US12022888B2
An atomizer and an electronic atomization device are disclosed. The atomizer includes: a housing, having an outer wall; and a mouthpiece, having an inner wall, and the inner wall defining a cavity. A plurality of anti-rotation grooves are defined on one of the inner wall and the outer wall, one or more anti-rotation ribs are arranged on the other of the inner wall and the outer wall, and the number of the anti-rotation grooves is greater than or equal to the number of the anti-rotating ribs. The housing is assembled with the cavity, and the one or more anti-rotation ribs are engaged in the corresponding one or more of the plurality of anti-rotation grooves.
US12022878B2
A favor generation system includes: a power source unit (110) that includes a power source (10) that is electrically connected to or connectable to a load (121R) for atomizing an aerosol source or heating a flavor source, and a first controller (50); and a charging unit (200) that includes a second controller (250) and that is capable of charging the power source. The first controller and the second controller are configured to be capable of controlling a charging speed of the power source. In the control of the charging speed, a first object to be operated by the first controller is different from a second object to be operated by the second controller.
US12022876B2
According to some embodiments, an aerosol generating device includes: a main body including an accommodation space into which a cartridge, that is detachable, is configured to be inserted; a battery provided in the main body and configured to supply power to power consumption components included in the main body; a feedback line configured to feedback electrical connection between a heater in the cartridge and the main body based on the cartridge being inserted into the accommodation space; and a controller configured to change a mode of the aerosol generating device to a use mode based on a feedback signal being received through the feedback line when the aerosol generating device is set to a shipping mode.
US12022873B2
A smoking tool according to the present invention includes: a heater configured to heat tobacco leaves inserted into the tool; and an atomizer configured to generate electronic cigarette smoke, in which the atomizer generates the electronic cigarette smoke when a smoker inhales air, such that the smoker inhales the smoke to which nicotine or tobacco flavor generated by heating the tobacco leaves is added.
US12022864B2
An ultrasonic electronic cigarette atomizer and an electronic cigarette, wherein the ultrasonic electronic cigarette atomizer comprises a shell, a tobacco tar storage bottle, an ultrasonic atomization piece and a flaky tobacco tar storage body fit to one side face of the ultrasonic atomization piece are provided in the shell, and a tobacco tar guide body is fixed to an outer wall of at least one side of the tobacco tar storage bottle; one side face of the tobacco tar guide body is communicated with the inner cavity of the tobacco tar storage bottle, and the other side face of the tobacco tar guide body is contacted with the side face of the tobacco tar storage body which is away from the ultrasonic atomization piece; and the ultrasonic atomization piece and the tobacco tar storage body are provided to be parallel to the length direction of an electronic cigarette.
US12022855B2
A juicer combines a juice extracting arrangement for providing extracted juice and a centrifuge unit for separating a juice component of the extracted juice from a foam component of the extracted juice. An output gate of the centrifuge unit allows the passage of the juice component to an outlet. In this way, the outlet has reduced (or eliminated) foam content, which is appreciated by users.
US12022851B2
The present invention provides anti-bacterial compositions comprising whole cells of an Aneurinibacillus bacterium designated as NH or an anti-bacterial protein expressed by NH. Additionally, the present invention provides methods of using the anti-bacterial compositions to inhibit the growth of bacteria such as Campylobacter jejuni and Listeria monocytogenes.
US12022843B2
The present disclosure discloses a yogurt maker and its method of use for using the same. A vertical upwardly extending mixing container protrusion is set at the bottom of the mixing container of the yogurt maker and a mixing head is detachably sleeved on the mixing container protrusion, and the rotation of the mixing head is driven by a power device so that the mixing head can mix the mixture in the mixing container well. At the same time, a temperature sensor is installed at the bottom of the mixing container to monitor the temperature of the mixing container, so as to ensure constant heat preservation conditions in different environments. The mixing device can be detached easily, which eliminates hygienic blind spots and ensures that the yogurt maker can be cleaned easily after making yogurt.
US12022834B2
The present invention addresses the problem of providing phosphine for fumigation, by which clogging of a pipe of a fumigation gas feed device due to impurities is effectively suppressed and which has low spontaneous ignitability. The present invention also addresses the problem of providing a phosphine fumigation method in which clogging of a pipe of a fumigation gas feed device and a possibility of spontaneous ignition are reduced and which is safe. The phosphine for fumigation of the present invention has a P4 content of 10 mass ppm or less and a water content of 10 mass ppm or less. The fumigation method of the present invention includes fumigating a material to be fumigated, using phosphine having a P4 content of 10 mass ppm or less and having a water content of 10 mass ppm or less.
US12022831B2
Disclosed herein are herbicidal compositions comprising a synergistically herbicidal effective amount of (a) aminopyralid, or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof, and (b) clopyralid, or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof. Also disclosed herein are methods of controlling undesirable vegetation, which comprise applying to vegetation or an area adjacent the vegetation or applying to soil or water to prevent the emergence or growth of vegetation (a) aminopyralid, or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof, and (b) clopyralid, or an agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof, wherein (a) and (b) are each added in an amount sufficient to produce a synergistic herbicidal effect.
US12022826B2
Provided is a method for inducing immunity of a plant using ultra fine bubble water containing a short-chain aldehyde. The plant immunity induction method according to the present disclosure comprises exposing a plant to ultra fine bubble water containing a short-chain aldehyde and an oily substance. In the ultra fine bubble water, ultra fine bubbles are dispersed in water. The life of the ultra fine bubbles in the ultra fine bubble water tends to be prolonged due to the function of the oily substance. As a result, the short-chain aldehyde is allowed to be stably present around the plant, and therefore plant immunity can be induced easily.
US12022821B2
Disclosed herein is a decoy apparatus comprising: a motor unit securely connected to a base, at least one wing member operatively connected to the motor so as to be rotated by the motor when the motor is engaged, a power source to operate the motor, and a shell that mimics the look of an avian animal that can be incorporated with the motor so as to cause the rotating wing members to appear as if they were the wings of the avian animal. In alternate embodiments, the motor is encased in a motor housing that defines a structure and the shell is a soft body in the shape of a bird with a cavity that is substantially to the size and shape of at least the top of the motor housing such that at least a portion of the motor housing is capable of being inserted into the decoy body, filling a portion of the cavity. In one or more embodiments, the wings are configured to spin at a rate of at least 300 rpm. In one or more embodiments, the decoy apparatus is designed to dampen the vibrations and/or movement of the decoy body caused by the spinning wings.
US12022819B2
Exemplary embodiments of a flashlight having an electronic insect control system are provided. In some exemplary embodiments, a flashlight apparatus is provided, having a head portion comprising a first light source, a tail portion, and a body portion between the head portion and tail portion, the body portion comprising an electronic insect control system, the electronic insect control system comprising a frame portion, a second light source provided within the frame portion, and an electrical grid provided within the frame portion and surrounding the second light source, wherein the electrical grid is configured to generate a voltage.
US12022814B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure can provide an automated mass rearing system for insect larvae. The automated mass rearing system can facilitate hatching, feeding, monitoring the growth and emergence of insect larvae and pupae. In some embodiments, the automated mass rearing system can include a production unit, a transportation unit, a storage unit, a dispensing unit, and a monitoring unit. In some embodiments, this automated mass rearing system can facilitate mass mosquito growth from egg hatching all the way through to full adults or certain stages in between such as the larvae rearing process (i.e., from larvae to pupae) with little or no human intervention. By automating the rearing and transportation of insect eggs, larvae, and pupae, deaths or developmental issues can be minimized. Various techniques and apparatuses are used in this automation that causes minimal disturbance to the insects during development, and thereby maximizing survival rate and fitness of the insects.
US12022812B2
A fluid-dynamic pump which is suitable for circulating water in an aquarium includes a rotary device, an electric motor configured to move the rotary device, a pump body which houses a printed circuit board which that controls the electric motor and a temperature sensor that detects the temperature of the water of the aquarium. The temperature sensor is positioned on the pump body.
US12022810B2
A honeycomb cutter has a cutting block that is of a mold shape that can cut honeycomb into honeycomb pieces of desired shape and size. The cutting block can be heated wherein the hot and sharp cutting block can easily cut through the honeycomb. The honeycomb cutter has a heating block for heating the cutting block.
US12022809B2
An automatic pet feeder includes a food container, a feeder body, and a bottom shell in sequence from top to bottom. A food-container bottom shell in communication with the food container is arranged at a bottom of the food container, and a bottom of the food-container bottom shell is a food supply passage having a gradually narrowing opening. A food releasing assembly is arranged on a side of the food supply passage, and a sliding passage for reciprocating movement of the food releasing assembly is arranged on a sidewall of the food-container bottom shell. A feeder main shell is arranged below the food supply passage, and a food exit assembly is arranged inside the feeder main shell. The food exit assembly includes a food pushing member matching with a food outlet and configured to move in a reciprocating manner below the food supply passage.
US12022806B2
A door assembly (13) for an animal enclosure, the door assembly comprising: a frame (23) for mounting over an aperture (21) in a wall of the enclosure; a door (19) moveably mounted in the frame (23), the door (19) being moveable between a position where the aperture in the wall is open for the passage of an animal and a position where the aperture in the wall is closed thereby to prevent the passage of an animal; and a motor (37) for driving the door (19) between the closed and open positions.
US12022804B2
Systems, methods, and computer code products monitor the behavior, health, and/or characteristics of an animal. In one implementation, the animal is positioned inside a waste container placed on a system that is adapted to determine, record and communicate over a network various animal health parameters. These parameters can be processed to determine trends, statistics and changes of animal physiological functions. The results can be used to access animal health conditions and issue warnings, alarms, messages, and other notifications to designated caretakers. These notifications may be displayed using various devices such as computers and/or mobile devices. Data retrieval and review capability can provide improved understanding of an animal's health conditions and facilitate early illness detection.
US12022796B2
A livestock container has a plurality of levels and compartments formed by a plurality of convertible platforms and compartment gates. In some embodiments, the convertible platforms are bi-fold platforms hingedly mounted to sidewalls of the container and moveable between deployed and stored positions. When in the stored positions, the convertible platforms extend minimally from the sidewall, eliminating or reducing obstacles to movement of livestock or humans. The convertible platforms are configured to rest on upper edges of corresponding compartment gates below, and the container may be free of any central post, thereby eliminating obstacles caused thereby to movement of livestock or humans. The sidewalls and floor may be formed of hollow-core extruded aluminum panels, and longitudinal channels formed therein may house pipes or electrical wires for conducting water or electricity to ventilation fans, lights, or misters, or for storing water.
US12022795B2
A separator for separating raw milk into a skimmed milk phase, a cream phase and an ejection phase that comprises solid impurities is disclosed. The separator includes an ejection port arranged at a periphery of the separator to eject the ejection phase. A cyclone is connected to the ejection port to receive and decelerate the ejection phase, and a vessel in fluid communication with an ejection phase outlet of the cyclone to receive and collect the ejection phase from the cyclone. The cyclone includes a port that is open to the atmosphere, such that pressure build-up created in the cyclone when the ejection phase is ejected from the separator into the cyclone is released.
US12022794B2
The invention provides seed and plants of the bean line SVGZ1825. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, and tissue cultures of bean line SVGZ1825 and to methods for producing a bean plant produced by crossing a plant of bean line SVGZ1825 with itself or with another bean plant, such as a plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to parts of a plant of bean line SVGZ1825, including the pods and gametes of such plants.
US12022793B2
A soybean cultivar designated 05330516 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 05330516, to the plants of soybean cultivar 05330516, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 05330516, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 05330516. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 05330516. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 05330516, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 05330516 with another soybean cultivar.
US12022791B2
A novel soybean variety, designated 5PKLQ07 is provided. Also provided are the seeds of soybean variety 5PKLQ07, cells from soybean variety 5PKLQ07, plants of soybean 5PKLQ07, and plant parts of soybean variety 5PKLQ07. Methods provided include producing a soybean plant by crossing soybean variety 5PKLQ07 with another soybean plant, methods for introgressing a transgenic trait, a mutant trait, and/or a native trait into soybean variety 5PKLQ07, methods for producing other soybean varieties or plant parts derived from soybean variety 5PKLQ07, and methods of characterizing soybean variety 5PKLQ07. Soybean seed, cells, plants, germplasm, breeding lines, varieties, and plant parts produced by these methods and/or derived from soybean variety 5PKLQ07 are further provided.
US12022790B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV487690. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV487690, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV487690 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV487690 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV487690.
US12022787B2
Disclosed herein are methods for sterile extraction, drying, storage, and transformation of immature and mature maize and monocot embryos. The present disclosure also describes a dried, storable, freezable value added maize and monocot explants.
US12022785B2
A pollen supplying method for supplying pollen to a pistil of a plant includes an air bubble production step of producing an air bubble with the pollen attached to the surface thereof, and an air bubble attachment step of releasing the produced air bubble into the air and attaching the air bubble to the pistil.
US12022783B2
The present invention provides various modular hydroponic growing apparatuses, each having oppositely positioned slats or other compatible surfaces between which is defined an expandable growth channel, wherein at least one of the slats or other compatible surfaces are biased inwardly towards the opposing slat or other compatible surface via a biasing element.
US12022777B2
Hydraulic design method, device and equipment for mobile drip irrigation system are provided. Different distances between drip-lines, a depth of a bottom boundary, a flux of infiltration boundary and soil hydraulic parameters are input into a simulation model, and output parameters of the model including a soil water content at each observation point and an amount of deep percolation loss under the different distances at the same irrigation depth are acquired. An optimal distance between drip-lines is obtained according to an installation cost function, the soil water content at each observation point and the amount of deep percolation loss, and lengths of drip-lines matched with the optimal distance are obtained. Structural parameters of the irrigation system and a designed irrigation depth are obtained to determine working parameters. The irrigation system with the optimal distance and the matched lengths of drip-lines is controlled to irrigate crops based on the working parameters.
US12022775B2
An arbor stake stabilization member comprising a body including an annular ring of a biodegradable material having an axial passageway therethrough. A locking member is coupled to the annular ring and extends radially inward into the axial passageway. A plate of a biodegradable material extends circumferentially outwardly from the annular ring. The perforated plate includes multiple openings. In use, the arbor stake stabilization member may be placed underground and on or above a rootball of a tree. The locking member is sized to accept an arbor stake therethrough in an interference fit. The arbor stake may extend from the top of the rootball through the rootball and into the undisturbed soil at a point below the rootball. Over time, the arbor stake stabilization member biodegrades.
US12022772B2
Systems and methods for controlling agricultural headers based on crop movement relative to a portion of the agricultural header are disclosed. The presence or movement of crop material, such as a crop material representing grain (e.g., ears, heads, or pods of crops (“EHP”)), relative to the harvester header or a portion of the harvester header may be detected, such as by analyzing image data representing one or more images collected over time. Based on a position or movement or both of the crop material relative to the header, one or more parameters of the harvester header may be adjusted, for example, to reduce an amount of grain loss.
US12022766B2
Agricultural electronics include many components. The components can be connected via an electronic link that connects the various components to components of an agricultural implement. This can include the use of a component type identifier and a master module. The identifier and the module can communicate data, including identification data and instructional data, to easily acknowledge and operate various electrical components of the agricultural implement. Additional sensors can be included to provide even additional data that is communicated between the module and the components of the agricultural implement to aid in providing instructions for operation and to provide additional data information.
US12022761B2
The invention relates to a method for coating plant seed, to a seed coating composition, to a coated plant seed, to a use of one or more water-insoluble polymers with a Tg of at least 35° C., to a method of preparing a seed coating composition, to a method of preparing coated seed, to coated seed, to a use of an abrasive material primer or plasma, and to an apparatus for coating of seed. The method for coating plant seed comprises applying to the seed a seed coating composition comprising one or more water-insoluble polymers with a Tg of at least 35° C.
US12022759B2
A working vehicle includes a traveling vehicle to autonomously travel on a target traveling route, a working device attached to the traveling vehicle, an offset acquirer to acquire an offset amount and offset direction in a vehicle width direction between a width directional center of the traveling vehicle and a predetermined point in the working device, and a traveling position corrector to correct, based on the offset amount and the offset direction acquired by the offset acquirer, a traveling position of the traveling vehicle so that the predetermined point is located on the target traveling route.
US12022755B2
A tillage implement comprising a main frame, a front group of coulter blades carried by the main frame and extending generally laterally, and a rear group of coulter blades carried by the main frame and extending generally laterally. The tillage implement additionally comprises a set of wheels configured to support the main frame and positioned generally between the front and rear groups of coulter blades. The tillage implement additionally comprises a group of harrow assemblies carried by the main frame and positioned rearward of the rear group of coulter blades. The tillage implement additionally comprises a front group of finishing reels carried by the main frame, extending generally laterally, and positioned rearward of the group of harrow assemblies. Furthermore, the tillage implement comprises a rear group of finishing reels carried by the main frame, extending generally laterally, and positioned rearward of the front group of finishing reels.
US12029144B2
The disclosed technology generally relates to semiconductor devices, and more particularly to an encapsulation layer for a semiconductor device having a chalcogenide material, and methods of forming the same. In one aspect, a method of fabricating a semiconductor device comprises providing a substrate having an exposed surface comprising a chalcogenide material. The method additionally comprises forming a low-electronegativity (low-χ) metal oxide layer on the chalcogenide material by cyclically exposing the substrate to a low-χ metal precursor and an oxygen precursor comprising O2, wherein the low-χ metal of the metal precursor has an electronegativity of 1.6 or lower.
US12029133B2
Patterned magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) stacks are formed by performing a main etch through a plurality of MRAM layers disposed on a substrate, where the main etch includes using ion beam etching (IBE). After the main etch, gapfill dielectric material is deposited in spaces between the patterned MRAM stacks, and the gapfill dielectric material is selectively etched or otherwise formed to an etch depth that is above a depth of an underlayer. After the gapfill dielectric material is formed, at least some of the gapfill dielectric material and any electrically conductive materials deposited on sidewalls of the patterned MRAM stacks are removed by performing an IBE trim etch.
US12029129B2
Disclosed herein is an apparatus and method for fine tuning properties of a thin film. The method of forming a piezoelectric film includes (a) depositing a first piezoelectric film layer on a surface of a substrate by a first physical vapor deposition (PVD) process. The method includes (b) depositing a second piezoelectric film layer, on top of and in contact with the first piezoelectric film layer, by a second PVD process. A temperature of the substrate is (c) reduced after forming the first piezoelectric film layer and before forming the second piezoelectric film layer. The temperature is reduced by performing a process for a first period of time. Processes (a), (b) and (c) are additionally performed one or more times. Process (c) is performed for a second period of time. The second period of time is different than the first period of time.
US12029126B2
A compound containing Sn, Te and Mg, and further containing either one or both of Sb and Bi.
US12029123B2
A semiconductor structure includes an optical component and a thermal control mechanism adjacent to the optical component and configured to control a temperature of the optical component. The thermal control mechanism includes a conductive structure, a first thermoelectric member and a second thermoelectric member opposite to the first thermoelectric member. The first thermoelectric member and the second thermoelectric member are electrically connected to the conductive structure. The first thermoelectric member and the second thermoelectric member have opposite conductive types. The semiconductor structure further includes a first dielectric layer surrounding the optical component and a portion of the thermal control mechanism, wherein the conductive structure is over the first dielectric layer, and the first thermoelectric member and the second thermoelectric member are surrounded by the first dielectric layer. The semiconductor structure further includes a first via extending through the first dielectric layer and electrically connected to the conductive structure.
US12029118B2
A novel organic compound, a benzofuropyrimidine derivative or a benzothienopyrimidine derivative is provided. The organic compound has a structure in which a benzothienocarbazolyl ring, a benzofurocarbazolyl ring, an indolocarbazolyl ring, or an indenocarbazolyl ring is bonded to the 8-position of a benzofuropyrimidine ring or a benzothienopyrimidine ring directly or through an aromatic hydrocarbon ring. That is, the organic compound is represented by General Formula (G1) below.
US12029117B2
Organic electroluminescent device comprising an anode, a cathode, at least one emission layer and an organic semiconducting layer; wherein the organic semiconducting layer is arranged between the at least one emission layer and the cathode; wherein the organic semiconducting layer comprises; a) a first organic compound comprising a first C10 to C42 arene structural moiety and/or a first C2 to C42 heteroarene structural moiety, wherein i) the dipole moment of the first organic compound, computed by the TURBOMOLE V6.5 program package using hybrid functional B3LYP and Gaussian 6-31G* basis set, is from 0 to 2.5 Debye; and ii) the LUMO energy level of the first organic compound in the absolute scale taking vacuum energy level as zero, computed by the TURBOMOLE V6.5 program package using hybrid functional B3LYP and Gaussian 6-31G* basis set, is in the range from −1.7 eV to −2.1 eV; and b) a second organic compound comprising a second C10 to C42 arene structural moiety and/or a second C2 to C42 heteroarene structural moiety and in addition at least one polar group selected from phosphine oxide and phosphine sulfide, wherein in) the dipole moment of the second organic compound, computed by the TURBOMOLE V6.5 program package using hybrid functional B3LYP and Gaussian 6-31G* basis set, is from 1.5 to 10 Debye; and iv) the LUMO energy level of the second organic compound in the absolute scale taking vacuum energy level as zero is less than 0.25 eV higher or lower than the LUMO energy level of the first organic compound; wherein it is provided that the first organic compound and the second organic compound are different from each other.
US12029114B2
A light-emitting element containing a light-emitting material and having high light emission efficiency is provided. The light-emitting element includes a host material and a guest material. The host material includes at least a first molecule and a second molecule having the same molecular structure. The guest material has a function of exhibiting fluorescence or converting triplet excitation energy into light emission. The first molecule and the second molecule each include a first skeleton, a second skeleton, and a third skeleton, and the first skeleton and the second skeleton are bonded to each other through the third skeleton. The first skeleton includes at least one of a π-electron rich heteroaromatic skeleton and an aromatic amine skeleton and the second skeleton includes a π-electron deficient heteroaromatic skeleton. The first molecule and the second molecule have a function of forming an excited complex.
US12029111B2
The present disclosure provides an oxygen heterocyclic compound, an application thereof, and an electronic device using the same. The oxygen heterocyclic compound has a structural formula as represented by following formula 1: The oxygen heterocyclic compound comprises an aromatic amine portion and an oxygen heterocyclic portion. The aromatic amine portion effectively promotes the hole injection and transport performance. The oxygen heterocyclic portion is conducive to the formation of molten evaporation materials.
US12029105B2
The embodiments of the disclosure disclose a flexible display apparatus. The flexible display apparatus includes a flexible substrate, a display device and a flexible encapsulation layer. The flexible substrate includes a first organic layer, an inorganic buffer layer, and a second organic layer, the inorganic buffer layer is between the first organic layer and the second organic layer, and the first organic layer includes inorganic nano-particles; the display device is located between the flexible substrate and the flexible encapsulation layer; the flexible encapsulation layer is configured to encapsulate the display device.
US12029103B2
A flexible display apparatus is provided. The flexible display apparatus includes a unitary flexible display panel having a display area, a peripheral area, and a bendable area connecting the display area and the peripheral area, wherein the bendable area includes one or more wire-free portions configured to absorb impact applied on the bendable area; a support sandwiched between the display area and the peripheral area, wherein the support has a first side, a second side facing the first side, and a third side connecting the first side and the second side, the display area is on the first side, the peripheral area is on the second side, and the unitary flexible display panel is bend about the third side; and a driving circuit in the peripheral area and connecting to a plurality of signal lines extending through the bendable area into the display area.
US12029096B2
A display device includes a substrate including an active area including a plurality of pixels, and a non-active area; a plurality of light emitting elements in the active area on the substrate; an emission driver and a plurality of emission clock lines in the non-active area; a connection pattern on the emission driver and the plurality of emission clock lines in the non-active area and formed of the same material as an anode; an encapsulation layer on the plurality of light emitting elements and the connection pattern; a touch sensing unit on the encapsulation layer in the active area; a low potential power line disposed more outwardly than the plurality of emission clock lines in the non-active area; and a shielding layer between the connection pattern, and the emission driver and the plurality of emission clock lines in the non-active area and electrically connected to the low potential power line.
US12029091B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a main display region, a sub display region, a plurality of first pixel repeating units disposed in the main display region, and a plurality of second pixel repeating units disposed in the sub display region. A bend line boundary is firmed between the main display region and the sub display region. The bend line boundary includes a plurality of bending units. Each bending unit corresponds to at least one second pixel repeating unit, so that the pixel repeating units of the sub display region are consistent with the pixel repeating units at its edge, and a display difference is reduced.
US12029081B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: a substrate; a plurality of organic light-emitting diodes on the substrate; a spacer arranged between the plurality of organic light-emitting diodes and protruding away from an upper surface of the substrate; a conductive layer overlapping the spacer; and a contact area exposing the conductive layer on one side of the spacer, wherein a common layer of the plurality of organic light-emitting diodes and the conductive layer are connected to each other through the contact area.
US12029079B2
A display device includes a display area and a peripheral area outside the display area, and includes: a substrate; a first semiconductor layer located in the display area and arranged on the substrate; a second semiconductor layer arranged on the first semiconductor layer; a data line located in the display area and extending in a first direction; an input line located in the peripheral area; a connection line located in the display area and electrically connecting the data line and the input line to each other; and a shielding layer located in the display area and located between the first semiconductor layer and the connection line in a cross-section view. The shielding layer overlaps at least a portion of the connection line in a plan view.
US12029074B2
A display panel and a method for fabricating the same are discussed. The display panel can include a first area in which pixels are disposed, and a second area in which pixels having lower pixels per inch (PPI) than the first area are disposed and a plurality of light-transmitting portions are disposed. The light-transmitting portions include circular or elliptical light-transmitting portions arranged in a zigzag pattern along a second direction crossing a first direction in the second area. Each of the pixel groups in the second area includes a second electrode, and the second electrode is removed from the light-transmitting area to expose light-transmitting portions.
US12029070B2
Provided is an organic light emitting display device. The organic light emitting display device includes a display area including a plurality of pixels and a non-display area enclosing the display area, the organic light emitting display device comprises an organic light emitting display panel including a plastic base member, a back plate which is disposed below the organic light emitting display panel and includes a polymer material, a support substrate which is disposed below the back plate and includes a hole formed so as to correspond to a part of the display area, and a microphone module below the support substrate. The microphone module includes a diaphragm which is disposed to overlap at least a part of the hole, a core which is disposed below the diaphragm and is formed of a magnet, and a coil which encloses around the core.
US12029061B2
A flexible electronic device is provided in this disclosure. The flexible electronic device includes a base layer, an electronic unit, and a cover layer. The electronic unit is disposed on the base layer, and the cover layer is disposed on the electronic unit. The base layer has a thickness T1 and a Young's modulus E1, and the cover layer has a thickness T2 and a Young's modulus E2, wherein the thickness T1, the thickness T2, the Young's modulus E1, and the Young's modulus E2 comply with following expression: E2/E1≤156.21×(T2/T1)−4.28.
US12029060B2
A display panel includes: a driving substrate, a plurality of first electrodes, a hole transport layer, an organic light emitting layer, a second electrode layer and a color film layer. The hole transport layer includes a first portion and a second portion, the first portion is disposed between adjacent ones of the plurality of first electrodes and is located on a surface of the driving substrate; the second portion is disposed on a surface of each of the first electrodes away from the driving substrate; a minimum distance between an upper surface of the first portion away from the driving substrate and the driving substrate is smaller than an minimum distance between an upper surface of the second portion away from the driving substrate and the driving substrate.
US12029054B2
A solid-state imaging apparatus includes a pixel array part in which a plurality of pixels are two-dimensionally arranged, in which each pixel has a first photoelectric conversion region formed above a semiconductor layer, a second photoelectric conversion region formed in the semiconductor layer, a first filter configured to transmit a light in a predetermined wavelength region corresponding to a color component, and a second filter having different transmission characteristics from the first filter, one photoelectric conversion region out of the first photoelectric conversion region and the second photoelectric conversion region photoelectrically converts a light in a visible light region, the other photoelectric conversion region photoelectrically converts a light in an infrared region, the first filter is formed above the first photoelectric conversion region, and the second filter has transmission characteristics of making wavelengths of lights in an infrared region absorbed in the other photoelectric conversion region formed below the first filter the same.
US12029049B2
A memory device includes a substrate, an electrical channel layer, a first electrode, a resistive switching layer, a second electrode, and a conductive structure. The electrical channel layer is disposed on the substrate. The first electrode is disposed on the substrate and extends into the electrical channel layer. The resistive switching layer is disposed between the first electrode and the electrical channel layer. The second electrode is disposed on the electrical channel layer. The conductive structure connects the electrical channel layer and the second electrode.
US12029048B2
A resistive memory device includes: memory cells overlapping one another in a vertical direction within a cell array region and each including a switching element and a variable resistive element; first conductive lines each being connected to the switching element; a second conductive line connected to the variable resistive element and conductive pads arranged in a connection region and connected to respective one ends of the first conductive lines, respectively, and having different lengths in the second horizontal direction. A lower conductive pad from among the conductive pads includes a first portion covered by an upper conductive pad, and a second portion not covered by the upper conductive pad, and a thickness of each of the first and second portions in the vertical direction is greater than a thickness of each of the first conductive lines in the vertical direction.
US12029047B2
The present application relates to a semiconductor structure and its forming method. The semiconductor structure comprises a substrate; a first transistor, including a first channel region disposed within the substrate, and a first end disposed at surface of the substrate, the first end being adapted to connect with a first-type storage cell; and a second transistor, including a second channel region disposed within the substrate, and a second end disposed at surface of the substrate, the second end being adapted to connect with a second-type storage cell, the first channel region and the second channel region having different areas.
US12029045B2
Embodiments of the present invention include multiple independent terminals for a plurality of devices in a stack configuration within a semiconductor. In one embodiment, a semiconductor comprises: a first device at a first semiconductor level within a multi terminal device stack; wherein the first device is coupled to a first terminal; a second device at a second semiconductor level within the multi terminal device stack, wherein the second device is coupled to a second terminal; a third terminal is coupled to the second device and a fourth terminal is coupled to the first device, wherein the first terminal and second terminal are independently coupled to the first device and second device respectively. The first terminal, the second terminal, the third terminal and the fourth terminal couple components included in the multi terminal stack to components not included in the multi terminal stack.
US12029041B2
A semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same are disclosed. The method includes depositing a polysilicon gate layer over a gate dielectric formed over a surface of a substrate in a peripheral region, forming a dielectric layer over the polysilicon gate layer and depositing a height-enhancing (HE) film over the dielectric layer. The HE film, the dielectric layer, the polysilicon gate layer and the gate dielectric are then patterned for a high-voltage Field Effect Transistor (HVFET) gate to be formed in the peripheral region. A high energy implant is performed to form at least one lightly doped region in a source or drain region in the substrate adjacent to the HVFET gate. The HE film is then removed, and a low voltage (LV) logic FET formed on the substrate in the peripheral region. In one embodiment, the LV logic FET is a high-k metal-gate logic FET.
US12029040B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a stack of word lines and insulating patterns. Cell pillars extend vertically through the stack of word lines and insulating patterns with memory cells being formed at the junctions of the cell pillars and the word lines. A ratio of the thickness of the word lines to the thickness of immediately neighboring insulating patterns is different at different locations along one or more of the cell pillars. Related methods of manufacturing and systems are also disclosed.
US12029038B2
In one aspect, a method for forming a 3D memory device is disclosed. A selective epitaxial sacrificial layer is formed above a substrate, and a dielectric stack is formed above the selective epitaxial sacrificial layer. A first opening extending vertically through the dielectric stack and the selective epitaxial sacrificial layer is formed. A portion of the first opening extending vertically through the selective epitaxial sacrificial layer is enlarged. A memory film and a semiconductor channel are subsequently formed in this order along sidewalls and a bottom surface of the first opening. The selective epitaxial sacrificial layer is removed to form a cavity exposing a portion of the memory film. The portion of the memory film exposed in the cavity is removed to expose a portion of the semiconductor channel. A selective epitaxial layer is epitaxially grown from the substrate to fill the cavity and be in contact with the portion of the semiconductor channel.
US12029024B2
A semiconductor memory device includes an active pattern on a substrate, the active pattern including a source/drain pattern in an upper portion thereof, a gate electrode on the active pattern and extended in a first direction, the gate electrode and the source/drain pattern adjacent to each other in a second direction that crosses the first direction, and a shared contact coupled to the source/drain pattern and the gate electrode to electrically connect the source/drain pattern and the gate electrode. The shared contact includes active and gate contacts, which are electrically connected to the source/drain pattern and the gate electrode, respectively. The gate contact includes a body portion coupled to the gate electrode and a protruding portion, which protrudes from the body portion in the second direction and extends into and buried in the active contact.
US12029018B2
The present invention is directed at electromagnetic shielding that is particularly suitable for applications in electric vehicles. The electromagnetic shielding is relatively lightweight and can be integrated into a carpet or textile type construction.
US12029013B2
A cooling plate for cooling high power density electronics has an internal cavity and an opening for fluid exchange with the cavity. A mounting structure is positioned within the opening. A coaxial port is attached to the mounting structure, the coaxial port having a center conduit and a ring conduit surrounding the central conduit such that rotational axis of the center conduit coincides with rotational axis of the ring conduit. A single coaxial port can serve to deliver cooling liquid to the cooling plate and return warmed fluid from the cooling plate. The coaxial port center conduit connected with a fluid distribution panel. Fluid distribution is regulated by the panel before it exits the port through the ring conduit.
US12029012B2
A fluid immersion cooling system includes a fluid tank that contains a layer of a dual-phase coolant fluid and one or more layers of single-phase coolant fluids. The dual-phase and single-phase coolant fluids are immiscible, with the dual-phase coolant fluid having a lower boiling point and higher density than a single-phase coolant fluid. A substrate of an electronic system is submerged in the tank such that high heat-generating components are immersed at least in the layer of the dual-phase coolant fluid. Heat from the components is dissipated to the dual-phase coolant fluid to generate vapor bubbles of the dual-phase coolant fluid. The vapor bubbles rise to a layer of a single-phase coolant fluid that is above the layer of the dual-phase coolant fluid. The vapor bubbles condense to droplets of the dual-phase coolant fluid. The droplets fall down into the layer of the dual-phase coolant fluid.
US12029011B2
A heat dissipating device includes a power distribution assembly and two convergence delivery assemblies. The power distribution assembly includes a first cooling reservoir, a second cooling reservoir, multiple cooling pumps disposed on the first cooling reservoir, and a serial pipeline and a cooling head corresponding to each of the cooling pumps respectively. The two convergence delivery assemblies separately communicate with first cooling reservoir and the second cooling reservoir, and are separately arranged on two sides of the power distribution assembly. The serial pipeline is connected with the cooling head to communicate between the first cooling reservoir and the second cooling reservoir.
US12029010B2
A water block for cooling a heat-generating component has a body defining an internal fluid conduit for circulating fluid within the water block. The body defines a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet for feeding fluid into and discharging fluid from the internal fluid conduit respectively. The body includes: an external thermal transfer surface configured to be in contact with the heat-generating component; an opposite external surface on an opposite side of the body from the external thermal transfer surface; and at least one hollow fin extending from the opposite external surface, the at least one hollow fin defining at least one external fin passage, each of the at least one hollow fin defining an internal fin recess that forms part of the internal fluid conduit of the water block.
US12029009B1
A cooling system configured to remove heat from a chimney of a server cabinet. The cooling system including a first chimney portion adjacent to the server cabinet, a second chimney portion extending from a top of the first chimney portion, wherein the second chimney portion is disposed above the server cabinet, a chimney heat exchanger disposed in the second chimney portion and above the server cabinet, a fluid inlet for providing a working fluid to the chimney heat exchanger, a fluid outlet for discharging the working fluid from the chimney heat exchanger, and an air handler heat exchanger connected to the chimney heat exchanger by a return air plenum, wherein the chimney heat exchanger has an upstream surface that receives waste heat generated by a server disposed in the server cabinet and a downstream surface that discharges air to the return air plenum.
US12029005B2
A system including an active cooling system is described. The active cooling system includes a cooling element in communication with a fluid and configured to use vibrational motion to direct a fluid toward a surface of heat-generating structure(s). Heat is transferred from the heat-generating structure to the fluid. The system is configured such that the fluid follows a path from the surface of the heat-generating structure(s) past a structure having a lower temperature than the surface of the heat-generating structure. The structure absorbs heat from the fluid. The structure is within the system and distal from the active cooling system.
US12028997B2
An electronic assembly is provided. The electronic assembly may include an electronic module mounted to a laminate, a cooling apparatus directly above the module, a single thermal interface material positioned between and directly contacting the module and the cooling apparatus, and a rotating cover rotatably attached to a top frame secured to the laminate, wherein the rotating cover includes an open position and a closed position.
US12028994B2
A telecommunications cabinet (100) for enclosing telecommunications equipment (110) of a telecommunications network, the telecommunications cabinet comprising: an electric water pump (140); a water detector (160), wherein the water detector is configured to cause activation of the electric water pump upon detecting water; a power supply (150) for powering the electric water pump; and a fluid conduit (170), coupled to the electric water pump, extending from within the cabinet to an outside of the cabinet via an aperture (180) in the cabinet so as to convey water out of the cabinet.
US12028991B2
A printer deposits material onto a substrate as part of a manufacturing process for an electronic product; at least one transported component experiences error, which affects the deposition. This error is mitigated using transducers that equalize position of the component, e.g., to provide an “ideal” conveyance path, thereby permitting precise droplet placement notwithstanding the error. In one embodiment, an optical guide (e.g., using a laser) is used to define a desired path; sensors mounted to the component dynamically detect deviation from this path, with this deviation then being used to drive the transducers to immediately counteract the deviation. This error correction scheme can be applied to correct for more than type of transport error, for example, to correct for error in a substrate transport path, a printhead transport path and/or split-axis transport non-orthogonality.
US12028986B2
A method for mounting an electronic component on a resin base material, the method including: (1) preparing the resin base material having a wiring pattern formed of a conductive paste; (2) supplying a solder paste which contains solder particles and a thermosetting resin in a state before curing to a predetermined portion of the resin base material; (3) placing the electronic component on the solder paste; and (4) heating the resin base material to heat the solder paste to a temperature in a range from 105° C. to 130° C., inclusive to melt the solder particles, and starting a curing exothermic reaction of the thermosetting resin, wherein a melting temperature of the solder particles is in a range from 90° C. to 130° C., inclusive, and a peak temperature of the curing exothermic reaction of the thermosetting resin is in a range from 135° C. to 165° C., inclusive.
US12028976B2
The present disclosure provides a method for manufacturing a board-to-board connection structure. The method includes defining a first through hole in a first circuit board, disposing a first connector within the first through hole by a first conductive paste, and connecting the first connector to a second circuit board on which a second connector is installed, thereby realizing a connection of the two circuit boards, and reducing a height of the two circuit boards after the connection. That is, the height of the board-to-board connection structure is reduced. Additionally, since the first connector is received within the first through hole, the first connector is not easy to be damaged and oxidized. The present disclosure further provides a board-to-board connection structure manufactured by the above method.
US12028974B2
A ceramic carrier substrate for an electrical/electronic circuit. The substrate includes ceramic layers arranged one above the other in an interconnected structure and conductor tracks arranged on and/or in individual ceramic layers and connected to one another as the conductor structure for the electrical/electronic circuit. The interconnected structure is formed by a firing operation. A first conductor substructure is formed in a first interconnected structure subassembly which comprises at least one of the ceramic layers, and a second conductor substructure is formed in a second interconnected structure subassembly which is directly adjacent to the first interconnected structure subassembly and comprises at least one of the ceramic layers. The second conductor substructure substantially consists of high-current conductor tracks and is configured to contact a power circuit. The first conductor substructure substantially consists of signal conductor tracks and is configured to contact a drive circuit for the power circuit.
US12028969B2
A power module and a carrier board are disclosed. The carrier board includes a circuit board body and a prefabricated substrate. The circuit board body includes a wiring layer. The prefabricated substrate is embedded in the circuit board body and includes an insulation layer and a metal layer, the metal layer is disposed on the insulation layer. The insulation layer is formed by a ceramic material. The metal layer is connected to the insulation layer through a sintering process. A surface of the insulation layer, which has contact with the at least one metal layer, has at least a part exposed outside of the at least one metal layer, the part of the insulation layer exposed to the outside of the at least one metal layer is an outer edge portion, and the outer edge portion is extended into the circuit board body along a horizontal direction.
US12028968B2
Provided is an example of a technology capable of accurately controlling impedance. Provided is a substrate including a first through hole that penetrates a substrate from a first face to a second face of the substrate, and is electrically connected to a transmission line through which a signal is transmitted, a second through hole that is provided adjacent to the first through hole in plan view of the substrate, penetrates the substrate from the first face to the second face, and is electrically connected to a ground, and an adjustment unit that adjusts a distance between the first through hole and the second through hole in plan view of the substrate to adjust an impedance of a connection end of the first through hole with the transmission line.
US12028965B2
A circuit board, including: a substrate; a first line layer, a first protective layer, a first conductive ink layer and a first conductive layer successively formed on the substrate; and a second line layer, a second protective layer, a second conductive ink layer and a second conductive layer successively formed on a second face opposite a first face. The first protective layer includes at least one first opening for exposing a first grounding line of the first line layer; and the orthographic projection of the first conductive ink layer on the substrate covers the orthographic projection of the first opening on the substrate. The second protective layer includes at least one second opening for exposing a second grounding line of the second line layer; and the orthographic projection of the second conductive ink layer on the substrate covers the orthographic projection of the second opening on the substrate.
US12028964B2
A shielded printed wiring board includes a substrate film including a base film and printed circuits including a ground circuit formed on the base film; an electromagnetic wave shielding film including a shielding layer and an insulating layer; and a reinforcing member including a conductive adhesive layer and a metal reinforcing plate, wherein the ground circuit of the substrate film is sufficiently electrically connected to the metal reinforcing plate of the reinforcing member. The shielded printed wiring board of the present invention includes a substrate film including a base film and printed circuits including a ground circuit formed on the base film; an electromagnetic wave shielding film including a shielding layer and an insulating layer; a connecting member including a metal foil and a conductive filler fixed to the metal foil with an adhesive resin; and a reinforcing member including a conductive adhesive layer and a metal reinforcing plate, wherein the electromagnetic wave shielding film is arranged on the substrate film in such a manner that the insulating layer of the electromagnetic wave shielding film is located on the shielding layer of the electromagnetic wave shielding film, the connecting member is arranged on the electromagnetic wave shielding film in such a manner that the conductive filler of the connecting member penetrates the insulating layer of the electromagnetic wave shielding film and that the conductive filler of the connecting member is in contact with the shielding layer of the electromagnetic wave shielding film, the reinforcing member is arranged on the electromagnetic wave shielding film and the connecting member in such a manner that the conductive adhesive layer of the reinforcing member is in contact with the insulating layer of the electromagnetic wave shielding film and the metal foil of the connecting member, and the ground circuit of the substrate film is electrically connected to the metal reinforcing plate of the reinforcing member.
US12028962B2
A semiconductor component system includes a motherboard and a cooling system mounted to the motherboard. The cooling system includes sidewalls projecting from the motherboard. A sub-motherboard extends between the sidewalls and is spaced apart from the motherboard. The sidewalls and the sub-motherboard define a cooling channel over the motherboard. A connector is attached to the sub-motherboard and is configured to receive a semiconductor device daughterboard. The connector has contacts to electrically couple the semiconductor device daughterboard to the sub-motherboard.
US12028951B2
A method for modifying a brightness level of an automobile vehicle backup light includes: receiving electronic signals in a brightness evaluator and light controller defining at least one image captured within a field-of-view (FOV) of an automobile vehicle camera; dividing the at least one image into multiple independent zones; evaluating an environmental brightness level of individual ones of the multiple independent zones; comparing a brightness level of at least one backup light of the automobile vehicle to the environmental brightness level; and sending a control signal to the at least one backup light to modify the brightness level of the least one backup light.
US12028950B1
Systems and methods described herein may provide a system that enables game play or other application sessions from a set of candidate game hosts and environments to consumption devices of a user's choice while the user moves about their home between the different environments. The system may employ methods to determine where a user is located within the home, availability and selection of candidate game hosting and target environments, homing and direction of related I/O and audio-visual (AV) content for consumption. The solution accommodates multiple users simultaneously within the home, whether in single player, multiplayer using the same screen, or multiplayer using separate screen games. The solution may configure AV and input/output (I/O) such that multiple users can consume one or multiple games in the home simultaneously, whether in separate locations or when seated together in front of the same consumption device.
US12028949B2
A LED driver chip includes driver circuits, each being coupled to a different pin and including a fault-detection circuit. Each fault-detection circuit includes a force circuit forcing current to a force node, and a sense circuit including a current sensor coupled to the force node, and a comparator comparing a voltage at the force node to a reference voltage to generate a comparison output. Control circuitry, in a pin-to-pin short detection mode, activates the force circuit of a first of the driver circuits and activates the sense circuit of a second of the driver circuits, in a pin-to-ground short detection mode, activates the force and the sense circuit of the same driver circuits. The comparison output of the comparator of the activated sense circuit, if is higher or if lower of the reference voltage, indicates if short between pin or to ground, respectively, is present.
US12028947B2
An LED lighting device is disclosed. The example LED lighting device includes at least one LED circuit having at least two LEDs, where an LED of the at least two LEDs is configured to emit a different color temperature of white light than at least one other LED of the at least two LEDs. The example LED lighting device also includes a switch directly connected to the at least one LED circuit and configured to be manually switched by a user to change the color temperature of white light that is emitted from the at least one LED circuit. Switching the switch changes the color temperature of light emitted from the at least one LED circuit by dimming or increasing a brightness of the LED that is configured to emit the different color temperature of white light than the at least one other LED of the at least two LEDs.
US12028945B2
A programmable lighting system includes a plurality of color channels configured to generate light of different colors, and a light driver configured to drive the plurality of color channels according to a dimmer setting and a correlated color temperature (CCT) setting, and to maintain a constant maximum lumen output across a range of CCT values based on a dim-stop limit.
US12028944B2
The invention discloses a method for controlling a bleeder connected to a phase-cut dimmer and a circuit connected to a phase-cut dimmer. The method includes detecting an input voltage of the bleeder to obtain a detection voltage, and comparing the detection voltage and a preset reference voltage, wherein during a first time period, the detection voltage is less than the preset reference voltage, a start point of the first time period is a first moment, and an end point of the first time period is a second moment; delaying a first preset duration on the basis of the second moment to turn off the bleeder; and advancing a second preset duration on the basis of the first moment to turn on the bleeder.
US12028939B2
A closed loop carrier sense multiple access multiuser request to send and clear to send handshaking system is provided to efficiently allocate licensed and unlicensed spectrum for a plurality of mobile devices and across different base stations and mobile network operators. A user equipment device can be connected to a base station device via a first frequency in licensed spectrum, and a second frequency in unlicensed spectrum. The air interface on the first frequency can then be used to coordinate physical and virtual carrier sensing on a second frequency among a plurality of user equipment devices. Moreover, carrier sensing results from a plurality of UEs can be reported a base station device via the first frequency in licensed spectrum. The base station device can then schedule multiple user multiple input, multiple output (MU-MIMO) transmissions to a plurality of UEs on the second frequency in unlicensed spectrum.
US12028938B2
A data processing method, a communication method, a memory, a communication terminal, a communication apparatus, and a communication device are disclosed. The data processing method may include: obtaining uplink data of a communication terminal and controlling the communication terminal to turn off a communication module thereof configured to receive or transmit a first network signal which is an M-th generation mobile communication network signal (S101); and transmitting the uplink data to a communication device externally connected to the communication terminal, and transmitting downlink data received by the communication device to the communication terminal (S102), where the communication device is configured to receive or transmit a second network signal which is an N-th generation mobile communication network signal, where N>M, and N and M are both positive integers.
US12028937B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (e.g., smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail business, and services associated with security and safety) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for configuring an efficient hierarchical layer 2 architecture and main functions thereof in a next-generation mobile communication system.
US12028934B2
A method and a terminal device for keeping a subscriber identity module card in a standby state, including receiving an enabling request to enable dual standby of a first subscriber identity module (SIM) card and a second SIM card in the terminal device, wherein the first SIM card is software-implemented, and wherein the second SIM card is hardware-implemented, accessing a first network for the first SIM card by invoking a third-party interface of an operating system of the terminal and using a data file associated with the first SIM card, and implementing a dual standby of the first SIM card and the second SIM card.
US12028933B1
Described herein are techniques, devices, and systems for receiving, by a mobile device and from a subscriber identity module (SIM), an input associated with an unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) code. The input can be provided by the SIM based on application data stored in the SIM. The SIM can receive the application data via an over-the-air (OTA) platform. The mobile device can transmit, to a service provider core network, a request associated with the USSD code. The mobile device can receive a subscription value based on the USSD code. The subscription value can be a mobile station international subscriber directory number (MSISDN) or an internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) public user identity (IMPU).
US12028929B2
A method and an apparatus for selecting a session management network element, where a mobility management network element may obtain information about one or more first session management network elements, and support selecting a session management network element in a home routed mode or an enhanced topology mode.
US12028925B2
A User Equipment (UE) and a method performed by the UE for multi-connectivity are provided. The method includes receiving, from a Master Cell Group (MCG), a first Radio Resource Control (RRC) message comprising at least one Secondary Cell Group (SCG) Data Radio Bearer (DRB) configuration; starting a first timer upon receiving the first RRC message; and stopping the first timer when one of a plurality of conditions is satisfied, wherein the plurality of conditions include: transmitting an RRC reestablishment request message to the MCG; transmitting an SCG Failure Information message to the MCG before the first timer expires; and successfully adding an SCG based on the at least one SCG DRB configuration.
US12028924B2
A method for managing links, performed by a first communication node in a communication system, includes: obtaining, through an interface, communication status information including communication quality information for each link between the first communication node and at least one other communication node of the communication system; obtaining communication environment information including movement information and location information of each of the at least one other communication node; and obtaining a link probability computational model outputting a first link probability according to input of the communication status information by iteratively performing a machine learning operation based on the communication status information and the communication environment information, wherein the first link probability is used by the first communication node to control multi-connectivity with the at least one other communication node.
US12028919B2
Systems and methods are provided for extending coverage of a telecommunication network includes a user device and a cell site. The cell site includes a node management system communicatively coupled to the user device. The node management system is structured to receive one or more signal strengths associated with one or more target nodes, determine the one or more signal strengths are within a delta range threshold, determine one or more multi-technology thresholds associated with the one or more target nodes, determine a lowest multi-technology threshold based on the one or more multi-technology thresholds, and assign the user device to the one or more target nodes associated with the lowest multi-technology threshold determined.
US12028918B2
The present disclosure relates to example SMS processing methods in an Internet of Things, mobility management network elements, and terminal devices, to provide an SMS service for an Internet of Things terminal device. One example method includes receiving, by a mobility management network element in a packet switched (PS) domain, a non-combined registration request from a terminal device, where the non-combined registration request carries SMS only indication information. When determining that the mobility management network element in the PS domain cannot transfer an SMS for the terminal device through the PS domain, the mobility management network element in the PS domain sends a location update request to a mobility management network element in a circuit switched (CS) domain The location update request is used to implement registration of the terminal device with the CS domain.
US12028915B1
Attaching to additional access nodes and performing handovers responsive to path loss measurements and uplink transmit power levels meeting different thresholds. A wireless device attached to a first access node is experiencing one or more of a threshold path loss or a threshold uplink transmit power is instructed to enable dual connectivity, wherein the wireless device remains attached to the first access node. Embodiments include 5G EN-DC systems that are collocated or distributed.
US12028913B2
A communication apparatus is provided which operates as a base station. The communication apparatus communicates with a control apparatus for controlling a network comprised of a plurality of base stations. The communication apparatus is one of the plurality of base stations that is part of the network. The communication apparatus establishes, with another base station belonging to the network, a link to be used for communication with the other base station; and notifies, in a case where a plurality of the links is established with the another base station, the control apparatus of establishment of the link.
US12028909B2
A method of communicating between a terminal and a wireless network node comprising, at the terminal: checking validity of a timing advance; and if the timing advance is valid, causing sending of an uplink connection request within a preconfigured uplink resource.
US12028892B2
A flying device that flies by being controlled from an external location, the flying device including a determination unit that determines a communication quality on a first wireless communication channel used for transmitting data to a control device that controls the flying device within a prescribed range from a flight position at which the flying device is flying; and a transmission control unit that controls a type of data to be transmitted to the control device on the basis of the communication quality determined by the determination unit.
US12028889B2
A communication method includes: a first communication apparatus obtains first configuration information and sends the first configuration information to a second communication apparatus, where the first configuration information includes configuration information of a first sidelink radio bearer which is used to carry a first unicast service between the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus, and the first sidelink is a radio link between the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus.
US12028887B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a user equipment (UE) may generate statistical modeling of sensing outcomes (e.g., may identify one or more measurement statistics), and may transmit values that are quantized based on the one or more measurement statistics. Measurement statistics may include one or more of mean and variance of sensing results (e.g., channel quality measurements such as signal to interference ratio (SIR)), auto-correlation of measurements or measurement statistics over time, auto-covariance, or the like. In some examples, a UE may incorporate channel measurement statistics into a waveform (e.g., the coordination report) or otherwise compress the measurements. The UE may measure its own self-interference, and may indicate (e.g., in the coordination message) resource availability that reflects the measured self-interference. A receiving UE may use the coordination message to schedule subsequent sidelink communications (e.g., with the transmitting UE or with other UEs).
US12028882B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. Embodiments disclosed herein provide a method for managing a resource in a wireless communication system. The method includes allocating, by a base station, the resource for a data transmission from a User Equipment (UE) by indicating at least one bandwidth part in a total bandwidth supported by the UE. The resource is further allocated by indicating a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) and a Physical Downlink Shared Control Channel (PDSCH) according to a configured subcarrier spacing and a CP length within the at least one bandwidth part, and by indicating an allocation of Resource Blocks (RBs) within the at least one bandwidth part.
US12028880B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) to receive a message including transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states information associated with beam information for uplink or downlink resources. The UE may identify multiple channels or reference signals, or both, to which a TCI state is to be applied based on associated indications included with the TCI state information. In some examples, the TCI state information may also include indications of source reference signals for quasi co-location (QCL) assumptions for the indicated channels or reference signals. Based on applying the TCI state, the UE may determine beam information for uplink or downlink resources and may communicate with the base station accordingly.
US12028879B2
A communication method includes: a network device sends first configuration information to a terminal device, where the first configuration information includes configuration information of a non-anchor carrier; and when an anchor carrier is in a standalone deployment mode, the non-anchor carrier uses an in-band deployment mode or a guard-band deployment mode; or when an anchor carrier is in an in-band deployment mode or a guard-band deployment mode, the non-anchor carrier uses a standalone deployment mode.
US12028875B2
Physical downlink control channel blind detection method, user equipment and readable storage medium
A physical downlink control channel blind detection method, a user equipment and a readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: receiving an issued first Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling to determine an Aggregation Level (AL) of the PDCCH; receiving an issued second RRC signaling; determining a specific position of each CCE in the CORESET based on the configuration information in the second RRC signaling; determining positions of all PDCCH candidates, and obtaining a target PDCCH by blindly detecting the PDCCH; and obtaining a mapping position of a Downlink Control Information (DCI) corresponding to a UE at a time domain sampling point by blindly detecting the time domain sampling based on the target PDCCH.
US12028873B2
Method of terminal, terminal, method of base station, and base station in wireless communication system are provided. Method of a terminal in the wireless communication system includes receiving, from a base station via radio resource control (RRC) signaling, information for a rate matching resource, identifying resources that are unavailable for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) reception based on the rate matching resource, monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidate except for at least one PDCCH candidate that overlaps with the identified resources, and receiving, from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) based on the monitoring of the PDCCH candidate.
US12028871B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a broadcast message associated with initial access. The UE may monitor, for an additional message from the base station, a set of monitoring occasions that are non-consecutive across slots, based at least in part on the broadcast message. In some aspects, the set of monitoring occasions are non-consecutive across slots based at least in part on a stored rule that uses a subcarrier spacing. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12028867B2
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for a wireless communication on an unlicensed spectrum. An access point (AP) of the wireless communication system includes a processor circuitry, and radio front end circuitry coupled to the processor circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to schedule multiple transmission time intervals (multi-TTIs) in a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) in the unlicensed spectrum. The processor circuitry is configured to generate a downlink control information (DCI) to include the scheduled multi-TTIs and a hybrid automatic repeat and request acknowledgement (HARQACK) assessment information associated with the scheduled multi-TTIs. The radio front end circuitry is configured to transmit the DCI to a user equipment (UE) over the unlicensed spectrum.
US12028853B2
A method and device for determining a time-frequency pattern of a downlink positioning reference signal, a storage medium and a base station, the method including: determining a number of subcarriers M occupied by a time-frequency pattern of a positioning reference signal on each symbol according to a preset frequency domain multiplexed factor; generating, for multiple time slots scheduled by a user equipment, initial time-frequency patterns in a resource block where each time slot is located according to the number of subcarriers M, the initial time-frequency patterns occupying all symbols in the resource block, and occupying M subcarriers on each symbol; and filtering M initial time-frequency patterns in each resource block according to the attributes of the symbol in each resource block, so as to determine valid time-frequency patterns in each resource block. Therefore, a time-frequency pattern of a downlink positioning reference signal in a NR system may be determined.
US12028849B2
The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal, a system and respective methods. The user equipment receives a SI configuration for an SI message, the configuration indicating a periodicity at which the SI message is being broadcasted, determines that receiving the SI message, to be broadcasted in one of plural first time windows that are reoccurring at the indicated periodicity, is unsuccessful, and transmits a SI request for the SI message after determining the unsuccessful receipt of the SI message. The SI request includes an indication of the at least one SI message to be broadcasted. Then, the user equipment receives the at least one SI message within at least one second time window occurs after the one of the plural first time windows and before the next of the first time window that is reoccurring at the indicated periodicity, and determines that receiving the SI message is successful.
US12028842B2
This application provides a data transmission method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: generating, by an access point, a physical protocol data unit PPDU, where a data part of the PPDU is carried on at least one resource unit RU; sending, by the access point, the PPDU to at least one station by using a channel bandwidth, where the channel bandwidth includes M basic bandwidths, the basic bandwidth is 2.16 GHz, M is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and the M basic bandwidths are divided into the at least one RU; and parsing, by the station, the data part that is of the PPDU and that is carried on the at least one RU. In embodiments of this application, it can implement an OFDMA technology in a high-frequency scenario, and improve channel utilization and transmission efficiency.
US12028839B2
A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station, signaling indicating an assignment of resources in a physical time domain to a set of contiguous symbols in a virtual domain. Each symbol of the set of contiguous symbols may be associated with a respective orthogonal frequency-division multiplexed (OFDM) symbol of a respective one of multiple sets of one or more contiguous OFDM symbols in the physical time domain. Each set of OFDM symbols may be associated with a slot in the physical time domain. The method also includes mapping the physical time domain resources to the multiple sets of OFDM symbols based on the assignment of the physical time domain resources to the set of contiguous symbols. The method further includes receiving or transmitting the multiple sets of OFDM symbols on the physical time domain resources based on the mapping.
US12028834B2
Methods, systems, and devices for resource configuration and selection for device-to-device links in mobile communication technology are described. An exemplary method for wireless communication includes receiving, by a wireless device from a network node, a configuration for multiple resource pools that are associated with a carrier set, selecting, based on the configuration, a resource from the multiple resource pools, and performing, using the resource, a device-to-device link communication. Another exemplary method for wireless communication includes receiving, by a wireless device from a network node, a configuration for multiple resource pools that are associated with a carrier set, receiving, from the network node, a dedicated resource, and performing, using the dedicated resource, a device-to-device link communication.
US12028829B2
An information processing device provided in a mobile object, including: a processor for obtaining, while a communication unit connects to a first access point and executes wireless communication through the first access point, information representing a first communication quality being communication quality for wireless communication between the communication unit and the first access point, and information representing a second communication quality being communication quality for wireless communication between the communication unit and a second access point, switching, if a difference between the second communication quality and the first communication quality is greater than a predetermined quality reference value, a connection target of the communication unit from the first access point to the second access point, and preventing, such that the faster a moving speed of the mobile object is, the less often switching of the connection target occurs.
US12028821B2
A method for providing IQ mismatch (IQMM) compensation includes: estimating an overall frequency response of a compensation filter by stepping through a frequency range starting at an initial frequency and performing (1) through (3) at each step, a selected frequency at each step being a multiple of a subcarrier frequency of the initial frequency: (1) sending a single tone signal at the selected frequency, (2) determining a first response of a mismatched signal at the selected frequency and a second response of the mismatched signal at an image frequency of the selected frequency, and (3) estimating a frequency response of the compensation filter at the selected frequency based on the first response and the second response; generating time-domain filter taps based on the estimated overall frequency response of the compensation filter; determining a time delay based on the time-domain filter taps; and generating a compensated signal based on the time delay.
US12028803B2
An aggregation router for an aircraft may include processing circuitry. The processing circuitry may be configured to receive a first channel from a first airborne radio, and receive a second channel from a second airborne radio. The first and second channels may be WAN connections to wireless communication network resources on the ground. The processing circuitry may be further configured to aggregate the first and second channels for service to LAN connections on the aircraft, which LAN connections may include one or more short range wireless communication access points.
US12028796B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for a WLAN device to select an operating dynamic frequency selection (DFS) channel that minimizes the probability of radar interference by using aiding information. The aiding information may be a crowd-sourced database of geo-tagged radar zones including one or more DFS channels used within the geo-tagged radar zones that are detected by a plurality of WLAN devices. The WLAN device may query the crowd-sourced database for a geo-tagged radar zone that is nearby to determine if a radar operates on an overlapping DFS channel so it may switch to a different channel. In one aspect, the aiding information may be periodic special action frames broadcast by a WLAN beaconing device over the operating channel of the WLAN device. The special action frames may carry information on one or more channels used by a near-by radar and recommended alternative channels to use by the WLAN device.
US12028795B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may implement a power-efficient discovery procedure to establish a relay. In some cases, the UE may monitor a resource pool for a relay beacon from a relay device and measure a received power of the relay beacon. If the received power satisfies a threshold, the UE may monitor for a relay announcement from the relay device and establish a sidelink connection with the relay device based on the relay announcement. The relay beacon may support a two-stage discovery procedure, where the UE determines a relay device is available before processing a relay announcement to conserve power. Additional techniques for proximity-based discovery are described herein.
US12028794B2
A technique for transmitting system information for a time-division duplex, TDD, communication in a radio access network, RAN, is described. As to a method aspect of the technique, a master information block, MIB, is transmitted on an anchor carrier (602 1) of the TDD communication in the RAN. The MIB is indicative of a spectral resource (602-1; 602-2) allocated to a system information block, SIB, of the TDD communication in the RAN. The SIB is transmitted on the spectral resource (602-1; 602-2) indicated in the MIB.
US12028792B2
Methods and related systems for operating a climate control system for an indoor space are disclosed. In an embodiment, the method includes establishing a connection between a device and a hub of the climate control system along a first signal pathway, wherein at least a portion of the first signal pathway comprises a short-range radio connection between the device and a first component of the system. In addition, the method includes monitoring one or more parameters of the first signal pathway and one or more parameters of a second signal pathway extending between the device and the hub, wherein at least a portion of the second signal pathway comprises a short-range radio connection between the device and a second component of the system. Further, the method includes re-routing the connection between the portable device and the system hub from the first signal pathway to the second signal pathway.
US12028788B2
An object is to provide a communication system and a base station capable of predicting future communication quality in order to enable variations in communication quality due to variations in environment to be addressed. A communication system and a base station according to the invention learn an input and output relationship from surrounding environment information of the base station that can be acquired by a camera, a sensor, or the like, terminal information such as position information of a terminal and current communication quality to generate a learning model, and predict future communication quality using the learning model, the surrounding environment information, and the terminal information.
US12028784B2
Systems and methods are provided for identifying subscribers and/or content creators to each other while attending a real-world/live event. The real-world/live event may be in furtherance of content creation or in furtherance of providing preferential access to subscribers. Identification in the case of subscribers can be based upon subscribership information, commonality of one or more aspects of the subscribers and/or the content creators. For example, a subscriber may be identified with a level of prominence commensurate with the level at which he/she subscribers to a content creator to. Notifications and/or recommendations may be presented in an augmented reality experience along with augmented reality identifications of subscribers and/or content creators.
US12028780B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a network device that comprises a processing system including a processor and a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processing system, facilitate performance of operations. The operations include obtaining timing advance data regarding a communication device served by the network; the timing advance data is collected by a network element coupled to the network device, and the network element communicates with the communication device using control-plane signaling. The timing advance data is processed using location data regarding the network element to determine a geolocation of the communication device. The geolocation is stored at a storage device; the network device and storage device are included in a secure portion of the network. The geolocation is provided to equipment of a network customer accessing the secure portion of the network via a secure interface. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12028774B2
A method for location service control and a communications unit are provided. The method includes: transmitting information related to a first valid time and/or control information, where the control information is used to control related behavior of obtaining location of a terminal.
US12028764B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums for enabling L1 (physical layer) and L2 (medium access control (MAC) layer) inter-cell mobility. An example method generally includes transmitting, to a network entity, a report indicating a capability of the UE to support one or more inter-cell mobility procedures based on at least one of physical (PHY) layer or medium access control (MAC) layer signaling, receiving PHY layer or MAC layer signaling related to an inter-cell mobility procedure, and initiating at least one of the inter-cell mobility procedures based on the received PHY layer or MAC layer signaling.
US12028756B2
Embodiments of this application relate to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a cell configuration method and apparatus, to reduce signaling exchange in a cell migration process and improve cell migration efficiency. The cell configuration method includes: A first management function unit obtains a first message, where the first message includes information about a first cell and information about a first base station, the information about the first cell includes at least one of an identifier of the first cell or a managed object identifier of the first cell, and the information about the first base station includes at least one of an identifier of the first base station or a managed object identifier of the first base station; and the first management function unit configures a relationship between the first cell and the first base station based on the first message.
US12028755B2
A method performed by user equipment (UE) includes receiving a request to access a service unavailable through a first network cell associated with the UE, and receiving a message from an access device associated with the first network cell, wherein the message identifies a plurality of second network cells providing the service.
US12028749B2
The present disclosure relates to a transmission device and reception device for data in a wireless AV system. The transmission device comprises: a processor for encoding media data thereby generating a compressed bitstream; and a communication unit for: fragmenting the compressed bitstream and mapping the compressed bitstream to an MSDU; generating, for transmission of the MSDU, an MPDU frame sequentially comprising an MAC header, a frame body, and an FCS for the MAC header; generating, for the transmission of the MPDU frame, a PPDU sequentially comprising a preamble, at least one PSDU, and a TRN field; and transmitting the PPDU frame through a radio channel. A radio resource for transmission of actually necessary data can be secured by minimizing unnecessary overhead information (i.e., control-related information in the MAC header) from among data transmitted over radio.
US12028746B2
In certain embodiments, a current amount of an item available from a network resource may be monitored. Based on the monitoring indicating that the current amount fails to satisfy a first threshold, one or more sources may be identified. The one or more sources may be within a threshold proximity of the network resource, and distances between the one or more sources and the network resource may be determined. One or more requests for the amounts of the item to be transferred from the one or more sources to the network resource within time frames may be generated. For example, the time frames may be based on the distances. The one or more requests may be transmitted to the one or more sources.
US12028745B2
A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a network slice usage service is provided. The network slice usage service may allow a network device to obtain a network slice usage value of a network slice. The network device may calculate a network slice load value based on the network slice usage value. The network device may also provide the network slice load value to other network devices of a core network.
US12028744B2
A method of controlling a radio-frequency (RF) transaction region comprises: determining a value of a characteristic associated with an ability of roadside equipment, associated with an RF transaction, to obtain information from a user equipment (UE) in the RF transaction region; determining, based on the value of the characteristic, a value of a parameter affecting the ability of the roadside equipment to obtain the information from the UE in the RF transaction region; and conveying the value of the parameter to the UE to affect transmission of messages from the UE to the roadside equipment.
US12028742B2
A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes determining an original amount of uplink data stored in a non-compression buffer, the original amount of data designated to be transmitted to a network. The method also includes predicting, with a machine learning model, an amount of compression gain for the original amount of uplink data. The compression gain is obtained by compressing the original amount of uplink data during a time delay. The method further includes generating a buffer status report based on the original amount of uplink data and the predicted amount of compression gain. The method transmits the buffer status report to the network.
US12028740B2
A method for utilizing quality of service information in a network with tunneled backhaul is disclosed, comprising: establishing a backhaul bearer at a base station with a first core network, the backhaul bearer established by a backhaul user equipment (UE) at the base station, the backhaul bearer having a single priority parameter, the backhaul bearer terminating at a first packet data network gateway in the first core network; establishing an encrypted internet protocol (IP) tunnel between the base station and a coordinating gateway in communication with the first core network and a second core network; facilitating, for at least one UE attached at the base station, establishment of a plurality of UE data bearers encapsulated in the secure IP tunnel, each with their own QCI; and transmitting prioritized data of the plurality of UE data bearers via the backhaul bearer and the coordinating gateway to the second core network.
US12028739B2
A method for determining a network quality of service (QoS) flow, a network element, and a system include receiving, by a session management function network element, a policy and charging control (PCC) rule from a policy control function network element, where the PCC rule includes QoS parameters, the QoS parameters include standardized QoS parameter indication information and a non-standardized QoS parameter, and the non-standardized QoS parameter includes at least one attribute comprised in a standardized QoS parameter corresponding to the standardized QoS parameter indication information and a corresponding value of the at least one attribute, and determining, by the session management function network element based on the standardized QoS parameter indication information and the non-standardized QoS parameter, a QoS flow corresponding to the PCC rule.
US12028736B2
A method of delivering content to a user equipment (UE). The method comprises collecting radio operation data by a monitor application executing on a communication processor of the UE; sending the radio operation data by the monitor application to a data analysis application executing on a computer system; analyzing the data by the data analysis application to determine a device technology of the UE, a history of high throughput radio usage of the UE, a history of medium throughput radio usage of the UE, a history of low throughput radio usage, a history of communication latency, and a history of cell sites the UE attached to; and providing a report on the UE including the device technology of the UE and the history of radio usage of the UE by the computer system to a third party for use in delivering content in a format selected based on the report.
US12028735B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for beam indication set reuse. A method for a wireless communication that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving signaling configuring the UE with a beam indication set. The method includes receiving an indication to apply the configured beam indication set to multiple bandwidth parts (BWPs) and/or multiple component carriers (CCs). The method includes applying the beam indication set to a BWP or CC based on the indication. The beam indication set may be for uplink or downlink communications. The beam indication set may be a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state set or spatial relation set. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US12028731B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure describe methods, apparatuses, storage media, and systems for configuration of System frame number (SFN) and Frame Timing Difference (SFTD) measurement in an E-UTRA (Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access)—NR Dual Connectivity (EN-DC) network, and an NE-DC network. Various embodiments describe how to configure and perform the SFTD measurement in the EN-DC or NE-DC network of various conditions to facilitate adequate SFTD measurements and improve measurement accuracy and system performance. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US12028728B2
Example measurement methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes obtaining a timer by a terminal device. The terminal device obtains two or more measurement configurations, where each of two or more measurement configurations includes a validity area and a measurement frequency corresponding to the validity area, and the validity area includes one or more cells. The terminal device measures, based on the measurement configuration, a measurement frequency corresponding to a validity area that matches a cell on which the terminal device camps, where the terminal device is in an idle state or in an inactive state, and the timer is not stopped and has not expired.
US12028721B2
Provided are a measurement method and apparatus using a multiple frequency partial band in a wireless communication system, and an operation method of a terminal for measuring quality of a cell in a wireless communication system, may include: receiving a plurality of beams including a reference signal, the plurality of beams transmitted by using one of a first bandwidth part (BWP) and a second BWP from a base station of the cell; determining a first beam quality measurement value representing quality of plurality of beams transmitted by using the first BWP; determining a second beam quality measurement value representing quality of plurality of beams transmitted by using the second BWP; and determining a cell quality measurement value indicating the quality of the cell, based on the first beam quality measurement value and the second beam quality measurement value.
US12028715B2
A gesture access system includes a local access assembly, a mobile device, an electronic storage medium, and a processor. The local access assembly is adapted to operate between an access state and a no-access state, and includes a controller to effect actuation between the states and a signal receiver. The mobile device includes an Inertial Measurement Unit sensor system configured to measure a motion of the mobile device to conditionally detect a device gesture indicative of an intent of a user to gain access. The storage medium is configured to store an application and a preprogrammed device gesture. The processor is configured to receive the measured motion from the sensor system, and execute the application to compare the measured motion to the preprogrammed device gesture, and depending upon the comparison, output a command signal to the controller of the local access assembly via the receiver to effect actuation between states.
US12028711B2
A wearable device can establish a verified session with a host device (e.g., by establishing that the wearable device is present in the vicinity of the host device and is currently being worn). The existence of such a verified session can be used to control user access to sensitive information that may be stored in or otherwise accessible to a host device. For example, the host device and/or application programs executing thereon can be configured to restrict a user's ability to invoke program functionality that accesses sensitive information based on whether a verified session with a wearable device is currently in progress.
US12028709B2
A subscriber device may perform a key exchange with a network operation center (NOC) computing device to receive a secret key. A list of group identifiers of personal devices for which the subscriber device is to handle events may be received at the subscriber device. The subscriber device may receive an encrypted event packet from a personal device via a direct communication connection. The subscriber device may decrypt the encrypted event packet at the subscriber device using the secret key to generate a decrypted event packet and extract a group identifier from the decrypted event packet. In response to determining that the group identifier is included in the list of group identifiers received from the NOC computing device, an event handler of a plurality of handlers stored in the subscriber device that corresponds to an event included in the decrypted event packet may be identified to handle the event.
US12028701B2
Methods and systems for designing and applying numerically optimized binaural room impulse responses
Methods and systems for designing binaural room impulse responses (BRIRs) for use in headphone virtualizers, and methods and systems for generating a binaural signal in response to a set of channels of a multi-channel audio signal, including by applying a BRIR to each channel of the set, thereby generating filtered signals, and combining the filtered signals to generate the binaural signal, where each BRIR has been designed in accordance with an embodiment of the design method. Other aspects are audio processing units configured to perform any embodiment of the inventive method. In accordance with some embodiments, BRIR design is formulated as a numerical optimization problem based on a simulation model (which generates candidate BRIRs) and at least one objective function (which evaluates each candidate BRIR), and includes identification of a best one of the candidate BRIRs as indicated by performance metrics determined for the candidate BRIRs by each objective function.
US12028696B2
The present technology relates to a sound processing apparatus and a sound processing system for enabling more stable localization of a sound image. A virtual speaker is assumed to exist on the lower side among the sides of a tetragon having its corners formed with four speakers surrounding a target sound image position on a spherical plane. Three-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the virtual speaker and the two speakers located at the upper right and the upper left, to calculate gains of the two speakers at the upper right and the upper left and the virtual speaker, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the target sound image position. Further, two-dimensional VBAP is performed with respect to the lower right and lower left speakers, to calculate gains of the lower right and lower left speakers, the gains being to be used for fixing a sound image at the position of the virtual speaker. The values obtained by multiplying these gains by the gain of the virtual speaker are set as the gains of the lower right and lower left speakers for fixing a sound image at the target sound image position. The present technology can be applied to sound processing apparatuses.
US12028691B2
A method including a device of an installation performing steps to determine whether an audio stream is played back in the installation by only one piece of audio playback equipment or by a group of at least two pieces of audio playback equipment (11a, 11b); if the device detects that the audio stream is played back by a single piece of audio playback equipment, then the device generates an order for said piece of equipment to apply a given set of equalization parameters; and if the device detects that the audio stream is played back by a group of at least two pieces of audio playback equipment, then the device determines the equalization parameters to be applied by each piece of audio playback equipment of said group, and generates a respective order for each piece of audio playback equipment of said group to apply a respective given set of equalization parameters.
US12028679B2
Provided is an electrostatic clutch. The electrostatic clutch includes: multiple arrays of HIN electrodes, a respective pass-through channel being formed between any two arrays of the multiple arrays of HIN electrodes; and multiple arrays of biased electrodes, each array of the multiple arrays of biased electrodes moving back and forth in the respective pass-through channel such that electrostatic force is generated between the multiple arrays of biased electrodes and the multiple arrays of HIN electrodes. Such configuration allows microphone performance over a wide range of atmospheric pressures which is likely expected by applications. This is achieved electrostatically in a purely passive way having advantages over other designs which require complex electronics and active control. Physically decoupling the membrane and sense structure simplifies design of the sense structure as only small AC perturbations of the rotor is considered with no DC changes in rotor position.
US12028672B2
Disclosed is a headset for audio communication, a software application for an electronic device associated with a headset, and a method for controlling a headset feature. The headset is configured to be worn by a user. The headset comprises a speaker for sound transmission into the user's ear, a transceiver or a radio communication unit for communication with an external device, a connection to a location-based service software, the location-based service software is configured for controlling at least one headset feature based on location data of the headset, and a processing unit. The processing unit is configured for enabling the location-based service software to detect if the current location data of the headset indicates a change in location data corresponding to a certain change criterion and changing the at least one headset feature, if a change criterion associated with the change in location data is satisfied.
US12028671B2
A Universal Serial Bus (USB) audio device kit includes a USB peripheral audio device and a passive USB-to-analog audio adapter. The USB peripheral audio device includes a USB interface configured to communicatively interface the USB audio peripheral device with a USB host device. The passive USB-to-analog audio adapter is configured to electrically interface the USB peripheral audio device with analog audio equipment via the USB interface.
US12028670B2
Aspects describe an in-ear audio output device. The in-ear audio output device includes an acoustic chamber defined by an earbud housing shaped to fit in the lower concha of an ear of a wearer of the in-ear audio output device, the earbud housing comprising: a resistive port located on a first side of the earbud housing creating an opening in a wall of the earbud housing and a first feedforward microphone located on a second side of the earbud housing, the second side substantially opposite the first side of the earbud housing; and a stability band. The stability band includes at least one attachment feature that couples the stability band to the earbud housing and a first side substantially opposite the attachment feature that only partially covers the resistive port when the in-ear audio output device is positioned in the ear of the wearer.
US12028667B2
A system and method for an interactive three piece microphone with customizable features that may be quickly accessed by a user whereby the users' settings are automatically uploaded to the microphone providing a more personalized experience. The microphone may be used in a variety of situations where users may challenge one another as well as collect monetary rewards based on the location and type of performance they have.
US12028666B2
A bone conduction speaker is built into a seat of a vehicle and faces the skull of an occupant seated in the seat. An acoustic control ECU individually selects sound to be output from the bone conduction speaker for each of the occupants in the vehicle, according to attribute information of the occupant recorded in a portable terminal device carried by the occupant, and causes the selected sound to be individually output from the bone conduction speaker to each of the occupants.
US12028664B2
A configured mode of operation of a wireless sensor node unit can selectively activate a first subset of sensor channels of data and selectively deactivate a second subset of sensor channels of data. The configured mode of operation customizes the sensor functionality in the wireless sensor node unit in support of the delivery of data streams to customers.
US12028661B2
Network devices and associated methods are provided for synchronization in an optically switched network. The network device includes one or more ports in communication with a plurality of devices via an optical switch. The one or more ports receive a master clock signal having a first frequency from a first device of the plurality of devices. The network device includes a local clock in communication with the one or more ports and operating at a second frequency. The network device includes a synchronization manager in communication with the one or more ports and the local clock and configured to be enabled and disabled. When the synchronization manager is enabled, it receives the master clock signal via the one or more ports and transmits an instruction to the local clock to operate at the first frequency.
US12028658B2
One embodiment provides a method comprising receiving an input content, and receiving ambient contextual data indicative of one or more ambient lighting conditions of an environment including a display device. The input content has corresponding metadata that at least partially represents a creative intent indicative of how the input content is intended to be viewed. The method further comprises adaptively correcting the input content based on the ambient contextual data to preserve the creative intent, and providing the corrected input content to the display device for presentation. The adaptively correcting comprises applying automatic white balancing to the input content to correct color tone of the input content.
US12028653B2
A remote control system 1 having a function as an inspection system includes a plurality of cameras 25, 60 which are located in a location environment of a construction machine 10, a captured image processing unit 50a configured to cause a display unit 45 to display captured images, and a camera selection unit 50b configured to select an inspection camera from the plurality of cameras 25, 60 at a time of inspection of the construction machine 10. The captured image processing unit 50a is configured to receive an image captured by the selected inspection camera to include an image of a portion to be inspected and cause the display unit 45 to display the captured image.
US12028652B2
A vehicle image control apparatus for an image of a vehicle camera equipped with no image signal processor (ISP) and a method thereof, includes a first image controller equipped with a first ISP that performs image processing, supplies power to a camera device provided in a vehicle and equipped with no ISP, and the camera device obtains a surrounding image of the vehicle and transmits the surrounding image to the first image controller. The first image controller selectively shares the surrounding image with a second image controller equipped with a second ISP that performs image processing. Accordingly, it is possible to implement an efficient vehicle image-related system such that a plurality of controllers share one or more cameras equipped with no ISP.
US12028648B2
An information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus executing an information processing method comprising: receiving a request of image data from an external terminal; specifying, based on the request, a vehicle that provides image capturing data to generate the image data; specifying a parameter concerning a communication path to be used by the specified vehicle to transmit the image capturing data to the information processing apparatus; and transmitting the specified parameter to the specified vehicle.
US12028637B2
An image sensing system includes a camera module and an application processor. The camera module includes: an image sensor including a pixel array, the pixel array including color filters having a first pattern, the image sensor being configured to sense light incident on the pixel array to generate a first pattern image signal having the first pattern; a first converter configured to convert the first pattern image signal into a second pattern image signal having a second pattern different from the first pattern; and a second converter configured to convert the second pattern image signal into a third pattern image signal having a third pattern different from the first pattern and the second pattern. The application processor is configured to perform image processing on the third pattern image signal.
US12028634B2
An image sensor includes a first layer including a pixel array region having a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of row lines and a plurality of column lines; and a second layer including a row driver selecting at least a portion of the plurality of row lines, generating pixel control signals driving selected row lines, and outputting the pixel control signals to control signal lines, wherein the selected row lines share the control signal lines, at a branch point of the first layer, the selected row lines receive the pixel control signals from the control signal lines in common, and the pixel control signals simultaneously drive the selected row lines.
US12028633B2
An imaging device is provided which allows an increase in the degree of freedom of its layout. The imaging device includes a first semiconductor substrate including a sensor pixel for performing photoelectric conversion, and a second semiconductor substrate including a readout circuit for outputting a pixel signal according to an electric charge output from the sensor pixel. The second semiconductor substrate is laminated on the one surface side of the first semiconductor substrate so as to configure a laminated body. The second semiconductor substrate includes a first surface facing the first semiconductor substrate, and a second surface located opposite to the first surface. The first transistor included in the readout circuit is disposed in the first surface, and the second transistor included in the readout circuit is disposed in the second surface.
US12028628B2
An image sensor includes a pixel having an internal capacitor. Each of a plurality of pixels of the image sensor includes a photodetection circuit and an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). The photodetection circuit generates a detection signal. The ADC converts the detection signal using a ramp signal. The photodetection circuit includes a photodiode, a floating diffusion node and an overflow transistor. The floating diffusion node accumulates photocharges generated by the photodiode and includes a parasitic capacitor. The overflow transistor electrically connects the floating diffusion node to a first internal capacitor of the ADC.
US12028623B2
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes a first substrate including a pixel array including a plurality of pixels, and a second substrate disposed in a multilayer structure on the first substrate. The photoelectric conversion apparatus further includes a machine learning unit configured to execute processing using machine learning on a signal output from the pixel array, and a signal output unit configured to output a signal corresponding to temperature. Both the machine learning unit and the signal output unit are disposed on the second substrate.
US12028612B2
An error is reduced in phase difference detection of an imaging element including a phase difference pixel with an on-chip lens in common for a pair of pixels. The imaging element includes a pixel, an individual on-chip lens, a plurality of phase difference pixels, a common on-chip lens, and a pixel circuit. The individual on-chip lens individually collects incident light for each pixel. The phase difference pixels are arranged adjacent to each other to detect a phase difference. The common on-chip lens is arranged in common for the plurality of phase difference pixels and collects incident light in common. The pixel circuit is formed in a semiconductor substrate and generates an image signal on the basis of a transferred charge. Charge transfer units of the plurality of phase difference pixels are in a region between the common on-chip lens and the individual on-chip lens.
US12028603B2
To provide an image processing system that makes it easy to adjust the position and posture of a camera or the like, the image processing system includes an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image signal formed by an imaging unit that captures an optical image having a low-distortion region and a high-distortion region, a characteristics information acquisition unit configured to acquire characteristics information regarding characteristics of the optical image, and a display signal generation unit configured to form information indicating a boundary between the low-distortion region and the high-distortion region based on the characteristics information acquired by the characteristics information acquisition unit, and generate a display signal for superimposing the information indicating the boundary on the image signal.
US12028602B2
An imaging apparatus includes an operation member, a setting unit configured to set the operation member to an enabled state or a disabled state a switching unit configured to switch an image capturing mode to a medical mode, and a control unit configured to perform, in a case where the image capturing mode is not the medical mode, control to allow the setting unit to set the operation member to the enabled state or the disabled state, and perform, in a case where the image capturing mode is the medical mode, control to set the operation member to the enabled state.
US12028592B2
An internet protocol (IP)-based ceiling or wall-mounted speaker with optional IP-based camera and/or alarm indicator is provided. The IP-based speaker has a detachable add-on device for accommodating different types of interchangeable camera configurations and other components such as flush mount camera, camera providing angled view, night vision-type camera for different services and configurations. Multiple IP-based speakers are connected to an IP device to exchange audio data via an Ethernet connection for cost effective, flexible and convenient installations. The IP-based speaker has a speaker cone for talkback features, and relay for remote relay control of doors or gates for security applications as well as public address applications.
US12028591B2
An imaging apparatus includes an imaging substrate, a connector substrate, and a housing. The imaging substrate is provided with an imaging device that produces image data. The connector substrate is movably connected to the imaging substrate. The connector substrate includes a terminal configured to be connectable in a first direction to an external connector to which the image data is output. The imaging substrate and the connector substrate are accommodated in the housing. The housing includes a restricting section that restricts a position of the connector substrate in the first direction. The connector substrate is configured to be movable within a predetermined range in a direction intersecting the first direction.
US12028588B2
The present disclosure is directed to devices and methods for synchronizing capturing of spectral images with the capturing of thermal images. A thermal imaging device of an aerial vehicle captures a sequence of thermal image of thermal images. Capturing of spectral images by a spectral imaging device of the aerial vehicle is synchronized with the capturing of the thermal images. Irradiance data indicative of a background temperature is sensed. A digital surface model of an area of interest is generated based on the sequence of spectral images. An emissivity of a target is estimated and a temperature of a pixel of the digital surface model of the target is estimated based on the sequence of thermal images, the irradiance data indicative of the background temperature and the estimated emissivity of the target.
US12028582B2
Techniques of providing an interactive programming guide with a personalized lineup are disclosed. In some embodiments, a profile is accessed, and a personalized lineup is determined based on the profile. The personalized lineup may include a corresponding media content identification assigned to each one of a plurality of sequential time slots, where each media content identification identifies media content for the corresponding time slot. A first interactive programming guide may be caused to be displayed on a first media content device associated with the profile, where the first interactive programming guide includes the personalized lineup.
US12028563B1
The present disclosure describes a monitoring device for determining one or more characteristics of one or more scheduled programs within one or more packetized elementary streams of one or more transport streams. The monitoring device receives the one or more transport streams from a service provider system and de-encapsulates the one or more packetized elementary streams from the one or more transport streams. The monitoring device determines the one or more characteristics of the one or more scheduled programs from the one or more packetized elementary streams. The one or more characteristics can be used by the monitoring device to adapt on a dynamic, real-time, or near real-time, basis to changes to the one or more transport streams.
US12028560B2
A content correction device, a content delivery server, a content correction method, and a recording medium for correcting a portion of content that requires complaint resolution without impairing quality or enjoyability. The content correction device includes: an acquisition unit acquiring complaint information; a specification unit acquiring the data of content that requires complaint resolution from a storage unit where the data of a plurality of delivered content is stored and specifying a relevant correction period in the time line of the content that requires complaint resolution, in which period the complaint to be resolved is included; and a corrected content generation unit acquiring from the storage unit the data of first content correcting the relevant correction period, generating, using at least a portion of the first content, second content that does not contain the complaint to be resolved, and storing the data of the second content in the storage unit.
US12028557B2
The embodiments disclose a method including capturing video footage of a youth sports event using at least one video camera with a mobile application installed, transmitting to at least one network server with internet and WI-FI connectivity mobile application multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage, recording on at least one database coupled to the network server at least one video camera mobile application multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage, using at least one network computer coupled to at least one network server configured for processing and displaying multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage for live video streaming game broadcast on a plurality of subscribed viewer digital devices, and mixing advertising into the processed multi-camera live-streaming video camera captured game footage broadcast using the at least one network computer.
US12028551B2
A method of decoding an encoded video bitstream using at least one processor includes obtaining a coded video sequence from the encoded video bitstream; obtaining a first syntax element indicating a number of a plurality of layers included in the coded video sequence; obtaining a second syntax element indicating whether the plurality of layers included in the coded video sequence are all independent layers; based on the first syntax element indicating that the number of the plurality of layers is greater than one, and the second syntax element indicating that the plurality of layers are not all the independent layers, obtaining a third syntax element indicating an output mode; determining the output mode based on the third syntax element; determining one or more output layers from among the plurality of layers based on the determined output mode; and outputting the one or more output layers.
US12028550B2
A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for coding video data. Video data is received. One or more transform cores corresponding to a transform associated with the video data are identified. The one or more transform cores include one or more of a line graph transform (LGT) and a discrete sine transform (DST) The video data is decoded based on the identified transform core. The transform cores correspond to one or more from among an 8-bit transform core and a 10-bit transform core. The transform corresponds to one or more from among a 2-point transform, a 4-point transform, an 8-point transform, and a 16-point transform.
US12028542B2
A method of decoding a bitstream comprising decoding the bitstream into color values and metadata items indicating information about adaptive post-processing operations performed by a decoder, performing high dynamic range (HDR) adaptation operations on the color values based on the metadata items, and performing fixed post-processing operations to reconstruct an HDR video from the color values, wherein the HDR adaptation operations convert color values into a format expected by the fixed post-processing operations.
US12028537B2
Innovations in encoding or decoding when switching color spaces are presented. For example, some of the innovations relate to signaling of control information for adaptive color space transformation (“ACT”). Other innovations relate to ACT operations. These innovations can improve coding efficiency when switching between color spaces during encoding and decoding.
US12028532B2
A method for decoding an image signal according to the present invention may comprise the steps of: determining whether there is a brightness change between a current image including a current block and a reference image of the current image; if it is determined that there is a brightness change between the current image and the reference image, determining weight prediction parameter candidates for the current block; determining a weight prediction parameter for the current block on the basis of index information which specifies any one of the weight prediction parameter candidates; and performing a prediction on the current block on the basis of the weight prediction parameter.
US12028512B2
The present disclosure provides a method for inter-frame prediction of a coding unit in an image. The method may include obtaining a first MV candidate list corresponding to the coding unit and the first MV candidate list may be constructed based on a non-triangle prediction mode, such as a merge mode. The method may also include determining, based on the first MV candidate list, a second MV candidate list corresponding to the coding unit. The second MV candidate list may be a triangle candidate list used for inter-prediction using a triangle prediction mode. MVs in the second MV candidate list may be determined based on MVs in the first MV candidate list. The method may also include determining, based on the second MV candidate list, a target prediction unit of the current coding unit according to a triangle prediction mode.
US12028509B1
An optical target system for a device under test disposed in an optical path, the optical target system including a pupil, a lens system and a target configured to be adjustable in position along the optical path such that the object distance of the target with respect to the lens system, is adjustable, the lens system is disposed between the pupil and the target along the optical path, wherein a first virtual image cast behind the target is of a first size when the target is disposed at a first position along the optical path, a second virtual image cast behind the target is of a second size when the target is disposed at a second position along the optical path.
US12028502B2
Disclosed herein are systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture to present three dimensional images without glasses. An example apparatus includes a micro lens array and at least one processor. The at least one processor is to: determine a first position of a first pupil of a viewer; determine a second position of a second pupil of the viewer; align a first eye box with the first position of the first pupil; align a second eye box with the second position of the second pupil; render, for presentation on a display, at least one of a color plus depth image or a light field image based on the first position of the first pupil and the second position of the second pupil; and cause backlight to be steered through the micro lens array and alternatingly through the first eye box and the second eye box.
US12028497B1
An imaging system is configured to capture images of both obverse and reverse sides of a collectible item using a single image captured by a single camera. The reflective faces of two flat mirrors are positioned at a 90-degree angle, and a collectible item is positioned and secured between the mirrors such that parallel faces of the item or its case are oriented at a 45-degree angle between the flat mirrors. A camera is mounted to face the mirrors with its perspective being parallel to the faces of the item, looking into the mirrors. The camera can see mirrored reflections of both faces of the item simultaneously from a single perspective and can capture views of both faces in a single camera image. The single image can then be cropped and reverse-mirrored automatically or manually in software to extract images of the obverse and reverse sides of the item.
US12028496B2
A multi-mode document scanning system includes a scanning bed configured to transport a plurality of documents through a scanning area. A scanning camera is configured to image the documents. At least one illumination bank includes a plurality of illumination elements of at least two different light wavelengths interspersed on at least one illumination bank. An illumination source switching assembly controls at last some elements of one wavelength. A selection process selects a wavelength appropriate to a document to be scanned, and instructs a processor operatively coupled to the illumination source switching assembly to illuminate elements of that wavelength. A multi-mode scanning method of document scanning is also described.
US12028495B2
An image reading apparatus includes a main body, a cover, a reading unit, a cable, and a shield member. The cover pivots with respect to the main body and move between a first closed position and a first open position. The reading unit pivots with respect to the main body and reads an image of a sheet conveyed in the conveyance path. The cable bridges between the main body and the reading unit and configured to transmit an image signal from the reading unit. The cable includes an exposed portion located between the main body and the reading unit and exposed to an outside of the main body and the reading unit when the cover is located in the first open position. The shield member has conductivity, grounded, and disposed to cover the exposed portion of the cable.
US12028492B2
A reading apparatus comprising a lower case, a reading portion, a drive portion and a stay is used. The reading portion moves between an open position in which the lower case is open and a closed position in which the lower case is closed and accommodates a reading sensor. The drive portion moves the reading sensor in a moving direction. The stay is coupled to the reading portion rotatably in one end and coupled to the lower case rotatably in the other end and moves a rotation shaft with in a direction orthogonal to the shaft. The drive portion is located outside a movable range of the reading sensor. When the reading portion is in the closed position, the stay is disposed in an area in which the stay overlaps the drive portion in the moving direction and overlaps the drive portion in height direction.
US12028484B2
Location determination and telephone number distribution for emergency calls is enabled by a telephony system which maintains multiple pools of telephone numbers. Each pool corresponds to a different region such that the pools of telephone numbers are defined at the region-level rather than at the site-level. The telephony system determines the location of a calling device initiating an emergency call regardless of whether the calling device is at a known site. Based on the determined location of the calling device, one of the pools of telephone numbers which corresponds to that location is selected. The telephony system thereafter distributes a telephone number for the calling device to use for the emergency call from that selected pool of telephone numbers to facilitate an emergency call between the calling device and a local public safety answering point.
US12028483B2
Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for communications network security for handling proxy voice calls that employ a voicebot. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a call handling system can intercept, from a communications network, a call request that is directed to a called target device. The call handling system can determine that the call request was generated by a voicebot on behalf of a user equipment. The call handling system can suspend the call request from being routed to the called target device. The call handling system can generate a voicebot confirmation request that identifies the voicebot and the user equipment. The call handling system can provide the voicebot confirmation request to the called target. The call request can be suspended while the voicebot confirmation request is provided to the called target device.
US12028475B2
Systems, methods and non-transitory computer readable media for allowing a user to switch between wearable items that have been paired or associated with an electronic device, such as a smartphone, are described. In one embodiment, the wearable items automatically detect a removal of a first wearable item from a user's body and an attachment of a second wearable item to the user's body. Messages from the wearable items are transmitted to the electronic device to allow the electronic device to switch the active wearable item from the first wearable item to the second wearable item. The switch can occur while the electronic device is in a locked state, and the electronic device can synchronize the second wearable item with data received from the first wearable item. Other embodiments are also described.
US12028459B2
It is provided a multi-access edge computing node located within a cellular coverage area supported by a base station of a mobile network operator, the multi-access edge computing node comprising at least one memory to store a chained data block, where each data block is coded with data of a past transaction in respect of a good or service; and at least one stock processor configured with functions that: include a new data block, to record a current transaction in respect of a good or service, into the chained data block in response to a signature, generated from processing the data of the current transaction with the coded data of the past transactions stored in the chained data block, being validated by a group of external multi-access edge computing nodes, wherein the multi-access edge computing node and the group of external multi-access edge computing nodes are trusted, and communicate over a common channel.
US12028457B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for implementing a zero knowledge prover are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of executing a software program. The method further includes storing an execution trace that includes, for each address in memory, a value at each clock cycle during execution of the software program. The method further includes generating a sorted execution trace by sorting the execution trace. The method further includes determining a constraint for given values in the memory at adjacent clock cycles. The method further includes determining whether the sorted execution trace complies with the constraint and whether the sorted execution trace is a permutation of the execution trace. The method further includes providing, for output, data indicating whether the software program executed correctly while preventing outputting data included in the execution trace or the sorted execution trace.
US12028444B2
An ultra low power network device is disclosed. The network device utilizes a Near Field Communications (NFC) tag to enable ultra low power communications with a configuration tool. The configuration tool writes information to the NFC tag that is accessible by the processing unit on the ultra low power network device. Additionally, the processing unit can write information into the NFC tag that is readable by the configuration tool. By exchanging messaged in this manner, the ultra low power network device and the configuration tool may create a shared encryption key. The ultra low power network device utilizes this shared encryption key when transmitting BLUETOOTH® packets. The configuration tool may then transmit the shared encryption key to either another BLUETOOTH® device or to a remote server. The ultra low power network device may also periodically refresh the shared encryption key.
US12028440B2
A method and system are disclosed to audit smart contracts. The method includes: publishing, with a processing server, a smart contract bytecode with metadata on a blockchain; retrieving, with the processing server, the published smart contract bytecode with metadata from the blockchain; extracting, with the processing server, the smart contract bytecode from the published smart contract bytecode; and verifying the smart contract bytecode by comparing a computed hash of a high-level source code of the published smart contract bytecode with the metadata retrieved from the blockchain.
US12028439B2
Systems and methods for maintaining synchronization of repeater networks with Global Positioning System (GPS) signals using phase locked loops (PLLs) and based on generation of predicted control words for controlling local oscillator frequencies is described. The predicted control words can be generated based on performing a linear fit of control words generated over a predetermined duration of time. Phase locked loops with additional false GPS pulse identification and GPS signal loss compensation circuitry can enforce a false pulse count threshold and/or an error threshold. The additional circuitry and prediction of control words can overcome errors in GPS receiver outputs and maintain accuracy of signal timings across single frequency networks using inexpensive local oscillators.
US12028435B2
A system can determine that an entity is proximate to an interaction location based on a first location of an entity device associated with the entity. The system can cache historical interaction data in a processor device selected dynamically from the one or more processor devices. The historical interaction data can include data related to previously executed interactions that involve the entity and the interaction location during a predetermined period. The system can execute interaction instructions to generate an interaction recommendation relating to the interaction location by using the historical interaction data. The interaction instructions can be predetermined by the entity. The system can transmit the interaction recommendation to the entity device. The system can clear the cached historical interaction data from the processor device in response to determining that the entity is not proximate to the interaction location based on a second location of the entity device.
US12028433B2
A global architecture (GLP), as disclosed herein, is based on the thin server architectural pattern; it delivers all its services in the form of web services and there are no user interface components executed on the GLP. Each web service exposed by the GLP is stateless, which allows the GLP to be highly scalable. The GLP is further decomposed into components. Each component is a microservice, making the overall architecture fully decoupled. Each microservice has fail-over nodes and can scale up on demand. This means the GLP has no single point of failure, making the platform both highly scalable and available. The GLP architecture provides the capability to build and deploy a microservice instance for each course-recipient-user combination. Because each student interacts with their own microservice, this makes the GLP scale up to the limit of cloud resources available—i.e. near infinity.
US12028430B2
An event notification method, an apparatus, a server device, and a computer storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: receiving an event subscription request; determining whether an amount of times that an event notification rule is satisfied is equal to K, and if yes, sending an event notification to at least one notified party in the plurality of notified parties; and after the initial notification is performed, determining whether the amount of times that the event notification rule is satisfied is equal to P, and if yes, sending an event notification to at least one notified party in the plurality of notified parties. The initial notification and the re-notification are performed at different times, and the at least one notified party notified in the initial notification is at least partially different from the at least one notified party notified in the re-notification.
US12028429B2
Embodiments of the systems described herein can implement one or more visitor tearing processes. Visitor tearing can include, among other things, one or more processes by which multiple visitors that may appear to be the same visitor may be separated into different visitor profiles due to the leveraging of one or more unique persistent identifiers.
US12028424B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, generating a management manifest for a network function (NF) software application, wherein the NF software application is to be deployed in a cloud computing environment, based on the generating the management manifest, deriving a software package that includes the NF software application and the management manifest, and causing the software package to be outputted for deployment in the cloud computing environment, wherein inclusion of the management manifest with the NF software application in the software package facilitates utilization of the management manifest for monitoring and management of a system that results from deployment of the NF software application in the cloud computing environment. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12028416B2
According to some embodiments, there is provided a Collective Perception Message, CPM, characterizing a plurality of Vulnerable Road Users based on a plurality of received VAMs, thereby allowing an ITS station to efficiently aggregate VAM messages from VRUs and retransmit information about the VRUs to other ITS stations. Consequently, the security is improved as some ITS stations may not be able to detect or identify VRU stations by themselves but thanks to the CPM, these stations can still be informed of the VRUs. According to other aspects, congestion is avoided while maintaining safety vis-à-vis VRUs thanks to the use of a different transmission scheme when the VRU is already characterized in a CPM sent to the ITS stations. Also, a receiving station can evaluate whether the content of a CPM can be trusted or not. Safety is thus improved. This is achieved thanks to the CPM that references a certificate.
US12028414B1
A medical device controller operating in conjunction with a medical device determines one or more current versions of executable code associated with one or more processors in a medical device. Medical devices may include infusion pumps, other patient treatment devices as well as vital signs monitors. The medical device controller determines one or more current versions of executable code and configuration information associated with the one or more processors in the medical device. The medical device controller further determines which of the processors in the medical device require updated executable code, and which of the processors in the medical device require updated configuration information. The medical device controller distributes to the medical device as required at least one of the updated executable code and the updated configuration information. The medical device deploys the distributed updates, and activates the updates at a clinically appropriate time.
US12028405B2
A method, system and computer readable medium include objects with media content. The method includes receiving, at one or mom servers, a request for the media content to be displayed at an endpoint. The method includes identifying information about an environment associated with the endpoint. The method includes identifying a set of objects to include in a container for the media content based on the information identified about the environment. At least one of the objects includes program code for completing a transaction during display of the media content. Additionally, the method includes sending, by one or more servers, the set of objects to the endpoint.
US12028404B2
Media streaming to a phone, tablet or other mobile device is improved by adapting requests for content in anticipation of the device's future location. If a device is expected to pass through an area with poor wireless signal quality, then requests for media content can be pre-emptively obtained beforehand at places and times where the available bandwidth is more favorable. Further, requests for content may be delayed during lower bandwidth conditions if the device is expected to soon encounter more bandwidth. Content requests can be therefore optimized (or at least improved) based upon the expected bandwidth that will be encountered during the anticipated upcoming movement of the device.
US12028395B2
Methods, systems, and media for associating multiple users with a media presentation device are provided. In some embodiments, the method comprises: receiving first user preferences; receiving second user preferences; receiving requests to associate the first user preferences and the second user preferences, respectively, with a media presentation device; causing the first user preferences and the second user preferences to be associated with identifying information of the media presentation device; receiving, from the media presentation device, a request to present a slideshow of images based on user preferences and identifying information of the first user device and a third user device; determining that the first user preferences are associated with the media presentation device; determining that user preferences of the third user device are not associated with the media presentation device; and causing content based on the first user preferences to be presented by the media presentation device.
US12028394B2
Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for providing a cloud streaming service. The method for providing a cloud streaming service includes segmenting the frame to be provided through cloud streaming into a first area and a second area, generating a first elementary stream by encoding the first area, generating a second elementary stream by encoding the second area, and merging the first elementary stream and the second elementary stream and transmitting a merged stream based on a request from a user.
US12028393B2
In certain aspects, a wireless multimedia apparatus and an operation method thereof are disclosed. The wireless multimedia apparatus includes a system on chip (SoC), including a memory configured to store code and a processor coupled to the memory. When the code is executed, the processor is configured to determine that a router is available and connected to a multimedia provider. The processor is configured to connect to the router based on configuration information associated with the router and receive multimedia data from the multimedia provider via the router. The processor is configured to determine whether the router is still available. Responsive to the router being unavailable, the processor is configured to turn on a softAP based on the configuration information associated with the router to connect to the multimedia provider via the softAP. The processor is configured to receive the multimedia data from the multimedia provider via the softAP.
US12028386B1
The present disclosure provides a cloud computing system including an application stack including a plurality of service containers including: a unmodified service container in electronic communication with at least one other service container from the plurality of service containers; a test service container in electronic communication with at least one other service container from the plurality of service containers; and a modified test service container in electronic communication with either the at least one unmodified service container or at least one other modified test service container; and an application load balancer to: receive a service request to and from each of the plurality of service containers, a user; determine whether the service request received is from the at least one unmodified service container, the at least one test service container, the at least one modified test service container, the user, or the tester; and route the service request.
US12028381B2
A system is provided including a database and a server. The database stores a plurality of cloud computing service accounts created on a cloud computing platform, a plurality of roles associated with each cloud computing service account, and a plurality of policies associated with each role. The server is in data communication with the database and containing a role risk rating engine. The role risk rating engine is configured to: select a first role of the plurality of roles from the database; retrieve the plurality of policies associated with the first role; determine a risk rating for the first role based on the plurality of policies associated with the first role; store the risk rating of the first role in the database; receive a query requesting the risk rating of the first role; and in response to the query, transmit the risk rating of the first role.
US12028377B2
Methods, systems, and devices supporting active fingerprinting for transport layer security (TLS) servers are described. In some systems, a client device may transmit a same set of client hello messages to each TLS server. The client device may receive a set of server hello messages in response to the standard set of client hello messages based on the contents of each client hello message. For example, a server hello message may indicate a selected cipher suite, TLS protocol version, and set of extensions in response to the specific information included in a client hello message. The client device may generate a hash value (e.g., a fuzzy hash) based on the set of server hello messages received from a TLS server. By comparing the hash values generated for different TLS servers, the client device may determine whether the TLS configurations for the different TLS servers are the same or different.
US12028374B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, at a device, a message over a communication network from a remote source, determining if the message includes executable code and initiating a virtual machine in an isolated portion of the memory of the device responsive to the determining the message include executable code. Aspects of the subject disclosure further include executing, by the virtual machine, the executable code within the isolated portion of the memory, monitoring, by an artificial intelligence module, activities of the executable code during the executing the executable code and determining if the executable code comprises malicious code responsive to the monitoring activities of the executable code. Aspects of the disclosure further include deleting the executable code from the device in response to a determination that the executable code comprises malicious code. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12028373B2
A system for preventing communications from detected phishing domains receives a communication associated with a particular domain. The system determines that the particular domain is a phishing domain. In response, in one embodiment, the system registers the particular domain in a Domain Name System (DNS) server to block the communication and future communications associated with the particular domain from being received at computing devices operably coupled with the DNS server. In another embodiment, the system registers the particular domain in the DNS server, such that the communication and future communications associated with the particular domain are re-routed to a particular server to monitor phishing activities implemented on the communications, where the phishing activities comprise attempting to obtain login credentials and private information associated with receivers of the communication and future communications.
US12028369B2
A processing system may identify a plurality of user interaction data associated with a target category of a plurality of users, identify a relevant subset of user interaction data, compress the plurality of user interaction data to the relevant subset of user interaction data, train a machine learning model with the relevant subset of user interaction data, obtain additional user interaction data associated with an additional user, identify a relevant subset of the additional user interaction data, apply the relevant subset of the additional user interaction data as an input to the machine learning model, obtain an output of the machine learning model quantifying a measure of which the relevant subset of the additional user interaction data is indicative of the target category, and perform at least one action responsive to the measure of which the relevant subset of the additional user interaction data is indicative of the target category.
US12028359B1
A method of evaluating threats to a network may gather existing threat from a plurality of online sources, collect the existing threats in a database and format the data representing existing threats in the database for review. The method may determine a rating for each existing threat, evaluate attractiveness of honeypots to threats and adjusting the ratings for the threats based on the attractiveness of the honeypots. The method may evaluate applications on network, rank the threats based on the apps and communicate the rankings to a user.
US12028358B2
Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may assist a consumer in keeping track of a consumer's accounts in order to prevent unauthorized access or use of the consumer's identified accounts. To discover the various accounts, the methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses can monitor at least a consumer's email accounts, web browser history, and web cache. The discovered accounts may be displayed to the consumer along with recommendations and assistance for closing unused or unwanted accounts to prevent unauthorized access or use.
US12028356B2
A detection device includes processing circuitry configured to collect communication information in a network including clients and servers, generate a matrix representing states of access from the clients to the servers using the communication information collected, aggregate a plurality of the clients accessing a target server and generate statistical information of similarities between the aggregated clients in the matrix as a feature amount of the target server, learn, with regard to the target server which is a server for which it is known whether the server is a malicious server, a model for determining whether a server is a malicious server using the feature amount generated, and determine, with regard to the target server which is a server for which it is unknown whether the server is a malicious server, whether the target server is a malicious server using the feature amount generated and the model.
US12028354B2
The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for predicting responses to DNS queries. The method includes receiving a DNS query comprising a subdomain portion and a root domain portion from a client device, determining whether to obtain target address information corresponding to the DNS from a predictive cache, in response to determining to obtain the target address information from the predictive cache, obtaining the target address information from the predictive cache, and providing the target address information to the client device.
US12028346B1
A method is described. The method includes adding privileges using discrete modular steps to an account based on a requested activity to be performed during a session. The method also includes logging the account into the session with the added privileges. The method further includes removing the privileges using discrete modular steps from the account after the session.
US12028342B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for user authentication using a connection information package provided by a blockchain network. One apparatus includes a processor and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory comprising instructions executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to receive, from a smart contract, a set of connection information packages and to receive, from a first function, a request to authenticate a roaming user. The instructions are further executable by the processor to cause the apparatus to determine whether the first function is associated with a valid connection information package and to accept the request to authenticate the roaming user in response to the first function being associated with the valid connection information package.
US12028339B2
In an embodiment, systems, methods, and computer-readable mediums for creating applications that issue and verify verifiable credentials are provided. An issuer may desire to create a verifiable credential for certain parties which attest to some fact about which the issuer can speak authoritatively. The issuer provides information about the desired verifiable credential to a credential creating application that creates verification information for the verifiable credential and publishes the verification information to a public datastore such as a blockchain or distributed ledger. The creation application then creates a first application that can be used by the issuer to generate verifiable credentials according to the provided structure and purpose, and a second application that can be used by the verifiers to verify any credentials that they receive from holders using the published verification information. The verifiers may provide some benefit to the holders in response to verifying the credentials.
US12028332B2
A network appliance receives a communication from a client device that includes a request to establish a network connection to a server. Prior to initiating a network connection between the network appliance and the server, the network appliance accesses a server certificate issued by the server. In response to a determination, based on application of a policy to the server certificate, not to decrypt data transmitted between the client device and the server, the network appliance establishes only a single connection between the network appliance and the server. The network appliance transmits encrypted data between the client device and the server over the single connection.
US12028330B2
A method by a management server is described. The method includes receiving a credentials request from a requesting management node. The credentials request includes a public key of the requesting management node. The method also includes determining whether the management server has credentials encrypted for the requesting management node in a local cache. The credentials are encrypted using the public key of the requesting management node and cannot be decrypted by the management server. The method further includes sending the encrypted credentials to the requesting management node when the management server has the encrypted credentials. The requesting management node can decrypt the encrypted credentials using a private key.
US12028328B2
Techniques for providing a database performance report in a restricted access environment are disclosed. In some embodiments, a computer system performs a method comprising: receiving, from a computing device of a user, a request to generate a database performance report for a first database that is hosted on a cloud computing platform, the request including a service key; obtaining administrative credentials from a second database using stateless authentication and the service key; obtaining one or more database performance metrics of the first database from the first database using the administrative credentials; and generating the database performance report based on the one or more database performance metrics.
US12028326B2
There has been such an issue that, when an operation for stopping a Virtual Network Computing (VNC) connection is received from a user on a mobile terminal in a state where the VNC connection is established between the mobile terminal and a multifunction peripheral (MFP) and the user is logged in to the MFP, a screen in a state where the user is logged in is continued to be displayed on the MFP. One aspect of the present disclosure allows processing for logging the user out of the MFP to be automatically performed when processing for disconnecting the VNC connection is received.
US12028319B1
A firewall system stores filtering criteria which include rules for blocking presentation of all or a portion of the media content based at least in part on an identity of an individual appearing in the media content. The firewall system receives the media content. The firewall system determines the identity of the individual appearing in the media content. Based at least in part on the identity of the individual appearing in the media content and the filtering criteria, the firewall system determines an action for securing the media content. The action may be allowing presentation of the media content, blocking presentation of the media content, or blocking presentation of a portion of the media content. The determined action is automatically implemented.
US12028313B2
Systems and methods for managing DNS services include a DNS management module defining a user interface, at least one generic DNS agent receiving a management command from the user interface of the DNS management module, and at least one external DNS server receiving a request from the at least one generic DNS agent corresponding to the management command, the at least one generic DNS agent implementing a capability-based API to define service specific operations of the at least one external DNS server. The management command may include an API call corresponding to a generic capability or a service specific operation defined in the capability-based API, and the capability-based API may include a gRPC API.
US12028308B2
Systems and computer-implement methods of displaying archived data are provided for determining that it is an anniversary of the archived data, the archived data including a message transmitted from a first client device to a second client device; causing display, on the first client device, of a graphical indicium and an avatar of a user associated with the first client device, the graphical indicium indicating an anniversary associated with the message transmitted from the first client device to the second client device; causing, display on the first client device of a notification of the anniversary; and causing the display of the graphical indicium and notification of the anniversary to be removed after a predefined time.
US12028307B2
Systems and methods for managing location-based messaging are provided. The location-based messaging may occur between users within a particular venue. A location-based messaging system may facilitate messaging between event attendees and service personnel at the venue, such as during times of emergency or other times when the location of one user is to be sent to and used by another user.
US12028304B2
A method for restricting reception of e-mail messages from a sender of bulk spam mail includes identifying an unknown sender of received e-mail messages. A set of e-mail messages received from the identified sender is selected. A type of bulk spam mailing is determined based on the selected set of e-mail messages using one or more spam identification signatures. Restrictions on reception of e-mail messages from a sender distributing bulk spam of the determined type are generated.
US12028290B2
A user terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a control section that generates a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest ACKnowledgement (HARQ-ACK) codebook containing only HARQ-ACK corresponding to a semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) downlink shared channel (Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH)), so that HARQ-ACK bits corresponding to the PDSCH each SPS are ordered in accordance with a given rule, and a transmitting section that transmits an HARQ-ACK information bit corresponding to the HARQ-ACK codebook by using an uplink control channel resource based on an SPS corresponding to HARQ-ACK at a specific location in the order. According to an aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to feed back HARQ-ACK appropriately even when a plurality of SPSs is utilized.
US12028284B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a sounding reference signal (SRS) configuration that indicates a maximum number of SRS ports and whether the UE is permitted to determine an actual number of SRS ports to be used for SRS transmission that is different from the maximum number of SRS ports. The UE may determine the actual number of SRS ports to be used for SRS transmission based at least in part on the SRS configuration. The UE may transmit one or more SRSs using the actual number of SRS ports. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12028282B2
Disclosed in the embodiments of the present disclosure are a parameter configuration method and related products, the method includes indicating, by a network device, at least one preset parameter of a PT-RS to a terminal, wherein the at least one preset parameter of the PT-RS is configured for at least one BWP of the terminal, and the at least one preset parameter is used for indicating resource information that needs to be used by the terminal when the terminal sends or receives the PT-RS on the at least one BWP; and instructing, by the network device, the terminal to select, when performing transmission on an activated BWP among the at least one BWP, a preset parameter corresponding to the activated BWP from the at least one preset parameter.
US12028281B2
A user equipment (UE) is configured with multi-transmission and reception point (multi-TRP) operation. The UE groups capabilities of handling two overlapping physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions into a plurality of groups, determining a UE capability of handling two overlapping PDSCH transmissions based on the plurality of groups and transmits the UE capability to a next generation nodeB (gNB) of a 5G new radio (NR) wireless network. The UE also determines if a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmission collides with a cell-specific reference signal (CRS) of a long term evolution (LTE) transmission and determines if the CRS originated from a same multi-transmission/reception point (TRP) as the DMRS.
US12028266B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for dynamically controlling requestor device queues by monitoring and utilizing the throughput rate of matched provider devices and requestor devices. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems determine throughput rate of matched provider devices and requestor devices in real-time and/or predicts throughput rate utilizing historical features of a particular location. The disclosed systems can generate and provide queue request notifications to requestor devices based on a throughput rate at the location. Specifically, the disclosed systems can monitor a current queue status over time, compare the queue status to a queue threshold, and dynamically generate queue request notifications that reflects throughput-based queue modifiers as the current queue status approaches the queue threshold.
US12028261B2
Methods of network operation are disclosed herein that may reduce congestion on a network. The methods of network operation may include the steps of communicating data between a network and several clients and placing each client of the several clients in VoIP communication with the network. The methods of network operation may include the step of tagging data being communicated by each client with the network with a Quality of Service (QoS) level, and the step of setting the QoS level for each client. The methods of network operation may include the step of reducing congestion of the network by controlling a quantity of data being communicated by each client with the network.
US12028256B2
This application discloses a method for controlling traffic in a packet-based network. In the method, after receiving a control packet from a transmit end, an intermediate node between the transmit end and the receive end sends a control packet at the head of a first control queue based on a first duration, wherein the first duration is obtained based on a committed burst size (CBS) and a first committed information rate (CIR), and the intermediate node is configured to send a packet of a first transmit end to a first receive end in the packet-based network. After sending the control packet in the control queue, the intermediate node sends a first data packet set at the head of a data queue based on the sent control packet, wherein the first data packet set comprises C data packets, and C is an integer greater than or equal to 1.
US12028249B2
A method performed by a network node for routing data packets is disclosed. The method includes receiving a data packet that includes an abstract destination address in a shipping specification of the data packet. The abstract destination address indicates one or more network resource requirements of a destination. The method also includes determining whether a server satisfies the one or more network resource requirements of the destination specified by the abstract destination address. The method also includes forwarding the data packet to the server according to the determination.
US12028247B2
The present invention relates to IoT devices existing in a deployed ecosystem. The various computers in the deployed ecosystem are able to respond to requests from a device directly associated with it in a particular hierarchy, or it may seek a response to the request from a high order logic/data source (parent). The logic/data source parent may then repeat the understanding process to either provide the necessary response to the logic/data source child who then replies to the device or it will again ask a parent logic/data sources for the appropriate response. This architecture allows for a single device to make one request to a single known source and potentially get a response back from the entire ecosystem of distributed servers.
US12028238B2
A traffic controller device for distributing or otherwise controlling the distribution of routing information may be included in a telecommunications network. The traffic controller may receive routing tables from a plurality of network devices, such as one or more provider edge devices of the network. The traffic controller, upon receiving the routing information from the provider edge devices, may generate a routing table associated with each device providing the routing information. The traffic controller may also provide updates to one or more of the networking devices associated with the controller. The traffic controller may alter or update, at the traffic controller, the routing table associated with the target provider edge device based on the network policy. The routing information in the routing table for that device and maintained by the traffic controller may be updated with a new route or new local preferred parameter value.
US12028232B2
Systems and methods are provided for timing signals, measuring latency, and/or timestamping. Some of the systems described herein can measure latency in a network device, and can include a signal generator, a sampler, a pulse detector, a timer, and a connector. The signal generator can define a signal profile. The sampler can sample the signal profile at a frequency of at least 4 GHz to generate a plurality of bits, each bit corresponding to a value of the signal profile during the sampling. The pulse detector can detect a change in the signal profile by detecting at least one change in the plurality of bits. The timer can time the change in value in the plurality of bits to provide at least one detection time measurement. The connector can electronically link the signal generator and the sampler to the network device to provide an external network path for transmitting a signal from the signal generator to the sampler via the network device.
US12028225B2
A scaling method related to the field of network function virtualization (NFV) includes a VNF manager (VNFM) that receives a virtualized network function (VNF) scale out request from an NFV orchestrator (NFVO), where the request includes VNF instance information and indication information that indicates a scale aspect and step; the VNFM determines, based on the VNF scale out request, information about a virtualization deployment unit (VDU) and a corresponding subnet that need to be created; and the VNFM requests creation of the VDU and the corresponding subnet from a virtualized infrastructure manager (VIM).
US12028218B2
A system and a method for managing a virtual network function (VNF) and a multi-access edge computing (MEC) topology are provided. The method includes the following steps. A first VNF descriptor (VNFD) corresponding to a first VNF is received. According to the first VNFD, first provision data is generated. According to the first VNFD, first internal topology information of the first VNF is generated. According to the first provision data, the first VNF is instantiated to be provisioned. In response to provisioning the first VNF, a graphical user interface including the first internal topology information is output, and the first internal topology information includes a network component communicatively connected to the first VNF.
US12028213B2
A device may receive CNF data identifying a CNF to be deployed in a network. The device may perform multiple levels of validation associated with deploying the CNF. The device may determine, based on performing the multiple levels of validation, whether one or more issues are associated with deploying the CNF in the network. The one or more issues may include one or more of: a connectivity issue, a package issue, a network functions virtualization orchestrator (NFVO) issue, or a network functions virtualization infrastructure (NFVI) issue. The device may perform one or more actions based on determining whether the one or more issues are associated with the deploying the CNF in the network.
US12028211B2
The pre-configuring of a set of cloud endpoints to connect to a device in response to receiving a request that cloud endpoints be pre-configured for connection to the device. The request is used to identify the set of cloud endpoints that is to be so pre-configured. Then, a pre-configuration instruction is formulated that is structured to be interpretable by each cloud endpoint to establish device-specific connection configuration that is specific to the device. Furthermore, the pre-configuration is structured to assist the respective cloud endpoint to establish a connection with the device upon request of the device. The pre-configuration instruction is then sent to each cloud endpoint in the set of cloud endpoints, causing the pre-configuration to occur. Thus, subsequent connection to the device is more efficient.
US12028207B1
An apparatus comprises a memory communicatively coupled to a processor. The memory may be configured to store user profiles, security information, and multiple updated tokens. The processor may be configured to identify a first updated token and a second token that are associated with user profiles in a user group; determine a first entitlement associated with a first user profile; and determine a second entitlement associated with a second user profile. Further, the processor may be configured to generate an initial token indicating that the user group is entitled to access the first entitlement and the second entitlement; transmit the initial token to a decentralized network; and receive a third updated token from the decentralized network indicating a firewall configuration that a first user device and a second user device use to implement a firewall at the first user device and at the second user device.
US12028206B2
Embodiments relate to reducing logging entries based on contents are disclosed. According to the embodiments, the logging entries are converted into an image with pixels whose values are related with the log content and the image size is reduced by applying an image processing technology. The reduced image is converted back to the log entries. In this way, the number of logging entries is reduced without losing important information.
US12028204B2
A method of identification and remediation of a mass event in a managed network. The method includes receiving a first report of an event occurring at a first endpoint of the managed network. In response, a first action is performed. The first action being initiated based on a repeating event trigger not being triggered. The method includes receiving a second report of the event occurring at a second endpoint. In response, the method includes determining whether a threshold that triggers the repeating event trigger is exceeded. The threshold being indicative of a mass event in the managed network. Responsive to the threshold being exceeded, the method includes triggering the repeating event trigger and performing a second automated resolution action in the managed network. The second action being different from the first action. Responsive to the threshold not being exceeded, the method includes performing the first action at the second endpoint.
US12028202B2
A system that includes a downstream device that receives an analog out-of-band signal received in a downstream frequency spectrum of the downstream device including control channel data for a consumer premise equipment. At the downstream device converting the analog out-of-band signal to a digital signal including the control channel data. At the downstream device converting the digital control channel data out-of-band signal to an analog signal including the control channel data at an out-of-band signal for the consumer premise equipment, where the converted analog out-of-band signal for the consumer premise equipment is at a frequency included in an upstream frequency spectrum of the downstream device.
US12028199B2
This application provides a sequence-based signal processing method and apparatus. An example signal processing method includes: determining a sequence {xn} including N elements, where N is equal to 18 and the sequence {xn} satisfies a preset condition; generating a first signal based on the sequence {xn}; and sending the first signal.
US12028198B2
An apparatus and system to compensate for phase noise in a 5G or 6G DFT-S-OFDM signal are described. An access port (AP)-specific orthogonal cover code (OCC) is applied to phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) symbols in each of a plurality of PTRS groups. The PTRS group are inserted between data symbols to form a data vector prior to perform transform precoding on the data vector and transmission to a UE. The UE extracts the PTRS symbols from different PTRS APs using the OCC specific to each AP. After extraction, the phase noise for each PTRS group is estimated and used to compensate the data symbols associated with the PTRS group.
US12028196B2
A vehicle may wirelessly communicate with another vehicle via a physical channel (a vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) channel) that is robust and reliable under high mobility propagation conditions. The physical channel may be created by modifying an existing long-term evolution (LTE) physical channel, such as an LTE sidelink (SL) channel. For instance, the V2V physical channel may be created by increasing, by a particular factor, the subcarrier spacing of legacy LTE channels (e.g., from 15 kilohertz (kHz) to 30 kHz). Additionally, a symbol duration and a fast Fourier transform (FFT) size for the V2V physical channel may each be reduced by the same factor. Doing so may enable the V2V physical channel to be implemented without significant modifications to other aspects of the LTE standard.
US12028191B2
Some embodiments include apparatus having multiple samplers in a decision feedback equalizer (DFE). The multiple samplers include at least two samplers and are configured to be activated in a first mode of the DFE to receive first input information from a summing circuit. At least one of the samplers is configured to be deactivated in a second mode of the DFE. At least one of the samplers is configured to be activated in the second mode of the DFE to receive second input information from the summing circuit.
US12028188B2
Systems, devices, and methods related to hybrid basis function, neural network-based digital predistortion (DPD) are provided. An example apparatus for a radio frequency (RF) transceiver includes a digital predistortion (DPD) actuator to receive an input signal associated with a nonlinear component of the RF transceiver and output a predistorted signal. The DPD actuator includes a basis-function-based actuator to perform a first DPD operation using a set of basis functions associated with a first nonlinear characteristic of the nonlinear component. The DPD actuator further includes a neural network-based actuator to perform a second DPD operation using a first neural network associated with a second nonlinear characteristic of the nonlinear component. The predistorted signal is based on a first output signal of the basis-function-based actuator and a second output signal of the neural network-based actuator.
US12028187B2
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to machine learning-based channel estimation. According to an example embodiment, a first device determines a signal quality that is expected in transmission of a reference signal from a second device to the first device and receives the reference signal from the second device. The first device selects, based on the expected signal quality, a channel estimation model from a plurality of channel estimation models that have been trained for a plurality of candidate signal qualities for the reference signal. The first device determines, using the selected channel estimation model and based on the received reference signal, channel state information of a communication channel from the first device to the second device. According to this solution, a channel estimation model is dynamically selected for use, depending on a real-time signal quality expected to be gained in transmission of a certain RS.
US12028181B2
An improved telecommunications network that can reduce the network load on a rich communication services (RCS) server and/or local routers that implement 1-to-N and/or M-to-N services is described herein. In particular, the improved telecommunications network may include an improved RCS server that can route multicast messages instead of and/or in addition to unicast messages. For example, the improved RCS server can create a multicast group for a group of UEs in response to a request from a UE to create a group of UEs. Creation of the multicast group may include assigning a group Internet protocol (IP) address to the multicast group. The improved RCS server can then determine which UEs in the multicast group are capable of sending and/or receiving multicast messages, and send multicast messages instead of unicast messages to these UEs.
US12028175B2
A method of selectively commissioning a node device by a coordinator device in a network created by the coordinator device is disclosed. The coordinator device and the node device interact with each other to check and confirm that a coordinator temporal indication related to a commissioning start time recorded by the coordinator device and a node temporal indication related to a commissioning start time recorded by the node device are the same or temporally very similar or close to each other. Then the coordinator device will commission the node device by joining the node device into the network created by the coordinator device. The ensures that only wanted or expected node devices will be joined into the network created and managed by the coordinator device.
US12028171B2
An HARQ feedback method and a UE performing the HARQ feedback method are provided. The HARQ feedback method includes transmitting a Physical Sidelink Control Channel (PSCCH)/Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH) to a second UE, and receiving a Physical Sidelink Feedback Channel (PSFCH) transmitted by the second UE performing the HARQ feedback according to a decoding result of the PSCCH/PSSCH.
US12028167B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to resource allocation for feedback in groupcast communication. A method comprises identifying a plurality of destination devices for reception of data from a source device in groupcast communication; in response to the number of the plurality of destination devices being below a threshold, allocating resources to the plurality of destination devices to enable feedback transmission associated with the reception by the plurality of destination devices; and in response to the number of the plurality of destination devices exceeding the threshold, disabling feedback transmission associated with the reception by the plurality of destination devices. By flexibly allocating resources to the destination devices, it is possible to facilitate identifying destination devices that miss the data or control information and save the resource consumption.
US12028165B2
Provided are an HARQ-ACK codebook determination method and apparatus, a terminal and a storage medium. The method includes: dividing candidate PDSCHs in at least one slot into groups according to candidate PDSCH types and end times of the candidate PDSCHs, and forming pieces of HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the divided candidate PDSCHs; and concatenating the pieces of HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the candidate PDSCHs to obtain an HARQ-ACK codebook.
US12028161B2
Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for data repetition transmission for high reliable communication. The apparatuses and methods can include at least enabling, by a user equipment (UE), generic PDSCH repetition transmission(s) by a radio resource control (RRC) signaling configuration, and receiving, by the UE, the generic PDSCH repetition transmission(s).
US12028155B2
A system for maintaining a Precision Time Protocol (PTP) hardware clock, the system being operative in conjunction with a network device which is external to the system, the system comprising a controller to receive information characterizing a network peer oscillator frequency, wherein the information was extracted from an RX symbol rate, and to adjust the PTP Hardware Clock's frequency responsive to the information characterizing the network peer oscillator frequency.
US12028150B2
A communication control apparatus and method of an artificial satellite are disclosed. The communication control apparatus includes a processor, a memory operatively connected to the processor, the memory being configured to store at least one piece of code to be executed by the processor, and a transmission and reception interface configured to communicate with a ground control center, wherein the memory stores code enabling the processor to receive location information of a signal generator on the ground from the ground control center, to calculate an angle of arrival for a target signal from the signal generator, received by the artificial satellite, based on the location information of the signal generator and location information of the ground control center, and to perform beamforming in a direction in which the artificial satellite detects the target signal based on the angle of arrival, when the code is executed by the processor.
US12028142B2
A motor vehicle comprises a towing vehicle and an antenna network which has at least two antenna units with identical network addresses, wherein the two antenna units are arranged on different side surfaces of the towing vehicles and are digitally connected.
US12028139B2
This disclosure provides a method of controlling a transmission of a wireless signal in a wireless telecommunications network, the wireless telecommunications network including a transmitter, a multi-layer transmissive Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface (RIS) including a first transmissive RIS layer and a last transmissive RIS layer, and a receiver.
US12028130B2
Multi-beam uniform coverage in a coverage cell(s) in a wireless communications system (WCS) is provided. The WCS includes a number of wireless devices that are typically mounted on a fixed structure to provide coverage for user devices. Each wireless device includes one or more antenna arrays. Each antenna array is controlled via a set of codewords to form one or more RF beams to each cover a respective area in a coverage cell. The codewords are predetermined based on fairness and/or leakage constraints such that the RF beams can be formed in desired geometric shapes and steered toward desired directions to provide a uniform coverage in the coverage cell. By forming the RF beams based on the codewords predetermined based on fairness and/or leakage constraints, it is possible to ensure an equal RF power signal level inside the coverage cell and/or reduced power leakage outside the coverage cell.
US12028125B2
A node circuit associated with a hybrid fiber coax (HFC) network is disclosed. The node circuit includes an optimizer circuit configured to process a plurality of signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) values associated with a plurality of subcarriers, respectively, associated with a set of cable modem (CM) circuits coupled to the node circuit. In some embodiments, at least one subcarrier is allocated to the set of CM circuits for communication with the node circuit. In some embodiments, the optimizer circuit is further configured to determine an optimal transmit power of the node circuit, based on the plurality of SNR values and a transmitter distortion of a transmitter circuit associated with the node circuit. In some embodiments, the transmitter distortion defines a transmitter distortion associated with the transmitter circuit in terms of a total transmit power of the node circuit.
US12028115B2
A device for coherent detection of data transported in an optical incoming useful signal. The device includes: a first incoming single-mode optical fibre, injecting the incoming useful signal; a second incoming single-mode optical fibre, injecting an optical signal of optical frequency substantially equal to that of the incoming useful signal, referred to as an oscillation signal, a signal mixer in which one of the signals from the first or second fibre is separated into two signals having orthogonal polarisations, and where the other one of the signals from the first or second fibre is mixed with the two separate signals, producing a mixed signal; a detector of the transported data present in the mixed signal; and an amplitude modulator configured to modulate the oscillation signal before it enters the mixer, the modulation pattern having repetitive pulses of the same interval as a symbol time of the incoming useful signal.
US12028113B2
A polarization modulation method of photonic pulses, in particular for generating quantum cryptographic keys, ensures an optimum stability of the outgoing polarization states, and comprises the steps of: generating a plurality of photonic pulses with an unspecified polarization state obtained by the overlapping of both the horizontal and vertical polarization modes thereof, and routing them in a first polarization-maintaining fiber; splitting said horizontal and vertical polarization modes and routing them in respective terminals of a second polarization-maintaining fiber forming a ring, whereby they travel such ring clockwise and counter-clockwise respectively, or vice versa; inducing a respective phase modulation (oe, ol) of both said polarization modes, in one point of said ring which is spaced from said terminals by optical paths having different length along said ring, thereby a polarization-maintaining fiber delay line is determined; and recombining said polarization modes in one single photonic pulse beam, and routing the resulting beam through said first polarization-maintaining fiber, by obtaining, at the output thereof, a polarization state of the pulses depending upon the difference between said phase modulations (oe, ol).
US12028109B2
A tap-coefficient control circuit sets the tap coefficient converged by the second tap coefficient updater as an initial value of the tap coefficient in the first digital filter which is to be updated by the first tap coefficient updater, arranges the tap coefficients converged by the second tap coefficient updater in descending order of contribution degree to the convergence operation of tap coefficient update in the first tap coefficient updater, judges the tap coefficient not less than upper specified number to be valid and the tap coefficient less than the specified number to be invalid, and sets the tap coefficient of the first digital filter corresponding to the tap coefficient judged to be invalid to zero not to be used in a calculation of the first tap coefficient updater until a next judgment result is made.
US12028104B2
Embodiments of this application provide example transceiver devices and example transceiver apparatuses used in the example transceiver devices. One example transceiver apparatus includes a transmit antenna and a receive antenna. The transmit antenna is configured to send a local signal to a receive antenna of a peer end. The receive antenna is configured to receive a signal transmitted by a transmit antenna of the peer end. The transmit antenna is on an interference cancellation plane of the receive antenna. The receive antenna is on an interference cancellation plane of the transmit antenna. An interference signal generated by the transmit antenna is canceled on the interference cancellation plane of the receive antenna or the interference cancellation plane of the transmit antenna.
US12028099B2
A semiconductor chip includes a first wireless communication circuit, a second wireless communication circuit, and an auxiliary path. The first wireless communication circuit includes a signal path, wherein the signal path includes a signal node. The second wireless communication circuit includes a mixer and a local oscillator (LO) buffer. The LO buffer is arranged to receive and buffer an LO signal, and is further arranged to provide the LO signal to the mixer. The auxiliary path is arranged to electrically connect the LO buffer to the signal node of the signal path, wherein the LO buffer is reused for a loop-back test function of the first wireless communication circuit through the auxiliary path.
US12028098B2
An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a processor, a transceiver, an antenna, and a front-end module coupled between the transceiver and the antenna. The front-end module may include one or more power amplifiers for amplifying a signal for transmission through the antenna. A power amplifier may include a phase distortion compensation circuit. The phase distortion compensation circuit may include one or more n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors configured to receive a bias voltage. The bias voltage may be set to provide the proper amount of phase distortion compensation.
US12028096B2
A transmitter comprises an antenna array demultiplexor having a first input for an output signal, a second input for a control signal, a first output coupled to a first output pin, and a second output coupled to a second output pin. The antenna array demultiplexor provides the output signal to the first or second output based on the control signal. The first and second output pins are coupled to first and second antennae, respectively. In some implementations, the transmitter includes a transformer and a capacitor coupled in parallel between the first and second output pins, and the antenna array demultiplexor comprises a first switch coupled between the first output pin and a first ground pin, and a second switch coupled between the second output pin and a second ground pin. The first switch receives a second control signal, and the second switch receives an inverse of the second control signal.
US12028090B2
A digital-to-analog converter is provided. The digital-to-analog converter includes a delay circuit configured to iteratively delay a digital input signal based on a clock signal for generating a plurality of delayed digital input signals. Further, the digital-to-analog converter includes a plurality of groups of inverter cells. Each group of inverter cells is configured to generate a respective analog signal based on one of the plurality of delayed digital input signals. The inverter cells includes a respective inverter circuit configured to invert the respective delayed digital input signal. The plurality of groups of inverter cells include different numbers of inverter cells. The digital-to-analog converter additionally includes an output configured to output an analog output signal based on the analog signals of the plurality of groups of inverter cells.
US12028089B2
A hybrid digital-to-analog converter (DAC) driver circuit includes a current-mode DAC driver, a voltage-mode DAC driver, and a combination circuit. The current-mode DAC driver may be configured to receive a first set of bits of a digital input signal and to generate a first analog signal. The voltage-mode DAC driver may be configured to receive a second set of bits of the digital input signal and to generate a second analog signal. The combination circuit may be configured to combine the first analog signal and the second analog signal and to generate an analog output signal. The DAC driver circuit may be terminated by adjusting resistor values of the voltage-mode DAC driver. The current-mode DAC driver and the voltage-mode DAC driver are differential drivers, and may be configured to operate with a single clock signal.
US12028088B2
Analogue-to-digital converter, ADC, circuitry, including: an analogue input terminal; a comparator having first and second comparator-input terminals; and successive-approximation control circuitry to apply a potential difference across the first and second comparator-input terminals based on an input voltage signal, and to control the potential difference for a series of successive approximation operations to cause the comparator to test in each successive approximation operation whether a magnitude of an analogue input voltage signal is larger or smaller than a corresponding test value, the test value for each successive approximation operation being, dependent on a comparison result generated by the comparator in the preceding approximation operation, bigger or smaller than the test value for the preceding approximation operation by a difference amount configured for that successive approximation operation.
US12028085B2
In described examples, a digital-to-analog converter includes an output, multiple most significant bit (MSB) connector resistors each having a resistance R−ΔR, multiple least significant bit (LSB) connector resistors each having a resistance R, and multiple binary arm resistors each having a resistance 2R. The MSB connector resistors are coupled in a series beginning with the output and ending with a first one of the LSB connector resistors, and the LSB connector resistors are coupled in a series beginning with the first LSB connector resistor. A terminal of one of the binary arm resistors is coupled to an ending of the LSB connector resistor series, and a terminal of each of different remaining ones of the binary arm resistors is coupled between a different pair of the MSB and/or LSB connector resistors.
US12028081B2
The present disclosure relates to a phase-locked loop (PLL) based on a charge-sharing locking technique, capable of both fractional-N and integer-N operation. The PLL comprises a voltage pre-setting stage; an oscillator: a shared capacitive load; and a switching network configured for selectively connecting the voltage pre-setting stage to the shared capacitive load during a voltage pre-setting stage for applying an expectant voltage to the capacitive load. The switching network is being further configured for selectively connecting the capacitive load to the oscillator during a charge-sharing locking stage for correcting a phase error in response to a difference between the expected voltage of the capacitor and the voltage of the oscillator. Frequency-tracking and waveform-learning stages are also provided for maintaining PVT (process, voltage, temperature) robustness and for suppressing fractional-N spur, respectively.
US12028072B2
Disclosed herein are silicon-on-insulator (SOI) switches and associated control circuits having level shifters configured to provide increased voltages (positive and/or negative) to the switches. The disclosed level shifters can be configured to provide increased voltages and can be used with high-linearity switches and/or can improve the linearity of switches. The improved switch performance can improve front end module performance for applications such as carrier aggregation (CA) and multiple input multiple output (MIMO) as well as with protocols such as Long-Term Evolution Advanced (or LTE-A).
US12028055B2
A signal driver may include a variable termination resistor and a signal transmission line. The variable termination resistor may include one or more variable termination resistor units. Each of the one or more variable termination resistor units may include a switch connected to a first end node of the variable termination resistor; a T-coil connected to the switch; a first resistor connected to the first end node of the variable termination resistor and to the T-coil; and a second resistor connected to a second end node of the variable termination resistor and to the T-coil. The signal transmission line may be connected to the second end node of the variable termination resistor.
US12028049B2
Radio frequency filters are disclosed. A filter includes a first transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonator (XBAR) having a first sub-resonator and a second sub-resonator connected in parallel. A pitch of the first sub-resonator is not equal to a pitch of the second sub-resonator and/or a mark of the first sub-resonator is not equal to a mark of the second sub-resonator.
US12028036B2
The present invention discloses an amplifier. The bias amplifier includes a signal input end, for inputting an input signal; a voltage input end, for inputting a source voltage; an amplifying circuit, for generating an amplified input signal according to the input signal, and the amplified input signal comprises a fundamental signal, a first harmonic signal and a second harmonic signal, wherein the first harmonic signal is a second order harmonic of the fundamental signal, and the second harmonic signal is a third order harmonic of the fundamental signal; a harmonic filter, coupled between the voltage input end and the amplifying circuit, for filtering the first harmonic signal and the second harmonic signal; and a signal output end, coupled to the harmonic filter, for outputting an output signal according to the amplified input signal.
US12028032B2
A method of controlling a signal power of a received signal received by a wireless communication device, the method including: measuring the signal power of the received signal at a plurality of time points in response to a gain control signal; calculating a variance of the signal power of the received signal at least some time points of the plurality of time points; and controlling the signal power of the received signal based on a gain level determined according to the variance of the signal power of the received signal.
US12028031B2
The present invention is gallium nitride based operational amplifier because reliability and performance of the gallium nitride is better than the silicon counterpart in radiation environment. The operational amplifier includes four stages, first stage is dual input balanced output differential amplifier, second stage is dual input unbalanced differential amplifier, third stage is buffer stage to couple second and fourth stage, and fourth stage is cascaded common source amplifier with degeneration. A capacitor coupled between second and third stage is to enhance the stability of operational amplifier.
US12028030B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to apparatus and methods for dynamically adjusting the common-mode input signal of a power amplifier, such as a class-D power amplifier. One example power amplifier circuit generally includes a first amplifier having a signal input and a power input; and a common-mode adjustment circuit having a first input coupled to the power input of the first amplifier, having an output coupled to the signal input of the first amplifier, and being configured to generate a common-mode signal to apply to the signal input of the first amplifier, based on a power supply voltage on the power input of the first amplifier.
US12028025B2
An amplifier with temperature compensation where the amplifier has transistors configured to amplify a received signal to create an amplified signal. The amplifier gain changes over temperature. A gain control circuit, connected to the amplifier, that adjusts the amplifier gain responsive to a gain control signal. A temperature compensation circuit includes numerous elements. A constant current source that generates a constant current which is used to create a constant voltage. A temperature dependent current source that generates a temperature dependent current which is used to create a temperature dependent voltage, such that the temperature dependent current source has an inverse temperature dependance as compared to the amplifier. An operational amplifier compares the constant voltage to the temperature dependent voltage and generates an offset signal which varies over temperature. A gated buffer is configured to receive the offset signal and responsive thereto, selectively modify the gain control signal.
US12028012B2
A method of operating a stepper motor for use in a dental tool machine for removing material from a dental blank, the method including: a step of adapting torque reserves of the stepper motor at operating points to net load moments respectively. The method includes a first step of predicting, through simulation, the net load moments beforehand; a second step of predicting, through simulation, the supply current to be supplied to the stepper motor for setting up the torque reserves that correspond to the predicted net load moments respectively; and a step of driving the stepper motor based on the predicted supply current.
US12027997B2
Provided is an inverter for reducing electric power consumption and noise. The inverter comprises: a driving unit including three switching elements included in an upper arm and connected in a three-phase bridge configuration and three switching elements included in a lower arm and connected in a three-phase bridge configuration, and converting input direct current power into three-phase alternating current power and then outputting the alternating current power to a three-phase load; and at least one processor for maintaining one of the three switching elements, which are included in the upper arm, in an on-state in a first period, maintaining one of the three switching elements, which are included in the lower arm, in an on-state in a second period, and driving the driving unit in a two-phase modulation method by alternately repeating the first period and the second period, wherein the at least one processor turns on all of the three switching elements at a crest of a carrier wave in the first period, and the at least one processor turns off all of the three switching elements at a crest of a carrier wave in the second period.
US12027987B2
An electronic transformer and a microwave cooking appliance. The electronic transformer includes a rectifier device, a transformer, a switch device, and a control device. The rectifier device is connected to an alternating current source; the transformer is connected to the rectifier device; the switch device is configured to provide an on/off signal to the transformer; the control device is connected to the switch device; the control device is configured to generate a control signal according to preset power and provide the control signal to the switch device to control the switching frequency of the switch device.
US12027985B2
A power conversion system includes N power converters. Each power converter includes an input terminal, a first output terminal and a second output terminal. Each of the N power converters receives a DC power through the input terminal. The first output terminal of a first power converter and the second output terminal of an N-th power converter are connected in parallel to form an N-th total output terminal. The first output terminal of an i-th power converter and the second output terminal of an (i−1)-th power converter are connected in parallel to form an (i−1)-th total output terminal. The two input terminals of the load are connected with two total output terminals of N total output terminals. A (2k−1)-th power converter is connected with a first power source. A 2k-th power converter is connected with a second power source. The redundancy of the power conversion system can be achieved.
US12027982B2
The present document relates to a power converter comprising an inductor, a first stage, and a second stage. The first stage may be coupled between an input of the power converter and the inductor, and the first stage may comprise a first flying capacitor. The second stage may be coupled between the inductor and an output of the power converter, and the second stage may comprise a second flying capacitor. A second terminal of the first flying capacitor may be connected to a first terminal of the inductor, and a first terminal of the second flying capacitor may be connected to a second terminal of the inductor.
US12027981B2
Methods and systems for ripple suppression in multi-phase buck converters may comprise a buck converter for providing an output voltage with controlled ripple current. The buck converter may include one or more main buck converter stages and one or more suppression buck converter stages coupled with the one or more main buck converter stages. The one or more suppression buck converter stages may provide suppression currents to reduce ripple currents generated in the one or main buck converter stages.
US12027975B2
A packaged power module includes a case, and a metal structure that has first and second surfaces. A transistor is also included that has first and second terminals between which current is transmitted when the transistor is activated, and a control terminal controlling the transistor, wherein the first terminal is sintered to the first surface. A first opening through the case exposes the second surface.
US12027969B2
A converter for electrical connection to a three-phase electrical grid and a single-phase electrical grid is provided. The converter includes three DAB modules, each for converting a respective alternating current of a three-phase electrical grid. When connected to a single-phase electrical grid, the third DAB module is bi-directional such that it is operable to filter the power output of the first and second DAB modules. The converter further includes a filter capacitor in electrical communication with the third DAB module through a relay, wherein the relay is responsive to a controller to couple the third DAB module to the filter capacitor when the single-phase electrical grid is detected and to couple the third DAB module to a grid rectifier when the three-phase electrical grid is detected.
US12027967B2
In an example, a method includes providing a signal to a driver for a switching voltage regulator to turn off a high-side field effect transistor (FET) of the switching voltage regulator. The method also includes reducing a voltage at a source of the high-side FET. The method includes responsive to the signal, turning off a pull-down FET coupled to a gate of the high-side FET. The method also includes commutating current from the high-side FET to a low-side FET.
US12027966B2
A control circuit for controlling a stackable multiphase power converter includes: a synchronization terminal; a synchronization signal connected to the synchronization terminals of a plurality of the control circuits in parallel, wherein the synchronization signal includes a plurality of pulses to be successively counted as a count number; and a reset signal, configured to reset and initiate the count number; wherein the control circuit further comprises a phase-sequence number, wherein the control circuit enables a corresponding power stage circuit to generate a phase of the output power when the count number reaches the phase-sequence number.
US12027962B2
A device includes an operational amplifier having a first input, a second input and an output, the operational amplifier configured to generate a first signal at the output. The device includes a reference resistor divider having a first and second resistor, a first terminal of the first resistor coupled to the second input of the operational amplifier. A second terminal of the first resistor is coupled to a first terminal of the second resistor and a second terminal of the second resistor coupled to an electrically neutral terminal. The device includes a voltage to current (V2I) converter having an input and an output, the input coupled to the output of the operational amplifier, and the V2I converter configured to generate a second signal at the output of the V2I converter. The device includes a switch coupled to the output of the V2I converter and to the reference resistor divider.
US12027959B2
In a generator including an engine, a rotating electric machine, and a cooling fan that rotates integrally with a rotor of the rotating electric machine, the cooling fan includes a plurality of fans disposed at an interval in an axial direction of the fan, and a cylindrical body that extends in the axial direction of the cooling fan with a cylindrical cross section in an inner peripheral space of an upstream fan and is disposed more on the upstream side than a downstream fan.
US12027955B2
A generator rotor assembly (42) comprises a cylindrical ring structure (46) defining a central hollow portion and arranged to rotate around a rotational axis. The cylindrical ring structure (46) comprises a plurality of permanent magnet packages (48) arranged coaxially around the rotational axis, the permanent magnet packages (48) comprising a plurality of coaxially stacked ring-shaped segmented layers (80), a plurality of tie rod holes (86) and a plurality of tie rods (54). The coaxially stacked ring-shaped segmented layers (80) comprise a plurality of contiguous segment sheets (82) arranged around the rotational axis to form the ring-shaped layer, the stacked layers (80) being staggered such that segment breaks between two contiguous segment sheets (82) in one of the layers are angularly offset with respect to segment breaks between two contiguous segment sheets (82) in an adjacent layer. The tie rod holes (86) extend axially through the layers of the permanent magnet packages (48), wherein the plurality of tie rod holes (86) of adjacent permanent magnet packages (48) are complementary in size and position, such that a plurality of tie rod bores is defined. The tie rods (54) extend through respective ones of the plurality of tie rod bores.
US12027946B2
A motor unit according to an aspect of the present invention includes: a motor having a rotor that rotates about a motor axis and a stator located radially outside the rotor; an inverter that controls a current to be supplied to the motor; and a housing having a motor housing portion that houses the motor and an inverter housing portion that houses the inverter. The housing further includes an inverter housing provided with a top plate portion covering an opening of the inverter housing portion. The inverter is fixed to a back surface of the top plate portion, facing the inside of the inverter housing portion.
US12027943B2
An electric motor cooling jacket enclosing a surface of an electric motor stator and having protuberances adapted for contact with the surface of the stator, with fluid passageways formed by the cooling jacket body, the protuberances, and the surface of the electric motor stator, wherein the fluid passageways are arranged to permit a cooling fluid to flow in a serpentine path across the surface of the stator to remove heat from the stator. Spray rings are fluidly coupled with the fluid passageways so as to permit the cooling fluid to flow into the fluid passageways, across the outer circumference of the electric motor stator, and out from orifices in the spray rings to cool the windings of the stator. The protuberances are formable using a pair of mold halves aligned anti-symmetrically with one another so that a serpentine fluid path is formed when casting the cooling jacket body.
US12027936B2
A linear motor includes: a mover including an output shaft portion extending in a direction of a thrust axis; a detection portion configured to be capable of detecting a position of the output shaft portion in the direction of the thrust axis; and a detected portion fixed to the mover, the mover further includes: a mounting base to which the detected portion is attached; and a metal fastening member that fastens the mounting base to an end surface, on one side in the direction of the thrust axis, of the output shaft portion, and the mounting base includes: a metal fastened portion sandwiched between the end surface, on the one side in the direction of the thrust axis, of the output shaft portion, and the fastening member; and a resin mounting portion having a mounting surface to which the detected portion is attached, the mounting surface being provided at a position off the thrust axis.
US12027935B2
A vibration actuator includes a fixing body including a base part, and a magnetic suction force generation part provided at a core on which a coil is wound; a movable body including a connecting part, and a suction part suctioned by the magnetic suction force generation part through energization to the coil; and a plurality of elastic support parts. The suction part is disposed in a vicinity of a magnetic pole of the core of the magnetic suction force generation part with an air gap between the suction part and the magnetic pole in a vibration direction, and the suction part is disposed at a center portion in the vibration direction of the movable body supported by the plurality of elastic support parts.
US12027933B2
A motor includes a rotor, a stator, and a bus bar unit disposed on one side in an axial direction of the stator. The stator includes conductor connection bodies and a segment coil. Each connection body includes first and second ends in the axial direction. The bus bar unit includes a neutral point bus bar connected to the first end and phase bus bars connected to the second end. The neutral point bus bar extends along a circumferential direction. The phase bus bar includes a main body extending along the circumferential direction and at least partially overlapping the neutral point bus bar and a connection portion extending from the main body to one side in the axial direction. The first end passes through one side in the axial direction of the neutral point bus bar and is connected to the connection portion.
US12027928B2
Insulators are formed of a resin material using injection molding and provided at an end portion in an axial direction of a cylindrical stator included in a motor. Each of the insulators includes a wall portion that is formed in a cylindrical shape; a plurality of winding drum portions that consecutively extend from the wall portion so as to be along one end surface in an axial direction of the wall portion from an inner peripheral surface of the wall portion toward an inner side in a radial direction of the wall portion; and a plurality of opening portions that are formed between the respective winding drum portions, which are adjacent in the circumferential direction of the wall portion. A gate mark, which indicates an injection location of the resin material, is formed on the one end surface in the axial direction of the wall portion.
US12027926B2
Disclosed is a method for pulling a stator winding system of an electric machine into a stator lamination stack of the electric machine and to a winding tool, with the stator lamination stack having stator grooves which run parallel to a rotation axis of the electric machine and are distributed in a circle around the rotation axis and open thereto and which have on an end facing the rotation axis a gap region which is narrowed relative to the rest of the stator groove. Windings are arranged in the stator grooves, and winding overhangs, as seen in the direction of the rotation axis, protrude from the stator lamination stack at the two axial ends thereof, with the windings formed in the stator grooves as laid windings. The stator lamination stack has no guide structures on the two axial ends for guiding the individual turns of the windings.
US12027925B2
A method of making an electromagnetic coil for use in a high-temperature electromagnetic machine includes pre-coating magnet wire with a high-temperature insulation precursor to produce pre-coated magnet wire, winding, while applying in-situ a glass-ceramic slurry, the pre-coated magnet wire into a predetermined coil shape to produce a wet-wound green coil, and thermally processing the wet-wound green coil to produce a processed coil. In some instances, a second layer of a high-temperature insulation may be applied to the processed coil to produce a further insulated processed coil, and then thermally processing the further insulated processed coil to produce a further processed electromagnetic coil.
US12027921B2
A motor having a compact volume by reducing sizes in axial and radial directions includes a stator, and a rotor arranged outside the stator and rotated by electromagnetically interacting with the stator, wherein the rotor includes a ring-shaped back yoke, a plurality of magnets separately arranged inside of the back yoke along a circumferential direction of the back yoke, and a frame arranged to combine the back yoke and the plurality of magnets, and having an open side through which an outer surface of the back yoke is exposed to an outside of the frame.
US12027920B2
A rotor includes a rotor core having a plurality of magnetic poles. At least one magnetic pole includes a first magnetic pole having three or more circumferentially arranged magnet holes, and a plurality of permanent magnets housed corresponding magnet holes. A portion of the rotor core between adjacent magnet holes has a radially extending region. A maximum radial dimension of each magnet hole is greater than a minimum radial dimension of a portion of the rotor core between a magnet hole radially outer surface and a rotor core outer peripheral surface. The first magnetic pole has a smaller amount of harmonic components in a radial flux density distribution on the rotor core outer peripheral surface, compared to a magnetic pole having a plurality of magnet holes arranged at equal circumferential intervals and a plurality of permanent magnets having substantially the same magnetic flux and number.
US12027918B2
A rotor core of a rotor includes a salient pole portion; air gap portions that extend from the permanent magnet to an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core; notch grooves formed such that the outer peripheral surface of the rotor core is notched; and a bridge portion that is formed between the outer peripheral surface and the air gap portions. The notch grooves are disposed such that the bridge portion is sandwiched between the notch grooves and the air gap portion, and, a notch minimum outside diameter portion in which a distance from the rotation center of the rotor core is the minimum is formed on a plane perpendicular to a rotation axis. The notch minimum outside diameter portion is located at a position closer to a center side of the salient pole portion than the air gap portions in the circumferential direction of the rotor.
US12027916B2
The presently disclosed invention provides an outer rotor brushless direct current motor that includes a tire integrated as part of the outer rotor, and is thus configured as a direct drive wheel, such as may be used on a mobile robot. The drive wheel includes a cylindrical outer rotor having a plurality of poles positioned on an inner surface, a stationary stator spaced inwardly from the rotor and defining a magnetic clearance gap between the plurality of poles of the rotor and a plurality of electromagnets positioned on an outer circumference of the stator, and a stationary central shaft. The stator is mounted to the central shaft and the rotor is configured for rotation about the stator.
US12027915B2
A rotor assembly includes a rotor core having an axial length and configured to rotate about a longitudinal axis and at least one permanent magnet disposed about a radially outer surface of the rotor core. The rotor assembly further includes an electrical insulator disposed between the radially outer surface of the rotor core and the at least one permanent magnet and configured to disrupt an electrical conduction path along the axial length of the rotor core.
US12027901B2
A method and device for reducing voltage loads of semiconductor components of an inverter. The method includes: ascertaining a request to charge a battery of an electric system including the battery, the inverter, and an electric machine. The inverter including a series connection including a first and a second semiconductor component, and being configured to convert a direct voltage provided by the battery into an alternating voltage for the electric machine, and adapt a gate voltage of the first semiconductor component and/or of the second semiconductor component to interrupt a current flow between the battery and the electric machine during the charging. A voltage load of a gate oxide layer of the semiconductor components is reduced by decreasing the gate voltages of the first semiconductor component and of the second semiconductor component and/or a voltage load of a drain-source path of the semiconductor components being matched to one another.
US12027885B2
A power transmitting device performs power transmission to a power receiving device. The power receiving device is provided in a space that a person can enter or exit. The power transmitting device includes a power transmitting unit, a processing circuitry, and a reception unit. The power transmitting unit is configured to perform power transmission to the power receiving device through contactless power supply. The processing circuitry is configured to switch a power transmission mode of the power transmitting unit between a normal-output mode and a limit mode in which a transmitted power is more limited than in the normal-output mode. The reception unit is configured to receive a limit instruction for the power transmission given by the person. The processing circuitry is configured to set the power transmission mode to the limit mode when the reception unit receives the limit instruction.
US12027871B2
An electric power supply system for an aircraft includes: a first electric source and a second electric source coupled together to supply electric power to a set of electrical loads, and a controller configured to acquire a piece of information on the current electric consumption consumed by the set of electrical loads; acquire a piece of information corresponding to a target ratio of the distribution, between the first and second electric sources, of the current electric consumption consumed by the set of electrical loads; perform frequency filtering of the current electric consumption to determine a transient consumption portion of the current electric consumption; determine control setpoints for the first electric source and for the second electric source in accordance with the target distribution ratio and with the transient consumption portion; and apply the control setpoints to the first and second electric sources.
US12027867B2
Renewable electrical energy is provided with aspects and circuitry that can harvest maximum power from an alternative electrical energy source (1) such as a string of solar panels (11) for a power grid (10). Aspects include: i) controlling electrical power creation from photovoltaic DC-AC inverter (5), ii) operating photovoltaic DC-AC inverter (5) at maximal efficiency even when MPP would not be, iii) protecting DC-AC inverter (5) so input can vary over a range of insolation and temperature, and iv) providing dynamically reactive capability to react and assure operation, to permit differing components, to achieve code compliant dynamically reactive photovoltaic power control circuitry (41). With previously explained converters, inverter control circuitry (38) or photovoltaic power converter functionality control circuitry (8) configured as inverter sweet spot converter control circuitry (46) can achieve extraordinary efficiencies with substantially power isomorphic photovoltaic capability at 99.2% efficiency or even only wire transmission losses.
US12027862B1
A method and apparatus is described for conveying the amount of loading of a power source to a load control device by controlling the frequency of the AC power output from that power source in a manner that controlled frequency represents the loading. At a different location in the power system, the frequency is measured and the corresponding loading of the power source is used to prevent or alleviate a power source overload.
US12027860B2
A source-network-load-storage coordination dispatching method in a background of a coupling of renewable energy sources, including: taking an expectation of a minimum grid operating cost in a dispatching cycle as an objective function; generating an approximate value function of an output of a set for generating electricity from renewable energy sources and a user load, and constructing a source-network-load-storage coordination dispatching model with combination of the objective function; obtaining forecast data of the output of a set for generating electricity from renewable energy sources and the user load, and inputting the forecast data into the dispatching model for solving; performing iterative updating on the approximate value function, importing the approximate value function after the iterative updating into the dispatching model for iterative solving, and terminating an iterative process until a solving result satisfies a preset convergence condition; and using a solving result of a last iteration as a dispatching strategy.
US12027859B2
A method for power management in a microgrid, the microgrid including at least one renewable energy source, at least one non-renewable energy source and at least one grid-forming energy storage source.
US12027856B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide control systems and methods to reduce wastage of energy associated with fuel cell systems. The method includes transmitting DC power from a plurality of fuel cells of a set of power modules to a centralized DC bus through a first set of DC-DC converters. The method includes operating a second set of DC-DC converters to provide an output DC power by boosting a voltage level of the DC power from the centralized DC bus and further operating a first set of DC-AC inverters to convert the DC power from the second set of DC-DC converters to AC power. The method includes transmitting the AC power from the first set of DC-AC inverters to a grid. The AC power is transmitted to the grid at substantially unity power factor due to combined effect of switching modulation and MPPT of the first set of DC-AC inverters.
US12027855B2
A power outlet control device includes at least one electrical outlet and a processing circuit comprising a processor and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations include monitoring external power supplied to the power outlet control device, detecting one or more powerline events based on the external power supplied to the power outlet control device, and automatically controlling an amount of power supplied to the at least one electrical outlet based on the one or more powerline events.
US12027852B2
DeepOPF-V, a deep neural network (DNN)-based voltage-constrained approach for solving an alternating-current optimal power flow (AC-OPF) problem, is used to determine an operating point of an AC electrical power system. DeepOPE-V advantageously uses two DNNs to separately determine voltage magnitudes and voltage phase angles of buses in the system without cross-over operations between the two DNNs. A computation complexity is reduced when compared to using a single DNN for generating both the magnitudes and phase angles, allowing high computation efficiency achieved by DeepOPE-V. Remaining variables of the system are computed based on the determined magnitudes and phase angles. A solution for the operating condition is predicted. A fast post-processing (PP) method is developed to improve the feasibility of the predicted solution. The PP method uses linear adjustment to adjust the predicted solution to improve the solution feasibility while enabling fast execution of the PP method.
US12027844B2
A power flow control system and method relate to power flow control for faults on power transmission lines. An inverter has power switching devices and a capacitor. A power-safe circuit holds the power switching devices inactive during an initial fault current of the power transmission line, until a power supply for operating the inverter reaches a threshold.
US12027842B2
Provided is a device including a series circuit in which a rectifying element and a fuse element are connected in series, in which one end on an anode side of the rectifying element in the series circuit is connected to a first connection point having a reference potential, and another end on a cathode side of the rectifying element in the series circuit is connected to a second connection point that is to have a potential higher than the reference potential. The device may further include a parallel circuit in which a plurality of the series circuits is connected in parallel. A rectifying characteristic of the rectifying element in at least one of the series circuits connected in parallel may be different from a rectifying characteristic of the rectifying element in at least another one of the series circuits connected in parallel.
US12027839B2
A device for electrically connecting cables where a change of direction occurs. The device includes at least two busbars as well as a plate having independent internal ducts in which the busbars are located, each duct being electrically insulated from the other ducts, the busbars ensuring electrical conduction from one open end of a duct to the other end. The cables are fastened at these open ends and thus do not undergo any deformation, the change of direction taking place inside the plate with the aid of the busbars.
US12027838B2
A cable support device, cable tie and cable tidy are provided. The cable support device includes a retainer, for retaining the cable support device to an edge of a surface, such as a desk or table, and a cable support, coupled to the retainer, and configured to support one or more cables. The retainer comprises: a planar upper support member; and an opposing biasing member, configured to bias the surface towards the planar upper support member to thereby retain the retainer to the surface. The biasing member tapered along its length, such that it is more flexible at its end.
US12027831B2
A hydraulic fracturing system for fracturing a subterranean formation is disclosed. In an embodiment, the system may include a plurality of electric pumps fluidly connected to a well associated with the subterranean formation and powered by at least one electric motor, and configured to pump fluid into a wellbore associated with the well at a high pressure so that the fluid passes from the wellbore into the subterranean formation and fractures the subterranean formation; at least one generator electrically coupled to the plurality of electric pumps so as to generate electricity for use by the plurality of electric pumps; and at least one switchgear electrically coupled to the at least one generator and configured to distribute an electrical load between the plurality of electric pumps and the at least one generator.
US12027820B2
A surface-emitting laser includes a first reflector layer, an active layer provided on the first reflector layer, and a second reflector layer provided on the active layer. The second reflector layer includes a corner reflector that tapers in a direction opposite to the first reflector layer, and the corner reflector has a plan shape of a circle or a polygon with an even number of vertexes.
US12027819B2
VCSELs have a substrate, first and second electrical contacts (ECs), and an optical resonator (OR), having first and second distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) and an active layer between the DBRs. The first DBR is between the substrate and the active layer. One of the DBRs has: first and second parts, having different conductivity types, and each with a pair of layers with different refractive indices. A tunnel junction (TJ) is between the parts. The ECs are for electrically pumping the OR such that the TJ is reversely biased during operation of the VCSEL. Either the first DBR includes the parts, having a relative thickness of the second part to a total thickness of the first and second parts between 0.1-0.8, or the second DBR has the parts, the second part being on the TJ facing away from the active layer, and the relative thickness being between 0.15-0.6.
US12027818B2
A semiconductor laser includes a distributed feedback active region and two distribution Bragg reflecting mirror regions which are arranged to be continuous with the distributed feedback active region. The distributed feedback active region has an active layer which is composed of a compound semiconductor and a first diffraction grating. The first diffraction grating is composed of a recessed portion which is formed to extend through a diffraction grating layer formed on the active layer and a projection portion which is adjacent to the recessed portion.
US12027816B2
A method of manufacturing a laser light source includes: providing a submount, the submount having a principal surface on which a laser diode chip is to be fixed, and comprising a pair of lens supports each including an end surface, the end surfaces located at opposite sides with respect to an emission end surface of the laser diode chip; providing a lens having a bonding surface; performing adjustment such that end surfaces of the pair of lens supports of the submount are parallel to a reference plane; performing adjustment such that the bonding surface of the lens is parallel to the reference plane; and while maintaining the end surfaces of the pair of lens supports and the bonding surface of the lens so as to be parallel to the reference plane, bonding the end surfaces with the bonding surface of the lens using an inorganic bonding member.
US12027803B2
A cage includes a cage housing forming an inner area with internal walls that define an upper port and a lower port. Each of the ports include a cap that forms a keyway. The cap in an upper bay can extend from the upper bay in a direction that is opposite a direction the cap in the lower port extends. The cage may include a plurality of spring fingers therein which engage with a conductive bezel. The cage provides EMI shielding for the plug connector.
US12027801B2
Disclosed are embodiments for providing electrical connection between trunk sections of an artificial tree. In some embodiments, forces are created between electrical connectors on plugs and sockets to ensure a secure electrical connection. In other embodiments, pins and sockets are used in conjunction with rotational orientation devices to ensure proper orientations of the pins and sockets.
US12027795B2
Provided are a terminal position assurance and a connector, which belong to the technical field of connectors. The terminal position assurance includes a positioning body, an upper-row snap, a limiting member, and a lower-row snap. The positioning body extends along a first direction. Two upper-row snaps are provided, fixedly connected to the positioning body separately, and disposed opposite to each other. The limiting member is connected to one side of the positioning body and extends along a second direction which is perpendicular to the first direction. Two lower-row snaps are provided, fixedly connected to the limiting member separately, and disposed opposite to each other.
US12027794B2
An electrical connector includes: an insulative housing having a row of slots defined by plural dividing walls thereof, and plural contacts secured in the insulative housing and each including a securing portion, a front contacting portion disposed in a corresponding slot, and a rear tail, wherein the plurality of dividing walls includes a group of first dividing walls each having a first length and a group of second dividing walls each having a second length along a front-to-back direction, and the first length is shorter than the second length to expose to air a larger extent of the front contacting portions of associated contacts disposed in the slots defined by the group of first dividing walls with respect to the front contacting portions of associated contacts disposed in the slots defined by the group of second dividing walls.
US12027792B2
A connector comprises a housing, a holder, a contact, an electrical wire and a sleeve member. The housing is formed with a contact accommodating portion. The contact accommodating portion is formed with a first receiving portion. The holder is formed with a second receiving portion. The contact is provided with a first press-fit portion. The sleeve member is provided with a first abutment portion, a second abutment portion and a second press-fit portion. The first abutment portion abuts against the first receiving portion. The second abutment portion abuts against the second receiving portion. One of the first press-fit portion and the second press-fit portion is press-fit into a remaining one of the first press-fit portion and the second press-fit portion in a direction perpendicular to the front-rear direction and thereby a relative movement of the sleeve member with respect to the contact along the front-rear direction is regulated.
US12027791B2
A board to board connector includes a first male connector and a second male connector. The first male connector includes a first number of pins. The second male connector is aligned with the first male connector and includes a second number of pins. The first male connector is configured to be removably electrically coupled to a first female connector including a third number of pins equal to the first number and the second male connector is configured to be removably electrically coupled to a second female connector including a fourth number of pins equal to the second number. The first male connector and the second male connector are also configured to be removably electrically coupled to a single third female connector including a fifth number of pins equal to the first number plus the second number.
US12027777B2
An antenna device includes: a first ground member; one or more first antennas which are connected to the first ground member and resonate in a first frequency band; a second ground member; one or more second antennas which are connected to the second ground member and resonate in a second frequency band; one or more first filters which connect the first and second ground members and attenuate a signal in the first frequency band; and one or more second filters which connect the first and second ground members at a position different from a position where the one or more first filters connect the first and second ground members and attenuate the signal in the first frequency band less than the one or more first filters.
US12027770B2
A digital receiver/exciter (DREX) antenna calibration system includes a DREX antenna array, and an antenna probe configured to receive energy from the DREX antenna array and/or transmit energy to the DREX antenna array. A modular signal processing unit is in signal communication with the DREX antenna array. The modular signal processing unit includes a plurality of individual signal processing programmable integrated circuits configured to process the energy. A modular array controller is in signal communication with the probe controller, the DREX antenna array, and the modular signal processing unit. The modular array controller includes at least one modular array unit that includes an array programmable integrated circuit and a multicore processor.
US12027767B1
An antenna may include rigid antenna ribs, a flexible antenna reflector layer, and a flexible support member extending behind the flexible antenna reflector layer between adjacent antenna ribs and having first and second sets of openings therein. A drawstring may extend through the first set of openings between adjacent ribs and a rear support cord is behind the flexible support member between adjacent ribs. Tie cords may extend between the flexible antenna reflector layer and the rear support cord and pass through respective ones of the second set of openings. A biasing member may maintain tension in the drawstring as adjacent antenna ribs move between first and second positions so that the flexible support member defines a pleated support body for the flexible antenna reflector layer.
US12027764B2
An example electronic device includes an antenna; a switching regulator; a communication chip including an amplifier, a first linear regulator operably connected to the amplifier and the switching regulator and configured to be supplied with a first voltage from the switching regulator, and a second linear regulator operably connected to the amplifier and the switching regulator and configured to be supplied with a second voltage higher than the first voltage from the switching regulator, the communication chip configured to transmit a radio-frequency signal outside of the electronic device through the antenna; and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to produce an envelope of an input signal input to the amplifier in connection with the radio-frequency signal and to provide the produced envelope to at least one of the first linear regulator or the second linear regulator. The first linear regulator is configured to provide a third voltage corresponding to the envelope to the amplifier using the first voltage based on the envelope having a voltage in a first range. The second linear regulator is configured to provide a fourth voltage higher than the third voltage to the amplifier using the second voltage based on the voltage of the envelope being in a second range including values larger than values included in the first range.
US12027761B2
An antenna module is an antenna module attached to a roof in a vehicle and includes a substrate and a plurality of antennas provided on the substrate, wherein the substrate is kept in a curved state.
US12027760B2
An antenna system of a satellite may consist of an antenna receiver that is coupled to a plurality of flexible couplings. The couplings may each be affixed to one or more antenna elements. The couplings may be deployed in space in an uncontrolled manner. Additionally, the spacing between the couplings, and in turn the antenna elements, may be spaced in an uncontrolled manner. The antenna elements may have no pointing requirements. The antenna system may receive training signals and associate an antenna element to a time of arrival based on the training signal. Upon receiving a data signal, the antenna system may apply coefficients determined from the association of the antenna element to the time of arrival to the data signal to discover wanted signal coherence among the antenna elements.
US12027755B2
This application provides a wireless data terminal and a wireless data terminal control system. The wireless data terminal includes a housing, a drive assembly, a first antenna assembly, and a second antenna assembly. The drive assembly can drive the first antenna assembly and the second antenna assembly to extend or retract to move in different directions between a first location and a second location. When the wireless data terminal does not need to be used or high isolation between antennas is not required, the drive assembly may drive the antenna assembly to retract to the first location, so that a volume occupied by the wireless data terminal can be reduced while an antenna isolation requirement is met. When high isolation between the antennas is required, the drive assembly may drive the antenna assembly to extend to the second location, so that isolation between the antennas is increased.
US12027751B2
An antenna device, applied to an electronic device and the antenna device includes: an antenna unit, configured to transmit and receive signals; a rotation unit, connected to the antenna unit, and configured to rotate the antenna unit when the electronic device is powered on, record a signal strength in preset angle for each rotation and generate an angle and signal strength mapping table, and further configured to rotate the antenna unit to a position with a strongest signal according to the angle and signal strength mapping table, which realizes automatic adjustment of antenna direction to optimize antenna performance.
US12027742B2
A distributed constant filter includes a resonator that is not grounded and a first ground electrode. The first ground electrode faces the resonator in a first direction (Z). The resonator is a distributed constant line resonator. The resonator includes a plurality of distributed constant lines and a via conductor. The plurality of distributed constant lines are arranged in layers in the first direction (Z). The via conductor extends in the first direction (Z). Each of the plurality of distributed constant lines is connected to the via conductor only at one end portion of both end portions of the distributed constant line.
US12027741B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a dielectric filter and a communication device. In one example, the dielectric filter includes: a first dielectric block and a second dielectric block that are stacked up, where a first surface of the first dielectric block is opposite to a second surface of the second dielectric block; a first blind hole, a first through hole, and two or more resonance through holes whose openings are located on the first surface of the first dielectric block, and a second through hole whose opening is located on the second surface of the second dielectric block. A metal layer on the first surface of the first dielectric block is connected to a metal layer on the second surface of the second dielectric block.
US12027739B2
The present invention relates to the field of fuel cell stacks and stack tower or module, in particular to a sealing structure for stack tower and a stack tower. The sealing structure comprises a first component, a second component and a mica spacer, the first component and the second component are opposite to each other, the mica spacer is disposed between the first component and the second component, sealing part is arranged between the mica spacer and at least one of the first component and the second component, and the sealing part comprises a glass ceramic layer and an outer circumferential ceramic cement ring surrounding the glass cement layer; the sealing structure for stack tower has excellent sealing performance and service durability for a fuel cell system.
US12027738B2
The invention relates to a fuel cell comprising a plurality of modules mounted in series with one another so as to form a peripheral structure, each module comprising two end members and a stack of electrochemical cells mounted between two end members, each end member including a mounting face in contact with one of the ends of a stack and an interface face in contact with another interface face of another end member, the mounting face and the interface face being angularly spaced apart by an angle (α) which is between 0.5° and 60°.
US12027735B2
A fuel cell system 1 includes a fuel cell FC having a plurality of fuel battery cells, a control unit Cnt configured to control power generation of the fuel cell FC, a power storage apparatus S, and a DCDC converter Cnv. The control unit Cnt makes the voltage of the fuel cell FC higher than the voltage of the power storage apparatus S when the power generation by the fuel cell FC is stopped and makes the power generated in the fuel cell FC when the power generation by the fuel cell FC is stopped chargeable to the power storage apparatus S through a first path having diodes D1, D3, D5.
US12027731B2
Ion exchange membranes materials according to the present disclosure exhibit improved conductivity at low and intermediate relative humidity without sacrificing mechanical strength. Polymers are provided that include a backbone with one or more aryl groups, a halocarbyl group, and a halocarbyl side chain attached to the backbone, wherein the halocarbyl side chain includes a halide separated from the backbone by a hydrocarbyl chain, a hydrocarbyl ring, or combinations thereof. The halide is substituted with a tertiary amine and halide anions are then exchanged with hydroxide anions. The polymers are then contacted with phosphoric acid, which is deprotonated by the hydroxide ions, forming anions which enhance interactions with adjacent quaternary ammonium groups and induce excess phosphoric acid molecules to cluster around those quaternary ammonium groups. The membranes exhibit negligible dopant leaching even at high relative humidity.
US12027730B2
A fuel cell stack includes stacked cells, each including a sheet-shaped power generation portion, two separators, a gas passage defining plate that includes a gas passage portion through which reactant gas flows, and a frame member that includes a supply port and a discharge port. The gas passage portion includes opposing portions extended in a flow direction of the reactant gas and arranged in parallel in an orthogonal direction and wavy portions each having a wavy cross-sectional shape orthogonal to the orthogonal direction. The gas passage portion includes a first passage portion adjacent to the supply port in the flow direction and a second passage portion adjacent to the first passage portion in the orthogonal direction. The connection passages of the second passage portion each have a larger cross-sectional flow area than the connection passages of the first passage portion.
US12027722B2
A housing is disclosed, including an accommodating cavity, where a surface of the housing is provided with a groove, a thickness of an area provided with the groove in the housing is less than a thickness of an area provided with no groove in the housing, the housing further includes a protective layer, and the protective layer is disposed on the surface of the housing and covers an opening end of the groove. The groove helps discharge a pressure from the housing, and the protective layer can prevent the housing from being accidentally broken. This application further provides a battery to which the housing is applied, and an electronic apparatus to which the battery is applied.
US12027718B2
The present invention provides a battery module case for an electric vehicle, wherein an electric vehicle battery provided to be utilized in an electric vehicle is accommodated inside the battery module case to improve assemblability. The battery module case for an electric vehicle is characterized by comprising: a case part which is formed by extrusion-molding an aluminum material, has a cavity formed in an inner profile corresponding to the outer profile of the battery for an electric vehicle, and is open in at least one end in the longitudinal direction, wherein a press-fit protrusion is formed along the edge of the open end; and at least one cover part which is formed by die-casting an aluminum material and provided so as to be coupled to the open end of the case part, and in which an extension portion is integrally formed to extend and protrude toward the case part from the edge thereof, at a position corresponding to the press-fit protrusion, so as to be press-fit on the edge of the press-fit protrusion, and both-side contacting grooves surrounding and closely contacting both sides of the press-fit protrusion are recessed in an end section of the extension portion.
US12027717B2
This invention relates to a support pad formed of a shock absorbing material capable of absorbing energy resulting from vibration and gravitational forces acting on a battery disposed in engagement with the support pad and, correspondingly, transferring gravitational forces that occur along a z-axis resulting from up and down movement of the battery and dispersing these gravitation forces along an x-axis, a y-axis and the z-axis so as to reduce the impact shock on the battery by between about 65% to about 80% and, in doing so, prolonging the performance and life-cycle of the battery.
US12027706B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of carbon materials, in particular to an amorphous carbon material and a preparation method and an use thereof. The amorphous carbon material has the following characteristics: (1) the true density ρ of the amorphous carbon material and the interlayer spacing d002 obtained by powder XRD spectrum analysis satisfy the relational formula: 100×ρ×d002≥70; (2) the interlayer spacing d002, La and Lc satisfy the following relational formula: Lcλd002≤0.58; and 100×(Lc/La2)×d0023≤0.425; (3) the amorphous carbon material contains 0.001-2% of a silicon component and 0.001-2% of an aluminum component, based on the total mass of the amorphous carbon material. The amorphous carbon material prepared by the present disclosure has desirable heat transfer performance and can provide high battery capacity.
US12027691B2
Methods are proposed for fabricating highly pure lithium metal electrodes from aqueous lithium salt solutions. Electrolysis is performed through lithium ion selective membranes, with constant current densities between about 10 mA/cm2 and about 50 mA/cm2 being applied for a time between about 1 minute and about 60 minutes. The electrolysis is performed under a blanketing atmosphere, the blanketing atmosphere being substantially free of lithium reactive components. Methods are further proposed for vertically integrating the electrolytic fabrication of highly pure lithium metal electrodes into the production of lithium metal batteries, the fabrication of lithium electrodes and lithium metal batteries being performed in a single facility.
US12027689B2
A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a method for producing an electrode of which uncoated part can stretch while inhibiting breakage. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a method for producing an electrode, the method including: a preparing step of preparing a precursor sheet including a metal foil, and a coated part and an uncoated part, arranged on the metal foil; a coated part pressing step of pressing the coated part in a thickness direction; and an uncoated part pressing step of pressing the uncoated part in the thickness direction, before or after the coated part pressing step; wherein the coated part contains an electrode material including at least an active material; the uncoated part does not contain the electrode material, and is arranged in an edge of the coated part; and in the uncoated part pressing step, the uncoated part is roll-pressed by a pair of an elastic roll including a shaft body and an elastic body covering the shaft body, while the uncoated part is pushed against the thickness direction.
US12027683B1
Disclosed is a method for recovering and processing a retired battery electrode plate. The method includes disassembling a retired battery to obtain an electrode plate, energizing two ends of the electrode plate until a binder on the electrode plate is heated and melted, and then separating out an electrode material and a current collector, and when the electrode plate is a negative electrode plate, ball milling the separated electrode material, winnowing the ball-milled material to obtain graphite, subjecting the graphite to an alkali treatment, adding the graphite, which has been subjected to the alkali treatment, and an aggregate to softened asphalt, and stirring same to obtain conductive asphalt. The two ends of the electrode are energized, such that the binder is melted into liquid to flow out of the current collector, and the electrode material is stripped off the electrode plate.
US12027672B2
According to one embodiment, a battery includes an external container, an electrode group, and a sealing plate. The electrode group includes a positive electrode and a negative electrode wound in a flat shape with an insulating layer interposed therebetween. Thicknesses TE of the positive and negative electrodes are each from 0.03 mm to 0.08 mm. A first direction is orthogonal to a winding axis direction of the electrode group. A second direction is parallel to the winding axis direction. The thicknesses TE of each electrode, a thickness TW of the electrode group in the third direction orthogonal to the first and second directions, and an innermost circumferential height HIC of the electrode group in the first direction satisfy 0.02≤(TE×TW)/HIC≤0.04.
US12027669B2
An electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the electrolyte solution are provided. The electrolyte solution includes an additive represented by Chemical Formula 1, an organic solvent and a lithium salt: wherein in Chemical Formula 1, R1 and R2 are each independently hydrogen or a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C5 alkyl group, X is O or S, and L is a substituted or unsubstituted C1-C5 alkylene group. The lithium secondary battery including the electrolyte solution provides enhanced high-temperature properties.
US12027666B2
The present invention aims to provide an electrolyte composition from which an electrolyte film having a higher battery performance than typical electrolyte films is obtained. The present invention provides an electrolyte composition containing an alkali metal salt. The composition further contains a photocurable and/or thermosetting monomer; and a salt dissociating agent. A content ratio of the alkali metal salt is 50% by mass or more relative to 100% by mass of the total amount of the alkali metal salt, the photocurable and/or thermosetting monomer, and the salt dissociating agent.
US12027664B2
A super ion conductor composition is disclosed. The super ion conductor composition has the general formula: A1+xMx/2Zr2−x/2(PO4)3, where each A is independently Na or Li, M is Mn or Mg, and subscript x is from 0.5 to 3. A solid electrolyte comprising the super ion conductor composition, and a method of preparing the solid electrolyte, are also disclosed. The method comprises combining a zirconium compound, a manganese or magnesium compound, a sodium compound, and a phosphate compound to give a mixture; and calcining the mixture to give the super ion conductor composition, thereby preparing the solid electrolyte. Functional materials and devices comprising the super ion conductor composition are also disclosed, including a catholyte composition, an ion conducting solid electrolyte membrane, as well as all-solid-state batteries.
US12027653B2
The invention relates to an illuminating device (1) comprising a substrate (2), a non-transparent spacer (4) which is connected to the substrate (2) so as to be hermetically sealed, an opening in the spacer (4), opposite said substrate (2), and an illumination element (3) positioned beneath the spacer (4) and beneath the opening, which element is connected to the substrate (2) so as to be hermetically sealed, characterized in that the opening in the spacer (4) is closed, so as to be hermetically sealed, by an optical element (5) consisting of a glass material the volume of which comprises at least one luminophore and thus constitutes a luminescent composite glass material.
US12027651B2
A light-emitting device includes a substrate, a semiconductor diode structure, a wavelength-converting layer less than 50. microns thick with luminescent particles in an index-matched inorganic binder, optical sidewall coating, and an optical sidewall structure. The optical sidewall structure is interposed between substrate sidewalls and optical sidewall coating, and redirects side-propagating output light toward or within the wavelength-converting layer. The optical sidewall structure can be part of the wavelength-converting layer or part of an adhering layer between the substrate and the wavelength-converting layer.
US12027643B2
A process for producing at least two adjacent regions, each comprising an array of light-emitting wires connected together in a given region by a transparent conductive layer, comprises: producing, on a substrate, a plurality of individual zones for growing wires extending over an area greater than the cumulative area of the two chips; growing wires in the individual growth zones; removing wires from at least one zone forming an initial free area to define the arrays of wires, the initial free area comprising individual growth zones level with the removed wires; and depositing a transparent conductive layer on each array of wires to electrically connect the wires of a given array of wires, each conductive layer being separated from the conductive layer of the neighbouring region by a free area. A device obtained using the process of the invention is also provided.
US12027629B2
An oxide semiconductor field effect transistor (OSFET) includes a first insulating layer, a source, a drain, a U-shaped channel layer and a metal gate. The first insulating layer is disposed on a substrate. The source and the drain are disposed in the first insulating layer. The U-shaped channel layer is sandwiched by the source and the drain. The metal gate is disposed on the U-shaped channel layer, wherein the U-shaped channel layer includes at least an oxide semiconductor layer. The present invention also provides a method for forming said oxide semiconductor field effect transistor.
US12027624B2
A semiconductor device in a first area includes first non-planar semiconductor structures separated with a first distance, and a first isolation region including a first layer and a second layer that collectively embed a lower portion of each of the first non-planar semiconductor structures. At least one of the first layer or second layer of the first isolation region is in a cured state. The semiconductor device in a second area includes second non-planar semiconductor structures separated with a second distance, and a second isolation region including a first layer and a second layer that collectively embed a lower portion of each of the second non-planar semiconductor structures. At least one of the first or second layer of the second isolation region is in a cured state.
US12027618B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor device includes first to third electrodes, a semiconductor member, a conductive member, and an insulating member. The semiconductor member includes first to third semiconductor regions. The first semiconductor region includes first and second partial regions. The second semiconductor region is between the first partial region and the third semiconductor region. The conductive member is located between the second partial region and the third electrode. The conductive member includes a first end portion and a first other-end portion. The first end portion is between the first other-end portion and the third electrode. The conductive member includes first to third portions. The second portion is between the third portion and the third electrode. The first portion is between the second portion and the third electrode. The first portion includes the first end portion. The second portion contacts the first and third portions.
US12027617B2
A voltage withstanding structure disposed in an edge termination region is a spatial modulation junction termination extension (JTE) structure formed by a combination of a JTE structure and a field limiting ring (FLR) structure. All FLRs configuring the FLR structure are surrounded by an innermost one of p−−-type regions configuring the JTE structure. An innermost one of the FLRs is disposed overlapping a p+-type extension and the innermost one of the p−−-type regions, at a position overlapping a border between the p+-type extension and the innermost one of the p−−-type regions. The FLRs are formed concurrently with p++-type contact regions in an active region and have an impurity concentration substantially equal to an impurity concentration of the p++-type contact regions. An n+-type channel stopper region is formed concurrently with n+-type source regions in the active region and has an impurity concentration substantially equal to an impurity concentration the n+-type source regions.
US12027609B2
A semiconductor device and a method of forming the same are provided. A method includes forming a fin extending from a substrate. A sacrificial gate electrode layer is formed along a sidewall and a top surface of the fin. A patterning process is performed on the sacrificial gate electrode layer to form a sacrificial gate electrode. A reshaping process is performed on the sacrificial gate electrode to form a reshaped sacrificial gate electrode. The reshaped sacrificial gate electrode includes a first portion along the top surface of the fin and a second portion along the sidewall of the fin. A width of the first portion decreases as the first portion extends from a top surface of the first portion toward the top surface of the fin. A width of the second portion decreases as the second portion extends from the top surface of the fin toward the substrate.
US12027608B2
Methods of cutting fins, and structures formed thereby, are described. In an embodiment, a structure includes a first fin and a second fin on a substrate, and a fin cut-fill structure disposed between the first fin and the second fin. The first fin and the second fin are longitudinally aligned. The fin cut-fill structure includes a liner on a first sidewall of the first fin, and an insulating fill material on a sidewall of the liner and on a second sidewall of the first fin. The liner is further on a surface of the first fin between the first sidewall of the first fin and the second sidewall of the first fin.
US12027606B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a semiconductor layer, a gate stack, two first gate spacers over two opposing sidewalls of the gate stack and extending above the gate stack; a second gate spacer over a sidewall of one of the first gate spacers and having an upper portion over a lower portion; an etch stop layer adjacent to the lower portion and spaced away from the upper portion; and a seal layer over the gate stack, the two first gate spacers and the second gate spacer, resulting in a first void and a second void below the first seal layer. The first void is above the lower portion of the second gate spacer and laterally between the etch stop layer and the upper portion of the second gate spacer. The second void is above the gate stack and laterally between the two first gate spacers.
US12027590B2
A silicon carbide semiconductor device includes a drift layer of n-type formed on a semiconductor substrate composed of silicon carbide, a well region of p-type formed on a surface portion of the drift layer, a source region of p-type formed on a surface portion of the well region, a gate insulating film formed in contact with the source region, the well region, and the drift layer, and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film. In the silicon carbide semiconductor device, oxygen is contained in a region having a predetermined thickness from an interface between the well region and the gate insulating film toward the well regions side.
US12027580B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to a semiconductor on insulator substrate with cavity structures and methods of manufacture. The structure includes: a bulk substrate with at least one rectilinear cavity structure; an insulator material sealing the at least one rectilinear cavity structure; and a buried insulator layer on the bulk substrate and over the at least one rectilinear cavity structure.
US12027579B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type having a main surface, a diode region of the first conductivity type formed in a surface layer portion of the main surface of the semiconductor layer, a carrier trapping region including crystal defects and formed along a peripheral edge of the diode region in the surface layer portion of the main surface of the semiconductor layer, and an anode electrode formed on the main surface of the semiconductor layer and forming a Schottky junction with the diode region.
US12027570B2
A display device can include a display panel including a first area and a second area surrounded by the first area, where each of the first area and the second area includes a plurality of subpixels. The display device can further include a plurality of first driving thin film transistors disposed respectively in the plurality of subpixels positioned in the first area, and a plurality of second driving thin film transistors disposed respectively in the plurality of subpixels positioned in the second area. The second area can include a transparent area. For at least one of the plurality of the second driving thin film transistors, a length of the channel region of the second driving thin film transistor can be shorter than a length of the channel region of the first driving thin film transistor.
US12027568B2
A device including first and second light-emitting cells respectively emitting in first and second wavelength ranges, wherein: each cell includes a stack of a first layer of a first semiconductor material and of a second layer of a second semiconductor material having a different mesh parameter; in the first cell, the first layer is in contact with the second layer across the entire surface of the cell; and in the second cell, a mask provided with a plurality of through nano-openings forms an interface between the first layer and the second layer, the second layer comprising a plurality of nanopillars of the second material arranged in the nano-openings of the mask, and a coalesced layer extending across substantially the entire surface of the cell on the side of the mask opposite to the first layer.
US12027567B2
The pcLED pixels in a phosphor-converted LED array each comprise an optical element on the light-emitting surface above the phosphor layer. In methods for making such pixelated LED arrays, a thin layer of a sacrificial phosphor carrier substrate is retained as the optical element on the output surface of the phosphor pixels upon completion of the fabrication process.
US12027564B2
A method of manufacturing a radiographic imaging apparatus, including: providing a flexible base material on a support body and forming a substrate in which pixels are provided in a pixel region of a first surface of the base material; providing a terminal portion for connecting a cable on the first surface; connecting a circuit board for reading the electric charges from the pixels or driving the pixels to the terminal portion via the cable; peeling the substrate from the support body; and using a transport jig including a suction unit having suction members and a holding part having a holding member, to suction and support the first surface or a second surface opposite to the first surface with the suction members, and transporting the substrate peeled from the support body in a state where the circuit board is held by the holding member.
US12027563B2
The image sensor structure includes a substrate, a readout circuit array, a photoelectric layer and a filter layer. The filter layer has a first spectrum defining a first wavelength. The photoelectric layer has a second spectrum defining a second wavelength. The second wavelength is longer than the first wavelength. The first wavelength corresponds to a first line passing through a first point and a second point on a curve of the first spectrum of the filter layer. The first point aligns with an extinction coefficient of 0.9. The second point aligns with an extinction coefficient of 0.1. The second wavelength corresponds to a second line passing through a third point and a fourth point on a curve of the second spectrum of the photoelectric layer. The third point aligns with an extinction coefficient of 0.9. The fourth point aligns with an extinction coefficient of 0.1.
US12027557B2
A semiconductor element including: an element substrate provided with an element region at a middle part and a peripheral region outside the element region; and a readout circuit substrate facing the element substrate, in which the element substrate includes a first semiconductor layer provided in the element region and including a compound semiconductor material, a wiring layer provided between the first semiconductor layer and the readout circuit substrate, the wiring layer electrically coupling the first semiconductor layer and the readout circuit substrate to each other, a first passivation film provided between the wiring layer and the first semiconductor layer, and a second passivation film opposed to the first passivation film with the first semiconductor layer interposed therebetween, and in which the peripheral region of the element substrate includes a bonded surface with respect to the readout circuit substrate.
US12027547B2
A solid-state image sensor is provided. The solid-state image sensor includes photoelectric conversion elements. The solid-state image sensor also includes a mosaic pattern layer disposed above the photoelectric conversion elements. The mosaic pattern layer includes an infrared-passing segment and color filter segments disposed on the periphery of the infrared-passing segment. The solid-state image sensor further includes a first condensing structure disposed on the mosaic pattern layer. The infrared-passing segment and the color filter segments share the first condensing structure.
US12027541B2
An image sensor includes a first column line and a second column line configured to extend in a first direction, a plurality of pixel groups configured to connect to the first column line or the second column line and to comprise a plurality of pixels in each of the plurality of pixel groups, a bias circuit configured to comprise a first current circuit and a second current circuit configured to output different bias currents in a first operational mode, and a switching circuit configured to connect the first column line to the first current circuit and connect the second column line to the second current circuit during a first time period, and to connect the first column line to the second current circuit and connect the second column line to the first current circuit during a second time period subsequent to the first time period in the first operational mode.
US12027540B2
The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging device and an electronic apparatus capable of improving the accuracy of phase difference detection while suppressing degradation of a picked-up image. There is provided a solid-state imaging device including: a pixel array unit, a plurality of pixels being two-dimensionally arranged in the pixel array unit, a plurality of photoelectric conversion devices being formed with respect to one on-chip lens in each of the plurality of pixels, a part of at least one of an inter-pixel separation unit formed between the plurality of pixels and an inter-pixel light blocking unit formed between the plurality of pixels protruding toward a center of the corresponding pixel in a projecting shape to form a projection portion. The present technology is applicable to, for example, a CMOS image sensor including a pixel for detecting the phase difference.
US12027530B2
A transparent display device is disclosed, which may improve yield and reduce a tact time, and may reduce resistance of a power line. The transparent display device includes a substrate provided with a display area, in which a plurality of subpixels are disposed, and a non-display area adjacent to the display area. The device further includes first and second pads provided over the substrate, a first pixel power line extended between a pad area in which the first pad and the second pad are disposed and the display area in a first direction, a first common power line extended between the first pixel power line and the display area in the first direction, a first common power connection electrode electrically connecting the second pad with the first common power line, and a second common power connection electrode disposed in a layer different from the first common power connection electrode, electrically connecting the second pad with the first common power line.
US12027527B2
A display device includes a base substrate; an oxide semiconductor layer disposed on the base substrate; a first gate insulating layer disposed on a first channel region of the oxide semiconductor layer and that overlaps the first channel region thereof; a first upper gate electrode disposed on the first gate insulating layer; and an upper interlayer insulating layer disposed on the first upper gate electrode, the first upper gate electrode, and the oxide semiconductor layer, wherein the upper interlayer insulating layer includes a first upper interlayer insulating layer, a second upper interlayer insulating layer, and a third upper interlayer insulating layer, the first upper interlayer insulating layer includes silicon oxide, each of the second and third upper interlayer insulating layers include silicon nitride, and a hydrogen concentration in the second upper interlayer insulating layer is less than a hydrogen concentration in the third upper interlayer insulating layer.
US12027523B2
Disclosed are semiconductor devices and their fabricating methods. The semiconductor device comprises first and second active patterns, a first channel pattern including first semiconductor patterns, a second channel pattern including second semiconductor patterns, a gate electrode on the first and second channel patterns, and a gate dielectric layer between the gate electrode and the first and second channel patterns. The gate electrode includes a first inner gate electrode between the first semiconductor patterns, a second inner gate electrode between the second semiconductor patterns, and an outer gate electrode outside the first and second semiconductor patterns. The first and second inner gate electrodes are on bottom surfaces of uppermost first and second semiconductor patterns. The outer gate electrode is on top surfaces and sidewalls of the uppermost first and second semiconductor patterns. The first and second inner gate electrodes have different work functions.
US12027515B2
Apparatus, and their methods of manufacture, that include an insulating feature above a substrate and a resistor formed on the insulating feature. Forming the resistor includes depositing polysilicon and doping the polysilicon (e.g., in-situ) with a carbon dopant and/or an oxygen dopant.
US12027514B2
Clamping circuit integrated on gallium nitride semiconductor device and related semiconductor device
A semiconductor device and a clamping circuit including a substrate; a first semiconductor layer, arranged on the substrate and composed of a III-nitride semiconductor material; a second semiconductor layer, arranged on the first semiconductor layer and composed of a III-nitride semiconductor material; a power transistor structure, including a gate structure, a drain structure and a source structure arranged on the second semiconductor layer; the first transistor structures, arranged on the second semiconductor layer; and the second transistor structures, arranged on the second semiconductor layer in series. One end of the first transistor structures and one end of the second transistor structures are jointly electrically connected to the drain structure of the power transistor structure, and the other end of the first transistor structures and the other end of the second transistor structures are jointly electrically connected to the source structure of the power transistor structure.
US12027498B2
Semiconductor device package assemblies and associated methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the semiconductor device package assembly includes (1) a base component having a front side and a back side opposite the first side, the base component having a first metallization structure at the front side, the first metallization structure being exposed in a contacting area at the front side; (2) a semiconductor device package having a first side and a second side, the semiconductor device package having a second metallization structure at the first side; and (3) a metal bump at least partially positioned in the recess and electrically coupled to the second metallization structure and the first metallization structure.
US12027490B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes providing a semiconductor die, arranging an electrical connector over the semiconductor die, the electrical connector including a conductive core, an absorbing feature arranged on a first side of the conductive core, and a solder layer arranged on a second side of the conductive core, opposite the first side and facing the semiconductor die, and soldering the electrical connector onto the semiconductor die by heating the solder layer with a laser, wherein the laser irradiates the absorbing feature and absorbed energy is transferred from the absorbing feature through the conductive core to the solder layer.
US12027484B2
An electronic package is provided and includes a carrier for carrying electronic components. Electrical contact pads of the carrier for planting solder balls are connected with a plurality of columnar conductors, and the conductors are electrically connected to a circuit portion in the carrier. By connecting a plurality of conductors with a single electrical contact pad, structural stress can be distributed and breakage of the circuit portion can be prevented.
US12027483B2
In a described example, a device includes an overcoat layer covering an interconnect; an opening in the overcoat layer exposing a portion of a surface of the interconnect; a stud on the exposed portion of the surface of the interconnect in the opening; a surface of the stud approximately coplanar with a surface of the overcoat layer; and a conductive pillar covering the stud and covering a portion of the overcoat layer surrounding the stud, the conductive pillar having a planar and un-dished surface facing away from the stud and the overcoat layer.
US12027482B2
A semiconductor chip includes: a semiconductor substrate; a pad insulating layer on the semiconductor substrate; a through electrode which penetrates the semiconductor substrate and the pad insulating layer and includes a conductive plug and a conductive barrier layer surrounding a sidewall of the conductive plug; and a bonding pad which surrounds a sidewall of the through electrode and is spaced apart from the conductive plug with the conductive barrier layer disposed therebetween.
US12027480B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate having a bonding pad, and a first dielectric layer disposed over the semiconductor substrate. A portion of the bonding pad is exposed by the first dielectric layer. The semiconductor device also includes a metal oxide layer disposed over the portion of the bonding pad, and a wire bond penetrating through the metal oxide layer to bond to the bonding pad. The portion of the bonding pad is entirely covered by the metal oxide layer and the wire bond.
US12027477B2
A method of manufacturing an interconnect packaging structure is provided. In one aspect, the method includes forming a first body defining a cavity around at least one integrated circuit using an additive manufacturing machine, depositing a conductive transmission line on the first body and electrically coupling the conductive transmission line and the at least one integrated circuit with a conductive interconnect.
US12027475B2
A die includes: a semiconductor substrate; an interconnect structure disposed on the semiconductor substrate and including: inter-metal dielectric (IMD) layers; metal features embedded in the IMD layers; and a guard ring structure including concentric first and second guard rings that extend through at least a subset of the IMD layers; and a through silicon via (TSV) structure extending through the semiconductor substrate and the subset of IMD layers to electrically contact one of the metal features. The first guard ring surrounds the TSV structure; and the second guard ring surrounds the first guard ring and is configured to reduce a parasitic capacitance between the guard ring structure and the TSV structure.
US12027474B2
Structures for a laser-detection device including a magnetic-tunneling-junction layer stack and related methods. The structure has a magnetic-tunneling-junction layer stack including a fixed layer, a free layer, and an insulating spacer between the fixed layer and the free layer, and a power supply coupled to the magnetic-tunneling-junction layer stack. The power supply is configured to bias the magnetic-tunneling-junction layer stack to modulate an energy barrier of the magnetic-tunneling-junction layer stack for switching between a low-resistance state and a high-resistance state in response to receiving incident electromagnetic radiation of an intensity.
US12027469B2
An electronic device package and manufacturing method thereof are provided. The electronic device package includes an electronic component including an active surface, a patterned conductive layer disposed on the active surface, an encapsulation layer disposed over the patterned conductive layer, and a buffer layer disposed between the patterned conductive layer and the encapsulation layer. The buffer layer is shaped and sized to alleviate a stress generated due to an interaction between the patterned conductive layer and the encapsulation layer.
US12027463B2
A memory device includes a memory array, disposed on a substrate of a peripheral-circuit structure; a conductive plug, extending through the memory array and connected to the peripheral-circuit structure; and a conductive pad layer, disposed over the memory array and including a plurality of conductive pads spaced apart from each other. The conductive plug protrudes into a corresponding conductive pad of the plurality of conductive pads.
US12027462B2
A method and a structure for determining a blocking ability of a copper diffusion blocking layer are disclosed. The method includes: a step S1 of forming an a-Si semiconductor layer, the copper diffusion blocking layer, and a copper electrode layer on a glass substrate; a step S2 of forming a transparent electrode layer on the glass substrate; a step S3 of performing a high temperature deterioration process to the glass substrate; and a step S4 of observing a degree of forming the black copper-silicon alloy layer on a surface of a composite film layer sample of the glass substrate.
US12027460B2
A microelectronic device comprises a stack structure, and slot structures vertically extending through the stack structure and dividing the stack structure into block structures. Each of the slot structures individually comprises an insulative liner material vertically extending through the slot structure and contacting sidewalls of the insulative levels and the conductive levels defining the slot structure, and grains of a material in contact with sidewalls of the insulative liner material. The grains of the material comprise first grains spanning an entire width between the sidewalls of the insulative liner material. Related memory devices, electronic systems, and methods are also described.
US12027450B2
An electronic device includes: an electronic element having an element obverse surface and an element reverse surface spaced apart from each other in a first direction, the element obverse surface being provided with an obverse-surface electrode; a resin member having a resin reverse surface facing in a same direction as the element reverse surface, the resin member covering the electronic element; and an electrically conductive member supporting the electronic element and electrically connected to the electronic element. The electrically conductive member has a first exposed region, a second exposed region and a third exposed region each of which is exposed from the resin reverse surface. The resin member has a first resin side surface and a second resin side surface connected to each other and standing up from the resin reverse surface. As viewed in the first direction, the first exposed region is located at a corner portion where the first resin side surface and the second resin side surface are connected. As viewed in the first direction, the second exposed region is located side by side with the first exposed region in a second direction extending along the first resin side surface. The third exposed region is located between the first exposed region and the second exposed region in the second direction. As viewed in the first direction, the third exposed region has a larger area than each of the first exposed region and the second exposed region.
US12027443B2
Integrated cooling device based on Peltier effect and manufacturing method thereof are provided. The device comprises one or more first heat dissipation structures around a device area. Each first heat dissipation structure comprises first N-type deep doped regions and first P-type deep doped regions arranged alternately, first vias, and first metal interconnection layers. The first vias are respectively located on two ends of each first N-type and each first P-type deep doped region. The first metal interconnect layers connect the first vias and such that the first heat dissipation structures are connected as a first S-shaped structure. When the first S-shaped structure is turned on, heat in the first N-type deep doped regions and the first P-type deep doped regions flows from a side close to the device area to its other side away from the device area, so as to realize heat dissipation in the device area.
US12027438B2
A semiconductor device including a board having a ground electrode and resin layers and a semiconductor chip mounted on the board, includes: a core embedded inside the board such that a front surface thereof is exposed on the front surface side of the board; a filled via provided so as to penetrate the resin layer disposed between the core and the ground electrode, of the resin layers, and electrically connecting a back surface of the core and the ground electrode; a joining material including a lid provided on the board so as to cover the semiconductor chip, having an exposed front surface, and having a high thermal conductivity and sintered silver joining a back surface of the lid and the front surface of the core; and a mold resin transfer-molded on an entirety of the front surface of the board and provided so as to surround the lid.
US12027429B2
A mounting substrate according to an embodiment of the present technology includes: a wiring substrate (30); a plurality of light-emitting elements (12) arranged in a matrix on the wiring substrate; and a plurality of drive ICs (13) that are arranged in a matrix on the wiring substrate, and control light emission of the light-emitting elements. The light-emitting elements and the drive ICs are mounted on a same surface. The wiring substrate includes a plurality of first wiring lines (16) on a mounting surface where the light-emitting elements and the dive ICs are mounted. The first wiring lines electrically couple the light-emitting elements to the drive ICs.
US12027426B2
A system and method including a processing device. The processing device receives data including a first set of plasma exposure values each associated with a respective plasma element of a plurality of plasma elements designed to generate plasma related fluxes. The processing device causes a plasma controller to activate the set of plasma elements based on the data to expose a substrate to the plasma related fluxes generated by the set of plasma elements during a plasma process. Each respective plasma element of the set of plasma elements is activated for a duration based on a respective plasma exposure value from the first plurality of plasma exposure values that is associated with the respective plasma element.
US12027424B2
A semiconductor integrated circuit (IC) including a first fin structure having a first aqueous soluble channel layer. The semiconductor IC includes a first gate structure over the first aqueous soluble channel layer, wherein the first gate structure includes a first oxide film directly contacting the first aqueous soluble channel layer, and the first oxide film includes a first material. The semiconductor IC includes a first spacer along the first gate structure, wherein a bottom surface of the first spacer is above an interface between the first oxide layer and the first aqueous soluble channel layer. The semiconductor IC includes a second fin structure having a second aqueous soluble channel layer. The semiconductor IC includes a second gate structure over the second aqueous channel layer, wherein the second gate structure includes a second oxide film directly contacting the second aqueous soluble channel layer, the second oxide film includes a second material.
US12027418B2
The present disclosure relates to a semiconductor device and a preparation method thereof. The method for preparing a semiconductor device comprises: providing a first dielectric layer; forming a first window in the first dielectric layer; forming a first connection structure in the first window; forming a second dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer, the second dielectric layer having a second window from which at least the first connection structure is exposed; forming a first barrier layer on the sidewall and bottom of the second window, the first barrier layer comprising an opening from which part of the first connection structure is exposed; and forming a second connection structure in the second window.
US12027415B2
In one exemplary aspect, a method for semiconductor manufacturing comprises forming first and second silicon nitride features on sidewall surfaces of a contact hole, where the contact hole is disposed in a dielectric layer and above a source/drain (S/D) feature. The method further comprises forming a contact plug in the contact hole, the contact plug being electrically coupled to the S/D feature, removing a top portion of the contact plug to create a recess in the contact hole, forming a hard mask layer in the recess, and removing the first and second silicon nitride features via selective etching to form first and second air gaps, respectively.
US12027408B2
A transfer device of micro-elements and manufacturing method thereof are provided in the present disclosure. The transfer device of micro-elements may comprise a vacuum chamber, a plurality of movable mass blocks and a plurality of electrode assemblies. The vacuum chamber may define a vacuum space and a plurality of through holes. The plurality of through holes can communicate the vacuum space with outside. The plurality of through holes can be configured to suck the micro-elements. The plurality of movable mass blocks may be arranged in the vacuum chamber. Each movable mass block may be arranged corresponding to a through hole. The plurality of electrode assemblies may be fixed in the vacuum chamber. Each electrode assembly can be arranged corresponding to a through hole.
US12027407B2
A substrate support apparatus includes a housing and a plurality of spherical supports. The housing has a top surface, the top surface including a plurality of openings. The housing is configured to position the plurality of spherical supports within the plurality of openings so that topmost surfaces of the plurality of spherical supports are arranged in a plane above the top surface. A spherical support of the plurality of spherical supports is rotatable within the housing.
US12027405B2
A semiconductive ceramic member according to the present disclosure contains a plurality of aluminum oxide crystal grains, and a plurality of titanium oxide crystal grains. The total content of aluminum oxide and titanium oxide is 99% by mass or more per 100% by mass of all constituents. The content of the aluminum oxide is 86% by mass or more and 96% by mass or less and the content of the titanium oxide is 4% by mass or more and 14% by mass or less per 100% by mass of the aluminum oxide and the titanium oxide in total. A peak of TiOx (0
US12027401B2
Semiconductor substrate alignment device and a semiconductor substrate bonding system using the same
A semiconductor substrate alignment device includes: a lower chuck; a lower chuck driving unit; an upper chuck above and overlapping the lower chuck; observation windows in the upper chuck, imaging units respectively configured to irradiate light through the observation windows and to obtain images by detecting light reflected from the semiconductor substrates; a distance sensor configured to detect a distance between an edge of the lower chuck and an edge of the upper chuck; and a control unit configured to identify first and second alignment keys from images of first and second semiconductor substrates, determine an alignment error value of the first and second semiconductor substrates, and compensate for the alignment error value by driving the lower chuck driving unit.
US12027400B2
A method for automatically calibrating the position of a wafer handling robot relative to a wafer carrier. The method comprises providing a semiconductor processing assembly comprising the wafer carrier and the wafer handling robot having an end effector, placing a wafer on a wafer support surface of the end effector, moving the end effector to an end position adjacent the wafer carrier, determining a displacement of the wafer on the wafer support surface, repeating these steps until the magnitude of the displacement meets a set end criterion, and storing the latest used end position as a calibrated end position.
US12027392B2
Provided is a pump backstream prevention structure for semiconductor fabrication equipment, including a sensor, an isolation air supply pipe, and a control unit. A time delay from a point in time at which the dry pump starts to malfunction to a point in time at which the isolation valve is closed is reduced, compared to a method of closing the isolation valve by a controller of the semiconductor fabrication equipment. Accordingly, a backstream in which particles move from the pumping pipe to the process chamber before the closing of the isolation valve is prevented.
US12027387B2
A holding device includes a plate-shaped member, a tubular member, and a connecting member. The tubular member is made of ceramic and is joined to plate-shaped member at an end thereof. The tubular member has, at an other end thereof, a flange portion having a first through-hole. The connecting member is disposed on the other side of the tubular member and has, in a third surface, which is an end face of the connecting member, a hole into which a fastening member inserted through the first through-hole in the flange portion is to be screwed. A specific portion, which is a portion in an outer edge line of a fourth surface of the tubular member, the portion overlapping a minimum virtual circle covering the fourth surface, is not in contact with the third surface of the connecting member.
US12027382B2
Cleaning chambers may include a substrate support having a substrate seating position. The cleaning chambers may include a plurality of fluid nozzles facing the substrate support. Each fluid nozzle of the plurality of fluid nozzles may define a fluid port characterized by a leading edge and a trailing edge. Each fluid nozzle of the plurality of fluid nozzles may be angled relative to the substrate seating position of the substrate support to produce an interior angle of greater than or about 90° at an intersection location across the substrate seating position for a fluid delivered from each fluid nozzle at the leading edge of the fluid port.
US12027378B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes: alternately stacking a first film and a second film on a surface of a semiconductor substrate to form a multilayer film; partially removing the multilayer film to form stacks and a depression between one of the stacks and another one of the stacks and expose an end portion of the surface; forming a first insulating film to fill the depression; forming a first protective film on the stacks, the first insulating film, and the end portion; forming a second insulating film on the first protective film, the second insulating film overlapping at least a part of the other one of the stacks and the end portion; and removing the second insulating film in a thickness direction using chemical mechanical polishing.
US12027377B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes: preparing a semiconductor substrate including a first semiconductor layer made of gallium oxide containing Sn and a second semiconductor layer disposed on the first semiconductor layer and made of n type gallium oxide having a Sn concentration lower than a Sn concentration of the first semiconductor layer; implanting ions of a group 2 element into the second semiconductor layer; and forming a diffusion region, in which the group 2 element diffuses, in a range from a surface of the second semiconductor layer to an interface between the second semiconductor layer and the first semiconductor layer.
US12027372B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a source/drain region on a substrate, depositing a metal-rich metal silicide layer on the source/drain region, depositing a silicon-rich metal silicide layer on the metal-rich metal silicide layer, and forming a contact plug on the silicon-rich metal silicide layer. This disclosure also describes a semiconductor device including a fin structure on a substrate, a source/drain region on the fin structure, a metal-rich metal silicide layer on the source/drain region, a silicon-rich metal silicide layer on the metal-rich metal silicide layer, and a contact plug on the silicon-rich metal silicide layer.
US12027370B2
A method of forming an integrated circuit includes forming a patterned mask layer on a material layer, wherein the patterned mask layer has a plurality of first features, and a first distance between adjacent first features of the plurality of first features. The method further includes patterning the material layer to form the first features in the material layer. The method further includes increasing the first distance between adjacent first features of the plurality of first features to a second distance. The method further includes treating portions of the material layer exposed by the patterned mask layer. The method further includes removing the patterned mask layer; and removing non-treated portions of the material layer.
US12027364B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor device by using a plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition apparatus. A substrate comprising a silicon substrate and a first oxide layer is provided. A plurality of stacked structures are deposited on the substrate, which comprises a dielectric layer and a conductive layer. The stacked structures are etched to form trenches. A second oxide layer is deposited by using a plasma-enhanced atomic layer deposition apparatus that includes a chamber, an upper electrode, a lower electrode, and a three-dimensional rotation device. The upper electrode is connected to a first radio-frequency power device. The upper electrode is configured to generate a plasma. The lower electrode is connected to a second radio-frequency power device. The three-dimensional rotation device drives the substrate to rotate. A high resistance layer is deposited on the second oxide layer. A low resistance layer is deposited on the high resistance layer.
US12027359B2
A Time of Flight analyser comprising a flight tube (160) and a reflectron (170), wherein the reflectron comprises a stack of electrodes (172) that are compressed against the flight tube such that they remain parallel to each other under compression.
US12027358B2
The invention provides a mass spectrometry analysis method and a mass spectrometry system, including: a first sample separation step, separating a sample by a first sample separation device to obtain first isolates; a second sample separation step, introducing ionized first isolates into a second sample separation device for further separation based on a difference in ion mobility to obtain second isolates; and a mass spectrometry analysis step, performing mass spectrometry detection at least on daughter ions obtained from dissociation of the second isolates; in the second sample separation step, the second sample separation device operates in a filter mode, and screens out and releases ions having ion mobility within a specified range from received second isolates. The mass spectrometry analysis method can improve the dynamic range of mass spectrometry analysis.
US12027356B2
Apparatus is provided and an IDA method is modified to detect and separately dissociate alkali-metal adducts of a compound. An ion source device ionizes one or more compounds of a sample, producing an ion beam. A mass filter selects a mass range of precursor ions from the ion beam, a mass analyzer measures intensities and m/z values of the precursor ions, and one or more of the precursor ions are selected for a peak list. For each pair of precursor ions of the peak list, if an m/z difference between the pair corresponds to an m/z difference between an alkali metal ion and another alkali metal ion or a proton, an ExD device is used to dissociate one precursor ion or both precursor ions of the pair using the processor. A CID device is used to dissociate all other precursor ions of the peak list.
US12027352B2
A plasma vapor deposition (PVD) chamber used for depositing material includes an apparatus for influencing ion trajectories during deposition on a substrate. The apparatus includes at least one annular support assembly configured to be externally attached to and positioned below a substrate support pedestal and a magnetic field generator affixed to the annular support assembly and configured to radiate magnetic fields on a top surface of the substrate. The magnetic field generator may include a plurality of symmetrically spaced discrete permanent magnets or may use one or more electromagnets to generate the magnetic fields.
US12027344B2
A film forming apparatus includes a vacuum-evacuable processing chamber, a lower electrode for mounting thereon a target substrate, an upper electrode disposed to face the lower electrode, a gas supply unit, a voltage application unit and a switching unit. The gas supply unit supplies a film forming source gas to be formed into plasma to a processing space between the upper and the lower electrode. The voltage application unit applies to the upper electrode a voltage outputted from at least one of a high frequency power supply and a DC power supply included therein. The switching unit selectively switches the voltage to be applied to the upper electrode among a high frequency voltage outputted from the high frequency power supply, a DC voltage outputted from the DC power supply, and a superimposed voltage in which the DC voltage is superimposed with the high frequency voltage.
US12027342B2
A charged particle beam device is provided in which axis adjustment as a superimposing lens is facilitated by aligning an axis of an electrostatic lens resulting from a deceleration electric field with an axis of a magnetic field lens. The charged particle beam device includes: an electron source; an objective lens that focuses a probe electron beam from the electron source on a sample; a first beam tube and a second beam tube through each of which the probe electron beam passes; a deceleration electrode arranged between the first beam tube and a sample; a first voltage source that forms a deceleration electric field for the probe electron beam between the first beam tube and the deceleration electrode by applying a first potential to the first beam tube; and a first moving mechanism that moves a position of the first beam tube.
US12027333B2
A DC relay capable of extinguishing arc and resisting short-circuit current includes two stationary contact leading-out terminals, a push rod component, a straight sheet type movable spring mounted on the push rod component and two permanent magnets. Two permanent magnets are respectively arranged on two sides in the width direction of the movable spring. Each permanent magnet connects one L-shaped yoke clip, which has one end connected to the magnet, and the other end at a position outside the two ends in the length direction of the movable spring. Upper magnetizers are mounted above the position. The lower magnetizers are mounted under the position. The upper and lower magnetizers can approach or come into contact with each other through the through holes in the movable spring. At least two independent magnetically conductive loops are formed in the width direction of the movable spring by the upper and lower magnetizers.
US12027331B2
A relay includes a fixed contact, a movable contact, a return member of the movable contact, and a case that covers the fixed contact, the movable contact, and the return member. The case is made of a material having transparency or translucency. The relay RS further includes a tray portion that is disposed above the return member and below the fixed contact and holds a fusing residue generated by separation/approach of the movable contact from/to the fixed contact. The relay further includes a cap that covers a portion of a terminal connected to the fixed contact, the portion being exposed from the case. When the cap is attached to the case, at least a portion of the case is exposed without being covered with the cap.
US12027321B2
In production of an electrode for an aluminum electrolytic capacitor, a hydrated film is formed onto an aluminum electrode including a porous layer by immersing the aluminum electrode into a first hydration treatment liquid having a temperature of 80° C. or more in a first hydration treatment step (ST1) and thereafter the aluminum electrode is heated in an atmosphere having a temperature of 150° C. or more and 350° C. or less in a dehydration step (ST2). Subsequently, a hydrated film is formed onto the aluminum electrode by immersing the aluminum electrode into a second hydration treatment liquid having a temperature of 80° C. or more in a second hydration treatment step (ST3) and thereafter chemical formation of the aluminum electrode is performed at 400 V or more and further 600 V or more in a chemical formation step.
US12027317B2
A dielectric composition includes dielectric particles and first segregations. The dielectric particles each include a perovskite compound represented by ABO3 as a main component. The first segregations each include Ba, Ti, Si, Ni, and O.
US12027305B2
An openable toroidal current transformer is intended to close over at least one electrical conductor in which an electrical current to be measured circulates. The current transformer includes a magnetic circuit, and an electrically conducting coil wound around the magnetic circuit and electrically insulated from the magnetic circuit. The coil comprises a single winding or several distinct windings coupled in series. The magnetic circuit comprises a set of wires of magnetic material assembled in the form of a strand, allowing having uniform flexibility in all directions for the magnetic circuit.
US12027301B2
A composite coil device includes a winding shaft portion, a first conductor portion, and a second conductor portion. The winding shaft portion at least partly includes a magnetic body and axially includes a first section and a second section. The first conductor portion is wound continuously in the first section and the second section. The second conductor portion is wound in the second section.
US12027296B2
An inductor component includes a core having an annular shape; an insulating member that covers a portion of the core; a coil wound around the core and the insulating member; and a buffer member that is elastic. The core has a first face, a second face that crosses the first face, and a third face that faces the second face and crosses the first face. The insulating member is provided to cover the first face, a portion of the second face, and a portion of the third face. The core and the insulating member are bonded to each other with the buffer member interposed therebetween.
US12027295B2
A system for mounting a filter component to a circuit hoard. The system comprises a filter component housing dimensioned to house a filter component. The system further comprises a mount between the filter component housing and the circuit hoard, the mount configured to couple the filter component housing to the circuit board.
US12027293B2
This invention provides methods for fabricating a hard or soft magnet with tailorable magnetic and crystallographic orientations. Methods are disclosed to individually tailor three-dimensional voxels for selected crystallographic orientations and, independently, selected magnetic orientations with location specificity throughout a magnet. Some variations provide a method of making a magnet, comprising: providing a feedstock composition containing magnetic or magnetically susceptible materials; exposing the feedstock composition to an energy source for melting, thereby generating a first melt layer; solidifying the first melt layer in the presence of an externally applied magnetic field, thereby generating a magnetic metal layer containing a plurality of individual voxels; optionally repeating to generate a plurality of solid layers; and recovering a magnet comprising the magnetic metal layer(s), wherein the externally applied magnetic field has a magnetic-field orientation that is selected to control a magnetic axis and a crystallographic texture within the magnetic metal layer(s).
US12027292B2
A transient voltage protection device includes: an element body; a cavity portion provided in the element body; a pair of internal electrodes disposed in the element body; and a pair of external electrodes connected to the pair of internal electrodes. The pair of internal electrodes extend along a first direction and face each other in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The cavity portion includes a gap region located between the pair of internal electrodes in the second direction. A tip portion of at least one of the pair of internal electrodes is in contact with only the element body.
US12027283B2
A batching system for producing special cables includes a motor, a loading plate, wire pulling rollers, a transmission steel pipe and a batching motor; the transmission steel pipe is rotatably connected to an upper end surface of the loading plate by a bracket; the motor is fixedly arranged on a side wall of a mounting bracket; the wire pulling rollers are rotatably connected to an upper end surface of the loading plate; the system further includes: a wiring mechanism, a replacing mechanism and a driving mechanism; the wiring mechanism is coaxially and fixedly connected with an outer end surface of the transmission steel pipe; the replacing mechanism is sleeved on the outer end surface of the transmission steel pipe; the driving mechanism is fixedly mounted on a lower end surface of the loading plate; a winding mechanism for winding wires is coaxially and fixedly arranged on the transmission steel pipe.
US12027282B2
An arrangement includes an insulator sleeve, a mounting sheath, an end piece of the insulator sleeve is received in a receptacle opening of the mounting sheath, and a holding pin penetrating the insulator sleeve and fixing the mounting sheath on the insulator sleeve in a non-displaceable manner in a length direction of the insulator sleeve.
US12027280B2
An optical resonator device (100) with crossed cavities, in particular being configured for optically trapping atoms, comprises a first linear optical resonator (10) extending between first resonator mirrors (11A, 11B) along a first resonator light path (12) and supporting a first resonator mode, a second linear optical resonator (20) extending between second resonator mirrors (21A, 21B) along a second resonator light path (22) and supporting a second resonator mode, wherein the first and second resonator light paths (12, 22) span a main resonator plane, and a carrier device carrying the first and second resonator mirrors (11A, 11B, 21A, 21B), wherein the first and second resonator mirrors (11, 21) are arranged such that the first and second resonator modes cross each other for providing an optical lattice trap (1) in the main resonator plane. The carrier device comprises a monolithic spacer body (30) being made of an ultra-low-expansion material and comprising first carrier surfaces (31) accommodating the first resonator mirrors (11A, 11B) and second carrier surfaces (32) accommodating the second resonator mirrors (21A, 21B), wherein the first resonator light path (12) extends through a first spacer body bore (33) in the spacer body (30) between the first carrier surfaces (31), and the second resonator light path (22) extends through a second spacer body bore (34) in the spacer body (30) between the second carrier surfaces (32). Furthermore, an atom trapping method for creating a two-dimensional arrangement of atoms and an atom trap apparatus, like an optical atomic clock, a quantum simulation and/or a quantum computing device are described.
US12027277B1
An active learning system can analyze a dataset of users with self-reported symptoms and associated data from wearable devices to train a baseline machine learning model to predict symptoms of a chronic health condition based on wearable device data. For example, symptoms can be predicted in terms of lost physical activity, increased sleep requirements, and changes in resting heart rate. Using the baseline model, the active learning system can train and refine individual user-specific models to predict the onset of chronic health condition symptoms over time. These models can be used to predict symptoms for inclusion in a log of symptoms for the target user (which may be used by a healthcare provider to personalize treatment for the target user) or to provide interventions to the user (for example, warning of a predicted severe symptom day). In some implementations individual chronic health condition models are maintained and updated using active learning techniques.
US12027272B2
The present disclosure provides a system for predicting diabetic retinopathy progression. The system includes an image-capturing module and a processing unit. The image-capturing module is configured to capture a first fundus image of a user at a first time and a second fundus image of the user at a second time different from the first time. The processing unit is configured to receive the first fundus image and the second fundus image, compare the first fundus image and the second fundus image and indicate a difference between the first fundus image and the second fundus image. The processing unit is also configured to provide a prediction in a diabetic retinopathy progression of the user based on the difference. A method for predicting diabetic retinopathy progression is also provided in the present disclosure.
US12027261B2
According to one or more aspects of the present disclosure a wearable oral device is provided. The wearable oral device may include a mouthpiece; a bone conduction component; and a processing device. The processing device may detect one or more user interactions by a first user with the wearable oral device; and perform one or more operations in view of the one or more user interactions. The one or more user interactions may include a user interaction by the first user with the mouthpiece. The one or more operations may include presenting a content item via the bone conduction component of the wearable oral device. The content item may include audio content. In some embodiments, the content item comprises a voice message from a second user.
US12027257B2
A beacon-based metrics system may track events associated with a user device located within a medical facility, determine that the user device detects a beacon emitted by a beacon generator located within the medical facility, and identify information included in the beacon. The beacon-based metrics system may generate medical facility metrics data representative of the tracked events by identifying a set of tracked events that occur during a time period in which the user device detects the beacon and associating the information included in the beacon with the set of tracked events.
US12027255B2
A system for predicting microsatellite instability and a construction method thereof, a terminal device and a medium are provided. Target image information, pathological specimen information and clinical data information of a user to be predicted are acquired by an acquisition module in the system for predicting microsatellite instability; a radiomics signature is generated according to the target image information, and a pathomics signature is generated according to the pathological specimen information, by a signature generation module, based on a pre-trained MSI-H/dMMR multi-omics signature model; and MSI-H/dMMR prediction results are generated according to the radiomics signature, the pathomics signature and the clinical data information, by a prediction generation module, based on a pre-trained MSI-H/dMMR prediction model.
US12027244B2
Healthcare transaction validation systems and methods are presented. Healthcare transactions associated with a stakeholder are compiled into a chain of healthcare transaction blocks. The chain can be considered a chronicle of person's healthcare path through life. When a transaction is conducted, the corresponding healthcare parameters (e.g., inputs, outputs, clinical evidence, outcomes, etc.) are sent to one or more validation devices. The devices establish a validity of the transaction and generate a new block via a proof-of-work principle. Once the new block has been calculated it can be appended to the stakeholder's health care blockchain.
US12027243B2
Technologies for determining healthcare relationships include a healthcare insight computing device communicatively coupled to multiple patient data providers. The healthcare insight computing device is configured to determine one or more relationships between received data and previously received patient data associated with one or more patients. The healthcare insight computing device is further configured to correlate the ingested data as a function of the determined relationships and enrich the correlated patient data to form a new data element. Additionally, the healthcare insight computing device is configured to transmit the new data element to a raw data cluster such that visual representations of the data elements of the raw data cluster and the relationships there between can be displayed. Additional embodiments are described herein.
US12027235B1
Presented herein are systems and methods for predicting which amino acid sites of a target proteins of interest will be binding sites—for example, locations and/or identifications of particular amino acid sites—that are amenable or likely to participate in binding interactions with other ligands, such as other proteins. These binding site predictions may, for example, be generated for target proteins that are implicated in disease and, accordingly, be targets for potential new biologic drugs. Binding site prediction technologies described herein may thus be used to guide design and/or testing of new and/or custom biologic drugs, either experimentally or in-silico. In this manner, binding site prediction technologies of the present disclosure can facilitate design and/or testing of new biologic drugs, leading to new and improved candidates and/or improving, among other things, developmental efficiency, success rates of clinical trials, and time to market.
US12027210B2
A system includes a memory device and a processing device operatively coupled to the memory device. The processing device is to receive a programming command with respect to a set of memory cells coupled to one or more wordlines of the memory device. The processing device is further to determine a value of a metric reflecting reliability of a subset of the set of memory cells. The processing device is further to determine a delay based on the value of the metric. The processing device is further to perform a programming operation with respect to the subset of memory cells. The programming operation includes the delay between a first pass of the programming operation and a second pass of the programming operation.
US12027194B2
A semiconductor memory device and a memory system are provided. The semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell array, a normal refresh row address generator, a hammer refresh row address generator, a refresh selection signal generator, and a selector. The normal and hammer refresh row address generators generates a normal refresh row address and a hammer refresh row address, respectively, in response to a refresh counting control signal. The refresh selection signal generator sequentially generates normal and hammer refresh selection signals in response to the refresh counting control signal. The selector selects the normal refresh row address or the hammer refresh row address in response to the normal and hammer refresh selection signals. A normal refresh operation and a hammer refresh operation are sequentially performed on a memory cell array block among plural memory cell array blocks in response to the refresh row address.
US12027192B2
Methods, systems, and devices for a sensing scheme that extracts the full or nearly full remnant polarization charge difference between two logic states of a ferroelectric memory cell or cells is described. The scheme employs a charge mirror to extract the full charge difference between the two states of a selected memory cell. The charge mirror may transfer the memory cell polarization charge to an amplification capacitor. The signal on the amplification capacitor may then be compared with a reference voltage to detect the logic state of the memory cell.
US12027190B1
A first layer that includes a metal seed layer, a refractive seed or a refractive dopant is formed on a dielectric substrate. A peg of a near-field transducer is formed on the first layer such that a first surface of the peg is formed on and is in contact with the metal seed. An adhesive layer is formed over the peg using atomic layer deposition. The adhesive layer includes alumina and is 4 nm or less in thickness. A silicon dioxide overcoat is deposited over the adhesive layer. The alumina bonds the silicon dioxide to the peg.
US12027189B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device includes a magnetic disk, a magnetic head including a write head which writes data to the magnetic disk, a read head which reads data from the magnetic disk, a first heater which adjusts a flying height of the write head, a second heater which adjusts a flying height of the read head and a controller which controls powers supplied to the first heater and the second heat, and controls a power value of the power supplied to the first heater according to a ratio between an electric resistance value of the first heater and an electric resistance value of the second heater.
US12027186B2
A noncontact communication device includes a processor, and a transmission and reception device that applies a magnetic field to a noncontact storage medium mounted in a magnetic tape cartridge to induce power in the noncontact storage medium and is coupled to the noncontact storage medium by electromagnetic induction to perform transmission and reception of information with the noncontact storage medium. The noncontact storage medium has a measurement circuit that measures the power, and transmits power information regarding the power measured by the measurement circuit to the noncontact communication device. The transmission and reception device receives the power information, and the processor is configured to execute support processing of supporting the transmission and reception based on the power information received by the transmission and reception device.
US12027181B2
The present disclosure generally relate to tape assembly implementations for magnetic recording devices, such as tape embedded drives (TEDs). In one or more embodiments, a first reel and a second reel are mounted at stationary positions. One or more of the first reel and/or the second reel includes a hub mounted to a spindle, and a single flange extending relative to the hub. In one or more embodiments, one or more of a first reel and/or a second reel each includes a flangeless hub mounted to a spindle.
US12027173B2
A method and apparatus for authenticating a user based on an utterance input includes obtaining an input audio signal based on the utterance input of the user; obtaining, from the input audio signal, at least one audio signal of an utterance section and at least one audio signal of a non-utterance section; generating environment information indicating an environment in which the utterance input is received, based on the at least one audio signal of the non-utterance section; obtaining a result of a comparison between the generated environment information and registration environment information indicating an environment in which a registration utterance input corresponding to a previously registered registration audio signal corresponding to the user is received; adjusting an authentication criterion for authenticating the user based on the result of the comparison; and authenticating the user based on the adjusted authentication criterion and the input audio signal.
US12027166B2
Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. An example process for performing a task includes, at an electronic device having one or more processors and memory, receiving a spoken input including a request, receiving an image input including a plurality of objects, selecting a reference resolution module of a plurality of reference resolution modules based on the request and the image input, determining, with the selected reference resolution module, whether the request references a first object of the plurality of objects based on at least the spoken input, and in accordance with a determination that the request references the first object of the plurality of objects, determining a response to the request including information about the first object.
US12027148B2
A soundproof material may comprise, in order: a first electrically conductive ferromagnetic layer, a charged insulator layer, and a second electrically conductive ferromagnetic layer. A charged site at the charged insulator layer may be electrically insulated from the first electrically conductive ferromagnetic layer and/or the second electrically conductive ferromagnetic layer. When a sound causes vibration of any among the first electrically conductive ferromagnetic layer, the charged insulator layer, and/or the second electrically conductive ferromagnetic layer, this causes alteration of a magnetic field at the first electrically conductive ferromagnetic layer and/or the second electrically conductive ferromagnetic layer, soundproofing being carried out when acoustic energy of the sound wave is lost as thermal energy.
US12027142B2
A harmonica including at least a comb including a plurality of chambers, a first plate including a plurality of blow reeds, a second plate including a plurality of draw reeds, the harmonica wherein each chamber of the plurality of chambers includes at least one material projection, each material projection being configured to reduce the oscillatory space of a draw reed, and in that it includes at least one additional plate arranged above the first plate and including a plurality of additional material projections, each additional material projection of the plurality of additional material projections being configured to reduce the oscillatory space of a blow reed.
US12027141B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices, and systems for data synchronization. The present implementations more specifically relate to adjusting a rate at which display updates are output to a digital display based on an activity level associated with the digital display. For example, digital displays that render images with relatively little motion or user engagement may be associated with lower activity levels, whereas digital displays that render images with more significant motion or user engagement may be associated with higher activity levels. In some aspects, an adaptive display interface may dynamically increase the rate at which display frames are output to a display when the activity level increases and may dynamically decrease the rate at which display frames are output to the display when the activity level decreases.
US12027138B2
A shooting control method and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: within a first duration of each working cycle of a capturing process, adjusting a luminance value of a first screen area of the electronic device from a target luminance value to a preset luminance value that is less than the target luminance value, and controlling an under-screen camera of the electronic device to capture an image, where each working cycle includes a first duration and a second duration; and within the second duration after each first duration in the capturing process, controlling the under-screen camera of the electronic device to stop capturing an image, and adjusting the luminance value of the first screen area from the preset luminance value to the target luminance value.
US12027137B2
A display apparatus is provided, which includes a display panel and a display controller. The display controller calculates an image average brightness of each image in a video signal from a host. When an absolute difference between a first image average brightness of a current image and a second image average brightness of a previous image is smaller than a predetermined value, the display controller activates a timer to obtain a timer value. When the timer value reaches a first duration, the display controller reduces brightness of each pixel in the current image by a first ratio. When the timer value reaches a second duration, the display controller reduces the brightness of each pixel in the current image by a second ratio. The second duration is longer than the first duration, and the second ratio is higher than the first ratio.
US12027134B2
A display panel (20), a display device and a debugging method thereof are provided. The display panel (20) includes: a base substrate (1), including a display region (A) and a non-display region (B) surrounding the display region (A), the non-display region (B) including a binding region (C) located on one side of the display region (A); and a plurality of sub-pixels (2), located in the display region (A). Areas of pixel aperture regions of the plurality of sub-pixels (2) tend to increase in a direction from the binding region (C) to the display region (A).
US12027128B2
A display module and a display device are provided. In the display module, a liquid crystal display panel has a plurality of display subareas. A color backlight module has a plurality of backlight subareas in a one-to-one correspondence to the plurality of display subareas. A driving apparatus may sequentially drive liquid crystal molecules in the display subareas to turn over, and after driving the liquid crystal molecules in each display subarea to turn over, drive a light-emitting element of one color included in each backlight source in one corresponding backlight subarea to emit light.
US12027125B2
A display device according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a substrate including a display area and a non-display area enclosing the display area; a plurality of pixels disposed in the display area; and a gate driving unit disposed in the non-display area on both sides of the display area and including a plurality of stages. The plurality of stages includes a plurality of normal output stages and a plurality of dummy stages which does not output a signal. The plurality of dummy stages may be connected to a gate low voltage line.
US12027114B2
The present disclosure provides a pixel driving circuit, a driving method thereof, and a display device. In the pixel driving circuit, a first terminal of a first storage sub-circuit is connected to a control terminal; a power control sub-circuit is connected to a light-emitting control signal line, a first power line and a first terminal of the driving sub-circuit; a compensation sub-circuit is connected to a first gate line, a control terminal and a first terminal of the driving sub-circuit; a data writing-in sub-circuit is connected to a second terminal of the first storage sub-circuit; a first reset sub-circuit is connected to a reset signal line, a first power line and the control terminal of the driving sub-circuit; a first control sub-circuit is connected to the first gate line, an initialization signal line and the second terminal of the driving sub-circuit.
US12027109B2
A display device includes: a display panel including a plurality of display areas, the display areas including scan lines, data lines, and pixels connected to the scan lines and the data lines; a first source driving circuit connected to the data lines of a first display area from among the display areas; a second source driving circuit connected to the data lines of a second display area from among the display areas; a first scan driving circuit configured to receive a first clock signal from the first source driving circuit and to output first scan signals to a first group of scan lines from among the scan lines based on the first clock signal; and a second scan driving circuit configured to receive a second clock signal from the second source driving circuit and to output second scan signals to a second group of scan lines.
US12027100B2
In example implementations, an apparatus is provided. The apparatus includes an output device, a radar, a memory, and a processor in communication with the output device, the radar, and the memory. The radar is to collect position data of a user relative to the apparatus. The memory is to store a threshold. The processor is to determine if the position data of the user exceeds the threshold and to adjust a setting of the output device in response to the position data of the user determined to exceed the threshold.
US12027086B2
A driving circuit of a display panel includes: a first driving control circuit configured to, in a first display state, provide a signal of an OFF signal terminal to a starting node of a first light emitting signal driver according to a control signal of an ON level provided by a control signal terminal; the first light emitting signal driver configured to, in the first display state, control a light emitting signal output terminal to provide an OFF-level signal to a light emitting control terminal of a pixel driving circuit in a first display region according to the signal of the OFF signal terminal; and a second light emitting signal driver configured to, in the first display state, control a light emitting signal output terminal to provide a light emitting signal to a light emitting control terminal of a pixel driving circuit in a second display region.
US12027084B2
The present application provides a display panel including a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer, and a third conductive layer. The present application reduces an overlap area between test signal lines and data lines to further reduce a capacitance therebetween to prevent an issue of color mixture of a screen image during a lighting test.
US12027083B2
The present disclosure provides a method for detecting a display device. The method includes: sending a first instruction to a display device to enable all display sub-screens of the display device display a first test picture; judging whether all the display sub-screens meet the display standard or not according to a display condition of the first test picture; in response to that at least one display sub-screen does not meet the display standard, performing a first reset operation on the display sub-screen, and enabling the display sub-screen subjected to the first reset operation to display the first test picture again; judging whether the display sub-screen displaying the first test picture again meets the display standard or not; and in response to that the display sub-screen displaying the first test picture again does not meet the display standard, replacing the display sub-screen by using a standby display sub-screen.
US12027077B2
A flooring panel sample module and method of manufacturing the same. The module provides superior construction integrity without relying on the unpredictable performance of glue.
US12027071B2
A foot-braking simulation device for a simulator includes a mechanical braking module configured for supplying a linear effort value in response to a press on a brake pedal; an electromagnetic friction module configured for supplying a friction force value in response to the press on brake pedal; and a software calculation module configured for combining the values obtained from the mechanical braking and electromagnetic friction modules to calculate a control value, and generate variable force feedback on the brake pedal as a function of the control value.
US12027069B2
Systems and methods for automated content generation and delivery are provided herein. The system can include a memory that can include a content item library. The content library can include a hierarchical data structure having levels and a plurality of data packets, each of which data packets is linked with at least a portion of the hierarchical data structure. The system can include at least one server that can identify and deliver an item within a first content domain to a user device, evaluate a response to the delivered item, generate a scalar estimated skill level with a unidimensional evaluation engine, select and present a next item based on the estimated skill level, and upon completion of an assessment, generate a vector estimated skill level with a multidimensional evaluation engine.
US12027063B2
A passive constraint device is disclosed which attaches to a laparoscopic instrument to kinematically constrain the user from over-gripping the instrument and to train the user in proper handling of the instrument. Passive constraint devices include three degrees of freedom adjustment of a palm rest and clamps to the laparoscopic instrument. An active constraint device is disclosed which attaches to a laparoscopic instrument to dynamically constrain a user from over-gripping the instrument and provide resistive feedback to a user to train the user in proper handling of the instrument. Active constraint devices include a finger guard that, in one embodiment, is elastic and, in other embodiments, is solid but connects to finger loops of a laparoscopic instrument via elastic connectors. Methods of use include a method for training surgical residents in the proper handling of laparoscopic instruments using passive and active constraint devices during residency training.
US12027062B2
A communication skill evaluation system including: an audio input device; a measurement device; an utterance period detection unit that, based on the audio information input by the audio input device, detects an utterance period and a participant who spoke in each utterance period; a participatory role assignment unit that assigns a participatory role to each participant in accordance with whether or not each participant spoke in each utterance pair composed of two utterances obtained in chronological order from each utterance period; a feature quantity extraction unit that, based on the measurement results by the measurement device, extracts a non-verbal feature quantity for each participant, relating to the non-verbal action at the end of the utterance in each utterance period; and an estimation unit that estimates communication skill for each participant based on a combination, in each utterance period, of the participatory role and the non-verbal feature quantity.
US12027057B2
A device for flight data prediction includes a memory, a communication interface, and one or more processors. The memory is configured to store a departure airport map. The communication interface is configured to receive location data for a plurality of aircraft expected to arrive at or depart from a departure airport during a particular time range. The one or more processors are configured to predict, based on the location data and the departure airport map, a taxi duration or a fuel usage of a first aircraft of the plurality of aircraft. The one or more processors are also configured to generate an output based on the taxi duration or the fuel usage.
US12027050B2
A method of identifying a hazard includes receiving control parameter data from a first sensor attached to a vehicle, wherein the control parameter data is associated with a behavior of an occupant of the vehicle. The method further includes comparing the control parameter data with a performance distribution of the occupant to determine whether the control parameter indicates abnormal behavior. The method further includes identifying, in response to a determination that the control parameter indicates abnormal behavior, sensor data to be collected from a second sensor attached to the vehicle. The method further includes generating log data based on the collected sensor data. The method further includes transmitting the log data to an external device.
US12027043B2
Systems, devices, products, apparatuses, and/or methods, for detecting a missing traffic face, including: obtaining sensor data that includes a plurality of images associated with a geographic location including a roadway and associated with a plurality of image capture locations in the geographic location, determining in a subset of images of the plurality of images, a plurality of image areas associated with at least one predicted traffic face, determining a plurality of rays that project through 3-D spaces of the geographic location associated with the plurality of image areas from a subset of image capture locations of the plurality of image capture locations associated with the subset of images, and identifying at least one location of a traffic face in the geographic location based on a sum of unit vectors of the plurality of rays that project through the 3-D spaces of the geographic location at the at least one location of the traffic face.
US12027032B1
A sensitive area activity monitoring system is provided. A non-intrusive sensor that does not provide image, video, or audio data is used to capture data in a sensitive area that is associated with an activity. The sensor data is logged and provided to a downstream service tasked with personalizing the service based upon the logged data.
US12027027B2
In an example method, a mobile device obtains sample data generated by one or more sensors over a period of time, where the one or more sensors are worn by a user. The mobile device determines that the user has fallen based on the sample data, and determines, based on the sample data, a severity of an injury suffered by the user. The mobile device generates one or more notifications based on the determination that the user has fallen and the determined severity of the injury.
US12027025B2
A method for a secured purchase process. The method may include encoding a device with a unique identification code related to a specific item, attaching the device to the item by a locking mechanism included in the device, receiving, by a receiver included in the device, a signal upon a completion of a payment transaction related to the unique identification code, enabling an unlocking movement of the locking mechanism upon receipt of the signal, and unlocking the locking mechanism to enable releasing the device from the item.
US12027022B2
A method of playing a card game between a dealer and a player includes dealing first, third, fifth, seventh and ninth cards to the player. Second, fourth, sixth, eighth and tenth card are dealt to the dealer. A determination is made whether the first or second card has a higher value for a first point, whether the third or the fourth card has a higher value for a second point, whether the first, third and fifth combination of cards or the second, fourth and sixth combination of cards has a higher three-card stud poker hand for a third point, whether the seventh or eighth card has a higher value for a fourth point, and whether the first, third, fifth, seventh and ninth combination of cards or the second, fourth, sixth, eighth and tenth combination of cards has a higher five-card stud poker hand for a fifth point.
US12027012B2
Systems and methods enable one or more players to play a wagering game having virtual cards. A game system includes a game server configured to connect to at least one mobile gaming device over a network. The game server includes a processor configured to provide a wagering game having virtual cards to a player using the gaming device. Each wagering game is played by players at a virtual table who are dealt virtual cards to form a hand, and the hand satisfying a winning criterion is determined to be a winning hand. The game system also includes a database that may be implemented as a non-relational database configured to be connected to the game server. The database is configured to store a state of the hands of each table as a plurality of document-oriented datasets. The mobile gaming device may automatically re-authenticate to the game server after a disconnection.
US12027000B2
A system and method for determining the presence of an individual at a particular spot within a location preferably based on the strength of signals received from beacons assigned to the particular spot by a software application (“App”) running on an electronic device of the individual. In one embodiment, certain presence calculations are performed by the App. In another embodiment, the App forwards information regarding the received beacon signals to an electronic identification and location tracking system and the presence calculations are performed by the system.
US12026995B2
A method for fault detection is adapted for a vehicle display fault detection system. The vehicle display fault detection system includes a vehicle system and a display system. The method for fault detection includes following steps: detecting whether a first state of the display system is abnormal or not; when the first state is abnormal, the display system is configured to generate a fault detection signal; classifying to generate a control signal according to the fault detection signal; and adjusting the first state of the display system to a second state.
US12026985B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a method and an apparatus for processing diagnosis data, a diagnosis device and a server. The method includes: dividing diagnosis data into at least two types of data; respectively encapsulating the at least two types of data into at least two pieces of interface data according to interface data formats; and sending the at least two pieces of interface data to a server respectively through different interfaces, to cause the server to respectively store the at least two pieces of interface data in different cloud databases. In the embodiments of the present invention, diagnosis data is divided into at least two types of data. The at least two types of data are respectively encapsulated into at least two pieces of interface data. The at least two pieces of interface data are sent to the server respectively through different interfaces. In this way, a problem of easily causing loss of a diagnosis history record due to a limited local storage capacity of an automobile diagnosis device can be avoided.
US12026982B2
Systems and methods for handwriting recognition using language modeling facilitate improved results by using a trained language model to improve results from a handwriting recognition machine learning model. The language model may be a character-based language model trained on a dataset pertinent to field values on which the handwriting recognition model is to be used. A loss prediction module may be trained with the handwriting recognition model and/or the language model and used to determine whether a prediction from the handwriting recognition model should be refined by passing the prediction through the trained language model.
US12026978B2
A system and method are disclosed for generating a teleconference space for two or more communication devices using a computer coupled with a database and comprising a processor and memory. The computer generates a teleconference space and transmits requests to join the teleconference space to the two or more communication devices. The computer stores in memory identification information for each of the two or more communication devices. Each of the two or more communication devices stores audiovisual data pertaining to one or more users associated with each of the two or more communication devices. Each communication device converts the audiovisual data into facial expressions data, generates emotions data from the facial expressions data, generates attention data from the emotions data, and transmits the attention data from the communication device to the computer. The computer displays the attention data.
US12026973B2
An electronic device includes a light emitting assembly, a fingerprint chip, and a plurality of color filters. The light emitting assembly is disposed between encapsulation glass and a glass substrate of a display of the electronic device; the fingerprint chip is provided with a plurality of filter sub-regions that are spaced apart from each other; and the plurality of color filters are disposed between the display and the plurality of filter sub-regions respectively.
US12026967B2
Systems, devices, methods, and instructions for travel document validation, including receiving data for one or more travel documents, generating a set of features for artificial intelligence model training, validating, and testing, upon receiving data for a plurality of travel documents, data from a first subset of travel documents is used to train an artificial intelligence model, a second subset of travel documents is used to validate the artificial intelligence model, and a third subset of travel documents is used to test the artificial intelligence model.
US12026964B2
The disclosure provides a plant blooming period broadcast method and system, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method comprises: receiving an image, and identifying a plant in the image to obtain the species of the plant; using a plant variety identification model corresponding to the species of the plant to identify the specific variety and blooming state of the plant; obtaining the photographing time and photographing position of the image, and determining the blooming period of the plant according to the photographing time and the blooming state; and marking the photographing position on a blooming period broadcast map as a viewing place of the plant, and correspondingly displaying the specific variety and blooming period of the plant.
US12026955B2
In various examples, live perception from sensors of an ego-machine may be leveraged to detect objects and assign the objects to bounded regions (e.g., lanes or a roadway) in an environment of the ego-machine in real-time or near real-time. For example, a deep neural network (DNN) may be trained to compute outputs—such as output segmentation masks—that may correspond to a combination of object classification and lane identifiers. The output masks may be post-processed to determine object to lane assignments that assign detected objects to lanes in order to aid an autonomous or semi-autonomous machine in a surrounding environment.
US12026952B2
A system and method are provided for observing conditions in an environment around a transportation vehicle and adjusting operation of the transportation vehicle in response to the observed conditions. The temperatures of features in the environment can be determined to compensate for varying conditions in the environment in operating the transportation vehicle.
US12026947B2
Methods and apparatus to measure brand exposure in media streams are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein are to determine a first histogram based on at least one of luminance components or chrominance components of a first frame of video, and determine a second histogram based on at least one of luminance components or chrominance components of a second frame of the video. Disclosed example apparatus are also to detect a transition in the video based on the first histogram and the second histogram, and responsive to the detection of the transition in the video. Disclosed example apparatus are further to process a region of interest within at least one of the first frame or the second frame to detect a logo in the region of interest.
US12026944B2
The present invention relates to the technical field of precision farming. The present invention provides a method, a computer system and a computer program product with which a digital cultivation map for a field is created, said cultivation map comprising multiple zones, with at least one feature of at least one zone matched to at least one value of a machine working parameter that has been obtained from an image of the field.
US12026938B2
Example neural architecture search methods and image processing methods and apparatuses in the field of computer vision in the field of artificial intelligence are provided. The example neural architecture search method includes determining search space and a plurality of construction units, superimposing the plurality of construction units to obtain a search network, adjusting, in the search space, network architectures of the construction units in the search network, to obtain optimized construction units, and establishing a target neural network based on the optimized construction units. In each construction unit, some channels of an output feature map of each node are processed by using a to-be-selected operation to obtain a processed feature map, and the processed feature map and a remaining feature map are stitched and then input to a next node.
US12026931B2
An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to: acquire positional information indicating a position of a portion of an article; acquire condition information indicating a condition of the portion of the article; and store the positional information and the condition information in association with each other.
