imaging lens assembly satisfy f×tan(½FOV)>6.0 mm.
US12000980B2
A camera optical lens includes a first lens to a sixth lens. The camera optical lens satisfies: 6.50≤f3/f≤10.00; 1.50≤(R3+R4)/(R3−R4)≤3.00; 8.00≤d1/d2≤10.50; 1.50≤d8/d7≤2.00, where f denotes a focal length of the camera optical lens, f3 denotes a focal length of a third lens, R3 and R4 respectively denotes curvature radiuses of an object side surface and an image side surface of a second lens, d1 denotes an on-axis thickness of the first lens, d2 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of the first lens to an object side surface of the second lens, d7 denotes an on-axis thickness of a fourth lens, and d8 denotes an on-axis distance from an image side surface of the fourth lens to an object side surface of a fifth lens. The camera optical lens has a good optical performance and meets the design requirements for a large aperture, a wide angle and ultra-thinning.
US12000979B2
Provided are a polarizer protective film comprising a polymeric film and a coating layer formed on at least one surface of the polymeric film, where the coating layer has a plurality of concave embossed patterns and has a surface roughness of 2.0 nm to 20.0 nm, and a manufacturing method thereof.
US12000978B2
Systems and methods are provided for manufacturing a window from a transparent member. Forming the window may include forming of a groove by irradiating first laser light and removing a portion of a transparent member by irradiating second laser light focused at a depth of the groove. The first laser light may be emitted from a first laser generator and may be irradiated along an edge of a first area defined in a second surface of the transparent member. A second laser light may be focused to the depth of the groove, and thus a portion of the transparent member may be cut. The second laser light may be emitted by a second laser generator, and a focus of the second laser light may be located within the transparent member.
US12000977B2
One or more aspects of the present disclosure provide optical element transfer structures that include an optical element releasably coupled with a transfer medium and methods of making and using the optical element transfer structures. The optical element transfer structures can be used to dispose an optical element onto an article, whereby the optical element imparts a structural color to the article.
US12000974B2
A mobile plant for orienting a tool with respect to a hole is provided. The plant includes an arm assembly for supporting a tool wherein the tool is adapted to be lowered into the hole. The plant also includes a primary sensor for sensing the geographical location of the tool, and a secondary sensor for sensing the location and/or orientation of the hole. In use, the plant adjusts the position of the tool supported by the arm assembly based on the geographical location sensed by the primary sensor and the location and/or orientation sensed by the secondary sensor, in order to align the tool supported by the arm assembly with the hole.
US12000973B2
Aspects described herein provide for methods and apparatus for characterizing azimuthal heterogeneities in a barrier installed outside an outer casing in a borehole traversing a formation in a cased hole configuration including an inner and outer casing. The approach is based on specific attributes in sonic signals acquired with an azimuthal and axial array receiver system located inside the inner casing. The methods include slowness-time-coherence (STC) processing based on specific arrivals identified in data acquired by axial arrays associated with multiple azimuthal sections of the receiver system. The specific arrivals contain STC signatures that can be examined in terms of coherence amplitude and localization within STC maps. Based on specific attributes in the sonic signals, an azimuthal coverage of the outer casing annular contents can be created.
US12000972B2
Systems and methods for filtering interface waves from single component seismic data are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of filtering seismic data includes comparing amplitude coefficients of a matrix storing the seismic data in a time-frequency domain against an amplitude threshold, and comparing frequencies of the matrix against a maximum expected frequency of noise. The method further includes, for each amplitude coefficient having less than the amplitude threshold and an associated frequency less than the maximum expected frequency of noise, scaling the amplitude coefficient to reduce its value. The method also includes performing an inverse time-frequency transformation on the matrix to generate a noise model in a time domain, and subtracting the noise model from the seismic data in the time domain to generate filtered seismic data.
US12000971B2
A method may include obtaining various seismic traces for a geological region of interest. The method may further include determining an offset attribute and an azimuthal attribute. The method may further include determining, using the offset attribute and the azimuthal attribute, a virtual trace bin for the geological region of interest. The method may further include generating a virtual trace using a subset of the seismic traces and corresponding to the virtual trace bin. The method may further include generating a velocity model for the geological region of interest using a virtual shot gather including the virtual trace and various virtual traces. A respective virtual trace among the virtual traces may correspond to a respective virtual trace bin among various virtual trace bins. The method may further include generating a seismic image of the geological region of interest using the velocity model.
US12000970B2
A system for charge sharing compensation for a photon counting detector. A plurality of comparators, each configured to generate comparator output data based on a threshold value, a plurality of energy bins, each of the plurality of energy bins coupled to one of the plurality of comparators, and a coincidence logic coupled to two or more of the plurality of comparators and configured to receive comparator output data associated with two or more of a plurality of pixels. The comparator output data for each pixel indicates when a signal associated with the pixel crosses a threshold value. The coincidence logic is configured to generate a coincidence output when the comparator output data for a first pixel is received within a predetermined time interval of the comparator output data for a second pixel. The system includes a coincidence counting bin coupled to the coincidence logic and configured to receive the coincidence output and generate count data based on the coincidence output.
US12000965B2
System and methods for creating multi-return map data using single return Lidar data. The systems and methods use a long short-term memory (LSTM) model in combination with a Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) model. The systems and method use a single (1st) return of Lidar at a time stamp and create multiple unseen samples of 2nd and 3rd returns. The LSTM model is used to create a sequential calibration based on incidence angle to choose the optimized 2nd and 3rd return at the same instance of the time stamp. This creates a localized model of three returns from a single return of Lidar and thus provides additional data to generate an HD map.
US12000964B2
A system and method of calibrating a laser tracker is provided. The system includes a support system for quickly and easily moving an artifact to a desired position and orientation and for holding the artifact in the position and orientation. An adjustable alignment mirror is coupled to a first end of the artifact so that the more accurate ranging system of the laser tracker can be isolated to determine a reference length of the artifact. Additional measurements are then taken to exercise one or more error source within the tracker. The support system includes a positioner and a support beam for positioning and supporting the artifact. The artifact is coupled to the support beam using kinematic clamps that are designed to reduce or eliminate errors associated with over-constraining the artifact. The artifact is movable between a deployed configuration for use and a stowable configuration for ease of storage and transportation.
US12000963B2
Provided is a light detection and ranging (LiDAR) device including a light transmitter including a plurality of light sources, each of the plurality of light sources being configured to emit light toward an object, a light receiver including a plurality of light detection elements, each of the plurality of light detection elements being configured to detect reflected light reflected from the object that is irradiated with the light emitted by the plurality of light sources, and the light receiver being configured to remove crosstalk from second detection information output by at least one light detection element of the plurality of light detection elements based on first detection information output by any one of remaining light detection elements of the plurality of light detection elements, and a processor configured to obtain information on the object based on the second detection information with the crosstalk removed.
US12000956B2
A method for testing a distance sensor includes: receiving an electromagnetic free-space wave as a receive signal; generating a simulated electromagnetic reflection signal therefrom; shifting a reflection frequency of the reflection signal by a Doppler frequency smaller than a signal bandwidth of the receive signal; converting the receive signal into a first work signal having a first work frequency smaller than a receive frequency of the receive signal; converting the first work signal into a second work signal having a second work frequency, wherein the difference between the first and second work frequencies is at least as large as the signal bandwidth plus the Doppler frequency; converting the second work signal into a third work signal having a third work frequency that corresponds to the first work frequency shifted by the Doppler frequency; increasing the third work signal by the conversion frequency; and radiating the third work signal.
US12000950B2
A method for estimating a speed of a radar target using a radar sensor, in particular a radar sensor for motor vehicles, on the basis of signals that are contained in respective evaluation channels that correspond to different center antenna positions of relevant transmitting and receiving antennas in a direction, having the steps: determining, for the various evaluation channels, a respective individual radial speed assigned to the respective evaluation channel, of the radar target; and estimating a speed of the radar target based on the determined individual radial speeds of the radar target, the speed including information about a tangential speed; and a radar sensor for carrying out the method.
US12000947B2
A method of associating data with a physical location comprises receiving, by at least two receiver antennae, a radiofrequency (RF) signal transmitted by a mobile device, the RF signal conveying data collected by the mobile device from an external source; calculating, for each of the at least two receiver antennae, a phase of the RF signal received by each receiver antennae; calculating, based on the calculated phases, a physical location from where the mobile device transmitted the RF signal; and associating the data conveyed by the RF signal and the external source from which the data were collected with the calculated physical location from where the mobile device transmitted the RF signal.
US12000942B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for improving positioning of a device in a wireless communications network. In some embodiments, a method performed by a measuring device configured to communicate with a positioning device, comprises: determining a cross-correlation between a received signal and a transmitted reference signal; determining a channel impulse response (CIR) of the cross-correlation related to a first lobe detected above a selected threshold in said CIR; and reporting information on a truncated part of the CIR around the first lobe to the positioning device for enabling the positioning device to correct or estimate a measurement related to a distance between a transmitter and the measuring device and/or a distance between at least one reflecting cluster and the measuring device.
US12000933B2
An operating method for a LIDAR system. A laser device that includes an optical modulator optically coupled thereto for receiving and modulating the frequency of non-modulated light emitted by the laser device, using a frequency modulation function, and for outputting frequency-modulated light as primary light into a visual field, is used as a light source unit. Secondary light received from the visual field and non-modulated light of the laser device are optically superimposed to form superimposed detection light. The superimposed detection light is photoelectrically detected by generating and outputting a primary electrical detection signal that is representative of the detection light. For the evaluation, the primary electrical detection signal is electrically mixed with an electrical signal that is representative of the frequency modulation function of the optical modulator to form a first evaluation signal, and is assessed.
US12000931B2
Systems and methods for a lower energy/faster time of flight camera system configured to measure distance to an object. The system is configured to emit laser light modulated with a first frequency and image light reflected by an object in order to determine a first phase difference between the emitted and reflected light. The system emits laser light modulated with a second frequency and images light reflected by the object to determine a second phase difference between the emitted and reflected light. The distance to the object is determined using the first and second phase differences. The system is arranged to operate at lower energy for obtaining the first phase difference compared with the operation to obtain the second phase difference. This results in lower overall energy consumption and faster overall operation without any significant reduction in accuracy of imaging.
US12000930B2
A LIDAR system, preferably including one or more: optical emitters, optical detectors, beam directors, and/or processing modules. A method of LIDAR system operation, preferably including: determining a signal, outputting the signal, receiving a return signal, and/or analyzing the return signal.
US12000915B2
Disclosed herein is a method of conducting direct detection 1H solid state NMR (“ssNMR”) on a macromolecule-containing solid state formulation. The method includes conducting a 1H spin-lattice relaxation time (“T1”) experiment on the solid state formulation at various temperatures to generate a T1 value at each temperature, converting the T1 values to 1H spin-lattice relaxation rate (“R1”), and plotting R1 versus temperature to generate a relaxation rate curve for the solid state formulation. The relaxation rate curve can be analyzed to determine the molecular mobility of the macromolecule in the solid state formulation, the degree of aggregation in the solid state formulation, and/or the stability of the solid state formulation.
US12000909B2
A magnetic field measuring device having a cantilevered, mechanically vibratable, rectangular substrate strip, at least one flat side of the substrate strip being coated with a magnetostrictive material system, further having drive means designed for the temporally periodic exertion of a force component directed perpendicular to the flat sides of the substrate strip on at least one part of a flat side of the substrate strip with a predetermined excitation frequency and having a detection device for detecting an electrical signal generated by the vibration of the substrate strip, wherein a. the substrate strip is formed from a material with a modulus of elasticity greater than 5 GPa and b. the excitation frequency is set up as a function of the dimensions of the substrate strip in such a way that the substrate strip oscillates in mechanical resonance and forms a U-mode, and c. the detection device has an induction coil which surrounds the substrate strip in a contactless manner and has a coil axis aligned along the substrate strip.
US12000907B2
A system for detecting a connection between two devices includes a first device and a second device. The first device includes a first connection terminal and a first reactance element connected to the first connection terminal. The second device includes a second connection terminal; a first resistance element, and a first frequency generator for allowing a signal to pass through the first resistance element and be applied to the first device via the second connection terminal. The second device further includes a first comparator having both input terminals connected to both ends of the first resistance element, and comparing and outputting a signal of both ends of the first resistance element, and a first control unit for determining whether or not the first connection terminal of the first device is connected to the second connection terminal by means of the output signal of the first comparator.
US12000903B2
A method for the correction of synchronization errors Δt in the measurement of the impedance of an electrical or electrochemical component, more particularly a lithium ion cell is provided. In general, synchronization errors in an impedance measurement can arise between the excitation and response signals, which can misrepresent the phase of the impedance value obtained. According to the method, the synchronization error can be determined by measuring the impedance at two different frequencies and solving an optimization problem in respect of the deviation of the phases from an equivalent circuit diagram, which comprises at least one resistance and an inductance. The phase of the impedance value obtained can be corrected in this way.
US12000899B2
A voltage measurement circuit includes: voltage dividing circuits that divide voltages of energy storage devices, in respective stages connected in series; switches that cut off the currents of the voltage dividing circuits in the respective stages, and a measurement unit that measures the voltages of the energy storage devices in the respective stages based on outputs of the voltage dividing circuits in the respective stages. The voltage dividing circuits in the respective stages each have a first resistor connected to the ground and a second resistor connected to a positive electrode of the corresponding energy storage device. The switch in a predetermined-number stage among the switches in the respective stages is an N-channel field-effect transistor (FET) having a source connected to the first resistor and a drain connected to the second resistor, and the source of the FET is a voltage output terminal with respect to the measurement unit.
US12000898B2
Various embodiments manage a fuel cell IT grid system to maintain fuel cell temperatures above a threshold temperature. The system may include power modules each including a fuel cell, DC/DC converters each connected to a power module, a DC power bus connected to the DC/DC, IT loads each connected to the DC power bus, a load balancing load connected to the DC power bus, and a control device connected to a first power module. The control device may determine whether a temperature of the first power module exceeds the temperature threshold, determine whether an electrical power output of the power modules exceeds an electrical power demand of the IT loads in response to the temperature exceeding the temperature threshold, and direct excess electrical power output to the load balancing load in response to the electrical power output exceeding the electrical power demand.
US12000885B1
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for controlling temperature(s) using a thermal control assembly (TCA) and a coldplate. The TCA comprises independently controllable thermal zones for controlling its top surface temperature. The thermal zones may be heater zones, cooling zones, or both. Energy input to the TCA may be selectively applied by, e.g., a thermal controller, such that different sets of thermal zones receive the energy at different times. In some embodiments, the energy input to the TCA may be selectively applied to two more independently controllable heater zones at the same time, the energy input to the TCA may be selectively applied to two or more independently controllable cooling zones at the same time, or both. In some aspects, less than all thermal zones may be activated at the same time, providing a higher power density for the thermal zones for a given energy input to the TCA.
US12000882B2
Provided are a sampling measurement method and system, computer device and storage medium. The sampling measurement method includes: acquiring a preset measurement ratio of each process element in a process station; acquiring an actual measurement ratio of a process element associated with a lot of products to be measured that arrive at the measurement station in the process station; and, when the actual measurement ratio of the associated process element is less than the corresponding preset measurement ratio, controlling a measurement machine at the measurement station to measure the lot of products to be measured.
US12000874B2
A method for measuring electric currents and a method for measuring electrical voltages. The method uses a mathematical model of the measuring system to compensate for error effects of the real system compared to an ideal system, thereby enabling a highly accurate measuring system. An energy meter compensates for the error effects of the real measuring system.
US12000870B2
In one aspect, a sensor includes a first metal layer portion and a second metal layer portion separated by an insulator material; a conductive material layer in electrical contact with the first metal layer portion and the second metal layer portion; and a tunnel magnetoresistance (TMR) element positioned on and in electrical contact with the conductive material layer. A first current is configured to flow from the first metal layer portion, through the conductive material layer, to the second metal layer portion, and a second current is configured to flow from the first metal layer portion, through the conductive material layer, through the TMR element, and exiting through a top of the TMR element.
US12000869B2
A system includes a current sensor disposed proximate to a first conductor of a conductor assembly, the current sensor configured to measure a current through the first conductor and generate a first current measurement. The system also includes a correction module configured to perform a correction method. The correction method includes determining a frequency of the first current measurement, and applying a gain correction factor to the first current measurement, the gain correction factor based on pre-characterization data relating a gain of a reference current sensor to frequency. In addition, or alternatively, the correction method includes determining a first phase of the first current measurement, acquiring a second current measurement of a second conductor of the conductor assembly, determining a second phase of the second current measurement, and applying a current adjustment to the first current measurement based on a temporal relationship between the first phase and the second phase.
US12000866B2
The present invention provides a semiconductor film layer inspection apparatus (10) for detecting the electrical characteristics of a semiconductor film layer (30) formed on one surface of a substrate (20) and including an oxide semiconductor layer (31), and a detection unit used therein. The apparatus includes a base unit (40), a detection unit (200) and a carrier generator (300 300a and 300b). The detection unit (200) includes: a detection probe pin (230) and a detection probe module (202). The detection probe pin (230) includes a detection probe pin body (231) and a detection probe pin contactor unit (233). The detection probe pin contactor unit at least partially forms a plurality of independently detectable and operable segmented pin contactor unit blocks.
US12000862B2
The probe apparatus has a probe (first metal plate) as a signal terminal and a probe (second metal plate) as a ground terminal. A probe holder has a holder main body formed of a conductor, clamps that are formed of a dielectric and capable of clamping the probes, and a fixing member and a male screw (or “fixture”) capable of fixing both clamps, which have clamped the probes, to the holder main body. The probes are clamped by the two clamps in a state where the probes have been aligned along the plate surface direction, parts at front-end portion sides of the probes protrude from the two clamps, and the parts at front-end portion sides are capable of elastic deformation along the plate thickness direction.
US12000857B2
A sensor module includes: a substrate including a first terminal and a second terminal; a first conductive bonding member having a first melting point and a first Young's modulus; a lead bonded to the first terminal by the first conductive bonding member; a second conductive bonding member having a second melting point lower than the first melting point and a second Young's modulus higher than the first Young's modulus; and an inertial sensor bonded to the second terminal by the second conductive bonding member.
US12000856B2
Aspects herein are directed to a support garment testing system comprising a torso form having a motion tracking sensor associated with one or more breast structures of the torso form. A support garment is secured to the torso form, and the torso form is mounted on a motion platform that, when actuated, causes displacement of the breast structures. The amount of displacement is measured by the sensor, and the data is used to assign a level of support provided by the support garment.
US12000855B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to apparatus, systems, and methods for characterizing fluid-solid systems. In an embodiment, a method includes placing a porous rock sample in a core holder, contacting the porous rock sample with a fluid to create a fluid-solid system inside the core holder, automatically adjusting a temperature and/or pressure of the fluid-solid system to a preselected value via a processor and at least one automated valve, monitoring the fluid-solid system for equilibrium, recording a value for temperature, pressure, and/or mass of the fluid-solid system, performing an action based on the recorded data, and repeating the adjusting, monitoring, recording, and performing operations to produce a thermodynamic data characteristic of the fluid-solid system. In one example, the performing operation includes analyzing a pressure signal for stationarity by performing an Augmented Dickey-Fuller (ADF) test and/or a Kwiatkowski-Phillips-Schmidt-Shin (KPSS) test.
US12000844B2
The present invention provides a polypeptide consisting of any of the following amino acid sequences and useful for determining Alzheimer's disease: (1) the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1; and (2) an amino acid sequence resulting from substitution, deletion, addition or insertion of one to several amino acids in the amino acid sequence shown in SEQ ID NO: 1.
US12000840B2
A method for determining an amino acid sequence of a polypeptide, including comprising: contacting a first sample containing the polypeptide with a first protease (e.g., Trypsin) to produce a first set of digested peptide fragments; fragmenting the first set of digested peptide fragments to produce a first set of fragmented peptide ions; determining masses of the first set of fragmented peptide ions; contacting a second sample containing the polypeptide with a second protease (e.g., Tryp-N); fragmenting the second set of digested peptide fragments to produce a second set of fragmented peptide ions; selecting pairs of peptide ions from the first and the second set of fragmented peptide ions that differ in mass by a mass of an arginine amino acid residue or a lysine amino acid residue; assigning an ion type (either N-terminal peptide ion or C-terminal peptide ion) to the selected pairs of the peptide ions from two sets of fragmented peptide ions; selecting a mass ladder of the same-type peptide ions in either set of fragmented peptide ions with incremental mass by the mass of amino acid residue(s), and assembling the identified amino acid residues from the mass ladder to determine the amino acid sequence of the polypeptide of interest.
US12000839B2
Compositions and methods for analyzing disulfide bonds are provided. An exemplary method includes preparing peptide standards having no disulfide bonds, scrambled disulfide bond peptide standards, and native disulfide bond peptide standards according to the sequence of the region of the protein drug product that includes the disulfide bond, digesting a sample of protein drug product into peptides, separating the protein drug product peptides, analyzing the protein drug product peptides and the peptide standards, identifying scrambled and native disulfide bond peptides by retention time, and quantifying the level of scrambled disulfide bond peptides.
US12000824B2
Described are various embodiments of a point-of-care testing (POCT) system, analyzer and method for measuring quantities of at least two analytes in a blood sample, for example bilirubin and hemoglobin. The system comprises an analyzer and a removable cartridge. The removable cartridge comprises an optical chamber configured for receiving the blood sample. The analyzer comprises a receptor for receiving the removable cartridge, a first and second set of incident electromagnetic radiation (EMR) for example two broadband LEDs, an EMR dispersive element for example a reflective grating, a photo diode array detector, and a processor. The two EMR sources are implemented in such a way so that the spectral wavelength range of EMR emerging from the blood is expanded, and the effect of stray EMR is mitigated. The expanded wavelength range and the mitigation of stray EMR allows the analyzer to measure quantities of the analytes in lysed or unlysed blood.
US12000822B2
A method of forming a plurality of lipid bilayers over an array of cells in a nanopore based sequencing chip is disclosed. Each of the cells comprises a well. A first salt buffer solution with a first osmolarity is flowed over a cell in the nanopore based sequencing chip to substantially fill a well in the cell with the first salt buffer solution. A lipid and solvent mixture is flowed over the cell to deposit a lipid membrane over the well that encloses the first salt buffer solution in the well. A second salt buffer solution with a second osmolarity is flowed above the well to reduce the thickness of the lipid membrane, wherein the second osmolarity is a lower osmolarity than the first osmolarity such that an osmotic imbalance is created between a first volume inside the well and a second volume outside the well.
US12000811B2
Methods and system for identifying and quantifying antibody fragments and identifying the site of fragmentation on an antibody are provided herein.
US12000810B2
A fitting assembly (100) is provided. The fitting assembly (100) comprises a holder (102) that holds one or more fluidic seal assemblies. The fluidic seal assembly comprises a fitting (104), a ferrule (110) and a tube (112), such as a chromatography column, and optionally comprises a protrusion (118) and a compliant seal material (120). Fluidic connections for a gas chromatography instrument are also provided.
US12000806B2
Described are an interface module for two-dimensional chromatography and a method of performing a chromatographic separation that may use the interface module. The interface module includes a valve module, a collection needle, a modifier module and a sample storage element. The valve module has a first port configured to receive an eluent from a first chromatography system, a second port configured to provide a fraction obtained from the eluent, a third port and a fourth port. The collection needle and the modifier module are in fluidic communication with the valve module at the third and fourth ports, respectively. The modifier module includes a source of a modifier solvent. The sample storage element is in fluidic communication with the valve module and is configured to receive a volume of the fraction for injection as a sample into a second chromatography system.
US12000799B1
A digital, self-diagnosis, sensing intelligent layer integrating active and passive monitoring, including: a capacitance testing unit, configured to charge a to-be-tested piezoelectric transducer by generating a step signal, and determine a transition moment, to obtain a free capacitance value of the to-be-tested piezoelectric transducer; a frequency testing unit, to charge the to-be-tested piezoelectric transducer by generating sinusoidal signals of different frequencies, and detect a resonant frequency according to the transition moment; an active and passive monitoring module, to obtain analog response signals in an active mode and a passive mode, and convert the analog response signals into digital response signals for transmission; and a main control module, to transmit a self-diagnosis result and the digital response signals to a guided wave host. The intelligent layer integrates active damage scanning and passive impact monitoring while implementing self-diagnosis for a piezoelectric transducer state.
US12000788B1
The present invention is directed to a method of determining a free moisture content and/or a degree of calcination of a gypsum panel. The method comprises the following: (a) transmitting a microwave beam through at least a first portion of the gypsum panel, such that said microwave beam is a transmitted microwave beam; (b) receiving the transmitted microwave beam to form a received microwave beam; (c) determining a phase shift and an attenuation from the received microwave beam; (d) repeating steps (a) to (c) for at least a second portion of the gypsum panel, such that a plurality of phase shifts and a plurality of attenuations is obtained; (e) using at least one empirical factor to correct the plurality of attenuations, producing a plurality of corrected attenuations; (f) calculating a raw moisture content of the gypsum panel from the corrected attenuations wherein the raw moisture content comprises a raw free moisture content and a raw crystal moisture content; (g) using a calibration factor to correct the plurality of phase shifts, producing a plurality of corrected phase shifts; (h) determining a density of the gypsum panel from the corrected phase shifts; and (i) calculating a final moisture content of the gypsum panel from the density and from the raw moisture content wherein the final moisture content comprises a final free moisture content and a final crystal moisture content.
US12000787B2
A measuring device for determining the dielectric value of a medium in a phase-based manner comprises a measurement section which can be brought into contact with the medium, a signal generation unit for injecting a high-frequency signal at a defined frequency into the measurement section, and an evaluation unit designed to receive a corresponding reception signal after said high-frequency signal passes through the measurement section, to determine a phase shift between the high-frequency signal and the reception signal, and to determine the dielectric value of the medium on the basis of the determined phase shift. The measuring device also comprises at least one filter which transmits the frequency of the high-frequency signal and is arranged such that the received reception signal and/or the generated high-frequency signal is/are filtered. This ensures that the determined dielectric value is not distorted by noise caused by components or the environment.
US12000783B2
A detection device of a substance to be measured according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is intended to conveniently detect a bio-related substance such as a bacteria or a fungus. The detection device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes, a container that contains solution and a composite particle combining a substance to be measured and a magnetic labeling substance, a magnetic field applying unit that applies a magnetic field to a predetermined region so as to collect the composite particles, wherein spatial light is incident to the predetermined region other than lower region of the container, an imaging unit for imaging the composite particles collected in the predetermined region where the spatial light is incident, a detection unit that detects the composite particles based on the image captured by the imaging unit.
US12000782B2
A laser whose emission is modulated by ultrasound is presented. The laser is usually micron-sized. In response to ultrasound modulation, the laser emission increases and decreases. Such a change in emission can be detected by external optical detectors. This type of laser can be used as a new type of imaging modality, in which laser emission in combination with sound waves or ultrasound waves, is used for imaging Laser emission has a much narrower spectral linewidth and stronger intensity than fluorescence and therefore is able to achieve higher sensitivity, whereas sound waves are used to provide a better spatial resolution of the laser emission from the laser. In ultrasound modulated laser based imaging, multiple lasers can be placed inside cells or tissues.
US12000773B2
A system comprising at least one light source configured to generate a light at specific wavelengths and project the light over an optical path, a sample device, the sample device configured to receive a sample obtained from a person, the sample device being transparent and being at least partially within the optical path, a diversifier including occlusions for scattering coherent light received from the light source along the optical path, a first detector configured to receive the light over the optical path and from at least a portion of the diversifier, the detector configured to detect spectral intensities of the light, and a second detector configured to receive at least a portion of the light form the optical path before the light passes through the diffuser, the second detector configured to detect spectral intensities of the light.
US12000771B2
A light irradiation device including an injection unit to inject a sample, and a light source to apply light to the sample to identify an abnormal cell in the sample, the light source including a substrate and a light emitter including a light emitting diode, in which the light emitted is to cut a genetic material in the sample into sections of different sizes, and to deform the genetic material to different degrees, such that a determination of an abnormality of the sample is based on the degree of deformation, and an irradiation amount or intensity of the light is at an intensity in which a cytotoxicity value of the sample is greater than or equal to a predetermined value, and a ratio of a degree of deformation of the genetic material of the normal sample to that of the abnormal sample is set to be a minimum value.
US12000763B2
A disposable blood sampler for a blood braid of a blood bag includes a blood taking needle cannula, a threaded cannula, a blood braid clamp, a connecting pipe, a needle inserting sheet and a blood braid. The blood taking needle cannula includes a tubular threaded structure at both ends, a bottom port of the threaded cannula is connected with the blood taking needle cannula, and an upper port of the threaded cannula includes symmetrically distributed clamping slots extending to a middle lower part of the wall. Grips are arranged on the outer wall surface of the blood braid clamp, and the blood braid clamp is arranged in the threaded cannula. The grip is arranged outside the clamping slot, and the connecting pipe is directly inserted into the upper port. An inner cavity in which the needle inserting sheet is placed is arranged inside the inner part of the connecting pipe.
US12000752B2
A system for measuring (200) a sample (2) by deflectometry comprising: a source (10) for generating a light beam in a source plane (105); an illumination module (19) for forming an illumination beam (9) comprising: a first converging optical element (18); a first selection optical element (16) with a first aperture (160); reflective matrix optical modulation means (30) to form a pattern (7), said first aperture (160) being configured to control the angles of said illumination beam (9) on said reflective matrix optical modulation means (30); a Schlieren lens (20) for obtaining an angle-intensity encoding of said pattern (7) on the sample (2); imaging (40) and detecting means (50) for detecting an image of said sample (2).
US12000734B2
Spectrometer device (100) with entrance aperture (2), diffraction grating (3), two detectors (5a, 5b) to spectrally measuring the incoming light (L), the detectors being located on the same side of the dispersion plane. Two vertically focusing mirrors (4, 4a, 4b) focus the light onto detectors, the minors being arranged as front row mirrors (4b) and back row minors (4a) along two polygon graphs (6a, 6b) offset to each other and to the focal curve. The angles of deflection (cp, 91) for the front row mirrors are <90°, allowing to minimize the offset (dl) of the front row minors (4b) to the focal curve. The distances (d) between the front row minors and corresponding detectors (5b) is minimized while still avoiding collisions between the detectors (5b) and their mounts with back row detectors (5a) and their mounts. The front row mirror elements are overlapping the adjacent back row mirror element.
US12000729B2
Distributed fiber optic sensing (DFOS) systems, methods and structures for determining the proximity of vibration sources located perpendicular to a sensor fiber that is part of the DFOS system that may potentially threaten/damage or otherwise compromise the sensor fiber itself. Systems, methods, and structures according to aspects of the present disclosure employ Artificial Intelligence (AI) methodology(ies) that use as input a fundamental physical understanding of wave propagation and attenuation in the ground along with Bayesian inference and Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE) techniques for estimating/determining the proximity of potentially damaging vibration sources to the optical sensor fiber.
US12000727B2
Techniques are described for determining weight distribution of a vehicle. A method of performing autonomous driving operation includes determining a vehicle weight distribution that values for each axle of the vehicle that describe weight or pressure applied on a respective axle. The values of the vehicle weight distribution are determined by removing at least one value that is outside a range of pre-determined values from a set of sensor values. The method further includes determining a driving-related operation of the vehicle weight distribution. For example, the driving-related operation may include determining a braking amount for each axle and/or determining a maximum steering angle to operate the vehicle. The method further includes controlling one or more subsystems in the vehicle via an instruction related to the driving-related operation. For example, transmitting the instruction to the one or more subsystems causes the vehicle to perform the driving-related operation.
US12000726B2
The method according to the invention provides a way to continue gravimetric weighing of bulk material during refilling of a gravimetric metered dispensing unit, and to determine the mass of the refilled bulk material using a refilling container during the filling operation material and so determine the actual mass flow discharged during refilling in real time or on average in order to adjust it to a target mass flow.
US12000725B2
Embodiments described herein generally relate to devices, systems and methods for measuring the dose remaining in a drug delivery device that is used for delivering a dose to a patient. In some embodiments, a dose measurement system for measuring the liquid volume in a container includes a plurality of light sources which are disposed and configured to emit electromagnetic radiation toward the container. A plurality of sensors are located in the apparatus that are optically coupleable to the plurality of light sources and are disposed and configured to detect the electromagnetic radiation emitted by at least a portion of the light sources. The apparatus also includes a processing unit configured to receive data representing the portion of the detected electromagnetic radiation from each of the plurality of sensors. The processing unit is further operable to convert the received data into a signature representative of the electromagnetic radiation detected by the plurality of sensors.
US12000720B2
The present invention defines six unexpected benefits resulting from the automation of and improvements to inventory reconciliation and tank level monitoring at tank farms, terminals and refineries, commonly associated with refining and the transportation of, hydrocarbon fuels. In the implementation of an automated system for tank level monitoring and periodic inventory reconciliation, it has been discovered that both applications can be used to correctly identify maintenance needs and policy violations that were previously unable to be identified. The benefits include identification of thermal relief valve failure, transmix check valve failure, lock out/tag out failure, floating roof landing, and incorrect tank assignments.
US12000717B2
A linear rotary encoder includes a pair of rotational surfaces. A contact belt has a first end coupled to a first rotational surface in the pair and a second end coupled to a second rotational surface in the pair. The contact belt is driven to rotate around the pair of rotational surfaces by a driving force applied to media to move the media from the first end toward the second end. An encoding scale is coupled to an inner surface of the contact belt. A reader is positioned to read the encoding scale as the contact belt rotates around the pair of rotational surfaces. The reader generates an output signal indicating a position of the media based on reading of the encoding scale.
US12000715B2
A device for contactlessly determining a position of a pedal in a vehicle, having at least a magnet and a sensor, wherein the magnet produces a magnetic field that varies with the position of the pedal and detected by the sensor. The sensor has an output for providing at least one sensor signal. A first and a second position range are defined, wherein each position range includes positions of the magnet with respect to the sensor. The processor generates an output signal from the at least one sensor signal. The output signal takes on values that are unambiguously associated with a position of the magnet relative to the sensor in the first position range, and takes on a constant value that is independent of the position of the magnet relative to the sensor in the second position range.
US12000705B2
An approach is provided for determining travel direction and/or location data based on sequential semantic events. The approach, for example, involves processing sensor data collected from at least one sensor of a mobile device to determine a set of observed time-sequenced semantic events. The semantic events are associated with traveling within a transportation system, and at least one semantic event of the set of observed time-sequenced semantic events is based on a turn angle value determined from the sensor data. The approach also involves initiating a comparison of the set of observed time-sequenced semantic events against a set of known time-sequenced semantic events and/or a known piece of information associated with the transportation system. The approach further involves determining a direction of travel and/or a location of the mobile device within the transportation system based on the comparison. The approach further involves providing the direction of travel and/or the location as an output.
US12000699B2
Provided is an optical interference measuring apparatus including a measuring unit for acquiring an interferogram of an interference wave obtained by irradiating a measuring target and a reference surface with electromagnetic waves and causing reflected waves from a reflecting surface of the measurement target and reflected waves from the reference surface to interfere and a signal processing unit for configuring an intensity profile in the depth direction by performing Fourier transform of the interferogram. The signal processing unit is configured to estimate a parameter for a model formula for an assumed surface count, based on the model formula of an interferogram when it is assumed that the measurement target has a predetermined structure, to select an optimal model by a statistical technique from the model formula to which a parameter estimated for the assumed surface count is applied, and to reconfigure an intensity profile based on the optimal model.
US12000695B2
An electrode-misalignment detection device in a resistance welder that joins members together by holding them between opposing electrodes and applying pressure and electricity thereto includes an electrode misalignment detector that simultaneously approaches outer peripheries of both electrodes to detect misalignment thereof. The electrode misalignment detector includes a clamping member, a signal generator, a non-closed-state detector, and a misalignment determiner. The clamping member is movable toward the electrodes to clamp them from opposite radially outer sides and is settable in a predetermined closed state when the electrodes are located at appropriate positions. The signal generator outputs a movement state signal according to a movement state of the clamping member. The non-closed-state detector detects that the clamping member is in a state other than the predetermined closed state based on the movement state signal. The misalignment determiner determines electrode misalignment if the clamping member is not in the predetermined closed state.
US12000694B2
A computer-implemented method automatically produces a test plan for measuring a measured object. The method includes obtaining a desired dataset of the measured object. The method includes providing a starting pattern. The providing comprises producing a division. The producing the division comprises applying at least one division function. The division has a plurality of division indices. The method includes producing a target pattern by generating a comparison between the desired dataset and the division. At least one division index is adapted in response to a deviation of the division from the desired dataset. The method includes creating at least one element with at least one piece of pattern information in the test plan in accordance with the target pattern.
US12000683B2
Disclosed are ammunition and ammunition tracking systems. The ammunition and ammunition tracking system may include a first projectile and a marker. The marker may be associated with the first projectile. The marker may contain a unique signature such that the first projectile may be identifiable from a second projectile.
US12000680B2
A tile to be used in an arrangement of identical tiles of an armor, the tile including an obverse face, a reverse face opposite the obverse face, and an endless edge between the obverse face and the reverse face, the endless edge being defined by a plurality of peripheral boundaries connected by curved sections, wherein the obverse face includes a first region and a second region each configured to be overlapped by a corresponding region of a reverse face of another tile, and a strike face region that is not overlapped by another tile, the first region and the second region being adjacent to the non-overlapped strike face region, the strike face region including a Y-shaped raised portion and no other raised portion or recessed portion, and the reverse face including a Y-shaped depression at a location corresponding to the location of the Y-shaped raised portion, and no other depression or raised portion.
US12000662B2
A thermal structure for management of thermal energy, the thermal structure including: a first wall structure defining a first cavity; a second wall structure defining a second cavity, the second cavity in fluid communication with the first cavity; and a barrier cavity defined at least in-part by the first wall structure and the second wall structure, wherein the barrier cavity is disposed between the first cavity and the second cavity and includes a pressurized barrier fluid therein or is configured to receive the pressurized barrier fluid during operation of the thermal structure.
US12000652B2
An apparatus comprises a cooling medium compartment between first and second beverage compartments, and a water permeable membrane. The cooling medium compartment comprises a topside zipper and underside zipper. When the underside zipper is closed, there is no opening between the cooling medium compartment and the water permeable membrane. When the underside zipper is at least a partially open, there is an opening between the cooling medium compartment and the permeable membrane to allow water to move from the cooling medium compartment to the permeable membrane. The apparatus provides the option of whether or not to cool the back of the user's neck with a cooling medium placed in the apparatus that wets a water permeable portion of the apparatus that is in contact with the neck of the user.
US12000628B2
A magnetic refrigeration module includes a housing, low and high temperature inflow paths, low and high temperature outflow paths, and first and second intermediate flow paths. The housing houses a magnetic working substance, and forms a flow path. The low and high temperature inflow paths carry heating medium into first and second ends of the flow path. First and second spaces are formed between the first and second ends and the low and high temperature inflow paths. The low and high temperature outflow paths receive the heating medium from the first and second ends of the flow path. The first and second intermediate flow paths communicate with the low and high temperature inflow paths and the first and second spaces. The first and second intermediate flow paths expand heating medium flow from the low and high temperature inflow paths to the first and second spaces.
US12000625B2
A water heating system can include a water heater having a tank, an inlet line, and an outlet line, where the inlet line provides unheated water to the tank, and where the outlet line draws heated water from the tank. The water heating system can also include multiple sensing devices, where each sensing device of the plurality of sensing devices measures a parameter associated with the tank. The water heating system can further include a controller communicably coupled to the plurality of sensing devices, where the controller determines an amount of heated water in the tank based on measurements made by the plurality of sensing devices.
US12000622B2
An electric heater to heat a flow of a fluid having a jacket block comprising a plurality of longitudinal bores to allow the through-flow of a gas phase medium. An elongate heating element extends through each of the bores that together with the jacket block define a heating assembly to heat the gas. The heating assembly is positionally stabilised within the electric heater via at least one brace configured to inhibit undesirable independent axial and/or lateral movement of the heating assembly within the electric heater.
US12000617B2
The present disclosure relates to an air cleaner with an improved locking structure. The air cleaner includes a cabinet, a panel having a plurality of holes for discharging air to the front of the cabinet and detachably mounted on the cabinet, and a locking device to detachably connect the cabinet and the panel, wherein the locking device includes a first locking member disposed on the panel, and a second locking member disposed in the cabinet to lock or unlock the first locking member by being rotated by pressing of the first locking member.
