US12011229B2
Disclosed is a method for providing visual guidance in a medical surgery. The method comprises registering, within a virtual assistance device having a combination of a virtual medical implant, an Intra-Medullary (IM) nail model and a virtual insertion handle model, each of a physical IM nail implant and a physical insertion handle. Further, a physical drill gun is registered within the virtual assistance device having a drill gun model. Further, coordinates of the one or more holes on the physical IM nail implant are registered within the virtual assistance device. The physical IM nail is inserted into a target. The virtual impression of the physical drill gun is aligned over the one or more holes based on the coordinates. Further, one or more surgical steps are performed by the physical drill gun based on the aligning.
US12011227B2
Methods and systems for intraoperatively determining alignment parameters of a spine during a spinal surgical procedure are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method of intraoperatively determining an alignment parameter of a spine during a surgical procedure includes receiving initial image data of the spine including multiple vertebrae and identifying a geometric feature associated with each vertebra in the initial image data. The geometric features each have a pose in the initial image data and characterize a three-dimensional (3D) shape of the associated vertebra. The method further comprises receiving intraoperative image data of the spine and registering the initial image data to the intraoperative image data. The method can then update the pose of each geometric feature based on the registration and the intraoperative image data, and determine the alignment parameter based on the updated poses of the geometric features associated with two or more of the vertebrae.
US12011224B2
Accordingly, the embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for determining refractive power of an eye of a wearer. The method includes causing to display, by a first electronic device (100), a virtual image of at least one optotype on a display (202) of a second electronic device (200). Further, the method includes varying, by the first electronic device (100), a focus of the optotypes to provide changes in an optical prescription. Further, the method includes conducting, by the first electronic device (100), an eye exam of the wearer based on the varied focus of the optotypes. Further, the method includes determining, by the first electronic device (100), the refractive power of the eye of the wearer.
US12011220B2
The present invention discloses medical systems and methods adapted for the delivery of various medical components such as microwave antennas within or on a body for performing one or more medical procedures. Several embodiments herein disclose medical systems comprising a combination of one or more medical components and one or more elongate steerable or non-steerable arms that are adapted to mechanically manipulate the one or more medical components. Several embodiments of microwave antennas are disclosed that comprise an additional diagnostic or therapeutic modality located on or in the vicinity of the microwave antennas.
US12011213B2
A method of treating epistaxis includes inserting a distal end of an endoscope into a nasal cavity of a patient. At least the distal end of the endoscope includes a working channel. The method includes advancing a distal end of an RF ablation catheter through the working channel of the endoscope. The method also includes ablating tissue in a posterior nasal region of the nasal cavity using RF energy transmitted by the RF ablation catheter.
US12011195B1
A method of stabilizing a facet joint by providing a fixation member with a substantially stadium-shaped cross-section, forming a void having a substantially stadium-shaped cross-section within the facet joint and inserting the fixation member into the void. The void is formed by engaging a first drill guide with the facet joint having two drill guide paths and drilling two spaced-apart or slightly overlapping passageways within the face joint, followed by engaging a second drill guide with the facet joint and drilling a third passageway between the two other passageways. The fixation member includes a tapered, anti-migration section configured for engaging the opposing articular surfaces of the joint.
US12011190B2
An elongate ultrasonic dissector-shaver probe has a laterally enlarged head extending distally and transversely from a distal end of a shaft and provided with sets of spiraling ribs. In a disc space preparation procedure, the probe is inserted into a spinal disc between two vertebral endplates, ultrasonic vibratory energy is conducted into the probe, and the probe is manipulated to move the laterally enlarged head in three spatial directions within the spinal disc to thereby disrupt and shred the spinal disc material into fragments extracted from the space, in part by suction and in part by using forceps to pull spinal disc fragments from the operative space or surgical site between the vertebral endplates.
US12011178B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to devices, systems and methods adapted for implementing intermittent displacement of blood to mitigate peripheral nerve neuropathy such as that induced by chemotherapeutic agents (i.e., chemotherapy-induced neuropathy (CIN)) that are administered to a patient. Such devices, systems and methods advantageously provide for precise, uniform and controlled blood flow occluding (and optionally blood displacing) compression along irregular surfaces of an appendage of a patient. Such precise, uniform and controlled blood occluding compression is imparted upon the epidermal and dermis skin layers within the aforementioned areas of a patient's extremities to decrease the time that free nerve endings located in the epidermal and encapsulated nerve endings located in the dermis skin layers are exposed to nerve damaging chemotherapy chemicals, thereby substantially decreasing CIN caused by prolonged exposure to such chemicals.
US12011166B2
A surgical instrument that includes a shaft assembly that defines a shaft axis and includes a proximal articulation joint that defines a first articulation axis that is transverse to the shaft axis and a distal articulation joint that defines a second articulation axis that is transverse to the shaft axis and the first articulation axis. The instrument further includes an anvil that is non-removably attached to the shaft assembly and a channel that is removably attachable to the shaft assembly and configured to operably support a surgical staple cartridge.
US12011155B2
Tissue fixation and repair constructs and methods of repair using the same are provided. An exemplary tissue fixation and repair construct can include a first implantable anchor coupled to a suture having a fixed tail and a tensioning tail. The fixed tail can include an overhand knot located distally adjacent to the finger trap, such that the overhand knot substantially abuts the finger trap when adjacent thereto, a fixed stopper knot configured to prevent further movement of the fixed tail through a second implantable anchor when the second implantable anchor is placed onto the suture, and a finger trap. The tensioning tail can be passed through the finger trap and overhand knot, and can be used to adjust the tension of the tissue fixation and repair construct when the first implantable anchor and the second implantable anchor are inserted into bone.
US12011154B1
A bone staple device includes a base; and two legs extending parallel from the base, the two legs each having a tapered end opposite the base; and a cutout region extending through a thickness of the base, the cutout region forming a petal protruding away from the leg; the bone staple device serving as a suture anchor to affix directly to soft tissue.
US12011148B2
A surgical system which may include a controller, a data entry device, a powered surgical handpiece and a surgical tool adapted to couple to the surgical handpiece. The surgical handpiece can include motor direction control and feedback, safety stop features, stimulation and nerve integrity monitoring, a tool connector assembly configured to retain a variety of surgical tools and optional navigation and/or electric ratcheting features.
US12011139B2
A robotic device comprising: an energy storage device; and a controller configured to determine whether a quantity of energy stored in the energy storage device is below a predetermined energy level, wherein: the robotic device is configured to perform a cleaning task if the determined quantity of energy is not below the predetermined energy level; if the determined quantity of energy is below the predetermined energy level: the controller is configured to estimate a likelihood of the robotic device being capable of locating a recharging base station; and in dependence on the estimated likelihood, the robotic device is configured to seek the recharging base station or perform the cleaning task.
US12011134B2
A washing apparatus (e.g. a laundry washing machine, dishwasher, etc.) and method configure a wash cycle in part based on spectral data obtained from a spectrometer positioned with the washing apparatus and analyzed in a remote cloud service.
US12011127B2
A floor cleaner including a including a base, an upright portion, and a recovery tank. The recovery tank includes a baffle configured to separate liquid and air from a liquid-laden stream entering the recovery tank.
US12011124B1
The invention is for liners provided for use in a flush toilet with an interior. The liners are configured to fit within the interior area of the toilet bowl to contact an upper surface of the toilet water. The liners prevent soiling of the interior of the toilet bowl and facilitate the efficient removal and flushing of human waste. The liner acts as a barrier between the toilet bowl and wastewater, whereby the liner can then be flushed along with the contents of the bowl, thereby extending the period between necessary cleanings.
US12011120B2
A single button allows a pot handle to be used as a pot stand, and thus there is no need for a separate additional component or handle. Even when a pot handle is used, a portion used in a folded state is protected by a holding projection and a protruding cover. In addition, a portion connected to a pot is spaced a certain distance from the pot, thus minimizing the amount of heat conducted when cooking food. A lateral movement prevention member is provided at the outer diameter of the bottom surface of a fixing piece and minimizes the lateral movement of the pot handle when the pot handle is used as the stand, and thus the pot handle can be safely used as the stand.
US12011115B2
There is provided an apparatus (10) for processing food stuff. The apparatus (10) comprises a container (110) for receiving a food stuff; a food processing unit (120) for processing the food stuff in the container; a force sensor (130) for measuring an operation parameter, and a control unit (140) for operating the food processing unit (120) based on measurements received from the sensor. The sensor is furthermore configured to measure an interaction with the apparatus by a user. The control unit is configured to receive measurements of the user interaction from the sensor (130) and process the received measurements to determine if a predetermined user interaction or a predetermined user interaction pattern corresponding to a user input command has been performed by the user.
US12011108B1
An adjustable hanger is described with an adjustment dial and internal assembly that enables the adjustable hanger to retract and expand to varying lengths. The adjustable hanger can be adjusted manually using an adjustment dial that a user lifts up to rotate in a clockwise or counterclockwise direction to adjust the length of the adjustable hanger as desired. The adjustable hanger can include pre-determined sizes or lengths that range from a “0” size whereby the hanger is fully retracted and useful for storage or transport. Additionally, the hanger can include pre-determined positions for a small, medium, large, and x-large or other sizes for an article of clothing or another item. The hanger includes a faceplate, baseplate, adjustable dial, control pillar, control link, and a first movable arm and a second movable arm made up of connecting rods that can rotationally engage with each other to extend and retract.
US12011107B2
A beverage holder includes a frame, an insert, and a cover. The frame includes a sidewall having an upper end and a lower end, and a bottom wall extending across the lower end. The upper end defines a plurality of protrusions. The sidewall and the bottom wall cooperatively define a chamber. The insert includes a peripheral rim defining a plurality of apertures that receive the plurality of protrusions and a flexible collar extending from the peripheral rim and at least partially into the chamber. The flexible collar defines an opening leading to the chamber. The cover includes a plurality of interfaces that engage with the plurality of protrusions to couple the cover to the upper end of the sidewall and to secure the insert between the frame and the cover. The cover defines an aperture that aligns with the chamber and the opening.
US12011103B2
The invention constitutes a device in which flat artwork, like drawings, woodblock prints, photos and posters can be mounted, having the properties that the artwork easily can be circulated from archives into and out of the device without being damaged by mounting. It is, basically, a frame with a back support in the form of a board that can be opened and closed like a door whereby the artwork is mounted by pressure from this board without using tape, photo corners or glue or any other potentially harmful methods.
US12011094B2
A multi-factor authentication method and system is provided such that a push notification during an authentication process is only received if a mobile device and user are authenticated prior to receiving the push notification. Either the mobile device itself or a second device sending the push notification may be programmed to either reject or not forward the authentication request. Additionally, using the method of the present invention, enhanced security is provided by requiring the location of the mobile device and the second device to be approximately in the same geographical location.
US12011093B2
A bed frame has left, intermediate and right longitudinal support bars, each having two main body sections and an intermediate section connected between two main body sections, via a connecting piece. A first through hole is disposed at an end of each of the main body sections adjacent to the intermediate section. The connecting piece is provided with a second through hole on a side connected to the main body section. When the second through hole is aligned with the first through hole, a support bar pivot shaft can run through the first through hole and second through hole so that the two main body sections can rotate about their respective support bar pivot shafts in a vertical plane relative to the intermediate section. Folding the bed frame is simple and easy to implement, and the bed frame, in a folded state, facilitates transportation and compact storage.
US12011092B2
A mattress foundation includes a top frame and a bottom frame. Bracket assemblies are between the top frame and the bottom frame. The bottom frame has a first bottom segment and a second bottom segment each rotatably connected to bracket assemblies. The top frame has a first top segment and the second top segment each rotatably connected to bracket assemblies. The first bottom segment, the second bottom segment, the first top segment, and the second top segment are rotatable relative to each other and the bracket assemblies between a folded position and an unfolded position.
US12011091B2
The invention discloses a multifunctional vibration equipment, includes a fixed frame; a movable frame movably arranged relative to the fixed frame; a first driving member arranged on the fixed frame for driving the movable frame moving backwards and forwards relative to the fixed frame; and a rolling guide unit including a fixed base, a movable base, and a roller. The movable base is movably arranged relative to the fixed base, the roller is defined between the fixed and the movable base, the fixed base is arranged on the fixed frame, the movable frame is arranged on the movable base; the fixed base is provided with a first slot, the movable frame is provided with a second slot for cooperating with the first slot, two ends of the roller are respectively accommodated in the first and the second slot, the movable base rolls on the fixed base via the roller.
US12011079B2
A cosmetics applicator made of plastic and having a bristle carrier and having bristles integrally bonded therewith as a single part, whereas the bristle carrier being a permanent magnet while the bristles as such are non-magnetic, characterized in that the bristle carrier comprises a core made of a first plastic filled with magnetic particles and forming an interface at least at the outer circumference thereof, said interface being enclosed by a layer of a second, non-magnetic plastic, wherein the first and the second plastic are preferably welded to each other and the second plastic is preferably harder than the first plastic, and wherein the second plastic is integrally connected to the bristles as a single piece.
US12011076B2
A center tube core includes a prong, a spiral rotatably sleeved on the prong, and a bead slidably mounted in the prong so as to carry a product. The side wall of the prong is provided with a slide slot that extends axially, the outer wall of the bead is provided with a slide block that extends radially out from the slide slot, and the inner wall of the spiral is provided with a feeding thread that acts on the slide block. The prong, the bead and the spiral are all made using a metal material.
US12011073B2
A luggage tag includes an electronic ink display screen affixed to a surface of the luggage tag. Tag memory of the tag stores a unique identifier. An antenna receives an electromagnetic signal. Circuitry of the tag captures energy and acquires data from the electromagnetic signal received by the antenna and powers the electronic ink display with the captured energy. A processor receives the data acquired by the circuitry from the electromagnetic signal and produces an image on the electronic ink display using the acquired data if the acquired data includes a match to the unique identifier stored in the memory.
US12011072B2
In various embodiments, a carrying bag includes a carrying bag body formed by a security panel assembly comprising a cut-resistant fabric or mesh, with a strap channel having at least two spaced-apart reinforced channel openings; and a carrying strap comprising: first and second wire cables; a first flexible material having a first lateral region folded around the first wire cable to enclose the first wire cable and a second lateral region folded around the second wire cable to enclose the second wire cable; and a second flexible material arranged on or over a central region of the first flexible material. Representative embodiments may include a water-resistant pocket coupled to a protected seam and extending to an exterior of the carrying bag body; and a fastener to close the water-resistant pocket external to the carrying bag body.
US12011066B2
A shoe slide that includes a footbed having a forefoot area with a top edge, a hindfoot portion with a bottom edge, and a footbed surface. A foam footbed liner is disposed atop the footbed surface, the foam footbed liner having an upper surface. A metatarsal pad in the forefoot area of the footbed protrudes above the surface of the footbed liner and is dimensioned such that when the shoe slide is worn the metatarsal pad engages and applies pressure to the wearer's plantar fascial near the proximal phalanges of the toes at the metatarsophalangeal joints. The shoe slide also includes a raised rubber protrusion in the hindfoot area of the footbed positioned and dimensioned such that when the shoe slide is worn the raised rubber protrusion engages and applies pressure to the wearer's plantar fascia near the calcaneal tubercle.
US12011061B2
Presented are footwear sole structures with foot-cushioning insoles movably mounted onto impact-attenuating midsoles, methods for making/using such sole structures, and footwear fabricated with such sole structures. A multilayered sole structure assembly includes an insole movably mounted on a midsole. The midsole is formed with a first compressible material and includes opposing upper and lower midsole surfaces, multiple protrusions projecting from the upper midsole surface, and multiple pockets recessed into the upper midsole surface and interleaved with the midsole protrusions. The insole, which is formed with a second compressible material distinct from the first compressible material, includes opposing upper and lower insole surfaces, multiple protrusions projecting from the lower insole surface and interleaved with the midsole protrusions, and multiple pockets recessed into the lower insole surface and interleaved with the insole protrusions. Each midsole protrusion nests within a respective insole pocket, while each insole protrusion nests within a respective midsole pocket.
US12011057B2
A safety helmet includes an outer shell configured for surrounding a head of a user, and an infrared reflective layer disposed in an interior of the outer shell. The infrared reflective layer is configured for reflecting at a least a portion of incident infrared radiation transmitted through the outer shell. The infrared reflective layer has infrared reflectivity of at least 40%. The safety helmet further may have an evaporative cooling pad positioned within a cavity defined by the inner surface of the outer shell. A method of manufacturing a safety helmet is also disclosed.
US12011056B2
A helmet for protection during an impact, wherein an inner liner may slidably couple to the outer liner through at least one return spring. The outer liner includes an interior surface with a shelf extending inward. The shelf includes an arresting surface. The inner liner has an exterior surface, an interior surface and an edge connecting the exterior surface to the interior surface. The edge faces the arresting surface of the shelf. The inner liner is slidably movable relative to the outer liner between a first position in which the edge of the inner liner is separated from the arresting surface of the shelf by a first gap, and an arrested position in which a portion of the edge of the inner liner is in contact with a portion of the arresting surface of the shelf.
US12011053B2
The present disclosure relates to a wetsuit that provides support for the lumbosacral region of the wearer. The wetsuit has at least one layer of foam rubber or other wetsuit material with a lumbar portion disposed in the lumbosacral region of the wearer. In certain embodiments, the wetsuit has at least one tensioning mechanism that allows the wearer to selectively change a level of support provided by the lumbar portion to the lumbosacral region of the wearer.
US12011052B2
Aspects herein are directed to an apparel item having an integrated lighting system and method of forming the apparel item having the integrated lighting system. The integrated lighting system comprises a power supply unit affixed to the apparel item, one or more light arrays having visible light sources affixed to the apparel item, and one or more conductive traces affixed to the apparel item, where the conductive traces extend from the power supply unit to the light arrays and electrically couple the two such that the light arrays are powered when the power supply unit is operating.
US12011043B2
The present disclosure relates to an aerosol delivery device configured to wirelessly heat an atomizer. The aerosol delivery device may include a control body and a cartridge. The control body may include an induction transmitter. The cartridge may include an induction receiver and an aerosol precursor composition. When electrical current is directed to the induction transmitter, the induction receiver may be inductively heated. The heat produced by the induction receiver may form an aerosol from the aerosol precursor composition at the substrate. Related methods are also provided.
US12011038B2
An electronic vaporizer device with a sealed, disposable, fillable cartridge is described, along with a method for refilling the cartridge. The electronic vaporizer includes a body which is held by the user and houses a battery. The body receives and couples with a cartridge with a reservoir for oil or other fluid to be vaporized. The cartridge also includes an atomizer which is powered by the battery via a connector terminal, a wick to provide oil to the atomizer from the oil reservoir, a vapor tube which transmits the vaporized oil to the user though a mouthpiece. In some embodiments, the user fills the reservoir of the cartridge by inserting a needle through a self-sealing septum. Further, the electronic vaporizer device includes a haptic device to provide haptic feedback to a user of the electronic vaporizer to communicate operating states of the electronic vaporizer.
US12011030B2
A method for comprehensively analyzing and/or evaluating cigarette burning quality index is disclosed. The steps include collecting cigarette burning quality index data, filtering the cigarette burning quality index data, standardizing cigarette data, and measuring cigarette burning quality. The importance of the cigarette burning quality indicators can also be evaluated. The method for comprehensively analyzing and/or evaluating cigarette burning quality indicators can reflect general laws more accurately by maintaining the sample distribution through a singularity detection method, and analyzing correlations of each index with cigarette performance from multiple perspectives, to fuse them into a comprehensive measurement value. The importance ranking and weight of indicators can be obtained more completely and stably.
US12011022B2
A food transportation system and associated modular humidity control system are provided. An example system includes a body configured for attachment with a food storage housing. The body defines a closed circuit air flow path for circulating air through the food storage housing. The system also includes a humidity control element secured within the closed circuit air flow path that condenses moisture from the moisture-laden air passing through the closed circuit air flow path. The system further includes a condensation collector configured to receive fluid condensed from the moisture-laden air by the humidity control element.
US12011018B2
The invention relates to a process for the manufacture of an aqueous dispersion comprising mustard bran comprising the following steps: providing an aqueous dispersion comprising mustard bran particles and applying a high pressure homogenisation treatment to alter the sugar moiety ratio of the mustard bran particles. The invention further relates to an oil-in-water emulsion comprising an aqueous dispersion that can be prepared by the aforementioned process.
US12011006B2
Provided is a stick turning device capable of turning a stick on which a chain of sausages is suspended while reducing defects in the sausages when delivering the stick from an upstream device to a downstream device. The stick turning device includes a turning arm unit, a turning driving unit, and an actuator unit. The turning driving unit causes the turning arm unit to turn at a predetermined angle around a turning shaft. The actuator unit lifts the turning arm unit such that both ends of the stick are horizontally picked up from the upstream device and the stick is lifted, and such that by bringing the stick close to the turning shaft, a peripheral speed of the stick is reduced with respect to a turning speed of the turning driving unit, and defects in the sausages are reduced, and lowers the stick turned by the turning driving unit.
US12011004B2
Composite plant-MCT flour includes MCT oil encapsulated by and/or complexed with wall material and incorporated within the composite plant-MCT flour, wherein polysaccharide from the plant flour forms part of the wall material. The wall material includes protein, e.g., pea protein, carbohydrate, and emulsifier(s), and/or polysaccharide fiber, e.g., acacia fiber. The plant flour may be gluten-flour, gluten-free flour and/or low carbohydrate seed, nut or vegetable floor. Composite plant-MCT flour can replace traditional flours to make food products, such as baked, fried or boiled goods but with benefits, such as reduced gluten and/or carbohydrates, increased freshness and volume and improved texture and taste compared to alternative flours and even all-purpose flour.
US12011002B2
A powder-dispensing system includes a first rollable member and a second rollable member. The first rollable member has a first pressure surface, a threaded interior chamber internal to the first pressure surface and an entrance to the threaded interior chamber. The second rollable member has a second pressure surface and an interior chamber internal to the second pressure surface. A threaded exterior surface external to the interior chamber is configured for interlocking/threaded engagement with the threaded interior chamber. A plurality of perforations extend through the threaded exterior surface into the interior chamber of the second rollable member.
US12010997B2
In one aspect, a system for generating and monitoring an antimicrobial is provided, the system including: a microprocessor and/or a microcontroller; an external communications device; a computational system; an antimicrobial sensor and/or an environmental sensor; and an antimicrobial generator, wherein the external communications device, the computational system, the antimicrobial generator, and the antimicrobial sensor and/or the environmental sensor are operatively connected to the microprocessor and/or the microcontroller. The system may further include a separate sensor sub-system comprising: a sensor sub-system microprocessor and/or a sensor sub-system microcontroller; a sensor sub-system external communications device; a sensor sub-system antimicrobial sensor and/or a sensor sub-system environmental sensor; and a sensor sub-system computational system. The system may further include a separate generation sub-system comprising: a generation sub-system microprocessor and/or a generation sub-system microcontroller; a generation sub-system external communications device; and a generation sub-system antimicrobial generator.
US12010992B2
The present specification discloses compositions, articles of manufacture, containers or kits comprising such compositions, and methods and uses to control a causal agent of a plant disease, increasing plant growth and/or food production and/or improving performance of an irrigation system(s).
US12010987B2
The disclosure provides, in various embodiments, systems, devices and methods relating to ex-vivo organ care. In certain embodiments, the disclosure relates to maintaining an organ ex-vivo at near-physiologic conditions. The present application describes, for example, a method for using lactate measurement in the arterial and the venous blood lines of the Organ Care System Heart perfusion device to evaluate, for example, the: 1) overall perfusion status of an isolated heart; 2) metabolic status of an isolated heart; and 3) overall vascular patency of an isolated donor heart. This aspect of the present disclosure may use, for example, the property of myocardial cell's unique ability to produce/generate lactate when they are starved for oxygen and metabolize/utilize lactate for energy production when they are well perfused with oxygen.
US12010972B2
The invention provides seeds and plants of pepper line SBR-8T16-6421. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper line SBR-8T16-6421 and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a pepper plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper line SBR-8T16-6421 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US12010968B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011004. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011004, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011004 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011004.
US12010965B2
Novel lettuce, such as lettuce designated CARRIZO is disclosed. In some embodiments, the disclosure relates to the seeds of lettuce designated CARRIZO, to the plants and plant parts of lettuce designated CARRIZO, and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the lettuce designated CARRIZO with itself or another lettuce plant. The disclosure further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic plants produced by that method and to methods for producing other lettuce plants derived from the lettuce designated CARRIZO.
US12010964B2
The invention provides seeds and plants of cucumber inbred line API-M317-0802GY. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of cucumber inbred line API-M317-0802GY and to methods for producing a cucumber plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a cucumber plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of cucumber inbred line API-M317-0802GY comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US12010959B2
Typically greenhouse crop production uses 85% of the floor area for growing crops. The present invention provides a fourfold increase in the usable growing area by using a conveyor to move plants around a closed loop (11), with a plurality of carriages mounted on the conveyor and at least one tray (7) configured to be received on each of the plurality of carriages, each tray (7) configured for growing at least one plant by means of hydroculture.
US12010958B2
The present invention is directed to a High Flow Venturi Nozzle assembly capable of diffusing gas into a large quantity of fast-moving liquid. The High Flow Venturi Nozzle has female and male caps which form a pocket when the caps are joined together, and which pocket is in fluid communication with an orifice in the male cap.
US12010952B2
Compositions and methods of protecting plants from cold damage are provided. In particular, the invention provides compositions comprising plant-based nano- and/or micron-sized particles which, when applied to plants or plant parts such as buds, form a non-hydrophilic deposit or film with low thermal conductivity, thereby conferring protection against damage from ice nucleation and cold stress.
US12010949B2
A flute for a stalk roll has a sharp edge defined by the relationship of the leading surface and a leading wall. The flute is positioned on a main cylinder of said stalk roll having a leading surface having its base nearer the main cylinder and its top farther from the main cylinder, the leading wall, and a trailing wall. The leading wall extends perpendicular to and outward from said main cylinder. The base of the leading surface intersects the leading wall and travels upwardly to intersect with the trailing surface to form an edge. The angle between the leading wall and leading surface is thirty degrees.
US12010940B2
A control apparatus for a broadcast spreader includes a gate adjustment dial mounted on, and generally coaxial with, a handle portion of a handle assembly of the spreader. Rotation of the gate adjustment dial in a first direction causes an increase in a current maximum discharge rate of the spreader and rotation of the gate adjustment dial in a second direction causes a decrease in the current maximum discharge rate of the spreader.
US12016254B2
A superconducting quantum mechanical device includes first, second, third and fourth Josephson junctions connected in a bridge circuit having first, second and third resonance eigenmodes. The device also includes first and second capacitor pads. The first and second capacitor pads and the bridge circuit form a superconducting qubit having a resonance frequency corresponding to the first resonance eigenmode. The device further includes first and second resonator sections. The first and second resonator sections and the bridge circuit form a resonator having a resonance frequency corresponding to the second resonance eigenmode. The device also includes a source of magnetic flux arranged proximate the bridge circuit. The source of magnetic flux is configured to provide, during operation, a magnetic flux through the bridge circuit to cause coupling between the first, second and third resonance eigenmodes when the third resonance eigenmode is excited.
US12016252B2
Apparatus and methods for real time calibration of qubits in a quantum processor. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a quantum processor comprising a plurality of qubits, each of the qubits having a state; a quantum controller to generate sequences of electromagnetic (EM) pulses to manipulate the states of the plurality of qubits based on a set of control parameters; a qubit measurement unit to measure one or more sensors associated with a corresponding one or more of the qubits of the plurality of qubits to produce one or more corresponding measured values; and a machine-learning engine to evaluate the one or more measured values in accordance with a machine-learning process to generate updated control parameters, wherein the quantum controller is to use the updated control parameters to generate subsequent sequences of EM pulses to manipulate the states of the plurality of qubits.
US12016242B2
A heterocyclic compound containing heteroatom substituted fluorene is provided in the present disclosure. The heterocyclic compound includes a structure: Y1 is selected from O or S; X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, X6, X7, and X8 are independently selected from CRa or N; X9, X10, X11, X12, X13, X14, X15, X16, X17, X18, X19, X20, X21, X22, X23, and X24 are independently selected from CR1 or N; Ra is independently selected from hydrogen, deuterium, tritium, halogen, nitrile, cyano, nitro, hydroxyl, carbonyl, ester, carboxyl, imide, amide, C1-C20 alkoxy, C1-C20 alkyl, C3-C20 cycloalkyl, C2-C20 alkenyl, C3-C20 cycloalkenyl, silyl, boron, phosphine oxide, phosphine, sulfonyl, amine, C6-C30 aryl, C3-C30 heteroaryl, or a ring structure; Y2, and Y3 are independently selected from O, S or NR2; Ar1 and Ar2 are independently selected from aryl or heteroaryl; and R1 and R2 are independently selected from hydrogen, deuterium, C1-C20 alkyl, C6-C30 aryl, or C3-C30 heteroaryl.
US12016235B2
The present disclosure provides a display module, a display panel thinning method, a display panel, and a display device. The display module provided by the present disclosure includes: a display panel, a protective film located on a to-be-protected face of the display panel, a first anti-acid film located on the protective film, a second anti-acid film located on the first anti-acid film, and a sealant.
US12016230B2
A display apparatus includes: a substrate; a first display area on the substrate; main subpixels at the first display area; a second display area on the substrate; and a basic unit at the second display area, the basic unit including auxiliary subpixels and a transmission portion. A pixel layout of the auxiliary subpixels is different from a pixel layout of the main subpixels, and a size of a light-emission area of a first auxiliary subpixel from among the auxiliary subpixels is greater than a size of a light-emission area of a first main subpixel from among the main subpixels, the first main subpixel representing the same color as that of the first auxiliary subpixel.
US12016222B2
A display device including a substrate including a display area, a pad area, and a bending area, the pad area being outside the display area, and the bending area being between the display area and the pad area, a connection line extending in a direction from the display area to the pad area, and arranged in the bending area, a first organic insulating layer and a second organic insulating layer, which are sequentially arranged to cover the connection line, and a dummy pattern between the first organic insulating layer and the second organic insulating layer, wherein the dummy pattern includes a first extension portion and a second extension portion that each extend from the bending area to the pad area.
US12016218B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a unit island, a connecting part, a light emitting unit, and a signal line. The connecting part is connected to each side of the unit island, and each connecting part includes a bending part disposed in at least three bending directions and at least one straight part. The display panel is easier to be deformed and has a better deformation effect. Moreover, the components of the display panel will not interfere with each other, which effectively enhance the expansion performance and reliability of the panel.
US12016208B2
A display device includes a display area, a frame area around the display area, and a contact area between the display area and the frame area. In the display area is there provided a light-emitting element layer including an anode, a functional layer, a cathode, and a pixel bank covering an edge of the anode. The cathode is electrically connected to a metal film in the contact area. An insular TEG pattern is provided in the contact area.
US12016205B2
The application provides a manufacturing method for a display panel, a display panel, and a display device. The manufacturing method includes: providing a substrate; forming a driving circuit layer on the substrate; forming a planarization layer on the side of the driving circuit layer facing away from the substrate; forming a composite material layer on the side of the planarization layer facing away from the substrate with a polymerization-induced phase separation method to the composite material layer including a polymer and liquid crystal phase molecules dispersed in the polymer; removing the liquid crystal phase molecules in the composite material layer to obtain an auxiliary structure layer, the side of the auxiliary structure layer facing away from the substrate having a plurality of protrusion structures; and forming a pixel structure on the side of the auxiliary structure layer facing away from the substrate, wherein the auxiliary structure layer makes the pixel structure uneven, and the pixel structure includes a first electrode, an organic light emitting material, and a second electrode that are sequentially formed on the side of the auxiliary structure layer facing away from the substrate.
US12016197B2
A display apparatus includes a display element; a substrate including: an opening area, a display area adjacent to the opening area, a non-display area between the opening area and the display area, and a boundary line separating the opening area from the non-display area; an encapsulation layer including: a first inorganic encapsulation layer, an organic encapsulation layer and a second inorganic encapsulation layer in the display area, and the first inorganic encapsulation layer and the second inorganic encapsulation layer extending from the display area to the non-display area; and a dam portion in the non-display area and corresponding to the boundary line. The dam portion which corresponds to the boundary line includes a plurality of grooves in which the first inorganic encapsulation layer and the second inorganic encapsulation layer which are in the non-display area, are in contact with each other.
US12016193B2
A window includes a base substrate defining a recess and a functional layer disposed in the recess of the base substrate. The functional layer is disposed in a first recess defined in a top surface of the base substrate.
US12016186B2
A semiconductor memory device includes: first conductive lines provided on a substrate and extending in a first direction in parallel, each of the first conductive lines including a first end portion and a second end portion that are opposite to each other, the first direction being parallel to a top surface of the substrate; first selection transistors respectively connected to the first end portions of the first conductive lines; and second selection transistors respectively connected to the second end portions of the first conductive lines. Each of the first selection transistors may have a first gate width. Each of the second selection transistors may have a second gate width smaller than the first gate width.
US12016176B2
A semiconductor memory device comprises a substrate which includes a cell region, and a peri region defined around the cell region, the cell region including an active region defined by an element separation film, a storage pad connected to the active region of the cell region, a peri gate structure placed on the substrate of the peri region, a peri contact plug placed on both sides of the peri gate structure and connected to the substrate, a first interlayer insulating film which is placed on the storage pad and the pen contact plug, and includes a nitride-based insulating material, and an information storage unit connected to the storage pad, wherein a thickness of the first interlayer insulating film on an upper surface of the storage pad is smaller than a thickness of the first interlayer insulating film on an upper surface of the peri contact plug.
US12016174B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a plurality of bit lines, a plurality of contacts, a plurality of storage node pads, a capacitor structure and a plurality of first interface layers. The bit lines and the contacts are disposed on the substrate, and the contacts are alternately and separately disposed with the bit lines. The storage node pads are disposed on the contacts and the bit lines, and are respectively aligned with the contacts. The capacitor structure is disposed on the storage node pads. The first interface layers are disposed between the storage node pads and the capacitor structure, and the first interface layers include a metal nitride material. The first interface layers may improve the granular size of the storage node pads, and reduce the surface roughness thereof, and further improve the electrical connection between the storage nodes and transistor components below.
US12016170B2
Embodiments of the disclosure are in the field of advanced integrated circuit structure fabrication and, in particular, 10 nanometer node and smaller integrated circuit structure fabrication and the resulting structures. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a fin. A first isolation structure separates a first end of a first portion of the fin from a first end of a second portion of the fin, the first end of the first portion of the fin having a depth. A gate structure is over the top of and laterally adjacent to the sidewalls of a region of the first portion of the fin. A second isolation structure is over a second end of a first portion of the fin, the second end of the first portion of the fin having a depth different than the depth of the first end of the first portion of the fin.
US12016169B2
A memory device includes a memory array having a plurality of memory cells. Each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells includes a substrate having a front side and a back side with a transistor of the memory cell being formed on the front side and the back side being opposite of the front side, a first interconnect layer on the front side to provide a bit line of the memory cell, a second interconnect layer on the front side to provide a word line of the memory cell, a third interconnect layer on the back side to provide a supply voltage to the memory cell and a fourth interconnect layer on the back side to provide a ground voltage to the memory cell, widths of the bit line and the word line being chosen to reduce current-resistance drop.
US12016157B2
Actively cooled heat-dissipation lid for removing excess heat from heat-generating devices attached to printed circuit boards, processor assemblies and other electronic devices, the actively cooled heat-dissipation lid comprising a first plate configured to be placed in thermal communication with a heat-generating device, a raised sidewall to facilitate fastening the actively cooled heat-dissipation lid to the printed circuit board or processor assembly, and thereby defining a device chamber for the heat-generating devices on the printed circuit board to reside. A second raised sidewall extends from the opposite surface of the first plate to join with a second plate in a spaced relation to the first plate, wherein the opposite surface of the first plate, the second raised sidewall and the second plate together define a fluid chamber that is adjacent to the device chamber, the fluid chamber being configured to prevent any cooling fluid flowing therethrough to enter the adjacent device chamber. An inlet conduit in fluid communication with the fluid chamber is configured to admit coolant fluid from a pressurized source to pass into the fluid chamber to absorb heat from the second surface of the first plate in thermal communication with the heat-generating device. An outlet conduit in fluid communication with the fluid chamber is configured to let warmed coolant fluid flow out of the fluid chamber and into a closed loop fluid-cooling system, where the coolant fluid is then re-cooled before being pumped back into the fluid chamber via the inlet conduit.
US12016156B2
A heat frame and a processing device are provided. The heat frame includes a plurality of fins and at least one heat pipe extending through a hole provided in each of the plurality of fins. The heat frame is coupled to a cooling chassis. The processing device includes a processing module, a first heat frame, and a second heat frame.
US12016150B2
A foldable conductive guide rail includes: an outer guide rail being electrically connected to a power supply of the box body by an outer guide rail pad and having an outer slideway, the outer slideway having a hollow rail and being provided with tenons at two ends; an inner guide rail being electrically connected to a mounting device by an inner guide rail pad and having an inner slideway opposite to the outer slideway, the inner slideway having a hollow rail and being provided with tenons at two ends; and a plurality of rivets, including outer rivets and inner rivets, the plurality of rivets electrically connecting the outer guide rail and the inner guide rail and enabling the outer rail and the inner rail to move relative to each other under the action of an external force.
US12016144B2
A display screen and a display device are provided. The display has a bending area. The display screen has a display layer and a cover plate layer. The cover plate layer is located on the display layer. The cover plate layer has a composite portion located in the bending area. A plurality of holes are formed in the composite portion. The holes are filled with a material, and an elastic modulus of the material is smaller than an elastic modulus of the composite portion.
US12016142B2
The present disclosure discloses a flexible display device. The flexible display device includes a housing, a telescopic assembly, a flexible screen, and a transmission assembly. Both ends of the flexible screen are connected to the telescopic assembly. The transmission assembly is disposed on the telescopic assembly and movably connected to the housing. The transmission assembly is configured to drive, during the movement relative to the housing, the telescopic assembly to stretch or contract. In this way, the flexible screen is pulled out or rolled for storage.
US12016135B2
The present disclosure provides a display device that include: a display panel that includes a display area and a peripheral area that is provided at the periphery of an edge of the display area; a window that is provided on one side of the display panel to protect the display panel; and an adhesive film that is provided between the display panel and the window to bond the display panel and the window to each other, wherein the adhesive film in an area that corresponds to the peripheral area and the adhesive film in an area that corresponds to the display area have different properties.
US12016129B2
The disclosure is directed to a printed circuit board for mechanical support and electrical connection of electrical or electronic components. The printed circuit board has conductive tracks and contact pads carved away or etched from at least one sheet layer of copper laminated onto a non-conductive substrate and has a label attached to the printed circuit board at an intended position before the assembly process. Soldering defects often occur due to the deposition of excessive amounts of solder paste on the contact pads of components adjacent to the label. To prevent soldering defects caused by incorrect solder paste application quantities by simple and inexpensive means, the printed circuit board provides the intended position of the label as a depression with respect to the surroundings thereof.
US12016123B2
Computer modules that can have a high-capacity, can simplify the design of a computer system housing the modules, can utilize system resources in a highly configurable manner, can provide a variety of functionality, and can be readily inserted into, and removed from, a computer system.
US12016119B2
A method for manufacturing such multilayer printed circuit board includes providing a metal laminated structure including a first type metal layer and a second type metal layer, pressing a patterned dry film layer and a protective film layer on two surfaces of the metal laminated structure, the dry film layer exposing the second type metal layer; etching the second type metal layer to form a first conductive circuit layer; etching a first type metal layer to form a second conductive circuit layer, the first conductive circuit layer and the second conductive circuit layer defining an inner circuit laminated structure; removing the dry film layer; and forming a first adding-layer circuit base board and a second adding-layer circuit base board on two surfaces of the inner laminated structure.
US12016117B2
An extensible and contractible mounting board that includes an extensible and contractible substrate; an extensible and contractible wiring line on one main surface of the extensible and contractible substrate; an electronic component electrically connected to the extensible and contractible wiring line; and a resin portion in contact with the extensible and contractible wiring line and overlapping an end portion of a connection region between the extensible and contractible wiring line and the electronic component in a plan view of the extensible and contractible mounting board, the resin portion having a cutout portion that overlaps the extensible and contractible wiring line. A Young's modulus of the resin portion is higher than a Young's modulus of the extensible and contractible substrate.
US12016116B2
A display device including: a display panel; a first substrate attached to a side of the display panel; and a second substrate attached to a side of the first substrate, wherein the display panel includes a first panel test pad and a second panel test pad, the first substrate includes a 1-1 circuit test lead overlapping and connected to the first panel test pad, a 1-2 circuit test lead overlapping and connected to the second panel test pad, a 2-1 circuit test lead overlapping and connected to the second substrate, a 1-1 test lead line connected to the 1-1 circuit test lead, a 1-2 test lead line connected to the 1-2 circuit test lead, and a first test lead line connected to the 2-1 circuit test lead, and the 1-1 test lead line and the 1-2 test lead line are connected to the first test lead line.
US12016108B2
Processes and systems that enhance the heating of packaged foodstuffs and other items in various microwave heating systems are described herein. It has been unexpectedly found that configuring the microwave heating zone of a microwave-assisted pasteurization or sterilization system so that the article carrier, the microwave launchers, and/or the packages have certain relative dimensions may significantly enhance the uniformity of heating of the articles. The result is pasteurized or sterilized articles that exhibit fewer hot and cold spots, a consistent microbial lethality rate, and desirable end properties, such as visual appearance, taste, and texture.
US12016100B1
In one aspect, an example method includes (i) causing a content-presentation device to output for presentation reference visual content; (ii) causing a lighting device to emit light in accordance with a lighting parameter, wherein initially the light emitted in accordance with the lighting parameter does not correspond to the reference visual content; (iii) receiving first input indicating an adjustment to the lighting parameter; (iv) responsive to receiving the first input, causing the lighting device to adjust the lighting parameter, thereby causing the lighting device to adjust the emitted light; (v) receiving second input indicating that the adjusted emitted light corresponds to the reference visual content; and (vi) responsive to receiving the second input, calibrating the lighting device at least by (i) causing storage of the adjusted lighting parameter and (ii) causing the lighting device to be configured to emit light in accordance with the stored lighting parameter.
US12016098B1
A system and method are provided for detecting the presence of animate users, such as people, within a monitored environment, based on audio events. A transducer captures sound signals generated within the monitored environment, which a capture channel converts to form a digital stream. A feature extractor detects predetermined signal features of the digital stream over predetermined extraction periods, and an event classifier uses values of these features to generate a series of detection events reflective of likely sources of sounds in the captured sound signals. Then, an event buffer maintains an aggregate count of detection events generated by the event classifier, and a status generator generates the user presence indicator according to the aggregate count of detection events. A response system triggers one of more functions responsive to one or user presence indicators, thereby responding to the presence or absence of the animate users.
US12016096B2
A load control device for controlling the amount of power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load is operable to conduct enough current through a thyristor of a connected dimmer switch to exceed rated latching and holding currents of the thyristor. The load control device comprises a controllable-load circuit operable to conduct a controllable-load current through the thyristor of the dimmer switch. The load control device disables the controllable-load circuit when the phase-control voltage received from the dimmer switch is a reverse phase-control waveform. When the phase-control voltage received from the dimmer switch is a forward phase-control waveform, the load control device is operable to decrease the magnitude of the controllable-load current so as to conduct only enough current as is required in order to exceed rated latching and holding currents of the thyristor.
US12016090B2
An electronic vaping device includes a housing, a planar heater, a heater support, a tank, and a wick. The housing extends in a longitudinal direction and has a tip end and a mouth-end. The tip end is closed and the mouth-end has an opening therein. The heater support supports the planar heater. The tank contains a pre-vapor formulation and is configured to slide into and out of the opening of the mouth-end of the housing. The wick extends from the tank and is configured to be in contact with the planar heater when the tank is inserted in the housing.
US12016071B2
Presented are intelligent vehicle communications systems for cellular link monitoring and failure detection, methods for making/using such systems, and vehicles equipped with such systems. A method for operating a wireless-enabled vehicle component of a motor vehicle includes a cellular communications device of the vehicle component detecting an uplink (or downlink) network data packet transmitted by (or to) the vehicle. An electronic vehicle controller then establishes an observation period as a function of the time at which the network data packet was transmitted. The opposite downlink (or uplink) of the wireless-enabled vehicle component is monitored to determine if a downlink (or uplink) network data packet is received within the observation period, thereby indicating detection of a cellular link failure. Responsive to a detected cellular link failure, the vehicle controller conducts a supplemental assessment of the opposite link and/or a corrective action to re-establish a data link for the opposite link.
US12016063B2
A communication method and apparatus. According to the communication method, a session management function (SMF) receives a first message sent by a first terminal apparatus. The first message is used to request the SMF to establish a first session for the first terminal apparatus. The first message is further used to indicate that the first session is used for communication between the first terminal apparatus and a second terminal apparatus. The first terminal apparatus and the second terminal apparatus belong to a same unmanned aerial vehicle communication system. Then, the SMF sends address information of the first terminal apparatus to a first management network element based on the first message. This provides a possibility of exchanging address information of terminal apparatuses in an unmanned aerial vehicle communication system.
US12016049B2
According to the present invention, a method performed by user equipment (UE) is provided, comprising: receiving dynamic uplink grant for a medium access control (MAC) entity; determining, for the received dynamic uplink grant, whether a first configuration condition is satisfied; and if the first configuration condition is satisfied, delivering the uplink dynamic grant to a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) entity.
US12016045B2
A method of providing multi-link operation channel access in a multi-link network includes initiating a first backoff countdown and a second backoff countdown associated with a first link and a second link of the multi-link network, respectively, and in response to the first backoff countdown reaching zero, determining whether the second backoff countdown is less than or equal to an aggregation threshold, and in response to determining that the second backoff countdown is less than or equal to the aggregation threshold, transmitting a first frame and a second frame on the first and second links.
US12016039B2
The present disclosure provides a method of transmitting and/or receiving a transport block. The method includes: receiving and/or transmitting a transport block according to information for scheduling multiple transport blocks. The present disclosure also provides a method for downlink transmission, a method of receiving an NRS on a non-anchor carrier, and corresponding UE, base station, and computer readable medium.
US12016038B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described that provide for service indication via downlink control information (DCI) in which different services have a same DCI size. Techniques provide also that a DCI format may be indicated by a masking operation on a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) of the DCI. The DCI may include an indicator field that may indicate the service of the associated operation. The indication may also be provided via different monitoring occasions of the DCI transmissions that are associated with different services. Different DCI search spaces also may be associated with different services and provide the service indication. Additionally or alternatively, different scrambling sequences used on all or a portion of control information or demodulation reference signal transmissions may be associated with different services.
US12016034B2
The present disclosure discloses a method of operating a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system and an apparatus supporting same. According to an embodiment applicable to the present disclosure, a terminal may establish a connection with a base station on the basis of a synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block received from the base station. Then, the terminal is set to a transmission mode in which data generated from identical information is transmitted by the base station through a plurality of physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs), and on the basis of the aforementioned, the terminal may obtain resource information through which the data is transmitted through the plurality of PDSCHs, and obtain related data information.
US12016029B2
Embodiments of the present application provide a method, an apparatus and a terminal for determining the number of times of blind detections, which includes: blind-detecting, by a terminal, a downlink control channel in a first search space of a first cell, where the downlink control channel is configured to schedule a second cell, and the number of times of blind detections of the downlink control channel are determined based on configuration information of a second search space of the second cell and/or configuration information of the first search space of the first cell.
US12016022B2
Disclosed are a feedback timing determination method, a terminal device, and a network device. Said method includes: receiving first instruction information for instructing the terminal to transmit UCI in a third time unit within a first time unit; the third time unit being subsequent to the first time unit; receiving second instruction information for instructing the terminal to transmit UCI in a fourth time unit within a second time unit; the fourth time unit being subsequent to the second time unit subsequent to the first time unit or the same as the first time unit, the fourth time unit being different from the third time unit; and based on at least one of the first time unit, the second time unit, the first instruction information, and the second instruction information, determining to transmit UCI in the fourth time unit and not to transmit the UCI in the third time unit.
US12016012B2
The method for transmitting, by a user equipment, a sidelink signal in a wireless communication system is a sidelink signal transmission method comprising: transmitting sidelink control information (SCI); mapping, to a plurality of sub-carriers, at least one complex-valued modulation symbol, which is related to a sidelink data signal, and a preset value; generating the sidelink data signal by modulating the at least one complex-valued modulation symbol and the preset value by orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM); and transmitting the sidelink data signal on the basis of the SCI, wherein the SCI comprises information regarding a sub-carrier set including at least one sub-carrier, to which the preset value is mapped, from among the plurality of sub-carriers, and at least one of the location and number in a frequency domain of the at least one sub-carrier, to which the preset value is mapped, is different for each sub-carrier set.
US12016011B2
In an example embodiment, a method of reducing SR max retransmissions in a communication network is disclosed. The method includes: accessing an SR max retransmission UE pool stored in a storage of the base station, the SR max retransmission UE pool being a list of plurality of UEs which experienced SR max retransmission. The method further includes identifying at least one UE in the SR max retransmission pool that would enter an SR max retransmission state, based on a last PUSCH uplink time period and a SR max retransmission time period associated with the at least one UE. Further, the method includes allocating a dummy UL grant to the identified at least one UE.
US12016010B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. In some wireless communications systems, a first device may receive a feedback message from a second device that indicates a set of one or more sensing results associated with a sensing procedure performed by the second device. The first device may transmit, to the second device, a control message indicating resource information for a message for the second device. The control message may include an indication of a transmission configuration indication (TCI) state indicating a quasi-colocation (QCL) relationship between a reference signal associated with the message and a sensing result of the set of one or more sensing results indicated by the feedback message. The first device may transmit the message using a transmit beam and the second device may receive the message using a receive beam based on the TCI state and the QCL relationship.
US12016003B2
Proposed are a method and device for receiving a feedback frame for MIMO beamforming in a wide band in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a reception STA receives an NDPA frame from a transmission STA. The reception STA receives an NDP frame from the transmission STA. The reception STA transmits a feedback frame to the transmission STA on the basis of the NDP frame. The feedback frame includes information about a feedback subcarrier for the wide band. When the wide band is a continuous 320 MHz band and the grouping value is Ng, the indexes of the feedback subcarrier are set to [−2036:Ng:−1540], [−1532:Ng:−1036], [−1012:Ng:−516], [−508:Ng:−12], [12:Ng:508], [516:Ng:1012], [1036:Ng:1532] and [1540:Ng:2036].
US12016000B2
A method, system and apparatus are disclosed. A network node configured to communicate with a wireless device (WD) is provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to cause the network node to: indicate a splitting of an initial physical shared channel allocation that crosses a slot boundary into at least a first physical shared channel allocation in a first slot and a second physical shared channel allocation in a second slot; and communicate with the wireless device, WD, according to the at least the first physical shared channel allocation and the second physical shared channel allocation.
US12015997B2
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for performing SL communication by a first device is provided. The method comprises the steps of: receiving information related to multiple resources from a second device; receiving, from the second device, a PSSCH and a PSCCH on a first resource among the multiple resources; on the basis of successful decoding of a transport block received through the PSSCH, determining, as a candidate resource for SL transmission by the first device, resources subsequent to the first resource among the multiple resources; and performing SL communication on the basis of the candidate resource for SL transmission by the first device.
US12015996B2
A method and apparatus for sidelink resource handling for central unit (CU)-distributed unit (DU) split based vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication is provided. A gNB central unit (gNB-CU) in a wireless communication system receives, from a wireless device, information related to a radio access technology (RAT) for which a sidelink resource is requested. The gNB-CU transmits, to a gNB distributed unit (gNB-DU), the information related to the RAT for sidelink resource allocation.
US12015994B2
A user equipment (UE) operates in a network. The UE receives, from the network, a paging area comprising a plurality of cells of the network. When the UE is in one of a radio resource control (RRC) inactive state or RRC idle state with respect to the network, the UE transmits a message to a first cell of the paging area based on the UE moving into a first coverage area of the first cell from a second coverage area of a second cell of the paging area. The UE then monitors the first cell for a page from the network.
US12015986B2
Systems, devices, and techniques for transmit power control (TPC) in wireless communication systems are described. A described technique performed by a user equipment (UE) includes signaling that enables transmit power control (TPC) accumulation; receiving, by the UE, downlink control information (DCI) messages corresponding to respective physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmission occasions; determining, by the UE, power control adjustment states for the PUSCH transmission occasions; and transmitting, by the UE, in the PUSCH transmission occasions in accordance with the power control adjustment states. Determining the power control adjustment states can include selectively applying TPC accumulation to one or more of the power control adjustment states based on a determination that at least one of the PUSCH transmission occasions is out-of-order based on an arrival ordering of the DCI messages.
US12015982B2
A terminal receives a power saving signal sent by a network device, where the power saving signal indicates N time units, and where N is greater than 0. The terminal determines a state of the terminal in a first time period corresponding to the N time units on a first frequency domain resource and a state in a second time period corresponding to the N time units on a second frequency domain resource. The state of the terminal includes a sleep state or a wake-up state. The sleep state indicates that the terminal monitors no first signal, and the wake-up state indicates that the terminal monitors a first signal based on a configuration parameter.
US12015961B2
A mobile device for enhanced mobile device wireless network connectivity is provided that includes a user interface, a hardware processor, and a non-transitory memory configured to store one or more programs. The hardware processor executes the one or more programs to store a map of wireless networks, calculate a route of travel for the mobile device, and determine a list of wireless networks connectable to the mobile device. A schedule is created for connecting the mobile device to the wireless networks on the list and connecting the mobile device to a first one of the wireless networks on the schedule along the route. The mobile device switches sequentially from the first one of the wireless networks to a next one of the wireless networks in the schedule so the mobile device is connected to at least one of the wireless networks on the schedule while moving along the route.
US12015960B1
Systems and methods for directing a user equipment (UE) to optimal antenna arrays during fallback procedures or handover procedures. The method can include the steps of determining that the UE is connecting to a first network and automatically assigning the UE to a first antenna array having a first multiple input multiple output (MIMO) configuration when the UE is in a data session. Furthermore, the method can include the step of automatically assigning the UE to a second antenna array having a second MIMO configuration when the UE is in a non-data session, such as a voice session. The first MIMO configuration can have a higher number of channels or antennas than the second MIMO configuration.
US12015956B2
According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a method for handover in a radio access network is provided, wherein the method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), a handover pre-configuration message from a source node serving the UE in the radio access network, the handover pre-configuration message including handover information of a target node in the radio access network, receiving, by the UE, an activation command from the source node after receiving the handover pre-configuration message, and transmitting, by the UE, an access request message to the target node in accordance with the handover information in response to receiving the activation command.
US12015955B2
A device, system, and method for switching between a narrowband network and a broadband network is provided. A radio device determines conditions of a broadband network and receives, from a narrowband network site, access criteria indicating that a subset of a plurality of radio devices can register with the narrowband network site to communicate on a narrowband network. In response to the conditions meeting one or more given conditions and receiving the access criteria, when the radio device is communicating on the broadband network, the radio device may continue communicating on the broadband network; or when the radio device is communicating on the narrowband network, or attempting to register with the narrowband network site, the radio device switches, from communicating on the narrowband network, or attempting to register with the narrowband network site, to communicating on the broadband network.
US12015949B2
Embodiments of this application provide a QoS flow processing method and device, and a communications system. A first access network device sends a message used for a service transfer request to a second access network device, and the message used for the service transfer request includes configuration information of a QoS flow in the first access network device, so that the second access network device can configure a mapping relationship from the QoS flow to a DRB of the second access network device for UE based on the configuration information, and accept the QoS flow of the UE. Therefore, in a service transfer process, a reliable QoS service can be provided for a user, and continuity of a user service can be ensured.
US12015944B2
This disclosure provides an information reporting method and a terminal. The method includes: reporting assistance information for radio resource management RRM measurement to a network-side device, where the assistance information is used by the network-side device to determine an RRM measurement parameter for the terminal.
US12015939B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for mesh network connection quality testing. In some implementations, a method for mesh network connection quality testing includes transmitting, by a control unit of a monitoring system that is configured to monitor a property, test data to a first connected component of the monitoring system; in response to transmitting the test data, receiving, by the control unit, response data from the first connected component of the monitoring system; based on the response data, determining, by the control unit, a link quality indicator that reflects a strength of a connection between the control unit and the first connected component; and based on the link quality indicator, adjusting, by the control unit, one or more settings of the connection between the control unit and the first connected component.
US12015935B2
Through further capability exposure of a network slice management system, an application server is enabled to request, from the network slice management system, a network slice template service or a network slice capability service in addition to the network slice service, thus making full use of the slice management capabilities and resources in the slice management system, which in turn enhances the efficiency in using slice management capabilities and resources.
US12015934B2
The technologies described herein are generally directed to using dynamically layered beamformed control signals in a fifth generation (5G) network or other next generation networks. For example, a method described herein can include, identifying a group of different directions radiating from beamforming antenna equipment of base station equipment. The method can further include facilitating transmitting a first beamformed signal according to a first direction of the group of different directions. Further, the method can include facilitating transmitting a second beamformed signal according to a second direction of the group of different directions, with the second direction being selected based on a sequence of directions, and where transmitting beamformed signals to the group of different directions is based on the sequence of directions can facilitate establishment of wireless coverage for a corresponding geographic area.
US12015932B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, transmitting a first identifier associated with a processing system to a communication device, transmitting first data to the communication device, obtaining, from the communication device and based on the transmitting of the first identifier and the first data, a first directive, wherein the first directive directs the processing system to utilize a first radio access technology for a first communication session, and utilizing, based on the first directive, the first radio access technology for the first communication session. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12015930B2
Systems and methods are described for concurrent usage and scanning of wireless channels, particularly with respect to dynamic frequency selection (DFS) and non-DFS channels.
US12015924B2
A proxy-based method for improving digital security during a user's travel is provided. The method may include determining a bundle of merchant category classification (MCC) codes. This bundle preferably reflects a baseline travel condition. The baseline travel condition is associated with a user mobile device. The method may also include dynamically updating a characteristic associated with the bundle of MCC codes based on updated travel conditions. The method may also include determining an occurrence of an anomalous user mobile device activity. The determination may be based on a comparison of the updated characteristic associated with the bundle of MCC codes and the baseline travel conditions; and in response to a determination of anomalous user mobile device activity, increasing a security level associated with the mobile device associated with the user.
US12015919B2
A communication apparatus includes first communication means having a first communication function for wirelessly communicating with a partner apparatus, and second communication means having an electric power supply function for wirelessly supplying electric power to the partner apparatus and a second communication function for wirelessly communicating with the partner apparatus. The second communication function is for transmitting specific data sequence to the partner apparatus in response to reception of specific data from the partner apparatus, and the electric power supply function is for supplying electric power to the partner apparatus in a case of receiving from the partner apparatus, with the first communication means, a signal indicating that the partner apparatus has received the data sequence.
US12015916B2
Techniques are provided for utilizing a hybrid of ultra-wideband (UWB) and narrowband (NB) signaling to provide more efficient operating range and operating efficiency. In one example, a first device may transmit a first packet via an NB signal to a second device, whereby the first packet comprises information indicating to the second device a time period for reception of a second (UWB) packet. In this example, the second packet may comprise a first partition and a second partition, whereby the first partition comprises a first plurality of fragments and the second partition comprising a second plurality of fragments. The respective fragments of each plurality of fragments may be transmitted via a UWB signal. The first device may then transmit the first plurality of fragments, and then subsequently transmit the second plurality of fragments to the second device, the first and second pluralities respectively being associated with different fragment types.
US12015912B2
Disclosed here is a system and method to determine which wireless telecommunication network functionalities are impaired when using end-to-end encryption and to ameliorate the impairment of the functionality. The system receives a request from a sender device to communicate with a receiver device, where the request indicates whether the sender device is capable of an end-to-end encryption. The system determines whether the receiver device is capable of the end-to-end encryption, and whether the receiver device is associated with a functionality provided by a wireless telecommunication network that is impaired when the end-to-end encryption is used. Upon determining that the receiver device is not capable of the end-to-end encryption or that the receiver device is associated with the functionality that is impaired, the system performs an action to ameliorate the impairment to the functionality.
US12015911B2
A method for providing privacy protection in preparation for a phone call between a vehicle occupant of a vehicle and a remote conversation partner is provided. The method includes detecting, by an occupant detection system of the vehicle, additional listeners inside the vehicle. The method further includes receiving a call request with a telecommunication system in the vehicle for a phone call between the vehicle occupant and the remote conversation partner, the phone call being an outgoing call or an incoming call. The method further includes sending a notification to the remote conversation partner with the telecommunication system prior to establishment of the requested phone call informing the remote conversation partner about the presence of detected additional listeners.
US12015910B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a gateway system and a communication method. The gateway system includes: a control plane entity, connected or integrated with a mobility management network element, and configured to allocate an IP address to UE and configure a data path for connecting a user plane entity with an RAN, a PDN or another gateway; one or more user plane entities, located between the PDN and the RAN, independent of the control plane entity, configured to forward data on the data path configured by the control plane entity. The gateway system is composed of the control plane entity and the user plane entity which are independent of each other, the number of the user plane entities may be independently changed to adapt to the change of network traffic without replacing all gateway entities, the network deployment is more convenient and the cost is lower.
US12015896B2
The invention discloses a piezoelectric speaker, including a substrate with a cavity therethrough a supporting structure covering the cavity a first drive structure stacked on the supporting structure, including alternately stacked first electrode layers and first piezoelectric layers a transmission structure stacked on the first drive structure, and a separation slot penetrating the supporting structure and the first drive structure to separate the first drive structure into a first piezoelectric driving part and a second piezoelectric driving part. A rigidity of the transmission structure is less than or equal to a rigidity of the first drive structure, and the rigidity of the first drive structure is less than or equal to a rigidity of the supporting structure. Compared with the prior art, the sound pressure level generated at the same moment is higher.
US12015886B2
Various embodiments of the disclosed PON system enable approximate leveling of the optical-modulation amplitudes in a sequence of optical bursts received by a system's OLT from a plurality of ONUs. Some embodiments additionally enable approximate leveling of the average optical power, received at the OLT from different ONUs, in such a sequence. Some embodiments may rely on control messaging between the OLT and ONUs to perform one or both types of leveling. The disclosed leveling may advantageously provide an effective tool for optimizing upstream transmission for high-speed TDM-PONs.
US12015882B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining sensor data that includes an image of a projection environment, determining physical objects portrayed within the image, and characterizing physical properties of the physical objects according to the sensor data to obtain a characterization. A first target object of the physical objects having a first projection surface is identified according to the characterization, and a source image is modified according to the first projection surface. The modified image is provided to a projector adapted to project the modified image onto the first projection surface. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12015877B2
A method is provided for the automatic configuration of a plurality of cameras that each have an image sensor, an illumination, and a communication interface and that are installed such that they together record objects in a detection zone by partially overlapping, mutually complementary fields of view, wherein the cameras are connected via their communication interfaces to form a network. In this process, the cameras produce sample recordings while only specific cameras activate their illumination, a check is made for the respective cameras with reference to the sample recordings whether there is a proximity relationship to a camera having active illumination, and the relative arrangement of the cameras with respect to one another is determined from the proximity relationships.
US12015874B2
A system or method of prioritizing participants in a virtual meeting via a network by scoring each participant on several criteria and weighting the criteria to determine a readiness score. The system of accesses, for each of a plurality of participants, network data, video data, audio data, processing data, and participation data. The system determines, for each of the plurality of participants, a signal strength score based on the corresponding network data, a background score based on the corresponding video data and audio data, a microphone proximity score based on the corresponding video data, a processing score for each of the plurality of participants based on the corresponding processing data, and an engagement score based on the corresponding video data and participation data. The system calculates the readiness score, for each participant, based at least on the corresponding signal strength score, background score, engagement score, and processing score, ranks the participants, and provides the ranked participants.
US12015872B2
The present technology ensures that electrooptical conversion processing for transmission video data obtained using an HDR optoelectrical conversion characteristic is favorably carried out at a receiving side. The transmission video data is obtained by performing high dynamic range optoelectrical conversion on high dynamic range video data. A video stream is obtained by applying encoding processing to this transmission video data. A container in a predetermined format including this video stream is transmitted. Meta information indicating an electrooptical conversion characteristic corresponding to a high dynamic range optoelectrical conversion characteristic is inserted into a parameter set field in the video stream.
US12015864B2
The present disclosure relates to a comparator, an AD converter, a solid-state imaging device, an electronic apparatus, and a comparator control method that can reduce power consumption while increasing the determination speed of the comparator. The comparator includes a comparison unit, a positive feedback circuit, and a current limiting unit. The comparison unit compares the voltage of an input signal and the voltage of a reference signal, and outputs a comparison result signal. The positive feedback circuit increases the transition speed at the time when the comparison result signal is inverted. The current limiting unit limits the current flowing in the comparison unit after the inversion of the comparison result signal. The present disclosure can be applied to comparators, for example.
US12015863B2
Imaging circuits, devices and methods are disclosed. In one example, an imaging circuit includes circuit blocks each including a photoelectric conversion element configured to photoelectrically convert incident light to generate a photocurrent and a current-voltage conversion circuit configured to convert the photocurrent into a voltage signal, a quantizer configured to generate a detection signal of an address event in accordance with a result of comparing the voltage signal supplied from at least one of the plurality of circuit blocks with a threshold, a demultiplexer connected to a subsequent stage of the quantizer, and latch circuits connected to different output terminals of the demultiplexer.
US12015849B2
A camera system includes a module frame, a camera lens, an image sensor, and an SMA motor that are stacked within the module frame. The camera lens is fixedly connected to the module frame, and the SMA motor is located on an out-light side of the camera lens. The image sensor is located between the camera lens and the SMA motor and is fastened to the SMA motor. The SMA motor is configured to actuate the image sensor to shift in a direction parallel to an optical axis of the camera lens. The SMA motor is further configured to actuate the image sensor to shift on a plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the camera lens.
US12015847B2
An image processing apparatus that can easily change the categories of the main object, comprises, an object detection unit for detecting an object categorized as one of at least two categories from an image, a setting unit for setting a first category as a priority category on an object having a predetermined priority among one of the objects detected by the object detection unit; and a region designation unit for designating a predetermined region on an object on a display screen, wherein the setting unit can change the priority category from the first category to a second category different from the first category when the predetermined region of the object designated by the region designation unit is the second category.
US12015843B1
A reception unit 26a receives a still image of a spherical object captured by a camera 52 and information on the angle of view or the focal length of the camera 52 having captured the object, transmitted from a terminal (e.g., mobile communication terminal 50) including the camera 52. A calculation unit 28a calculates coordinates of four corners of a rectangle 210 enclosing the object from the still image of the object received by the reception unit 26a, and calculates direction vectors extending toward the object from the focal point of the lens of the camera 52, from the calculated coordinates of the four corners of the rectangle 210 enclosing the object and the angle of view or the focal length of the camera 52. An estimation unit 30a estimates three-dimensional coordinates of the center of the object, based on the direction vectors calculated by the calculation unit 28a.
US12015842B2
Eyewear having an image signal processor (ISP) dynamically operable in a camera pipeline for augmented reality (AR) and computer vision (CV) systems. Multi-purpose cameras are used for simultaneous image capture and CV on wearable AR devices. The cameras are coupled to a frame and configured to generate images, wherein the cameras and the ISP are configured to operate in a first AR mode and capture images having a first resolution suitable for use in AR, and are configured to operate in a second CV mode to provide the images having a second resolution suitable for use in CV. The first resolution in the AR mode is higher than the second resolution in the CV mode, and the cameras and the ISP consume less power in the second CV mode than the first AR mode. The cameras and the ISP save significant system power by operating in the low power mode CV mode.
US12015835B2
Systems and techniques are provided for processing images. For example, a process can include obtaining a first color image including first one or more pixels from a first image sensor and obtaining a second color image including second one or more pixels from a second sensor, the second color image including infrared (IR) information from a second image sensor. The process can include determining a transformation between colors associated with the first one or more pixels and colors associated with the second one or more pixels based on a comparison associated with the first one or more pixels and the second one or more pixels. The process can include generating a color corrected image at least in part by transforming the second color image including IR information to a color corrected image based on the determined transformation.
US12015824B2
An apparatus for passive coherent location includes a forecaster, an evaluator, a receiver, and a correlator. The forecaster generates a prediction of a radio-frequency signal transmitted from an antenna of a broadcasting service. The evaluator generates an effectiveness metric from the prediction of the radio-frequency signal. The receiver receives the radio-frequency signal that an object reflects from the antenna to the receiver. The correlator determines, from the radio-frequency signal reflected from the object as received at the receiver, an ambiguity function having a maximum at a temporal offset and a Doppler shift. The temporal offset and the Doppler shift at the maximum partially determine at least a position of the object. The apparatus optionally includes a selector for tuning the receiver to the radio-frequency signal in response to the effectiveness metric.
US12015823B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for indicating whether a scene in a media asset corresponds to a scene for which a scene change was previously requested. A media player client monitors scene sequences in a media asset to anticipate whether the user will initiate a scene change request based on historical scene change data. In response to detecting a scene sequence for which the user is expected to request a scene change, the media player client determines whether a scene change is necessary and outputs an indication of whether a scene change is recommended.
US12015822B2
A video signal processing device includes an SoC that receives input of a plurality of video signals, each including a plurality of packets, and multiplexing the video signals to output a multiplexed video signal, and an FPGA that receives input of a multiplexed video signal and demultiplexes the multiplexed video signal to output the plurality of video signals. When deficient data whose size is less than the size of one packet is detected in any of a plurality of video signals, the FPGA performs one of (i) processing for discarding the detected deficient data and (ii) processing for adding dummy data to the detected deficient data to make the size of the deficient data equal to the size of an integral multiple of one packet.
US12015801B2
This disclosure is directed to systems and methods of streaming extensions for video encoding. The streaming extensions may enable the bitstream syntax for layered video data to be modified to reduce overhead for encoding. The bitstream syntax may be modified to enable variable length luma and chroma components, and enable the alignment between the layers and slice to be bit aligned to enable increased granularity in image encoding, and to minimize overhead between different elements within the layers.
US12015797B2
The present disclosure provides methods and devices of construct a candidate merge list for Intra block copy (IBC) mode, the method comprising: inserting a block vector of a left neighboring block of a current block into an initial merge list, when the left neighboring block is available and the left neighboring block is using IBC mode; inserting a block vector of an above neighboring block of the current block into the initial merge list, when the above neighboring block is available, the above neighboring block is using IBC mode and the block vector of the above neighboring block is not same as the block vector of the left neighboring block; inserting a block vector of the last candidate in a history based motion vector predictor (HMVP) into the initial merge list; obtaining a block vector of the current block according to the initial merge list.
US12015791B2
A computing device performs a method of decoding video data by receiving bitstream encoding a chroma block, a corresponding luma block, neighboring luma samples, and neighboring chroma samples; decoding the luma block, the plurality of neighboring luma samples, and the plurality of neighboring chroma samples; selecting a group of reference luma samples and a group of reference chroma samples; computing a threshold luma value from the plurality of reconstructed neighboring luma samples, and a threshold chroma value from the plurality of reconstructed neighboring chroma samples; determining a maximum luma value and a minimum luma value from the group of the reference luma samples; generating multi-model linear model (MMLM) including a first linear model between the minimum luma value and the threshold luma value, and a second linear model between the threshold luma value and the maximum luma value; and reconstructing the chroma block from the luma block using MMLM.
US12015787B2
Video images are rendered in viewports of content viewers. Each content viewer views video images through a respective viewport in the viewports. Spatial locations in the video images to which foveal visions of the content viewers are directed are determined. ROIs in the video images are identified based on the spatial locations in the video images.
US12015786B2
Given a sequence of images in a first codeword representation, methods, processes, and systems are presented for integrating reshaping into a next generation video codec for encoding and decoding the images, wherein reshaping allows part of the images to be coded in a second codeword representation which allows more efficient compression than using the first codeword representation. A variety of architectures are discussed, including: an out-of-loop reshaping architecture, an in-loop-for intra pictures only reshaping architecture, an in-loop architecture for prediction residuals, and a hybrid in-loop reshaping architecture. Syntax methods for signaling reshaping parameters, and image-encoding methods optimized with respect to reshaping are also presented.
US12015782B2
A moving picture coding apparatus includes an intra-inter prediction unit which calculates a second motion vector by performing a scaling process on a first motion vector of a temporally neighboring corresponding block, when selectively adding, to a list, a motion vector of each of one or more corresponding blocks each of which is either a block included in a current picture to be coded and spatially neighboring a current block to be coded or a block included in a picture other than the current picture and temporally neighboring the current block, determines whether the second motion vector has a magnitude that is within a predetermined magnitude or not within the predetermined magnitude, and adds the second motion vector to the list when the intra-inter prediction unit determines that the second motion vector has a magnitude that is within the predetermined magnitude range.
US12015779B2
A video decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present document may comprise the steps of: acquiring, from a bitstream, information indicating a level value of a transform coefficient in a current block; deriving a Rice parameter for the information indicating the level value of the transform coefficient, on the basis of a quantization parameter of the current block; deriving a bin string for the information indicating the level value of the transform coefficient, on the basis of the Rice parameter; and deriving the level value of the transform coefficient on the basis of the bin string.
US12015777B2
An encoder may determine that volumetric video data comprises at least one time period during which a computational requirement for rendering or decoding changes at least a threshold amount; and include, in a bitstream, an indication of the change in the computational requirement for rendering or decoding of the volumetric video data during the at least one time period. A decoder may receive an indication of a change in at least one computational requirement for rendering or decoding of volumetric video data; and reallocate at least one computational resource based on the received indication.
US12015770B2
Provided is a method for encoding video data. The method includes: acquiring video data; configuring an encoding parameter of an encoder; determining a first time interval between two adjacent video frames in a group of pictures based on the encoding parameter; and adjusting a number of video frames in the group of pictures based on the first time interval by encoding the video data based on the encoding parameter. A device and a storage medium are also provided.
US12015767B2
An intra-frame predictive coding method, medium and system for a 360-degree video belong to video coding field are provided. The method includes: inputting features of a coding unit (CU) block to be partitioned into a neural network when intra-frame block partition (IFBP) is performed on a current CU block (CCUB), skipping a partition mode that the output of the neural network is smaller than threshold, and obtaining a plurality of IFBP schemes; determining a length n of a rough mode decision candidate list according to a CU feature and a texture feature of the sub-CU block when an intra-frame angle mode is decided to decide the intra-frame angle mode and to fill pixels in each IFBP scheme; calculating rate distortion optimization (RDO) loss between each IFBP scheme and the CCUB after pixel filling and performing intra-frame coding predictive coding on the CCUB based on the scheme.
US12015766B2
A video decoding method executed by a video decoding apparatus according to the present document comprises the steps of: parsing a flag associated with weighted prediction from a bitstream; on the basis of the flag, parsing a prediction weighted table syntax from the bitstream; and on the basis of the prediction weighted table syntax, executing a weighted prediction on a current block in a current picture to reconstruct the current picture, wherein on the basis of the value of the flag being 1, the prediction weighted table syntax may be parsed from a picture header of the bitstream, and on the basis of the value of the flag being 0, the prediction weighted table syntax may be parsed from a slice header of the bitstream.
US12015761B2
A method of decoding a coded video bitstream is provided. The method includes obtaining a reference picture list structure for a current slice represented in the coded video bitstream; constructing a reference picture list for the current slice based on the reference picture list structure such that a number of entries in the reference picture list and an order of the entries in the reference picture list are both the same as in the reference picture list structure, wherein the reference picture list contains a plurality of active entries and a plurality of inactive entries; and obtaining, based on at least one active entry of the reference picture list, at least one reconstructed block of the current slice.
US12015760B2
Provided is a video coding method comprising that the width of a video picture is set to be a first multiple of a first number M, and the first number M is a positive integer. The height of the picture is set to be a second multiple of a second number N, and the second number N is a positive integer. The first number M and the second number N are predetermined. Additionally, it is determined that a merge sharing node is located outside of the picture. The merge sharing node is corresponding to a first region of the picture, a first set of coding units of the picture are within the first region, and the first set of coding units are coded with a merge mode. A constraint process is then applied such that the boundary of the merge sharing node is aligned with the boundary of the picture.
US12015755B2
Provided is a real-time omnidirectional stereo matching method in a camera system including a first pair of fisheye cameras including first and second fisheye cameras provided to perform shooting in opposite directions and a second pair of fisheye cameras including third and fourth fisheye cameras provided to perform shooting in opposite directions and in which the first pair of fisheye cameras and the second pair of fisheye cameras are vertically provided, including receiving fisheye images of a subject captured through the first to the fourth fisheye cameras; selecting one fisheye camera from among fisheye cameras for each pixel of a preset reference fisheye image among the fisheye images using a sweep volume for preset distance candidates; generating a distance map for all pixels using the reference fisheye image and a fisheye image of the one fisheye camera; and performing real-time stereo matching on the fisheye images using the distance map.
US12015749B1
An image processing apparatus includes a memory, a user interface, and a processor. The memory stores a plurality of user applications and a plurality of background applications related to image processing. The user interface receives a user input. The processor controls an image processing unit (e.g., a printer, a scanner, etc.) to execute image processing functions (e.g., printing, scanning, copying, etc.). The processor controls activation and deactivation of the plurality of user applications and the plurality of background applications. The processor activates a subset of the plurality of background applications in a number equal to or less than an activation limit number and based on execution history of the plurality of background applications.
US12015748B2
A dual-axle linkage detection structure includes a first object, a second object, a sensor body, and a shielding element. The first object is movably connected to a base. The second object is movably connected to the first object. The sensor body is disposed on the first object and includes detecting positions. The shielding element includes a shielding part. When the second object covers the first object and the first object covers the base, the shielding part moves into the detecting position. When the second object moves away from the first object, or when the first object moves away from the base and drives the shielding element to rotate, the shielding part moves out of the detecting position.
US12015735B2
Technology for placing a user on-hold can include sending a push notification to a user device after the call has been placed on-hold. A link in the push notification can request authentication credentials from the user. When the authentication credentials have been received and verified, a chat window can be launched via an application on the user device. The intent of the call can be determined based at least in part by information received via the chat window. The authentication information and the intent of the call can be transferred to a representative answering the call.
US12015733B2
A do-not-disturb method and a terminal. The method includes: displaying, by the terminal, an interface of a first application, then, if the interface of the first application includes a media playing window, and the first application is in a media do-not-disturb mode, determining whether any first media playing in the window was triggered by a playing operation of a user. If the playing of the first media in the window was triggered by the playing operation of the user, the method includes playing the corresponding media, and if the playing of the first media in the window was not triggered by the playing operation of the user, the method includes pausing or stopping play of the corresponding media. This method can avoid automatic playing of media, to reduce resource waste, data traffic consumption, a processing load of a mobile phone, and power consumption.
US12015732B2
A method includes: while displaying a wake screen with a first media item as a background and foreground objects displayed over the first media item, detecting first user input that corresponds to a request to display a media gallery; in response to detecting the first user input, ceasing display of the foreground objects; detecting a second user input that corresponds to a request to navigate through media items in the media gallery; in response to detecting the second user input, replacing the first media item with a second media item in the media gallery; detecting a third input that corresponds to a request to dismiss the media gallery; and, in response to detecting the third user input, redisplaying the foreground objects on the display device over a media item from the media gallery that is selected as the background for the wake screen.
US12015730B2
Systems and methods are provided for text-to-speech and speech-to-text conversion in wireless devices such as wireless telephones, remote facilities, and land-based devices such as land-line telephones. A wireless telephone, such as a personal cellular telephone, is provided that converts audio data such as a voice message into text data such that a user can view the contents of the voice message as text on the user's wireless telephone.
US12015726B2
Disclosed herein is a mobile terminal switchable from a first state to a second state by extending in the first direction, including a first frame, a second frame movable from the first frame in the first direction or a second direction opposite to the first direction, a slide frame movable in the first direction or the second direction with respect to the second frame, and a support link having one end hinged to the first frame and an opposite end hinged to the second frame, the support link having a variable length. The mobile terminal may maintain a flat state regardless of change in the state of the mobile terminal by preventing the front surface from being separated or sagging.
US12015723B2
A physically unclonable function (PUF) device comprises a plurality of conductors, at least some of which are arranged so that they interact electrically and/or magnetically with one another. A media surrounds at least a portion of each of the conductors, and circuitry is configured for applying an electrical challenge signal to at least one of the conductors and for receiving an electrical output from at least one of the other conductors to generate an identifying response to the challenge signal that is unique to the device. The media comprises a plurality of interactive regions, the interactive regions having an electrical and/or magnetic response characteristic which is permanently altered in response to a predetermined environmental event, and the identifying response is altered with the response characteristic.
US12015714B2
A computer implemented system for electronic verification of credentials including at least one processor and data storage is described in various embodiments. The system includes cryptographic mechanisms and electronic communication between one or more computing systems that in concert, provide verification of a prover's credentials in accordance to logical conditions of a verifier's policy without providing additional information to a verifier entity.
US12015712B2
A Proof of View verification system is disclosed. The Proof of View verification system has a Non-Fungible Token smart contract module, comprising computer-executable code stored in non-volatile memory, a Proof of View smart contract module, comprising computer-executable code stored in non-volatile memory, a processor, and a verifier network. The Non-Fungible Token smart contract module, the Proof of View smart contract module, the processor, and the verifier network are configured to transfer a data of a non-fungible token to the Non-Fungible Token smart contract module and generate an event metadata based on the data of the non-fungible token, transfer the event metadata to the Proof of View smart contract module, and generate an event hash using the verifier network and transferring the event hash from the verifier network to the Proof of View smart contract module.
US12015696B2
A method for conducting a transaction is disclosed. A processor in a thin client may receive transaction data from a portable device of a first portable device type. The processor may determine that the portable device is the first portable device type. The processor may apply an encryption protocol associated with a second portable device type to the transaction data to create encrypted data. The processor may transmit the encrypted data to a remote computer, wherein the remote computer utilizes the encryption protocol to decrypt the transaction data, and thereafter process the transaction data to conduct the transaction.
US12015694B2
A communication system including a first detector; a first scattering medium; a second detector; an intensity modulator; a second scattering medium; wherein electromagnetic radiation transmitted from a first spot at the first scattering medium, and scattered by and through the first scattering medium and then the second scattering medium, forms a first speckle pattern detected by the second detector. The intensity modulator outputs a second spot of electromagnetic radiation representing the “ones” in a data stream at locations of the bright speckles (or at locations of the dark speckles to represent the “zeros” in the data stream) so that the electromagnetic radiation, transmitted from the second spot and scattered by and through the second scattering medium and then the first scattering medium, forms one or more second bright or dark speckles on the first detector. The data stream can be constructed from the second bright or dark speckles.
US12015693B2
An information security protection method includes: repeatedly substituting a plaintext into an encryption algorithm to obtain a plurality of ciphertexts, and determining whether the ciphertexts are all the same h the processor core. Each time the processor core substitutes the plaintext into the encryption algorithm, the encryption algorithm outputs a ciphertext. When the processor core determines that the ciphertexts are not all the same, the processor core outputs a hacker attack message, which means that an encryption process has suffered a hacker attack.
US12015684B2
Systems and methods for message format communication among resource-constrained devices are generally described. In some examples, a first message sent by an edge computing device may be received. A determination may be made that the first message comprises a first data format identifier. A determination may be made that the first message comprises a first data format patch. A determination may be made that the first data format identifier was previously stored in a data structure in association with a first data format. In various examples, the first data format may be modified using the first data format patch to generate a first modified data format. The first modified data format may be stored in the data structure in association with the first data format identifier. In some examples, a payload of the first message may be read using the first modified data format.
US12015682B2
A service subscription method and an apparatus for reporting a service change, where the method includes a first network function network element sending the address of the first network function network element to a second network function network element. Therefore, when a first service changes, the first network function network element can receive a notification.
US12015681B2
Examples to determine media impressions using distributed demographic information are disclosed. An example system includes programmable circuitry to log, at a first Internet domain, a first record for a first website visit by a first client device to a website at a second Internet domain, the first record based on a hypertext transfer protocol (HTTP) request, the first record to include a timestamp, a uniform resource locator (URL), and a user identifier, the timestamp to represent a time of the first website visit, the URL corresponding to the website at the second Internet domain, and weight impression data in a report, the impression data associated with the first record and with second records, the second records corresponding to second website visits to the website via second client devices, the weighting of the impression data based on demographic distributions of audience members corresponding to the first and second records.
US12015675B2
Systems and methods for embodiments of artificial intelligence systems for identity management are disclosed. Embodiments of the identity management systems disclosed herein may support the creation, association, searching, or visualization of any relevant context to identity management assets for a variety of purposes, including for informing the identity management systems' manual or automated decisions, processes or workflows.
US12015662B2
A method or system for efficiently routing a file located on two or more sources to one or more file recipients connected by a plurality of paths in one or more networks. For each file recipient, one or more predetermined utility functions are evaluated to select the most efficient one of the plurality of paths to use for routing the file to the one or more file recipients, and the file is routed to the one or more file recipient using the selected path. The predetermined utility function may be the estimated operating expense associated with the routing of the file to the one or more file recipients, or the estimated return on investment for improving the routing of said file to the one or more recipients, or is related to an estimated file transfer time to the one or more file recipients.
US12015659B2
A system may include a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The processor may be configured to perform operations. The operations may include extracting a first multiple dimensional dataset and a second multiple dimensional dataset and encoding the first multiple dimensional dataset into a first encoded dataset and the second multiple dimensional dataset into a second encoded dataset. The operations may include combining the first encoded dataset and the second encoded dataset into a combined encoded dataset and conveying the combined encoded dataset to a user.
US12015653B1
A system for managing an online meeting includes one or more hardware processors. The system also includes a non-transitory memory, the non-transitory memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or hardware processors, causes the one or more hardware processors to perform actions. The actions include monitoring participants during the online meeting. The actions also include adjusting interaction between a least a subset of the participants via one or more interfaces based on the monitoring.
US12015631B2
The present disclosure generally relates to systems, methods, and computer-readable media for identifying instances of vulnerabilities on a computing network and generating a graph representing pathways that an attacking entity may take with respect to accessing one or more sensitive assets. For example, one or more systems disclosed herein collect network information and vulnerability information to generate a graph including nodes and edges representing at least a portion of the computing network associated with different vulnerabilities. The systems described herein may use graph theory to generate or otherwise identify pathways that an attacker is likely to use in accessing the sensitive asset(s). The systems additionally may further evaluate the pathways and associated likelihoods/risks to intelligently select one or more action items associated with a reduction of risk to the networking system.
US12015630B1
Systems and methods for vulnerability remediation based on a dynamic security model are disclosed. Device connectivity data for an entity external to an identifier entity is received by the identifier entity. A vulnerability is identified and risk-scored based on a property parsed from the device connectivity data. The identifier entity may execute an automatic action to prevent the identifier entity from receiving electronic communications from the affected component of the external entity. Further, based on the risk score meeting various parameters, a hyperlink is generated by the identifier entity and provided to the external entity. The hyperlink may include a remediation executable parametrized using the property parsed from the device connectivity data. The remediation executable may include a reference to a patch structured to remediate the vulnerability. Once the external entity remediates the vulnerability, the external entity may initiate a rescan of its affected component.
US12015625B2
A cloud security system and method implements cloud activity threat detection using analysis of cloud usage user behavior. In particular, the cloud security system and method implements threat detection for users, cloud service providers, or tenants (enterprises) of the cloud security system who are new or unknown to the cloud security system and therefore lacking sufficient cloud activity data to generate an accurate behavior model for effective threat detection. In accordance with embodiments of the present invention, the cloud security system and method performs user behavior analysis to generate generalized user behavior models for user groups, where each user group includes users with similar cloud usage behavior. The user behavior models of the user groups are assigned to users with sparse cloud activity data. In this manner, the cloud security system and method of the present invention ensures effective threat detection by using accurate and reliable user behavior models.
US12015622B2
A system and method for the detection and system impact mitigation of bots in Internet of Things (IoT) devices, the system including a smart auditor configured to interface with and control a power supply of an IoT device, the smart auditor being configured to measure and transmit power usage information of the IoT device. The system then utilizing a historical database and various IoT devices and associated power usage patterns to identify anomalies in power usage by the IoT device based on historical data, utilize machine learning to recognize normal and non-normal power usage patterns, and generate a command to shut off power to the IoT device upon detection of malicious botnet activity. The system including encryption protocols to maintain privacy during communication of the power usage information as well as maintain integrity and secrecy regarding model information from the historical database.
US12015611B2
Systems and methods to determine content to present based on interaction information of a given user
Systems and methods to determine content to present based on interaction information of a given user are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: store, in electronic storage, psychological profiles; obtain, in an ongoing manner, interaction information of users from the online platforms; determine psychological profiles of the users based on the interaction information for the individual users; update, in an ongoing manner, the determined psychological profiles as the interaction information is ongoingly obtained such that the first psychological profile is ongoingly updated as the first interaction information is ongoingly obtained; and provide, based on the psychological profiles, the individual users with content.
US12015605B2
A rollover system is provided to facilitate transitioning of client devices in a shared account network environment, from an old password to a new replacement password. The switching of passwords may take place gradually during a rollout period for client devices without required downtime and reducing a risk of lockouts. During the rollover period, a prior salt is temporarily carried over to a new verifier for the replacement password. Two new verifiers are generated: a temporary new verifier using the old salt for verification during the rollover period and another new verifier using a different new salt for verification after the rollover period had expired. During the rollover period, authentication involves the use of the temporary new verifier with the old salt or by the old verifier and old salt of the prior password. After the rollover period, authentication is based on the new verifier with a new salt.
US12015598B2
Methods and apparatus to enable a distinction between “new” and “used” digital content and to enable a market in used digital content files between mobile phone terminals and an electronic store, securely, by means of a wireless telephony network and a server complex to handle contents right management, transaction reporting, inventory, content delivery, payment, and billing. A server receives a signal generated by a wireless user device that was sent over a wireless telephony network. The signal indicates an election for returning at least one previously purchased digital content item. The server deletes user rights for the at least one digital content item identified by the received signal and sends information to the user device that generated the signal. Access to the associated digital content item at the user device is removed according to the sent information.
US12015589B2
The subject matter of this specification can be embodied in, among other things, a computer-implemented method that includes obtaining, at a computer system, a plurality of contact identifiers for a computer account holder, wherein the identifiers represent a plurality of different communication modes; identifying a handle for the account holder, wherein the handle is associated with a uniform resource locator; and correlating the handle with the plurality of contact identifiers, and storing the handle and plurality of contact identifiers together so as to permit retrieval of the contact identifiers in response to identification of the handle.
US12015580B2
Embodiment of this application provide a method and apparatus for displaying an unread message, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method includes: displaying a program corner mark in a case that an unread message is received through a target application; receiving a first input performed by a user on the program corner mark; displaying an information window in response to the first input, where the information window includes an identifier of a target contact, the target contact is a contact meeting a preset condition in contacts corresponding to the unread message, and receiving a second input performed by the user on the identifier of the target contact; and starting the target application in response to the second input.
US12015577B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which a wideband bandwidth part (BWP) may be used for periodic communications bursts, and a user equipment (UE) may switch to a narrowband BWP between the communications bursts, which may provide reduced power consumption and reduced processing overhead at the UE. An end of burst indicator may be provided with the wideband BWP communications that indicates a timing for switching from the wideband BWP to the narrowband BWP. The end of burst indicator may be provided prior to a last downlink shared channel communication of the communications burst, and the UE may switch to the narrowband BWP upon completion of the last downlink shared channel communication. The UE may switch from the narrowband BWP to the wideband BWP for a subsequent communications burst autonomously or based on an explicit indication.
US12015571B2
There is provided a method for transmitting a reference signal. The method for transmitting the reference signal includes: determining locations in time and frequency domains of a DRS, the DRS comprising at least one of a PSS, an SSS, a PBCH, a DMRS for PBCH, a CSI-RS for TRS, a CSI-RS for beam management, and a CSI-RS for acquiring channel state information; and transmitting the DRS at the locations in time and frequency domains of the DRS.
US12015566B1
Significantly optimized multi-stage networks including scheduling methods for faster scheduling of connections, useful in wide target applications, with VLSI layouts using only horizontal wires and vertical wires to route large scale partial multi-stage hierarchical networks having inlet and outlet links, and laid out in an integrated circuit device in a two-dimensional grid arrangement of blocks are disclosed. The optimized multi-stage networks in each block employ one or more slices of rings of stages of switches with inlet and outlet links of partial multi-stage hierarchical networks connecting to rings from either left-hand side or right-hand side; and employ hop wires or multi-drop hop wires wherein hop wires or multi-drop wires are connected from switches of stages of rings of slices of a first partial multi-stage hierarchical network to switches of stages of rings of slices of the first or a second partial multi-stage hierarchical network.
US12015562B2
Techniques are disclosed for processing flows by a smart network interface card (smartNIC) based on modifying a packet. In one example, a smartNIC accelerator receives a packet from a first port of the smartNIC, the first port being connected to a splitter device that splits a first data path into a second data path and a third data path, and the packet arriving at the first port via the second data path. The accelerator modifies the packet to indicate that the packet arrived at the first port via the second data path. The accelerator inserts the modified packet into a queue that is associated with both the second data path and the third data path. A programming data plane of the smartNIC receives and then processes the modified packet based on determining that the packet arrived at the first port via the second data path.
US12015559B2
The present application discloses a service processing method, a device, a chip and a computer program, where the method includes: acquiring, by a first device, ingress window information of a service data packet; acquiring, by the first device, transmission delay information of the service data packet; and determining, by the first device, egress window information of the service data packet according to the ingress window information and the transmission delay information, which are acquired. By applying the solution of the present application, the egress window information and the like can be determined effectively.
US12015556B2
A packet processing method and apparatus, and a related device, the method including generating, by a first device, a flow filtering rule, where the flow filtering rule includes a match item and an action item, and where the match item comprises an Internet Protocol (IP) address and an autonomous domain identifier, and sending, by the first device, the flow filtering rule to a second device, where the action item is used to instruct the second device to process, based on a packet processing mode indicated by the action item, a packet matching the match item.
US12015555B1
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for managing Layer 2 (L2) and Layer 3 (L3) policies. Traffic is routed from a first VM to a first CGW within a Service Node, where the Service Node can include a centralized policy for both L2 functions and L3 functions, and the first CGW can integrate both L2 gateways and L3 gateways. Based on a floating IP address of the packet, the traffic is routed within the Service Node, the traffic being routed by an access BD from an ingress BD-VIF to an egress BD-VIF. The traffic is then routed from a second CGW that integrates both L2 gateways and L3 gateways to the destination VM.
US12015554B2
A service routing packet processing method, apparatus and system. The method includes a first service router (SR) obtains a first service routing packet, and the first service routing packet comprises path identification information and identification information of a service node (SN). The first SR sends the first service routing packet to the SN. A system includes a first service router (SR) and a service node (SN) in signal communication with the first SR. The first SR is configured to obtain a first service routing packet comprising path identification information and identification information of a service node (SN), and send the first service routing packet to the SN.
US12015552B2
Techniques are described for communications in an L2 virtual network of a customer. In an example, the L2 virtual network includes a plurality of L2 compute instances hosted on a set of host machines and a plurality of L2 virtual network interfaces and L2 virtual switches hosted on a set of network virtualization devices. An L2 virtual network interface emulates an L2 port of the L2 virtual network. Information associated with the L2 virtual switches is collected and provided to the customer.
US12015547B2
A method (50) of and an arrangement for communicating, by a server, with a target node device in a network of operatively interconnected node devices, wherein each node device of the network comprises a first communication interface for direct wireless communication with the server, and a second communication interface for inter-node device communication. The server determines (51) a current communication status of a target node device based on a last received uplink message of the target node device, prior to initiating message exchange with the target node device. The server then may communicate directly (52) with the target node device via the first communication interface, or via at least one other or delegate node device of the network selected by the server (53).
US12015545B1
Approaches are disclosed for providing path diversity in a data transmission network. A primary transmission path can be selected through a network, such as a backbone network, based on factors such as cost of transmission. At least one waypoint can be selected that is to be included in a secondary transmission path. The waypoint(s) can be selected such that the secondary transmission path will have few, if any, network components in common with the primary transmission path, providing significant path diversity. The waypoint(s) can be selected based on a cost ratio or other such factor. In the event of a failure of transmission of a data packet over one of the transmission paths, a second transmission attempt can be performed using the same path or the other transmission path, or both.
US12015533B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for machine learning (ML) based system for network resilience and steering. An example system monitors data movement across one or more network ports; extracts network performance indicators associated with the data movement; determines, via a machine learning (ML) subsystem, that a status of a first network port is indicative of operational failure based on at least the network performance indicators; determines that the first network port is associated with a first network port cluster; determines a redundant network port and an intermediate network switch associated with the first network port cluster; and triggers the intermediate network switch to reroute a portion of network traffic from the first network port to the redundant network port in response to the status of the first network port.
US12015531B2
A method provides telecom operators a single Quality of Experience (QoE) index to collectively interpret service experience and network experience by way of ensemble of expectation scores. The method includes the steps of mapping Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) of time-series data into multiple probability spaces of statistical expectation functions thereby producing time-series expectation scores; applying vector geometry to said time-series expectation scores for each of said statistical expectation functions thereby producing an N-Dimensional probability vector; normalizing correlations of said N-Dimensional probability vector across said KPIs thereby producing a normalized N-Dimensional probability vector; and generating a N-Dimensional probability distribution from the normalized N-Dimensional probability vector to produce an ensemble function. The ensemble function is then be applied to time-series data thereby producing an ensemble index, which represents the QoE (Quality of Experience).
US12015528B2
Provided is a network modal management system and a management method. The system includes a polymorphic intelligent network integrated development environment and a polymorphic intelligent network distributed compilation and deployment environment. The polymorphic intelligent network integrated development environment provides users with an environment for writing code and configuration files, and facilitates users to debug the code. The polymorphic intelligent network distributed compilation and deployment environment provides users with a management interface and services, and integrates various functions related to network modal. The network modal management system significantly improves the management efficiency of polymorphic intelligent network platforms.
US12015525B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to staging a universal customer edge gateway device. A universal customer edge gateway device may generate, prior to deployment of the universal customer edge gateway device at a customer location, copies of virtual network function (VNF) operating system (OS) images on the universal customer edge gateway device, the copies including a first copy of a first VNF OS image and a second copy of a second VNF OS image; identify, during a deployment of the universal customer edge gateway device at the customer location, a selection of the first copy from a list of the copies; copy, during the deployment and based on the selection, the first VNF OS image to the universal customer edge gateway device; and instantiate, at the universal customer edge gateway device, the copied first VNF OS image.
US12015522B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for detecting unauthorized system configuration changes. For example, metadata can be extracted from network traffic captured by one or more different network tools and/or network devices and provided to a metadata evaluator. As an example, the one or more different network tools and/or devices can include a switch port analyzer tool, a security information and event management tool, and/or a test access port device. The metadata evaluator can process the extracted metadata to detect a system configuration change in a system on a network that includes the network traffic. The metadata evaluator can determine whether the system configuration change is an authorized system configuration change. In some examples, the metadata evaluator can determine whether the system configuration change is an authorized system configuration change based on change management data from a change management system.
US12015518B2
In one embodiment, a device identifies a timeseries motif present in a plurality of timeseries of performance metrics for a plurality of paths in a network. The device retrieves, based on the timeseries motif, device-level telemetry data from networking devices along the plurality of paths. The device determines a root cause of the timeseries motif by correlating the timeseries motif with the device-level telemetry data. The device provides an indication of the timeseries motif and its root cause for display by a user interface.
US12015517B2
In general, embodiments relate to a method, for managing a network, that includes determining an occurrence of an operational issue on a network device of the network, based on the determining, executing an encoding phase and a causal feature identification phase on a feature database, wherein the feature database is associated with the operational issue, identifying a plurality of potential root causes using the encoding phase and the causal feature identification phase, and performing an action based on the plurality of potential root causes.
US12015511B1
A radio frequency (RF) communications system may include a first RF node that transmits data, including a new frequency of operation, and a sequence of pilot symbols spread with a complex spreading code sequence. A second RF node may receive an incoming signal from the first RF node and perform despreading for N sample offset delays to generate N despreading sequences for the sequence of pilot symbols. The second RF node may perform a cross-correlation to select a desired despreading sequence from the N despreading sequences, determine a phase offset and timing offset, process the incoming signal based upon the desired despreading sequence, phase offset and timing offset, and switch to the new frequency of operation.
US12015510B2
A circuit includes at least three equally weighted drivers; a state variable generator; and an element selector. The latter is coupled to the drivers, has a first input from the generator, has a second input including a plurality of input thermometer-encoded data streams, and has an output of an equal number of thermometer-encoded output data streams supplied to the drivers. The element selector maps the second input to the output dynamically based on a value of the first input from the state variable generator, with an update rate that is no more than one half of a symbol-rate. A serializer is configured to provide serialized data at the symbol rate, with output coupled to one of the second input of the element selector and input of the drivers. The drivers have outputs that are combined to produce an output of the circuit at the symbol rate.
US12015508B2
A system includes a first device including a first transmitter and a first receiver, and a second device including a second transmitter and a second receiver and configured to communicate with the first device. The two devices perform a first equalization operation by performing a first phase in which the first receiver performs a signal tuning operation on the second transmitter, a second phase in which the second receiver performs a signal tuning operation on the first transmitter, and one or more other phases. The first, second, and other phases may constitute all the phases of the first equalization operation, and some of the other phases may precede the first and second phases. In response to detection of an error after the first equalization operation, the two devices may perform a second equalization operation by performing the first phase, the second phase, or both, but not performing the other phases.
US12015507B2
An apparatus, method and computer program is described including: receiving, at a receiver of a transmissions system, transmitted signals from each of a plurality of transmitters, wherein each transmitter communicates with the receiver over one of a plurality of channels of the transmission system, wherein each transmitter includes a transmitter algorithm having at least some trainable weights, wherein each transmitter algorithm has the same trainable weights and wherein each of the transmitted signals is based on a perturbed channel symbol generated at the respective transmitter, wherein the channel symbols and perturbations are known to the receiver; updating the weights of the transmitter algorithm, at the receiver, based on a loss function; providing the updated weights to each transmitter of the transmission system; and repeating the receiving and updating until a first condition is reached.
US12015501B2
A method of operating a first domestic appliance associated with a user account and a second domestic appliance associated with the user account may include receiving a parameter signal including a parameter value from the first domestic appliance. The method may also identifying the parameter value as corresponding to a sharable parameter. The method further include recording the parameter value within a sharable field set of a pre-constructed table, after which the parameter value may be shared or analyzed further.
US12015497B2
There are provided an information processing device, an information processing method, a computer program, and an information processing system that implement effective and highly reliable communication using a distributed network that manages the same data in a distributed manner by a plurality of devices. An information processing device of the present disclosure includes an encoding unit that generates redundant data of target data by encoding the target data, and a communication unit that broadcasts or multicasts the target data and the redundant data to a distributed network that manages the target data in a distributed manner by a plurality of devices.
US12015496B2
Methods and apparatus for taking a break after seamless transition between network conferences. In an embodiment, a method for taking a break after a transition between network conferences includes operations of attending a first network conference using a first conference state and a conferencing application, and displaying Up-Next conference status about a second network conference. The method also includes operations of receiving a request to enter a break mode after joining the second network conference, joining the second network conference using the first conference state and the conferencing application, and transmitting a break mode icon to participants in the second network conference.
US12015491B2
Provided are a method for performing, by a first apparatus, wireless communication, and an apparatus for supporting same. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a base station, information related to a sidelink (SL) resource and information related to a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource; transmitting, to a second apparatus, a medium access control packet data unit (MAC PDU) in which hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback is disabled, on the basis of the SL resource; generating ACK information related to the transmission of the MAC PDU on the basis that the HARQ feedback is disabled for the MAC PDU and retransmission for the MAC PDU is not required; and transmitting, to the base station, the ACK information on the basis of the PUCCH resource.
US12015486B2
Disclosed are a data retransmission decoding method, apparatus and system, and a communication device. The method includes: obtaining retransmitted data to be decoded, the retransmitted data to be decoded including a code block to be decoded (S102); according to stored check state information of a previously decoded code block, judging whether the code block to be decoded includes a target code block required to be decoded again (S104); and if the code block to be decoded includes the target code block required to be decoded again, merging and decoding a currently stored first code block and the target code block based on a predetermined decoding parameter (S106), wherein the first code block is a code block corresponding to the target code block.
US12015478B2
A method performed by a network entity in which the method includes transmitting or receiving a transmission of data, wherein the transmission is scheduled with a Modulation and Coding Scheme, MCS, level indicated by an MCS index, IMCS, and wherein the transmitting or receiving is based on a first condition being used for a first subset of MCS levels being a subset of all possible MCS levels.
US12015477B2
An operation method of a first terminal in a communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting first SCI to a second terminal, the first SCI including one or more information elements among information indicating time resource(s) for sidelink communication, information indicating frequency resource(s) for the sidelink communication, information indicating a periodicity of physical resources for the sidelink communication, and information indicating an MCS for the sidelink communication. Second SCI is transmitted to the second terminal, the second SCI including information for an HARQ feedback operation and information indicating an NDI. The method further includes performing the sidelink communication with the second terminal based on the first SCI and the second SCI associated with the first SCI.
US12015475B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems for efficiently utilizing scattered narrow spectra without introducing interference among adjacent frequency bands are described. In one example aspect, a wireless communication method includes determining a set of time-domain symbols by applying an inverse Fourier transform to a set of processed data modulated on multiple subcarrier groups. Each subcarrier group comprises an even number of subcarriers and adjacent subcarrier groups are separated by one or more unused subcarriers. The set of processed data is determined by applying a first spreading code to data carried in subcarrier groups having 2×m subcarriers when m is a positive odd number and applying one or more spreading codes to data carried in subcarrier groups having 2×n subcarriers when n is a positive even number. The method also includes transmitting the set of time-domain symbols.
US12015473B2
Embodiments of the present application are related to a method and apparatus for sequence determination in wireless transmission. According an embodiment of the present application, an exemplary method includes: receiving configuration information indicating at least one offset value associated with a kind of sequence, wherein each offset value corresponds to a second time domain index offset relative to a first time domain index determined based on synchronization signal block (SSB) associated with the kind of sequence; determining at least one second time domain index associated with the kind of sequence based on the at least one offset value correspondingly; and determining at least one sequence correspondingly based on the at least one second time domain index. Accordingly, embodiments of the present application can allow interference randomization during sequence generation in spite of the unfavorable impact on time domain index.
US12015467B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for a coefficients report for compressed channel state information (CSI) feedback. A method for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a CSI report configuration configuring the UE for reporting precoding matrix information including, a plurality of selected beams L, a frequency domain compression matrix F for each of the L beams at each of a plurality of taps M in the time domain, and a subset of a plurality of linear combination coefficients associated with the frequency domain compression matrices and beams. The UE determines the coefficients based on a first evaluation that is, for each beam, an evaluation of the amplitude of the coefficients across the taps, and a second evaluation and a evaluation that is, for each tap, an evaluation of the amplitude of the linear combination coefficients across the beams. The UE reports the first and second evaluations.
US12015463B2
This disclosure provides a channel state information (CSI) report configuration method, a network device, and a terminal device thereof. The CSI report configuration method applied to a terminal device may include receiving a CSI report configuration and at least one CSI resource configuration, determining a CSI report based on the CSI report configuration and the at least one CSI resource configuration, and sending the CSI report.
US12015456B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a method, a computer-readable medium, and an apparatus are provided. The apparatus may be a UE. The UE measures, at a first time point, a first set of reference signals to determine a first set of values corresponding to a set of CSI parameters. The UE determines value differences between the first set of values and a set of reference values corresponding to the set of CSI parameters. The UE sends a first CSI report including variation indicators indicating the value differences.
US12015453B2
A method for transmitting a message from a first node device to a second node device in which the second node device belongs to network neighborhood of the first node device. The first and second node devices belong to an electrical supply network using powerline communications. The first node device begins by fragmenting the message into at least a first fragment and a second fragment. Next it associates a first frequency band of a set of frequency bands with the first fragment and a second frequency band with the second fragment, the first and second frequency bands being different. It then transmits each first and second fragment on the frequency band with which it is associated.
US12015452B2
A method and apparatus are provided for estimating characteristic differences between wireless signals transmitted from the same location in spaced apart frequency ranges. Also provided are a method and apparatus for estimating a combined time of arrival of the wireless signals, using the characteristic differences. A further method is provided, for identifying that two signals have been transmitted from the same location. Also disclosed is a method of maintaining a database of characteristic difference information.
US12015449B2
An apparatus and sensing system wherein the apparatus comprises: sensing means configured to sense a parameter; optical output means configured to provide an optical output signal indicative of data obtained by the sensing means; optical input means configured to receive an optical input signal and convert the optical input signal to electrical power; and storage means configured to store the electrical power obtained by the optical input means and enable the power to be provided to the sensing means and the optical output means; and wherein the optical output means comprises one or more light emitting diodes and optical coupling means where the optical coupling means are configured to couple the apparatus to a processing device to enable data obtained by the sensing means to be transmitted to the processing device.
US12015443B2
Provided is a visible light communication system. The system includes a modulation and light emission module configured to emit a communication light ray obtained by modulating information to be communicated; and a tracking and light sensing module configured to receive and demodulate the communication light ray to obtain the information to be communicated and further configured to align the tracking and light sensing module with the communication light ray according to the angle between the tracking and light sensing module and the communication light ray.
US12015442B2
Systems and methods for forming a verified secure wireless connection are disclosed. One system includes a first device with a first transceiver and a second device with a second transceiver. The second device does not include a display or any other means for providing high resolution visible light information. The system also includes a visible light signal source on the second device. The first and second devices store computer-readable instructions to initialize a secure wireless connection using the first transceiver and the second transceiver. The second device also stores computer-readable instructions to generate a visible light signal using the visible light source. The first device stores computer-readable instructions to verify the secure wireless connection using the visible light signal.
US12015434B2
Various embodiments provide for a bike-supported communication network that manages and facilitates communications between components of an electric bicycle and a wireless network. In some embodiments, the systems and methods provide a bike-supported communication device that communicates with a wireless network via one or more wireless communication protocols, where the communication device is configured to manage communications between the wireless network and various components of the electric bicycle. The communication device can include a bicycle communications component that facilitates communications between the communication device and components of the electric bicycle, and a network communications component that facilitates communications between the electric bicycle and the wireless network.
US12015428B2
A system and/or an integrated circuit including: (a) a multiplier-accumulator execution pipeline including multiplier-accumulator circuits to process image data, using associated filter weights, via a plurality of multiply and accumulate operations and (b) first data format conversion circuitry including (i) inputs to receive filter weights of a plurality of sets of filter weights, wherein each set includes a plurality of filter weights each having a block-scaled fraction data format, (ii) conversion circuitry, coupled to the inputs, to convert the filter weights of each set from the block-scaled fraction data format to a floating point data format, and (iii) outputs to output the filter weights having the floating point data format. In operation, the multiplier-accumulator circuits of the pipeline are configured to perform the plurality of multiply and accumulate operations using (a) the image data and (b) the filter weights having the floating point data format.
US12015427B2
An input stage circuit for a sigma-delta analog-to-digital converter circuit receives a digital-to-analog converter generated feedback signal and an analog current input signal to generate a difference signal applied to an integrator circuit. A single bit quantization circuit quantizes an output of the integrator circuit to generate a bit signal that is applied to an input of the digital-to-analog converter. The input stage circuit includes a switched input capacitor controlled by first and second, non-overlapping, clock signals.
US12015424B2
Disclosed is a network-based hyperdimensional system having an encoder configured to receive input data and encode the input data using hyperdimensional computing to generate a hypervector having encoded data bits that represent the input data. The network-based hyperdimensional system further includes a decoder configured to receive the encoded data bits, decode the encoded data bits, and reconstruct the input data from the decoded data bits. In some embodiments, the encoder is configured for direct hyperdimensional learning on transmitted data with no need for data decoding by the decoder.
US12015423B2
A method for encoding may include receiving, at an encoder, a series of data bits, performing, at the encoder, first transition encoding on the data bits to generate an encoded series of data bits based on a key, performing, at the encoder, protection encoding on the key to generate key protection data, performing, at the encoder, second transition encoding on the key protection data to generate encoded key protection data, and transmitting an encoded series of transmission bits to a receiver, the encoded series of transmission bits including the encoded series of data bits and the encoded key protection data.
US12015417B2
An input buffer circuit for an analog-to-digital converter is provided. The input buffer circuit includes a buffer amplifier. The buffer amplifier includes a first input node and a second input node each configured to receive a respective one of a first input signal and a second input signal forming a differential input signal pair for the analog-to-digital converter. The buffer amplifier further includes a first output node and a second output node each configured to output a respective one of a first buffered signal and a second buffered signal. In addition, the input buffer circuit includes feedback circuitry. The feedback circuitry is configured to generate, based on the first buffered signal and the second buffered signal, a first feedback signal and a second feedback signal for mitigating a respective unwanted signal component at the first input node and the second input node related to a limited reverse isolation of the amplifier buffer. The feedback circuitry is further configured to supply the first feedback signal to the first input node and the second feedback signal to the second input node.
US12015415B1
An apparatus including: a phase lock loop (PLL), including: a phase detector and loop pass filter (PD/LF), including: a phase/frequency detector including a first input configured to receive a reference signal, and a second input configured to receive a feedback signal, and an output configured to produce an output signal based on the reference and feedback signals; a first capacitor; and a charge pump, including: a charging path configured to generate a charging current to charge the first capacitor based on the output signal; and a discharging path including a first resistor configured to discharge the first capacitor.
US12015407B1
A circuit that includes a level shifter. The level shifter includes a shift path with two transistors coupled in series. The circuit also includes a GIDL detection circuit for detecting GIDL current conditions. The GIDL detection circuit generates a GIDL signal indicative of a GIDL current condition. The signal is utilized to control a voltage of a control electrode of a transistor of the shift path to increase the conductivity of the transistor when the signal is indicative of a GIDL current condition to minimize a GIDL current through at least a portion of the shift path when the second transistor is nonconductive due to the level shifter being in a low power mode.
US12015401B2
In a method for operating an operating device for a household appliance, an operating element of the operating device is actuated with a first actuation type from a first resting position to a first operating position to set a first function of the household appliance. A setting parameter of a second function of the household appliance is set by actuating the operating element with a second type of actuation different from the first type of actuation from a second resting position into at least one of a plurality of intermediate positions of the operating element. The first function of the household appliance is actuated in response to a sensing of a first capacitance value of the operating device, and a second capacitance value is sensed while taking into account a correction value in dependence on the sensed first capacitance value for determining the setting parameter of the second function.
US12015396B2
According to one embodiment, in electronic apparatus, controller generates first and second control signals to control first and second controlled unit. First serial converter multiplexes the first and second control signals into first serial signal. First wireless transmitter transmits the first serial signal by first wireless signal in a chronologically continuous manner. First wireless receiver receives the first wireless signal. First parallel converter separates the first and second control signals from the first wireless signal received by first wireless receiver, to output the first control signal to first controlled unit, and to output the second control signal to second controlled unit.
US12015394B2
Fast turn-on protection of a cascode switch is presented herein. A cascode circuit includes a depletion mode field effect transistor and an enhancement mode field effect transistor electrically coupled in cascode. During turn-on, a protection circuit detects an overcurrent fault by observing a plateau of a cascode node voltage. An overcurrent fault may be detected in response to the plateau existing for greater than a threshold time duration.
US12015392B2
An acoustic resonator includes a piezoelectric thin film (PTF) disposed on a carrier substrate. The PTF confines a fundamental shear-horizontal (SH0) surface-acoustic wave (SAW) within the PTF. The acoustic resonator includes an input bus line coupled to an input source and a ground bus line coupled to a ground potential. The acoustic resonator includes a first grating reflector disposed at a first end of the PTF and coupled between the input bus line and the ground bus line. The acoustic resonator includes a second grating reflector disposed at a second end of the PTF and coupled between the input bus line and the ground bus line. The acoustic resonator includes interdigital transducers (IDTs) disposed between the first grating reflector and the second grating reflector. Each IDT includes an input electrode coupled to the input bus line, and a ground electrode coupled to the ground bus line.
US12015388B2
Techniques are provided for a broadband microwave/millimeter-wave balanced-to-unbalanced transformer (balun). A balun implementing the techniques according to an embodiment includes a first impedance matching network configured to reduce insertion and return losses of a single-ended signal at a first port of the balun. The balun also includes a first planar bifilar coupled transmission line coupled to the first impedance matching network and configured to transform the single-ended signal into a differential signal. The balun further includes a second planar bifilar coupled transmission line coupled to the first bifilar coupled transmission line and configured to compensate for amplitude and phase imbalance induced on the differential signal by the first bifilar coupled transmission line. The balun further includes a second impedance matching network coupled to both planar bifilar coupled transmission lines and configured to reduce insertion and return losses of the differential signal at second and third ports of the balun.
US12015386B2
Systems, devices, and methods including a first band-pass filter configured to receive and filter a detector signal, where the first band-pass filter has a central frequency of 2f; a second band-pass filter configured to receive and filter the detector signal where the second band-pass filter has a central frequency of 1f; a first logarithmic amplifier (Log Amp) configured to apply the filtered detector signal from the first band-pass filter; a second Log Amp configured to apply the filtered detector signal from the second band-pass filter; a differential amplifier configured to subtract the applied signal from the first Log Amp from the applied signal from the second Log Amp; and an Anti-Log Amplifier configured to determine an inverse logarithm of the subtracted signal from the differential amplifier.
US12015382B1
An apparatus and method for a linearized RF and microwave amplifier current source by feedback of a sampled RF amplifier output signal into a current mirror amplifier bias, to modulate the amplifier bias and produce an increase in a linearized amplifier output. The linearized RF and microwave amplifier is operable over a large bandwidth extending over multiple microwave frequency octaves.
US12015381B2
Driver circuits, systems for driving actuators, and imaging systems with actuators. The driver circuit includes a current comparator circuit, a driver, and a replica circuit. The current comparator circuit includes a first node having a first voltage. The current comparator circuit also includes a second node having a second voltage. The driver includes a first terminal responsive to the second voltage. The driver also includes a second terminal connected to a reference voltage. The replica circuit includes a third terminal connected to the first node. The replica circuit also includes a fourth terminal connected to the second terminal of the driver. The replica circuit also includes a fifth terminal connected to the first terminal of the driver.
US12015380B2
A balanced amplifier system having input and output quadrature couplers or equivalents thereof and two amplifiers there between. An RF signal is presented to a first input of an input quadrature coupler such that an amplified RF signal is output at a first output of the output quadrature coupler. A RF control signal is presented to a second input of the quadrature coupler such that an amplified control signal is outputted at the other output of the output quadrature coupler. The system is configured to reflect the amplified signal back into the second port of the output quadrature coupler in order to vary an impedance seen by the amplifiers of the balanced amplifier.
US12015379B2
A device for electrically contacting a solar cell during the measurement of electrical characteristics of the solar cell, which has a plurality of finger electrodes on its surface, has at least one measuring strip that has at least one contact terminal for electrically contacting a solar cell test device and that extends between two measuring-strip end portions in a measuring-strip extension direction. The measuring strip has a plurality of loop-like or hook-like contact spring portions formed integrally with the measuring strip, which are positioned on the measuring strip along the measuring-strip extension direction. The contact has at least one finger electrode by spring-elastic mechanical contact, when the measuring strip is placed on the surface of the solar cell. A measuring frame includes opposing frame-edge struts, which engages, using the frame-edge struts, around an area that is greater than or equal to a solar cell to be measured, and in which the measuring strip is braced.
US12015375B2
A lead assembly includes at plurality of drop line joined to a feeder cable at joints each having a compression lug that is preferably surrounded by undermolding and overmolding. In use, each drop line is connected to a solar array, and the feeder cable is connected to an inverter. In this manner a plurality of solar arrays are electrically coupled together, with a common feeder cable connecting them all to the inverter. A system of the present invention doesn't require a combiner box which is conventionally employed directly upstream of the inverter.
US12015372B2
A pre-formed solar panel (1) to be mounted on a support plane (SP) is disclosed. In a direction from a first end (E1) to a second opposing end (E2), the panel has at least a first planar section (S1), a plastically deformed section (P) and a second planar section (S2), wherein the plastically deformed section maintains the first and the second planar section relative to each other at an enclosed angle (A1) in a range between 30° and 170°, and wherein an area of at least one of the planar sections is provided with a photovoltaic layer (3).
US12015369B2
A dual-voltage door operator control system comprises a contactor, a high-voltage connector, a low-voltage connector, a rectifier and a brake. When a door operator motor is electrically coupled to the low-voltage connector, the rectifier full-wave rectifies an external power source and then electrically energizes the brake. When the door operator motor is electrically coupled to the high-voltage connector, the rectifier half-wave rectifies the external power source and then electrically energizes the brake. Accordingly, the door operator motor can be connected to the high-voltage connector or the low-voltage connector according to the specification of the external power source provided at the site. Moreover, the invention is also further integrated with the brake of a single specification, and no matter whether the external power source is a high-voltage power source or a low-voltage power source, it can electrically energize the brake through the rectifier.
US12015354B2
A power converter includes an arm in which a plurality of converter cells are connected in series, each of the converter cells including at least two switching elements, a power storage element, and a pair of output terminals. A control device controls voltages of the plurality of converter cells by phase shift PWM control using a carrier signal for each converter cell. The converter cell includes a switch to have the converter cell bypassed. When the control device senses failure of the converter cell within the arm, it has a failed converter cell within the arm bypassed and rectifies uneven intervals among phases of carrier signals of a plurality of normal converter cells within the arm caused by failure of the converter cell.
US12015348B2
A control circuit for adaptive noise margin control for a constant on time (COT) converter comprises an input reference terminal, amplifier, first switch device, voltage divider, trigger circuit, and output reference terminal. The amplifier has an input terminal coupled to the input reference terminal receiving a reference voltage signal. The first switch device has a control terminal coupled to an output of the amplifier, a first conduction terminal for receiving a voltage source signal, and a second conduction terminal. The voltage divider is coupled to the second conduction terminal and another input terminal of the amplifier. The trigger circuit, coupled to the voltage divider, is for triggering voltage change of a modified reference voltage signal selectively according to a high-side control signal of the COT converter. The output reference terminal coupled to the second conduction terminal outputs the modified reference voltage signal.
US12015344B2
A peak current mode ‘PCM’ controller comprising control logic arranged to produce a series of digital control values derived from a voltage sense signal, control logic arranged to produce a digital slope compensation value, a first digital to analogue converter ‘DAC’ arranged to receive the series of digital control values and output a corresponding analogue control voltage, a second DAC arranged to receive the digital slope compensation value and output a corresponding analogue slope compensation voltage, an analogue differential integrator arranged to receive the analogue control voltage and the analogue slope compensation voltage, integrate the analogue slope compensation voltage, subtract the integrated slope compensation voltage from the analogue control voltage, and output the result of the subtraction as an analogue output voltage, a comparator arranged to compare the analogue output voltage to a voltage of an analogue current sense signal and produce an output signal when the analogue current sense signal voltage is equal to or exceeds the analogue output voltage, and control logic arranged to produce a drive signal in response to the output signal.
US12015341B2
Apparatus providing a regulated power supply to an oscillator comprises a reference voltage generator supplying a voltage reference, a regulator producing, based on a voltage received thereat, a regulated supply used by the oscillator which bases its frequency thereon, a capacitor having a terminal coupled to the regulator at a point, and a switch that is coupled to the reference voltage generator and to the point, wherein the closed switch couples the reference voltage generator to the point and wherein the open switch disconnects the point from the reference voltage generator, the switch being closed for a first time period during which a voltage based on the voltage reference from the reference voltage generator is supplied to the regulator and capacitor, and for a second, subsequent, time period the switch is opened and voltage stored on the capacitor is supplied to the regulator.
US12015322B2
An electric motor having a frame, a rotor assembly, and a stator assembly. The rotor assembly has a magnet, a bearing assembly, an impeller, and a shaft. The bearing assembly has a first bearing, a second bearing, and a biasing element between the first and second bearings. The first bearing is mounted to the frame by an o-ring, and the second bearing is mounted to the frame by adhesive.
US12015321B2
The hollow shaft motor according to the present invention comprises: a motor housing 11 having a cylindrical shape; a housing cover assembly 12 coupled to an upper portion of the motor housing 11; a rear cover 15 coupled to a lower portion of the motor housing 11; a stator assembly 20 located in the motor housing 11 and in a lower portion of the housing cover assembly 12; and a rotor assembly 30 located in the stator assembly 20 to rotate, wherein the housing cover assembly 12 comprises a housing cover 121, and the housing cover 121 is formed by insert injection molding while placing a press ring 122, a bus bar 123 and a sleeve 124 in a mold.
US12015305B2
A device, system and method for sequenced switching of a transfer switch. The method includes receiving a first monitoring signal indicating either one of an actuation of a fire alarm system or a first change of state in a primary power source from an on state to an off state. The method includes opening a first control relay connected to the primary power source and a second control relay connected to the secondary power source. The method further includes switching a safety relay from a first connection to the primary power source to a second connection to the secondary power source. The method further includes closing the first and second control relays so that the secondary power source energizes the lighting load.
US12015303B2
A system for utilizing renewable energy includes a rechargeable battery adapted to store energy, a solar panel device, and an inverter device. The solar panel device includes a solar panel adapted to receive sunlight and generate energy and a battery charger coupled to the solar panel. The battery charger is adapted to receive energy from the solar panel and store energy in the rechargeable battery. The inverter device includes a power outlet and is adapted to receive energy from the rechargeable battery and produce an electric current via the power outlet.
US12015300B2
Described herein is a system for consuming, generating, storing, and delivering renewable, redundant, energy and providing backup energy storage and transmission to and from electrical load and method of using the same. The invention relates to a renewable energy consumption, generation, storage, and delivery systems and methods of using the same. A preferred embodiment of the present invention is related to use of the system to provide renewable, redundant, remote backup energy storage and transmission to a mission critical facility such as a data center or colocation facility.
US12015295B2
A system includes a first charger connected to one of an aircraft, a watercraft, and a vehicle having at least one vehicle battery, a second charger connected to an on board battery pack, and at least one programmable logic controller (PLC) to manage communication between the at least one vehicle battery and the first charger to ensure that the at least one vehicle battery reaches a preset state of charge (SOC), manage communication between the on board battery pack and the second charger to ensure that the on board battery pack reaches the preset SOC, and manage transfer of energy from the on board battery pack to the at least one vehicle battery.
US12015291B2
A rechargeable battery jump starting device with a dual battery diode bridge system. The dual battery diode bridge, for example, is configured to protect against a back-charge to a first battery and/or a second battery after a vehicle has been jump charged to prevent damage thereto.
US12015289B2
A method for charging a battery set of an autonomous vehicle including: determining charging requirements of the battery set of the autonomous vehicle via a communication from the autonomous vehicle to a charging station, in response to the communication from the autonomous vehicle, connecting a plurality of batteries of the charging station in a first combination to match the charging requirements of the battery set of the autonomous vehicle; and charging the battery set of the autonomous vehicle using the plurality of batteries of the charging station in the first combination.
US12015281B2
According to one or more embodiments, a system is provided. The system includes a power device implantable within a patient for powering an implantable medical device. The power device includes a first coil configured to receive wireless power signals for powering the implantable medical device and processing circuitry configured to determine at least one measurable electrical characteristic in a plurality of electrical pathways in the power device including an electrical pathway to the first coil, and detect reduced performance in receiving wireless power signals based at least in part on the determined at least one measurable electrical characteristic.
US12015276B2
A system and method for pre-charging a DC link of a multi-level power converter, to reduce electrical transients or to decrease a charging current when a converter contactor/disconnect switch is closed, is described. The systems and methods of the present disclosure also provides a new and simplified system for pre-charging a DC link of a multi-level power converter by leveraging a neutral point of a multi-level power converter and a single-line connection to the grid side of the power converter. The DC link charger of the present disclosure, therefore, is capable of reducing the quantity of dedicated superfluous hardware and/or excess resistors, contactors, transformers, fuses, diodes, balancing components, rectifier modules, etc. demanded by conventional systems. Reduced quantities of electronic components and hardware can thereby decrease system costs per unit and lead to significant cost savings.
US12015263B2
A method for operating a tailgate of a motor vehicle, in particular a pickup, which is driven by means of an electric motor and delimits a cargo area. A disassembled state is detected, and energization of the electric motor is inhibited. Furthermore, the invention relates to a motor vehicle.
US12015244B2
A DFB laser DC-coupled output power configuration scheme with adjustable voltage difference. utilizes an external or internal power configuration unit to provide two electric DC power supplies with a fixed voltage difference for the transmitting unit TX of the DFB laser and the optical transceiver integrated chip, and at the same time optimizes the transmitting unit TX. The optimization scheme is that: the transistors in the transmitting unit TX are all low-voltage high-speed tubes, the transmitting unit TX includes a negative capacitance structure composed of capacitors C1 and C2, serving as an auxiliary structure for improving bandwidth. After optimization, the minimum voltage of the power supply voltage port TVCC of the transmitting unit TX is 2.7V and the problems that the output eye diagram is severely cracked and cannot be used when the traditional DFB laser configuration scheme with an external 3.3V power supply is tested at high temperature are solved.
US12015243B2
A laser diode driver circuit includes a first pair of contacts and connectors coupled to an anode of the laser diode. An inductance of each of the first pair of contacts and connectors is the same. A second pair of contacts and connectors are coupled to a cathode of the laser diode. An inductance of each of the second pair of contacts and connectors is the same. The laser diode driver circuit also includes current driving circuitry.
US12015236B2
A dielectric-grating waveguide free-electron laser device generating coherent or laser-like radiation is provided. An electron beam propagates next to a dielectric waveguide with a built-in grating structure to generate highly confined coherent or laser-like radiation in the waveguide through the Bragg resonance, the backward-wave resonance, or the Fabry-Perot resonance provided by the grating-waveguide structure. The dielectric-grating waveguide can be made of linear optical materials or nonlinear optical materials or combination of linear and nonlinear optical materials to enable versatile functionalities, such as laser generation, laser-wavelength conversion, and laser signal processing. Owing to the build-up of the laser modes inside the dielectric waveguide, coherent or laser-like Smith-Purcell radiation is also generated above the grating via coupling and bunching of the electrons with the surface mode fields.
US12015234B2
A coaxial cable connector includes a body configured to be coupled with a coaxial cable, a nut having a forward end configured to be threadedly coupled with an interface port, and a sleeve surrounding the nut and extending forward from the nut in a direction opposite to the body. The sleeve has a forward portion that extends beyond the forward end of the nut by a length such that the sleeve is configured to contact an outer surface of the interface port before a center conductor of the coaxial cable contacts the interface port, and the sleeve is configured to align the connector with the port and to prevent the center conductor from contacting any portion of the interface port other than a center conductor contact portion of the interface port.
US12015232B1
The present disclosure provides crimping pliers, comprising: a first plier member, a second plier member, a limiting component, a first crimping module, a second crimping module; the first plier member comprises a first clamping part and a first handle connected with the first clamping part; the second plier member comprises a second clamping part, a connecting member and a second handle; the limiting component is provided between the first handle and the second handle; the first crimping module is detachably disposed in the first clamping gap at the jaw of the first clamping part and is adsorbed by the first magnetic member. By detachably disposing the crimping module at the pliers and adsorbing and fixing it through magnetic components, the structure is more streamlined and the crimping module can be disassembled and replaced more quickly.
US12015226B2
The application is directed to various connector and sensor assemblies are described. The connector can have an opening that has a first surface and second surface that are opposite each other. The connector can include a plurality of retractable electrical connectors that extend from the first surface and a lock structure that is located on the second surface. The sensor assembly can include a body portion and a proximal end. The proximal end has a top side and a bottom side. The top side includes a plurality of electrical contacts that is configured to interact with the plurality of retractable electrical connectors. The bottom side includes a key structure that is configured to interact with the lock structure in the connector.
US12015223B2
The invention relates to a device (1) for supplying a consumer, the position of which initially cannot be exactly determined but later can be substantially stationarily fixed, with energy from a stationary supplier. The device includes a movable carriage or slide (2) connected to an arm (3). The arm (3) is movable between a first position (7) and a second position (8) and the arm (3) includes at least one plug part (4) for connection to an energy supply line (5) of the consumer. The plug part (4) is connected to the supplier by means of an energy supply line (6). A cover part (9), which is movable with the movement of the arm, is arranged on the arm (3). In the first position (7) of the arm (3), the cover part at least partially covers the plug part (4), and in the second position (8) of the arm (3), the cover part exposes the plug part (4) for connection to the energy supply line (5) of the consumer.
US12015209B2
Method, apparatuses, and computer program product for beam steering to support beam dithering in high aspect ratio antenna arrays are provided. One method may include applying a beam steering phase shift to a plurality of antenna array elements in an antenna array. The method may also include applying a non-uniform phase offset to each of the antenna array elements in addition to the beam steering phase shift. In addition, the method may include shifting a beam angle of the antenna array based on a combination of the beam steering phase shift and the non-uniform phase offset at each of the antenna array elements. The non-uniform phase offset may be a minimum phase increment.
US12015208B2
A mobile terminal having an antenna according to one embodiment is provided. The mobile terminal comprises: a first metal housing having a left side surface and a right side surface that define the exterior; and a second metal housing having a left side surface, a right side surface, and a bottom side surface that define the exterior. A first conductive member and a second conductive member of the second metal housing each include a first sub member disposed on a lower side surface and a second sub member disposed on a left side surface or a right side surface; the left side surface of the first metal housing and the second sub member of the second metal housing overlap; the overlapping first metal housing is not exposed to the exterior, while the second sub member may be exposed to the exterior.
US12015195B2
The disclosed technology includes device, systems, techniques, and methods for mm-wave energy harvesting utilizing a Rotman-Lens-based rectenna system. An energy harvester system can include one or more antenna, a Rotman Lens having a beam port side and an antenna side in electrical communication with the one or more antenna, and a rectifier network in electrical communication with the beam port side of the Rotman Lens. The energy harvester system can also include a power combining network in electrical communication with the rectifier network and having an output. The rectifier network can include a plurality of rectifiers connected to the beam port side of the Rotman Lens. Further, each of the plurality of rectifiers can include a rectifying diode. The power combining network can include a plurality of bypass diodes.
US12015194B2
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.
US12015188B2
A radar antenna assembly for a vehicle, including a composite window pane and at least one radar device designed to transmit and/or receive radar beam. The at least one radar device has an antenna unit and an amplifier unit. The amplifier unit is designed to provide an electrical driver signal for the antenna unit, and/or to receive an electrical echo signal from the antenna unit. The antenna unit may be arranged in the composite window pane of the vehicle, the amplifier unit may be arranged on a surface of the composite window pane, and the antenna unit and the amplifier unit are spatially separate from one another and are electrically interconnected via a connecting element arranged in the composite window pane.
US12015185B2
Techniques regarding quantum transducers are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can include an apparatus that can include a superconducting microwave resonator having a microstrip architecture that includes a dielectric layer positioned between a superconducting waveguide and a ground plane. The apparatus can also include an optical resonator positioned within the dielectric layer.
US12015183B2
A microwave mode coupling device for transferring electromagnetic (EM) energy from a first structure to a second structure while providing a pressure barrier between the first structure and the second structure, the coupling device comprising first and second transmission line sections separated by an intermediate waveguide section.
US12015181B2
An electrolyte sheet for solid oxide fuel cells that includes a ceramic plate body having a warpage height of not more than 300 μm, wherein a maximum value among values of 100×Q/LX, 100×R/LY, and 100×S/LX is not greater than 1, where Q is a maximum difference between a second side D2 and a second virtual straight line V2 in an X coordinate, R is a maximum difference between a third side D3 and a third virtual straight line V3 in a Y coordinate, S is a maximum difference between a fourth side D4 and a fourth virtual straight line V4 in the X coordinate, LX is a length of a virtual rectangle in an X-axis direction, and LY is a length of the virtual rectangle in a Y-axis direction.
US12015172B2
A battery pack includes a plurality of battery modules disposed in a front and rear direction. Each of the battery modules includes a plurality of battery cells; a module housing; and a connection plate including a contact portion at an upper or lower portion of the plurality of battery cells and having a plurality of connection terminals in a portion thereof and respectively electrically contacted and connected to the electrode terminals at the plurality of battery cells, and a connection portion bent at least once from one end of the contact portion to extend in at least one direction among an upper direction, a lower direction, a front direction and a rear direction so that the bent and extending region of the connection portion is on a left or right outer wall of the module housing to contact a part of a connection plate of another battery module.
US12015164B2
This application relates to a battery module and a battery pack. The battery module includes a binding member and battery cell assemblies arranged along a horizontal direction, the battery cell assembly including an upper-layer battery cell and a lower-layer battery cell that are stacked along a vertical direction, the upper-layer battery cell and the lower-layer battery cell interconnected and forming a joint; and the binding member covering the joint, located between two adjacent battery cell assemblies, and fixed to the battery cell assemblies. The battery module includes a binding member and a plurality of battery cell assemblies, and the battery cell assembly includes upper-layer and a lower-layer battery cells stacked along a vertical direction. A joint is formed between the upper-layer and lower-layer battery cells and covered by the joint fixed to the battery cell assemblies, swelling of the upper-layer and lower-layer battery cells at the joint is reduced.
US12015159B2
The method of manufacturing the fuel cell includes a step of stacking a gas diffusion layer (for example, an anode diffusion layer and a cathode diffusion layer) and a catalyst layer (for example, an anode catalyst layer and a cathode catalyst layer) on an electrolyte membrane, performing heat treatment with pressure and heat to form a membrane electrode assembly, a preliminary treatment step of bringing superheated steam into contact with the membrane electrode assembly, and an aging step of applying a voltage having a predetermined waveform between an anode electrode and a cathode electrode of the membrane electrode assembly subjected to the preliminary treatment step.
US12015154B2
To provide a cathode active material capable of reducing cathode resistance of a secondary battery by enhancing electron conductivity thereof without reducing discharge capacity of the secondary battery. Lanthanum compound particles each having a perovskite-type structure are dispersed on surfaces of secondary particles of a lithium transition metal-containing composite oxide and/or in gaps or grain boundaries between primary particles thereof. The lanthanum compound particles have a cross-sectional average particle size of 0.70 μm or less. The number of lanthanum compound particles present per unit area of the cross sections of the secondary particles is 0.03 particles/μm2 to 0.10 particles/μm2, and the number of lanthanum compound particles present per unit area of the surfaces of the secondary particles is 0.01 particles/μm2 to 0.25 particles/μm2. The content of lanthanum with respect to the entire cathode active material is within a range of 0.1% by mass to 5% by mass.
US12015150B2
Processes for preparing a niobate material are provided, in which the processes include the following steps: (i) providing a niobium-containing source; (ii) providing a transitional metal source (TMS), a post-transitional metal source (PTMS), or both; (iii) dissolving (a) the niobium-containing source, and (b) the TMS, the PTMS, or both in an aqueous medium to form an intermediate solution; (iv) forming an intermediate paste by admixing an inert support material with the intermediate solution; (v) optionally coating the intermediate paste on a support substrate; and (vi) removing the inert support material by subjecting the intermediate paste to a calcination process and providing a transition-metal-niobate (TMN) and/or a post-transition-metal-niobate (PTMN). Anodes including a TMN and/or PTMN are also provided.
US12015149B2
Provided are passivation layers for batteries. The batteries may be aqueous aluminum batteries. The passivation layer may be disposed on a portion of or all of a surface or surfaces of an anode, which may be an aluminum or aluminum alloy anode. The passivation layer is bonded to the surface of the anode. The passivation layer may be an organic, nitrogen-rich material and inorganic Al-halide rich or Al-nitrate rich material. The passivation layer may be formed by contacting an aluminum or aluminum alloy substrate, which may be aluminum or aluminum alloy anode, with one or more aluminum halide and one or more ionic liquid.
US12015146B2
Provided herein are energy storage device electrode films comprising a hybrid electrode film, and methods of forming such multilayer hybrid electrode films and energy storage devices comprising multilayer hybrid electrode films. Each hybrid electrode film may comprise a self-supporting dry coated active layer and a wet cast active layer, wherein each active layer comprises a binder and an active material. The binder and/or active material may be the same or different as any other active layer. The hybrid multilayer electrode film may further comprise at least one additional layer, and the hybrid multilayer electrode film may be laminated with a current collector to form an electrode.
US12015145B2
An anode including a current collector and an anode active material layer on the current collector are provided. The anode active material layer includes first oriented particles having a first tilt angle θ1 inclined with respect to the direction of the current collector, and second oriented particles having a second tilt angle θ2 inclined with respect to the direction of the current collector. The first tilt angle θ1 and the second tilt angle θ2 are different and both not greater than 70°.
US12015141B2
A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery comprises a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and an electrolyte solution. At least part of the separator is interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode substrate and a negative electrode active material layer. The negative electrode active material layer is placed on a surface of the negative electrode substrate. Voids are formed in the negative electrode active material layer. In a cross section parallel to a thickness direction of the negative electrode active material layer, the voids have an average equivalent circle diameter from 9.6 μm to 35.8 μm, an average circularity of 0.26 or more, and an area percentage from 3.1% to 30.9%.
US12015136B2
A battery pack includes a battery column and a liquid cooling tube. The battery column includes at least two batteries, and the batteries are arranged in a first direction. The liquid cooling tube is disposed on a surface of the battery column and is configured to dissipate heat for the batteries. The liquid cooling tube includes cooling portions, and the cooling portions are portions having orthographic projections on the battery column. The orthographic projections of the cooling portions on the battery column are cooling regions. The cooling portions extend in a second direction, and the second direction is not parallel to the first direction.
US12015132B2
An energy storage device cooling system includes a housing, at least one energy storage device within the housing, and a coolant circuit including a first flow portion extending through the housing, the coolant circuit configured to supply coolant for heat exchange with the at least one energy storage device. The energy storage device cooling system also includes a chiller system including: a coolant supply, a heat exchanger, and an outlet in fluid communication with the first flow portion. The energy storage device cooling system also includes a controller configured to alter a function of the chiller system when a sensed temperature does not exceed a first temperature threshold.
US12015128B2
A vehicle battery charger and a vehicle battery charging system are described and illustrated, and can include a controller enabling a user to enter a time of day at which the vehicle battery charger or system begins and/or ends charging of the vehicle battery. The vehicle battery charger can be separate from the vehicle, can be at least partially integrated into the vehicle, can include a transmitter and/or a receiver capable of communication with a controller that is remote from the vehicle and vehicle charger, and can be controlled by a user or another party (e.g., a power utility) to control battery charging based upon a time of day, cost of power, or other factors.
US12015118B2
An electrode includes a current collector; a first active material layer including a first active material; and a second active material layer including a second active material; wherein the first active material layer is arranged between the current collector and the second active material layer. The first active material layer is formed on a surface of the current collector, and a particle size of 90% accumulative volume of the first active material is less than 40 μm. The active material layer is used to ensure that the electrochemical device and the electronic device do not generate a short circuit when pressed by an external force, thereby ensuring the mechanical safety performance of the electrochemical device and the electronic device.
US12015117B2
A lithium secondary cell includes a positive electrode, a separator, a negative electrode, an electrolytic solution, and a cell case. The positive electrode, the negative electrode, and the separator are impregnated with the electrolytic solution. The cell case is a sheet-like member and convers the positive electrode and the negative electrode from both sides in the direction of superposition. The cell case houses therein the positive electrode, the separator, the negative electrode, and the electrolytic solution. The electrolytic solution contains an electrolytic solution material serving as a base compound and LiDFOB serving as an additive. The moisture content in the electrolytic solution is higher than or equal to 10 ppm by mass and lower than or equal to 15 ppm by mass.
US12015115B2
An optoelectronic module includes a spacer with an optical component mounting surface, a fluid permeable channel, and a module mounting surface. The fluid permeable channel and module mounting surface allow the channels to be sealed to foreign matter during certain manufacturing steps and to remain free from blockages, such as solidified flux, during certain manufacturing steps. Further, the channels can permit heat to escape from the optoelectronic module during operation.
US12015101B2
A method of manufacturing a chip scale light-emitting diode package is provided. The method of manufacturing chip scale light-emitting diode package includes: manufacturing a lens molding sheet including intaglios on one surface thereof; forming a lens layer having lens portions on one surface thereof and a flat surface on a surface opposite thereto by applying a light-transmitting resin to the intaglios; forming an adhesive layer on the flat surface of the lens layer; arranging light-emitting diode chips, each having a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface, on the adhesive layer in such a way that the light-emitting diode chips correspond to the lens portions and the second surface is attached to the adhesive layer, wherein a first electrode pad and a second electrode pad are formed on the first surface; and manufacturing a chip array sheet by forming a molding part on the adhesive layer to cover outer surfaces of the light-emitting diode chips.
US12015099B2
A method and structure providing an optical sensor having an optimized Ge—Si interface includes providing a substrate having a pixel region and a logic region. In some embodiments, the method further includes forming a trench within the pixel region. In various examples, and after forming the trench, the method further includes forming a doped semiconductor layer along sidewalls and along a bottom surface of the trench. In some embodiments, the method further includes forming a germanium layer within the trench and over the doped semiconductor layer. In some examples, and after forming the germanium layer, the method further includes forming an optical sensor within the germanium layer.
US12015088B2
A display device and method of fabricating the same are provided. The display device includes a substrate and a thin-film transistor formed on the substrate. The thin-film transistor includes a lower gate conductive layer disposed on the substrate, and a lower gate insulating film disposed on the lower gate conductive layer The lower gate insulating film includes an upper surface and sidewalls. The thin-film transistor includes an active layer disposed on the upper surface of the lower gate insulating film, the active layer including sidewalls. At least one of the sidewalls of the lower gate insulating film and at least one of the sidewalls of the active layer are aligned with each other.
US12015086B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a fin-shaped active region that protrudes from the substrate, a gate insulating film covering a top surface and both side walls of the fin-shaped active region, a gate electrode on the top surface and the both side walls of the fin-shaped active region and covering the gate insulating film, one pair of insulating spacers on both side walls of the gate electrode, one pair of source/drain region on the fin-shaped active region and located on both sides of the gate electrode, and a lower buffer layer between the fin-shaped active region the source/drain region. The source/drain regions include a compound semiconductor material including atoms from different groups. The lower buffer layer includes a compound semiconductor material that is amorphous and includes atoms from different groups.
US12015084B2
A field effect transistor includes at least one line trench extending downward from a top surface of a channel region which laterally surrounds or underlies the at least one line trench, a gate dielectric contacting all surfaces of the at least one line trench and including a planar gate dielectric portion that extends over an entirety of a top surface of the channel region, a gate electrode, a source region, and a drain region.
US12015082B2
The invention relates to a DEPFET comprising: a semiconductor substrate (100) of a first conduction type, which has a first main surface (101) and a second main surface (102), which are opposite one another; a source terminal region (1s) of a second conduction type on the first main surface (101); a drain terminal region (1d) of a second conduction type; a channel region (10), which is arranged between the source terminal region (1s) and the drain terminal region (1d); a gate electrode (11), which is separated from the channel region (10) by a gate insulator (6); a rear activation region (104) of a second conduction type, which is formed on the second main surface (102); and a substrate doping increase region (2) of a first conduction type, which is formed at least under the source terminal region (1s) and under the channel region (10), the substrate doping increase region (2) having a signal charge control region (20) of the first conduction type below the gate electrode (11), in which signal charge control region the effective doping dose has a higher value than at other points of the substrate doping increase region (2) below the gate electrode.
US12015079B2
In one aspect, a method of fabricating a transistor includes depositing a first epitaxial layer; depositing a second epitaxial layer on the first epitaxial layer; forming a single termination trench in the second epitaxial layer; and filling the termination trench with a dielectric. A depth of the termination trench is greater than 10 microns. In another aspect, a transistor includes a first epitaxial layer; a second epitaxial layer on the first epitaxial layer; and a single termination trench in the second epitaxial layer. The termination trench is greater than 10 microns and is filled with a dielectric.
US12015077B2
Methods for, and structures formed by, wet process assisted approaches implemented in a replacement gate process are provided. Generally, in some examples, a wet etch process for removing a capping layer can form a first monolayer on the underlying layer as an adhesion layer and a second monolayer on, e.g., an interfacial dielectric layer between a gate spacer and a fin as an etch protection mechanism. Generally, in some examples, a wet process can form a monolayer on a metal layer, like a barrier layer of a work function tuning layer, as a hardmask for patterning of the metal layer.
US12015070B2
A method of forming a gate structure includes forming an opening through an insulating layer and forming a first work function metal layer in the opening. The method also includes recessing the first work function metal layer into the opening to form a recessed first work function metal layer, and forming a second work function metal layer in the opening and over the first work function metal layer. The second work function metal layer lines and overhangs the recessed first work function metal layer.
US12015063B2
An integrated circuit device including a substrate; a fin-type active region protruding from the substrate; a gate line intersecting the fin-type active region and covering a top surface and side walls thereof; a gate insulating capping layer covering the gate line; source/drain regions at sides of the gate line on the fin-type active region; first conductive plugs connected to the source/drain regions; a hard mask layer covering the first conductive plugs; and a second conductive plug between the first conductive plugs, the second conductive plug connected to the gate line by passing through the gate insulating capping layer and having a top surface higher than the top surface of each first conductive plug, wherein the hard mask layer protrudes from the first conductive plugs and toward the second conductive plug so that a portion of the hard mask layer overhangs from an edge of the first conductive plugs.
US12015058B2
A device includes a substrate with upper/lower surfaces, including hydrogen containing region having hydrogen chemical concentration peaks in a depth direction. A carrier concentration distribution of the hydrogen containing region includes a first carrier concentration peak, a second carrier concentration peak closest to the first carrier concentration peak, a third carrier concentration peak arranged closer to the upper surface than the second carrier concentration peak, a first inter peak region arranged between the first and second carrier concentration peaks, a second inter peak region arranged between the second and third carrier concentration peaks, and an inter-peaks concentration peak arranged in the second inter peak region such that the concentration peak does not overlap the hydrogen chemical concentration peaks in the second and third carrier concentration peaks. A local minimum value of a carrier concentration in the first inter peak region is smaller than that of the second inter peak region.
US12015054B2
A method includes implanting dopant of a first conductivity type into an epitaxial layer of semiconductor material to form first and second false collector regions adjacent to the surface of the epitaxial layer. The first false collector region is located laterally on a first side of a base region. The base region is formed within the epitaxial layer from dopant of a second conductivity type that is opposite the first conductivity type. The second false collector region is located laterally on a second side of the base region. The second side is opposite the first side of the base region. The base region is a base of a parasitic bipolar junction in an isolation region of an active semiconductor device.
US12015046B2
Back-illuminated DUV/VUV/EUV radiation or charged particle image sensors are fabricated using a method that utilizes a plasma atomic layer deposition (plasma ALD) process to generate a thin pinhole-free pure boron layer over active sensor areas. Circuit elements are formed on a semiconductor membrane's frontside surface, and then an optional preliminary hydrogen plasma cleaning process is performed on the membrane's backside surface. The plasma ALD process includes performing multiple plasma ALD cycles, with each cycle including forming an adsorbed boron precursor layer during a first cycle phase, and then generating a hydrogen plasma to convert the precursor layer into an associated boron nanolayer during a second cycle phase. Gasses are purged from the plasma ALD process chamber after each cycle phase. The plasma ALD cycles are repeated until the resulting stack of boron nanolayers has a cumulative stack height (thickness) that is equal to a selected target thickness.
US12015045B2
A manufacturing method of an image pickup apparatus for endoscope includes: manufacturing two optical wafers each of which has a glass wafer as a base substrate and is a hybrid lens wafer including a plurality of resin lenses, and a spacer wafer including a plurality of spacers and being formed with an inorganic material; manufacturing a bonded wafer in which space in which the plurality of resin lenses are disposed is hermetically sealed by directly bonding the two optical wafers and the spacer wafer at a temperature lower than a softening point of the plurality of resin lenses; disposing a plurality of image pickup members on the bonded wafer; and cutting the bonded wafer on which the plurality of image pickup members are disposed.
US12015036B2
Devices, systems and methods for solid-state X-ray detection with high temporal resolution are described. An example method includes receiving an X-ray pulse in a semiconductor chip resulting in an electron cloud being formed in the semiconductor chip, applying a first set of voltages across a first plurality of drift cathode strips on a first side of the semiconductor chip and a second plurality of drift cathode strips on a second side of the semiconductor chip, applying a second set of voltages to across the first and the second plurality of drift cathode strips to form an electric field having a linear profile to cause the electron cloud to drift along the middle of the semiconductor chip, and activating a counter cathode on the second side and one or more readout anodes on the first side to collect the electron cloud after spreading in the middle section of the semiconductor chip.
US12015034B2
Disclosed are a display substrate and a display device. The display substrate includes: a base substrate; a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines on the base substrate that intersect to surround a plurality of pixels; at least one thin film transistor on the base substrate and located in each pixel, each thin film transistor including a gate electrode, a first electrode and a second electrode; a storage capacitor on the base substrate and located in each pixel, the storage capacitor including a first capacitor electrode and a second capacitor electrode that are disposed oppositely and located in the same layer, wherein the first capacitor electrode comprises at least an electrode body; and a tip structure, the tip structure and the first capacitor electrode being located in the same layer, and the tip structure including a first tip sub-structure and a second tip sub-structure.
US12015026B2
Methods of forming a circuit-protection device include forming a dielectric having a first thickness and a second thickness greater than the first thickness over a semiconductor, forming a conductor over the dielectric, and patterning the conductor to retain a portion of the conductor over a portion of the dielectric having the second thickness, and to retain substantially no portion of the conductor over a portion of the dielectric having the first thickness, wherein the retained portion of the conductor defines a control gate of a field-effect transistor of the circuit-protection device.
US12015022B2
The present disclosure provides a display panel, a method for manufacturing a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a substrate, and a light emitting element array and a quantum dot color filter array arranged on the substrate, the quantum dot color filter array is arranged on a light exiting side of the light emitting element array, and quantum dot color filters in the quantum dot color filter array correspond to light emitting elements in the light emitting element array one to one, and the display panel further includes a blocking structure arranged between the light emitting element array and the quantum dot color filter array so as to block heat dissipated by the light emitting elements from being conducted to the quantum dot color filters.
US12015019B2
A multichip module (MCM) power package includes a multilayer routable leadframe substrate (MRLF) substrate including a first and a second RLF layer. A multilayer extending via extends from the first into the second RLF layer. A first vertical FET has a side flipchip attached to a bottom side of the second RLF. A second vertical FET has a side flipchip attached to a bottom side of the second RLF layer, and contacts the multilayer extending via. A controller integrated circuit (IC) is flipchip attached a top side of the MRLF substrate at least partially over the first vertical FET. A top mold compound is on a top side of the MRLF substrate lateral to the controller IC that is lateral to a metal pad on the multilayer extending via. A bottom side of the first and second vertical FET are exposed by a bottom mold compound layer.
US12015015B2
A semiconductor package includes a substrate including a first bonding pad and a first conductive pattern positioned at the same level and in contact with the first bonding pad; a lower semiconductor chip and an upper semiconductor chip stacked over the substrate, the lower and upper semiconductor chips respectively including a first lower chip pad and a first upper chip pad; a first lower bonding wire with first and second ends respectively connected to the first bonding pad and the first lower chip pad; and a first upper bonding wire with a first end connected to the first bonding pad and a second end connected to the first upper chip pad, the first end of the first upper bonding wire is located farther from the lower and upper semiconductor chips and closer to the first conductive pattern than the first end of the first lower bonding wire.
US12015012B2
A semiconductor device with a novel structure is provided. The semiconductor device includes a silicon substrate including a first circuit, a first element layer including a second circuit, and a second element layer including a third circuit. The first circuit includes a first transistor. The second circuit includes a second transistor. The third circuit includes a memory cell. The memory cell includes a third transistor and a capacitor. The first element layer and the second element layer constitute a stacked block stacked and provided in a direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to a surface of the silicon substrate. A plurality of stacked blocks are stacked and provided in the direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the surface of the silicon substrate. Each of the plurality of stacked blocks includes a first wiring provided in the direction perpendicular or substantially perpendicular to the surface of the silicon substrate. The plurality of stacked blocks are electrically connected to each other through the wiring.
US12015011B2
Semiconductor device assemblies are provided with one or more layers of thermally conductive material disposed between adjacent semiconductor dies in a vertical stack. The thermally conductive material can be configured to conduct heat generated by one or more of the semiconductor dies in laterally outward towards an outer edge of the assembly. The layer of thermally conductive material can comprise one or more allotropes of carbon, such as diamond, graphene, graphite, carbon nanotubes, or a combination thereof. The layer of thermally conductive material can be provided via deposition (e.g., sputtering, PVD, CVD, or ALD), or via adhering a film comprising the layer of thermally conductive material to one or more of the semiconductor dies.
US12015004B2
A device assembly includes a functional substrate having one or more electronic components formed there. The functional substrate has a cavity extending from a first surface toward a second surface of the functional substrate at a location that lacks the electronic components. The device assembly further includes a semiconductor die placed within the cavity with a pad surface of the semiconductor die being opposite to a bottom of the cavity. The functional substrate may be formed utilizing a first fabrication technology and the semiconductor die may be formed utilizing a second fabrication technology that differs from the first fabrication technology.
US12015001B2
A bonding method and a bonding structure are provided. A device substrate is provided including a plurality of semiconductor devices, wherein each of the semiconductor devices includes a first bonding layer. A cap substrate is provided including a plurality of cap structures, wherein each of the cap structures includes a second bonding layer, the second bonding layer having a planar surface and a first protrusion protruding from the planar surface. The device substrate is bonded to the cap substrate by engaging the first protrusion of the second bonding layer of each of the cap structures with the corresponding first bonding layer of each of the semiconductor devices in the device substrate.
US12014998B2
A semiconductor device comprises a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, at least one connection element arranged on the first surface of the substrate to electrically and mechanically connect the substrate to a printed circuit board, and a radar semiconductor chip arranged on the first surface of the substrate.
US12014993B2
Provided is a method of fabricating a package including: providing a die with a contact thereon; forming a redistribution layer (RDL) structure on the die, the forming the RDL structure on the die comprising: forming a first dielectric material on the die; forming a conductive feature in and partially on the first dielectric material; after the forming the conductive feature, forming a protective layer on the conductive feature, wherein the protective layer covers a top surface of the conductive feature and extends to cover a top surface of the first dielectric material; forming a second dielectric material on the protective layer; and performing a planarization process to expose the conductive feature; and forming a plurality of conductive connectors to electrically connect the die through the RDL structure.
US12014990B2
Techniques and mechanisms for high interconnect density communication with an interposer. In some embodiments, an interposer comprises a substrate and portions disposed thereon, wherein respective inorganic dielectrics of said portions adjoin each other at a material interface, which extends to each of the substrate and a first side of the interposer. A first hardware interface of the interposer spans the material interface at the first side, wherein a first one of said portions comprises first interconnects which couple the first hardware interface to a second hardware interface at the first side. A second one of said portions includes second interconnects which couple one of first hardware interface or the second hardware interface to a third hardware interface at another side of the interposer. In another embodiment, a metallization pitch feature of the first hardware interface is smaller than a corresponding metallization pitch feature of the second hardware interface.
US12014986B2
The present disclosure provides a method for preparing a semiconductor device structure. The method includes preparing a substrate having a pattern-dense region and a pattern-loose region; forming a first conductive layer disposed over the substrate; forming a first dielectric layer disposed over the first conductive layer; etching the first dielectric layer to form a first opening and a second opening exposing the first conductive layer; forming a first lining layer and a first conductive plug in the first opening and a second conductive plug in the second opening, wherein the first lining layer comprises manganese (Mn), the first conductive plug comprises copper (Cu), and the first conductive plug and the second plug are surrounded by the first lining layer; and forming a second conductive layer over the first dielectric layer, the first lining layer and the first conductive layer, wherein the second conductive layer comprises copper (Cu).
US12014984B2
A method for forming a semiconductor apparatus includes forming a plurality of repetitive initial structures over a substrate of the semiconductor apparatus. An initial structure in the plurality of repetitive initial structures is formed by forming a first stack of transistors along a Z direction substantially perpendicular to a substrate plane, and forming local interconnect structures. Each of the transistors in the first stack of transistors is sandwiched between two of the local interconnect structures. Vertical conductive structures are formed substantially parallel to the Z direction, a height of one of the vertical conductive structures along the Z direction being at least a height of the initial structure. The initial structure is functionalized into a final structure by forming one or more connections each electrically coupling one of the local interconnect structures to one of the vertical conductive structures.
US12014982B2
An IC device includes first and second cells adjacent each other and over a substrate. The first cell includes a first IO pattern along a first track among a plurality of tracks in a first metal layer, the plurality of tracks elongated along a first axis and spaced from each other along a second axis. The second cell includes a plurality of conductive patterns along corresponding different tracks among the plurality of tracks in the first metal layer, each of the plurality of conductive patterns being an IO pattern of the second cell or a floating conductive pattern. The first metal layer further includes a first connecting pattern along the first track and connects the first IO pattern and a second IO pattern of the second cell. The second IO pattern is one of the plurality of conductive patterns of the second cell and is along the first track.
US12014977B2
Disclosed are interconnection structures, semiconductor packages including the same, and methods of fabricating the same. The interconnection structure comprises a first dielectric layer, a wiring pattern formed in the first dielectric layer, a portion of the wiring pattern exposed with respect to a top surface of the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer, the second dielectric layer including an opening that exposes the exposed portion of the wiring pattern, a pad formed in the opening of the second dielectric layer, the pad including a base part that covers the exposed portion of the wiring pattern at a bottom of the opening and a sidewall part that extends upwardly along an inner lateral surface of the opening from the base part, a first seed layer interposed between the second dielectric layer and a first lateral surface of the sidewall part, the first seed layer being in contact with the first lateral surface and the second dielectric layer, and a second seed layer that conformally covers a second lateral surface of the sidewall part and a top surface of the base part, the second lateral surface being opposite to the first lateral surface the second dielectric layer.
US12014976B2
A chip package structure includes an interposer structure that contains a package-side redistribution structure, an interposer core assembly, and a die-side redistribution structure. The interposer core assembly includes at least one silicon substrate interposer, and each of the at least one silicon substrate interposer includes a respective silicon substrate, a respective set of through-silicon via (TSV) structures vertically extending through the respective silicon substrate, a respective set of interconnect-level dielectric layers embedding a respective set of metal interconnect structures, and a respective set of metal bonding structures that are electrically connected to the die-side redistribution structure. The chip package structure includes at least two semiconductor dies that are attached to the die-side redistribution structure, and an epoxy molding compound (EMC) multi-die frame that laterally encloses the at least two semiconductor dies.
US12014975B2
A semiconductor package includes a redistribution substrate and a semiconductor chip on a top surface of the redistribution substrate. The redistribution substrate includes an insulating layer, and first, second, and third redistribution patterns disposed in the insulating layer. The first to third redistribution patterns are sequentially stacked in an upward direction and are electrically connected to each other. Each of the first to third redistribution patterns includes a wire portion that extends parallel to the top surface of the redistribution substrate. Each of the first and third redistribution patterns further includes a via portion that extends from the wire portion in a direction perpendicular to the top surface of the redistribution substrate. The second redistribution pattern furthers include first fine wire patterns that are less wide than the wire portion of the second redistribution pattern.
US12014958B2
Methods for forming interconnects in microfeature workpieces, and microfeature workpieces having such interconnects are disclosed herein. The microfeature workpieces may have a terminal and a substrate with a first side carrying the terminal and a second side opposite the first side. In one embodiment, a method includes (a) constructing an electrically conductive interconnect extending from the terminal to at least an intermediate depth in the substrate with the interconnect electrically connected to the terminal, and (b) removing material from the second side of the substrate so that a portion of the interconnect projects from the substrate.
US12014953B2
A semiconductor device and a method of fabricating the semiconductor device are disclosed. The method includes: providing a first wafer including a substrate; forming a hole in the first wafer, which extends through the substrate; forming an insulating dielectric layer over a side wall of the hole; filling the hole with a conductive layer; removing at least part of the insulating dielectric layer situated in correspondence with the substrate, forming an air gap between the conductive layer and the substrate; and forming a closure layer, which closes the air gap. With the present invention, parasitic capacitance present between the conductive layer, the insulating dielectric layer and the substrate is significantly reduced, resulting in an improvement in performance of the semiconductor device.
US12014932B2
A substrate structure of the memory, and a method for preparing the substrate structure of the memory are provided. The method includes: providing a substrate; forming a first mask layer on the substrate, the first mask layer including a plurality of strip patterns extending in a direction and spaced apart from each other; forming a first dielectric layer covering the first mask layer; forming a plurality of sacrificial portions spaced apart from each other in the first dielectric layer and covering a portion of the plurality of strip patterns; filling gaps between the sacrificial portions with a second dielectric material; forming a second mask layer by removing the sacrificial portions while retaining the second dielectric material in the gaps; and performing layer-by-layer etching into the substrate to form a plurality of active areas arranged in an array.
US12014930B2
In an etching method, plasma from a processing gas containing a fluorocarbon gas is formed within a chamber of a plasma processing apparatus, and a deposit containing fluorocarbon is formed on a substrate. The substrate includes a first region formed of a silicon containing material and a second region formed of a metal containing material. Subsequently, plasma from a rare gas is formed within the chamber, and rare gas ions are supplied to the substrate. As a result, the first region is etched by the fluorocarbon contained in the deposit. When the plasma from the rare gas is formed, a magnetic field distribution in which a horizontal component on an edge side of the substrate is higher than a horizontal component on a center of the substrate is formed by an electromagnet.
US12014927B2
Methods and techniques for deposition of amorphous carbon films on a substrate are provided. In one example, the method includes depositing an amorphous carbon film on an underlayer positioned on a susceptor in a first processing region. The method further includes implanting a dopant or the inert species into the amorphous carbon film in a second processing region. The implant species, energy, dose & temperature in some combination may be used to enhance the hardmask hardness. The method further includes patterning the doped amorphous carbon film. The method further includes etching the underlayer.
US12014921B2
Disclosed are apparatuses and methods for providing a substrate onto a substrate support in a processing chamber, generating an inert plasma in the processing chamber, and maintaining the inert plasma to heat the substrate to a steady state temperature, suitable for conducting plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD), in less than 30 seconds from providing the substrate onto the substrate support. An apparatus may include a processing chamber, a process station that includes a substrate support, a process gas unit configured to flow an inert gas onto a substrate supported by the substrate support, a plasma source configured to generate an inert plasma in the process station, and a controller with instructions configured to flow the inert gas onto the substrate, generate the inert plasma in the first process station, and maintain the inert plasma to thereby heat the substrate.
US12014916B2
An ion source includes an electron generator, an ionization chamber, and a magnetic field. The electron generator is configured to produce electrons. The ionization chamber has an electron entrance aperture through a first wall, an ion exit aperture through a second wall, and an axis. The ionization chamber is configured to produce ions. The magnetic field is arranged to confine electrons in a beam directed through the electron entrance aperture, in a direction within 45 degrees of parallel to the axis, and towards a location displaced from the ion exit aperture.
US12014905B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device include; seating a substrate having a substrate radius on an electrostatic chuck, applying first radio-frequency power to the electrostatic chuck to induce plasma in a region at least above the electrostatic chuck, and generating a magnetic field in the region at least above the electrostatic chuck using a magnet having a ring-shape and disposed above the electrostatic chuck by applying second radio-frequency power to the magnet, wherein the magnet has an inner radius ranging from about one-half to about one-fourth of the substrate radius.
US12014902B2
Embodiments described herein relate to process systems for cleaning semiconductor process chamber components. The process systems include a process chamber having process chamber components. The process chamber components include a substrate support disposed within a chamber volume of the process chamber. A gas distribution assembly faces the substrate support. A gas baffle is fluidly coupled to the gas distribution assembly. A sensor system is coupled to the process chamber and is configured to monitor at least one characteristic of the volume of the process chamber. A dynamic gas assist is fluidly coupled to the gas baffle and is communicatively coupled to the sensor.
US12014897B2
A semiconductor processing apparatus according to the present invention includes a main body cover that covers a main body device and a control device. The main body cover has a transfer opening for transferring a semiconductor, and the main body cover further has an intake port that generates an air flow in a horizontal direction inside the main body cover.
US12014882B2
A tantalum capacitor includes: a tantalum body including tantalum powder and having a tantalum wire exposed to one end surface; a molded portion having fifth and sixth surfaces opposing each other in a first direction, third and fourth surfaces opposing each other in a second direction, and first and second direction opposing each other in a third direction, and disposed to surround the tantalum body; an anode lead frame exposed to the second surface of the molded portion and electrically connected to the tantalum wire; and a cathode lead frame spaced apart from the anode lead frame and exposed to the second surface of the molded portion. The anode lead frame includes a first connection portion and a first bent portion, and the first bent portion forms an angle of inclination, ranging from 70° or more to 80° or less, to a side of the tantalum body with respect to the first connection portion.
US12014880B2
A multilayer capacitor includes a ceramic body including a dielectric layer, and having first to sixth surfaces, connected to the first surface to the fourth surface and opposing each other, a plurality of internal electrodes disposed inside the ceramic body, exposed to the fifth surface and the sixth surface, and having one ends exposed to the third surface or the fourth surface, and a first side margin portion and a second side margin portion disposed on end portions of the internal electrode, exposed to the fifth surface and the sixth surface, the first and second side margin portions are divided into an inner layer formed to be adjacent to the ceramic body, and an outer layer formed on the inner layer, and a dielectric constant of the inner layer is lower than a dielectric constant of the outer layer.
US12014879B2
A multilayer electronic component includes a plurality of dielectric layers and a plurality of electrode layers that are alternately stacked. A skewness of a distribution of thicknesses of the plurality of dielectric layers at a plurality of arbitrary locations of the plurality of dielectric layers is 0.2 or more.
US12014873B2
A chassis includes a receiving case. The receiving case includes a first base, a second base, and a cover. The first base includes two first side walls. One of the two first side walls includes a first sliding portion. One of the two first side walls includes a multi-segment positioning portion. The second base includes two second side walls. One of the two second side walls includes a second sliding portion. One of the two second side walls includes a multi-segment alignment portion. The cover is pivoted on the first base. The first sliding portion is connected to the second sliding portion, and the multi-segment positioning portion of the first base is adapted to be engaged with the multi-segment alignment portion of the second base, so that the second base is slidably disposed on the first base. The receiving case is adapted to accommodate electronic elements.
US12014864B2
A coil of electrically conductive material includes first and second sections, the first section including a first plurality of turns and the second section including a second plurality of turns. Both the first plurality of turns and the second plurality of turns are arranged around a winding axis of the coil. The first plurality of turns are smaller than the second plurality of turns such that when viewed along the winding axis of the coil, the first plurality of turns fit within the second plurality of turns. When viewed perpendicular to the winding axis of the coil, the first and second sections are adjacent.
US12014862B2
The disclosure relates to a coil (100) comprising: a multi-part conductor (110) having a long extension (in relation to its cross-section), the multi-part conductor comprising two or more conductors (A,B) being electrically insulated from each other, wherein, in a cross-section of the multi-part conductor (110), at least two of said two or more conductors (A,B) are arranged adjacent to each other in the direction of the central axis (120), wherein said multi-part conductor (110) is wound around the central axis (120) in more than one circumferential turn, such that a first portion (130) of the multi-part conductor (110) is arranged adjacent to a second portion (132) of the multi-part conductor (110) in the direction of the central axis (120), and wherein said adjacent arrangement of said two or more conductors (A,B) is the same in relation to each other and in relation to the direction of a central axis (120) of the coil (100) for each circumferential turn.
US12014857B2
An electronic device in a wireless power system may be operable with a removable accessory such as a case. The device may convey wireless power to, from, or through the case while the device is coupled to the case. The device may have coplanar power transmitting and power receiving coils. The removable accessory may have an embedded switchable ferrimagnetic core and a coil that overlaps the switchable ferrimagnetic core. The switchable ferrimagnetic core may be operable in a first state where the switchable ferrimagnetic core is unsaturated. The switchable ferrimagnetic core may be operable in a second state where the switchable ferrimagnetic core is saturated by a magnetic field from a permanent magnet in a wireless power transmitting device. In the second state, the switchable ferrimagnetic core may have a lower magnetic permeability and higher magnetic reluctance than in the first state.
US12014851B2
An integrated over-current protection device includes a positive temperature coefficient (PTC) component, a first conductive unit, a second conductive unit, a first conductive via, and a second conductive via. The PTC component includes a first PTC body, and has opposing first and second surfaces. The first conductive unit is disposed on the first surface, and includes a first electrode and a first conductive pad electrically insulated from the first electrode. The second conductive unit is disposed on the second surface, and includes a second electrode and a second conductive pad electrically insulated from the second electrode. The first conductive via extends through the first conductive unit and the PTC component to electrically connect the first electrode to the second conductive pad. The second conductive via extends through the second conductive unit and the PTC component to electrically connect the second electrode to the first conductive pad.
US12014847B2
Described are cables for connecting components of computing systems. The cables improve automation and resulting performance of high frequency and/or high speed signal transmissions by providing reliable transmission paths between hardware components. An example cable includes parallel conductors and a dielectric core that secures the parallel conductors along the length using parallel channels in opposite sides of the dielectric core. An alignment structure is also formed in the dielectric core, which has a shape along the length of the cable. A cable jacket surrounds the parallel conductors and the dielectric core. The cable jacket is contoured to follow the shape of the alignment structure. The dielectric core can be formed to maintain consistent separation between the parallel channels along the length of the cable to match impedance of the parallel conductors along the length of the cable, whether the cable lays flat or bends around corners.
US12014845B2
A composite cable is composed of plural electric power wires, a first twisted wire made by laying plural signal wires together, a second twisted wire disposed opposite the first twisted wire with the electric power wires between the first twisted wire and the second twisted wire, and a sheath formed over plural electric power wires, the first twisted wire, and the second twisted wire. The second twisted wire is made by laying plural electric wires including a grounding wire together. Each of the plural electric wires of the second twisted wire is composed of a conductor and an insulator formed over the conductor.
US12014844B2
It is an object of the present invention to provide a technology with which a protective portion with high protective capabilities is provided while avoiding an operation to switch out binding adhesive tape much as possible. A wire harness includes: a wire; and a tape-wrapping protective portion provided in at least a partial region along a longitudinal direction of the wire, the tape-wrapping protective portion including a spiral-wrapping portion in which an adhesive tape is wrapped in a spiral shape around the wire, and in the portion where the spiral-wrapping portion is provided, the adhesive tape being wrapped so as to form more than two layers.
US12014839B2
The invention discloses an X-ray zoom lens system (Transfocator) and a focus variation method. The system includes a main frame, many switched arms arranged on one side of the main frame, and a driving component set at the top of the main frame, and a positioning groove set at the bottom of the main frame; For them, each switched arm is composed of successively connected a push rod, a push-push ratchet mechanism, a preload spring and a guide stick, two-dimensional flexible axis, and a CRLs holder from top to bottom; CRLs are stacked and arranged in the mentioned above CRLs holder.
US12014829B2
Systems and methods for providing remotely proctored at-home health testing and diagnostics are provided herein. In particular, systems and methods for improving proctor performance by increasing accuracy and reducing proctor time are disclosed. In some embodiments, images and/or video of a patient may be enhanced to aid the proctor. In some embodiments, proctor performance may be evaluated. In some embodiments, proctor time per patient may be reduced by automating one or more steps in a proctored testing process.
US12014826B2
A sentence extraction means extracts a sentence that is different from a cause or a coping method included in knowledge corresponding to a predetermined event and is related to the predetermined event, from an unconfirmed work record. A group selection means selects a group based on a similarity between a first character string of the extracted sentence that is likely to represent a cause or a coping method and a group generated in advance. A character string selection means selects a second character string from the group, and a replacement means replaces the first character string in the work record with the second character string. When a predetermined condition is satisfied, a knowledge generation means selects a character string from the group and generates new knowledge based on the character string.
US12014820B2
Haptic reminders and related technologies are described in which a wearable first article receives a rule. In some variants the rule was used in a second article and the delivery is programmatically conditioned upon one or more articles like the second article having worked well enough with the rule. The received rule occasionally triggers haptic energy via the first article to remind the wearer to eat more slowly, hydrate or exercise more often, or otherwise perform better. Such reminders may serve other purposes or be conditionally extended if a wearer does not improve. Other improved modes of discernment and notification are also presented.
US12014815B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with generating a multi-dimensional representation of a medical environment based on images of the medical environments. Various pre-processing and/or post-processing operations may be performed to supplement and/or improve the multi-dimensional representation. These operations may include determining semantic information associated with the medical environment based on the images and adding the semantic information to the multi-dimensional representation in addition to space and time information. The operations may also include anonymizing a person presented in the multi-dimensional representation, adding synthetic views to the multi-dimensional representation, improving the quality of the multi-dimensional representation, etc. The multi-dimensional representation of the medical environment generated using these techniques may allow a user to experience and explore the medical environment, for example, via a virtual reality device.
US12014812B2
A medical image display control device includes a reception unit that receives an input instruction, a creation unit that creates a display image having a tab and a viewer region in which at least a medical image is displayed, the creation unit creating a new display image having a tab and a viewer region different from a viewer region of a display image displayed on a display unit based on the input instruction received by the reception unit, a display controller that performs control such that the tab of the new display image created by the creation unit and the already displayed tab are displayed so as to be selectable on the display unit, and a switching display controller that performs control such that in a case where any tab of the tabs displayed on the display unit is selected, the viewer region corresponding to the selected tab is switched with the already displayed viewer region and is displayed on the display unit.
US12014811B2
The present disclosure is directed to digital pathology systems and server systems, each of which may comprise caches pre-populated with biological image data, including biological image data which was been pre-processed into a destination file format. Caches can be populated with biological image data on the digital pathology system and/or server system for retrieval of biological image data, facilitating real-time or near real-time visualization of biological image data in a browser or on the digital pathology system. Biological image data on a server can be automatically pre-processed as scanned image data is received.
US12014803B2
Techniques and apparatus for generating consensus libraries for sample matrices (Flow A) and using the consensus libraries to determine unknown-unidentified components of a sample (Flow B) are described. For example, in an embodiment, an apparatus may include at least one memory, and processing circuitry (220) coupled to said at least one memory, wherein said processing circuitry is adapted to receive a plurality of sample matrix data sets (210a-210n) for a sample matrix generated via mass analysis of said sample matrix, and to generate a consensus library (220) for the sample matrix based on said plurality of sample matrix data sets, the consensus library comprising a plurality of known-unidentified components for the sample matrix.
US12014801B2
Embodiments of the present application relate to the field of semiconductors, and provide a word line driver array and a memory. The word line driver array at least includes: a first transistor, a third transistor, a fourth transistor and a second transistor arranged sequentially, as well as a fourth word line, a first word line, a second word line and a third word line parallel to each other, wherein the fourth word line is connected to a drain of the fourth transistor, the first word line is connected to a drain of the first transistor, the second word line is connected to a drain of the second transistor, and the third word line is connected to a drain of the third transistor.
US12014796B2
A memory device includes a plurality of memory cells including a first memory cell and a second memory cell, a first bit line connected to the first memory cell, a second bit line connected to the second memory cell, a first word line connected to the first and second memory cells, a first control transistor connected to the first bit line, a second control transistor connected to second bit line, a first mux transistor commonly connected to the first and second control transistors, and a sense amplifier connected to the first mux transistor.
US12014795B2
A method for programming a non-volatile memory structure, wherein the method comprises initiating a two-dimensional fractional number of bits-per-cell programming scheme with respect to at least a first memory cell and a second memory cell of a plurality of memory cells of the memory structure, wherein the memory structure comprises: (1) a first memory array that comprises a first population of the plurality of memory cells and associated peripheral circuitry disposed below the first population of the plurality of memory cells, (2) a second memory array that is positioned above the first memory array and comprises a second population of the plurality of memory cells and the associated peripheral circuitry that is disposed above the second population of the plurality of memory cells, and (3) a data bus tap electrically coupling the first memory array and the second memory array.
US12014794B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a first plate, an intermediate member, and a substrate. The intermediate member includes a second plate and a pair of side walls. The second plate includes a first opening, and is arranged to have a gap with respect to the first plate. The second plate includes a first face facing the first plate and a second face located on a side opposite to the first face. The pair of side walls is arranged on the second face. The substrate is placed between the pair of side walls. The substrate includes a third face on which a first non-volatile memory package and a controller package are mounted. The third face faces the second plate. The first non-volatile memory package is thermally connected to the second plate. The controller package is thermally connected to the first plate through the first opening.
US12014780B2
The present disclosure provides a memory device, which includes a plurality of electrically bipolar variable memory devices and a storage transistor. The electrically bipolar variable memory devices are electrically connected to a plurality of word lines respectively, the storage transistor is electrically connected to the electrically bipolar variable memory devices, where one end of each of the electrically bipolar variable memory devices is electrically connected to a corresponding one of the word lines, and another end of each of the electrically bipolar variable memory devices is electrically connected to the gate of the storage transistor.
US12014779B2
Methods, systems, and devices for programming techniques for polarity-based memory cells are described. A memory device may use a first type of write operation to program one or more memory cells to a first state and a second type of write operation to program one or more memory cells to a second state. Additionally or alternatively, a memory device may first attempt to use the first type of write operation to program one or more memory cells, and then may use the second type of write operation if the first attempt is unsuccessful.
US12014775B2
Systems, methods, and apparatus related to memory devices. In one approach, a memory device includes a sense amplifier, a counter, and memory having memory cells. Access lines are used to select the memory cells for performing write operations. The memory device includes a controller to control the applying of a voltage to the memory cell. The voltage is applied during a write operation using the access lines. The sense amplifier is used to determine whether the memory cell reaches a threshold state or snaps. In response to determining that the memory cell does not snap, a write error count is incremented using the counter. The controller reads the counter to determine the write error count, and based on the write error count, the controller performs one or more media management or memory device control actions.
US12014774B2
A method includes applying a first voltage pulse across a memory cell, wherein the memory cell includes a selector, wherein the first voltage pulse switches the selector into an on-state; after applying the first voltage pulse, applying a second voltage pulse across the memory cell, wherein before applying the second voltage pulse the selector has a first voltage threshold, wherein after applying the second voltage pulse the selector has a second voltage threshold that is less than the first voltage threshold; and after applying the second voltage pulse, applying a third voltage pulse across the memory cell, wherein the third voltage pulse switches the selector into an on-state; wherein the selector remains continuously in an off-state between the first voltage pulse and the third voltage pulse.
US12014771B2
A pseudo-triple-port memory is provided with read datapaths and write datapaths. The pseudo-triple-port memory includes a plurality of pseudo-triple-port bitcells, each pseudo-triple-port first bitcell having a first read port coupled to a first bit line, a second read port coupled to a second bit line, and a write port coupled to the first bit line and to the second bit line.
US12014766B2
A system and a method for determining a target locking time for a delay locked loop of a memory apparatus are provided. The system includes a signal generating device, a measuring device and a computing device. The signal generating device is configured to provide a first set of input signals to the memory apparatus in accordance with a first set of first operational parameters and a set of second operational parameters. The measuring device is configured to measure a first set of output signals from the memory apparatus in response to the first set of input signals, and to determine whether the delay locked loop fails at any combination of the first set of first operational parameters and the set of second operational parameters. The computing device is configured to determine a first candidate operational parameter to further determine the target locking time based on the first candidate operational parameter.
US12014754B2
A clamp for removably holding a slider includes a stationary frame that includes a stationary rear frame member at a rear portion of the frame, extending in a width direction, at least one spring extending in a horizontal plane, and an open space extending in a length direction and the width direction. The open space is defined in the length direction in part by a front contact surface at a forward portion of the clamp adapted to engage one end of the slider, and a rear contact surface at a rear portion of the clamp, and adapted to engage an opposite end of the slider. The spring connects the stationary frame with the front contact surface such that with deflection of the spring the front contact surface is moveable relative to the frame in a direction of a lengthwise axis of the clamp.
US12014734B2
A computer-implemented method executes voice commands issued from within a command boundary. The method includes defining a command boundary for a VCD, where the command boundary is based on receiving an input from a user. The method further includes receiving, from the user and by the VCD, a voice command. The method also includes determining an origination location of the voice command. The method includes classifying the voice command into a command category. The method further includes executing the voice command in response to determining the origination location is within the command boundary for the VCD. The method also includes storing a set of data for the voice command.
US12014719B2
An Active Noise Cancellation (ANC) headphone of multiple modes may include a preliminary scene-change detection circuit using ultra-low power to detect a scene change near the headphone and to send a trigger signal upon detecting the scene change, a scene identification circuit to determine a current scene upon receiving a trigger signal, and a filter switch circuit to switch the headphone mode from a previous headphone mode to a current headphone mode according to the determined current scene. In this way, the ANC headphone can automatically obtain an improved balance of comfortability, safety, and communicability under a reduced power consumption.
US12014715B2
There is provided an ear cup including a housing containing a filter assembly and a motor-driven impeller for creating an airflow through the filter assembly, the housing including an air outlet downstream from the filter assembly for emitting the filtered airflow from the housing. The ear cup further includes an acoustic driver carried by or mounted to, either directly or indirectly, the housing, a reference internal noise sensor disposed within the housing, and a reference ambient noise sensor carried by or mounted to, either directly or indirectly, the housing. The ear cup further includes active noise control circuitry that is configured, in a first operating state, to use a signal provided by the reference internal noise sensor to operate the acoustic driver and, in a second operating state, to use a signal provided by the reference ambient noise sensor to operate the acoustic driver.
US12014704B2
The present disclosure relates to outdoor musical instruments configured to replicate the appearance of a mushroom and to withstand prolonged exposure to the environment. The musical instrument is made up of at least a metal dish mounted to a weather-resistant support post. The metal dish is mounted to the top of the support post, and the bottom surface of the metal dish is separated from the top end of the support post by a non-metal isolator. The musical instrument is configured to produce a note that sustains when the top surface of the metal dish is struck by a mallet.
US12014702B2
An image processing apparatus includes an obtainment unit configured to obtain first image data obtained by capturing an image of an object, a generation unit configured to generate second image data representing a second image by performing conversion to maintain a specific gradation in a color saturation range in a case where a hue or color saturation of a region of interest in a first image represented by the first image data is converted according to a characteristic of a display unit, a conversion unit configured to perform conversion on the first image and the second image according to the characteristic of the display unit, and a display control unit configured to display the converted first image and the converted second image together on the display unit.
US12014696B2
A display substrate includes: a first base substrate (20), and gate lines (4) and data lines (5) on the first base substrate (20). The gate lines (4) extend in a first direction (X), and the data lines (5) extend in a second direction (Y). The gate lines (4) and the data lines (5) define pixel units, each of which includes a thin film transistor (7), a pixel electrode (8) and a common electrode (9). At least some of the pixel units are respectively configured with conductive bridge lines (10) provided in the same layer as the pixel electrode (8). In a pixel unit configured with the conductive bridge line (10), a first hollowed-out structure (13) and a second hollowed-out structure (14) are provided on opposite sides of the pixel electrode (8) in the first direction, to weaken or even eliminate mura (e.g., nonuniformity in brightness or color).
US12014695B2
A display driving method, a display driving device and a display device are provided. The display driving method includes: when displaying an odd-numbered frame, providing first parity row data of the odd-numbered frame to a display array, to enable a third parity row of the display array to be displayed based on real data of the first parity row data and enable a fourth parity row of the display array to be displayed based on interpolation data of the first parity row data; and when displaying an even-numbered frame, providing second parity row data of the even-numbered frame to the display array, to enable the fourth parity row of the display array to be displayed based on real data of the second parity row data and enable the third parity row of the display array to be displayed based on interpolation data of the second parity row data.
US12014692B2
A display driving module includes a gate driving circuit, a plurality of data lines and a data driving circuit. The pixel circuits in odd-numbered rows and one column are electrically connected to a data line, and the pixel circuits in even-numbered rows and the one column are electrically connected to another data line. The data driving circuit includes a data driver and a multiplexing circuit, the multiplexing circuit includes a first multiplexing sub-circuit and a second multiplexing sub-circuit. The gate driving circuit includes a plurality of levels of shift register units, and an nth-level shift register unit is electrically connected to the pixel circuits in a (2n−1)th row and a (2n)th row, and configured to apply a same gate driving signal to the pixel circuits in the (2n−1)th row and the (2n)th row, where n is a positive integer.
US12014680B2
A display device includes a display panel which is driven in a mode selected from among a plurality of modes including different luminance values, a voltage generator which generates a driving voltage, a resistor connected to an output terminal, from which the driving voltage is output, a current sensing unit connected in parallel to the resistor, where the current sensing unit measures a voltage value across both ends of the resistor and calculates a driving current value using a resistance value of the resistor and a measured voltage value, and a maximum current calculating unit which calculates a maximum measured current value corresponding a the luminance value of a selected mode and outputs a selection signal corresponding to the maximum measured current value, and the current sensing unit sets a maximum measured voltage value corresponding to the maximum measured current value in response to the selection signal.
US12014679B2
Reducing blinking pixels in a display includes detecting a first timing of activation of one or more emissive elements of the display, detecting a second timing of sensing pulses from a sensor arranged to detect radiation transmitted through the display, determining, based on the first timing and the second timing, a synchronized timing that staggers the activation of the one or more emissive elements of the display and the sensing pulses from the sensor, and dynamically altering, based on the determined synchronized timing, a subsequent timing of the sensing pulses from the sensor to reduce blinking of at least some of the pixels compared to blinking associated with the synchronized timing.
US12014678B1
The present application discloses a method, apparatus and apparatus device for performing brightness attenuation compensation of a display panel. The method includes: acquiring a first light-emitting count value corresponding to a first light-emitting block and count offset values corresponding to the light-emitting blocks; determining a brightness difference between each of the light-emitting blocks and the first light-emitting block based on the first light-emitting count value, the count offset values corresponding to the light-emitting blocks and a first correspondence; and performing brightness attenuation compensation of each of the light-emitting blocks based on the brightness difference between each of the light-emitting blocks and the first light-emitting block.
US12014675B2
A display panel. The display panel includes a base substrate, drive circuits, pixel circuits, and signal line groups. The drive circuits and the pixel circuits are arranged on the base substrate. The drive circuits provide control signals for the pixel circuits. The pixel circuits provide drive currents for light-emitting elements of the display panel. The drive circuits include a first drive circuit and a second drive circuit. The signal line groups include a first signal line group and a second signal line group. The first signal line group includes M signal lines that provide signals for the first drive circuit. The second signal line group includes N signal lines that provide signals for the second drive circuit, M≥1, and N≥1. The first drive circuit provides a light-emitting control signal for a light-emitting control transistor of the pixel circuit.
US12014665B1
A display panel and a display device are provided. A first display area of the display panel is located at least one side of a second display area, and a first data line in the first display area is electrically connected to a demultiplexing unit through a first connection line segment and a second connection line segment. The second connection line segment is located between the adjacent first sub-data line and second sub-data line in the second display area, and a distance between the second connection line segment and the first sub-data line is smaller than a distance between the second connection line segment and the second sub-data line. The control terminal of the switch element in the demultiplexing unit corresponding to the first data line is connected to a same switch control line as the control terminal of the switch element corresponding to the first sub-data line.
US12014663B2
A method for: obtaining a first display interface including a plurality of elements, which includes a first background element and a first element displayed on it through superimposing; determining a target processing manner corresponding to each of the plurality of elements, which is used to adjust at least one of brightness, chrominance, and contrast of the element; processing each of the plurality of elements in the target processing manner, to obtain a rendering parameter of each element; and rendering each of the plurality of elements, to display a second display interface, wherein a second background element in the second display interface corresponds to the first background element, a second element in the second display interface corresponds to the first element, black contrast of the second element is different from that of the second background element, and brightness of the second element is greater than brightness of the second background element.
US12014655B2
A label, a method of assembling the label, and a method for using the label are presented. The label includes a base ply. A tab extends from the base ply in a longitudinal direction. The label also includes a top ply located atop and dimensioned to cover the base ply. The tab of the base ply is not covered by the top ply. The label further includes an outer layer located atop and dimensioned to cover the top ply. The tab of the base ply is secured to the outer layer. Moving the outer layer in a direction pulls a portion of the base ply from beneath the top ply such that the portion of the base ply can be visibly perceived.
US12014642B2
An apparatus includes an inertial measurement unit (IMU) configured to generate information identifying accelerations and changes in angular orientation associated with an object in motion. The apparatus also includes at least one processor configured to identify a navigation state of the object within an Earth-fixed frame of reference using the information and perform one or more navigation functions based on the navigation state. To identify the navigation state of the object, the at least one processor is configured to use (i) an object body or IMU-to-inertial transformation that is updated based on the changes in angular orientation and (ii) an inertial-to-Earth-fixed transformation. The navigation state of the object may be identified in each of multiple iterations, and the at least one processor may be configured to update the inertial-to-Earth-fixed transformation during the iterations.
US12014629B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure can provide a road traffic analysis method and an apparatus. The method can comprise obtaining a traffic parameter of a road intersection by analyzing road traffic information of the road intersection, determining a reference adjustment length for each phase of a traffic signal cycle corresponding to each lane of the road intersection based on the road traffic information and the traffic parameter. The traffic signal cycle has one or more phases. The method can also comprise determining a first adjustment length when a difference between the reference adjustment length and the first adjustment length satisfies a condition associated with the lanes of the road intersection and the corresponding traffic parameter, and adjusting the phases of the traffic light cycle at the road intersection based on the first adjustment length for each phase.
US12014628B2
A mobile object monitoring system that includes one or more terminal units and a monitoring unit that monitors an unknown mobile object around the one or more terminal units. Each terminal unit includes: an information acquisition component that acquires unknown mobile object information; a detected information generation component that generates a detected information set concerning an unknown mobile object; and a terminal-side communication component that transmits the detected information set. The monitoring unit includes: a collecting-side communication component that receives the detected information set; and a determination component that determines presence or absence of an unknown mobile object based on a collection of one or more detected information sets that have been received. The determination component establishes reliability of the collection of one or more detected information sets based on the number of detected information sets that indicate the detection of a specific unknown mobile object that is at the same location at the same time.
US12014627B2
Technologies for managing interoperable high definition (HD) maps for autonomous vehicles includes a HD map server to distribute interoperable HD map tiles to various autonomous vehicles, each of which may be configured to utilize proprietary HD map tiles of different propriety formats. As such, each of the autonomous vehicles is configured to translate the interoperable HD map tile to the proprietary format used by that particular vehicle. Additionally, each autonomous vehicle may submit crowd-sourced sensor data to the interoperable HD map server using a universal data set by converting the sensor data to a universal data structure.
US12014620B2
A method for monitoring a system is provided. The method includes: displaying, on a graphical user interface, an alert configuration screen that includes user-configurable alerting information items that relate to an application being executed by the system; receiving, from a user in response to the displaying of the alert configuration screen, a request for an alert that includes inputs with respect to the user-configurable alerting information items; monitoring the application to determine whether a current condition of the application conforms to the received inputs; when a determination is made that the current condition of the application conforms to the received inputs, generating the requested alert; and transmitting the generated alert to the user. The user-configurable alerting information items may include items relating to a content of the alert, items relating to a timing of the alert, and an item that relates to an intended recipient of the alert.
US12014618B2
The present disclosure generally relates to drink reminder, and more particularly, to a wearable reminder for drinking in a bracelet or a finger ring form factor. One of issues that cause illness in elderly or persons with special illness or ordinary persons due to improper habit, is frequently they forget to drink enough amounts of liquid and this inadequate drink lead to dehydration. Using special drinkware which comprises bulky circuits and batteries is not convenient for users and people like to use their own personal drinkware, mug, cup or glass. This disclosure proposes a wearable reminder for drinking and can be used with any kind of drinkwares and only need to attach an active, passive or semi-active RFID tag to the drinkware. The user wears a wearable like bracelet or a finger ring and wearable reminds him/her based on predefined time schedule or condition.
US12014614B2
A region determining device includes a likelihood calculating unit that calculates a likelihood of wetness of a pixel in an image including a plurality of frames, a non-water pixel measuring unit that measures the number of non-water pixels in which the likelihood falls within a first non-water range in any one of determination regions to be determined in the respective frames, a boundary pixel measuring unit that measures the number of boundary pixels in which the likelihood falls within a first water range in any one of the determination regions and the likelihood falls within a second non-water range in any one of the determination regions, and a region determining unit that determines whether the determination region satisfies a predetermined determination condition based on the number of non-water pixels and the number of boundary pixels.
US12014611B1
The A/V recording and communication devices used in a security system may be configured to detect motion, and to track and report that motion to a building resident. Some residents may wish to customize the tracking and reporting of motion based upon where and when the motion is detected. For example, a user may wish to be alerted when cars drive down her residential street at night, but does not wish to be alerted when cars drive down the street during the day. The present embodiments disclose several tools and methods by which a building resident can configure and manage the tracking and reporting of detected motion. To do so, the resident should configure two or more motion zones within the field of view captured by a camera, together with a set of time windows during which she wishes to track or be notified of detected motion.
US12014610B2
A bi-optic data reader has a horizontal housing portion including a horizontal reading window, a vertical housing portion including a vertical reading window disposed between a left panel area and a right panel area of a body of the vertical housing portion, and a weigh platter having a horizontal weigh surface extending over the horizontal housing portion, and a crown extending over the vertical housing portion including overhanging portions that extend over the left panel area and the right panel area.
US12014607B2
A dice shaker device and method for providing a randomized state of at least one die. The dice shaker device includes a dice plate, a dice plate actuator configured to apply a reciprocating force to the dice plate, a casing, a circumferential ridge surface extending around an outer perimeter of the dice plate, and a dice rolling space at least partly defined by the casing, the dice plate, and the circumferential ridge surface. The circumferential ridge surface can be arranged in parallel with an upper surface of the dice plate, and the circumferential ridge surface can have a width that is equal to or less than half a width of the at least one die that the dice shaker device is arranged to provide a randomized state of.
US12014605B2
A method includes receiving first customized rules for a first game of a game type to be played by a first player on a first gaming device, and receiving second customized rules for a second game of the game type to be played by a second player on a second gaming device. The method includes establishing, for the first and second games, a competitive gaming session between the first gaming device and the second gaming device. The method includes determining possible payouts for the gaming session based on the first and second customized rules. The method includes applying the first customized rules to play the first game on the first gaming device to generate first customized game play information, and applying the second customized rules to play the second game on the second gaming device to generate second customized game play information.
US12014593B2
Disclosed are gaming systems, methods and machines for a gaming cabinet configuration. In particular, the gaming systems, methods and machines may incorporate gaming cabinets that include one or more curved or arcuate screens, one or more candles integrated into one or more lighting features arranged on one or more edges of the gaming cabinet, the one or more candles and the one or more lighting features connected to a game controller via one or more interfaces, and/or one or more diffuse lighting elements to provide lighting features or effects.
US12014589B2
A system and method for controlling a transmission of electrical signals (11) by a proximity remote (10) to a receiver (22) for regulating a remote access to premises of a vehicle. The proximity remote (10) is configured to be powered by a battery (19) mounted therein on first and second battery base contacts (24, 25). The system includes: a internal control device (20) insertable within the proximity remote (10) and connectable to the first and second battery base contacts (24, 25); first and second conductors (27) connectable to the control device (20) at respective first and second contacts thereof for controlling a power supplied to the proximity remote (10); and a power supply control device (28) connectable to the first and second connectors (27) for controlling the power supplied to the proximity remote (10), thereby respectively permitting and inhibiting the transmission.
US12014587B1
A vehicle communication interface cable includes a vehicle connector having a connector body configured to connect to a diagnostic port of a vehicle, and includes a vehicle communication interface connector having a connector body configured to connect to a vehicle communication interface, and a cable portion extending between the vehicle connector and vehicle communication interface connector, with the cable portion enabling communication from the vehicle connector to the vehicle communication interface connector. An oscilloscope circuit is integrated with the cable portion and is operatively connected with the vehicle connector to obtain measurements from the diagnostic port when connected thereto, with the oscilloscope circuit being operatively connected with the vehicle communication interface connector to provide measurements from the diagnostic port to the vehicle communication interface when the vehicle communication interface connector is connected to the vehicle communication interface.
US12014586B2
An abnormality diagnosis device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires a DTC and FFD stored in a vehicle storage unit of a vehicle; a diagnosis engine having a CPU and a storage device; and a database that stores a plurality of discriminant sets corresponding to the respective DTCs. A discriminant item relating to a vehicle part that is a possible cause of an abnormality represented by a corresponding DTC is associated with each of the discriminant sets. Each of the discriminant items has part information showing a vehicle part and a discriminant table including a rule for analyzing the FFD relating to the vehicle part. The diagnosis engine diagnoses whether the vehicle part has an abnormality by retrieving the discriminant set corresponding to the DTC and analyzing the FFD in accordance with the discriminant table of the discriminant item associated with that discriminant set.
US12014578B2
The disclosure is detecting an authentication target who is moving in a predetermined direction in a video; inputting a first image in which an entire body of the target; calculating characteristic information from an image of the entire body in the first image, comparing the calculated characteristic information with characteristic information of the entire body stored in first memory that stores characteristic information of entire bodies of targets, and extracting candidate information of the targets from the first memory based on a first authentication result; inputting a second image in which an iris of the target; and comparing characteristic information of irises stored in second memory that stores the characteristic information of the irises of targets with characteristic information of an iris from the second image, calculating a verification score, executing second authentication on the target in the second image based on the verification score, and outputting an authentication result.
US12014577B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for determining that a subject is a live person include obtaining, by an image capture device, a set of subject images. Each image is captured at a different corresponding relative location of the image capture device with respect to the subject. Parameters are determined from the set of images of the subject. The parameters represent corneal reflections of at least one object in at least one eye of the subject. A determination is made, based on the parameters, that the subject is a live person. Responsive to determining that the subject is a live person, an authentication process is initiated to authenticate the subject.
US12014574B2
A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for training a gesture recognition machine learning model system. Temporal images for a set of gestures used for ground operations for an aircraft are identified by a computer system. Pixel variation data identifying movement on a per image basis from the temporal images is generated by the computer system. The temporal images and the pixel variation data form training data. A set of feature machine learning models is trained by the computer system to recognize features using the training data.
US12014573B2
In order to determine whether a color contact lens is being worn on an iris, this image processing device includes: a first feature amount calculation means for using an image of the iris in a first wavelength band to calculate a first feature amount in the first wavelength band, said iris being used in authentication of a person; a second feature amount calculation means for using an image of the iris in a second wavelength band to calculate a second feature amount in the second wavelength band; and a covering determination means for determining, on the basis of the first feature amount and the second feature amount, whether a color contact lens is present on the iris.
US12014564B2
An electronic circuit adapted to control an operation of a gate driver circuit is provided. The electronic circuit includes a gate control circuit. The gate control circuit outputs control signals to the gate driver circuit in a display period and a fingerprint sensing period via the same output nodes. The control signals include a start pulse signal and a switch control signal. The switch control signal controls the gate driver circuit to operate in the display period or the fingerprint sensing period. The gate driver circuit includes a plurality of shift register groups and a switch circuit. The shift register groups output scan signals according to the start pulse signal. The switch circuit receives and outputs the scan signals to display scan lines in the display period and outputs the scan signals to fingerprint scan lines in the fingerprint sensing period according to the switch control signal.
US12014561B2
Geometric extraction is performed on an unstructured document by recognizing textual blocks on at least a portion of a page of the unstructured document, generating bounding boxes that surround and correspond to the textual blocks, determining search paths having coordinates of two endpoints and connecting at least two bounding boxes, and generating a graph representation of the at least a portion of the page, the graph representation including the plurality of textual blocks, the coordinates of the vertices of each bounding box and the coordinates of the two endpoints of each search path.
US12014560B2
An image processing system accesses an image of a completed form document. The image of the form document includes one or more features, such as form text, at particular locations within the image. The image processing system accesses a template of the form document and computes a rotation and zoom of the image of the form document relative to the template of the form document based on the locations of the features within the image of the form document relative to the locations of the corresponding features within the template of the form document. The image processing system performs a rotation operation and a zoom operation on the image of the form document, and extracts data entered into fields of the modified image of the form document. The extracted data can be then accessed or stored for subsequent use.
US12014550B1
Techniques for image data protection using cyclic redundancy checks are disclosed herein. Some of the techniques may include, at a processor, receiving image data that includes multiple lines of pixel data. The processor may also determine at least a first hash value representing a first line of pixel data of the multiple lines of pixel data and a second hash value representing a second line of pixel data of the multiple lines of pixel data. The processor may also send the image data to a computing device that is configured to determine, based at least in part on the first hash value and the second hash value, whether the image data is corrupt.
US12014547B2
In various examples, natural language processing may be performed on text generated by a game to extract one or more in-game events from the game. The system (e.g., a client device and/or server) may receive the text in the form of one or more strings generated by a game application. The system may then extract one or more in-game events from the text using natural language processing. The game may include the text in a message it sends to the system (e.g., using an Application Programming Interface (API)) and/or in a game log entry or notification. The text may be generated based at least on the game determining one or more conditions are satisfied in the gameplay (e.g., victory, points scored, milestones, eliminations, item acquisition, etc.). The text may be mapped to event templates, which may then be used to extract parameters of events therefrom.
US12014546B2
A multimodal method for detecting video includes following step of: receiving a message to be detected to obtain a multimodal association result, which message to be detected corresponds to a video to be detected; generating a plurality of detecting conditions according to multimodal association result; searching a plurality of videos in a video detection database to obtain a target video in videos according to detecting conditions, which each of videos includes a plurality of video paragraphs respectively, which each of video paragraphs includes a piece of multimodal related data respectively; comparing detecting conditions and piece of multimodal related data of video paragraphs to obtain a matching video paragraph and using video corresponding to matching video paragraph as the target video; and outputting the target video and the video to be detected to a display device for display.
US12014540B1
A media annotation and feedback system can be provided to help a user annotate multimedia content (e.g., photos, videos, portraits, documents, records). Using multiple modes of interaction (e.g., speech, voice, text, handwriting, song), autobiographical and biographical stories can be created. These stories can help a user attribute knowledge and information relating to artifacts that they feel are meaningful and wish to share with others in the future. Such media annotation can facilitate the creation and sharing of stories regarding a person, family, or other group.
US12014519B2
A method including applying a first target-subject-specific model associated with a target subject to a treatment planning image to generate a transformed treatment planning image corresponding to a first position of a plurality of positions. The method also includes modifying one or more hyper-parameters of the first target-subject-specific model to generate a second target-subject-specific model corresponding to a second position of the plurality of positions. The method further includes controlling a radiation treatment delivery device based on the second target-subject-specific model to deliver a radiation treatment to the target subject.
US12014515B2
Method of estimating a pose of a spatially movable platform, comprising providing at least one beacon, each beacon transmitting a mutually different blinking pattern relating to said beacon by modulating an intensity of an optical radiation signal, providing a pose estimation system comprising an image capturing device mounted on a spatially movable platform and image processing means communicatively connected to said image capturing device, capturing and processing a sequence of two-dimensional images comprising identifying at least one image object, determining an intensity variation of said at least one image object, detecting said blinking pattern relating to one of said at least one beacon, and matching said image object to a corresponding beacon using said detected blinking pattern, estimating a pose of said spatially movable platform relative to said at least one beacon using said at least one matched image object, wherein said modulating said intensity of said optical radiation signal of said beacon is performed using at least two different non-zero radiation states, and wherein said intensity variation of said at least one image object in said sequence of two dimensional images is between at least two different non-zero intensity states.
US12014514B2
One example provides a target classification system comprising a display subsystem configured to display an image captured by a camera of an in-field device. The image includes one or more targets. The target classification system is configured to receive a user input indicating a location of the one or more targets in a screen space coordinate system of the display subsystem. Location information in a world space coordinate system is determined by receiving a pose of the camera; using the pose of the camera and the location in the screen space to trace a ray; and using at least a position of the camera and an orientation of the ray to generate coordinates in the world space. Target classification information is determined, and targeting data is output comprising the coordinates in the world space and the target classification information.
US12014510B2
System, methods, and other embodiments described herein relate to an improved camera system including directional optics to estimate depth of grayscale images. In one embodiment, the camera system includes a lens that receives light associated with a scene and an inverter that inverts the light from the lens. The camera system also includes a metasurface that resolves an angle of the light from the inverter according to parameters of the metasurface. The camera system also includes a detector that senses the light from the metasurface to form image data by integrating intensity of the light per pixel to estimate depth of an object in the scene.
US12014503B2
A plurality of tracking cameras is pointed towards a routine hovering area of an in-the-field sports participant who routinely hovers about that area. Spots within the hovering area are registered relative to a predetermined multi-dimensional coordinates reference frame (e.g., Xw, Yw, Zw, Tw) such that two-dimensional coordinates of 2D images captured by the tracking cameras can be converted to multi-dimensional coordinates of the reference frame. A body part recognizing unit recognizes 2D locations of a specific body part in the 2D captured images and a mapping unit maps them into the multi-dimensional coordinates of the reference frame. A multi-dimensional curve generator then generates a multi-dimensional motion curve describing motion of the body part based on the mapped coordinates (e.g., Xw, Yw, Zw, Tw). The generated multi-dimensional motion curve is used to discover cross correlations between play action motions of the in-the-field sports participant and real-world sports results.
US12014487B2
A fault recognition in a hearing aid of a user includes providing an actual image of a component of the hearing aid and comparing the actual image with reference images. An analysis unit carries out an image comparison, in which the actual image is compared to one or a plurality of reference images, which each show the component in a state, of which it is previously known whether the component is faulty or faultless. The analysis unit determines as a state of the component of the actual image that state which is assigned to the reference image which is most similar to the actual image. This recognizes whether the component is faulty or faultless. A system has an analysis unit that is configured to carry out the method.
US12014485B1
A method for the nondestructive inspection of a surface structure, including: preparing the surface structure; wetting a portion of the surface structure with a liquid, the variation in the thickness of the liquid above the portion of the surface structure being at most 50% of the maximum thickness of the liquid above the surface structure, so that the liquid forms a light guide which has, and is bounded by, the inverse shape of the surface structure at a first large surface and is bounded by air at a second large surface; coupling light into the light guide so that the inverse shape of the surface structure at the first large surface is impinged by light such that light coupled into the light guide is coupled out of the light guide via the second large surface; capturing an image of the light coupled out and; evaluating the captured image.
US12014484B2
The invention advances the ratio method of phosphor thermography using two machine vision cameras for full-field temperature measurements of a solid surface. As an example, algorithms from digital image correlation (DIC) can be used to determine the stereoscopic imaging system intrinsic and extrinsic parameters, and accurately register material points on the sample to subpixel locations in each image with 0.07 px or better accuracy. A phosphor calibration sample fabricated using aerosol deposition can be used for in situ determination of the temperature-versus-intensity ratio relationship. The full calibration methodology and several improvements on two-color phosphor thermography open the door for full-field temperature measurements in dynamic tests with deforming test specimens. In particular, thermographic phosphors can be combined with stereo digital image correlation in a novel diagnostic, TP+DIC, to measure time-resolved full-field surface strains and temperatures simultaneously, thereby enabling testing in combined thermo-mechanical environments.
US12014477B2
An image processing method and device, an image detecting method and system, and a storage medium are provided. The image processing method comprises: acquiring a target image; counting pixels of the target image to obtain a count value; adding compensation data at a peripheral position of an edge pixel of the target image according to the count value, to obtain pixel data of the compensated target image.
US12014471B2
Techniques are provided for generation of synthetic 3-dimensional object image variations for training of recognition systems. An example system may include an image synthesizing circuit configured to synthesize a 3D image of the object (including color and depth image pairs) based on a 3D model. The system may also include a background scene generator circuit configured to generate a background for each of the rendered image variations. The system may further include an image pose adjustment circuit configured to adjust the orientation and translation of the object for each of the variations. The system may further include an illumination and visual effect adjustment circuit configured to adjust illumination of the object and the background for each of the variations, and to further adjust visual effects of the object and the background for each of the variations based on application of simulated camera parameters.
US12014466B2
According to an aspect, a method for sharing a collaborative augmented reality (AR) environment including obtaining, by a sensor system of a first computing system, visual data representing a physical space of an AR environment, where the visual data is used to create a three-dimensional (3D) map of the physical space. The 3D map includes a coordinate space having at least one virtual object added by a user of the first computing system. The method includes broadcasting, by a transducer on the first computing system, an ultrasound signal, where the ultrasound signal includes an identifier associated with the 3D map. The identifier is configured to be detected by a second computing system to join the AR environment.
US12014464B2
Examples of systems and methods for a wearable system to automatically select or filter available user interface interactions or virtual objects are disclosed. The wearable system can select a group of virtual objects for user interaction based on contextual information associated with the user, the user's environment, physical or virtual objects in the user's environment, or the user's physiological or psychological state.
US12014462B2
Methods and systems herein can include a processor configured to obtain a set of images that shows a user's head and a reference object, generate a user's head model of the user's head based at least in part on the set of images, and generate a reference object model of the reference object based at least in part on the set of images. The processor can further be configured to determine an orientation and a size of the reference object model based at least in part on a relative location of the reference object relative to the user's head in the set of images and use the reference object model, the orientation of the reference object model, the size of the reference object, and a known dimension of the reference object to determine scaling information. The processor can then be configured to apply the scaling information to the user's head model to obtain a scaled user's head model. The system can also include a memory coupled to the processor and configured to provide the processor with instructions.
US12014456B2
A method of operating a graphics processor when rendering a frame representing a view of a scene using a ray tracing process in which part of the processing for a ray tracing operation is offloaded to a texture mapper unit of the graphics processor. Thus, when the graphics processor's execution unit is executing a program to perform a ray tracing operation the execution unit is able to message the texture mapper unit to perform one or more processing operations for the ray tracing operation. This operation can be triggered by including an appropriate instruction to message the texture mapper unit within the ray tracing program.
US12014455B2
Examples of systems and methods to facilitate audiovisual presence transitions of virtual objects such as virtual avatars in a mixed reality collaborative environment are disclosed. The systems and methods may be configured to produce different audiovisual presence transitions such as appearance, disappearance and reappearance of the virtual avatars. The virtual avatar audiovisual transitions may be further indicated by various visual and sound effects of the virtual avatars. The transitions may occur based on various colocation or decolocation scenarios.
US12014450B2
Augmented reality apparatus and methods of use are provided with secure persistent digital content linked to a location coordinates. More specifically, the present invention links a physical location with digital content to enable a user interface with augmented reality that combines aspects of the physical area with location specific digital content. According the present invention, digital content remains persistent with a location even if visual aspects of the location change. Access to the digital content constrained to Agents physically located in an area of digital content interaction based upon location coordinates of the Agent.
US12014449B2
Computed tomography (CT) image reconstruction from polychromatic projection data. In an embodiment, polychromatic projection data is acquired using a CT system. An optimal correction value for linearization of the polychromatic projection data is determined, and the polychromatic projection data is linearized according to the determined optimal correction value. The image is then reconstructed from the linearized projection data.
US12014448B2
A park assistance system for a motor vehicle is presented that has a distance sensor system for generating a sensor signal depending on a lateral distance to an object. A computing unit of the park assistance system generates graphics data based on the sensor signal, and contains an augmented reality system for superimposing a graphic element onto a field of view of a driver. An extension of the graphic element along a vertical axis depends on a value of the distance.
US12014446B2
A computing system for generating predicted images along a trajectory of unseen viewpoints. The system can obtain one or more spatial observations of an environment that may be captured from one or more previous camera poses. The system can generate a three-dimensional point cloud for the environment from the one or more spatial observations and the one or more previous camera poses. The system can project the three-dimensional point cloud into two-dimensional space to form one or more guidance spatial observations. The system can process the one or more guidance spatial observations with a machine-learned spatial observation prediction model to generate one or more predicted spatial observations. The system can process the one or more predicted spatial observations and image data with a machine-learned image prediction model to generate one or more predicted images from the target camera pose. The system can output the one or more predicted images.
US12014445B2
Examples are described of marking specified regions of stored image frame buffer data in an image frame buffer. An imaging system can read the specified regions of the image frame buffer to identify whether the marking has been overwritten or not. The imaging system can thus efficiently identify how much of the image frame buffer has been overwritten with data from a new image frame. Based on this, the imaging system can retrieve partial image frame data from the image frame buffer and can process the partial image frame data, for instance to composite the partial image frame data with virtual content and/or to perform distortion compensation. The processed partial image frame data can be uploaded to a display buffer and displayed by a display, either as-is or once more of the frame is captured and processed. The imaging system can also perform auto-exposure using the partial image frame data.
US12014442B2
A primary processing unit includes queues configured to store commands prior to execution in corresponding pipelines. The primary processing unit also includes a first table configured to store entries indicating dependencies between commands that are to be executed on different ones of a plurality of processing units that include the primary processing unit and one or more secondary processing units. The primary processing unit also includes a scheduler configured to release commands in response to resolution of the dependencies. In some cases, a first one of the secondary processing units schedules the first command for execution in response to resolution of a dependency on a second command executing in a second one of the secondary processing units. The second one of the secondary processing units notifies the primary processing unit in response to completing execution of the second command.
US12014436B2
Systems and methods for generation and use of intellectual-property (IP) landscaping platform architectures are disclosed. A landscaping component may be utilized to produce refined clusters of IP assets using user seeded searches in varying areas of interest, such as, for example, target technical fields, targeted publications, targeted products, and/or competitor entity portfolios. The landscaping component may be further utilized to produce an interactive graphical element including a spatial representation of the clusters of IP assets. The interactive graphical element may include various functionalities and/or information associated with the clusters of IP assets. An exposure assessment component may be utilized to assess the level of exposure associated with a targeted entity by analyzing a mapping between IP assets and allocated funds of the targeted entity, generate a score representing the level of exposure, make determinations as to insurance offerings and/or alter rates associated with the insurance offerings.
US12014433B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for the generation and interactive display of three-dimensional (3D) models that accurately represent buildings and other large, complex objects possessing both internal and external features. More specifically, an exterior mesh can be generated that captures all the external features of the building. An interior mesh can also be generated that captures all the internal features of the building. The exterior mesh and the interior mesh may be layered and combined using geographical coordinates (e.g., global positioning system (GPS) data) in order to create a combined mesh that can be used to render a 3D model of the object. Any images taken of external or internal features may also be appended to the 3D model or even overlaid on the 3D model (like textures), based on the location and directional view associated with those images.
US12014427B1
An apparatus for customization and utilization of target profiles, the apparatus comprising: a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor, the memory containing instructions configuring the processor to receive a data set comprising a plurality of target data, determine a validity status of the plurality of target data within the data set, modify the data set as a function of the validity status, determine one or more protection gaps within the modified data set using a gap finder module, generate one or more target profiles as function of the modified data set, the one or more protection gaps, and a user input, and modify a graphical user interface as a function of one or more target profiles.
US12014426B2
A method of training and using a machine learning model that controls for consideration of undesired factors which might otherwise be considered by the trained model during its subsequent analysis of new data. For example, the model may be a neural network trained on a set of training images to evaluate an insurance applicant based upon an image or audio data of the insurance applicant as part of an underwriting process to determine an appropriate life or health insurance premium. The model is trained to probabilistically correlate an aspect of the applicant's appearance with a personal and/or health-related characteristic. Any undesired factors, such as age, sex, ethnicity, and/or race, are identified for exclusion. The trained model receives the image (e.g., a “selfie”) of the insurance applicant, analyzes the image without considering the identified undesired factors, and suggests the appropriate insurance premium based only on the remaining desired factors.
US12014424B2
The present disclosure relates generally to systems for facilitating the use of autonomous vehicles (AVs), and more particularly to automated artificial intelligence (AI)-based techniques for determining an insurance premium for an AV ride based upon various factors including the evaluation of risk associated with the AV ride. An automated AI-based infrastructure is provided that uses automated machine-learning (ML) based techniques for evaluating a level of risk for any particular AV ride and then determining an insurance premium for the AV ride based on the level of risk. The insurance premium determination incorporates Usage Based Insurance Pricing (UBIP) that has been customized for autonomous driving, whereby the level of risk is predicted based on information associated with the expected usage of the AV during the ride. Thus, the insurance premium is customized for each ride and can be determined as part of calculating upfront the total price of the ride.
US12014415B2
A system and computer-implemented method of continuously updating information about one or more of a customer approved for a mortgage and a real estate property identified as mortgage ready. The method includes monitoring information accessed from a memory storage location corresponding to a customer identification number, the information used to determine the customer is approved for a mortgage, and receiving new information about the customer, the new information used to determine the customer is approved for a mortgage. The method also includes updating, at a memory coupled to the one or more processors, the memory storage location to include the new information. The method still further includes recalculating the amount in which the customer is approved for a mortgage based upon the new information received.
US12014412B2
The disclosed embodiments provide systems, methods, and techniques for managing transaction cards. User registration processes, order processes, and failure detection processes for a secure universal shopping cart are provided. Systems and methods may acquire identifiers. Systems and methods may also identify items associated with the identifiers. In addition, systems and methods may acquire a list of merchants that offer each item. Systems and methods may further determine, for each identifier, merchants based on user preferences. Even further, systems and methods may generate a payment token for each item. Systems and methods may then transmit the payment token for each item to its respective merchant.
US12014411B2
Disclosed herein are various embodiments for a vehicle listing generation and optimization system. An embodiment operates by receiving a request to generate a vehicle listing to sell a vehicle on a website. A plurality of vehicle listings similar to the vehicle to be sold are determined, the plurality of vehicle listings including a plurality of features providing information about a respective vehicle featured in the vehicle listing and a performance metric indicating an effectiveness of a respective listing. A first cluster of listings from the plurality of vehicle listings similar to the vehicle are identified based on based on performing artificial intelligence clustering with respect to the metric. Common features amongst a subset of the first cluster of listings are identified. A user interface of a sales template for selling the vehicle associated with the request via the website is generated, wherein the sales template includes the common identified features.
US12014408B2
Deterministic identifiers fuel reliable efficient capture of product discovery, purchase and consumption events, which in turn enable more reliable product recommendation, more accurate shopping list generation and in-store navigation. A mobile device, equipped with image and audio detectors, extracts product identifiers from objects, display screens and ambient audio. In conjunction with a cloud-based service, a mobile device application obtains product information and logs product events for extracted identifiers. The cloud service generates recommendations, and mapping for in-store navigation. The detectors also provide reliable and efficient product identification for purchase events, and post shopping product consumption events.
US12014403B2
A management system, which involves a computer and software executing on that computer, that tracks the usage of materials used in a repair and collates that information into an accurate material invoice. This system produces significantly more accurate invoices while also having a very user-friendly interface that can be easily accessed with any image recognition device, including smart phones. More specifically, the system involves scanning repair order QR code tags and material QR code tags to create detailed invoices for repair orders that have the exact amount of materials used on the repair orders. This system also allows administrators to track the amount of materials used on a repair order and will automatically flag the available stock of materials if they fall below a configured threshold. If the available stock falls below the configured threshold, then suppliers will automatically be notified by the system to restock the material.
US12014400B1
A system and methods for a universal integration framework for data analytics pipelines are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a computer-implemented method maintains internal consumer data that has a consumer ID associated with a consumer based on events at a partner platform. The platform server determines target characteristics based on instructions provided by a client or the internal consumer data and generates a target consumer group associated with an internal project ID based on the target characteristics, wherein the target consumer group includes the consumer ID and internal consumer data associated with each consumer. The platform server transmits the target consumer group to the partner platform and receives partner event data indicative of updates to consumer data. The platform server generates an updated target consumer group based on the updated consumer data and transmits updates to the partner platform to improve consumer interest.
US12014399B2
Cross-media targetable content recommender system for audience extension in content delivery systems
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, collecting television viewership information for viewers of television content items of a television advertising campaign, collecting digital viewership information for online activity by users, joining the television viewership information and the digital viewership information, wherein the joining comprises associating household identifiers of the television viewership information with device identifiers of the digital viewership information, building a content ranking of digital content items closest to the television content items and initiating, by the processing system, a digital advertising campaign with one or more digital content items of the content ranking of digital content items attached to the digital advertising campaign. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12014398B2
Systems and methods for gating-enhanced multi-task neural networks with feature interaction learning
Deep neural network (DNN) models have been widely used for user-relevance content prediction. Presented herein are embodiments of a new user-relevance framework, which may be referred as Gating-Enhanced Multi-task Neural Networks (GemNN) embodiments. Neural network-based multi-task learning model embodiments herein predict user engagement with content in a coarse-to-fine manner, which gradually reduces content candidates and allows parameter sharing from upstream tasks to downstream tasks to improve the training efficiency. Also, in one or more embodiments, a gating mechanism was introduced between embedding layers and multi-layer perceptions to learn feature interactions and control the information flow fed to MLP layers. Tested embodiments demonstrated considerable improvements over prior approaches.
US12014391B2
A device may obtain, from a client device associated with a customer and based on the customer joining a rewards program, item data identifying an item, of a plurality of items, placed in a shopping cart and customer data identifying the customer, obtain rewards data identifying rewards associated with the plurality of items, process the item data, the rewards data, and the customer data, with a machine learning model, to identify a reward based on the rewards data associated with the item, verify a completed purchase of the item based on data indicating an intent of the customer to purchase the item and transaction data, provide, to the client device, data identifying the identified reward based on verifying the completed purchase of the item, and retrain the machine learning model based on the identified reward.
US12014388B2
A method for identifying an optimal ticket for purchase and using the optimal ticket to open a venue for a gate of a venue.
US12014387B1
The present disclosure relates to a system, method, and computer program for providing a pricing platform for performing pricing calculations for a plurality of different customers with different types of pricing calculations. An instance of the price-calculation pipeline is created for each of a plurality of customers of the pricing platform. The instances of the price-calculation pipeline are executed to perform pricing calculations for a plurality of different customers with different types of pricing calculations. For each instance of the price-calculation pipeline, a performance metric is generated for each of the modular pricing stages within the instance. The performance metrics are displayed in a user dashboard that provides user controls that enable the user to adjust the computational resources allocated to each of the modular pricing stages executing on the platform. The computational resources allocated to one or more modular pricing stages are adjusted in accordance with received user input.
US12014379B2
An intent classifier may be used to increase the efficiency of a communications system. A company may provide assistance to a first user using automated processing or by a second user manually responding to the first user. To reduce costs, the company may prefer to use automated processing for assistance where it is available. While a second user is assisting a user, a message from the first user may be processed with an intent classifier to determine that automated support is available to assist the first user, and a suggestion may be presented to the second user to transfer the first user to the automated processing, such as by presenting a button to the second user to transfer the first user to the automated processing. The second user may then transfer the first user to the automated processing and assist other users.
US12014371B2
Systems and methods for fraud detection and prevention is disclosed. The system may receive a transaction request for a first customer including a transaction location, transaction time stamp, and merchant type code. The system may determine whether the transaction location is expected for the first customer. When the transaction location is unexpected, the system may identify a last-known video detection having a last-known time stamp and last-known location. The system may determine a travel time estimate between the last-known location and the transaction location and determine a buffer based on the merchant type code. The system may compare the travel time estimate to an allotted time that includes a difference between the transaction time stamp and last-known time stamp less the buffer. When the travel time estimate exceeds the allotted time, the system may execute one or more fraud prevention steps.
US12014356B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to autofilling card data from a contactless card to a form of a computing device. An application may determine that a payment field of a form has received focus. The application may then receive encrypted data from a communications interface of a contactless card associated with an account. The application may then receive, from a server, verification of the encrypted data. The application may then receive, from the server, an encrypted account number associated with the account, and decrypt the encrypted account number to yield the account number. An autofill service of an operating system (OS) executing on the processor circuit, may then autofill the account number to the payment field of the form.
US12014352B1
Apparatus and methods are provided for a smart card which enables users to securely complete online transfers without entering sensitive transaction information into a third-party system. The smart card may include a touch-sensitive screen configured to display selectable transfer options. The smart card may include a microprocessor and wireless interface. The wireless interface may provide wireless communication capabilities and the ability to initiate online transfers based on information captured by the touch-sensitive screen. A card issuer may mint an NFT with data from a past transaction using the smart card. The smart card may display the NFT and an associated score on the touch-sensitive screen. The smart card may communicate with another smart card using near-field communication to share NFT and score data. The smart card may accept or decline a transaction based on one or more NFTs associated with the other card.
US12014340B2
A method includes receiving a lockbox transaction order associated with an account of the provider from a first user device where the lockbox transaction order includes a requested transaction and a desired transaction location, validating whether the requested transaction can be completed at the desired transaction location, determining a physical lockbox associated with the provider from a plurality of physical lockboxes at an alternative lockbox transaction location based on determining that the lockbox transaction order cannot be completed at the desired transaction location, transmitting an indication to a user device indicating that the requested transaction can be completed at the alternative lockbox transaction location, preparing the physical lockbox for the requested transaction, and authenticating a user at the physical lockbox where authenticating the user at the physical lockbox enables the physical lockbox to unlock and become accessible by the user.
US12014336B2
A system for initiating a recycling program of consumer electronic devices, wherein the system includes a collection device configured to collect a plurality of consumer electronic devices from users, a processing unit located within a permitted facility, communicatively connected to the collection device, wherein the processing unit is configured to disassemble each consumer electronic device of the plurality of consumer electronic devices into a plurality of base components through an electronic device disassembling process, wherein the plurality of base components includes a plurality of plastic components and at least a battery component, process the plurality of base components, wherein processing the plurality of base components includes disintegrating the plurality of plastic components into a plurality of granules and decomposing the at least one battery component into a plurality of electrochemical materials, and generate a recycled output using the processed plurality of base components.
US12014335B2
There is provided a maintenance apparatus including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a plurality of test results, for each of a plurality of jigs, in a case where a plurality of devices under measurement, which are different from each other, are sequentially tested via the plurality of jigs; a calculation unit configured to calculate a variation in test results, for each jig, by using the plurality of test results; and a determination unit configured to determine maintenance timing of the jig based on the variation in the test results.
US12014330B2
Participant inclusion determination can include generating a textual analysis of a draft of an electronic communication in response to a sender preparing the draft for conveyance over an electronic communications network. A word relevance score can be computed for each word of the draft based on the textual analysis. Probabilistically weighted distances between the sender, an initial recipient of the electronic communication, and more additional recipient candidates for additionally receiving the electronic communication can be determined. The probabilistically weighted distances can correspond to hierarchical distances within a hierarchical structure corresponding to an organization in which the sender, the initial recipient, and one or more additional recipient candidates are members. At least one of the additional recipient candidates can be selected for receiving the electronic communication over the electronic communications network based on the word relevance scores and the probabilistically weighted distances.
US12014327B2
A method for identifying shipment shortages on pallets is provided. In some embodiments, the method includes taking one or more digital images of a pallet with a shipment thereon to estimate the shipment's volume. The method further includes estimating an anticipated shipment volume based on the shipment's invoice information, and comparing the estimated shipment volume to the anticipated shipment volume to calculate volume mismatches. The volume mismatches can be used as an indicator of any shipment errors.
US12014317B2
A method and system for controlling unloading of a vehicle transporting a load of unprocessed material from a first location to a second location are described, wherein the second location includes a material processing device and a storage for unprocessed material. The method includes receiving a signal indicative of a level of unprocessed material contained in the material processing device; determining, based on the signal, whether an estimated level of unprocessed material contained in the material processing device is below or above a threshold at an estimated time of arrival of the vehicle at the material processing device; and, directing the vehicle towards the material processing device when the estimated level of unprocessed material contained in the material processing device is below the first threshold; or directing the vehicle towards the storage when the estimated level of unprocessed material contained in the material processing device is above the first threshold.
US12014313B2
An information processing device includes a processor that: acquires history information indicating a history, about a first product, of storage in a repository or removal from the repository, the storage or the removal being detected by a sensor provided at the repository; acquires first information indicating a consumption pattern, for the first product, of a user associated with the repository, the first information being acquired based on the history information; and performs a process related to delivery of the first product to the user based on the first information.
US12014309B1
A method includes updating, in a server, a workflow in a contract based on an action by a remote user. The method also includes storing an updated version of the contract in a directory, and providing, to an approver remotely coupled with the server, a link to the updated version. Updating the workflow includes at least one of: selecting a governing law or any other type of field or constraint controlling the updated version of the contract, —adding a conditional variable to the contract, the conditional variable configured to acquire a value based on an input from the remote user, or the approver, adding or removing a portion of the contract based on a value of the conditional variable in the contract, and modifying a role for the approver. A system and a non-transitory, computer-readable medium storing instructions to perform the above method are also disclosed.
US12014306B2
A method of assessing a risk level of an enterprise using cloud-based services from one or more cloud service providers includes assessing provider risk scores associated with the one or more cloud service providers; assessing cloud service usage behavior and pattern of the enterprise; and generating a risk score for the enterprise based on the provider risk scores and on the cloud service usage behavior and pattern of the enterprise. The risk score is indicative of the risk of the enterprise relating to the use of the cloud-based services from the one or more cloud service providers.
US12014305B2
Tendency detecting and analysis in support of generating one or more workflows via user interface interactions is disclosed. In accordance with the user interface interactions, processing user selection of one or more icons may generate at least one user-selectable option within a graphical user interface, where the user-selectable option corresponds to at least one workflow action. The workflow action may relate to an identified tendency of a person or a group of people.
US12014292B2
A method for optimally simulating fluid flow around a real object by (a) defining an initial state of a simulation space having a plurality of lattices with nodes; determining a space occupation state by objects, a fluid state, and a probability distribution state of a particle for respective nodes; generating a flow effect for the respective nodes using a collision rule which is a probability distribution of the particle with respect to the velocity thereof, obtained by satisfying a condition at which a Tsallis or a Rényi-divergence between the collision rule itself and a reference collision rule provides a simulated fluid flow result; and renewing the initial state and varying the space occupation state based on the simulated fluid flow result; and (b) based on step (a) modeling fluid flow around the real object.
US12014280B2
A method for measuring the sensitivity of a classifier for digital images against adversarial attacks. The classifier includes at least one neural network. The method includes: providing a digital image for which the sensitivity is to be measured; providing a generator that is trained to map elements of a latent space to a realistic image; obtaining, according to a set of parameters, an element of the latent space; mapping, using the generator, this element to a disturbance in the space of realistic images; perturbing the digital image with this disturbance; determining, using the classifier, a classification result for the perturbed image; determining, from the classification result, the impact of the disturbance on the classification result; optimizing the set of parameters to maximize this impact; and determining, based at least in part on the maximum impact, the sensitivity of the classifier.
US12014277B2
A network authentication system can be configured for sampling a plurality of signal samples from a device on a network, providing the plurality of signal samples to a first machine-learned model that is configured to determine a device fingerprint based at least in part on the plurality of signal samples, and providing the device fingerprint to a second machine-learned model that is configured to classify the device based at least in part on the device fingerprint.
US12014276B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for training a machine learning model using a deterministic data pipeline. One of the methods may include receiving a first request to generate a deterministic training dataset: transforming raw training examples obtained from the raw data source into pre-processed training examples; assigning a unique index to each pre-processed training example; and caching the pre-processed training examples into the cache directory specified in the received first request; receiving a second request to use the deterministic training dataset to train a machine learning model, the second request specifying a start index; and in response to receiving the second request: reading, from the cache directory, the pre-processed training examples that have indices beginning from the start index; and providing the read training examples in an order of the assigned indices for use in training the machine learning model.
US12014253B2
Systems and methods for constructing sets of synthetic data. A single data record is identified from a first set of data. The first set of data comprises a first plurality of data records, each of the data records including multiple items of data describing an entity. Using pattern recognition, the single data record is processed to identify a group of records from within the first set that have corresponding characteristics equivalent to the single data record. The identified group of records comprises a target set of variables and the group of records from the first set that are not identified comprises a control set of variables. The target set of variables and the control set of variables are processed, using probability estimation and optimization constraints, to determine a score for each of the records in the first set. The score describes how similar each of the records in the first set is to the single data record. The records associated with a percentage of the highest scores are identified. The data associated with the single data record is replaced with data associated with the identified records identified, item-by-item.
US12014252B2
A system and method for implementing an alimentary instruction set based on vibrant constitutional guidance using artificial intelligence, the system comprising at least a server configured to receive at least a biological extraction from a user and training data, generate a diagnostic output as a function of the at least a biological extraction and training data, generate a comprehensive instruction set associated with the user based on the diagnostic output, transmit the comprehensive instruction set to at least a user client device associated with the user, generate at least an advisory output as a function of the comprehensive instruction set, and transmit the advisory output to at least an advisor client device.
US12014245B2
There is provided an information processing device to realize more efficient reading of a target code. The information processing device includes an acquisition unit that acquires a target code from a captured image to acquire information from the target code. The acquisition unit acquires a target code from a captured image of a tile code in which a plurality of identical target codes are arranged at predetermined intervals.
US12014244B2
Provided is an artificial intelligence-based object identification and monitoring system using IoT sensors, the system including: an IoT sensing device configured to acquire sensor data and IR image data of a target space or a target object by using a plurality of the sensors; integrated IOT middleware; an IoT control server configured to use the integrated IoT middleware to process the data acquired by the IOT sensing device, and perform an AI analysis of the processed data; and an IoT monitoring server configured to monitor the IoT sensing device according to a result of the AI analysis, and perform control such that an external electronic device outputs a result of monitoring. Various other embodiments may be possible.
US12014241B1
The utility model discloses a wireless barcode scanning gun with an electronic tag setting function. The wireless barcode scanning gun includes a barcode scanning gun body, a master control component, an RFID identification component, an RFID tag component and a tag component. The barcode scanning gun body is used for scanning data of the tag component and transmitting the data to the master control component; the master control board and the RFID identification component are both mounted on the barcode scanning gun body; a unique identification code is stored in the RFID tag component; the RFID identification component is used for reading data of the RFID tag component and sending the data to the master control component. By means of the above method, the utility model achieves parameter matching of the tag component, and binds the matched parameters of a plurality of tag components to one RFID tag component.
US12014238B2
Aspects of the technology provide a multi-purpose card reader configured for use with a mobile electronic device (e.g., a mobile host), such as a smart phone or tablet computer. In certain aspects, the card reader is integrated into a case for enclosing the mobile electronic device and configured for reading financial information from a payment card to facilitate a financial transaction between a buyer and a merchant. To facilitate operability of the card reader, the case can include multiple card slots, such as a swipe-slot (e.g., for receiving a magnetic stripe payment card), and a dip-slot (e.g., for use in receiving an IC type payment card).
US12014236B2
Mounts for securing a device to a flexible object comprise a flexible substrate configured to be operatively coupled to the flexible object and a housing coupled to the flexible substrate and having an internal void that is sized to receive the device.
US12014229B2
An information processing device includes a table data acquirer that acquires table data; a print data generator that generates print data including an unconverted image in which information stored in the table data is not converted into other information when a user selects a text option and that generates the print data including a first code image obtained by converting the information stored in the table data into a one-dimensional code image when the user selects a one-dimensional code option; and a display controller that displays, on a touch panel, a fourth operation screen including an option region in which a plurality of options including the text option and the one-dimensional code option are displayed and a second table data region in which the table data is displayed.
US12014217B2
A resource control system is described that is configured to control scheduling of executable jobs by compute instances of a service provider system. In one example, the resource control system outputs a deployment user interface to obtain job information. Upon receipt of the job information, the resource control system communicates with a service provider system to obtain logs from compute instances implemented by the service provider system for the respective executable jobs. The resource control system uses data obtained from the logs to estimate utility indicating status of respective executable jobs and an amount of time to complete the executable jobs by respective compute instances. The resource control system then employs a machine-learning module to generate an action to be performed by compute instances for respective executable jobs.
US12014215B2
An active scheduling method performed with a master processor and a plurality of slave processors. The method includes determining whether a job to be performed has a dependency by referencing a job queue; in a case in which it is determined that the job to be performed has a dependency, updating a state of the job to be performed in a table in which information of each of a plurality of jobs is recorded; analyzing a state of a job preceding the job to be performed based on the table; and in a case in which the job preceding the job to be performed is determined to have been completed, performing the job to be performed by retrieving the job to be performed from the job queue.
US12014204B2
Embodiments of this disclosure disclose a block processing method, a node, and a system, to improve the speed of block generation and the performance of transaction processing. One method includes: a first node being a leader node, and a second node being a follower node, packaging, by the first node, first transaction information in a transaction queue of the first node into a candidate block, and broadcasting the candidate block through the blockchain; performing, by the first node, verification on the first transaction information in the candidate block to generate a first verification result, and executing the first transaction information in the candidate block to generate a first transaction execution result; broadcasting, by the first node, a first node processing result comprising the first verification result and the first transaction execution result through the blockchain; receiving, by the first node, a second node processing result broadcast by the second node through the blockchain, the second node processing result comprising: a second verification result generated by the second node by performing verification on the first transaction information in the candidate block, and a second transaction execution result generated by executing the first transaction information in the candidate block by the second node; and performing, by the first node, consensus on the candidate block according to the first node processing result and the second node processing result, saving, by the first node, the candidate block in response to a consensus on the candidate block being reached successfully, and saving, by the first node, the first transaction execution result in response to the first transaction information being executed successfully.
US12014202B2
A method of operating the accelerator includes receiving a request for preemption during an execution of a first task using one or more processing elements included in the accelerator, in response to the request for preemption, moving context information of the first task stored in an internal memory of the accelerator to an external memory of the accelerator, and executing a second task associated with the request for preemption using the processing elements.
US12014197B2
In one set of embodiments, a hypervisor of a host system can receive a packet processing program from a virtual network interface controller (NIC) driver of a virtual machine (VM) running on the hypervisor. The hypervisor can then attach the packet processing program to a first execution point in a physical NIC driver of the hypervisor and to a second execution point in a virtual NIC backend of the hypervisor, where the virtual NIC backend corresponds to a virtual NIC of the VM that originated the packet processing program.
US12014195B2
A system and a method for application transformation to cloud by conversion of an application source code to a cloud native code is provided. First and second transformation recommendation paths are received and remediation tem plates based on the same are applied. A pre-defined transformation process flow is applied on application source code based on first and second transformation recommendation paths including a pre-processing stage involving analysis of source code and target framework. A plugin unit is provided which provides an adaptable plugin framework for creating multiple plugin types. The adaptable plugin framework allows addition of semi-automated workflow that applies functionality to accelerate application development or application to cloud transformation or addition of semi-automated steps to accelerate greenfield application development and application source code transformation to cloud native code. The functionality may include assessment of application source code and generation of application source code.
US12014193B2
A system and a method are described. The method comprises: establishing a remote desktop session between a first system and a second remotely located system having access to the remote application; the establishing including setting up a virtual channel for communication of data relating to graphical user interface interactions at the first system to the second system; preparing a command for execution by the remote application, the command including a command identifier and being configured to require a response; transmitting the command for the remote application from the first system to the second system via the virtual channel; receiving the command at the second system and providing the command to the remote application seeking to execute the command; generating a response to the provision of the command to the remote application, the response including the command identifier; and sending the response to the first system via the virtual channel.
US12014191B2
Methods and systems may be associated with an Open Service Broker (“OSB”) Application Programming Interface (“API”) computing environment. A persistent finite state machine may be associated with an OSB API service broker, and a database may store a current state of the service broker. A computer processor of a state machine executor may retrieve the current state of the service broker from the database, and (based on the current state) use the persistent finite state machine to coordinate a distributed transaction workflow for the service broker, the distributed transaction workflow including asynchronous instance OSB API lifecycle operations that span multiple entities. The state machine may then update the database with state outputs for the service broker.
US12014181B2
An instruction configuration and execution method includes the following steps. A target instruction is received through an instruction cache. The target instruction is decoded by an instruction translator. It is determined whether the target instruction has the authority to read or write the model specific register in an unprivileged state. It is determined whether the model specific register index of the specific instruction corresponds to a specific model specific register, so as to order the microprocessor to perform an instruction serialization operation.
US12014179B1
In some aspects, data collection functions are interposed to generate input data for an observability pipeline system. In some aspects, a data collection function is made available to an application running on a computer system, with the data collection function having the same name as an original function referenced by the application. In response to a call to the original function, the data collection function is executed and data is extracted from the application. The original function is then executed. A reporting thread of the application is executed; executing the reporting thread generates observability pipeline input data by formatting the extracted data and sends the observability pipeline input data from the computer system to an observability pipeline system.
US12014178B2
An instruction fetch pipeline includes first, second, and third sub-pipelines that respectively include: a TLB that receives a fetch virtual address, a tag random access memory (RAM) of a physically-indexed physically-tagged set associative instruction cache that receives a predicted set index, and a data RAM that receives the predicted set index and a predicted way number that specifies a way of the entry from which a block of instructions was previously fetched. The predicted set index specifies the instruction cache set that includes the entry. The three sub-pipelines respectively initiate in parallel: a TLB access using the fetch virtual address to obtain a translation thereof into a fetch physical address that includes a tag, a tag RAM access using the predicted set index to read a set of tags, and a data RAM access using the predicted set index and the predicted way number to fetch the block of instructions.
US12014176B2
An apparatus and a method for pipeline control are provided. The apparatus includes a preload predictor, an arithmetic logic unit (ALU) and a data buffer. The preload predictor is configured to determine whether a load instruction conforms to at least one specific condition, to generate a preload determination result. The ALU is configured to perform arithmetic logic operations, and the data buffer is configured to provide data for being used by the ALU. When the preload determination result indicates that the load instruction conforms to the at least one specific condition, the data buffer fetches preload data from a cache memory according to information carried by the load instruction and stores the preload data in the data buffer, where the preload data is data requested by a subsequent load instruction.
US12014170B2
A mini program batch processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a readable storage medium are provided. A method includes: establishing a batch package submission creation event; creating, in response to the batch package submission creation event, a batch package submission task to generate a package submission work queue comprising a plurality of mini program package submission tasks; extracting a first quantity of mini program package submission tasks from the package submission work queue; creating a virtual mini program package for each of the first quantity of mini program package submission tasks; and updating the virtual mini program package to a mini program online package and automatically releasing the mini program online package.
US12014169B2
A method for software identification in a software asset management system is provided. The method comprises receiving software inventory data from a user terminal and processing the software inventory data, wherein processing the software inventory data comprise identifying software information based on the software inventory data. Thereby the software characteristics are identified.
US12014159B2
The system can determine complexity data representative of a complexity of changes to computer code that is executable to operate at least one microservice that is part of a group of microservices. The system can generate a progressive deployment plan for the at least one microservice based on the complexity of changes. The system can progressively direct traffic to the at least one microservice based on the progressive deployment plan.
US12014157B2
Methods and apparatuses are described for intelligent imputation of missing data in a machine learning (ML) dataset comprised of a plurality of features. Each feature includes a plurality of values, where at least a portion of the values for one or more features are missing. A server analyzes the ML dataset to generate characteristics of the missing values in the ML dataset. The server selects an imputation algorithm for filling in the missing values based upon the identified characteristics. The server determines a computing environment in which the imputation algorithm is executed based upon one or more of a size of the ML dataset or the selected algorithm. The server generates code that comprises instructions for executing the imputation algorithm on the ML dataset in the computing environment. The server integrates the code into an ML platform that executes the code to assign replacement values to the missing values.
US12014154B2
Methods and systems are presented for providing a computer platform that manages the impacts of government regulations on existing software processes of an online service provider. A regulation document is obtained from a government agency. The regulation document is processed, and legal obligations relevant to an online service provider are extracted from the regulation document. An ensemble machine learning model is used to recommend, for each of the legal obligations, software controls that can be implemented within one or more software processes of the online service provider to mitigate a risk of the legal obligations. The ensemble machine learning model may include an attribute-based model and a text-based model. An explainable visual interface is provided to present the recommended software controls and context that indicates to a user how the software controls are determined for the legal obligations.
US12014153B1
A method for constructing a quantum number generator is disclosed. The method employs an electrodeposited metal on a printed circuit board (PCB) or a glass container filled with tritium containing a scintillator or fluorophore, and an integrated circuit with a detector mounted on the PCB using a flip-chip methodology.
US12014151B2
A plurality of unit elements share a charge transfer bus, each unit element accepts A and B digital inputs and generates a product P as an analog charge transferred to the charge transfer bus, each unit element comprised of groups of AND gates coupled to charge transfer lines through a capacitor Cu. Each unit element receives one bit of the B input applied to all of the AND gates of the unit element, and each unit element having the bits of A applied to each associated AND gate input of each unit element. The AND gates of each unit element are coupled to charge transfer lines through a capacitor Cu, and the charge transfer lines couple to binary weighted charge summing capacitors which sum and scale the charges contributed by all unit elements to the charge transfer lines according to a bit weight and converted to a digital value output.
US12014146B2
The present disclosure relates to techniques for identifying out-of-domain utterances. One particular technique includes receiving an utterance and a target domain of a chatbot, generating a sentence embedding for the utterance, obtaining an embedding representation for each cluster of in-domain utterances associated with the target domain, predicting, using a metric learning model, a first probability that the utterance belongs to the target domain based on a similarity or difference between the sentence embedding and each embedding representation for each cluster, predicting, using an outlier detection model, a second probability that the utterance belongs to the target domain based on a determined distance or density deviation between the sentence embedding and embedding representations for neighboring clusters, evaluating the first probability and the second probability to determine a final probability, and classifying the utterance as in-domain or out-of-domain for the chatbot based on the final probability.
US12014136B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for translation comments flowback. In some embodiments, the method includes the steps of: obtaining a first document associated with a primary document, the primary document in a primary language, the first document comprising one or more translated sections in a first language, the one or more translated sections being mapped to one or more sections in the primary document via a content identifier, the first language being different from the primary language; transmitting the first document to a first user for review; receiving a first input associated with the one or more translated sections in the first document from the first user; and populating the first input to the primary document based on the content identifier.
US12014134B2
The present disclosure relates to document processing method and apparatus, readable medium and electronic device. The present disclosure enables: receiving changed target document content, and comment information corresponding to the target document content after position migration, the comment information including comment content and position information of the commented text after position migration; wherein, parent node of each text node in the target document content has its own identity identification, and each text node in the target document content has a node sequence number, the node sequence number characterizing the order of the text node among its sibling text nodes; and displaying the changed target document content and the comment information corresponding to the target document content after position migration.
US12014132B2
The present disclosure is directed toward systems and methods to quickly and accurately identify boundaries of a displayed document in a live camera image feed, and provide a document boundary indicator within the live camera image feed. For example, systems and methods described herein utilize different display document detection processes in parallel to generate and provide a document boundary indicator that accurately corresponds with a displayed document within a live camera image feed. Thus, a user of the mobile computing device can easily see whether the document identification system has correctly identified the displayed document within the camera viewfinder feed.
US12014130B2
A method includes receiving a source code for executing a plurality of operations associated with a machine learning algorithm, classifying each operation into a fast operation group and/or a slow operation group, defining a neuron network for executing operations of the slow operation group, and mapping the neuron network to an initial machine learning hardware configuration. The method also includes executing the slow operation group operation on the machine learning hardware configuration, finalizing the machine learning hardware configuration capable of successfully executing least one test data set.
US12014119B2
Embodiments are directed to a construction plan management system. Embodiments retrieve a drawing corresponding to the construction plan, the drawing including document coordinates. Embodiments render the drawing. Embodiments retrieve a data object corresponding to an issue that corresponds to the construction plan, the data object including pinstore coordinates. Embodiments generate a viewport layer on top of the rendered drawing, the viewport layer including viewport coordinates. Embodiments convert the pinstore coordinates of the data object to converted viewport coordinates and display the data object as a pin on the viewport layer using the converted viewport coordinates.
US12014116B2
An audio capture device selects between multiple microphones to generate an output audio signal depending on detected conditions. The audio capture device determines whether one or more microphones are wet or dry and selects one or more audio signals from the one or more microphones depending on their respective conditions. The audio capture device generates a mono audio output signal or a stereo output signal depending on the respective conditions of the one or more microphones.
US12014114B2
Disclosed is a wireless audio device, which includes at least one microphone, at least one speaker, at least one sensor, a processor, and a memory storing instructions, and the instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the wireless audio device, while the wireless audio device outputs a sound for reducing an outside sound acquired through the at least one microphone through the at least one speaker, to identify a specified outside sound of the outside sound acquired through the at least one microphone, to output a notification sound for indicating that the specified outside sound is identified through the at least one speaker, to identify a motion of a user of the wireless audio device through the at least one sensor, in response to outputting the notification sound, and to stop the output of the sound for reducing the outside sound based on the identified motion.
US12014104B2
An electronic device includes a hinge structure, a first housing, second housing foldably connected to the hinge structure and configured to be foldable with respect to the first housing, a first display disposed from at least a part of a first surface to at least a part of a third surface, a second display, a first sensor configured to collect sensor data related to movement of the first housing, a second sensor configured to collect sensor data related to movement of the second housing, and a processor operatively connected with the first display, the second display, the first sensor, and the second sensor. The processor is configured to identify a folding angle between the first housing and the second housing by using the first sensor and the second sensor.
US12014103B2
Game screen rendering based on multiple graphics cards. Recognizing M physical graphics cards on a physical host, determining a rendering task and segmenting it into at least one rendering part; determining a target physical graphics card according to the at least one rendering part, wherein the target physical graphics card is one or more of the M physical graphics cards; rendering the at least one rendering part through the target physical graphics card; and outputting a rendering result through an output device.
US12014102B2
A foldable electronic device is provided and includes a first display disposed on a first surface of the foldable electronic device and including a first region and a second region wider than the first region; a second display disposed on a second surface of the foldable electronic device opposite to the first surface and disposed to correspond to the first region; a state detection circuit for identifying a folded state and an unfolded state of the foldable electronic device; a processor; and a memory operatively connected to the processor, wherein the unfolded state is a state where a front surface of the first display is exposed toward the first surface, wherein the folded state is a state where, as the foldable electronic device is folded such that the first region and the second region face each other, the second display and a partial region of the first display are exposed toward the first surface. In addition, the memory stores instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to display a first user interface related to an application program being executed on the foldable electronic device through the first display based on the identification, by the state detection circuit, of the unfolded state; and display a first portion of the first user interface through the second display and display a second portion related to the first portion of the first user interface through the partial region of the first display based on the identification, by the state detection circuit, of the folded state.
US12014100B1
Electronic devices are used to provide content data and information to users based on their positional and user contexts. Methods and systems herein determine locations of the devices and provide content data from the devices based on their locations and based on content delivery settings, categories, and classifications. Some methods include distribution systems for providing content data and settings to a devices based on their locations. Thus, content data delivered by the devices is prioritized to improve the utility of the devices and the information they present. When multiple electronic devices are brought into proximity with each other, they can also interact to provide content data in different ways, including splitting up the content data, showing extensions, enlargements, or expansions of the content data, or otherwise differentiating the data provided by each device to improve the utility of the information provided by the devices.
US12014099B2
A system and method provides for the transfer of the execution of content, or the casting of content, from a first computing device to a second computing device. The casting may be performed in response to a detected lift event of the second computing device including the detection of movement of the second computing device from a stored state toward a position within a field of view of a user, and an identification event of the second computing device. including the detection or identification of the second computing device within a field of view of an image sensor of the first computing device, corresponding to a field of view of the user. Detection of both the lift event and the identification event may provide a relatively high level of assurance of user intent to cast the content from the first computing device to the second computing device.
US12014097B2
A non-transitory recording medium storing a computer program for an application providing a Graphical User Interface (GUI) causing a computer to perform each step of a control method of the computer, the method including: a reception step of receiving a print ticket including a print setting according to activation of the program for the application by an operating system after a print instruction is given by a user; and a display control step of displaying a screen for authenticated printing based on the received print ticket in which the authenticated printing has been set.
US12014094B2
A non-transitory computer readable medium stores a program causing a computer installed an information processing device to execute a process for supporting a printer connected to the information processing device. The process includes, in a case where a print instruction causing the printer to print an image is sent to a general-purpose print program pre-installed in an operating system of the information processing device, and in a job based on the print instruction, a saving mode is selected, acquiring intermediate image data corresponding to the image to be printed from the general-purpose print program, performing an adjustment for saving colorant for the acquired intermediate image data, and outputting print data which is generated by rasterizing the intermediate image data adjusted in the adjustment so that the print data is transmitted from the information processing device to the printer.
US12014084B2
A non-volatile memory receives a data read request from a processing core of a plurality of processing cores. The read request is directed to a data partition of a non-volatile memory. The non-volatile memory determines whether to process the read request using read-while-write collision management. When it is determined to process the read request using read-while-write collision management, an address associated with the read request is stored in an address register of a set of registers associated with the processing core. Write operations directed to the data partition are suspended. A read operation associated with the read request is executed while the write operations are suspended and data responsive to the read operation is stored in one or more data registers of the set of registers. The data stored in the one or more data registers of the set of registers is provided to the processing core.
US12014083B2
The present disclosure provides a system for performing a method for implementation of a scalable queue with a delay factor. The method includes a first step of creating a disk based queue. The method includes another step of mapping head of the disk based queue and tail of the disk based queue with a primary storage. The method includes yet another step of adding checksum in between data inside the disk based queue. The method includes yet another step of dividing the disk based queue in to a plurality of sub-queues with the delay factor. Furthermore, the checksum is added for identifying tampering in data, maintaining persistence and throughput in the disk based queue. Moreover, the delay factor is achieved by dividing the disk based queue in to the plurality of sub-queues based on a time period. The disk based queue is highly scalable using a network file system.
