US12156483B2

An oxide superconductor of an embodiment includes an oxide superconducting layer including at least one superconducting region containing barium (Ba), copper (Cu) and a first rare earth element, having a continuous perovskite structure, and having a size of 100 nm×100 nm×100 nm or more, and a non-superconducting region in contact with the at least one superconducting region, containing praseodymium (Pr), barium (Ba), copper (Cu), and a second rare earth element, having a ratio of a number of atoms of the praseodymium (Pr) to a sum of a number of atoms of the second rare earth element and the number of atoms of the praseodymium (Pr) being 20% or more, having a continuous perovskite structure continuous with the continuous perovskite structure of the superconducting region, and having a size of 100 nm×100 nm×100 nm or more.
US12156475B2

A piezoelectric device includes a substrate having opening portions, a vibrating plate provided to overlap with the substrate and having a plurality of vibrating regions overlapping with the opening portions in a plan view as seen from a thickness direction of the substrate, piezoelectric elements provided in the vibrating regions, and bypass wires provided outside of the vibrating regions of the vibrating plate and electrically coupled to the plurality of piezoelectric elements, wherein slits penetrating the bypass wires in the thickness direction are provided in the bypass wires.
US12156473B2

Disclosed herein are inductor/core assemblies for integrated circuits (ICs), as well as related structures, methods, and devices. In some embodiments, an IC structure may include an inductor and a magnetic core in an interior of the inductor. The magnetic core may be movable perpendicular to a plane of the inductor.
US12156464B2

A composition formed of a mixture of two compounds having similar thermal evaporation properties that are pre-mixed into an evaporation source that can be used to co-evaporate the two compounds into an emission layer in OLEDs via vacuum thermal evaporation process is disclosed. The first and second compounds can have an evaporation temperature T1 and T2, respectively, of 150 to 350° C., and the absolute value of T1-T2 can be less than 20° C. The first compound can have a concentration C1 in the mixture and a concentration C2 in a film formed by evaporating the mixture in a vacuum deposition tool at a constant pressure between 1×10−6 Torr to 1×10−9 Torr, at a 2 Å/sec deposition rate on a surface positioned at a predefined distance away from the mixture being evaporated, where the absolute value of (C1−C2)/C1 is less than 5%.
US12156457B2

A display device including: a base layer; a circuit layer disposed on the base layer; and an element layer disposed on the circuit layer, the element layer including a light emitting element and a light receiving element, wherein the circuit layer includes: a pixel drive circuit connected to the light emitting element; a sensor drive circuit connected to the light receiving element; a data wire connected to the pixel drive circuit; a readout wire connected to the sensor drive circuit; and a shielding electrode wire overlapping the readout wire on a plane.
US12156452B2

A display device includes a lower panel including a display area and a peripheral area, an upper panel facing the lower panel and including a partition wall defining a plurality of openings in the display area, a first upper dam in the peripheral area and spaced apart from the partition wall and a first opening defined between the partition wall and the first upper dam, and a filling member which is in the display area between the lower panel and the upper panel and extends from the display area and into the first opening defined between the partition wall and the first upper dam.
US12156448B2

A display panel, including: a base substrate including an Under Display Camera (UDC) area and a normal display area located around a periphery of the UDC area, and specifically, the normal display area includes a plurality of sub-pixel driving circuits, and the UDC area includes a plurality of groups of sub-pixels, each of the plurality of groups of sub-pixels including at least two sub-pixels of a same color which have their anodes coupled to each other; and a plurality of first transparent wires, anodes in each group of sub-pixels coupled to a corresponding sub-pixel driving circuit among the plurality of sub-pixel driving circuits through a corresponding first transparent wire among the plurality of first transparent wires.
US12156444B2

A display apparatus includes: a substrate including a display area, and a peripheral area; and a pad unit at the peripheral area, the pad unit including: a first conductive layer; a second conductive layer on the first conductive layer, and having a first opening; a third conductive layer on the second conductive layer, and having a second opening overlapping with the first opening, the second opening having an area less than an area of the first opening at a top surface of the second conductive layer; an organic protective layer filling the first opening, and having a third opening overlapping with the second opening; and an additional metal layer covering a top surface of the first conductive layer exposed through the first opening, an inner surface of the second opening, an inner surface of the third opening, and a portion of a top surface of the third conductive layer.
US12156442B2

A display area of the array substrate only includes first sub-pixels capable of emitting light. In each two adjacent rows of first sub-pixels, a gate line electrically connected to one row of the plurality of rows of first sub-pixels and a reset signal line electrically connected to another row of the plurality of rows of first sub-pixels are electrically connected to the same first gate drive circuit. A target line electrically connected to a first row of the plurality of rows of first sub-pixels (i.e., another line other than the line electrically connected to the first gate drive circuit) is electrically connected to a second gate drive circuit. A target line electrically connected to a last row of the plurality of rows of first sub-pixels (i.e., another line other than the line electrically connected to the first gate drive circuit) is electrically connected to a third gate drive circuit.
US12156439B2

An organic light-emitting diode display may have thin-film transistor circuitry formed on a substrate. The display and substrate may have rounded corners. A pixel definition layer may be formed on the thin-film transistor circuitry. Openings in the pixel definition layer may be provided with emissive material overlapping respective anodes for organic light-emitting diodes. A cathode layer may cover the array of pixels. A ground power supply path may be used to distribute a ground voltage to the cathode layer. The ground power supply path may be formed from a metal layer that is shorted to the cathode layer using portions of a metal layer that forms anodes for the diodes, may be formed from a mesh shaped metal pattern, may have L-shaped path segments, may include laser-deposited metal on the cathode layer, and may have other structures that facilitate distribution of the ground power supply.
US12156437B2

An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display substrate, a manufacturing method thereof and a display panel are provided. The OLED display substrate has pixel regions and includes a base substrate and a pixel defining layer disposed on the base substrate; in regions of the pixel defining layer corresponding to the pixel regions, accommodation parts penetrating the pixel defining layer are disposed, and the pixel defining layer is further provided with guide parts disposed corresponding to the accommodation parts, the guide parts are located on a periphery of the corresponding accommodation parts and formed by recessed areas which are formed on a side of the pixel defining layer away from the base substrate, the recessed areas do not penetrate the pixel defining layer, and an orthographic projection of the guide part on the base substrate is directly coupled to an orthographic projection of the corresponding accommodation part on the base substrate.
US12156428B2

A display panel and a display device are provided. In the display panel, at least one odd-numbered thin film transistor is sequentially turned on to charge sub-pixels of a corresponding odd-numbered row before charging sub-pixels of any one of odd-numbered rows is finished, and at least one even-numbered thin film transistor is sequentially turned on to charge sub-pixels of a corresponding even-numbered row before charging sub-pixels of any one of even-numbered rows is finished, thereby saving the number of uses of data traces and thin film transistors, as well as enhancing the timeliness of data signal transmission.
US12156414B2

A conductive film contains a carbon material, a polymeric compound, and alkali metal atoms. The content of the polymeric compound is not less than 5 mass % and not more than 40 mass %, and the content of the alkali metal atoms is not less than 5.0 mass % and not more than 15.0 mass %.
US12156412B2

An image pickup element includes a photoelectric conversion section including a first electrode, a photoelectric conversion layer including an organic material, and a second electrode stacked on one another. Between the first electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer, an oxide semiconductor layer and an oxide film are formed from the first electrode side.
US12156408B2

A semiconductor device includes a sense amplifier, a first magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) connected to the sense amplifier at a first distance, a second MTJ connected to the sense amplifier at a second distance, and a third MTJ connected to the sense amplifier at a third distance. Preferably, the first distance is less than the second distance, the second distance is less than the third distance, a critical dimension of the first MTJ is less than a critical dimension of the second MTJ, and the critical dimension of the second MTJ is less than a critical dimension of the third MTJ.
US12156406B2

Some embodiments include a memory device having a vertical stack of alternating insulative levels and conductive levels. Memory cells are along the conductive levels. The conductive levels have control gate regions which include a first vertical thickness, have routing regions which include a second vertical thickness that is less than the first vertical thickness, and have tapered transition regions between the first vertical thickness and the second vertical thickness. Charge-blocking material is adjacent to the control gate regions. Charge-storage material is adjacent to the charge-blocking material. Dielectric material is adjacent to the charge-storage material. Channel material extends vertically along the vertical stack and is adjacent to the dielectric material. The memory cells include the control gate regions, and include regions of the charge-blocking material, the charge-storage material, the dielectric material and the channel material. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US12156402B2

A 3D AND flash memory device includes a gate stack structure, a channel pillar, a source pillar, a charge storage structure, a first transistor and a second transistor. The gate stack structure is located on a dielectric substrate, wherein the gate stack structure includes a plurality of gate layers and a plurality of insulating layers alternately stacked. The channel pillar extends through the gate stack structure. The source pillar and the drain pillar are disposed in the channel pillar and electrically connected to the channel pillar. The charge storage structure is located between the plurality of gate layers and the channel pillar. The first transistor is located above the gate stack structure and electrically connected to the drain pillar. The second transistor is located above the gate stack structure and electrically connected to the source pillar.
US12156401B2

A three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor memory device including: stack structures spaced apart from each other on a semiconductor substrate, wherein each of the stack structures includes interlayer insulating layers and semiconductor patterns alternately stacked on the semiconductor substrate; conductive patterns provided between the interlayer insulating layers vertically adjacent to each other and connected to the semiconductor patterns; and a protective structure covering a top surface of the semiconductor substrate between the stack structures, wherein a top surface of the protective structure is located between a top surface and a bottom surface of a lowermost interlayer insulating layer of the interlayer insulating layers.
US12156396B2

A memory device including a gain-cell memory cell capable of storing a large amount of data per unit area is provided. A peripheral circuit of the memory device is formed using a transistor formed on a semiconductor substrate, and a memory cell of the memory device is formed using a thin film transistor. A plurality of layers including thin film transistors where memory cells are formed are stacked above the semiconductor substrate, whereby the amount of data that can be stored per unit area can be increased. When an OS transistor with extremely low off-state current is used as the thin film transistor, the capacitance of a capacitor that accumulates charge can be reduced. In other words, the area of the memory cell can be reduced.
US12156392B1

A wrappable, abrasion and EMI resistant sleeve for routing and protecting an elongate member from exposure to EMI, while further providing mechanical protection against abrasion, impact, and other environmental conditions, such as contamination. The sleeve includes a woven outer layer having opposite outer edges extending lengthwise between opposite ends of the woven outer layer. The woven outer layer includes warp filaments extending generally parallel to the opposite edges and weft filaments extending generally transversely to the warp filaments. The sleeve includes a textile inner layer having opposite inner edges extending lengthwise between opposite ends. The textile inner layer includes conductive filaments interlaced with one another in electrical communication with one another. The weft filaments of the woven outer layer are heat-formed to bias the opposite outer edges and the opposite inner edges into overlapping relation with one another.
US12156390B2

An electromagnetic wave shielding film having: a base substrate; and an electromagnetic wave shielding layer disposed on the base substrate, where the thickness of the electromagnetic wave shielding layer is 1 nm to 50 nm. In addition, the shielding layer includes: a first layer on the base substrate; a second layer on the first layer; and a third layer on the second layer, wherein the first layer, the second layer, and the third layer include copper sulfide.
US12156385B2

The present invention relates to an electronic assembly (1) comprising: a base plate (2); an electronic component (3) having a plurality of pins (30) which each extend parallel to a press-in axis (4); a printed circuit board (5) which is pressed onto the pins (30) along the press-in axis (4); a cooling region (6) which is formed between the electronic component (3) and the base plate (2); and a sealing arrangement (7) which is located between the base plate (2) and the electronic component (3) and is designed to seal the cooling region (6), wherein the sealing arrangement (7) has a seal support (71) and at least one seal (72), the seal support (71) has a plurality of press-in domes (75) projecting parallel to the press-in axis (4), and the electronic component (3) is supported by means of the press-in domes (75) of the seal support (71) in order to absorb a press-on force (40) when the printed circuit board (5) is pressed onto the pins (30).
US12156382B2

This invention relates to systems and methods for redundant data center cooling and electrical systems.
US12156376B2

A two-phase immersion-type heat dissipation structure having a porous structure is provided. The two-phase immersion-type heat dissipation structure includes a heat dissipation substrate, a plurality of fins, and a reinforcement frame. The heat dissipation substrate has a fin surface and a non-fin surface that face away from each other, the non-fin surface is configured to be in contact with a heat source immersed in a two-phase coolant, and the fins are integrally formed on the fin surface. A porous structure is covered onto at least one portion of the fin surface and at least one portion of the plurality of fins, and has a porosity of from 10% to 50% and a thickness that is from 0.1 mm to 1 mm. The reinforcement frame is bonded to the heat dissipation substrate and surrounds another one portion of the plurality of fins.
US12156371B2

A system for cooling an electronic component includes a cylindrical container, a support, a heat exchanger, and one or more micropumps. The cylindrical container includes an internal volume that stores dielectric liquid. The internal volume is formed by an interior wall and a bottom of the cylindrical container. The support is positioned in the internal volume of the cylindrical container, and retains the electronic component within the dielectric liquid stored in the internal volume of the cylindrical container. The support also controls a flow of the dielectric liquid. The heat exchanger is positioned in the cylindrical container and circulates water from an external environment of the cylindrical container into and out of the internal volume of the cylindrical container. The one or more micropumps are integrally formed with and powered by the electronic component, and circulate the dielectric liquid through the electronic component.
US12156370B2

A rack system for housing an electronic device comprising: an immersion case configured to provide housing to the electronic device, and to receive an immersion cooling liquid, wherein the immersion case includes a drainage opening, wherein the drainage opening is configured to remove at least a part of the immersion cooling liquid from the immersion case, based on a user actuated action, during a de-racking operation of the immersion case; and a rack frame configured to slidably accommodate racking and de-racking operations of the immersion case.
US12156364B2

A quick release module includes a support, a first release assembly and a connector. The support has an accommodation hole and a first lateral contact surface located at a periphery of the accommodation hole. The first release assembly includes a first holder. The first holder is slidably disposed on the support, and the first holder is movable towards or away from the first lateral contact surface so as to form an adjustable installation space between the first holder and the first lateral contact surface. The connector is disposed at the adjustable installation space. The connector is fixed by the first lateral contact surface and the first holder, and is removable from the adjustable installation space by sliding the first holder.
US12156349B2

A display panel and an electronic device including the display panel are provided. The display panel includes a binding region and a signal bus line region. The signal bus line region includes a first region defined aligned to the binding region and a second region located on two opposite sides of the first region. By reducing a distance between sides away from each other of a first and a last of the signal bus lines in the first region, a distance between the binding region and the display region is reduced, thereby reducing a width of a lower bezel of the display panel.
US12156348B2

An embedded circuit board, made without gas bubbles or significant internal gaps according to a manufacturing method which is provided, includes an inner layer assembly, an embedded element, and first and second insulating elements. The inner layer assembly comprises a first main portion with opposing first and second surfaces and a first groove not extending to the second surface is positioned at the first surface. A first opening penetrates the second surface, and the first opening and the first groove are connected. The first groove carries electronic elements for embedment. The first insulating element covers the first surface and a surface of the embedded element away from the second surface. The second insulating element covers the second surface and extends into the first opening to be in contact with the embedded element.
US12156340B2

A method of feeding a component tape towards a picking position of a component mounting machine is disclosed. The feeding is performed by means of a feeding mechanism configured to engage the component tape at an engaging position and to disengage the component tape at a disengaging position. The method comprises engaging the component tape at the engaging position, moving, by means of the feeding mechanism, the component tape from the engaging position to the disengaging position, disengaging the component tape at the disengaging position, and returning the feeding mechanism from the disengaging position to the engaging position and wherein the feeding mechanism moves the component tape in a linear motion between the engaging position and the disengaging position.
US12156332B2

A cell balancing module according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a main board on which a plurality of cell balancing resistors are mounted; at least one sub-board on which a plurality of cell balancing resistors are mounted and which is formed above the main board while being spaced a predetermined distance apart therefrom; and at least one connector which supports the sub-board to be spaced apart from the main board and electrically connects the sub-board to the main board.
US12156329B2

A printed circuit board includes an insulating layer, and a first wiring layer at least partially embedded in one surface of the insulating layer, one surface of the first wiring layer being exposed from the one surface of the insulating layer. The insulating layer includes a first insulating layer covering at least a portion of a side surface of the first wiring layer, and a second insulating layer disposed on the first insulating layer and the first wiring layer, and the first and second insulating layers include different insulating materials.
US12156322B2

A method and apparatus for generating light includes a chamber having a high voltage region, a low voltage region, and a plasma generation region that defines a plasma confinement region. A magnetic core is positioned around the chamber and is configured to generate a plasma in the plasma confinement region. A switched power supply includes a DC power supply and a switched resonant charging circuit that together generate a plurality of voltage pulses at the output causing a plurality of current pulses to be applied to the power delivery section around the magnetic core so that at least one plasma loop is established around the magnetic core that confines plasma in the plasma confinement region, thereby forming a magnetically confined Z-pinch plasma. Light generated by the Z-pinch plasma propagates out of a port in the light source.
US12156320B2

The present invention discloses an X-ray machine head and an image device, and relates to the field of X-ray image devices. The X-ray machine head comprises a high-voltage DC power supply unit, a low-voltage DC power supply unit, one or more first switch units, one or more second switch units, a central information processing unit, a housing, one or more filament power supply units, a communication unit, one or more X-ray tubes, and an insulating medium which is contained in the housing. The X-ray machine head is small in volume, which is conducive to portable applications. By directly controlling a gate of a gate-controlled X-ray tube to control the occurrence and termination of X-rays, the imaging quality is high and the radiation damage is small.
US12156318B2

An induction heating type cooktop includes: a case, a cover plate coupled to a top of the case and having an upper plate that is configured to support a target object, a thin film disposed on at least one of a top of the upper plate or a bottom of the upper plate, a working coil provided in the case and configured to inductively heat the thin film, a memory storing information on one or more correlations between a temperature of the thin film and a plurality of components of an equivalent circuit associated with the thin film, the plurality of components including an inductor component and a resistor component, and a controller configured to operate the working coil and determine estimated temperature information corresponding to the inductor component and the resistor component of the equivalent circuit.
US12156307B2

A method of controlling a multicolor LED lighting device is discloses. The LED lighting device comprises at least two series-connected LED light sources with different color metric values and supplied with a current, each LED light source is controlled by a respective switch operating according to a duty cycle. The method adapts an operating current amplitude supplied to the multicolor LED lighting device based on a color point that is required by a user. The method comprises the steps of receiving a designated color metric value for the LED lighting device; determining an operating current amplitude for the LED lighting device based on a current profile over a range of color metric values and the designated color metric value, and setting the current supplied to the LED light sources to the determined operating current amplitude.
US12156306B2

A light emitting device configured to tunably emit light with a total color temperature (CTtot), comprising: a carrier comprising a first major surface and an opposite second major surface, a first light source, arranged on said first major surface, and arranged to emit light with a first color temperature (CT1) tunably adjustable within a first range from a first low to a first high color temperature, a second light source, arranged on said second major surface, and arranged to emit light with a second color temperature (CT2) tunably adjustable within a second range from a second high to second low temperature, a controller configured to individually control the first and second light sources so to tunably adjust CT1 and CT2 from a first state to a second state according to a preselected scheme, by increasing CT1 and decreasing CT2 between said first and second states, such that CTtot remains unvaried.
US12156304B2

A dual-line protocol read-write control chip, system and method. Said chip comprises: two front-stage ports, two rear-stage ports, a protocol decoding module, a data forwarding module, a read-back control module, a display control module, a gradient control module and an instruction control module; data is input to a chip based on a dual-line transmission protocol; after the chip decodes the data, the instruction control module controls a corresponding module according to the decoded instruction data; the data forwarding module forwards the data to a next-stage chip; in a read-back mode, the input and output ports of the chip are interchanged, so that corresponding state parameters can be read back from the chip, and then the working state of the chip is adjusted, and the gray scale of an LED light can be directly controlled according to the decoded gray scale data.
US12156298B2

Some embodiments include assessing multimedia service in a particular environment, determining in real-time whether an extender device would improve the multimedia service in the particular environment, and communicating a recommendation via a graphical user interface (GUI). The assessing is based on physical layer and application layer measurements of the multimedia service in the particular environment. Some embodiments utilize an application on a mobile communications device that may be used in conjunction with a multimedia device to determine placement of an extender device among multimedia devices associated with a same multimedia service customer account for a desired performance and hence, a desired customer experience.
US12156289B2

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may identify one or more multi-panel capabilities for multi-panel operation of a plurality of panels associated with the UE. The UE may transmit, to a base station (BS), an indication of the one or more multi-panel capabilities. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12156287B2

An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a memory and at least one processor operatively connected to the memory, and the at least one processor is configured to, based on a subscriber identity module (SIM) change event, in which at least one SIM is inserted, occurring, identify whether SIM-related information related to the at least one SIM exists in a database which is stored in the memory and includes SIM setting information for services provided by the electronic device, and in case of being identified that the SIM-related information exists in the database, select a SIM for each of the services based on the SIM setting information.
US12156281B2

A user equipment includes a receiving unit that executes sensing for a part of candidate resources to be used for transmission of inter-terminal direct communication, a control unit that determines a resource to be used for transmission based on a result of the sensing, and a transmitting unit that transmits a message to another units of user equipment using the determined resource.
US12156268B2

Embodiments of this application provide a wireless local area network communication method and apparatus, a medium, and an electronic device. The method includes selecting a first communication link and at least one second communication link from candidate communication links according to a data flow; generating an adding traffic stream (ADDTS) request frame, the ADDTS request frame comprising indication information for indicating the at least one second communication link; and transmitting the ADDTS request frame through the first communication link, the ADDTS request frame being used for requesting establishment of a traffic stream for transmitting the data flow on the first communication link and the at least one second communication link respectively.
US12156260B2

A random access method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: a terminal device obtains a position of the terminal device and a position of a network device, the terminal device determines a time adjustment value based on the position of the terminal device and the position of the network device, and the terminal device sends a random access preamble based on the time adjustment value and a random access channel (RACH) resource configured by the network device. Based on this solution, the terminal device may determine the time adjustment value based on the position of the terminal device and the position of the network device, and adjust a time for sending the random access preamble on the RACH resource. This helps avoid a problem that random access preamble receiving time windows overlap, thereby increasing a success rate of accessing the network device by the terminal device.
US12156239B2

Systems and methods for utilizing inter-UE coordination regarding reserved resources of a sidelink (SL) resource pool are described herein. A first user equipment (UE) may identify that a first SL resource pool on a first radio access technology (RAT) overlaps with a second SL resource pool on a second RAT, sense for reservation signaling on the second SL resource pool to determine reserved resources on the second SL resource pool, and transmit resource reservation information indicating those reserved resources on SL on the first RAT. A second UE may receive the resource reservation information on the SL, identify, within the first SL resource pool, corresponding resources that overlap with the reserved resources of the second SL resource pool, select, from the first SL resource pool, transmission resources to use for a SL transmission by prioritizing resources other than the corresponding resources; and perform the SL transmission using those transmission resources.
US12156238B2

Systems and methods for user equipment (UE) capable of performing sidelink (SL) communications that account for overlapped SL resource pools of multiple radio access technologies (RATs) are disclosed. A UE may select, based on prioritizing non-overlapped resources over overlapped resources, one or more candidate resources and/or one or more transmission resources; may determine a power control configuration without considering SL pathloss corresponding to a first RAT when a second power control configuration determination for a second RAT does not consider SL pathloss; may select physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) locations for PSFCH use from first PSFCH locations of resources of a first SL resource pool on a first RAT that do not overlap with a second SL resource pool on a second RAT according to a bitmap; and/or may select one of a PSFCH transmission and PSFCH reception using a data priority rule and/or a pool sharing rule.
US12156225B2

The technology of this application relates to communications systems. In one example, a network device sends a first message to a terminal device, where the first message includes configuration information of a reference signal resource. The network device sends a second message to the terminal device, where the second message includes a first bit field and/or a second bit field, the first bit field is used to indicate an availability status of the reference signal resource, and the second bit field is used to indicate that the terminal device uses a synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel resource block signal resource and/or the reference signal resource.
US12156223B2

The present disclosure relates to methods and devices for dynamic resource multiplexing. In one aspect, a base station can transmit a first uplink/downlink configuration for communicating with one or more User Equipments (UEs). The first uplink/downlink configuration can comprise a set of fixed resources configured for uplink communication without downlink resources for downlink communication or for downlink communication without uplink resources for uplink communication. The base station can also transmit a second uplink/downlink configuration for communicating with the one or more UEs. The second configuration can comprise a flexible resource configuration. Additionally, the base station can communicate with a least one of the one or more UEs based on the first uplink/downlink configuration or the second uplink/downlink configuration.
US12156213B2

Methods, systems, and devices for transmission resource switching are described. A wireless communication method is provided to comprise configuring, by a network device, a configuration message to facilitate a transmission resource switching among sets of resources; and communicating, by the network device, with a user device to perform the transmission resource switching.
US12156210B2

The present invention relates to a method, device, and system for downlink data reception and HARQ-ACK transmission in a wireless communication system. According to the present invention, in the method, device, and system for downlink data reception and HARQ-ACK transmission, a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) for scheduling of a first physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) is received, and a second PDCCH for scheduling of a second PDSCH is received. Thereafter, uplink control information (UCI) including a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ)-acknowledge (ACK) codebook for the first PDSCH and the second PDSCH is transmitted to a base station.
US12156202B2

A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a higher layer processor configured to determine HARQ-ACK feedback timing for HARQ-ACK feedback of ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions with a subslot structure. The higher layer processor is also configured to determine a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource for the HARQ-ACK feedback. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit the HARQ-ACK feedback for the URLLC PDSCH transmissions based on the HARQ-ACK feedback timing and the PUCCH resource.
US12156195B2

A base station (BS) supporting a protocol stack can implement a method for increasing network efficiency. The method includes transmitting (202), to at least a first user equipment (UE), a group identity for a group of two or more UEs that includes the first UE. The method further includes generating (302), by processing hardware of the base station and using the group identity, a data signal that includes aggregated downlink data. The aggregated downlink data includes (i) a UE-specific identity for at least two target UEs within the group and (ii) for each target UE of the at least two target UEs, a respective UE-specific identity, at an upper layer of the protocol stack, that indicates a location of the UE-specific downlink data intended for the target UE within the aggregated downlink data. The method further includes transmitting (306) the data signal to at least a portion of the group via a downlink data channel.
US12156194B2

A transceiver is configured for communicating in a wireless communication network being operated so as to schedule communication in a plurality of transmission time intervals, each transmission time interval including a plurality of resource elements arranged in a time-frequency grid. Each transmission time interval includes a control section and a data section. The transceiver is configured for transmitting, using a resource in the control section, the resource in the control section containing a reservation information indicating that the transceiver reserves a specific resource in a future transmission time interval.
US12156191B2

A method and device are provided for determining resource configuration of uplink signal transmission. A method performed by a terminal in a wireless communication system includes receiving, from a base station, a first control message including first configuration information on msg3 repetition, second configuration information on UL or DL configuration, and third configuration information on an SSB; transmitting, to the base station, a random access preamble; receiving, from the base station, an RAR in response to the random access preamble; identifying a first resource for a repetition of a msg3 transmission based on the RAR and the first control message, wherein the first resource does not include a symbol indicated as a downlink by the second configuration information or a symbol indicated by the third configuration information to which the SSB is to be transmitted; and transmitting, to the base station, the msg3 on the identified first resource.
US12156190B2

A method for operating a user equipment (UE) comprises receiving configuration information including information on a set of transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states and information on reception of a beam indication; receiving the beam indication based on the configuration information; and determining whether the beam indication is used for (A) or (B), wherein: (A) corresponds to triggering a beam measurement and a beam report, and (B) corresponds to indicating at least one TCI state for downlink (DL) reception or uplink (UL) transmission.
US12156189B2

Aspects are presented which enable a UE to determine a supplementary uplink (SUL) configuration for an uplink cancellation indication (ULCI) for cancelling uplink communications in SUL. The UE receives from a base station a first configuration associated with a first block of an ULCI and associated with at least one of a SUL carrier a non-supplementary uplink (NUL) carrier in a cell. The base station configures the UE with a second configuration associated with a second block of the ULCI and associated with a SUL carrier in the cell, and the UE determines the second configuration. The UE monitors the ULCI based on the first configuration and the second configuration.
US12156185B2

Systems and methods for implementing uplink (UL) gaps to facilitate user equipment (UE) calibration are disclosed herein. A UE determines one or more slot patterns of a slot configuration that is repeated during time division duplex (TDD) communication with a base station. The UE determines a UL gap periodicity (defining periods covering an integer number of repetitions of the slot configuration). The UE then performs UE calibration during one or more semi-persistently configured UL slots of a period of the UL gap periodicity that correspond to UL indication(s) in one or more of a common configuration, a dedicated configuration, and/or a slot format indication (SFI) downlink control information (DCI) for the slot pattern(s) of the slot configuration. Methods of identifying particular semi-persistently configured UL slots of a period to use for the UL gap are also discussed. UL slot indications from dynamic DCI are not used for UL gap purposes.
US12156177B2

Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are described herein that may be used to determine a destination for sidelink transmission based on the priority of the transmission and/or other parameters associated with the transmission. In examples, a destination may be selected if one or more logical channels associated with the destination have a bucket size parameter exceeding a certain threshold and the one or more logical channels have a highest priority. Various other techniques are also described herein that relate to the configuration and/or report of QoS information, selection of sidelink resources, use of a minimum communication range, etc.
US12156176B2

Various examples and schemes pertaining to partial sensing enhancement for sidelink (SL) resource allocation in New Radio (NR) vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communications are described. A user equipment (UE) performs one-shot sensing and periodic sensing prior to a transmission. The UE selects a resource based on results of the one-shot sensing and the period sensing. Then, the UE performs the transmission using the selected resource in a SL communication in a V2X network.
US12156171B2

Disclosed are a signal transmission method and apparatus, and same are used for realizing reference signal (RS) transmission of adaptive UE-specific RS resource configuration on the basis of a quality indication of a positioning measurement value. The signal transmission method provided in the present application includes receiving a UE-specific reference signal (RS) by means of a terminal-level UE-specific reference signal resource, and the UE-specific reference signal resource is determined by a network side on the basis of a quality indication, determined by a terminal, of a positioning measurement value and determining and reporting positioning information on the basis of measurement of the UE-specific RS.
US12156166B2

A radio frequency portable tag for a location system comprises a transceiver configured to send and receive radio frequency location and communication signals, an activation signal receiver configured to receive activation signals to activate the tag and/or the transceiver, and an activation signal transmitter configured to send activation signals for activating other radio frequency tags.
US12156163B2

The present invention is for transmitting capability information of a user equipment (UE), and a method of operating an electronic device according to various embodiments may comprise receiving system information from a cell of a first radio access technology (RAT); generating a message selectively including capability information of the electronic device for the second RAT according to whether the system information includes information about a cell of a second RAT different from the first RAT; and transmitting the message to the cell of the first RAT. In addition, various embodiments are possible.
US12156162B2

A wireless communication network serves a wireless user device using N1 signaling. The wireless communication network establishes active N1 signaling links with the wireless user device and exchanges active N1 signaling with the wireless user device over the active N1 signaling links. The wireless communication network converts one of the active N1 signaling links for the wireless user device into an inactive N1 signaling link and exchanges inactive N1 signaling with the wireless user device to maintain the inactive N1 signaling link. The wireless communication network converts the inactive N1 signaling link for the wireless user device back into the one of the active N1 signaling links without performing a new registration for the wireless user device. The wireless communication network exchanges additional active N1 signaling with the wireless user device over the active N1 signaling links.
US12156159B2

This application provides a communication method and a communication apparatus. The method includes: A sending device sends a first physical layer protocol data unit PPDU over a first link, where the first PPDU carries a trigger frame. The sending device sends a second PPDU over a second link, where the second PPDU carries a second trigger frame; and an absolute value of a time difference between an end time of sending the first PPDU and an end time of sending the second PPDU is less than or equal to a first duration, and the first duration is related to a state turnaround time in a short interframe space (SIFS) time.
US12156157B2

Generally, the described techniques provide for a device determining or receiving signaling including a packet delivery time window configuration that indicates delivery windows within which transmissions may be held and/or delivery opportunities within which communications are expected to be transmitted. For example, the device may identify a packet delivery time window configuration for communications with another device. The packet delivery window configuration may indicate a periodicity, offset, start time, end time, and/or duration of the delivery windows, among other information. Based on the identified packet delivery time window configuration, the device may delay transmission of the data packet (e.g., for the duration of one or more configured delivery windows). At, for example, the end of the respective delivery window, the device may deliver the data packet to a network device for which the information of the data packet is to be used.
US12156156B2

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a non-terrestrial network (NTN) entity, a message that is associated with an uplink grant. The UE may select, based at least in part on the message, either a cell-specific offset or an updated offset that is indicated after initial access, as a timing offset that accounts for a propagation delay between a base station of the NTN and the UE. The UE may transmit, to the NTN entity, an uplink communication using the timing offset. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12156154B2

A method at a first device for synchronising a first clock of the first device to a second clock of a second device, includes receiving a first message comprising an identifier from a third device; generating a first timestamp in dependence on the time at which the first message is received at the first device according to the first clock; receiving a second message from the second device comprising the identifier and a second timestamp, the second timestamp having been generated in dependence on the time at which the second device received the first message from the third device according to the second clock; and adjusting the first clock in dependence on a time difference between a time indicated by the first timestamp and a time indicated by the second timestamp.
US12156151B2

This disclosure is directed to systems and methods for generating and querying an index associated with targeted communications. A method may include receiving candidate identifiers, rates of targeted communication, and traits associated with the candidate identifiers. A method may include generating a candidate index including one or more dimensions associated with candidate traits. A method may include receiving a query associated with desired candidate traits, determining if one or more candidates appear in the dimensions associated with the desired traits, and intersecting the dimensions to determine if one or more candidates appear in all of the dimensions associated with the desired candidate traits. A method may include generating a result set based on the results of an intersecting computation. A method may include removing candidates from the result set and transmitting targeted communications on behalf of or to the candidates remaining on the result set.
US12156141B2

An uplink power control method and device are provided. The method includes: receiving first indication information sent by a base station, wherein the first indication information is used to indicate an uplink power control rule for an uplink signal; determining a transmission power of the uplink signal according to the uplink power control rule indicated by the first indication information.
US12156130B2

An embodiment is a method for a terminal to perform an operation in a wireless communication system, the method including the steps of: transmitting a participation request message to peripheral anchor nodes (ANs); receiving participation response messages from candidate ANs among the peripheral ANs; selecting final ANs to be used for measuring the location of the terminal from among the candidate ANs; and measuring the location of the terminal using the final ANs.
US12156129B2

A data transmission method includes: A first access network device receives a first paging message from a core network device, where the first paging message includes a first security parameter. The first access network device sends a second paging message to a terminal device, where the second paging message includes a first random access preamble index that is ciphered and/or integrity protected by using the first security parameter. The first access network device receives a first random access preamble from the terminal device, and if the first random access preamble is a random access preamble indicated by the first random access preamble index, obtains downlink data of the terminal device. The first access network device sends the downlink data to the terminal device.
US12156128B2

A method for managing NSSAI availability information at an NSSF includes receiving and storing NSSAI availability information from NF service consumers. The method further includes maintaining time values usable to determine expiration times for NSSAI availability information database records, where the time values are updated when a corresponding record is updated. The method further includes auditing the records, and, in response to failing to receive a request to update the NSSAI availability information for one of the NSSAI information database records within an expiration time, marking the record as stale. When a trigger is detected for providing NSSAI availability information from one of the database records that is marked as stale, the NSSF refrains from providing the NSSAI availability information to the NF service consumer.
US12156121B1

Performing MU-MIMO in a wireless communication network based on determining that a load level of a sector deployed by an access node is below a load threshold, determining that one or more signal conditions within the sector meet a signal threshold, and disabling a MU-MIMO operating mode for wireless devices within the sector. The signal conditions can include current or historical signal conditions. An exemplary current signal condition includes an interference or other signal metric of the at least two wireless devices different by a threshold amount.
US12156119B2

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which multiple devices may implement sidelink communications for direct device-to-device exchange of information. Such devices (e.g., user equipment (UE) devices) may be configured with resources for sidelink communications, and may monitor for a sidelink preemption indication (SPI) from a base station and determine whether one or more sidelink communications is preempted based on the SPI. The sidelink communications may include a feedback communication that is transmitted using sidelink feedback resources. Based on an indication in a received SPI, it may be determined whether or not to transmit sidelink feedback. The sidelink feedback may be transmitted to one or more other sidelink devices, or to a base station, and preemption of the sidelink feedback may be determined based on one or more parameters associated with the sidelink communications, associated with the SPI, or any combinations thereof.
US12156102B2

The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a first node in a wireless communication system, including receiving, from a second node, downlink user data through a first radio bearer, the downlink user data including multicast service data; transmitting, to at least one UE, the downlink user data through a second radio bearer; and transmitting, to the second node, a downlink data delivery status including PDCP sequence number information, wherein the PDCP sequence number information includes a higher PDCP sequence number between a highest PDCP sequence number successfully delivered in sequence associated with a first transmission mode and a highest PDCP sequence number transmitted to lower layers associated with a second transmission mode.
US12156100B2

A method in a first wireless communication device for displaying current location information representing a current location of a second wireless communication device. The method entails, from within a communication application executing on a processor of the first wireless communication device, receiving the current location information representing the current location of the second wireless communication device, performing a reverse look-up of the received current location of the second wireless communication device to determine address information, displaying a map from within the communication application, and identifying the received current location information on the displayed map with a name associated with the determined address information.
US12156098B2

A radio access network (RAN) node may transmit, to an access and mobility function (AMF) of a core network, a request associated with a location-based state of a user equipment (UE) served by the RAN node. The location-based state of the UE may be associated with whether the UE is flying or whether the UE is driving, or other location information of the UE. Accordingly, the RAN node may receive a message in response to the request. The RAN node may receive the message in response to the request from the AMF. Alternatively, the AMF may establish a connection between the RAN node and a location management function (LMF) of the core network such that the RAN node receives the message in response to the request from the LMF.
US12156097B2

A method and system of resilient UWB target localization for a vehicle are provided. The system comprises a UWB tag arranged to be mobile and trackable by way of a sensor signal and at least three UWB anchors. Each anchor is in communication with the tag. The system further comprises a gateway in communication with the anchors. The gateway comprises an ECU arranged to receive sensor signals from UWB anchors. The ECU comprises a preprocessing module, a clustering module, and a Bayesian module. The preprocessing module is arranged to align sensor signals at an aligned timestamp to define aligned data. The clustering module is arranged to cluster points of intersections, defining a sensed location for each cluster. The Bayesian module is arranged to determine a real-time location of the tag based on a Bayesian probability function to match the sensed location with a predicted location of the tag.
US12156091B2

System and methods for automated data collection and reporting while operating a vehicle on the road using a device. The device automatically determines when to collect, store, process and transmit data. Additionally, a system and method for further storing, transmitting, processing, organizing and accessing the information with respect to the collected data.
US12156088B2

Coordinated P-GW change for SIPTO may be provided. A WTRU may send and/or receive one or more flows via a first PDN connection and via a first P-GW. The WTRU may send an indication to the network that at least one flow of the first PDN connection is available for SIPTO. The indication may include one or more SIPTO preferences. The WTRU may receive a message from a MME. The message may trigger establishment of a second PDN connection via a second P-GW. The WTRU may move, while maintaining the first PDN connection, the at least one flow from the first PDN connection to the second PDN connection. The WTRU may deactivate the first PDN connection when the one or more flows have been moved to the second PDN connection and/or when no information has been received via the first PDN connection after a predetermined duration.
US12156086B2

To predict a first metric for a station in a wireless network, at least one hardware processor in a prediction device or at least one hardware processor in a first access point associated with the station, determines that a recent measurement of a second metric correlated with the first metric has hanged compared to a previous measurement of the second metric, the second metric for the station and measured by the first access point; and in case the second metric has changed, prediction of the first metric for the station is triggered. The first metric can be a signal strength of a signal received by the station from a second access point not associated with the station and the second metric a signal strength of a signal received by the first access point from the station.
US12156078B2

The present invention relates to adjusting one or more wireless parameters of one or more nodes (12, 14, 16) based on one or more node parameters including a relative location of the one or more of the nodes (12, 14, 16). The nodes (12, 14, 16) are wirelessly connected in a wirelessly connected system (100) and configured for transmitting radio frequency (RF) signals (18), receiving RF signals (18), or both. The one or more wireless parameters are adjusted such that the wireless performance of the one or more of the nodes (12, 14, 16) is optimized for an application of the wirelessly connected system (100). Transmission power can be adjusted such that a probability of detecting an event in a volume (212, 222) not to be covered by the one or more of the nodes (12, 14, 16) is reduced, allowing reduction of false positives from non-covered volumes (212, 222).
US12156068B2

Disclosed is a cell measurement method based on frequency point optimization. The method includes: when a cell measurement condition is satisfied, if a current serving cell of a terminal device matches a serving cell in a stored measurement record, measuring cell information of a frequency point corresponding to the highest measurement priority in the measurement record. When the cell measurement condition is satisfied and the current serving cell of the terminal device does not match a serving cell in the measurement record, if the current serving cell is a cell corresponding to the frequency point corresponding to the highest measurement priority in the measurement record, measuring cell information of the frequency point corresponding to the highest measurement priority in the measurement record.
US12156063B2

An approach is described for a user equipment (UE) for enhanced machine-type communication (eMTC) in a connected mode, where the UE includes processor circuitry and radio front end circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to perform a downlink (DL) quality measurement, and to generate a DL quality report based on the DL quality measurement, wherein a definition of the DL quality report matches a definition of quality report in Msg3. The radio front end circuitry is configured to transmit the DL quality report to a next generation base station (gNB).
US12156062B2

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to indicating beams for user equipment beam reporting. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, an indication of a plurality of candidate beams on which the base station is able to simultaneously transmit communications to the UE, and determine a first beam and a second beam from among the plurality of candidate beams, based at least in part on one or more measurements of the plurality of candidate beams. The UE may transmit an indication of the first beam and the second beam to the base station, and receive communications simultaneously on the first beam and the second beam. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12156057B2

A terminal includes a receiver that receives an instruction signal indicating to modify a configuration of a radio link monitoring; and a controller that modifies a parameter used for the configuration of the radio link monitoring in accordance with the instruction signal received by the receiver.
US12156050B2

A communications method, including receiving, by a second access network device, a first message from a terminal device, the first message indicating occurrence of a connection failure between the terminal device and a first access network device, where the first access network device is a master access network device that exists before the terminal device sends the first message, and the second access network device is a secondary access network device of the terminal device, sending an identifier of the terminal device to the first access network device, receiving, by the second access network device, context information that is of the terminal device on the first access network device and that is from the first access network device, and indicating, by the second access network device, to the terminal device to update to use the second access network device as a new master access network device.
US12156046B2

A method performed by a wireless device for configured Minimization of Drive Test, MDT, reporting includes obtaining a MDT configuration. The obtained MDT configuration is for one or more of immediate MDT and logged MDT. The MDT configuration is for performing one or more measurements associated with a specific reference signal type, beam level, or positioning assistance data, and the obtained MDT configuration comprising one or more of: a reportOnLeaveconfiguration; a reportQuantityRS-Indexes configuration; a maxNrofRS-IndexesToReport configuration: and an rsType configuration. The wireless device performs the one or more measurements according to the MDT configuration and provides an MDT report based on the one or more measurements.
US12156037B2

Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing optimization of network resources. The system is operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment, analyze the electromagnetic environment, and extract environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment. The system extracts the environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment by including customer goals. The system is operable to use the environmental awareness with the customer goals and/or user defined policies and rules to extract actionable information to help the customer optimize the network resources.
US12156034B2

In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a user instruction to initiate meshnet provisioning. The method also includes provisioning a first device to a meshnet, where the provisioning the first device yields first provisioning data that includes one or more keys. The method also includes provisioning a second device to the meshnet, where the provisioning the second device yields second provisioning data that includes include one or more keys. The method also includes transferring provisioning data that includes the first provisioning data and the second provisioning data to storage on the first device. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding computer systems, apparatus, and computer programs recorded on one or more computer storage devices, each configured to perform the actions of the method.
US12156031B2

A block chain-based short message verification method that includes a client randomly generating a sequence number and encrypting the sequence number; the client sending a mobile phone number and the encrypted sequence number to a service end; the service end sending the mobile phone number and the encrypted sequence number to a short message operation end to store same in an intelligent contract of a block chain; the short message operation end randomly generating a verification code and sending the verification code to the client; the short message operation end encrypting the verification code and correspondingly storing a mobile phone number, the encrypted sequence number and the encrypted verification code into the intelligent contract of the block chain. Said method can prevent a server and a short message operator from impersonating a user for short message verification before the user performs verification, thereby improving the security of short message verification.
US12156029B2

Wireless communication between two electronic devices may be used to determine a distance between the two devices, even in the presence of an otherwise-disruptive attacker. A wireless receiver system of one device may receive a true wireless ranging signal from a first transmitting device and a false wireless ranging signal from an attacker. The wireless receiver system may correlate the wireless signals with a known preamble sequence and perform channel estimation using the result, obtaining a channel impulse response for the wireless signals. The wireless receiver system may filter the channel impulse response for the plurality of wireless signals by removing at least part of the channel impulse response due to the false wireless ranging signal while not removing at least part of the channel impulse response due to the true wireless ranging signal. The receiver system may perform a wireless ranging operation using the filtered channel impulse response.
US12156023B2

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a cellular modem may transmit, to an applications processor, an indication to use a non-Third Generation Partnership Project (non-3GPP) interworking function (N3IWF) for non-access stratum (NAS) signaling. Accordingly, the cellular modem may establish a first virtual interface with the applications processor. The cellular modem may further perform an Internet Key Exchange (IKE) procedure with a core network using the first virtual interface and the N3IWF and transmit a key generated during the IKE procedure to the applications processor. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12156006B2

An electrodynamic compression driver is defined that contains a compression chamber assembly partially bounded by an annular diaphragm. The compression chamber assembly has an annular axisymmetric geometry with a single exit for acoustic radiation. The chamber geometry is further defined such that only the zero-hertz mode of acoustic coupling is supported, allowing the use of a lumped parameter model for analysis of the acoustic coupling of diaphragm and compression chamber. The lumped parameter model is integrated with eigenmode analysis of diaphragm modes and characterization of the cross-coupling between diaphragm and compression chamber. The result is more rapid computation of how to control mechanical modes in the annular diaphragm so that they benefit the compression driver's acoustic output. Embodiments of compression chamber and diaphragms with geometry that facilitate modal control are provided.
US12155992B2

Disclosed is a coaxial speaker, including a magnetic circuit system, and two sounding units respectively arranged on the upper and lower sides of the magnetic circuit system. The magnetic circuit system includes a bottom plate, a first magnetic unit including a first magnet and a first yoke, and a second magnetic unit including a second magnet, a second yoke, a third magnet, and a fourth magnet. The second yoke includes an annular plate sandwiched between the second and third magnets, and a hollow protrusion extending to a first through hole of the bottom plate. The third magnet covers a second through hole of the annular plate. The fourth magnet is fixed to the third magnet and contained inside the hollow protrusion. The coaxial speaker is simple and compact in structure, reduces the cost, and can also be used as a receiver with a reverse phase silencer.
US12155986B2

An acoustic device and an electronic device including the same are provided. The acoustic device and an electronic device include a main body including at least one acoustic output port and at least one air vent port, a speaker unit accommodated in the main body, a first ear tip including at least one first opening area corresponding to the at least one air vent port and detachably coupled to the main body, and a second ear tip including at least one second opening area corresponding to the at least one air vent port and detachably coupled to the main body, wherein one of the first ear tip or the second ear tip may be coupled to the main body so that the main body is worn in a user's ear, and when the first ear tip is mounted, a larger area of the at least one air vent port may be exposed to an external space through the at least one first opening area than when the second ear tip is mounted.
US12155984B2

An open-ear headphone with an acoustic module configured to be located at least in part in a concha of an outer ear of a user. The acoustic module comprises a housing that contains an acoustic transducer. There is a first sound-emitting opening in the housing that is configured to emit sound produced by the acoustic transducer. The acoustic module defines a central longitudinal axis and the first sound-emitting opening is offset from the central axis.
US12155982B2

Described herein is a sensor probe for association with a portion of an aircraft. The sensor probe includes a microphone assembly having a portion configured to receive audio signals. The sensor probe further includes a nosecone associated with the microphone assembly. The nosecone assembly is configured to shield the portion of the microphone assembly from noise generated by direct impact of an airflow for a plurality of local flow angles. In some examples, the nosecone includes a tip and a body portion, wherein a diameter of the body portion of the nosecone is smaller than a length of the nosecone and the nosecone is configured to mitigate drag of the sensor probe in an airflow. In some examples, the nosecone further includes a mount assembly downstream of the nosecone and positioned rearward of the tip and including a mount aperture in fluid communication within an external environment of the sensor probe and configured to direct airflow from the external environment rearward, the microphone positioned downstream of the mount assembly and secured in a perpendicular orientation relative to a direction of airflow exiting the mount aperture, and an acoustic corridor to transmit the audio signal extending from an opening at an external environment of the sensor probe to the microphone via the mount aperture, wherein the opening is defined by a side of the nosecone.
US12155979B2

A cable pillar is provided for use in a switch system. The cable pillar includes a cavity that enables a plurality of cables to pass from a first side to a second side of the cable pillar. For example, the cables may be routed from sets of access paths located in rails mounted on the sides of the cable pillar to enlarged access paths located near the top or bottom of the cable pillar. The enlarged access paths may be sized to receive every cable that passes through a set of access paths located on an opposing side of the cable pillar from a corresponding enlarged access path. Additionally, the cable pillar may be configured to releasably attach to a chassis of the switch system. In some examples, the plurality of cables accommodated by the cable pillar may serve as a cable backplane of the switch system.
US12155956B2

Power consumption is reduced in a solid-state imaging element that amplifies a voltage for each column. The solid-state imaging element includes a pixel circuit, an input transistor, a reference side current source, and a feedback circuit. The pixel circuit generates an input voltage by photoelectric conversion. The input transistor outputs an output voltage depending on a voltage between a source to which the input voltage is input and a gate from a drain. The reference side current source is connected to a reference node at a predetermined reference voltage and supplies a predetermined current. The feedback circuit feeds back a part of the current to the gate of the input transistor.
US12155948B2

Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that buffer events in device memory during synchronous readout of a plurality of frames by a sensor. Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that disable a sensor communication link until the buffered events are sufficient for transmission by the sensor. In some implementations, the sensor using a synchronous readout may select a readout mode for one or more frames based on how many of the pixels are detecting events. In some implementations, a first mode that reads out only data for a low percentage of pixels that have events uses the device memory and a second mode bypasses the device memory based on accumulation criteria such as high percentage of pixels detecting events. In the second mode, less data per pixel may be readout.
US12155947B2

An imaging device includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a third substrate, and a switching unit. The first substrate has a pixel including a photodiode and floating diffusion that holds the charge converted by the photodiode. The second substrate has a pixel circuit that reads out a pixel signal based on the charge held in the floating diffusion in the pixel, and is stacked on the first substrate. The third substrate has a processing circuit that detects a pixel signal read out by the pixel circuit, and is stacked on the second substrate. The switching unit is provided to enable electrical connection between the floating diffusion and a floating diffusion of another pixel in the first substrate, and is provided on the second substrate. As a result, by switching the capacitance of the floating diffusion of the pixel using floating diffusion of another pixel, it is possible to switch the charge-voltage conversion efficiency levels.
US12155945B2

Disclosed is an image sensor device which includes an image pixel that outputs a reset voltage and a first data voltage through a data line, and a voltage hold circuit that is connected with the data line, stores a first voltage based on the reset voltage, and provides the data line with a second voltage based on the first voltage.
US12155940B2

An information handling system having a display magnetically couples a peripheral camera to the display with a magnet included in the camera housing and selectively provides illumination from a ring light to a face in the camera field of view. Instructions executing on the camera or the information handling system adjust visual images presented at the display from a nominal value to an adjust value that provides improved balance of illumination at the face, such as by increasing brightness, color and/or contrast on a first side of the display and decreasing brightness, color and/or contrast on another side of the display. Ring light illumination is minimized to preserve the camera battery and can include different colors from the ring light.
US12155939B2

A portable information handling system camera module has a single shutter that slides in response to a single shutter mechanism to manage access for a field of view of both a visual camera and an infrared camera by sliding only between first and second positions, the first position aligning an opening of the shutter with a visual camera and a shield visual camera opening, the second position blocking the opening of the shutter and extending an end of the shutter over infrared camera. The shutter assembly is supported in a spaced relationship to the circuit board by spring biased connectors that provide power to the shutter actuator.
US12155937B2

An imaging control device includes: a region dividing unit that divides a taken image into a plurality of regions; a luminance value calculating unit that calculates the average luminance value of each region obtained by division by the region dividing unit; a region identifying unit that identifies a region in which the average luminance value calculated by the luminance value calculating unit is equal to or greater than a predetermined threshold value; a photometric range deciding unit; and a signal processing unit.
US12155926B2

The present disclosure provides a video generation method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: playing a first video for prompting a video taking style on a video taking page in the form of a floating window, wherein the video taking page presents a taken image preview region for presenting a taken image in preview and a video taking control; recording, in response to a triggering operation on the video taking control, the taken image in the taken image preview region to generate a second video, wherein the second video and the first video have a same style. In this way, the second video is taken by playing, on the video taking page, the first video used for prompting the video taking style, so that an ordinary user can be guided to take a high-quality video, and the video taking experience of the user is improved.
US12155921B2

Example refrigerators having internal content cameras, and methods of operating the same are disclosed. A disclosed example refrigerator includes a cabinet, an internal compartment disposed within the cabinet, a closing member operatively coupled to the cabinet providing selective access to the internal compartment, two cameras disposed in the compartment and positioned to capture images of different portions of the compartment, two light sources disposed in the compartment, and a controller communicatively coupled with the cameras and light sources and configured to control the light sources to provide two different illuminations for respective ones of the two cameras.
US12155914B2

Systems and methods are provided herein for identifying a playlist of highlights to use for refreshing a user on a plot related to a media asset the user has requested to access based on how long it has been since the user last saw related programming. The media guidance application may receive a request from a user to access a media asset and may determine whether the user previously consumed a related media asset to the media asset. The media guidance application may determine whether a period of time between receiving the request and a time when the user previously consumed the related media asset exceeds a threshold period of time. If the period of time does not exceed the threshold, the media guidance application may play back a predefined playlist of highlights, and if it exceeds the threshold, the media guidance application may play back a customized playlist of highlights.
US12155899B2

A method for processing communication across multiple broadcast platforms includes connecting a content creator device to a plurality of broadcast platforms. A chat container is provided in a user interface of the content creator device. The chat container is configured to provide centralized information management across each of the plurality broadcast platforms. One or more broadcast platforms of the plurality of broadcast platforms are selected as a target broadcast platform in response to a selection operation on the chat container. A content creator message is sent to at least one viewer device among the plurality of viewer devices in response to a messaging operation on the chat container. The at least one viewer device is in communication with the content creator device via the target broadcast platform.
US12155892B2

Systems and methods are disclosed herein for adaptively buffering content of a media asset from a media source when a different media asset from a different media source is being played at user equipment. The media guidance application may predict when and which channel or other media source the user is likely to switch to and then buffer content from the predicted channel or other media source accordingly. The pre-tuning buffering may enhance the user experience by reduce tuning latency when the user switches channels.
US12155890B2

A display apparatus includes a processor configured to execute instructions to: based on an input from a user, select a category from a plurality of categories related to characteristics of a plurality of source devices connectable to an interface of the display apparatus, receive a plurality of pieces of content from at least one source device connected to the interface and corresponding to the selected category, and display a multi-image on a display of the display apparatus, based on at least two pieces of content from the plurality of pieces of content.
US12155885B2

This application relates to the field of communications technologies, and discloses a modulation method and apparatus, a communications device, and a readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a bitstream to be transmitted; and determining, based on a bit in the bitstream and a mapping relationship, a forwarding pattern and a manner of modulating a forwarding phase in the forwarding pattern, where the mapping relationship is used to indicate a mapping relationship between the bit, the forwarding pattern, and a target index, and is used to indicate a mapping relationship between the bit and the phase modulation manner; and the target index includes at least one of the following: an index of a transmit antenna, an index of a receive antenna, and an index of an area after division of an array of assistance nodes.
US12155880B2

Systems and methods are provided for managing subscriptions. A media guidance application obtaining viewing patterns of a subscriber and determining a first and second media package of interest to the subscriber. A first and second release schedule are obtained related to media content in the first and second media packages. The media guidance application predicts a first viewing impact of the first subscription and a second viewing impact of the second subscription, for the upcoming time period, wherein the viewing impact indicates a total predicted amount of time spent viewing the media packages in the upcoming time period. An available amount of time for viewing media in the upcoming time period is also determined. The media guidance application generates a subscription recommendation for the upcoming time period based on the first viewing impact, second viewing impact, and available amount of time for viewing media in the upcoming time period.
US12155863B2

An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: acquiring a transform skip available flag; acquiring a TSRC available flag on the basis of the transform skip available flag; acquiring prediction-related information regarding a current block; deriving a prediction sample of the current block on the basis of the prediction-related information; acquiring residual information of a residual coding syntax for the current block, derived on the basis of the TSRC available flag; deriving a residual sample of the current block on the basis of the residual information; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the prediction sample and the residual sample.
US12155862B2

A method for decoding an image according to the present invention comprises the steps of: deriving an intra prediction mode of a current block; and changing the intra prediction mode to a wide angle intra prediction mode when the intra prediction mode is less than or equal to a threshold value and the current block is a non-square having a width greater than a height.
US12155853B2

A picture decoding method includes determining motion information of a to-be-decoded block; obtaining a first decoding prediction block of the to-be-decoded block based on the motion information; performing motion search with first precision in the prediction reference picture block to obtain at least two second decoding prediction blocks; performing downsampling on the first decoding prediction block and the at least two second decoding prediction blocks to obtain a first sampling pixel array and at least two second sampling pixel arrays, respectively; calculating a difference between the first sampling pixel array and each of the second sampling pixel arrays, and using, as a target prediction motion vector, a motion vector corresponding to a second sampling pixel array with a minimum difference; and obtaining a target decoding prediction block of the to-be-decoded block based on the target prediction motion vector, and decoding the to-be-decoded block based on the target decoding prediction block.
US12155844B2

An image decoding method of decoding, on a block-by-block basis, image data included in a coded stream includes: deriving candidates for an intra prediction mode to be used for intra prediction for a decoding target block, the number of the candidates constantly being a plural number; obtaining, from the coded stream, an index for identifying one of the derived candidates for the intra prediction mode; and determining, based on the obtained index, one of the derived candidates for the intra prediction mode as the intra prediction mode to be used for intra prediction for the decoding target block.
US12155842B2

A video encoding/decoding apparatus according to the present invention acquires motion vector refinement information, performs motion compensation on the basis of a motion vector of a current block, refines the motion vector of the current block using at least one or both of the motion vector refinement information and the output of the motion compensation, and performs motion compensation using the refined motion vector.
US12155841B2

Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus including processing circuitry for video decoding. The processing circuitry receives, from a coded video bitstream, coding information for a current picture. At least one flag in the coding information indicates one or more allowable coding types for sub-partitions in the current picture. The one or more allowable coding types include at least one of intra coding and inter coding for the sub-partitions. The processing circuitry determines, based on the at least one flag, whether to decode intra syntax elements used only for coding intra sub-partitions and whether to decode inter syntax elements used only for coding inter sub-partitions. The processing circuitry decodes the intra syntax elements in the coding information when the intra syntax elements are determined to be decoded and decodes the inter syntax elements in the coding information when the inter syntax elements are determined to be decoded.
US12155836B2

A video decoding method performed by a video decoding apparatus, according to the present document, may comprise the steps of: parsing, from a bitstream, number information about the number of slices having heights specifically signaled within a tile of a current picture; on the basis of the number information, parsing, from the bitstream, height information about the heights of the slices having the specifically signaled heights; deriving the number of slices within the tile on the basis of the number information and the height information; generating prediction samples by performing at least one of intra prediction and inter prediction on a current block of the current picture on the basis of the slices within the tile; and generating reconstructed samples on the basis of the prediction samples.
US12155834B2

Computer processor hardware receives settings information for a first image. The first image includes a set of multiple display elements. The computer processor hardware receives motion compensation information for a given display element in a second image to be created based at least in part on the first image. The motion compensation information indicates a coordinate location within a particular display element in the first image to which the given display element pertains. The computer processor hardware utilizes the coordinate location as a basis from which to select a grouping of multiple display elements in the first image. The computer processor hardware then generates a setting for the given display element in the second image based on settings of the multiple display elements in the grouping.
US12155827B2

A block of video data is split using one or more of several possible partition operations by using the partitioning choices obtained through use of a texture-based image partitioning. In at least one embodiment, the block is split in one or more splitting operations using a convolutional neural network. In another embodiment, inputs to the convolutional neural network come from pixels along the block's causal borders. In another embodiment, boundary information, such as the location of partitions in spatially neighboring blocks, is used by the texture analysis. Methods, apparatus, and signal embodiments are provided for encoding.
US12155822B2

A system and method for video compression divides colors of all pixel points of a target video frame into R, G, and B values, and all pixels are placed in a three-dimensional coordinate system to establish a correspondence between each pixel point and the coordinate position. Fuzzy recombination and division are performed on all pixel blocks and pixel points with similar RGB values are divided into pixel blocks to obtain a first target pixel block. Pixel blocks with same RGB values but with coordinates which are not close to the first target pixel block are extracted and divided to obtain a second target pixel block. An area enveloping the second target pixel block is extracted, and vector changes of all dynamic pixel points on the enveloping line are traversed and analyzed to determine a minimum compression change block for compression process.
US12155819B2

Disclosed herein are a method, apparatus, and storage medium for image encoding/decoding using a reference picture. A reference picture list is configured for encoding/decoding of a target block. Upon configuring the reference picture list, a sequence parameter set and a slice header are used. A picture is divided into sub-pictures and/or slices, and reference picture lists are configured for the sub-pictures and/or slices resulting from division. Reference picture lists for slices may be related to each other, and a current reference picture and a future reference picture in one reference picture list may be used in an additional reference picture list.
US12155811B2

The present invention relates to a dust measurement device for implementing a dust distribution image through a non-coplanar stereo vision camera, and provides a dust measurement device comprising: a stereo vision camera which includes a first camera for obtaining a true color image and a second camera for obtaining an infrared image; a control unit for generating a fine dust distribution image by using a light amount ratio of the amount of light obtained from a first pixel array of the first camera to the amount of light obtained from a second pixel array of the second camera; and a display device for outputting the fine dust distribution image.
US12155809B2

A network processing system obtains a viewport of a client device for volumetric video and a two-dimensional (2D) subframe of a frame of volumetric video is obtained associated with the viewport. Viewports may be obtained from the client device or be predicted. 2D subframes and reduced resolution versions of frames can be transmitted to the client device. A client device may request volumetric video from the network processing system and provides a viewport to the network processing system. The client device may obtain from the network processing system reduced resolution versions of volumetric video frames and 2D subframes in accordance with the viewport. The client device may determine whether a current viewport matches the viewport associated with the obtained 2D subframe and provides a display based on either that subframe (upon a match) or a 2D perspective of the reduced resolution frame associated with the current viewport (if no match).
US12155803B2

An image transmission apparatus includes a plurality of keys, a scanner, a display, a memory, and a controller. The plurality of keys includes a plurality of numeric keys and a first specific key. The memory is capable of storing a plurality of telephone numbers associated with respective ones of the plurality of numeric keys. The controller controls the display to display a telephone number inputted via the plurality of numeric keys, and transmits the image data generated by the scanner to a transmission destination indicated by the displayed telephone number. In a case that operation of the first specific key is received and operation of one of the plurality of numeric keys, as an operated numeric key, is received, the controller reads a telephone number associated with the operated numeric key from the memory, and transmits the image data to a transmission destination indicated by the read telephone number.
US12155801B2

In a case where a skew of a document being conveyed is detected by a detection unit, an image reading apparatus notifies that documents having different sheet widths may be included in documents stacked on a stacking unit.
US12155790B1

Methods and systems for multiple channel authentication are described. In one embodiment, a request for an interaction is initiated from within a mobile application. The request may include authentication information and contextual information relating to a current exchange between the mobile application and an organization. The user may be authenticated with the authentication information and the request may be routed to a representative based on the contextual information to continue the exchange.
US12155786B2

To detect “silent” crashes of communications processors in a mobile device, the mobile device analyzes signal strength icon images using a trained image processing model. During operation of a mobile device, the device captures images of a signal strength icon that is displayed by the device and that visually represents a telecommunications signal strength detected by the mobile device. The mobile device applies the captured images to the trained image processing model, which is configured to output a prediction of whether the communications processor in the mobile device crashed.
US12155784B2

A printed circuit board module and an electronic device including the same are provided. The electronic device includes a housing including at least part thereof formed to be a conductive portion, a support member, a printed circuit board configured to be disposed on at least one surface of the support member and configured to dispose at least one electronic component thereon, and a connecting member for electrical coupling between the conductive portion of the housing and the electronic component, including a base plate and a connecting terminal. The connecting terminal includes a first portion fixed to the base plate, and a second portion coupled to the first portion and including a through hole formed thereon to be fastened to a fixing member, and the second portion may include a wing portion protruding to one direction.
US12155778B2

Embodiments include systems and methods for determining cryptographic address for a same entity across a plurality of distributed blockchain networks that use a same elliptic curve. In some embodiments the method includes computing a cryptographic address hash of the first cryptographic address using the cryptographic public key of the first cryptographic address, the cryptographic address hash being a common representation of the first entity on the first distributed blockchain network and the cryptographic address hash being derived via a cryptographic one-way hash function, the cryptographic one-way hash function following a protocol of performing a function on the cryptographic public key, the cryptographic public key being used on the first distributed blockchain network and a second distributed blockchain network, the first distributed blockchain network and the second distributed blockchain network using the same elliptic curve.
US12155769B2

In order to provide an information matching system achieving an information matching scheme that takes a lower cost and uses secure biometric information, the information matching system includes a concealment apparatus, a decryption apparatus, and a similarity calculating apparatus. The concealment apparatus transmits, to the similarity calculating apparatus, concealed information including information concealing obtained matching information by linear conversion using random numbers. The similarity calculating apparatus calculates, from obtained one or more pieces of registration information and the concealed information received from the concealment apparatus, a concealed similarity which is a value concealing a similarity between the matching information and the registration information, and to transmit the calculated concealed similarity to the decryption apparatus. The decryption apparatus calculates the similarity between the matching information and the registration information from the concealed similarity received from the similarity calculating apparatus, using the random numbers used by the concealment apparatus.
US12155767B2

A request to identify a data value may be received via a network at a designated one of a plurality of identity nodes. A query that includes the data value may be transmitted to an identity service associated with the designated identity node. A response message from the identity service may include one or more designated network identifiers corresponding with the data value. The designated identity node may communicate with the plurality of identity nodes to identify a plurality of network identifiers corresponding with the data value. A trust ledger may be updated to include a correspondence between a selected one of the network identifiers and the data value.
US12155763B2

A processor with an elliptic curve cryptographic algorithm and a data processing method thereof are shown. Three elliptic curve cryptographic instructions are proposed in the instruction set architecture for key exchange between an initiator and a responder. The initiator device executes the first elliptic curve cryptographic instruction to generate a key pair (rA, RA). In addition to considering the first temporary public key RA, the responder device further takes the second temporary public key RB into consideration when executing the second elliptic curve cryptographic instruction to generate the responder-generated shared key KB. Based on the temporary private key rA, and the temporary public keys RA and RB, the initiator device executes the third elliptic curve cryptographic instruction to generate the initiator-generated shared key KA.
US12155762B2

The present invention overcomes problem of pseudonymous Blockchain transactions that preclude the identification of an individual or institutional identity that rely solely on a Blockchain address of a recipient in a Blockchain transaction. A system and method is provided that verifies transfers in an on-chain Blockchain Bitcoin transaction by using a sequence of Blockchain Bitcoin transactions that establish and confirm an identity of one or more parties to the transaction.
US12155760B2

Techniques are disclosed relating to time synchronization in a network. In some embodiments, an apparatus includes a first circuit having a first clock configured to maintain a local time value for a node coupled to a network. The first circuit is configured to send a first message to a second circuit. The first message includes a first nonce. The second circuit has a second clock that maintains a reference time value for the network. The first circuit receives a second message from the second circuit, the second message including a second nonce and is associated with a timestamp identifying the reference time value. The first circuit compares the first nonce to the second nonce to determine whether the timestamp is valid and, in response to determining that the timestamp is valid, uses the timestamp to synchronize the first clock with the second clock.
US12155756B2

The embodiment of the present application provides a key generation method, which relates to a terminal device, a network device and a computer-readable storage medium, wherein the method includes: determining a first key based on the long-term key; generating the session key based on the first key and at least one additional key, communicating with the network side based on the session key; wherein, the at least one additional key includes: an initial session key generated when the terminal device is connected to the network for the first time, and/or a session key used in the last communication; the first key and the at least one additional key are both symmetric keys.
US12155754B2

Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for secure integer comparison using binary trees. A server may receive a first encrypted input and a public encryption key from a client. The server may create a binary tree representing a second encrypted input. The server may evaluate the first encrypted input on the binary tree. The evaluation may comprise computing decision bits along a plurality of paths of the binary tree. The decision bits may then be aggregated along each path of the binary tree and the aggregation stored at a leaf node of each path. The leaf node of each path may be evaluated to obtain a comparison result. The comparison result may be encrypted with the public encryption key. The server may send the comparison result to the client for decryption. The comparison result may indicate whether the first input was larger than the second input.
US12155753B2

A method is described of managing service events in a distributed computing system. The distributed computing system comprises a plurality of computing nodes able to perform a service using a service process. The method takes place at one of the computing nodes. A service event is received or created. This service event is identified by a combination of a node identifier, a time element, and a local counter value. The local counter value represents a number of service events performed by a service process for a user since a last reset. The identified service event is then stored in a service process database according to node identifier and local counter values. The service process database is used to manage service events in the distributed system. Service events are removed from the service process database when no longer valid using the time element.
US12155748B2

A system receives a speech of a user that indicates a request. The system extracts a plurality of voice features from the speech. The system converts the speech into a plurality of binary digits. The system determines a first voice feature constant value associated with a first voice feature, where the first voice feature constant value is an average of the first voice feature. The system determines a second voice feature constant value associated with the second voice feature, where the second voice feature constant value is an average of the second voice feature. The system encrypts the plurality of binary digits using the first and second voice feature constant values, where the encrypted plurality of binary digits corresponds to a voice-based hash value. The system generates a new block in a blockchain network using the voice-based hash value.
US12155739B2

Some underlying networks such as Low-Power Wide-Area Networks (LPWAN) have limited communication bandwidth and strict requirements on maximum message size. These requirements may pose a challenge for data or resource exchange between two service layer (SL) entities, for example, because resource representations to be exchanged may have too large a size to be supported by the underlying networks. In some cases, traditional data compression algorithms can be used to alleviate this problem to some degree, but it is recognized herein that there are associated computation costs due to compression and decompression that may not be affordable for constrained IoT devices. Various embodiments described herein address this problem, among others by defining a Resource Representation Common Part (RRCP) and storing it at the service layer. In some cases, the RRCP is not transmitted between SL entities, thereby reducing SL message sizes to cater to the constraints of underlying networks.
US12155730B2

A technology agnostic distributed publication subscription as a service (DPAAS) server-based environment is used as a wrapper for abstracting technology, protocol and/or vendor specific implementations of publication/subscriber functionality. Users may interface with the DPAAS system an application programming interface to connect and/or disconnect, subscribe and unsubscribe from different publication/subscriber services. Further, selection of underlined technology, protocol and/or other vendor specific solutions can be facilitated by leveraging a self-service onboarding portal. Applications register to the DPAAS, along with any underlying technologies used by the source service, so that communications may be seamless to the end user of the subscribing application. In doing so, the DPAAS solution is vendor, protocol, and/or technology independent. Users of the applications do not need in-depth knowledge of how each application publishes and/or subscribes to data feeds, and migrating applications from one vendor solution or platform to another may be accomplished in an easy, quick and seamless manner.
US12155728B2

Systems, devices, and methods described herein provide protocol endpoints that execute locally within private networks and perform a set of transport-related operations specified an application-layer protocol to which messages exchanged between local applications executing within private networks and cloud applications executing in cloud computing systems conform. However, systems, devices, and methods described herein also leverage computing resources of the cloud by having the cloud applications (rather than the protocol endpoints) perform a second set of operations specified by the application-layer protocol. By functioning in this manner, systems, devices, and methods described herein facilitate real-time bidirectional communication flow between local applications executing within private networks and cloud applications without exposing the private networks to the public Internet and without using a VPN (thereby avoiding the problematic overhead of a VPN) with respect to real-time communications.
US12155720B2

A client-side load balancer replaces standard name serving functions. An operating system on client machine receives a command to start a client application. The command includes a command line argument (a switch) based on which the operating system also starts the client-side load balancer, which intercepts name service requests. The client-side load balancer controls a cache memory with a list of IP addresses of available servers that are associated with a URL for a particular service request. In response to successive name service requests for the URL, the client-side load balancer provides IP addresses from the list in a strictly repetitive order. The order may be a Round Robin order, or any permutation of a Round Robin order.
US12155716B2

Provided is a data transmission system, a vehicle comprising the data transmission system, a data transmission method and a computer program. Specifically, the system comprises a centralized controller, a publisher entity and a subscriber entity; wherein the publisher entity and the subscriber entity are compiled with a predefined data format; the publisher entity registers at the centralized controller with topic information; the centralized controller, upon registration of the publisher entity, stores the topic information with information for registering at the publisher entity; the subscriber entity subscribes at the centralized controller to the topic information; the centralized controller, upon subscription of the subscriber entity, provides to the subscriber entity information for registering at the publisher entity; and the subscriber entity creates the communication channel between the publisher entity and the subscriber entity based on the information for registering at the publisher entity.
US12155714B2

Systems and methods for managing and processing multimedia content. Chat content from a chat session among users on a network is accessed, including at least an item of video chat content associated with a phone number of a chat participant. Location information associated with the chat content is determined. Chat content location information is compared with predefined location information associated with projects or activities to identify a corresponding matching project or activity. A multimedia document comprising chat content associated with the matching project or activity is generated, wherein the item of video chat content is displayed in association with a play control and in association with an identifier of the chat participant. The item of video chat content in the multimedia document may be played in response to a user activation of the play control.
US12155710B2

The present invention relates to a method for streaming, on a player of a client device (11), a broadcast content within a peer-to-peer network (10) of client devices (11, 12), said content consisting of a sequence of segments available in a plurality of levels of quality and said player being adapted to choose the level of quality of the segments in accordance with an adaptive bitrate ABR regulation logic; the client device (11) comprising a first buffer (M1) adapted to store segments in a format suitable for transfer within the peer-to-peer network (10), the method being characterized in that it comprises the implementation, by data processing means (110) of the device (11), of steps of: a. Receiving a request for a segment from the player; b. Providing, in response, said segment from the first buffer (M1) upon expiry of a response deadline defined with respect to said ABR logic of the player.
US12155701B2

In some embodiments, during the SIP registration, the UE indicates in the REGISTER requests its support for ANBR as defined by “ANBR” attribute in the SDP and the P-CSCF indicates its support for the “ANBR” attribute in the SDP in the response for registration. In some embodiments, the P-CSCF serving a PLMN passes through the “ANBR” attribute in the SDP when the P-CSCF recognizes that the PLMN supports ANBR functionality. In some embodiments, the UE can include “ANBR” attribute in the SDP offer and answers when the P-CSCF indicates its support for the “ANBR” attribute in the SDP.
US12155693B1

A system for fully integrated collection of business impacting data, analysis of that data and generation of both analysis driven business decisions and analysis driven simulations of alternate candidate business actions has been devised and reduced to practice. This business operating system may be used to monitor and predictively warn of events that impact the security of business infrastructure and may also be employed to monitor client-facing services supported by both software and hardware to alert in case of reduction or failure and also predict deficiency, service reduction or failure based on current event data.
US12155682B2

A vehicle anomaly detection server includes: a communicator that communicates with a vehicle to receive a log of an in-vehicle network in the vehicle; a processor; and a memory including at least one set of instructions that, when executed by the processor causes the processor to perform operations including: selecting, when information indicating that an anomaly is occurring to a first vehicle among vehicles is obtained by the processor, an anomaly-related vehicle from among the vehicles based on the anomaly, the first vehicle being the vehicle that communicates with the communicator; transmitting, to the anomaly-related vehicle via the communicator, a first request to transmit a log of an in-vehicle network in the anomaly-related vehicle; and determining whether an anomaly is occurring to the anomaly-related vehicle, based on information indicated by the log transmitted from the anomaly-related vehicle and received by the communicator.
US12155679B2

A system that intercepts and analyzes application program interface (API) traffic, identifies correlations between components of API traffic, and uses those correlations to detect anomalous behaviors. API traffic, including requests and responses, is intercepted and analyzed to identify correlations in the API traffic. The correlations may be based on API traffic and can include a sequence of APIs, parameters passed between earlier and subsequent APIs, user roles within a user session and APIs accessed by the user roles, and other correlations. Correlation data for user sessions is generated and stored, and later compared to subsequent user session traffic. If the subsequent user session traffic does not comply with the correlations detected in earlier user sessions, an anomaly may be triggered.
US12155670B1

Embodiments are directed towards a system and method for a cloud-based front end that may abstract and enable access to the underlying cloud-hosted elements and objects that may be part of a multi-tenant application, such as a search application. Search objects may be employed to access indexed objects. An amount of indexed data accessible to a user may be based on an index storage limit selected by the user, such that data that exceeds the index storage limit may continue to be indexed. Also, one or more projects can be elastically scaled for a user to provide resources that may meet the specific needs of each project.
US12155666B2

Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for generating a list of deny policy statements associated with an allow policy statement with respect to the effective access permissions for a principal in an identity and access management system. The operations can include identifying a first policy statement that specifies members of a first identity set including the principal are allowed to access a first system resource set. The operations further include identifying a second policy statement specifying that members of a second identity set are denied access to a second system resource set. Moreover, the operations include determining that the second policy statement overlaps with the first policy statement with respect to the effective access permissions for the principal, and placing the second policy statement into the list of deny policy statements associated with an allow policy statement.
US12155653B2

This disclosure relates to systems and methods for performing single input based multifactor authentication. Multifactor authentication refers to an authentication system with enhanced security which utilizes more than one authentication forms to validate identity of a user. Conventionally, the process of multifactor authentication is a serial process which involves inputting of authentication information multiple times. However, with conventional approaches, delay is introduced in execution of the multifactor authentication process. The method of the present disclosure addresses unresolved problems of multifactor authentication by enabling two or more factors to be assessed simultaneously making the authentication process faster without sacrificing the robustness of authentication process. Embodiments of the present disclosure analyzes spoken response of the user to a dynamically generated question for multifactor authentication. The system of the present disclosure is modulation, age and language independent, remote authentication enabled, and does not require any additional infrastructure leading to reduced cost.
US12155644B2

A method authenticates a device in a communication network of an automation installation, in which authentication information indicating the device is transmitted to an authentication server that admits or rejects the device in the communication network as a subscriber. To perform an authentication of the device in a communication network configured with redundancy, the communication network has a communication ring that, besides the device, has first and second neighbor devices. At the start of the authentication the device sends authentication requests containing the authentication information to the neighbor devices. The neighbor devices duplicate the authentication information and send it via the communication ring in both transmission directions to an authentication server which uses the authentication information to perform a respective check on the authenticity of the device and admits or rejects the device in the communication network as a subscriber as the result of the check.
US12155632B2

A method including determining, by a virtual private network (VPN) server providing VPN services to one or more user devices, an aggregate amount of VPN data communicated by the VPN server with a host device; and transmitting, by the VPN server to an infrastructure device, VPN data information indicating the aggregate amount of VPN data communicated by the VPN server with the host device. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US12155629B2

A content filtering system and method includes receiving in a network device in a network from a user device, a user selected set of rules identifying a set of URLs to be blocked. The set of rules are loaded into the network device. The network device receives from the user device a request to access a specified URL. A determination is made at the network device whether the specified URL is in the user selected set of rules. If the specified URL is in the user selected set of rules, then the specified URL is blocked.
US12155613B1

The disclosed techniques provide a messaging system with a user interface (UI) having a specific arrangement of suggested expressive illustrations, such as emojis. In some examples, a system analyzes a received emoji and provides a suggested list of emojis for a response. The suggested emojis are arranged in a way that candidate emojis capable of generating animation effects in combination with the received emoji, are listed higher in ranking, e.g., preceding, over other candidate emojis that cannot generate animation effects in combination with the received emoji. The system can rank individual emojis, or other types of graphical expressions, depending on whether a candidate emoji is capable of generating animated effects with the received emoji. In some embodiments, candidate emojis that are capable of generating animated effects precede candidate emojis that are incapable of generating animated effects.
US12155612B2

A caption of a multimodal message (e.g., social media post) can be identified as a named entity using an entity recognition system. The entity recognition system can use an attention-based mechanism that emphasis or de-emphasizes each data type (e.g., image, word, character) in the multimodal message based on each datatypes relevance. The output of the attention mechanism can be used to update a recurrent network to identify one or more words in the caption as being a named entity.
US12155607B2

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A network node may transmit a message to a user equipment (UE) indicating at least a first frequency range for uplink data and a second frequency range for the uplink data. The UE may apply a frequency offset for at least one of the first frequency range or the second frequency range based at least in part on the first frequency range, the second frequency range, or both, overlapping with a downlink portion of a sub band full duplex duration. The UE may transmit, during a first portion of the sub band full duplex duration, the uplink data in the first frequency range, the second frequency range, or a third frequency range based at least in part on applying the frequency offset for at least one of the first frequency range or the second frequency range.
US12155599B2

A method of transmitting and receiving downlink control information (DCI) in a wireless communication system and a device therefor are disclosed. Specifically, a method of receiving downlink control information (DCI) by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system, the method comprises receiving configuration information related to a search space; determining PDCCH candidates to be monitored within a plurality of search spaces, wherein the plurality of search spaces are configured for a plurality of control resource sets (CORESETs) based on the configuration information, and each search space includes one or more physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidates; monitoring the PDCCH candidates to be monitored; and receiving the DCI based on the monitoring.
US12155596B2

The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-generation (4G) communication system such as long term Evolution (LTE). Disclosed is a method of defining a resource block or resource element offset for mapping PTRS to a symbol, wherein the offset is determined based on an identifier of a particular user equipment, UE.
US12155591B2

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A UE may determine a set of resources available for transmission of one or more reference signals (e.g., one or more PRSs) in a shared radio frequency spectrum band (e.g., an unlicensed radio frequency spectrum band) in a time interval for sidelink positioning. The UE may transmit, in a second radio frequency spectrum, a control message reserving the set of resources for the UE to transmit the one or more reference signals in the time interval for sidelink positioning. The UE may transmit the one or more reference signals on the set of resources based on transmitting the control message reserving the set of resources.
US12155570B2

Implementations of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for reducing the size of packet headers by using a single field to encode multiple elements. Instead of including separate fields for each element, one or more encoded fields may be used, each of which is decoded to determine two or more values for the data packet. A receiving device decodes the encoded data field to retrieve the two or more values.
US12155568B2

This application provides a packet processing method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium, and pertains to the field of communication technologies. In this application, a control identifier field is added to a packet, and the control identifier field indicates whether forwarding of the packet is allowed when the first network device does not configure the slice identifier on an outbound interface. The control identifier field and a slice identifier of a network slice are carried in the packet, so that the slice identifier and the control identifier field are transmitted on a network together. When a receive end does not configure the slice identifier on the outbound interface, the receive end can discard the packet based on the control identifier field, instead of forwarding the packet by using routing information.
US12155566B2

A device includes a transceiver and processing circuitry. The transceiver is configured to receive an input packet having an input header and forward an output packet having an output header. The processing circuitry is configured to parse the input header, determine recommendations for forwarding a payload of the input packet using a trained neural network and based on the parsed input header, and process the input packet and generate the output packet with the output header based on the recommendations and available resources.
US12155564B2

A method for offloading multicast replication from multiple tiers of edge nodes implemented by multiple host machines to a physical switch is provided. Each of the multiple host machines implements a provider edge node and a tenant edge node. One host machine among the multiple host machines receives a packet having an overlay multicast group identifier. The host machine maps the overlay multicast group identifier to an underlay multicast group identifier. The host machine encapsulates the packet with an encapsulation header that includes the underlay multicast group identifier to create an encapsulated packet. The host machine forwards the encapsulated packet to a physical switch of the network segment. The physical switch forwards copies of the encapsulated packet to tenant edge nodes at one or more ports that are determined to be interested in the underlay multicast group identifier.
US12155563B2

A network adapter includes a port and one or more circuits. The port communicates packets over a network in which switches forward packets in accordance with tuples of the packets. The one or more circuits are to hold a user-programmable scheme specifying assignments of the packets of a given flow destined to a peer node to sub-flows having respective different tuples, assign first packets of the given flow to one or more of the sub-flows in accordance with the user-programmable scheme, by setting respective tuples of the first packets, transmit the first packets to the peer node via the port, monitor notifications received from the network, the notifications being indicative of respective states of the sub-flows, based on the notifications and on the user-programmable scheme determine an assignment of second packets of the given flow to the sub-flows, and transmit the second packets to the peer node via the port.
US12155544B2

Described is a method performed by a computing device for controlling home network system associated with a plurality of Wi-Fi communicating devices, the method comprising: analyzing operational data associated with the plurality of Wi-Fi communicating devices, the operational data collected from plurality of Wi-Fi communicating devices; providing (or generating) recommendations for improving performance of the home network system according to the analyzed operational data; correlating the recommendations into groups; and aggregating the recommendations from the groups to generate unified recommendations for improving the home network system.
US12155532B1

In one embodiment, a device obtains telemetry data associated with an online application accessible via a network. The device trains, based on the telemetry data, a machine learning model to determine whether a given address in the network is associated with the online application. The device uses the machine learning model to generate a listing of network addresses associated with the online application. The device provides the listing of network addresses for use by an application detection service in the network to determine that an initial packet of a traffic flow is associated with the online application based on a match between a destination address of that packet and a network address in the listing of network addresses.
US12155520B2

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A device may receive a set of demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) over a multi-path channel on a set of resources in accordance with a reference signal pattern. The reference signal pattern may be associated with a non-uniform frequency spacing that results in a row-sampled Discrete Fourier Transform (DFT) matrix associated with the reference signal pattern having a lower coherence than other row-sampled DFT matrices. Additionally or alternatively, the device may receive a set of tracking reference signals (TRSs) over the multi-path channel. The set of TRSs may be specific to wide-area terrestrial broadcast services, single frequency network (SFN)-based broadcast services, multimedia broadcast multicast services (MBMSs), or the reference signal pattern. The device may perform channel estimation based on receiving one or both of the set of DMRSs or the set of TRSs over the multi-path channel.
US12155514B2

Provided is a method for performing wireless communication by a first device, the method comprising the steps of: setting an actual bandwidth part (BWP) associated with the first device; setting an initial BWP associated with the first device; and setting a sidelink (SL) BWP associated with SL communication of the first device, wherein the SL communication is deactivated on the basis of the numerology of the actual BWP and the numerology of the SL BWP being the same, the numerology of the initial BWP being different from the numerology of the SL BWP, and the first device switching between the SL BWP and the initial BWP.
US12155502B1

Optimized automated access network connectivity is provided. A network connecting device (NCD) may perform an optimized access network setup process upon boot-up to connect to an access network. The optimized process may be determined by a cloud-based machine-learning system based on learned connecting and network usage behaviors. The optimized process may include a sequence of network connectivity evaluations configured to minimize the setup time associated with discovering and connecting to an access network. The optimized process may further reduce or eliminate the probability of device failure due to an erroneous access network implementation by establishing communications with a test server prior to committing an access operating mode to non-volatile memory. The NCD may be configured to modify the device's master configuration settings to include the optimized process such that when a master reset is performed, the device may utilize the optimized process to discover and connect to the access network.
US12155492B2

Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide a method for wireless communications by a transmitter user equipment (UE). The method may include receiving (e.g., from a network entity) a configuration of a first resource pool associated with a second resource pool. The first resource pool includes physical sidelink feedback channel (PSFCH) resources for hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) responses for physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) transmissions in the second resource pool. The method further includes transmitting (e.g., to a receiver UE) a PSSCH on a resource in the second resource pool and a request for a HARQ response for the PSSCH from a PSFCH resource in the first resource pool. The method further includes receiving (e.g., from the receiver UE) the HARQ response over the PSFCH resource (e.g., in response to the PSSCH).
US12155491B2

The disclosure relates to converging a 5G communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4G system with a technology for IoT, and may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The disclosure provides a method performed by a terminal in a communication system, including receiving, from a base station, configuration information for a PUSCH repetition, identifying a configured time domain window for the PUSCH repetition based on the configuration information, and performing one or more repetitions of PUSCH transmission with the base station in the configured time domain window, wherein power consistency and phase continuity of the PUSCH transmission are maintained in the one or more repetitions, and wherein one or more TPC commands accumulated in the configured time domain window are applied after the configured time domain window.
US12155485B2

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of a first subset size parameter associated with a first priority, and an indication of a second subset size parameter associated with a second priority. The UE may determine a first set of HARQ-ACK/NACK feedback associated with downlink communications having the first priority and a second set of HARQ-ACK/NACK feedback associated with downlink communications having the second priority. The UE may select a first subset of HARQ-ACK/NACK feedback from the first set of HARQ-ACK/NACK feedback based on the first subset size parameter, and a second subset of HARQ-ACK/NACK feedback from the second set of HARQ-ACK/NACK feedback based on the second subset size parameter. The UE may transmit, during the uplink slot, the first subset and/or the second subset of HARQ-ACK/NACK feedback. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12155478B2

Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Cyclic redundancy check (CRC) bits may be appended to a set of information bits on a per-group basis prior to encoding using an error correcting code. The amount of CRC bits appended to each group of information bits may be based on the priority of the group of information bits. For example, the priority may be based on the type of information conveyed by the group of information bits. For example, for a video stream, information bits conveying low frequency information may have a higher priority than information bits conveying high frequency information, as the low frequency bits may be more important to user perception/experience of the video. The transmitting device and the receiving device may negotiate the CRC configuration (e.g., the CRC bits per-group and the locations of the groups) so that the receiving device can verify the information bits.
US12155477B2

Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for priority-based channel coding for control information. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may sort control information associated with a first control information type into a first control information group and the control information associated with a second control information type into a second control information group, for example, based on respective priorities associated with the first and second control information types. The WTRU may group one or more bits of the first control information group into a first bit level control information group and a second bit level control information group based on priority. The WTRU may selectively apply a cyclic redundancy check (CRC) to the first control information group, the second control information group, the first bit level control information group, and/or the second bit level control information group.
US12155464B2

A communication method includes receiving, by a terminal device, first clock source information. The first clock source information corresponds to clock source information of a wireless communication system. The first clock source information indicates that a fifth generation (5G) system clock is useable as a clock source. The method further includes sending, by the terminal device, the first clock source information to an adjacent device.
US12155458B2

Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for managing premise-level data communication in a wavelength division multiplexing (WDM) fiber optic network. An example method includes receiving, by a control system, a message from a new device connected to the WDM fiber optic network, the message including one or more service provider identifiers, a customer identifier, and a customer equipment identifier of the new device. The method further includes transmitting, by the control system, a configuration command to the new device, the configuration command including (i) an indication of which wavelengths the new device may utilize, and (ii) an indication of message types that may be transmitted using each wavelength the new device may utilize. The method further includes causing, by the control system, transmission of a service fee to each service provider associated with a service provider identifier of the one or more service provider identifiers.
US12155454B2

A maritime vessel communications system may include a satellite communications network, and maritime communications terminals associated with maritime vessels and operable over the satellite communications network. The system may also include a communications management server to obtain vessel geographic position and heading data associated with the maritime vessels, and obtain historical vessel travel route data associated with the maritime vessels. The server may also use machine learning to determine predicted vessel travel routes based upon the vessel geographic position and heading data, and the historical vessel travel route data, and obtain historical satellite communications network usage data associated with the maritime communications terminals. The server may also use machine learning to determine predicted network usage for the terminals based upon the historical network usage data and the predicted vessel travel routes, and operate at least one of the satellite communications network and the terminals based upon the predicted usage.
US12155453B2

A network analytics control module may include processing circuitry configured to receive three dimensional location information and corresponding signal quality information for a particular asset in an air-to-ground (ATG) network, make a service quality inference for the particular asset based at least in part on the received information, and provide an instruction for a network control activity based on the service quality inference.
US12155447B1

A method is provided for determining segmented partition capture area by using a minimum detectable signal and a maximum interfering signal calculated from a driving point impedance. A signal channel of an analog-to-digital converter is selected and then a signal channel of a low-noise amplifier is selected in order to reduce the noise for the system using the method. The maximum value of the analog-to-digital noise and the minimum value of the analog-to-digital converter input signal sinewave signal are determined. The signal channel is designed by the use of a channel noise figure, a channel full scale input signal and a channel input impedance. A maximum interfering signal is defined by the channel full scale signal to set a limit on the segmented partition capture area.
US12155446B2

In an example method, a user equipment (UE) of a wireless network determines data for transmission between the UE and a base station (BS) of the wireless network; determines a context of the transmission of the data between the UE and the BS; selects, based on the context, one or more antenna elements of an antenna array of the UE; and forms one or more wireless beams using the one or more selected antenna elements. Further, the UE (i) transmits at least a first portion of the data to the BS using the one or more wireless beams, and/or (ii) receives at least a second portion of the data from the BS using the one or more wireless beams.
US12155433B2

An antenna alignment device may have a camera that takes a line-of-sight image. For an antenna alignment device directed to a boresight of an antenna, the line-of-sight image is the “view” from the antenna to the surrounding environment. An antenna radiation pattern, based on the antenna type, may be overlaid on the line-of-sight image. A technician and or other user can therefore observe the radiation pattern vis-à-vis the surrounding environment. Therefore, it can be determined during the initial alignment stage, whether the antenna alignment may have to be changed to account for structures and or other blockages in the surrounding environment rather than just relying antenna alignment based on an ideal model site. The overlaying also speeds up troubleshooting as it can be used to provide clear and specific alignment instructions prior to deploying crew to the antenna site.
US12155430B2

This application provides a communication method and apparatus, and relates to the field of communication technologies. In the method, a first communication apparatus determines a first index indicating a first precoding vector, and sends the first index to a second communication apparatus. The second communication apparatus receives the first index from the first communication apparatus, determines the first precoding vector based on the first index, and precodes data based on the first precoding vector. The first precoding vector includes spatial angle information and spatial depth information of a channel between the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus.
US12155428B2

A method for a user equipment (UE) to receive physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) is provided. The UE receives configuration information for a first control resource set that includes a number of symbols in a time domain and a number of resource blocks (RBs) in a frequency domain, configuration information indicating a first number of Nbundle,1 frequency contiguous RBs, and a PDCCH in the first control resource set in a number of frequency distributed blocks of Nbundle,1 RBs. The UE assumes that a demodulation reference signal associated with the reception of the PDCCH has a same preceding over the Nbundle,1 RBs. A method for constructing a search space to reduce a number of channel estimations that the UE performs for decoding PDCCHs, relative to conventional search spaces, is also provided.
US12155424B2

A communication system having to an open radio access network architecture, the communication system includes a number (K) of user equipments configured to exchange messages through the communication system, the communication system comprising one or more radio unit and a distributed unit, each radio unit being connected to the distributed unit through a fronthaul link having a given capacity. The communication system comprises a coordination system being configured to coordinate the exchanges between the radio units of the system and the distributed unit, in response to a signal received by the radio units from a user equipment. The coordination system is configured to send a signalling message to each radio unit comprising data stream selection information, each radio unit comprising: a transformation unit configured to apply a transformation operation to the signal vector received by the radio unit, which provides a transformed vector, the transformation operation being defined to reduce the dimension of the received signal vector; a data stream selection unit configured to select a number of data streams corresponding to components of the transformed vector using the data stream selection information comprised in the signalling message, a quantizer configured to apply a quantization operation to the selected data streams, which provides quantized vectors, the radio unit being configured to send the quantized vectors to the distributed unit. The sum of the numbers of data streams selected at the radio units, over all the radio units of the communication system, is higher or equal to the product of the number of user equipments (K) and the number of antennas of a user equipment.
US12155423B1

A battery system. The battery system comprises an electric battery and a radio frequency identity (RFID) chip. The electric battery comprises an internal metal plate and an exterior package skin. The RFID chip is retained by the exterior package skin of the electric battery and comprises a non-transitory memory, a processor, a radio transceiver coupled to the processor, an antenna, a first impedance matching component coupling the radio transceiver to the antenna, and a second impedance matching component coupling the internal metal plate of the electric battery to the radio transceiver, wherein the radio transceiver is configured to transmit radio frequency signals through the second impedance matching component to the internal metal plate and the internal metal plate is configured to radiate the radio frequency signals as radio waves.
US12155417B2

An optical transmission device which performs relaying between a terminal device and a server via an optical network device, the terminal device and the server establishing connection with each other, includes a request detection unit which detects a connection establishment request transmitted to the server by the optical network device on the basis of a connection establishment request transmitted to the server by the terminal device, a response detection unit which detects an acknowledgment transmitted to the terminal device by the server on the basis of the connection establishment request detected by the request detection unit, and a band allocation unit which, if the response detection unit detects the acknowledgment, performs allocation so as to expand a band over which the optical network device is capable of transmission to the server, regardless of presence or absence of a buffer amount notification to be transmitted by the optical network device.
US12155416B2

Systems for low power distribution in a power distribution network (PDN) contemplate using multiple low-power conductors to convey power from a power source to a remote sub-unit. The multiple conductors are isolated from one another to help prevent overcurrent conditions in a fault condition. In a first exemplary aspect, the isolation is provided by galvanic isolation. In a second exemplary aspect, the isolation is provided by diodes at the remote sub-units. Further, current sensors may be used at the power source to detect if any of the multiple low-power conductors are carrying current above a defined threshold current. By providing one or more of these safety features, a multiplexer may not be needed at the remote sub-unit, thus providing cost savings while preserving the desired safety features.
US12155413B2

A communication device is connected to a wavelength-multiplexed optical ring network, and performs communication by performing time-division multiplexing on optical signals at each wavelength. In a case where a control signal transmitted from the master communication device is not received in a predetermined period, the communication device instructs a scheduler unit to suspend transmission of data at a failure wavelength that is the wavelength at which the host communication device has been determined not to be operating properly, also instructs the scheduler unit to transmit the data stored in the buffer of the failure wavelength at another wavelength, and suspends allocation of new data to the buffer of the failure wavelength. Thus, the delay in transmission of data at the failure wavelength can be shortened.
US12155401B2

Methods and devices for coding point cloud data using volume trees and predicted-point trees. In one embodiment of the disclosure, a method of encoding a point cloud data to generate a bitstream of compressed point cloud data representing a three-dimensional location of a physical object is provided, the point cloud data being located within a volumetric space. The method includes compressing a first part of the point cloud data represented by a first tree of a first type; determining for a given node of the first tree if an assignation to a second type of tree is enabled, said given node still being processed for the first tree; when the assignation is enabled, compressing a second part of the point cloud data represented by a second tree of the second type wherein, features associated with a root node of the second tree are at least partially obtained from the given node.
US12155398B2

Provided are a method of low-complexity decoding based on soft decision and a computing device for performing the method. The method of low-complexity decoding based on soft decision, performed by a computing device, includes receiving a vector, in which a codeword is modulated, through a channel, determining a decoding result by sequentially applying the received vector to one or more decoding algorithms, and decoding the codeword based on an analysis on the decoding result of a detector corresponding to each of the one or more decoding algorithms.
US12155391B2

A phase-locked loop or delay locked loop provides a coarse alignment between an input clock and an output clock. A latch receiver circuit provides an indicator of a delay error between the input clock and the output clock. The delay error is used by a control circuit or state machine to adjust a fine delay that affects the output clock signal timing relative to the input clock signal. The fine delay is adjusted to minimize the timing difference between the output clock signal and the input clock signal.
US12155388B2

A comparator includes an input pair circuit, an isolation circuit, and a latch circuit. The input pair circuit receives first and second input signals to generate first and second signals. The isolation circuit is selectively turned on according to a clock signal to transmit the first signal from the input pair circuit to a first output node and transmit the second signal from the input pair circuit to a second output node. The latch circuit adjusts a level of the first output node to generate a first output signal, adjusts a level of the second output node to generate a second output signal, and selectively resets the levels of the first and the second output nodes according to the clock signal. When the latch circuit resets the levels of the first and the second output nodes, the isolation circuit is not turned on.
US12155373B2

Disclosed is a radio frequency (RF) filter that vertically integrates an acoustic die with inductors formed in one or more layers above the acoustic die. The acoustic die may be over-molded so that the acoustic dome, important for maintaining acoustic integrity, may be protected.
US12155367B2

A method for manufacturing a ceramic substrate that includes forming a mother multilayer body by positioning a hole in at least one ceramic green sheet among a plurality of laminated ceramic green sheets in a location that does not overlap with a recess formation-planned region in which a recess is to be formed after firing of the mother multilayer body and that overlaps with a singulation-planned line for singulating the mother multilayer body into pieces after firing; and forming the recess in the mother multilayer body before firing by performing press working on the recess formation-planned region of the mother multilayer body.
US12155366B2

A surface acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate and a pair of IDT electrodes. The pair of IDT electrodes includes a pair of busbars and multiple electrode fingers. The pair of busbars are formed on the piezoelectric substrate. The electrode fingers extend in a comb shape from each of the busbars toward the opposing busbar. The pair of IDT electrodes has an intersection region as a region where the electrode fingers connected to one busbar and the electrode fingers connected to another busbar are intersected when viewed along an arrangement direction of the electrode fingers. The electrode finger in a non-intersection region outside the intersection region has a thickness thinner than a thickness of the electrode finger in the intersection region.
US12155361B2

A tunable impedance simulator and impedance multiplier circuit and a system for configuring a second generation voltage-mode conveyor circuit (VCII) as the tunable impedance simulator and impedance multiplier are described. The tunable impedance simulator and impedance multiplier circuit includes one VCII having a positive input terminal connected to a voltage source, a negative input terminal connected to the voltage source, and an impedance terminal Z0. The impedance terminal Z0 can be either positive or negative. When the impedance terminal Z0 is positive, a positive active inductor, a positive capacitance multiplier, and a positive resistance multiplier may be implemented. When the impedance terminal Z0 is negative, a negative active inductor, a negative capacitance simulator, and a negative resistance simulator may be implemented.
US12155357B2

Devices and methods related to unpowered switching module. A switching module can include a first input terminal, a second input terminal, and an output terminal. The output terminal can be configured to output a radio-frequency (RF) component of an input signal received on the first input terminal or the second input terminal in response to the input signal including a positive direct-current (DC) voltage.
US12155356B2

A power amplifier according to some embodiments includes a submount, a monolithic microwave integrated circuit (MMIC) die on the submount, the MMIC die including an RF transistor configured to operate at frequencies greater than 26.5 GHz, and an internal decoupling capacitor on the submount and connected to a drain of the RF transistor. The internal decoupling capacitor has a capacitance greater than 2 nF.
US12155354B2

An RF amplifier includes an amplifier input, a transistor die with a transistor and a transistor input terminal, a fundamental frequency impedance matching circuit coupled between the amplifier input and the transistor input terminal, and a harmonic frequency termination circuit coupled between the transistor input terminal and a ground reference node. The harmonic frequency termination circuit includes a first inductance coupled between the transistor input terminal and a first node, and a tank circuit coupled between the first node and the ground reference node. The tank circuit includes a first capacitance coupled between the first node and the ground reference node, and a second inductance coupled between the first node and the ground reference node. The tank circuit is configured to shunt signal energy at or near a second harmonic frequency, while appearing as an open circuit to signal energy at a fundamental frequency of operation of the RF amplifier.
US12155351B2

An oscillator circuit is provided and includes first and second terminals; an amplification circuit with an input end and an out end coupled to a first end and a second end of a crystal circuit through the first terminal and the second terminal, respectively; a gain control circuit coupled to the amplification circuit and including a differential amplifier, a first current source, a feedback path and a current mirror, wherein: the differential amplifier includes first and second transistors, sources of the first and second transistors are coupled to the first current source; a gate of the first transistor is coupled to a first direct current voltage and coupled to the input end or the output end through the feedback path; a gate of the second transistor is coupled to a second direct current voltage; the current mirror mirrors a current flowing through the second transistor to the amplification circuit.
US12155350B2

A solar power generation system includes a string, an inverter a first shut-off device, and a second shut-off device. The string includes a plurality of solar cell module groups connected in series with each other. The first shut-off device connected to a first electric path connecting between the plurality of solar cell module groups. The second shut-off device connected to a second electric path connecting between the plurality of solar cell module groups. The first shut-off device cuts off a connection between the plurality of solar cell module groups connected to the first electric path in response to a first control signal from the inverter. The second shut-off device cuts off a connection between the solar cell module groups connected to the second electric path in response to a second control signal output from the first shut-off device by a communication system different from power line communication.
US12155344B2

Systems and methods for providing and controlling solar panel arrays are provided. The solar panel array may include one or more articulating joints that may provide variability in the arrangement of solar panels, which may allow the solar panel array to be distributed over varying types of underlying surfaces. The articulating joints may allow orientations of solar panels to be different relative to one another. The articulating joints may convey rotational force across the joints, so that a rotational force used to drive a first solar panel may also be conveyed across the joint and used to drive a second solar panel. The controls system may include row-specific semi-autonomous, or autonomous, controllers as well as controllers to interface with multiple rows. The controllers may include sensors to measure system power generation and basic operations aspects of the solar field to directly measure, or infer, module shading within the solar field. The controller may use this shading and operations data to identify shading, mitigate shading, identify methods to increase power generation, and identify optimum tilt angles for the tracker rows.
US12155343B2

A system and associated method include a housing that includes a sensor, a transmitter, and a power source. A solar panel is configured to receive light energy from an artificial light source to generate an electrical charge. An electrical connection may convey the electrical charge to the power source to energize the sensor, and a fastener fixates the solar panel within 10 cm of the artificial light source. The solar panel may be further positioned with respect to the housing and the artificial light source. For instance, the solar panel may be positioned so as to minimally obstruct visible light from the artificial light source within an area to be illuminated. The housing may comprise part of an Internet of Things (IoT) device.
US12155340B2

Embodiments herein describe optimizations for hybrid power plants that include wind turbine generators and photovoltaic generators by determining solar tracking setpoints for a field of photovoltaic generators co-located with a wind turbine generator, wherein the solar tracking setpoints orient a collector face for each photovoltaic generator sunward; in response to determining based on data received from the wind turbine generator that an airborne impactor event is occurring, adjusting the solar tracking setpoints to reposition the collector face out of a trajectory for airborne impactors; and transmitting the setpoints to tracking motors for the photovoltaic generators of the field.
US12155339B2

A speed control assembly for an appliance includes a bracket and a cam that is slidably coupled with the bracket and has an engagement edge. A lever is operably coupled with the cam and is configured to move the cam along the bracket. A slider is fixedly coupled with the bracket and a magnet is disposed adjacent the engagement edge. A ball bearing that is in magnetic communication with the magnet is configured to be selectively engaged with one of a plurality of retention spaces that are defined by the engagement edge of the cam. A sensor is configured to detect a position of the magnet.
US12155336B2

A circuit for controlling an electromechanical holding brake, includes: at least one halfwave rectifier, which generates a pulsed DC voltage from a mains AC voltage, and a phase gating circuit which is designed to generate a control signal for the electromechanical holding brake from the pulsed DC voltage by means of the phase gating.
US12155329B2

A vehicle includes an inverter, a pump, a buck converter, and a controller. The inverter has an input connected to a battery and an output connected to an electric machine. The inverter is configured to convert power between DC electrical power at the input and AC electrical power at the output. The pump is configured to circulate lubricating fluid within a transmission. The buck converter is configured to deliver DC electrical power from the inverter to the pump. The controller is programmed to, in response to the electric machine delivering AC electrical power to the inverter during a towing condition of the vehicle while the vehicle is shutdown, operate the buck converter to power the pump.
US12155328B2

A multi-axis servo control system includes a plurality of motors and a plurality of drive control apparatuses. The drive control apparatuses are connected to each other through an external field bus. Each drive control apparatus includes a control unit and a plurality of drive units. The drive units are connected to the control unit in series by a plurality of local buses to form a series-connected communication loop of sequentially transmitting data. Each drive unit controls at least one of the motors. The control unit receives multi-axis position commands through the external field bus, and the drive units correspondingly receive multi-axis commands through the local buses so as to control the motors in a decentralization manner.
US12155325B2

A motor control unit (10) includes, for example, a motor control block (11) that performs feedback control of a drive current that flows through a motor (20) and a machine learning block (14) that analyzes input data including at least the drive current so as to detect a failure level of the motor (20). The motor control block (11) could be configured to dynamically switch a control parameter or a control method in accordance with the failure level. The input data may further include, for example, a drive voltage applied to the motor (20). Furthermore, the input data may further include, for example, at least one of vibrations and a temperature of the motor (20) or a motor device (1) mounting the motor (20) therein.
US12155321B1

An axial motor assembly is provided with fluidic electrostatic actuators mounted between an end plate and a wobble plate. A computer-implemented drive subsystem executes instructions to create voltage delivery patterns through a power supply to operate the actuators to create nutational motion in the wobble plate. A cam transfers the nutational motion into rotational motion and, in turn, into shaft power. The actuators can be linearly-contractile shelled electrostatic actuators, linearly expansive donut electrostatic actuators and multi-directionally expansive segmented donut electrostatic actuators. Drive method steps include initializing drive variables; determining, upon detecting a control command, a respective deformation target for each actuator; determining, based on the drive variables and the deformation targets, the voltage delivery pattern; and throttling the power supply to drive the actuators using the voltage delivery pattern. Upon detecting a response change in axial motor operation, drive variables can be dynamically recalibrated.
US12155320B2

A power supply includes an inverter configured to direct current (DC) power into alternating current (AC) power, an impedance matching circuit configured to supply the AC power to a load; and a controller configured to adjust disposition of a powering period, in which the AC power is output, and a freewheeling period, in which the AC power is not output, to adjust a power amount of the power supplied to the load through the impedance matching circuit by the inverter.
US12155308B2

A device includes a battery current sense circuit configured to generate a battery current feedback voltage based on a current provided to a battery, a current regulation feedback loop configured to regulate the current provided to the battery based on the battery current feedback voltage and a configurable battery current reference voltage, and a precharge regulation feedback loop configured to regulate the current provided to the battery based on the battery current feedback voltage and a configurable precharge reference voltage. The device also includes a processor configured to set the battery current reference voltage to a first value and set the precharge current reference voltage to a second value. The first value is less than the second value during a transition state.
US12155303B2

An inductor is connected between a switching node and an output line. The first switch and the second switch are connected in series between an input line and a ground line. A third switch is connected between the switching node and the input line. A flying capacitor is connected across the third switch and the first switch. A controller IC drives the first switch to the third switch.
US12155296B2

Provided is a current compensation system for solar generators for compensating for noise using an active electromagnetic interference (EMI) filter. An inverting system for solar generators includes a solar inverter converting DC voltage to AC voltage, an EMI filter unit including an active EMI filter to reduce noise corresponding to the AC voltage, a power grid, and at least two or more through lines passing a second current from the power grid to the solar inverter and passing through the EMI filter unit, wherein the active EMI filter includes a noise sensing unit sensing a first current on the at least two or more through lines and generating an output signal corresponding to the first current, an active circuit unit amplifying the output signal to generate an amplified signal, a compensation unit generating a compensation current based on the amplified signal, and a transmission unit providing a path through which the compensation current flows to each of the at least two large current paths.
US12155288B2

There is provided an electric motor/generator comprising a stator and a rotor. The stator has an outer perimeter. The rotor at least coaxially encloses the outer perimeter of the stator. The rotor is rotatable relative to the stator around a rotation axis. The rotor and the stator are separated by a flux bearing gap over which in working magnetic flux occurs. The rotor and the stator are separated by a protective gap. The protective gap is configured to close, during a deformation of the rotor, before the flux bearing gap closes, thereby avoiding closure of the flux bearing gap. The motor/generator is characterized in that the stator comprises a roller bearing and an axle. The roller bearing is coupled to the axle and rotatable around the axle. The axle is arranged off-center from the rotation axis. A distance between the roller bearing and the rotor defines the protective gap.
US12155281B2

A motor-integrated fluid machine includes a rotatable part configured to rotate around a rotation axis; an outer peripheral part at an outer periphery of the rotatable part; a motor configured to provide power from the outer peripheral part to rotate the rotatable part; and a restrainer part. The rotatable part includes a support ring around the rotation axis, and blades on a center side of the support ring. The blades are side by side in a circumferential direction. The motor includes a rotor side magnet on an outer peripheral side of the support ring in a radial direction, and a stator side magnet on an inner peripheral side of the outer peripheral part to face the rotor side magnet. The restrainer part is configured to restrain the support ring and the rotor side magnet from outside to integrate the support ring and the rotor side magnet.
US12155272B2

Disclosed is a motor and a drain pump including the same. The motor includes a rotor, a rotation shaft positioned through a center of the rotor, and a shaft fixing member for supporting the rotor and the rotation shaft, in which the shaft fixing member and the rotor include a fixing device provided in a direction that intersects a rotation direction of the rotation shaft to prevent the rotation shaft from being idle.
US12155267B2

A field magnet holder provided at a field portion of an electric motor is formed of a non-magnetic material. An inner wall and outer wall of the field magnet holder are respectively formed in annular shapes. Plural spacers are arranged between the inner wall and outer wall at a predetermined spacing in the circumferential direction. Sockets into which permanent magnets are inserted are formed between the spacers of the field magnet holder, plurally in the circumferential direction. Therefore, the permanent magnets may be easily assembled by being respectively inserted into the sockets. The plural permanent magnets are arrayed with magnetization directions thereof successively changed in steps of an angle that is a full cycle of electrical angles divided by a division number n, which division number n is any one integer that is at least three. Thus, ease of assembly of the permanent magnets is improved.
US12155266B2

A rotor assembly for a permanent magnet motor includes a first assembly including a first plurality of laminations and a second assembly including a second plurality of laminations. The first assembly is located radially inside of the second assembly. The first assembly and the second assembly define a first opening therebetween. First and second permanent magnets are located in the first opening. Polymeric material surrounds the first and second permanent magnets in the first opening. An outer layer surrounds the rotor assembly.
US12155263B2

A power system that is attachable to a helmet is disclosed. The power system provides power and data connections for helmet-mounted accessory devices and provides power to the accessory devices. The power system includes a base unit that is attachable to the helmet. The base unit includes a processor, an internal power source, and one or more cable interfaces. One or more accessory interfaces can each be attached to the helmet, connected to a cable interface, and connected to an accessory device. The base unit further include an interface for attaching a power module to the base unit. The power module includes one or more removable power sources. The base unit selectively provides, to an accessory device connected to an accessory interface, power from either the internal power source or from a removable power source.
US12155262B2

The invention relates to a method for reducing the inrush current of an electrical device operated by means of a battery and/or an accumulator, which device is designed as a medical device which can be implanted in a patient and has an electronic circuit which is supplied with electrical energy via at least two supply potential lines, wherein the electronic circuit has a plurality of backup capacitors, each of which is connected or connectable by means of a first terminal to one of the at least two supply potential lines and by means of a second terminal to another of the at least two supply potential lines, wherein the electrical device has an energy management system by means of which one or more parts of the electronic circuit are switched off in an energy-saving mode and are switched on again when the energy-saving mode is exited, wherein the backup capacitors, individually or in a plurality of groups via one switching element per capacitor or group of capacitors, are disconnected from at least one of the supply potential lines in a switched-off state of the switching element and can be connected thereto in a switched-on state of the switching element, wherein the switching elements are switched on with at least a partial time delay relative to one another when the electrical device is switched on and when the circuit parts which are switched off in the energy-saving mode are switched on again.
US12155257B2

Provided is a battery module. The battery module includes a battery pack including cells connected in series with an amount of s and cells connected in parallel with an amount of p (s is an integer of 1 or more and p is an integer of 1 or more), and a bidirectional DC/DC converter. The converter is configured to generate a voltage nV (n is −1 or 2) with respect to a voltage V of the battery pack.
US12155254B2

A system comprises a battery, a load and a power converter for converting battery power from the battery into load power for application to the load. A system controller enables selection between a continuous discharge mode and a discontinuous discharge mode of the battery. In this way, the battery can be operated in different ways according to the most appropriate battery discharge characteristics.
US12155242B2

An electronic device may comprise: a first battery having a first capacity; a second battery having a second capacity; a power management module which individually controls a charging state of the first battery and the second battery; a memory; and a processor operably coupled to the power management module, wherein the processor calculates a first cycle relating to the charging state of the first battery and a second cycle relating to the charging state of the second battery, and discharges one of the first battery and the second battery before the other battery on the basis of a reference use voltage determined based on the first cycle or the second cycle.
US12155241B2

A method for managing a plurality of stacks of electrochemical cells, where the plurality of stacks are electrically coupled in parallel in a battery. The method includes (a) operating the plurality of stacks to execute a global operating strategy, (b) controlling one or more first power converters to change operation of one or more first stacks of the plurality of stacks to execute a first local operating strategy of operating the one or more first stacks at one of a constant power and a constant current, and (c) controlling one or more second power converters to change operation of one or more second stacks of the plurality of stacks to compensate for change in operation of the one or more first stacks caused by executing the first local operating strategy, and thereby maintain the global operating strategy of the battery while executing the first local operating strategy.
US12155238B2

A power transmitter includes a control and communications unit, an inverter circuit, a coil, and a shielding. The control and communications unit is configured to provide power control signals to control a power level of a power signal configured for transmission to a power receiver, provide a power timing request to an external power supply, and determine if the timing of the external power supply is compliant if the power timing request is met within a timing interval. The coil is configured to transmit the power signal to a power receiver, the coil formed of wound Litz wire and including at least one layer, the coil defining, at least, a top face. The shielding comprises a ferrite core and defining a cavity, the cavity configured such that the ferrite core substantially surrounds all but the top face of the coil.
US12155237B2

A method for transmitting wireless power according to one embodiment of the present specification involves: receiving information about received power values for two or more correction points for power correction from a device for receiving wireless power; constructing a power correction curve, for detecting foreign substances, on the basis of the information about the received power values; and transmitting a data packet requesting initiation of a power correction protocol for updating the power correction curve.
US12155234B2

A wireless power transmitter that transmits power to a wireless power receiver, the wireless power transmitter including a wireless communication unit configured to communicate with the wireless power receiver; and a controller, wherein the wireless communication unit receives, from the wireless power receiver, a first foreign object status packet and a second foreign object status packet and transmits, to the wireless power receiver, a foreign object detection indicator indicating whether a foreign object is present in a charging area of the wireless power transmitter, wherein the controller is configured to generate the foreign object detection indicator, wherein the first foreign object status packet includes a first reference value and mode information, wherein the second foreign object status packet includes a second reference value and mode information, wherein the mode information of the first foreign object status packet indicates whether the first reference value is a reference quality factor or a reference peak frequency of the wireless power receiver, and wherein the mode information of the second foreign object status packet indicates whether the second reference value is the reference quality factor or the reference peak frequency of the wireless power receiver.
US12155232B2

The present disclosure provides an artificial tree. The artificial tree includes a trunk including one or more trunk sections. The one or more trunk sections include a first trunk section including a first transmitter connected to a power source and configured to convert an input power received from the power source into an electromagnetic field, and a first receiver arranged proximate the first transmitter and configured to receive the electromagnetic field generated by the first transmitter and generate a first output current.
US12155229B2

A coil structure for wireless power transmission is provided. The coil structure comprises: a primary resonance coil wound in a spiral shape around a centripetal point; a primary induction coil, which supplies power to the primary resonance coil in a nonconnected state with an input or output terminal of the primary resonance coil and is wound in a spiral shape on a substantially same plane around a substantially same centripetal point as the centripetal point; a switch configured to be parallel with the primary resonance coil so as to control the ON and OFF of an operation of the primary resonance coil; and a capacitor coupled to the primary resonance coil so as to form a magnetic resonance with the primary resonance coil.
US12155227B2

In certain examples, methods and semiconductor structures are directed to an apparatus including source circuitry configured to provide power to other circuitry, with the source circuitry including amplification circuitry (e.g., with a power-switching output) and a source resonator. The amplification circuitry is to provide power to the source resonator with a gain that is dependent on a coupling rate between the source circuitry and other external-receiving circuitry. The source circuitry is also to offset phase delay caused by the amplifier. In operation, the source resonator generates a magnetic field in response to the power, for highly-efficient wirelessly transfer of the power to the other circuitry.
US12155219B2

We provide a method of detecting a power island in a power distribution network of the type comprising: a plurality of distribution lines connecting consumers to electrical power supplied from one or more substations, a plurality of circuit breakers and/or switches each operable to connect and disconnect transmission of electrical power along an associated distribution line, each being associated with a communication device operable to communicate the status of the circuit breaker and/or switch to a monitoring system, and one or more embedded generators each connected to a distribution line within the power distribution network so as to provide electrical power to the power distribution network, the method including the steps of: storing at the monitoring system data representing the connectivity of the distribution network including a status of each circuit breaker and/or switch, receiving at the monitoring system a communication from a communication device that an associated circuit breaker and/or switch is disconnected, determining at the monitoring system, using the data representing the connectivity of the distribution network, whether the disconnection of the circuit breaker and/or switch has resulted in a portion of the power distribution network being electrically disconnected from the remainder of the power distribution network that remains electrically connected to the one or more substations, and identifying the disconnected portion of the power distribution network as a power island within the power distribution network.
US12155218B2

A battery storage and/or a wind turbine including the battery storage. A generator for generation of an electric current. An electric flow path configured for conducting the electric current to an electric grid via a power converter, the power converter. The battery storage electrically connected to the electric flow path, the battery storage comprising a plurality of battery cells, each battery cell comprising at least one battery element and at least two semiconductor switches. A controller is configured for selectively controlling the voltage over the battery storage by controlling the status of the at least two semiconductor switches of a plurality of the battery cells, and thereby whether a current path through the battery storage is bypassing the at least one battery element or passing through the at least one battery element of one or more of the plurality of battery cells.
US12155216B2

An object of the invention is to provide a control technique capable of connecting a storage battery to a DC bus via a DC/DC converter and controlling charging and discharging of the storage battery by the DC/DC converter. A DC grid system according to the invention calculates a voltage command value of a DC bus using a present voltage of a storage battery and a target voltage of the storage battery, and provides the voltage command value as a command value for each of an AC/DC converter and a DC/DC converter (see FIG. 1).
US12155210B2

Disclosed techniques relate to orchestrating power consumption reductions across a number of hosts. A number of response levels may be utilized, each having an association to a corresponding set of reduction actions. The impact to customers, hosts, and/or workloads can be computed at run time based on current and/or predicted conditions and workloads, and a particular response level can be selected based on the computed impact. These techniques enable a sufficient, but least impactful response to be employed.
US12155206B2

A method for controlling a network of inverter-based resources connected to a power grid during a disturbance includes employing a distributed transient virtual impedance algorithm among the network of inverter-based resources (IBRs) after a start of or in anticipation of the disturbance. The distributed transient virtual impedance algorithm includes determining, via at least one of one or more power flow equations, one or more energy function equations, and one or more estimated power capabilities, a virtual impedance control parameter and a modified power reference for one or more of the IBRs. Further, the method includes activating the virtual impedance control parameter and the modified power reference for one or more of the IBRs to ride through the disturbance in a manner that also optimizes use of the one or more estimated power capabilities for one or more of the IBRs and that preserves synchronism between at least two of the inverter-based resources and/or between at least one of the inverter-based resources and the power grid. Thus, the virtual impedance control parameter temporarily reduces voltage proportionally with output current for one or more of the IBRs, thereby resulting in a reduction of local power output of one or more of the IBRs.
US12155204B2

A method of clamping a voltage includes providing a fin-based field effect transistor (FinFET) device. The FinFET device includes an array of FinFETs. Each FinFET includes a source contact electrically coupled to a fin and a gate contact. The method also includes applying the voltage to the source contact and applying a second voltage to the gate contact. The voltage is greater than the second voltage. The method further includes increasing the voltage to a threshold voltage and conducting current from the source contact to the gate contact in response to the voltage reaching the threshold voltage.
US12155203B2

A system for front end protection of an RF receiver against interfering pulsed high power RF signals includes a dual-diode device comprising a first Transient Voltage Suppressor (TVS) diode; and a second TVS diode; wherein the first TVS diode and the second TVS diode are located between an RF input/output and an RF receiver front end.
US12155193B2

The invention provides a positioning tool and a busbar mounting method. The positioning tool includes a first mount, a second mount, a first link, a second link and a positioning base. The first mount and the second mount are configured to be mounted on opposite sides of the server cabinet, respectively. The first link and the second link are spaced apart from each other. Opposite ends of the first link are respectively pivotally connected to the first mount and the second mount. Opposite ends of the second link are respectively pivotally connected to the first mount and the second mount. The positioning base is pivotally connected to the first link and the second link. The positioning base is located between the first mount and the second mount and is configured to position the busbar.
US12155191B2

A mud ring assembly includes a base member, a raised member, a telescoping member and a plurality of drive members. The base member has a flange and an opening through the flange. The raised member extends from the base member and follows the opening in the flange to form a raised wall. The raised member has a plurality of mounting tabs extending from the raised wall toward the opening in the raised member. The telescoping member is positioned within the raised member opening and is movable relative to the raised member between a retracted position and an extended position. The telescoping member has a wall, an opening and a plurality of mounting tabs extending from the wall toward the opening in the telescoping member. The wall of the telescoping member includes a plurality of protective members. Each protective member is positioned in proximity to one of a plurality of mounting tab pairs. In this configuration, one of the plurality of drive members is operatively coupled to the mounting tabs of one of the mounting tab pairs, such that rotation of the drive members causes the telescoping member to move between the retracted position and the extended position.
US12155187B2

A wiring member including: three or more electrical wire portions extending in different directions from a branching position; and a retaining member that is an elastic member and covers base end portions of the three or more electrical wire portions. The retaining member includes three or more cylindrical portions that are joined to each other at respective base end portions thereof, one or two adjacent cylindrical portions of the three or more cylindrical portions being a base cylindrical portion provided with a slit extending over the entire length thereof on one side, and the remaining cylindrical portion being a divided cylindrical portion provided with slits extending over the entire length thereof on two sides, and the retaining member is closed via a fixing member.
US12155186B2

A sealing device and underwater machinery equipment wherein the sealing device includes a sealing plug and a fixing assembly. The sealing plug is in fixed connection with multiple cables, and the fixing assembly is constructed to fix the sealing plug on a sealed cabin in an abutting manner, such that the sealing plug is occluded in the sealed cabin. The underwater machinery equipment includes the sealing device.
US12155176B2

A two-dimensional photonic-crystal surface-emitting laser includes an active layer; and a photonic-crystal layer including a two-dimensional photonic-crystal light-amplification portion that is a first two-dimensional photonic-crystal region provided in a plate-shaped base body disposed on one side of the active layer, and includes an amplification-portion photonic band gap which is a photonic band gap formed between two photonic bands having a band edge at a predetermined point in a reciprocal lattice space, and a two-dimensional photonic-crystal light-reflection portion that is a second two-dimensional photonic-crystal region provided around the two-dimensional photonic-crystal light-amplification portion, and includes a reflection-portion photonic band gap which is a photonic band gap formed between two photonic bands having a band edge at the predetermined point of the reciprocal lattice space, wherein energy ranges of the amplification-portion photonic band gap and the reflection-portion photonic band gap partially overlap and are different.
US12155174B2

A drive circuit includes a GaN FET having a source connected to an anode of an LD and a drain connected to a power source of the LD, a gate drive having an output port connected to a gate of the GaN FET and a negative voltage port connected to the source of the GaN FET to receive an input voltage at a positive voltage port and output the input voltage from the output port in response to a signal with a predetermined level, a capacitor between the positive and negative voltage ports of the gate drive, a diode on a power source line connecting the positive voltage port of the gate drive and a VDD power source for outputting a voltage less than the breakdown voltage at a voltage Vgs of the GaN FET, and a semiconductor switch between the source of the GaN FET and the ground.
US12155165B2

Various embodiments are directed to cart grounding devices for conveyor assemblies and methods of using the same. In various embodiments, a cart grounding device for a conveyor assembly may comprise a frame engagement element configured for attachment to at least a portion of a conveyor assembly; an arm assembly comprising an arm element hingedly connected relative to the frame engagement element; and a cart interface component configured to physically engage a connected plurality of conveyor carts of the conveyor assembly to provide a ground path from the conveyor carts to a ground, the cart interface component comprising one or more grounding wheels configured to physically contact the conveyor carts and rotate about a respective central wheel axle based on the physical contact with the conveyor carts, wherein the arm assembly defines a biased configuration that biases the cart interface component in a direction towards the conveyor carts.
US12155159B1

A detachable extension socket assembly includes an extension socket body and a frame. The frame is configured for fixing to an external component. The frame is provided with a perforating hole. The extension socket body is equipped with a position limiting part. The extension socket body at least partially passes through the perforating hole. The position limiting part abuts against the frame. In the present invention, the frame is configured for fixing to a table, and the extension socket body is detachably connected to the frame. Therefore, when the extension socket body is needed in other positions, the extension socket body can be separated from the frame, facilitating movement of the extension socket body, and solving the existing problems that installing the extension socket on a wooden table with screws can easily cause the table to crack around the screws and the installation is cumbersome.
US12155155B2

An electrical connector system for use with independently heated hoses includes a first electrical connector, a second electrical connector, a third electrical connector, and a fourth electrical connector. The first electrical connector includes a first key that mates with a second key of the second electrical connector. The third electrical connector includes a third key that mates with a fourth key of the fourth electrical connector. The first and second keys differ from the third and fourth keys, ensuring the electrical connectors are correctly connected.
US12155154B2

A floating connector and an assembly thereof are provided. The floating connector includes: a center conductive structure which includes a main body, a contact pin which is movably mounted in a front portion of the main body and a center spring which is mounted between the contact pin and the main body, a rear portion of the main body is provided with a mating cavity, an elastic mating portion is provided in the mating cavity and is capable of elastically deforming in a radial direction which is perpendicular to a front-rear direction; an insulative body which surrounds an outer circumference of the center conductive structure; and an outer conductive structure comprising a first conductive shell which is provided to an outer circumference of the insulative body, a second conductive shell which is movable, and an outer spring which is positioned between the first conductive shell and the second conductive shell, at least one of the first conductive shell and the second conductive shell is provided with an elastic contact arm, and the first conductive shell and the second conductive shell maintain electrical contact via the elastic contact arm. The present disclosure can promote stability of electrical contact.
US12155153B2

The present disclosure aims to provide a connector capable of suppressing an increase in the number of components. A retainer 50 includes a body portion 51 having a plurality of through holes through which a plurality of wires 20 are individually passed, and a plurality of holding portions 53 projecting from the body portion 51 to individually hold the plurality of wires 20. Each of the plurality of holding portions 53 includes a resilient piece 54 resiliently deformable in a second direction intersecting a first direction in which the holding portion 53 projects. A supporting member 60 is collectively mounted on outer peripheral surfaces of the plurality of holding portions 53. The supporting member 60 presses the resilient pieces 54 against outer peripheral surfaces of the wires 20.
US12155148B2

In a locked state of a structure, a connection part is positioned in a locking area, and a part of a locking protruding part overlaps with a part of a protection member base part in a lateral direction, when viewed from a top-and-bottom direction. Moreover, a third gap formed by a free end and an insertion edge part on a locking direction side of the insertion area in a longitudinal direction is shorter than a length of the locking protruding part in the longitudinal direction. When viewed from the top-and-bottom direction, a first gap exists between a connection outer peripheral face of the connection part and a locking edge part of the locking area in the longitudinal direction, and a second gap exists between the connection outer peripheral face of the connection part and the locking edge part of the locking area in the lateral direction.
US12155143B2

A current transmission assembly and a current transmission system are provided. The current transmission system includes the current transmission assembly and a circuit board structure. The current transmission assembly includes a pluggable component, at least one conductor component, and at least one electrically connecting component. The pluggable component includes a housing, at least one set of electrically conductive arms, and at least one connecting member. The at least one sets of electrically conductive arms is disposed inside the housing. The at least one conductor component includes an electrical insulator and a wire main body. The electrical insulator encircles the wire main body, so that a first terminal and a second terminal are exposed from the wire main body, and the first terminal is connected to the at least one two connecting member.
US12155141B2

A connector assembly for charging a work machine includes at least one charging cable and at least one connector arrangement. The connector arrangement includes a socket. The socket defines a plurality of first through-apertures extending radially relative to a first longitudinal axis and a first passage. The connector arrangement also includes a charging pin adapted to couple with the socket. The charging pin defines a plurality of second through-apertures extending radially relative to a second longitudinal axis and a second passage. Further, when the socket is connected with the charging pin, the second passage aligns with the first passage and the second passage is in fluid communication with the first passage. Moreover, when the socket is connected with the charging pin, a fluid flowing through the socket and the charging pin is adapted to at least one of cool and clean the connector assembly.
US12155131B2

Provided is an electronic device having an antenna according to the present invention. The electronic device comprises a cone antenna comprising: a cone radiator which is provided between a first substrate and a second substrate, has the upper part connected to the first substrate and the lower part connected to the second substrate, and has an opening on the upper part; a metal patch which is formed on the first substrate and is positioned away from the upper opening; a shorting pin which is for electrically connecting the metal patch and a ground layer of the second substrate; a power feeding unit which is formed on the second substrate and is for transmitting a signal via a lower opening; and a dielectric which is formed in a cylindrical shape so as to surround the lower opening.
US12155127B2

A multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna system for a mobile cellular network and method is described. The MIMO antenna system includes an array of dual-polarization patch antennas each having first and second polarization feed-points, a first polarization radio chain and a second polarization radio chain. The MIMO antenna system includes a beamformer coupled to the first and second polarization radio chains. The beamformer includes a beamformer channel for a respective feedpoint and further includes a transmit amplifier and a detector (coupler) coupled to a transmit amplifier output. In one mode of operation, a signal is transmitted via the first polarization feed-point of a dual-polarisation patch antennas and a replica of the transmitted signal may be sensed using the coupler at the output of the transmit amplifier and routed via the second polarization radio chain to a digital predistortion module. The digital pre-distortion module is configured to digitally pre-distort a signal for transmission dependent on the replica of the RF signal.
US12155125B2

An electronic device and a method for fabricating an antenna radiator are provided. The electronic device includes a circuit board, a support, a back cover, and a first antenna radiator located on the support, and a second antenna radiator located on one side of the back cover. The first antenna radiator and the second antenna radiator are electromagnetically coupled and connected. The first antenna radiator is able to radiate a wireless signal of a first wavelength, and the second antenna radiator is able to radiate a wireless signal of a second wavelength which is half of the first wavelength.
US12155111B2

An electronic package and a method of manufacturing an electronic package are provided. The electronic package includes a carrier, an antenna substrate, and an electronic component. The carrier has a first surface and a second surface. The antenna substrate includes a resonant cavity and is disposed over the first surface. The antenna substrate is closer to the first surface than the second surface of the carrier. The electronic component is disposed between the antenna substrate and the second surface of the carrier.
US12155102B2

Methods and compositions for making fuel cell components are described. In one embodiment, the method comprises providing a substrate, and forming or adhering an electrode on the substrate, wherein the forming includes depositing an aqueous mixture comprising water, a water-insoluble component, a catalyst, and an ionomer. The water-insoluble component comprises a water-insoluble alcohol, a water-insoluble carboxylic acid, or a combination thereof. The use of such water-insoluble components results in a stable liquid medium with reduced reticulation upon drying, reduced dissolution of the substrate, and reduced penetration of the pores of the substrate.
US12155100B2

A fuel cell vehicle includes a cell stack, a DC level converter, an output unit, a first switching unit disposed between a positive output terminal of the DC level converter and a positive input terminal of the output unit, a second switching unit disposed between a negative output terminal of the DC level converter and a negative input terminal of the output unit, a resistor and a third switching unit connected to each other in series between the positive output terminal of the DC level converter and the negative output terminal of the DC level converter, a fourth switching unit disposed between a contact point between the resistor and the third switching unit and the positive input terminal of the output unit, and a controller for controlling switching operation of the first, second, third and fourth switching units according to an operation mode.
US12155099B2

An ejector has a two-stage nozzle structure. The ejector is installed on a fuel cell recirculation line to supply new hydrogen and a recirculation gas. The ejector includes a housing having a first orifice defined therein and a poppet that is disposed in the housing and having a second orifice defined therein. A damage prevention member is disposed on a surface of the poppet to contact an inner surface of the housing, in which the damage prevention member contacts or is separated from the inner surface of the housing based on a pressure applied to the poppet.
US12155098B2

A multifunctional manifold for use with electrochemical devices having a spiral cross-section, such as spiral solid-oxide fuel cells, includes an interface that is configured to be placed in operative communication with such devices. The interface includes a fuel interface section and an oxidant interface section that are each configured as spirals. The spiral interface sections also include channels that are configured to be placed in operative communication with corresponding spiral channels of the electrochemical device to deliver operating gases, such as fuel gas and oxidant gas, thereto. In addition to delivering operating gases to the fuel cells, the multifunctional manifold is also configured to act as an electrical current collector and a heat exchanger.
US12155089B1

An embodiment of the present application provides a battery cell, a battery and an electrical device. The battery cell includes: a case, which is a hollow structure having a first opening end; an end cover assembly for covering the first opening end; an electrode assembly accommodated in the case; and an insulating guard layer disposed between the electrode assembly and the case to wrap at least part of the electrode assembly, wherein the insulating guard layer includes a main body portion and a protrusion structure, the main body portion has a second opening end facing the first opening end, the protrusion structure is connected to the second opening end and extends toward the end cover assembly, and the protrusion structure is used for connecting with the end cover assembly.
US12155087B2

A separator for an electrochemical device comprising a porous polymer substrate, and a porous coating layer on at least one surface of the porous polymer substrate. The porous coating layer comprises inorganic particles and an ion conducting polymer. The ion conducting polymer comprises a fluorine-based copolymer comprising fluoroolefin-based segments with anionic functional groups present in side chains or terminals, and an electrochemical device comprising the same. It is possible to provide a separator with high ionic conductivity and an increased peel strength between the porous polymer substrate and the porous coating layer, and an electrochemical device with improved properties.
US12155086B2

The present technology relates to a flame retardant, a cellulose fiber separator containing the flame retardant, a component comprising the separator and an electrolyte, and electrochemical cells and batteries comprising same as well as the uses thereof.
US12155079B2

The present disclosure relates to the technical field of energy storage devices, and in particular, to a secondary battery. The secondary battery includes a case, an electrode assembly, and a top cover assembly. The case has an opening, and the electrode assembly is received in the case. The top cover assembly includes a top cover plate and an electrode terminal disposed on the top cover plate. The top cover plate is disposed at the opening. The connection sheet is connected between the electrode assembly and the electrode terminal. The secondary battery provided by the present disclosure further includes an insulation thermal-dissipation member disposed between the top cover plate and the connection sheet. The insulation thermal-dissipation member has a thermal conductivity larger than 1 W/(m·k).
US12155077B2

An energy storage device includes one or more energy storage cells being disposed in the at least one cell holder and one or more interconnecting structures adapted for electrically connecting the one or more energy storage cells. Each of the one or more interconnecting structures includes one or more openings adapted for securely positioning each of the one or more energy storage cells in the at least one cell holder.
US12155070B2

A lithium metal composite oxide powder having a layered structure, containing at least Li, Ni, an element X, and an element M, in which the element X is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of Co, Mn, Fe, Cu, Ti, Mg, Al, W, Mo, Nb, Zn, Sn, Zr, Ga, and V, the element M is one or more elements selected from the group consisting of B, Si, S, and P, M/(Ni+X) that is a content ratio of the element M to a total amount of Ni and the element X that are contained in the lithium metal composite oxide powder is 0.01 mol % or more and 5 mol % or less, Ni/(Ni+X) that is a content ratio of Ni to the total amount of Ni and the element X that are contained in the lithium metal composite oxide powder satisfies 0.40 or more in terms of a mole ratio, and a ratio of the element M eluted into N-methyl-2-pyrrolidone measured under specific measurement conditions is 0.09 or less.
US12155069B2

Provided is a cathode active material including a core including a compound represented by Formula 1; and a coating layer including a phosphorus-containing compound disposed on a surface of the core: Li1-xNaxM1αM21-αO2  Formula 1 In Formula 1, x, M1, M2, and α are the same as defined in relation to the present specification.
US12155059B2

A secondary battery includes: a first electrode provided with a first collector and a first electrode active material applied on at least one surface of the first collector; and a second electrode provided with a second collector and a second electrode active material applied on at least one surface of the second collector, wherein an uneven coating portion at which the first electrode active material irregularly increases in amount and is applied is provided on at least one of a coating start portion or a coating end portion of the first electrode active material, and an inactive coating portion configured to cover the uneven coating portion is provided on at least one of a coating start portion or a coating end portion of the second electrode active material. A method of manufacturing the secondary battery is also provided.
US12155053B2

The present disclosure relates to a high voltage battery module and a pack, in which a thermal barrier is mounted, and, more particularly, relates to a battery module comprising a cell assembly stacked with a plurality of secondary battery cell; a housing accommodating the cell assembly, a thermal barrier is placed in the housing, wherein the thermal barrier comprises a heat resistant layer to prevent propagation of heat or flame from a secondary battery cell to an neighboring secondary battery cell.
US12155051B2

The present application provides a battery box, including a lower box body. The lower box body includes: a first plate including a bottom wall and a peripheral wall that is connected to the peripheral edge of the bottom wall and extending upwards, where the bottom wall and the peripheral wall together form an accommodating space that opens upwards along a height direction; and a second plate that is fastened under the bottom wall and that forms, together with the bottom wall, an inlet flow path, an outlet flow path, and a main flow path communicating with both the inlet flow path and the outlet flow path, where the main flow path includes a first main flow path, a second main flow path, and a plurality of parallel branch flow paths that communicate with both the first main flow path and the second main flow path.
US12155050B2

A battery module including a battery cell stack including a plurality of battery cells stacked in a first direction; a housing for the battery cell stack; a first thermal conductive resin layer located between the battery cell stack and a bottom part of the housing; and a second thermal conductive resin layer located between the battery cell stack and an upper part of the housing. At least one liquid injection hole for injecting a thermal conductive resin is formed in the upper part of the housing, and at least one shielding pad is located on the lower surface of the upper part of the housing. The shielding pad has a central opening and the shielding pad surrounds the liquid injection hole.
US12155048B2

A method for producing clean black mass, anode or cathode for subsequent recycling is provided, the method comprising subjecting an intact battery to a shredding process to produce an aggregate, wherein the smallest particle generated is between 2.5 percent and 40 percent of original battery size. Also provided is a shredder for minimizing aggregation of whole batteries, the shredder comprising a shaft defining a longitudinal axis and a latitudinal axis; and a plurality of teeth disposed on said knives which fit on said shaft at an angle to the latitudinal axis selected from 15 degrees and 45 degrees, wherein the teeth have a first proximal end integrally molded to the shaft and a second free distal end.
US12155042B2

A producing method of a power storage device includes roll pressing a mixture laminated portion of a wide strip-shaped electrode plate, non-laminated-portion stretching of stretching a pair of mixture non-laminated portions of the wide strip-shaped electrode plate in a longitudinal direction, laminated-portion stretching of stretching a pair of mixture non-laminated-portion-side sections of the mixture laminated portion located on the mixture non-laminated portion side, cutting the wide strip-shaped electrode plate at a center of a width direction in the longitudinal direction to divide into two strip-shaped electrode plates, winding up the two strip-shaped electrode plates around winding cores with applying tensile force in the longitudinal direction in a roll-like shape to form electrode rolls, and storing each of the electrode rolls.
US12155035B2

A metal or metal-ion battery composition is provided that comprises anode and cathode electrodes along with an electrolyte ionically coupling the anode and the cathode. At least one of the electrodes includes active material particles provided to store and release ions during battery operation. Each of the active material particles includes internal pores configured to accommodate volume changes in the active material during the storing and releasing of the ions. The electrolyte comprises a solid electrolyte ionically interconnecting the active material particles.
US12155033B2

A battery includes a positive electrode current collector, a positive electrode, a first electrolyte layer, a second electrolyte layer, a negative electrode, and a negative electrode current collector in this order. The first electrolyte layer contains a first solid electrolyte material, and the second electrolyte layer contains a second solid electrolyte material, the second solid electrolyte material being different from the first solid electrolyte material. An oxidation potential of the first solid electrolyte material is more noble than an oxidation potential of the second solid electrolyte material. The first electrolyte layer covers the positive electrode and is in contact with the positive electrode current collector, and/or the first electrolyte layer covers the second electrolyte layer and is in contact with the negative electrode current collector.
US12155022B2

A display device includes a first electrode disposed on a substrate, a second electrode disposed on the substrate, and spaced apart from and facing the first electrode, at least one light emitting element disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, a first conductive contact pattern disposed on the first electrode and electrically contacting the first electrode and an end of the at least one light emitting element, and a second conductive contact pattern disposed on the second electrode and electrically contacting the second electrode and another end of the at least one light emitting element.
US12155015B2

This specification discloses pcLEDs in which the wavelength converting structure comprises one or more layers of phosphor particles disposed on a transparent substrate at high packing density. The particles are coated with an inorganic non-absorbing layer which mechanically stabilizes the phosphor particle layers and provides a thermally conductive connection between the phosphor particles. The wavelength converting structure is attached to a semiconductor LED die with the transparent substrate of the wavelength converting structure facing away from the die by a thin glue layer that bonds a light emitting surface of the die to the phosphor particle layers. Methods for fabricating such pcLEDs are also disclosed.
US12155012B2

A nanowire optical device includes: a photonic crystal body having a planar shape and provided on a base part; an optical waveguide by a line defect in which a plurality of defects including a part without grating elements of the photonic crystal body are linearly arrayed; a trench formed in a waveguide direction in the optical waveguide; a nanowire made of a semiconductor and arranged in the trench; an n-type region formed on one end side of the nanowire; a p-type region formed on the other end side of the nanowire; an active region provided to be interposed between the n-type region and the p-type region in the nanowire; a first electrode connected to the n-type region; and a second electrode connected to the p-type region.
US12155010B2

Disclosed is a small-size vertical-type light emitting diode chip with high luminous in a central region. A PN junction structure is arranged on a light emitting region base of an interface structure, the interface structure is provided with a P-type Ohmic contact area at the light emitting region base, a central area of the PN junction structure is above the P-type Ohmic contact area, an insulating layer is formed on an extending platform adjacent to the light emitting region base and extends to cover an N-type semiconductor of the PN junction structure to form a border covering region surrounding the N-type semiconductor, an N-type Ohmic contact electrode covers the border covering region, and an N-type electrode pad is arranged on the insulating layer and electrically connected with the N-type Ohmic contact electrode via a bridging connected metal layer.
US12155003B2

A method for transferring a light-emitting diode (LED) and a light-emitting base plate are disclosed. The method for transferring an LED includes: providing a target base plate and a transfer base plate, wherein the target base plate includes a target substrate and a plurality of pad sets disposed on the target substrate, and the transfer base plate includes a transfer substrate and a blue film disposed on the transfer substrate, wherein a plurality of to-be-transferred LEDs are connected to the blue film; connecting the to-be-transferred LEDs to the pad sets in alignment; energizing the plurality of to-be-transferred LEDs to separate the blue film from the to-be-transferred LEDs; and removing the transfer base plate.
US12154997B2

The invention relates to a thin film solar module comprising a monolithic solar cell array (1), including a plurality of solar cells (2) with a layer structure, comprising a rear contact layer (3), a front contact layer (4) and an absorber layer between the rear contact layer and the front contact layer, and an electrical connection structure (6) for electrically serially connecting neighbouring solar cells. The invention also relates to an associated production method. In the thin film solar module according to the invention, the electrical connection structure includes contact strips (7) for electrically serially connecting neighbouring solar cells, wherein the electrical connection structure electrically serially connects two respective solar cells (2m, 2m+1) that are adjacent to one another in a series connection direction (RS) via one or more contact strips (7). The contact strips run spaced apart from one another and transverse to the series connection direction with a direction component in the series connection direction in connection strip regions (8) of the solar cells. Each contact strip contacts a side (3a) of the rear contact layer of the one solar cell facing an absorber layer and a side (4b) of the front contact layer of the other solar cell facing away from an absorber layer, wherein the connection strip regions of the solar cells have connection recesses (9) in the front contact layer and the absorber layer for exposing the side of the rear contact layer facing the absorber layer. The invention also relates to the use of same in thin film solar cell technology.
US12154994B2

The present disclosure provides a photo sensing device and a method of forming the same. The photo sensing device includes a substrate comprising a silicon layer at a front surface of the substrate; a photosensitive member extending into and at least partially surrounded by the silicon layer, and a composite layer disposed between the photosensitive member and the silicon layer and surrounding the photosensitive member. The silicon layer includes a first doped region adjacent to a first side of the photosensitive member and a second doped region adjacent to a second side of the photosensitive member opposite to the first side. The first doped region has a first conductivity type and includes a heavily doped region and a lightly doped region adjacent to the heavily doped region. The second doped region has a second conductivity type different from the first conductivity type.
US12154992B2

A sensor chip includes a sensor pixel. The sensor pixel includes an avalanche photodetector. A circuit is adjacent to the avalanche photodetector. The circuit is coupled to the avalanche photodetector. An isolation structure at least partially encloses the circuit and is between the avalanche photodetector and the circuit.
US12154981B2

A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor channel layer, a semiconductor barrier layer, and a gate electrode. The semiconductor channel layer is disposed on the substrate, and the semiconductor barrier layer is disposed on the semiconductor channel layer, where the surface of the semiconductor barrier layer includes at least one recess. The gate electrode is disposed on the semiconductor barrier layer and includes a body portion and at least one vertical extension portion overlapping the recess.
US12154974B2

A method includes forming a first semiconductor fin and a second semiconductor fin in an n-type Fin Field-Effect (FinFET) region and a p-type FinFET region, respectively, forming a first dielectric fin and a second dielectric fin in the n-type FinFET region and the p-type FinFET region, respectively, forming a first epitaxy mask to cover the second semiconductor fin and the second dielectric fin, performing a first epitaxy process to form an n-type epitaxy region based on the first semiconductor fin, removing the first epitaxy mask, forming a second epitaxy mask to cover the n-type epitaxy region and the first dielectric fin, performing a second epitaxy process to form a p-type epitaxy region based on the second semiconductor fin, and removing the second epitaxy mask. After the second epitaxy mask is removed, a portion of the second epitaxy mask is left on the first dielectric fin.
US12154971B2

Fabricating a nanosheet transistor includes receiving a substrate structure having a set of nanosheet layers stacked upon a substrate, the set of nanosheet layers including at least one silicon (Si) layer, at least one silicon-germanium (SiGe) layer, a fin formed in the nanosheet layers, a gate region formed within the fin, and a trench region adjacent to the fin. A top sacrificial spacer is formed upon the fin and the trench region and etched to form a trench in the trench region. An indentation is formed within the SiGe layer in the trench region, and a sacrificial inner spacer is formed within the indentation. A source/drain (S/D) region is formed within the trench. The sacrificial top spacer and sacrificial inner spacer are etched to form an inner spacer cavity between the S/D region and the SiGe layer. An inner spacer is formed within the inner spacer cavity.
US12154960B2

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a gate structure, a source/drain epitaxial structure, a backside dielectric cap, and an inner spacer. The gate structure wraps around the semiconductor layer. The source/drain epitaxial structure is adjacent the gate structure and electrically connected to the semiconductor layer. The backside dielectric cap is disposed under and in direct contact with the gate structure. The inner spacer is in direct contact with the gate structure and the backside dielectric cap.
US12154938B2

Embodiments include structures and methods for fabricating an MFM capacitor having a plurality of metal contacts. An embodiment may include a first metal strip, disposed on a substrate and extending in a first direction, a ferroelectric blanket layer, disposed on the first metal strip, a second metal strip, disposed on the ferroelectric blanket layer and extending in a second direction different from the first direction, and a plurality of metal contacts disposed between the first metal strip and the second metal strip and located within an intersection region of the first metal strip and the second metal strip.
US12154931B2

The present invention disclosures an image sensor structure and a formation method thereof, wherein comprising: a pixel unit array, a peripheral circuit set at the periphery of the pixel unit array, and a composite shield structure around the pixel unit array and between the pixel unit array and the peripheral circuit, the composite shield structure comprises a light shield structure and a heat shield structure; wherein, the light shield structure comprises a metal isolation structure around the pixel unit array for isolating light emitted by the peripheral circuit, and the heat shield structure comprises a cavity set inside the metal isolation structure, the cavity is filled with a thermal isolation medium for preventing heat transfer to the pixel unit array. The present invention can avoid image quality deterioration and distortion caused by light and heat of the peripheral circuit of the image sensor.
US12154926B2

An image sensor includes a substrate including a first side on which light is incident, and a second side opposite to the first side, a pixel isolation pattern formed inside the substrate which defines a plurality of unit pixels, a first photoelectric conversion region and a second photoelectric conversion region arranged along a first direction, inside each of the unit pixels, and a region isolation pattern which protrudes from the pixel isolation pattern in a second direction intersecting the first direction, and defines an isolation region between the first photoelectric conversion region and the second photoelectric conversion region. A first width of the isolation region in the second direction on the first side is more than about 1.1 times a second width of the isolation region in the second direction on the second side.
US12154922B2

Image sensing devices are disclosed. In some implementations, an image sensing device may include a first sensor layer structured to include a plurality of first photoelectric conversion elements to receive light rays and generate photocharge corresponding to the light rays, a second sensor layer disposed below the first sensor layer, the second sensor layer structured to include a plurality of second photoelectric conversion element vertically overlapping the first photoelectric conversion elements to receive light rays and generate photocharge corresponding to the light rays having passed through the first sensor layer, and a bonding layer disposed between the first and second sensor layers, wherein the bonding layer comprises a lens layer structured to refract light rays having passed through the first sensor layer toward the second sensor layer such that an angle of incidence of the light rays is larger than a refraction angle of the light rays.
US12154920B2

A camera module is configured to capture an optical image of a target area and includes a lens member, an imager, a light transmitting member, and a seat. The lens member is configured to receive light from the target area. The imager has a curved portion convex in a direction away from the lens member and is configured to capture the optical image formed on the curved portion. The light transmitting member optically couples the lens member and the imager. The seat has a supporting portion that supports an outer rim of the imager and a fluid space defined inside the supporting portion. A heat dissipation fluid undergoes convection in the fluid space. The curved portion is interposed between the light transmitting member and the seat having the supporting portion and the fluid space.
US12154914B2

Disclosed are a display panel and a display device, wherein the display panel includes an opposing substrate, a liquid crystal layer, and an array substrate, the liquid crystal layer is disposed between the opposing substrate and the array substrate; the array substrate includes a base, a first inorganic film layer and a conductive layer, the first inorganic film layer is disposed on the base and has a refractive index greater than or equal to 1.4 and less than or equal to 1.6, the conductive layer is disposed on the base, and the conductive layer is adjacent to the first inorganic film layer.
US12154912B2

A display device according to one or more embodiments of the disclosure includes a pixel on a base layer; a gate driver configured to supply a gate control signal to the pixel through a gate line; pads including a first pad on the base layer and electrically connected to the pixel through a data line and a second pad on the base layer and electrically connected to the gate driver; and a protection circuit electrically connected to the pads. The protection circuit includes a first protection circuit electrically connected between the first pad and the pixel and a second protection circuit electrically connected between the second pad and the gate driver. The first protection circuit and the second protection circuit have different structures.
US12154906B2

A highly flexible display device and a method for manufacturing the display device are provided. A transistor including a light-transmitting semiconductor film, a capacitor including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a dielectric film between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a first insulating film covering the semiconductor film are formed over a flexible substrate. The capacitor includes a region where the first electrode and the dielectric film are in contact with each other, and the first insulating film does not cover the region.
US12154905B2

An arrayed switch circuit includes a substrate, signal conductive pads and signal expansion pins. The signal conductive pads are disposed on the substrate at intervals, and the signal conductive pads are arranged to form a signal conductive pad array. Each of the signal conductive pads has a row position and a column position in the signal conductive pad array. A row signal switch is provided between any two adjacent signal conductive pads corresponding to the same row position, and a column signal switch is provided between any two adjacent signal conductive pads corresponding to the same column position. The signal expansion pins are connected to the signal conductive pads located on at least one side of the signal conductive pad array through signal expansion switches respectively.
US12154901B2

The present disclosure provides a method for forming a semiconductor device containing MOS transistors both with and without source/drain extension regions in a semiconductor substrate having a semiconductor material on either side of a gate structure including a gate electrode on a gate dielectric formed in a semiconductor material. In devices with source/drain extensions, a diffusion suppression species of one or more of indium, carbon and a halogen are used. The diffusion suppression implant can be selectively provided only to the semiconductor devices with drain extensions while devices without drain extensions remain diffusion suppression implant free.
US12154896B2

In an embodiment, a three-dimensional integrated circuit (3DIC) package includes an interposer, a plurality of connection pads, a plurality of dummy patterns, a plurality of integrated circuit structures and an underfill layer. The connection pads are disposed on and electrically connected to a first side of the interposer. The dummy patterns are disposed on the first side of the interposer and around the plurality of connection pads. The integrated circuit structures are electrically connected to the connection pads through a plurality of first bumps. The underfill layer surrounds the first bumps and covers the dummy patterns.
US12154887B2

A memory device includes a first chip and a second chip. The first chip includes a first storage array and a second storage array. The first storage array includes at least one first storage block. The first storage block includes a plurality of first word lines extending in a first direction and a plurality of first bit lines extending in a second direction. The second storage array includes at least one second storage block. By constructing a first global bit line sub-decoder block in a first overhead projection area formed by the first storage block and constructing a second global bit line sub-decoder block in a second overhead projection area formed by the second storage block, an occupied area of the first chip and the second chip after stacking can be reduced, which reduces an occupied area of the memory device and is beneficial for minimizing the memory device.
US12154877B2

A semiconductor wafer has an edge support ring around a perimeter of the semiconductor wafer and conductive layer formed over a surface of the semiconductor wafer within the edge support ring. A first stencil is disposed over the edge support ring with first openings aligned with the conductive layer. The first stencil includes a horizontal portion over the edge support ring, and a step-down portion extending the first openings to the conductive layer formed over the surface of the semiconductor wafer. The horizontal portion may have a notch with the edge support ring disposed within the notch. A plurality of bumps is dispersed over the first stencil to occupy the first openings over the conductive layer. A second stencil is disposed over the edge support ring with second openings aligned with the conductive layer to deposit a flux material in the second openings over the conductive layer.
US12154868B2

A security key associated with a plurality of programmable switches included in an integrated circuit is received. The plurality of programmable switches are set causing the plurality of programmable switches to be conductive. Reset pulses are applied to a first set of programmable switches included in the plurality of programmable switches based on the received security key.
US12154867B2

A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor substrate, a conductive segment, a conductive layer, a first contact element and a second contact element. The semiconductor substrate includes an active region. The conductive segment is formed on the semiconductor substrate, and extends across the active region. The conductive layer is formed over the semiconductor substrate and the conductive segment. The first contact element, formed between the conductive segment and a first conductive portion of the conductive layer, is arranged to electrically connect the conductive segment to the first conductive portion. The second contact element is formed between the conductive segment and a second conductive portion of the conductive layer. The first contact element and the second contact element are formed on the conductive segment and spaced apart from each other. The second contact element is arranged to electrically isolate the conductive segment from the second conductive portion.
US12154865B2

A semiconductor device according to the present embodiment comprises a semiconductor chip comprising a first face and a second face on an opposite side to the first face, and comprising a first electrode in the first face. A first metallic member comprises a first opposed face facing the first electrode and being larger in a profile than the first electrode, the first metallic member comprising a first protruded portion protruded from the first opposed face toward the first electrode and electrically connected to the first electrode. An insulating member coats the semiconductor chip and the first metallic member.
US12154855B2

Self-aligned patterning with colored blocking and resulting structures are described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes an inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer above a substrate, and a hardmask layer on the ILD layer. A plurality of conductive interconnect lines is in and spaced apart by the ILD layer and the hardmask layer. The plurality of conductive interconnect lines includes a first interconnect line having a first width. A second interconnect line is immediately adjacent the first interconnect line by a first distance, the second interconnect line having the first width. A third interconnect line is immediately adjacent the second interconnect line by the first distance, the third interconnect line having the first width. A fourth interconnect line is immediately adjacent the third interconnect line by a second distance greater than the first distance, the fourth interconnect line having a second width greater than the first width.
US12154851B2

A method (of forming a three dimensional integrated circuit (3DIC) structure) includes: forming an interconnection layer including forming a first inter-layer via which connects at a first predetermined location to a first circuit region of a first device layer and which has a footprint that is at least one factor of ten smaller than a footprint of the first circuit region; and forming a first conductive segment in a first metallization layer of a second device layer so as to align with and thereby connect to the first inter-layer via.
US12154848B2

A substrate structure is provided, in which an insulating protection layer is formed on a substrate body having a plurality of electrical contact pads, and the insulating protection layer has a plurality of openings corresponding to the plurality of exposed electrical contact pads, and the insulating protection layer is formed with a hollow portion surrounding a partial edge of at least one of the electrical contact pads at at least one of the openings, so as to reduce the barrier of the insulating protection layer.
US12154841B2

A nanoscale thermoelectric device, which may be operated as a refrigerator or as a thermoelectric generator includes N-type and p-type active areas connected to a central terminal and end electrodes made of interconnect metal. Reducing lateral dimensions of the active areas reduces vertical thermal conduction, thus improving the efficiency of the thermoelectric device. The thermoelectric device may be integrated into the fabrication process sequence of an IC without adding process cost or complexity. Operated as a refrigerator, the central terminal may be configured to cool a selected component in the IC, such as a transistor. Operated as a thermoelectric generator with a heat source applied to the central terminal, the end terminals may provide power to a circuit in the IC.
US12154834B2

A portion of a source pad is exposed in an opening of a passivation film. In the exposed portion of the source pad, a wiring region in which a package wiring member is to be bonded and a probe region that is a region different from the wiring region are provided. The probe region has a probe mark of a probe for an energization inspection. An area of the probe mark that overlaps the wiring region is at most 30% of an entire area of the wiring region in a plan view of the silicon carbide semiconductor device.
US12154833B2

Methods of characterizing semiconductor doping in a wide bandgap semiconductor sample include: measuring an initial value, V0, of a surface voltage at a region of a surface of the semiconductor sample in the dark; charging the region to deep depletion in the dark by depositing a prescribed corona charge at the region; measuring the surface voltage value in the dark at the region after charging; illuminating the charged region with light of a specific photon flux, feff, having a photon energy above the semiconductor bandgap sufficient to generate free minority carriers in the semiconductor sample causing photoneutralization of the corona charge; monitoring of a photoneutralization induced corona charge decay at the region vs. illumination time, t, using a noncontact time resolved measurement of surface voltage, V(t); analyzing the monitored time resolved surface voltage decay data V(t) to determine values for a parameter characteristic of a photoneutralization induced corona charge decay at the regions; and using the parameter at a specific photon flux, ϕeff, to characterize the property of the semiconductor at the region based on the values of the parameter.
US12154829B2

The present disclosure describes method to form a semiconductor device having a gate dielectric layer with controlled doping and to form multiple devices with different Vt. The method includes forming a gate dielectric layer on a fin structure, forming a buffer layer on the gate dielectric layer, and forming a dopant source layer including a dopant on the buffer layer. The gate dielectric layer includes an interfacial layer on the fin structure and a high-k dielectric layer on the interfacial layer. The method further includes doping a portion of the high-k dielectric layer adjacent to the interfacial layer with the dopant, removing the dopant source layer and the buffer layer, forming a dopant pulling layer on the gate dielectric layer, and tuning the dopant in the gate dielectric layer by the dopant pulling layer.
US12154828B2

A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a 2-D material layer, source/drain contacts, and a gate electrode. The 2-D material layer is over the substrate, the 2-D material layer includes source/drain regions and a channel region between the source/drain regions, in which the 2-D material layer is made of a transition metal dichalcogenide (TMD). The source/drain contacts are in contact with source/drain regions of the 2-D material layer, in which a binding energy of transition metal atoms at the channel region of the 2-D material layer is different from a binding energy of the transition metal atoms at the source/drain regions of the 2-D material layer. The gate electrode is over the substrate.
US12154825B2

A method of forming a microelectronic device comprises forming a stack structure over a source structure, forming pillar structures vertically extending through the stack structure, and forming at least one trench vertically extending through the stack structure. The at least one trench defines at least one stadium structure comprising opposing stair step structures having steps comprising horizontal ends of tiers. Additional trenches may be formed to vertically extend through the stack structure, and at least one further trench may be formed to vertically extend through the stack structure. The at least one further trench defines at least one additional stadium structure comprising additional opposing stair step structures having additional steps comprising additional horizontal ends of the tiers. A dielectric material may be formed within the at least one trench, the additional trenches, and the at least one further trench. Microelectronic devices, memory devices, and electronic systems are also described.
US12154823B2

For simplifying the dual-damascene formation steps of a multilevel Cu interconnect, a formation step of an antireflective film below a photoresist film is omitted. Described specifically, an interlayer insulating film is dry etched with a photoresist film formed thereover as a mask, and interconnect trenches are formed by terminating etching at the surface of a stopper film formed in the interlayer insulating film. The stopper film is made of an SiCN film having a low optical reflectance, thereby causing it to serve as an antireflective film when the photoresist film is exposed.
US12154814B2

A substrate support for a plasma chamber includes a base plate arranged along a plane, a first layer of an electrically insulating material arranged on the base plate along the plane, a plurality of heating elements arranged in the first layer along the plane, and a plurality of diodes arranged in respective cavities in the first layer. The plurality of diodes are connected in series to the plurality of heating elements, respectively. Each of the plurality of diodes includes a die of a semiconductor material arranged in a respective one of the cavities. The semiconductor material has a first coefficient of thermal expansion. A first side of the die is arranged on the first layer along the plane. A first terminal of the die is connected to a first electrical contact on the first layer.
US12154811B2

A mounting device and a mounting method is provided with which, after lowering a mounting head holding a chip component in a direction perpendicular to a substrate to bring the chip component into close contact with the substrate subsequent to positioning the chip component and the substrate, a control unit causes a recognition mechanism to start a parallel recognition operation of a chip recognition mark and a substrate recognition mark and recognize the chip recognition mark and the substrate recognition mark through the mounting head in a mounted state in which the chip component is in close contact with the substrate, and calculates mounting position accuracy of the chip component and the substrate.
US12154810B2

A semiconductor wafer processing system for processing a set of semiconductor wafers includes a controller, a transfer robot controlled by the controller, a wet bath for containing a cleaning solution, and a cassette positioned in the wet bath for holding the set of wafers. The transfer robot transfers the wafer from a transfer location to the cassette and the controller controls the transfer robot during the transfer.
US12154805B2

Introduced here are carrier assemblies that include a rigid tray having a deck area with a patterned surface of cavities for receiving semiconductor components. The cavities can be designed to accommodate semiconductor components of different form factors (e.g., having different shapes, sizes, etc.). Moreover, an adhesive film can be affixed to the deck area to ensure that the semiconductor components are securely held against the top surface of the rigid tray. In some instances the adhesive film substantially conforms to the deck area, while in other instances the adhesive film extends across the opening of each cavity located in the deck area. Semiconductor component(s) can be secured to the carrier assembly based on the adhesiveness provided by the adhesive film, mechanical force provided the cavities, electrostatic force provided by the cavities, or any combination thereof.
US12154799B2

Disclosed is a susceptor for high-temperature use having a shaft with low thermal conductivity, wherein in a susceptor including a plate for wafer mounting and a shaft coupled to the plate, the plate and the shaft each include a sintered body having 90 wt % or more of an AlN phase, the sintered body of the plate is a magnesium-containing AlN sintered body having a volume resistance of 5*108 Ω·cm or more at 650° C., and the sintered body of the shaft is an AlN sintered body having a room-temperature thermal conductivity of 100 W/mK or less.
US12154791B2

The present disclosure is directed to a dry etching method for a substrate having a silicon compound film, including: plasmatizing a dry etching agent; and etching the silicon compound film with the plasmatized dry etching agent through a mask formed with a predetermined opening pattern on the silicon compound film, wherein the dry etching agent contains the following first to fourth gases; the first gas is at least one compound selected from the group consisting of iodinated fluorocarbon compounds and brominated fluorocarbon compounds; the second gas is an unsaturated fluorocarbon represented by CnFm; the third gas is an unsaturated hydrofluorocarbon represented by CxHyFz; and the fourth gas is an oxidizing gas.
US12154784B2

Semiconductor devices and methods of manufacturing the semiconductor devices are described herein. A method includes forming a first opening through a dielectric layer, the first opening exposing a conductive region. A wet cleaning is used after the forming the first opening, and the first opening is treated after the wet cleaning the first opening, the treating the first opening comprising turning a sidewall treatment precursor and a bottom treatment precursor into a first plasma mixture, the sidewall treatment precursor being different from the bottom treatment precursor. The first opening is filled with a conductive material after the treating the first opening.
US12154779B2

The invention generally relates to systems and methods for separating ions at about or above atmospheric pressure. In certain embodiments, the invention provides systems that include an ionization source that generates ions and an ion trap. The ion trap is maintained at about or above atmospheric pressure and includes a plurality of electrodes and at least one inlet configured to receive a gas flow and at least one outlet. The system is configured such that a combination of a gas flow and one or more electric fields produced by the electrodes separates the ions based on mass-to-charge ratio and sends the separated ions through the at least one outlet of the ion trap.
US12154776B2

A system and method are provided for loading a sample into an analytical instrument using acoustic droplet ejection (“ADE”) in combination with a continuous flow sampling probe. An acoustic droplet ejector is used to eject small droplets of a fluid sample containing an analyte into the sampling tip of a continuous flow sampling probe, where the acoustically ejected droplet combines with a continuous, circulating flow stream of solvent within the flow probe. Fluid circulation within the probe transports the sample through a sample transport capillary to an outlet that directs the analyte away from the probe to an analytical instrument, e.g., a device that detects the presence, concentration quantity, and/or identity of the analyte. When the analytical instrument is a mass spectrometer or other type of device requiring the analyte to be in ionized form, the exiting droplets pass through an ionization region, e.g., an electrospray ion source, prior to entering the mass spectrometer or other analytical instrument. The method employs active flow control and enables real-time kinetic measurements.
US12154775B2

An analysis system, an auxiliary analysis apparatus, and an analysis method are provided. The analysis method is used to perform a composition analysis operation on an analyte of a sample, and includes: a first heating step, a first mass spectrometry analysis step, a second heating step, a second mass spectrometry analysis step, and an analysis step. A heating device heats a non-analyzed area and a to-be-analyzed area of the sample in the first and the second heating step, respectively. In the first and the second mass spectrometry analysis step, gas generated after heating of the sample is guided into a gas chromatography-mass spectrometer, and two pieces of analysis data are correspondingly obtained. The analysis step is to compare the two pieces of analysis data and generate analysis result data. The analysis result data contains components of a composition that forms at least one portion of the analyte.
US12154769B2

A window device for diagnosis of plasma OES (Optical Emission Spectroscopy), is disclosed and includes a housing including a first chamber and a second chamber horizontally adjacent to each other; a connection opening defined in one face of the housing and between the first and second chambers, the connection opening faces toward an opening through which light of plasma from a plasma chamber is exposed to the connection opening; an observation window opening defined in an opposite face of the housing opposite to the connection opening, the observation window opening is coaxial with the connection opening, the light of the plasma transmits through the observation window opening, and is incident to a light receiver of an OES sensor; an observation window positioned inside the observation window opening and in the housing; a winder and a rewinder installed in the first and second chambers, respectively; and a transparent film.
US12154764B2

In a plasma generator having a first supply port and a second supply port, in which the plasma generator includes a first supply device for supplying a first gas from the first supply port, and a second supply device connected to the first supply device so as to supply a second gas from the second supply port, a gas supply determination method includes a first supply step of causing the first supply device to start supplying the first gas in a state where the second supply device stops supplying the second gas, a first measurement step of measuring a flow rate of the gas supplied to the first supply port after the first supply step, and a first notification step of notifying a supply state of the first gas in the first supply port in accordance with a flow rate measurement result of the first measurement step.
US12154757B2

Disclosed herein are scientific instrument support systems, as well as related methods, apparatus, computing devices, and computer-readable media. For example, some embodiments provide a scientific instrument comprising an ion-beam instrument configured to generate an ion beam including first and second sub-beams; an electron-beam instrument including a charged-particle-beam (CPB) lens having an adjustable setting controlling a magnetic force applied to the first and second sub-beams; and a computing device. The computing device is configured to: acquire an image by causing the ion-beam instrument to scan the ion beam across a sample using a selected setting of the CPB lens of the electron-beam instrument, apply automated image processing to the image to quantify an amount of spatial misalignment of the first and second sub-beams at the sample, and control the CPB lens of the electron-beam instrument to a setting based on the amount of spatial misalignment within the image.
US12154754B2

An ion source with a crucible is disclosed. In some embodiments, the crucible contains a solid dopant material, such as a metal. A porous wicking tip is disposed in the crucible in contact with the solid dopant material. The porous wicking tip may be a tube with one or more interior conduits. Alternatively, the porous tip may be two concentric cylinders with a plurality of rods disposed in the annular ring between the two cylinders. Alternatively, the porous tip may be one or more foil layers wound together. In each of these embodiments, the wicking tip can be used to control the flow rate of molten dopant material to the arc chamber.
US12154738B2

The modification method for the gas density relay, the gas density relay with the online self-check function and the check method thereof provided by this application are used for high-voltage and medium-voltage electrical equipment, including a gas density relay body, a gas density detection sensor, a temperature regulating mechanism, an online check contact signal sampling unit and an intelligent control unit. Regulate temperature rise and fall of the temperature compensation element of the gas density relay body through the temperature regulating mechanism, which leads to a contact action of the gas density relay body, the contact action is transferred to the intelligent control unit through the online check contact signal sampling unit, and the intelligent control unit detects the operating value and/or return value of the contact signal of the gas density relay body based on the density value at the time of contact action. The gas density relay check can be completed without maintainer at the site, so as to realize free maintenance, greatly improve the reliability of power grid, increase work efficiency and reduce the cost.
US12154737B2

The present disclosure relates to an arc extinguishing assembly, including side members which are spaced apart by a certain distance and disposed to face each other; an exhaust which is installed at an upper part of the side member; a plurality of grids which are installed between the side members and having both ends fixed to each of the side members; and an arc guide whose one side is coupled to the side member and which is installed at a lower part of the plurality of grids, wherein the arc guide is made of a material having heat resistance, and a circuit breaker including the same.
US12154734B2

A manual opening mechanism for use with an isolation switch of a circuit interrupter is fully integrated into the circuit interrupter. The manual opening mechanism includes a rotating handle that is accessible from the front panel of the circuit interrupter. Rotating the handle applies force to the centerline of the isolation switch drive shaft, which prevents uneven loading and thus optimizes robustness during manual opening of the isolation switch. In addition, the handle has an ergonomic design, and is proportioned to minimize the force that an operator must apply to the handle in order to open the isolation switch.
US12154733B2

A valve controller includes a housing defining an interior volume, and a transmission assembly at least partially disposed in the interior volume of the housing. The transmission assembly includes a shaft coupled to a cam sub-assembly, which includes a first side and a second side opposite the first side, a first cam, and a second cam coupled to the first cam. Each of the first and second cams includes a bore arranged to receive the shaft and a lobe. The lobe of the first cam and the lobe of the second cam being at least partially coplanar. A first switch and a second switch are disposed in the interior volume of the housing and adjacent to the transmission assembly. The lobe of the first cam is arranged to activate the first switch and the lobe of the second cam is arranged to activate the second switch.
US12154725B2

A capacitor structure and a power convertor are provided by the present disclosure. The capacitor structure includes a housing and at least one core arranged inside the housing, and two electrodes of the capacitor structure are respectively led out from two ends of the housing. Thus, the pole piece required in a case that electrodes are led from the same end of the housing is omitted, thereby saving material cost. Besides, the housing and the core are respectively hollow structures, and the internal heat of the capacitor structure can be ventilated and dissipated through the corresponding hollow part, thereby improving the heat dissipation performance of the capacitor structure. In addition, by arranging the fin heat dissipation teeth on the housing, the heat dissipation area can be increased to further improve the heat dissipation efficiency.
US12154716B2

In an embodiment a method for producing an inductive component includes applying a conductive material and an insulating material in an additive manufacturing process. The conductive material forms at least one winding having a plurality of superimposed turns and the insulating material forms a carrier for the at least one winding. The turns are connected to form a spiral-shaped winding.
US12154714B2

A multi-terminal chip inductor includes coil conductors in base material layers, an interlayer connection conductor connecting the coil conductors across layers, and external electrodes each connected to portions of a series of coil conductors defined by the coil conductors and the interlayer connection conductor. The external electrodes include a common external electrode. A first of the coil conductors to which the common external electrode and a first external electrode adjacent to the common external electrode in a circuit are connected, includes first coil conductors connected to each other in parallel.
US12154709B2

A surface-mount passive component includes a passive element and a size conversion unit on which the passive element is mounted. The size conversion unit has a body, a plurality of first external terminals each of which is exposed on an element mount surface of the body and is electrically connected to a corresponding one of passive element external terminals of the passive element, a plurality of second external terminals exposed on a board-side mount surface of the body, and connection wires that electrically connect the first external terminals and the second external terminals. An area of the board-side mount surface is larger than an area of a first main surface of the passive element, and a total area of the plurality of second external terminals on the board-side mount surface is larger than a total area of the passive element external terminals on the first main surface.
US12154703B2

A power cord assembly is disclosed. The assembly can include a plug at a first end of the power cord configured to be connected to a power source, a connector part at a second end of the power cord opposite to the plug and configured to be connected to an electronic device, one or more electrically conductive wires extending from the plug to the connector part, one or more insulators surrounding the one or more electrically conductive wires, and an outer jacket extending from the plug to the connector part and surrounding the one or more insulators. At least one of the plug, the connector part, the one or more insulators, or the outer jacket can include a polybutylene terephthalate (PBT)-polytetramethyleneoxide (PTMO) block copolymer having hard block and soft block segments, wherein the hard block segments comprise PBT and the soft block segments comprise PTMO. The hard block segments can include a first renewably sourced polymer obtained, at least in part, from a first bio-renewable source or a first polymer comprising a chemically recycled monomeric unit obtained, at least in part, from the first bio-renewable source. The soft block segments can include a second, different renewably sourced polymer obtained, at least in part, from a second, different bio-renewable source or a second polymer comprising a chemically recycled monomeric unit obtained, at least in part, from the second, different bio-renewable source.
US12154702B1

A method for manufacturing a freestanding solid state ionic conductive membrane includes forming a solid state ionic conductive membrane on a removable support substrate and removing the removable support substrate to provide the freestanding solid state ionic conductive membrane.
US12154689B2

Method, apparatus, and computer-readable media providing medical personnel artificial intelligence (AI)-derived data regarding a patient presenting neurological indications includes a guidance server. Preferably, the guidance server receives three or more of: (i) natural language input from medical personnel, (ii) real-time vital signs telemetry data, (iii) neurosurgical treatment database information, (iv) neurosurgical treatment guideline information, (v) clinical laboratory testing results, (vi) patient historical data, and (vii) patient imaging information. An imaging post-processor receives (i) patient imaging history information, (ii) and real-time patient imaging data, and provides to the guidance server the patient imaging information. The guidance server then provides one or more alerts (or other guidance) to the medical personnel.
US12154655B2

Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to a flip-on-precharge disable operation are described herein. In an example, a method can include receiving a command to perform a precharge operation on a set of memory cells in a memory device. The memory device can include a plurality of sets of memory cells corresponding to respective portions of an array of memory cells of the memory device. The method can further include accessing one or more sets of bits in a mode register. The one or more sets of bits in the mode register indicate address locations of the plurality of sets of memory cells to disable the flip on precharge operation. The method can further include performing the precharge operation on the set of memory cells. The flip on precharge operation associated with the precharge operation can be disabled for those sets of the plurality of sets of memory cells whose address locations are in the mode register.
US12154644B2

A test device method includes: setting a core voltage of a memory device to a first voltage value and a peripheral voltage of the memory device to a second voltage value; testing the memory device by accessing the memory device based on the core voltage and the at least one peripheral voltage; adjusting the core voltage to a third voltage value and the at least one peripheral voltage of the memory device to a fourth voltage value; testing the memory device by reading the memory device based on the core voltage and the at least one peripheral voltage; adjusting the core voltage to a fifth voltage value and the at least one peripheral voltage of the memory device to a sixth voltage value; and testing the memory device by reading the memory device based on the core voltage and the at least one peripheral voltage.
US12154639B2

Methods, systems, and devices for memory fault notification are described. A memory device may receive a configuration corresponding to a circuit node of the memory device, where the circuit node may be selectively coupled with a set of resistors. The memory device may determine a fault condition and couple the circuit node to at least a first resistor based on determining the fault condition. The memory device may bias the circuit node to a first voltage value that satisfies a voltage threshold based on coupling the circuit node to the first resistor. The memory device may output an indication of a fault state to notify a host device that a fault has been detected.
US12154638B2

Various embodiments provide apparatuses, systems, and methods for multibit analog representation, e.g., for in-memory computing. Embodiments may include a single-ended or differential ladder network to generate an analog value (e.g., a voltage or charge) based on a set of bits from a memory array. The ladder network may include a plurality of branches coupled to an output line, wherein individual branches include a capacitor with a first terminal coupled to the output line and a switch coupled to a second terminal of the capacitor. The switch may be controlled by a respective bit of the set of bits to selectively couple the second terminal of the capacitor to a first voltage node or a second voltage node based on a value of the respective bit. Other embodiments may be described and claimed.
US12154635B2

A memory device that includes a plurality of memory cells arranged in an array is provided. A control circuitry is configured to program a single bit of data in each memory cell of the plurality of memory cells. The control circuitry is further configured to program a first set of memory cells of the plurality of memory cells using a first programming operation that includes a single programming pulse and no verify pulse and program a second set of memory cells of the plurality of memory cells using a second programming operation that includes at least one programming loop with a programming pulse and a verify pulse.
US12154631B2

A memory-control circuit for use in an integrated circuit is provided. The memory-control circuit includes a memory controller and a timer circuit. The memory controller performs an erase operation on a target data block of the flash memory according to an erase command from a processor, and generates an erase signal. The timer circuit starts a counting operation in response to the erase signal. In response to an intellectual-property-core circuit generating an interrupt signal, the memory controller and the timer circuit respectively suspend the erase operation and the counting operation. In response to the interrupt signal being cleared, the memory controller and the timer circuit respectively resume the erase operation and the counting operation. In response to the timer circuit having counted up to a predetermined value, the timer circuit outputs a completion signal to the memory controller to indicate that the erase operation is complete.
US12154612B2

Embodiments provide a control circuit and a semiconductor memory. The control circuit includes a bias switching circuit and a first logic gate circuit. The first logic gate circuit includes at least one target transistor. A substrate of one of the at least one target transistor is connected to an output terminal of the bias switching circuit. The first logic gate circuit has a first speed mode and a second speed mode. A transmission speed of the first speed mode is less than a transmission speed of the second speed mode. The bias switching circuit is configured to: receive a target signal, and output a target bias voltage, to increase a threshold voltage of the target threshold. The enabled state of the target signal represents that the first logic gate circuit is in the first speed mode.
US12154610B2

A semiconductor device capable of changing a data programming process in a simple manner according to a situation is provided. The semiconductor device includes a plurality of memory cells, a programming circuit for supplying a programming current to the memory cell, and a power supply circuit for supplying power to the programming circuit. The power supply circuit includes a charge pump circuit for boosting the external power supply, a voltage of the external power supply according to the selection indication, and a selectable circuit capable of switching the boosted voltage boosted by the charge pump circuit. The control circuit further includes a control circuit for executing data programming processing by the programming circuit by switching the selection indication.
US12154605B1

A method of recovering a servo write frequency, to read servo wedge data from a rotating magnetic storage medium having at least one servo wedge that includes a servo preamble written at a known preamble frequency, includes analyzing samples of data read from the rotating magnetic storage medium to identify samples in which energy at the known preamble frequency exceeds a predetermined threshold, declaring the location of the servo preamble based on the identification of the samples in which energy at the known preamble frequency exceeds the predetermined threshold, deriving a phase angle from the samples in which the energy at the known preamble frequency exceeds the predetermined threshold, updating an accumulated phase angle using the derived phase angle, and using the updated accumulated phase angle to start a timing recovery loop to recover the servo write frequency. The analyzing and deriving may be performed using a spectral analysis operation.
US12154603B1

The present disclosure generally relates to a magnetic recording head comprising a spintronic device for magnetic media, such as a magnetic media drive. The spintronic device includes at least one spin Hall layer as well as at least one buffer layer and at least one interlayer. The buffer layer is positioned proximate a main pole of a write head while the interlayer is positioned proximate a trailing shield of the write head. The spin Hall layer is positioned between the buffer layer and the interlayer. The spintronic element may be disposed at the media facing surface (MFS) or recessed from the MFS. The spintronic device is capable of injecting spin current to the main pole, the trailing shield, or both.
US12154593B2

In accordance with some embodiments of the disclosed subject matter, mechanisms for seamless audio melding between audio items in a playlist are provided. In some embodiments, a method for transitioning between audio items in playlists is provided, comprising: identifying a sequence of audio items in a playlist of audio items, wherein the sequence of audio items includes a first audio item and a second audio item that is to be played subsequent to the first audio item; and modifying an end portion of the first audio item and a beginning portion of the second audio item, where the end portion of the first audio item and the beginning portion of the second audio item are to be played concurrently to transition between the first audio item and the second audio item, wherein the end portion of the first audio item and the beginning portion of the second audio item have an overlap duration, and wherein modifying the end portion of the first audio item and the beginning portion of the second audio item comprises: generating a first spectrogram corresponding to the end portion of the first audio item and a second spectrogram corresponding to the beginning portion of the second audio item; identifying, for each frequency band in a series of frequency bands, a window over which the first spectrogram within the end portion of the first audio item and the second spectrogram within the beginning portion of the second audio item have a particular cross-correlation; modifying, for each frequency band in the series of frequency bands, the end portion of the first spectrogram and the beginning portion of the second spectrogram such that amplitudes of frequencies within the frequency band decrease within the first spectrogram over the end portion of the first spectrogram and that amplitudes of frequencies within the frequency band increase within the second spectrogram over the beginning portion of the second spectrogram; and generating a modified version of the first audio item the includes the modified end portion of the first audio item based on the modified end portion of the first spectrogram and generating a modified version of the second audio item that includes the modified beginning portion of the second audio item based on the modified beginning portion of the second spectrogram.
US12154592B2

A tape library system includes a plurality of tape libraries, a plurality of data centers, and an error diagnostic system. Each of the plurality of tape libraries includes a tape drive, at least one tape cartridge that retains magnetic tape, and a tape cartridge mover that moves the tape cartridge relative to the tape drive. Each of the plurality of data centers is configured to retain at least one of the plurality of tape libraries. The error diagnostic system includes (i) a central database that is configured to receive one or more error codes from each of the plurality of tape libraries, each of the one or more error codes being generated due to errors that occurred during operation of the tape drive within a corresponding tape library, and (ii) a system controller including a processor that is configured to analyze the one or more error codes from each of the plurality of tape libraries to determine a health of the tape drive and the at least one tape cartridge within the corresponding tape library.
US12154589B2

Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, apparatus, systems, computing devices, computing entities, and/or the like for pre-processing dual-channel voice data for an automatic speech recognition mode. The method comprises creating one or more spectrograms for each channel of the dual-channel voice data by applying fast Fourier transform and generating power spectral density. The one or more balanced power spectrograms are created by merging the spectrograms of the channels, and are provided as input for acoustic and language processing by an automatic speech recognition machine learning model.
US12154588B2

The present invention relates to a method for receiving data transmitted acoustically. The method includes receiving an acoustically transmitted signal encoding data; processing the received signal to minimise environmental interference within the received signal; and decoding the processed signal to extract the data. The data encoded within the signal using a sequence of tones. A method for encoding data for acoustic transmission is also disclosed. This method includes encoding data into an audio signal using a sequence of tones. The audio signal in this method is configured to minimise environmental interference. A system and software are also disclosed.
US12154571B2

An example method includes, at an electronic device: receiving an indication of a notification; in accordance with receiving the indication of the notification: obtaining one or more data streams from one or more sensors; determining, based on the one or more data streams, whether a user associated with the electronic device is speaking; and in accordance with a determination that the user is not speaking: causing an output associated with the notification to be provided.
US12154567B2

The present disclosure is generally related to a data processing system to validate vehicular functions in a voice activated computer network environment. The data processing system can improve the efficiency of the network by discarding action data structures and requests that invalid prior to their transmission across the network. The system can invalidate requests by comparing attributes of a vehicular state to attributes of a request state.
US12154562B2

A voice control method for controlling functions of a vehicle including: creating a voice instruction set including voice instructions for converting interface elements associated with related vehicle functions into voice-controllable elements without any wake-up word; acquiring one or more interface elements currently presented on a human-machine interface (HMI) of the vehicle; extracting a voice instruction corresponding to the acquired one or more interface elements from the voice instruction set; and outputting the voice instruction to a speech engine, so that the speech engine processes a voice signal detected in the vehicle according to the voice instruction.
US12154556B2

Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for providing communication recommendations to users. The system receives electronic transcripts associated with a first user and generates, based on the transcripts, a communication profile of the user. The system also receives additional user transcripts associated with a plurality of additional users and generates additional communication profiles for those additional users based on the additional transcripts. The system receives a request to communicate with at least one user within the plurality of additional users regarding a specified topic, identifies a second user from within the plurality of additional users, and generates a communication initiation recommendation for the first user to communicate with the second user. The system then transmits the communication initiation recommendation to a first user computing device associated with the first user.
US12154552B1

A natural language understanding (NLU) system generates in-place annotations for natural language utterances or other types of time-based media based on stand-off annotations. The in-place annotations are associated with particular sub-sequences of an annotation, which provides richer information than stand-off annotations, which are associated only with an utterance as a whole. To generate the in-place annotations for an utterance, the NLU system applies an encoder network and a decoder network to obtain attention weights for the various tokens within the utterance. The NLU system disqualifies tokens of the utterance based on their corresponding attention weights, and selects highest-scoring contiguous sequences of tokens between the disqualified tokens. In-place annotations are associated with the selected sequences.
US12154547B2

A method for multi-channel voice activity detection includes receiving a sequence of input frames characterizing streaming multi-channel audio captured by an array of microphones. Each channel of the streaming multi-channel audio includes respective audio features captured by a separate dedicated microphone. The method also includes determining, using a location fingerprint model, a location fingerprint indicating a location of a source of the multi-channel audio relative to the user device based on the respective audio features of each channel of the multi-channel audio. The method also includes generating an output from an application-specific classifier. The first score indicates a likelihood that the multi-channel audio corresponds to a particular audio type that the particular application is configured to process. The method also includes determining whether to accept or reject the multi-channel audio for processing by the particular application based on the first score generated as output from the application-specific classifier.
US12154533B2

A system and method for operating and performing a remotely networked virtual musical instrument. A client transmits musical control data to a remote server over the network, encompassing a digital music engine and digitally sampled virtual musical instruments. In return, the client consumes, synchronizes, and mixes the combined server playback stream from the network of the fully expressive and interactive musical performance with zero audible latency.
US12154528B2

A display device comprising: a display panel to display a frame having a resolution up to a first frame rate; a plurality of image processing units; and a processor. The processor configured to, based on change from a first mode of displaying a content, among a plurality of modes of the display device, to a second mode of displaying plural contents, change frame rates of a plurality of contents output from the plurality of image processing units to a same frame rate, mix the plurality of contents with the frame rates changed to the same frame rate, and change a vertical resolution of the mixed content. The display panel is enabled to output the mixed content, at a second frame rate greater than the first frame rate.
US12154523B2

A display panel is provided. The display panel includes a plurality of pixels, a first main data line, a first sub data line, and a first connecting line. The first main data line is electrically connected to pixels arranged in at least two columns. The first sub data line and the first main data line are separated by M columns of pixels, and the first sub data line is electrically connected to pixels arranged in at least two other columns. The first connecting line connects the first main data line and the first sub data line.
US12154506B2

A pixel circuit of a display device includes: a light-emitting element; a drive transistor; a write control transistor having one conductive terminal connected to a data line and a control terminal connected to a scanning line; a first capacitor provided between a control terminal of the drive transistor and a conductive terminal of the drive transistor on the light-emitting element side; a second capacitor provided between another conductive terminal of the write control transistor and the control terminal of the drive transistor; and a mode selection circuit provided in parallel to the second capacitor and configured to cause a short-circuit and an open-circuit between electrodes of the second capacitor in accordance with a voltage of a mode selection line. Accordingly, a display device capable of easily performing gradation control is provided.
US12154500B2

A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes: a pixel unit including a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element, the pixel circuit including a driving transistor and a data writing transistor; and a data line connected to the data writing transistor; the data line includes a plurality of first-type data lines and a plurality of second-type data lines, each of the plurality of second-type data lines includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion, and the first portion and the second portion are connected by the third portion, the third portion and the second portion are located in different layers, the third portion and the first portion are located in different layers, the first portion is closer to the base substrate than the third portion, and the second portion is closer to the base substrate than the third portion.
US12154494B2

A display substrate and a display device are provided. The display substrate includes a base substrate, a plurality of pixels, a plurality of gate lines and a plurality of data lines, wherein the base substrate has a plurality of transparent regions and a plurality of display regions; the pixels are on the base substrate and within the display regions; each pixel includes a plurality of sub pixels; the sub pixels of each pixel are divided into two rows of sub pixels; the gate lines and the data lines are on the base substrate; the sub pixels of a first pixel are connected with the same gate line; the gate line connected with the sub pixels of the first pixel is between the two rows of sub pixels of the first pixel; and the first pixel is any one of the plurality of pixels.
US12154474B2

A brightness compensation device includes a panel, a heat detector, a memory, and a processor. he processor is configured to perform the following steps: at a specific grayscale of the red grayscale data, the green grayscale data, or the blue grayscale data, adjusting a turn-on time data of a luminous signal according to the first temperature data; adjusting the red grayscale data, the green grayscale data, or the blue grayscale data according to a brightness relation or the sheet to obtain a red updating grayscale data, a green updating grayscale data, or a blue updating grayscale data; and when it is determined that the second temperature data is the same as the first temperature data, outputting or storing the red updating grayscale data, the green updating grayscale data, or the blue updating grayscale data.
US12154469B2

An inspection circuit is properly protected in a display device, in which the driver IC is not on the terminal area. A liquid crystal display device includes a TFT substrate including a display area, a terminal area, and a counter substrate overlapping with the display area of the TFT substrate. The display area includes video signal lines. The seal material adheres the counter substrate and the TFT substrate. The display area is formed in an area surrounded by the seal material. The flexible wiring circuit substrate connects to the terminal area. The driver IC supplies video signals to the video signal line. The driver IC is not installed in the terminal area. The inspection circuit is formed between the display area and the terminal area. The inspection circuit overlaps with the counter substrate in a plan view.
US12154468B2

A display device includes a display panel, a temperature sensor, a characteristics measuring unit, a correction value computation unit, a correction processing unit, and a display control unit. A plurality of pixel circuits include, as an element, a light-emitting element; and a drive transistor configured to control an electric current that flows in the light-emitting element. The characteristics measuring unit obtains the measurement value when the temperature is in a predetermined temperature range and does not obtain the measurement value when the temperature is out of the temperature range.
US12154459B2

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for customized presentation of items on electronic visual displays in retail stores. In one implementation, a method may comprise: obtaining a plurality of images of products in a retail store captured; analyzing a first image to determine whether products of a particular product type are available at a first point in time; analyzing a second image to determine whether products of the particular product type are available at a second point in time; based on the determination of whether products of the particular product type are available at the first point in time and the determination of whether products of the particular product type are available at the second point in time, selecting at least one display parameter for a particular item; and using the selected at least one display parameter to display the particular item on an electronic visual display.
US12154458B2

A training device system including a mobile phone simulator having a manually carryable housing and a controller positioned in the housing. The simulator includes a touch screen coupled to the housing and operatively coupled to the controller, wherein the touch screen is configured to selectively display a numerical keypad. The simulator further includes a short-range radio transceiver positioned in the housing, wherein the simulator is configured to, in response to proper operation of the numerical keypad by a user, transmit a signal via the transceiver.
US12154451B1

A navigation system includes an intelligent guidance module for identifying, using machine learning, one or more frequently travelled paths, by a user of the navigation system; and detecting one or more objects on the one or more frequently travelled paths. The navigation system further includes a generation module for generating auditory-haptic information to navigate the user through one of the one or more frequently travelled paths, based at least on the detected one or more objects.
US12154447B2

The embodiments herein provide a method and system for monitoring, analyzing, improving and giving instant feedback on sports performance of an individual. The embodiments also provide a system and method to create visual representation of a sports action without the use of any visual data capture mechanisms. The system includes a game monitoring device, a communication network, a remote server, and a computing device. The remote server comprises a filtering and signal processing module, an analytics module, a database, and an artificial intelligence module. The computing device incudes several modules and a user interface. The game monitoring device detects several data points from the player and transmits the same to the remote server. The remote server filters and processes the signals for analyzing each shot and the game of the player. The analysis is visualized and displayed on the user computing device.
US12154446B2

An operation motion is accurately determined in an operational information management system. The system includes a motion verification portion that combines and verifies plurality of pieces of sensor information and recognizes a specific body motion, a signal determination portion that determines whether an operation content of an operator is correctly performed based on the body motion recognized by the motion verification portion, and a report portion that reports a determine result of the signal determination portion.
US12154445B2

The present disclosure provides for identifying several solutions that meet an arbiter's optimization goals and allowing the potential assignees the ability to identify which candidate solution is the best from the perspective of the aggregate assignees (rather than the arbiter's perspective or one assignee's perspective). The present disclosure provides this by calculating a plurality of optimization solutions based on transit requests, providing the plurality of optimization solutions to various entities, receiving ranked selections of the plurality of optimization solutions, and assigning resources based on a highest ranked optimization solution of the plurality of optimization solutions.
US12154442B2

A UAV delivery control system is disclosed. Sensors detect operation parameters associated with the UAV as the UAV maneuvers along an airborne delivery route. A UAV operation controller monitors UAV route parameters as the UAV maneuvers along the airborne delivery route. The UAV route parameters are indicative as to a current environment of the airborne delivery route that the UAV is encountering. The UAV operation controller automatically adjusts the operation of the UAV to maintain the operation of the UAV within an operation threshold based on the operation parameters and the UAV route parameters. The operation threshold is the operation of the UAV that is maintained within an overall airborne operation radius of the UAV from a return destination thereby enabling the UAV to execute the delivery of the package along the airborne delivery route and to return to the return destination.
US12154432B2

A method for generating garage parking notifications includes receiving current parked-vehicle data indicating that a vehicle has been parked inside a garage. The current parked-vehicle data includes the current location of the vehicle parked inside the garage. The method further includes determining whether the current location of the vehicle inside the garage is within a warning zone. The warning zone is an area inside the garage where the vehicle has not been frequently parked. The warning zone area is determined using historical parked-vehicle data. The method further includes generating a notification to warn an operator of the vehicle that the vehicle should be moved in response to determining that the current location of the vehicle inside the garage is within the warning zone.
US12154431B2

A vehicle-searching guidance method includes: displaying a vehicle-searching guidance interface in response to a first trigger operation on a first control, the vehicle-searching guidance interface being used for providing guidance information for vehicle searching; transmitting a multimedia content obtaining request to an electronic device in response to a second trigger operation on a second control on the vehicle-searching guidance interface; receiving multimedia guidance content returned by the electronic device according to the multimedia content obtaining request, the multimedia guidance content including environmental information of a parking space in which a vehicle is parked; and presenting the multimedia guidance content for a user to search for the vehicle.
US12154428B2

A system and method for enabling set up of a controlling device capable of controlling a plurality of appliances provides an interactive instruction set and associated programming which is downloadable to a controllable appliance having an associated display, such as an Internet enabled television. The programming is accessible by the controllable appliance and is configured to appropriately display interactive instructions from the interactive instruction set to a user during a user initiated set up procedure for setting up the controlling device to communicate commands to another controllable device (e.g., a DVD, VCR, DVR, etc).
US12154427B2

An alert is used to inform a user that their blood glucose level has dropped below a threshold (e.g., the user is hypoglycemic) or has increased above a threshold (e.g., the user is hyperglycemic). There is a hierarchy of alerts from lowest priority to highest priority. The alert is communicated by a user device (e.g., a mobile device), which is, for example, a smartphone, smart watch, home automation device, or the like. The alert is modified in order to increase the likelihood that the user receives or acknowledges the alert within a minimal amount of time. An intensity level (e.g., a volume) of an alert is modified based on, for example, whether the user has acknowledged a previous alert. A modality or a sensory channel of an alert is changed if an initial alert does fails to elicit a response from the user.
US12154425B2

A method of hushing one or more fire detectors of a fire detector system including: receiving an alert using a computer application of a trusted individual computing device, the alert indicating that fire has been detected by at least one of the one or more fire detectors; searching for a wireless advertisement emitted from the one or more fire detectors in response to the alert using the computer application; detecting the wireless advertisement being emitted from the one or more fire detectors using the computer application; and receiving a manual input via an input device of the trusted individual computing device to hush the fire detector from a trusted individual in possession of the trusted individual computing device; and transmitting a hush request to the one of the one or more fire detectors in response to the manual input using the computer application.
US12154420B2

In an example method, a mobile device obtains a signal indicating an acceleration measured by a sensor over a time period. The mobile device determines an impact experienced by the user based on the signal. The mobile device also determines, based on the signal, one or more first motion characteristics of the user during a time prior to the impact, and one or more second motion characteristics of the user during a time after the impact. The mobile device determines that the user has fallen based on the impact, the one or more first motion characteristics of the user, and the one or more second motion characteristics of the user, and in response, generates a notification indicating that the user has fallen.
US12154418B2

Systems and methods are disclosed for identifying a person of interest exiting or entering an establishment. In an example, the system may derive a confidence factor that for an individual exiting an establishment based on image recognition and device identification technologies when the individual when a security event, such as an alarm, is set off. The system may also identify an individual entering an establishment as a person of interest based on the confidence score by using the same technologies.
US12154414B2

Systems, apparatuses and methods for enriching modifiable sources of game play items during play of the gaming activity. In a video poker embodiment, cards of the deck(s) that source the poker hand(s) may be modified during play of the poker game. In one embodiment, the deck(s) of cards changes, in some embodiments randomly, and in some embodiments geared towards the probability of the player obtaining a more favorable poker hand outcome, while in yet other embodiments ensuring a higher probability of the player obtaining a more favorable poker hand outcome. Cards in the sourcing deck(s) may be added and/or deleted or otherwise modified to statistically impact the odds of obtaining certain results from the poker game. The deck may be reset to an initial state, or backed off from the modifications, at one time or iteratively.
US12154411B2

This disclosure describes systems, methods, and computer-readable media related playing a progressive game. In some embodiments, at least one request may be received from a player to play a first game associated with a first prize pool. Play of the first game may be facilitated on at least one networked terminal based at least in part on receiving the at least one request from the player to play the first game. Play of a second game associated with a second prize pool on the at least one networked terminal may be initiated. The second game may be initiated in response to the second prize pool reaching a predetermined amount.
US12154406B2

An assembly for product support and deployment for a vending machine includes a product chute, a pusher, a pusher drive assembly, and a controller. The product chute is configured to receive a plurality of products stacked on one another. The product chute includes an exit opening through which a respective product of the plurality of products is dispensed. The pusher drive assembly is operatively connected with the pusher and is configured so as to move the pusher in at least two mutually perpendicular axes. The controller is in communication with the pusher drive assembly. The controller is configured to control operation of the pusher drive assembly such that the pusher pushes the respective product being dispensed towards the exit opening and supports or lifts the remaining products in the chute against the force of gravity prior to the respective product fully exiting the product chute through the exit opening.
US12154399B2

A computerized system as disclosed herein for accessing a vehicle comprises a vehicle key comprising a control unit, a first wireless communication module operatively connected to said control unit and configured to allow said control unit to communicate with a control system of said vehicle, and a second wireless communication module operatively connected to said control unit and configured to allow said control unit to communicate with a mobile computerized device. The system further comprises a software application which can be stored on and executed by at least one mobile computerized device, said software application being configured to control said control unit to interact with said control system to cause the unlocking of one or more doors of said vehicle. In a further aspect, the invention relates to a computerized method for accessing to a vehicle.
US12154396B2

An example operation may include one or more of receiving, by a diagnostic center, malfunction information related to a transport, acquiring, by a diagnostic center, agreements on a threshold for the malfunction information from a plurality of diagnostic centers, in response to the malfunction information exceeding the threshold, storing the malfunction information on a remote storage, and deleting the malfunction information from the transport.
US12154378B2

Examples relate to processing a first image captured by a camera at a first time to determine a first set of multiple key points of a face in the first image, processing a second image captured by the camera at a second time to determine a second set of the multiple key points on the face in the second image, determining a location of at least a portion of the multiple key points in a three-dimensional space based on a first location of each of the portion of the multiple key points in the first image and a second location of each of the portion of the multiple key points in the second image, and detecting whether the face is a valid three-dimensional face for facial recognition based at least in part on the location of at least the portion of the multiple key points in the three-dimensional space.
US12154376B2

A system can determine, from a video of an online session, respective bounding boxes of text names of people, wherein the text names are presented in the video, and wherein images of the people are present in the video. The system can determine, from the video, respective faces of the people. The system can associate a first bounding box of the bounding boxes with a first face of the faces based on the first bounding box satisfying a function of distance with respect to the first face among the faces. The system can extract a name from the first bounding box via optical character recognition. The system can extract a subportion of the video that comprises the first face. The system can store an association between the name and the subportion of the video that comprises the first face.
US12154374B2

Embodiments relate to systems, methods and computer readable media for gaming monitoring. In particular, embodiments process images to determine presence of a gaining object on a gaming table in the images. Embodiments estimate postures of one or more players in the images and based on the estimated postures determine a target player associated with the gaming object among the one or more players.
US12154372B2

A method includes obtaining, by a processing device from an optical sensor of a mobile device, an image; processing, by the processing device, the image by using a neural network to identify a position of an object in the image and the object in the image, thereby obtaining an identified object; after processing the image, extracting, by the processing device from the identified object, a biometric characteristic, and providing, by the processing device, at least the biometric characteristic as input to determine whether the biometric characteristic identifies a user.
US12154370B2

A light spot display method and an apparatus are disclosed. After a fingerprint event in a fingerprint detection area is detected, a light spot drawing instruction is generated, and a light spot is drawn in response to the light spot drawing instruction to obtain light spot display data, and fingerprint scenario marking information and the light spot display data are simultaneously sent, so as to ensure that a display driver synchronously receives the fingerprint scenario marking information and the light spot display data. This solution reduces the time consumed in the light spot display process, that is, increases the light spot display speed. The fingerprint image can be obtained and the fingerprint can be recognized only after the light spot is normally displayed. Therefore, this solution increases the speed of responding to a fingerprint event, and then reduces the time consumed in the entire fingerprint recognition process.
US12154369B2

A display device includes a touch sensor, a fingerprint sensor, and a sensor driver. The touch sensor generates a touch sensing signal in response to touch of an object on a display panel. The fingerprint sensor detects the object in a first mode to generate a first sensing signal and detects the object in a second mode to generate a second sensing signal. The sensor driver calculates a touch position and a moisture level of the object based on the touch sensing signal, generates fingerprint information based on the first sensing signal, and corrects the moisture level based on the second sensing signal.
US12154358B2

The present system and method relate generally to the field of Robotic Process Automation, particularly to a form data extractor for document processing. The system and method relate to a form extractor for document processing using RPA workflows that can be easily configured for different document types. The form extractor includes a set of templates for identifying the document type (classification) and extracting data from the documents. The templates can be configured, i.e., by the user, by defining the fields to be extracted and the position of the field on the document. The form extractor is resilient to changes in the position of the template on a page, as well as to scan rotation, size, quality, skew angle variations and file formats, thus allowing RPA processes to extract data from documents that need ingestion, independent of how they are created.
US12154353B2

The invention relates to a driver assistance system (100) for a vehicle (105) for detecting light conditions in the vehicle (105), having a sensor arrangement (102, 103, 104) designed to capture sensor data, and having a control device (101) designed to ascertain if the sight of a driver of the vehicle (105) is negatively influenced by a source of stray light external to the vehicle.
US12154345B2

A system and method for legible capture of vehicle identification data includes video cameras and a computer. Recording attributes such as gain, gain shutter speed, and white balance are adjusted throughout ranges to maximize the likelihood of capturing at least one frame in which characters, such as those on the license plate, are legible. Successful capture of a legible frame may trigger storage of the data, while unsuccessful capture may trigger additional scans.
US12154335B2

An imaging device including an image sensor that captures a video; and a processor configured to extract a first frame from a plurality of frames constituting the video captured by the image sensor to generate a first static image file, generate a video file constituted of a plurality of frames including the first frame from the video, and store the video file, the first static image file, and additional information indicating a position of the first frame in the video file.
US12154334B2

An image recognition method and system based on deep learning are provided. The image recognition system includes a first recognizing engine, at least one second recognizing engine and a processing circuit. The second recognizing engine is activated to recognize an image when the first recognizing engine is recognizing the image. The processing circuit determines whether to interrupt the first recognizing engine recognizing the image according to a result outputted by the second recognizing engine after the second recognizing engine completes recognition of the image.
US12154332B2

Method for determining an environment map comprising, server-side receiving of motion data of a mobile device, server-side receiving of orientation data of a camera of the mobile device and server-side receiving of the respective image of the camera associated with the received motion data and orientation data, server-side evaluation of the received image together with the motion data and the orientation data for creating a server-side point cloud, the server-side point cloud forming at least in the parts the environment map.
US12154329B1

In one implementation, a method of displaying a task list is performed by a device including an image sensor, a display, one or more processors, and non-transitory memory. The method includes obtaining, using the image sensor, a video stream of a physical environment. The method includes displaying, on the display in association with the physical environment, a task list including a plurality of task elements respectively associated with a plurality of tasks, wherein the plurality of task elements includes a first task element associated with a first task and a second task element associated with a second task. The method includes detecting, in the video stream of the physical environment, completion of the first task. The method includes, in response to detecting completion of the first task, changing display of the first task element.
US12154324B1

A method for evaluating drill cuttings includes acquiring a first digital image and processing the first digital image with a trained neural network (NN) to generate a first segmented image including a plurality of labeled segments in which at least one label includes a lithology type. The segmented image and the acquired first digital image are processed to retrain the NN. A second digital image is then be processed with the retrained NN to generate a second segmented image including a plurality of labeled segments in which at least one label includes a lithology type.
US12154323B1

An apparatus for the identification of source images associated with an object is disclosed. The apparatus includes at least processor and a memory communicatively connected to the processor. The memory instructs the processor to identify one or more unique identifiers associated with the object from the first set of image data. The memory instructs the processor to identify a subset of source image data from a second set of image data as a function of the one or more unique identifiers. The memory instructs the processor to determine a similarity score as a function of a comparison of the subset of source image data and the one or more unique identifiers. The memory instructs the processor to generate a verification report as a function of the similarity score.
US12154321B2

Systems and method can be provided to transform input data (e.g., CT imaging data) into structured representations to create interpretable models. Another aspect of the current invention can be generating labels synthetically to apply to real data according to a biologically-based labelling technique to guide the model training with a priori mechanistic knowledge.
US12154320B2

This application is directed to augmenting training data used for vehicle driving modelling. A computer system obtains a first image of a road and identifies a drivable area of the road within the first image. The computer system obtains an image of an object and generates a second image from the first image by overlaying the image of the object over the drivable area. The second image is added to a corpus of training images to be used by a machine learning system to generate a model for facilitating driving of a vehicle (e.g., at least partial autonomously). In some embodiments, the computer system applies machine learning to train a model using the corpus of training images and distributes the model to one or more vehicles. In use, the model processes road images captured by the one or more vehicles to facilitate vehicle driving.
US12154317B2

The learning apparatus classifies target domain data into (N-c) classes based on unique features of the target domain data, classifies source domain data into N classes based on unique features of the source domain data, and classifies the target domain data and the source domain data into the N classes based on common features of the target domain data and the source domain data. Also, the learning apparatus calculates a first distance between the common features of the target domain data and the source domain data, and calculates a second distance between the unique features of the target domain data and the source domain data. Next, the learning apparatus updates parameters of a common feature extraction unit based on the first distance, and updates parameters of a target domain feature extraction unit and a source domain feature extraction unit based on the second distance.
US12154316B2

A fabric information digitization system and a fabric information digitization method are provided. The fabric information digitization system includes an image capturing apparatus and a computing apparatus. The image capturing apparatus obtains a fabric image. The computing apparatus includes an image processing module. The computing apparatus executes the image processing module to analyze the fabric image to obtain fabric classification information. The computing apparatus inputs the fabric image to one of a plurality of neural network modules corresponding to different fabric classifications in the image processing module according to the fabric classification information to generate a normal map and a roughness map. The computing apparatus integrates the fabric classification information, the normal map, and the roughness map to generate a fabric file.
US12154309B2

An example apparatus for mining multi-scale hard examples includes a convolutional neural network to receive a mini-batch of sample candidates and generate basic feature maps. The apparatus also includes a feature extractor and combiner to generate concatenated feature maps based on the basic feature maps and extract the concatenated feature maps for each of a plurality of received candidate boxes. The apparatus further includes a sample scorer and miner to score the candidate samples with multi-task loss scores and select candidate samples with multi-task loss scores exceeding a threshold score.
US12154306B2

An aspect is to provide a scanning device, a system, and a method in which an available communication band is not used up even if a plurality of scanning devices are connected to one unit of dedicated hardware. According to one embodiment, a scanning device includes: a camera configured to pick up an image; a reduction unit configured to reduce a data volume of an image corresponding to a merchandise to be outputted to an image recognition device from the image picked up by the camera; and an output unit configured to output the image with the reduced data volume to the image recognition device.
US12154302B2

Disclosed herein are a method, an apparatus and a storage medium for image encoding/decoding using a binary mask. An encoding method includes generating a latent vector using an input image, generating a selected latent vector component set using a binary mask, and generating a main bitstream by performing entropy encoding on the selected latent vector component set. A decoding method includes generating a selected latent vector component set including one or more selected latent vector components by performing entropy decoding on a main bitstream and generating the latent vector in which the one or more selected latent vector components are relocated by relocating the selected latent vector component set in the latent vector.
US12154301B2

In some examples, a computerized system for analyzing images comprises at least one programmable processor and a machine-readable medium having instructions stored thereon which, when executed by the at least one programmable processor, cause the at least one programmable processor to execute operations comprising training an autoencoder using a plurality of image model training samples, the autoencoder comprising a plurality of interconnected layers and combined instances of neural networks, passing input data into a trained autoencoder model, the input data including at least one pixel image, encoding the input data into a compressed version of the input data, and decoding the compressed version of the input data to generate to create an output, the output including a sparse reconstruction of the input data, the output including a predicted pixel image label or score.
US12154300B2

This disclosure relates to methods and systems for encoding or decoding a 3D mesh with predictive coding of boundary geometry information. The example decoding method includes receiving a coded bitstream comprising a geometry patch for a three-dimension mesh; extracting, from the coded bitstream, a reconstructed geometry image for the geometry patch comprising a set of points corresponding to a set of geometry coordinates for a boundary vertex in the three-dimension mesh; deriving based on the set of the geometry coordinates, a 3D geometry coordinate for the boundary vertex; obtaining a prediction residue for the boundary vertex; and reconstructing, by the device, geometry information of the boundary vertex based on the derived 3D geometry coordinate and the prediction residue.
US12154295B2

Systems and methods are provided for interpolation of disparate inputs. A radial basis function neural network (RBFNN) may be used to interpolate the pose of a digital character. Input parameters to the RBFNN may be separated by data type (e.g. angular vs. linear) and manipulated within the RBFNN by distance functions specific to the data type (e.g. use an angular distance function for the angular input data). A weight may be applied to each distance to compensate for input data representing different variables (e.g. clavicle vs. shoulder). The output parameters of the RBFNN may be a set of independent values, which may be combined into combination values (e.g. representing x, y, z, w angular value in SO(3) space).
US12154293B2

In various examples, live perception from wide-view sensors may be leveraged to detect features in an environment of a vehicle. Sensor data generated by the sensors may be adjusted to represent a virtual field of view different from an actual field of view of the sensor, and the sensor data—with or without virtual adjustment—may be applied to a stereographic projection algorithm to generate a projected image. The projected image may then be applied to a machine learning model—such as a deep neural network (DNN)—to detect and/or classify features or objects represented therein. In some examples, the machine learning model may be pre-trained on training sensor data generated by a sensor having a field of view less than the wide-view sensor such that the virtual adjustment and/or projection algorithm may update the sensor data to be suitable for accurate processing by the pre-trained machine learning model.
US12154290B2

A field wheat stem tillering number extraction method, including: acquiring field wheat point clouds by means of a LiDAR, and extracting any row of wheat point clouds in a research area; projecting a Y axis to a plane, and retaining an X and Z axis; applying adaptive layering to obtain number of clusters of the wheat row; applying hierarchical clustering analysis to obtain tillering number of each wheat cluster; and further obtaining stem tillering number of the whole wheat row, so as to extract a field wheat stem tillering number. The feasibility of an algorithm is verified by comparing the wheat stem tillering number extracted by means of the method with an actually measured field stem tillering number, and the method realizes rapid, accurate and nondestructive extraction of a large-field crop stem tillering number and provides theoretical basis and technical support for extraction of the field wheat stem tillering number.
US12154287B2

A method may include obtaining, using a head detection model and for an image of a video stream, head detection information for heads detected in the image. The head detection information may include depth distances of the heads. Method may also include obtaining bounding boxes, where obtaining the bounding boxes may include obtaining head bounding boxes for the heads detected in the image, and combining at least two of the head bounding boxes into a combined bounding box according to the depth distances. Method may furthermore include creating, individually, head frame definitions for the bounding boxes, and processing the video stream using the head frame definitions.
US12154282B2

An information processing apparatus determines a direction (first direction (12)) from a sensor (10) toward a moving object (20) by detecting the moving object (20) using the sensor (10). The information processing apparatus causes a camera (30) to perform imaging while moving the optical axis direction (34) of the camera (30) along the first direction (12). As a result, a plurality of captured images (32), each of which is captured in the different direction, are generated by the camera (30). The information processing apparatus (2000) detects the moving object (20) by performing image analysis on the captured image (32).
US12154273B1

An apparatus for generating a three-dimensional (3D) model of cardiac anatomy via machine-learning, wherein the apparatus includes a process and a memory containing instructions configuring the processor to receive a set of images of a cardiac anatomy pertaining to a subject, generate an 3D data structure representing the cardiac anatomy as a function of the set of images using a cardiac anatomy modeling model, generate an initial 3D model of the cardiac anatomy, refine the generated initial 3D model of the cardiac anatomy as a function of the 3D data structure representing the cardiac anatomy, and generate a subsequent 3D model of the cardiac anatomy as a function of the refinement.
US12154270B2

A CADx system for analysing medical images for determining if the images are acceptable for analysis, by identifying the respiratory state of the lungs as shown in an image is described. The system comprising: an input circuit for receiving at least one image; a respiratory state assessor circuit for determining the respiratory state of the lungs in the input image where the respiratory state assessor is trained with a plurality of training images showing a range of different respiratory states, and an output circuit to produce an output confirming the respiratory state of the input image. A method of analysing images, and a method of training a machine learning model to recognize different respiratory states are also described.
US12154268B2

Accurate tissue segmentation is performed without a priori knowledge of tissue type or other extrinsic information not found within the subject image, and may be combined with classification analysis so that diseased tissue is not only delineated within an image but also characterized in terms of disease type. In various embodiments, a source image is decomposed into smaller overlapping subimages such as square or rectangular tiles, which are sifted based on a visual criterion. The visual criterion may be one or more of image entropy, density, background percentage, or other discriminator. A convolutional neural network produces tile-level classifications that are aggregated to produce a tissue segmentation and, in some embodiments, to classify the source image or a subregion thereof.
US12154263B2

A method, apparatus, and device for labeling images of PCBs includes obtaining an image to be tested; comparing the image to be tested to a reference image to generate an image mask, the image mask includes several connected domains; detecting defects of the image to be tested; when at least one defect is detected in the image to be tested, obtaining a coordinate of the at least one defect; based on a central coordinate of the connected domains and the coordinate of the at least one defect, determining the connected domains to be defect connected domains or normal connected domains; generating a first image mask and a second image mask; and processing the first image mask and the second image mask with the image to be tested to obtain a defect element image corresponding to the defect connected domains and a normal element image corresponding to the normal connected domains.
US12154259B2

Process for interpreting one or more borehole images for use in drilling operations. In some embodiments, the process can include providing an input borehole image obtained from a downhole measurement provided by one or more downhole sensors. The process can also include collecting contextual information relative to the borehole image and the user. The process can also include using the collected contextual information and a mathematical model to infer one or more processing arguments. The mathematical model can be defined by using previously collected arguments and previously collected contextual information. The process can also include processing the input borehole image with the one or more inferred processing arguments to generate one or more interpreted borehole images. The process can also include adjusting one or more drilling operation based, at least in part, on the one or more interpreted borehole images.
US12154257B2

Systems, apparatuses, and methods for detecting and mitigating scaling artifacts caused by high chromatic colors in adjacent pixels are disclosed. A blend factor calculation circuit determines if high chromatic colors are in close proximity to each other in a set of pixel data of an image or frame. The blend factor calculation circuit generates a blend factor value to suppress artifacts which are introduced when filtering the set of pixel data when the set of pixel data has high chromatic colors in close proximity. In one scenario, the blend factor calculation circuit calculates pixel component difference values of adjacent pixels and uses a value calculated based on the difference values as an input to a transfer function. The output of the transfer function is a blend factor value which determines how filtering is blended between a plurality of filters.
US12154254B2

There is provided an analyzer apparatus capable of generating crisp scanned images. In the analyzer apparatus, a sample is scanned with a probe such that a first signal and a second signal are emitted from the sample. The analyzer apparatus comprises: a first detector for detecting the first signal and producing a first detector signal; a second detector for detecting the second signal and producing a second detector signal; and an image processing unit operating (i) to produce a first scanned image and a second scanned image from the first detector signal and the second detector signal, respectively, (ii) to create a filter based on the second scanned image having a higher signal-to-noise ratio than that of the first scanned image, and (iii) to apply the filter to the first scanned image.
US12154251B2

An image processing method includes segmenting, by a cloud server and based on a zoom ratio of a high-definition image in a high-definition image library, a low-definition image of a small zoom ratio from a terminal to obtain a plurality of image blocks. For each image block, performing, by the cloud server, retrieval and matching in the high-definition image library to obtain one or more high-definition reference images, and then performing, by the cloud server, image quality improvement using an image enhancement network that is based on the high-definition reference images to obtain a plurality of high-definition image blocks. Finally, stitching, by the cloud server, the high-definition image blocks into a super-definition image with higher resolution and higher definition, and returning, by the cloud server, the super-definition image to the terminal.
US12154250B2

A method for providing an image representation with a surgical microscope, includes capturing a color image representation of a capture region with a camera, capturing a fluorescence image representation of the capture region with a fluorescence camera, generating a detailed image from the captured color image representation with a spatial filter and an edge stop function, mixing the captured color image representation, the captured fluorescence image representation and the generated detailed image to form a mixed image representation, and providing an image signal which encodes the mixed image representation. Further, the disclosure relates to a surgical microscope.
US12154249B2

A multimodal inspection system (MIS) is disclosed herein. The MIS may use one or more modalities to inspect a sample. Some of the modalities include, but are not limited to, Raman, visible (VIS), terahertz (THz) spectroscopy, longwave infrared (LWIR), shortwave infrared (SWIR), laser profilometry (LP), electromagnetic interference (EMI) near field probing, and/or, Millimeter Wave (MMW) radar.
US12154242B1

A computer-generated environment can provide a plurality of snap points to guide a user while the user performs one or more transformations to an object. Snap points may be non-uniformly distributed. Snap point densities may vary. Snap points may vary as a function of characteristics of the object. Snap points may be exported, disassociated from the object, and/or used for other objects or other locations of the computer-generated environment.
US12154241B2

An augmented reality-based content authoring tool is presented. A content author arranges machine-recognizable markers in a physical environment. A computing device operating as the authoring tool recognizes the markers and their arrangement based on a captured digital representation of the physical environment. Once recognized, augmented reality primitives corresponding to the markers can be bound together via their primitive interfaces to give rise to a content set. The individual primitives and content set are instantiated based on the nature of the marker's arrangement.
US12154240B2

Aspects of the present invention relate to methods and devices for receiving and presenting content. In an example method, content is received, the content to be delivered to a plurality of recipients. Each recipient of the plurality of recipients has a preference for a respective first physical location at which the content is to be presented on a display of a wearable head device associated with the recipient. A sender of the content has a preference for a second physical location at which the content is to be presented to the respective recipient of the plurality of recipients. A respective final physical location for the presentation of the content for the respective recipient of the plurality of recipients is identified. The respective final physical location is based on the respective recipient's preference and the sender's preference. It is determined whether the respective recipient is proximate to a zone associated with the respective final physical location. In accordance with a determination that the respective recipient is proximate to the zone, an alert is generated on the wearable head device, the alert associated with the respective final physical location. It is determined whether the respective recipient is in the zone associated with the respective final physical location. In accordance with a determination that the respective recipient is in the zone, the content is caused to be presented to the respective recipient of the plurality of recipients.
US12154237B2

The technical problem of adding content that originates from a third party application to an augmented reality component maintained by a messaging server system is addressed by configuring the augmented reality component to modify content captured by a camera according to values of one or more attributes and by permitting delivery of said values, from the third party application to the messaging server system, in the payload of a deep link that references the identification of the augmented reality component.
US12154235B2

Disclosed is a mobile terminal that provides an augmented reality navigation screen in a state of being hold in a vehicle, the mobile terminal including: at least one camera configured to obtain a front image; a display; and at least one processor configured to calibrate the front image, and to drive an augmented reality navigation application so that the augmented reality navigation screen including at least one augmented reality (AR) graphic object and the calibrated front image is displayed on the display.
US12154233B2

A geographical location of a user device is determined. It is determined that the geographical location of the user device matches a digital element based on a distance difference between the geographical location of the user device and a geographical location of the digital element. In response to the determination that the geographical location of the user device matches the digital element, an indication that the digital element is selectable is provided. A representation of the digital element is provided without providing an auditory content of the digital element prior to the digital element being obtained. A user selection indication that selects the representation of the digital element to obtain the auditory content of the digital element is received. The auditory content of the digital element is provided upon receiving the user selection indication.
US12154219B2

A method of video transformation for a video see-through (VST) augmented reality (AR) device includes obtaining video frames from multiple cameras associated with the VST AR device, where each video frame is associated with position data. The method also includes generating camera viewpoint depth maps associated with the video frames based on the video frames and the position data. The method further includes performing depth re-projection to transform the video frames from camera viewpoints to rendering viewpoints using the camera viewpoint depth maps. The method also includes performing hole filling of one or more holes created in one or more occlusion areas of at least one of the transformed video frames during the depth re-projection to generate at least one hole-filled video frame. In addition, the method includes displaying the transformed video frames including the at least one hole-filled video frame on multiple displays associated with the VST AR device.
US12154218B2

The present disclosure generally relates to user interfaces for adjusting simulated image effects. In some embodiments, user interfaces for adjusting a simulated depth effect is described. In some embodiments, user interfaces for displaying adjustments to a simulated depth effect is described. In some embodiments, user interfaces for indicating an interference to adjusting simulated image effects is described.
US12154215B2

Devices and methods for node traversal for ray tracing are provided, which comprise casting a first ray in a space comprising objects represented by geometric shapes, traversing, for the first ray, at least one first node of an accelerated hierarchy structure representing an approximate volume of a group of the geometric shapes and a second node representing a volume of one of the geometric shapes, casting a second ray in the space, selecting, for the second ray, a starting node of traversal based on locations of intersection of the first ray and the second ray and an identifier which identifies one or more nodes intersected by the first ray and traversing, for the second ray, the accelerated hierarchy structure beginning at the starting node of traversal.
US12154190B2

A floorplan modelling method and system. The floorplan modelling method includes receiving 2D images of each corner of an interior space from a camera, generating a corresponding camera position and camera orientation in a 3D coordinate system in the interior space for each 2D image, generating a depth map for each 2D image to estimate depth for each pixel, generating a corresponding edge map for each 2D image, and generating a 3D point cloud for each 2D image using the corresponding depth map and parameters of the camera. The floorplan modelling method includes transforming the 3D point clouds with the corresponding edge map into a 2D space in the 3D coordinate system of the camera, regularizing the 3D point clouds into 2D boundary lines, and generating a 2D plan of the interior space from the boundary lines.
US12154180B2

A system can include a first financial account data system that may include first account data. The first financial account data system can perform a function according to a first process using the first account data. The system can include a second financial account data system that can include second account data that is unintegrated with the first account data. The second financial account data system can perform a function according to a second process, which can be different than the first process, using the second account data. The system can include a server with an application programming interface. The server can determine a data system among the first and second financial account data systems with which to execute a requested function received via a common user interface. The server can execute the requested function. The server can provide a result of the execution via the common user interface.
US12154178B2

A system including a computing device may receive base map information, including attribute information associated with a plurality of road segments, and trip request information. Based on this information, a route for the user to travel may be determined. The system might further calculate a risk score for each road segment forming the route, and generate a risk map based on the risk score and the route. The risk map may then be displayed to a user. The risk map may include markers or other objects depicting potential risks along the route the driver may face. Also, the risk map may be updated based on information collected from a sensor coupled to the vehicle or located at the road segment to reflect actual, real-time risk scores calculated using an equation for providing a risk score for a particular driver driving a particular vehicle on a particular road segment.
US12154172B2

The disclosed embodiments generally relate to a slicer order quantity reduction tool. An example method for reducing a quantity of a slicer order includes calculating a collective quantity associated with available ones of a plurality of child orders; comparing the collective quantity and a reduction amount received in connection with a quantity reduction request for the slicer order; and determining, when the comparison indicates that the available ones of the child orders have insufficient quantity to meet the reduction amount, whether inflight ones of the plurality of child orders collectively have sufficient quantity to make up a shortfall of the available ones of the child orders.
US12154171B2

A trade order may be submitted to an electronic exchange and updated, according to pay-up parameter values, in an attempt to receive a complete fill within a period of time. The trade order may comprise an order price and an order quantity when submitted to the electronic exchange. The pay-up parameters may include a pay-up interval, a pay-up amount, a pay-up counter, or a combination thereof. The price of the trade order may continue to be updated after the expiration of pay-up interval in an attempt to receive a complete fill of the trade order. The price of the trade order may be increased or decreased by the pay-up amount. The trade order may continue to be updated until a complete fill is received, the pay-up counter expires, and/or an ending time expires for which the pay-up parameters may be implemented.
US12154170B2

A computer method for establishing a commodity price index includes receiving, via a web server, transactions for a plurality of first electronic currency denominated commodity or commodity future contracts, and recording, with the web server, settlement prices for the plurality of the first electronic currency denominated commodity or commodity future contracts on a distributed ledger. The computer method includes reading, with the server computer, from the distributed ledger, at least a portion of the first electronic currency denominated commodity or commodity future contracts settlement prices and determining a current electronic currency index price from the at least a portion of the first electronic currency denominated commodity or commodity future contracts settlement prices. The computer method includes displaying the current electronic currency index price on an electronic display. The computer method further includes setting a value of a second electronic currency to correspond to the current electronic currency index price.
US12154169B2

Systems and methods for importing a batch of receiver accounts. One method may include: receiving, at a user interface of the application platform on an information handling device, a selection to import a receiver file, wherein the receiver file comprises a listing of a plurality of receiver accounts; identifying, via analysis of the receiver file, one or more data points associated with each of the plurality of receiver accounts in the listing; determining, based on the identified one or more data points, whether a subset of the plurality of receiver accounts contain a deficiency; and providing, on the user interface of the application platform, results associated with the determining.
US12154152B2

Various methods are provided for programmatically providing a platform for requesting on-demand services on a consumer device. One example method may comprise receiving a job request, the job request comprising job request parameters, the job request parameters comprising at least a type of service, a location, and a time frame, identifying one or more merchants able to provide the service in accordance with the job request parameters by determining a subset of the plurality of merchants able to provide the service, at the location, within the time frame, causing transmission of a job offer to at least a first merchant of the subset of one or more merchants identified as able to provide the service in accordance with the job request parameters, receiving at least one response, the at least one response from the first merchant from the one or more merchants, and assigning the job to the first merchant.
US12154145B2

There are provided systems and methods for assisting consumers with merchandise purchases at a retail facility. The system may include an application to facilitate purchase of merchandise items at a retail facility, which may be executed on a user's mobile device. The application may receive input regarding items scanned at the retail facility using the mobile device and may facilitate payment for the scanned items by the mobile device. The system may also include a control circuit that: accesses database(s) to determine the user's purchase history; determines candidate items to be considered for recommendation to the user; computes a ranking of candidate items based on a weighted combination of recency and frequency of purchases of each candidate item, merchandise category of other candidate items, and price of the candidate item; and causes the display on the mobile device of additional recommended merchandise items for purchase by the user.
US12154143B2

Dynamic object customization is disclosed. A template associated with content to be published on behalf of one or more entities is obtained. The template includes at least one variable. For each entity in the one or more entities, a data store including information pertaining to the entity is queried based at least in part on the at least one variable included in the template. In response to the query, one or more data values corresponding to the at least one variable are obtained. An object is generated based at least in part on the template. The at least one variable is populated using the obtained one or more data values. The generated object is provided as output to be published on behalf of the entity.
US12154140B2

Methods, apparatuses, systems, and computer-readable media for identifying and executing one or more interactive condition evaluation tests and collecting and analyzing user behavior data to generate an output are provided. In some examples, user information may be received and one or more interactive condition evaluation tests may be identified. An instruction may be transmitted to a computing device of a user and executed on the computing device to enable functionality of one or more sensors that may be used in the identified tests. Upon initiating a test, data may be collected from the one or more sensors. The collected sensor data may be transmitted to the system and processed using one or more machine learning datasets. Additionally, user behavior data may be collected and processed using one or more machine learning datasets. The sensor data, the user behavior data, and other data may be used together to generate an output.
US12154136B2

Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for utilizing a secondary application to render invitational content. Primary content rendered by a web browser can be embedded with a command requesting that a secondary application be executed. The secondary application can be executed in a secured sand box environment and configured to render invitational content in a second window above the primary content. The secondary application can be known and trusted by the operating system to gather sensitive data used to select appropriate invitational content. Further, data can be included in the command requesting that the secondary application be executed. The invitational content can be associated with secondary views that can be rendered without affecting the primary content. The secondary application can collect data to render the secondary view, such as the exact point selected, which is used to render graphical transition effects leading to the secondary view.
US12154121B2

Systems and methods for assessment of user price sensitivity using a predictive model are disclosed. An example method may be performed by one or more processors of a retention system and include retrieving traversal sequences including lists of pages users accessed prior to price notifications, labeling the traversal sequences based on whether users terminated sessions upon the notifications, transforming the traversal sequences into graphs based on identifiers assigned to the pages and instances in which users successively accessed pages, defining predictive features suggesting an extent to which identified structural attributes of given graphs affect user price sensitivity, generating model training data based on the labeled traversal sequences and predictive features, determining optimal weights for the predictive features, and generating a model incorporating the optimal weights and trained to predict a likelihood that a user will terminate a session when notified of a price to continue given the user's traversal sequence.
US12154117B2

Embodiments described herein are generally directed to use of a chatbot to identify a customer-specified product support issue and provide appropriate troubleshooting guidance. According to an example, free text input describing an issue associated with a product line of a vendor is received from a user via a chatbot. A vector representation of the issue is created by tokenizing and vectorizing the free text input using a word association model corresponding to the product line. It is determined whether the issue matches at least one category within multiple issue categories for the product line by performing similarity scoring between the vector representation and multiple vectors created based on top words per issue category of the multiple issue categories. Responsive to an affirmative determination, an automated, interactive, conversational troubleshooting dialog is initiated with the user via the chatbot and guided based on a decision tree for the at least one category.
US12154116B2

Aspects described herein may allow for authentication of smart card usage. A server may receive, from a first computing device associated with a first user, a delegation request to delegate an authority, to a second user, to use a secondary card associated with an account belonging to the first user. The first user may hold a primary card associated with the account and the delegation request comprises one or more limitations on the authority. The server may also receive, via a sensor on the secondary card, first biometric information associated with the second user. The server may authenticate subsequent transaction requests based on the first biometric information and one or more limitations. In this way, the system may provide account holders with the flexibility to authorize other users to use the account while minimizing the risk of being exposed to fraudulent requests.
US12154113B1

Techniques are described for managing transactions requested by a user, such management based on sensor data that is generated by sensor device(s) in proximity to the user. Biometric and/or other types of data may be generated using sensors that are included in a user device, worn by a user, and/or otherwise in proximity to the user. The data may be analyzed to determine a current physical, emotional, and/or intellectual state of the user, such as whether the user is intoxicated, exhausted, angry, depressed, under duress, experiencing dementia, and so forth. If a transaction is detected that conflicts with a previously specified constraint, such as a budget or spending rule of the user, and if the user is currently in an impaired state, action(s) may be taken to manage the transaction. Such action(s) may include blocking the transaction, delaying the transaction, and/or notifying another party to assist the user.
US12154106B1

A method including receiving a signcrypted cross-border payment message, the signcrypted cross-border payment message generated by signcrypting a cross-border payment message using a first financial institution public key, a first financial institution private key, and a second financial institution public key, retrieving the first financial institution public key, the second financial institution public key, and a second financial institution private key, wherein the second financial institution public key and the second financial institution private key are part of a public/private key pair, unsigncrypting the signcrypted cross-border payment message using the first financial institution public key, the second financial institution public key, and the second financial institution private key to retrieve the cross-border payment message, and verifying that the first financial institution public key is associated with a first financial institution.
US12154098B2

Provided are approaches for customizing transaction cards using a pressure sensitive modification area. In some approaches, a transaction card may include a body having a first main side opposite a second main side, wherein a chip is coupled to the first main side of the body, wherein a first outer layer extends along the first main side, and wherein a second outer layer extends along the second main side. The transaction card may further include an internal layer between the first and second outer layers, and a plurality of microspheres and a pigmented substance positioned between the internal layer and the first outer layer.
US12154095B2

In certain embodiments, a sensory indication may be generated on a transaction card. In some embodiments, an input signal associated with a purchase (executed using a transaction card) may be received. Based on the input signal, a timer for an event related to the purchase may be initiated. An output component of the transaction card may be activated when the timer expires. In some embodiments, the input signal may include information specifying a desired indication related to the event, a given output component for generating the desired indication, or other data.
US12154085B2

In embodiments of the present invention, systems are provided for a management system that receives a set of item attributes of an item offered for sale and generates a virtual representation of the item based on the item attributes. In embodiments, a ledger management system may generate a digital token corresponding to the item and cryptographically link the token to the virtual representation. In embodiments, a buyer marketplace system provides a digital marketplace whereby users view virtual representations of items, transact for items, validate and redeem a digital token, and burn the digital token such that the digital token is no longer redeemable or transferrable.
US12154084B2

A computer-implemented method includes generating an interactive channel by a first party to provide a plurality of guided options to a second party. Additionally, the method includes receiving a request, via the interactive channel, from the second party and determining an intent of the request from the second party by a machine-learning algorithm. Further, the method includes generating an insight based on the determined intent of the request and a user profile of the second party and transmitting the insight, via the interactive channel, to the second party.
US12154069B2

A modular inventory management system is included. The modular inventory monitoring system may include a receiver, a carrier, buses coupled to the carrier, and load cells coupled to the carrier. One or more of the load cells is configured to support a bin, and wherein the load cells are configured to continuously measure a weight of the bin and communicate the weight or a change in the weight to the receiver. A method of using a modular inventory management system is also included.
US12154068B2

Embodiments detect stops by an entity on a pre-planned trip that includes a plurality of stops and a planned sequence of stops. Embodiments receive a first geo-location message indicating a first location and corresponding first time for the entity. Embodiments, based on the first geo-location message and a previous geo-location message, generate an enter geofence set and an exit geofence set. When the entity is currently, based on the previous geo-location message, at one of the stops and the current stop is in the exit geofence set, embodiments store the first time as a departure time for the current stop. When the entity is not currently, based on the previous geo-location message, at one of the stops and the enter geofence set is non-empty, embodiments store the first time as an arrival time for a stop corresponding to the first location.
US12154064B2

A processing system for processing objects is disclosed that includes a plurality of receiving stations for receiving a plurality of objects, each object being associated with prerecorded data, and a plurality of processing stations, each of which is in communication with at least one processing station. Each processing station includes perception means for perceiving data regarding an identity of any of an object or a bin of objects, and capture means for capturing characteristic data regarding an object to provide captured data. Each processing station further includes comparison means for comparing the captured data with the prerecorded data to provide comparison data, and a plurality of distribution stations, each of which is in communication with at least one processing station for receiving objects from the at least one processing station responsive to the comparison data.
US12154062B2

A system and method utilizing a canonical model for monitoring fixed entities, transit entities, and/or moveable objects include a circuit having one or more data collectors and a configuration database in communication with the circuit. The configuration database has a plurality of location asset designators (“LADs”) and modal asset designators (“MADs”), and/or sensor asset designators (“SADs”). The circuit is configured to periodically receive information from the transit entities and update the MADs, SADs, and/or LADs of the canonical model. Location information regarding the LADs, MADs, and/or SADs may be provided in a word-based format, such as what3words.
US12154054B2

A system and method assessing maritime vessel risk in response to automatically detected maritime visual events is provided. At least one maritime visual event is detected by at least one camera aboard a vessel that provides image data of the visual event to a processor. The visual event can be associated with at least one of, safety, security, maintenance, crew behavior, and cargo. A risk assessment score is produced in response to the detected visual event, and that risk assessment score is provided to a user in a desired format. Production of the risk assessment score can entail comparing the visual event to data of complying or non-complying model visual events from a data storage. Risk assessment scores can be aggregated from plurality of events and/or a fleet of vessels to generate overall scores for the vessel and fleet.
US12154052B2

A shared workflow operates over a plurality of execution environments associated with a content management system. A shared workflow is created in a first execution environment. The workflow is posted to a shared location. A particular workflow is selected from an exchange or other shared location and is thereafter configured to execute in a second execution environment. A computing module analyzes the workflow to identify environment-specific parameters. Based on a computer-generated recommendation emerging from the analysis, a user or a computing agent modifies the environment-specific parameter so as to configure the workflow prior to execution in the second execution environment. The first execution environment may correspond to a first department of an enterprise and the second execution environment may correspond to a second department of the same enterprise. Alternatively, the first execution environment may correspond to a first enterprise and the second execution environment may correspond to a second enterprise.
US12154051B2

In a method of making work plans for construction machinery, information of the construction machinery at a work site is obtained. The information of the construction machinery is received via a wireless communication. The information of the construction machinery is displayed on a display portion of a server. A work plan of the construction machinery is created on the display portion of the server by using the information of the construction machinery and information stored in the server. The work plan is transmitted to the construction machinery.
US12154044B2

A training method for multi-output land cover classification model and a classification method are provided. The training method includes: obtaining a training data; inputting the training data into an initial model based on deep belief nets for training to obtain a multi-output land cover classification model, wherein the initial model includes N level outputs, and the N level outputs include an output set at last network layer and (N−1) level output set at any (N−1) network layers from a first network layer to a penultimate network layer of the initial model; determining a total loss according to losses of the N level outputs; performing a backpropagation based on the total loss to adjust a parameter of the initial model, N being an integer greater than or equal to 2. The gradient is not easy to disappear during backpropagation of the model, which is beneficial to improve classification accuracy.
US12154038B2

A system and a method are disclosed for adjusting communication settings based on user segmentation. An activity-based communication management system retrieves behavioral and demographic data of at least one user. The system inputs the behavioral data and the demographic data into machine learning models. For each of the machine learning models, the system receives a respective activity parameter characterizing a predicted activity occurring within a time window. The system determines, based on the received activity parameters, a category to which the behavioral data and demographic data belong. The system subsequently adjusts a plurality of communication settings based on the determined category. The activity-based communication management system may provide user segmentation using both empirical activity parameters (e.g., historical behavioral data) and predicted activity parameters.
US12154032B2

A method for controlling a bias of a neural network, the method may include training the neural network by using a loss function that is responsive to classes of a classification process and sensitivity input values thereby setting the bias.
US12154030B2

A method for training a generator, by a generator training system including a processor and memory, includes: extracting training statistical characteristics from a batch normalization layer of a pre-trained model, the training statistical characteristics including a training mean μ and a training variance σ2; initializing a generator configured with generator parameters; generating a batch of synthetic data using the generator; supplying the batch of synthetic data to the pre-trained model; measuring statistical characteristics of activations at the batch normalization layer and at the output of the pre-trained model in response to the batch of synthetic data, the statistical characteristics including a measured mean {circumflex over (μ)}ψ and a measured variance {circumflex over (σ)}ψ2; computing a training loss in accordance with a loss function Lψ based on μ, σ2, {circumflex over (μ)}ψ, and {circumflex over (σ)}ψ2; and iteratively updating the generator parameters in accordance with the training loss until a training completion condition is met to compute the generator.
US12154027B2

Neural processing elements are configured with a hardware AND gate configured to perform a logical AND operation between a sign extend signal and a most significant bit (“MSB”) of an operand. The state of the sign extend signal can be based upon a type of a layer of a deep neural network (“DNN”) that generate the operand. If the sign extend signal is logical FALSE, no sign extension is performed. If the sign extend signal is logical TRUE, a concatenator concatenates the output of the hardware AND gate and the operand, thereby extending the operand from an N-bit unsigned binary value to an N+1 bit signed binary value. The neural processing element can also include another hardware AND gate and another concatenator for processing another operand similarly. The outputs of the concatenators for both operands are provided to a hardware binary multiplier.
US12154022B2

A method of training a test system, including: running a predefined set of test procedures on the testing device in order to obtain a temporal test metric; evaluating the temporal test metric via a machine learning model by a processing circuit; and training the machine learning model by the processing circuit to predict a temporal course of a test stability score based on the temporal test metric obtained, wherein the training of the machine learning model is based on the temporal test metric together with a known binary test result, and wherein the temporal course of the test stability score indicates the probability of a respective binary test result throughout the entire duration of a test. A test system and a method for mobile network testing are also described.
US12154013B2

A computer-implemented method of interactive machine learning in which a user is provided with predicted results from a trained machine learning model. The user can take the predicted results and either: i) adjust the predicted results and input the adjusted results as new data; or ii) adjust the predicted data to retrain the model.
US12154012B2

A lightweight machine learning model (MLM) microservice is hosted in a cloud computing environment suitable for large-scale data processing. A client system can utilize the MLM service to run a MLM on a dataset in the cloud computing environment. The MLM can be already developed, trained, and tested using any appropriate ML libraries on the client side or the server side. However, no data schema is required to be provided from the client side. Further, neither the MLM nor the dataset needs to be persisted on the server side. When a request to run a MLM is received by the MLM service from a client system, a data schema is inferred from a dataset provided with the MLM. The MLM is run on the dataset utilizing the inferred data schema to generate a prediction which is then returned by the MLM service to the client system.
US12154008B2

A method for building a factual database of concepts and entities that are related to the concepts through a learning process. Training content (e.g., news articles, books) and a set of entities (e.g., Bill Clinton and Barack Obama) that are related to a concept (e.g., Presidents) is received. Groups of words that co-occur frequently in the textual content in conjunction with the entities are identified as templates. Templates may also be identified by analyzing parts-of-speech patterns of the templates. Entities that co-occur frequently in the textual content in conjunction with the templates are identified as additional related entities (e.g., Ronald Reagan and Richard Nixon). To eliminate erroneous results, the identified entities may be presented to a user who removes any false positives. The entities are then stored in association with the concept.
US12154006B2

In one example described herein a system can receive, by a gate analysis service, a quantum assembly language (QASM) file. The QASM file can define a quantum algorithm that can include logic gates that can be executed on a quantum computer system. The system can access, by the gate analysis service, a data repository that can include an estimated amount of quantum decoherence associated with each logic gate of a plurality of logic gates that includes the logic gates. The system can determine, by the gate analysis service, a prediction of an amount of quantum decoherence associated with executing at least one logic gate of the logic gates on the quantum computer system. Additionally, the system can adjust, by the gate analysis service, the QASM file to modify the prediction associated with executing the logic gates on the quantum computer system.
US12153992B2

Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may allocate, for at least a period of time, one or more first antennas for energy harvesting from a transmission. The UE may allocate, for at least the period of time, one or more second antennas for data communication. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12153989B2

The invention describes a high-speed tunnel for the reading and mass encoding of RFID labels contained in a package, integrated in a housing with respective counterposed inlet and outlet orifices, and in the interior whereof a transport means is established, by means of which the package is displaced; likewise one or more high-power antennas for the measurement of RFID labels and a photocell for the detection of the entry of packages into the tunnel; these elements being controlled by means of a control unit associated with an electrical switchboard. A number of guillotine doors or box doors in the tunnel enable the rapid identification and encoding of the labels of the elements present in a package by means of RFID technology, yielding a device of reduced dimensions.
US12153988B2

A tag detection system comprising a source for producing an interrogation signal having a first frequency; a harmonic radar tag comprising: an antenna structure; a tunneling junction electrically and integrally coupled to the antenna; and wherein the harmonic radar tag when stimulated by the interrogation signal having the first frequency, and the harmonic radar tag produces a response signal at a second frequency different from the first frequency.
US12153986B2

A method for implementing a software-based (SB) radio frequency identification (RFID) tag is disclosed. The method comprises storing first RFID identity data in a memory of the SB RFID tag, storing second RFID identity data in the memory of the SB RFID tag; and receiving via an antenna coupled to the SB RFID tag an RFID interrogation signal from an RFID reader and, in response determining by a processor of the SB RFID tag a status of an RFID identity selection criterion, selecting one of the first RFID identity data and the second RFID identity data, based on the status of the RFID identity selection criterion; and sending the selected one of the first RFID identity data and the second RFID identity data to the RFID reader via an antenna coupled to the SB RFID tag.
US12153982B2

The present invention relates to card-type information substrates, such as payment cards, and a pre-form thereof, in which a frame, in some embodiments in combination with a metal containing plate, is implemented so as to impart increased weight and/or superior appearance to the card-type substrates, wherein the influence of the frame and the metal containing plate, if provided, on the RF performance of the card-type substrate is taken into consideration. For example, in illustrative embodiments the influence of a conductive material in the frame and/or the plate is reduced by selecting one or more appropriate features countering the negative effect on the RF performance.
US12153955B2

An Internet of Things system comprises an IoT hub and a local subsystem with a plurality of subsystem devices. These subsystem devices include an edge hub communicatively coupled to the IoT hub and to each other subsystem device; a requestor module configured to perform a task according to a requestor module schedule; and a scheduler module with a persistent time loop. The scheduler module receives a scheduler request from the requestor module via the edge hub, and based on this scheduler request generates a subsystem schedule that includes the requestor module schedule. The scheduler module transmits at least a part of this subsystem schedule to a persistence layer outside of the local IoT subsystem, via the IoT hub. The scheduler module flags scheduled event occurrences via the time loop and the subsystem schedule, and transmits task-specific triggered messages to the requestor module in response to these event occurrences.
US12153953B2

Mechanisms are provided for intelligently identifying an execution environment to execute a computing job. An execution time of the computing job in each execution environment of a plurality of execution environments is predicted by applying a set of existing machine learning models matching execution context information and key parameters of the computing job and execution environment information of the execution environment. The predicted execution time of the machine learning models is aggregated. The aggregated predicted execution times of the computing job are summarized for the plurality of execution environments. Responsive to a selection of an execution environment from the plurality of execution environments based on the summary of the aggregated predicted execution times of the computing job, the computing job is executed in the selected execution environment. Related data during the execution of the computing job in the selected execution environment is collected.
US12153943B2

According to various embodiments, an electronic device may comprise a display and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to control the display to display a plurality of contents related to an application in a first area of the display, and a plurality of objects for performing a plurality of functions related to the application in a second area of the display, select a first content from among the plurality of contents based on a first input on the display, identify at least one function corresponding to the first content among the plurality of functions, based on identifying a second input to the first content on the display, and control the display to display at least one object corresponding to the at least one function among the plurality of objects in the second area, to be visually distinguished.
US12153931B2

Disclosed are a control method, a control device and a startup switching device for intelligent terminal startup, where the control method includes: detecting whether a startup switching device is inserted after a power-on trigger signal is received; starting up the intelligent terminal through a first ROM when no startup switching device is inserted; reading specified information in a high definition multimedia interface when the startup switching device is inserted; and starting up the intelligent terminal through a preset ROM when the specified information is preset switching data, thereby solving the problems that the intelligent terminal startup switching is cumbersome and of poor safety by using a jumper cap in the prior art.
US12153930B2

A processing device is provided which comprises memory configured to store data and a processor configured to execute a forward activation of the neural network using a low precision floating point (FP) format, scale up values of numbers represented by the low precision FP format and process the scaled up values of the numbers as non-zero values for the numbers. The processor is configured to scale up the values of one or more numbers, via scaling parameters, to a scaled up value equal to or greater than a floor of a dynamic range of the low precision FP format. The scaling parameters are, for example, static parameters or alternatively, parameters determined during execution of the neural network.
US12153920B2

Systems, methods, and apparatuses relating to instructions to multiply values of one are described. In one embodiment, a hardware processor includes a decoder to decode a single instruction into a decoded single instruction, the single instruction having a first field that identifies a first number, a second field that identifies a second number, and a third field that indicates a number format for the first number and the second number; and an execution circuit to execute the decoded single instruction to: cause a first comparison of the first number to a one value in the number format of the first number, cause a second comparison of the second number to a one value in the number format of the second number, provide as a resultant of the single instruction the first number when the second comparison indicates the second number equals the one value in the number format of the second number, provide as the resultant of the single instruction the second number when the first comparison indicates the first number equals the one value in the number format of the first number, and provide as the resultant of the single instruction a product of a multiplication of the first number and the second number when the first comparison indicates the first number does not equal the one value in the number format of the first number and the second comparison indicates the second number does not equal the one value in the number format of the second number.
US12153917B2

A method for performing a software update that reduces down time in a Radio Access Network (RAN) is disclosed. A first computing device receives first Distributed Unit (DU) configuration information including an address of a first radio unit (RU) device. The first computing device cause the first RU device to stores an address of the first computing device as a value of a configuration parameter. After a second computing device installs software, the second computing device receives the first DU configuration information including the address of the first RU device. The first computing device receives an instruction to stop data transmission to the first RU device. The second computing device causes the first RU device stores an address of the second computing device as the value of the configuration parameter. The second computing device receives an instruction to start data transmission to the first RU device.
US12153912B2

Embodiments are provided for upgrading operating application in a multi-device ecosystem in a computing environment. Various types of computing devices are determined to be connected to a multi-device computing network. A collaboration plan is generated between the computing devices to execute an operating application operation event on each of the computing devices without interrupting user activities executing on each of the computing devices. Operating applications on each of the computing devices are upgraded according to the collaboration plan without interrupting each of the f user activities on each of the computing devices.
US12153909B1

A system and method for controlling deployment of one or more changes to one or more applications of a computer system based upon an application reliability analysis. The system collects information related to one or more applications deployed on a system which require changes from one or more resources; generates a change risk score for each application based at least in part on a weighted average of one or more parameters affecting system quality, a weighted average of one or more parameters affecting system performance, and a weighted average of one or more parameters affecting system stability, and determines whether to perform an automated deployment process or prevent the deployment of application changes for each application.
US12153908B2

A system identifies data objects from a first piece of code in an original programming language and creates a knowledge graph that represents a relationship among the data objects. The system identifies a particular data object that is unique to the original programming language. The system determines a counterpart data object that is used for a particular purpose as the identified data object in a target programming language. The system creates a second piece of code in the target programming language by replacing the particular data object with the counterpart data object. The system determines if the second piece of code is configured to perform a task that the first piece of code is programmed to perform. In response to determining that the second piece of code is configured to perform the particular task, the system executes the second piece of code.
US12153892B1

A method includes receiving a user input including natural language text. The method also includes generating modified inputs from the user input. The method also includes executing a machine learning model on the modified inputs to generate model outputs. The method also includes sampling the model outputs using a statistical sampling strategy to generate sampled model outputs. The method also includes clustering the sampled model outputs into clusters. The method also includes generating a confidence metric of the clusters. The method also includes routing, automatically in a computing system, the user input based on whether the confidence metric satisfies a threshold value.
US12153891B2

A system and method for machine learning classification of user sentiment is disclosed. The method includes storing including a plurality of category information. The plurality of category information includes a set of domain-specific category information. The method further includes extracting a plurality of aspects from textual data. The method further includes generating a sentiment by a machine learning model. The method further includes receiving the plurality of aspects and the set of domain-specific category information. The method further includes generating a sentiment based on the plurality of aspects and the set of domain-specific category information.
US12153887B2

According to the present invention, provided is a method for collecting filtered text data, comprising the steps in which: a computing device acquires first text data and records the first text data in a text data pool; the computing device acquires second text data; the computing device performs a calculation in a deep learning model by using the first text data and the second text data as input values and calculates a first feature vector corresponding to the first text data and a second feature vector corresponding to the second text data; and the computing device compares the degree of similarity between the first feature vector and the second feature vector, and records the second text data in the text data pool when the degree of similarity is less than a predetermined value.
US12153881B2

Techniques for keyword data augmentation for training chatbot systems in natural language processing. In one particular aspect, a method is provided that includes receiving a training set of utterances for training a machine-learning model to identify one or more intents for one or more utterances, augmenting the training set of utterances with out-of-domain (OOD) examples. The augmenting includes: identifying keywords within utterances of the training set of utterances, generating a set of OOD examples with the identified keywords, filtering out OOD examples from the set of OOD examples that have a context substantially similar to context of the utterances of the training set of utterances, and incorporating the set of OOD examples without the filtered OOD examples into the training set of utterances to generate an augmented training set of utterances. Thereafter, the machine-learning model is trained using the augmented training set of utterances.
US12153879B2

Learning and correcting errors in text input fields to an artificial intelligence (AI) system includes receiving, by the AI system from a target system, an input text. The AI system executes a text processing operation on the input text by applying at least one transformer from a library of transformers to the input text to generate transformed text. At least one proposed correction to the input text is output by the AI system based on an analysis of the transformed text. Feedback data, associated with the at least one proposed correction, is then received from a user of the target system to iteratively learn, by the AI system, which of the transformers need be applied on future input text to accurately generate future proposed corrections on the future input text.
US12153875B2

An on-image navigation guide can be generated utilizing coordinates of table data of a table in a document image. The on-image navigation guide enables a user to populate a data entry form with the table data by interacting directly with the document image. The data entry form is configured with the same number of columns as the table and the document image and the data entry form share the same data structure. The on-image navigation guide is presented on top of the document image. As a user navigates the document image, a focus point of the on-image navigation guide moves from table cell to table cell, providing an immediate visual feedback on what is captured in a corresponding data entry field. The on-image navigation guide includes an on-image context menu and a pin through which the user can make adjustments and/or corrections without leaving the document image.
US12153873B2

Techniques are described for reducing time to decrypt a next encrypted frame in a content stream by optimizing a license/key acquisition process. When requesting content, a key identifier and/or license identifier may be included within a webpage using a link, script, or similar access point. When a client device sends a request for content, the loading of the webpage within the client device includes the embedded key identifier. Access to the key/license identifier at the client device then may initiate a key/license acquisition process by the client device. The key/license may be obtained from a key management device in parallel with, or prior to, downloading of at least a portion of the content stream.
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