US12087821B2
A method for manufacturing a silicon carbide semiconductor device, includes the steps of depositing an insulating film on a principal surface of a silicon carbide substrate, forming a contact hole in the insulating film and exposing the principal surface, forming a Si film on bottom and a side surfaces of the contact hole, and a top surface of the insulating film, removing the Si film on the bottom surface of the contact hole and exposing the principal surface, depositing a Ni film on the bottom surface of the contact hole and the Si film, and performing a heat treatment to form a first alloy layer, which becomes an ohmic electrode, at the bottom surface of the contact hole by Si included in the substrate and the Ni film, and a second alloy layer at the top surface of the insulating film by the Si film and the Ni film.
US12087795B2
A solid-state imaging device is provided that includes a first substrate including at least a first electrode, a first modification layer, a first low-permittivity layer formed on the first modification layer, and a first joint surface where the first electrode and the first modification layer are exposed; and a second substrate including at least a second electrode, a second modification layer, a second low-permittivity layer formed on the second modification layer, and a second joint surface where the second electrode and the second modification layer are exposed. The first modification layer has higher hydrophilicity than the first low-permittivity layer. The second modification layer has higher hydrophilicity than the second low-permittivity layer. The first substrate and the second substrate form a laminate structure and are electrically connected by bonding the first joint surface and the second joint surface.
US12087794B2
Provided is a solid-state imaging device capable of further improving reliability of a solid-state imaging device and further reducing manufacturing cost. Provided is a solid-state imaging device including a second semiconductor substrate provided with a photoelectric conversion unit and a second element, a second insulating layer, a first semiconductor substrate provided with a first element, and a first insulating layer arranged in this order from a light incident side, and including a groove formed on the first semiconductor substrate, in which the groove has a first side wall and a second side wall, and a part of at least one side wall of the first side wall or the second side wall extends in an oblique direction with respect to a surface of the first semiconductor substrate on the light incident side.
US12087789B2
An imaging apparatus including a semiconductor substrate which includes a charge accumulation portion containing an impurity of a first conductivity type; a contact plug which is connected to the charge accumulation portion, contains an impurity of the first conductivity type, and is not silicide; a first insulating film which includes an upper wall located above the contact plug; and a second insulating film which includes a portion located above the upper wall. A material of the second insulating film is different from a material of the first insulating film.
US12087785B2
An image sensor includes: a substrate including a plurality of first and second pixels; a light blocking pattern providing a plurality of first spaces respectively disposed on the first pixels and at least one second space disposed on the plurality of second pixels; a plurality of color filters respectively disposed in the plurality of first spaces; and a microlens layer including a plurality of first microlenses respectively disposed on the plurality of color filters, at least one filling portion disposed in the at least one second space, and at least one second microlens disposed on the at least one filling portion, wherein the microlenses are disposed at the same height as each other, and wherein the at least one filling portion and the at least one second microlens comprise an integrated structure without an interface between the at least one filling portion and the at least one second microlens.
US12087777B2
A method of fabricating a semiconductor structure having multiple semiconductor device layers is provided. The method comprises providing a bulk substrate and growing a first channel material on the bulk substrate wherein the lattice constant of the first channel material is different from the lattice constant of the bulk substrate to introduce strain to the first channel material. The method further comprises fabricating a first semiconductor device layer on the bulk substrate with the strained first channel material, fabricating a buffer layer comprising dielectric material with a blanket top surface above the first semiconductor layer, bonding to the blanket top surface a bottom surface of a second substrate comprising a buried oxide with a second channel material above the buried oxide, and fabricating a second semiconductor device layer on the second substrate.
US12087773B2
There is provided a logic circuit capable of preventing latch-up. The conducting of a parasitic SCR is prevented by doping an additional N+ active region in the N well region of a PMOS transistor and doping an additional P+ active region in the P well region of an NMOS transistor so as to prevent the occurrence of latch-up.
US12087772B2
A semiconductor device is provided. The semiconductor device includes first channel nanostructures in a first device region and second channel nanostructures in a second device region. The first channel nanostructures are disposed between first and second dielectric fins. The second channel nanostructures are disposed between first and third dielectric fins. A gate dielectric layer is formed to surround each of the first and the second channel nanostructures and over the first, the second and the third dielectric fins. A first work function layer is formed to surround each of the first channel nanostructures. A second work function layer is formed to surround each of the second channel nanostructures. A first gap is present between every adjacent first channel nanostructures and a second gap present is between every adjacent second channel nanostructures.
US12087762B2
Nitride semiconductor device includes: a substrate; a first nitride semiconductor layer of a first conductivity above the substrate; a second nitride semiconductor layer of a second conductivity different from the first conductivity, above the first nitride semiconductor layer; a first opening penetrating through the second nitride semiconductor layer; an electron transport layer and an electron supply layer disposed along inner surfaces of the first opening, in stated sequence from the substrate-side; a gate electrode above the electron supply layer, covering the first opening; a source electrode connected to the electron supply layer and the electron transport layer, at a position separated from the gate electrode; and a drain electrode on a surface of the substrate opposite to a surface on which the first nitride semiconductor layer is disposed. At least part of the second nitride semiconductor layer is fixed to a potential different from a potential of the source electrode.
US12087753B2
A semiconductor device includes: a substrate extending in a first direction and a second direction intersecting with the first direction; a plurality of input/output pads disposed at one side of the substrate; a first circuit adjacent to the input/output pads in the first direction; a second circuit disposed to be spaced farther apart from the input/output pads in the first direction than the first circuit; a first memory cell array overlapping the first circuit; a second memory cell array overlapping the second circuit; first metal source patterns overlapping the first memory cell array and being spaced apart from each other in the second direction; and a second metal source pattern overlapping the second memory cell array and formed to have a width wider than a width of each of the first metal source patterns in the second direction.
US12087746B2
Microelectronic assemblies, related devices, and methods are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a die having a first surface and an opposing second surface; a capacitor having a surface, wherein the surface of the capacitor is coupled to the first surface of the die; and a conductive pillar coupled to the first surface of the die. In some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a capacitor in a first dielectric layer; a conductive pillar in the first dielectric layer; a first die having a surface in the first dielectric layer; and a second die having a surface in a second dielectric layer, wherein the second dielectric layer is on the first dielectric layer, and wherein the surface of the second die is coupled to the capacitor, to the surface of the first die, and to the conductive pillar.
US12087745B2
A package structure and the manufacturing method thereof are provided. The package structure includes a first package including at least one first semiconductor die encapsulated in an insulating encapsulation and through insulator vias electrically connected to the at least one first semiconductor die, a second package including at least one second semiconductor die and conductive pads electrically connected to the at least one second semiconductor die, and solder joints located between the first package and the second package. The through insulator vias are encapsulated in the insulating encapsulation. The first package and the second package are electrically connected through the solder joints. A maximum size of the solder joints is greater than a maximum size of the through insulator vias measuring along a horizontal direction, and is greater than or substantially equal to a maximum size of the conductive pads measuring along the horizontal direction.
US12087739B2
A semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor module including a switching device, a first wiring connected to the switching device, a second wiring positioned adjacent to the first wiring and generating induced electromotive force according to a change in an electric current flowing in the first wiring, and a sealing material sealing the switching device, the first wiring and the second wiring, wherein both of one end and the other end of the second wiring are exposed from the sealing material; a substrate including a GND electrode connected to the one end and on which the semiconductor module is mounted; and a diode rectifying the induced electromotive force output from the other end.
US12087738B2
A device is disclosed which includes at least one integrated circuit die, at least a portion of which is positioned in a body of encapsulant material, and at least one conductive via extending through the body of encapsulant material.
US12087734B2
The present application provides a method for forming a chip package and a chip package. The method comprises mounting at least one chipset including at least first and second chips on a carrier with front surface of the chips face away from the carrier; attaching an interconnection device to the front surfaces of the first and second chips to enable electrically connections between the chips; forming a molded encapsulation layer whereby the first chip, the second chip and the interconnection device are embedded or partially embedded in the molded encapsulation layer; thinning one side of the molded encapsulation layer away from the carrier to expose first bumps on the first and second chips; forming second bumps on a surface of one side of the molded encapsulation layer where the first bumps are exposed; and removing the carrier. Thus, a flexible, efficient and low-cost packaging scheme is provided for multi-chip connection.
US12087732B2
A semiconductor package including an improved isolation bonding film and methods of forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a semiconductor device includes a first die bonded to a package substrate, the first die including vias extending through a substrate, the vias extending above a top surface of the substrate; a first dielectric film extending along a top surface of the package substrate, along the top surface of the substrate, and along sidewalls of the first die, the vias extending through the first dielectric film; a second die bonded to the first dielectric film and the vias; and an encapsulant over the package substrate, the first die, the first dielectric film, and the second die.
US12087731B2
Embodiments include semiconductor packages and a method to form such semiconductor packages. A semiconductor package includes a plurality of dies on a substrate, and an encapsulation layer over the substrate. The encapsulation layer surrounds the dies. The semiconductor package also includes a plurality of dummy silicon regions on the substrate. The dummy silicon regions surround the dies and encapsulation layer. The plurality of dummy silicon regions are positioned on two or more edges of the substrate. The dummy silicon regions have a top surface substantially coplanar to a top surface of the dies. The dummy silicon regions include materials that include silicon, metals, or highly-thermal conductive materials. The materials have a thermal conductivity of approximately 120 W/mK or greater, or is equal to or greater than the thermal conductivity of silicon. An underfill layer surrounds the substrate and the dies, where the encapsulation layer surrounds portions of the underfill layer.
US12087726B2
A method and device for bonding a first substrate to a second substrate at contact surfaces of the substrates. The method includes the following steps: mounting the first substrate on a first mounting surface of a first substrate holder and mounting the second substrate on a second mounting surface of a second substrate holder, wherein the substrate holders are arranged in a chamber; contacting the contact surfaces at a bond initiation surface; and bonding the first substrate to the second substrate from the bond initiation surface to the centre of the substrates.
US12087725B2
A wire bonding apparatus of an aspect includes: a clamp apparatus, having a pair of arms; a stage, moving the clamp apparatus in a horizontal direction; a rod member; a contact detection part, detecting contact between the rod member and the clamp apparatus; and a control apparatus, controlling opening and closing of the pair of arms and an operation of the stage and acquiring position information of the clamp apparatus. The control apparatus obtains an opening amount of the pair of arms based on position information of the clamp apparatus at a time when an outer side surface of a first arm contacts the rod member in a state where the pair of arms are closed and position information of the clamp apparatus at the time when the outer side surface of the first arm contacts the rod member in a state where the pair of arms are open.
US12087720B2
A semiconductor device assembly is provided. The assembly includes a first package element and a second package element disposed over the first package element. The assembly further includes a plurality of die support structures between the first and second package elements, wherein each of the plurality of die support structures has a first height, a lower portion surface-mounted to the first package element and an upper portion in contact with the second package element. The assembly further includes a plurality of interconnects between the first and second package elements, wherein each of the plurality of interconnects includes a conductive pillar having a second height, a conductive pad, and a bond material with a solder joint thickness between the conductive pillar and the conductive pad. The first height is about equal to a sum of the solder joint thickness and the second height.
US12087718B2
The present disclosure relates to an integrated chip structure having a first substrate including a plurality of transistor devices disposed within a semiconductor material. An interposer substrate includes vias extending through a silicon layer. A copper bump is disposed between the first substrate and the interposer substrate. The copper bump has a sidewall defining a recess. Solder is disposed over the copper bump and continuously extending from over the copper bump to within the recess. A conductive layer is disposed between the first substrate and the interposer substrate and is separated from the copper bump by the solder.
US12087715B2
A method includes forming a seed layer on a semiconductor wafer, coating a photo resist on the seed layer, performing a photo lithography process to expose the photo resist, and developing the photo resist to form an opening in the photo resist. The seed layer is exposed, and the opening includes a first opening of a metal pad and a second opening of a metal line connected to the first opening. At a joining point of the first opening and the second opening, a third opening of a metal patch is formed, so that all angles of the opening and adjacent to the first opening are greater than 90 degrees. The method further includes plating the metal pad, the metal line, and the metal patch in the opening in the photo resist, removing the photo resist, and etching the seed layer to leave the metal pad, the metal line and the metal patch.
US12087710B2
An electronic device comprises a multilevel metallization structure over a semiconductor layer and including a first region, a second region, a pre-metal level on the semiconductor layer, and N metallization structure levels over the pre-metal level, N being greater than 3. The electronic device also comprises an isolation component in the first region, the isolation component including a first terminal and a second terminal in different respective metallization structure levels, as well as a conductive shield between the first region and the second region in the multilevel metallization structure, the conductive shield including interconnected metal lines and trench vias in the respective metallization structure levels that at least partially encircle the first region.
US12087709B2
Some implementations described herein provide an electronic device. The electronic device includes a first conductive structure that extends through a dielectric structure of the electronic device and into a substrate of the electronic device. The electronic device includes a guard ring, having multiple layers, that extends along one or more sides of a first vertical portion of the first conductive structure. The electronic device includes a second conductive structure that extends along a second vertical portion of the first conductive structure, where the second conductive structure includes a conductive structure side surface, which is nearest to a side surface of the first conductive structure, that is a distance from the side surface of the first conductive structure, and where the distance is greater than or equal to approximately 5% of a width of the first conductive structure.
US12087708B2
A method for fabricating a semiconductor chip includes forming a plurality of conducting pads at a front face of a substrate, thinning a rear face of the substrate, etching openings under each conducting pad from the rear face, depositing a layer of a dielectric on walls and a bottom of the openings, forming a conducting material in the openings, and forming a conducting strip on the rear face. The conducting strip is electrically connected to the conducting material of each of the openings. The etching is stopped when the respective conducting pad is reached.
US12087697B2
Semiconductor devices having electrical interconnections through vertically stacked semiconductor dies, and associated systems and methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a semiconductor assembly includes a die stack having a plurality of semiconductor dies. Each semiconductor die can include surfaces having an insulating material, a recess formed in at least one surface, and a conductive pad within the recess. The semiconductor dies can be directly coupled to each other via the insulating material. The semiconductor assembly can further include an interconnect structure electrically coupled to each of the semiconductor dies. The interconnect structure can include a monolithic via extending continuously through each of the semiconductor dies in the die stack. The interconnect structure can also include a plurality of protrusions extending from the monolithic via. Each protrusion can be positioned within the recess of a respective semiconductor die and can be electrically coupled to the conductive pad within the recess.
US12087695B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include electronic packages and methods of forming such packages. In an embodiment, a microelectronic device package may include a redistribution layer (RDL) and an interposer over the RDL. In an embodiment, a glass core may be formed over the RDL and surround the interposer. In an embodiment, the microelectronic device package may further comprise a plurality of dies over the interposer. In an embodiment, the plurality of dies are communicatively coupled with the interposer.
US12087678B2
Example embodiments relate to an electronic package, to an electronic device comprising such a package, and to a lead frame for manufacturing the electronic package. Some examples may particularly relate to electronic packages in which radiofrequency (RF) circuitry is arranged. According to the example embodiments, a width of the clamping portion is substantially larger than the width of the lead end portion, the width of the clamping portion being chosen such that bending of the inner part and/or body part relative to the outer part during the application of the molding compound was substantially prevented thereby having avoided flash and/or bleed of molding compound onto the inner part.
US12087674B2
A method includes attaching semiconductor dies to die attach pads of first and second columns of the lead frame; enclosing the semiconductor dies of the respective columns in respective first and second package structures; trimming the lead frame to separate respective first and second lead portions of adjacent ones of the first and second columns of the lead frame; moving the first columns along a column direction relative to the second columns; and separating individual packaged electronic devices of the respective first and second columns from one another.
US12087662B1
The present disclosure provides a package structure and a method for forming a package structure. The package structure includes a first die having a front surface and a back surface opposite to the front surface; and a thermal management structure over the back surface. The thermal management structure includes a first copper-phosphorous alloy layer thermally coupled to the back surface of the first die.
US12087643B2
A structure and a formation method of a semiconductor device are provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate and a fin structure over the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor device also includes a gate stack covering a portion of the fin structure and an epitaxially grown source/drain structure over the fin structure and adjacent to the gate stack. The semiconductor device further includes a semiconductor protection layer over the epitaxially grown source/drain structure. The semiconductor protection layer has an atomic concentration of silicon greater than that of the epitaxially grown source/drain structure.
US12087640B2
A method of forming transistor devices is described that includes forming a first transistor plane on a substrate, the first transistor plane including at least one layer of epitaxial film adaptable for forming channels of field effect transistors, depositing a first insulator layer on the first transistor plane, depositing a first layer of polycrystalline silicon on the first insulator layer, annealing the first layer of polycrystalline silicon using laser heating. The laser heating increases grain size of the first layer of polycrystalline silicon. The method further includes forming a second transistor plane on the first layer of polycrystalline silicon, the second transistor plane being adaptable for forming channels of field effect transistors, depositing a second insulator layer on the second transistor plane, depositing a second layer of polycrystalline silicon on the second insulator layer, and annealing the second layer of polycrystalline silicon using laser heating.
US12087637B2
Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing semiconductor devices with differing threshold voltages are provided. In embodiments the threshold voltages of individual semiconductor devices are tuned through the removal and placement of differing materials within each of the individual gate stacks within a replacement gate process, whereby the removal and placement helps keep the overall process window for a fill material large enough to allow for a complete fill.
US12087636B2
The present disclosure provides a method of forming a semiconductor structure with a metal gate. The semiconductor structure is formed by first fabricating fins over a semiconductor substrate, followed by a formation of a source and a drain recess. A source and a drain region may then be deposited into the source and the drain recess. The gate structure may be deposited into the region between the fins. The gate structure includes dielectric and metallic layers. In the regions between the fins, the gate structure is isolated from the source and the drain region by an insulating layer.
US12087635B2
A transistor structure includes a source region and a drain region disposed in a substrate, extending along a first direction. A polysilicon layer is disposed over the substrate, extending along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, wherein the polysilicon layer includes a first edge region, a channel region and a second edge region formed as a gate region between the source region and the drain region. The polysilicon layer has at least a first opening pattern at the first edge region having a first portion overlapping the gate region; and at least a second opening pattern at the second edge region having a second portion overlapping the gate region.
US12087629B2
Through-dielectric-vias (TDVs) for 3D integrated circuits in silicon are provided. Example structures and processes fabricate conductive vertical pillars for an integrated circuit assembly in a volume of dielectric material instead of in silicon. For example, a block of a silicon substrate may be removed and replaced with dielectric material, and then a plurality of the conductive pillars can be fabricated through the dielectric block. The through-dielectric-vias are shielded from devices and from each other by an intervening thickness of the dielectric sufficient to reduce noise, signal coupling, and frequency losses. The through-dielectric-vias can provide improved stress management and reduced keep-out-zones, reduced via-to-via and via-to-device coupling because of relatively large dielectric spacing and low-k dielectrics that can be used, reduced parasitic capacitance, faster switching speeds, lower heat dissipation requirements, lower production costs, easy miniaturization that is scalable to large assemblies and interposers, and high performance stacked assemblies.
US12087628B2
A semiconductor structure includes a first dielectric material layer, a first metal interconnect structure embedded within the first dielectric material layer and including a first metallic material portion including a first metal, a second dielectric material layer located over the first dielectric material layer, and a second metal interconnect structure embedded within the second dielectric material layer and including an integrated line-and-via structure that includes a second metallic material portion including a second metal. A metal-semiconductor alloy portion including a first metal-semiconductor alloy of the first metal and a semiconductor material is located underneath the second metallic material portion, and contacts a top surface of the first metal interconnect structure.
US12087627B2
A device includes a substrate, a first conductive layer on the substrate, a first conductive via, and further conductive layers and conductive vias between the first conductive via and the substrate. The first conductive via is between the substrate and the first conductive layer, and is electrically connected to the first conductive layer. The first conductive via extends through at least two dielectric layers, and has thickness greater than about 8 kilo-Angstroms. An inductor having high quality factor is formed in the first conductive layer and also includes the first conductive via.
US12087626B2
A method includes forming a semiconductor device, forming a combination of a connection-level dielectric layer and a connection-level metal interconnect structure over the semiconductor device, forming a line-and-via-level dielectric layer over the connection-level dielectric layer, forming an integrated line-and-via cavity through the line-and-via-level dielectric layer over the connection-level metal interconnect structure, selectively growing a conductive via structure consisting essentially of an elemental metal that is not copper from a physically exposed conductive surface located at a bottom of the via portion of the integrated line-and-via cavity without filling a line portion of the integrated line-and-via cavity, and forming a copper-based conductive line structure that includes copper at an atomic percentage that is greater than 90% in the line portion of the integrated line-and-via cavity.
US12087624B2
A dielectric layer is located on top of and in contact with a substrate. A conductive line located within the dialectic layer. A barrier layer on top of an in contact with the dielectric layer. The barrier layer is below the conductive line. A liner layer on top of and in contact with the barrier layer and below and in contact with the conductive line. A metal liner on top of and in contact with the conductive line. A capping layer on top of and in contact with the dielectric layer, the barrier layer, the liner layer, and the metal liner.
US12087623B1
A method of improving interfacial adhesion of a copper-glass interface in a Through Glass Via (TGV) of an electronic device includes coating an internal wall of a TGV with a curable polymer material having a viscosity less than 30 Poise. The coating is cured to form a dielectric liner having a tensile strength greater than about 8 Mpa and a dielectric loss less than about 0.002. A layer of copper may then be deposited on the dielectric liner.
US12087619B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device, including the following steps. A plurality of first vias are formed in a first dielectric layer in a memory cell region and a peripheral region. A surface treatment is performed on the plurality of first vias to form a plurality of sacrificial layers. The plurality of sacrificial layers are removed to form a plurality of recesses. A plurality of protective layers are formed in the plurality of recesses. A memory device is formed on the first dielectric layer in the memory cell region. A second dielectric layer is formed on the memory device and on the first dielectric layer. A plurality of second vias is formed in the second dielectric layer in the memory cell region and the peripheral region to electrically connect the memory device in the memory cell region and the first vias in the peripheral region, respectively.
US12087607B2
An article transport vehicle includes a travel body; a holding device that holds an article; and a lift device that is on the travel body, and that raises and lowers the holding device with respect to the travel body. The holding device includes: a connection portion connected to the lift device and an article support portion that supports the article; an elastic support mechanism that is between the article support portion and the connection portion, and that supports the article support portion against the connection portion while being elastic in a vertical direction, and a guide mechanism that guides the article support portion in the vertical direction with respect to the connection portion. The guide mechanism allows the article support portion to move parallel with the vertical direction with respect to the connection portion and restricts swinging of the article support portion with respect to the connection portion.
US12087603B2
The invention relates to an inspection system adapted for determining a state and/or content of a wafer or reticle container or at least a part of a wafer or reticle container, comprising a detection device or a multitude of detection devices (102, 104, 152, 154, 156, 158, 160, 164) adapted to receive detection data from a surface and/or interior of the wafer or reticle container or the part of a wafer or reticle container indicative of the state and/or content of the wafer or reticle container or the part of a wafer or reticle container.
US12087599B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a processing tub, a storage, a liquid recovery unit, a storage drain line and a liquid recovery unit drain line. The processing tub is allowed to accommodate therein multiple substrates, and configured to store therein a processing liquid. The storage is connected to the processing tub, and configured to store therein the processing liquid drained from the processing tub. The liquid recovery unit is configured to receive the processing liquid overflown from the processing tub. The storage drain line is configured to drain a liquid stored in the storage. The liquid recovery unit drain line is configured to drain a liquid received from the liquid recovery unit to an external drain line provided at an outside.
US12087598B2
A substrate processing apparatus, includes: a process chamber accommodating a substrate; a vaporizer vaporizing a liquid precursor to generate reaction gas and deliver a processing gas containing the reaction gas and a carrier gas, the vaporizer including: a vaporization vessel; and a heater heating the liquid precursor introduced into the vessel; a carrier gas flow rate controller controlling flow rate of the carrier gas supplied to the vaporizer; a liquid precursor flow rate controller controlling flow rate of the liquid precursor; a processing gas supply pipe introducing the processing gas delivered from the vaporizer into the process chamber; and a gas concentration sensor detecting a gas concentration of the reaction gas contained in the processing gas delivered from the vaporizer into the processing gas supply pipe.
US12087588B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a holder configured to hold a combined substrate in which a first substrate and a second substrate are bonded to each other; a first detector configured to detect an outer end portion of the first substrate; a second detector configured to detect a boundary between a bonding region where the first substrate and the second substrate are bonded and a non-bonding region located at an outside of the bonding region; a periphery removing device configured to remove a peripheral portion of the first substrate as a removing target from the combined substrate held by the holder.
US12087580B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a hydrophobic solvent as a gas is directed to flow over a bevel region of a wafer. A layer of the hydrophobic solvent is deposited on an upper bevel of the bevel region on top surface of the wafer and on a lower bevel of the bevel region on bottom surface of the wafer. A metal-containing photo resist layer is disposed on an internal region of the top surface of the wafer enclosed by the bevel region. During a subsequent processing operation, a photo resist material of the metal-containing photo resist layer is blocked off inside the top surface of the wafer by the layer of the hydrophobic solvent.
US12087578B2
A method of forming a semiconductor device includes forming a photoresist over a target layer, where the target layer includes a substrate. The photoresist is patterned to form a patterned photoresist. Scum remains between portions of the patterned photoresist. The substrate is tilted relative to a direction of propagation of an ion beam. An ion treatment is performed on the scum. A pattern of the patterned photoresist is transferred to the target layer.
US12087577B2
A method for dividing a bar of one or more devices. The bar is comprised of island-like III-nitride-based semiconductor layers grown on a substrate using a growth restrict mask; the island-like III-nitride-based semiconductor layers are removed from the substrate using an Epitaxial Lateral Overgrowth (ELO) method; and then the bar is divided into the one or more devices using a cleaving method.
US12087573B2
Methods and apparatuses are provided herein for oxidizing an annular edge region of a substrate. A method may include providing the substrate to a substrate holder in a semiconductor processing chamber, the semiconductor processing chamber having a showerbead positioned above the substrate holder, and simultaneously flowing, while the substrate is supported by the substrate holder, (a) an oxidizing gas around a periphery of the substrate and (b) an inert gas that does not include oxygen through the showerhead and onto the substrate, thereby creating an annular gas region over an annular edge region of the substrate and an interior gas region over on an interior region of the substrate; the simultaneous flowing is not during a deposition of a material onto the substrate, and the annular gas region has an oxidization rate higher than the interior gas region.
US12087572B2
Disclosed are methods for the formation of silicon nitride (SiN) on only the horizontal surfaces of structures such as 3D NAND staircase. This allows for thicker landing pads for subsequently formed vias. In some embodiments, the methods involve deposition of a SiN layer over a staircase followed by a treatment to selectively densify the SiN layer on the horizontal surfaces with respect to the sidewall surfaces. A wet etch is then performed to remove SiN from the sidewall surfaces. The selective treatment results in significantly different wet etch rates (WERs) between the horizontal surfaces and the sidewalls.
US12087567B2
An ion optical arrangement (1) for use in a mass spectrometer comprises electrodes (11, 12, 14) comprising a multipole arrangement defining an ion optical axis, and a voltage source for providing voltages to the electrodes to produce electric fields. The ion optical arrangement is configured for producing a radio frequency electric focusing field for focusing ions on the ion optical axis. The radio frequency electric focusing field has a varying frequency so as to reduce any mass dependence of ion trajectories through the ion optical arrangement. The ion optical arrangement may further be configured for producing a static electric field in response to a DC bias voltage applied to the multipole arrangement. A superimposed varying electric field may be produced by superimposing an AC voltage upon the DC bias voltage.
US12087566B2
Method and devices are provided for assessing tissue samples from a plurality of tissue sites in a subject using molecular analysis. In certain aspects, devices of the embodiments allow for the collection of liquid tissue samples and delivery of the samples for mass spectrometry analysis.
US12087564B2
Provided are synthetic dendrimer calibrants for mass spectrometry. The calibrants are distinguished by their relative case and rapidity of synthesis, comparatively low cost, long shelf life, high purity, and amenability to batch synthesis as mixtures. The latter characteristic enables parallel preparation of higher molecular weight compounds displaying useful distributions of discrete molecular weights, thereby providing multi-point mass spectrometry calibration standards. Methods of making, tuning and using said calibrants are provided.
US12087563B2
The physical vapor deposition tool includes a magnet component, a single cathode, and a power circuit for biasing a pedestal that supports a semiconductor substrate. During a deposition operation that deposits an inert metal material, the physical vapor deposition tool may modulate an electromagnetic field emanating from the magnet component that includes spiral-shaped bands having different ranges of magnetic strength. The physical vapor deposition tool may have an increased throughput relative to a physical vapor deposition tool without the magnet component, the single cathode, and the power circuit. Additionally, or alternatively, the inert metal material may have a grain size that is greater relative to a grain size of an inert metal material deposited using the physical vapor deposition tool without the magnet component, the single cathode, and the power circuit.
US12087562B2
A substrate processing apparatus includes a radio-frequency power supply part configured to supply radio-frequency power for plasma generation to a processing container, and a monitoring part configured to detect an abnormality in the supply of the radio-frequency power to the processing container, wherein the monitoring part is configured to detect the abnormality in the supply of the radio-frequency power to the processing container based on a signal data obtained by sampling a signal propagating between the radio-frequency power supply part and the processing container at a sampling frequency higher than a frequency of the radio-frequency power.
US12087561B2
A processing chamber such as a plasma etch chamber can perform deposition and etch operations, where byproducts of the deposition and etch operations can build up in a vacuum pump system fluidly coupled to the processing chamber. A vacuum pump system may have multiple roughing pumps so that etch gases can be diverted a roughing pump and deposition precursors can be diverted to another roughing pump. A divert line may route unused deposition precursors through a separate roughing pump. Deposition byproducts can be prevented from forming by incorporating one or more gas ejectors or venturi pumps at an outlet of a primary pump in a vacuum pump system. Cleaning operations, such as waferless automated cleaning operations, using certain clean chemistries may remove deposition byproducts before or after etch operations.
US12087560B2
The substrate treating apparatus includes a processing module and an index module on which a cassette having the substrate received therein is placed and that includes an index robot that transfers the substrate between the cassette and the processing module. The processing module includes a process chamber and a transfer chamber. The process chamber includes a support unit. The support unit includes a support on which the substrate is placed and a ring member that surrounds the substrate placed on the support and that is provided so as to be detachable from the support. The apparatus further includes a carrier storage unit that stores a carrier that is mounted on a hand of the main transfer robot or the index robot and on which the ring member is placed when the ring member is transferred by the main transfer robot or the index robot.
US12087559B2
A heater controller controls power supplied to a heater capable of adjusting the temperature of a placement surface such that the heater reaches a set temperature. A temperature monitor measures the power supplied in the non-ignited state where the plasma is not ignited and in the transient state where the power supplied to the heater decreases after the plasma is ignited, while the power is controlled such that the temperature of the heater becomes constant. A parameter calculator calculates a heat input amount and the thermal resistance by using the power supplied in the non-ignited state and in the transient state to perform a fitting on a calculation model for calculating the power supplied in the transient state. A set temperature calculator calculates the set temperature of the heater at which the wafer reaches the target temperature, using the heat input amount and thermal resistance.
US12087557B2
A substrate processing system includes a processing chamber including a dielectric window and a substrate support arranged therein to support a substrate. A coil is arranged outside of the processing chamber adjacent to the dielectric window. A Faraday shield is arranged between the coil and the dielectric window. An RF generator is configured to supply RF power to the coil. The coil is coupled by stray capacitance and/or directly coupled to the Faraday shield. A capacitor is connected to one of the coil and the Faraday shield to adjust a position of a voltage standing wave along the coil.
US12087545B2
One or more example relate, generally, to generating radio frequency (RF) signals. An apparatus may include a signal generator, an amplification stage, and a feedback control loop. The signal generator may generate a pulsed radio frequency (RF) signal at least partially responsive to a digital pulsed waveform defined by one or more commands. The amplification stage may amplify the pulsed RF signal. The feedback control loop may be coupled to the amplification stage to regulate a power level of respective steps of the pulsed RF signal.
US12087536B2
The present invention provides a multi-link fuse capable of charging a battery with a configuration simpler than a conventional configuration, and a method for charging a battery by using the multi-link fuse. A multi-link fuse H includes a bus bar body that includes an input terminal, a plurality of external terminals, and a fusion portion provided between the input terminal and the external terminal, and a housing body that covers the bus bar body. The multi-link fuse H includes an extension bus bar for charging a battery by connecting a charging connection terminal. The extension bus bar includes an input extension terminal that overlaps the input terminal and an outer extension portion that extends outward from the bus bar body and connects the charging connection terminal. Both the extension bus bar and the bus bar body are fixed to the housing body in a state where the input extension terminal of the extension bus bar overlaps the input terminal.
US12087534B2
The present disclosure relates to a circuit breaker comprising: a circuit breaking part in which contact points of a fixed contact and a movable contact are in contact with each other; and an energy accumulation part for accumulating energy of a closing spring for controlling contact between the fixed contact and the movable contact, wherein the energy accumulation part comprises: an electromotive energy accumulation part; and a manual energy accumulation part separated from the electromotive energy accumulation part by a manual energy accumulation spring, and engaged with the electromotive energy accumulation part by unit of external pressure so as to transmit an inputted rotational force to the electromotive energy accumulation part, thereby accumulating the energy of the closing spring.
US12087528B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are used for monitoring and diagnosing power system assets. An example of a power system asset may include an individual circuit breaker, a switchgear that may include multiple circuit breakers, or any other asset that may be included in a power system. A system for monitoring and diagnosing these power system assets may include one or more intelligent protection relay and switchgear monitor device(s) that may be communicatively coupled in a master-slave or peer-peer configuration in a time-synchronized manner of operation.
US12087527B2
A current switch including a main contact including an electrically conductive knife, and an electrically insulating element, fitted in a mobile manner on a first portion of electric line in order to alternatively follow an opening movement and a closing movement; a shunt branch including a first part electrically connected to a second portion of the line, including a vacuum interrupter configured to be actuated alternatively between an open state and a closed state, a second part fitted in a mobile manner on the first part and configured to actuate the vacuum interrupter. During the opening movement, the electrically conductive knife acts upon the second part in order to actuate the vacuum interrupter, and during the closing movement, the electrically insulating element acts upon the second part without actuating the vacuum interrupter.
US12087521B2
The invention relates to an emergency stop switch, having: a switch mechanism with a manually operable switch and with a first contact element which is operatively connected to the switch, wherein the switch is configured to bring the first contact element into contact with a second contact element to trigger an emergency stop function. A cable pull mechanism with a switch tongue guided in a switch tongue guide is connected to a first end of a cable, wherein a switch tongue spring preloads the switch tongue during operation in a direction away from the cable. The cable is connected on its second end with preload to an equalizing spring during operation, wherein the first contact element is operatively connected to the switch tongue. When the preloaded cable is pulled, is guided in the switch tongue guide in the direction of the cable, opposing a spring force of the switch tongue spring, and in the process brings the first contact element into contact with the second contact element in order to trigger the emergency stop function by the cable pull mechanism.
US12087514B2
An electrolytic capacitor including a capacitor element. The capacitor element includes an anode body, a dielectric layer covering at least a part of the anode body, a solid electrolyte layer covering at least a part of the dielectric layer, and a cathode lead-out layer covering at least a part of the solid electrolyte layer. The cathode lead-out layer includes a conductive layer. An oxygen permeability of the conductive layer at a thickness of 10 μm is less than or equal to 7 cc/m2·day·atm.
US12087510B2
A multilayer capacitor includes a body including a dielectric layer and first and second internal electrodes stacked on each other and having the dielectric layer interposed therebetween; a pair of first external electrodes respectively disposed on first and second corners of the body, which are not adjacent to each other, and connected to the first internal electrode; a pair of second external electrodes respectively disposed on third and fourth corners of the body, which are not adjacent to each other, and connected to the second internal electrode; and a reinforcing portion disposed on a surface of the body, not covered by at least one of the first and second external electrodes, and including a sintered ceramic body.
US12087502B2
An inductor component comprising a spiral wiring wound on a plane; a first magnetic layer and a second magnetic layer located at positions sandwiching the spiral wiring from both sides in a normal direction relative to the plane on which the spiral wiring is wound; a vertical wiring extending from the spiral wiring in the normal direction to pass through the first magnetic layer; and an external terminal disposed on a surface of the first magnetic layer to connect an end surface of the vertical wiring. The first magnetic layer has magnetic permeability lower than that of the second magnetic layer.
US12087486B2
A static electrical device assembly including: a static electrical device; a heat exchanger system including a first heat exchanger adapted for cooling of the static electrical device by transferring heat into ambient air, and a second heat exchanger adapted for recovering heat from the static electrical device; a flow passage adapted to provide a route for air flow between outdoor air and the first heat exchanger; a sensor system adapted to provide temperature information relating to the static electrical device; and a control system (CTRL) adapted to control the heat exchanger system based on information provided by the sensor system. The heat exchanger system further includes a shutter arrangement adapted to adjust a surface area of the flow passage, the control system (CTRL) is adapted to control the shutter arrangement between an open state and an enclosed state.
US12087475B2
A wire harness includes a shielded electric wire that includes a first coated electric wire that includes a first core electric wire and a first insulating coating that covers the first core electric wire, an electromagnetic shield member that covers the first coated electric wire, a sheath that covers the electromagnetic shield member, and a shield member exposed portion from which the sheath is removed and the electromagnetic shield member is exposed, an insulating cover that covers the shield member exposed portion, and a waterproofing agent applied to the shield member exposed portion and permeated into the electromagnetic shield member. The waterproofing agent is in tight contact with an inner circumferential surface of the sheath and an outer circumferential surface of the first insulating coating. The cover covers a portion of the shield member exposed portion.
US12087473B2
A wiring member includes a first wiring member including a first sheet, and a plurality of first wire-like transmission members fixed onto the first sheet. The plurality of first wire-like transmission members include a second wire-like transmission member, and a third wire-like transmission member extending over the second wire-like transmission member and crossing the second wire-like transmission member. The wiring member further includes a holding member configured to hold a positional relationship between the second and third wire-like transmission members at a crossing part of the second and third wire-like transmission members.
US12087471B2
A communications cable includes a pair of twisted pair of wires, each coated with a fluoropolymer insulator. The fluoropolymer insulators each independently contain at least 95% w/w fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP). The twisted pair of wires is configured to carry a differential signal, such as a differential data signal and/or a differential power signal.
US12087463B2
Atomic object confinement apparatuses that include RF busses and systems including atomic object confinement apparatuses that include RF busses are provided. An example atomic object confinement apparatus comprises RF rail electrodes and an RF bus electrode(s). The RF rail electrodes form a periodic array of confinement segments within a central zone of the atomic object confinement apparatus and the RF bus electrodes are disposed in a perimeter zone disposed about the central zone. The RF rail electrodes and the RF bus electrode(s) are configured to generate a substantially periodic array of trapping regions when an oscillating voltage signal is applied to the RF rail electrodes and the RF bus electrode(s).
US12087460B2
An underground nuclear power reactor system has a hollow blast tunnel which extends from one end of a containment member. The system includes a nuclear reactor vessel and other components that may be positioned on a movable support member or on a bottom wall of the containment member. A blast tunnel, which defines a blast chamber, has a plurality of spaced-apart debris deflectors positioned therein. The blast chamber has an upper wall with a roof opening formed therein which is selectively closed by a roof portion. If the reactor needs to be repaired or replaced, the roof portion is opened so that the reactor vessel can pass through the roof opening. If the reactor vessel explodes, a blast therefrom drives debris therefrom through a blast door and into the blast chamber where the deflectors reduce blast force as the debris passes through the blast chamber.
US12087456B2
A nuclear reactor comprises a nuclear reactor core disposed in a pressure vessel. An isolation valve protects a penetration through the pressure vessel. The isolation valve comprises: a mounting flange connecting with a mating flange of the pressure vessel; a valve seat formed into the mounting flange; and a valve member movable between an open position and a closed position sealing against the valve seat. The valve member is disposed inside the mounting flange or inside the mating flange of the pressure vessel. A biasing member operatively connects to the valve member to bias the valve member towards the open position. The bias keeps the valve member in the open position except when a differential fluid pressure across the isolation valve and directed outward from the pressure vessel exceeds a threshold pressure.
US12087453B2
Provided are systems and methods for capturing outcome information associated with various cancer treatments. The system facilitates capture and analysis of cancer treatment information and associated outcome information. The treatment and outcome information can include genomic analysis and information on treatment of different cancers. The system can store and analyze any one or more of: tumor type, genomic alterations (e.g., genes and associated alterations, gene sequence mutations, alterations, amplifications, deletions, etc.), and treatment data (including, for example, treatments targeted to specific genes and/or genomic alterations). Users of the outcome system can supply and use the treatment and outcome information to facilitate diagnosis and therapy decisions. User interfaces within the system can be configured to allow users to easily locate outcome information associated with particular treatments of tumors having certain genomic alterations.
US12087452B2
Implementations provide a method to consolidate data records of regimens for treating oncology conditions. The method includes: accessing data records each encoding multi-tier data characteristics of a regimen for treating a particular oncology condition; receiving a first data record encoding a first regimen specific to a first healthcare provider institution; parsing the first data record according to a hierarchy of the encoded multi-tier data characteristics; distributing a respective weight to each of the encoded data characteristics to account for the potentially missing data characteristic; comparing data characteristics of the first data record with data characteristics from the data records by applying the respective weight to each data characteristic at a particular tier of the hierarchy such that a respective compound score is generated for each data record; and based on the compound scores for all data records, determining a prevailing data record of regimen as matching the first data record.
US12087446B2
Methods and systems are provided for diagnosing mental health conditions using multiple data modalities. In particular, a trained machine learning model is used for mental health diagnosis, wherein the trained model utilizes a dynamic fusion approach for capturing and preserving interactions as well as timing information between the multiple data modalities.
US12087439B2
Provided is a living organism information measurement device which users can easily and reliably operate. A living organism information measurement device for acquiring living organism information and generating measurement data relating to the information is provided with a device body, and a panel detachably attached to the device body. The device body comprises a control unit which executes a plurality of functions of the device body, a living organism information measurement unit which is connected to the control unit and generates the measurement data, and a first communication unit connected to the control unit. The panel comprises a second communication unit including a memory storing predetermined information. When the panel is attached to the device body, the first communication unit receives the predetermined information from the second communication unit. The control unit selects and executes a function corresponding to the received predetermined information among the plurality of functions.
US12087433B2
Methods and systems are provided for reconstructing images from measurement data using one or more deep neural networks according to a decimation strategy. In one embodiment, a method for reconstructing an image using measurement data comprises, receiving measurement data acquired by an imaging device, selecting a decimation strategy, producing a reconstructed image from the measurement data using the decimation strategy and one or more deep neural networks, and displaying the reconstructed image via a display device. By decimating measurement data to form one or more decimated measurement data arrays, a computational complexity of mapping the measurement data to image data may be reduced from O(N4), where N is the size of the measurement data, to O(M4), where M is the size of an individual decimated measurement data array, wherein M
US12087432B1
An apparatus for visualization of digitized glass slides belonging to a patient case having a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor, the memory containing instructions configuring the processor to receive an image data set having a plurality of images of one or more specimen and metadata of the plurality of images of the one or more specimen, identify one or more constituent virtualization components for each image of the plurality of images within image data set, determine a relationship between the one or more constituent visualization components as a function of the image data set, construct a plurality of virtual images as a function of the image data set and the relationship between the one or more virtual constituent components, wherein each of plurality of the images includes at least one virtual constituent component generate a consolidated virtual image as a function of the plurality of virtual images and display the consolidated virtual image.
US12087427B2
A method of evaluating a vessel of a patient is provided. The method includes outputting, to a display device, a screen display including: a visualization based on pressure measurements obtained from a first instrument and a second instrument positioned within the vessel of the patient while the second instrument is moved longitudinally through the vessel and the first instrument remains stationary within the vessel; and a visual representation of a vessel; receiving a user input to modify the visualization to simulate a therapeutic procedure; and updating the screen display, in response to the user input, including modifying the visualization based on the user input. A system for evaluating a vessel of a patient is also provided. The system includes first and second instruments sized and shaped for introduction into the vessel of the patient; and a processing system communicatively coupled to the first and second instruments and a display device.
US12087420B2
A system for generating dynamic user interfaces includes memory hardware storing instructions and processor hardware executing the instructions. The instructions include generating an interactive graphical user interface with fields corresponding to dates. The instructions include generating a selectable user interface element at a first field corresponding to a scheduled delivery date for a recipient. The instructions include, in response to a user dragging-and-dropping the selectable user interface element to a second field corresponding to an adjusted delivery date for the recipient, calculating a supply measure of a prior fill remaining with the recipient based on a stated duration of the prior fill and a date indicating receipt of the prior fill by the recipient. The instructions include, in response to the supply measure being greater than the threshold, moving the selectable user interface element to the second field and updating the scheduled delivery date to be the adjusted delivery date.
US12087419B1
Methods and systems for improving patient medication adherence by determining when and/or how to intervene with a patient regarding medication adherence are disclosed. An example computer-implemented method for estimating an adherence risk score for a medication taken by a patient includes: receiving, via a network interface from a server configured for determining follow up with patients regarding medication adherence, a request for an adherence risk score for a patient and medication combination, the adherence risk score representing a risk that the patient will not be adherent with taking the medication as prescribed during a time period; obtaining, with one or more processors, pharmacy records for the patient and medication combination; processing the pharmacy records with a machine learning model to determine the adherence risk score; and providing, via the network interface, the adherence risk score to the server.
US12087412B1
A computer-implemented method for selectively providing access to medical record information is disclosed. The method includes receiving, at a computer system, one or more digital images of a healthcare patient from a computing device that corresponds to a user account that is authorized to obtain information about patients in a healthcare system; using computerized facial recognition to identify the person as being one or more registered members of the healthcare system and to obtain a member identifier; using the member identifier to obtain electronic medical record information about the person; and providing some or all of the obtained electronic medical record information to the computing device.
US12087401B2
Methods and systems are provided for determining a variant of interest by analyzing sizes and sequences of cfDNA fragments obtained from a test sample. The methods and systems provided herein implement processes that synergistically combine size and sequence information, thereby improving specificity and sensitivity of assays over conventional methods.
US12087399B2
Described herein are various systems and methods for customizing cell culture media for optimized cell proliferation based on genetic traits of the cells. Factors of the cells, such as genetics, can determine the optimum cell culture conditions for growth and use of individual cells in vitro. In certain embodiments, genetics can determine sensitivity from a toxic perspective. In certain embodiments, genetics can determine what concentration(s) of growth factor(s) and nutrient(s) are required for optimum growth.
US12087394B2
A memory device includes a command interface configured to receive write commands from a host device. Additionally, the memory device includes an input buffer configured to buffer a strobe signal from the host device. Furthermore, the memory device includes a first ripple counter and a second ripple counter. The memory device includes command handling circuitry configured to alternatingly start the first ripple counter and the second ripple counter in response to consecutive write commands. The command handling circuitry and/or the first and second ripple counters are configured to suppress a reset of the input buffer if either the first ripple counter or the second ripple counter has not reached a threshold and is still counting.
US12087388B2
A memory device includes a memory cell array, signal lines, a mode selector circuit, a command converter circuit, and an internal processor. The memory cell array includes first and second memory regions. The mode selector circuit is configured to generate a processing mode selection signal for controlling the memory device to enter an internal processing mode based on the address received together with the command. The command converter circuit is configured to convert the received command into an internal processing operation command in response to activation of the internal processing mode selection signal. The internal processor is configured to perform an internal processing operation on the first memory region in response to the internal processing operation command, in the internal processing mode.
US12087382B2
A method of tracking flash memory in a storage system is provided. The method includes initializing a bad blocks threshold value and marking one or more planes or logical unit numbers (LUNs) of flash memory as bad, responsive to determining that bad blocks in the one or more planes or LUNs meet the bad blocks threshold value. The method includes adjusting the bad blocks threshold value, responsive to exceeding a threshold number or rate of retiring planes or LUNs of flash memory, and repeating the marking and the adjusting, with the bad blocks threshold value capped at a maximum threshold value.
US12087378B2
Systems, devices, and methods are described herein for a programmable memory array. A programmable memory system includes an array of programmable memory bit cells. A memory bit cell of the array includes a first transistor of a first type controlled by a bit line, a second transistor of a second type responsive to a first word line and a second word line via a logic gate, and a third transistor of the second type responsive to the word line. The first word line is positioned substantially perpendicular to the bit line, and the second word line is positioned substantially parallel to the bit line. The first word line is activated via an X portion of an address. While the second word line is activated via a Y portion of the address.
US12087375B2
An example method includes, performing a first erase verify on a first set of memory cells of a portion of an array of memory cells, performing a second erase verify on a second set of memory cells of the portion of the array, applying a first erase voltage pulse concurrently to each memory cell in the portion of the array if the first set fails the first erase verify and if the second set fails the second erase verify, and applying a second erase voltage pulse concurrently to each memory cell in the portion of the array if the first set passes the first erase verify and if the second set fails the second erase verify. The second erase voltage pulse is different than the first erase voltage pulse.
US12087372B2
Described are systems and methods for performing partial block erase operations. An example memory device comprises: a memory array comprising a plurality of memory cells electrically coupled to a plurality of wordlines; and a controller coupled to the memory array, the controller to perform operations comprising: identifying, in a memory device, a block comprising a plurality of memory cells; estimating, in the block, a number of pages having a predefined program state; determining, based on the number of pages having the predefined program state, an erase verify voltage to be applied to the block; causing an erase operation to be performed with respect to the block; and causing an erase verify operation to be performed, using the erase verify voltage, with respect to the block.
US12087369B2
A system can include a memory device and a processing device to perform operations that include detecting a transition associated with the memory device from a first power state to a second power state. Responsive to detecting the transition from the first power state to the second power state, the operations include determining a value of a scan frequency in view of the second power state, wherein one or more scan iterations are initiated in accordance with the value of the scan frequency. The operations further include performing one or more block family calibration operations in accordance with the value of the scan frequency.
US12087368B2
An integrated circuit includes a memory array and a memory read circuitry for reading data from the memory array. The memory read circuitry includes a leakage current compensation circuit. The leakage current compensation circuit senses the leakage current in a bitline of the memory array during a read operation and generates a leakage compensation current to offset the leakage current during the read operation.
US12087367B2
A method of operating a non-volatile memory device includes performing a first sensing operation on the non-volatile memory device during a first sensing time including a first section, a second section, and a third section. The performing of the first sensing operation includes applying a first voltage level, which is variable according to a first target voltage level, to a selected word line in the first section, applying a second voltage level, which is different from the first voltage level, to the selected word line in the second section, and applying the first target voltage level, which is different from the second voltage level, to the selected word line in the third section. The first voltage level becomes greater as the first target voltage level becomes greater.
US12087366B2
In certain aspects, a memory device includes an array of memory cells, including a first memory cell and a second memory cell, and a peripheral circuit. The peripheral circuit includes a page buffer circuit and control logic. The control logic is configured to suspend a program operation on the first memory cell responsive to receiving a suspension command, control the page buffer circuit to store suspended program information associated with a suspension of the program operation, control the page buffer circuit to release a sensing storage unit and a cache storage unit of the page buffer circuit from being occupied by the suspension of the program operation through a storage of a piece of program information from the suspended program information in a memory controller, and initiate a read operation on the second memory cell using the sensing storage unit and the cache storage unit.
US12087360B2
A method for programming at least one resistive memory cell of an array of resistive memory cells, includes a sequence of N programming cycles, N being an integer greater than or equal to 2, each programming cycle including a set procedure and a reset procedure, each set procedure including the application of a set technique chosen among a plurality of set techniques, the method including acquiring a bit error ratio value corresponding to each programming cycle for each set technique; and at each programming cycle, applying the set technique having the lowest bit error ratio value corresponding to the programming cycle.
US12087359B2
A selector for a memory cell in a memory array may operate by opening different conductive paths to high and low voltages during set and reset operations. A first transistor may open a conductive path between a high voltage and a terminal of the memory element during a reset operation. Similarly, a second transistor may open a conductive path between a low voltage and the terminal of the memory element during a set operation. Some implementations may add a third transistor in series with the first transistor and a fourth transistor in series with the second transistor. The gates of the third and fourth transistors may be biased at a voltage that is about halfway between the low and high voltages. This selector may use smaller transistors while still facilitating high-voltage set and reset operations on resistive memory elements.
US12087355B2
An adaptive control circuit of SRAM (Static Random Access Memory) includes a switch circuit, a forward diode-connected transistor, a backward diode-connected transistor, and a first delay circuit. The switch circuit is supplied by a supply voltage, and is coupled to a first node. The backward diode-connected transistor is coupled in parallel with the forward diode-connected transistor between the first node and a second node. The first delay circuit is coupled between the second node and a ground voltage.
US12087351B2
A bit line sense amplifier includes a first inverter having an output terminal connected to a complementary sensing bit line, a second inverter having an output terminal connected to a sensing bit line, a first offset element connecting a bit line to the complementary sensing bit line and a second offset element connecting a complementary bit line to the sensing bit line, in response to an offset cancellation signal. During a first time interval, the first offset element and the second offset element are turned off and a capacitor of a first memory cell is connected to the bit line. During a second time interval after the first time interval, the first offset element and the second offset element are turned on and the capacitor of the first memory cell is disconnected from the bit line.
US12087342B2
An aluminum alloy disc blank for a magnetic disc made of an aluminum alloy containing Fe: 0.005 to 1.800 mass % with the balance being Al and inevitable impurities, wherein a flatness change of the aluminum alloy disc blank for a magnetic disc when the aluminum alloy disc blank for a magnetic disc is held in the atmosphere at 50° C. or lower for 336 hours is 2.0 μm or less.
US12087341B2
A magnetic recording medium includes a substrate, an underlayer formed on the substrate, and a magnetic layer formed on the underlayer. The magnetic layer includes an alloy having a L10 structure. The underlayer includes a first underlayer and a second underlayer. The first underlayer includes Mo and Ru, the content of Ru in the first underlayer is in a range of 5 atom % to 30 atom %, and the second underlayer includes a material having a body-centered cubic (BCC) structure. The second underlayer is formed between the first underlayer and the substrate.
US12087330B2
Methods and devices for combining a mask with a selectively progressing video stream may include receiving a selection of at least one mask with a mask zone that obscures at least a portion of the video stream. The methods and devices may include receiving a selection to emplace the at least one mask at a first location within the video stream. The methods and devices may include receiving a selection to enable a tracking icon to move the at least one mask to a second location within the video stream while the video stream progresses. The methods and devices may include generating a combined output of the video stream and the selective emplacement and movement of the at least one mask during the video stream progression.
US12087323B2
This application relates to a device and a method for voice-based trauma screening using deep learning. The device and method for voice-based trauma screening using deep learning screen for trauma through voices that may be obtained in a non-contact manner without limitations of space or situation. In one aspect, the device includes a memory configured to store at least one program and a processor configured to perform an operation by executing the at least one program. The processor can obtain voice data, pre-process the voice data, convert pre-processed voice data into image data, and input the image data to a deep learning model and obtain a trauma result value as an output value of the deep learning model.
US12087317B2
Dialogue enhancement of an audio signal, comprising obtaining a set of time-varying parameters configured to estimate a dialogue component present in said audio signal, estimating the dialogue component from the audio signal, applying a compressor only to the estimated dialogue component, to generate a processed dialogue component, applying a user-determined gain to the processed dialogue component, to provide an enhanced dialogue component. The processing of the estimated dialogue may be performed on the decoder side or encoder side. The invention enables an improved dialogue enhancement.
US12087314B2
An encoder for encoding a parametric spectral representation (f) of auto-regressive coefficients that partially represent an audio signal. The encoder includes a low-frequency encoder configured to quantize elements of a part of the parametric spectral representation that correspond to a low-frequency part of the audio signal. It also includes a high-frequency encoder configured to encode a high-frequency part (fH) of the parametric spectral representation (f) by weighted averaging based on the quantized elements ({circumflex over (f)}L) flipped around a quantized mirroring frequency ({circumflex over (f)}m), which separates the low-frequency part from the high-frequency part, and a frequency grid determined from a frequency grid codebook in a closed-loop search procedure. Described are also a corresponding decoder, corresponding encoding/decoding methods and UEs including such an encoder/decoder.
US12087311B2
The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for encoding an HOA signal representation (c(t)) of a sound field having an order of N and a number O=(N+1)2 of coefficient sequences to a mezzanine HOA signal representation (wMEZZ(t)). The present invention further relates to methods and apparatus for decoding a reconstructed HOA signal representation from the mezzanine HOA signal representation.
US12087309B2
A method of encoding samples in a digital signal is provided that includes receiving a frame of N samples of the digital signal, determining L possible distinct data values in the N samples, determining a reference data value in the L possible distinct data values and a coding order of L−1 remaining possible distinct data values, wherein each of the L−1 remaining possible distinct data values is mapped to a position in the coding order, decomposing the N samples into L−1 coding vectors based on the coding order, wherein each coding vector identifies the locations of one of the L−1 remaining possible distinct data values in the N samples, and encoding the L−1 coding vectors.
US12087304B2
An electronic device for providing content including an image and a voice is disclosed. The electronic device comprises: a display configured to display an image; a memory in which a voice recognition module including various executable instructions is stored; and a processor configured to acquire expected words that will possibly be included in a voice, based on information about content, using the expected words to perform voice recognition for the voice through the voice recognition module, and displaying, on the display, text converted from the voice based on the voice recognition.
US12087293B2
The invention discloses a smart voice wake-up control method and a control device thereof. The smart voice wake-up control device includes a casing, a main control board, a control switch, a voice pickup, a relay, an output terminal, an input terminal and a work indicator capable of emitting multiple colors of light, the main control board is respectively connected with the control switch, the voice pickup, the relay and the work indicator, and the relay is respectively connected with the output terminal and the input terminal. When multiple smart voice wake-up control devices are used simultaneously, the user can change the light color of the work indicator by controlling the control switch to distinguish different colors of voice wake-up commands, i.e., use the light color of the work indicator to show the color wake-up voice, so that the user can get the wake-up commands intuitively and quickly for controlling.
US12087286B2
A computing system obtains features that have been extracted from an acoustic signal, where the acoustic signal comprises spoken words uttered by a user. The computing system performs automatic speech recognition (ASR) based upon the features and a language model (LM) generated based upon expanded pattern data. The expanded pattern data includes a name of an entity and a search term, where the entity belongs to a segment identified in a knowledge base. The search term has been included in queries for entities belonging to the segment. The computing system identifies a sequence of words corresponding to the features based upon results of the ASR. The computing system transmits computer-readable text to a search engine, where the text includes the sequence of words.
US12087281B2
Embodiments described herein propose an approach for unsupervised structure extraction in task-oriented dialogues. Specifically, a Slot Boundary Detection (SBD) module is adopted, for which utterances from training domains are tagged with the conventional BIO schema but without the slot names. A transformer-based classifier is trained to detect the boundary of potential slot tokens in the test domain. Next, while the state number is usually unknown, it is more reasonable to assume the slot number is given when analyzing a dialogue system. The detected tokens are clustered into the number of slot of groups. Finally, the dialogue state is represented with a vector recording the modification times of every slot. The slot values are then tracked through each dialogue session in the corpus and label utterances with their dialogue states accordingly. The semantic structure is portrayed by computing the transition frequencies among the unique states.
US12087276B1
A plurality of audio datasets associated with captured audio are provided to a plurality of automatic speech recognition engines, wherein each of the automatic speech recognition engines is configured to recognize speech of a first language. Word error rate estimates that comprise at least one word error rate estimate for each of the plurality of audio datasets are determined from outputs of the plurality of automatic speech recognition engines. From the word error rate estimates, audio in the plurality of audio datasets is determined to include speech in a second language.
US12087270B1
Techniques for generating customized synthetic voices personalized to a user, based on user-provided feedback, are described. A system may determine embedding data representing a user-provided description of a desired synthetic voice and profile data associated with the user, and generate synthetic voice embedding data using synthetic voice embedding data corresponding a profile associated with a user determined to be similar to the current user. Based on user-provided feedback with respect to a customized synthetic voice, generated using synthetic voice characteristics corresponding to the synthetic voice embedding data and presented to the user, and the synthetic voice embedding data, the system may generate new synthetic voice embedding data, corresponding to a new customized synthetic voice. The system may be configured to assign the customized synthetic voice to the user, such that a subsequent user may not be presented with the same customized synthetic voice.
US12087269B2
A call partner identification means identifies a call partner in order to make it possible for a user to easily identify the call partner by only the sense of hearing. A background sound selection means selects a background sound corresponding to the identified call partner. A synthesis means synthesizes a call speech signal and the selected background sound.
US12087267B2
The implementation of modal processors, which involve the parallel combination resonant filters, may be costly for applications such as artificial reverberation that can require thousands of modes. In one embodiment, the input signal is decomposed into a plurality of subbands, the outputs of which are downsampled. In each downsampled band, resonant filters are applied at the downsampled sampling rate, and their output is upsampled and filtered to form the band output. In these and other embodiments, a feature of responses of the mode filters have been optimized to minimize an aspect of a residual error after a point in time.
US12087262B2
A soundproof member includes: a first elastic porous body layer; a first film layer; a second elastic porous body layer; and a second film layer, the layers arranged in the stated order from a sound source (S) side, wherein the first and second elastic porous body layer each have: a thickness of 0.5 mm or more and 10 mm or less; a bulk density of 45 kg/m3 or more and 550 kg/m3 or less; and a Young's modulus of 7,000 Pa or more and 28,000 Pa or less, and wherein a total (L1/Λ1+L2/Λ2) of a ratio (L1/Λ1) of the thickness L1 (mm) of the first elastic porous body layer to a viscous characteristic length Λ1 (μm) thereof and a ratio (L2/Λ2) of the thickness L2 (mm) of the second elastic porous body layer (20) to a viscous characteristic length Λ2 (μm) thereof is 0.11 or more.
US12087252B2
An electronic device may include a first display pipeline that may output image data via an output path. The electronic device may include first frame merge circuitry coupled to the output path. The electronic device may also include a first multiplexer coupled to the first frame merge circuitry and to the output path. The first multiplexer may transmit the image data from the output path to an electronic display, and, in response to a first control signal associated with the first frame merge circuitry generating a merged output, the first multiplexer transmits the merged output to the electronic display.
US12087247B2
A driving method includes driving a display panel at a first-frequency driving mode and a second-frequency driving mode. A first frequency of the first-frequency driving mode is lower than a second frequency of the second-frequency driving mode. In the first-frequency driving mode, a frame time includes a scanning section and a corresponding front and rear porch section immediately following the scanning section. The driving method further includes scanning sub-pixels of the display panel in the scanning section of the first-frequency driving mode, where in the front and rear porch section, the sub-pixels of the display panel are not scanned, and front and rear porch sections corresponding to at least part of a plurality of frames in the first-frequency driving mode include at least one compensation section. The method further includes providing a data signal to each data line of a plurality of data lines of the display panel in a compensation section of the at least one compensation section.
US12087244B2
Enhanced push pull driving waveforms for driving a four particle electrophoretic medium including four different types of particles, for example a set of scattering particles and three sets of subtractive particles. Methods for identifying a preferred waveform for a target color state when using a voltage driver having at least five different voltage levels.
US12087242B2
An electronic device includes a display panel having a display surface. The display surface includes a first region and a second region arranged along a first direction. The display panel outputs a first light in the first region and a second light in the second region. The first light has a first normal brightness in a first orthogonal direction perpendicular to the first direction and a first oblique brightness in a first inclined direction. The first orthogonal direction and the first inclined direction form a first acute included angle. The second light has a second normal brightness in a second orthogonal direction and a second oblique brightness in a second inclined direction. The second orthogonal direction and the second inclined direction form a second acute included angle. The first oblique brightness and the second oblique brightness are different.
US12087240B2
The present application discloses a display panel driving method and a display panel thereof. The display panel driving method includes: a timing control chip performs initial configurations; the timing control chip generates a control signal; and an output enable circuit receives the control signal to control picture display of a display panel.
US12087236B2
Discussed is a display device including a display panel including first and second display areas that differ in the number of sub-pixels per unit area, a data driver that generates data voltages, and supplies the data voltages to the sub-pixels in the corresponding areas, and a power supply part that generates first display area high-potential power for the first display area and second display area high-potential power for the second display area, and supplies the first and second display area high-potential powers to the corresponding display areas. Each of the sub-pixels includes a switching transistor connected to a gate line and a data line, and a pixel circuit including a driving transistor that is turned on in response to a data voltage stored in a storage capacitor, and supplies a driving current to an organic light-emitting diode positioned between a first power line and a second power line.
US12087233B2
The disclosure relates to display devices. A display device comprises a display panel including a display area and a non-display area formed outside the display area and having a plurality of pixels and a gate driving unit including a scan driving unit for supplying a scan signal to the display panel and an emission control driving unit for supplying an emission control signal. The plurality of pixels include a light emitting element for emitting light in a brightness corresponding to a current amount of a driving current applied, a driving transistor for controlling the current amount applied to the light emitting element, a storage capacitor connected to the driving transistor, and a first transistor and a second transistor including an oxide semiconductor layer and configured to be simultaneously turned on according to the scan signal.
US12087229B2
A display device may include a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a data driver which applies data signals to the display panel, a scan driver including scan stages, which sequentially applies scan signals to the display panel, an emission driver including an emission stage which sequentially applies emission signals to the display panel, and a power supply voltage generator which generates a power supply voltage including high voltages and low voltages, and provides the high voltages having different voltage levels from each other or the low voltages having different voltage levels from each other to at least one selected from the scan stages and the emission stage. The power supply voltage generator generates a first high voltage, a first low voltage, a second high voltage lower than the first high voltage, and a second low voltage higher than the first low voltage based on an input voltage.
US12087228B2
A display apparatus includes a plurality of pixels. A pixel includes a first capacitor connected between a first voltage line receiving a first driving signal and a first node, a first transistor comprising a control electrode connected to the first node, a first electrode connected to a second voltage line receiving a first power source signal and a second electrode connected to a second node, an organic light emitting diode comprising an anode electrode connected to the second node and a cathode electrode receiving a second power source signal, a second capacitor connected between an m-th data line and the second node (wherein, ‘m’ is a natural number) and a second transistor comprising a control electrode connected to an n-th scan line (wherein, ‘n’ is a natural number), a first electrode connected to the first node and a second electrode connected to the second node.
US12087226B1
Display panel and driving method thereof, and display device are provided. The display panel includes sub-pixels. Each sub-pixel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element. The pixel circuit includes a driving transistor, a data input module, a threshold compensation module, and a bias adjustment module. First electrode of the driving transistor is connected to the data input module and the bias adjusting module. First terminal of the data input module is connected to a data signal, a second terminal of the data input module is connected to the first electrode of the driving transistor. First terminal of the bias adjustment module is connected to a bias adjustment signal, a second terminal of the bias adjustment module is connected to the first electrode of the driving transistor. The threshold compensation module is connected between a gate of the driving transistor and a second electrode of the driving transistor.
US12087223B2
The present disclosure discloses a pixel circuit and a display panel. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting module and a driving module including at least two driving units connected in parallel. a quantity of displayable gray scales can be improved or increased by configuring at least two driving units connected in parallel in the driving module where the at least two driving units can each correspondingly configure a light emitting current so that a plurality of light emitting brightness of the light emitting module can be implemented by a sum of these light emitting currents.
US12087222B2
Embodiments relate to a display device with subpixels that share switch transistors that selectively connect sources of driving transistors to a high voltage source. Further, part of reset transistors or part of a select transistor may be shared across multiple subpixels. The reset transistor selectively connects an anode of an organic light emitting diode (OLED) to a low voltage source. The select transistor selectively passes through pixel data from a data line when a gate signal is received via a gate line. Driver transistors and capacitors of the subpixels are independent and not shared. In this way, the dimensions of the subpixels may be reduced and enable increase in the density of the pixels.
US12087220B2
An exhaust gas system includes an engine-turbine exhaust gas conduit, a turbocharger, a turbine-housing exhaust gas conduit, an injection housing, a dosing module, and a bypass system. The engine-turbine exhaust gas conduit is configured to receive exhaust gas. The turbocharger includes a turbine. The turbine is coupled to the engine-turbine exhaust gas conduit. The turbine-housing exhaust gas conduit is coupled to the turbine. The injection housing is coupled to the turbine-housing exhaust gas conduit and centered on an injection housing axis. The dosing module is coupled to the injection housing and includes an injector. The injector is configured to dose reductant into the injection housing. The injector is centered on an injector axis. The bypass system includes a bypass inlet conduit, a bypass valve, and a bypass outlet conduit. The bypass inlet conduit is coupled to the engine-turbine exhaust gas conduit.
US12087214B2
A display panel includes a pixel including sub pixels. The pixel includes a sub pixel area in which the sub pixels are disposed and a common area. The pixel includes a light emitting diode including an anode electrode and a cathode electrode, and the anode electrode is electrically connected to a first power line to which a high potential voltage is supplied. Each of the sub pixels includes a driving element in which a source is connected to a N1 node, a gate is connected to a N2 node, and a drain is connected to a N3 node, a capacitor connected to the N2 node and a N4 node; a N1 switching circuit connected to the N1 node; a N2 switching circuit connected to the N2 node; a N3 switching circuit connected to the N3 node; and a N4 switching circuit connected to the N4 node.
US12087213B2
Provided are a beveled light-emitting lamp bead, a beveled light-emitting lamp bead holder, a manufacturing method therefor, and a display device. The beveled light-emitting lamp bead holder includes a holder body and a metal holder embedded in the holder body, where the holder body is divided by the metal holder into a cup shield located on a top side and a support structure located on a bottom side, a cup bottom in the cup shield is provided with a chip mounting surface parallel to a cup rim top surface, a bottom portion of the support structure is provided with a soldering plane, the soldering plane is electrically connected to the chip mounting surface through the metal holder, and an inclination angle is formed between the chip mounting surface and the soldering plane.
US12087207B2
A display device includes a display panel, a driving controller, and a voltage generator. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels. Each of the pixels receives a driving voltage through a first voltage line. The driving controller receives an input image signal including first to third color signals and outputs a voltage control signal for controlling a voltage level of the driving voltage based on the first to third color signals. The voltage generator provides the driving voltage to the first voltage line and determines the voltage level of the driving voltage based on the voltage control signal. The driving controller determines first to third gate-source voltages respectively corresponding to the first to third color signals and outputs the voltage control signal based on the first to third gate-source voltages.
US12087202B2
A voltage drop compensation system and a display driving device for compensating for a voltage drop of a display panel. The voltage drop compensation system generates a voltage drop compensation value for each of a plurality of regions into which a test image of a panel is divided, and the display driving device compensates for a voltage drop for each region of image data using the voltage drop compensation value.
US12087201B2
A display screen adjustment method and apparatus, and a device are provided. A display screen includes a first display area and a second display area, a camera component is disposed under the first display area, and light transmittance of the first display area is higher than light transmittance of the second display area. The adjustment method includes: collecting present ambient illuminance on a terminal; and when the ambient illuminance is lower than an ambient illuminance threshold, adjusting, based on a first ambient light adaptation adjustment curve, luminance corresponding to grayscale 255 of the first display area to first luminance, and adjusting, based on a second ambient light adaptation adjustment curve, luminance corresponding to grayscale 255 of the second display area to second luminance, where the first luminance is approximately equal to the second luminance.
US12087194B2
A pixel circuit including a switching circuit, a storage circuit, a driving circuit, and a pull-down circuit is disclosed. The switching circuit is configured for providing first and second power signals to the storage circuit according to a first gate-driving signal. The storage circuit is configured for providing a corresponding one of first and second data signals to a first node in response to one of the first and second power signals. The driving circuit is configured for writing the voltage signal of the first node into the pixel electrode according to a second gate-driving signal. The circuit structure of the pixel circuit of the present disclosure is relatively simplified. The number of transistors used is less, such that the occupied area is small, thereby facilitating realization of a high-resolution display device.
US12087192B1
A display device includes a touch panel and a display panel. The touch panel outputs touch sensing signals. At least one of a plurality of touch sensing signals is converted from a time domain to a frequency domain, and then information on a thickness of a common electrode is detected based on a peak of the converted touch sensing signal. As a result, it is possible to inspect whether the common electrode is formed with a uniform thickness without destroying the display device.
US12087186B2
A spliced screen and a display device are provided. A light-emitting unit is arranged and covers the area between display areas of a two unit screens. When the display area of the unit screens normally functions, a plurality of light-emitting units on a light bar can be transmitted and displayed synchronously, cover an area which cannot be shown between the display areas of the two unit screens, and further, weaken or eliminate a slit visually. In this way, the display screen of each of the unit screens is coherently connected to the display screen, and the visual screen-to-body ratio increases as well.
US12087179B2
A simulated tissue structure for surgical training is provided. The simulated tissue structure includes a first layer made of silicone and a second layer made of silicone interconnected by a third layer made of polyester fiber that is embedded in part in the first layer and in part in the second layer to create a mechanical linkage between the first layer and the second layer. Part of the third layer that is adjacent to the first layer and part of the third layer that is adjacent to the second layer includes fiber strands coated in silicone. An inclusion that mimics an anatomical structure is located between the first layer and the second layer. The third layer of polyester fibers provides a realistic dissection plane for the practice of the surgical excision of the inclusion.
US12087178B2
A system and method for simulating an anatomical access site includes a model assembly selectively disposed within a carrying structure, the model assembly configured to present an anatomical simulant. The model assembly includes a liquid storage container configured to selectively hold a liquid, a pump configured to move the liquid at least around the anatomical simulant, and a model support assembly configured to support the anatomical simulant.
US12087176B2
The present invention relates to a method and system for evaluating and enhancing or improving the creativity and intelligence of a user. The creativity and intelligence of the user are evaluated by generating and evaluating mathematical representations of user answers to creativity and intelligence prompts. The mathematical representations may include positions, orientations, and scales of interactive visualization inputs and the answers may be evaluated based on the fluency, originality, elaboration, and flexibility of the answers to the prompts. The creativity and intelligence of the user are enhanced through generating user learning groups of users with similar creativity levels, generating interactive assignments, generating user workspaces for the user learning groups, verifying completed interactive assignments, and assessing the completed interactive assignments.
US12087175B1
A piano co-pilot system for enhancing piano skills of a student, the system comprising: a co-pilot hardware, including: a LED strip having a plurality of LED lights and a listener/interface unit, the listener/interface unit including a processor unit and a touch screen/listener device; a cloud computing center having at least one application programing interface (API) and an artificial intelligence (AI) module, with the co-pilot hardware in communication with the cloud computing center; a piano, which is a keyboard having a plurality of arranged keys; wherein the LED strip is configured on the keyboard with the plurality of LED lights configured to correspond to the plurality of arranged keys; and wherein the listener/interface unit is configured upon the piano and the touch screen/listener device is accessible for visual and tactile interface by the student.
US12087171B2
A run-time assurance module (6) comprises a contingency planner (26) arranged to generate an initial contingency plan having an associated safety-critical decision point, where the initial contingency plan (ICP) is stored as a current contingency plan in a memory (30). The assurance module (6) receives a mission plan (MP) from a mission planner (4). When the mission plan (MP) is being carried out, the contingency planner (26) processes at least one condition input, and generates a new contingency plan (NCP) based on the condition input. When the new contingency plan (NCP) satisfies a safety criterion and the safety-critical decision point associated with the new contingency plan (NCP) will occur later in time than the safety-critical decision point associated with the current contingency plan (CCP), the new contingency plan (NCP) is stored in the memory (30) as the current contingency plan (CCP).
US12087169B2
Systems and methods are disclosed that receiving ground traffic data from a traffic computer, and enhanced vision system, EVS, imaging data from at least one EVS camera. A target area is determined in the EVS imaging data based on position data of the ground traffic data. Graphics processing is performed that is confined to the target area to enhance visibility of ground traffic in the EVS imaging data in the target area, thereby generating enhanced EVS imaging data. The graphics processing is selected from at least one of contrast enhancement, edge detection and template matching and highlighting of an outline of the ground traffic. A display is generated that is to be displayed on the display device based on the enhanced EVS imaging data and the EVS imaging data.
US12087163B2
The present disclosure is directed to collecting and processing data from computing devices of a plurality of autonomous vehicles (AVs). The data received from each of these AV computing devices may include raw sensor data or data that has been generated using data received by one or more sensors at respective AVs. Once this data is collected and associated with discrete locations and times, the data may be evaluated and used to generate mappings of various sorts. These mappings may include mappings of underground features generated based on an evaluations of vibration data. Alternatively, or additionally, these mapping may include mappings of landscape features, atmospheric features, or the locations of aircraft from data associated with certain types of sensing apparatus, for example radar apparatus or light detecting and ranging (LiDAR) apparatus.
US12087161B1
Examples provide digital alerts associated with activation of a smart siren device of an emergency vehicle. An alert manager provides digital alerts to recipients when a smart siren device is turned on. The alert manager identifies any recipients within range of the smart siren device. The alert manager generates a notification including notification data. The notification is transmitted to one or more recipients within range of the emergency siren device. The notification data is used to generate a digital alert, which is presented to a user via a user interface device or other output device. The system determines when to provide digital alerts by applying user-configurable rules to notification data for customizable digital alerts to selected recipients. The digital alerts can include emergency vehicle indicators identifying the location of emergency vehicles having activated emergency sirens within digital maps displayed to users in vehicles.
US12087159B2
A method for managing an urgency state of a first vehicle, implemented by a managing system. The method includes: receiving a first indication of the urgency state of the first vehicle; determining a list of potential itineraries including at least one potential itinerary of the first vehicle; and sending an alert message to at least one detecting element, located at a traffic lane, the at least one detecting element being determined as a function of the at least one potential itinerary of the first vehicle.
US12087146B2
A system for redundantly detecting a gas is provided. The system includes first and second series-connected gas sensors and a signaling module. If both gas sensors are functioning normally, the signaling module provides an alert when both gas sensors detect a predetermined gas concentration. If however any one of the gas sensors is experiencing a fault condition, the faulty gas sensor's alarm is shunted by operation of a fault relay, and the signaling module provides an alert when the non-faulty gas sensor detects a predetermined gas concentration. If both gas sensors are experiencing a fault condition, both gas sensors' alarms are shunted by fault relays, and an audible and/or visual alert is generated by the signaling module. Embodiments of the present invention are well suited for industrial facilities, manufacturing facilities, research and development laboratories, and other locations where unsafe gas concentrations may become present.
US12087134B2
A computerized method of facilitating participation in a feature operation executed in a game is provided. The computerized method includes providing an aggregation platform operatively communicating with at least one remote game server (RGS). The RGS hosts at least one game to be provided to a plurality of players through players' devices. The method further includes determining, in real time, eligibility of the plurality of players to participate in an operation of a feature shared between the players for a pre-configured event duration, wherein the shared feature operation is executed separately from the game. In response to determining that players are eligible players, facilitating their participation in the execution of the shared feature operation by iteratively selecting one eligible player as possessing a shared feature for a possession iteration having a respective possession duration, and granting an award feature to an eligible player that possesses the shared feature.
US12087128B2
A gaming system compatible with patron-controlled portable electronic devices, such as smart phones or tablet computers, is described. The gaming system can include electronic gaming machines that are compatible to receive both virtual ticket vouchers and printed ticket vouchers that are redeemable for credits on the electronic gaming machines. Information associated with a virtual ticket voucher can be stored on a patron-controlled portable electronic device and then can be wireless transmitted to the electronic gaming machines. The electronic gaming machines can be configured to issue virtual ticket vouchers and printed ticket vouchers that can be redeemed for cash or additional game play on another electronic gaming machine. In one embodiment, the electronic gaming machine can be configured to issue a virtual ticket voucher to a patron-controlled portable electronic device.
US12087127B2
A system, apparatus, and method for electronically transferring value using a portable electronic device. In one embodiment, a method for transferring funds to or from play a portable electronic device to facilitate playing a game of chance on a portable electronic device.
US12087125B2
A lift frame is mounted on a gaming machine compartment so as to be moveable between a lift frame latched position and a lift frame raised position along a lift axis defined within the compartment. A lift frame latch is operable to selectively retain the lift frame in the lift frame latched position. A pivot frame is pivotally mounted on the lift frame so as to be pivotable between a pivot frame latched position and a pivot frame raised position about a pivot axis defined at an upper end of the lift frame. A pivot frame latch operates between the pivot frame and lift frame to selectively retain the pivot frame in the pivot frame latched position but allow the pivot frame and a gaming machine panel mounted thereon to be pivoted so as to expose a compartment front opening and provide access to the compartment interior.
US12087121B2
Systems, devices, and methods for associating vehicle identification information with other visually captured information are provided. In general, a system can include a processor configured to receive an image from a camera located at a fueling station. The processor can be configured to apply an algorithm to extract various features from the image, such as a vehicle that is present in the image, facial features of a driver and/or a passenger of the vehicle, or a license plate of the vehicle. The features can be used by the processor to determine information from the features, such as the identity of the driver, the make/model of the vehicle, or an owner of the vehicle. The processor can then, based on the determined information, be configured to take a variety of actions and thereby reduce the likelihood of possible future losses associated with the vehicles or individuals present in the image.
US12087115B2
Example aspects include a method, an apparatus and a computer-readable medium of operating an access control system, comprising detecting whether a person has sanitized one or more body parts of the person. The aspects further include obtaining, in response to detecting that the person has sanitized the one or more body parts, access credentials of the person. Additionally, the aspects further include determining whether to grant access to the person based at least on the access credentials and detecting that the person has sanitized the one or more body parts.
US12087111B2
A gate apparatus includes: an exit gate door; a first biometrics information acquisition unit that acquires, from a user who moves toward the exit gate door in a closed state, first target biometrics information to be compared with registered biometrics information registered in advance; a second biometrics information acquisition unit that acquires second target biometrics information to be compared with the registered biometrics information from the use who stops in front of the exit gate door when there is no matching in a comparison between the first target biometrics information and the registered biometrics information or the comparison is unable to be performed; and a door control unit that opens the closed exit gate door in accordance with a result of a comparison between the first target biometrics information or the second target biometrics information and the registered biometrics information.
US12087109B2
A method for facilitating vehicle servicing is provided. A first plurality of feature values corresponding to a first plurality of features are determined, for each of a plurality of vehicles. A second plurality of feature values corresponding to a second plurality of features are determined, for each of a plurality of service centers at which the plurality of vehicles were serviced. Based on the first and second pluralities of feature values, a machine learning model is trained to predict service completion times for servicing vehicles. For determining a service completion time for servicing a first vehicle at a first service center, a vehicular dataset of the first vehicle is provided as input to the machine learning model. The machine learning model predicts the service completion time based on the inputted vehicular dataset. The first vehicle is serviced at the first service center in compliance with the predicted service completion time.
US12087101B2
A smart control device, detachably mountable to a manufactured vehicle in a vehicle factory, may include a first connector configured to be coupled to an internal communication device in the vehicle including at least one communication protocol to be connected with at least one electric control unit (ECU); a second connector configured to be coupled to a gateway (GW) to establish communication between the at least one ECU and the gateway; a high-speed communication module configured to be connected to the first connector and the second connector and establishing external communication with a factory system; and a smart control module connected to the factory system through the high-speed communication module when receiving a mode designating signal which designates one work mode among a virtualization mode, a monitoring mode, and an update mode from the factory system and controlling the at least one ECU to perform the designated work mode.
US12087099B2
The present invention relates to a method for establishing a communicable connection with a tire pressure monitoring system, an apparatus thereof and an electronic device. The method includes: determining several candidate protocol configurations; loading the candidate protocol configurations one by one until at least one usable configuration is determined, the usable configuration being a protocol configuration with which a communicable connection with the tire pressure monitoring system can be established; and establishing a communicable connection with the tire pressure monitoring system based on the usable configuration. By applying the method for establishing a communicable connection with a tire pressure monitoring system, a success rate of a diagnostic device entering a tire pressure monitoring system is improved without increasing hardware device costs. Connection errors do not occur frequently, thereby providing better user experience.
US12087096B2
A method and apparatus with spoofing consideration is provided. The method includes implementing convolution block(s) of a machine learning model that determines whether biometric information in an input image is spoofed, including generating a feature map including channels for an input feature map for the input image using convolution layers of a convolution block of the convolution block(s), in response to a total number of input channels of the convolution block and a total number of output channels of the convolution block being different, matching the total number of input channels of the convolution block and the total number of output channels of the convolution block by adding a zero-padding channel to the input feature map using a skip connection structure, and generating output data for determining whether the biometric information is spoofed, dependent on the generated feature map and a result of the skip connection structure.
US12087092B2
An aircraft-based pilot safety system (PSS) includes cameras or other gaze sensors fixed at an aircraft pilot and configured to capture an image stream focused on the pilot's eyes. The gaze sensors continually assess the gaze direction of the pilot (e.g., toward a display, instrument panel, and/or indicator within the cockpit that the pilot is currently looking at or focusing on) and thereby can establish when the pilot is executing a scan pattern and if that scan pattern is nominal for the current flight context by comparing the scan pattern to context-specific reference scan patterns. If, for example, the pilot's gaze deviates from where it should be (e.g., as determined by the current flight segment) or the current scan pattern is interrupted, the system may prompt the pilot to redirect their gaze or resume the scan pattern.
US12087090B2
Provided are an information processing system and an information processing method which can easily grasp a state of a person in a predetermined area. The information processing system includes a first imaging unit that images a performer, a second imaging unit that images a person in a predetermined area, a first recognition unit that recognizes a scene based on an image captured by the first imaging unit, a second recognition unit that recognizes expression of the person based on an image captured by the second imaging unit, a calculation unit that calculates a state index of the person according to the scene based on a recognition result of the scene and a recognition result of the expression of the person, a heat map creation unit that creates a heat map representing the state index of the person in association with a position of the person in the predetermined area, and an output unit that outputs the heat map.
US12087069B2
An artificial intelligence-based action recognition method includes: determining, according to video data comprising an interactive object, node sequence information corresponding to video frames in the video data, the node sequence information of each video frame including position information of nodes in a node sequence, the nodes in the node sequence being nodes of the interactive object that are moved to implement a corresponding interactive action; determining action categories corresponding to the video frames in the video data, including: determining, according to the node sequence information corresponding to N consecutive video frames in the video data, action categories respectively corresponding to the N consecutive video frames; and determining, according to the action categories corresponding to the video frames in the video data, a target interactive action made by the interactive object in the video data.
US12087065B2
A mobile object control method including: recognizing physical objects near a mobile object and a route shape; generating a target trajectory based on a result of the recognition; causing the mobile object to travel autonomously along the target trajectory; and determining that an abnormality has occurred in a control system for causing the mobile object to travel autonomously by performing the recognition when a degree of deviation between a reference target trajectory determined by the route shape and serving as a reference for generating the target trajectory and the target trajectory is greater than or equal to a first reference degree and output a determination result.
US12087060B2
A vehicular vision system includes a camera disposed at a vehicle and capturing image data. The system, via processing at an electronic control unit (ECU) of image data captured by the camera, detects an object at a first orientation relative to camera. A first local binary pattern represents in binary form a first portion of the image data that includes the detected object. The system detects the object at a second orientation relative to camera. A second local binary pattern represents in binary form a second portion of the image data that includes the detected object. The second orientation is different from the first orientation and the second local binary pattern is different than the first local binary pattern. The system groups the first and second local binary patterns into a common histogram bin. The system classifies the detected object based at least in part on the common histogram bin.
US12087057B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for digital fingerprinting of media content. The system does this by normalizing and pre-processing the media content into a standard format, then generating fingerprints for image, audio, and/or video aspects of the media. These fingerprints are mathematical vectors generated using one or more techniques, such as perceptual hashes coupled with machine learning. Once the fingerprints for new content is generated, the system can compare those fingerprints to fingerprints of known content to determine if the new content contains prohibited content.
US12087051B1
A post-disaster conditions monitoring system. The system may include a device processor; and a non-transitory computer readable medium including instructions executable by the device processor to perform the following steps: receiving a plurality of images from a plurality of personal devices in a geographic region; determining conditions in a geographic region based on the information received from the plurality of images; and preparing a map indicating the determined conditions within the geographic region.
US12087048B2
According to the present disclosure, a video analysis method and a video analysis system in which video analysis accuracy at a cloud server and an edge is improved is provided. The video analysis method includes a first image analysis step of analyzing an input image frame on the edge side, a difference value estimation step of estimating a difference value between an evaluation value of an analysis result in the first image analysis step and an evaluation value of an analysis result being predicted when the input image frame is analyzed by the cloud server, and a filtering step of determining whether to transmit the input image frame to the cloud server, based on the difference value.
US12087043B2
The disclosure herein describes preparing and using a cross-attention model for action recognition using pre-trained encoders and novel class fine-tuning. Training video data is transformed into augmented training video segments, which are used to train an appearance encoder and an action encoder. The appearance encoder is trained to encode video segments based on spatial semantics and the action encoder is trained to encode video segments based on spatio-temporal semantics. A set of hard-mined training episodes are generated using the trained encoders. The cross-attention module is then trained for action-appearance aligned classification using the hard-mined training episodes. Then, support video segments are obtained, wherein each support video segment is associated with video classes. The cross-attention module is fine-tuned using the obtained support video segments and the associated video classes. A query video segment is obtained and classified as a video class using the fine-tuned cross-attention module.
US12087035B2
An information processing system (10) includes: an acquisition unit (50) configured to sequentially acquire a plurality of elements included in sequential data; a first calculation unit (110) configured to calculate, for each of the plurality of elements, a first indicator indicating which one of a plurality of classes the element belongs to; a weight calculation unit (130) configured to calculate, for each of the plurality of elements, a weight according to a confidence related to calculation of the first indicator; a second calculation unit (120) configured to calculate, based on the first indicators each weighted with the weight, a second indicator indicating which one of the plurality of classes the sequential data belongs to; and a classification unit (60) configured to classify the sequential data as any one of the plurality of classes, based on the second indicator. According to such an information processing system, sequential data can be appropriately classified.
US12087030B2
In examples, a saliency metric may be determined for an instance of content and/or a location of a digital environment. Accordingly, a set of candidate content and/or locations may be ranked according to associated saliency metrics, such that content and/or an associated location with which to adapt the digital environment for a given user may be determined from a set of candidates. For example, the digital environment may be adapted to present a two-dimensional or a three-dimensional asset to a user. As another example, a game mechanic of the digital environment may be altered. In examples, content from another digital environment may be identified and used to adapt the digital environment, thereby incorporating external content. Thus, a saliency metric associated with a location or an instance of content may be used to programmatically generate a relative or absolute metric with which to evaluate and adapt aspects of the digital environment.
US12087028B2
A computer-implemented method for place recognition including: obtaining information identifying an image of a first scene; identifying a plurality of pixel clusters in the image; generating a set of feature vectors associated with the pixel clusters; generating a graph of the scene; adding a first edge between a first node and a second node in response to determining that a first property associated with a first pixel cluster is similar to a second property associated with a second pixel cluster; generating a vector representation of the graph; calculating a measure of similarity between the vector representation of the graph and a reference vector representation associated with a second scene; and determining that the first scene and the second scene are associated with a same place in response to determining that the measure of similarity is less than a threshold.
US12087021B2
A server includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configures to: receive a frame image of a moving image compressed by an information processing device; detect a sign of deterioration in analysis accuracy based on accuracy information that represents certainty of an analysis result by artificial intelligence for the frame image; transmit, to the information processing device, instruction information of controlling a compression rate in compression of the moving image by the information processing device between an upper bound and a lower bound; and change the upper bound and the lower bound according to stability of the analysis accuracy based on the detection of a sign of deterioration in the analysis accuracy.
US12087017B2
A system for calibrating a camera for use aboard a fuel-supplying aircraft (“tanker”) for an automated air-to-air refueling (“A3R”) process in which the tanker offloads aviation fuel to a fuel-receiving aircraft (“receiver”) includes an electronic control unit having a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium on which is recorded instructions for calibrating the camera. Executing the instructions causes the processor to perform a corresponding method, i.e., to receive boom position data indicative a true position of the boom in free space, and real-time image data from the camera. The instructions also cause the processor to use the boom position data and a 3D model of the boom to project a digital representation of the boom into the image space. The processor then minimizes a difference between the projected and real images of the boom to thereby calibrate the camera.
US12086999B2
Provided are a medical image displaying apparatus and a medical image displaying method for registering an ultrasound image with a previously obtained medical image and outputting a result of the registration, the medical image displaying method including: transmitting ultrasound signals to an object and receiving ultrasound echo signals from the object via an ultrasound probe of the medical image displaying apparatus; obtaining a first ultrasound image based on the ultrasound echo signals; performing image registration between the first ultrasound image and a first medical image that is previously obtained; obtaining a second ultrasound image of the object via the ultrasound probe; obtaining a second medical image by transforming the first medical image to correspond to the second ultrasound image; and displaying the second medical image together with the second ultrasound image.
US12086993B2
A method for tracking and/or characterizing multiple objects in a sequence of images. The method includes: assigning a neural network to each object to be tracked; providing a memory shared by all neural networks, and designed to map an address vector of address components, via differentiable operations, onto one or multiple memory locations, and to read data from these memory locations or write data into these memory locations; supplying images from the sequence, and/or details of these images, to each neural network; during the processing of each image and/or image detail by one of the neural networks, generating an address vector from at least one processing product of this neural network; based on this address vector, writing at least one further processing product of the neural network into the shared memory, and/or reading out data from this shared memory and further processing the data by the neural network.
US12086983B2
A smart dandruff analysis system and method are provided for analyzing a severity of a subject's dandruff, and the smart dandruff analysis system has operation module, first neural network module, second neural network module, and classification module. The operation module receives a scalp area image of the subject and transforms the scalp area image into a first feature map. The first neural network module, a Convolutional Neural Network model, electrically connects with the operation module for receiving and transforming the scalp area image into a second feature map. The second neural network module, a Transformer model, electrically connecting with the first neural network module for receiving and transforming the second feature map into a third feature map. The classification module electrically connects with the second neural network module for receiving the third feature map and outputting a rating, wherein the rating is to determine the severity of the subject's dandruff.
US12086982B2
The present disclosure relates to an artificial intelligence field using a neural network, and publishes a method for confirming a cup-disc ratio based on a neural network, an apparatus, a computer device, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a retinal image, and detecting an optical disc region in the retinal image to obtain the optical disc region; inputting the optical disc region into a pre-trained neural network to obtain a prediction cup-disc ratio and segment images of an optical cup and an optical disc; computing a cup-disc ratio based on the segment images of the optical cup and the optical disc; and confirming a practical cup-disc ratio based on the prediction cup-disc ratio and the computed cup-disc ratio.
US12086979B2
An apparatus including processing circuitry configured to: acquire a plurality of sets of medical imaging data of a region of a subject, each set of data corresponding to a respective different measurement period; apply a filter to the plurality of medical imaging data sets to produce a plurality of filtered medical imaging data sets corresponding to the different measurement periods, wherein the applying of the filter is such that, for each of the medical imaging data sets, the filtering uses at least some information from the other medical imaging data sets acquired at the different time periods and wherein the applying of the filter comprises applying at least one constraint or condition and the constraint or condition comprises preserving at least one measure of intensity for each medical imaging data set.
US12086975B2
A method using high resolution imaging data, artificial intelligence-based quantitative image analytics, and image-based release prediction is disclosed to facilitate the determination of microstructure equivalence between two representative samples, such as pharmaceutical and material products. A computer-implemented method of evaluating microstructural equivalence of samples includes quantitatively comparing corresponding parameters of microstructure feature matrices, such as parameters for particle size distribution, porosity, uniformity of spatial distribution, and release rate of a material phase, to permit evaluating whether the samples meet a microstructural equivalence standard within an error tolerance.
US12086972B2
Techniques to optimize memory reads when computing a video quality metric are disclosed. In some embodiments, an application-specific integrated circuit for computing video quality metrics includes a set of caches configured to store neighbor pixel data for edge width searches of pixels comprising a frame of a video being analyzed for a video quality metric and a kernel configured to receive corresponding neighbor pixel data for pixels comprising a current processing block of the frame from a subset of the set of caches and simultaneously perform edge width searches for pixels comprising the current processing block to determine corresponding pixel edge width values used for computing the video quality metric.
US12086967B2
An image processing method is performed by a processor. The image processing method includes following operations: generating an average brightness value of each of a plurality windows in image data; generating a pixel ratio value according to the image data; generating a weight value of the each of the windows according to the pixel ratio value, a first brightness weight, and a second brightness weight; generating an adjusted brightness value according to the average brightness values of the windows and the weight values of the windows; and performing an auto exposure process according to the adjusted brightness value to generate final image data. The final image data is for a display panel to display.
US12086957B2
This application discloses an image bloom processing method and apparatus, and a storage medium, and relates to the field of image processing technologies. An electronic device obtains a first brightness region class in a first image, where the first brightness region class includes one or more brightness regions in the first image; after determining that the first brightness region class in the first image is the same as a target brightness region class in a second image on which bloom processing is performed, the electronic device obtains a first intermediate image obtained after Gaussian blur processing is performed on the target brightness region class in the second image; and the electronic device generates a bloom image of the first image based on the first image and the first intermediate image.
US12086955B2
A platform, web application, system, and methods are disclosed for creating digital 3D scenes having digital 3D objects and for creating images of the digital 3D scenes. The platform can be communicatively coupled with the web application. The platform can apply a multi-stage method to convert high-fidelity digital 3D objects into low-fidelity digital 3D objects, store a mapping between them, and transmit low-fidelity digital 3D objects to the web application. The web application can include user interfaces for manipulating low-fidelity digital 3D objects to create low-fidelity digital 3D scenes. The platform can automatically convert low-fidelity digital 3D scenes received from the web application into high-fidelity digital 3D scenes and create high-fidelity 2D images.
US12086954B2
A display apparatus that can display a high-resolution image can be provided. In the display apparatus, a first layer and a second layer are stacked. In the first layer, an arithmetic circuit and a data driver circuit and are provided, and in the second layer, a display portion is provided. In the arithmetic circuit, a neural network is configured. The display portion has a region overlapping with the data driver circuit. The arithmetic circuit has a function of performing arithmetic processing using the neural network on image data and supplying the arithmetically-processed image data to the data driver circuit.
US12086938B2
Various post-production and distribution tools for volumetric video data are enabled. For instance, a method comprises receiving, by a device comprising a processor, a group of images, determining, by the device, first points of interest of a first image of the group of images and second points of interest of a second image of the group of images, comparing, by the device, the first points of interest to the second points of interest, and determining, by the device, from the first points of interest and the second points of interest and based on a result of the comparing, sets of candidate coordinate positions of a joint of a character represented in the first image and the second image.
US12086930B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media for registering initial computed tomography (CT) images of a luminal network with subsequent CT images of the luminal network include obtaining initial CT images of the luminal network and subsequent CT images of the luminal network, generating an initial three-dimensional (3D) model of the luminal network based on the initial CT images of the luminal network, generating a subsequent 3D model of the luminal network based on the subsequent CT images of the luminal network, and matching the initial 3D model with the subsequent 3D model based on a registration.
US12086920B1
Various implementations set forth a computer-implemented method for scanning a three-dimensional (3D) environment. The method includes generating, in a first time interval, a first extended reality (XR) stream based on a first set of meshes representing a 3D environment, transmitting, to a remote device, the first XR stream for rendering a 3D representation of a first portion of the 3D environment in a remote XR environment, determining that the 3D environment has changed based on a second set of meshes representing the 3D environment and generated subsequent to the first time interval, generating a second XR stream based on the second set of meshes, and transmitting, to the remote device, the second XR stream for rendering a 3D representation of at least a portion of the changed 3D environment in the remote XR environment.
US12086912B2
Conservative rasterization hardware comprises hardware logic arranged to perform an edge test calculation for each edge of a primitive and for each corner of each pixel in a microtile. Outer coverage results are determined, for a particular pixel and edge, by combining the edge test results for the four corners of the pixel and the particular edge in an OR gate. Inner coverage results are determined, for a particular pixel and edge, by combining the edge test results for the four corners of the pixel and the particular edge in an AND gate. An overall outer coverage result for the pixel and the primitive is calculated by combining the outer coverage results for the pixel and each of the edges of the primitive in an AND gate. The overall inner coverage result for the pixel is calculated in a similar manner.
US12086909B2
A computer-implemented method of reconstructing boundaries from a computed tomography (CT) image dataset is provided. The method comprises receiving CT image data and applying a number of image filters to the CT image data. A numerical derivative is applied to the filtered CT image data to flatten and suppress non-edge regions that do not correspond to edges. Numerical derivative values are clipped to a specified range to reduce artifacts and noise, and an X-ray image is reconstructed according to the image filters and clipped numerical derivative values.
US12086903B2
A display device is disclosed. The device includes: a display that is provided to a moving body; and a display controller that controls displaying, on the display, of a virtual object corresponding to an object seen through the display from inside of the moving body, based on a positional relationship between the object and the moving body.
US12086899B2
Systems and methods related to run-time selection of a render mode in which to execute command buffers with a graphics processing unit (GPU) of a device based on performance data corresponding to the device are provided. A user mode driver (UMD) or kernel mode driver (KMD) executed at a central processing unit (CPU) selects abinning mode based on whether performance data that includes sensor data or performance counter data indicates that an associated binning condition or override condition has been met. The UMD or the KMD causes pending command buffers to be patched to execute in the selected binning mode based on whether the binning mode is enabled or disabled.
US12086897B2
Embodiments provide techniques, including systems and methods, for assignment and/or reassignment of transport requests received within a request matching time period. For example, transport requests received during a request matching time period, as well as requests determined to be eligible during the request matching time period for reassignment, are associated with a location identifier (e.g., geohash) and are pooled at a dynamic transportation matching system in order for a dynamic assignment and/or reassignment that may reduce a metric (e.g., an overall estimated time of arrival (ETA) for requests) associated with the dynamic transportation matching system.
US12086887B2
A method for operational workflow transparency and end-to-end events tracking, the method includes at an event producer system, generating events, corresponding key business attributes, provider industry standard identifiers, patient identifiers, and patient information, and publishing the events and the key business attributes to a tracking system. At a tracking system, receiving and validating the events from the event producer system, generating a universally unique lexicographically sortable identifier (ULID) for an append-only log data structure for the respective event, generating a search index to enable search capabilities for the append-only log data structure, and temporally appending the respective event into the append-only log data structure for the corresponding prior-authorization case.
US12086886B2
Machine learning for insurance applications is provided to customers, potential customers, underwriters, and/or other insurance industry associates. An insurance application portal receives an insurance application from a customer regarding an insurance line of business of an insurance carrier. The portal can complete another insurance application for the customer for another line of business of the insurance carrier. The other insurance application is completed using information from the received insurance application and machine learning of customer data to infer inputs of information that does not overlap between the two applications. The portal can provide the completed second insurance application to the customer for approval to apply for the second line of business.
US12086884B1
System and methods are disclosed for determining properties of vehicle insurance policies for vehicles that engage in autonomous driving. Vehicle driving data, an autonomous driving system quality rating, and/or other information may be used to determine, for example, a premium, a deductible, a coverage term, and/or a coverage amount of an automobile insurance policy of an automobile that engages in autonomous driving. In addition, vehicle driving data and/or other information may be used to determine a distance-based autonomous driving insurance factor based at least in part on a distance traveled by the vehicle while the vehicle was engaged in autonomous driving.
US12086879B2
A cryptocurrency mining system and a cryptocurrency mining method are provided. The system includes a plurality of mining modules. Each mining module includes: a plurality of AntBoxes, each AntBox being a computational unit that houses a plurality of miners for cryptocurrency farming; a transformer configured to convert an input voltage to a working voltage to supply electric power to the plurality of AntBoxes; and a switchgear and a plurality of panelboards configured to connect the AntBoxes with the transformer. The plurality of mining modules has substantially same structure arrangement. The structure arrangement includes: configurations of the AntBoxes, the transformer, the switchgear, and the panelboards, and relative locations among the AntBoxes, the transformer, the switchgear, and the panelboards.
US12086873B2
A system for docking a vehicle to a building, wherein the vehicle functions as a space of the building when the vehicle is connected thereto, and wherein the building includes at least one station inside or outside thereof such that the vehicle can dock at the at least one station, includes a server configured to check whether the at least one station is available to allow a user to select a station for a vehicle, to select the station randomly when the user does not select the station, and when the vehicle is docked at the selected station, to connect the vehicle to the selected station in wired or wireless manner to manage use of the selected station.
US12086866B2
Payment solutions that allow a user to pay for an order in a store using a user device typically only pass the total payment amount to the user device. One way of displaying other order information on a user device involves the user device sending, to the server, a URL containing instructions for building an online page to display the order. However, this introduces the risk that a malicious user may modify the URL to remove an item from the order or change a price of an item without informing the merchant. The present application relates to systems and methods for preventing malicious activity by users when modifying order information. According to some aspects of the present disclosure, items entered into a merchant's point of sale device are sent to a server for storage in order information which can be retrieved by a user device using an identifier.
US12086857B2
Systems and methods for searching using machine-learned model-generated outputs can provide a user with a medium for generating a theoretical dataset that can then be matched to a real world example. The systems and methods can include selecting a plurality of terms, which can be utilized to generate a prompt input that can be processed by a dataset generation model to generate a plurality of model-generated datasets. A selection can then be received that selects a particular model-generated database to utilize to query a database.
US12086855B2
Disclosed is an invention for methods, processes and systems that, among its enabling features and benefits, enhance retrieval of relevant information over a communication network. For instance, methods, processes and systems for performing annotation of digital information are provided. One method includes searching for items of interest using a search engine. Once the URIs associated with the item of interest are identified, a plurality of attributes are provided that may be associated with each URI. A user may provide the values for the attributes or the system may suggest values for the attributes based on information associated with each URI. Once the attributes and values are assigned, the annotated URI along with the attributes and values is stored. Another method provides for sharing of the annotated information. A user may communicate annotated information to an external storage system for sharing with other users having access to the external storage system. Another method provides for automatic updates of the annotation entries by periodically fetching the digital information associated with each URI and updating the values associated with each attribute. In addition, a system, method or process may provide a more reliable, inclusive, or otherwise effective way of collecting or identifying quality reviews for products, services, and sellers. Furthermore, a system, method or process may enable or otherwise enhance generation of actionable information for online shopping or comparative shopping. Furthermore, according to one embodiment, an interface or protocol that a computer uses to communicate with other computers is associated with a subject matter context. User-level contents or digital resources received across that interface or protocol are then associated with that subject matter context, and the computer may respond accordingly. For instance, a computer may associate a given network port with a subject matter context of shopping, and treat all digital resource requests received on that port as applying to only a shopping subject matter context. A web server may also listen on a network port associated with a subject matter context, thereby contextualizing the overall nature of the website that the web server hosts.
US12086850B2
Disclosed are a method for generating billing information, a terminal, a server, and a billing system. The method for generating billing information comprises: receiving an end billing request transmitted by a terminal, the end billing request comprising location information of the terminal and bus information; and executing, on the basis of the location information of the terminal and of the bus information, an end billing operation with respect to a first terminal from which the distance to a bus is greater than a distance threshold.
US12086846B2
A kiosk for accepting a portable electronic device from a client in exchange for payment includes a display, one or more cameras, a portable device receiving arrangement, a payment dispensing arrangement, and a communication connection to a remote server and/or operator. The kiosk is configured to, in conjunction with the remote server and/or operator, control an application program executing on the portable electronic device and one or more the cameras to detect characteristics of the portable electronic device. The kiosk is also configured to determine a value for the portable electronic device based upon aspects including the detected characteristics, and to display the determined value on said at least one display for approval by the client. Subsequently, based upon the determined value, the kiosk provides a payment to the client via the payment dispensing arrangement, and deposits the portable electronic device in the kiosk for subsequent collection.
US12086830B2
A method for simulating a social media account history may be provided. The method may include generating social media identification information (“social media ID”). The method may also include creating an account history for the social media ID with respect to a pre-determined entity. The creating may include identifying the social media ID with respect to at least one of a time-stamped indication of affinity for the predetermined entity. The creating may also include tagging of a photograph of the entity. The creating may also include linking of a photograph of the pre-determined entity. The creating may also include a threshold amount of streaming audio time relating to the predetermined entity. The method may also include querying the account history to determine whether the account history includes one or more parameters that indicate whether the social media ID information is related to an automated entity or a human entity.
US12086829B2
A system and method for digital retail marketing and couponing in a physical retail environment that includes collecting image data across a retail environment; tracking a user within the retail environment; processing the image data and detecting a customer-item interaction event in association with the user; and based in part on the customer-item interaction event, delivering content to an output interface.
US12086826B1
Techniques described herein are directed to centralized identities for personalization of data presentation. A centralized identity is generated when similar user identifiers as stored across resources are determined. The centralized identity associates the user identifiers with each other and allows for user-related data from the multiple disparate resources to be queried and received. This user-related data can then be utilized to determine one or more personalizations to apply, and an application being used by the user may be modified to present the personalizations.
US12086822B2
Methods, systems, and computer storage media for providing a data analytics index associated with a crisis-recovery data analytics engine in a data analytics system. The data analytics index is a consolidated single index representation of a set of variables associated with a set of consumer behaviors. The crisis-recovery data analytics engine supports generating the data analytics index associated with a pre-crisis period and a crisis-recovery period. In operation, a crisis-recovery dataset—associated with a set of variables of a set of consumer behaviors that support quantifying recovery from a crisis event—is accessed. The set of consumer behaviors are selected based on a crisis-recovery machine learning model that is trained on a pre-crisis dataset and a crisis dataset for selecting the set of consumer behaviors. A data analytics index is generated based on the crisis-recovery dataset. A data visualization comprising crisis-recovery data indicating recovery from the crisis event is generated.
US12086821B2
A method, system, and computer program product for predicting future transactions may obtain merchant data associated with a merchant; determine a geographic location associated with the merchant based on the merchant data; determine one or more other merchants within a first threshold distance of the geographic location; obtain transaction data associated with the one or more other merchants and the merchant; and predict, based on the transaction data, at least one of a future number of transactions for the merchant in a future time period and a future transaction amount for the merchant in the future time period.
US12086805B2
Disclosed herein is a user identity sharing system utilizing a distributed ledger technology security platform. The present invention includes an OFF-CHAIN configured to operate as a regional or national blockchain within a single jurisdiction, in which one or more virtual asset service providers and one or more identity management service providers are participating; and an ON-CHAIN configured to operate as a global blockchain with no borders, in which one or more virtual asset service providers are participating, wherein user identity information of the OFF-CHAIN are shared as de-identified identity information between a virtual asset service provider participating in both the OFF-CHAIN and the ON-CHAIN and another virtual asset service provider participating in the ON-CHAIN, thus preventing forgery of user identity information, and sharing user identity information between virtual asset service providers, other blockchains, distributed ledger technology platforms, and existing IT systems.
US12086803B2
A method for authenticating the identity of a user who is attempting to access a website or conduct a transaction is described. The method involves receiving two geographical locations, and associated time stamps, of a mobile phone associated with the user, one of the locations being the location of the transaction or access attempt. The method determines whether the speed required to travel between the two geographical locations in the elapsed time is within acceptable limits. A confidence score, derived in part from this calculation, is taken into account when deciding whether to allow or deny the access or the transaction.
US12086794B2
In embodiments of the present disclosure, systems are provided for generating digital tokens that uniquely represent digital products is disclosed. The system may include an interface configured to handle a unique identifier for a unique unit of a digital product having a set of attributes. In embodiments, the system includes a cryptographic token generation system that generates a unique digital token that has a set of token attributes that correspond to the set of digital-product attributes, wherein the unique digital token is cryptographically secure. In embodiments, the system also includes a linking system that generates a one-to-at-least-one link between the unique digital token generated by the cryptographic token generation system and the unique identifier for the unique unit of the digital product, such that the unique digital token provides a unique digital representation of the unique unit of the digital product.
US12086793B2
Intelligent assessment of the resource volume associated with physical objects stored in a secure container. Digital images of the contents/physical objects and evidentiary artifacts associated with the objects are captured and used to assess an initial resource volume. In specific embodiments, Non-Fungible Token(s) are generated using the digital image and the initial resource volume as inputs. Subsequently, nodes of a distributed trusts computing network are tasked with determining a current resource advancement volume for the NFT(s) based on the current demand, current resource advancement providers assessment and the initial resource volume. As a result of the present invention, a secure container holder or entity having an interest in the contents of the secure container is able to take otherwise idle property (i.e., the contents/objects in the secure container) and use them to create a tradeable commodity in the form of an NFT and/or leverage resource liquidity.
US12086792B2
A method for managing personal data is disclosed. A request for an identifier (ID) token corresponding to a user is received from a virtual wallet. The ID token is generated and transmitted to the virtual wallet, where the ID token is presented to a third-party entity by a device of the user. A request for the personal data corresponding to the ID token is received from the third-party entity. A trustworthiness score for the third-party entity is determined based at least in part on an analysis of entity data corresponding to the third-party entity. The trustworthiness score and received request are transmitted to the virtual wallet and passed on to the user device. An indication of acceptance of the request and encrypted personal data associated with the generated ID token are received from the virtual wallet and transmitted to the third-party entity for processing.
US12086787B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems pertaining to the verification of portable consumer devices are disclosed. In one implementation, a verification token is communicatively coupled to a computer by a USB connection so as to use the computer's networking facilities. The verification token reads identification information from a user's portable consumer device (e.g., credit card) and sends the information to a validation entry over a communications network using the computer's networking facilities. The validation entity applies one or more validation tests to the information that it receives from the verification token. If a selected number of tests are passed, the validation entity sends a device verification value to the verification token, and optionally to a payment processing network. The verification token may enter the device verification value into a CVV field of a web page appearing on the computer's display, or may display the value to the user using the computer's display.
US12086783B1
An intelligent shopping cart and checkout system is provided that can perform a fast and touchless checkout of saleable items in a store. The intelligent shopping cart and checkout system includes a readable product identifier, such as an RFID tag or a Bluetooth® or other wireless protocol enabled item identification chip having an embedded wireless communications device, for attachment to the sales items and a checkout station provided with a cooperating reader for receiving a signal emanating from the readable product identifier. A shopping cart may include a wireless communications device in wireless communication with the item identification chip and the checkout station. The item identification chip, checkout station and intelligent shopping cart are provided with status lights that turn color in response to the status or condition of the purchases.
US12086781B2
The invention relates to a display device (2-19) comprising a storage stage (50) for storing a product data set (PD1-PD3) which was received in a communication with a base station (25, 26) via a first radio interface (44) of the display device (2-19), and comprising a second radio interface (45) for communication in particular for RFID or NFC communication, with a self-checkout device (57), which display device (2-19) is designed to process a self-checkout request received from a self-checkout device (57) for the purpose of transmitting the product data set (PD) via the second radio interface (45).
US12086777B2
A system, apparatus, and method for processing payment transactions that are conducted using a mobile payment device that includes a contactless element, such as an integrated circuit chip. The invention enables one or more of the operations of activation of a payment application, transfer of transaction data, updating of account records, setting or re-setting of a payment application counter or register, or transfer or processing of a script, command, or instruction, with these functions being performed with minimal impact on a consumer. This is accomplished by introducing a pre-tap and/or two-tap operation prior to, or as part of, the transaction flow.
US12086773B2
Systems and methods for facilitating payments are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for facilitating a transaction may include (1) a customer selects a good or service to purchase from a merchant; (2) the customer being authenticated with a financial institution; and (3) the financial institution associating a unique identifier for the customer's merchant account with the customer's financial institution account. In another embodiment, a method for facilitating a transaction may include (1) a customer selecting a good or service to purchase from a merchant; (2) the customer being authenticated with a financial institution; (3) the financial institution provisioning a merchant-specific identifier for the merchant; and (4) the financial institution providing the merchant-specific token to the merchant.
US12086772B2
A system described herein may receive a request to bridge an asset from a first distributed ledger to a second distributed ledger. The system may record, to the first distributed ledger, information indicating that the asset is frozen. The first distributed ledger may maintain information indicating that the frozen asset remains associated with an owner of the asset. The system may record, to the second distributed ledger, a bridged version of the asset, and may link the asset to the bridged asset. The system may identify a transfer of the bridged version of the asset to a second owner, and record, to the first distributed ledger and based on the linking of the asset to the bridged asset, information disassociating the first owner from the asset.
US12086770B2
Methods and systems to control mining pools configured to mine more than one blockchain network. A pool controller may automatically select a candidate block generated for one of the blockchain networks for mining by the mining units. The selection may be based on determining an expectation value associated with each current candidate block generated for the respective blockchain networks and which of them is the highest. The expectation value may be based, at least in part, on a current coinbase value and a current difficulty setting for that blockchain network. The pool control may perform the selection with the generation of each new candidate block for any of the blockchain networks.
US12086769B2
To facilitate conducting a financial transaction via wireless communication between an electronic device and another electronic device, the electronic device determines a unique transaction identifier for the financial transaction based on financial-account information communicated to the other electronic device. The financial-account information specifies a financial account that is used to pay for the financial transaction. Moreover, the unique transaction identifier may be capable of being independently computed by one or more other entities associated with the financial transaction (such as a counterparty in the financial transaction or a payment network that processes payment for the financial transaction) based on the financial-account information communicated by the portable electronic device. The electronic device may also associate receipt information, which is subsequently received from a third party (such as the payment network), with the financial transaction by comparing the determined unique transaction identifier to the computed unique transaction identifier.
US12086765B2
Described is a creative work contribution system. The system includes a server, a creator computing device and a plurality of contributor computing devices. The creator computing device and the plurality of contributor computing devices may be coupled to the server. The server may be programmed to receive and store a creative work request from the creator computing device; automatically process the creative work request and send the creative work request to the plurality of contributor computing devices for display and for entering contributions to the creative work request; receive and store the contributions entered by the plurality of contributor computing devices; and automatically deliver the received contributions entered by the plurality of contributor computing devices for display on the creator computing device. The system allows for crowd sourcing of creative input into specific types of creative works to help a creator overcome mental obstacles.
US12086758B2
A securable vertical toolbox includes a vertically disposed frame, a plurality of wheels for transporting the vertically disposed frame, and a plurality of support panels configured to extend horizontally from the vertically disposed frame, each of the support panels including a peg board configured to support tool supporting fixtures. The securable vertical toolbox further includes an enclosure including a rear panel, a top panel, and two doors configured to surround the vertically disposed frame when the plurality of support panels are retracted into the vertically disposed frame and the two doors are secured, each of the two doors including a first panel configured to cover a side portion of the vertically disposed frame and a second panel configured to cover a front portion of the vertically disposed frame.
US12086751B2
A method and apparatus for identifying manufactured items in containers, where each container is suitable for containing two or more units, and where the method comprises the steps of: associating each unit with a unique unit identifier, uniquely identifying each unit, allocating two or more units to be contained in each container, uniquely identifying each container, for each container, determining one or more ranges of unit identifiers of the two or more units allocated to the container, and storing, in a database, a container identifier for each container, each container identifier being coupled, in the database, to the one or more ranges of unit identifiers of the two or more units allocated to the container. There is also provided methods and apparatus for authenticating, tracking and tracing the units.
US12086745B2
A network edge device includes a local network interface, a remote network interface, a memory and a processor. The local network interface receives data from local data sources over a local network. The remote network interface communicates with a remote computer over a remote network. The processor receives a filter parameter set for each local data source from the remote computer. Each filter parameter set includes a data rate parameter and at least one of a minimum threshold parameter, a maximum threshold parameter or a change-of-value (COV) parameter. For each local data source, the processor compare each data value received from the local data source to at least one of the filter parameters, and sends the data value and subsequent data values to the remote computer at a data rate that is based on the data rate parameter.
US12086739B2
One embodiment includes a method for monitoring a CIP process previously performed. The method includes accessing CIP process data stored in a CIP library. The CIP process data includes CIP phase data associated with a plurality of CIP phases in the CIP process previously performed, equipment data associated with objects used in the CIP process during one or more of the CIP phases, and consumable data associated with consumables consumed by corresponding equipment in the CIP process. In addition, the method includes displaying at least a portion of the CIP process data, and providing a graphical user interface. The graphical user interface is configured to: organize the CIP process data into at least one of (i) a plurality of CIP phases or (ii) consumable data, and sort equipment data according to one or more of the plurality of corresponding CIP phases or corresponding consumables.
US12086736B2
A search device updates positions and momentums of a plurality of virtual particles, for each unit time from an initial time to an end time. The search device, for each unit time, calculates, for each of the particles, a position at a target time of a corresponding particle, calculates, for each of a plurality of nodes, a first accumulative value by cumulatively adding positions at the target time of two or more particles corresponding to outgoing two or more directed edges, calculates, for each of the nodes, a second accumulative value by cumulatively adding positions at the target time of two or more particles corresponding to incoming two or more directed edges, and calculates, for each of the particles, a momentum at the target time of a corresponding particle based on the first accumulative value and the second accumulative value.
US12086715B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for performing sequence modeling tasks using insertions. One of the methods includes receiving a system input that includes one or more source elements from a source sequence and zero or more target elements from a target sequence, wherein each source element is selected from a vocabulary of source elements and wherein each target element is selected from a vocabulary of target elements; generating a partial concatenated sequence that includes the one or more source elements from the source sequence and the zero or more target elements from the target sequence, wherein the source and target elements arranged in the partial concatenated sequence according to a combined order; and generating a final concatenated sequence that includes a finalized source sequence and a finalized target sequence, wherein the finalized target sequence includes one or more target elements.
US12086708B2
In a method for generating a normalized sequential model using a processor, a sequential energy-based model computed by a parameterized neural network is provided. The sequential energy-based model defines an unnormalized probability distribution over a target sequence for a context source. The normalized sequential model is generated by projecting the sequential energy-based model onto a target autoregressive model that approximates a normalized distribution associated with the sequential energy-based model.
US12086707B2
A neural processing unit may comprise a first circuit configured to perform operations for an artificial neural network (ANN) model, and arranged for a plurality of groups of processing elements (PEs) including a plurality of PEs; a second circuit arranged to output a plurality of clock signals to the first circuit; a third circuit configured to measure a ratio of peak power and average power of at least the first circuit; and a fourth circuit, arranged to dynamically calibrate a phase of at least one of the plurality of clock signals of the second circuit based on the ratio of peak power and average power measured in the third circuit.
US12086699B2
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for venue detection. In aspects, a mobile device comprising a set of sensors may collect and store sensor data from in response to a detected movement event or user interaction data. The sensor data may be used to generate a set of candidate venues corresponding to the location of the mobile device. The candidate venues may be provided to a venue detection system. The venue detection system may process the candidate venues to generate a set of features. The set of features may be applied to, and/or used to generate, one or more probabilistic models. The probabilistic models may generate confidence metrics for each of the candidate venues. In some aspects, the top ‘N’ venues may be selected from the set. The top ‘N’ venues may then be presented to the user and/or used to effect one or more actions.
US12086693B2
The disclosed embodiments provide a system that performs seasonality-compensated prognostic-surveillance operations for an asset. During operation, the system obtains time-series sensor signals gathered from sensors in the asset during operation of the asset. Next, the system identifies seasonality modes in the time-series sensor signals. The system then determines frequencies and phase angles for the identified seasonality modes. Next, the system uses the determined frequencies and phase angles to filter out the seasonality modes from the time-series sensor signals to produce seasonality-compensated time-series sensor signals. The system then applies an inferential model to the seasonality-compensated time-series sensor signals to detect incipient anomalies that arise during operation of the asset. Finally, when an incipient anomaly is detected, the system generates a notification regarding the anomaly.
US12086677B2
A radio frequency identification method and a reader, the reader comprises a camera, a display screen, a distance sensor, an antenna unit and a processor, the camera is configured to collect an image of a target electronic tag, and the display screen is configured to display an image of the target electronic tag, the distance sensor is configured to measure the distance d between the target electronic tag and the reader, and the antenna unit is configured to receive a radio frequency signal emitted by the target electronic tag. When the antenna unit only receives a radio frequency signal transmitted by one electronic tag, the reader reads the electronic tag; when the antenna unit receives radio frequency signals transmitted by a plurality of electronic tags, the processor filters out the target electronic tag according to the matching degree between the distance and a phase value of the radio frequency signal.
US12086673B2
A wireless tag reading apparatus for reading tag information stored in a wireless tag attached to an item, includes a stage on which the item can be placed, one or more antennas movable between first and second positions, a camera facing the stage, and a controller configured to control the camera to capture images and detect an object therein, control the antennas to transmit radio waves to a wireless tag and move the antennas, wherein the transmitting and the moving are repeated while the antennas move from the first position to the second position during a tag reading period, acquire tag information from response waves transmitted by the wireless tag in response to the radio waves, based on the captured images, determine whether the object has moved during the tag reading period, and upon determining that the object has moved during the tag reading period, issue a notification.
US12086671B2
An anchoring element of a tracking device comprising an electronic tag with a unique identification, an embedding method, and a tracking method of a metal precious object provided with such tracking devices are disclosed. The method comprises the steps of embedding said electronic tag with a unique identification in a ceramic case, embedding said ceramic case in an anchoring element in the shape of a metal frame with open faces, joining said anchoring element to a portion of said metal precious object by laser micro welding, wherein said step of embedding said ceramic case provides to defining at least a recess for each side of said metal frame, locating said case inside the perimeter of said metal frame through said through-slit and blocking it there by means of local melting of material of the same nature of said metal frame so as to obstruct an opening of said through-slit.
US12086670B2
The disclosed embodiments generally relate to transaction card constructions, and particularly, to a two-piece transaction card construction. Disclosed embodiments include a generally planar first card component including a first surface and a generally planar second card component including a second surface wherein the first card component is separate from the second card component. In disclosed embodiments, for example, the generally planar first card component and the generally planar second card component may be configured such that one forms a cavity and the other forms an inlay component configured to be seated within the cavity. In other embodiments the generally planar first card component and the generally planar second card component may be configured such that one forms a container and the other forms a lid configured to close the container.
US12086663B2
The inkjet printing apparatus is configured to be able to execute a batch adjustment process of performing a plurality of times of adjustment processes related to printing in succession based on one instruction from an outside. The conveyance control unit maintains the conveyance speed at a first speed in a period when a chart printing process is performed and a period when a chart imaging process is performed. The conveyance control unit decreases the conveyance speed from the first speed to the second speed after the end of the chart imaging process in an adjustment process except for an adjustment process that is performed last in the batch adjustment process, and increases the conveyance speed from the second speed to the first speed before the start of the chart printing process in an adjustment process that is performed next.
US12086658B2
A service linkage assistance device includes an executing unit which accepts a request for a stateless API for a stateful service which exposes a stateful API from a service linkage device which executes a linkage service obtained by linking multiple services including the stateful service, interprets the request, and executes the stateful API and a storage unit which stores dynamic information included in a response from the stateful API, and the stateless API is exposed to the service linkage device by the service linkage assistance device.
US12086656B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products for high availability computing systems. A computer processor executes a sequence of instructions to execute, on a first node of a computing platform, a first instance of a computing process that is configured to use a first graphics processing unit (GPU) in a first GPU configuration. Responsive to detection of a loss of functionality that affects the first node, an agent automatically determines that a second instance of the computing process can execute on a second node. The determination is made by (1) determining that the second instance of the computing process can execute using a second GPU in a second GPU configuration on the second node, (2) mapping the first GPU configuration into one or more alternate second GPU configurations, and (3) configuring the second instance of the computing process to use the second GPU in one of the alternate second GPU configurations.
US12086651B2
Migrating workloads among execution environments including storage systems includes: selecting a target execution environment for supporting a workload and migrating the workload to the target execution environment utilizing active disaster recovery. Migrating the workload can include: assigning storage resources of the workload to a first pod; linking for replication, the first pod to a second pod of the target execution environment; and replicating the storage resources of the workload to the second pod of the target execution environment.
US12086642B2
Methods and systems for context-aware distributed computing. In one aspect, a system includes a work administrator system; an API; a worker module; and a work administrator. One or more worker modules register with one or more work administrators. The worker modules may inform the work administrators of their processing capabilities and capacity. The work administration system receives a request for processing via the API. A work administrator parses a request into one or more discrete work requests and publishes each work request to the worker modules. The worker modules notify the work administrator whether they can perform the work, along with load and capabilities. The work administrator a worker module to perform each work request. When a worker module completes the work, it notifies the work administrator. The work administration system may aggregate the results from one or more worker modules and provide a response via the API.
US12086624B2
Live mounting a virtual machine (VM) causes the VM to run off a backup copy or snapshot previously taken of a “live” production VM. The live-mounted VM is generally intended for temporary use such as to validate the integrity and contents of the backup copy for disaster recovery validation, or to access some contents of the backup copy from the live-mounted VM without restoring all backed up files. These uses contemplate that changes occurring during live mount are not preserved after the live-mounted VM expires or is taken down. Thus, live mounting a VM is not a restore operation and usually does not involve access to every block of data in the backup copy. However, live mounting provides live VM service in the cloud sooner than waiting for all of the backup copy/snapshot to be restored.
US12086622B2
Techniques for optimizing virtual machine (VM) scheduling on a non-uniform cache access (NUCA) system are provided. In one set of embodiments, a hypervisor of the NUCA system can partition the virtual CPUs of each VM running on the system into logical constructs referred to as last level cache (LLC) groups, where each LLC group is sized to match (or at least not exceed) the LLC domain size of the system. The hypervisor can then place/load balance the virtual CPUs of each VM on the system's cores in a manner that attempts to keep virtual CPUs which are part of the same LLC group within the same LLC domain, subject to various factors such as compute load, cache contention, and so on.
US12086615B2
Based on power on of an electronic device, a location of first data in a NAND flash memory of an electronic device is determined. The first data is transmitted to a shadow RAM of the electronic device, outputting the first data is output from the shadow RAM to a host device of the electronic device through a serial peripheral interface (SPI) when accessing the location of the first data in the NAND Flash memory.
US12086611B2
A method includes obtaining feature data including one or more features and obtaining priority information corresponding to the one or more features of the feature data. The method includes, based on the priority information, dividing the one or more features into first features and second features, compressing the second features, and combining the first features with the compressed second features. The method includes obtaining preprocessed features by applying a combination of the first features and the compressed second features to a plurality of first machine learning models. The method includes obtaining, by applying the preprocessed features to a second machine learning model, probability values of a plurality of applications that are predicted to be executed on the electronic device. The method includes, based on the probability values, executing one or more applications from among the plurality of applications in the background process of the electronic device.
US12086609B2
Embodiments of the present application disclose a method and a device for loading module of virtual reality equipment based on PC terminal. The virtual reality equipment is in communication connection with the PC terminal, and comprises a plurality of functional devices and functional modules corresponding to the functional devices; and the PC terminal comprises experience modules corresponding to the functional devices. The method comprises: step one, sequentially performing a loading operation on each of P functional devices, P being a positive integer, wherein the loading operation comprises: determining whether the functional devices are valid; if so, loading the functional modules corresponding to the functional devices and recording valid information; step two, collecting M pieces of valid information, wherein the M pieces of valid information correspond to M functional devices which are determined to be valid among the P functional devices, M being a positive integer which is no greater than P; and step three, sending the M pieces of valid information to the PC terminal, thereby the PC terminal loading experience modules corresponding to the M functional devices according to the M pieces of valid information.
US12086604B2
A boot circuit is configured to be coupled to a first memory. Boot information is stored in the first memory. The boot circuit is configured to receive the boot information. The boot circuit includes a first control circuit, a digital signal processing circuit, a detector circuit, a second control circuit, and a memory access circuit. The detector circuit is configured to generate a detection result according to the received boot information. The second control circuit is configured to control the first control circuit according to the detection result, to adjust a transmission parameter for transmitting the boot information. Based on the adjusted transmission parameter, the boot information is retransmitted from the first memory, via the memory access circuit, to the digital signal processing circuit. The digital signal processing circuit performs a boot process according to the retransmitted boot information.
US12086601B2
Techniques for process execution trend prediction and visualization are disclosed. The disclosed system receives a process execution request to be executed on a set of targets. The request may include request characteristics, such as a request type and computations to be performed during execution. The system analyzes the request characteristics to determine the computations to execute and for initiates request execution on the targets. Based on the analysis, the system generates predictions regarding the execution, including an estimated completion time. During execution, the system displays various attributes of the execution in a dynamically updating visualization. The system also provides real-time recommendations on how the process can be optimized, such as to reduce execution time and errors.
US12086596B2
Techniques are described for an instruction for a conditional rotate and XOR operation in a single instruction and triple input bitwise logical operations in a single instruction in an instruction set of a computing system.
US12086592B2
This application discloses a processor, a processing method, and a related device. The processor includes a processor core. The processor core includes an instruction dispatching unit and a graph flow unit and at least one general-purpose operation unit that are connected to the instruction dispatching unit. The instruction dispatching unit is configured to: allocate a general-purpose calculation instruction in a decoded to-be-executed instruction to the at least one general-purpose calculation unit, and allocate a graph calculation control instruction in the decoded to-be-executed instruction to the graph calculation unit, where the general-purpose calculation instruction is used to instruct to execute a general-purpose calculation task, and the graph calculation control instruction is used to instruct to execute a graph calculation task. The at least one general-purpose operation unit is configured to execute the general-purpose calculation instruction. The graph flow unit is configured to execute the graph calculation control instruction.
US12086588B2
Versions of an application are managed by receiving a request for a version of an application, retrieving, responsive to the received request, a version of a master application component based at least in part on version data that associates a version of the master application component with the version of the application, retrieving a relationship operable to relate the version of the master application component with a corresponding version of a first component on which the master application component depends for a function of the application, retrieving the corresponding version of the first component, responsive to the retrieving of the relationship, assembling the version of the application based at least in part on the retrieved version of the master component, the retrieved relationship, and the retrieved first component, and providing for an execution of the assembled version of the application.
US12086580B2
An information processing device 10 accesses a first region 110 for recording software that implements a plurality of functions and a second region 120 for recording an update file for each of the functions of the software. If an update file for a function to be executed of the software is recorded in the second region 120, a function executor 102 is configured to execute the update file.
US12086578B2
Embodiments provide a web-based editing tool that intelligently leverages certain functionality of a browser, web client, desktop client, and native software at the client side to provide seamless user experience when editing a file over a network. Responsive to a user selecting a file for editing, the web client may send a passive content request to a web server embedded in the desktop client at a specific address on the client device. If no response, the web client prompts the user to start or install the desktop client on the client device. If a response is received, the web client sends a request to the desktop client with a user identifier and authorization to download the file from a server. The desktop client downloads the file, opens it in the native software, monitors the file being edited, and updates a delta associated with the file to the server.
US12086570B2
An actively stabilized random number generator includes a random number generator and a feedback controller. The random number generator includes a chaotic physical circuit realizing an iterated function. The iterated function is configured to produce a trajectory of iterates and has an operating parameter β and a desired Markov operating point. A binary bit converter has a symbol function configured to produce binary symbols from the trajectory of iterates and a maximal kneading sequence. The feedback controller is configured to observe the maximal kneading sequence within the trajectory of iterates and adjust the operating parameter to the desired Markov operating point.
US12086568B2
A first multiplier multiplies a first input with a first coefficient and a first adder sums an output of the first multiplier and a second input to generate a first output. A second multiplier multiplies a third input with a second coefficient, a third multiplier multiplies a fourth input with a third coefficient, and a second adder sums outputs of the second and third multipliers to generate a second output. The second and third inputs are derived from the first output and the first and fourth inputs are derived from the second output. The first and second outputs generate digital values for first and second digital sinusoids, respectively.
US12086566B2
A method of selecting, in hardware logic, an ith largest or a pth smallest number from a set of n m-bit numbers is described. The method is performed iteratively and in the rth iteration, the method comprises: summing an (m−r)th bit from each of the m-bit numbers to generate a summation result and comparing the summation result to a threshold value. Depending upon the outcome of the comparison, the rth bit of the selected number is determined and output and additionally the (m−r−1)th bit of each of the m-bit numbers is selectively updated based on the outcome of the comparison and the value of the (m−r)th bit in the m-bit number. In a first iteration, a most significant bit from each of the m-bit numbers is summed and each subsequent iteration sums bits occupying successive bit positions in their respective numbers.
US12086563B1
Systems and methods for constructing a narrative of an interaction with a subject are disclosed. According to an aspect, a method includes receiving response prompts for interacting with a subject. The method includes constructing a data structure including a set of nodes. Each of the nodes corresponds to one of the response prompts. Each link is traversable based on a response to a response prompt at the respective node. The method includes providing a narrative build manager configured to receive one or more responses to one or more response prompts of the set of nodes. The narrative build manager is configured use the one or more responses to traverse the links. The narrative build manager is configured to construct a narrative of an interaction with a subject based on the traversal of the links and the responses to the response prompts at one or more nodes.
US12086560B2
Implementations of the disclosure provide a method, system and computer program product for model localization. In an implementation of the disclosure, a method for model localization includes parsing a model to identify translatable terms, generating a seed file associating each of the translatable terms with a corresponding tag and replacing each translatable term in the model with a corresponding tag and submitting each of the translatable terms to machine translation for a target language to produce a different translation file mapping each tag from the seed file with a translated term in the target language of a corresponding one of the translatable terms. Then, the model may be deployed in a data analytics application using the different translation file to dynamically translate each translatable term into a corresponding translated term within a user interface to the data analytics application.
US12086553B2
An embodiment for creating a dialog based on anticipated questions for database driven conversations is provided. The embodiment may include receiving content from a database. The embodiment may also include identifying one or more schemas, one or more entities, and relational data in the content. The embodiment may further include identifying a semantic type and a number of distinct entries for each entity. The embodiment may also include presenting choices for one or more query targets and one or more filtering conditions to a user. The embodiment may further include prompting the user for one or more annotations and one or more clarifying questions for each chosen query target and filtering condition. The embodiment may also include generating a plurality of modular phrases and combining the plurality of modular phrases into one or more sentences and paraphrases of the one or more sentences.
US12086546B2
Examples described herein generally relate to a computer system including a knowledge graph storing a plurality of entities. A mining of a set of enterprise source documents within an enterprise intranet is performed, by an enterprise named entity recognition (ENER) model, to determine a plurality of entity names. An entity record is generated within a knowledge graph for a mined entity name from the linked entity names based on an entity schema and ones of the set of enterprise source documents associated with the mined entity name. The entity record includes attributes aggregated from the ones of the set of enterprise source documents associated with the mined entity name.
US12086544B2
Polarity classifications of writing samples are obtained by sentiment analysis operations including embedding each word of a writing sample into a word vector based on surrounding words, extracting one or more features of the writing sample, applying a feature learning function to the one or more features, estimating a polarity of the writing sample based on output from the word learning function and output from the feature learning function, and training the word learning function and the feature learning function based on a loss function relating the estimated polarity to the word vector to produce a model for writing sample polarity classification.
US12086529B1
Various embodiments provide for using a timing-based yield calculation to modify a circuit design, which can be part of an electronic design automation (EDA) system. For instance, some embodiments use a timing-based yield calculation to modify one or more portions of the circuit design to improve timing of the circuit design (e.g., slack, slew, delay, etc.), the timing-based yield calculation of the circuit design, or both.
US12086521B2
Circuit design simulation and clock event reduction may include detecting, using computer hardware, a plurality of models of a circuit design driven by a clock source by parsing the circuit design. The circuit design is a mixed language circuit design including a hardware description language (HDL) model and a high-level programming language (HLPL) model. Using the computer hardware, a clock requirement for the HLPL model for a simulation of the circuit design may be determined. The clock requirement of the HLPL model differs from a clock requirement of the HDL model. Using the computer hardware, an interface of the HLPL model may be modified based on the clock requirement of the HLPL model.
US12086514B2
A post-traumatic immobilization device is produced by a method thereof. The device has an architectural form with a rounded shape, formed by at least two complementary rigid parts (1a, 1b), in the form of a mesh (11). The parts define respective concave cavities and include curved connecting ends (12), and fasteners provided with raised portions (13) for the coupling of elastic O-rings (2) that clamp the rigid parts (1a, 1b) to one another. A method produces the post-traumatic immobilization device.
US12086510B2
An indoor design scheme acquisition method and apparatus, a computer device and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring basic information of a target room, the basic information at least including house structure information; controlling a layout of articles in the target room based on the basic information of the target room to generate at least one design scheme of the target room, the design scheme including the house structure information and article placement information; acquiring scores of the design schemes based on the house structure information and the article placement information; and determining the design scheme meeting a preset requirement as a target design scheme based on the scores of the design schemes. The method can adapt to design requirements of different scenarios and different house structures, and the design scheme meeting a preset requirement is determined by scoring all the design schemes.
US12086508B2
Methods and apparatus for interacting with a tag in a radio target area. More specifically, the present invention relates to methods and systems for monitoring temperature and other environmental conditions in a storage area and displaying environmental conditions as digital content in a user interactive interface based upon energy levels received from a radio target area and content from a sensor generating digital content.
US12086506B2
A method of determining a probability of a fire within one or more rooms of a building comprising: determining a geometry of a room in response to a floor plan: determining whether one or more articles are located within the room and a flammability of each of the one or more articles: determining whether one or more hazards are located within the room: and determining a probability of a fire in the room in response to at least one or more articles are located within the room, the flammability of each of the one or more articles, and the one or more hazards are located within the room.
US12086505B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor fabrication system may include preparing a first vacuum pipe, preparing a second vacuum pipe, connecting a first process chamber to a first pump through the first vacuum pipe, and connecting a second process chamber, which is spaced apart from the first process chamber, to a second pump through the second vacuum pipe. The preparing of the first vacuum pipe may include connecting a plurality of first unit pipes to form the first vacuum pipe and calculating a first conductance, which is a total conductance of the first vacuum pipe. The preparing of the second vacuum pipe may include forming the second vacuum pipe by connecting a plurality of second unit pipes such that the second conductance, which is a total conductance of the second vacuum pipe, is equal to the first conductance.
US12086504B2
Techniques enable an automatic adjustment of a muted response setting of an automated assistant based on a determination of an expectation by a user to hear an audible response to their query, despite the muted setting. Determination of the expectation may be based on historical, empirical data uploaded from multiple users over time for a given response scenario. For example, the system may determine from the historical data that a certain type of query has been associated with a user both repeating their query and increasing a response volume setting within a given timeframe. Metrics may be generated, stored, and invoked in response to attributes associated with identifiable types of queries and query scenarios. Automated response characteristics meant to reduce inefficiencies may be associated with certain queries that can otherwise collectively burden network bandwidth and processing resources.
US12086503B2
Media content episodes are received. Using machine learning, one or more media segments of interest are identified in each of the media content episodes based at least in part on an analysis of content included in a corresponding audio content episode. Each of the identified media segments is associated with one or more automatically determined tags. Using machine learning, a recommended media segment is selected for a specific user from the identified media segments based at least in part on attributes of the specific user and the automatically determined tags of the identified media segments. The recommended media segment is automatically provided in an media segment feed.
US12086490B2
An image forming apparatus includes a controller, a storage that stores data, and an image former that forms an image, based on the data. The controller stores data received from an external apparatus, in an individual folder to which a name based on information on the external apparatus is assigned, enables settings for the individual folder, and displays, on a screen that displays the individual folder, the individual folder that is set to satisfy a display condition, regardless of whether or not data is stored in the individual folder.
US12086488B2
An information processing system includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to: acquire profile information including a profile to be applied to print output from a first company system; manage the profile information acquired from the first company system; and distribute the profile information to a second company system to apply the profile information to a job executed by a printing machine of the second company system.
US12086486B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing an extension application configured to extend, by being associated with print data generation software, a function of the print data generation software for shared use by a plurality of printing apparatuses provided by different vendors stores a program for causing a computer to activate a status notification application configured to provide a notification of status information about a printing apparatus based on issuance of a print instruction to print print data on which the printing apparatus performs printing processing, and display a print preview screen for the print data in a case where the print data is acquired, wherein the status notification application provides the notification of the status information about the printing apparatus even in a case where an error does not occur in the printing apparatus.
US12086484B2
A facility for managing a document conversion environment is described. In various embodiments, the facility includes a native application associated with a native document type and an isolation service. The isolation service determines whether a native application associated with the native document type has started and when it has not started, starts the native application and causes the started native application to load and convert a native document to a common document format, wherein the isolation service starts a single instance of the native application and monitors the single instance of the native application so that it complies with specified a parameter, condition, or setting of operation.
US12086482B2
An overprinting inspection apparatus includes a processor configured to detect failure in overprinting by comparing succeeding print data and a succeeding image detected from a post-overprinting medium obtained by the overprinting. The overprinting is printing of the succeeding image based on the succeeding print data over a pre-overprinting medium on which a preceding image has been printed based on preceding print data.
US12086478B2
An information processing apparatus controls a printer capable of printing on a sheet-shaped recording medium. The apparatus includes a memory containing instructions and a processor for executing the instructions to set, as a print setting for a first print process, a two-sided print setting or a one-sided print setting. In addition, a controller controls whether to execute control for discharging a recording medium printed by the first print process in a face-up manner or a face-down manner based on at least one of whether the two-sided print setting is set for a second print process executed before the first print process and whether the second print process is for printing pages, when the two-sided print setting is set for the first print process that prints one page.
US12086477B2
A printing device includes a display and a controller. The controller performs a counting process to increment a cumulative value of a printing count each time printing is performed by the printing device. The controller performs a first display control process to display on the display the cumulative value of the printing count which is incremented in the counting process. The controller performs a display mode modification process to modify a display mode for the cumulative value of the printing count displayed on the display when a printing agreement is established for a subscription. The printing agreement is for charging fees depending on a printing count within a specific interval.
US12086473B2
Copying data using references to the data, including: receiving a request to write the source data to a target volume, wherein the request to write the source data indicates the reference information; obtaining a metadata representation of the source data using the reference information; an copying, using the reference information, the metadata representation of the source data to the target volume.
US12086467B2
A memory controller managing a memory device receives a memory read command from a host device that is communicably coupled to the memory device. The memory device includes a storage memory comprising a first type of memory cells and a cache memory comprising a second type of memory cells. The memory controller determines, from the memory read command, a physical address of a target memory location in the storage memory indicated by the memory read command. The memory controller executes a read operation on the target memory location corresponding to the physical address. The memory controller determines a read attribute of the target memory location. Conditioned on determining that the read attribute satisfies one or more threshold conditions, the memory controller programs an entry in the cache memory with information corresponding to the target memory location.
US12086463B2
A host system coupled to a storage system provides hardware support for command abort. The host system includes a host controller, which detects that a host driver has disabled an enable indicator of a submission queue (SQ). In response to the detection, the host controller stops further fetching from the SQ. The host controller sends all entries that have been fetched from the SQ to the storage device, and sets a status indicator of the SQ to indicate stopped fetching of the SQ.
US12086460B2
Systems and methods for non-destructive readback and writeback of an integrated circuit system are provided. Such a system may include an adaptive logic element including a first register pair. The first register pair may include a first register operating at a first frequency and a second register operating at a second frequency. The second frequency may be equal to or lower than the first frequency. The second register may store data from the first register. The adaptive logic element may also include a first clock providing a first clock signal to the first register and a second clock providing a second clock signal. The adaptive logic element may also include a multiplexer that may select the first clock signal or the second clock signal as a clock source for the second register.
US12086456B2
An example method may include executing one or more first instructions that cause the processing device to enter a privileged execution mode, switching a memory consistency model of the processing device to a strong instruction ordering mode, and executing one or more second instructions in the privileged execution mode, where the one or more second instructions are executed using the strong instruction ordering mode. The method may further include executing one or more third instructions that cause the processing device to exit the privileged execution mode, and, responsive to executing the one or more third instructions, switching the memory consistency model of the processing device to a relaxed instruction ordering mode.
US12086455B2
A data storage system may have a plurality of memory cells located in different data storage devices that are arranged into a plurality of logical namespaces with each logical namespace configured to be sequentially written and entirely erased as a single unit. An asymmetry strategy may be proactively created with the asymmetry module in response to data access activity to the logical namespaces by the asymmetry module. A new mode, as prescribed by the asymmetry strategy, is entered for at least one logical namespace in response to an operational trigger being met. The new mode changes a timing of at least one queued data access request to at least one logical namespace.
US12086453B2
A memory for an artificial neural network (ANN) accelerator is provided. The memory includes a first bank, a second bank and a bank selector. Each bank includes at least two word lines and a plurality of write word selectors. Each word line stores a plurality of words, and each word has a plurality of bytes. Each write word selector has an input port and a plurality of output ports, is coupled to a corresponding word in each word line, and is configured to select a byte of the corresponding word of a selected word line based on a byte select signal. The bank selector is coupled to the write word selectors of the first bank and the second bank, and configured to select a combination of write word selectors from at least one of the first bank and the second bank based on a bank select signal.
US12086447B2
A processing system includes a first processor couplable to a first memory and a second memory. In response to a page migration trigger for a page in the first memory, the first processor is configured to, responsive to the page being a read-only page storing code for execution, initiate migration of the page to a code cache portion of a second memory associated with a second processor and shared by multiple processes executing at the second processor, and to configure each process of a set of processes executing at the second processor to access and execute the code from the code cache portion.
US12086445B1
A data storage system stores a plurality of partitions for a volume and at least one parity partition for the volume. The parity partition includes erasure encoded data that enables any one of the partitions to be reconstructed using the erasure encoded data of the parity partition. Additionally, the data storage system is configured to generate parity data updates in response to modifications to the volume and store updated parity data in the parity partition, such that a current state of any of the partitions of the volume can be re-created in response to a loss of one of the partitions.
US12086440B2
A first memory resource is configured to store a data structure. The first memory resource is coupled to a second memory resource that is configured to store a plurality of data structures. A processing device is coupled to the first memory resource, the second memory resource, and a third memory resource. The processing device writes data entries to the data structure within the first memory resource, determine that the data structure within the first memory resource includes a threshold quantity of data entries, and write the contents of the data structure within the first memory resource to a data structure within the second memory resource. The processing resource is further configured to move the contents of the contents of the data structure in the second memory resource to the third memory resource by readdressing the entries written within the second memory resource to virtual addresses associated with the third memory resource.
US12086435B2
Implementations described herein relate to selective data map unit access. A memory device may receive a request from a host device to access a resource associated with a data map unit. The memory device may identify whether the data map unit is in a locked state or an unlocked state. The data map unit may be in the locked state when another host device currently has exclusive access to the resource or may be in the unlocked state when no other host device currently has exclusive access to the resource. The memory device may selectively grant the host device exclusive access to the resource based on identifying whether the data map unit is in the locked state or the unlocked state.
US12086432B2
An apparatus with a solid state drive (SSD) configured to manage storage resources for proof of space activities. The SSD has a host interface configured to receive at least read commands and write commands from an external host system. The SSD has memory cells formed on at least one integrated circuit die, and a processing device configured to control executions of the read commands and the write commands. In response to an indication of a storage space request for the host system, the apparatus identifies a portion of storage resources used to store the data of the proof of space plot, and reallocates the portion to service the host system. Subsequently, the SSD can continue proof of space activities based on the proof of space plot using the data stored in a remaining portion of the storage resources initially allocated to the proof of space plot.
US12086420B2
An electronic device comprises: a memory management module; a processor operatively connected to the memory management module; and a memory controlled by the memory management module and operatively connected to the processor. The memory is configured to store instructions which, when executed, cause the processor to: execute at least one process, identify a rate at which the at least one process is terminated, based on a preconfigured first cycle, determine a number of times the identified rate exceeds a first threshold value, and based on a determination that the number of times the identified rate exceeds the first threshold value is greater than a second threshold value, reboot the electronic device.
US12086418B1
A memory sprint controller, responsive to an indicator of an irregular memory access phase, causes a memory controller to enter a sprint mode in which it temporarily adjusts at least one timing parameter of a dynamic random access memory (DRAM) to reduce a time in which a designated number of activate (ACT) commands are allowed to be dispatched to the DRAM.
US12086417B2
Techniques can include: configuring a federation to have a volume as active from only a first storage system so that hosts only sends I/O operations, directed to the first volume, to the first storage system; configuring a second storage system of the federation as inactive with respect to volume; determining, in accordance with criteria, to allow I/O operations directed to the volume to be sent to both the first and second storage systems; transitioning the second storage system, with respect to the volume, from inactive to active; and receiving, from a host at the first and second storage systems, I/O operations directed to the volume while the first and second storage systems are configured as active. The I/O operations can include a first I/O operation received at the second storage system which is redirected, by the second storage system, to the first storage system for servicing.
US12086416B2
A memory system may wait to receive one or more read commands from a reference time point, and read data, requested by the one or more read commands, from the memory device in response to a determination that it is possible to simultaneously read data divided and stored, as an M number of data units, in an M number of planes among a plurality of planes in response to the one or more read commands or that a maximum read wait time has elapsed from the reference time point, M being a natural number.
US12086415B2
Methods, systems, and devices for frequency regulation for memory management commands are described. A memory device may maintain a respective first counter and second counter for each monitoring area of the memory device, where the counters may be incremented for each activate command received for the corresponding monitoring area. If the first counter satisfies a first threshold, an activate command issued to the monitoring area may be ignored. If the second counter fails to satisfy a second threshold, a memory management command issued to the monitoring area may be ignored and the memory device may maintain a value of the second counter, while decrementing the first counter. Alternatively, if the second counter satisfies the second threshold, the memory device may perform a memory management operation associated with a received memory management command and may decrement the first counter and the second counter.
US12086413B2
Deploying client-specific applications in a storage system utilizing redundant system resources, including: identifying a redundant controller in the storage system, wherein the storage system includes at least a first controller and the redundant controller; and executing one or more applications on the redundant controller, wherein the one or more applications are executed in a container.
US12086407B2
Systems and methods for attaching a virtual input device to a virtual object in a mixed reality (MR) environment are provided. The system includes a memory, a processor communicatively coupled to the memory, and a display device. The display device is configured to display a MR environment provided by at least one application implemented by the processor. The mixed reality environment includes a virtual object corresponding to an application, and a virtual input device. The at least one application docks the virtual input device to the virtual object with an offset relative to the virtual object.
US12086406B2
A control method. The control method includes controlling a first display area of an electronic device to display a display interface of a first object; controlling the electronic device to enter a first state or a second state in response to a first trigger event; in the first state, performing an operation associated with the first object in response to a first operation on the display interface of the first object; and in the second state, performing an operation associated with a second object in response to a second operation on the display interface of the first object.
US12086404B2
A device and method for controlling the audio level of a device are provided. The device includes a housing, a roll unit mounted such that it is able to rotate in the housing, a flexible, touch-sensitive display configured to be rolled on the roll unit around a roll axis so that a first, curved portion of the display forms a side screen bent around the roll unit, and a second, planar portion of the display forms a front screen, wherein the area of the front screen changes according to a rotation of the roll unit, and a controller configured to adjust, in response to detecting a predefined multi-touch gesture on the side screen, an audio output volume of the device.
US12086399B2
In accordance with some embodiments, a method is performed at a device with one or more processors, non-transitory memory, a display, and an input device. The method includes displaying, on the display, a playback status indicator regarding playback of a media item. The method includes displaying, on the display, an image associated with the media item. The method includes detecting an input interacting with the image. In response to a first portion of the input, the method includes adjusting the appearance of the image on the display in accordance with the first portion of the input. In response to a second portion of the input, the method includes changing playback of media items on the device in accordance with the input in accordance with the second portion of the input.
US12086397B2
A tool allows a user to create new designs for apparel and preview these designs before manufacture. Software and lasers are used in finishing apparel to produce a desired wear pattern or other design. Based on a laser input file with a pattern, a laser will burn the pattern onto apparel. With the tool, the user will be able to create, make changes, and view images of a design, in real time, before burning by a laser. Input to the tool includes fabric template images, laser input files, and damage input. The tool allows adding of tinting and adjusting of intensity and bright point. The user can also move, rotate, scale, and warp the image input.
US12086389B2
Systems and methods for providing a uni-card interface can provide for an interactive dynamic interface for providing information to a user. The uni-card interface may include a multi-state interface that can provide increasingly more detailed information upon each interaction. For example, the uni-card interface can provide a first state with condensed information, a second state with expanded information, and a third state with immersive information.
US12086386B2
A medication delivery module is mounted to a patient care device, and a first graphic representative of the first medication delivery module is displayed on a display screen of the device, wherein the first graphic includes an information display area for display of infusion information associated with the first medication delivery module, and a status indicator for display of status information associated with the medication delivery module. Responsive to the indication, the status indicator is dynamically orienting such that the status indicator is displayed on a side of the first graphic nearest the coupling of the first medication delivery module. Infusion information from the first medication delivery module is displayed within the display area of the first graphic.
US12086373B2
Various embodiments of the disclosure disclose a method and apparatus, where an electronic device may include a communication module, a touch display, a memory, and a processor operatively connected to the communication module and the memory, wherein the processor may be configured to display a plurality of objects on the touch display, receive a touch input for the plurality of objects through the touch display while being connected to a wearable display device through the communication module, identify a direction corresponding to the touch input, identify a display angle and display distance of the wearable display device, determine an arrangement position of the plurality of objects included in the electronic device based on at least one of the identified direction, the display angle, or the display distance, and control displaying of the plurality of objects on the wearable display device based on the determination result. Various embodiments are possible.
US12086372B1
One embodiment provides a method, the method including: receiving, at an information handling device with at least one instance of an application in use, a request to view a preview window for the at least one instance of the application; altering, utilizing the window preview system, the preview image of the at least one instance of the application from a default preview image to a unique preview image; and displaying, on a display device and utilizing the window preview system, the altered preview image to the user. Other aspects are claimed and described.
US12086359B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provides an electronic apparatus and a data processing method. The electronic apparatus includes a first sensor (101), configured to collect a distance sensing parameter, and a second sensor (102), configured to collect a touch control sensing parameter. A touch control area of the second sensor (102) covers a specific area of a first surface of the electronic apparatus. The first sensor collects the distance sensing parameter in a space above the touch control sensing area. The distance sensing parameter may be collected in the space above the touch control sensing area by arranged a distance sensor. Thus, the electronic apparatus may realize a touch control input and an input through the distance, which enriches input manners of the electronic apparatus and improves the user experience.
US12086357B2
A power circuit according to the present disclosure may include a multiplexer connected to a first power line and a second power line and selecting and outputting one of a first voltage supplied through the first power line and a second voltage supplied through the second power line. Further, the power circuit may include a first power circuit which generates a first driving voltage and a second driving voltage by using a voltage supplied from the multiplexer, recognizes whether there is the first voltage supplied through the first power line, and does not output the first driving voltage when the first voltage is not recognized.
US12086347B2
A method and an apparatus for displaying an operation interface, and a touchscreen terminal, where the method includes: receiving a first pull-down operation in a first set area on a touchscreen; displaying a first operating interface; receiving a second pull-down operation in the second set area on a touchscreen; displaying a second operating interface, wherein display width of the second operating interface is the same as display width of the first operating interface, which is the same as width of the touchscreen.
US12086339B2
A driving circuit, for driving a touch display panel, includes a controller, a first diode, a first capacitor, a second diode and a second capacitor. The controller is configured to provide a first modulation signal and a second modulation signal. The first diode is coupled between a power integrated circuit and a first node for providing a low gate output signal to the touch display panel. The first capacitor is coupled between the controller and the first node. The second diode is coupled between the power integrated circuit and a second node for providing a high gate output signal to the touch display panel. The second capacitor is coupled between the controller and the second node. During a touch period, the controller is configured to provide the first modulation signal with toggling voltage levels, and provide the second modulation signal with toggling voltage levels.
US12086338B2
The disclosure provides a touch module, a touch display panel and a display device. Each touch electrode includes a plurality of electrode blocks arranged along an extending direction, and electrode blocks belonging to other touch electrodes are distributed in an area where at least part of all the electrode blocks are located, which makes full use of an interior area of a traditional touch pattern and increases a coupling area between the touch electrodes. When touch occurs, an amount of change in a mutual capacitance value between the touch electrodes will be significantly increased, thereby increasing touch sensitivity.
US12086330B2
An information processing device includes: an acquisition unit that acquires inertial information from an inertial sensor provided in a controller; a detection unit that detects the controller from a captured image acquired through imaging by an imaging device; and a control unit that acquires a position of the controller on a basis of a position of the controller acquired in a past and the inertial information in a case where the controller is not detected from the captured image. The control unit controls a display to display a display item at a position based on the acquired position of the controller.
US12086326B2
A method, system, apparatus, and/or device for moving or scrolling a virtual object in a virtual or augmented reality environment. The method, system, apparatus, and/or device may include: detecting, by a first sensor, a first gesture associated with selecting a first virtual object in an augmented reality environment displayed by a head-mounted display; displaying, by the head-mounted display, a first indicator indicating a selection of the first virtual object by a user; detecting, using the first sensor or a second sensor, a first movement of the head-mounted display associated with a first movement command; and in response to detecting the first movement of the head-mounted display, executing the first movement command, where the first movement command is a scrolling function to scroll text or a graphical object of the first virtual object or a movement function to move the text or the graphical object of the first virtual object.
US12086316B2
The invention provides a haptic feedback data processing method. During the running of the preset application process, the haptic feedback data of the actuator is collected in real time. At the time of reference data sampling, all collected haptic feedback data are integrated and processed to generate recorded data. Store the executable data corresponding to the recorded data. Through the implementation of the present invention, the haptic feedback data generated in real time is recorded and stored during the running of the application. Therefore, in the application data playback scenario, the haptic feedback data during the running of the application can be output accordingly, which can provide users with a more extreme recording file playback experience.
US12086310B2
An electronic apparatus includes at least one processor configured to perform the operations of the following units: a display unit configured to display a captured image, an acquisition unit configured to acquire line-of-sight information including a line-of-sight position of an observer that observes the display unit, a display control unit configured to control display based on the line-of-sight information, and a selection unit configured to select an object based on the line-of-sight information. The display unit highlights a limited area as a part of the captured image based on the line-of-sight information. The selection unit selects an object based on the observer's line-of-sight information about the display.
US12086309B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided an apparatus comprising at least one processing core, at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processing core, cause the apparatus at least to determine a reference point in a three-dimensional space based at least in part on locations of first and second features of a user's eye and on the user's gaze distance, and perform a mapping of the reference point into a viewed scene of a near-to-eye optical device to obtain an estimated gaze point and/or gaze direction of the user who is using the near-to-eye optical device, the mapping being based at least in part on calibration information associated with the user.
US12086308B2
A vehicular driver assist system includes a sensor disposed at a vehicle and a display disposed at the vehicle and viewable by a driver of the vehicle. An electronic control unit (ECU) includes a processor for processing sensor data captured by the sensor to detect presence of objects in the field of view of the sensor. The vehicular driver assist system, responsive to processing by the processor of sensor data captured by the sensor, determines presence of a driver of the vehicle and determines a position of the driver's head. The vehicular driver assist system, responsive to determining the position of the driver's head, adjusts an orientation of the display based on the determined position of the driver's head to increase visibility of the display for the driver.
US12086306B2
A processing system for modifying interactive content includes: a user profile obtaining unit operable to obtain the user profile including information about an eye-in-head radius, the eye-in-head radius representing an amount of a display viewable by a user without moving their head, an interactive element identification unit operable to identify interactive elements in displayed content, and to identify selection areas associated with each identified interactive element, and a content modification unit operable to modify interactions between a user and one or more of the identified interactive elements in dependence upon the obtained user profile, the content modification unit is operable to locate one or more of the identified interactive elements in dependence on the eye-in-head radius, and the content modification unit is further operable to determine an overlap threshold between the eye-in-head radius and each selection area in order for an interaction with a corresponding interactive element to be performed.
US12086303B2
[Object] To achieve the high performance of an electronic apparatus and ensure the safety of a user at the same time. [Solving Means] An electronic apparatus includes a temperature sensor that detects a temperature of a specified portion of the electronic apparatus; and a mode controller that turns on an endurance mode that is a mode that permits a surface temperature of the electronic apparatus to be increased to a second upper limit when the electronic apparatus is used out of contact with a human body, the surface temperature being calculated on the basis of the temperature detected by the temperature sensor, the second upper limit being higher than a first upper limit that is an upper limit of a temperature in a normal mode.
US12086289B2
This application provides a data encryption method, a data decryption method, a secure data backup method, a secure data restoration method, and an electronic device. Different types of data packets in the card data are separately encrypted by using a secure element SE and a trusted execution environment TEE. In the encryption process, a user and a third-party card data provider are introduced, and are separately responsible for generation, storage, and delivery of one of key factors. Then, a real backup key is generated with reference to a key factor provided by a mobile phone party. After being encrypted in the SE and the TEE by using the backup key, the card data is uploaded to a cloud server for backup. The application can ensures data backup security in the SE and the TEE.
US12086285B1
A method of providing a data disclosure to a requester can include: receiving a data subject request from a requester, the data subject request including a request for stored personal data; categorizing the element data into one of a plurality of tiers based on a sensitivity level of the element data; assigning an assigned tier to the element data and associated data values; determining a level of detail of the associated data values for each of the element data to provide based on the assigned tier; and providing a data disclosure report to the requester, wherein the data disclosure report includes the level of detail of data values for each of the element data based on the assigned tier.
US12086279B2
The present disclosure involves systems, software, and computer implemented methods for integrated data privacy services. An example method includes receiving a request to initiate an aligned purpose disassociation protocol for a purpose for an object instance. Aligned purpose disassociation applications are identified that are each configured to indicate whether the application can disassociate the purpose from the object instance. Other applications are identified that area each configured to indicate whether the application can block the object instance. A can-disassociate query is sent to each of the aligned purpose disassociation applications. A can-block query is sent to each of the other applications. Can-disassociate responses are received from the aligned purpose disassociation applications. Can-block responses are received from the other applications. An aligned purpose disassociation decision is determined based on the can-disassociate responses and the can-block responses.
US12086277B2
Computer system security can be improved through the use of whitelists and blacklists based on Bloom filters in the context of real-time data and electronic actions. A transaction may use a specific asset. A first search of the specific asset can be conducted in a Bloom filter whitelist comprising first assets classified as having a first status. The first search may return a plurality of first binary results corresponding to different hash functions performed the first assets. A second search of the specific asset can be conducted in a Bloom filter blacklist comprising second assets classified as having a second status different from the first status. The second search can return a plurality of second binary results corresponding to different hash function performed on the second assets, and the specific asset can be determined to be good or bad based on values of the first and second binary results.
US12086276B2
A content management system for collecting files from one or more submitters in a collection folder. A collector, who generates the collection folder, can invite one or more submitters to submit one or more files to the collection folder in response to a public file request. The one or more submitters have limited rights to the collection folder. The limited rights can include uploading rights and prohibiting a submitter from viewing files that other submitters associated with the collection folder submitted. Thus, the collection folder is able to store files from the one or more submitters, but prevent them from viewing other's submissions.
US12086273B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for dynamically generating linked security tests. The present invention may be configured to perform security tests on an application, generate, based on the results of the security tests, security test sequences that include at least one security test that the application failed, perform the security test sequences on the application, and, iteratively and until the application passes each security test sequence in an iteration, generate additional security test sequences. The present invention may be further configured to provide results of the security tests and security test sequences to one or more machine learning models to generate supplementary security test sequences and determine probabilities of the application failing the supplementary security test sequences.
US12086270B2
There are provided systems and methods that include at least one memory that has a plurality of memory cells. The cells may be disposed in rows and columns. The device can further include a controller that is communicatively coupled to the at least one memory, and the controller may be configured by its hardware topology and its instruction set and/or by a communicatively coupled processor or higher-level system or subsystem to maintain data integrity in the at least one memory and/or to prevent or mitigate malicious access patterns that may compromise the at least one memory. The controller may be configured to execute a deterministic protocol in conjunction with or sequentially to a probabilistic protocol to achieve one or more of the above-noted functions.
US12086259B2
Methods, systems, devices, and apparatuses for securely providing an over-the-air firmware upgrade. The system includes an embedded device configured to receive the firmware upgrade. The system includes a server having a memory configured to store a first key encryption key, the firmware upgrade and a firmware key and having a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to obtain the firmware upgrade, the firmware key and the first key encryption key. The processor is configured to encrypt the firmware upgrade using the firmware key. The processor is configured to encrypt the firmware key with the first key encryption key and transmit the encrypted firmware upgrade and the encrypted firmware key to the embedded device.
US12086247B2
A computerized method for logical identification of malicious threats across a plurality of end-point devices (EPD) communicatively connected by a network, comprising collecting over the network an identifier associated with each file of a plurality of files, wherein each file of the plurality of files is installed on at least one of the plurality of EPDs and wherein the identifier is the same for each like file of the plurality of file. Information associated with an identified subset of files is collected, wherein the information indicates at least a time at which the at least one file was installed on one or more of the plurality of EPDs and the way the at least one file spread within the network. The collected information is analyzed according to a set of predetermined computerized investigation rules. The analysis is used to determine whether at least a file of the identified subset files is a suspicious file.
US12086245B1
A processor for mitigating side channel attacks includes units that perform fetch, decode, and execution of instructions and pipeline control logic. The processor performs speculative and out-of-order execution of the instructions. The units detect and notify the control unit of events that cause a change from a first translation context (TC) to a second TC. In response, the pipeline control logic prevents speculative execution of instructions that are dependent in their execution on the change to the second TC until all instructions that are dependent on the first TC have completed execution, which may involve stalling their dispatch until all first-TC-dependent instructions have at least completed execution, or by tagging them and dispatching them to execution schedulers but preventing them from starting execution until all first-TC-dependent instructions have at least completed execution. The processor may also in response prevent speculative instruction fetching and/or perform speculative instruction flushing.
US12086233B2
An orchestration engine intermittently scans secrets, of different secret types, to identify secrets that are to be rotated. The orchestration engine calls an application programming interface (API) exposed by a serverless management system and wakes up the serverless management system. The serverless management system generates a new secret, stores the new secret for rotation, and interacts with a dependent system in order to revoke an old secret and implement the new secret. Once the secret is rotated, and the new secret is implemented, the orchestration engine stores the new secret in a secret store.
US12086228B2
Techniques for securing user data in a healthcare data management system are described. A client system receives a request to authenticate a user. A login token relating to an authenticated user is maintained at the client system. A role is selected for the user, and an authorization token relating to the selected role is maintained at the client system. A session for the user is initiated. This includes generating an encrypted session cookie relating to the user and the session, storing the encrypted session cookie at the client system, and periodically updating a timestamp for the session cookie.
US12086226B2
Disclosed herein is a pixel structure comprising a plurality of layers for providing a touch sensitive pixel of a sensing array. The pixel comprises: a thin film transistor, a capacitive sensing electrode, and a reference capacitor comprising a first plate and a second plate. The capacitive sensing electrode and the second plate of the reference capacitor are connected to a gate region of the thin film transistor. Methods of manufacturing such a touch sensitive pixel are also disclosed herein.
US12086223B2
A generation apparatus converts a received key to an encoded key by using an encoding function of an error correcting code, and generates a sketch by applying a first composite transformation on received fuzzy data and the encoded key. A reconstruction apparatus receives a first sketch and a second sketch, generates a composite sketch by applying second composite transformation on the first and second sketches, and reconstruction calculates difference between the two keys used to generate the first and second sketches based on the composite sketch.
US12086222B2
A first server apparatus is communicably connected to each of a second server apparatus having a server-less function and a vehicle and includes an obtaining unit obtaining, from the vehicle, start position information indicating a start position of the vehicle, start date-and-time information indicating a start date and time of the vehicle, parking position information indicating a parking position of the vehicle, and parking date-and-time information indicating a parking date and time of the vehicle, an estimating unit estimating a date and time at which the vehicle is started based on the start position, the start date and time, the parking position and the parking date and time, and an instructing unit instructing the second server apparatus to activate a personal authentication program in accordance with an estimation result by the estimating unit.
US12086217B2
A request to execute an application at a secure cryptographic environment of a server may be received. A tag that has been assigned to the application may be received. An attribute of the server may be identified. A determination may be made as to whether the attribute of the server satisfies the tag that has been assigned to the application. In response to determining that the attribute of the server satisfies the tag that has been assigned to the application, an indication may be provided to execute the application at the secure cryptographic environment of the server.
US12086208B2
In various examples, sets of testing data may be selected and applied to an MLM such that differences in performance of the MLM in the testing between the sets indicates and may be used to determine whether and/or an extent by which the MLM is trained to rely on artifacts. Training data for the MLM may be generated using a first value of a parameter that defines a value of a characteristic of the training data. For testing, first testing data may be selected that corresponds to a second value of the parameter that shifts the value in a first direction and second testing data may be selected that corresponds to a third value of the parameter that shifts the value in a second direction (e.g., opposite the first direction). Various possible actions may be taken based on results of analyzing the differences in performance.
US12086196B2
Technology is disclosed for selecting at least one people highlight, with respect to a person of interest, to be shown on one or more user devices. The user device is monitored to determine a user interest in a person of interest. A set of possible people highlights, with respect to the person of interest is determined. A determination is made as to whether any of the possible people highlights should be suppressed and not presented to the user on the user device. Any people highlights that were determined to be people highlights that should be suppressed and not presented are removed to create a remaining set of possible people highlights. At least one of the remaining set of possible people highlights are presented on the user device.
US12086193B2
Methods, systems, and non-transitory computer readable storage media are disclosed for determining clusters of similar digital documents using unique document signatures. Specifically, the disclosed system processes digital text in a digital document to tokenize character strings (e.g., words) in the digital document by combining a subset of character values and string lengths in the character strings. Additionally, the disclosed system generates a document signature for the digital document by combining subsets of tokens generated for the digital document into a token sequence indicative of the digital text in the digital document. The disclosed system determines a cluster of similar digital documents including the digital document by comparing the document signature of the digital document to document signatures corresponding to a plurality of digital documents.
US12086191B2
Methods, apparatus, and systems to determine a niche market of items or services, the first phase of which identifies a gap between demand and supply for a set of items. Session logs may be evaluated to compare transactions involving a specific item to those of a larger group of items. The resultant information identifies areas of high demand, but with low availability. The niche market information may be provided as direct merchandising items for sellers. In one example, the method generates niche market item web pages in specific categories. Additional methods, apparatus, and systems are disclosed.
US12086190B2
A method for determining metadata propagation generated by an Extract, Transfer, Load (ETL) process. The method may include categorizing metadata given to data sources to generalize the metadata and categorizing the ETL process to generalize the ETL process; defining propagation rules for the generalized metadata and generalized ETL process; and generating metadata for ETL-converted data based on the categorization of the generalized metadata and generalized ETL process, and corresponding ones of the propagation rules.
US12086188B2
A method is provided for generating regular expressions. In some embodiments, the method includes partitioning a first plurality of text strings into a plurality of substrings, each text string of the first plurality being malignant or benign. The method also includes generating a population list including a second plurality of text strings, each text string of the second plurality including at least one token. The method further includes creating subsequent iterations of the population list. Each iteration may include calculating a score for one or more text strings in the population list and removing one or more text strings from the population list. The method further includes in response to a determination to not update the population list, selecting, based on the one or more calculated scores, a third text string as a regular expression from a final iteration of the population list.
US12086187B2
A remote personal assistant server/service is configured with a plurality of different state machines for supporting asynchronous communications with the front-end interfaces of personal assistants and for supporting the interfacing with a plurality of proprietary back-end intelligence bots, which are independently controlled and separate from the remote personal assistant service/server.
US12086177B2
A system and method for tagging a region within a frame of a distributed video file to permit easier retrievability of the region of interest.
US12086169B2
A method including: generating a conversation flow signature based on a set of communication transcripts, each of the communication transcripts being associated with a support request for a product, each of the communication transcripts being a text transcript of a communication between a respective customer and a respective customer support agent; classifying the conversation flow signature into one of a plurality of categories, the conversation flow signature being classified by using a machine learning classifier that is trained based on customer support records, each of the plurality of categories corresponding to a respective set of steps for configuring or repairing the product; and outputting an indication of the respective set of steps that is associated with the category in which the conversation flow signature is classified.
US12086164B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide an approach for identifying outliers (e.g., detecting the outliers and generating outlier explainability) in a heterogeneous system. Heterogeneous input data is received from any number of data sources having any number of data types and converted into a single predefined format. Global outliers are detected in a first pass of the data. Contextual outliers are detected in a second pass. Global and contextual outliers are then collectively grouped based on outlier type. Output data is then generated including explainability for each detected outlier.
US12086163B2
Systems and methods for asset fingerprinting can include probing, by one or more processors, each of a plurality of assets associated with a computer environment, and receiving, responsive to the probe, parameters for the plurality of assets. The one or more processors can cluster, using the parameters, each of the plurality of assets into respective cluster of a plurality of clusters of assets. The one or more processors can determine a profile of a cluster of the plurality of clusters. The profile can define one or more common features of assets of the cluster. The one or more processors can assign the profile of the cluster an unidentified asset of the cluster.
US12086157B2
In some examples, a system may receive, from a user device, a user request for a storage operation related to storage of data at a storage. An update may be added to an update queue to persist the storage operation prior to sending a response to the user device indicating performance of the storage operation. For instance, adding the update to the update queue may include sending a request to cause the update to be added to the update queue based on specifying a type of the storage operation and/or a state to be achieved by the storage operation. Additionally, information about the update may be sent to another processor for adding the update to another update queue managed by the other processor. Subsequently, the update may be obtained from the update queue and processed to perform the storage operation.
US12086155B2
Various embodiments are generally directed to an apparatus, system, and other techniques for shared, trusted token generation for a token-bucket flow control policy implemented in a distributed ledger. Tokens may be generated by blocks in the distributed ledger, which may be a blockchain system. Trusted execution hardware may be used as a proof algorithm to ensure that a token exists, and that client has legitimately acquired or accumulated the token prior to using it to submit a transaction.
US12086151B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for shared folder backed integrated workspaces. In some implementations, a content management system can provide a graphical user interface (GUI) that integrates communications and content management into a single user interface. The user interface can include mechanisms that allow a user to provide input to generate a new workspace. The user interface can provide a mechanism to allow a user to view conversations related to the workspace and/or content items associated with the workspace. The user interface can present representations of content items associated with the workspace and allow the user to provide input to generate, view, edit, and share content items associated with the workspace.
US12086143B2
A data analytics system configured to perform operations is disclosed. The operations can include creating, in response to instructions received from a user, a first pipeline. This pipeline can be configured to extract data from an append-only first data store, extract identifying characteristics from the extracted data, provide the identifying characteristics to an identity service, and receive a tenancy identifier from the identity service. The pipeline can further be configured to create a data object in a second data store using the extracted data; create a tenancy object in a metadata store, the tenancy object associated with the data object, the metadata store implementing a hierarchical data object ownership graph; and associate the tenancy object with a parent object in the hierarchical data object ownership graph. The data analytics system can then tear down the first pipeline.
US12086138B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for interacting with a graph database structure. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving, at an application, information regarding a first entity; transmitting, to a graph database, a query regarding the first entity; receiving, at the application, query results based on one or more relationships between the first entity and other entities in the graph database; making, by the application, an inference based on the query results; modifying, by the application, a user interface of the application based on the inference by displaying at least one user interface element suggesting a selection of an application option; and receiving, by the application, a user selection of the suggested application option.
US12086130B1
Aspects related to a resource-constrained system are described herein that can provide object storage services after a service interruption is resolved, even if all of the transactions that were pending and incomplete prior to the service interruption have not yet been recovered and/or executed. For example, file systems implemented by computing systems of the resource-constrained system may treat each file or directory as a separate object. Thus, a transaction directed to one file may not affect the file's directory or other files in the directory. As a result, the resource-constrained system can achieve read-after-write consistency without first recovering and executing the pending, incomplete transactions. Instead, read-after-write consistency for an object can be achieved simply by completing any pending, incomplete transaction directed to that object. Accordingly, the resource-constrained system can provide object storage services to user devices immediately after the service interruption is resolved, thereby resulting in fast crash recovery times.
US12086114B2
In one embodiment, systems and methods for performing asynchronous local migration of metadata between data stores and asynchronous remote replication of metadata between sites are described. The methods may use various configurations, including 1-to-1, 1-to-N, N-to-1, M-to-N, etc. The method for performing asynchronous local migration at a first site may include pausing critical operation(s) at an old data store, copying metadata from the old data store to a new data store, flagging table(s) in the old data store as complete, and deleting the metadata from the old data store. The method for asynchronous remote replication may include determining that local migration is complete, identifying second metadata from the new data store for which the first site is a primary authority, sending, to the second site, the second metadata, receiving, from the second site, third metadata for which the second site is the primary authority and storing the third metadata.
US12086111B2
A system can determine to perform a replication of data from first computing equipment to second computing equipment, the data being stored as part of a path in a file system. The system can determine that a change log of file operations on files in the path identifies a file operation on a file that is made by a user account that has priority for replications. The system can replicate the file. The system can, after processing the change log for file operations made by first user accounts that have priority for replications, replicating other files in the path associated with second user accounts that do not have priority for replications.
US12086108B2
Techniques for monitoring local and/or remote file systems by a synchronization component (e.g., client/server) of a cloud-based platform are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of building synchronization events by a synchronization component (e.g., a synchronization server/client) includes obtaining a set of items that have been changed and their new states and retrieving last known states of the set of items that are stored in a reference snapshot inside a filesystem scanner. The method further includes generating differences between the new states and the last known states of the set of items as item changes and utilizing information provided by the item changes to translate the item changes into synchronization events for execution on the opposing file system. A method of handling failed synchronization events by a synchronization component of the cloud-based platform by collapsing a subsequent event with the failed synchronization event is also disclosed.
US12086105B2
A method for efficiently sharing assets such as files and folders in the form of slices. Assets are shared or transferred between a host computer system and a target computer system such as a client computer system. In one or more embodiments, assets such as files and folders that are to be shared or transferred are placed in appropriate network slice queues by the hosts in such a manner that each slice has a size that is the same as the others within a predetermined tolerance. This ensures efficient use of network resources when sharing or transferring the files, while minimizing the amount of work the hosts and/or clients must perform.
US12086099B2
Described herein are example methods and systems for enrolling a user device with an unified endpoint management system (“UEMS”) directly from another user device. The examples describe a first user device that is already enrolled with the UEMS and a second user device that is seeking to be enrolled. The two user devices can establish a direct connection with each other. The second user device can be authenticated by a user inputting the same migration password or pin at both user device. The first user device can generate and send a migration data file to the second user device. The migration data file can include settings, policies, software packages, and files managed by the UEMS. The second user device can copy settings, policies, and files, and install the applications from the migration data file. The second user device can notify an UEMS server of the device migration.
US12086097B2
A microprocessor system comprises a computational array and a vector computational unit. The computational array includes a plurality of computation units. The vector computational unit is in communication with the computational array and includes a plurality of processing elements. The processing elements are configured to receive output data elements from the computational array and process in parallel the received output data elements.
US12086093B2
A serial port control system based on a complex programmable logic device (CPLD) includes a console, a plurality of processors, and a CPLD between the console and the plurality of processors. The CPLD includes a controller and a register. The console is configured to transmit an instruction including a register address and a register content of a serial port of a corresponding processor to the controller which parses the instruction to obtain the corresponding register address and register content and write them to the register; and the controller is configured to communicate with the serial port of the corresponding processor according to the register address and the register content. The controller and the register within the CPLD can automatically switch the serial port to communicate with the corresponding processor, thereby improving the efficiency.
US12086092B2
A multichip system includes a transmitter-end chip and a receiver-end chip. The transmitter-end chip includes a first port. The receiver-end chip includes a second port. The first port is connected to the second port, and an operating mode of the first port is different from an operating mode of the second port. When the transmitter-end chip is coupled to the receiver-end chip without through another chip, the transmitter-end chip determines a first target address of the receiver-end chip with respect to the transmitter-end chip according to the operating mode of the first port, and transfers a command to the receiver-end chip according to the first target address, such that the receiver-end chip executes the command.
US12086087B2
Methods and apparatus for improved send/receive operations in network interface fabrics. In one exemplary embodiment, mechanisms and protocols for enhanced inter-process (and inter-endpoint) communication, including within very large scale topologies involving e.g., hundreds or even thousands of nodes or endpoints, such as a large-scale high-performance compute or network fabric, are described. In one implementation, the methods and apparatus avoid frequent kernel transitions (and the performance penalties associated therewith) associated with prior approaches through use of UMCs (user message contexts) are created, which contain TX and RX queues that can be read and written directly from user space. A KMC (kernel message context) is also used, in which TX queues are written from the kernel such that access can be arbitrated between unrelated processes. These functions allow for, among other things, significant portions of the foregoing kernel accesses to be obviated.
US12086085B2
A motor driver, a control method of the motor driver, and a motor driving system are provided. The motor driver includes a rotation information pin, an analog detecting circuit and a mode switching circuit. The rotation information pin is configured to receive a reference signal. The analog detecting circuit and the mode switching circuit are respectively and electrically connected to the rotation information pin and the analog detecting circuit. The analog detecting circuit determines whether the reference signal is an analog signal, and the motor driver is maintained in a master mode when the reference signal does not belong to the analog signal. The mode switching circuit determines whether the reference signal is a noise when the reference signal is the analog signal. The mode switching circuit switches the motor driver from the master mode to a slave mode when the reference signal is not the noise.
US12086082B2
Methods and apparatus for PASID-based routing extension for Scalable IOV systems. The system may include a Central Processing Unit (CPU) operatively coupled to a scalable Input/Output Virtualization (IOV) device via an in-line device such as a smart controller or accelerator. A Control Process Address Space Identifier (C-PASID) associated with a first memory space is implemented in an Assignable Device Interface (ADI) for the IOV device. The ADI also implements a Data PASID (D-PASID) associated with a second memory space in which data are stored. The C-PASID is used to fetch a descriptor in the first memory space and the D-PASID is employed to fetch data in the second memory space. A hub embedded on the in-line device or implemented as a discrete device is used to steer memory access requests and/or fetches to the CPU or to the in-line device using the C-PASID and D-PASID. IOV devices include multi-PASID helper devices and off-the-shelf devices such as NICs with modified ADIs to support C-PASID and D-PASID usage.
US12086081B2
An electronic device capable of attaching/detaching a device including an arithmetic processing unit: divides data that is a processing target of the arithmetic processing unit to obtain a plurality of divided data; determines a first command group that is a combination of a plurality of types of commands used to transmit each of the plurality of divided data to the device; and transmits the divided data using the determined first command group. The electronic device changes a combination of commands that form the first command group between a case in which certain divided data of the plurality of divided data is transmitted and a case in which another divided data is transmitted.
US12086074B2
A method is provided that includes receiving, in a permute network, a plurality of data elements for a vector instruction from a streaming engine, and mapping, by the permute network, the plurality of data elements to vector locations for execution of the vector instruction by a vector functional unit in a vector data path of a processor.
US12086072B1
Vulnerabilities to physical memory, such as server dynamic random access memory (DRAM) with error correction code (ECC) capability, can be mitigated though the use of guard pages allocated in that physical memory. Physical memory pages can be mapped to virtual memory pages of a contiguous virtual address space. When an error such as a bit flip is detected in a physical memory page, the data from that physical memory page can be copied to a protected page, such as a guard page or page isolated from other sensitive data. Information such as an error correction code (ECC) can be used to determine and correct the erroneous bit. The mappings in a related page table can be updated such that the same virtual pages or addresses are then mapped to the guard page that now includes the relevant data.
US12086070B2
A method includes receiving, at a block device interface, an instruction to write data, the instruction comprising a memory location of the data; copying the data to pinned memory; performing, by a vector processor, one or more invertible transforms on the data; and writing the data from the pinned memory to one or more storage devices asynchronously. The pinned memory of the data corresponds to a location in pinned memory, the pinned memory being accessible by the vector processor and one or more other processors.
US12086065B2
A computing system with a first instruction of an instruction set architecture (ISA) for direct invalidation, without writing back, in a hierarchical cache structure based on one single designated key identification code, and a second instruction of ISA for direct invalidation, without writing back, in the hierarchical cache structure based on a plurality of designated key identification codes is shown. A decoder transforms the first or second instruction into at least one microinstruction. Based on the at least one microinstruction, one direct invalidation request is provided corresponding to each designated key identification code, to be passed to the hierarchical cache structure through a memory ordering buffer. For each direct invalidation request, the cache line write-back and invalidation regarding a designated key identification code is performed on a last-level cache first, and then is performed on the in-core cache modules.
US12086064B2
An apparatus includes first CPU and second CPU cores, a L1 cache subsystem coupled to the first CPU core and comprising a L1 controller, and a L2 cache subsystem coupled to the L1 cache subsystem and to the second CPU core. The L2 cache subsystem includes a L2 memory and a L2 controller configured to operate in an aliased mode in response to a value in a memory map control register being asserted. In the aliased mode, the L2 controller receives a first request from the first CPU core directed to a virtual address in the L2 memory, receives a second request from the second CPU core directed to the virtual address in the L2 memory, directs the first request to a physical address A in the L2 memory, and directs the second request to a physical address B in the L2 memory.
US12086060B2
Row addresses received by a module are mapped before being received by the memory devices of the module such that row hammer affects different neighboring row addresses in each memory device. Thus, because the mapped respective, externally received, row addresses applied to each device ensure that each set of neighboring rows for a given row address received by the module is different for each memory device on the module, row hammering of a given externally addressed row spreads the row hammering errors across different externally addressed rows on each memory device. This has the effect of confining the row hammer errors for each row that is hammered to a single memory device per externally addressed neighboring row. By confining the row hammer errors to a single memory device, the row hammer errors are correctible using a SDDC scheme.
US12086055B2
A symbolic execution device, a symbolic execution method, and a probability distribution update method for symbolic execution are provided. The symbolic execution device includes a storage unit for storing at least one of a first probability distribution and a second probability distribution and a processor for sampling and obtaining a weight vector from the first probability distribution, for sampling and obtaining a removal rate from the second probability distribution, for adding the weight vector to at least one feature vector obtained from at least one candidate state to obtain a score for each of the at least one candidate state, and for selecting a state to be removed from among the at least one candidate state by using the score of each of the at least one candidate state and the removal rate.
US12086053B1
This disclosure describes techniques that include validation or other assessments of digital systems, such as machine learning models and other statistical models. In one example, this disclosure describes a method that includes receiving, by a validation computing system and from a development system, a request to perform a test on a model configured to execute on the development system; outputting, by the validation computing system to the development system and in response to the request, an instruction; enabling the development system to process the instruction; receiving, by the validation computing system, test response data; evaluating, by the validation system, the test response data.
US12086044B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for monitoring a computing process. For instance, the method may include: receiving a rules file including a set of rules for monitoring the computing process; receiving a configuration file for processing the rules file; retrieving a data set including a plurality of records associated with the computing process based on one or more sources of data included in the received configuration file; filtering the retrieved data set by applying one or more filter queries included in the received configuration file to the retrieved data set; applying the set of rules included in the received rules file to the filtered data set; and generating an output indicating results of applying the set of rules to the filtered data set.
US12086035B2
Techniques are provided for a recovery process with selective ordering and concurrent operations in order to recover from a failure. Representations of active log structures are rebuilt within memory according to ordering values assigned to I/O operations logged within the active log structures. Representation of certain active log structures may be concurrently rebuilt based upon the active log structures comprising I/O operations that are non-overlapping within a distributed file system, have no dependencies, relate to different services, and/or target independent files. Representation of stale log structures are concurrently rebuilt within memory. While rebuilding the log structures and executing the I/O operations, a key value map is concurrently rebuilt within the memory for locating data of the I/O operations. Concurrent operations during the recovery process reduces the time to complete the recovery process, and thus reduces client downtime during the recovery process.
US12086031B2
A method includes receiving, by a storage unit of a storage network, a check request message from a computing device of the storage network, where the check request message includes a group of slice names of a plurality of sets of slice names associated with a plurality of sets of encoded data slices, where a plurality of data segments are dispersed storage error encoded into the plurality of sets of encoded data slices. The method further includes determining, by the storage unit, whether an error condition exists for an encoded data slice associated with the group of slice names. When no, the method includes sending, by the storage unit, a check response message to the computing device, where the check response message includes a group of slice information regarding the group of slice names. When yes, the method includes disregarding sending the check response message.
US12086030B2
A system and method for offset protection data in a RAID array. A computer system comprises client computers and data storage arrays coupled to one another via a network. A data storage array utilizes solid-state drives and Flash memory cells for data storage. A storage controller within a data storage array is configured to store user data in a first page of a first storage device of the plurality of storage devices; generate intra-device protection data corresponding to the user data, and store the intra-device protection data at a first offset within the first page. The controller is further configured to generate inter-device protection data corresponding to the first page, and store the inter-device protection data at a second offset within a second page in a second storage device of the plurality of storage devices, wherein the first offset is different from the second offset.
US12086023B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium are disclosed for performing a data center monitoring and management operation. The data center monitoring and management operation includes: monitoring data center assets within a data center; identifying an issue within the data center, the issue being associated with an operational situation associated with a particular component of the data center; scheduling a remediation task via a data center monitoring and management application, the remediation task being designed to address the issue within the data center; and, performing a data center remediation operation based upon the remediation task.
US12086016B2
System and methods are described for anomaly detection and root cause analysis in database systems, such as multi-tenant environments. In one implementation, a method comprises receiving an activity signal representative of resource utilization within a multi-tenant environment; detecting a plurality of anomalies in the activity signal; computing a priority score for each of the plurality of anomalies; correlating at least a subset of the plurality of anomalies to one or more performance metrics of the multi-tenant environment; and transmitting a remediation signal to one or more devices in the multi-tenant environment based on the correlations and the priority scores.
US12086015B2
A power management circuit that has multiple sets of circuits to provide certain same power management functionalities in different power modes, such as voltage, current and temperature sensing and/or measuring, generating of reference states or biases to effectuate circuit protection in various conditions, such as under voltages, over voltages, etc. One set of circuits is configured to operate during a normal mode and is optimized for performance, speed and/or accuracy. Another set of circuits is configured to operate during a sleep mode and is optimized for reduced power consumption where the performance, speed and/or accuracy may be inferior to the circuits for the normal mode but the functionality is maintained within the low power consumption constraint.
US12086011B2
An electronic device includes a semiconductor memory device configured to store process information and to output the process information to the outside; and a host configured to read the process information from the semiconductor memory device, and to select one of a plurality of operation modes depending on the process information so as to be set to an operation mode of the semiconductor memory device. The plurality of operation modes may define one or more of power consumption of the semiconductor memory device or a response characteristic of the semiconductor memory device.
US12085999B2
A fan assembly is disclosed. The fan assembly can include a first support frame. The fan assembly can comprise a shaft assembly having a first end coupled with the first support frame and a second end disposed away from the first end. A second support frame can be coupled with the first support frame and disposed at or over the second end of the shaft assembly. An impeller can have fan blades coupled with a hub, the hub being disposed over the shaft assembly for rotation between the first and second support frames about a longitudinal axis. Transverse loading on the shaft assembly can be controlled by the first and second support frames.
US12085995B2
Computing devices and peripherals having a dynamic curvature are disclosed. The base of a laptop can curve as the laptop lid is opened due to left and right base portions being pulled inward to a bisector of the base. Base portions can be pulled inwards by a bending strap pushed upwards by a lifter spring, by base hinges that rotate inwards, or a shape memory allow wire laced around pulleys that contract when heated. A display device with dynamic curvature can curve due to a rack and pinion linear actuator that extends or shortens adjustable rods housed in the display support. A base or display can be curved based on the context of the computer device or in response to certain events. The curvature of a base or display can be tunable by a user. Curved bases and displays can reduce wrist and eye strain.
US12085993B2
An information handling system coupling device inserts into an opening of first and second portions that overlap to couple the portions together, such as a main housing and hinge, a lid housing and hinge, and a tray disposed in a main housing interior. First and second magnetic elements insert into the opening with like poles aligned to repel each other and provide room to fit a third magnetic element between them having opposing poles to attract the first and second elements into an assembly. Protrusions, such as an I-shape, extend from the assembly into recesses of the opening to engage the coupling device in place within the opening.
US12085988B2
An apparatus is provided that includes a flexible touch-sensitive display composed of a first flexible touch-sensitive display portion and a second flexible touch-sensitive display portion. The first flexible touch-sensitive display portion is attached to a first structural support segment. The second flexible touch-sensitive display portion is attached to a second structural support segment. The flexible touch-sensitive display further includes having a partially expanded state. The flexible touch-sensitive display further includes having a fully expanded state. A gimbal stabilization system is configured to automatically rotate the first structural support segment using an actuator such that the first structural support segment can remain at the same angle relative to the ground plane, which can include a viewable displayed content position if the first flexible touch-screen display portion is facing approximately parallel or perpendicular to the ground plane. While the second structural support segment is free to rotate at different angles.
US12085985B2
Disclosed are mobile battery powered workstations, methods of operating these workstations to increase warehouse and retail efficiency (through improved order fulfillment, as a mobile shipping & receiving station, mobile inventory management, and/or as mobile powered quality analysis stations), and methods of calculating remaining battery runtime for these workstations. A mobile battery powered workstation may comprise a wheeled base having a modular battery power bay, an upper workstation having a monitor, a computer, a printer, and at least one adjustable height column coupling the wheeled base to the upper workstation. The workstation may also include a glass overlay display positioned on a top surface of the upper workstation area and configured to provide order fulfillment employees with haptic feedback on remaining battery runtime, calculated via an algorithm for increased accuracy. These workstations may be used in warehouses and retail operations for order picking and fulfillment, shipping and receiving tasks, etc.
US12085980B2
A support structure for supporting objects of different weights includes a bracket, an elastic member, and an adjustment assembly. The bracket is configured to support different supported objects of different weights. The elastic member is arranged on the bracket and configured to deform elastically to provide torques for the supported objects. The adjustment assembly is connected between the bracket and the supported object. The adjustment assembly compresses the elastic member by the weights of the supported objects to produce torsional deformations of different degrees and enables the bracket to support the supported objects.
US12085959B2
An unmanned aerial vehicle cluster system, a method, apparatus, and system of launching, and a readable medium. The unmanned aerial vehicle cluster includes a plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles located in a launch area. The method of launching the unmanned aerial vehicle cluster includes: acquiring (S210) launch positions for the plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles in the launch area; acquiring (S220) an assembly area which corresponds to the launch area and includes a plurality of target positions; determining (S230) a target position for each unmanned aerial vehicle of the plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles according to the launch positions for the plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles and the plurality of target positions; and launching (S240) the plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles according to the launch position for each unmanned aerial vehicle of the plurality of unmanned aerial vehicles and the target position for each unmanned aerial vehicle.
US12085955B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to select track paths for one or more vehicles in a field are disclosed. An example apparatus includes input interface circuitry to obtain a request for a first track path for a first vehicle, path instruction generation circuitry to, in response to the request, obtain information defining a plurality of track paths in a field, and select, based on the request, the first track path from the plurality of track paths, and update circuitry to update the information to indicate that the first track path is claimed by the first vehicle.
US12085954B2
In a steering method for an agricultural machine, the agricultural machine is steered by track steering action independent of GNSS position data along an initial travel track in a working region until a headland adjoining the working region is reached at an exit point of the initial travel track. The agricultural machine is automatically steered by turn steering action, steering it based on an actual position determined based exclusively on GNSS position data, through the headland until an entry point of a target travel track in the working region is reached. The agricultural machine is steered by track steering action along the target travel track. The agricultural machine automatically detects a transition from a travel track of the working region into the headland and/or a transition from the headland into a travel track of the working region and switches accordingly between turn steering action and track steering action.
US12085945B2
Embodiments of the present disclosures disclose a method and a system to generate a path planning trajectory with a random lateral shift for an autonomous driving vehicle (ADV). In one embodiment, a system generates a reference line to navigate the ADV from a start location to a destination location. The system determines a lateral shift distance value to shift a lane center for the reference line. The system generates a shifted trajectory using the reference line based on the lateral shift distance value. The system controls the ADV based on the shifted trajectory to navigate the ADV.
US12085944B2
A moving path planning apparatus and method for a robot according to the exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure determine an actual moving path using a robot parameter set in advance on the basis of a moving path pattern acquired for every sub region of the map to determine an actual moving path of the robot in consideration of the turning radius of the robot.
US12085942B1
A method includes receiving one or more past trajectories navigated by a robotic device in an environment, wherein the one or more past trajectories are associated with initial environmental sensor data and one or more obstacle detection heuristics. The method also includes determining, based at least on subsequent environmental sensor data, one or more updated obstacle detection heuristics. The method further includes determining, based on the one or more updated obstacle detection heuristics and the initial environmental sensor data, one or more predicted drivable areas in the environment. The method additionally includes, based on the one or more predicted drivable areas including the one or more past trajectories, using the one or more updated obstacle detection heuristics to determine future navigation of the robotic device.
US12085934B2
Example methods and systems are disclosed to provide autonomous vehicle sensor security. An example method may include generating, by a first autonomous vehicle, a first map instance of a physical environment using first environmental information generated by a first sensor of a first autonomous vehicle. A second map instance from at least one of a second autonomous vehicle located in the physical environment is received. The first map instance may be correlated with the second map instance. In response to a discrepancy between the first map instance and the second map instance, a secure sensor may be activated to generate a third map instance. In response to the third map instance verifying that the discrepancy accurately describes the physical environment, the first environmental information including the discrepancy is used to navigate the first autonomous vehicle.
US12085932B2
A handheld device and method for entering data and controlling functions of an aerial vehicle are disclosed. The handheld device includes an interface that communicates with a processor and a memory of the aerial vehicle; input devices that receive input from an operator of the handheld device, a display device that displays information related to the input received from the operator via the input devices, and one or more processors. The one or more processors can receive input data from the input devices to modify a field value maintained in the memory of the aerial vehicle. The one or more processors can present, at the display device, an output data corresponding to the input data, and periodically transmit one or more signals to modify the field value maintained in the memory of the aerial vehicle via the interface based on the input data.
US12085929B2
A trained machine learning algorithm processes time series production data. The time series production data are representative of a control process within a facility control loop. The machine learning training algorithm is trained using positive training data that are representative of a normal operation of components within the facility control loop and negative training data that are representative of an abnormal operation of components within the facility control loop. Output of the trained machine learning algorithm identifies abnormalities in the facility control loop.
US12085927B2
A computer program product, an industrial installation in particular a paper-making machine, an apparatus and method for predicting a position of a web break of a fibrous material web that has occurred or is imminent, wherein the method includes capturing parameters, in particular speeds of rollers for transporting the fibrous material web or a web tension thereof, where the parameters are advantageously stored in the form of time series, a self-learning algorithm is used to detect the imminent web break and to determine the position of the web break which is imminent and/or has occurred, where the basis for the detection or the determination is a deviation of the respective parameter, such as from a temporal mean of the respective parameter.
US12085926B2
A method includes determining, based on physical characteristics indicated by first data, a plurality of sensor operations associated with a plurality of structures. The method further includes updating a structural health management system to indicate the plurality of sensor operations and, after updating the structural health management system, sending a plurality of notifications to the plurality of portable field devices. The method further includes receiving, in response to sending the plurality of notifications, second data from the plurality of portable field devices indicating results of the plurality of sensor operations. The results are generated by a plurality of tools used to perform the plurality of sensor operations. The method further includes performing, based on the results of the plurality of sensor operations, a plurality of remote structural health monitoring operations to determine one or more structural health characteristics of each structure of the plurality of structures.
US12085914B2
A method for adjusting a system autonomy level of a cargo handling system configured for autonomous control by a processor is disclosed. In various embodiments, the method includes receiving by the processor a sensor database from a plurality of sensing agents in operable communication with the processor; determining by the processor a confidence level based on the sensor database; and adjusting by the processor the system autonomy level for continued operation of the cargo handling system.
US12085913B2
A method for generating a sampling scheme for a device manufacturing process, the method including: obtaining a measurement data time series of a plurality of processed substrates; transforming the measurement data time series to obtain frequency domain data; determining, using the frequency domain data, a temporal sampling scheme; determining an error offset introduced by the temporal sampling scheme on the basis of measurements on substrates performed according to the temporal sampling scheme; and determining an improved temporal sampling scheme to compensate the error offset.
US12085912B2
There is provided an information processing apparatus for fully utilizing the functions of a machine tool by correctly converting CL data into an NC program. The information processing apparatus includes a CL data acquirer that can acquire CL data including standardization information based on a rule defined among a plurality of output devices, thereby acquiring CL data including the standardization information associated with at least one of unique control information of the numerical control apparatus, unique control information of the machine tool, and unique control information of a user of the machine tool, and an NC program generator that acquires an NC code corresponding to the standardization information included in the CL data, and generates an NC program including the NC code based on the NC code and the CL data.
US12085905B2
A method and system for operating an industrial process using an integrated quadratic controller (IQC) is provided for a single input multiple output system (SIMO). A target process value (PV) associated with an output of the industrial process is used to define an optimal output of the industrial process. Manipulated-variables (MVs) associated with a plurality of loads within the industrial process are utilized for controlling a rate of operation associated with the load impacting the PV of the industrial process. Quadratic programming (QP) is defined to optimize proportional action gains for the determined MVs given an update control variable PV. QP gain-modified proportional action are integrated into a control system of the industrial process and a modified control system to update MV output state map defining the multiple output to control respective loads in the industrial control process for achieving the target PV is generated.
US12085897B2
Each type of metal component part for two or more watch designs can be derived from instances of that corresponding type of MIM blank for that component part, which is formed from a same injection molding tool (respectively for each type of component part). An example instance of the MIM blank formed for a type of component part then has at least a portion of the instance of the MIM blank subtracted through a CNC milling process to form an interim shape and geometry of an instance of the type of component part for a given watch design. The CNC milling process can be applied to the MIM blank for that component part when the MIM blank is in its interim shape and geometry and has not yet been hardened to a finished shape and geometry of an instance of that type of component part for the watch design.
US12085891B2
A process cartridge includes a drum cartridge that has a drum frame having a a second end portion spaced apart from a first end portion in a first direction and a fourth end portion spaced apart from a third end portion in a second direction, a photosensitive drum rotatable about a first axis extending in the second direction and positioned at the first end portion of the drum frame, and a first storage medium that includes a first electrical contact surface. A developing cartridge is detachably attachable to the drum frame and has a developing roller that is rotatable about a second axis extending in the second direction and a second storage medium including a second electrical contact surface. The first electrical contact surface is positioned closer to the second end portion of the drum frame than the photosensitive drum is to the second end portion of the drum frame in the first direction, and in a state where the developing cartridge is attached to the drum cartridge, the second electrical contact surface is positioned closer to the second end portion of the drum frame than the photosensitive drum is to the second end portion of the drum frame in the first direction.
US12085888B2
An image forming apparatus includes a communication portion arranged inside a cover covering an image forming portion in the main body of the apparatus and including an antenna surface for use in establishing near field communication. The cover includes a stacking portion in its upper section. The stacking portion is configured to receive a recording medium with an image thereon, the recording medium being discharged outside the main body of the apparatus. The antenna surface faces a region of the upper section of the cover downstream in a direction of discharging the recording medium. The antenna surface at least partially faces a region of the upper section of the cover outside the stacking portion in a direction perpendicular to the direction of discharging the recording medium. The communication portion is capable of communicating with another communication portion using near field communication.
US12085879B2
A control device for controlling heat applied to a medium conveyed along a path, includes: first and second heaters arranged along a first direction crossing the path, the first heater overlapping the medium and the second heater not overlapping the medium when viewed in a direction crossing the path and the first direction; a sensor; and a circuit configured to determine estimated temperatures of the heaters based on power supplied thereto, determine a corrected temperature of the first heater based on the estimated temperature thereof and a temperature measured by the sensor, determine a corrected temperature of the second heater based on the estimated temperature thereof and the corrected and estimated temperatures of the first heater, energize the heaters based on the corrected temperatures, and issue a command for controlling a conveying speed based on the corrected temperature of the second heater.
US12085878B2
An image forming system includes: a transporter that transports an object; a transfer unit that transfers an image onto the object transported by the transporter; a fixing unit that fixes, onto the object, the image transferred by the transfer unit; and a processor configured to: in a first mode, exert control to obtain the state in which the fixing unit enables an image to be fixed; and, in a second mode, exert control to obtain the state in which the fixing unit does not fix an image.
US12085876B2
An image forming apparatus includes heating and pressurizing rotary members, and a speed control unit. In a first mixed job to be executed in a first mode and where a first recording material is to be initially conveyed and a second recording material is to be conveyed subsequent to the first recording material, the speed control unit sets a conveyance speed of the first recording material to a second speed based on acquired grammage information and sets a conveyance speed of the second recording material to a first speed based on the acquired grammage information. In a second mix job to be executed in the second mode and where the second recording material is to be conveyed subsequent to the initially conveyed first recording material, the speed control unit sets the conveyance speed of the first and second recording materials to the first speed based on the acquired grammage information.
US12085875B2
A fixing apparatus includes a fixing belt that is rotatable and endless, a pad, a pressing rotary member, and a scraping member. The pad contacts an inner circumferential surface of the fixing belt. The pressing rotary member contacts the pad via the fixing belt to form a nip portion. In cooperation with the fixing belt, the pressing rotary member fixes a toner image to a recording material by applying heat and pressure to the recording material at the nip portion. A lubricant is applied to the inner circumferential surface of the fixing belt. The scraping member includes an inclined portion inclined downward toward an outer side of the fixing belt and contacting an edge portion of the fixing belt to scrape the lubricant. The inclined portion is in contact with the edge portion of the fixing belt in an area where an outer surface of the fixing belt faces upward.
US12085858B2
A method for enhancing a photoresist profile control includes applying a photoresist layer comprising a photoacid generator on an underlayer disposed on a material layer, exposing a first portion of the photoresist layer unprotected by a photomask to light radiation in a lithographic exposure process, providing a thermal energy to the photoresist layer in a post-exposure baking process, applying an electric field or a magnetic field while performing the post-exposure baking process, and drifting photoacid from the photoresist layer to a predetermined portion of the underlayer under the first portion of the photoresist layer.
US12085850B2
Imprint apparatus forms pattern of imprint material by contacting pattern region of mold with the imprint material and curing the imprint material. The apparatus includes actuators for controlling shape of the pattern region by applying force to the mold and controller for controlling the actuators. Each actuator is given command value defined by sum of first command value for correcting first component, of shape difference between the shot region and the pattern region, that can be approximated by linear function and second command value for correcting second component, of the shape difference, that can be approximated by second- or higher-order function. After determining the first command value, the controller determines adjustment range of the second command value based on the first command value and determines the second command value by setting the adjustment range as restriction.
US12085839B2
This disclosure relates to a handheld camera mount and reflector system. The reflector system includes a collapsible rod member having a collapsible reflector attached at one end of the rod. A handle is connected at the other end of the rod. A camera mount is attached to the rod between the reflector and the handle. The surface of the reflector can be adapted to adjust reflectivity, diffusion and color spectrum.
US12085838B2
Disclosed according to an embodiment of the present invention is a camera module, comprising: a light source; an optical unit which converts light, output by the light source, into a planar form or a multi-point form and outputs same; and an image sensor, wherein the light source is periodically turned on/off, and when the light source is turned on, the optical unit moves to be positioned in a first position, and when the light source is turned off, the optical unit moves to the initial position thereof.
US12085834B2
An electrically tunable liquid crystal lens includes a carrier substrate, a common electrode layer disposed on the carrier substrate, a liquid crystal unit, a patterned electrode layer, a terminal electrode layer, a dielectric insulating layer, and a cover. The liquid crystal unit is disposed on the common electrode layer opposite to the carrier substrate, and includes a plurality of liquid crystal molecules. The patterned electrode layer is disposed on the liquid crystal unit opposite to the common electrode layer, and has a plurality of aperture patterns located within a projection of the liquid crystal unit on the patterned electrode layer. The terminal electrode layer is disposed on the patterned electrode layer opposite to the liquid crystal unit. The dielectric insulating layer is disposed between the patterned electrode layer and the terminal electrode layer. The cover is disposed on the terminal electrode layer opposite to the dielectric insulating layer.
US12085826B2
An LCoS display pixel structure is disclosed. According to at least one embodiment, the present disclosure provides an LCoS display pixel structure which implements a pattern or geometry having an analog pixel structure in a display having micro-display LCoS structures.
US12085825B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first common electrode, a second common electrode spaced apart from the first common electrode, a first signal line overlapping the first common electrode and the second common electrode, a first metal line overlapping the first signal line and the first common electrode, and a second metal line overlapping the first signal line and the second common electrode and spaced apart from the first metal line. The first metal line includes an extension portion extending between the first common electrode and the second common electrode.
US12085818B2
This disclosure provides connectors for smart windows. A smart window may incorporate an optically switchable pane. In one aspect, a window unit includes an insulated glass unit including an optically switchable pane. A wire assembly may be attached to the edge of the insulated glass unit and may include wires in electrical communication with electrodes of the optically switchable pane. A floating connector may be attached to a distal end of the wire assembly. The floating connector may include a flange and a nose, with two holes in the flange for affixing the floating connector to a first frame. The nose may include a terminal face that present two exposed contacts of opposite polarity. Pre-wired spacers improve fabrication efficiency and seal integrity of insulated glass units. Electrical connection systems include those embedded in the secondary seal of the insulated glass unit.
US12085816B2
The present application provides a display panel and a method for manufacturing the display panel. The display panel includes a driving circuit layer, a liquid crystal layer, and a frame glue layer. The driving circuit layer includes a driving unit sub-layer and a wire sub-layer; the wire sub-layer includes a plurality of metal wires disposed parallel to each other, a hollow section is disposed between any adjacent two metal wires, and in each of the hollow sections, a width of the hollow section near a boundary between the frame glue layer and the liquid crystal layer is greater than or equal to a width of any other hollow sections.
US12085811B2
The present disclosure provides a display substrate, including an array substrate, a color filter substrate, and a liquid crystal layer and a sealant arranged therebetween. A sealing cavity for receiving the liquid crystal layer is defined by the sealant, the array substrate and the color filter substrate. The display substrate is provided with a bonding side surface bonded to a chip on film, the sealant at least includes a first portion including a first side surface and a second side surface flush with the bonding side surface. The array substrate includes a display region and a non-display region surrounding the display region. A bonding pin is provided in the non-display region, extends to a side surface of the display substrate, and is exposed to the outside. The present disclosure further provides a method for manufacturing the display substrate, a display motherboard, and a display device.
US12085802B2
Provided is a display apparatus having an improved degree of freedom in wiring design, the display apparatus including: a liquid crystal panel; and a light source apparatus, wherein the light source apparatus includes: a substrate; and a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) provided on the substrate, wherein each of the plurality of LEDs has a lower surface in contact with a first feeding pad and a second feeding pad formed on the substrate, the lower surface of each of the plurality of LEDs includes a first contact area provided to be in contact with the first feeding pad, a second contact area provided to be in contact with the second feeding pad, and a non-contact area other than the first contact area and the second contact area on the lower surface, and each of the first contact area and the second contact area is smaller than the non-contact area.
US12085789B2
An exemplary optical measurement system described herein includes a control circuit configured to output a global bias voltage and a module communicatively coupled to the control circuit. The module includes a light source configured to emit light directed at a target. The module further includes a plurality of detectors configured to detect arrival times for photons of the light after the light is scattered by the target. The module further includes a module control circuit configured to receive the global bias voltage and output a plurality of detector bias voltages based on the global bias voltage. The plurality of detector bias voltages include a respective detector bias voltage for each detector of the plurality of detectors.
US12085788B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include eyewear that provides controlled variable light attenuation and color enhancement based on an input received from a user, a sensor and/or a signal from a control circuit. In some embodiments, the eyewear includes an optical filter system with two or more defined filter states that are adapted to improve color vision in different environments. The optical filter system can be incorporated into a lens having any desired curvature, including, for example, cylindrical, spherical or toroidal. The lens can include one or more functional components. Examples of functional components include color enhancement filters, chroma enhancement filters, a laser attenuation filter, electrochromic filters, photoelectrochromic filters, variable attenuation filters, anti-reflection coatings, interference stacks, hard coatings, flash mirrors, anti-static coatings, anti-fog coatings, other functional layers, or a combination of functional layers.
US12085772B2
The present disclosure describes apparatuses and methods for separating and installing optical fibers into furcation tubing. A fiber optic furcation assembly can include a fan-out structure. The fan out structure can include a conduit, and the conduit can extend from a first face of the fan-out structure to an opposing second face of the fan-out structure. The fiber optic furcation assembly can also include a furcation tube. The furcation tube can be positioned within the conduit, and the furcation tube can extend to a terminal end beyond the second face of the fan-out structure. The fiber optic furcation assembly can also include a fiber pull. The fiber pull can be positioned within the furcation tube, and the fiber pull can protrude in a first portion beyond the first face of the fan-out structure and the fiber pull can protrude in a second portion beyond the terminal end of the furcation tube, and the fiber optic furcation assembly can also include an attachment structure. The attachment structure can be fixed to the first portion of the fiber pull, and the attachment structure can receive and couple with an optical fiber. The fiber pull can include a diameter and the attachment structure can include a diameter. The diameter of the fiber pull and the diameter of the attachment structure can be less than a diameter of the furcation tube.
US12085769B2
An IC device includes a heat spreader, an electronic component over the heat spreader, an optical component over the electronic component, a multilayer structure over the optical component, and a redistribution structure over the multilayer structure. The multilayer structure includes a waveguide optically coupled to the optical component. The redistribution structure is electrically coupled to the electronic component by vias through the optical component and the multilayer structure.
US12085768B2
The present disclosure provides an optical module. The optical module includes an optical component disposed in or on a carrier and configured to receive a first light. The optical component is further configured to transmit a second light to a first portion of the carrier and transmit a third light to a second portion of the carrier.
US12085767B2
A packaging structure and a packaging method of edge couplers and a fiber array are provided. The packaging structure includes a silicon substrate, an edge coupler, and a fiber array. Multiple edge couplers are arranged in a main body portion of the silicon substrate, and an end of the edge coupler extends to a step groove of the silicon substrate. At least a part of the cover of the fiber array is accommodated in the step groove. Multiple fibers in the fiber array correspondingly pass through multiple lead channels of the cover and are then coupled with the edge couplers in the step groove. The edge couplers butt the fibers in the fiber array. The cover is moved until a part of the cover is accommodated in the step groove, so that the fibers can be aligned with the edge couplers in the step groove.
US12085759B2
There is described a method of optically coupling a first optical fiber and a second optical fiber to one another. The method generally has a step of bringing a free end of the first optical fiber, the second optical fiber and liquid in close proximity to one another within a coupling region, the free end of the first optical fiber having a dimension below a critical dimension, the free end of the first optical fiber moving within said liquid to contact the second optical fiber along a given coupling length, said contact optically coupling the free end of the first optical fiber and the second optical fiber to one another.
US12085749B2
The purpose of the present invention is to provide an optical fiber evaluation equipment and an optical fiber evaluation method that evaluate the center of a cladding of an MCF and a deviation of the center of each core of the MCF from a design value with ease and high accuracy. The optical fiber evaluation equipment according to the present invention approximates the outside diameter of a cladding by a circle, based on a cross-sectional image of an MCF, and determines the center of the circle as the center of the cladding. In addition, the optical fiber evaluation equipment according to the present invention obtains the center coordinates of cores with an origin at the center of the circle, rotates the cross-sectional image so as to minimize a difference between the center coordinates and design coordinates of each core, and derives the minimum value thereof as the amount of deviation of the center of each core.
US12085742B2
An object of the invention is to provide an anisotropic light absorption film having both a high alignment degree and high light resistance, and a laminate provided using the anisotropic light absorption film. An anisotropic light absorption film according to the embodiment of the invention is formed from a composition having a first dichroic azo dye, a second dichroic azo dye, and a compound represented by Formula (I) or a polymer thereof, the first dichroic azo dye has a solution absorption maximum wavelength of 400 nm or greater and less than 550 nm, the second dichroic azo dye has a solution absorption maximum wavelength of 550 nm or greater and 750 nm or less, and the film has an arrangement structure of the first dichroic azo dye or an arrangement structure of the second dichroic azo dye therein.
US12085732B1
The present disclosure relates to optical systems and vehicles, which may incorporate lidar sensors. An example optical system includes a light-emitter device configured to emit emission light. The optical system also includes an optical element including a first surface and an opposing second surface. The first surface includes a diffusing surface configured to diffuse the emission light to form diffused light. The second surface includes a focusing surface configured to focus the diffused light to provide an intensity profile of light emitted within a field of view of the optical system.
US12085729B2
An atmospheric distortion compensator comprising a disc and a rotator. The disc, which comprises a phase-modifying structure, is rotationally balanced about a center point. The rotator is mechanically coupled to the disc's center point and configured to spin the disc about an axis. When spinning, the disc is configured to control a property of a beam, which is propagating in parallel to the axis and impinging on the disc. By so doing, scintillation effects within an electro-optical field caused by propagation of the beam within a heterogeneous medium are reduced.
US12085728B2
An optical device with less influence of stray light is provided. The optical device is thin and includes a half mirror, a first lens, a retardation plate, a reflective polarizing plate, and a second lens. In the optical device, a geometric phase lens which has negative and positive refractive power is used as the first lens, whereby images can be focused after magnified optically. Thus, the optical device can have a wide viewing angle. In the case where stray light occurs due to birefringence of an optical material, negative refractive power of the first lens can prevent the stray light from being focused on the eye direction. Accordingly, image degradation recognized due to stray light can be prevented.
US12085727B2
A light irradiation apparatus that splits white light into light rays of a plurality of wavelengths to apply the light ray includes a white light source, a diffraction grating that splits white light emitted by the white light source into light rays of a plurality of wavelengths, and a light selector that selects a light ray of a specified wavelength from the light rays of the plurality of wavelengths split by the diffraction grating.
US12085716B2
An eye accommodation distance determining device is provided. The eye accommodation distance determining device includes an interferometer configured to generate a plurality of frequency modulated laser beams in different directions and to generate a plurality of interferometric signals using laser beams reflected from eye reflecting surfaces, a signal processer configured to generate a signal spectrum using each of said plurality of interferometric signals, a distance determiner configured to determine distances to the eye reflecting surfaces for each of said plurality of frequency modulated laser beams, a point coordinates determiner configured to determine coordinates of points on each of the eye reflecting surfaces for each of the laser beams, a reconstructor configured to generate an eye inner structure model based on the determined coordinates of points, and an eye accommodation distance determiner configured to determine, based on said eye inner structure model, an eye accommodation distance.
US12085711B2
A heating device includes a housing, a primary induction coil, a controller circuit, and a secondary induction coil. The housing is configured to retain a camera lens. The primary induction coil is positioned proximate the housing and configured to generate a magnetic field in response to receiving electrical power from a power supply. The controller circuit is in electrical contact with the primary induction coil and is configured to control the electrical power delivered to the primary induction coil. The secondary induction coil overlays the primary induction coil and is configured to receive the magnetic field from the primary induction coil and generate heat. The secondary induction coil heats the camera lens when the primary induction coil receives the electrical power.
US12085698B2
An optical imaging system includes a plurality of lenses disposed along an optical axis, and a reflection member disposed to be closer to an object than all of the plurality of lenses and having a reflection surface configured to change a path of light. The plurality of lenses are spaced apart from each other by preset distances along the optical axis, and the condition 0.8
US12085689B2
A system for passively monitoring territory proximate to or at restrictive boundaries for tunnels, the system comprising a plurality of muon sensors, a data network in communication with each muon sensor, a power network in electrical communication with each muon sensor, and a data analysis unit, the data analysis unit in communication with each muon sensor via the data network, the data analysis unit comprising a memory and a processor, the memory configured to instruct the processor to analyse data from the plurality of muon detectors to identify and locate a new or emerging tunnel. A method of locating tunnels is also provided.
US12085686B2
Seismic exploration methods and data processing apparatuses employ a deep neural network to remove seismic interference (SI) noise. Training data is generated by combining an SI model extracted using a conventional model from a subset of the seismic data, with SI free shots and simulated random noise. The trained DNN is used to process the entire seismic data thereby generating an image of subsurface formation for detecting presence and/or location of sought-after natural resources.
US12085668B2
A radar cloaking apparatus configured for positioning on a radar target and corresponding methods are provided. The radar cloaking apparatus comprises a radio signal emitter and computational circuitry. The computational circuitry is configured to cause the radar cloaking apparatus to at least reference a model encoding scattering properties of the radar target; determine a predicted reflection signature of the radar target from a selected interrogation angle based at least in part on the model encoding the scattering properties of the radar target; and cause transmission, by the radio signal emitter, of a cloaking radio signal along the selected interrogation angle. The cloaking radio signal is actively generated based on the predicted reflection signature of the radar target shifted in phase such that the cloaking radio signal is configured to destructively interfere with a reflected signal formed by an interrogating radar signal scattering off of the radar target.
US12085666B2
The radar device 10 includes radar signal transmission and receiving means 11 for obtaining radar signals, based on reflected waves received by a plurality of receiving antennas, movement estimation means 12 for estimating a movement of an object that may appear in a radar image, movement discretization means 13 for discretizing the estimated movement, signal dividing means 14 for dividing the radar signals into a plurality of groups, Fourier transform processing means 15 for applying Fourier transform to the radar signals of each of the groups, phase-compensation and synthesis processing means 16 for synthesizing results of the Fourier transform after performing phase compensation corresponding to the movement of the object on the results of the Fourier transform, and imaging processing means 17 for generating the radar image from the synthesized result of the Fourier transform.
US12085665B2
A method for designing a sensor arrangement, in particular for a vehicle or a vehicle class. Dimensions of vehicles of at least one vehicle class are ascertained and geometric parameters are ascertained from the dimensions of the vehicles of the vehicle class. Predefined reference fields for sensors of vehicles of the at least one vehicle class are established based on the derived geometric parameters. Each reference field is configured to accommodate at least one sensor. A sensor arrangement is also described.
US12085664B2
Automotive radar methods and systems for enhancing resistance to interference using a built-in self-test (BIST) module. In one illustrative embodiment, an automotive radar transceiver includes: a signal generator that generates a transmit signal; a modulator that derives a modulated signal from the transmit signal using at least one of phase and amplitude modulation; at least one receiver that mixes the transmit signal with a receive signal to produce a down-converted signal, the receive signal including the modulated signal during a built-in self-test (BIST) mode of operation; and at least one transmitter that drives a radar antenna with a selectable one of the transmit signal and the modulated signal.
US12085663B2
The current disclosure discloses a method for determining a location of a user device in an industrial facility. The method includes: transmitting a localization request to a location controller via a first base station; receiving a response message at a second time instance from the first base station; transmitting a timing message to the first base station; transmitting a polling message to a second base station; receiving a second response message at a fifth time instance from the second base station; and transmitting a second timing message to the second base station. The location controller is configured to determine the location of the user device based on transmission time instances and reception time instances associated with the localization request, the polling message, the first and second response messages, and the first and second timing messages.
US12085662B2
Disclosed is a solution for managing a radio map based on radio fingerprinting measurements. A method comprises: acquiring a radio map of an area, the radio map based on radio frequency measurements performed between at least one access node of a wireless network and terminal devices within the area; detecting at least one gap in the radio map and determining geographical coordinates of the at least one gap; causing transmission of a message comprising at least one information element requesting for additional measurements and comprising the geographical coordinates of the at least one gap; in response to the message, receiving at least one radio frequency measurement report related to at least one terminal device and comprising radio frequency measurement data and at least one measurement location where the radio frequency measurement data has been measured; and updating the radio map on the basis of the radio frequency measurement data.
US12085661B2
A method includes obtaining signal information based on wireless signals communicated between an electronic device and a target device. The method also includes obtaining motion information based on movement of the electronic device. The method further includes identifying first location information based on the motion information and the channel information. Additionally, the method includes identifying second location information based on the orientation of the electronic device and the AoA information. The method also includes determining whether the electronic device is in motion. The method further includes determining whether the target device is within the FoV or outside the FoV of the electronic device based in part on the first location information in response to determining that the electronic device is not in motion or the second location information in response to determining that the electronic device is in motion.
US12085657B2
In some aspects, a mobile device may receive, from a transmitting device, the signal by a plurality of antennas. The mobile device may measure one or more phase differences among the signal received at the plurality of antennas. The mobile device may determine a first set of possible values for the angle of arrival that are consistent with the one or more phase differences. The mobile device may measure one or more signal values using one or more sensors of the mobile device. The mobile device may for each of the first set of possible values, determining a confidence score based on the one or more signal values. The mobile device may select, based on the confidence scores, one of the first set of possible values as the angle of arrival.
US12085656B2
A method for obtaining the direction of a signal incoming to a communication device is provided using a modal antenna that has multiple modes corresponding to multiple radiation patterns with a single feed.
US12085654B2
A method or system can include or be configured to receive a set of satellite observations, receiving sensor data, determining a position estimate and associated positioning error for a rover based on the set of satellite observations and the sensor data, determine a protection level associated with the position estimate based on a set of potential faults, and optionally provide an alert when the positioning error exceeds the protection level.
US12085653B2
The own vehicle position estimator 17 of the in-vehicle device 1 acquires the predicted own vehicle position X− (t) that is a predicted value of the present position and the orientation of the moving body. Then, the own vehicle position estimator 17 acquires: the relative angle Lψ (t) that is first orientation information indicative of the orientation of the landmark with respect to the vehicle specified based on the measurement data of the landmark by the lidar 2; and the relative angle L−ψ (t) that is second orientation information indicative of the orientation of the landmark with respect to the vehicle into which the orientation of the landmark indicated by the landmark information is converted. The own vehicle position estimator 17 corrects the predicted own vehicle position X−(t) based on the difference between the relative angle Lψ(t) and the relative angle L−ψ(t).
US12085644B2
A system for reforming sonar emissions from a sonar transducer element or an array of sonar transducer elements is provided. The system comprises the sonar transducer element or the array of sonar transducer elements. The sonar transducer element or the array of sonar transducer elements define an emitting face and are configured to transmit sonar signals along path(s). The system also comprises a horn comprising surface(s). Surface(s) are positioned adjacent to or in a spaced apart manner from the emitting face of the sonar transducer element or the array of sonar transducer elements so that the surface(s) are positioned at least partially in path(s) such that at least some of the sonar signals transmitted from the sonar transducer element or the array of sonar transducer elements are redirected based on interaction of the at least some of the sonar signals and surface(s).
US12085642B2
A method for orbital collision screening comprising, obtaining trajectory information of a plurality of objects moving on predictable paths. For each one of the plurality of objects, based upon respective trajectory information of the one of the plurality of objects, computing, a respective spatial descriptor of the path of the one of the plurality of objects, and storing the respective spatial descriptors of each of the plurality of objects in a data structure. Subsequently obtaining trajectory information of a further object, and based upon the trajectory information of the further object, computing a spatial descriptor of the path of the further object. Making first comparisons of the spatial descriptor of the further object against the respective spatial descriptors of each of the plurality of objects stored in the data structure to determine whether each of these first comparisons indicates a possible collision risk. Based upon each of the first comparisons, if the first comparison indicates a possible collision risk, determining a result of a close approach determination between the respective trajectory information of the respective one of the plurality of objects and the trajectory information of the further object, and taking an action based on result of the close approach determination satisfying a predetermined threshold.
US12085640B2
This document describes techniques and systems for fuzzy labeling of low-level electromagnetic sensor data. Sensor data in the form of an energy spectrum is obtained and the points within an estimated geographic boundary of a scatterer represented by the smear is labeled with a value of one. The remaining points of the energy spectrum are labeled with values between zero and one with the values decreasing the further away each respective remaining point is from the geographic boundary. The fuzzy labeling process may harness more in-depth information available from the distribution of the energy in the energy spectrum. A model can be trained to efficiently label an energy spectrum map in this manner. This may result in lower computational costs than other labeling methods. Additionally, false detections by the sensor may be reduced resulting in more accurate detection and tracking of objects.
US12085638B1
The presently disclosed subject matter aims for a search and rescue system and method for a secure Direction Finding (DF) that utilizes a stealth communication technique between the search platform's radio and the radio of the survivor. The search and rescue system and method contain an omnidirectional antenna including a plurality of sectors, each capable of receiving one or more spread-spectrum signals composed of one or more symbols multiplied by a spread spectrum sequence, from a corresponding direction.
US12085636B2
Radar systems and methods detecting and tracking an unmanned aerial system (UAS) are provided. The radar system and methods can include determining whether or not a UAS is included in the plurality of electromagnetic signals received by the radar system based on one or more expected frequencies that one or more UAS devices use to transmit signals to remote controls. The radar systems and method can also involve switching the radar system into a track mode upon detecting a UAS.
US12085635B2
A signal processing device includes: an amplitude reducing unit to reduce, when a phase shift control signal indicating a phase shift of a transmission wave whose frequency is modulated is output, among amplitudes of a beat signal having a difference frequency between the transmission wave and a reception wave, an amplitude of the beat signal at a timing at which a phase of the transmission wave is shifted in accordance with the phase shift control signal; and a signal converting unit to convert the beat signal whose amplitude at the timing at which the phase of the transmission wave is shifted is reduced by the amplitude reducing unit into a signal in a frequency domain.
US12085633B2
A measurement apparatus repeatedly executes measurement determination of whether measurement of a wall object has succeeded. If the wall-object measurement has succeeded, the measurement apparatus calculates an instantaneous wall-distance value indicative of a distance of the wall object from the own object. Otherwise, if the wall-object measurement has not succeeded, the measurement apparatus executes first extrapolation of an additional instantaneous wall-distance value. The measurement apparatus prevents an additional execution of the first extrapolation upon determination that the frequency of continuously repeated executions of the first extrapolation is not less than a prevention threshold frequency. The measurement apparatus sets, if the result of the measurement determination is correct, a correct-state threshold as the prevention threshold frequency, and sets, if the result of the measurement determination is incorrect, an incorrect-state threshold as the prevention threshold frequency; the incorrect-state threshold is smaller than the correct-state threshold.
US12085626B2
Disclosed is a battery cell diagnosing apparatus, which includes a current measuring unit configured to measure a current of a battery cell; a voltage sensing unit configured to sense a cell voltage of the battery cell; and a first control unit configured to transmit first information of the battery cell including data obtained from the current measuring unit and the voltage sensing unit to an external device, receive second information including diagnostic information of the battery cell obtained based on the first information from the external device, and diagnose an abnormal state of the battery cell based on the first information and the second information.
US12085616B2
The method can include computing actions corresponding to the difference between a current local state of the managed devices and a target local state for the managed devices, said actions to be executed by the managed devices for bringing the current local state into compliance with the target local state; communicating the actions to the managed devices, via the local network, for execution; subsequently to said communicating instructions, monitoring current states of the managed devices, including detecting a change in the current states of the managed devices, the change reflecting the execution of at least one of the actions at the managed devices, and updating the current local state to reflect the change; computing updated actions corresponding to an updated difference between the current local state and the target local state, following said updating, said at least one executed action being absent from the updated actions; communicate the updated actions to the managed devices, via the local network.
US12085609B1
Disclosed herein are systems and methods comprising a thermal control wafer (TCW) comprising a plurality of heater zones. A heater zone may comprise a heater-sensing element that generates heat during a heating mode and provides a resistance during a sensing mode. During testing, a wafer under test (WUT) may be placed on top of a chuck assembly. The TCW may be part of or separate from the chuck assembly. Controlling one or more heater zones on the TCW may control the temperatures of DUT(s) while being tested. The thermal controller may comprise a plurality of thermal control channel multiplexed to a plurality of heater zones. E.g., one or more first heater zones can be activated at a first time, one or more second heater zones can be activated at a second time, one or more third heater zones can be activated at a third time, etc.
US12085594B2
Circuit arrangement via which a voltage type and value of an input voltage of a power supply or a switching-mode power supply is ascertained is configured such that the input voltage of the power supply decreases at the input side and includes a differential amplifier for converting the input voltage into a signal rectified by a first rectifier such that a forward voltage of the first rectifier is compensated, includes an inverter which generates an inverted signal rectified by a second rectifier such that a forward voltage of the second rectifier is compensated, includes a mixer via which a first output signal is generated from the useful signals, from which first output signal a second output signal is derived via a filter such that the voltage type is determinable from the first output signal, and a voltage value of the input voltage can be determined from the second output signal.
US12085591B2
A multi-sensor, real-time, in-process current and voltage estimation system is disclosed including sensors, affiliated hardware, and data processing algorithms that allow accurate estimation of currents and voltages from magnetic and electric field measurements, respectively. Aspects of the system may be embodied in a detector that is readily attachable to conductors of an energized system for contactless current and/or voltage sensing of the conductors without requiring the conductors to be disconnected from the energized system.
US12085587B2
High frequency operation of an integrated circuit test system is greatly extended by incorporation of a dedicated high frequency signal element that provides a circuit specific compensation network as part of the intermediation circuit board that enables connectivity between test equipment and the integrated circuit under test.
US12085586B2
A probe element includes a conduction pin, a cylindrical barrel, and a bushing. The barrel accommodates the conduction pin inside thereof such that the tip portion of the conduction pin is exposed to the outside. The bushing holds the conduction pin inside the barrel in a state in which the tip portion is movable, and has predetermined permittivity. The conduction pin includes a tip portion, an intermediate portion partially accommodating the tip portion, and a cylindrical socket portion coupled to the intermediate portion. A distance between the socket portion and the inner wall surface of the barrel, and a distance between the intermediate portion and the inner wall surface of the barrel in a direction orthogonal to an extending direction of the barrel are different from each other.
US12085575B2
This invention is directed to compositions and methods for detecting proteinopathies.
US12085570B2
Provided herein are methods and kits for analyzing a sample such as a biological sample obtained from a subject having, suspected of having, or being at risk for a cancer to assess presence of cancer stem cells in the sample, which is indicative of poor cancer prognosis.
US12085563B2
Described is a lateral flow high throughput assay device analyzer for preparing and analyzing a plurality of lateral flow assay samples. The analyzer comprises a cartridge stage for supporting an assay cartridge, an elevation adjustment mechanism, and a translation adjustment mechanism for aligning the cartridge stage and assay cartridge relative to a vertical support structure, fluid metering device, and detection device for high throughput lateral flow assay analysis.
US12085562B2
The present invention relates to a biochemical assay apparatus in which a sample processing device is controlled by a detection instrument through a series of linear and rotary actuations to execute a biochemical assay on a biological fluid sample.
US12085556B2
An oil debris monitoring sensor includes a multiple of passages within the housing, each of the multiple of passages surrounded by a set of coils to detect a particle. A method for determining a presence of a particle in a system includes a) installing a single sensor in-line with an oil flow path; b) communicating oil through a multiple of passages within the housing of the single sensor; c) detecting a particle through the single sensor; and d) isolating the particle to one of the multiple of passages within the sensor housing.
US12085554B2
A lost circulation material is placed in a cavity. The cavity is defined by an inner bore of a cylindrical wall, intermediate of a piston and a screen. A distance between the piston and the screen is defined as the height of the cavity, which is adjustable. The piston is slid longitudinally, such that the piston comes in contact with the lost circulation material. The lost circulation material is heated to a specified test temperature mimicking a downhole temperature. A compression test is performed on the lost circulation material. The compression test includes flowing a test fluid into the cavity and applying force on the piston to pressurize the test fluid to a specified test pressure mimicking a downhole pressure. The force on the piston is released. The pressure of the test fluid and the height of the cavity are measured throughout the compression test.
US12085549B2
Volatile organic chemicals emitted by a shell egg embryo are used to identify the fertility, viability, and sex of the shell egg embryo. Shortly after the egg is laid, the egg is isolated in a vapor-tight compartment so that a vapor containing volatile organic chemicals emitted by the shell egg embryo collect in the headspace of the compartment. The chemicals in the vapor are analyzed to construct a chemical profile of the shell egg embryo, and then the chemical profile of the shell egg embryo vapor is loaded into a previously developed model. Based on the data generated by the model, the shell egg is embryo is predicted to be an alive male, an alive female, an infertile egg, or an egg containing a dead embryo.
US12085544B2
Methods and systems for the detection and quantification of multiplicity of ionic analytes comprising CrO42−, AsO43−, SeO42−, and ClO4−, and optionally F−, Cl−, NO2−, NO3−, SO42−, using ion chromatography and suppressed ion conductivity. The method comprises loading a sample loop with a sample; injecting the sample from the sample loop into a column with an eluent, wherein the column comprises a guard column and an analytical column; separating, with the column, the injected sample at an effective separation temperature the injected sample in the presence of an organic modifier into a multiplicity of detectable ionic analytes; suppressing, with a suppressor, background signal; and detecting, with a detector, the multiplicity of ionic analytes.
US12085531B2
Nanostructured model device of energy sensing and monitoring apparatus comprises arrays of orderly nanotubes parallel oriented forming 3D cross-bar with vertically oriented nanopillars membrane through self-assembly affixed onto an electrode; the membrane comprises active sites of an innate Heat Shock Protein (HSP) cross-linked with conductive polymers on an electrode to be able to monitor toxic protein β-amyloid (Aβ) energy landscape change, and the reversed membrane potential was restored in the presence of an antibiotic drug. By depositing the HSP60 polymer mixtures on a top of a MMP-2 membrane, it promoted a moonlighting protein network that was able to 97.3% impaired Aβ refolding with imprecision 0.05%, which was not depending on antibiotic drug's concentration, wherein to be able to maintain the RMP.
US12085528B2
An apparatus and method for separating single cells. The apparatus includes: a fluid channel having an upper panel, a lower panel, and a flow path formed therebetween that is configured to convey a sample including a single cell; a single cell measuring unit including first and second electrodes provided on the fluid channel in a predetermined spaced relationship for applying electrical signals to the sample in the flow path, and a detection electrode provided between the first and second electrodes to detect the single cell in the sample in the flow path, such that the single cell measuring unit applies the electrical signals to the sample in the flow path, detects the electrical signals of the sample, and detects whether there is the single cell in the sample; and a single cell separation control device which outputs a single cell separation control signal when the single cell is detected by the detection electrode.
US12085523B2
A method comprises: using a Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM) to acquire an image of a specimen; identifying one or more objects of interest within the SEM image; generating a scan mask indicating a first set of one or more regions corresponding to the identified one or more objects of interest; and based on the scan mask, providing instructions to the SEM to acquire one or more Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) images from the first set of one or more regions of the specimen, wherein the method is performed by at least one device including a hardware processor.
US12085522B2
The present disclosure provides a sample rotation system and method. The sample rotation system includes a rotation device, and the rotation device includes: a first carrier connected to a sample; a drive portion connected to the first carrier, wherein the drive portion is configured to drive the first carrier to rotate; and the first carrier drives the sample to rotate from an initial position to a target position; an acquisition device, configured to acquire a rotation state of the sample; and a control unit, electrically connected to the drive portion, and configured to control operation of the drive portion.
US12085511B2
Systems and methods here may be used for automated capturing and analyzing spectrometer data of multiple sample gemstones on a stage, including mapping digital camera image data of samples, applying a Raman Probe to a first sample gemstone under evaluation on the stage, receiving spectrometer data of the sample gemstone from the probe, automatically moving the stage to a second sample, using the image data, and analyzing the other samples.
US12085507B2
An in-situ sensor system that is configured to be placed inside of an oxygen mask for a pilot. The sensor system is readily placed in a position over the exhalation valve such that it can capture data from the exhaled air of the pilot. The sensor system has an optical sensor element that can capture data real time and feed the data to a control module that can subsequently be use to generate output data for the pilot and/or ground elements.
US12085503B1
The present disclosure discloses a spectral preprocessing method and device suitable for fruit near-infrared nondestructive detection, which includes the following steps: calculating overall noise distribution of spectral data; performing adaptive threshold segmentation on the spectral data to form a plurality of segmentation intervals, calculating noise of each interval in each segmentation interval, performing cyclic adaptive parameter SG filtering on each interval of an original spectrum to find optimal filtering parameters; performing sliding polynomial fitting on the spectral data within the respective intervals, deriving a derivative of a fitting polynomial of each point at a current point.
US12085498B2
A corrosion testing device includes a test chamber (10), a climate conditioning system (12) for maintaining a controlled atmosphere in the test chamber (10), and a measurement system including a feeler (16) having a measurement element (24) arranged on a printed circuit board (22) for measuring the moisture content of the atmosphere, in which the printed circuit board (22) is detachably held on a feeler base (18) via plug connectors (28) and is, with the possible exception of certain contact or measurement surfaces, fully encapsulated in an anti-corrosion coating.
US12085495B2
The present disclosure describes a computer implemented method, a system, and a computer program product of calculating molar mass values of components of and molar concentration values of conjugate molecules/particles.
US12085481B2
A seal inspection device includes: a first holder including a port surrounded by an inspection target, and a through hole connected to an outside-leak detection flow path; a second holder holding the inspection target between the first and second holders; an inspection-place sealing portion forming, into a closed space, a space where the inspection target is arranged, in cooperation with the first and second holders; a pressurization valve connecting the port to both a supply source of an inspection gas and an exhaust system; a detector for the inspection gas; a first measurement valve connecting the detector to the port; and a second measurement valve connecting the outside-leak detection flow path to the detector.
US12085473B2
Devices, methods and systems are disclosed that enable deflectometry on a wide array of objects, including convex and freeform optical components. One example deflectometry system includes a light source with a plurality of light emitting devices to illuminate an object under test with incident light, and a detector positioned to receive a reflected or transmitted light from the object under test. The deflectometry system further includes a movable stage for holding or securing the object under test. The movable stage can move in a translational or a rotational direction to cause the object under test to translate or rotate in a plurality of steps such that the light received at the detector encompasses a portion of a full illumination space surrounding the object, and the light received at the detector from all of the plurality of steps encompasses the full illumination space that contiguously surrounds the object under test.
US12085468B2
Methods and systems include a universal, device-agnostic calibration process in which measured indications output by a device under test (DUT) (or corrected or converted indications derived therefrom) may be compared with calibration thresholds for any type of DUT to be calibrated. A complete, universal, and extensible calibration process is thus achieved that is capable of accommodating routine and complex calibration scenarios alike. A common set of statistics may be generated for all devices to be calibrated, without regard to the particular device under test, and statistics of the common set of statistics may be evaluated to determine the calibration state of the DUT. Additionally, the methods and systems disclosed herein provide for generating a comprehensive set of measurement records that may include some or all original observations, calculations, corrections, conversions, environmental factors, and measurement results, e.g., according to a standard, which allows for step-by-step auditing of every measurement performed.
US12085467B2
The invention relates to a method 100 for determining a pressure in a vacuum system, wherein the method comprises the steps of: a) generating 101 a plasma in a sample chamber which is fluid-dynamically connected to the vacuum system and which is in electrical contact with a first electrode and a second electrode; b) measuring 102 a current intensity of an electrical current flowing through the plasma between the first electrode and the second electrode; c) measuring 103 a first radiation intensity of electromagnetic radiation of a first wavelength range which is emitted from the plasma, wherein the first wavelength range contains at least a first emission line of a first plasma species of a first chemical element; d) measuring 104 a second radiation intensity of electromagnetic radiation of a second wavelength range which is emitted from the plasma, wherein the second wavelength range contains a second emission line of the first plasma species of the first chemical element or of a second plasma species of the first chemical element, and wherein the second emission line is outside the first wavelength range; and e) determining 105 the pressure in the vacuum system as a function of the measured current intensity, the measured first radiation intensity, and the measured second radiation intensity. Further, the invention relates to a vacuum pressure sensor.
US12085464B1
A system and method for measuring pressure inside a pipeline or pressure vessel is disclosed. The system includes one or more units locatable around an external surface of the pipeline or vessel, each unit containing: a light source for generating a light beam; a single fiber Mach Zehnder interferometer (SF-MZI) sensor bendable against an outer surface of the pipeline or vessel, for receiving the light beam; a light receiver for receiving the light bean from an output of the SF-MZI sensor, said light receiver including an optical spectral analyzer; and a local processor for signal conversion; a data acquisition system associated with each of the one or more units to provide power to the elements of the unit; and a central processor in communication with each of the local processors of each of the units, said central processor containing stored strain data, and the stored bend induced birefringence data.
US12085462B2
A stress sensor includes a semiconductor substrate with a first transistor arrangement and a second transistor arrangement. The first transistor arrangement includes a first transistor with a first source-drain channel region and a second transistor with a second source-drain channel region. The first transistor and the second transistor are aligned relative to each other such that the current flow directions in the first and the second source-drain channel regions are opposite to each other. The second transistor arrangement includes a third transistor with a third source-drain channel region and a fourth transistor with a fourth source-drain channel region. The third transistor and the fourth transistor are aligned relative to each other such that the current flow directions in the third and the fourth source-drain channel regions are opposite to each other. The stress sensor generates a gradient-compensated output signal used to determine a mechanical stress acting on the semiconductor substrate.
US12085458B2
A temperature sensor including a body made from a thermally and electrically conductive material, the body defined by a peripheral wall extending along a longitudinal axis from an open proximal end to a closed distal end. The proximal end defining an opening to an internal cavity of the body. A thermally responsive element including an outer surface, a temperature sensitive resistor electrically connected to a first lead, a second lead, and a connector block disposed substantially within the internal cavity. The inner surface of the peripheral wall defines the shape of a right circular cone at the distal end. The outer surface of the temperature sensitive resistor is in direct contact with the inner surface of the peripheral wall at the distal end. One of a thermally conductive and curable potting material and a thermally conductive grease disposed in the cavity and substantially surrounding the temperature responsive element.
US12085456B2
The present disclosure includes a sensor element for registering temperature of an object, which includes: a substrate, wherein the substrate includes a platform face, which defines a first plane; a temperature detector, which is applied on a first temperature plane on the substrate and which is embodied to register the temperature of the object, wherein the first temperature plane lies in the first plane or essentially in parallel with the first plane; at least one sensor applied on a first subregion of the substrate for determining a temperature difference within the first subregion; and a passivation, which is applied on the substrate and which covers the substrate, the temperature detector and the sensor for determining the temperature difference, as well as residing in a method for assessing measurement quality of a sensor element of the present disclosure.
US12085450B2
A method for inspecting a nozzle includes: measuring a temperature of the nozzle; comparing the temperature of the nozzle with a reference temperature; and determining whether or not the nozzle is clogged based on the temperature of the nozzle.
US12085449B2
A color measurement apparatus includes an opening portion forming member that is a member in which an opening portion for causing light arriving from a measurement target to enter inside the apparatus is formed, and that is arranged on a bottom surface at a time of measurement performed by the apparatus, an incident light processing portion that processes light incident through the opening portion, a shutter unit that is a unit configured to be displaced between a closed position at which the opening portion is covered, and an open position at which the opening portion is open, and that includes a reflection reference surface used as a reference of reflectance at a position facing the opening portion, and a detection section that detects changes in a detection signal to be output in accordance with displacement of the shutter unit.
US12085442B2
Described herein are techniques that improve the collection and readout of charge carriers in an integrated circuit. Some aspects of the present disclosure relate to integrated circuits having pixels with a plurality of charge storage regions. Some aspects of the present disclosure relate to integrated circuits configured to substantially simultaneously collect and read out charge carriers, at least in part. Some aspects of the present disclosure relate to integrated circuits having a plurality of pixels configured to transfer charge carriers between charge storage regions within each pixel substantially at the same time. Some aspects of the present disclosure relate to integrated circuits having three or more sequentially coupled charge storage regions. Some aspects of the present disclosure relate to integrated circuits capable of increased charge transfer rates. Some aspects of the present disclosure relate to techniques for manufacturing and operating integrated circuits according to the other techniques described herein.
US12085438B2
The present disclosure includes an interface sensor for a sedimentation plant, the interface sensor including: a sound emitter configured for generating at least one first acoustic signal with a first frequency and for generating a second acoustic signal with a second frequency different from the first frequency; a sound detector configured for detecting at least one first signal response of the first acoustic signal and a second signal response of the second acoustic signal; and a control unit, wherein the control unit is connected to the sound emitter and the sound detector and is configured to evaluate the first signal response and the second signal response, to determine a floor distance, a sediment distance, a sediment thickness and a water level distance based on the first signal response and the second signal response, and to determine a water level based on the floor distance and the water level distance.
US12085437B2
A level measuring device for level and/or limit determination and for measuring an impedance of a filling material is provided. The level measuring device comprises a measuring probe, arranged for measuring the impedance of the filling material. Further comprising a signal generation unit, arranged for generating a first frequency signal with variable frequency, wherein the measuring probe is supplied with the first frequency signal and outputs a measuring signal. Further, a measurement converter arranged to convert the measurement signal into a mixed signal, wherein the mixed signal has a phase difference with respect to the first frequency signal. Furthermore, the level measuring device comprises a phase difference measuring unit, which is arranged to determine an amplitude-phase characteristic of the filling material measured by the measuring probe, by means of the phase and amplitude difference between the first frequency signal and the mixed signal.
US12085422B2
The invention discloses a multi-sensor position measurement system mainly comprising a base, a carrier and a modular component, the carrier is provided with a first signal array and a second signal array. The modular component is disposed on the base, and comprises two Hall sensors for sensing magnetic field changes of the first signal array, two magnetoresistive sensors for sensing magnetic field changes of the second signal array, and a first state sensor having a marking unit disposed on the carrier and a sensitive element disposed on the base for sensing signals generated by the marking unit for subsequent reference signal generation, connection of measurement results between other sensors, and identification of homing direction.
US12085421B2
Actuators for rotating an optical-path-folding-element with two, first and second, degrees of freedom in an extended rotation range around two respective rotation axes, folded cameras including such actuators and dual-cameras including a folded camera as above together with an upright camera.
US12085419B2
A method of monitoring a set of meters that are connected to a common remote processor device, the method comprising both first steps performed in each meter for: acquiring primary measurements of a magnitude representative of the occurrence of an anomaly; selecting pertinent measurements from the primary measurements, the pertinent measurements satisfying a pertinence criterion; regularly transmitting the pertinent measurements to the remote processor device; and second steps performed in the remote processor device, for: comparing, for each meter, the pertinent measurements with a detection threshold common to all of the meters of the set of meters in order to attempt detecting an anomaly associated with said meter; and adjusting the detection threshold dynamically as a function of the percentage of meters detected as being associated with an anomaly.
US12085411B2
The absolute altitude of multiple floors of a building are determined using a multi-mode learning process. Processor(s) execute application program code to cause an apparatus to operate in an initial floor learning mode that includes capturing outdoor altitude estimates for the apparatus and determining, based in part on the outdoor altitude estimates, instant altitude estimates for an initial floor of the building. An absolute altitude estimate for the initial floor is determined based one the instant altitude estimates. After the absolute altitude estimate for the initial floor satisfies a first threshold certainty, the apparatus operates in a subsequent floor learning mode configured for determining respective absolute altitudes for floors of the building based on the absolute altitude estimate for the initial floor and a priori floor height information for the building, a sensor-based altitude change estimate, and/or a determined floor height for the building.
US12085404B2
A vehicle surroundings information displaying system comprises: a map image acquiring unit for acquiring a map image of the surroundings of a vehicle; a first display image generating unit for generating a first display image by combining the map image and a vehicle mark; a surroundings information image generating unit for generating a surroundings information image that shows surroundings information for the vehicle based on point cloud data that indicate distances from a vehicle, acquired by a distance sensor; an overhead image acquiring unit for acquiring an overhead image of the surroundings of the vehicle; a second display image generating unit for generating a second display image by combining the map image, the vehicle image, the overhead image, and the surroundings information image; and a display controlling unit for switching the image displayed on the display panel between the first display image and the second display image.
US12085402B2
Disclosed embodiments include systems, vehicles, and methods for tracking off-road travel. In an illustrative embodiment, a system includes a computing device having computer-readable media storing computer-executable instructions configured to cause the computing device to monitor a vehicle location. The vehicle location is identified on map data for an area encompassing the location and including road data for recognized roads in the area. Off-road travel is detected in response to determining that the vehicle location is outside of the recognized roads. Travel data is recorded representing the off-road travel of the vehicle.
US12085401B2
In an information processing device according to the present disclosure, a control unit acquires information on a contract user of a telematics service usable through an in-vehicle unit. The control unit transmits, to the in-vehicle unit, a command for presenting the information on the contract user to an occupant of a vehicle at a timing at which an operation relating to use of the telematics service is performed on the in-vehicle unit or a timing at which the vehicle is started.
US12085400B2
Techniques for notifying a driver of locations at which the driver can stop to comply with hours of service (HOS) rules are provided. In some examples, a navigation application compares the amount of time a driver has driven a vehicle to HOS rules to determine the remaining time the driver may drive before violating the rules, and identifies potential rest stops reachable within the remaining time and displays the rest stops to the driver. In some examples, the navigation application predicts an amount of time it will take a driver to drive a generated route and compares the predicted time to HOS rules to determine a number or frequency of rest stops needed for the driver to comply. Based on the number or frequency of rest stops, the navigation application identifies potential rest stops near the route and displays the rest stops to the driver without altering the route.
