US12167699B2
A perpendicularly magnetized magnetic tunnel junction (p-MTJ) is disclosed wherein a boron containing free layer (FL) is subjected to a plasma treatment with inert gas, and a natural oxidation (NOX) process to form B2O3 before overlying layers are deposited. A metal layer such as Mg is deposited on the FL as a first step in forming a Hk enhancing layer that increases FL perpendicular magnetic anisotropy, or as a first step in forming a tunnel barrier layer on the FL. One or more anneal steps are essential in assisting B2O3 segregation from the free layer and thereby increasing the FL magnetic moment. A post-oxidation plasma treatment may also be used to partially remove B2O3 proximate to the FL top surface before the metal layer is deposited. Both plasma treatments use low power (<50 Watts) to remove a maximum of 2 Angstroms FL thickness.
US12167692B2
A thermoelectric conversion device includes: an insulating layer; and a thermoelectric conversion module disposed on the insulating layer. The thermoelectric conversion module has a first thermoelectric conversion region and a second thermoelectric conversion region. The first(second) thermoelectric conversion region includes one or two or more thermoelectric conversion elements, a first(third) connection electrode, and a second(fourth) connection electrode. The thermoelectric conversion elements of the first(second) thermoelectric conversion region are electrically connected to the first(third) connection electrode and the second(fourth) connection electrode and located on an electric path connecting these connection electrodes. Each of the thermoelectric conversion elements includes a thermoelectric converter. The thermoelectric converter of at least one of the thermoelectric conversion elements has a phononic crystal layer having a phononic crystal structure including a plurality of regularly arranged through holes. A through direction of the plurality of through holes in this crystal structure is substantially parallel to a direction perpendicular to a principal surface of the insulating layer.
US12167687B2
An organic light-emitting device includes a first hole transport region including a polymer compound that includes a repeating unit derived from a compound including a moiety represented by Formula 1A and a second hole transport region including a first compound and a second compound, the first compound including a repeating unit represented by Formula 1, the second compound being a compound represented by Formula 1, and the third compound being a compound represented by Formula 3.
US12167684B2
An organic light-emitting device may include: an anode; a cathode; an organic layer located between the anode and the cathode and including an emission layer; an electron blocking layer located between the anode and the emission layer and in direct contact with the emission layer; and a hole blocking layer located between the cathode and the emission layer and in direct contact with the emission layer. The emission layer may include a host and a dopant, the electron blocking layer may be an electron blocking material, the hole blocking layer may include a hole blocking material, and the host, the dopant, the electron blocking material, and the hole blocking material may each satisfy Equations 1-1 to 1-4: T1(EB)≥T1(H) Equation 1-1 T1(EB)≥T1(D) Equation 1-2 T1(HB)>T1(H) Equation 1-3 T1(HB)>T1(D). Equation 1-4
US12167681B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a novel compound represented by the following Formula 1 that is useful as a material for an organic electronic device, particularly, an organic EL device, particularly as a light emitting material, and an organic electronic device using the same, particularly, an organic EL device: wherein R1 to R10 are described herein.
US12167680B2
Provided are an organic electric element, a display panel and a display device including the organic electric element which include a charge generating layer including a first layer comprising a first compound and a second compound and a second layer comprising a third compound so that they may have excellent efficiency or lifespan.
US12167677B2
Provided are a heterocyclic compound represented by Formula 1 and an organic light-emitting device including the heterocyclic compound: wherein, in Formula 1, X1 is Si or Ge, A4 is a group represented by Formula 2, and other substituents are the same as described in the detailed description:
US12167664B2
A display panel and a preparation method therefor, and a display apparatus. The display panel comprises: a display region and a bezel region surrounding the display region; a barrier structure, located in the bezel region and arranged on one side of the base substrate, surrounding the display region; a touch-control electrode lead, comprising a first metal lead and a metal connection bridge which are electrically connected; said first metal lead is arranged on the upper side of said barrier structure; the first metal lead extends from the display region to the bezel region and is located on the side of the barrier structure facing the display region; said metal connection bridge is located in the bezel region; the metal connection bridge is arranged between the base substrate and the surface of the barrier structure on the side away from the base substrate.
US12167659B2
A display device includes a substrate, a circuit element layer on the substrate, a display element layer on the circuit element layer, a sealing film on the display element layer, an oxide film on the sealing film, a barrier metal layer on the oxide film, and a wiring layer on the barrier metal layer, wherein a surface of the sealing film in contact with the oxide film has concave/convexities, and the barrier metal layer is formed by titanium nitride. A height of the concave/convexities of the surface of the sealing film may be less than 30 nm. A thickness of the oxide film may be 5 nm or less.
US12167649B2
A display apparatus includes: a substrate including a display area and a peripheral area outside the display area; a first data line extending from the display area into the peripheral area; a 1-1st lower load located in the peripheral area and electrically connected to the first data line; a 1-2nd lower load located in the peripheral area and electrically connected to the 1-1st lower load; a 1-1st upper load located in the peripheral area and above the 1-1st lower load, where the 1-1st upper load is insulated from the 1-1st lower load; and a 1-2nd upper load located in the peripheral area and above the 1-2nd lower load, where the 1-2nd upper load is insulated from the 1-2nd lower load and electrically connected to the 1-1st upper load.
US12167648B2
An array substrate is provided. The array substrate includes a gate line extending along a first direction. The gate line includes a plurality of wide portions and a plurality of narrow portions respectively arranged along the first direction, the plurality of wide portions having a first dimension greater than a second dimension of the plurality of narrow portions along a second direction, the second direction at an angle in a range of 80 degrees to 100 degrees with respect to the first direction. An orthographic projection of a respective one of the plurality of wide portions in the respective subpixel on the base substrate overlaps with an orthographic projection of a portion of the semiconductor material layer in the respective subpixel on the base substrate, forming an active layer of the data-write transistor in the respective subpixel.
US12167645B2
A display device according to an example of the present disclosure includes a substrate in which an emission area and a non-emission area are divided and a plurality of sub-pixels are defined, an insulating layer disposed on the substrate, a first electrode disposed in each of the plurality of sub-pixels, a bank disposed on the insulating layer and exposing the first electrode through an opening thereof, an organic layer disposed on the first electrode, and a second electrode disposed on the organic layer. The bank includes exposed side surfaces by removing one area thereof between the plurality of sub-pixels, an undercut structure inwardly from lower ends of the exposed side surfaces. The bank further includes exposed side surfaces by removing an area thereof between the plurality of sub-pixels, and a trench structure by removing a portion of a thickness of the insulating layer.
US12167642B2
The present disclosure provides a display substrate and a display device. The display substrate includes a pixel circuit, and the pixel circuit includes a light-emitting element, a driving circuit and a capacitor circuit. The driving circuit is configured to drive the light-emitting element to emit light; a first terminal of the capacitor circuit is electrically connected to a control terminal of the driving circuit, and a second terminal of the capacitor circuit is electrically connected to a data writing-in node; the capacitor circuit includes at least two capacitors connected in parallel with each other.
US12167632B2
Disclosed are a display module and a display device capable of minimizing a pressed stain defect while reducing a bezel area. To this end, a thickness of a cushion portion of a cushion plate closer to a bent portion may be reduced, thereby reducing a bending radius of curvature such that the bezel area may be reduced. Further, placing a support layer having a strong supporting force formed of PET into the cushion plate such that the support layer is in contact with the heat-dissipation layer may allow minimizing an unevenness defect on the cushion plate even when a bent pad portion of a display panel presses the cushion portion. Thus, visibility of an internal pressed stain to a user may be minimized.
US12167626B2
The disclosure relates to a display panel, a method for fabricating the same, and a display device. The display panel includes: a base substrate including a first base substrate in a blind hole area and a second base substrate, the thickness of the first base substrate is smaller than the thickness of the second base substrate; an anode layer, a light-emitting layer, a cathode layer and an encapsulation layer arranged successively on the second base substrate, and the cathode layer and the encapsulation layer arranged successively on the first base substrate; wherein at least one installation hole is arranged in a display area of the display panel, the at least one installation hole is within the blind hole area and runs through the first base substrate and the respective layers on the first base substrate.
US12167618B2
A light emitting element includes: a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, a first light emitting layer between the first electrode and the second electrode to emit a first light, a second light emitting layer between the first light emitting layer and the second electrode to emit a second light, and an intermediate layer including a host material between the first light emitting layer and the second light emitting layer and, wherein the intermediate layer has a thickness of from about 90 nm to 170 nm.
US12167611B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a method of forming an integrated chip including forming a ferroelectric layer over a bottom electrode layer, forming a top electrode layer over the ferroelectric layer, performing a first removal process to remove peripheral portions of the bottom electrode layer, the ferroelectric layer, and the top electrode layer, and performing a second removal process using a second etch that is selective to the bottom electrode layer and the top electrode layer to remove portions of the bottom electrode layer and the top electrode layer, so that after the second removal process the ferroelectric layer has a surface that protrudes past a surface of the bottom electrode layer and the top electrode layer.
US12167610B2
A method of forming a ferroelectric memory cell. The method comprises forming an electrode material exhibiting a desired dominant crystallographic orientation. A hafnium-based material is formed over the electrode material and the hafnium-based material is crystallized to induce formation of a ferroelectric material having a desired crystallographic orientation. Additional methods are also described, as are semiconductor device structures including the ferroelectric material.
US12167603B2
There are provided a semiconductor memory device and a manufacturing method thereof. The semiconductor memory device includes a first select group and a second select group isolated from each other by an isolation insulating layer; an upper gate stack structure extending to overlap with the first select group, the isolation insulating layer, and the second select group; channel structures extending to penetrate the first select group, the second select group, and the upper gate stack structure; and a vertical connection structure spaced apart from the first select group, the second select group, and the upper gate stack structure, the vertical connection structure extending in parallel to the channel structures.
US12167602B2
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a conductive structure which includes a semiconductor material over a metal-containing material. A stack of alternating conductive levels and insulative levels is over the conductive structure. A partition extends through the stack. The partition has wall regions, and has corner regions where two or more wall regions meet. The conductive structure includes a first portion which extends directly under the corner regions, and includes a second portion which is directly under the wall regions and is not directly under the corner regions. The first portion has a first thickness of the semiconductor material and the second portion has a second thickness of the semiconductor material. The first thickness is greater than the second thickness. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US12167601B2
A three-dimensional semiconductor memory device includes a substrate including a first connection region and a second connection region in a first direction and a cell array region between the first and second connection regions, and a first block structure on the substrate. The first block structure has a first width on the cell array region, the first block structure has a second width on the first connection region, and the first block structure has a third width on the second connection region. The first, second and third widths are parallel to a second direction intersecting the first direction, and the first width is less than the second width and is greater than the third width.
US12167585B2
An array structure of capacitors are provided. The array structure of capacitors includes a substrate and a first connection pad, a second connection pad, a first capacitive structure and a second capacitive structure that are disposed on the substrate. The first capacitive structure is disposed outside the second capacitive structure and adjacent to an edge of the substrate. The bottom surface of the first capacitive structure towards the substrate and the top surface of the first connection pad are disposed at intervals.
US12167580B2
Disclosed is a cooling system for cooling an electric drive system. The electric drive system includes a motor and an inverter configured to drive the motor. The cooling system includes a first cooler, a second cooler, a circulating flow passage and a pump. The first cooler is configured to cool the motor by heat exchange using a coolant flowing through the first cooler. The second cooler is configured to cool the inverter by heat exchange using the coolant flowing through the second cooler. The circulating flow passage passes through both the first and second coolers, and the coolant circulates in the circulating flow passage. The pump is arranged in the circulating flow passage to pump the coolant.
US12167572B2
A thermal management device includes a fin pack and a plurality of channels. The fin pack has a hot side and a cold side, and the plurality of channels in the fin pack provide fluid communication from the hot side to the cold side. The channels have a transverse dimension and a longitudinal dimension, and the longitudinal dimension is at least 2.5 times the transverse dimension.
US12167571B2
A liquid flow path portion of a vapor chamber according to the present invention includes a plurality of main flow grooves which each extend in the first direction and through which working fluid in liquid form passes. A convex array which includes a plurality of liquid flow path convex portions arranged in the first direction via a communicating groove, is provided between a pair of the main flow grooves adjacent to each other. Each of the communicating grooves allows communication between the corresponding pair of the main flow grooves. The width of the communicating groove is larger than the width of the main flow groove.
US12167566B1
An assembly is described. An assembly can include a housing comprising a first compartment and a plurality of vents letting air flow into and out. The assembly can further include a first ECU positioned within the first compartment, the first ECU comprising a first inlet letting air flow into the first ECU. The assembly can further include a second ECU positioned within the first compartment, the second ECU comprising a second inlet letting air flow into the second ECU. The assembly can further include a first plenum positioned between the first ECU and the second ECU and comprising a second compartment. The assembly can further include a first air duct forming a first channel letting air from a first vent of the plurality of vents into the second compartment, wherein the first plenum further comprises a second vent positioned to align with the first inlet of the first ECU.
US12167565B2
An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing element, a first circuit board to mount the image capturing element on the first circuit board, a second circuit board facing the first circuit board, a fan, and a first flexible board electrically connect the first circuit board and the second circuit board. The image capturing element moves within a movable range in a direction different from an optical axis direction. The first flexible board is bent in an area that overlaps with the movable range of the image capturing element in the optical axis direction. When viewed from a direction orthogonal to an optical axis, an orientation of an exhaust opening of the fan is arranged toward an inner surface of a bending portion of the first flexible board closest to the first circuit board at a center position of the movable range of the image capturing element.
US12167543B2
A component carrier system with a component carrier, a base solder mask layer formed on a surface of the component carrier, and a top solder mask layer formed on top of a predefined section of the base solder mask. The predefined section of the base solder mask covers a target section of the component carrier.
US12167533B2
A metal foil that has a carrier and a preparation method thereof. The metal foil with a carrier comprises a carrier layer, a barrier layer, a striping layer, and a metal foil layer. The carrier layer, the barrier layer, the striping lay, and the metal foil layer are sequentially stacked, or the carrier layer, the striping layer, the barrier layer, and the metal foil layer are sequentially stacked. The diffusion depth of the carrier layer to the metal foil layer is less than or equal to 3 μm and the diffusion depth of the metal foil layer toward the carrier layer is less than or equal to 3 μm at a temperature of 20-400° C. By setting the barrier layer, the carrier layer and the metal foil layer are prevented from diffusing mutually to cause bonding at a high temperature, so that the carrier layer and the metal foil layer are easy to peel off.
US12167529B2
A component carrier including a stack with at least one electrically conductive layer structure and/or at least one electrically insulating layer structure. A component embedded in the stack, and a heat removal body configured for removing heat from the component is connected to the stack and preferably to the component. The heat removal body including a component-sided first heat removal structure thermally coupled with the component, and a second heat removal structure thermally coupled with the first heat removal structure and facing away from the component.
US12167528B2
Disclosed herein are devices, systems and methods of use of an improved liner for a plasma torch. In particular, a segmented liner for use in a plasma torch (e.g., annular torch, swirl torch) is provided. In general, the improved segmented liner has improved thermal shock resistance capabilities over conventional unitary liners.
US12167518B2
A first light emitting unit includes M (M≥2) first light emitting elements provided in series. A second light emitting unit including N (N
US12167514B2
A lighting module, including: a baseboard configured to receive a user signal indicating a user lighting preference; a communication submodule configured to receive the user signal and convert the user signal to machine readable data indicating the user lighting preference; a control submodule communicably coupled to the wireless communication submodule for receiving the machine readable data, wherein the microcontroller submodule comprises: memory configured to store a lighting parameter provided by a provider, and a processor configured to generate lighting driver instructions based on the user lighting preference and the lighting parameter; and a lighting mode output submodule configured to output the lighting driver instructions to a lighting driver module of a lighting assembly for controlling light emitting elements of the lighting assembly.
US12167507B2
A flavored vapor generator (100, 200, 300, 400) used for an electronic smoking apparatus (10) comprises a housing; a liquid retention material (155, 255) which is filled, soaked or immersed with a flavored liquid and received inside the housing; an electric heater (150, 350, 450) for heating the liquid retention material (155, 255) to generate flavored vapor; and a sensor (156, 356, 456) for monitoring soaking or wetness conditions of the liquid retention material (155, 255) and providing signals for determining whether the flavored liquid in the liquid retention material (155, 255) is exhausted or almost exhausted.
US12167503B2
Embodiments are directed towards facilitating intelligent mobility including session and handover management within communications networks. Handovers for user devices in a network are predicted, current and predicted status data of the network are obtained, and a tradeoff between a cost for pre-allocation of resources prior to predicted handovers and a gain in quality of service is analyzed based on the current and predicted status data to cause resource pre-allocation in the network.
US12167488B2
A method, in a user device configured to communicate with a base station, for managing communication of a segmented radio resource control (RRC) message that includes N segments includes transmitting (222) a first M segments of the segmented RRC message to the base station, M being an integer greater than zero and less than N, detecting (230 or 330), by processing hardware of the user device and before transmitting an (M+1)-th segment of the segmented RRC message, an intervening event, that triggers an RRC procedure, and, after detecting the intervening event, transmitting (260) the (M+1)-th segment through an N-th segment of the segmented RRC message to the base station before the RRC procedure has completed.
US12167479B2
A system, apparatus and method for installation of outdoor CPE (Customer Premise Equipment) for CBRS (Citizen Broadband Radio Service) for fixed wireless access is disclosed. The system comprises a database server which stores data comprising eNodeB locations and details, pathloss models and throughput prediction data. A position/orientation sensor and WiFi access point are attached to the CPE during installation. For a specified CPE height and a range of pointing angles, a smartphone app is used in scan mode to obtain KPI and evaluate nearby eNodeBs for performance based on stored parameters and link type, to provide estimated UL/DL throughput data for each eNodeB. After selecting an eNodeB, in network entry mode, a RF link between the CPE and eNodeB is established to request SAS grant. If successful in entering operational mode, actual throughput is measured to ensure the desired performance is attained, and data are reported back to the database.
US12167477B2
Techniques for interference mitigation in a wireless communication system are disclosed. One example method includes receiving, at a first communication node, interference status information indicative of a remote interference between the first communication node and a second communication node and performing, by the first communication node, subsequent communications to the second communication node by implementing a backoff based on a granularity.
US12167473B1
A method can include receiving, by a wireless device via a first cell, a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) order initiating a first random access (RA) procedure on a second cell. The method can also include transmitting a first RA preamble, for the first RA procedure, using a preamble power ramping counter. The method can further include receiving, after the first RA procedure is complete, a second PDCCH order initiating a second RA procedure on a third cell. The method can additionally include, in response to initiating the second RA procedure on the third cell, initializing, based on the second cell and the third cell being different, the preamble power ramping counter with an initial value. The method can also include transmitting, after initializing the preamble power ramping counter, a second random access preamble, for the second RA procedure, via the third cell.
US12167459B2
A method of user equipment (UE) for random access operation in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises receiving, from a base station (BS), random access channel (RACH) configuration information including RACH chunk information corresponding to at least one antenna beam including a beam identifier (ID), determining a RACH chunk based on the RACH configuration information received from the BS, transmitting, to the BS, a RACH preamble on the determined RACH chunk according to the RACH configuration information associated with the beam ID, and receiving, from the BS, a RACH response (RAR) corresponding to the transmitted RACH preamble and a downlink channel for a RAR transmission, wherein a random access-radio network temporary identification (RA-RNTI) is calculated based on an index of a slot and an index of the RACH chunk on which the RACH preamble is transmitted.
US12167450B2
An apparatus and a method of wireless communication are provided. The method by a user equipment (UE) includes determining, based on a signaling from a base station, a combination of a listen before talk (LBT) type, a cyclic prefix (CP) extension, and a channel access priority class (CAPC) for an uplink transmission to the base station. This can solve issues in the prior art, provide an indication of LBT related information for a UE, provide a method for indicating an LBT type, a length of a CP extension, and a CAPC in an uplink grant, provide a good communication performance, and/or provide high reliability.
US12167449B2
A method can include, in a wireless device connected to a first network and configured to transmit over a medium, while a detected packet is being received: determining if the detected packet has a network identification value, the network identification value identifying a network in which wireless devices are connected; when at least the network identification value of the detected packet matches that of the first network, setting a timer value that prevents transmissions on the medium by the wireless device during the duration of the detected packet; and when at least the network identification value of the detected packet does not match that of the first network, dropping the detected packet before it is fully received and not setting the timer value.
US12167446B2
A method for accessing a wireless channel by a device (112, 113) that intends to transmit data, wherein access to channel is controlled by a wireless channel controller (111), the method comprising: registering the device (112, 113) at the wireless channel controller (111) as an authorized device; synchronizing (201) a timer of the device (112, 113) indicating time windows; determining (202) a designated time window during which the device (112, 113) can transmit data; performing (203) a clear channel assessment procedure during the preceding time window such that the clear channel assessment ends at the end of the time window preceding the designated time window; and beginning transmission (204) of data at the beginning of the designated time window.
US12167443B2
The present disclosure provides a random access resource processing method and device. The method includes: receiving first indication information from a network device, where the first indication information is used to indicate whether a preset random access resource is available; and transmitting first acknowledgment information to the network device.
US12167437B2
An operation method of a terminal in a communication system may include: selecting one or more control elements among a plurality of control elements included first UCI in consideration of a size of an uplink resource; generating multiplexed UCIs by multiplexing second UCI with the one or more control elements; and transmitting the multiplexed UCIs to a base station by using the uplink resource.
US12167436B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a method, an apparatus and a computer readable storage medium of user selection for MU-MIMO communications. In example embodiments, a method is provided. The method comprises determining a set of candidate terminal devices; and iteratively performing the following at least once until an end condition is met: generating, based on respective channel estimations for the set of candidate terminal devices, a covariance matrix indicating interdependency among the set of candidate terminal devices; determining a minimum eigenvalue of the covariance matrix and an eigenvector corresponding to the minimum eigenvalue, the eigenvector indicating a set of measurements for interdependency among the set of candidate terminal devices; and updating the set of candidate terminal devices by removing, from the set of candidate terminal devices, a candidate terminal device associated with a maximum measurement in the set of measurements.
US12167434B2
An information processor according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a first acquisition unit configured to acquire desire information regarding an area setting of a predetermined service, including at least desired area information, provided using a second radio system that shares all or a part of a frequency band used by a first radio system, a second acquisition unit that acquires area information regarding another service that uses or is allocated to a predetermined frequency band used by the predetermined service, a calculation unit configured to perform calculation regarding inter-area interference from an area specified by the desired area information to an area of the another service; and a generation unit configured to generate permitted area information regarding an area in which the predetermined service is permitted based on a calculation result of the inter-area interference.
US12167433B2
Methods and apparatuses for configuring sidelink resource are provided. A method includes that a first sidelink terminal: generates resource sensing indication information; transmits the resource sensing indication information to a second sidelink terminal, where the resource sensing indication information instructs the second sidelink terminal to perform resource sensing according to the resource sensing indication information and return an obtained resource sensing result to the first sidelink terminal; receives the resource sensing result returned by the second sidelink terminal; and selects a sidelink resource for sidelink communication according to the resource sensing result.
US12167424B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A wireless communications device, such as a user equipment (UE) may transmit a capability message indicating a capability of the UE to receive one or more downlink messages during a time slot, and may receive one or more control signalings which schedule a first and a second downlink message during the time slot, indicate a first resource allocation scheduled by a first scheduling configuration, and indicate a second resource allocation scheduled by a second scheduling configuration. The UE may monitor for one or both of the first downlink message or the second downlink message during the time slot based on the one or more control signalings and the capability message. The capability message may indicate a capability of the UE to receive a single downlink message or receive more than one downlink message during the time slot.
US12167423B2
User equipment devices (UEs) may receive multimedia broadcast and multicast service (MBMS) transmissions over a bandwidth part (BWP) specifically allocated for MBMS point-to-multipoint (PTM) transmissions, or over MBMS-specific resources configured for PTM transmissions within a UE-dedicated BWP. The network (e.g. base station) may configure the MBMS-specific BWP for the UE for the PTM transmissions per serving cell. The MBMS-specific BWP may be used for downlink transmissions, and may be cell specific or UE specific per serving cell. The base station may provide MBMS PTM scheduling information per BWP to the UE, may indicate whether a UE-dedicated BWP may be used for PTM scheduling and transmission, and may provide the corresponding scheduling configuration when applicable. The UE may communicate its various capabilities related to MBMS reception and simultaneous reception of PTM and point-to-point (PTP) transmissions to the base station to aid the base station in scheduling communications of the UE.
US12167422B2
An apparatus of an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node includes processing circuitry coupled to a memory. To configure the IAB node for time-domain resource management within an IAB network, the processing circuitry is to detect that a time-domain resource assigned to a child communication link of the IAB node is available. An uplink message is encoded for transmission by a mobile terminal (MT) function of the IAB node to a parent IAB node. The uplink message indicates availability of the time-domain resource for a parent backhaul link between the IAB node and the parent IAB node. A downlink message from the parent IAB node is decoded. The downlink message is received via the parent backhaul link and using the time-domain resource.
US12167412B2
A terminal according to an aspect of the present disclosure includes a transmitting section that transmits an uplink shared channel, and a control section that determines, when transmitting the uplink shared channel, existence of transmission of a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) based on a type of a RNTI (Radio Network Temporary Identifier) used for downlink control information that schedules the uplink shared channel.
US12167408B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication that a secondary cell group (SCG) is to enter an SCG dormant state and an indication for using one or more of configured grant (CG) on an uplink or semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) on a downlink for communication with a secondary node (SN) of the SCG during the SCG dormant state. The UE may communicate with the SN of the SCG during the SCG dormant state using the one or more of CG or SPS. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12167407B2
At a base station, a control unit selects one combination from multiple combinations of parameters regarding uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources. A transmission unit indicates a terminal of resource settings (Semi-static resource configuration) including the multiple combinations by higher layer signaling, and indicates the terminal of the one combination that has been selected by dynamic signaling (DCI).
US12167404B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for reliable control signaling, for example, in New Radio (NR). A receiver in a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive one or more physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) transmissions comprising downlink control information (DCI). The WTRU may determine a transmission profile associated with an uplink control information (UCI). Based on the transmission profile, the WTRU may determine one or more transmission characteristics associated with the transmission of the UCI. The WTRU may transmit the UCI over a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). The UCI may be transmitted using transmission characteristics determined by the WTRU. The WTRU may transmit the UCI based on at least one of a control resource set (CORESET), a search space, or a radio network temporary identifier (RNTI). The WTRU may determine a transmission profile differently based on what the UCI may comprise.
US12167396B2
A method and apparatus for clearing a part of a sidelink grant in a wireless communication system is provided. A first wireless device reserves a set of resources comprising at least a first resource and a second resource for sidelink transmission to a second wireless device, and receives, from a third wireless device, sidelink control information (SCI) which schedules sidelink transmission from the third wireless device. When (i) priority of the sidelink transmission from the third wireless device is higher than priority of the sidelink transmission to the second wireless device, (ii) reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement for the received SCI is higher than a threshold, and (iii) a resource for the sidelink transmission from the third wireless device overlaps with the first resource, the first wireless device clears the first resource from the set of resources, and adds a third resource to the set of resources.
US12167376B2
A method, network node and wireless device for flexible configuration of channel occupancy measurements in New Radio (NR) are disclosed. According to one aspect, a wireless device configured to communicate with a network node is provided. The wireless device includes processing circuitry configured to: determine a time-domain configuration for a channel occupancy measurement based on at least one configuration parameter where the time-domain configuration is independent of subcarrier spacing of at least one carrier on which the channel occupancy measurement is performed; and optionally perform the channel occupancy measurement based at least on the determined time-domain configuration.
US12167368B2
A method of controlling radio transmission in a wireless communication network is described, the method comprising a radio device (10; 400; 700) receiving an indication of a set of first signals (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36) for associating the set of first signals (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36) with a second signal. The method comprises the radio device (10; 400; 700) receiving at least one of the first signals (31; 32, 33, 34, 35, 36); and in response to the indication, the radio device (10; 400; 700) estimating at least one parameter of the second signal based on the at least one received first signal. The method further comprises, based on the at least one estimated parameter, the radio device (10; 400; 700) processing at least one radio transmission (21) from the wireless communication network.
US12167362B2
Disclosed are techniques for wireless positioning. In an aspect, a user equipment (UE) may determine a set of one or more parameters for sidelink ranging sessions among session participants comprising a session initiator and at least one session responder, wherein the set of one or more parameters comprises: a first parameter indicating a first duration of time that a sidelink ranging session initiator allocates to receive, from a session responder, a response to a session request; and a second parameter indicating a second duration of time that a session responder allocates to receive a session confirmation from a session initiator after issuing, to the session initiator, a response to a session request. The UE may establish a sidelink ranging session according to the set of one or more parameters.
US12167354B2
The invention relates to a method implemented in a V2X device (2) for exchanging V2X messages comprising data packets with one or more receiving V2X devices connected via a cellular communication network (4), the method comprising the steps of (a) running one or more V2X applications, running a V2X application comprising the generation of V2X message data associated with the V2X application, (b) transmitting the V2X message data to a distribution interface (203) at an injection time, and (c) transmitting the V2X message, in a format which is encoded using the message data retrieved from the distribution interface (203), to the receiving V2X devices via a radio link, using radio access technology, at a send time. The injection time is determined on the basis of an initial injection time defined by a predefined period. The method comprises a step of calculating the injection time of a current message on the basis of the initial injection time and time information relating to at least one previous V2X message sent by the V2X device via the radio link, the time information relating to a previous message comprising the injection time of the previous message into the distribution interface and the send time of the previous V2X message by the V2X communication device via the radio link.
US12167337B2
Information processing device, and information processing method using multiple multiplexing methods
An information processing device includes a control unit. A first device that transmits data to the information processing device has a multiplexing function for multiplexing and transmitting data from a plurality of devices including the first device to the information processing device. The control unit provided in the information processing device performs control to tell the first device having the multiplexing function a multiplexing method for notification information and presence of data addressed to the first device. The notification information indicates that the first device has shifted from a functional suspension state to a data receivable state. The information processing device can reduce power consumption.
US12167334B2
This application provides a reference signal receiving method, a reference signal sending method, and an apparatus. The reference signal receiving method includes: when a terminal device is out of a first time period, detecting, by the terminal device, a first signal, and determining, based on a detection result of the first signal, whether to use a first reference signal to perform time-frequency tracking and/or channel measurement; and receiving, by the terminal device, a second reference signal when the terminal device is in the first time period, where the first reference signal and the second reference signal are reference signals used for time-frequency tracking and/or channel measurement.
US12167332B2
Provided are an electronic device mounted on a battery powered electric vehicle and an operation method thereof. The electronic device may calculate estimated battery consumption for the vehicle to be driven to a destination, identify a current remaining capacity of the battery, and determine, based at least in part on the identified remaining capacity of the battery and the estimated battery consumption, whether to switch from a first communication mode (e.g., a fifth generation (5G) millimeter wave (mmWave)) in current use, to a second communication mode that consumes battery power at a different rate.
US12167331B2
A method performed by a low-power node (LPN) in a wireless mesh network, wherein the LPN comprises a main receiver and a wakeup receiver, and wherein the method comprises: performing the following first operations in response to an event trigger: activating the wakeup receiver while maintaining the main receiver in an inactive state, and sending a polling message to a second node in the wireless mesh network; for a predetermined duration, determining whether a wakeup signal has been received from the second node via the wakeup receiver; and performing a plurality of second operations based on determining that the wakeup signal has been received, the second operations including: activating the main receiver, and receiving, from the second node via the main receiver, a response to the polling message.
US12167328B2
Techniques for allocating event offsets within a period of transmission are described. A mains-powered device (MPD) may act as a “parent” to one or more battery-powered devices (BPDs). The MPD may assign “event offsets” to each BPD. The event offset is a time by which the BPD's timeslot is “offset” from the start of a periodic cycle of transmissions by the MPD. Thus, each event offset indicates a time that the BPD must be “awake,” i.e., operating its radio receiver and/or performing other functionality. A BPD may spend a substantial fraction of its time in a “sleep” mode, wherein less power is used and fewer functions are performed than during a period of that BPD's event offset. Another BPD may have a different event offset. Communications by the MPD with each child BPD may be substantially uniformly distributed over the period. To increase efficiency, groups of BPDs may receive multicasts.
US12167320B2
Systems and methods for managing a network are disclosed. One method can comprise causing transmission of a first beacon and a second beacon associated with available networks. After receiving a first request associated with the first beacon, the first request may be suppressed. Thereafter a second request may be received from the user device associated with the second beacon, and access may be provided to a network in response to the second request.
US12167305B2
An information processing system including processing circuitry configured to set a plurality of users who is currently acting together as a plurality of users belonging to a specific community, and perform control so as to enable the plurality of users to experience a same type of service at substantially same timing by each wireless device corresponding to each user according to the same type of service available to the each user.
US12167303B2
A system and method for delivering and receiving Short Message Service (SMS) messages between users connected to satellite and cellular networks. The system includes a communication device capable of operating in either satellite or cellular modes, a satellite service provider, a satellite proxy network, and a cellular operator. The method involves monitoring the network mode of the user device, relaying information about the user device's connection to the satellite network via a specially formatted SMS payload and registering the user device with a cellular operator when in satellite mode. The satellite proxy network serves as an anchoring point for sending and receiving SMS messages, ensuring seamless message exchange between satellite network users and cellular network users. The user device is designed to automatically switch between satellite and cellular modes based on network availability, ensuring continuous communication. This invention enables improved messaging services and enhances communication between users on different networks.
US12167302B2
A method and system employing a rich short message service application (RSAPP) for creating and transmitting a rich message are provided. The rich message includes a message and a brand identity. The RSAPP receives a request to send a short message service (SMS) message to a mobile number of a user (MNU). The RSAPP processes the request to send the SMS message and determines whether the MNU is enabled on one or more rich messaging channels (RMCs). Upon determining that the MNU is enabled on the RMCs, the RSAPP creates and transmits the rich message to the MNU on the enabled RMCs. Upon determining that the MNU is not enabled on the RMCs, the RSAPP confirms whether a setting specifies transmission of the received SMS message to the MNU as a SMS message if the MNU is not enabled on the RMCs. and the RSAPP transmits the received SMS message as a SMS message to the MNU.
US12167300B2
A wireless network system for providing reliable transmission over a wireless network includes a multicast stream source including a modifier and a plurality of multicast stream recipients in communication with the multicast stream source with each of the plurality of multicast stream recipients including an outgoing library.
US12167293B2
A lock system includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to store an access credential for a locking device. The access credential is associated with a user. The access credential has a lifespan. The processing circuit is further configured to deliver the access credential to a user device associated with the user to facilitate accessing the locking device with the user device, monitor a frequency at which the user device accesses the locking device using the access credential, and adjust the lifespan of the access credential based on the frequency.
US12167286B2
Systems and methods disclosed herein describe the use of synchronization signal/physical broadcast channel block measurement time configuration (SMTC) 2 low power (SMTC2-LP) configuration(s). For cell measurements, a UE may determine that an SMTC2-LP configuration for one or more carriers of one or more target cells is known, determine a periodicity of SMTC occasions of the carrier(s) based on data found in the SMTC2-LP configuration(s), and cancel a cell measurement of an inter-frequency cell based at least in part on the periodicity of the SMTC occasion(s). For cell re-selection, a UE may determine that an SMTC2-LP configuration for a carrier being used at a target cell is known and that a physical cell identity (PCI) of the target cell is found in data of the SMTC2-LP configuration, determine a maximum paging interruption time using this periodicity, and perform a cell reselection to the target cell within this time.
US12167278B2
This disclosure discloses puncturing information indication methods and communication apparatuses. In an implementation, a method comprises generating a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) comprising a preamble, wherein the preamble comprises a universal-SIG (U-SIG) field, wherein the U-SIG field comprises mode indication information and preamble puncturing status indication information, and wherein the preamble puncturing status indication information indicates a preamble puncturing status corresponding to a mode indicated by the mode indication information, and sending the PPDU.
US12167273B2
The present disclosure relates to systems and methods for cloud-based 5G security network architectures intelligent steering, workload isolation, identity, and secure edge steering. Specifically, various approaches are described to integrate cloud-based security services into Multiaccess Edge Compute servers (MECs). That is, existing cloud-based security services are in line between a UE and the Internet. The present disclosure includes integrating the cloud-based security services and associated cloud-based system within service provider's MECs. In this manner, a cloud-based security service can be integrated with a service provider's 5G network or a 5G network privately operated by the customer. For example, nodes in a cloud-based system can be collocated within a service provider's network, to provide security functions to 5G users or connected by peering from the cloud-based security service into the 5G service provider's regional communications centers.
US12167263B2
A communication method includes determining, by a processor, that a terminal device meets a first condition based on the signal quality of at least one reference signal of a serving cell of the terminal device. The at least one reference signal corresponds to at least one sending direction. The method also includes skipping performing an intra-frequency measurement or an inter-frequency measurement.
US12167261B2
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for carrier-specific scaling factor for measurements without measurement gaps in dual connectivity networks.
US12167255B2
A human insulin-like growth factor (IGF) binding protein stock solution and method of making the same include a non-recombinant human IGF binding protein-3 (nr-IGFBP-3) in an aqueous buffered medium. The concentration of the nr-IGFBP-3 in the stock solution ranges from about 16 micrograms per milliliter (μg/ml) to about 40 μg/ml. A kit includes a set of calibrators for nr-IGFBP-3. The set of calibrators includes the nr-IGFBP-3 in different concentrations.
US12167248B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described in which wireless nodes may use licensed shared radio frequency spectrum band for communications and one or more neighboring networks may use a same licensed shared radio frequency spectrum band. A second network of the one or more neighboring networks may have priority of use of the licensed shared radio frequency spectrum band within a particular geographic area. Disclosed techniques provide that nodes of each network may indicate an identification of the network, a network priority, or both, in over-the-air signaling. Wireless nodes may determine if another neighboring network is present based on the over-the-air signaling, may determine whether the other network has a higher priority, and may adjust one or more transmissions in the event that a higher priority network is identified, such as through reducing transmission power.
US12167247B2
System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
US12167234B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may generate a first encryption key and a second UE may generate a second encryption key based on a measurement of a channel between the first UE and the second UE. The second UE may transmit, to the first UE, a sidelink message including a one-way digital signature generated using the second encryption key and a message from a defined set of messages. The first UE may generate a set of one-digital signatures using the first encryption key and the defined set of messages and determine whether the one-way digital signature matches one of the set of one-way digital signatures. If there is a match, the first UE and the second UE may communicate using the encryption keys. Otherwise, the first UE and the second UE may generate new encryption keys.
US12167226B2
An audio signal processing method, includes: acquiring first rotation information when a wearable device rotates and second rotation information when a mobile device connected to the wearable device rotates; determining relative position information between the wearable device and the mobile device according to the first rotation information and the second rotation information; and processing an audio signal based on the relative position information to obtain a playing audio played by the wearable device.
US12167225B2
Some implementations relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media for providing audio for virtual experiences. In some implementations, a method includes receiving, at a server, a first request to generate a plurality of sounds for a user device, wherein the user device is associated with a virtual experience hosted by the server, obtaining, by the server, sound source data for a plurality of sound sources associated with the plurality of sounds, obtaining, by the server, virtual experience state information that comprises a location of a virtual microphone in the virtual experience and at least one of a velocity of the virtual microphone in the virtual experience or an orientation of the virtual microphone in the virtual experience, generating, by the server, an audio mix of the plurality of sounds based on the sound source data and the virtual experience state information, and transmitting the audio mix to the user device.
US12167224B2
Sound objects are identified within a content item and location metadata is extracted from the content item for each sound object. A reference layout is generated, relative to a user position, for the sound objects based on the location metadata. If a first sound object is within a threshold angle, relative to the user position, from a second sound object, a virtual position of either the first sound object or the second sound object is adjusted by an adjustment angle.
US12167223B2
Real-time low-complexity stereo speech enhancement with spatial cue preservation may be performed. A stereo speech enhancement system receives a stereo input signal (e.g., a left and right input signal). The stereo speech enhancement system estimates spatial cues for a target speaker and downmixes the stereo input signal into a monaural signal. A low-complexity model may then process the monaural signal to generate an enhanced monaural signal. The stereo speech enhancement system upmixes the enhanced monaural signal based on the estimated spatial cues for the target speaker, to generate an enhanced stereo output signal.
US12167207B2
The present disclosure relates to an electronic module for a hearing device. The electronic module comprises at least one electronic component for a hearing device and an embedding material covering the electronic component. The electronic component comprises at least one restricted area which is free from the embedding material. The restricted area is surrounded at least partially by a zone and the zone is covered by an attaching material. The attaching material covering the zone has a mold part formed by molding and freely formed edge facing the restricted area.
US12167202B2
Various embodiments are directed to an ear-worn electronic device configured to be worn by a wearer. The device comprises an enclosure configured to be supported by or in an ear of the wearer. Electronic circuitry is disposed in the enclosure and comprises a wireless transceiver. An antenna is situated in or on the enclosure and coupled to the wireless transceiver. The antenna comprises a first antenna element, a second antenna element, and a strap comprising a reactive component connected to the first and second antenna elements.
US12167201B2
A hearing device includes a first input transducer configured for providing a first electric input signal, a second input transducer configured for providing a second electric input signal, a voice detector module configured to detect own voice of a user based on one or more detection criteria, the voice detector comprising a first band-pass filter configured for band-pass filtering the first electric input signal and a second band-pass filter configured for band-pass filtering the second electric input signal. The hearing device further comprises a processing unit configured to provide a first electric output signal based on the first and second electric input signals; and an output transducer configured to provide an acoustic output signal, wherein the voice detector module is further configured for notifying a detection of the own voice to the processing unit if one or more of the detection criteria are satisfied.
US12167196B2
A mobile terminal is provided, including a housing (21) and a speaker (10). The speaker (10) includes a box (11) and a sound generation unit (12). The box (11) includes a first cover body (117), a second cover body (118), and a cover plate (13). A first chamber is formed between the sounding unit (12) and the inner bottom wall of the first cover body, and a sound hole (113) is disposed in the first cavity (111). A second cavity (112) is formed between the sound generation unit (12) and the second cover body (118). The sound generation unit (12) includes a diaphragm (123). A resonant cavity (114) with a through hole (116) on one side is formed in the first cover body (117), the cover plate (13) covers the through hole (116), and a microhole (115) is disposed. Airflow enters the second cavity (112) through the microhole (115).
US12167191B2
A wearable electronic device including a speaker and a microphone is configured to: generate a detection signal to detect whether a sound leakage occurs, receive, through the microphone, a feedback signal in which a signal obtained by outputting the detection signal into an ear canal of a user through the speaker is collected, calculate a difference value between the feedback signal and the detection signal, and correct a playback sound output by the wearable electronic device based on the difference value.
US12167190B2
Presented herein are acoustic port covers for attachment to electronic devices. An electronic device includes a housing having at least one acoustic port extending through the housing. An acoustic port cover in accordance with embodiments presented herein is configured to be detachably coupled to the housing so as to cover the at least one acoustic port and function as a barrier to the accumulation of foreign materials/contaminants at a protective membrane associated with the at least one acoustic port.
US12167188B2
A sound generating apparatus for vehicles may include a sound generator including a sound generating member configured to vibrate a vehicle interior material of a vehicle. The sound generating member may include a plurality of vibration generator spaced apart from one another, a first protection member at a first surface of the plurality of vibration generators, and a second protection member at a second surface opposite to the first surface of the plurality of vibration generators.
US12167186B2
Systems and methods for asset monitoring via orientation measurement, the system including a detection device, sensor, and control unit, the control unit configured with at least one operational condition and receiving information from the detection device and sensor, and the control unit determining or changing a mode of operation of the control unit based upon an evaluation of the received information in comparison to the operational condition. The system may optionally include a location sensing device. A method of monitoring an asset including: configuring a control unit with at least one operational condition; attaching a system to the asset; receiving, via the control unit, detection device information from the detection device, the detection device information including orientation information or motion information; evaluating the detection device information in comparison to the operational condition information; and determining or changing a mode of operation of the control unit based upon the evaluating.
US12167172B2
A position and pose determination unit (103) is configured to determine a position and an pose of the video acquisition unit (110) in such a way that a level of hiding caused by overlapping of objects becomes low based on environmental object information indicating an environmental object including a structural object present in the monitored area and a placed object placed in the structural object, and staying characteristic information indicating a staying characteristic of the object determined depending on the environmental object. The analysis and display unit (111) is configured to perform at least one of analyzing a video captured by the video acquisition unit (103) at the position and the pose determined by the position and pose determination unit (110) and displaying the video.
US12167168B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for presenting a time-limited video feed within a virtual working environment. The program and method provide, within a virtual working environment for plural participants, display of an interface element which is user-selectable to capture video for sending to a group of participants within the virtual working environment, the group of participants having been selected from among the plural participants; receive, based on user selection of the interface element by a first participant in the group of participants, a time-limited video feed from a client device of the first participant; and provide, in response to the receiving and for each participant in the group of participants, display of the time-limited video feed.
US12167167B1
A mapping between environments and devices included therein may be maintained, such that a configuration of each environment is known. Upon detecting that a user is within an environment, and based on a current device state of devices within the environment, an application may be generated and presented to the user via a corresponding user device. The application may allow the user to activate and control the devices within the environment. In particular, the application may depict selectable controls that correspond to functions or operations associated with the different devices within the environment. The application may also be dynamically updated based on an updated current device state of the devices.
US12167162B2
A video data processing apparatus provided according to one embodiment of the present invention includes a processor and a blending circuit. The processor provides a first set of parameters according to a first channel identification signal and a second set of parameters according to a second channel identification signal. The blending circuit blends a first image into first video data at a first timing according to the first set of parameters and a second image into second video data at a second timing according to the second set of parameters. A time difference between the first timing and the second timing is less than a frame period of the first video data.
US12167152B2
An image capture device may capture visual content based on a time-lapse video frame rate. Audio content may be captured along with the visual content based on the time-lapse video frame rate being a target time-lapse video frame rate. Capture of the audio content may be stopped based on the time-lapse video frame rate being different from the target time-lapse video frame rate.
US12167151B2
A system and method for acquiring an image. The method includes dropping an object into free fall, detecting the dropping of the object, triggering a plurality cameras to simultaneously image the object in parallel, while the object drops into a bottom half of an imaging sphere at a center of a field of view of each of the plurality of cameras, upon detecting the dropping of the object, analyzing images of the imaged object in parallel, based on a trained machine learning model, and displaying a three dimensional image of a surface of the object based on the analysis of the images of the imaged object.
US12167149B2
A method of multi-sensor white balance synchronization, and an electronic device using the same, including sensing a same scene by a plurality of sensors of an imaging system to obtain and provide outputs of the plurality of sensors; obtaining color information of the plurality of sensors and color statistical information of the plurality of sensors from the outputs of the plurality of sensors; merging the color information of the plurality of sensors based on the color statistical information of the plurality of sensors, to obtain global color information; calculating white balance gain coefficients of each of the plurality of sensors using the global color information; and generating an image having adjusted white balance based on the outputs of the plurality of sensors and the white balance gain coefficients.
US12167148B2
An image processing method and apparatus are provided. The image processing method includes converting an input image to a first channel separated image having a same resolution as the input image, the first channel separated image comprising a plurality of separate channels, generating a second channel separated image by performing a convolution operation on the first channel separated image, the second channel separated image comprising the plurality of separate channels and having a same resolution as the first channel separated image, and generating a restored image corresponding to the input image based on the second channel separated image.
US12167146B2
An image capturing apparatus includes an image capturing portion, a controller to perform image processing to obtain a feature value from image data, and a storage device to accumulate the image data. In an image capturing period of capturing an image of the target object by the image capturing portion, the controller transmits a result of the image processing to a data management server while accumulating the captured image data the storage device, while in an image capturing suspension period of not performing image capturing, the controller transmits the image data accumulated in the storage device to the data management server.
US12167145B2
A processing circuitry is configured to generate a first analysis result based on a size of a partial area of a target area when the partial area is captured by only one of a first sensor or a second sensor, based on first image data for the target area captured by the first sensor and second image data for the target area captured by the second sensor, and generate first final image data or second final image data by using the first image data and the second image data, based on the first analysis result. A difference between the first final image data and the second final image data is based on a difference between a first characteristic of the first sensor and a second characteristic of the second sensor.
US12167117B1
Methods and systems for detecting an object scan approach path and optimizing an imaging assembly in response to the scan path are provided. Image data captured from one or more fields of views is used to identify an object and determine, over a series of images, a scan path of that object relative to the imaging assembly. From the scan path, a lead-in side and a lead-out side of the imaging assembly are determined and used to adjust operating parameters of the imaging assembly to bias toward a right side scanning configuration, a left side scanning configuration, or a central scanning configuration. These operating parameters may include adjusting the wakeup, exposure, illumination, indicia identification, and scan avoidance configurations, for example, for optimum scan path operation.
US12167116B2
A device and method with object recognition is included. In one general aspect, an electronic device includes a camera sensor configured to capture a first image of a scene, the camera sensor is configured to perform at least one type of physical camera motion relative to the electronic device, the at least one type of physical camera motion includes rolling, panning, tilting, or zooming the camera sensor relative to the electronic device, and a processor configured to control the camera sensor to perform a physical motion of the physical camera motion type based on detecting an object in the first image, acquire a second image captured using the camera sensor as adjusted based on the performed physical motion, and recognize the object in the second image.
US12167108B1
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for systems and methods for on demand video recap generation. Example methods may include determining a first request to resume playback of video content, wherein the first request is associated with a user account, determining, using historical consumption data associated with the user account, a portion of the video content that has been consumed, where the portion of the video content comprises a first video segment and a second video segment, determining that a first video segment ranking of the first video segment satisfies an importance threshold, generating a video recap of the portion of the video content, wherein the video recap comprises the first video segment, and causing presentation of the video recap.
US12167102B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods for processing multi-cast messages are disclosed. A system includes at least one or more processing units, one or more memory controllers, and a communication fabric coupled to the processing unit(s) and the memory controller(s). The communication fabric includes a plurality of crossbars which connect various agents within the system. When a multi-cast message is received by a crossbar, the crossbar extracts a message type indicator and a recipient type indicator from the message. The crossbar uses the message type indicator to determine which set of masks to lookup using the recipient type indicator. Then, the crossbar determines which one or more masks to extract from the selected set of masks based on values of the recipient type indicator. The crossbar combines the one or more masks with a multi-cast route to create a port vector for determining on which ports to forward the multi-cast message.
US12167099B2
Systems and methods for generating notification interfaces synchronized with broadcast events and local interactions are disclosed. The system can receive a plurality of interactions corresponding to a conditional event opportunity of a live event from a respective plurality of client devices, and identify a broadcast receiver device that is presenting a broadcast of the live event. The system can generate instructions for a broadcast receiver device that causes an application executing on the broadcast receiver device to display one or more content items corresponding to the conditional event opportunity. The system can transmit the instructions to the broadcast receiver device to cause the application to display the one or more content items with the broadcast of the live event.
US12167087B2
Systems and methods are described to address shortcomings in conventional media systems via a novel technique to prevent corruption of a user's viewing profile. In some aspects, a user of an interactive media guidance application may select a media asset for viewing on a user device. The interactive media guidance application may receive a user viewing profile for the user from a remote server. If the media asset is determined to not be consistent with the user viewing profile, the interactive media guidance application may retrieve another user viewing profile for another user of the user device. If the media asset is determined to be consistent with the other user viewing profile, the interactive media guidance application may update the other user viewing profile based on the media asset.
US12167084B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for playback using pre-processed profile information and personalization. Example apparatus disclosed herein include a synchronizer to, in response to receiving a media signal to be played on a playback device, access an equalization (EQ) profile corresponding to the media signal; an EQ personalization manager to generate a personalized EQ setting; and an EQ adjustment implementor to modify playback of the media signal on the playback device based on a blended equalization generation based on the EQ profile and the personalized EQ setting.
US12167083B2
A system and methods are disclosed for creating and using an audience-responsiveness analytics index for television advertising, in particular, advertising for connected television viewing. The audience-responsiveness analytics index may be configured to provide data obtained or acquired by measuring audience responsiveness to video advertising placed in streaming content viewed over connected televisions. The audience-responsiveness analytics index may be a graph used to optimize advertising with households assigned scores for multiple categories of advertising.
US12167079B2
Example local devices disclosed herein include memory including a set of reference fingerprints corresponding to media, the set of reference fingerprints from a remote device different from the local device and one or more processor circuits to execute machine readable instructions to generate a monitored fingerprint of the media presented at a location and compare the monitored fingerprint to at least some of the set of reference fingerprints from the remote device. Additionally, the one or more processor circuits are to determine an amount of time that has passed since the media started and after a match between the monitored fingerprint and one or more reference fingerprints of the set of reference fingerprints, cause transmission of audience measurement information to identify the media, the audience measurement information including data indicative of the amount of time that has passed since the media started.
US12167075B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for conforming audio to a video to avoid discordance. This may be accomplished by a system receiving a video and selection of an audio asset. The system may identify a plurality of break points in the audio asset based on one or more characteristics of the audio asset. A first portion of the audio asset may be generated based on one or more characteristics of the received video (e.g., length of the video), wherein the first portion of the audio asset begins and/or ends at a break point of the plurality of break points. The system may then generate a media item comprising the video and the first portion of the audio asset.
US12167069B2
A server may communicatively couple to a user device and an instructor device. The server may receive location information from the user device. The location information may define visual content captured by the user device. The server may transmit the location information to the instructor device. The instructor device may present the visual content based on the received location information and receive input defining an instruction from an instructor. The server may receive instruction information defining the instruction from the instructor device. The server may transmit the instruction information to the user device. The user device may present the instruction overlaid on top of the visual content based on the received instruction information.
US12167066B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining one or more signals, the one or more signals being based upon brain activity of a viewer while the viewer is viewing media content; predicting, based upon the one or more signals, a first predicted desired viewport of the viewer; obtaining head movement data associated with the media content; predicting, based upon the head movement data, a second predicted desired viewport of the viewer; comparing the first predicted desired viewport to the second predicted desired viewport, resulting in a comparison; and determining, based upon the comparison, to use the first predicted desired viewport to facilitate obtaining a first subsequent portion of the media content or to use the second predicted desired viewport to facilitate obtaining a second subsequent portion of the media content. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12167055B2
As a bit stream generation method for generating a bit stream of transmission data in which a plurality of signals including at least a tactile signal is multiplexed, a signal transmission unrequired section of the tactile signal is determined and, in a case where the signal transmission unrequired section exists, the bit stream in which additional information other than the tactile signal is inserted into the signal transmission unrequired section is generated.
US12167051B2
There is provided a recall and triggering system and method for the control of on-air graphics at remote locations. The system including a television network and an affiliated station, the television network configured to insert a command into a video and transmit the video including the command to the affiliated station, and the affiliated station configured to receive the video including the command from the television network, store the video in the memory, detect the command from the video stored in the memory, retrieve the data from a database based on the command, modify the video using the data to generate a modified video, and transmit the modified video to a display device. The database may be stored in the memory of the affiliated station or on a separate server. The data may include graphics, content, databases, spreadsheets, tables, websites, news, or other graphical content.
US12167046B2
Alpha channel post processing in image coding can include decoding, from multiple color channels of a bitstream, color channel values for an encoded image, decoding, from an alpha channel of the bitstream, alpha channel values for the encoded image, determining a bilateral filter based on a level of compression for encoding the alpha channel, post processing the alpha channel values by filtering the alpha channel values using the bilateral filter to obtain filtered alpha channel values, and generating at least a portion of a reconstructed image corresponding to the encoded image using the filtered alpha channel values and the color channel values.
US12167044B2
The present technology relates to an image processing device and an image processing method which allow a deblocking filtering process to apply filtering appropriately. A pixel (p0i) of which the value is 255 (solid line) before a deblocking process changes greatly to 159 (dot line) after a conventional deblocking process. Therefore, a clipping process having a clipping value of 10 is performed in strong filtering, whereby the pixel (p0i) of which the value is 255 (solid line) before the deblocking process becomes 245 (bold line). Thus, a change in the pixel value occurring in the conventional technique can be suppressed as much as possible. This disclosure can be applied to an image processing device, for example.
US12167037B2
Disclosed are methods and apparatuses for image data encoding/decoding. A method of decoding an image includes receiving a bitstream in which the image is encoded; obtaining index information for specifying a block division type of a current block in the image; and determining the block division type of the current block from a candidate group pre-defined in the decoding apparatus. The candidate group includes a plurality of candidate division types, including at least one of a non-division, a first quad-division, a second quad-division, a binary-division or a triple-division. The method also includes dividing the current block into a plurality of sub-blocks; and decoding each of the sub-blocks with reference to syntax information obtained from the bitstream.
US12167031B1
A system and method for image series transformation for optimal compressibility with neural upsampling. It incorporates a novel AI deblocking network composed of convolutional layers for feature extraction and a channel-wise transformer with attention to capture complex inter-channel dependencies. Additionally, the system includes an angle optimizer to further enhance the compressibility of an image. The convolutional layers extract multi-dimensional features from the image, while the channel-wise transformer learns global inter-channel relationships. This hybrid approach addresses both local and global features, mitigating compression artifacts and improving image quality. The model's outputs enable effective image reconstruction, achieving advanced compression while preserving crucial information for accurate analysis.
US12167018B2
A method of video decoding is provided to include maintaining tables, wherein each table includes a set of motion candidates and each motion candidate is associated with corresponding motion information; and performing a conversion between a first video block and a bitstream representation of a video including the first video block, the performing of the conversion including using at least some of the set of motion candidates as a predictor to process motion information of the first video block.
US12167015B2
A method, device and computer program product, the method comprising: obtaining access to a classifier trained upon a multiplicity of sets of decoded coefficients; obtaining a set of block coefficients associated with at least a part of the compressed image; and applying the classifier to the set of block coefficients, to obtain a classification of the compressed image.
US12167004B2
Embodiments of this application provide an image transmission method and apparatus. The method includes: converting a first high-resolution image into a first low-resolution image, where first resolution of the first high-resolution image is higher than second resolution of the first low-resolution image; encoding the first low-resolution image to obtain a first bitstream; obtaining a second high-resolution image, where third resolution of the second high-resolution image is higher than the second resolution, and the second high-resolution image includes high-frequency information of the first high-resolution image and excludes low-frequency information of the first high-resolution image; obtaining an image residual between the first high-resolution image and the second high-resolution image, where the image residual is used to reflect the low-frequency information of the first high-resolution image; encoding the image residual to obtain a second bitstream; and sending the first bitstream and the second bitstream.
US12167000B2
In various embodiments, a quality inference application estimates perceived video quality for reconstructed video. The quality inference application computes a set of feature values corresponding to a set of visual quality metrics based on a reconstructed frame, a source frame, a display resolution, and a normalized viewing distance. The quality inference application executes a trained perceptual quality model on the set of feature values to generate a perceptual quality score that indicates a perceived visual quality level for the reconstructed frame. The quality inference application performs one or more operations associated with an encoding process based on the perceptual quality score.
US12166999B2
A video decoder decodes a video from a video bitstream encoded using Versatile Video Coding (VVC). The video decoder determines a bit depth of samples of the video based on Sequence Parameter Set (SPS) syntax element sps_bitdepth_minus8 whose value is in the range of 0 to 8. The decoder further determines the size of a decoded picture buffer (DPB) based on a Video Parameter Set (VPS) syntax element vps_ols_dpb_bitdepth_minus8 whose value is in the range of 0 to 8. The decoder allocates a storage space with the determined size of the DPB, decodes the video bitstream based on the determined bit depth, and thus obtains and stores a decoded picture in the DPB. The decoder further outputs the decoded picture.
US12166990B2
According to disclosures of the present document, dependency conditions can defined for effectively parsing/signaling syntax elements having dependency to transform skip- and/or palette coding-related data, and, on the basis of the dependency conditions, whether or not to parse the transform skip- and/or palette coding-related data can be determined. As a result, bits necessary to be signaled for video/image coding can be reduced and coding efficiency can be improved.
US12166977B2
Embodiments of the disclosure provide a method and apparatus for processing a video signal. Particularly, a method for decoding a video signal according to an embodiment of the disclosure may include: determining, among predefined secondary transform sets based on intra-prediction modes of a current block, a secondary transform set applied to the current block; obtaining a first syntax element indicating a secondary transform matrix applied to the current block in the determined secondary transform set; deriving a secondary inverse-transformed block by performing a secondary inverse transform on a left top region of the current block by using the secondary transform matrix specified by the first syntax element; and deriving a residual block of the current block by performing a primary inverse transform on the secondary inverse-transformed block using a primary transform matrix of the current block.
US12166973B2
Methods, apparatus, and computer readable storage medium for entropy coding for intra prediction modes in video encoding and/or decoding. The method includes receiving, by a device, a coded video bitstream for a block; deriving, by the device, at least one context for a set index and a mode index for the block based on at least one of the following: information of the block and mode information of at least one neighboring block of the block, wherein: the set index indicates an intra mode set from a plurality of intra mode sets, and the mode index indicates an intra prediction mode from the intra mode set; extracting, by the device from the coded video bitstream, the set index and the mode index according to the at least one context; and determining, by the device, the intra prediction mode for the block based on the set index and the mode index.
US12166965B2
A computer implemented method for symmetrical motion vector difference (SMVD) mode, apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. The decoder obtains a first and second reference picture associated with a current video block, a first reference picture list of the current video block, and a second reference picture list of the current video block. The decoder receives motion parameters and calculates a first motion vector associated with the first reference picture by adding the MVD to corresponding motion vector predictor associated with the first reference picture, and calculates a second motion vector associated with second reference picture by subtracting the MVD from corresponding motion vector predictor associated with the second reference picture. The decoder obtains a prediction signal of the current video block by combining the prediction blocks generated based on the first motion vector and the second motion vector.
US12166953B2
An optical imaging system to image a target object includes a light source configured to emit one or more light rays to illuminate the target object and an image detector configured to capture a three-dimensional topography image of the target object when emitted light is emitted from the target object in response to being illuminated by the light rays emitted by the light source. A fluorescence image detector captures a fluorescence image of the target object when fluorescence is emitted from the target object in response illumination by light rays emitted by the light source. A controller instructs the image detector to capture the 3D topography image and the fluorescence image detector to detect the fluorescence image of the target object intraoperatively and to co-register and simultaneously display intraoperatively the co-registered topography and fluorescence information to the user via a display.
US12166930B2
When a home position sensor detects that an operation unit has been moved out of a home position, a function of a human detection sensor is temporarily disabled. This makes it possible to prevent the human detection sensor from wastefully continuing the detection operation although the human detection sensor is unable to detect a person intending to use an image forming apparatus, and from erroneously detecting a person not intending to use the image forming apparatus.
US12166925B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums described herein are configured to transfer call context between different call center systems. For example, a first call center system that establishes a communication session between a user and an agent of the first system provides context determined during the session to a call context service. The service stores the context and provides it to other requesting call center systems. For instance, during a call transfer to an agent of a second system, the first system requests the service to provide a transfer number of the second system to which the user is to be transferred. The service determines the transfer number and provides it to the first system. The first system performs the call transfer using the number. After the transfer is complete, the second system provides a request for the context, and the service provides the context to the second system.
US12166924B2
A call processing method and an electronic device are provided. The method is performed by an electronic device and includes: in a case that a call is connected successfully, obtaining the number of speakers in the current call. The method further includes: when the number of speakers is greater than a preset threshold, determining whether a user of the electronic device is a target user. The method additionally includes: if the user of the electronic device is a non-target user, disabling a speaking channel of the electronic device; and if the user of the electronic device is a target user, keeping the speaking channel of the electronic device on.
US12166914B2
A computing device operating on a Linux or Android platform for adding features to an in-vehicle infotainment system of a vehicle; it has an input/output interface; a power source input; a processor; and memory storing program code that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to receive an Android-based smartphone infotainment application program; scan program code of the Android-based smartphone infotainment application program using a predefined pattern to locate a base certificate in the program code of the Android-based smartphone infotainment application program; generate a certificate-key pair from the base certificate; transmit the certificate of the certificate-key pair to the infotainment system for authentication and to enable communication with an Android protocol between the computing device and the infotainment system; and cause a display of information associated with a feature application program for display on the infotainment system; methods of use thereof.
US12166913B2
A display apparatus includes a display module having a display panel configured to display an image, a sound generating device configured to vibrate the display panel, an adhesive member connected between a rear surface the display panel and the sound generating device, and a structure configured to support the sound generating device, wherein the structure is connected to at least a portion of the sound generating device and a portion of the rear surface the display panel.
US12166906B2
Provided is a method for the validation of a digital certificate by a validation apparatus that checks the certificate of a communication partner on behalf of a first device, including the method steps of: the first device (requesting validation of the certificate of the communication partner at a first validation apparatus, the first validation apparatus querying validation information at a status collection apparatus, checking, in the first validation apparatus, whether validation information has been received from the status collection apparatus, and transmitting the validation information from the first validation apparatus to the first device, wherein, only in the event of a negative inspection result, the validation information of the certificate is determined in the first validation apparatus.
US12166900B2
A physical object having a programmable, electronically readable tag can be identified and tracked in a given third party system with the aid of an identity services platform. When the owner of the object is about to place it in the custody of a third party system, the owner can use a client device to instruct the identity services platform to generate a nonce, for programming into the object's tag. Devices in the third party system read and use the nonce to identify and track the object and to make decisions about how it is handled. When the object exits from the control of the third party system for return to the owner, the identity services platform is asked to provide a proof of ownership to the third party system, which enables accurate return of the object to its proper owner.
US12166897B2
This disclosure provides techniques for securely communicating user equipment (UE) specific information from a UE to a network-side device. In particular, the UE may either encrypt the UE specific information using an encryption key to form an encrypted portion, where the UE specific information includes subscriber identity information and the encryption key is calculated in accordance with a public key of a home network of the UE. The UE generates a message authentication code (MAC) signature based on the encrypted portion and a first integrity key, where the first integrity key is calculated in accordance with the public key of the home network. The UE sends, to a network-side device, a request message including the encrypted portion, the MAC signature and a network identifier of the home network.
US12166889B2
Exemplary embodiments are directed to a blockchain-based communication system. The system includes a first blockchain including a database configured to electronically store data associated with an originator and at least one recipient. The system includes a second blockchain configured to allow for transmission of data between the originator and the at least one recipient. The system includes a processing device in communication with the first blockchain and the second blockchain. The processing device is configured to receive a request from the originator to compose a message to be transmitted from the originator to the least one recipient. The processing device is configured to transmit within the second blockchain the message from an originator node associated with the originator to a recipient node associated with the at least one recipient.
US12166888B1
Systems and methods for encrypting data are described herein. For example, the system may receive, from an application associated with a provider system, a request for a delivery token. The request may include an address and an identifier of a distribution system. The system may determine a distributor key for decrypting delivery tokens for the distribution system. The system may also identify an encryption key for encrypts delivery tokens, where the encryption key corresponds to the distributor key. The system may generate the delivery token, including the address, using the encryption key. The system may then transmit the delivery token to the application associated with the provider system.
US12166869B2
A module with an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) can include a received eUICC profile and a set of cryptographic algorithms. The received eUICC profile can include an initial shared secret key for authentication with a wireless network. The module can receive a key K network token and send a key K module token to the wireless network. The module can use the key K network token, a derived module private key, and a key derivation function to derive a secret shared network key K that supports communication with the wireless network. The wireless network can use the received key K module token, a network private key, and the key derivation function in order to derive the same secret shared network key K derived by the module. The module and the wireless network can subsequently use the mutually derived key K to communicate using traditional wireless network standards.
US12166868B2
An exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure provides a physically unclonable function (PUF) cell capable of exhibiting a stable performance and showing an excellent repeatability while being less affected by environmental factors such as a noise, temperature, and bias voltage. The PUF cell generates an output value by combining a scheme of amplifying a threshold voltage difference and a scheme of amplifying an oscillation frequency difference. In an oscillator that generates oscillation signals of different frequencies, the frequency difference of the oscillation signals is amplified by alternately supplying bias voltages of different magnitudes generated by utilizing the threshold voltage difference to a plurality of stages in the oscillator.
US12166860B2
The present inventive concept relates to a method for forming a Bluetooth network performing communication based on post-quantum cryptography at an application level and a Bluetooth network operating system that performs the same. A method for forming a Bluetooth network performed by a master device to perform Bluetooth communication with a slave device, according to an embodiment of the present invention, comprises the steps of: completing pairing with the slave device; receiving a certificate and an authentication message from the slave device; authenticating the slave device by using the certificate and the authentication message; generating a public key and a private key; generating a symmetric key by using the public key and the private key; and performing Bluetooth network communication by using the symmetric key.
US12166857B2
A transmitting multi-link device (MLD) includes circuitry and a transmitter. The circuitry, in operation, constructs an Additional Authentication Data (AAD) and a Nonce, and encapsulates a plaintext medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (MPDU), the AAD, and the Nonce to generate an encapsulated MPDU. The AAD includes an Address 1 (A1) field, to which a recipient MLD's MAC address is set, and an AAD Address 2 (A2) field, to which the transmitting MLD's MAC address is set. The Nonce includes a Nonce Address 2 (A2) field, to which the transmitting MLD's MAC address is set. The transmitter, in operation, transmits the encapsulated MPDU to the recipient MLD on a first link.
US12166856B2
A method of establishing a blockchain. The method comprises receiving an activation message that comprises micro code, building an activation block of a blockchain by a block foundry implemented in a processor of an integrated circuit (IC), wherein the activation block comprises a hash of a genesis block of the block chain that is stored in a non-volatile portion of a memory of the IC and a data portion that comprises the micro code, providing a copy of the activation block of the blockchain by the block foundry to a blockchain application executing in the processor of the IC, storing the copy of the activation block by the blockchain application in the non-volatile portion of the memory of the IC, and transmitting a copy of the genesis block and a copy of the activation block by the blockchain application to a wireless communication service provider.
US12166847B2
A method of cloud based messaging includes receiving a message and a message topic from a message sender, storing the message topic and the message on a message queue, retrieving the message from the message queue, translating the message from a message bus protocol to a recipient protocol and transmitting the translated message to a message recipient.
US12166845B2
A system encodes/compresses at least some portion of website data and transmits the encoded website data to a remote user. A storage device stores original website data representing an original webpage. Retrieval logic retrieves the original website data from the storage device. The retrieval may be responsive to a request from an electronic user device. A parser parses the original website data to detect and tag at least one type of website code within the website data. An encoder encodes the tagged website data and produces encoded website data representing the original website data. A transmitter transmits the encoded website data to the electronic user device. The electronic user device has previously been provided a decoder from the system to decode the encoded website data to recover the original website data. This allows the electronic user device to display the website on the electronic user device.
US12166837B1
An application programming interface (API) proxy intercepts API calls and responses for an application under test in a development environment, simulating (e.g., mocking) rate limiting and throttling behavior, which is otherwise challenging to test. The API proxy receives a API call and, based on a resource limiting parameter (e.g., rate-limiting or otherwise throttling), determines that the API call should be forwarded to the API endpoint. When the API proxy receives another API call from the application, destined for the same API endpoint, the API proxy determines to not forward the second API call, based on the resource limiting parameter (e.g., too soon after the first API call, or requests too much of a computational burden, such as exceeding a resource quota). The API proxy instead returns a throttling response, as would be expected from the API endpoint. The API proxy provides guidance messages for both outgoing calls and incoming responses.
US12166831B2
Various embodiments of the present invention provide a method and electronic device for supporting an edge computing service (e.g., a multi-access edge computing (MEC) service). An electronic device according to various embodiments comprises a network interface, and a processor, wherein the processor is configured to: acquire, using the network interface, information relating to applications which can be provided within a base station or to at least one external server connectable through the base station by the at least one external server; select an external server including an application corresponding to a specified condition, on the basis of the information relating to the applications; and perform data transmission with the selected external server. Various embodiments are possible.
US12166828B2
Host end points of a network connection can generate unique connection identifiers that are the same for both ends of the network connection. Both end points of the connection can send the connection identifiers in association with host end point metadata about the connection to a central location, where the metadata of both end points of a connection can be identified by the unique connection identifier.
US12166818B2
A level of detail (LOD) management method comprises receiving one or more media content item publishing requests; publishing one or more media content items to at least one cell representing at least one area of interest from at least one portion of a virtual environment; measuring a distance within the virtual environment between at least one user graphical representation representing a subscribing client device and one or more published media content items; receiving at least one subscription request from the subscribing client device to subscribe to one or more published media content items; calculating priority data based on the measured distance; adjusting the level of detail of a viewing field per user graphical representation in the corresponding cell based on the level of priority; and sending the adjusted level of detail along with the subscribed media content item to the subscribing client device.
US12166806B2
Methods and systems provide for dynamically presenting at least one attentional element within a communication session. The system presents, to each of a number of participants within a communication session, a user interface (“UI”) for the communication session. The system receives a signal of an event associated with a first participant intending to communicate with a second participant, with the second participant not acknowledging the intended communication. The system determines, after a predefined period of time, that the intended communication from the first user has not been acknowledged by the second user and that the event has not yet terminated. The system then initiates an attentional element within the UI of the second participant, the attentional element being more pronounced than the notification.
US12166797B2
Disclosed herein is a method and a system for classifying a user for detecting phishing attacks. The system retrieves communication data associated with a plurality of users from a telecom server and creates a user relationship model in a database. The user relationship model comprises a plurality of nodes representing the plurality of users, each node comprises the communication data and an initial reputation score. The system determines one or more senders to the user from the user relationship model and determines a subset of senders based on the initial reputation score of each of the one or more senders. The system updates the user relationship model at least by updating the initial reputation score of the user based on the communication data of each of the subset of senders and classifies the user as one of ‘genuine’ and ‘phishing’ based on the updated user relationship model.
US12166795B2
A cyber security system creates a behavioral framework for evaluating the cyber security of an organization's computer systems based on its employees. The system leverages offline and online individual identity information and then translates this data to anonymous identifiers to protect privacy. The identifiers are used to pull data from an identity graph, which includes behavioral data. A business-to-business identity graph correlates the name of an organization that maintains the targeted computer system with the anonymous identifiers of employees. Online activity is gathered by pixels fired from websites accessed by user browsers and gathered by one or more remote servers.
US12166788B2
Techniques are disclosed for usage-tracking of various information security (InfoSec) entities for tenants/organization onboarded on an instant multi-tenant security assurance platform. The InfoSec entities include policies, procedures, controls and evidence tasks. A policy or procedure is enforced by implementing one or more controls, and the collection of one or more evidence tasks proves/verifies the implementation of a control. The InfoSec entities are linked to each other across the platform and accrue a number of benefits for the tenants. These include generating a security questionnaire response (SQR), defining a readiness project and an audit project, sharing InfoSec entities encompassing the various products of a tenant, automating risk assessment, automatic collection of evidence tasks for verifying the implementation and/or operational state/status of various mitigating controls, etc.
US12166785B2
Systems and methods for predictive analysis of potential attack patterns based on contextual security information are described. In one embodiment, a method includes generating a profile for an enterprise that indicates one or more software application stacks and a network architecture for the one or more software application stacks; determining one or more vulnerabilities of the one or more software application stacks and one or more vulnerabilities of the network architecture; providing the one or more vulnerabilities of the one or more software application stacks, the one or more vulnerabilities of the network architecture, and the profile as input to a machine learning model; generating an inference by the machine learning model that indicates one or more attack paths for an attacker in the one or more software application stacks and the network architecture; and transmitting the inference to a storage location or a security software application.
US12166783B1
A keyboard detection system, that includes a processor that operates to detect at least one anomaly in input data and determine a correlation between the at least one anomaly and a characteristic of an inconsistent keyboard type. The processor may operate to determine the correlation between the at least one anomaly and the characteristic of the inconsistent keyboard type based on a lookup table or algorithm.
US12166780B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to monitoring a computing network to determine data exfiltration. A computing platform may use time-series modeling to determine anomalous network activity with respect to outgoing data. Additional aspects of this disclosure relate to analysis of web activities associated with a user to determine compromised user accounts/devices. The computing platform may use domain categorization to determine if web activity associated with a user is anomalous.
US12166778B1
A system and method for detecting an attack path in a computing environment is presented. The method includes: detecting a forensic artifact in a computing environment, the forensic artifact including an identifier of a resource deployed in the computing environment; inspecting the resource for a cybersecurity object, the cybersecurity object indicating a cybersecurity issue; generating a representation of: the detected forensic artifact, the resource, and the cybersecurity object, in a security database, wherein the security database includes a representation of the computing environment; generating a potential lateral movement path between the resource and another resource; and generating a visualization based on the potential lateral movement, the forensic artifact, and the cybersecurity object.
US12166771B2
A method for transferring data from a first network to a second network using a gateway includes setting, by a security monitor, a state of the gateway to a first state indicating to a destination agent that access is granted to trusted memory and denied to the second network and untrusted memory. The destination agent is configured, while the gateway is in the first state, based on parameters stored in the trusted memory, to transfer data received from a source agent to the second network. The state of the gateway is changed to a second state indicating to the destination agent that access is denied to the trusted memory and granted to the second network and the untrusted memory. Transfer of the data from the source agent of the first network to the destination agent of the second network is controlled, while the gateway is in the second state.
US12166770B2
A connection management apparatus of a relay system specifies, when terminal identification information for identifying a target terminal is acquired from a client terminal, a first relay apparatus that relays communication, and specifies connecting information for the client terminal to connect to the first relay apparatus. The connection management apparatus stores the specified connecting information and the terminal identification information in a storage in association with each other, and notifies the client terminal of the specified connecting information. When the specified first relay apparatus receives access based on the connecting information from the client terminal, the specified first relay apparatus relays the communication between the client terminal and the target terminal on the basis of the terminal identification information associated with the connecting information.
US12166761B1
Distinguishing between functional tracking domains and nonfunctional tracking domains on a host web page. In particular, a list of known tracking domains that load content into host web pages may be received. This list of tracking domains may include tracking domains that are functional and tracking domains that are nonfunctional. The tracking domains that are functional may be determined by evaluating various behaviors and characteristics of the tracking domains. Once functional tracking domains have been determined, these functional tracking domains may be allowed, and other tracking domains may be blocked from loading content onto host web pages thereby preserving the functionality of the web pages.
US12166759B2
A method for managing a control flow by a server including: receiving a control flow generation request data packet from the terminal; transmitting a control flow communication code to the terminal; and receiving the result of executing the control flow communication code from the terminal, wherein if the result of executing the control flow communication code is normal, the server generates the control flow with the terminal, and if the execution result value is abnormal, or the execution result is not received from the terminal within a predetermined time, the server blocks the generation of the control flow with the terminal.
US12166745B2
A packet that includes a header and a payload can be acquired. A first portion of the payload can be selected such that the first portion that is smaller than the payload. The header and the first portion of the payload can be encrypted based on an encryption algorithm to generate an encrypted packet. The encrypted packet can be transmitted to a node on a network.
US12166744B2
A packet-filtering system described herein may be configured to filter packets with encrypted hostnames in accordance with one or packet-filtering rules. The packet-filtering system may resolve a plaintext hostname from ciphertext comprising an encrypted Server Name Indication (eSNI) value. The packet-filtering system may resolve the plaintext hostname using a plurality of techniques. Once the plaintext hostname is resolved, the packet-filtering system may then use the plaintext hostname to determine whether the packets are associated with one or more threat indicators. If the packet-filtering system determines that the packets are associated with one or more threat indicators, the packet-filtering system may apply a packet filtering operation associated with the packet-filtering rules to the packets.
US12166733B2
An information display method, an information display apparatus, and an electronic device are provided. The information display method includes: acquiring a first interactive message card forwarded by a first terminal device, where the first interactive message card displayed by the first terminal device includes a data submission control element used to collect user data in response to an user interaction operation and send the collected user data to another electronic device; generating a second interactive message card based on the first interactive message card, where a data submission control element in the second interactive message card does not have a data collection function; and displaying the second interactive message card.
US12166731B2
A user equipment is configured to operate in a wireless communications network being operated in a TDD scheme, the TDD scheme including a plurality of TDD-frames, each TDD-frame including a guard period arranged between a downlink symbol and an uplink symbol of the TDD-frame. The user equipment is configured to receive a first number of symbols during the guard period or is configured to transmit the uplink symbol and to transmit a second number of symbols previous to transmitting the uplink symbol.
US12166727B2
According to an example embodiment, a client device is configured to receive at least one sidelink signal in a time slot over a plurality of subchannels; identify, using at least one detection model, a plurality of potentially active demodulation reference signal configurations out of a plurality of possible demodulation reference signal configurations in the time slot across the plurality of subchannels based on the at least one sidelink signal, wherein each demodulation reference signal configuration defines demodulation reference signal transmissions in the time slot; identify payload transmissions in the time slot based on the identified plurality of potentially active demodulation reference signal configurations in the time slot; and create at least one decoding path for the payload transmissions in the time slot based on the identified payload transmissions in the time slot and the identified plurality of potentially active demodulation reference signal configurations. Devices, methods and computer programs are disclosed.
US12166725B2
The invention relates to a method for transmitting a periodic channel quality report (CSI) and/or a sounding reference symbol (SRS) from a UE to an eNodeB. To avoid double decoding at the eNodeB in transient phases, a deterministic behavior of the UE is defined by the invention, according to which the eNodeB can unambiguously determine whether the UE will transmit the CSI/SRS or not. According to one embodiment, the UL grants and/or DL assignments received until and including subframe N−4 only are considered; UL grants and/or DL assignments received by the UE after subframe N−4 are discarded for the determination. Additionally, DRX-related timers at subframe N−4 are considered for the determination. In a second embodiment, DRX MAC control elements from the eNodeB, instructing the UE to enter DRX, i.e., become Non-Active, are only considered for the determination if they are received before subframe N−4, i.e., until and including subframe N−(4+k).
US12166723B2
Methods, and devices capable of performing such methods, involving a device that receives information related to a physical uplink control channel resource for reporting hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information, as well as information related to sidelink (SL) resources. Based on the device not performing a physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH) transmission, the device generates the HARQ feedback information in the form of an acknowledgement (ACK). Further, a maximum priority value is associated with the ACK, among possible priority values, related to the SL resources, such that, a PUCCH is transmitted with the ACK based on the priority value.
US12166722B2
According to an embodiment of the present invention a user equipment (UE) may receive, in a first common frequency resource (CFR) associated with a first bandwidth part (BWP) which is an active BWP of the UE, first multicast/broadcast service (MBS) data; receive, in the first BWP, a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) carrying downlink control information (DCI) including information regarding BWP switching; activate a second BWP based on the DCI; and receive second MBS data, wherein, based on that the active BWP has been changed from the first BWP to the second BWP and a second CFR different from the first CFR is associated with the second BWP, the UE activates the second CFR and receives the second MBS data in the second CFR.
US12166714B2
The present disclosure provides a method and device for determining a resource occupation position, a user equipment and a storage medium, which relates to the field of communication technology. The method includes: receiving position configuration information including a configuration status of a base station regarding a candidate position for transmitting a synchronization signal block; determining valid configuration information in the position configuration information; and determining, according to the valid configuration information, the resource occupation position in all candidate positions in a transmission window of the synchronization signal block, the candidate positions being positions for transmitting the synchronization signal block.
US12166712B2
Methods and apparatuses for physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) enhancements in a wireless communication system. A method of operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a synchronization signals and physical broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block and determining a set of configurations for a control resource set (CORESET #0) for a Type0-PDCCH. The set of configurations include a subcarrier spacing (SCS) for the CORESET #0 that is same as the SS/PBCH block; a multiplexing pattern between the CORESET #0 and the SS/PBCH block; a time domain offset (O) to determine slots including monitor occasions for the Type0-PDCCH; and an index of a starting symbol within at least one of the slots. For a first multiplexing pattern between the CORESET #0 and the SS/PBCH block, the time domain offset (O) is configurable based on the SCS of the CORSET #0. The method further includes receiving the Type0-PDCCH based on the set of configurations for CORESET #0.
US12166708B2
The 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). The disclosure provides a remote interference management method, a gNB, an electronic device, a readable storage medium, and a base station for performing inter-base station interference coordination. The method includes steps of: determining, by a gNB, a mapping relationship between a gNB set ID and a RIM-RS according to received configuration information; transmitting, by the gNB, the RIM-RS according to the allocated gNB set ID and the mapping relationship; and/or performing RIM-RS detection, by the gNB, determining gNB set ID information through the detected RIM-RS according to the mapping relationship, and reporting the determined gNB set ID information. The present disclosure determines the mapping relationship between the gNB set ID and the RIM-RS according to the received configuration information, and further transmits and/or detects the RIM-RS based on the mapping relationship, thus simplifying signaling interaction information and improving the communication flexibility of the RIM-RS with multiple functions. The base station includes: a transceiver, configured to transmit signals and/or receive signals; and a processor, configured to: control the transceiver to receive a physical signal transmitted by a second base station and perform interference measurement based on the received physical signal; and control the transceiver to report an interference measurement result to the second base station or a management center, to cause the second base station to perform interference coordination for at least the first base station based on the interference measurement result reported by the first base station or configuration by the management center.
US12166706B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In a wireless communications system, multiple transmission/reception points (TRPs) may perform a joint transmission to a user equipment (UE) such that the UE may rely on demodulation reference signals (DMRSs) from the TRPs for channel estimation and data demodulation to receive the joint transmission. When TRP transmissions are punctured, which may introduce reception errors at a receiving UE, one or more TRPs may transmit unique DMRSs such that each TRP transmits a DMRS that is unique to the transmitting TRP, transmit DMRSs that are unique to punctured resource elements (REs), or determine to refrain from transmitting on punctured REs. In some cases, TRPs may transmit preemption indications (PIs) to a UE, where the PIs may indicate punctured (e.g., or not utilized) REs to allow the UE to utilize a unique DMRS for channel estimation or to ignore the punctured REs.
US12166705B2
The present specification relates to a method for transmitting and receiving an uplink in a wireless communication system. More specifically, the method may include: a step for transmitting, to a base station, terminal capability information related to the uplink transmission; a step for receiving, from the base station, configuration information based on the terminal capability information; a step for receiving, from the base station, downlink control information for scheduling the uplink transmission, wherein the configuration information includes information about one or more SRS resource sets and one more SRS resources related to the uplink transmission; and a step for transmitting the uplink on the basis of an SRS resource set and an SRS resource, among the one or more SRS resource sets and the one or more SRS resources, indicated by information included in the downlink control information.
US12166703B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods are described for wireless communications. A base station may send a message to a wireless device to activate uplink transmissions for a non-activated cell. The wireless device may receive the message and activate a previously non-activated cell.
US12166702B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit an indication associated with phase noise characteristics of the UE. The UE may receive an indication of pilot allocation sizes, for different data modulation and coding schemes (MCSs) for communications, of frequency-domain contiguous pilots for phase noise mitigation based at least in part on the indication associated with the phase noise characteristics of the UE. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12166699B2
Electronic device and method for processing radio frequency signals having different frequency bands
According to various embodiments of the present invention, disclosed is an electronic device comprising: a first antenna element configured so as to transmit and receive a signal of a first frequency band or a second frequency band; a second antenna element configured so as to transmit and receive the signal of the first frequency band or the second frequency band; a first RF block electrically connected to the first antenna element and the second antenna element and including a first transmission and reception circuit and a second transmission and reception circuit; an RF reception circuit for receiving the signal of the first frequency band or the second frequency band from the first antenna element or the second antenna element; and a transceiver, wherein the first transmission and reception circuit processes the signal of the first frequency band or the second frequency band, the second transmission and reception circuit processes the signal of the first frequency band or the second frequency band, and the transceiver performs CA on the signal of the first frequency band and/or the second frequency band and performs diversity on the signals received from the first RF block and the RF reception circuit.
US12166697B2
The present disclosure relates to the field of communications technologies, and in particular, to a transmitting method, applicable to a base station. The method includes: determining a first time/frequency resource for data to be transmitted, the data to be transmitted being indicated by a first signaling to be transmitted, and a second time/frequency resource for a second signaling to be transmitted; determining an overlapping time/frequency resource between the first time/frequency resource and the second time/frequency resource; and transmitting at least one of the second signaling or transmitting the data to be transmitted to first user equipment on the overlapping time/frequency resource.
US12166693B1
An online software platform (OSP) classifies challenges to digital rules into buckets according to respective challenged digital rules that were applied to produce respective challenged resources. The OSP computes respective statistics for the buckets. Each bucket may have a corresponding statistic associated with the bucket based on a current total number of challenges that have been classified into that bucket. The OSP ranks the buckets according to the respective statistics of the buckets. The OSP may correct, based on the ranking of the buckets, the respective challenged stored digital rule of the selected bucket without yet correcting the respective challenged digital rule of at least one of the other buckets. This correction is stored and included in digital rules to be used to produce resources going forward.
US12166687B2
Systems and methods for building service templates that allow for an agentless, data-driven and stateful automation of a provisioning of services to mobile network customers. Data associated with a request to create a target schema object class for a device and protocol are received. Based on the device and protocol information, a set of data fields associated with CRUD semantics is retrieved from either a database or from user provided data. A decorated target object class is created based on the requested target schema object class. A subrecipe is created including the decorated target object class, and one or more other decorated target object classes. A recipe is processed for transmission to an execution engine to form a service instance, the service instance being customizable by an operator for a specific network device such that the service instance data fields that are not pre-filled can be customized by the operator.
US12166686B2
A system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a data center management and monitoring operation. The data center management and monitoring operation includes: identifying data forwarder configuration information for a plurality of data forwarders, the forwarder configuration information including scheduling information; scheduling collection of data from a data source according to the scheduling information; collecting data from a data source based upon the scheduling, the collecting using the forwarder configuration information to identify the data to be collected; formatting the data collected from the data source according to the data forwarder configuration information to provide formatted data; and, forwarding the formatted data to a recipient.
US12166674B2
A system that incorporates teachings of the present disclosure may include, for example avoiding data copy and task switching by processing protocol headers of network PDUs as a serial tape to be processed in order such as by a single method. Other processing includes reducing stages and simplifying protocol processing and multiplexing during network communications. Address changing in an active network can be implemented by assigning multiple addresses to an entity so that a new address can replace the old address. Peer-to-peer application searching can be performed among networks that can be accessible or non-accessible networks. Utilizing anycast sets that include selected and alternative addresses to enable immediate or near immediate alternative route selection on failure or congestion. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12166672B1
A disclosed computing device capable of instantly switching over between routing engines may include (1) a packet forwarding board configured to (A) forward control traffic via a first link to a traffic replication device and (B) forward data traffic via a second link to a first routing engine, (2) the traffic replication device configured to (A) replicate the control traffic received from the packet forwarding board and (B) select control signals received from the first routing engine, (3) the first routing engine configured to receive control traffic from the traffic replication device, and (4) a second routing engine configured to receive control traffic from the traffic replication device. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US12166669B2
Provided herein are systems and methods for managing redistribution and remapping of multicast services between networks in a multi-area network. Multicast streams can be sent through networks from a source node towards a boundary node. The boundary node can receive the multicast stream, remap a source node identifier and service instance identifier, and forward the multicast stream into a second network. The boundary node can receive a route for the multicast stream. The route can be installed in a link-state database and can be used to send the multicast stream through the multi-area network from the source node to a destination node.
US12166664B2
A method performed by a first node. The first node operates in a communications network. The first node determines, based on a header of a packet, a first number of hops. The first number of hops are the hops the packet has to traverse in the communications network to reach a second node in the communications network. The header of the packet indicates a second number of hops between the second node and a third node in the communications network in a first path. The first node obtains a wired backhaul connection to a core network of the communications network from the third node. The first node then initiates routing the packet towards the second node based on the determined first number of hops.
US12166660B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for characterizing data flows within an in-band telemetry (INT) domain. First aggregated statistical data regarding a flow of INT packets is periodically received from a first aggregating network device. The flow of INT packets flows from an initiator network device via one or more transit network devices to a terminator network device. Second aggregated statistical data regarding the flow of INT packets is periodically received from a second aggregating network device. In response to comparing the first aggregated statistical data and the second aggregated statistical data, one or more dropped INT packets may be implicitly identified. Based on the one or more dropped INT packets in the flow of INT packets, a dropped INT packet notification may be provided.
US12166659B2
An example method for dynamic packet routing using prioritized groups includes: receiving, by a processing device, routing information specifying a plurality of paths to a network destination, wherein each path is associated with a respective cost metric value; associating a first subset of the plurality of paths with a first priority routing group for the network destination, wherein each path of the first subset satisfies a first cost criterion based on a cost metric value of the path; associating a second subset of the plurality of paths with a second priority routing group for the network destination, wherein each path of the second subset satisfies a second cost criterion; and storing, in a forwarding information data structure, a first definition of the first priority routing group and a second definition of a second priority routing group.
US12166656B2
Systems, methods, and related technologies for determining fields of an unknown protocol are described. Network traffic capture is grouped into one or more clusters of packets based on similarity. Each of the one or more clusters are parsed to identify one or more fields of an unknown protocol. The network traffic capture is modified, including annotating the identified one or more fields of the unknown protocol. A protocol parser is generated without user input, including parsing each of the annotated one or more fields of the unknown protocol to generate a description of the unknown protocol comprising identified one or more fields of the unknown protocol and an order of the identified one or more fields of the unknown protocol, and compiling the description into the protocol parser.
US12166652B2
A method and apparatus are provided, in which an execution of at least one managed entity operating within a network is con-trolled by a management entity. The management entity includes a controller adapted for establishing (1302) a control loop having a defined target performance value relative to the at least one managed entity, the control loop having one or more criteria associated with assessing the current performance of the at least one managed entity relative to the defined target performance value, where at least one of the one or more associated criteria can not be directly determined by the management entity. The controller is further adapted for identifying (1304) a translation for each of the at least one of the one or more associated criteria that can not be directly determined using one or more different criteria that can be directly determined by the management entity.
US12166651B2
A system and method that includes executing communication processes in an application platform, which comprises on behalf of outside entities, negotiating communications between a set of internal resources and at least one external resource using at least a first communication protocol and a second protocol; capturing internal log information during execution of the application platform; receiving a request to access log information by an outside entity; synthesizing the internal log information of the first protocol and at least a second protocol into a unified communication report; and transmitting the unified communication report.
US12166646B2
A method for displaying a user interface used to manage a storage device is provided. The method is performed by a management device managing the storage device, and the method includes: obtaining, by using configuration content displayed in a first user interface, configuration data of a storage device configured for a first user; and after the first user logs in to the management device, displaying a second user interface corresponding to the first user, where the second user interface displays display content determined based on the configuration data.
US12166644B2
A method, a system, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a AI-based self-management network service is provided. The AI-based self-management network service may include AI-based self-routing management, AI-based self-capacity management, and AI-based self-fault and recovery management for a self-managed network and services. The AI-based self-routing management service may calculate predicted utilization values of network resources of a network path, and calculate a predicted path weight based on the predicted utilization values. The AI-based self-fault and recovery management service may refine the identification of probable causes of failures and selection of recovery actions, and generate new probable causes of failures and new recovery actions based on a machine learning model.
US12166640B2
In some implementations, a method is provided. The method includes receiving captured packet traffic, the captured packet traffic including a plurality of packets transmitted over a network. One or more communication patterns for each of one or more levels in a network stack are detected based on metadata of the captured packet traffic, each communication pattern indicating communication between two components in the network. The method further includes generating a topology of the network in view of the one or more communication patterns detected for each of the one or more levels in the network stack.
US12166629B2
Examples of the presently disclosed technology provide automated firmware recommendation systems that inject the intelligence of machine learning into the firmware recommendation process. To accomplish this, examples train a machine learning model on troves of historical customer firmware update data on a dynamic basis (e.g., examples may train the machine learning model on weekly basis to predict accepted firmware updates made by a vendor's customers across the most recent 6 months). From this dynamic training, the machine learning model can learn to predict/recommend an optimal firmware version for a customer/network device cluster based on firmware-related features, recent customer preferences, and other customer-specific factors. Once trained, examples can deploy the machine learning model to make highly tailored firmware recommendations for individual network device clusters of individual customers taking the above described factors into account.
US12166628B2
An information processing apparatus includes a request unit configured to transmit a request to acquire network configuration information about a dynamic host configuration protocol (DHCP) server that assigns address information to the information processing apparatus, a storage unit configured to store as first network configuration information the network configuration information acquired based on the request, a detection unit configured to detect a change based on the first network configuration information stored in the storage unit and second network configuration information acquired newly by the request unit, and a display control unit configured to display a first display item on a screen based on the detection of the change, the first display item relating to a setting of a security-related function of the information processing apparatus.
US12166627B2
A load control system may be commissioned using beacons. The load control system may include control devices that each include a beacon transmitting circuit configured to transmit a beacon that comprises an identifier associated with the control device. A network device, such as a mobile device, may discover a control device based on the beacon received from the control device. In response to discovery of the control device, the control device may be added to a temporary group of control devices for being collectively configured and/or controlled. Control devices may be discovered based on the signal strength at which the beacons are received. The control devices may provide feedback to a user in response to confirmation messages to indicate to a user that the lighting control device has been added to the temporary group. The control devices may stop providing the feedback after they are removed from the temporary group.
US12166624B1
A system for redistributing traffic in response to failure of a service region. An event bus service is configured to monitor performance of computing resources in a first region of the plurality of regions, wherein events are received from one or more event sources at the event bus via a network endpoint created for the event bus and delivered to one or more event targets by the event bus service in the primary region. Based on the monitoring of the performance of the computing resources in the first region, the event bus service detects a region change event for the event bus in the first region, after detection of the region change event, redirects further events to the event bus in the secondary region, wherein the further events are delivered to the one or more event targets by the event bus service in the secondary region.
US12166623B2
DLOS and reflected signal components of an RF carrier signal are received. The reflected component is reflected from a point on the surface of the earth. The DLOS and reflected components are converted to digital DLOS IF and reflected IF signals, respectively. Modeled parameters are generated using the digital DLOS IF signal and locations of one or more antennas, the transmitter, and the point. A reference signal is generated based on the modeled parameters. The reference signal is correlated with the digital reflected IF signal to produce in-phase and quadrature-phase correlation results. A C/N0 and an estimated phase (EP) are calculated for the digital reflected IF signal from the correlation results. A KF is applied to the EP to produce an estimated filter phase (EFP). The KF is adapted to filter the EP using the estimated C/N0 to reduce cycle slips and noise in the EFP.
US12166621B2
Methods and techniques are described for increasing data rate at a high error performance in wireless transmission. A plurality of groups of p bits, wherein p is an integer greater than 1, is obtained. A transmission signal is generated, which includes, for a group of p bits dividing the group of p bits into a first subgroup of p1 bits and a second subgroup of p2 bits, wherein p1 and p2 are integers greater than zero. Based on the p1 bits, a sequence of modulation schemes is selected from a plurality of predetermined sequences of modulation schemes. The predetermined sequences are mutually different, and each of the predetermined sequences has length R, wherein R is an integer greater than 1. The p2 bits onto R subcarriers are mapped respectively by means of the R modulation schemes of the selected sequence. Finally, the generated transmission signal is transmitted.
US12166614B2
A transmission apparatus of the present disclosure comprises a transmission signal generator which generates a transmission signal that includes a legacy preamble, a non-legacy preamble and a data field, wherein the non-legacy preamble comprises a first signal field and a second signal field, the second signal field comprising a first channel field and a second channel field, each of the first channel field and the second channel field comprising a common field that carries resource assignment information for one or more terminal stations and a user-specific field that carries per-user allocation information for the one or more terminal stations, and wherein a part of the user-specific field of one of the first channel field and the second channel field whichever is longer than the other channel field in length before appending padding bits is relocated to the other channel field; and a transmitter which transmits the generated transmission signal.
US12166612B2
An example according to the present specification relates to a technique relating to a configuration of a preamble in a wireless LAN (WLAN) system. A transmitting STA may generate and transmit an EHT PPDU. The EHT PPDU may include an L-SIG field, an RL-SIG field, and a control field. A result of “modulo 3 operation” to a length field value of the L-SIG field may be set to “0”. The RL-SIG field may be configured the same as the L-SIG field. The control field may include 3-bit information relating to a version of a PPDU.
US12166610B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to improving multiplexing capability in a frequency spectrum are provided. A first wireless communication device obtains a configuration for communicating a communication signal in a frequency spectrum. The configuration is based on at least a number of wireless communication devices scheduled to communicate in a time period. The configuration indicates resources in the frequency spectrum over the time period and a frequency distribution mode of the resources. The first wireless communication device communicates, with a second wireless communication device, the communication signal in the frequency spectrum during the time period based on the configuration.
US12166607B2
A digital isolator can include: an encoding circuit configured to receive and encode an input digital signal, in order to generate an encoded signal, wherein a rising edge of the input digital signal is encoded as a first pulse sequence, and a falling edge of the input digital signal is encoded as a second pulse sequence; an isolation element coupled to the encoding circuit, and being configured to transmit the encoded signal in an electrically isolated manner; and a decoding circuit configured to receive the encoded signal through the isolation element, and to decode the encoded signal, in order to generate an output digital signal consistent with the input digital signal.
US12166598B1
Devices, systems, methods, and processes for dynamically generating indications regarding the sustainability of one or more virtual meeting options is described herein. Virtual meetings can have participants join from all over the world and from very different computing devices which can each be powered by different power source types. When selecting a time for a virtual meeting between a number of participants, a large number of combinations may occur with each option having a different level of sustainability associated with it. However, by accessing historical data, sustainability data, participant data and by gathering various virtual meeting settings, a plurality of options can be presented having one or more indications associated with a particular category of sustainability. A sustainability threshold may be determined and utilized to categorize virtual meeting options as well. This sustainability threshold can also be utilized to dynamically alter configurations during the meeting to stay under that threshold.
US12166594B2
Methods, a remote unit and abase unit are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a remote unit comprising a transceiver; a memory; and a processor coupled to the transceiver and the memory and configured to: control the transceiver to transmit, to a base unit, an indicator in an uplink control information (UCI), wherein the UCI is associated to a configured grant uplink data channel, and the indicator requests code block group (CBG)-level hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback for the configured grant uplink data channel, and control the transceiver to receive, from the base unit, first downlink control information (DCI) which includes a HARQ-ACK codebook, wherein the first DCI has the same size as one uplink grant scheduling uplink data transmission, and wherein the HARQ-ACK codebook includes CBG-level HARQ-ACK feedback information bits for the configured grant uplink data channel.
US12166590B2
Embodiments include methods for a user equipment (UE) configured to operate in a radio access network (RAN). Such methods include receiving, from a radio node in the RAN, a new feedback indicator (NFI) that indicates whether acknowledgement signaling previously scheduled for transmission by the UE was received by the radio node. The acknowledgement signaling is associated with one or more first downlink (DL) hybrid ARQ (HARQ) processes. Such methods include, when the NFI indicates the acknowledgement signaling was not received by the RAN node, selecting a first HARQ codebook to be used for encoding the acknowledgement signaling together with further acknowledgement signaling associated with one or more second DL HARQ processes. Such methods include, using the selected first HARQ codebook, encoding the acknowledgement signaling and the further acknowledgement signaling to obtain first encoded information and transmitting the first encoded information to the radio node via an uplink (UL) channel.
US12166589B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine that a first timing value, received in first downlink control information (DCI) that schedules a first sidelink communication, for indicating a time duration between receiving the first DCI and transmitting first sidelink hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for the first sidelink communication is an inapplicable value. The UE may transmit the first sidelink HARQ feedback in a sidelink HARQ acknowledgment codebook based at least in part on receiving a second DCI that includes a second timing value that is a valid numerical value. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12166583B2
The innovation relates to technologies by which the signal characteristics and, hence, environmental conditions of a transmitter can be concealed. In one aspect, a data transmitter comprises a transmitter and a changer, wherein the transmitter is configured to transmit a signal, wherein at least one signal parameter of the signal depends on at least one environmental parameter in an environment of the data transmitter, wherein the changer is configured to change the at least one signal parameter of the signal or a parameter on which the at least one signal parameter of the signal depends, in order to conceal the at least one environmental parameter.
US12166579B2
Apparatus and methods for implementing high-speed Ethernet links using a hybrid PHY (Physical layer) selectively configurable to employ a non-interleaved RS-FEC (Reed Solomon Forward Error Correction) sublayer or an interleaved RS-FEC sublayer. An adaptive link training protocol is used during link training to determine whether to employ the non-interleaved or interleaved RS-FEC during link DATA mode. Training frames are exchanged between link partners including control and status fields used to respectfully request a non-interleaved or interleaved FEC mode and confirm the requested FEC mode is to be used during link DATA mode. The hybrid PHY includes interleaved RS-FEC and non-interleaved RS-FEC sublayers for transmitter and receiver operations. During link training, a determination is made to whether a local receiver is likely to see decision feedback equalizer (DFE) burst errors. If so, the interleaved FEC mode is selected; otherwise the non-interleaved FEC mode is selected or is the default FEC mode. The apparatus and methods may be implemented for 100 GB ASE-CR1 and 100 GB ASE-KR1 Ethernet links and interfaces.
US12166576B2
Provided is an information processing device which includes a processing unit that transmits information requesting retransmission in a coding unit of a first code processed in a second protocol layer higher than a first protocol layer that performs processing related to a second code, and performs decoding of the first code on a basis of an encoded symbol of the first code obtained by decoding of the second code.
US12166575B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some examples, a first device may combine, for each of a set of sub-blocks of a block of data, a set of unencoded bits associated with a respective sub-block with a matrix to generate a set of encoded bits. The first device may transmit a first message including the block to a second device. The second device may determine respective probabilities of successful decoding of respective selected candidate codewords for the set of sub-blocks of the block based on receiving the first message and may transmit one or more indicators associated with one or more sub-blocks based on the respective probabilities of successful decoding of the respective selected candidate codewords. The first device may transmit a second message including redundancy information for the one or more sub-blocks based on transmitting the one or more indicators.
US12166573B2
A communication apparatus operable in both a base station mode and a terminal mode, obtains identification information of a first wireless network to be connected in the terminal mode; and establishes, when operating in the base station mode, a second wireless network having the same identification information as the obtained identification information.
US12166568B2
A communication system has a control module with a control processing device, and a plurality of common modules. Each of the common modules has a common processing device. The control module and the plurality of common modules are connected with at least one adjacent common module to form a communication array. The control module and the common modules communicate via a first routing path having a first path of common modules of the plurality of common modules, and a second routing path having a second path of common modules of the plurality of common modules different than the first path of common modules. The control module and the plurality of common modules communicate via the second routing path when one of the first set of common modules fails.
US12166560B2
This disclosure relates to techniques for performing beam failure recovery in a high speed single frequency network scenario in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may establish a cellular link with a cellular network according to a single frequency network scheme. The wireless device may determine one or more beam failure detection resources for each of multiple transmission reception points associated with the cellular network. The wireless device may detect beam failure for one or more of the transmission reception points using the beam failure detection resources.
US12166542B2
Described is an apparatus of a fifth generation (5G) Evolved Node-B (eNB) operable to communicate with a 5G User Equipment (UE) on a wireless network comprising one or more processors operable to generate one or more 5G Physical Downlink Shared Channel (xPDSCH) transmissions. The one or more processors may be operable to arrange the one or more xPDSCH transmissions for transmission through one or more respectively corresponding beamformed (Tx) beams. The one or more xPDSCH transmissions may carry one or more respectively corresponding 5G System Information Blocks (xSIBs).
US12166531B2
Disclosed herein is an optical transmitter for generating a vestigial sideband (VSB) optical signal. The optical transmitter includes: a modulator configured based on a photonic integrated chip (PIC); an optical fiber block; and a lensed thin film filter implemented between the modulator configured based on the PIC and the optical fiber block. The PIC includes at least one grating coupler, and the lensed thin film filter is disposed so that an angle of an optical signal emitted from a first grating coupler of the PIC coincides with an angle of incident (AOI) of the lensed thin film filter to design the first grating coupler and the lensed thin film filter.
US12166522B2
A radio frequency (RF) system is provided. The RF system includes an RF transceiver, an RF processing circuit, a transfer switch module, a first antenna, a second antenna, a third antenna, and a fourth antenna. The RF transceiver is coupled with the RF processing circuit. The RF processing circuit is coupled with the transfer switch module. The transfer switch module is coupled with the first antenna, the second antenna, the third antenna, and the fourth antenna. When the RF system operates in a non-standalone (NSA) mode, the first antenna is configured for transmission in a first low band (LB) and primary reception in the first LB, the second antenna is configured for transmission in a second LB and primary reception in the second LB, the third antenna is configured for diversity reception in the second LB, and the fourth antenna is configured for diversity reception in the first LB.
US12166521B2
This application provides an electronic device, including a first cover, a first shell, and a second shell. The first cover includes a first side portion, a middle portion, and a second side portion. The middle portion is connected between the first side portion and the second side portion. The first side portion and the second side portion are spaced apart from and opposite to each other to form an opening. The first side portion, the middle portion, and the second side portion are enclosed to form an accommodating cavity. The first shell and the second shell are both mounted in the accommodating cavity. The first shell and the second shell are matched to support the first cover. The solution of this application can resolve the problem of difficulty in assembling the shells with an exterior part.
US12166518B2
Examples described herein relate to management of concurrent audio streams from different sources. Portable playback devices, such as wearable wireless headphones and earbuds, as well as portable battery-powered speakers, may include multiple network interfaces for connection to different types of networks, such as an 802.11-compatible network interface for connection to wireless local area networks (e.g., Wi-Fi® networks) and an 802.15-compatible network interface for connection to a mobile device via a personal area network (Bluetooth®). Via such connections, the playback devices may receive two or more concurrent streams. By managing these streams according to playback policies, the portable playback devices may play the user's intended audio without necessarily requiring user input to explicitly select among the concurrent streams.
US12166513B1
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques may provide for an adaptive digital post-distortion (DPoD) procedure and reporting of modulation and coding scheme (MCS) indices for communications between a user equipment (UE) and a network entity. The UE may select a kernel from a set of kernels indicated by the network entity for a DPoD procedure based on a target error vector magnitude (EVM). Additionally, or alternatively, the UE may determine a limitation for an MCS index for the network entity to use in communications with the UE based on a power limitation of the UE and an EVM associated with the MCS. The network entity and the UE may accordingly communicate using the MCS limitation requested by the UE and the determined DPoD kernel.
US12166510B2
A switching circuit comprises a first filter, a second filter and a plurality of switches. The first filter is configured to filter a first frequency band, a second frequency band that is adjacent to the first frequency band and a gap band between the first frequency band and the second frequency band. The second filter is configured to filter the second frequency band. The plurality of switches is configured to route signals from an antenna through one of the first filter and second filter.
US12166494B2
A method for generating a clock signal using a digital phase-locked loop includes updating a gain of a variable gain digital filter of the digital phase-locked loop using an estimate error of a current estimate of a phase and a frequency of an input clock signal and a measurement error of a measurement of the phase and the frequency of the input clock signal. The gain may include a proportional gain component and an integral gain component. The method may include calculating the current estimate of the phase and the frequency of the input clock signal based on a previous estimate of the phase and the frequency of the input clock signal, the measurement of the phase and the frequency of the input clock signal, and the gain of the variable gain digital filter. The gain may be updated every cycle of the input clock signal.
US12166493B2
In an example, a system includes a phase-locked loop including a charge pump coupled to a phase frequency detector, a low-pass filter coupled to the charge pump, and a VCO coupled to the low-pass filter, where the charge pump is configured to provide a charge pump current to the low-pass filter. The system also includes a current source configured to provide a bias current to the charge pump. The system includes a first bias compensation circuit configured to increase the bias current responsive to a control voltage provided to the VCO being within a first range. The system also includes a second bias compensation circuit configured to decrease the bias current responsive to the control voltage provided to the VCO being within a second range.
US12166491B2
An apparatus and a method for recovering clock and data from a multilevel pulse amplitude modulated signal received as input signal is suggested. The apparatus comprises a phase detector, a low-pass filter, a voltage-controlled oscillator, and a feedback loop forming a CDR loop. The voltage-controlled oscillator outputs a clock signal that is provided to the phase detector. The phase detector receives an MSB signal from a sampler. The apparatus also comprises an interleave circuit configured to receive the input signal and to generate two output signals having a smaller symbol rate than the input signal. The apparatus further comprises a logical gate configured to receive the output signals from the interleave circuit and to generate an enable signal for the phase detector indicating symmetrical transitions in the input signal. Lastly, the apparatus comprises a converter converting the output signals from the interleave circuit into an MSB and an LSB bit stream.
US12166474B2
A controller controls multiple parallel-coupled power transistors. A correction amount calculation unit generates a reference value based on multiple detection values, each of which has a correlation with the switching loss of corresponding one of the multiple power transistors, and generates multiple correction amounts such that the multiple detection values approach the reference value. A gate signal generating unit generates multiple gate signals based on a control instruction and the multiple correction amounts.
US12166470B2
An acoustic wave device includes a support substrate, a piezoelectric body, an acoustic layer laminate, first and second electrodes, and a lead-out electrode. The first electrode is on a first main surface of the piezoelectric body, the second electrode is on a second main surface of the piezoelectric body, the lead-out electrode is on the first main surface or the second main surface of the piezoelectric body, the lead-out electrode is electrically connected to the first electrode or the second electrode, side surface grooves extend from the first main surface side of the piezoelectric body, and the side surface grooves are provided in at least a portion of a remaining portion excluding a portion provided with the lead-out electrode from a region in an outer side portion of at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode.
US12166466B2
Trim layers that are configured to adjust one or more operating parameters for surface acoustic wave (SAW) devices are disclosed. A SAW device may include an interdigital transducer (IDT) and a piezoelectric material that are configured to generate an acoustic wave and a trim layer that has an acoustic velocity and a density that correspond to a velocity of the acoustic wave. In this manner, the trim layer may be configured to adjust an electromechanical coupling of the SAW device without significantly impacting a resonance frequency of the SAW device. The SAW device may also include an additional trim layer that is configured to adjust a coupling percentage and the resonance frequency of the SAW device. A SAW device may include a trim layer that is configured to adjust certain operating parameters by greater amounts than other operating parameters.
US12166464B2
A microelectromechanical system (MEMS) resonator includes a degenerately-doped single-crystal silicon layer and a piezoelectric material layer disposed on the degenerately-doped single-crystal silicon layer. An electrically-conductive material layer is disposed on the piezoelectric material layer opposite the degenerately-doped single-crystal silicon layer, and patterned to form first and second electrodes.
US12166459B2
Disclosed herein are related to a system and a method of amplifying an input voltage based on cascaded charge pump boosting. In one aspect, first electrical charges are stored at a first capacitor according to the input voltage to obtain a second voltage. In one aspect, the second voltage is amplified according to the first electrical charges stored by the first capacitor to obtain a third voltage. In one aspect, second electrical charges are stored at the second capacitor according to the third voltage. In one aspect, the third voltage is amplified according to the second electrical charges stored by the second capacitor to obtain a fourth voltage.
US12166458B2
The present disclosure provides a RF power amplifier and a method for manufacturing a Doherty power amplifier. The RF power amplifier includes at least one transistor, a harmonic termination circuit, and an impedance inverter. The harmonic termination circuit has one terminal directly connected to the drain electrode of the transistor and contributes as a part of a harmonic matching network for the transistor at the second harmonic and/or the third harmonic of the fundamental frequency. The impedance inverter is configured to perform impedance inversion of a static load or a modulated load at the fundamental frequency without affected by the harmonic termination circuit.
US12166457B2
Amplifier circuits provide operation with low-distortion zero crossings outside of a unipolar power supply voltage range. The amplifiers include multiple driver circuits and a control circuit. The control circuit selects between actively operating selected ones of the multiple driver circuits or all of the multiple driver circuits, according to an input signal to be reproduced by one or more of the multiple amplifier driver circuits. The control circuit determines a splice point at which the control circuit selects between actively operating selected ones of the multiple driver circuits or all of the multiple driver circuits.
US12166452B2
Solar array (1) comprising solar modules (3) distributed in rows (10), each solar module comprising solar collector (5) carried by a single-axis solar tracker (4), a reference solar power plant (2) comprising a central reference solar module and at least one secondary reference solar module, and a piloting unit (7) adapted for: piloting the angular orientation of the central reference module according to a central reference orientation setpoint corresponding to an initial orientation setpoint, piloting the orientation of each secondary reference module according to a secondary reference orientation setpoint corresponding to the initial orientation setpoint shifted by a predefined offset angle; receiving an energy production value from each reference module; piloting the orientation of the modules, except for the reference modules, by applying the reference orientation setpoint associated to the reference module having the highest production value.
US12166451B2
A mobile generator includes a housing having a top portion, a first side portion, and a second side portion, wherein the first side portion includes an energy-receiving component. The mobile generator also includes an arm pivotally coupled to the housing at a first pivot point and to the first side portion at a second pivot point. A first motion controller is configured to drive rotation of the arm about the first pivot point, and a second motion controller configured to drive rotation of the first side portion about the second pivot point.
US12166441B2
Provided is a work machine capable of improving workability. The work machine is provided with: a motor 14; a first power supply unit 180 connected to a battery pack 5 and supplying a boosted power to the motor 14; and a second power supply unit 130 connected to an external AC power supply and supplying a boosted power to the motor 14. The voltage and current of the first power supply unit 180 and the voltage and current of the second power supply unit 130 can be variably controlled by a control circuit 182 and a control circuit 136, respectively. The control circuits 136, 182 perform control so that the power output from the respective first power supply unit 180 and the second power supply unit 130 is combined and supplied to the motor 14.
US12166435B2
A transport system includes a mover, a stator, and a control unit. The mover moves in a first direction. The stator includes a plurality of coils arranged in the first direction and applies force to transport the mover in the first direction while using the plurality of coils, to which current is applied, to levitate the mover in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The control unit controls the current applied to the plurality of coils to control operation of the mover. The control unit controls the current applied to the plurality of coils using machine difference information of the mover to control an attitude of the mover while the mover is being levitated.
US12166428B2
An example converter for a switched reluctance (SR) generator includes one or more gate driver circuits that are not only used to synchronously control switches, such as insulated gate bipolar transistors (IGBTs) of the converter, but also used to provide priming function during start-up of the generator. Since, an SR generator does not have to ability to self provide magnetic flux, priming current is provided to coils of the SR generator to initiate a magnetic flux. By using the gate drive circuit to provide the priming current, an additional priming circuit is not required. As a result, the converter design is more streamlined, with reduced complexity, cost, and size. When a bus voltage of the converter is below a threshold level, the one or more gate drive circuits can provide the priming current on the bus to initiate the SR generator.
US12166427B2
An inverter converts power outputted from a distributed power supply into AC power, and outputs to an AC system. An inverter control circuit generates an AC voltage target value at a time of controlling the inverter, and generates a command value for control of the inverter as a voltage source. When the inverter is introduced into the AC system, the inverter control circuit sets a frequency of the AC voltage target value to a frequency of an AC voltage detected by an AC frequency detection circuit, and controls a phase of the AC voltage target value to be at least a leading phase with respect to the AC voltage of the AC system when a target value of the AC power is in a running direction.
US12166411B2
A control device for a power converter includes a voltage command value limiting unit configured to limit each phase component or an absolute value of a vector of a voltage command value to be equal to or less than a value set in advance. With such a configuration, the control device for the power converter limits each phase component or the absolute value of the vector of the voltage command value to be equal to or less than the value set in advance. Therefore, it is possible to prevent overvoltage of the output from the power converter when impedance rapidly increases on the output side of the power converter.
US12166410B2
A power converter includes two arms for each phase between DC terminals, and each arm is formed by connecting a plurality of converter cells in series. A control device includes an arm voltage command generation unit which generates, for each arm, an arm voltage command for the plurality of converter cells. The arm voltage command is generated by superimposing a zero-phase-sequence voltage command having a frequency component that is three times an AC fundamental frequency. Phase adjustment of the zero-phase-sequence voltage command is performed on the basis of voltage of a DC capacitor in the converter cell and the arm voltage command.
US12166409B2
A power conversion device is provided, and includes a major circuit part and a control device; the major circuit part includes a power conversion part converting, into AC power, power that is input, and a filter circuit causing the AC power output from the power conversion part to approach a sine wave; the control device controls power conversion by the major circuit part by controlling an operation of the power conversion part; the control device includes an overcurrent suppression controller; the overcurrent suppression controller calculates instantaneous value voltage output command values of the phases of the AC power output from the power conversion part to suppress an overcurrent at the output end of the major circuit part. Accordingly, a power conversion device and a control device of the power conversion device are provided in which the generation of an overcurrent can be suppressed even when a voltage-controlled operation is performed.
US12166405B2
A cooling system of a power generation system includes a generator cooling circuit having a first cooling fluid circulating therethrough. The generator cooling circuit includes a generator heat exchanger fluidly connected to a generator of the power generation system via the generator cooling circuit to cool the generator. A power converter cooling circuit has a second cooling fluid different from the first cooling fluid circulating therethrough. The power converter cooling circuit includes a power converter heat exchanger fluidly connected to a power converter of the power generation system via the power converter cooling circuit to cool the power converter.
US12166398B2
A direct converter for an axisymmetric mirror confinement system provides a set of radially symmetric vanes charged to capture ions escaping along the axis of the confinement system and to convert their energy to electrical power. An electron trap positioned before the charged vanes uses a magnetic field to divert and collect electrons, separating them from the ions, and may support a radial electric field providing plasma control. The charged vanes may be constructed of or have a coating of a getter material absorbing neutrals derived from those ions after capture.
US12166394B2
The present disclosure relates to an interconnection assembly for a stator of an electrical machine. The interconnection assembly comprises a shaped bus bar, which has a first region, which comprises a connection point of the interconnection assembly for an external connection, a second region, in which a connecting point for forming a connection of the bus bar to a stator winding is formed, and a central region, which connects the first region and the second region. The first region and the second region are arranged in parallel planes. The central region is oriented in such a way that an angle of a transition between the first region and the central region and an angle of a transition between the second region and the central region deviate from a right angle. The disclosure also relates to a stator having an interconnection assembly.
US12166382B2
A stator (2) for an electric machine (1) includes a laminated core (3) arranged axially between a first end plate (4) and a second end plate (5). A cooling line (6) for introducing a coolant into at least one distribution duct (7) at the particular end plate (4, 5) is arranged outside the end plates (4, 5) and the stator (2) and is fluidically connected to the at least one distribution duct (7) in the particular end plate (4, 5). The laminated core (3) includes multiple axial ducts (8) for guiding the coolant through the stator (2). The axial ducts (8) are fluidically connected to the at least one distribution duct (7) in the particular end plate (4, 5) for the inflow of the coolant. An outflow for the coolant is formed by at least one end-face opening (9) in the particular end plate (4, 5). The at least one opening (9) is configured for spraying the coolant out of the axial ducts (8) onto winding overhangs (10) of the stator (2).
US12166381B2
A stator can comprise a stator body comprising an inner cooling duct, and an outer cooling duct, wherein the inner cooling duct is located closer to a center axis of the stator body than the outer cooling duct, a first endplate received at a first end of the stator body, the first endplate comprising an inlet jacket circumferentially located within the first endplate, an inlet finger fluidly connected to the inlet jacket, and a drainage jacket circumferentially located within the first endplate, a second endplate received at a second end of the stator body, the second endplate comprising an outlet jacket circumstantially located within the second endplate, and an outlet finger fluidly connected to the outlet jacket, wherein the inner cooling duct fluidly connects the inlet jacket to the outlet finger, and wherein the outer cooling duct fluidly connects to the outlet jacket to the drainage jacket.
US12166366B2
A system includes an enclosure configured to couple to an equipment front end module (EFEM) of a substrate processing system, a charging assembly, and one or more support structures within the enclosure. The one or more support structures are configured to support a validation wafer in a charging position to charge the validation wafer via the charging assembly.
US12166362B2
A wireless power reception device and a wireless communication method thereby are provided. The wireless communication method by the wireless power reception device may comprise the steps of: receiving a wireless power signal from a wireless power transmission device; measuring the strength of the wireless power signal; modulating the amplitude of the wireless power signal according to the measured strength of the wireless power signal; and performing communication with the wireless power transmission device by using the signal having the amplitude modulated.
US12166350B2
There is provided mechanisms for handling time shifted data streams in a substation network. A method is performed by an IED. The method comprises receiving a respective data stream from at least two time synchronized data sources in the substation network. The method comprises blocking, upon detecting a time shift between the data streams resulting from one of the data sources losing its time synchronization and until a configured time amount has expired, a protection function in the substation network from acting based on the data streams.
US12166348B2
It is provided a management system for managing renewable energy verification comprising: an arithmetic device configured to execute predetermined processing; a storage device coupled to the arithmetic device, an input unit configured to receive a supply ratio of renewable energy in a manufacturing process, and input quantities of a renewable energy-derived raw material and a renewable energy-derived part out of raw materials and parts input to the manufacturing process; and an RE verification granting module configured to calculate, with use of the received input about the supply ratio of renewable energy and about the input quantities of the renewable energy-derived raw material and the renewable energy-derived part, at least one of the number of pieces to be granted renewable energy verification out of pieces of a manufactured item manufactured by the manufacturing process, or a ratio of pieces of the manufactured item that are to be granted renewable energy verification.
US12166346B1
A fully distributed island micro-grid attack elasticity control system and method are provided. The method includes following specific steps: collecting basic information of a local AC micro-grid bus of a distributed power generation unit and basic information of a neighbor distributed power generation unit connected through a directed communication topology; predicting, based on a dynamic equation of the distributed power generation unit, a sequence of states thereof within a set period of time, namely, the predicted sequence of states; judging whether a system is under attack according to a comparison result of the predicted sequence of states and a real-time state sampling value of a micro-grid, to obtain a sequence of optimal auxiliary control inputs ui*; and calculating an optimal angular frequency reference value ωi* at the next time point according to the sequence of optimal auxiliary control inputs ui*.
US12166341B2
Systems and methods for providing detailed information about high load events in a circuit interrupter are disclosed. The systems and methods provide a user with information such as the maximum high load current reached during a high load event and the average high load current calculated for the duration of the event. In addition, detailed waveform and metered data captures are generated in order to provide a comprehensive cycle-level and/or sub-cycle level overview of the event.
US12166334B2
A power assembly a base assembly including a power source and a pedestal assembly. The pedestal assembly includes a head that is removably coupleable to the base assembly, a controller positioned within the head and configured to be in electrical communication with the power source when the head is coupled to the base assembly, and a receptacle assembly removably coupleable to the head and configured to be in electrical communication with the controller when the receptacle assembly is coupled to the head for supplying power to a vessel or vehicle.
US12166332B2
Waveguide Bragg gratings, optical reflectors and lasers including optical reflectors are disclosed. The optical reflectors include a waveguide, perturbations proximate to the waveguide to create a Bragg grating in the waveguide, and a DC index control structure positioned to vary the DC index along at least a portion of the Bragg grating. In laser embodiments, the waveguide may be coupled to the second end of a semiconductor gain element to form an external cavity having an optical length and a cavity phase. The gain element and optical reflector may be monolithically integrated on a substrate or separate structures.
US12166323B2
The present disclosure provides a crimp terminal in which a core wire is kept from coming loose. The crimp terminal 14 includes a plate-like crimp portion 15 that is to be crimped to a core wire of an electric wire by being deformed so as to wrap around the core wire, and a protruding portion 16 that protrudes from the inner surface of the crimp portion 15. A groove 21 that extends along a direction that intersects the extending direction of the core wire is provided in the protruding portion 16.
US12166322B2
A carbon brush for transferring high currents having a connective piece for connecting an electric conductor and a consumable contact piece having a contact surface formed for abutting against a commutator element. The connective piece has a silver content of approximately 5% by weight to approximately 39% by weight and the contact piece has a silver content of approximately 40% by weight to 100% by weight.
US12166302B2
An electronic assembly includes an interposer assembly and a cable connector module coupled to the interposer assembly. The interposer assembly includes an array of compressible interposer contacts each having upper and lower mating interfaces defining separable mating interfaces. The cable connector module includes a cable connector having a module substrate including module contacts at a bottom of the module substrate coupled to the upper mating interfaces of the corresponding interposer contacts. The cable connector module includes a backshell including a backshell cavity that receives the cable connector. The backshell includes a compression member engaging the cable connector and pressing the cable connector in the direction of the interposer assembly to compress the interposer contacts.
US12166300B2
An electrical connector for mounting on an external circuit board includes: an insulating body having an upper receiving space and a lower receiving space; a terminal module assembled on the insulating body and including plural pin terminals, each pin terminal having a pin for mounting on the external circuit board, wherein the terminal module is capable of being modified to support 1G or 2.5G or 5G or 10G or 25G or 40G signal transmission while keeping arrangement pattern of the pins unchanged in order to be mounted on the same external circuit board.
US12166288B2
Provided are an antenna structure, an array antenna and an electronic device. The antenna structure includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a dielectric layer with an adjustable dielectric constant. The first substrate includes a first base and a first and a second radiation phase shift unit. The second substrate includes a second base and a third and a fourth radiation phase shift unit. Orthographic projections of the first and third radiation phase shift units on the first base at least partially overlap. Orthographic projections of the second and fourth radiation phase shift units on the first base at least partially overlap. A first included angle is formed between extending directions of radiation areas of the first and second radiation phase shift units; a second included angle is formed between extending directions of radiation areas of the third and fourth radiation phase shift units.
US12166287B2
This application provides a terminal antenna, including a first radiator, a second radiator, a third radiator, a first tuning circuit, and a second tuning circuit. The third radiator includes a low frequency radiator and a medium-high frequency radiator. The first tuning circuit is configured to adjust a frequency of a resonance of a ¾λ mode of a medium-high frequency produced by the low frequency radiator to be less than a frequency of a resonance of a left-handed antenna mode. The second tuning circuit is configured to adjust the frequency of the resonance of the left-handed antenna mode to be greater than the frequency of the resonance of the ¾λ mode of the medium-high frequency produced by resonating by the low frequency radiator. Values of both the first distance and the second distance are less than 1/16λ of a frequency band in which the third radiator produces a low frequency.
US12166283B2
Base station antennas are provided herein. A base station antenna includes one or more vertical columns of low-band radiating elements configured to transmit RF signals in a first frequency band. The base station antenna also includes a plurality of vertical columns of high-band radiating elements configured to transmit RF signals in a second frequency band that is higher than the first frequency band. The vertical columns of high-band radiating elements extend in parallel with the one or more vertical columns of low-band radiating elements in a vertical direction.
US12166280B2
Systems and methods are described to create radio daisy chains for convenient and aesthetically pleasing high-density radio deployments.
US12166279B2
An electronic device having an antenna, according to the present invention, comprises a cone antenna comprising: a cone radiator which is provided between a first substrate and a second substrate, the upper part of which is connected to the first substrate and the lower part of which is connected to the second substrate, and which has an opening at the top thereof; a metal patch which is formed on the first substrate so as to be separated from the top opening; a second metal patch which is formed so as to be separated from the metal patch; and a shorting pin which is formed so as to electrically connect the second metal patch and a ground layer of the second substrate, thereby providing a cone antenna having a plurality of metal patches that operate in a wide frequency band from a low frequency band to a 5G sub 6 band.
US12166277B2
A radar system is provided based on a core module comprising a radar transducer based on a long, flat platform, provided with coupling elements at each end, which may comprise ISO standard compatible corner fittings as used in freight containers Accessory modules may be connected to the core module by means of these coupling elements at each end. Accessory modules may provide power, communications, cooling or other support functions as required. The coupling achieved between the core module and accessory modules may be reinforced with side brackets, and may be sufficiently strong that the weight of the complete assembly may be supported by the core module, or by the accessory modules. The combined length of the core module and accessory modules may be selected to correspond essentially to the length of a standard freight container, and the length of the core module alone may be selected to correspond to the flat bed of a standard medium truck.
US12166275B2
An on-body antenna is provided that overcomes mismatch loss problems associated with current on-body antennas and is capable of operating over a wide range of frequencies with low transmission loss. At least a first antenna element of the on-body antenna is configured to receive an oscillating electric current and to radiate an oscillating electromagnetic field over a predetermined range of frequencies. The first antenna element is made of non-electrically-conductive material having a first relative permittivity. At least a second material having a second relative permittivity can be disposed on or in the first antenna element. Disposing the second material provides the first antenna element with an effective permittivity that can be closely matched to a frequency-dependent permittivity of biological tissue of a subject. The first non-electrically-conductive material and the second material can be preselected to have relative permittivities that allow anisotropy to be achieved.
US12166272B2
An electronic device comprising an antenna and a segmentation part is provided. The electronic device includes a conductive housing, a printed circuit board arranged in the internal space of the conductive housing and comprising a wireless communication module, a conductive plate on which the printed circuit board is arranged, a segmentation part for segmenting at least a portion of the conductive housing, an opening arranged between the conductive housing and the conductive plate, an antenna formed via the segmentation part and the opening, and a non-conductive member for filling at least a portion of the segmentation part and the opening. The distance between a mutually facing end surface of the antenna and end surface of the conductive plate is configured to vary.
US12166270B2
Provided is an electronic device provided with an antenna for 5G communication according to the present invention. The electronic device includes an array antenna which is implemented as a multi-layer substrate inside the electronic device and includes a plurality of antenna elements. Each of the antenna elements of the array antenna comprises: a patch antenna disposed on a specific layer of the multi-layer substrate and configured to radiate a signal applied from a feeder line; a first electronic band gap (EBG) element disposed parallel to the patch antenna on the left or right side of the patch antenna; and a second electronic band gap (EBG) element disposed parallel to the patch antenna on the upper or lower side of the patch antenna.
US12166269B2
Various embodiments of the disclosure relate to an electronic device including an antenna. The electronic device may include: a housing; a main board disposed in an internal space of the housing and including a first surface oriented in a first direction, a second surface facing a direction opposite the first direction, and a through hole; and an antenna module disposed on the main board. The antenna module may include: a board at least partially disposed in the through hole and including a plurality of antenna elements; and a wireless communication circuit configured to transmit and/or receive a wireless signal in a predetermined frequency band via the plurality of antenna elements, the wireless communication circuit disposed on the second surface of the main board.
US12166267B2
An electronic device is provided. The device includes a metal frame. The metal frame includes a first side and the first side includes three metal segments separated by two first gaps. The three metal segments include a first metal segment and the first metal segment is used to realize a first antenna. An operating frequency band of the first antenna at least includes 5 GHz to enable the electronic device to support a fifth-generation mobile communication network.
US12166260B2
Techniques regarding an embedded microstrip transmission line implemented in one more superconducting microwave electronic devices are provided. For example, one or more embodiments described herein can comprise an apparatus, which can include a superconducting material layer positioned on a raised portion of a dielectric substrate. The raised portion can extend from a surface of the dielectric substrate. The apparatus can also comprise a dielectric film that covers at least a portion of the superconducting material layer and the raised portion of the dielectric substrate.
US12166257B2
A filter for filtering an electromagnetic wave and a filter design method are provided. The filter comprises a cavity with a first plate and a second plate, the first and second plates are opposite to each other. The first plate comprises a number of elements distributed on the side of the first plate facing the cavity, wherein a location of each element on the first plate is defined in a coordinate system. The second plate comprises a number of elements distributed on the side of the second plate facing the cavity according to the locations of the elements on the first plate, wherein each element is distributed on the second plate with an offset with respect to a corresponding element on the first plate.
US12166253B2
Disclosed are an electrolytic reduction system of a vanadium electrolyte and a method for producing the electrolyte. The electrolytic reduction system includes a separating device and an electrolytic tank. The separating device is configured to separate a mixture consisting of a vanadium pentoxide (V2O5) solid and a sulfate acid solution, thereby obtaining a vanadium solution from a liquid discharging port of the separating device and a vanadium solid from a solid discharging port. The vanadium solution includes pentavalent vanadium ions. The electrolytic tank connects to the liquid discharging port of the separating device to contain the vanadium solution. In the method for producing the vanadium electrolyte, other chemical reagents are unnecessarily to be added into the mixture, and the vanadium solution is subjected to an electrolytic reduction process, such that the pentavalent vanadium ions are reduced to tetravalent vanadium ions and trivalent vanadium ions in the electrolytic tank.
US12166242B2
An electrode plate includes a current collector. The current collector includes a conductive layer and an insulating layer. The conductive layer includes a tab portion. In thickness direction of the electrode plate, the conductive layer is provided at two opposite sides of the insulating layer. The insulating layer includes a first region and a second region, and in width direction of the electrode plate, at least one end of the first region is connected to the second region. Thickness of the second region is less than thickness of the first region, and the tab portion is at least partially disposed in the second region. The electrode plate further includes an active substance layer applied on a surface of the conductive layer facing away from the insulating layer. The tab portion is not coated with the active substance layer.
US12166238B2
A secondary battery includes a Z stack electrode assembly including a separator bent in a Z shape and including a plurality of bent areas, a first electrode plate on a lower portion of each of the bent areas, and a second electrode plate on an upper portion of each of the bent areas, and an exterior portion configured to accommodate the Z stack electrode assembly, and an outermost end area of the separator is bent to be thermally fused to a bent area of the plurality of bent areas of the separator.
US12166230B2
Disclosed is a secondary battery, which has a reinforced strength and can simplify the manufacturing process thereof. For example, one embodiment provides a secondary battery which comprises: an electrode assembly including a first electrode plate and a second electrode plate, wherein one of the first electrode plate and the second electrode plate includes a plurality of first tabs formed to protrude in one direction; a first current collection tab coupled to the first tabs; a case housing the electrode assembly; and a cap assembly coupled to the upper part of the case, wherein the first current collection tab is coupled to one of the cap assembly and the bottom surface of the case.
US12166227B1
Aspects of the disclosure relate to an enclosure for a battery pack. The enclosure may include one or more casted portions, such as a casted front member and a casted rear member. The casted portions may provide benefits including reducing a number of seal paths on the enclosure, facilitating serviceability of various electrical components from a bottom of the battery pack, reducing a number of parts of the enclosure, facilitating efficient battery pack assembly, facilitating connector placement for ergonomics and/or damage protection, facilitating placement of vents, providing casted in lid, lung, and/or skid plate attachments, and/or improving strike reinforcement features.
US12166226B2
A battery pack is provided. The battery pack includes a first partition piece, a battery row, and a shielding member. The first partition piece is located between two batteries adjacent to each other in a first direction in the battery row. An upper surface of the first partition piece is lower than an upper surface of a top cover. A recess is formed between the battery row and the first partition piece. The shielding member includes a first shielding portion and a second shielding portion. The first shielding portion overlays all explosion-proof valves of the battery row. A passage is disposed between the first shielding portion and the upper surface of the battery row. The passage is configured to guide a fluid to flow along the first direction and is provided with a downward opening. The second shielding portion closes off a part of the opening facing the recess directly.
US12166221B2
An energy storage device includes: a case; an electrode terminal having a terminal body, a shaft, and a step disposed at the root of the shaft; and an upper insulating member disposed between the terminal body and the case. The upper insulating member has a terminal support part abutting on a terminal bottom surface of the step and a wall part facing the end face of the terminal body. On one of the terminal body and the upper insulating member, a convex part projecting toward the other of the terminal body and the upper insulating member is formed at a position between the step and the wall part. A gap is formed between the terminal body and the upper insulating member on the side of the convex part.
US12166220B1
A cell top cover and a cell are provided. The cell top cover includes an aluminum sheet, at least one pole post, and at least one upper plastic member. The aluminum sheet defines at least one pole through-hole, each respective pole post penetrates through a respective pole through-hole of the at least one pole through-hole, and the at least one upper plastic member is disposed on a top side of the aluminum sheet, and a respective upper plastic member is sleeved and fixed on the respective pole post. The aluminum sheet is provided with at least one limiting portion on the top side of the aluminum sheet, and a respective limiting portion protrudes from a circumferential side of the respective pole through-hole, and is fitted with the respective upper plastic member to limit rotation of the respective upper plastic member relative to the aluminum sheet.
US12166217B2
The present invention relates to a secondary battery in which an electrode assembly and a current collection plate may be easily welded and safety may be improved. As an embodiment, disclosed is a secondary battery comprising: an electrode assembly which is formed by winding a first electrode plate having a first electrode uncoated part, a separator, and a second electrode plate having a second electrode uncoated part, the first electrode uncoated part protruding upwards, and the second electrode uncoated part protruding downwards; and a first current collection plate which is electrically connected to the first electrode uncoated part and has a concave-convex part protruding downwards, wherein the width of the concave-convex part becomes wider from the center of the first current collection plate toward the outer periphery thereof.
US12166213B2
The present application relates to an electrode sheet, a battery cell and a battery. The electrode sheet includes a current collector and a protective layer. The current collector includes a coated region provided with an active material layer and an uncoated region without being provided with the active material layer. The protective layer is provided on at least a part of a surface of the uncoated region, and has a porosity of 0% to 95%. For the electrode sheet according to the present application, by providing the current collector with the protective layer, the contact resistance may be increased when the electrode sheet is short-circuited, and the discharge power and the thermal runaway probability of the battery cell may be reduced when the battery cell is internally short-circuited, thereby improving the safety performance of the battery cell.
US12166203B2
A process for the formation of a deformable battery electrode includes mixing a metal component including at least one of a metal or a metal alloy, a polymer component, and a dispersant component to create a mixture. The method further includes heated the mixture to a temperature above the melting point of the metal or the metal alloy and agitating the mixture to form a dispersion of the (molten) metal or the metal alloy in the mixture. The method further includes cooling the mixture to a temperature below the melting point of the metal or the metal alloy to form a stabilized dispersion of the metal or the metal alloy. The polymer component includes a polymer having a melting point equal to or below that of the metal or the metal alloy and a glass transition temperature sufficiently low that the stabilized dispersion is deformable.
US12166201B2
An electrode structure includes a base layer including a first active material, and a plurality of active material plates on a first surface of the base layer and spaced apart from one another, the plurality of active material plates including a second active material. An active material density of the base layer is less than an active material density of an active material plate of the plurality of active material plates.
US12166200B2
A lithium-ion battery may include a cathode, an anode, and a polymer electrolyte. The anode may include a current collector. The current collector may include a metal oxide layer provided in a first pattern overlaying a metal layer. The anode may also include a patterned lithium storage structure. The patterned lithium storage structure may include a continuous porous lithium storage layer overlaying at least a portion of the first pattern of metal oxide. These and other lithium-ion batteries are described.
US12166190B2
The present disclosure relates to a cooling device for a power battery system, a power battery system for a vehicle comprising the cooling device, and a vehicle. The cooling device is disposed at a bottom of the power battery system and includes a chamber defined by a casing. The chamber includes: a first region where a liquid cooling plate assembly is disposed; and a second region sealingly separated from the first region and accommodating a piping system for coolant communication. The liquid cooling plate assembly extends from a bottom of the first region to a bottom of the second region, and the piping system is in fluid communication with a flow passage of the liquid cooling plate assembly. In the cooling device of the present disclosure, the piping system is all disposed outside the battery system. Thus, battery cells or high-voltage devices inside the battery system would not be affected even if the coolant leaks at the piping system, which greatly improves safety of the battery system.
US12166187B1
A method can include loading a battery with battery materials (e.g., electrolyte, cathode materials, anode materials), applying a first charge to the battery, applying a first discharge to the battery, cycling the battery (e.g., through subsequent charge and discharge cycles) where operating conditions in the subsequent charge and/or discharge cycles can be different from operating conditions in the first charge and/or first discharge.
US12166176B2
An isocyanate electrolyte solution additive containing a sulfamide structural group has a structure of formula I: where R1 and R2 are identical or different, R1 and R2 are each independently selected from methyl, ethyl, butyl, methoxy, methanesulfonyl, ethanesulfonyl, fluorosulfonyl, trifluoromethanesulfonyl, perfluoroethylsulfonyl, benzenesulfonyl, alkyl-containing benzenesulfonyl, cyano/fluorobenzenesulfonyl and alkoxy-containing benzenesulfonyl, and R1 and R2 can be linked to form one of five-membered ring or six-membered ring.
US12166162B2
A semiconductor light emitting device includes a semiconductor light source, a resin package surrounding the semiconductor light source, and a lead fixed to the resin package. The lead is provided with a die bonding pad for bonding the semiconductor light source, and with an exposed surface opposite to the die bonding pad The exposed surface is surrounded by the resin package in the in-plane direction of the exposed surface.
US12166158B2
A color conversion panel includes light blocking members spaced apart from each other on a substrate; and a first color conversion layer, a second color conversion layer, and a transmission layer respectively disposed between the light blocking members, wherein the transmission layer includes first quantum dots, and the first quantum dots convert incident light into light having a wavelength in a range of about 480 nm to about 530 nm.
US12166156B2
A semiconductor light-emitting device includes a semiconductor stack including a first semiconductor layer and a second semiconductor layer; a first reflective layer formed on the first semiconductor layer and including a plurality of vias; a plurality of contact structures respectively filled in the vias and electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer; a second reflective layer including metal material formed on the first reflective layer and contacting the contact structures; a plurality of conductive vias surrounded by the semiconductor stack; a connecting layer formed in the conductive vias and electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer; a first pad portion electrically connected to the second semiconductor layer; and a second pad portion electrically connected to the first semiconductor layer, wherein a shortest distance between two of the conductive vias is larger than a shortest distance between the first pad portion and the second pad portion.
US12166154B2
Discussed is a display device, including a substrate, a wiring electrode disposed on the substrate, a plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements electrically connected to the wiring electrode, an anisotropic conductive layer disposed between the plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements and formed of a mixture of conductive particles and an insulating material; and a buffer portion disposed on a lower surface of a semiconductor light-emitting element of the plurality of semiconductor light-emitting elements so as to allow the wiring electrode and the semiconductor light-emitting element to be spaced apart by a predetermined distance, and provided with at least one hole, wherein the mixture of the conductive particles and the insulating material is disposed inside the at least one hole, and the wiring electrode is electrically connected to the semiconductor light-emitting element through conductive particles disposed inside the at least one hole.
US12166146B2
An isolation system and isolation device are disclosed. An illustrative isolation device is disclosed to include a transmitter circuit to generate a first current in accordance with a first signal, a first elongated conducting element to generate a magnetic field when the first current flows through the first elongated conducting element, a second elongated conducting element adjacent to the first elongated conducting element so as to receive the magnetic field. The second elongated conducting element is configured to generate an induced current when the magnetic field is received. The receiver circuit is configured to receive the induced current as an input, and configured to generate a reproduced first signal as an output of the receiver circuit.
US12166142B1
A solar cell is provided, including a substrate having a rear surface including P-type regions and N-type regions, first dielectric layers each formed over a N-type region, first doped polysilicon layers each formed on a first dielectric layer and doped with an N-type doping element, second dielectric layers each formed over a P-type region, second doped polysilicon layers each formed on a second dielectric layer and doped with a P-type doping element, a passivation layer formed over surfaces of the first and second doped polysilicon layers, and first and second electrodes penetrating the passivation layer. Each first electrode is electrically connected to a first doped polysilicon layer and each second electrode is electrically connected to a second doped polysilicon layer. A first roughness of a surface of a first doped polysilicon layer is greater than a second roughness of a surface of a second doped polysilicon layer.
US12166140B2
A solar cell is provided, including: a semiconductor substrate including a front surface and a rear surface arranged opposite to each other; an emitter located on the front surface of the semiconductor substrate; a front passivation layer located over the front surface of the semiconductor substrate; a tunneling layer located over the rear surface of the semiconductor substrate; a doped conductive layer located over a surface of the tunneling layer; a rear passivation layer located over a surface of the doped conductive layer; a front electrode in contact with the emitter; and a rear electrode in contact with the first doped conductive layer. The doped conductive layer includes a first doped conductive layer corresponding to a rear metallized region, and a second doped conductive layer corresponding to a rear non-metallized region. The first doped conductive layer has an oxygen content less than the second doped conductive layer.
US12166135B2
The invention allows stable fabrication of a TFT circuit board used in a display device and having thereon an oxide semiconductor TFT. A TFT circuit board includes a TFT that includes an oxide semiconductor. The TFT has a gate insulating film formed on part of the oxide semiconductor and a gate electrode formed on the gate insulating film. A portion of the oxide semiconductor that is covered with the gate electrode 104 and a portion of the oxide semiconductor that is not covered with the gate electrode are both covered with a first interlayer insulating film. The first interlayer insulating film is covered with a first film 106, and the first film is covered with a first AlO film.
US12166134B2
A semiconductor device with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. A semiconductor device with high reliability is provided. A semiconductor device with stable electrical characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, and a conductive layer. The semiconductor layer, the second insulating layer, and the conductive layer are stacked in this order over the first insulating layer. The semiconductor layer contains indium and oxygen and has a composition falling within a range obtained by connecting first coordinates (1:0:0), second coordinates (2:1:0), third coordinates (14:7:1), fourth coordinates (7:2:2), fifth coordinates (14:4:21), sixth coordinates (2:0:3), and the first coordinates in this order with a straight line in a ternary diagram showing atomic ratios of indium to an element M and zinc. In addition, the element M is one or more of gallium, aluminum, yttrium, and tin.
US12166132B2
A semiconductor device including a conductive line on a substrate, a first gate electrode on the conductive line, a second gate electrode separated by a gate isolation insulating layer on the first gate electrode, a first channel layer on a side surface of the first gate electrode, with a first gate insulating layer therebetween, a first source/drain region on another side surface of the first gate electrode, a second channel layer on another side surface of the second gate electrode on a side that is opposite to the first channel layer, with a second gate insulating layer therebetween, a second source/drain region on the second channel layer, and a third source/drain region on the first channel layer and on a side surface of the second gate electrode on a same side as the first channel layer may be provided.
US12166128B2
A device, structure, and method are provided whereby an insert layer is utilized to provide additional support for weaker and softer dielectric layer. The insert layer may be applied between two weaker dielectric layers or the insert layer may be used with a single layer of dielectric material. Once formed, trenches and vias are formed within the composite layers, and the insert layer will help to provide support that will limit or eliminate undesired bending or other structural motions that could hamper subsequent process steps, such as filling the trenches and vias with conductive material.
US12166120B2
A silicon carbide semiconductor device being capable of operating at least 100 degree C., includes a semiconductor substrate having an active region, the semiconductor substrate having first and second surfaces opposite to each other, a first semiconductor region of an n type, provided in the semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor region of a p type, provided in the active region, between the first surface of the semiconductor substrate and the first semiconductor region, and a device element structure including a pn junction between the second and first semiconductor regions that forms a body diode through which a current flows when the semiconductor device is turned on. A stacking fault area that is a sum of areas that contain stacking faults within an entire active region of the first surface of the semiconductor substrate in the first surface is set to be greater, the higher a breakdown voltage is set.
US12166118B2
A layer of yttrium (Y) and aluminum nitride (AlN) is employed as a back-barrier to improve confinement of electrons within a channel layer of a high electron mobility transistor (HEMT). As HEMT dimensions are reduced and a channel length decreases, current control provided by a gate also decreases, and it becomes more difficult to “pinch-off” current flow through the channel. A back-barrier layer on a back side of the channel layer improves confinement of electrons to improve pinch-off but does not cause a second 2DEG to be formed below the back-barrier layer. The YAlN layer can be lattice-matched to the channel layer to avoid lattice strain, and a thin layer of YAlN provides less thermal resistance than HEMTs made with thicker back-barrier materials. Due to its chemical nature, a YAlN layer can be used as an etch stop layer.
US12166116B2
A semiconductor device includes a drain electrode, a first source electrode, a second source electrode, a first gate electrode, and a second gate electrode. The first gate electrode is arranged between the first source electrode and the drain electrode. The first gate electrode extends along a first direction. The second gate electrode is arranged between the second source electrode and the drain electrode. The second gate electrode extends along the first direction. The first gate electrode is arranged above a first imaginary line substantially perpendicular to the first direction in a top view of the semiconductor device and the second gate electrode is arranged below a second imaginary line substantially perpendicular to the first direction in the top view of the semiconductor device.
US12166111B2
We herein describe a semiconductor device comprising a first element portion formed on a substrate, the first element portion being an operating region of an insulated gate bipolar transistor (IGBT) and a second element portion formed on the substrate, the second element portion being an operating region of a diode. The first element portion comprises a first collector region of a second conductivity type, a drift region of a first conductivity type located over the first collector region, and formed by the semiconductor substrate, a first body region of a first conductivity type located over the drift region, a second body region of a second conductivity type located over the drift region, at least one first contact region of a first conductivity type located above the second body region and having a higher doping concentration compared to the first body region, at least one second contact region of a second conductivity type located laterally adjacent to the at least one first contact region, the at least one second contact region having a higher doping concentration than the second body region, a first plurality of trenches extending from a surface through the second body region of a second conductivity type into the drift region wherein the at least one first contact region adjoins at least one of the plurality of trenches so that, in use, a channel region is formed along said at least one trench of the first plurality of trenches and within the body region of a second conductivity type. A first trench of the first plurality of trenches is laterally spaced from a second trench of the first plurality of trenches by a first distance. The second element portion comprises a second collector region of a second conductivity type, the drift region of a first conductivity type located over the second collector region, a third body region of a second conductivity type located over the drift region, a second plurality of trenches extending from a surface through the third body region into the drift region. A first trench of the second plurality of trenches is laterally spaced from a second trench of the second plurality of trenches by a second distance, and the first distance is larger than the second distance. The semiconductor device further comprises a first terminal contact, wherein the first terminal contact is electrically connected to the at least one first contact region of a first conductivity type and the body region of a second conductivity type and a second terminal contact, wherein the second terminal contact is electrically connected to the first collector region and the second collector region.
US12166110B2
A method and structures are used to fabricate a nanosheet semiconductor device. Nanosheet fins including nanosheet stacks including alternating silicon (Si) layers and silicon germanium (SiGe) layers are formed on a substrate and etched to define a first end and a second end along a first axis between which each nanosheet fin extends parallel to every other nanosheet fin. The SiGe layers are undercut in the nanosheet stacks at the first end and the second end to form divots, and a dielectric is deposited in the divots. The SiGe layers between the Si layers are removed before forming source and drain regions of the nanosheet semiconductor device such that there are gaps between the Si layers of each nanosheet stack, and the dielectric anchors the Si layers. The gaps are filled with an oxide that is removed after removing the dummy gate and prior to forming the replacement gate.
US12166097B2
A semiconductor device includes a lower channel pattern and an upper channel pattern stacked on a substrate in a first direction perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate, lower source/drain patterns on the substrate and at a first side and a second side of the lower channel pattern, upper source/drain patterns stacked on the lower source/drain patterns and at a third side and a fourth side of the upper channel pattern, a first barrier pattern between the lower source/drain patterns and the upper source/drain patterns, and a second barrier pattern between the first barrier pattern and the upper source/drain patterns. The first barrier pattern includes a first material and the second barrier pattern includes a second material, wherein the first material and the second material are different.
US12166090B2
An electronic device can include a substrate, an active region of a transistor, and a shield electrode. The substrate can define a trench and include a mesa adjacent to the trench, and the shield electrode can be within the trench. In an embodiment, the electronic device can further include an active region of a transistor within the mesa and an insulating layer including a thicker section and a thinner section closer to a bottom of the trench. In another embodiment, the electronic device can include a body region and a doped region within the mesa and spaced apart from the body region by a semiconductor region. The doped region can have a dopant concentration that is higher than a dopant concentration of the semiconductor region and a portion of the substrate underlying the doped region.
US12166088B2
A method according to the present disclosure includes receiving a workpiece that includes a gate structure, a first gate spacer feature, a second gate spacer feature, a gate-top dielectric feature over the gate structure, the first gate spacer feature and the second gate spacer feature, a first source/drain feature over a first source/drain region, a second source/drain feature over a second source/drain region, a first dielectric layer over the first source/drain feature, and a second dielectric layer over the second source/drain feature. The method further includes replacing a top portion of the first dielectric layer with a first hard mask layer, forming a second hard mask layer over the first hard mask layer while the second dielectric layer is exposed, etching the second dielectric layer to form a source/drain contact opening and to expose the second source/drain feature, and forming a source/drain contact over the second source/drain feature.
US12166081B2
A semiconductor device includes; a substrate including a first region and a second region, a first active pattern extending upward from the first region, a first superlattice pattern on the first active pattern, a first active fin centrally disposed on the first active pattern, a first gate electrode disposed on the first active fin, and first source/drain patterns disposed on opposing sides of the first active fin and on the first active pattern. The first superlattice pattern includes at least one first semiconductor layer and at least one first blocker-containing layer, and the first blocker-containing layer includes at least one of oxygen, carbon, fluorine and nitrogen.
US12166074B2
A method includes removing a first dummy gate stack and a second dummy gate stack to form a first trench and a second trench. The first dummy gate stack and the second dummy gate stack are in a first device region and a second device region, respectively. The method further includes depositing a first gate dielectric layer and a second gate dielectric layer extending into the first trench and the second trench, respectively, forming a fluorine-containing layer comprising a first portion over the first gate dielectric layer, and a second portion over the second gate dielectric layer, removing the second portion, performing an annealing process to diffuse fluorine in the first portion into the first gate dielectric layer, and at a time after the annealing process, forming a first work-function layer and a second work-function layer over the first gate dielectric layer and the second gate dielectric layer, respectively.
US12166069B2
A semiconductor device includes substrate, a first gate structure, a second gate structure, and an epitaxy layer. The first gate structure and the second gate structure are over the substrate, in which the first gate structure and the second gate structure each comprises a shielding electrode, a gate electrode over the shielding electrode, and a first gate dielectric layer vertically separating the shielding electrode from the gate electrode. The epitaxy layer is over the substrate and cups an underside of the first gate structure and the second gate structure, in which the epitaxy layer comprises a doped region laterally between the first gate dielectric layer of the first gate structure and the first gate dielectric layer of the second gate structure, a dopant concentration of the doped region being non-uniform along a lateral direction.
US12166066B2
A thin film laminate structure, an integrated device including the same, and a method of manufacturing the thin film laminate structure are provided. The thin film laminate structure includes two or more dielectric layers, wherein at least one of the dielectric layers of the thin film laminate structure includes a compound represented by Formula 1 and having a perovskite-type crystal structure having a B/B′ composition ratio different from that of a remainder of the dielectric layers: AB1-xB′xO3
US12166063B2
An optoelectronic device includes an array of germanium-based photodiodes including a stack of semiconductor layers, made from germanium, trenches, and a passivation semiconductor layer, made from silicon. Each photodiode includes a silicon-germanium peripheral zone in the semiconductor portion formed through an interdiffusion of the silicon of the passivation semiconductor layer and of the germanium of the semiconductor portion.
US12166047B2
Provided are a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a base substrate, a first transistor, and a planarization layer. The first transistor includes a first active layer, a first gate, a first source, and a first drain. The planarization layer is located above the first source. In the direction perpendicular to the base substrate, at least one insulating layer and a first organic area are provided between the film layer where the first active layer is located and the planarization layer. An insulating layer in the first organic area is made of organic material and the first organic area is located in a display area.
US12166032B2
A semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a gate dielectric layer and a conductive layer that are stacked, and the gate dielectric layer is located between the substrate and the conductive layer. The substrate includes a semiconductor substrate and an insulating substrate which are arranged on the same layer. The conductive layer includes: a gate conductor layer, a projection of which on the substrate covers the semiconductor substrate, and an external connecting layer, a projection of which on the substrate covers the insulating substrate. A groove is formed on a bottom surface, towards the substrate, of the external connecting layer and the groove is filled with an insulator.
US12166024B2
Direct-bonded LED arrays and applications are provided. An example process fabricates a LED structure that includes coplanar electrical contacts for p-type and n-type semiconductors of the LED structure on a flat bonding interface surface of the LED structure. The coplanar electrical contacts of the flat bonding interface surface are direct-bonded to electrical contacts of a driver circuit for the LED structure. In a wafer-level process, micro-LED structures are fabricated on a first wafer, including coplanar electrical contacts for p-type and n-type semiconductors of the LED structures on the flat bonding interface surfaces of the wafer. At least the coplanar electrical contacts of the flat bonding interface are direct-bonded to electrical contacts of CMOS driver circuits on a second wafer. The process provides a transparent and flexible micro-LED array display, with each micro-LED structure having an illumination area approximately the size of a pixel or a smallest controllable element of an image represented on a high-resolution video display.
US12166008B2
An apparatus for injecting solder material in via holes located in a top surface of a wafer is provided. The apparatus includes an injection head having a contact surface for contacting the top surface of the wafer, and at least one aperture for injecting the solder material though the injection head into the via holes. The apparatus further includes an evacuating device connected to the injection head for evacuating gas from the via holes. The injection head has a chamfer part on an edge of a contact surface contacting the top surface of the wafer.
US12166007B2
A semiconductor package includes: a base substrate; a semiconductor chip stack including a plurality of semiconductor chips stacked on the base substrate in a first direction and each having an upper surface on which a plurality of pads are disposed; and bonding wire structures electrically connecting the base substrate and the semiconductor chips. The semiconductor chip stack includes a lower semiconductor chip stack and an upper semiconductor chip stack on the lower semiconductor chip stack. The plurality of semiconductor chips include a first semiconductor chip at an uppermost portion of the lower semiconductor chip stack and second semiconductor chips. The plurality of pads include first pads, aligned in a second direction, and second pads, spaced apart from the first pads in a third direction. The first pad on the first semiconductor chip, has an area larger than an area of each of the first pads on the second semiconductor chips.
US12166002B2
Provided is a semiconductor device including a conductive member including a main surface facing one side in a thickness direction; a semiconductor element including a plurality of pads facing the main surface of the conductive member; and a plurality of electrodes protruding from the plurality of pads toward the other side in the thickness direction. The conductive member includes a plurality of recessed portions recessed from the main surface toward the other side in the thickness direction. The semiconductor device further includes a bonding layer that is conductive and that is arranged in each of the plurality of recessed portions. The plurality of electrodes are separately inserted into the plurality of recessed portions. The conductive member and the plurality of electrodes are bonded through the bonding layers.
US12165994B2
An electronic assembly, such as an integrated circuit package, may be formed comprising a package substrate, a plurality of integrated circuit devices electrically attached to the package substrate, wherein each integrated circuit device of the plurality of integrated circuit devices includes an active surface and a backside surface, and wherein a first integrated circuit device and a second integrated circuit device of the plurality of integrated circuit devices includes radio frequency logic circuitry and a radio frequency antenna formed in or attached thereto, and a radio frequency waveguide on the backside surface of the first integrated circuit device and on the backside surface of the second integrated circuit device.
US12165985B2
In accordance with some embodiments a via is formed over a semiconductor device, wherein the semiconductor device is encapsulated within an encapsulant 129. A metallization layer and a second via are formed over and in electrical connection with the first via, and the metallization layer and the second via are formed using the same seed layer. Embodiments include fully landed vias, partially landed vias in contact with the seed layer, and partially landed vias not in contact with the seed layer.
US12165980B2
A semiconductor package, which may correspond to a high-performance computing package, includes an integrated circuit die electrically and/or mechanically connected to a top surface of an interposer and a plurality of connection structures electrically and/or mechanically connected to a bottom surface of the interposer. The top surface of the interposer includes a set of test contact structures (e.g., one or more test bumps) that are electrically connected to the integrated circuit die through traces of the interposer. The set of test structures may be contacted by a probe needle to test a quality and/or a reliability of the integrated circuit die, as well as verify that traces of the interposer are functional. The set of test contact structures allows the integrated circuit die and traces of the interposer to be tested without probing the connection structures.
US12165979B2
A semiconductor apparatus includes a semiconductor element unit comprising one or more semiconductor elements, a packaging substrate, and a motherboard. The packaging substrate, connected to the semiconductor elements, includes a core layer and an upper layer disposed on the core layer. The core layer includes a glass substrate, a core via, and a core distribution layer. The glass substrate having a first surface and a second surface facing each other. A part of the core distribution layer connects electrically conductive layers of the first surface and an electrically conductive layer of the second surface through the core via penetrating through the glass substrate. A thickness of a thinner one among electrically conductive layers of the core distribution layer is the same as or greater than a width of a thinner one among the electrically conductive layers of the upper layer.
US12165978B2
Package structure and method of manufacturing the same are provided. The package structure includes a first die, a second die, a first encapsulant, a third die, and a second encapsulant. The first die and the second die laterally aside the first die. The first encapsulant laterally encapsulates the first die and the second die. The third die is electrically connected to the first die and the second die. The second encapsulant is over the first die, the second die and the first encapsulant, laterally encapsulating the third die. The first encapsulant includes a plurality of first fillers, the second encapsulant includes a plurality of second fillers, and a content of the second fillers in the second encapsulant is less than a content of the first fillers in the first encapsulant.
US12165972B2
A method includes identifying at least a first mask or a second mask, fabricating, by the first mask, a first conductive line, fabricating, by the second mask, a second conductive line, and fabricating, by the first mask, a third conductive line if a dimension of the first conductive line is larger than a corresponding dimension of the second conductive line, or fabricating, by the second mask, the third conductive line if the dimension of the first conductive line is less than the corresponding dimension of the second conductive line A first circuit element is coupled to a second circuit element by at least the third conductive line, and the first circuit element is separated from the second circuit element by a predetermined distance.
US12165969B2
An IC device includes an interlayer dielectric (ILD), a first tower structure embedded in the ILD, and a first ring region including a portion of the ILD that extends around the first tower structure. The first tower structure includes a plurality of first conductive patterns in a plurality of metal layers, and a plurality of first vias between the plurality of metal layers along a thickness direction of the IC device. The plurality of first conductive patterns and the plurality of first vias are coupled to each other to form the first tower structure. The plurality of first conductive patterns is confined by the first ring region, without extending beyond the first ring region. The first tower structure is a dummy tower structure.
US12165962B2
Disclosed herein are microelectronic assemblies including microelectronic components coupled by direct bonding, and related structures and techniques. In some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a first microelectronic component including a first guard ring extending through at least a portion of a thickness of and along a perimeter; a second microelectronic component including a second guard ring extending through at least a portion of a thickness of and along a perimeter, where the first and second microelectronic components are coupled by direct bonding; and a seal ring formed by coupling the first guard ring to the second guard ring. In some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a microelectronic component coupled to an interposer that includes a first liner material at a first surface; a second liner material at an opposing second surface; and a perimeter wall through the interposer and connected to the first and second liner materials.
US12165961B2
A semiconductor package structure having a frontside redistribution layer, a stacking structure disposed over the frontside redistribution layer and having a first semiconductor die and a second semiconductor die over the first semiconductor die. A backside redistribution layer is disposed over the stacking structure, a first intellectual property (IP) core is disposed in the stacking structure and electrically coupled to the frontside redistribution layer through a first routing channel. A second IP core is disposed in the stacking structure and is electrically coupled to the backside redistribution layer through a second routing channel, wherein the second routing channel is different from the first routing channel and electrically insulated from the frontside redistribution layer.
US12165960B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element circuit, a conductive support and a sealing resin. The conductive support includes a die pad, first terminals spaced in a first direction, second terminals spaced in the first direction and opposite to the first terminals in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a support terminal connected to the die pad. The sealing resin encapsulates portions of the first and second terminals, a portion of the support terminal, the semiconductor element circuit and the die pad. The sealing resin has two first side surfaces spaced apart in the second direction and two second side surfaces spaced apart in the first direction. The first terminals and second terminals are exposed from the first side surfaces, while none of the elements of the conductive support is exposed from the second side surfaces.
US12165958B2
A power storage pack includes: a power storage cell; a power storage tab; a protection circuit substrate; a semiconductor element; and a metal plate for power storage tab joint that is connected to the semiconductor element on the first main surface of the metal plate for power storage tab joint and that includes a portion whose thickness is at most 0.2 mm. The metal plate for power storage tab joint is joined to the power storage tab on the second main surface of the metal plate for power storage tab joint to include an overlap portion in which the power storage tab, the metal plate for power storage tab joint, the semiconductor element, and the protection circuit substrate overlap each other; and there is a portion in which a region that may be the conduction path between the power storage tab and the protection circuit substrate overlaps the overlap portion.
US12165957B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor element, a first lead, a second lead and a connection lead. The semiconductor element includes an electron transit layer formed of a nitride semiconductor, an element obverse face and an element reverse face that are arranged to face opposite to each other in a thickness direction, and a gate electrode, a source electrode and a drain electrode that are disposed on the element obverse face. The drain electrode is bonded to the first lead. The source electrode is bonded to the second lead. The connection lead is connected to the second lead and disposed on the element reverse face so as to overlap with the semiconductor element as viewed in the thickness direction. The connection lead provides a conduction path for a principal current subjected to switching.
US12165951B2
The present disclosure relates to a radio frequency device that includes a device region with a back-end-of-line (BEOL) portion and a front-end-of-line (FEOL) portion, first bump structures, a first mold compound, and a second mold compound. The FEOL portion includes an active layer, a contact layer, and isolation sections. Herein, the active layer and the isolation sections reside over the contact layer, and the active layer is surrounded by the isolation sections. The BEOL portion is formed underneath the FEOL portion, and the first bump structures and the first mold compound are formed underneath the BEOL portion. Each first bump structure is partially encapsulated by the first mold compound, and electrically coupled to the FEOL portion via connecting layers within the BEOL portion. The second mold compound resides over the active layer without a silicon material, which has a resistivity between 5 Ohm-cm and 30000 Ohm-cm, in between.
US12165939B2
Provided herein include various examples of an apparatus, a sensor system and examples of a method for manufacturing aspects of an apparatus, a sensor system. The apparatus may include a die. The apparatus may also include a substrate comprising a cavity. The die may be oriented in a portion of the cavity in the substrate, where the orientation defines a first space in the cavity adjacent to a first edge of the upper surface of the die and a second space in the cavity adjacent to the second edge of the upper surface of the die. The apparatus may further include fluidics fan-out regions comprising a first cured material deposited in the first space and the second space, a surface of the fluidics fan-out regions being contiguous with the upper surface of the die.
US12165938B2
A semiconductor package includes a flat plate-shaped terminal integrally formed with a housing portion for a semiconductor chip and a rod-shaped terminal pin that penetrates through a through-hole of the plate-shaped terminal. On a surface of the plate-shaped terminal, a resin guide portion for guiding the terminal pin to the through-hole of the plate-shaped terminal is provided. The resin guide portion is a portion of the housing portion and has a through-hole that is continuous with the through-hole of the plate-shaped terminal. During assembly of the semiconductor package, the terminal pin is inserted into the through-hole of the plate-shaped terminal, via the through-hole of the resin guide portion. A sidewall of the through-hole of the resin guide portion and a sidewall of the through-hole of the plate-shaped terminal have a same slope and form a single continuous surface; a border between the through-hole of the resin guide portion and the through-hole of the plate-shaped terminal is free of any step.
US12165936B2
A method includes determining a target etching depth for etching a plurality of dielectric regions in a wafer. The wafer includes a plurality of protruding semiconductor fins and the plurality of dielectric regions between the plurality of protruding semiconductor fins. The method further includes etching the plurality of dielectric regions, projecting a light beam on the wafer, and generating a spectrum from a reflected light reflected from the wafer, determining an end point for etching based on the spectrum. The end point is an expected time point. The plurality of dielectric regions are etched to the target etching depth. The etching of the plurality of dielectric regions is stopped at the end point.
US12165934B2
A method for processing a substrate within a processing chamber comprises receiving a first radiation signal corresponding to a film on a target element disposed within the processing chamber, analyzing the first radiation signal, and controlling the processing of the substrate based on the analyzed first radiation signal. The processing chamber includes a substrate support configured to support the substrate within a processing volume and a controller coupled to a first sensing device configured to receive the first radiation signal.
US12165933B2
A semiconductor substrate processing apparatus includes: a metastructure layer divided into a plurality of microstructures by grooves, a light-transmitting dielectric substrate that supports the plurality of microstructures and is configured to allow an electromagnetic wave to be transmitted therethrough, and a frame including an exhaust hole configured to receive gas introduced from the grooves such as to provide suction force to the semiconductor substrate, wherein each of the plurality of microstructures has a smaller width than a wavelength of the electromagnetic wave, and each of the grooves has a smaller width than the wavelength of the electromagnetic wave.
US12165927B2
A semiconductor structure is provided. The semiconductor structure includes a shallow trench isolation (STI) region on a well region of a substrate, a plurality of transistors, and a power rail. Each of the transistors includes at least one fin, a gate electrode formed on the fin, and a doping region formed on the fin. The fin is formed on the well region, and is extending in a first direction. The gate electrode is extending in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction. The power rail is formed in the STI region and below the doping regions of the transistors, and extending in the first direction. Each of the doping regions is electrically connected to the power rail, so as to form a source region of the respective transistor. The power rail is electrically connected to the well region of the substrate.
US12165925B2
A method of manufacturing a FinFET includes at last the following steps. A semiconductor substrate is patterned to form trenches in the semiconductor substrate and semiconductor fins located between two adjacent trenches of the trenches. Gate stacks is formed over portions of the semiconductor fins. Strained material portions are formed over the semiconductor fins revealed by the gate stacks. First metal contacts are formed over the gate stacks, the first metal contacts electrically connecting the strained material portions. Air gaps are formed in the FinFET at positions between two adjacent gate stacks and between two adjacent strained materials.
US12165921B2
A wafer adaptor ring assembly for adapting an adapted sized wafer for plasma dicing by a plasma etch chamber designed for dicing a designed sized wafer, which is larger than the adapted sized wafer is disclosed. The wafer adaptor ring assembly includes a primary wafer ring designed for plasma dicing the designed sized wafer by the plasma, an adhesive sheet attached to a bottom surface of the primary wafer ring, and an adapted sized wafer disposed on the adhesive sheet between the primary wafer ring and the adapted sized wafer. A method for forming the wafer adaptor ring assembly is also disclosed.
US12165909B2
In an embodiment, a system includes: a gas distributor assembly configured to dispense gas into a chamber; and a chuck assembly configured to secure a wafer within the chamber, wherein at least one of the gas distributor assembly and the chuck assembly includes: a first portion comprising a convex protrusion, and a second portion comprising a concave opening, wherein the convex protrusion is configured to engage the concave opening.
US12165904B2
In order to provide a component manufacturing apparatus and a component manufacturing method that can normally chuck and fix a component holding film to a chuck table in a heated state, the present component manufacturing apparatus 1 includes a chucking and fixing means 20 that chucks and fixes a component holding film to a heated chucking surface 21a, and a preventing means 30 that prevents heat convection, occurring on the chucking surface 21a, from contacting the film. The present component manufacturing method includes a setting step of chucking and fixing the film to the heated chucking surface 21a, and the setting step includes a preventing step of preventing heat convection, occurring on the chucking surface 21a, from contacting the film.
US12165900B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for mechanically separating layers, in particular in a double layer transfer process. The present disclosure relates more in particular to a method for mechanically separating layers, comprising the steps of providing a semiconductor compound comprising a layer of a handle substrate and an active layer with a front main side and a back main side opposite the front main side, wherein the layer of the handle substrate is attached to the front main side of the active layer, then providing a layer of a carrier substrate onto the back main side of the active layer, and then initiating mechanical separation of the layer of the handle substrate, wherein the layer of the handle substrate and the layer of the carrier substrate are provided with a substantially symmetrical mechanical structure.
US12165877B2
An apparatus and method for etching a material layer with a cyclic etching and deposition process. The method for etching a material layer on a substrate includes: (a) etching at least a portion of a material layer (302) on a substrate (101) in an etch chamber (100) to form an open feature (360) having a bottom surface (312) and sidewalls in the material layer (302); (b) forming a protection layer (314) on the sidewalls and the bottom surface (312) of the open feature (360) from a protection layer (314) gas mixture comprising at least one carbon-fluorine containing gas; (c) selectively removing the protection layer (314) formed on the bottom surface (312) of the open feature (360) from a bottom surface (312) open gas mixture comprising the carbon-fluorine containing gas; and (d) continuingly etching the material layer (302) from the bottom surface (312) of the open feature (360) until a desired depth of the open feature (360) is reached.
US12165876B2
A method for forming an ultra-shallow junction includes the following operations: providing a semiconductor substrate, forming an epitaxial layer on the semiconductor substrate, providing a dopant and implanting the dopant into the epitaxial layer and a part of the semiconductor substrate, and removing the epitaxial layer, to form the ultra-shallow junction.
US12165874B2
A forming method of a semiconductor structure includes the following: providing a semiconductor substrate formed with a first mask layer having a preset pattern; forming a second mask layer having a first mask pattern on a surface of the first mask layer, wherein the first mask pattern includes a plurality of first sub-patterns arranged in sequence; forming a second mask pattern in the second mask layer through the first mask pattern in a self-alignment manner, wherein the second mask pattern includes the first sub-patterns of the first mask pattern and second sub-patterns corresponding to the first sub-patterns; etching the first mask layer based on the first sub-patterns and the second sub-patterns of the second mask pattern to convert the preset pattern into an active area pattern; and defining active areas in the semiconductor substrate based on the active area pattern.
US12165868B2
In a semiconductor manufacturing method, a mask is disposed on a semiconductor layer or semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor layer or semiconductor substrate is etched in an area delineated by the mask to form a cavity. With the mask disposed on the semiconductor layer or semiconductor substrate, the cavity is lined to form a containment structure. With the mask disposed on the semiconductor layer or semiconductor substrate, the containment structure is filled with a base semiconductor material. After filling the containment structure with the base semiconductor material, the mask is removed. At least one semiconductor device is fabricated in and/or on the base semiconductor material deposited in the containment structure.
US12165866B2
A wafer cleaning method is provided. The wafer cleaning method includes providing a wafer on a stage that is inside of a chamber. The wafer is fixed to the stage by moving a grip pin connected to an edge of the stage. First ultrapure water is supplied onto the wafer while the wafer is rotating at a first rotation speed. The grip pin is released from the wafer by moving the grip pin. A development process is performed by supplying liquid chemical onto the wafer while the wafer is rotating at a second rotation speed that is less than the first rotation speed.
US12165861B2
Provided are methods of detecting the presence or amount of the active form of vitamin B6, pyridoxal 5′-phosphate, in a body fluid sample using tandem mass spectrometry coupled with liquid chromatography.
US12165860B2
A method of mass spectrometry is disclosed comprising performing a plurality of experimental runs, wherein each experimental run comprises: periodically mass analysing fragment or product ions at a plurality of time intervals, wherein a delay time is provided between the start of the experimental run and the first time interval at which the fragment or product ions are mass analysed. Different delay times are provided in different ones of the experimental runs and fragment or product ions that have been analysed in the same time interval in at least one of said experimental runs and that have been analysed in different time intervals in at least one other of said experimental runs are identified as fragment or product ions of interest. These fragment or product ions are thus determined to relate to different precursor ions and are used to identify their respective precursor ions.
US12165854B2
A substrate support includes a base, a support portion, a first pin member, a second pin member and a driving unit. The base has a first surface on which an object to be supported is placed, a second surface opposite to the first surface, and a first through-hole. The support portion has a third surface in contact with the second surface, a fourth surface opposite to the third surface, and a second through-hole. The first pin member is stored in the first through-hole and a second pin member is stored in the second through-hole. The first through-hole is larger on the second surface side than on the first surface side, and/or the second through-hole is larger on the third surface side than on the fourth surface side.
US12165852B2
A plasma doping system including a plasma doping chamber, a platen mounted in the plasma doping chamber for supporting a workpiece, a source of ionizable gas coupled to the chamber, the ionizable gas containing a desired dopant for implantation into the workpiece, a plasma source for producing a plasma having a plasma sheath in a vicinity of the workpiece, the plasma containing positive ions of the ionizable gas, and accelerating said positive ions across the plasma sheath toward the platen for implantation into the workpiece, a shield ring surrounding the platen and adapted to extend the plasma sheath beyond an edge of the workpiece, and a cover ring disposed on top of the shield ring and adapted to mitigate sputtering of the shield ring, wherein the cover ring comprises a crystalline base layer and a non-crystalline top layer.
US12165851B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes disposing a wafer in a processing chamber, in which the wafer is laterally surrounded by a focus ring. A plasma is formed in the processing chamber to process the wafer. A thickness of the focus ring is detected. A plasma direction of the plasma over a peripheral region of the wafer is adjusted according to the thickness of the focus ring.
US12165840B2
Described are various embodiments of an ion beam delayering system and method, topographically enhanced sample produced thereby, and imaging methods and systems related thereto. In one embodiment, a method comprises: identifying at least two materials in an exposed surface of the sample and predetermined operational characteristics of an ion beam mill that correspond with a substantially different ion beam mill removal rate for at least one of the materials; operating the ion beam mill in accordance with the predetermined operational characteristics to simultaneously remove the materials and introduce or enhance a topography associated with the materials and surface features defined thereby; acquiring surface data; and repeating the operating and acquiring steps for at least one more layer.
US12165838B2
A scanning electron microscopy system may include an electron-optical sub-system and a controller. The electron-optical sub-system may include an electron source and an electron-optical column configured to direct an electron beam to a sample. The electron-optical column may include a double-lens assembly, a beam limiting aperture disposed between a first and second lens of the double-lens assembly, and a detector assembly configured to detect electrons scattered from the sample. In embodiments, the controller of the scanning electron microscopy system may be configured to: cause the electron-optical sub-system to form a flooding electron beam and perform flooding scans of the sample with the flooding electron beam; cause the electron-optical sub-system to form an imaging electron beam and perform imaging scans of the sample with the imaging electron beam; receive images acquired by the detector assembly during the imaging scans; and determine characteristics of the sample based on the images.
US12165837B2
An improved system and method for inspection of a sample using a particle beam inspection apparatus, and more particularly, to systems and methods of scanning a sample with a plurality of charged particle beams. An improved method of scanning an area of a sample using N charged particle beams, wherein N is an integer greater than or equal to two, and wherein the area of the sample comprises a plurality of scan sections of N consecutive scan lines, includes moving the sample in a first direction. The method also includes scanning, with a first charged particle beam of the N charged particle beams, first scan lines of at least some scan sections of the plurality of scan sections moving towards a probe spot of the first charged particle beam. The method further includes scanning, with a second charged particle beam of the N charged particle beams, second scan lines of at least some scan sections of the plurality of scan sections moving towards a probe spot of the second charged particle beam.
US12165831B2
A multi-electron beam system that forms hundreds of beamlets can focus the beamlets, reduce Coulomb interaction effects, and improve resolutions of the beamlets. A Wien filter with electrostatic and magnetic deflection fields can separate the secondary electron beams from the primary electron beams and can correct the astigmatism and source energy dispersion blurs for all the beamlets simultaneously.
US12165823B2
Solid-state circuit breaker with self-diagnostic, self-maintenance, and self-protection capabilities
A solid-state circuit breaker (SSCB) with self-diagnostic, self-maintenance, and self-protection capabilities includes: a power semiconductor device; an air gap disconnect unit connected in series with the power semiconductor device; a sense and drive circuit that switches the power semiconductor device OFF upon detecting a short circuit or overload of unacceptably long duration; and a microcontroller unit (MCU) that triggers the air gap disconnect unit to form an air gap and galvanically isolate an attached load, after the sense and drive circuit switches the power semiconductor device OFF. The MCU is further configured to monitor the operability of the air gap disconnect unit, the power semiconductor device, and other critical components of the SSCB and, when applicable, take corrective actions to prevent the SSCB and the connected load from being damaged or destroyed and/or to protect persons and the environment from being exposed to hazardous electrical conditions.
US12165815B2
Perovskites have high density of vacancies which absorb oxygen molecules and upon illumination, transform them into superoxide species which react with perovskites to decompose them, preventing use of these materials in many photo-applications. The present disclosure provides ways for improving the stability of perovskites in air ambient by doping perovskites with metals such as lead, cadmium, zinc, manganese, iron, cobalt, nickel, copper and tin which decreases the density of vacancies in perovskites and significantly increases the lifetime of perovskites. Perovskite solar cells containing inorganic and organic ions such as Cs+, formamidinium and methylammonium cations, Pb2+, Br— and I— with these metal dopants exhibit stable efficiency within a month of storage in air ambient with the relative humidity of 50%.
US12165814B2
A solid electrolytic capacitor that includes: a capacitor element including an anode body connected to an anode lead, a dielectric layer on a surface of the anode body, and a cathode layer opposite to the anode body via the dielectric layer; an exterior resin covering the capacitor element; a first external electrode terminal on a first outer surface of the exterior resin and electrically connected to the anode body; a second external electrode terminal on a second outer surface of the exterior resin and electrically connected to the cathode layer; and a resin layer having a lower filler content than the exterior resin and covering at least a portion of an outer periphery of the anode lead between the first outer surface of the exterior resin and the anode body.
US12165813B2
A bus bar for a plurality of capacitor elements having an equal impedance includes a positive electrode bus bar and a negative electrode bus bar. The positive electrode bus bar and the negative electrode bus bar each includes a main bus bar and branch bus bars. The main bus bar is electrically connected to an electric circuit having a switching element. First ends of the branch bus bars are connected to the main bus bar at different positions, and second ends of the branch bus bars are connected to the capacitor elements. The branch bus bars are configured so that an impedance between the first end and the second end reduces as an impedance between a connecting portion of the main bus bar to the electric circuit and a connecting portion of the first end of the branch bus bar to the main bus bar increases.
US12165807B1
A nanocomposite electrode and a supercapacitor device including said nanocomposite electrode. The nanocomposite electrode includes a mixture of at least one binding compound, at least one conductive additive, and at least one molybdenum doped carbon material coated onto a substrate. The supercapacitor device includes two nanocomposite electrodes disposed facing one another, wherein the substrate of each nanocomposite electrode is coated with the mixture on an inside facing surface and the outer surfaces of the nanocomposite electrodes are not coated with the mixture, and the inside facing surfaces are separated by at least one electrolyte.
US12165796B2
A power electronic transformer structure includes: a support, a high-frequency transformer, a base, high-voltage side modules, and a low-voltage side module. The high-voltage side modules are respectively located at the front, top, and back of the support; the low-voltage side module is located at the bottom of the support; the high-frequency transformer is located at the middle of the support.
US12165788B2
In the insulation sheet, an insulation resin layer made of a thermosetting resin composition in an uncured or semi-cured state is formed on one or each of both surfaces of the base material. The thermosetting resin composition contains: a thermosetting resin (A) that is in solid form at 25° C.; a thermosetting resin (B) that is in liquid form at 25° C.; a latent curing agent that is unreactive at 60° C. or lower; and an inorganic filler having a maximum particle diameter smaller than a film thickness of the insulation resin layer and having an average particle diameter smaller than 0.5 times the film thickness. The insulation resin layer of the insulation sheet is efficiently compressed into a predetermined thickness by pressure application at normal temperature and permeates a gap between a stator core and a stator coil by heating during curing treatment, whereby both members can be insulated and fixed.
US12165783B2
A cable holding system for positioning a cable relative to a cable processing machine comprises a cable holding device for selectively clamping onto a cable to be processed, and a receiver. The receiver includes an opening for selectively receiving the cable holding device in a predetermined orientation, and a mounting base for fixing the location of the receiver relative to the cable processing machine.
US12165781B2
An X-ray imaging system includes an X-ray detector; a plurality of X-ray sources configured to illuminate the X-ray detector from different perspectives; a shutter in a transmission plane between each X-ray source controlling transmission of X-rays from each X-ray source to the X-ray detector; and a processor configured to receive and process X-ray data from the X-ray detector. The shutter may be configured to illuminate the X-ray detector alternately with each X-ray source. The processor may determine 3D information about an object from the processed X-ray data. Also provided are methods for processing X-ray data and different embodiments of shutters to alternately illuminate X-ray detectors.
US12165780B2
A multi-layer X-ray detector comprises a first X-ray converter, a first sensor, a second X-ray converter, a second sensor, and an internal anti-scatter device. The first sensor is located at a first sensor layer and is configured to detect radiation emitted from the first X-ray converter. The second sensor is located at a second sensor layer and is configured to detect radiation emitted from the second X-ray converter. The first X-ray converter and the first sensor form a first detector pair, and the second X-ray converter and the second sensor form a second detector pair. The internal anti-scatter device comprises a plurality of X-ray absorbing septa walls and is located between the first detector pair and the second detector pair. No structure of the internal anti-scatter device is located within either layer of the first detector pair, and no structure of the anti-scatter device is located within either layer of the second detector pair. The plurality of septa walls comprises a plurality of first septa walls substantially parallel to each other, and wherein a spacing between the first septa walls in a first direction is equal to an integer multiple n of detector pixel pitch of the first sensor and/or of the second sensor in the first direction, wherein n=2, 3, 4, . . . N.
US12165765B1
One embodiment provides a method including transmitting a pick-up request to transport a patient within a healthcare facility. The method includes receiving an acceptance indication for the pick-up request that has an associated handoff protocol that is based upon a condition of the patient. The method includes generating a patient identification request requesting a scan of an identification tag of an individual. The method includes receiving image data and determining whether the image data includes an image of the identification tag. The method includes verifying an identity of the individual. Other aspects are described and claimed.
US12165762B2
A delivery management system includes a drug wrapping 140, a delivery container 26, a delivery management device 7, and a barcode sheet 137. The barcode sheet 137 includes a barcode label 137c indicating a serial number related to a drug, a barcode-image portion 137e indicating the serial number related to the drug, and a barcode label 137d indicating a delivery-container ID related to the delivery container. When the drug wrapping to which the barcode label 137c separated from the barcode sheet is attached, the delivery container, and the barcode sheet from which the barcode label 137c has been separated reach a delivery destination, the drug wrapping is verified using the barcode label 137d attached to the delivery container and the barcode-image portion 137e.
US12165761B2
In order to generate annotated ground truth data for training a machine learning model for inferring a desired scan configuration of an medical imaging system from an observed workflow scene during exam preparation, a system is provided that comprises a sensor data interface configured to access a measurement image of a patient positioned for an imaging examination. The measurement image is generated on the basis of sensor data obtained from a sensor arrangement, which has a field of view including at least part of an area, where the patient is positioned for imaging. The system further comprises a medical image data interface configured to access a medical image of the patient obtained from a medical imaging apparatus during the imaging examination. The patient is positioned in a given geometry with respect to a reference coordinate system of the medical imaging apparatus. The system further comprises an exam metadata interface configured to access exam metadata of the imaging examination. The system further comprises a processing unit, configured to determine an association between one or more features in the measurement image and one or more features extracted from the medical image and/or from the exam metadata by mapping a point in a coordinate system of the medical image to a point in a coordinate system of the measurement image. The system further comprises an output interface, configured to be coupled to a training set database for adding the measurement image comprising data that labels the one or more associated features in the measurement image to the training set database for training the machine learning model.
US12165750B2
Provided is a method and system for collecting clinical trial data based on blockchain, and the method of collecting clinical trial data based on blockchain includes the steps of: receiving the clinical trial data from a researcher terminal; requesting verification of the received clinical trial data from a verification node; performing consensus verification on a verification result when the verification result according to the verification request is received from the verification node; and propagating the clinical trial data to the verification node according to a result of the consensus verification, performed by a platform.
US12165749B2
In one embodiment, a method includes receiving identities of features of a first composition, and receiving a value of a property of the first composition. A learning model is trained using values of predefined characteristics of the features of the first composition, and the value of the property of the first composition. The learning model is then provided identities of second features of a second composition. Using the learning model, a value of a property of the second composition is determined and displayed.
US12165747B2
The present invention discloses novel methods and uses thereof for producing molecular spatial maps of metastatic breast cancer (MBC) and ductal carcinoma in situ of the breast (DCIS). A specific list of genes are identified using single-cell RNA sequencing and single-nucleus RNA sequencing and are used for RNA visualization of MBC and DCIS tissue microenvironment. Unexpected subtypes of tumor cells are revealed, and methods for identifying molecular biomarkers for MBC in the bone and breast and DCIS are disclosed. Furthermore, methods for identifying therapeutic agents and uses thereof for treating MBC and DCIS as well as compositions thereof comprising such identified therapeutic agents are provided.
US12165745B2
Provided herein are methods and systems for inferring biological age in a subject. The methods involve analyzing data from a microbiome and/or somatic cell transcriptome from a subject and executing a model that infers biological age.
US12165741B2
A semiconductor device may include: a first substrate structure including: a first substrate; a first word line, a first bit line, a second bit line, a second word line, a third word line, a third bit line, a fourth bit line, and a fourth word line that are sequentially arranged over the first substrate in a vertical direction; and first, second, third, and fourth memory cells, the first memory cell being disposed between the first word line and the first bit line, the second memory cell being disposed between the second word line and the second bit line, the third memory cell being disposed between the third word line and the third bit line, and the fourth memory cell being disposed between the fourth word line and the fourth bit line; and a second substrate structure disposed over the first substrate structure and including a second substrate.
US12165720B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide technology for intelligent drive wear management. The technology may include determining a difference between a wear value derived for a first solid state storage drive and a wear value derived for a second solid state storage drive, and if the difference in wear value exceeds a wear skew threshold, swapping content between the first drive and the second drive. The technology may also include sorting an array of solid state storage drives into a plurality of drive groups based on a wear value derived for each drive, and determining, for a first pair of drives in a drive group, a difference in wear value between the drives in the first pair. Respective pairs of drives in a drive group may be selected based on the drive wear value and a drive rotation counter value associated with each drive. The technology may further include determining an average wear value for each drive group based on the wear values of each drive in the drive group and providing for maintenance service for the drives in the drive group if the average wear value for the drive group exceeds a potential drive failure threshold.
US12165712B2
According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a semiconductor memory and a controller. The semiconductor memory includes first to fourth word lines and first to fourth memory cells. The controller is configured to issue first and second instructions. The controller is further configured to execute a first operation to obtain a first read voltage based on a threshold distribution of the first memory cell, and a second operation to read data from the second memory cell.
US12165711B2
A semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell connected between a bit line and a source line, a sense amplifier having a first transistor provided between at least two transistors of the sense amplifier and the bit line, and a controller which executes a read operation to read data stored by the memory cell. In the read operation, the controller applies a first voltage to the first transistor and a second voltage to the source line during a first time period, applies a third voltage to the first transistor and a fourth voltage to the source line during a second time period after the first time period, and applies the first voltage to the first transistor and a fifth voltage to the source line during a third time period after the second time period.
US12165706B2
A method for resetting an array of RAM cells by applying a sequence of N reset operations, the method including at a first reset operation, defining a first reset technique and performing the first reset operation; at a j-th reset operation of a N−1 subsequent reset operations, j being an integer between 2 and N, if a correction yield of the reset technique used at the (j−1)-th reset operation fulfils a predefined condition, applying the reset technique used at the (j−1)-th reset operation to perform the j-th reset operation, if the correction yield does not fulfil the predefined condition, defining a new reset technique and applying the new reset technique to perform the j-th reset operation, the correction yield being a cumulative correction yield or a relative correction yield, the correction yield for the N reset operations being measured prior to the first reset operation.
US12165693B2
A device may include a level shifter including an at least one input and at least one output. The device may also include a logic circuit coupled to an output of the at least one output of the level shifter and configured to receive a power up reset signal. The logic circuit may be configured to isolate an output of the logic circuit from a supply voltage responsive to the power up reset signal and during at least a portion of a power up sequence. Associated circuits, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US12165692B2
Systems and methods of dynamically calibrating memory control signals during increase of wordline voltage for memory technologies subject to charge loss are disclosed. In one aspect, an exemplary method may comprise using an internal node, such as a wordline regulator output or return feedback line or a replica of the wordline, as proxy for the local wordline voltage. In one or more further embodiments, the proxy signal may be converted to digital signal or code and even determined in the background before the signal is needed for calibration. As a function of the disclosed technology, calibration of memory control signals, such as pass voltage and wordline read-verify voltage, may be performed during increase of the wordlines voltage with no impact or penalty on read/program time.
US12165687B2
Apparatuses and methods for row hammer counter mat. A memory array may have a number of memory mats and a counter memory mat. The counter mat stores count values, each of which is associated with a row in one of the other memory mats. When a row is accessed, the count value is read out, changed, and written back to the counter mat. In some embodiments, the count value may be processed within access logic of the counter mat, and a row hammer flag may be provided to the bank logic. In some embodiments, the counter mat may have a folded architecture where each sense amplifier is coupled to multiple bit lines in the counter mat. The count value may be used to determine if the accessed row is an aggressor so that its victims can be refreshed as part of a targeted refresh.
US12165683B2
A magnetic memory device includes a conductive line that extends in a first direction, and a magnetic track line that extends in the first direction on a top surface of the conductive line. The conductive line may include a first region having a first width in a second direction, and a second region having a second width in the second direction. The first direction and the second direction are parallel to the top surface of the conductive line and are perpendicular to each other. The second width may be greater than the first width. The magnetic track line includes first domains arranged in the first direction on the first region of the conductive line, and second domains arranged in the first direction on the second region of the conductive line. A size of each of the second domains may be less than a size of each of the first domains.
US12165676B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic head includes a first magnetic pole, a second magnetic pole, a magnetic element, and a magnetic member. The magnetic element is provided between the first and second magnetic poles, and includes a first magnetic layer. The magnetic member includes a first magnetic part. A second direction from the first magnetic part to the magnetic element crosses a first direction from the first to second magnetic pole. The first magnetic part includes a magnetic material including at least one of first to third materials. The first material includes at least one selected from the group consisting of Mn3Sn, Mn3Ge and Mn3Ga. The second material includes at least one selected from the group consisting of a cubic or tetragonal compound including Mn and Ni, a cubic alloy including γ-phase Mn, and a cubic alloy including Fe. The third material includes an antiferromagnet.
US12165675B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for generating content. The system identifies first and second objects in a plurality of frames of a source content segment. The system creates a data structure for each object, where data structures comprise attributes of the respective objects. Furthermore, the data structures are generated such that each object may be reconstructed based on the data of the respective data structure. Later, one of the data structures is modified by changing an attribute. Then, a resulting content segment is generated by a system that reconstructs a first modified object based on the first modified data structure and reconstructs the second object based on the second data structure.
US12165674B1
Provided are a computer program product, device, system, and method for write data management. In one embodiment, a write management controller calculates an order for writing data and parity blocks of write data code words on tape media in a variable interleaved fashion which ensures a minimum physical longitudinal separation along the length of tape between data and parity blocks of the same code word. The calculated write order information may be provided back to a host or other data source so that the write data is eventually transmitted to the tape drive for writing on tape media in accordance with the calculated write order. In this manner, a minimum physical longitudinal separation along the length of tape between data and parity blocks of the same code word may be achieved to increase the reliability of the data storage.
US12165669B2
The present document relates to audio source coding systems which make use of a harmonic transposition method for high frequency reconstruction (HFR), as well as to digital effect processors, e.g. exciters, where generation of harmonic distortion add brightness to the processed signal, and to time stretchers where a signal duration is prolonged with maintained spectral content. A system and method configured to generate a time stretched and/or frequency transposed signal from an input signal is described. The system comprises an analysis filterbank configured to provide an analysis subband signal from the input signal; wherein the analysis subband signal comprises a plurality of complex valued analysis samples, each having a phase and a magnitude. Furthermore, the system comprises a subband processing unit configured to determine a synthesis subband signal from the analysis subband signal using a subband transposition factor Q and a subband stretch factor S. The subband processing unit performs a block based nonlinear processing wherein the magnitude of samples of the synthesis subband signal are determined from the magnitude of corresponding samples of the analysis subband signal and a predetermined sample of the analysis subband signal. In addition, the system comprises a synthesis filterbank configured to generate the time stretched and/or frequency transposed signal from the synthesis subband signal.
US12165664B2
An audio decoder decodes a bit stream of encoded audio data, which bit stream represents a sequence of audio sample values and includes a plurality of frames, wherein each frame includes associated encoded audio sample values. The audio decoder includes a determiner configured to determine whether a frame of the encoded audio data is a special frame including encoded audio sample values associated with the special frame and additional information, wherein the additional information include encoded audio sample values of a number of frames preceding the special frame, wherein the encoded audio sample values of the preceding frames are encoded using the same codec configuration as the special frame, wherein the number of preceding frames is sufficient to initialize the decoder to be in a position to decode the audio sample values associated with the special frame if the special frame is the first frame upon start-up of the decoder.
US12165662B2
A downscaled version of an audio decoding procedure may more effectively and/or at improved compliance maintenance be achieved if the synthesis window used for downscaled audio decoding is a downsampled version of a reference synthesis window involved in the non-downscaled audio decoding procedure by downsampling by the downsampling factor by which the downsampled sampling rate and the original sampling rate deviate, and downsampled using a segmental interpolation in segments of ¼ of the frame length.
US12165658B2
A method comprising: obtaining a first audio direction parameter value for each sub-band of a sub-frame of a frame of an audio signal; obtaining a second audio direction parameter value for the sub-frame of the frame of the audio signal for one or more audio objects associated with said audio signal; and determining a bit-efficient encoding for each first audio direction parameter value of the sub-frame based on a similarity between the first audio direction parameter value for each sub-band and the second audio direction parameter values for the one or more audio objects.
US12165653B2
One embodiment of the present invention sets forth a technique for processing recordings of events. The technique includes applying a machine learning model to a plurality of samples from one or more recordings of the events to generate a plurality of embeddings representing the plurality of samples. The technique also includes generating a plurality of labels that identify speakers associated with the plurality of samples based on metadata comprising timestamps of voice activity during the events and participants associated with the voice activity. The technique further includes storing mappings of the plurality of embeddings to the plurality of labels.
US12165649B1
A method for electronically utilizing content in a communication between a customer and a customer representative is provided. An audible conversation between a customer and a service representative is captured. At least a portion of the audible conversation is converted into computer searchable data. The computer searchable data is analyzed during the audible conversation to identify relevant meta tags previously stored in a data repository or generated during the audible conversation. Each meta tag is associated with the customer. Each meta tag provides a contextual item determined from at least a portion of one of a current or previous conversation with the customer. A meta tag determined to be relevant to the current conversation between the service representative and the customer is displayed in real time to the service representative currently conversing with the customer.
US12165648B2
An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes input circuitry, a display, and a processor. The processor implements the method, including extracting at least one piece of context information based at least in part on an application screen displayed on the display, analyzing the extracted at least one piece of context information to generate a language model based on the extracted at least one piece of context information, receiving a voice input of a user through the input circuitry and convert the voice input into a text string using the generated language model, and resetting the generated language model.
US12165647B2
A computer-implemented method is disclosed. A search query of a text transcription is received. The search query includes a word or words having a specified spelling. A sequence of search phonemes corresponding to the specified spelling is generated. A sequence of transcript phonemes corresponding to the text transcription is generated from the text transcription. A search alignment in which the sequence of search phonemes is aligned to a transcript phoneme fragment is generated. Based at least on the search alignment having a quality score exceeding a quality score threshold, the transcript phoneme fragment and an associated portion of the text transcription is determined to result from an utterance of the specified spelling in an audio session corresponding to the text transcription. A search result indicating that the transcript phoneme fragment and the associated portion of the text transcription is determined to have resulted from the utterance is output.
US12165641B2
A method includes receiving follow-on audio data captured by an assistant-enabled device, the follow-on audio data corresponding to a follow-on query spoken by a user of the assistant-enabled device to a digital assistant subsequent to the user submitting a previous query to the digital assistant. The method also includes processing, using a speech recognizer, the follow-on audio data to generate multiple candidate hypotheses, each candidate hypothesis corresponding to a candidate transcription for the follow-on query and represented by a respective sequence of hypothesized terms. For each corresponding candidate hypothesis among the multiple candidate hypotheses, the method also includes determining a corresponding similarity metric between the previous query and the corresponding candidate hypothesis and determining a transcription of the follow-on query spoken by the user based on the similarity metrics determined for the multiple candidate hypotheses.
US12165613B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to the technical field of displays, and disclose a screen correction method, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method comprises: acquiring a first display parameter of pixel points in at least two display regions of a target screen, wherein the first display parameter comprises first spectral tristimulus values; determining a target region in the display regions and determining a second display parameter of pixel points in a non-target region in the display regions according to the first display parameter, wherein the target region is a display region among the display regions where a luminance parameter meets a preset requirement, and the second display parameter comprises second spectral tristimulus values; converting the luminance parameter into a target display parameter with the type of the second spectral tristimulus values; and compensating the second display parameter based on the target display parameter.
US12165606B2
A display panel and a display device are provided in embodiments of the present application, the display panel includes: a plurality of sub-pixels, each of the sub-pixels includes a main area and a sub-area; a plurality of data lines connected to sub-pixels with a same polarity in adjacent pixel groups; a plurality of gate lines, each of which is connected to a part of sub-pixels in adjacent rows of sub-pixels; and a plurality of shared discharge bars, at least one shared discharge bar is disposed in the pixel group, and the shared discharge bars are connected to the sub-areas of the sub-pixels. Viewing angles of the display device can be improved.
US12165602B2
An electro-optical device is provided with a plurality of data lines, a plurality of potential lines supplied with a predetermined potential, a driving transistor controlling a current level according to the voltage between the gate and the source, a first storage capacitor which holds the voltage between the gate and a source of the driving transistor, and a light-emitting element. One data line among the plurality of data lines and one potential line among the plurality of potential lines are arranged to be adjacent to each other, and a second storage capacitor holding the potential of the one data line is formed by the one data line and the one potential line.
US12165594B2
An electronic device includes a display panel which includes a plurality of pixels and displays an image at each of multiple frames, a driving circuit which drives the multiple frames at multiple operating frequencies, a voltage generator which provides a voltage to the display panel, and a drive controller. The drive controller includes a representative frequency calculator which calculates a representative frequency, based on operating frequencies of ‘n’ number of frames before one frame of the multiple frames, and a compensating signal calculator which outputs a compensating signal, based on the representative frequency and a count number in the one frame. The drive controller transmits the compensating signal to the voltage generator, the voltage includes a reference voltage, the voltage generator generates the reference voltage based on the compensating signal, and the voltage generator provides the reference voltage to each of the plurality of pixels.
US12165587B2
A display panel and a driving method thereof and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a pixel circuit and a light-emitting element, the pixel circuit including a driving transistor, a first reset transistor and a second reset transistor; the first reset transistor configured to reset the gate electrode of the driving transistor, and the second reset transistor configured to reset the first electrode of the light-emitting element; a first initialization signal line connected with the gate electrode of the driving transistor through the first reset transistor; and a first power line. The first reset transistor is a dual-gate transistor and includes a first channel and a second channel which are connected by a first conductive connection portion; an orthographic projection of the first conductive connection portion on the base substrate is completely within an orthographic projection of the first power line on the base substrate.
US12165579B2
An electroluminescent display device using a variable refresh rate (VRR) mode. The occurrence of a difference in luminance at a time point of a refresh rate change is reduced, thereby preventing viewers from perceiving the change of the refresh rate.
US12165574B2
Disclosed is an intelligent display board capable of increasing visibility by responding to external environmental factors in real time. The intelligent display board aims to improve a displayed image by minimizing differences in the characteristics of a display element (LED) according to the influence of external sunlight and artificial lighting and temperature. The white color of the display board is moved to be closed to a reference if deviating the reference so that low-level colors that are ignored by sunlight, etc. are darkened and the variance of recognizable colors is increased to make it easy to distinguish, thereby increasing the visibility of the display board. In addition, luminance varying according to temperature is adjusted to compensate for and adjust an image while automatically being applicable to a surrounding environment even with respect to temperature, thereby increasing the quality of an image displayed on the display board.
US12165573B2
A display panel (11) with a low signal transmission power and large cabling space, and a semiconductor display apparatus including the display panel (11) are provided. The display panel (11) includes pixel areas (DB) that are of N rows and M columns and that are connected in a matrix, each pixel area (DB) includes pixel drive modules that are of Q rows and P columns and that are connected in a matrix, each pixel drive circuit (PD) is connected to at least one pixel unit (P), and the pixel drive circuit (PD) drives, based on to-be-displayed image data, the pixel unit (P) to emit light to display an image. All pixel areas (DB) in any column of the pixel areas (DB) are connected to data interfaces (DI) in a same group, and pixel areas (DB) in different columns are connected to data interfaces (DI) in different groups.
US12165566B2
Discussed are a display panel and a display device having the same. The display panel includes a plurality of subpixels. A gate line, a data line, and a reference voltage line are further disposed on the display panel. A gate driving circuit supplies a scan signal to the gate line. A data driving circuit converts image data into a data voltage and supplies the data voltages to the data line. A timing controller controls the gate driving circuit and the data driving circuit and generates compensation data for the image data using a sensing voltage detected through the reference voltage line. The display panel includes a plurality of sensing transistors disposed around a corresponding subpixel among the plurality of subpixels to connect the data line and the reference voltage line.
US12165565B2
A display device includes a display panel including data lines, line capacitors respectively connected to the data lines, and pixels receiving a data voltage from the data lines, and a data driver supplying the data voltage to the pixels through the data lines and supplying different charging voltages respectively to the line capacitors through the data line. The data driver senses voltage change of at least one of the data lines occurring in case that at least one of the line capacitors is charged or discharged.
US12165556B2
A display device includes a display part, a degradation compensator that generates a first compensated grayscale value by compensating for a first grayscale value corresponding to a first pixel, and generates a second compensated grayscale value by compensating for a second grayscale value corresponding to a second pixel, and a data driver that generates a first data signal based on the first compensated grayscale value to supply the first data signal to the first pixel, and generates a second data signal based on the second compensated grayscale value to supply the second data signal to the second pixel. A second degradation curve is defined by a first degradation coefficient corresponding to a first degradation curve, and a second degradation coefficient corresponding to a first estimated degradation curve for the light conversion particles of a second color calculated by applying the first degradation curve.
US12165535B2
A computer-aided method of educating a plurality of music students in an ensemble, including: (i) receiving search parameters from a client device for searching a multidimensional database of songs, the multidimensional database of songs being compiled to include dimensions of at least (a) instrument parts which indicate a music component being played by a particular type of instrument, (b) educational concepts present, (c) one or more proficiency levels for each of the instrument parts; (ii) searching the multidimensional database of songs to retrieve one or more songs that match the received search parameters, the one or more songs being songs that match proficiency levels of the plurality of music students in the ensemble; (iii) receiving an indication from the client device of a selected song in the one or more songs; and (iv) providing to the client device method books associated with educational concepts of the selected song.
US12165532B1
In some embodiments, a non-transitory computer-readable medium having logic stored thereon is provided. The logic, in response to execution by one or more processors of an unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV), causes the UAV to perform actions comprising receiving at least one ADS-B message from an intruder aircraft; generating a intruder location prediction based on the at least one ADS-B message; comparing the intruder location prediction to an ownship location prediction to detect conflicts; and in response to detecting a conflict between the intruder location prediction and the ownship location prediction, determining a safe landing location along a planned route for the UAV and descending to land at the safe landing location.
US12165523B2
A system includes a first sensor configured to detect an object within an air space, and output an observation signal indicative of the object within the air space. A second sensor is configured to track the object within the air space, and output a tracking signal of the object within the air space. A tracking control unit is in communication with the first sensor and the second sensor. The tracking control unit is configured to receive the observation signal from the first sensor. In response to receiving the observation signal from the first sensor, the tracking control unit is configured to operate the second sensor to track the object within the air space relative to an aircraft within the air space. The tracking control unit is also configured to determine a priority of actions to take in relation to the object based, at least in part, on the tracking signal received from the second sensor.
US12165522B1
A marine propulsion control system includes at least one propulsion device, an input device enabling user control input commanding movement direction and velocity, and at least one proximity sensor configured to generate proximity measurements describing a proximity of surrounding objects. A controller is configured to first limit the velocity commandable by the user via the input device based on the proximity measurements so as to maintain the marine vessel at least a buffer distance from any of the objects, then receive a user-generated instruction to suspend maintenance of the buffer distance in at least one direction and a user control input via the input device to move the marine vessel in the at least one direction and toward a first object. The at least one propulsion device is then controlled based on the user control input such that the marine vessel approaches and impacts the first object.
US12165521B2
In some embodiments, a system for resource transportation comprises a routing command subsystem. In some embodiments, the routing command subsystem is configured to be communicably coupled to a first input device at a first location, the first input device configured to determine a first resource factor of a resource at the first location and a location input device associated with a transporter, the transporter configured to transport the resource, the location input device configured to determine a transporter location. In some embodiments, the routing command subsystem is further configured to change a first endpoint of a transporter route to a first alternate location based at least in part on the first resource factor and the transporter location.
US12165515B2
Example systems and methods allow for reporting and sharing of information reports relating to driving conditions within a fleet of autonomous vehicles. One example method includes receiving information reports relating to driving conditions from a plurality of autonomous vehicles within a fleet of autonomous vehicles. The method may also include receiving sensor data from a plurality of autonomous vehicles within the fleet of autonomous vehicles. The method may further include validating some of the information reports based at least in part on the sensor data. The method may additionally include combining validated information reports into a driving information map. The method may also include periodically filtering the driving information map to remove outdated information reports. The method may further include providing portions of the driving information map to autonomous vehicles within the fleet of autonomous vehicles.
US12165509B2
A system and method that enables individual travelers, including pedestrians or individuals on smaller conveyances, to communicate their location and direction of travel to signal light controllers at an intersection, enables traffic networks to receive this communication and output the detected data to the corresponding intersection traffic-signal controller to allow for individuals not in standard motor vehicles to be detected by traffic detection systems and to allow for priority of traveler flow either independent of vehicle use, or based on specifics of the vehicle used. The system also provides feedback to the traveler to provide information about the actions of the system or to alter the movement of the traveler.
US12165506B2
A method for predicting traffic flow or a travel time, includes: obtaining navigation route data; obtaining, according to the navigation route data, navigation flow of a road within a prediction time period; obtaining real-time traffic flow, a real-time travel time, past traffic flow, and a past travel time of the road; and training a neural network with the real-time travel time, the past travel time, the real-time traffic flow, the past traffic flow, and the navigation flow of the road to obtain predicted traffic flow or a predicted travel time of the road within the prediction time period.
US12165499B2
Systems and methods for building and using a false alarm predicting model to determine whether to alert a user and/or relevant authorities about an alarm signal from a security system are provided. Such systems and methods can include a learning module receiving the alarm signal and additional information associated with the alarm signal, using the false alarm predicting model to process a combination of the alarm signal and the additional information to determine whether the combination represents a false alarm or a valid alarm, and transmitting a status signal indicative of whether the combination represents the false alarm or the valid alarm to an automated dispatcher module, and the automated dispatcher module using the status signal to automatically determine whether to alert the user and/or the relevant authorities about the alarm signal.
US12165497B2
A shot fired detector can receive an audio signal or acoustic stream and determine that a firearm has been discharged. One or more detectors can be used to continuously capture acoustic streams and process the acoustic streams for anomaly detection. A detected anomaly can be classified by a machine learning model to detect that a shot has been fired. The detector can send acoustic data and meta data associated with the shot fired to a server for further storage and/or processing. An alert can be automatically generated that is associated with the shot fired.
US12165493B2
Apparatus, systems, and methods are described herein for an emergency management and response system for an airport. These systems and methods utilize a network of devices that can be configured to automatically receive an alert from a control tower or dispatch based on selected criteria about an emergency.
US12165491B2
A fastener and a system, apparatus, and method for monitoring a fastener are described. The fastener includes a head portion, a shank portion, a transponder, and a compression spring, wherein the head portion includes a mounting portion, and wherein the transponder is disposed in the mounting portion of the head portion. The transponder is arranged to monitor the shank portion, and includes an ultrasonic sensor and a signal processing circuit. The ultrasonic sensor is affixed to a transducer hosting surface, and is urged against the transducer hosting surface by placement of the printed circuit board in the head portion with the compression spring intervening therebetween. The ultrasonic sensor communicates with the signal processing circuit via the compression spring. The signal processing circuit captures a signal from the ultrasonic sensor and transforms the signal into a parameter corresponding to a tensile force being exerted by the fastener.
US12165487B2
A wearable locator system includes a washable information beacon, which includes a microprocessor, a rechargeable battery, a wireless power supply, a GPS circuit, a wireless transceiver, and a memory. The washable information beacon is housed in a protective shell that allows for complete watertight encapsulation and thermal insulation thereby protecting the washable information beacon during wear, washing, high-heat drying, and high-heat ironing without impairing a transmission of electromagnetic waves between the washable information beacon and an external reader. The protective shell is formed from a low pressure molding process. The wearable locator system further includes a fabric material having the washable information beacon semi-permanently affixed thereto.
US12165482B2
A wearable apparatus for personal safety has a scene monitor for sensing an ambient environment, and a main controller for processing the scene data. An emergency condition adverse to a user is detected by processing captured images of the ambient environment to determine whether a violent movement signifying the user facing an attack or accident has occurred. Motion data measured by a motion sensor in the apparatus can be used, alone or with captured images, to assist this determination. Upon detection of the emergency condition, the apparatus automatically sends scene data most-recently obtained before the emergency condition occurs to a remote server for securely storing these scene data for future uses even if the apparatus is subsequently damaged by, e. g., an attacker. The sending of scene data is automatic without a need for the user to initiate. Microphone, hazardous-gas sensor, etc. may also be used in sensing the ambient environment.
US12165472B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a gaming system, device, and method supportive of playing a game of chance and/or skill in a centralized gaming system. Illustratively, a method may include receiving information from a centralized gaming server describing a prize value to award a player in response to the player playing a game at a gaming device; determining a game outcome of the game results in a payout value that is different from the prize value; and providing the player with a split award that reconciles the difference between the prize value and the payout value.
US12165465B2
Systems and methods which employ one or more triggering events that occur in association with an expansion of a displayed portion of a symbol display position matrix and an activation of one or more features associated with one or more elements of the expanded symbol display position matrix.
US12165455B1
An enrollment data management system includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions executable by the one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to receive sensor data from one or more sensors located at a property, wherein the sensor data indicates a plurality of individual detection events that each indicate presence of an individual at the property. The instructions are executable by the one or more processors to cause the one or more processors to analyze the sensor data to determine that the property qualifies as a residence of the individual, access information relevant to the property from one or more databases, utilize the information relevant to the property as enrollment information for an enrollment process for the individual.
US12165442B2
A computer-implemented method for filtering operating scenarios during the operation of a vehicle. The method includes receiving at least one time series of data, storing time-ordered data points of the at least one time series of data in a first memory, generating a trace diagram for the time-ordered data points stored in the first memory, checking whether the trace diagram generated is new in comparison to one or more existing trace diagrams, and storing the time-ordered data points stored in the first memory, in a second memory if the trace diagram generated is new.
US12165439B2
System and methods for including a system mounted to a vehicle for identifying incidents of a roadway and transmitting the incidents to a server, the server located remotely from the system, the system comprising: a device having: a camera for obtaining digital images; at least one sensor including a location based sensor; a memory and processor for executing image processing instructions for processing the digital images for automated detection of the incidents, generating object data based on the processing, generating incident data including the object data and the images; and a network interface for sending the incident data over a communications network to the server during operation of the vehicle on the roadway. Also included are both interactive and autonomous possesses for implementing the device.
US12165433B2
Methods, systems, and computer readable storage media for using image processing to develop a library of facial expressions. The system can receive digital video of at least one speaker, then execute image processing on the video to identify landmarks within facial features of the speaker. The system can also identify vectors based on the landmarks, then assign each vector to an expression, resulting in a plurality of speaker expressions. The system then scores the expressions based on similarity to one another, and creates subsets based on the similarity scores.
US12165426B2
A question-answering system that receive a natural-language question includes a database to provide a basis for that answer and a structured-query generator that constructs a structured query from the question and uses it to obtain an answer to the question from the database.
US12165419B2
A movable apparatus includes a camera unit including an optical system for forming an optical image with a high-resolution area and a low-resolution area on a light reception surface of an imaging unit, the camera unit being installed on the lateral side of the movable apparatus, and A tan(h1/(d1+x1))−θv/2<ϕv
US12165416B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for efficient control and data utilization between processing components of a system. An method can include obtaining image data captured by an image sensor; prior to a first computing component performing a first set of operations on the image data and a second computing component performing a second set of operations on the image data, determining one or more common operations included in the first set of operations and the second set of operations, wherein the first set of operations is different than the second set of operations; performing the one or more common operations on the image data; and generating an output of the one or more operations for use by the first computing component to perform the first set of operations and the second computing component to perform the second set of operations.
US12165407B2
A process of presenting statements captured at an incident scene. First real-time multimedia streams captured corresponding to an incident scene are converted into digital statements. Each statement is tagged to a person identity that is determined based on a biometric attribute extracted from the multimedia streams. When a responder arrives at the incident scene, second real-time multimedia streams are captured corresponding to the incident scene and an identity of a person present at the incident scene is determined. If the identity of the person determined from the second multimedia streams matches with the person identity determined from the first multimedia streams, statements tagged to the person identity are selected and a post-arrival notification is generated for the responder indicating a presence of the person at the incident scene and including the selected statements. The notification is then provided via a visual and/or audio output device operated by the responder.
US12165406B2
A method is provided to using a machine learning model to predict lane geometry where incorrect or missing lane line geometry is detected. Methods may include: receiving a representation of lane line geometry for one or more roads of a road network; identifying an area within the representation as broken lane line geometry of an intersection using a machine learning model; generating a masked area of the broken lane line geometry of the intersection within the representation; processing the representation with the masked area using an inpainting model to generate an inpainted result within the masked area of restored lane line geometry of the intersection, where the inpainting model is trained using a set of representations identified as lane line geometry of intersections; and updating a map database to include the restored lane line geometry of the intersection in place of the broken lane line geometry of the intersection.
US12165404B2
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for training an image analysis engine to identify surface features of the Earth consistent with subsurface hydrogen accumulation. An example method includes receiving, by communications circuitry, a training dataset of labeled images illustrating surface features consistent with subsurface hydrogen accumulation, the surface features consistent with subsurface hydrogen accumulation comprising ovoid surficial depressions. The example method further includes training, by a model generator and using the training dataset, an image classification model of the image analysis engine to identify whether new images contain surface features consistent with subsurface hydrogen accumulation. The example method further includes hosting the image classification model by the image analysis engine.
US12165392B2
An estimation program causing a computer to execute a step (S104) of acquiring a learned detection model and a constituent component model, a step (S202) of outputting constituent component detection results based on the new image using the learned detection model, a step (S203) of estimating first primary component candidates based on the constituent component model and the constituent component detection results and sorting out a secondary component not registered with a list of the first primary component candidates, a step (S204) of merging a plurality of the first primary component candidates to generate a second primary component candidate, and a step (S205) of selecting a secondary component matching the second primary component candidate from among a plurality of secondary components sorted out and registering the selected secondary component with the second primary component candidate.
US12165390B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for dynamically adjusting a configuration of a pre-processor and/or a post-processor of a machine learning system. In one aspect, a machine learning system can receive raw data at a pre-processor where the pre-processor being configured to generate pre-processed data, train a machine learning model based on the pre-processed data to generate output data, process the output data at a post-processor to generate inference data, and adjust, by a controller, configuration of one or a combination of the pre-processor and the post-processor based on the inference data.
US12165386B2
Systems and methods of detecting a vortex made by a travelling object is disclosed. Techniques include positioning a media collector to capture a visual media file of the vortex. In some configurations, a graphic recognition algorithm and vortex similarity engine are used to determine whether a visual media file captured by a media collector contains a vortex. In some configurations, a computer may trigger an alert if a travelling object vortex is not expected to be in the visual media file.
US12165381B2
An apparatus includes an acquisition unit to acquires normal information indicating a normal direction on a surface of an object and specular reflection information regarding reflection on the object in a specular reflection direction, and a compression unit to compress the normal information based on the specular reflection information and to perform a higher compression process for a lower specular reflection intensity on the object.
US12165380B2
An example method, apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium are provided to predict high-dynamic range (HDR) lighting from low-dynamic range (LDR) background images. In an example implementation, a method may include receiving low-dynamic range (LDR) background images of scenes, each LDR background image captured with appearance of one or more reference objects with different reflectance properties; and training a lighting estimation model based at least on the received LDR background images to predict high-dynamic range (HDR) lighting based at least on the trained model. In another example implementation, a method may include capturing a low-dynamic range (LDR) background image of a scene from an LDR video captured by a camera of the electronic computing device; predicting high-dynamic range (HDR) lighting for the image, the predicting, using a trained model, based at least on the LDR background image; and rendering a virtual object based at least on the predicted HDR lighting.
US12165379B2
Described are examples for detecting objects in an image on a device including setting, based on a condition, a number of sparse proposals to use in performing object detection in the image, performing object detection in the image based on providing the sparse proposals as input to an object detection process to infer object location and classification of one or more objects in the image, and indicating, to an application and based on an output of the object detection process, the object location and classification of the one or more objects.
US12165378B2
A computer implemented method for object detection the following steps carried out by computer hardware components: determining an output of a first pooling layer based on input data; determining an output of a dilated convolution layer, provided directly after the first pooling layer, based on the output of the first pooling layer; determining an output of a second pooling layer, provided directly after the dilated convolution layer, based on the output of the dilated convolution layer; and carrying out the object detection based on at least the output of the dilated convolution layer or the output of the second pooling layer.
US12165372B2
Modulation-encoded light, using different spectral bin coded light components, can illuminate a stationary or moving (relative) target object or scene. Response signal processing can use information about the respective different time-varying modulation functions, to decode to recover information about a respective response parameter affected by the target object or scene. Electrical or optical modulation encoding can be used. LED-based spectroscopic analysis of a composition of a target (e.g., SpO2, glucose, etc.) can be performed; such can optionally include decoding of encoded optical modulation functions. Baffles or apertures or optics can be used, such as to constrain light provided by particular LEDs. Coded light illumination can be used with a focal plane array light imager receiving response light for inspecting a moving semiconductor or other target. Encoding can use orthogonal functions, such as an RGB illumination sequence, or a sequence of combinations of spectrally contiguous or non-contiguous colors.
US12165369B2
Data compression techniques are described for saving memory space by using fewer bits to store information while achieving high fidelity. A data set may be partitioned into a plurality of regions. Locally varying numerical ranges of data values (e.g., the minimum and maximum extents) may be determined for the plurality of regions. The data in the individual regions may be encoded using a lower number of bits as interpolation values in reference to the local extents rather than being encoded using a higher number of bits as absolute values. Where there are multiple channels of data in the regions, the number of available bits for encoding the data may be dynamically allocated per region based on the relative degrees of variance in data among the multiple channels.
US12165365B2
Devices, methods and techniques related to image rendering for ground-penetrating radar (GPR) systems are disclosed. In one example aspect, a method for producing one or more images associated with a GPR includes receiving information representative of signals received by the GPR, determining at least three frequency bands associated with the received information, assigning color values to the received information corresponding to the at least three frequency bands, and generating a color image for the one or more objects by combining the received information in all of the at least three frequency bands together such that the color values in the color image indicate a size of the one or more objects, a depth at which the one or more objects is buried underground, or an electrical permittivity of the one or more objects.
US12165363B2
An apparatus for evaluating color of an object includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire image data which is acquired by imaging the object and a color chart group including color charts having different reflectance within a one angle of view, an estimation unit configured to estimate a value of reference white under an exposure condition corresponding to the imaging based on the image data, and a calculation unit configured to calculate a color value for evaluating the color of the object based on the image data and the estimated value of the reference white.
US12165361B2
A system and method for performing automatic camera calibration is provided. The system receives a calibration image, and determines a plurality of image coordinates for representing respective locations at which a plurality of pattern elements of a calibration pattern appear in a calibration image. The system determines, based on the plurality of image coordinates and defined pattern element coordinates, an estimate for a first lens distortion parameter of a set of lens distortion parameters, wherein the estimate for the first lens distortion parameter is determined while estimating a second lens distortion parameter of the set of lens distortion parameters to be zero, or is determined without estimating the second lens distortion parameter. The system determines, after the estimate of the first lens distortion parameter is determined, an estimate for the second lens distortion parameter based on the estimate for the first lens distortion parameter.
US12165359B2
A spatial recognition device has a spatial recognition unit for generating spatial data by recognizing a three-dimensional shape in a real space, and a self-location estimating unit for estimating the self-location in real space. A spatial data unification unit unifies the spatial data and spatial data generated by another spatial recognition device to generate unified spatial data that is expressed in the same coordinate system having the same origin. A self-location sharing unit transmits the self-location based on the unified spatial data, to another spatial recognition device. The self-location sharing unit acquires the self-location from another spatial recognition device) when the self-location estimating unit cannot estimate the self-location.
US12165358B2
There is provided a main subject determining apparatus. A subject detecting unit detects a plurality of subjects from a first image. An obtaining unit obtains posture information of each of the plurality of subjects. For each of the plurality of subjects, a calculating unit calculates, on the basis of the posture information of the subject, a reliability corresponding to a likelihood that the subject is a main subject in the first image. A determining unit determines the main subject of the first image from among the plurality of subjects on the basis of the plurality of reliabilities calculated for the plurality of subjects.
US12165345B2
A computer-implemented method of perceiving structure in an environment comprises steps of: receiving at least one structure observation input pertaining to the environment; processing the at least one structure observation input in a perception pipeline to compute a perception output; determining one or more uncertainty source inputs pertaining to the structure observation input; and determining for the perception output an associated uncertainty estimate by applying, to the one or more uncertainty source inputs, an uncertainty estimation function learned from statistical analysis of historical perception outputs.
US12165340B2
A computing component implemented as part of a vehicle architecture and configured to process point cloud data. The computing component comprising one or more programmable logics that, when executed, cause the computing component to generate one or more transformations to align scans of point cloud data, translate the aligned scans of the point cloud data to a universal coordinate system, and generate addresses and offsets to store the aligned scans of the point cloud data.
US12165329B2
A system and method for unsupervised superpixel-driven instance segmentation of a remote sensing image are provided. The remote sensing image is divided into one or more image patches. The one or more image patches are processed to generate one or more superpixel aggregation patches based on a graph-based aggregation model, respectively. The graph-based aggregation model is configured to learn at least one of a spatial affinity or a feature affinity of a plurality of superpixels from each image patch and aggregate the plurality of superpixels based on the at least one of the spatial affinity or the feature affinity of the plurality of superpixels. The one or more superpixel aggregation patches are combined into an instance segmentation image.
US12165325B2
The present invention relates to the use of dark field X-ray images in an ablation treatment of a tumour. By acquiring dark field X-ray images displaying the region of interest targeted in the ablation treatment, information can be derived which allows taking a decision on terminating the ablation treatment. A set of dark field X-ray images is received (101), which is acquired at different time instants and comprises the region of interest. Dark field X-ray images of the set are compared (102), for example by determining difference images between the individual images. If during that comparison a change in the dark field X-ray images is detected over time in the region of interest, then a signal is generated (103) indicating a change has occurred. That signal may indicate that healthy tissue is being affected instead of the tumour and that consequently the ablation treatment should be ended.
US12165324B2
A method and apparatus for implementing scar tissue identification using a processor coupled to a memory is disclosed. The method and apparatus receive a first modality and a second modality. The first modality is of a first type. The second modality is of a second type, which is different from the first type. Each of the first modality and the second modality respectively describe organic tissue of a patient according to the first and second types. The method and apparatus cross reference the first modality and the second modality and generates improved image data for the first modality based on the cross referencing. The image data includes enhanced accuracy over or higher resolution than original data of the first modality.
US12165319B2
The present invention relates to an apparatus (10) for diagnostic image acquisition, comprising: an input unit (20); a processing unit (30); and an output unit (40). The input unit is configured to receive a data value relating to at least one biomarker in a measurement blood sample of a patient. The processing unit is configured to determine a time to acquire a diagnostic image of the patient, wherein the determination comprises utilization of the data value. The output unit is configured to output an indication of the time to acquire the diagnostic image of the patient.
US12165318B2
A computer-implemented method is provided for improving image quality with shortened acquisition time. The method comprises: determining an accelerated image acquisition parameter for imaging a subject using a medical imaging apparatus; acquiring, using the medical imaging apparatus, a medical image of the subject according to the accelerated image acquisition parameter; applying a deep network model to the medical image to generate a corresponding transformed medical image with improved quality; and combining the medical image and the corresponding transformed medial image using an adaptive mixing algorithm to generate output image.
US12165314B2
At least one embodiment relates to a method for training a machine learning algorithm. In an embodiment, the method includes provisioning a training apparatus with a machine learning algorithm to be trained, having a secure data connection to a medical-engineering imaging system; creating a plurality of training datasets based on image recordings, each training dataset of the plurality of training datasets being furnished with a ground truth or being linked by data link; sending training datasets, of the plurality of training datasets, to the training apparatus via the secure data connection; training the machine learning algorithm via the training apparatus, with the training datasets to create a trained machine learning algorithm; and sending a parameter dataset of the trained machine learning algorithm to the central computing apparatus via the data interface. A corresponding machine learning algorithm, a control facility, an imaging system and a multi-device network are also disclosed.
US12165313B2
Disclosed are an algorithm for automatic fundus image reading, and a deep learning architecture for automatic fundus image reading, which are capable of minimizing the amount of data required for learning by training and reading artificial intelligence in a manner similar to that of an ophthalmologist who acquires medical knowledge.
US12165312B2
A method for classifying an ostomy condition, the method comprising: obtaining image data, the image data comprising stoma image data of a stomal area including a stoma and/or appliance image data of an adhesive surface of an ostomy appliance; determining one or more image representations based on the image data; determining one or more ostomy representations including a first ostomy parameter based on the one or more image representations; and outputting the first ostomy parameter.
US12165302B2
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising computer-executable instructions that, when executed, are configured to cause a processor to perform operations that include receiving image data after an operation is performed by an industrial automation device on a product; analyzing the image data based an object-based image analysis (OBIA) model to classify the product as one of a plurality of conditions related to manufacturing quality and the OBIA model includes property layers associated with features related to a manufacturing of the product; determining whether the one of the conditions indicates an anomaly being present in the product; sending a notification indicative of the one of the plurality of conditions is presently associated with the product; identifying a property layer associated with classifying the one of the plurality of conditions; and updating the OBIA model based on the property layer and the input indicative of the anomaly being incorrectly associated with the product.
US12165299B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods that implement an image filter for enhancing light text and removing document shadows. In particular embodiments, the disclosed systems use a modified adaptive thresholding approach the relies on image gradients to efficiently guide the thresholding process. In addition, the disclosed systems use a machine-learning model to generate a document shadow map. The document shadow map can include text reflections. Accordingly, the disclosed systems remove text reflections from the document shadow map (e.g., by using an interpolated shadow intensity value of neighboring shadow map pixels). In turn, the disclosed systems use the document text mask and the document shadow map cleaned of text reflections to remove shadows from the digital image. Further, the disclosed systems enhance text in the shadow-removed digital image based on contrast stretching.
US12165294B2
A computer-implemented method for high resolution image inpainting comprising the following steps: providing a high resolution input image, providing at least one inpainting mask, selecting at least one rectangular sub-region of the input image and at least one aligned rectangular subregion of the inpainting mask such that the rectangular subregion of the input image encompasses at least one set of pixels to be removed and synthetized, the at least one sub-region of the input image and its corresponding aligned subregion of the inpainting mask having identical minimum possible size and a position for which a calculated information gain does not decrease, processing the sub-region of the input image and its corresponding aligned subregion of the inpainting mask by a machine learning model, generating an output high resolution image comprising the inpainted sub-region.
US12165287B2
Techniques for generating a synthetic computed tomography (sCT) image from a cone-beam computed tomography (CBCT) image are provided. The techniques include receiving a CBCT image of a subject; generating, using a generative model, a sCT image corresponding to the CBCT image, the generative model trained based on one or more deformable offset layers in a generative adversarial network (GAN) to process the CBCT image as an input and provide the sCT image as an output; and generating a display of the sCT image for medical analysis of the subject.
US12165283B2
A device includes a memory and one or more processors. The memory is configured to store an image enhancement network of an image enhancer. The one or more processors are configured to predict an image compression quality of an image of a stream of images. The one or more processors are also configured to configure the image enhancer based on the image compression quality. The one or more processors are further configured to process, using the image enhancement network of the configured image enhancer, the image to generate an enhanced image.
US12165265B2
A system for generating a virtual reality environment includes a mocap suit having a plurality of sensors for generating at least one mocap suit output responsive to movement of an individual within the mocap suit within the virtual reality environment. At least one virtual reality player headset generates at least one virtual reality headset output responsive to actions of a player within the virtual reality environment. A virtual reality controller receives the at least one mocap suit output and the at least one virtual reality headset output and generates the virtual reality environment for display in the at least one virtual reality player headset. The virtual reality controller selectively generates an avatar associated with the mocap suit responsive to the at least one mocap suit output. The avatar being selectively inserted into the virtual reality world responsive to a first input and selectively removed from the virtual reality environment responsive to a second input.
US12165261B2
A 3D segmentation editing system accurately updates the segmentations of non-edited images of a 3D scan to reflect segmentation edits applied to other images of the scan using localized interpolation. In one or more embodiments, rather than replacing the entireties of the initial segmentations of non-edited images with newly generated, globally interpolated segmentations, the segmentation editing system applies a distance-based criterion to the interpolation of segmentation edits, such that only portions of the segmentations of the non-edited images that correspond to areas that were manually annotated in the edited images will be modified by the interpolation process, and the initial segmentations will be maintained outside of those edited areas. In this way, the system merges the interpolated segmentation with the initial segmentation for each non-edited image in a manner that mitigates unreliable modifications to the initial segmentations in areas far from the edited areas.
US12165253B2
Rendering systems that can use combinations of rasterization rendering processes and ray tracing rendering processes are disclosed. In some implementations, these systems perform a rasterization pass to identify visible surfaces of pixels in an image. Some implementations may begin shading processes for visible surfaces, before the geometry is entirely processed, in which rays are emitted. Rays can be culled at various points during processing, based on determining whether the surface from which the ray was emitted is still visible. Rendering systems may implement rendering effects as disclosed.
US12165247B2
Methods and systems are provided for training a model used for animating a facial expression of a game character. The method includes capturing mesh data of a first human actor using a three-dimensional (3D) camera to generate three-dimensional (3D) depth data of a face of the first human actor. In one embodiment, the 3D depth data is output as mesh files corresponding to a frame captured by the 3D camera. The method includes capturing two-dimensional (2D) point cloud data of the first human actor using a 2D camera. In one embodiment, the 2D point cloud data represents tracked dots present on the face of the first human actor. In another embodiment, the 2D point cloud data is processed to generate training label value files (tLVFs). The method includes processing the mesh data in time coordination with the tLVFs associated with the 2D point cloud data to train the model. The model is configured to receive input mesh files captured from a second human actor and generate as output LVFs corresponding to the input mesh files.
US12165246B2
An apparatus may obtain, by a processor, target object data formatted based on a first format. The target object data may include a plurality of element resources for a three dimensional model. The first format comprising a file format for transmission of three-dimensional model data. The apparatus may obtain, by the processor, configuration information associated with the target object data. The apparatus may generate, by the processor, a data packet of a second format based on the target object data and the configuration information. The apparatus may provide, by the processor, the data packet to a terminal device.
US12165243B2
Systems and methods are provided for receiving a plurality of customized avatars where each customized avatar within the plurality of customized avatars include a first and second image layer. The first image layer includes input of text data overlaid on top of the second image layer, and the second image layer includes a personalized avatar. The system and method further includes receiving a modification of the input of text data from a text interface, generating a third image layer including a representation of text data associated with the modification of the input of text data, removing the first image layer from each of the customized avatars and overlaying the third image layer on top of the second image layer of each of the customized avatars.
US12165237B2
A processor-implemented method for a memory storage format to accelerate machine learning (ML) on a computing device is described. The method includes receiving an image in a first layer storage format of a neural network. The method also includes assigning addresses to image pixels of each of three channels of the first layer storage format for accessing the image pixels in a blocked ML storage acceleration format. The method further includes storing the image pixels in the blocked ML storage acceleration format according to the assigned addresses of the image pixels. The method also includes accelerating inference video processing of the image according to the assigned addresses for the image pixels corresponding to the blocked ML storage acceleration format.
US12165230B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for generating title reports in standardized formats and providing an environment for exchanging the title reports. The system can receive property documents from a plurality of sources. The property documents can be appended with metadata so as to enable the system to order the property documents within a title report. In some examples, generated title reports can accessible within a cloud environment for requesting entities to access.
US12165229B1
A development management system is described herein that may provide a unified portal that depicts an interactive user interface accessible to a developer and various stakeholders in a region at which a development is planned. Within the unified portal, the developer can provide and/or access certain sets of data. In addition, other stakeholders in the region at which a development is planned can access the unified portal and provide access-controlled data that may otherwise be unavailable to the developer. The unified portal may allow the developer and/or the stakeholders to monitor the progress of a development, provide input as to various design elements that may comprise the development, to provide or request additional information as needed, to select a location at which the development will occur with the aid of artificial intelligence, and to review and revise a layout of the proposed development graphically depicted via the user interface.
US12165219B1
Automated systems and methods for a secure electronic ledger provide a technical solution such that entities referencing the electronic ledger that are associated with a relationship instance can (a) form a consensus that the outcome of the relationship instance is legitimate and (b) determine whether future relationship instances between entities are compliant. An authority entity publishes to the secure electronic ledger data on which digital rules regarding aspects of the relationship instance between a first entity and second entity are based. Entities subscribed to the secure electronic ledger make digitally signed entries in real-time in the secure electronic ledger including data regarding the relationship instance that are visible by all entities associated with the relationship instance. A trusted third entity is electronically entrusted, by at least the system of the first entity and a system of an authority entity, to validate in real-time the data regarding the relationship instance contained in the entries and all such entries may be approved or rejected in real-time by one or more entities associated with the relationship instance. The approvals and rejections of the entries in the secure electronic ledger, and reasons therefor, are also recorded and visible in the secure electronic ledger to all entities associated with the transaction.
US12165196B2
A method of a clothing virtual try-on service based on deep learning allowing a virtual try-on service application executed by at least one processor of a computing device to perform a process of the clothing virtual try-on service based on the deep-learning includes: determining a first clothes image including a first clothes object, a second clothes image including a second clothes object, and a model image including a model object; generating a first transformed clothes image by transforming a shape of the first clothes object to correspond to the model object; generating a second transformed clothes image by transforming a shape of the second clothes object to correspond to the model object; and generating and outputting a virtual fitting image obtained by synthesizing the first transformed clothes image and the second transformed clothes image to be virtually fitted on the model object.
US12165192B2
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided to support individuals in a retail environment. Some embodiments, provide systems, comprising: a plurality of cameras positioned in a retail store; an image processing control circuit configured to determine a customer field of view; a product identification control circuit configured to identify a set of multiple products within the identified customer field of view, assign a viewing probability to each product without the first customer having to touch the first product; a product selection control circuit configured to determine a purchase probability of the first product; add the first product to a virtual electronic cart when the purchase probability of the first product exceeds a purchase probability threshold; and communicate instructions to control the worker personal computing device to instruct a worker to retrieve the first product.
US12165191B2
A change detection means 840 detects an area of change in a product shelf on which a product has been arranged, on the basis of a captured image of the product. A classification means 850 classifies the change in the product shelf in the detected area of change. A shopping list generation means 860 generates a shopping list for a customer on the basis of the classification of the change in the product shelf and of shelving information on the product shelf.
US12165188B2
A computer-implemented system and method to create personalized artwork may include an art creation server comprising a processor, a data store, and a controller comprising a plurality of subsystems including a data management engine, a randomization engine, and an online shopping engine. The data management engine may be configured to receive art objects and words. The randomization engine may automatically generate personalized artwork by selectively arranging a subset of the art objects and words. The randomization engine may also be configured to automatically generate a rendering of the personalized artwork, selectively save the rendering of the personalized artwork based upon a save selection by a user, and selectively generate a different rendering of the personalized artwork based upon an edit selection by the user.
US12165187B2
Systems and methods to support custom bundling of virtual items within an online gaming platform are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: facilitate entry and/or selection of virtual items that are owned by a first user; initiate bundling of the virtual items into a custom item bundle; create a digital asset that represents rights pertaining to the custom item bundle; record the digital asset of a decentralized ledger; transfer to rights to other users; distribute amounts of consideration to the user who owns particular rights pertaining to the custom item bundle.
US12165184B2
A multi-channel message exchange system selects a service provider that is best suited to deliver each individual message for customers of the message exchange system. The message exchange system selects a service provider based on customer criteria provided by the customer, data structures provided by the service providers, quality scores describing performance of the service providers, channels used by the service providers to deliver messages, or any suitable combination thereof. The message exchange system may select the service provider that provides the best combination of quality of service, value, and delivery channel given the customer's specific needs. The data structures may geographic jurisdictions in which the service provider provides message delivery, channels through which the service provider is willing to deliver messages, or any suitable combination thereof.
US12165179B2
An analytics system receives, from a client computing device, a request to generate a presentation. The analytics system accesses one or more feedback datasets of feedback data. The feedback data comprises unstructured data available from multiple data stores. The analytics system generates, for each feedback dataset, a respective feedback text and a respective sentiment score indicating a degree of negativity associated with the respective feedback text. For a combination of a plurality of generated feedback texts, the analytics system selects a set of themes based at least on a plurality of generated sentiment scores. Each sentiment score of the plurality of generated sentiment scores is associated with one of the plurality of generated feedback texts. The analytics system generates a presentation file that indicates the set of themes. The analytics system causes the presentation file to be transmitted to the client computing device.
US12165170B2
A method includes receiving client data of a client that includes at least one of clickstream data and analytic data of the client. For each of a number of trained machine learning (ML) models corresponding, respectively, to a number of campaigns, campaign-specific features are extracted from the client data, and a campaign interest prediction score is generated by inputting the campaign-specific features extracted for the ML model into the ML model. At least one campaign, from among the plurality of campaigns, is assigned to the client based on the generated campaign interest prediction scores. The clickstream data includes a plurality of pages visited by the client, and the analytic data of the client includes at least one of phone call data, chat message data, email data, or survey data of the client.
US12165165B2
The present teaching relates to method, system, and medium for profiling accounts. A plurality of identifiers are obtained, wherein each of the plurality of identifiers is associated with one of a device operated by a user and a platform on which the user consumes content in one or more media types. An account corresponding to the user is created, wherein the account represents the user across devices, platforms, and/or media types. A persistent identifier is generated for the account, wherein the persistent identifier links the plurality of identifiers. Consumption data related to the account with the persistent identifier is obtained. The consumption data is gathered from sources associated with the plurality of identifiers across different devices, platforms, or media types, and the account is profiled based on the obtained consumption data.
US12165155B2
Disclosed are methods and systems for payment card transactions, where a Card Verification Value (CVV) or Card Verification Code (CVC) is generated dynamically as part of a tokenized session.
US12165152B2
A system is configured to perform operations that include receiving first device information corresponding to a consumer device of a _Sonsumer, where the first device information is collected by a merchant application of a_specmerchant in response to a payment transaction request being initiated between the consumer and the merchant. The operations further include determining that the first device information fails to satisfy a risk analysis threshold for performing a risk analysis process and in response, transmitting a push communication to the consumer device. The push communication includes instructions that cause the consumer device to automatically transmit, to the system, second device information corresponding to the consumer device. Additionally, the operations include based on the second device information, executing the risk analysis process with respect to the payment transaction request.
US12165140B2
In one embodiment, techniques include receiving, by a computing device associated with a payment service system, a request to create a blockchain-enforced contract corresponding to a new transaction between a merchant and a customer. Techniques include generating, based on analysis using machine-learned models of a transaction history associated with the merchant, a condition of the blockchain-enforced contract requisite for completion of the new transaction. Techniques includes generating the blockchain-enforced contract including the condition. Techniques include providing the blockchain-enforced contract to nodes in a blockchain network. Techniques include creating a blockchain transaction addressed to the blockchain-enforced contract and including information regarding the condition. Techniques include providing the blockchain transaction to the nodes. Techniques include receiving confirmation that the nodes have validated the blockchain transaction. Techniques include causing a value associated with the new transaction to be transferred to a merchant account associated with the merchant.
US12165139B2
Systems and methods for establishing and fulfilling a smart contract between users and service providers are disclosed. A method includes creating, by one or more nodes in a computer network, a smart contract in response to a request from a user for services and providing the smart contract to a blockchain. The method then includes notifying service providers of the smart contract and receiving responses to the notifications from the service providers. Then the method includes identifying one or more service providers that can complete the service. The method then includes updating the smart contract to include data about the identified service providers. The updated smart contract includes account information for a user account of the user, and account information for service provider accounts of the identified service providers. Then a value interaction is initiated that pushes value from the user account to the service provider accounts.
US12165137B1
A currency exchange platform for conducting currency exchanges and transactions in a social pool is described. The currency exchange platform receives a request for an amount of a first currency from a first user in a social pool. The request includes an indication of a type of the request and a preference for delivery of the funds. The currency exchange platform then matches the request with a matching account in the social pool, and, responsive to the preference for delivery indicating an automated teller machine (ATM) for delivery of the funds, delivers at least a portion of the requested amount of the first currency to the first user via the ATM.
US12165131B1
A computer-implemented method includes monitoring, by a mobile wallet computing system, a context of a user having a mobile wallet on a user mobile device, determining whether one or more rules for each one or more sub-wallets associated with the mobile wallet on the user mobile device are fulfilled based on the monitored context of the user, in response to at least one of the rules associated with a predefined sub-wallet being fulfilled, provisioning the predefined sub-wallet to the mobile wallet on the user mobile device, configuring a removal rule for the predefined sub-wallet, and removing the predefined sub-wallet from the mobile wallet on the user mobile device in response to the removal rule being fulfilled.
US12165127B2
In some examples, an account is provisioned onto an electronic device. In some examples, the device receives a value to fund the account provisioned on the electronic device. In some examples, the electronic device transacts with a contactless transaction terminal using the provisioned account and displays an indication of the transaction. In some examples, the electronic device transmits information corresponding to the provisioned account without checking for authentication. In some examples, the device receives user input initiating a process for moving the account from a first device to a second device. In some examples, the device receives account payment credentials from a second device when a set of payment criteria are met.
US12165121B2
Methods and systems for a location based system and method for calculating sales and use tax for non-traditional points of sale. The methods and systems include a mobile application, a non-transitory computer readable medium for calculating sales and use tax for businesses that do not have a human readable address. Methods and systems for calculating a transactional tax for a mobile app whereby the mobile app is taxed based upon the location of the mobile device or place of first use of the mobile app, rather than where the mobile device was purchased or where it originates.
US12165105B1
The present embodiments relate to automatic claim value generation. Particularly, the present embodiments include retrieving information from various sources and processing the data to derive an overview of damage to vehicles incurred during a vehicle accident, deriving an estimated value (or “cost”) to rectify the damage, and a client-specific claim value to be presented to the client representing a value to rectify the damage based on a policy corresponding to the client. The present embodiments provide an automated (or “touchless”) claim value payout system to provide a claim value specific to the client and the accident incurred by the client that is performed by a computing device without intervention by an operator.
US12165104B2
A resource consumption system can include a plurality of resources positioned within at least one rack and at least one sensor configured to detect removal of an amount of the plurality of resources from the respective rack. The resource consumption system can include at least one transmitter configured to transmit a notification based on the at least one sensor detecting the removal of the amount of resources, wherein the notification comprises a resource identifier, an entity identifier, and the amount of the plurality of resources. The resource consumption system can include at least one computing device configured to compute an amount based on the resource identifier and the amount of resources, generate a request based on the notification, and transmit the request to an entity associated with the entity identifier, wherein the request comprises the resource identifier, the entity identifier, and the amount.
US12165100B1
A system, including, associating a wireless tracker with an asset, wherein the wireless tracker emits a tracker identification and a sensor payload including a fixed identification, receiving by at least one of a plurality of mobile devices the tracker identification, the sensor payload and an associated location of the at least one of the plurality of mobile devices and monitoring the tracker identification and the associated location of the at least one of the plurality of mobile devices.
US12165099B2
Methods and systems are described for merging of a set of items being shipped using a wireless node network. In an example method, a master node receives ID node identification information from a server in the network. The ID node identification information defines the group of ID nodes. Each of the ID nodes is related to a different item from the set of items being shipped. Next, each of the ID nodes in the group is associated with the master node when the master node detects a signal from each ID node as they respectively approach the master node. When the master node detects a last one of the ID nodes in the group approaching the master node, the master node transmits a notification to the server. Thereafter, the master node receives a shipment merge indication from the server.
US12165094B2
A system and method of operating an integration application management system comprising a processor executing code instructions for modelling, via a graphical user interface (GUI), a business integration process including a data mapping type visual element and a universal data type mapping pipeline system to classify first application input data via a classification module having a machine learning classifier to determine data classifications in the first application input data and to select, via an inference module, among a plurality of neural network mapping algorithms corresponding to each of the one or more data classifications. The system and method to generate, with the selected neural network mapping algorithm, and present to a user a plurality of sample data mappings for the data mapping type visual element from a first application to a second application in the business integration process.
US12165092B2
In an approach for transforming workflows based on goals and constraints, a processor receives a workflow definition and one or more events for a workflow output by a workflow orchestrator, wherein the one or more events are at least one of a parsing event and a scheduling event. A processor determines, using one or more transformers, one or more transformations to the workflow based on a set of goals and constraints, wherein the one or more transformations is at least one of addition of a new node, addition of a new graph, modification of at least one existing node, modification of at least one existing graph, removal of at least one existing node, and removal of at least one existing graph. A processor dynamically applies, using one or more enforcers, the one or more transformations to the workflow based on the set of goals and constraints.
US12165091B2
A mainframe workflow method manages workflow tasks in a mainframe workflow management system. The method includes selecting, by a user terminal, a target mainframe computing system from a plurality of target mainframe computing systems for execution of a mainframe workflow process having a plurality of workflow tasks, and transmitting the plurality of workflow tasks to the selected target mainframe computing system over a communication network. The method also includes storing the plurality of workflow tasks, in a workflow file repository at the target mainframe computing system, and checking the plurality of workflow tasks for inter-task dependencies. The method further includes executing the mainframe workflow process, including selected workflow tasks from the plurality of workflow tasks, by the selected target mainframe computing system, where the selected workflow tasks include user-created workflow tasks and a predetermined number of computer-generated default workflow tasks that are automatically generated having assigned default values.
US12165082B1
Hyperparameters for tuning a machine learning system may be optimized using Bayesian optimization with constraints. The hyperparameter optimization may be performed for a received training set and received constraints. Respective probabilistic models for the machine learning system and constraint functions may be initialized, then hyperparameter optimization may include iteratively identifying respective values for hyperparameters using analysis of the respective models performed using an acquisition function implementing entropy search on the respective models, training the machine learning system using the identified values to determine measures of accuracy and constraint metrics, and updating the respective models using the determined measures.
US12165079B2
A multi-layered knowledge base system and a processing method thereof are provided. In the system, semantic space learning of converting learning data into a semantic vector, which is a vector of semantic space, by learning a transformation function based on a plurality of learning data is performed. Then, relational knowledge learning of acquiring a relation between the semantic vectors by learning a relation function based on the semantic vectors obtained by the semantic space learning is performed. The acquired relation is converted into graph knowledge. The graph knowledge uses the relation as an edge and the semantic vector corresponding to the relation as a node.
US12165076B2
In some examples, a server may use machine learning to determine, based on service requests associated with multiple computing devices, that a component included in the multiple computing devices is predicted to fail at a particular date. The server may use the machine learning to determine, based on the particular date and an expiration date of a warranty associated with the computing devices, that a customer may initiate a service request on a predicted service date. The machine learning may determine recommended solutions including purchasing an extended warranty, purchasing extended services (e.g., on-site service), purchasing a depot clinic service, or trading in the multiple computing devices for newer computing devices. In response to receiving a purchase order to purchase at least one of the recommended solutions, the server may initiate at least one of the recommended solutions.
US12165073B2
A computer vision learning system and corresponding computer-implemented method extract meaning from image content. The computer vision learning system comprises at least one image sensor that transforms light sensed from an environment of the computer vision learning system into image data representing a scene of the environment. The computer vision learning system further comprises a digital computational learning system that includes a network of actor perceiver predictor (APP) nodes and a library of visual methods available to the APP nodes for applying to the image data. The digital computational learning system employs the network in combination with the library to determine a response to a query and outputs the response determined. The query is associated with the scene. The computer vision learning system is capable of answering queries not just about what is happening in the scene, but what would happen based on the scene in view of hypothetical conditions and/or actions.
US12165053B2
A method for using a neural network to generate an improved graph model includes receiving, by the neural network, a graph model. The graph model is based on data relating to an environment for allocating resources to a first group and a second group. The method further includes receiving, by the neural network, a budget for editing the graph model based on a cost of corresponding modification to the environment, and determining, by the neural network, a fairness representation based on a fairness requirement between the first and second groups. It is determined by the neural network, a utility function for the graph model based on first and second group utilities representing resource allocation to the first and second groups respectively. Reinforcement learning is performed on the neural network to generate the improved graph model using the utility function and the fairness representation.
US12165039B2
The present disclosure provides a data processing method, a board card device, a computer equipment, and a storage medium for data quantization. The board card provided in the present disclosure includes a storage component, an interface device, a control component, and an artificial intelligence chip of a data processing device, where the artificial intelligence chip is connected to the storage device, the control device, and the interface apparatus, respectively. The storage component is configured to store data; the interface device is configured to implement data transmission between the artificial intelligence chip and an external equipment; and the control component is configured to monitor a state of the artificial intelligence chip. According to the data processing method, the device, the computer equipment, and the storage medium provided in the embodiments of the present disclosure, data to be quantized is quantized according to a corresponding quantization parameter, which may reduce the storage space of data while ensuring the precision, as well as ensure the accuracy and reliability of the operation result and improve the operation efficiency.
