US12178133B2
A design process is used for designing a device comprising a plurality of micro-machined elements, each comprising a flexible membrane, the elements being arranged in a plane in a determined topology. The design process comprises a step of defining the determined topology so that it has a character compatible with a generic substrate having cavities, the characteristics of which are pre-established. Each flexible membrane of the micro-machined elements is associated with one cavity of the generic substrate. The present disclosure also relates to a fabrication process for fabricating a device comprising a plurality of micro-machined elements, and to this device itself, wherein only some of the pairs of cavities and flexible membranes are configured to form a set of functional micro-machined elements.
US12178130B2
Thermoelectric devices (TE) devices may be used to power wearable electronics, such as watches and sensors by harvesting heat from the body. These TE devices may fully power or partially power the wearable devices to extend a usage time, or to recharge a battery. In other example embodiments, TE devices can be used to provide heating and/or cooling. The TE devices can be integrated into garments such as clothes, vests, and armbands for outdoor and indoor environments. For outdoor environments, applications include, but are not limited to, sports such as golfing, bicycling, running, walking, training, soccer, hiking, and other outdoor activities related to occupations, such as construction, fire-fighting, military operations, law enforcement, farming, underground mining, and so on. In other example embodiments, TE devices can be used to provide thermal camouflaging for people and objects so as to not be seen by thermal imaging devices.
US12178111B2
A vapor deposition mask includes a silicon substrate including a first region that has a first thickness and that includes a part in which a plurality of through-holes is arranged, and a second region that is arranged at an outer circumference of the first region and that has a second thickness that is greater than the first thickness. The silicon substrate has an inner wall that constitutes a step between the first region and the second region. An outer edge of the inner wall has a curve portion in a plan view, and the inner wall has a plurality of steps in a cross-section view.
US12178107B2
An electronic device according to one embodiment may include: a transparency layer; a pixel layer disposed under the transparency layer, and including pixels that emit light in a visible ray and for displaying a content through the transparency layer; a display panel disposed under the pixel layer, and including a substrate layer including switches operating the pixels; a bio-sensor disposed under the display panel, and enabling acquisition of biometric information by using reflected light obtained through reflection, by an external object, of light output through the pixels; and a coating reflecting external light in an infrared ray band transmitted to the substrate layer, and allowing transmission of the light in a visible ray band, wherein the coating is formed between the transparency layer and the display panel.
US12178101B2
A transparent display device is disclosed, which may reduce a yellowish phenomenon in a non-display area. The transparent display device comprises a substrate provided with a display area in which a plurality of subpixels are disposed, and a non-display area adjacent to the display area, a gate driver provided in the non-display area over the substrate, including a plurality of stages, a metal line provided between the gate driver and the display area, and a trench provided between the metal line and the display area.
US12178094B2
In a display device, a first power supply voltage line includes a first trunk wiring line, a plurality of branch wiring lines, and a second power supply voltage line includes a second trunk wiring line. The first trunk wiring line includes a first portion and a second portion. A line width of the first portion is smaller than a line width of the second portion. A frame region in a frame region provided with the first portion includes a first irregular frame edge having an irregular shape.
US12178078B2
A pixel includes a first capacitor connected between first and second nodes, a second capacitor connected between a first voltage line and the first node, a light emitting diode including a first electrode and a second electrode connected with a second voltage line, a first transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a gate electrode connected with the second node, a second transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a gate electrode which receives a scan signal, a third transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a gate electrode which receives a first compensation scan signal, a fourth transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a gate electrode which receives a second compensation scan signal, and a fifth transistor including a first electrode, a second electrode, and a gate electrode which receives a first light emitting signal.
US12178070B2
The present application provides a fabricating method of a displaying base plate, a displaying base plate and a displaying device, wherein the displaying base plate includes a tapping region, an edge region surrounding the tapping region and a displaying region surrounding the edge region, and the displaying base plate within the edge region includes: a substrate base plate, and a planarization layer provided on one side of the substrate base plate; and a spacer wall and an organic functional layer that are provided on one side of the planarization layer that is further away from the substrate base plate, wherein the organic functional layer is partitioned on sides of the spacer wall; wherein a material of the spacer wall includes a photoinduced deformed material that has had an expansive deformation and a cross-linking reaction.
US12178069B2
A display device including a substrate, a transistor, a leveling film, a display element, a dam, and a guide. The substrate has a display region and a periphery region surrounding the display region. The transistor is located over the display region. The leveling film is located over and covers the transistor. The display element is located over the leveling film and is electrically connected to the transistor. The dam is located over the peripheral region and surrounds the display region. The guide is located between the leveling film and the dam and surrounds the display region. The guide includes a first organic compound included in the leveling film.
US12178066B2
A substrate and a preparation method thereof, a display panel and a preparation method thereof, and a display device are provided. The substrate includes a display region and a peripheral region positioned in a periphery of the display region and used for sealing, the substrate includes: a base substrate; an insulating layer, arranged on a side of the base substrate and positioned in the display region and the peripheral region for sealing; and a plurality of pixel units, positioned on the insulating layer corresponding to the display region, and in the peripheral region, at least one groove is disposed on a side of the insulating layer which faces away from the base substrate, a side of the groove which is away from the base substrate is open, and a depth direction of the groove is perpendicular to the base substrate.
US12178065B2
Disclosed is an organic light emitting display device which may improve reliability. The organic light emitting display device includes light emitting elements arranged in an active area, crack prevention layers arranged in a non-active area along the perimeter of the active area, and at least one crack detection line arranged between the active area and the crack prevention layers, and judges whether or not a crack is generated through an output resistance value from the at least one crack detection line and may thus raise yield.
US12178049B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a semiconductor substrate including a first region, a second region, and a third region, located apart from each other in such an order in a first direction in an element region. Each of the first to third regions including a source and/or drain region. The semiconductor storage device further includes a first conductor layer provided above the element region and having a first opening; a second conductor layer provided above the element region, having a second opening, and located apart from the first conductor layer in the first direction; a first contact, in the first opening, that is connected to the first region; a second contact, in the second opening, that is connected to the third region; a first memory cell connected to the first contact; and a second memory cell connected to the second contact.
US12178047B2
A semiconductor storage includes a stack, columns, and first, second, third, fourth, and fifth insulators. The stack includes first conductive layers, and second and third conductive layers below and above the first conductive layers, respectively. The columns penetrate the stack in a first direction. The first and second insulators penetrate the stack and are separated from each other in a second direction. The third insulator is between the first and second insulators in a third direction. The third insulator includes first and second portions apart from each other in the second direction. The fourth insulator is between the first and second portions. The fifth insulator is between the first and second portions above the fourth insulator. The second conductive layer includes two electrically-separated regions, between which the third and fourth insulators are provided. The third conductive layer includes two electrically-separated regions between which the third and fifth insulators are provided.
US12178046B2
A semiconductor device includes a lower stack structure that includes a lower word line, an upper stack structure that is on the lower stack structure and includes an upper word line, a decoder that is adjacent to the lower stack structure and the upper stack structure, a signal interconnection that is connected to the decoder, a lower selector that is connected to the signal interconnection and further connected to the lower word line, and an upper selector that is connected to the signal interconnection, isolated from direct contact with the lower selector, and further connected to the upper word line.
US12178045B2
Microelectronic devices include a lower deck and an upper deck, each comprising a stack structure with a vertically alternating sequence of insulative structures and conductive structures arranged in tiers. First and second arrays of pillars extend through the stack structure of the lower and upper decks, respectively. In one or more of the first and second pillar arrays, at least some pillars exhibit a greater degree of bending away from a vertical orientation than at least some other pillars. The pillars of the first array align with the pillars of the second array along an interface between the lower and upper decks. Related methods are also disclosed.
US12178042B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include forming a first sacrificial layer including a first portion and a second portion having a thickness thicker than a thickness of the first portion, forming a stack including first material layers and second material layers alternating with each other on the first sacrificial layer, forming a channel structure passing through the stack and extending to the first portion, forming a slit passing through the stack and extending to the second portion, removing the first sacrificial layer through the slit to form a first opening, and forming a second source layer connected to the channel structure in the first opening.
US12178039B2
The present application provides a memory device. The memory device includes a semiconductor substrate including an isolation structure and an active area surrounded by the isolation structure; a fuse gate structure disposed over the active area; a device gate structure disposed over the active area and adjacent to the fuse gate structure; and a contact plug coupled to the active area and extending away from the semiconductor substrate, wherein at least a portion of the active area is disposed under the device gate structure. Further, a method of manufacturing the memory device is also disclosed.
US12178036B2
A method for forming a memory device includes: providing a substrate including at least word line structures and active regions, and a bottom dielectric layer and bit line contact layers that are on a top surface of the substrate; part of the bit line contact layers are etched to form bit line contact layers at different heights; conducting layers are formed, top surfaces of the conducting layers being at different heights in a direction perpendicular to an extension direction of the word line structure, and the top surfaces of the conducting layers being at different heights in the extension direction of the word line structure; top dielectric layers are formed; and etching is performed to form separate bit line structures.
US12178023B2
A power conversion device includes a semiconductor module, a cooling device, a case, which accommodates the semiconductor module and the cooling device, a connector, which is connected to an inlet pipe, which is a refrigerant flow pipe of the cooling device, and a sealing member, which seals between the inlet pipe and the connector. The connector includes a pipe portion, which communicates with the inlet pipe, and a flange portion, which is secured to the case. The pipe portion and the flange portion are joined to each other with the pipe portion located in an insertion hole of the flange portion.
US12178020B2
A cooling apparatus includes a unit frame having one or more slots therein, a cooling liquid supply line, a cooling liquid return line, and one or more fluid distribution modules insertable into the one or more slots. A fluid distribution module includes a pair of blind mating connectors that are fluidly connected to the cooling liquid supply and return lines when the fluid distribution module is inserted into a slot. A condenser is disposed at a top portion of the fluid distribution module. A vapor manifold is fluidly coupled to a return port of the condenser and the vapor manifold includes a plurality of return connections. A fluid manifold is fluidly coupled to a supply port of the condenser and the fluid manifold includes the plurality of supply connections. The supply and return connections are fluidly coupled to a plurality of servers populated on an electronic rack.
US12178018B2
A back cover heat dissipation structure of a laptop includes a radio frequency tag module, a back cover, and a metal foil. The radio frequency tag module includes a circuit board with a component region and an antenna region. The component region and the antenna region are disposed on a bottom side and a top side of the circuit board, respectively. The back cover includes a plating region and a receiving chamber. The receiving chamber receives the radio frequency tag module. The top side of the circuit board is attached to the bottom of the receiving chamber. The metal foil not only covers the bottom side of the circuit board but also extends to cover the plating region. Therefore, not only is heat dissipation achieved, the impedance of components on the circuit board can also be adjusted to optimize the sensing capability of the radio frequency tag module.
US12178015B2
A heat dissipation device for an electronic element includes a first chamber containing a printed circuit board with heating elements, and a second chamber for heat exchange. The second chamber contains a refrigerant injection part and supply part. A heat transfer part between the chambers receives heat from the heating elements and transfers it to the second chamber. A condensing part condenses injected refrigerant. The heat transfer part has evaporation-inducing ribs on its surface exposed to the second chamber, allowing injected liquid refrigerant to be adsorbed and flow downward in a zigzag pattern. This configuration enables efficient heat dissipation through phase changes of the refrigerant as it evaporates and condenses. The device may also include features like specially-shaped condensation ribs, a blower part to improve condensation, and a pressure regulator for the second chamber. This design provides improved heat dissipation performance without increasing device size.
US12178012B2
A data processing device and a data processing system are provided. The data processing device includes a housing, which is thermally conductive and defines a sealed accommodating cavity; a hashboard, which is arranged in the accommodating cavity and is in fixed connection to the housing; a control board, which is in communicative connection to the hashboard; and a power supply module, which is in electrical connection to the hashboard.
US12178009B2
Disclosed in embodiments of the present application are a liquid-cooling heat dissipation apparatus, a liquid-cooling data processing device and a temperature equalization method. The liquid-cooling heat dissipation apparatus includes a housing unit and a first liquid-cooling plate arranged in the housing unit. A first electronic unit and a second electronic unit are arranged on a first cooling surface and a second cooling surface arranged oppositely of the first liquid-cooling plate respectively, and the first electronic unit and the second electronic unit may be, for example, hashboards, that is, in the liquid-cooling heat dissipation apparatus provided in the embodiment of the present application, one liquid-cooling plate is correspondingly provided with two hashboards.
US12178005B1
Cooling assemblies and related methods to cool a plurality of semiconductor dies mounted to a printed circuit board are described. A valved boiling enhancement enclosure located adjacent to a heat spreader that thermally couples to one or more semiconductor dies. The boiling enhancement enclosure can actively manage boiling of coolant liquid near the heat spreader in a two-phase immersion-cooling chamber to make the temperatures across the semiconductor dies more uniform.
US12178004B2
An apparatus cools electronic circuitry. A housing has surfaces configured to enclose the electronic circuitry and are mountable inside a cavity in a back box. At least one of the surfaces has a vent holes therein facing an exhaust opening in the back box when the housing is mounted inside the cavity. Another surface has a fan hole that faces an intake opening in the back box when the housing is mounted inside the cavity. A cooling fan is mounted onto the another surface and disposed over the fan hole. The cooling fan is configured to draw cooling air through the intake opening in the back box and the fan hole into the housing and over the electronic circuitry. The cooling air then exits the housing through the vent holes and thereafter exits the back box through the exhaust opening.
US12178001B2
A computing device is secured in an enclosure by a locking mechanism. The locking mechanism includes a jaw, a transmission lever, and an arm. The jaw is configured to abut a portion of the enclosure for holding the computing device. The transmission lever includes an arm pivot at one end and an actuating pivot at the opposite end. The arm is configured to rotate open and closed about the arm pivot and be selectively decoupled from the transmission lever. When the arm is coupled to the transmission lever, opening the arm causes the transmission lever to rotate open about the actuating pivot. Rotating open the transmission lever about the actuating pivot releases the jaw from the portion of the enclosure, and allows the computing device to be removed from the enclosure.
US12177995B2
A remote control with a waterproof function includes a case including an upper case having button holes and a lower case assembled to the upper case at a lower portion of the upper case, a printed circuit board PCB embedded between the both cases, and a rubber keypad embedded in the case so as to be positioned between the upper case and the PCB and having buttons passing through the button holes. Barriers protruding upward or downward along the edges of the rubber keypad are provided, and when the both cases are coupled with the rubber keypad interposed therebetween, the side portions of the lower case and the lower ends of the barriers are in close contact with each other and the inner surface of the upper case and the upper ends of the barriers are in close contact with each other, thereby providing waterproof function.
US12177986B2
In an embodiment a component includes at least one carrier layer, the carrier layer having a top side and a bottom side and at least one functional layer arranged on the top side of the carrier layer, the functional layer including a material having a specific electrical characteristic, wherein the component is configured for direct integration into an electrical system as a discrete component.
US12177976B2
A module includes: a board having a first main surface; a first component mounted on the first main surface; a first wire group including a plurality of wires disposed to extend across the first component; a first ground conductor disposed inside the board; and a first conductor via group including a plurality of via conductors that connect each of the wires belonging to the first wire group and the first ground conductor. The first component is surrounded by the first wire group, the first conductor via group, and the first ground conductor.
US12177959B2
Provided herein are systems, devices, articles of manufacture, and methods for generating neutrons employing a high energy ion beam target (HEIB target) and a target backing configured to be in contact with the bottom surface of the HEIR target (e.g., to generate an ion beam target assembly). In certain embodiments, the HEIB target has a thickness that is less than the penetration depth of protons or deuterons in the high energy ion beam that strikes the target. In certain embodiments, the target backing comprises a high hydrogen diffusion metal (e.g., palladium), has open spaces dispersed throughout for reduced proton diffusion distances, and has a shape and thickness such that all, or virtually all, of the protons or deuterons that pass through the HEIR target are stopped. Also provided herein are systems, devices, and methods for changing targets in an ion beam accelerator system.
US12177953B2
The method for controlling an induction heating device according to the present disclosure may include receiving a driving command for a second working coil when a first working coil is being driven at a first target frequency, stopping driving of the first working coil and driving the second working coil at a preset first adjustment frequency, determining a second target frequency of the second working coil corresponding to the driving command for the second working coil, determining a final driving frequency of the first working coil and a final driving frequency of the second working coil based on the first target frequency and the second target frequency, respectively, driving the first working coil and the second working coil simultaneously at a second adjustment frequency, and adjusting a driving frequency of the first working coil and a driving frequency of the second working coil to the final driving frequency, respectively.
US12177948B2
A method for adjusting color rendering index of a light source and a stage light fixture are provided. The light source has a first LED chip set with a first color rendering index and a second LED chip set with a second color rendering index. The range of chromaticity differences of a target spectrum and color differences of 14 Munsell color samples of the target spectrum are defined according to a target spectral power distribution of a reference light source under a target color rending index and a target color temperature. The light intensity control parameter K1, K2 of the first LED chip set and the second LED chip set are adjusted, and a relative spectral power distribution of synthesized lighting of the controlled light source is calculated to search for values of K1 and K2 enabling the relative spectral power distribution to fall within the range.
US12177947B2
A magnetic induction circuit, a magnetic-controlled switch circuit, a magnetic-controlled device and a magnetic-controlled lamp. The magnetic induction circuit includes a magnetic induction module, a voltage comparison module and a voltage output module. The magnetic induction module is configured to sense an external magnetic field to generate a first voltage signal. The voltage comparison module is configured to receive the first voltage signal, and output a second voltage signal. The voltage output module is configured to process the second voltage signal and output a third voltage signal.
US12177945B2
Disclosed herein is a temperature control element for heating a sensor for detecting surroundings, having a three-dimensional plastic component, characterized in that at least one metallized structure is integrated into the plastic component or respectively provided therein, wherein the metallized structure is configured in such a manner that it assumes a heating function. A sensor arrangement for detecting surroundings is also disclosed, having a sensor for detecting surroundings as well as a temperature control element.
US12177944B2
A system for preventing the formation of ice or removing ice from an undercarriage or roof of an automotive vehicle such as a truck or a trailer. The system comprises a combination of a network of a plurality of conductive heating elements. The system can be implemented on the undercarriage or roof without altering the configuration of the undercarriage or roof by attaching the system to a deck and cross beams of the undercarriage or roof. The system is powered by an auxiliary power unit and controlled by a thermostatic controller.
US12177937B2
An apparatus and a method for reallocation of global unique temporary identifier (GUTI) in 5G networks are disclosed. The method includes receiving, at a user equipment, a first message from a network, the first message including a first global unique temporary identifier and additional information, at least the first global unique temporary identifier being as-signed to the user equipment; receiving a first data transmission including the first global unique temporary identifier from the network; in response to receiving the first data transmission, deriving, at the user equipment, a second global unique temporary identifier based on the first global unique temporary identifier and the additional information; and receiving a second data transmission including the second global unique temporary identifier from the network.
US12177933B2
A network exposure node receives a reference identity for the network exposure node in a first monitoring message from a first network node. The network exposure node further retrieves, based on the reference identity for the network exposure node, an identity list of one or more subscriber UEs, which subscribed to monitoring of an event, and configuration information for the one or more subscriber UEs, which are stored in the network exposure node. The network exposure node then determines, based on the identity list and the configuration information, a second network node associated with a subscriber UE in the identity list. Next, the network exposure node transmits a report for the monitoring of the event in a second monitoring message to the determined second network node.
US12177927B2
A network router provides Internet connectivity to an intermediate router (e.g., implemented on a computer, smartphone or other device), which in turn provides Internet connectivity to a plurality of devices (e.g., IoT devices). During migration to a new router, the intermediate router may receive an indication that the first wireless router is out of service or no longer exists. Despite that the first wireless router is out of service or no longer exists, the intermediate router keeps each network connection from a plurality of devices to the intermediate router in a manner that is unaffected by the first wireless router being down or no longer existing (other than the plurality of devices experiencing a temporary Internet service interruption). The intermediate router then connects to a second wireless router to replace the first wireless router that is out of service or no longer exists. The intermediate router provides, via the connection to the new second wireless router, Internet connectivity to the plurality of devices connected to the intermediate router without reconnection, reactivation or reconfiguration of the plurality of devices to obtain the Internet connectivity.
US12177923B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide for detecting when a control link between a user equipment (UE) and a base station is lost and recovering the control link. In one example, a UE may detect that a control link with a base station is lost based on a timer or counter expiring or based on failing to receive signaling from the base station. In another example, a UE may be configured to transmit uplink transmissions to a base station to maintain a control link with the base station, and the base station may detect that a control link with the UE is lost if the base station fails to receive one or more uplink transmissions from the UE. If the control link is lost, the base station and the UE may communicate to re-establish the control link.
US12177920B2
A battery monitoring apparatus includes a battery ECU, a plurality of voltage monitors, and a wireless device. The wireless device contains a main unit disposed to the battery ECU and sub units disposed to the corresponding voltage monitors. In response to establishment of communication connection of wireless communication between the main unit and the sub units, the main unit wirelessly transmits a command by the battery ECU to the sub units, and the sub units wirelessly transmit voltage information detected by the voltage monitors to the main unit. The wireless device acquires voltage monitor information prior to establishment of initial communication connection, and establishes communication connection based on the voltage monitor information. The battery ECU or each voltage monitor is provided with a storage unit configured to store voltage monitor information. At re-connection, the wireless device performs communication re-connection using the voltage monitor information stored in the storage unit.
US12177919B2
Present disclosure provides method and device in communication nodes for wireless communication. The communication node determines that a radio connection failure occurs in a first cell, generates a first failure message; when the first condition set is satisfied, transmits a first signaling; when the first condition set is not satisfied, transmits a second signaling; and receives a third signaling; the first signaling is used for initiating a radio connection recovery performed on the first cell, the first signaling comprises a first failure sub-message; the first failure message comprises the first failure sub-message; the second signaling is used for requesting a radio resource control reestablishment; the first condition set comprises a phrase for determining that the radio connection failure occurs in the first cell; the third signaling is used for updating a radio connection; when the first condition set is satisfied, the first signaling is used for triggering the third signaling.
US12177911B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus for synchronous channel access control of a wireless system. In some aspects, a device may use a TWT session to communicate with a second device during one or more TWT service periods. Uplink and downlink communications may be coordinated to both be in a TWT service period to allow a device to enter a low power mode outside of the TWT service period. The TWT session, including the service periods, may be configured and managed by the device or the second device to ensure the communications associated with an XR experience between the devices (such as pose data frames or tracking frames provided as uplink data and video data frames provided as downlink data) meet latency requirements or other requirements for the XR experience. Use of TWT service periods allows other devices to use the wireless medium outside of the TWT service periods.
US12177909B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for random access. The method which may be performed by a terminal device comprises determining a interlace configuration for uplink shared channel transmission to a network node in a two-step contention-free random access procedure. The method further comprises performing the uplink shared channel transmission to the network node in the two-step contention-free random access procedure, according to the determined interlace configuration. According to some embodiments of the present disclosure, the interlaced resource allocation for uplink shared channel transmission may be configured for a two-step contention-free random access procedure in a flexible and efficient way, so that the performance of the random access procedure can be improved.
US12177898B2
A communication method is provided. The communication method includes: determining an idle channel by a communication device; executing a first step on the idle channel, wherein the first step includes sequentially transmitting a first channel occupancy signal and monitoring a signal monitoring on the idle channel; repeating the first step for a preset number of times; and communicating on the idle channel in response to no signal being monitored during repetition of the first step.
US12177895B2
This disclosure describes systems, methods, and devices related to uplink location measurement report (LMR) feedback. A device may perform availability window negotiation during a negotiation phase of a location determination associated with a first initiating device of one or more initiating devices. The device may determine a status of a first LMR associated with the first initiating device. The device may cause to send a polling request to one more initiating devices during a first availability window. The device may identify a polling response from at least one of the one or more initiating devices. The device may perform one or more sounding measurements with the at least one of the one or more initiating devices during a measurement phase. The device may cause to send a trigger frame to the at least one of the one or more initiating devices.
US12177891B2
A wireless device receives configuration parameters indicating a plurality of a channel occupancy time (COT) lengths of a cell and a position parameter for a COT of the cell. The wireless device receives downlink control information (DCI) comprising a plurality of fields. The position parameter indicates a position of a field, of the plurality of fields. The field indicates a COT length, of the plurality of COT lengths. The wireless device transmits a transport block via uplink resources of the COT with the COT length.
US12177889B2
A method and apparatus for transmitting a physical random access channel (PRACH) in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) receives multiple PRACH configurations which include a first PRACH configuration for new radio access technology (NR) downlink/uplink (DL/UL) carrier in a NR band and a second PRACH configuration for a supplemental UL carrier in a long-term evolution (LTE) band, and transmits at least one of a first PRACH for accessing the NR DL/UL carrier in the NL band by using a first PRACH power based on the first PRACH configuration, or a second PRACH for accessing the supplemental UL carrier in the LTE band by using a second PRACH power based on the second PRACH configuration. The first PRACH configuration and the second PRACH configuration include different PRACH power configurations.
US12177888B2
A wireless access node detects contention among User Equipment (UEs) for wireless resources. The wireless access node prioritizes individual UEs based on the wireless network slices used by the individual UEs. The wireless access node allocates the wireless resources to the individual UEs based on the prioritization. The wireless access node wirelessly communicates between the wireless network slices and the UEs over the allocated wireless resources.
US12177887B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for handling hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes with discontinuous reception (DRX) operations. A user equipment (UE) may use timers to maintain an ON duration in DRX. The UE may receive, via downlink control information (DCI), an indication of a feedback transmission opportunity (TxOP) for a HARQ process. The UE may activate a timer at the end of the TxOP regardless of whether the UE transmits feedback in the TxOP to ensure that the UE remains active. In some implementations, a base station may provide the UE with multiple opportunities to transmit a feedback message. The UE may reactivate a timer after each feedback TxOP for the same HARQ process or may activate the timer after the first feedback TxOP and may refrain from activating the timer after subsequent feedback TxOPs for the HARQ process.
US12177882B2
Systems, methods and instrumentalities are disclosed for establishing a connection between a remote WTRU and a relay WTRU over a radio link interface. The relay WTRU may be authorized by a network to perform relay functions and may receive a parameter relating to the operation of the radio link interface. The relay WTRU may receive a request from the remote WTRU to establish a connection with relay WTRU over the radio link interface. The relay WTRU may determine whether to accept or reject the request based on information provided by the remote WTRU and the network. The relay WTRU may send a response to the remote WTRU based on the determination.
US12177880B2
A method and an access network node are disclosed for scheduling transmission for terminal device. According to an embodiment, the access network node determines, for a transmission to be scheduled for a terminal device, whether one or more control channels required by the transmission have no collision with measurement gap and a traffic channel required by the transmission has collision with a measurement gap, based on current repetition number of the traffic channel. When determining that the one or more control channels have no collision with measurement gap and the traffic channel has collision with a measurement gap, the access network node determines a second repetition number of the traffic channel that is larger than the current repetition number of the traffic channel. The access network node schedules the transmission for the terminal device based on the second repetition number.
US12177879B2
Provided are a signal sending method and device, a signal receiving method and device, an information feedback method and device, a communication node, and a medium. The method includes: acquiring configuration information of sidelink reference signal resources; and sending a channel state information reference signal on a sidelink data channel according to the configuration information, and indicating first indication information through sidelink control information.
US12177878B2
The present application provides a bandwidth part switching method and apparatus, a serving node, a user terminal, and a medium. The bandwidth part switching method includes: determining switch slot offsets of bandwidth part switching process for respective cells in a serving node, a switch delay of each switch slot offset in a corresponding cell being greater than or equal to the required switch delay for the cell; and sending switching indication information to a user terminal, wherein the switching indication information includes the respective switch slot offsets.
US12177871B2
Described is centralized scheduling of baseband unit resources of a hub, including allocating and deallocating baseband unit resources of a distributed unit instance based on anticipated and/or actual demand for the resources. For example, when user equipment transitions to a connected state, a corresponding message can be detected and used to determine whether sufficient baseband unit resources exist to handle the traffic of the newly connecting user equipment. If not, additional baseband unit resources are allocated, coupled to a node (cell), and the node scheduled to handle the user equipment traffic. When user equipment transitions to an inactive state, the corresponding command can be detected and used to determine whether the baseband unit resources are still needed for other traffic. If not, the baseband unit resources are deallocated.
US12177869B2
A scrambling method includes: determining a first scrambling sequence and a second scrambling sequence respectively; scrambling control information included in a control channel by using the first scrambling sequence, and scrambling, by using the second scrambling sequence, service data to be transmitted by a service channel; and sending the scrambled control information and the scrambled service data to a receiver through the sidelink respectively.
US12177855B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting downlink control information. The method includes transmitting the downlink control information (DCI) through a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH); and scheduling multiple transport blocks (TBs) through the DCI. The scheduled multiple TBs are indicated by new data indicator (NDI) information and hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process information in the DCI.
US12177851B2
Present disclosure provides a method and a device in nodes for wireless communication. A first receiver receives a first information block, the first information block being used to determine a first radio resource pool and a first code rate, where the first code rate is a non-negative number; and a first transmitter transmits a first signal, the first signal being used to carry a first bit block and a second bit block, the first bit block including at least one control information bit, the second bit block including at least one control information bit; herein, a radio resource occupied by the first signal belongs to the first radio resource pool, a number of PRBs occupied by the first signal in frequency domain is equal to a first number, the first number being no greater than a number of PRBs included by the first radio resource pool in frequency domain.
US12177841B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to resource partitioning for sidelink are provided. A first user equipment (UE) transmits, to a second UE, a time-division duplexing (TDD) configuration indicating a first set of resources time-multiplexed with a second set of resources in a sidelink resource pool, wherein the first set of resources is associated with a first link, and wherein the second set of resources is associated with a second link different from the first link. The first UE receives from the second UE over the first link, a first communication signal in a resource of the first set of resources. The first UE transmits, to the second UE over the second link, a second communication signal using a resource of the second set of resources.
US12177829B2
In one aspect, there is a method performed by a wireless device, WD. The method includes the WD receiving a control message, the control message comprising an indication of an index value. The method further includes the WD obtaining, using the index value, a set of parameters from time domain resource allocation, TDRA, configuration information, the set of parameters comprising an aggregation factor.
US12177828B2
A method for resource allocation, a method for resource release, a terminal, and a network device are provided. The method for resource allocation includes: transmitting first request information to a network device, where the first request information is used to request allocation of a resource; receiving, from the network device, information related to the resource; and transmitting the information related to the resource to a group member terminal.
US12177825B2
The present disclosure relates to transmitting and receiving beam information in a wireless communication system. An operation of a receiving end includes: generating a signal indicating two or more analogue transmission beams which are allocable to the receiving end; and transmitting the signal. In addition, the present disclosure includes other embodiments different from the embodiment described above.
US12177821B2
This document describes methods, devices, systems, and means for dynamic carrier subband operation for active coordination sets. A master base station selects a first carrier subband associated with a first Active Coordination Set (ACS) for joint communication with a user equipment (UE), coordinates the joint communication for the UE with other base stations in the first ACS, and monitors the joint communication with the UE. Based on the monitoring of the joint communication, the master base station selects a second carrier subband that is associated with a second ACS for the joint communication with the UE and coordinates with base stations associated with the second ACS to jointly communicate with the UE using the second carrier subband.
US12177818B2
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a method of a user equipment in a wireless communication system comprises: receiving a plurality of configured bandwidth parts (BWPs) defined on the basis of different numerologies; receiving a discovery signal on each of at least two active BWPs among the plurality of BWPs; transmitting information on one active BWP selected from among the at least two active BWPs; and transmitting a sidelink control signal and a sidelink data signal on the selected one active BWP, wherein the at least two active BWPs are activated concurrently in a time domain, and the selected one active BWP is selected on the basis of a length of a cyclic prefix (CP) of the discovery signal and a point in time at which the discovery signal is received.
US12177817B2
The present disclosure provides a method and device in a node for wireless communications. A first receiver receives a first signal and a second signal; a first transmitter transmits a third signal in a first radio resource pool; wherein the first signal is used for determining first information, the first information being related to channel quality between the first node and a transmitter of the first signal; the second signal is used for determining second information, the second information being related to channel quality between a transmitter of the second signal and the first node; the transmitter of the first signal is different from the transmitter of the second signal; and the first information and the second information are used together for determining a magnitude of time-domain resources occupied by the third signal.
US12177816B2
A resource exclusion method and apparatus, and a device and a storage medium, relating to the field of communications. The method is applied to a first terminal, and comprises: determining a quantity of reserved periods Q of a second terminal according to a resource reserved period Prx and a threshold Tscal, the threshold Tscal being determined according to a predetermined value; and when a first resource set overlaps a second resource set, excluding a target resource in the first resource set from a candidate resource set in a resource selection window, the second resource set being determined according to the resource reserved period Prx and the quantity of reserved periods Q, wherein the first resource set comprises at least one resource that may be used by the first terminal, and the second resource set comprises at least one resource that can be used by the second terminal.
US12177811B2
A user equipment (UE) monitoring for a page in a 5G network. The UE monitoring a paging occasion corresponding to the UE in a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) to determine whether the paging occasion includes paging downlink control information (DCI), when the PDCCH includes the paging DCI, decoding the paging DCI to determine whether the paging DCI includes scheduling information for a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH), determining, based on at least the scheduling information, whether to receive the PDSCH in a scheduled slot that is offset N slots from a scheduled slot in which the paging DCI is received and when it is determined to receive the PDSCH, decoding the PDSCH.
US12177810B2
Methods, systems, and devices related to digital wireless communication, and more specifically, to techniques related to reducing unsuccessful paging. In one exemplary aspect, a method for wireless communication may include receiving a paging reception configuration from a communication node. The method may also include determining a first paging occasion and a second paging occasion associated with the terminal located along a time domain based on receiving the paging reception configuration. The method may also include receiving a paging message from the communication node during a second paging occasion.
US12177809B2
According to one configuration, a wireless network environment includes a first wireless network and a second wireless network. A mobile communication device in the wireless network environment receives first paging notifications directed to the mobile communication device from a first wireless base station such as operated by a first wireless network service provider. The mobile communication device receives second paging notifications directed to the mobile communication device from a second wireless base station such as operated by a second wireless network service provider. The wireless network environment provides improved paging over conventional techniques.
US12177802B2
A method, apparatus, and system for generating and transmitting a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) are provided. A base station may perform a first scrambling process on PBCHs in a time period before a channel coding, and perform a second scrambling process after the channel coding. PHCH payloads and PBCH DMRS may provide information bits to be used in the scrambling processes.
US12177792B2
The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. According to an embodiment of the disclosure, a method performed by a terminal in a communication system includes determining whether a power headroom reporting (PHR) is triggered; identifying at least one of a first power headroom (PH) value for a first physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) corresponding to a first resource index or a second PH value for a second PUSCH corresponding to a second resource index based on a determination that the PHR is triggered; identifying a PHR medium access control control element (MAC CE) related to at least one of the first PH value or the second PH value; and transmitting the PHR MAC CE via at least one of the first PUSCH or the second PUSCH.
US12177791B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to systems and methods for providing fixed wireless access to user devices located within structures. A structure, such as a multi-unit structure, may comprise one or more consolidated access points configured to wirelessly communicate with both a radio access network and one or more fixed wireless access devices that are coupled to an exterior window or wall of the structure. Fixed wireless access devices may have a portion mounted on the exterior of an exterior window or wall and comprise components to wirelessly communicate with the consolidated access point or radio access network. The fixed wireless access device may also have an interior portion mounted on the interior that routes signals to user devices within the structure and wirelessly powers the exterior portion.
US12177788B2
Channel state information (CSI) reporting may be used for wireless communications. CSI reporting may be activated or deactivated. During the activation of CSI reporting and based on one or more criteria, a scheduled uplink transmission may be selected.
US12177783B2
Systems and method for configuring and providing discontinuous reception (DRX) operations in sidelink (SL) mode 1 and mode 2 are disclosed. A first user equipment (UE) may operate in DRX communications with a second UE over a SL while concurrently maintaining DRX communications with a base station. In some embodiments, DRX operations may include the first UE monitoring for either one or both of transmissions in a downlink from a base station and in the SL from the second UE during an active period of a DRX cycle of the DRX configuration. In embodiments, the UE may extend the active period associated with the DRX cycle when control information from either the base station or the second UE is received. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US12177774B2
A communication method and a system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT) is provided. The disclosure is applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car, a connected car, health care, digital education, a smart retail, security and safety services. A method performed by a first entity performing a network data analytics function (NWDAF) is provided. The method includes receiving, from a second entity performing network function (NF), a first message for requesting observed service experience analytics, the first message including single-network slice selection assistance information (S-NSSAI) indicating a network slice, transmitting, to a third entity performing application function (AF) associated with the S-NSSAI, a second message for requesting service data associated with the observed service experience analytics, the second message including information on at least one application, receiving, from the third entity, the service data including at least one service experience for the at least one application, identifying the observed service experience analytics based on the service data, and transmitting, to the second entity, the observed service experience analytics.
US12177773B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a network communication device that includes a backhaul link circuit and a Wi-Fi access point to provide broadband services to a service provider's broadband customers and to provide mobility services to the service provider's mobility customers. This network communication device is installed outside of a dwelling unit in order to simplify the installation procedure and avoid property disruption. An extender device registered to a broadband customer user account may associate to the access point for seamless service. User equipment (UE) of the service provider's mobility customers may associate to the access point to receive Wi-Fi roaming services. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12177758B2
Methods and systems for monitoring blockages of emergency escape routes and emergency exits of a building include capturing a plurality of images which may correspond to an emergency escape route and/or an emergency exit of a building. The plurality of images may be analyzed to determine when a stationary object is present and at least partially blocking the emergency escape route and/or the emergency exit. If a blockage is detected, a user may be notified of the blockage.
US12177754B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a device that receives data from a machine-type communication (MTC) device located at a premises, determines an identifier for the MTC device; compares the identifier with a list of identifiers; and, responsive to determining that the MTC device is a listed device, transmits the data to a first network element remote from the premises. The device and the first network element do not receive data from devices at the premises generating human traffic communications (HTC). The first network element transmits the data to a second network element for aggregation and subsequent transmission to a cloud data facility comprising cloud storage. A data path from the device to the first network element, from the first network element to the second network element, and from the second network element to the cloud data facility forms a secure data path. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12177752B2
A method for operating a session control entity configured to control a data packet session for a mobile subscriber in a network, wherein at least one service is applied to the data packet session by a service application entity, the method includes at the session control entity receiving a first request from a requestor requesting application of the at least one service, in which it is requested that the requestor be informed of a current status of at least one session related parameter of the data packet session, and transmitting a notification to the requestor, the notification having the current status of the at least one session related parameter.
US12177745B2
In accordance with particular embodiments, a method, performed by a control node, for multimedia broadcast multicast service, MBMS, bearer setup in a group communications system comprises activating and announcing an MBMS bearer to the client nodes. The MBMS bearer is independent of any particular group of client nodes. The method also includes obtaining a call setup message for a group call from a first client node of the client nodes. The method additionally includes broadcasting a connect message for the group call to at least one other client node of the client nodes in response to having received the call setup message. In accordance with certain embodiments, a method, performed by a client node, for MBMS bearer setup in a group communications system comprises obtaining a service announcement of an MBMS bearer from a control node. The MBMS bearer is independent of any particular group of client nodes. The method additionally includes providing a call setup message for a group call to the control node in response thereto.
US12177725B2
A radio access network (“RAN”) includes a transceiver for receiving a request from user equipment (“UE”) to join the RAN. The RAN also includes a processor that is configured for: responding to the UE request by sending a message directly from the RAN to the UE to offer a set of first terms for the UE to use a cellular network of the RAN; receiving a response from the UE agreeing to the set of first terms; and in response to the UE agreeing to the set of first terms, connecting the UE to use a cellular network of the RAN.
US12177724B2
A method for guaranteeing data transmission and a communications device are provided. A method for guaranteeing data transmission applied to a first communications device includes: obtaining first information; and determining, based on the first information, a differentiated services code point DSCP corresponding to an Internet protocol security tunnel IPsec tunnel; where the first information includes at least one of the following: quality of service QoS information of a second network tunnel, data type information, a mapping relationship between differentiated service code points DSCPs and QoS information, a first QoS information requirement, and a first DSCP.
US12177721B2
A method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for transmitting a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) including one or more MAC service data units (SDUs) of a logical channel; and transmitting a first type of MAC subheader including or excluding first logical channel identifier (LCID) information and including or excluding first length information, wherein a first size of the first LCID information is equal to or smaller than a second size of second LCID information of a second type of MAC subheader that is different than the first type of MAC subheader, and a third size of the first length information is equal to or smaller than a fourth size of second length information of the second type of MAC subheader.
US12177718B2
The present disclosure relates to techniques for shaping video data traffic in a packet switched communications transport network. In some embodiments, a device determines a cell load level associated with a base station node that is representative of a data traffic load of a cell of the base station node. The device sets, based at least on the determined cell load level associated with the base station, one or more burst transmission parameters for video data transmitted by a traffic shaping node to the base station node. The device transmits video data to the base station node using the set one or more burst transmission parameters, wherein transmitting video data occurs in one or more burst transmissions that each include a plurality of packets that include video data.
US12177707B2
A terminal according to the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives configuration information related to channel state information (CSI) reporting; and a control section that controls transmission of a plurality of pieces of wideband information each including at least one of information related to a plurality of delays and information related to a plurality of coefficients corresponding to the delays, based on the configuration information. Thereby, it is possible to prevent degradation of the reporting accuracy of CSI while suppressing the increment of the UL overhead.
US12177698B2
It is provided a method comprising monitoring if a source cell intends performing a radio reconfiguration of a terminal configured with a conditional handover from the source cell to a target cell; determining a determined category among plural predetermined categories; wherein the radio reconfiguration is associated to the determined category; for each category a respective predetermined sequence of one or more operations is defined; the respective predetermined of one of the categories is different from the respective predetermined sequence of another one of the categories; and the method further comprises inhibiting the performing of the radio reconfiguration of the terminal unless the predetermined sequence of one or more operations of the determined category is performed along with the performing of the radio reconfiguration if the source cell intends performing the radio reconfiguration of the terminal.
US12177692B1
Machine learning-based methods are disclosed to identify and/or count a number of electronic devices present in an area using emitted passive Wi-Fi signals. The identification and/or counting of Wi-Fi-enabled devices improves private and public security in determining human presence. The disclosed methods use trained machine learning models that learns the relationship between real-time Wi-Fi probe request broadcast behavior distribution and the number of electronic devices present. The disclosed methods can include use of other wireless data transfer protocols, such as Bluetooth and Cellular.
US12177681B1
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.
US12177678B2
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.
US12177677B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing optimization of network resources. The system is operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment, analyze the electromagnetic environment, and extract environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment. The system extracts the environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment by including customer goals. The system is operable to use the environmental awareness with the customer goals and/or user defined policies and rules to extract actionable information to help the customer optimize the network resources.
US12177674B2
A network connection method, implemented using a first mobile terminal, includes: establishing a first wireless connection to a second mobile terminal; receiving subscriber identity information of a subscriber identity module SIM from the second mobile terminal via the first wireless connection; and establishing a second wireless connection to a network equipment using the subscriber identity information and the first wireless connection, the subscriber identity module SIM is provided in the second mobile terminal for sharing among devices.
US12177673B2
A system and method for determining physical locations associated with activities detected on mobile devices is disclosed. The method includes accessing at least one enterprise rule set which is based on a plurality of security vulnerability events, and for monitoring at least one application used on the mobile devices. Device data indicative of one or more actions performed on a mobile device and a time associated with each action is used to detect whether actions performed on the mobile device breach a rule of the enterprise rule set. Geolocation information associated with the mobile device at the time associated with the breach is received based on an identifier associated with the mobile device or with wireless network access points in range of the mobile device. The received geolocation information, enterprise rules, and device data is used determine if a security vulnerability is associated with the mobile device.
US12177670B2
A system that is capable of detecting a Man in the Middle attack is disclosed. The system includes a receive circuit for receiving incoming packets. The system also includes a digitized model of at least part of the receive circuit and optionally part of the transmit circuit. The system compares the output from the digitized model with the output from the read circuit to determine the likelihood of a Man in the Middle Attack. In certain embodiments, the digitized model is a finite impulse response filter with multiple taps. The system correctly identifies Man in the Middle attacks more than 90% of the time when the signal to noise ratio is greater than 20 dB.
US12177668B1
An electromagnetic leakage red and black signal identification method based on information entropy characteristics includes: acquiring electromagnetic information leakage signals of an information device in an idle state and an information processing state respectively, and calculating information entropy of the electromagnetic leakage signals in the idle state and the information processing state; and calculating an information entropy change of the electromagnetic leakage signals caused by information processing, and determining whether an electromagnetic leak contains red signals when the device processes information according to the information entropy change, so as to give an electromagnetic leakage red and black signal identification result. The electromagnetic leakage red and black signal identification method is suitable for identifying electromagnetic leakage red and black signals of various types of information technology devices without the prior knowledge of specific device leakage signal characteristics or red signal templates, exhibiting great universality.
US12177666B2
Methods and apparatus for enhancement of authentication. A method performed by a communication device may comprise sending a first request to a communication equipment, wherein the request comprises a communication device identifier of the communication device. The method may further comprise receiving a first response from the communication equipment, the first response comprising one or more parameters. The method may further comprise generating a first key and a second key based on the received response; The method may further comprise sending a second request to the communication equipment, the second request comprising the first key and a message based on the second key.
US12177659B2
An improved telecommunications network that can reduce the network load on a rich communication services (RCS) server and/or local routers that implement 1-to-N and/or M-to-N services is described herein. In particular, the improved telecommunications network may include an improved RCS server that can route secure multicast messages instead of and/or in addition to unicast messages. For example, the improved RCS server can create a multicast group for a group of UEs in response to a request from a UE to create a group of UEs. Creation of the multicast group may include creating a shared multicast group key (SMGK) for the multicast group and/or selecting a security algorithm for the multicast group. The improved RCS server can then distribute the SMGK and/or the selected security algorithm to the UEs such that the UEs can use the SMGK and/or the selected security algorithm to encrypt and/or decrypt messages.
US12177657B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, receiving, from a computing device, a validation request for validating an individual associated with a mobile device equipped with an authentication app communicatively coupled with an authentication system, obtaining request data from a user validation system, enabling, using the request data, the computing device to communicate with the user validation system to facilitate the validation, wherein the validation involves the user validation system triggering the authentication system to provide access information to the computing device, the authentication system authenticating the individual/mobile device, the authentication system providing, to the user validation system, identification information of the individual based on the authenticating, and the user validation system determining a validation result based on data relating to the identification information. Aspects also include obtaining the validation result from the user validation system and causing the validation result to be presented. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12177645B2
A sound-generating device, a display device, a sound-generating controlling method, and a sound-generating controlling device are provided. The sound-generating device includes: a reflection plate which includes a first sound wave reflection face arranged towards a first direction; a plurality of main loudspeakers, the plurality of main loudspeakers are distributed in an array in a preset three-dimensional space, and the preset three-dimensional space is located at one side of the first sound wave reflection face towards a first direction; the plurality of main loudspeakers include first main loudspeakers with a sound-generating direction towards the first direction, and second main loudspeakers with a sound-generating direction towards a second direction, the second direction is an opposite direction of the first direction; and the sound waves emitted by the second main loudspeakers are transmitted to the first sound wave reflection face and can be reflected by the first sound wave reflection face.
US12177643B1
A method performed a local device that is communicatively coupled with several remote devices, the method includes: receiving, from each remote device with which the local device is engaged in a communication session, an input audio stream; receiving, for each remote device, a set parameters; determining, for each input audio stream, whether the input audio stream is to be 1) rendered individually or 2) rendered as a mix of input audio streams based on the set of parameters; for each input audio stream that is determined to be rendered individually, spatially rendering the input audio stream as an individual virtual sound source that contains only that input audio stream; and for input audio streams that are determined to be rendered as the mix of input audio streams, spatially rendering the mix of input audio streams as a single virtual sound source that contains the mix of input audio streams.
US12177642B2
A speaker-element for a speaker includes two substantially mutually opposing spaced apart membrane planes, where each membrane plane comprises at least one electromagnetic wire arranged for creating a magnetic field upon an electric current passing through the electromagnetic wire. A permanent magnet is arranged between the two membrane planes, the electromagnet wires of the two membrane planes are connectable to an electric power source so that the electric current passes therethrough in substantially mutually opposing directions to create substantially mutually opposing magnetic fields, such that upon passing an electric current through the electromagnetic wire of each membrane plane said membrane planes are both either attracted towards or repulsed from the permanent magnet and thereby moved towards or away from each other, respectively, thereby producing a sound wave.
US12177635B2
Example techniques may involve a playback device modifying its playback configuration when the playback device is placed onto a device base. In an example implementation, the playback device may receive, via an 802.15-compatible radio of one or more network interfaces, one or more packets comprising data representing an identifier of the first device base. After receipt of the one or more packets, the playback device queries a database for state information corresponding to the identifier of the first device base and modifies a playback configuration of the playback device from a first configuration to a second configuration based on the queried state information corresponding to the identifier of the first device base.
US12177629B2
An apparatus may include a passive vibration member and an active vibration member connected to the passive vibration member and including first and second vibration portions arranged in parallel with each other. The apparatus may further include a driving apparatus configured to apply a first driving signal to the first vibration portion and a second driving signal to the second vibration portion, based on an input signal, to vibrate the first vibration portion and the second vibration portion.
US12177620B2
An insert headset apparatus utilizes a user generated sound signal such as the user's own voice to control de-occlusion and make the user's own voice sound normal. A voice accelerometer or microphone is used to detect when the user or a nearby person is speaking. When the voice of the user or a nearby person is detected a valve is opened. The valve enables venting of the ear canal, resulting in de-occlusion.
US12177614B2
An apparatus includes signal processing circuitry configured to generate processed data signals in response at least in part to transducer signals from at least one acoustic transducer and filtering signals, and to transmit the processed data signals via at least one communication channel to an actuating assembly of an auditory prosthesis. The apparatus further includes circuitry configured to monitor one or more of the signal processing circuitry, the processed data signals, and the at least one communication channel, and to generate filtering control signals in response at least in part thereto. The apparatus further includes filtering circuitry configured to generate the filtering signals in response at least in part to the processed data signals and the filtering control signals.
US12177611B1
A method includes receiving a light beam propagating along an optical path and operating a polarization rotator in a first state to produce an input right-hand circularly polarized beam or in a second state to produce an input left-hand circularly polarized beam. The method also includes converting, using a first diffractive element, the input right-hand circularly polarized beam into an intermediate left-hand circularly polarized beam or converting, using the first diffractive element, the input left-hand circularly polarized beam into an intermediate right-hand circularly polarized beam. The method also includes converting, using a second diffractive element, the intermediate left-hand circularly polarized beam into a right-hand circularly polarized output beam or converting, using the second diffractive element, the intermediate right-hand circularly polarized beam into a left-hand circularly polarized output beam.
US12177598B2
Devices and methods for capturing vehicle undercarriage images are described. In some instances, a mirror assembly may be used to reflect images of portions of a vehicle undercarriage into a field of view of a camera to be captured, e.g., as a vehicle passes over the mirror assembly. Composite images may be reconstructed from the reflected portions of the vehicle undercarriage, and analysis may be performed on those reconstructed, composite images to identify features in the composite vehicle undercarriage images.
US12177597B2
Systems and methods for conducting a videoconference including receiving multimedia streams of a plurality of participants in a multimedia conference, the multimedia streams including audio components and video components and displaying video tiles of the participants on a display screen. The audio components and/or the video components of the multimedia streams are analyzed to detect characteristics indicative of a first participant and a second participant having a first conversation with each other. Camera positions on the computing devices of the participants are identified. In response to identifying that the first participant and the second participant are having the first conversation with each other, a video tile for the first participant and a video tile for the second participant are moved to edges of the respective display screens toward the camera positions.
US12177591B2
A degree of freedom in design is improved in a solid-state imaging element in which a logic gate is provided in a comparator. A comparison circuit compares an input potential which has been input with a predetermined reference potential and outputs any one of a pair of output potentials as a comparison result. A level shift circuit outputs any one of a pair of shift potentials having a larger potential difference than the pair of output potentials as an output signal on the basis of the comparison result. The logic gate determines whether or not the output signal is higher than a predetermined threshold between the pair of shift potentials and outputs a determination result. A counter counts a count value over a period until the determination result is inverted.
US12177587B2
An apparatus includes a plurality of pixels arranged in an array, a first group of pixels that are arranged in a first direction among the plurality of pixels, a first line to which the first group is connected, a second group of pixels that are arranged in the first direction among the plurality of pixels, and a second line to which the second group is connected. The first line is connected to a first source. The second line is connected to a second source. The apparatus further includes a control unit configured to: (1) perform control to increase a current flowing through the second source while performing control to decrease a current flowing through the first source, or (2) suppress a variation of total amount of flowing current by changing the current flowing through the second source in response to a change in the current flowing through the first source.
US12177585B2
An imaging device including a photoelectric converter that generates signal charge; a charge storage region that stores the signal charge; a first transistor that has a gate coupled to the charge storage region and reads out the signal charge; a second transistor that has a source and a drain, an output of the first transistor being fed back to one of the source and the drain and being supplied to the charge storage region from the other of the source and the drain; and voltage supply circuitry that supplies voltages varying with time. In a reset operation for discharging the signal charge stored in the charge storage region, the voltage supply circuitry supplies the voltages to a gate of the second transistor.
US12177581B2
Provided are an image processing device, an image processing method, an image processing program, and an imaging device capable of generating two pieces of moving image data subjected to different pieces of image processing. A processor is configured to perform processing of calculating a first image processing parameter from first moving image data obtained by imaging, processing of generating second moving image data from the first moving image data based on the first image processing parameter, processing of storing the first moving image data in the memory, and processing of generating third moving image data from the first moving image data stored in the memory based on a second image processing parameter calculated from the first moving image data with a lapse of a time (T) after the first moving image data starts to be stored in the memory.
US12177580B2
An image processing method, a camera assembly and a mobile terminal. The image processing method includes: obtaining a Bayer image and a panchromatic image, obtaining an RGB image after processing the Bayer image with a first processing algorithm and a demosaicing algorithm, obtaining a luminance image after processing the panchromatic image with the first processing algorithm, obtaining a fused RGB image by fusing the RGB image and the luminance image, and obtaining a YUV image after processing the fused RGB image with a second processing algorithm.
US12177579B2
A method of an image sensor device includes: providing a pixel array having a plurality of pixel units; using a pixel pre-processing circuit for receiving a plurality of analog pixel signals respectively from the plurality of pixel units to perform a low-pass filter operation upon the plurality of analog pixel signals in analog domain to generate a plurality of analog processed signals, a number of the plurality of analog processed signals being smaller than a number of the plurality of analog pixel signals; using an analog-to-digital converter for converting the plurality of analog processed signals in the analog domain into a plurality of digital processed signals in digital domain; and, transmitting the plurality of digital processed signals in digital domain into a digital processing circuit coupled to the analog-to-digital converter.
US12177576B2
A method and a system are described for dynamic range enhancement in CMOS image sensors using charge-transfer amplification. The method involves resetting a pixel array and other nodes of the CMOS image sensor. It involves receiving light for a predetermined duration on the pixel array layered with photodiodes. It involves configuring an integration time of incident light at the photodiodes 104, for a desired exposure and releasing photoelectrons to form a current signal. An equivalent voltage signal is built allowing a voltage build-up by charging a storage capacitance, and thereafter adjusting the voltage build-up by adjusting a ratio between the storage capacitance and amplification capacitance. The voltage signal is then integrated with the current signal in order to obtain an integrated signal of amplified gain, and the method involves generating a resultant electronic signal with a higher amplification factor and an enhanced gain as compared to the input electronic signal.
US12177569B2
A movable support device includes: a movable unit that includes an imager, a first flexible substrate including wirings connected to terminals other than a power supply terminal and a ground terminal among terminals of the imager, and a second flexible substrate including wirings connected to the power supply terminal and the ground terminal; and a support member that supports the movable unit to be movable in a longitudinal direction of a light receiving surface of the imager and a short direction of the light receiving surface, the first flexible substrate includes a first portion extending in one direction of the short direction and a folded portion folded at an end portion of the first portion in other direction of the short direction, and the second flexible substrate includes a second portion and a folded portion as defined herein.
US12177566B2
An apparatus includes an imaging unit configured to acquire an image, a drive unit configured to drive the imaging unit, a control unit configured to control the drive unit, a detection unit configured to detect a blur of the acquired image, a correction unit configured to correct the detected blur of the image, an acquisition unit configured to acquire a drive velocity at which the drive unit drives the imaging unit, and a setting unit configured to set the detection unit. The setting unit sets the detection unit such that in a case where the drive velocity is in a resonance velocity range in which resonance occurs in the imaging unit, the detection unit detects the blur of the image at a first frequency band corresponding to a blur due to the resonance.
US12177565B2
An electronic device includes a camera device configured to adjust a focus; a distance extraction device; and a processor configured to: obtain a first image using the camera device; set a first region of interest for focus detection in a portion of the first image; obtain first depth information using the distance extraction device, the first depth information including a depth distance corresponding to at least one pixel included in the first image; set a second region of interest in another portion of the first image based on at least two portions which differ in depth distance being included in the first region of interest based on the first depth information; and capture an image based on a focus determined corresponding to the second region of interest.
US12177561B2
Systems and methods for determining a location of a wearable electronic device are disclosed. In some aspects, the device includes a position acquisition device and an accelerometer. A hardware processor included in the device may be configured to generally maintain the position acquisition device in a low power state to save power. When a video or image is captured, it may tag the video or image with first location information. Given the inoperative position acquisition device, a current location may not be known. In some aspects, in response to a need for location information, measurements from an accelerometer may be stored. The position acquisition device may also be transitioned to an operative state, and after some time delay, a second location determined. In some aspects, the location of the capture may then be obtained based on the acceleration measurements and the second location.
US12177553B2
The present disclosure provides a display device, including a display panel and a camera, the camera is attached to a side of the display panel by an optical glue, wherein the camera includes a housing, a lens, and a spacer. The spacer is fixed on a side of the housing facing the display panel and completely covers a light incident surface of the lens, wherein a first surface of the spacer is attached to the side of the display panel by the optical glue, and the first surface of the spacer is a flat surface, which prevents a problem of reduced optical effect of the camera.
US12177552B2
Provided is a lens assembly comprising at least two lenses aligned along a first optical axis; an image sensor configured to receive light guided or condensed through the at least two lenses; and at least one optical member disposed between the at least two lenses and the image sensor to receive light incident through the at least two lenses, and refract or reflect the light at least twice, to guide or emit the light to the image sensor, where a ratio of a longer side of an imaging surface of the image sensor to a longer side of an emission surface of a first optical member closest to the image sensor is within a specified range.
US12177548B2
Provided are a hyperspectral sensor including a window, a first focusing part provided on a rear surface of the window and including a plurality of lenses, a first image sensor provided on a rear surface of the first focusing part and having a front surface parallel to the rear surface of the window, a first mirror spaced apart from the first focusing part and the first image sensor and having a front surface inclined with respect to the rear surface of the window, a first optical element spaced apart from the first mirror, a second optical element spaced apart from the first optical element and having a periodic refractive index distribution therein, a second focusing part spaced apart from the second optical element and including a plurality of lenses, and a second image sensor provided on a rear surface of the second focusing part, a hyperspectral imaging system including the hyperspectral sensor, and a hyperspectral imaging method using the hyperspectral imaging system.
US12177542B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include accessing a media item that includes multiple media item segments that are to be played back in a specific manner. The method may also include generating playgraphs for the media item, where the playgraphs define different playback paths between media item segments. The method may next include selecting a specific playgraph from the generated playgraphs, and then providing the selected playgraph to a playback device. Playback of the media item according to the selected playgraph may thereby provide a customized presentation of the media item. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US12177530B2
Embodiments are directed towards utilizing extended Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) compliant content. A computing device receives ATSC compliant content first data signals and other data via second data signals. The computing device outputs the ATSC compliant content based on the other data.
US12177523B2
Example embodiments provide systems and methods for rewinding digital content during playback based on context of the digital content. A content rewind system electronically accesses digital content. A rewind trigger is detected by the system. The system analyzes the digital content to detect at least one dialog segment within the digital content. The analysis is based on context of the digital content (e.g., dialog within the digital content). The system rewinds playback of the digital content by rewinding to a starting point of a previous dialog segment.
US12177520B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for ad insertion by a display device coupled to a media device via a high-definition media interface (HDMI) connection, where the media device provides media content and/or a control signal. When the media device pauses the media content, the display device can determine that a pause event has occurred and insert an ad shown on the display device. Further, some embodiments include determining the context and/or content of the media content that is paused, and determining an ad that is customized to the determined context and/or content to be displayed on the display device. In some embodiments, the display device can determine additional information from the control signal that may also be used to determine the ad to be displayed on the display device.
US12177518B2
Systems and methods are provided herein for determining whether to authorize output of a first application to be interrupted by output of a second application. The media guidance application may provide output of a first application to a user and receive, from a second application, a request to provide second output from the second application to the user. In response to receiving the request, the media guidance application may determine whether the user is involved in physical activity and, in response to determining that the user is involved in physical activity, retrieve from a database information in a profile corresponding to the user. If the information indicates that the physical activity is routine, the media guidance application may deny the request and continue to provide the first output of the first application to the user.
US12177517B2
Methods and apparatus to measure exposure to streaming media are disclosed. An example apparatus includes communication interface circuitry to obtain metering data, the metering data including a first metadata tag extracted from media at a time corresponding to a media event associated with the media, the metering data omitting second metadata tags extracted from the media by a media monitor, the second metadata tags identified for omission based on a temporal proximity of the second metadata tags to the media event, the first and second metadata tags extracted from the media when the media is presented; memory; instructions included in the apparatus; and processor circuitry to execute the instructions to determine a first exposure of an audience to the media based on the metering data, the first exposure being the same as a second exposure determined based on an analysis of the first metadata tags.
US12177512B2
A video processing method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method comprises: in response to a triggering operation acting on a first control in a video editing interface, displaying a first operation region for a first object; in response to an operation acting on the first operation region, displaying a first feature of the first object in the first operation region; and adding a second object with a second feature to a target video, to present the second object according to the second feature during a process of playing the target video, wherein the second feature corresponds to the first feature.
US12177498B2
Systems, methods, machine-readable media, and media device are provided to facilitate seamless flow content splicing to dynamically insert particularized content items in television programming content. A plurality of particularized content items may be received and stored in a content store. First content that corresponds to television programming may be received and processed to detect a first set of color characteristics of video content. A subset of the particularized content items may be selected based on matching a second set of color characteristics of the subset of the particularized content items to the first set of color characteristics of the video content corresponding to the television programming. The first content may be output for display. Then, the subset of the particularized content items may be output for display in succession so that display of the subset of the particularized content items directly follows display of the first content.
US12177482B2
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.
US12177475B2
An example device for decoding video data includes a memory configured to store video data; and one or more processors configured to: decode data representing an initial motion vector for a current block of the video data, the initial motion vector having integer-motion vector difference (MVD) precision; determine a search range around a reference area identified by the initial motion vector in a reference picture; perform a template matching search process in the search range to identify a best matching region; determine error values for neighboring pixels to the best matching region; use the error values for the neighboring pixels to perform a model-based fractional-pixel motion vector refinement to derive motion vector difference values; apply at least one of the motion vector difference values to the initial motion vector to determine a refined motion vector for the current block; and decode the current block using the refined motion vector.
US12177472B2
Image encoding and decoding methods, apparatuses and computer-readable media are described. An example image encoding method includes: determining N encoded units from adjacent encoded units of a to-be-encoded unit according to a first preset rule, where a motion prediction mode of the N encoded units is the same as that of the to-be-encoded unit; generating an nth motion vector group by using a first preset algorithm and based on a motion vector of an nth encoded unit; determining, from obtained N motion vector groups according to a second preset rule, one motion vector group as an optimal motion vector group; determining a prediction sample value of each sample unit in the to-be-encoded unit by using a second preset algorithm and based on the optimal motion vector group; and encoding a prediction residual of each sample unit and an index identifier of the optimal motion vector group, to obtain a bitstream corresponding to the to-be-encoded unit.
US12177470B2
Embodiments of this application disclose an interpolation filter training method and apparatus, a video picture encoding and decoding method, an encoder, and a decoder. According to the training method, a first sub-pixel picture obtained through interpolation by using a conventional interpolation filter is used as label data, to train a second interpolation filter, so that the second interpolation filter obtained through training can be directly used for a pixel value, obtained through interpolation, of a first fractional pixel position. Therefore, the label data is more accurate, and coding performance of a video picture is improved. According to the encoding method, during inter prediction, a target interpolation filter used for a current encoding picture block is determined from a set of candidate interpolation filters, and the encoder selects, according to content of the current encoding picture block, an appropriate interpolation filter to perform an interpolation operation.
US12177466B2
A method for decoding an image by a decoding device, according to the present disclosure, can signal picture partitioning related information on the basis of a flag indicating whether sub-picture information exists and a flag indicating whether subpictures each include a single slice.
US12177461B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for image encoding/decoding that support a plurality of layers. The method for image decoding that supports a plurality of layers includes decoding information of a first layer which a picture of a second layer including a current decoding target block refers to; mapping the information of the first layer to a picture size of the second layer, configuring a reference picture list for the picture of the second layer by adding the mapped information of the first layer and generating prediction samples of the current decoding target block by predicting the current decoding target block of the second layer based on the reference picture list, and the information of the first layer includes at least one of a sample value and motion information of the first layer picture.
US12177458B2
An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present document comprises the steps of: deriving prediction samples for a first sample and a second sample of the current block on the basis of BDPCM-related information about the current block and neighboring samples of the current block; deriving residual samples for the first sample and the second sample on the basis of a residual coefficient of the first sample and a modified residual coefficient of the second sample; and storing, as the intra prediction mode of the current block, the intra prediction mode in the prediction direction of the current block, which is derived on the basis of a BDPCM direction flag.
US12177455B2
Implementations described herein relate to methods, systems, and computer-readable media to encode a video. A method includes capturing a video frame that includes a face of a person. The method further includes detecting a face in the video frame. The method further includes segmenting the video frame into a plurality of rectangles, the plurality of rectangles including a face rectangle with pixels corresponding to the face in the video frame. The method further includes packing the video frame based on the plurality of rectangles, wherein a greater number of pixels are allocated to the face rectangle as compared to other rectangles in the plurality of rectangles. The method further includes encoding the video frame with metadata describing the packing.
US12177451B2
An image decoding method according to the present document is characterized by including: a step for receiving a bitstream including residual information; a step for deriving transform coefficients for a target block on the basis of the residual information; a step for deriving corrected transform coefficients on the basis of an inverse non-separable transform of the transform coefficients; and a step for deriving residual samples for the target block on the basis of an inverse primary transform of the corrected transform coefficients, wherein the inverse non-separable transform is performed when the size of the target block is equal to or smaller than the size of a prescribed maximum transform application block.
US12177447B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for efficiently applying a transform skip mode to a transform block. According to an embodiment of the present invention, a video decoding apparatus determines, based on transform skip information associated with a current block, the transform skip information being decoded from a bitstream, whether a subblock for which transform is skipped and one or more subblocks to which transform is applied are included in the current block. When determining that the current block includes the subblock for which the transform is skipped and the one or more subblocks to which the transform is applied are included in the current block, the video decoding apparatus decodes a first residual subblock using a decoding procedure not involving inverse transform for the subblock for which the transform is skipped, and decodes one or more second residual subblocks using a decoding procedure involving the inverse transform for the one or more subblocks to which the transform is applied. The video decoding apparatus adds the first residual subblock and the one or more second residual subblocks to a prediction block to reconstruct the current block. Representative drawing: FIGS. 5A-5D
US12177439B2
An image processing device is provided. The image processing device includes a decoding unit that decodes scaling list data to generate a first quantizing matrix of a first size, a generating unit that generates a second quantizing matrix for a transform block of a second size to which zeroing of a high-frequency component is applied, by referring to only a partial matrix of the first quantizing matrix generated by the decoding unit, and an inverse quantizing unit that inversely quantizes a quantized transform coefficient of the transform block of the second size, using the second quantizing matrix generated by the generating unit.
US12177435B2
The present disclosure relates to an image processing device and method for enabling control of a value of a quantization parameter within a desired range. A quantization parameter is corrected on the basis of a parameter regarding adaptive color transform and further correcting the quantization parameter on the basis of a parameter regarding transform skip, and coefficient data of an image to be encoded is quantized using a corrected quantization parameter that is the quantization parameter that has been corrected. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, an image processing device, an image encoding device, an image decoding device, a transmission device, a reception device, a transmission/reception device, an information processing device, an imaging device, a reproduction device, an electronic device, an image processing method, an information processing method, or the like.
US12177432B2
Systems and methods for coding and decoding are provided. A method includes: obtaining a coded video stream by coding video data, the coded video stream including a picture partitioned into a plurality of sub-pictures, and further including adaptive resolution change (ARC) information that is signaled directly within a header of a sub-picture from among the plurality of sub-pictures, or that is provided within a parameter set and directly referenced in the header; and outputting the coded video stream, wherein the header is within a network abstraction layer (NAL) unit that has a scope of the sub-picture.
US12177430B2
A system and method of decoding a coding unit in an image frame from a bitstream. The method comprises determining a size of the coding unit from the bitstream; and dividing the image frame into a plurality of equally sized processing regions, each of the equally sized processing regions being a block processed during a single stage of a pipeline decoding the bitstream. If the coding unit overlaps a boundary between the determined processing regions, the method comprises selecting a transform size for the coding unit from a plurality of transform sizes, the transform size being selected to fit within the coding unit and being different in size to the processing regions; and decoding the coding unit by applying an inverse transform to residual coefficients of each transform unit in the coding unit, each of the transform units being of the selected transform size.
US12177417B2
An apparatus configured to code video information includes a memory and a processor in communication with the memory. The memory is configured to store video information associated with a bitstream. The apparatus further includes a processor in communication with the memory, the processor configured to determine whether a reference layer is included in the bitstream. The processor is further configured to determine an indication of one or more parameters for a decoded picture buffer based upon whether the reference layer is included in the bitstream and to code the video information based at least in part on the determined indication of the one or more parameters for the decoded picture buffer.
US12177409B2
A printing device prints a patch chart including a plurality of first patches having a predetermined color and one or more second patches having a user specified color. A measuring member measures a color of a patch. The patch chart includes a plurality of patch columns having two or more patches among the plurality of patches arranged linearly. In a case that a patch column of the plurality of patch columns includes a second patch of the plurality of second patches, a controller performs a calibration process to calibrate the measuring member by controlling the measuring member to measure a color of a reference; and after the calibration process is completed, a color measurement process for a patch included in the patch column including the second patch, the color measurement process for the patch being to control the measuring member to measure a color of the patch.
US12177407B2
An image processing apparatus providing a plurality of functions includes a display control unit that, upon receiving an instruction for displaying a screen of a function where use of the function requires authentication, displays the screen of the function requiring authentication in a state where a user operation on the screen of the function is not received, wherein the display control unit enables receipt of a user operation on the screen of the function in a case where a user is successfully authenticated and authorized to use the function.
US12177406B2
A server disclosed herein may receive, from a printer, print quantity information related to a print quantity of the printer, calculate a first cost by using the print quantity information, and calculate a second cost by using the print quantity information. The first cost may be a print cost when the printer does not receive provision of a print service realized by the server. The second cost may be a print cost when the printer receives the provision of the print service. The server may output related information which is related to the calculated first cost and the calculated second cost.
US12177399B2
To reduce a burden on a user when selecting an image forming device from a user terminal, an information processing method includes acquiring use information from a local storage device of the user terminal. The use information is about past use of image forming devices in a plurality of image forming devices connectable to the user terminal. The method further includes transmitting a status request to the image forming devices used in the past, generating screen data for a history display screen based on the use information regarding the past use of the image forming devices, and causing a display device to display the history display screen with those image forming devices currently in a usable status based on a returned status request response being shown in one mode and those image forming devices currently in an unusable status based on a returned status request being shown in another mode.
US12177398B2
An image forming apparatus has a first power state and a second power state lower in power than the first power state, the operation unit being turned off in the second power state. The image forming apparatus includes a display control unit configured to control a display on an operation unit, a reception unit configured to receive an end notification for end processing of the image forming apparatus, and a processing unit configured to perform, in response to receipt of the end notification by the reception unit, the end processing of the image forming apparatus, wherein, in response to receipt of the end notification by the reception unit when the image forming apparatus is in the second power state in which the operation unit is turned off, the display control unit turns on the operation unit.
US12177393B2
A document processing system configured to communicate with a server includes at least one memory that stores instructions, and at least one processor that executes the instructions to receive a scanned document from an image processing apparatus, transmit the received scanned document and a processing request for processing the scanned document to the server, manage a processing status regarding processing of the received scanned document, and issue a notification to a user in a case where a predetermined processing time regarding the processing of the scanned document passes based on the managed processing status.
US12177392B2
A camera generates a random number, displays a Quick Response (QR) code representing the generated random number, and transmits the generated random number to a web server. A smart phone captures an image of the QR code displayed on the camera, acquires the random number based on the captured QR code, and transmits the acquired random number to the web server. The web server registers the camera based on a match between the random number transmitted from the camera and the random number transmitted from the smart phone.
US12177390B2
A server system that operates in collaboration with software that enables performing an operation relating to a file posted with a message includes a memory storing a program and a control unit that executes the program to provide an object corresponding to a print function to be displayed on a first operation screen for performing the operation relating to the file or on a second operation screen called from the first operation screen, and cause, based on selection of the object, the software to perform processing to enable an operation for printing the file.
US12177386B2
Enablement of a voice channel being established between an IoT device and a controller through the use of a voice-line service system.
US12177367B1
Embodiments provide methods of conducting operations with an implantable medical device (IMD) and an external controller device for performing authentication operations. In some embodiments, the method comprises: generating or storing an authentication data structure in the external controller device for over-the-air communication between the external device and the IMD, wherein the authentication data structure is generated by: (1) removing attribute fields from a first digital certificate and adding a public key of the external controller device to form an intermediate data structure; (2) creating a digital signature of the first intermediate data structure using a second digital certificate of an issuing certificate authority (CA); and (3) forming the authentication data structure by combining the intermediate data structure, the created digital signature, a public key of the issuing CA, and a digital signature of the public key of the issuing CA created using a third digital certificate of a root CA.
US12177363B2
Various embodiments relate to a fault detection system and method for a digital signature algorithm, including: producing a digital signature of a message using a digital signature algorithm; storing parameters from a last round of the digital signature algorithm; executing the last round of the digital signature algorithm using the stored parameters to produce a check signature; comparing the digital signature to the check signature; and outputting the digital signature when the digital signature is the same as the check signature.
US12177360B2
Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods for verifying video authenticity using blockchain. An implementation may include receiving a video clip from a first source and generating a genesis block of a blockchain, wherein the genesis block includes the video clip, metadata of the video clip, and a first hash value of both the video clip and the metadata. The implementation includes distributing the blockchain to a plurality of nodes in a blockchain network. The implementation includes for each indication received of activity performed on the video clip to be recorded on the blockchain, verifying the activity and generating a new block on the blockchain recording the activity. The implementation includes receiving a modified version of the video clip, verifying an authenticity of the modified version based on each activity recorded in the blockchain, and in response to determining that the modified version is not authentic, generating an alert indicating inauthenticity.
US12177340B2
Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for implementing privacy amplification in quantum key distribution. Participants of the quantum key distribution include a first participant and a second participant, which share a first key pool including at least one key. The method is executed on a terminal of either of the first and second participants, and includes: acquiring an auxiliary string to be used in current privacy amplification processing, wherein the auxiliary string is determined based on a seed key determined from the first key pool and a first Hash function agreed with the other participant; acquiring, in a stream way, at least one first bit in a first key subjected to information reconciliation; and performing a preset inter-bit operation between the at least one first bit and bits at corresponding positions in the auxiliary string to obtain at least one second bit for forming a privacy-amplified second key.
US12177339B2
An entangled links mechanism to establish and maintain bipartite temporal intimacy between pairs of computers using an idempotent, reversible token method, which presents no observable external “change” until communication of information needs to occur between the computers and which maintains the potential for “bounded (or unbounded) reversibility” in case the intended information dispatched by a source computational entity is not captured or properly accepted by a destination computational entity. The mechanism enables distributed computers in a network to remain continuously aware of each other's presence; to communicate on a logically nearest neighbor basis in a secure and reliable manner in which packets passed over these links do not conflict with normal traffic or cause the available resources of the link to exceeded; and that atomicity, isolation, and “reversible durability” may be maintained for transactions when perturbations occur.
US12177338B2
Various embodiments relate to a system for provisioning a cryptographic device, including: a memory; a processor coupled to the memory, wherein the processor is further configured to: determine the maximum key generation seed size, maximum PQC private key size, maximum PQC public key size, and maximum PQC updater size of a plurality of post quantum cryptography algorithms; provision memory in the cryptographic device to store a key generation seed, PQC private key, PQC public key, and PQC updater based upon the determined maximum key generation seed size, maximum PQC private key size, maximum PQC public key size, and maximum PQC updater size; and provision the cryptographic device with a non-PQC secret key, a non-PQC public key, and non-PQC algorithm code configured to carry out non-PQC cryptographic algorithms.
US12177337B2
In a method for cogenerating a shared cryptographic material implemented within a first electronic device, which is connected to a second electronic cogeneration device and to a third electronic cogeneration device, a shared encryption material (pkx) is determined, as a function of a set of cogeneration parameters ECG. The shared encryption material (pkx) is transmitted, and corresponding shared encryption materials (pky, pkz) are received from the other devices. A shared seed (mx) is computed as a function of the shared encryption materials (pkx, pky, pkz) and the set of cogeneration parameters ECG. A masked form (Ox) of said shared seed (mx) is transmitted, and masked forms (Oy, Oz) of corresponding shared seeds (my, mz) are received. A final seed (ad) is computed as a function of the masked forms (Ox, Oy, Oz) of the shared seeds (mx, my, mz) and the set of cogeneration parameters ECG.
US12177334B2
A method, device, and non-transitory computer-readable medium are provided. Responsive to the device determining that a first user is not registered in a node registry upon startup, a public key of the first user and private key of the first user are generated, and the public key is registered in the node registry. Responsive to receiving a lookup request from a securely connected computing device, a public key lookup request for a public key of a second user is sent to the node registry by the device. The device receives the public key of the second user responsive to the sending of the public key lookup request. Responsive to receiving a message for the second user and an encryption request from the computing device, the device encrypts the message using the public key of the second user to produce an encrypted message that is transmitted to the computing device.
US12177333B2
A management system includes a management device, a device being incapable of directly communicating with the management device, a storage device configured to communicate with the management device and the device, and a server configured to communicate with the management device and the device. The management device is configured to, in a case where the management device receives data identification information for identifying execution data from the server, upload the data identification information to the storage device, the execution data being used in a device execution process executed by the device. The device is configured to execute a transmission process of transmitting the data identification information and an encryption key having an expiration date to the server, a decryption process of decrypting the received execution data with the encryption key, and a data usage process by using the decrypted execution data.
US12177329B2
The disclosed exemplary embodiments include computer-implemented apparatuses and methods that validate confidential data based privacy-preserving homomorphic computations involving encrypted data. For example, an apparatus may receive, from a first computing system, encrypted data that includes a first encrypted value representative of at least one of first account data or an element of cryptographic data. Based on the first encrypted value and on second encrypted values, the apparatus may generate encrypted residual values representative of second account data associated with one or more reference accounts, and the apparatus may request and receive a decrypted residual value associated with each of the encrypted residual values from a second computing system. The apparatus may transmit the decrypted residual values to the first computing system, which may validate the first account data based on at least the decrypted residual values and perform operations associated with the validated first account data.
US12177325B2
A communication system includes at least one send queue, containing send queue entries pointing to packets to be transmitted over a network by packet sending circuitry. A clock work queue contains clock queue entries to synchronize sending times of the packets pointed to by the send queue entries. At least one arming queue contains arming queue entries to arm the clock work queue at selected time intervals.
US12177322B2
A parsing apparatus includes a packet-type identification circuit and a parser. The packet-type identification circuit is to receive a packet to be parsed, and to identify a packet type of the packet by extracting a packet-type identifier from a defined field in the packet. The parser is to store one or more parsing templates that specify parsing of one or more respective packet types. When the packet type of the packet corresponds to a parsing template among the stored parsing templates, the parser is to parse the packet in accordance with the stored parsing template. When the packet type of the packet does not correspond to any of the stored parsing templates, the parser is to parse the packet using an alternative parsing scheme.
US12177316B1
As described herein, a system, method, and computer program are provided for intent to service mappings in intent-based orchestration. An intent orchestrator receives an intent specifying one or more parameters of a service required for a network. The intent orchestrator translates the intent to one or more basic data types of a plurality of predefined basic data types based on the one or more parameters. The intent orchestrator forms one or more abstract services using the one or more basic data types. The intent orchestrator determines one or more specific services of a network orchestrator that correlate with the one or more abstract services. The intent orchestrator causes the network orchestrator to fulfill the intent using the one or more specific services.
US12177315B2
A method comprising, by at least one processing unit, obtaining data collected by one or more sensors of at least one marine vessel, said data being representative of one or more situations encountered by the marine vessel during its voyage, prioritizing data according to at least one relevance criterion, wherein when the marine vessel is located in a zone in which at least one remote data communication link meets a criterion, transmitting at least some of the data using the at least one remote data communication link, wherein data are transmitted according to priority determined for the data, thereby facilitating transmission of relevant data for the purpose of training one or more machine learning algorithms (e.g. deep learning algorithms) providing output based on these data.
US12177313B2
In general, the disclosure relates to a method for redirecting a user to a captive portal. The method includes trapping an incoming frame originating from a host, where the incoming frame comprises a L2 header and a payload, wherein the payload specifies information associated with an external server, wherein the user of the host has not been authenticated by the captive portal at a time when the incoming frame is trapped, extracting the L2 header, an L3 header, and the payload from the incoming frame, forwarding the L3 header and the payload towards a redirection server executing on the network device, wherein the redirection server is configured to generate a redirection response based on the payload; encapsulating the redirection response to obtain an L3 response packet, encapsulating the L3 response packet using information from the L2 header to obtain an output frame, and transmitting the output frame towards the host.
US12177305B2
Methods, systems, and apparatuses, for real-time operation control, among other things. There may be adjustments to a first device in which a first network service operates. The adjustment to the device may include moving a second network service of the first device to a second device. The first network service and the second network service may be associated with virtual machines.
US12177303B2
Versions of a sequencing system may be monitored to enable changing of a version of a server subsystem operating the sequencing system to service requests from client subsystems for performing analysis of sequencing data. A monitor subsystem may be utilized for receiving and authorizing requests from client subsystems. The monitor subsystem may identify a version associated with a server subsystem operating the sequencing system to be implemented for servicing the request. The monitor subsystem may allow the server subsystem to be accessed for servicing the request from the client subsystem when the version associated with the client subsystem is compatible with the version associated with the server subsystem. The monitor subsystem may prevent the server subsystem from being accessed when the version associated with the client subsystem is incompatible with the version associated with the server subsystem.
US12177280B2
An ultra-low latency remote access system may stream video images from a remote application server to a client device, but may render a cursor separately on the client device. The remote application may send cursor bitmaps and other cursor information to the client device, which may be rendered by the client device to give a near-native response time and feel to the user experience. The remote access system may operate in a browser environment, with executable code in the browser to capture user input, including pointer and keyboard inputs. Executable code on the application server may encode screen images into video, which may be transmitted and rendered on the client device. In some cases, the rendered video may be larger than the displayable area of the client device, allowing for panning and zooming to be performed on the client device.
US12177279B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to transmitting content throughout a distribution network. For example, a computing device may generate data packets and attribute packets, and transmit the data packets and attribute packets to one or more user devices. The attribute packets may comprise information that enables validation and storage after the data packet is reassembled by the receiving device.
US12177271B2
Temporary access to a digital whiteboard is enabled for conference participants during a conference (e.g., a video conference). Based on a request to share a digital whiteboard with conference participants during a conference, ones of the conference participants to which to grant temporary access permissions for the digital whiteboard are determined. The temporary access permissions are granted to enable the ones of the conference participants to access the digital whiteboard during the conference. Based on an event occurrence, which may, for example, correspond to a termination of the conference or a disconnection of an owner of the digital whiteboard from the conference, the temporary access permissions are revoked to restrict further access to the digital whiteboard by the ones of the conference participants.
US12177269B2
The techniques described herein provide the ability for an owner of a content object to send an ephemeral link to participants in a meeting instance. An ephemeral link is a link to a content object that provides access to the content object for a time period associated with the meeting instance. In one example, the time period starts when the content object is shared during the meeting instance and ends when the meeting instance is scheduled to end. Thus, access to the content object via the link expires based on a scheduled end time of the meeting instance. However, in further examples described herein, the owner of the content object can dynamically adjust, via user input, the period of time during which the link provides access to the content object. The dynamic adjustment can extend the access or shorten the access to the content object via the link.
US12177264B2
An attack control device according to an embodiment is provided with a storage unit and one or more hardware processors configured to function as a selection unit, a determination unit, and a calculation unit. The storage unit associates and stores a normal communication data model representing a model of communication data of a normal system, with each network segment. The selection unit specifies the network segment based on the communication prediction data predicted upon execution of the attack scenario and selects the normal communication data model associated with the network segment. The determination unit determines the similarity degree between the normal communication data represented by the normal communication data model, and the communication prediction data. The calculation unit calculates an effectiveness degree of the attack scenario to be higher as the similarity degree is higher.
US12177262B2
Zero trust and micro-segmentation techniques may be collectively used to enhance network security. To establish, refine, and enforce a zero-trust least-privileged policy, the network may be segmented to put each device of the network into a respective network of one, which forces all network traffic to pass through a zero-trust gatekeeper. The gatekeeper may then monitor and analyze the traffic to establish, refine, and enforce the zero-trust least-privileged policy, which reduces network access to only a limited set of network actions and/or paths. Using the gatekeeper, network traffic may be monitored to progressively establish the policy as well as to continually refine the policy. Recommended actions may be determined based on the analysis of the monitored network traffic and provided to the user to allow user feedback on the communication rules of zero-trust policy.
US12177247B2
Systems and methods for security engine audit rules to prevent incorrect network address blocking are disclosed. An entity such as a service provider may determine network traffic logs caused or generated by malicious web traffic and network communications, such as during a computing attack by a bad actor. The service provider may implement automated blocking controllers, which use detection rules to detect the malicious network traffic, and thereafter generate a network address blocklist that is distributed to devices, components, and servers of the service provider for network address blocking. To ensure the integrity of the detection rules, audit rules and a dynamic exclusion macro may be executed to detect when a detection rule is behaving abnormally and/or leading to anomalous results. If a detection rule is not properly blocking network addresses, the rule may be removed from execution until recovery.
US12177223B1
A method, computer program product, and computer system are provided for recommending user role assignments. An action executed by a user from among a plurality of users on a network is identified. Data corresponding to the identified action is compiled and consolidated in a database of historical actions associated with the plurality of users. A trend or an anomaly is identified within the compiled and consolidated data based on a role and permissions associated with the user. A recommendation is generated for reassignment of new permissions or a new role associated with the user based on the identified trend or anomaly.
US12177206B2
Disclosed is an electronic device including: a communication circuit set to communicate with at least one authentication server for providing an identification authentication service; and a processor, wherein the processor is set to: transmit, to the at least one authentication server, first identifying information corresponding to an object to which identification information is to be provided and second identifying information corresponding to the electronic device; receive, from the at least one authentication server, information about a first item among a plurality of items of the identification information, the information about the first item being determined at least partially on the basis of the first identifying information and the second identifying information; and display, through the display, information corresponding to a first value related to the first item among the plurality of items of the identification information in response to a successful user authentication. Various other embodiments comprehended through the specification are also possible.
US12177197B1
A system and method for establishing secure communications based on combined capabilities of classical and quantum computers. A system can perform encrypting, responsive to a request for client data associated with a client device, the client data using a cryptographic key to generate an encrypted data packet, transmitting the encrypted data packet to a second classical computer simulating a quantum computer operation, the encrypted data packet causing the second classical computer to begin a decryption process on the encrypted data packet to recover a decrypted data packet determining an absence of a response from the second classical computer occurring within a predefined window of time, the response comprising the decrypted data packet and transmitting, responsive to the absence of the response, the encrypted data packet to a quantum computer, the encrypted data packet causing the quantum computer to decrypt the encrypted data packet to recover a decrypted data packet.
US12177196B2
A computer generates a first encrypted message by encrypting an unencrypted message for decryption at a receiving device. The computer couples the first encrypted message with addressing data associated with the receiving device to generate a coupled message. The computer generates a second encrypted message by encrypting the coupled message for decryption at a data transmission service. The computer transmits the second encrypted message via the data transmission service to enable the receiving device to read the unencrypted message.
US12177192B2
Disclosed herein is a computer-implemented method of managing sensitive information and the communication thereof. The method comprising: receiving, by a first server from a second server, first sensitive information relating to a user having an account with the second server; receiving, by the first server from a user device, second sensitive information via a data entry page hosted by the first server, wherein the data entry page is configured to receive second sensitive data associated with the user and the second sensitive information is different to the first sensitive information; and associating, by the first server, the first sensitive information with the second sensitive information. The first server and the second server communicate via a first communication channel and the first server and the user device communicate via a second, different communication channel.
US12177181B2
Automatic generation of network signatures is disclosed. Network profiles for malware samples are generated. Network signature candidates are selected based on the network profiles. The network signature candidates are automatically evaluated to automatically generate a new set of network signatures. The new set of network signatures is distributed to a security device/service to enforce the new set of network signatures to detect malware.
US12177176B1
Disclosed herein are system, method, and device embodiments for creating an improved mobile interface of a messaging application. The mobile interface displays unread conversations as a stack of tiles. With the top tile displayed, a user may efficiently mark the conversation as read or unread by swiping left or right. The interface then moves to the next tile in the stack. This allows a user to quickly triage unread messages while in the mobile application. The mobile interface ranks unread messages in an intuitive fashion in determining the ordering of the tiles. The interface may generate these rankings using a trained artificial intelligence based on a user's past behaviors and signals in unread messages. Messages received during the user's review of the stack of tiles may be dynamically inserted in a thoughtful manner. A summary may be displayed that indicates the number of messages, an estimated time to complete the review of the unread messages, and a summary of the unread messages that may be generated by sending a generative pre-trained transformer prompt to a trained neural network.
US12177175B2
An interaction system that provides users in mutual affinity relationships to send messages. Interaction applications of two or more users receives notifications of a mutual affinity relationship between the first user and the second user. The interaction applications configure respective mutual affinity widgets by associating the mutual affinity widget with the respective other user. Icons of the mutual affinity widgets are provided on respective home screens of the users. Upon detecting a selection of the mutual affinity widget by a first user, a message creation interface is provided to the first user and a message is generated based on an image captured by the first user using the message creation user interface. The message is then sent to a second user. The second user uses their own mutual affinity widget to access the message.
US12177173B2
Methods and devices are presented for managing communications in an ephemeral communication system. In some embodiments, messages in the system are analyzed to determine a complexity value for the message. This may be based on various algorithms, models, or system associations. The complexity information may then be used to recommend an availability value for the message, and to set a deletion trigger for the message based on the recommended availability value. When criteria of the automatically set deletion trigger are met at a device receiving the message, the message is automatically deleted from the device. In some embodiments, this deletion trigger at the device may also be used to initiate deletion of the message from other parts of the system.
US12177172B2
Methods for building and training a network of chatbots are provided. Methods may perform data analysis on a first chatbot in the network. The first chatbot may include a first domain of intents. The data analysis may identify and rank the intents in the first domain. The first domain may represent answers to a first domain of user queries. Methods may select a predetermined number of highest-ranking intents from the first domain based on the data analysis. Methods may input the selected intents into a second chatbot in the network. The second chatbot may include a second domain of intents. The second domain may represent answers to a second domain of user queries. Methods may input a hook into the second chatbot. The hook may include a trigger word and may correspond to the first domain. When the hook is triggered, the second chatbot may invoke the first chatbot.
US12177169B2
A method and an apparatus for self-interference cancellation in a communication device. The communication device includes an antenna configured to transmit a transmit signal and receive a receive signal through a duplexer in FDD communications, a first analog to digital converter (ADC) configured to convert the receive signal from analog to digital, a coupler configured to couple a sample of the transmit signal to a second ADC, which is configured to convert the sample of the transmit signal from analog to digital, and self-interference cancellation circuitry configured to process the digital sample of the transmit signal to generate a self-interference cancellation signal and apply the self-interference cancellation signal to the digital receive signal to cancel an amount of interference induced in the receive signal by the transmit signal. The SIC process provides additional isolation between TX signal and RX signal. The additional isolation could be utilized to relief the isolation requirement for the duplexer, reducing the cost and form factor of the duplexer.
US12177163B2
A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method by a terminal for determining frequency resources in a cellular network is provided.
US12177160B2
A user equipment generates an HARQ-ACK codebook comprising HARQ-ACK bits for semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) based on multiple SPS configurations, and transmits the HARQ-ACK codebook. In the HARQ-ACK codebook, with respect to an SPS configuration index and a serving cell index, an HARQ-ACK bit for an SPS PDSCH in a slot of a lower slot index precedes an HARQ-ACK bit for an SPS PDSCH in a slot of a higher slot index, and with respect to each serving cell index, an HARQ-ACK bit for an SPS PDSCH based on an SPS configuration having a lower SPS configuration index precedes an HARQ-ACK bit for an SPS PDSCH based on an SPS configuration having a higher SPS configuration index.
US12177157B2
A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE includes a higher layer processor configured to determine a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource in a first subslot for a hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) feedback for ultra-reliable low-latency communication (URLLC) physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmissions. The PUCCH resource is specified as an enhanced PUCCH format configured to satisfy URLLC PUCCH reliability requirements. The UE also includes transmitting circuitry configured to transmit the HARQ-ACK feedback for the URLLC PDSCH transmissions based on the determined PUCCH resource.
US12177155B2
A method for flexible feedback in V2X transmission, and a user equipment are provided. The method implemented in a receiving UE (user equipment) includes the following. A feedback requirement indicated by a transmitting UE is received during V2X transmission. A feedback resource is determined according to the feedback requirement. Feedback information is sent to the transmitting UE on the feedback resource according to the feedback requirement. The method implemented in a transmitting UE includes the following. A feedback requirement is indicated to a receiving UE during V2X transmission. Feedback information sent by the receiving UE on a feedback resource according to the feedback requirement is received, where the feedback resource is determined by the receiving UE according to the feedback requirement.
US12177154B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for generating enhanced sounding packets. Some implementations more specifically relate to sounding packet designs that support enhancements to wireless communication protocols associated with the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11be amendment, and future generations, of the IEEE 802.11 standard. In some implementations, an enhanced null data packet announcement (NDPA) frame may be configurable to support multiple versions of the IEEE 802.11 standard. For example, the enhanced NDPA frame may be configured in accordance with a legacy or a non-legacy NDPA frame format. In some other implementations, the enhanced NDPA frame may include a subfield carrying information identifying a particular basic service set (BSS) which may be associated with one or more STA information fields. Still further, in some implementations, an Extremely High Throughput (EHT) PPDU may include signaling to indicate whether the EHT PPDU is formatted as a sounding NDP.
US12177140B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an uplink transmission method and a terminal configured with at least two uplink carriers. The method may include receiving a scheduling request from a network side device to perform uplink transmission simultaneously on the at least two uplink carriers. The method may also include refusing to perform the scheduling request when at least one of the at least two uplink carriers requires two antennas for transmission.
US12177128B2
Methods and systems for autonomous rule-based task coordination amongst edge devices are disclosed. Embodiments of the present technology may include a method for processing packet traffic at an edge device, the method including determining a side of a communication that corresponds to an edge device with regard to packet traffic. Embodiments may also include applying a task distribution rule to the packet traffic using the determined side of the communication that corresponds to the edge device to determine if a particular task related to the packet traffic should be executed at the edge device. In some embodiments, the task distribution rule is configured to ensure that the particular task is executed at only one side of the communication.
US12177117B2
This application discloses a packet transmission method and device. This application provides a method for forwarding a packet to a peer end to restore an SRH. A new SID with a bypass function is extended for an End.AD SID, so that when a local proxy node fails to find the SRH from a local cache, the new SID and control information used to indicate to restore the SRH are carried in the packet whose SRH needs to be restored. The packet is transmitted to a peer proxy node by using the new SID, to indicate the peer proxy node to replace the local proxy node to restore the SRH. In this way, the SRH corresponding to the packet can be restored through the peer proxy node, and then the packet can continue to be forwarded in a network by using the SRH.
US12177114B2
Optical networks and nodes are described herein, including an optical network comprising a head-end node and a tail-end node. A line module of the head-end node receives fault information, generates a fault packet, and sends the fault packet to a first node controller identified by first packet forwarding information included in a packet header of the fault packet. The first node controller retrieves second packet forwarding information using the first packet forwarding information, updates the packet header, and sends the fault packet to the tail-end node identified by the second packet forwarding information. A second node controller of the tail-end node retrieves third packet forwarding information using the second packet forwarding information, updates the packet header, and sends the fault packet to an optical protection switching module (OPSM) of the tail-end node identified by the second packet forwarding information. The OPSM switches an optical switch based on the fault information.
US12177113B2
A method may include identifying network slices associated with transmitting data in a network and determining, by a routing device, that a failure associated with a path used to transmit data has occurred. The method may also include determining, by the routing device, whether the failure is associated with one of the plurality of network slices. The method may further include prioritizing, by the routing device, a route selection process in response to determining that the failure is associated with one of the plurality of network slices.
US12177112B2
A device virtualization method, apparatus and system, a device and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are disclosed. The device virtualization method may include: determining virtual information of a virtual device based on device information of a local device and device information of a peer device, the local device and the peer device are a plurality of first devices in a Multichassis Link Aggregation Group (MC-LAG), the device information comprises a bridge ID and a port ID, and the virtual information comprises a virtual bridge ID and a target port ID; switching an extended protocol message with the peer device; and determining a role and state of the port of the local device based on the virtual information and the extended protocol message of the peer device in combination with a protocol message received by the local device.
US12177111B2
In one example, the present disclosure describes a device, computer-readable medium, and method for minimizing customer impact during network access migrations. For instance, in one example, a method includes detecting a change in an access network that affects a first network circuit connecting a customer premises to a first provider edge router and provisioning a second network circuit in response to the detecting, wherein the provisioning comprises taking an action to preserve a wide area network internet protocol address of the customer premises on the first network circuit in the second network circuit.
US12177108B2
Examples provide a network testing solution using a remote-controlled testing device. A test device includes a computing device for executing network performance testing logic and a cellular device. The test device controls the cellular device via a series of commands issued to the cellular device by the computing device. The test device is placed onto or inside a vehicle. As the vehicle moves through a geographical area, the test device automatically and autonomously performs network testing operations. The test data generated during the test is periodically uploaded to a central controller. The central controller aggregates test data received from a plurality of test devices assigned to a plurality of vehicles for a given campaign. The aggregated test data is analyzed and filtered to generate performance test results. A user can dynamically set up each campaign and assign test devices and vehicles to each campaign using a graphical user interface.
US12177104B2
A method for estimating bandwidth between a video server and a video client for playing back a video stream includes video packets. The method involves the following steps performed by the video client: receiving the video packets from the video server wherein the video packets are transmitted by the video server at predetermined time intervals; calculating a difference in a size of the video packets and a difference in a time of reception of the video packets; and estimating the bandwidth based on the calculated difference in size and the calculated difference in the time of reception. The present disclosure further relates to a media player configured to perform the disclosed method.
US12177102B2
Aspects of the disclosure include determining a data rate and a latency of one or more packets associated with a buffer, and adapting a size of the buffer based on the data rate or latency. The size of the buffer may also be adjusted differently based on its current size. For example, the size of the buffer may be increased by a greater amount if its current size is relatively small, or it may be decreased by a greater amount if its current size is relatively large. To determine how to adjust the buffer, the data rate may be compared to a data rate threshold and the latency may be compared to a latency threshold.
US12177096B2
A method for providing a differentiated feature to a first user equipment (UE) connected to a local area network (LAN) implemented by a router connected to a customer premises equipment (CPE) provisioned with a default feature associated with a first service tier of a plurality of service tiers provided by an internet service provider includes obtaining data indicating the first UE has connected to the LAN and determining the first UE is eligible for a second service tier of the different tiers. In response to determining the first UE is eligible for the second service tier, the method includes causing the CPE to be dynamically provisioned for a differentiated service associated with the second service tier. The method includes sending a message to the router to configure the router to provide the differentiated feature to the first UE.
US12177083B2
Correlation of component information provided by diverse detection and data collection methods is used to discover additional components and identify and record relationships between these and still other components. Each detection and data collection method can be individually useful to discover components, and to provide at least some information about one or more discovered components to identify at least one relationship between the discovered components. When the information and component discoveries of a first detection and data collection method are properly combined with those of a second detection and data collection method, there can be a synergistic effect that greatly improves the utility and efficiency of a relationship-based network management system by enabling automated discovery of additional components and identification of additional component relationships, by automatically merging diverse views of a single component into a coherent picture of that component, and by automated prediction of component state changes based on state changes in related components.
US12177080B2
An example system including a vehicle having a multi-zone network comprising a plurality of network zones, each one of the network zones comprising at least one zone manager, and wherein one of the at least one zone managers comprises a central zone manager; wherein the plurality of network zones are arranged according to a network topology description; and wherein the central zone manager comprises a network management controller, including a zone implementation circuit structured to interpret a zoned architecture communication scheme; a zone manager command circuit structured to interpret a zone manager command description for each of the at least one zone managers; and a zone execution circuit structured to provide the corresponding zone manager command description to each of the at least one zone managers; and wherein each of the at least one zone managers is responsive to the corresponding zone manager command description to control communications.
US12177078B2
Some embodiments provide a system that includes a set of network controllers for receiving definitions of first and second logical switching elements. The system includes several managed switching elements. The set of network controllers configure the several managed switching elements to implement the defined first and second logical switching elements. The system includes several network hosts that are each (1) communicatively coupled to one of the several managed switching elements and (2) associated with one of the first and second logical switching elements. Network data communicated between network hosts associated with the first logical switching element are isolated from network data communicated between network hosts associated with the second logical switching element.
US12177077B2
Disclosed are systems, methods, and computer-readable media for assuring tenant forwarding in a network environment. Network assurance can be determined in layer 1, layer 2 and layer 3 of the networked environment including, internal-internal (e.g., inter-fabric) forwarding and internal-external (e.g., outside the fabric) forwarding in the networked environment. The network assurance can be performed using logical configurations, software configurations and/or hardware configurations
US12177071B2
Techniques are described herein for providing hardware configuration updates relating to equipment nodes in a network using change messages. In embodiments, the techniques may comprise receiving a status update comprising status information for one or more equipment nodes, determining, based on the status information, one or more changes in status of the one or more equipment nodes since a prior status update, and generating a change message that includes the one or more changes. The techniques may further involve providing the change message to at least one second computing device, wherein the one or more changes is used to update aggregate data maintained by the second computing device.
US12177069B2
In an example, a method comprises obtaining, by a policy controller from a first SDN architecture system, flow metadata for packet flows exchanged among workloads of a distributed application deployed to the first SDN architecture system; identifying, using flow metadata for a packet flow of the packet flows, a source endpoint workload and a destination endpoint workload of the packet flow; generating a network policy rule to allow packet flows from the source endpoint workload to the destination endpoint workload of the packet flow; and adding the network policy rule to a configuration repository as configuration data for a second SDN architecture system to cause a deployment system to configure the second SDN architecture system with the network policy rule to allow packet flows from the source endpoint workload to the destination endpoint workload when the distributed application is deployed to the second SDN architecture system.
US12177068B2
System and method for efficient data movement in an orchestrated distributed measurement application
A method of orchestrating measurements in a measurement system includes configuring a first service with a first configuration for acquiring measurement data by an orchestrator. The method also includes receiving a moniker generated by the first service in response to being configured that represents the first configuration. The moniker includes a location of the first service and an identifier of the first configuration. The method also includes transferring the moniker to a second service configured to establish communication with the first service based on the location, consume the measurement data acquired by the first service using the first configuration and transmitted in response to receiving the identifier from the second service, and generate a result in response to receiving the measurement data from the first service. The method further includes receiving the result from the second service.
US12177067B2
Some embodiments provide a method for configuring a gateway machine in a datacenter. The method receives a definition of a logical network for implementation in the datacenter. The logical network includes at least one logical switch to which logical network endpoints attach and a logical router for handling data traffic between the logical network endpoints in the datacenter and an external network. The method receives configuration data attaching a third-party service to at least one interface of the logical router via an additional logical switch designated for service attachments. The third-party service is for performing non-forwarding processing on the data traffic between the logical network endpoints and the external network. The method configures the gateway machine in the datacenter to implement the logical router and redirect at least a subset of the data traffic between the logical network endpoints and the external network to the attached third-party service.
US12177066B2
A method includes deploying a network device within a fabric having a management network by attaching the network device through the management network to a port of a role allocator, wherein the role allocator includes one or more ports designated as first level port connections and one or more other ports designated as second level port connections. If the deployed network device is attached to one of the ports designated as first level port connections, the deployed network device is configured as a first level device. If the deployed network device is attached to one of the ports designated as second level port connections, the deployed network device is configured as a second level device.
US12177064B2
At least one subsequent and correlated alarm is linked to a primary alarm. In an alarm list library, at least one subsequent and correlated alarm attribute is added to a primary alarm. The primary alarm having the alarm name attribute in the alarm list library is received at a network management system. The at least one subsequent and correlated alarm attribute is applied to the alarm name attribute associated with the alarm received at the network management system. The alarm name based on the alarm name attribute in the alarm list library associated with the alarm received at the network management system, and the at least one subsequent and correlated alarm indicated by the at least one subsequent and correlated alarm attribute linked to the alarm name attribute in the alarm list library associated with the alarm received at the network management system are displayed.
US12177062B2
An alarm tracking method includes using an element of a network to initialize an alarm counter at the start of an interval, generate an alarm including element alarm information, increment the alarm counter in response to the alarm, store some or all of the element alarm information and the alarm counter in an alarm file, push the alarm to a network manager of the network, and at the end of the interval, push the alarm file comprising the stored element alarm information and the alarm counter to the network manager. The network manager is used to compare the alarm counter to a number of alarms received from the element and generated during the interval.
US12177061B2
Lightweight, dynamic mechanisms are provided to support service layer interworking and resource extensibility. For example, one mechanism disclosed herein comprises defining a new service layer (SL) resource definition registration procedure that allows for specifying custom attributes of service layer resources to represent third party technology resources. A second mechanism disclosed herein comprises defining a new SL data model mapping registration procedure to map service layer resources to third party data models and to provide a new interworked retargeting indicator to the service layer. Further, a third mechanism disclosed herein comprises defining a SL generic interworking procedure to intelligently retarget requests toward interworked resources based on the interworked retargeting indicator provided by the data model mapping.
US12177047B2
A method and apparatus for compensating an in- and quadrature-(IQ) imbalance are disclosed. The method and apparatus for compensating an in- and quadrature-(IQ) imbalance provide a technique for compensating a signal distortion caused by imperfect element features and various noises on a transmission link in terahertz wireless communication and improving transmission performance.
US12177041B2
Embodiments are directed towards systems and methods for bridging data traffic between an underlay network and an overlay network within a wireless telecommunication network. One such method including: providing access to an overlay network that includes virtual routers, wherein the overlay network is built above the underlay network, the underlay network including physical infrastructure that delivers packets; providing a UPFv that acts as an anchor for telephony voice functions; establishing routing protocols to transmit from the UPFv to one or more of the virtual routers; configuring one or more of the virtual routers to bridge an outgoing communication from the UPFv to a public cloud provider; instructing the virtual router to send the outgoing communication through the public cloud provider to the underlay network; and instructing the virtual router to receive an incoming communication from the underlay network through the public cloud provider to the UPFv.
US12177013B2
A short-distance communication method includes: obtaining at least one piece of code data; sending a scheduling type indication and a data type indication to a second device, where the scheduling type indication indicates that the at least one piece of code data includes initially transmitted data, retransmitted data, or initially transmitted data and retransmitted data, and the data type indication indicates location information and/or an amount of a part or all of the at least one piece of code data; and sending the at least one piece of code data to the second device.
US12177007B2
An apparatus, such as a base station, may determine channel conditions associated with at least two carriers on which communication with another apparatus is configured. The apparatus may encode a dataset into a set of protocol data units (PDUs) using fountain coding based on the channel conditions. The apparatus may send a first subset of the set of PDUs to the other apparatus on a first carrier of the at least two carriers. The apparatus may send a second subset of the set of PDUs to the other apparatus on a second carrier of the at least two carriers. Another apparatus, such as a user equipment (UE), may receive the set of PDUs from the apparatus over the at least two carriers, and may decode the set of PDUs to obtain a dataset using fountain coding.
US12177006B2
Aspects described herein relate to switching waveforms in a waveform switching gap. In an aspect, using a transceiver, a first signal of a first waveform can be communicated. Assistance information related to switching the transceiver to use a second waveform can be communicated as well, and based at least in part on the assistance information, the transceiver can be switched to use a second waveform. Using the transceiver, a second signal of a second waveform can be communicated.
US12177005B2
The method of the invention is related to utilizing the convergence patterns of sparse coding for detecting a primary user emulation/signal jamming attack in a cognitive radio setting. The method basically comprises a training stage and a testing stage. Through the method, the hypothesis which shows that there is no primary user but only noise (H0), the hypothesis which shows that there is a legitimate primary user present with a right to use the spectrum and the secondary user should not use the spectrum (H1), and the hypothesis which shows that there is a primary user emulator/signal jammer in the environment (H2) can be distinguished.
US12177001B2
A method and device for modulating with Zadoff-Chu sequences. Each K-ary symbol to be transmitted is converted into a Zadoff-Chu sequence of preset length N and of preset root r, and the frequency offset q of which is dependent on the K-ary symbol. Various root values may be used to separate distinct uplink and downlink and synchronous or asynchronous communications. The modulating device is implemented in the frequency domain. The invention also relates to a demodulating method and device allowing the K-ary symbols thus transmitted to be recovered. The demodulating device may be implemented in the time domain or frequency domain.
US12176997B2
Systems for communicating data through a satellite are disclosed. The systems generally include a radio designed for terrestrial communications that is configured to uplink data to one or more satellites. The one or more satellites are configured to receive the data from the terrestrial radio. In addition, the systems include terrestrial receivers, such as one or more chirp spread spectrum radios, positioned at ground level, which are configured to receive the data from the one or more satellites.
US12176993B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques support communication between one or more network entities and user equipment (UEs) via configurable intelligent surfaces. A first UE may transmit, to a second UE associated with a set of configurable intelligent surfaces, first information that indicates a tracking period and a data period that the second UE is to use to manage the configurable intelligent surfaces. The second UE may adjust the configurable intelligent surfaces for the communications between the first UE and network entities during the tracking period and the data period. The second UE may adjust the configurable intelligent surfaces based on measurement reports generated by the first UE based on communication during the tracking and data periods.
US12176984B2
A beam scheduling method, including: when determining that a terminal has a specified capability, sending indication information to the terminal, the indication information being used to indicate whether the terminal measures RSRP on the basis of the restriction of an uplink MPE, and the specified capability being used to express that the terminal has the capability to measure the RSRP according to the restriction of the MPE; receiving a measurement result for each beam as reported by the terminal on the basis of the indication information; and performing beam scheduling on the basis of the measurement results.
US12176983B2
A method of transmitting Channel State Information (CSI)-Reference Signals (RSs) in a wireless communication system that includes a base station (BS) and a user equipment (UE) includes transmitting, from the BS to the UE, first multiple CSI-RSs in a CSI-RS resource set that consists of CSI-RS resources. The first multiple CSI-RSs are transmitted using the CSI-RS resources, respectively. The CSI-RS resource set is repeated in a time domain or a frequency domain. The transmitting transmits second multiple CSI-RSs in the repeated CSI-RS resource set.
US12176978B2
A communication method includes: receiving, by a network device, first information sent by a terminal device: where the first information includes capability information of the terminal device and uplink sounding reference signal (SRS) antenna switch requirement information of the terminal device, the capability information of the terminal device is used for indicating antenna switch capability supported by the terminal device, and the SRS antenna switch requirement information is used for indicating requirement for terminal device to perform SRS antenna switch.
US12176977B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a mobile station may transmit an indication of supported types of signaling hardware of the mobile station. The mobile station may receive an indication of a selection of a type of signaling hardware, of the supported types of signaling hardware, to use in communication with a network node. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12176975B2
The present invention relates to a wireless communication method and a wireless communication terminal for signaling a multi-user packet. More specifically, provided are a wireless communication terminal including a communication unit; and a processor configured to process signals transmitted and received through the communication unit, wherein the processor receives, through the communication unit, a high efficiency multi-user PHY protocol data unit (HE MU PPDU), wherein a preamble of the HE MU PPDU includes high efficiency signal A field (HE-SIG-A) and high efficiency signal B field (HE-SIG-B), and decodes the received HE MU PPDU based on information obtained from the HE-SIG-A, wherein a configuration of the HE-SIG-B is identified based on information obtained from at least one subfield of the HE-SIG-A and a wireless communication method using the same.
US12176964B2
A method for determining a transfer function of an RX path of a receiver comprises applying a connector signal at a first measurement time. A connector signal response signal is measured. A first reference signal is applied and a first detector signal is measured by a detector, in response to the first reference signal passing through a second reference signal insertion path of the receiver. A first reference signal response signal is measured in response to the first reference signal passing through a second reference signal insertion path of the receiver. A second reference signal is applied and a second detector signal and a second reference signal response signal are measured. The transfer function of the RX path of the receiver is determined based on the connector signal, first detector signal, first reference signal response signal, second detector signal, and second reference signal response signal.
US12176961B2
A method determines corrected TRP or TIS of an AUT in a near-field test chamber, the AUT having a phase center offset from a rotation center of the test chamber. The method includes performing EIRP or EIS measurements of the AUT at first sampling grid points on a first closed-surface geometric shape centered at the rotation center; mapping second sampling grid points to the first closed-surface geometric shape to provide mapped sampling grid points on the first closed-surface geometric shape, where the second sampling grid points are on a second closed-surface geometric shape centered at the phase center of the AUT; determining estimated EIRPs or EISs at the mapped sampling grid points using the EIRP or EIS measurements; scaling the estimated EIRPs or EISs at the mapped sampling grid points to provide scaled EIRPs or EISs; and calculating the corrected TRP or TIS based on the scaled EIRPs or EISs.
US12176955B2
An IC-TROSA optical network system includes an IC-TROSA device that is included in a coherent optical transmitter device on a transmitter device and that is coupled to at least one optical network to couple the transmitter device to at least one receiver device. The IC-TROSA device includes a quadrature optical modulator subsystem having a first optical directional coupler device with a first transmit connection that receives first optical signals from the quadrature optical modulator subsystem and transmits the first optical signals via the first transmit connection to the at least one receiver device via the at least one optical network, and with a second transmit connection that receives second optical signals from the quadrature optical modulator subsystem and transmits the second optical signals via the second transmit connection to the at least one receiver device via the at least one optical network.
US12176952B2
The signal detection device includes the signal detection unit that derives the estimation vector of the transmission signal vector, the first conversion unit that converts the estimation vector of the transmission signal vector to the estimation vector of the transmission signal vector based on the reduced basis, the first determination unit that converts the estimation vector of the transmission signal vector based on the reduced basis to the determination value vector of the transmission signal vector, the first update unit that updates the separation matrix, the second conversion unit that converts the first error signal vector to the second error signal vector based on the reduced basis, the second update unit that updates the error covariance matrix based on the reduced basis, the second determination unit that determines whether or not the predetermined condition is satisfied, and a third update unit that updates the unimodular matrix, the inverse matrix of the unimodular matrix, and the error covariance matrix based on the reduced basis when it is determined that the predetermined condition is established.
US12176937B2
Disclosed herein is a mount featuring one or more sets of embedded magnets which are designed to engage with complimentary sets of magnets disposed either in a protective case for use with the mount, or in a mobile device contained within such a protective case. The mount includes a pin which is magnetically actuated to extend into a hole disposed in the protective case when the case and the mount are brought within a prescribed distance. Thus, the case and the mount “snap together” and are restrained from sliding relative to one another by the pin.
US12176933B2
In a transmitter there is a distributor and assembly bank into which a predetermined quantity of an input payload from a source is repeatedly written according to a first distributor permutation to create as many input vectors as there are electromagnetic propagation pathways. A staging bank exists into which each input vector available from the assembly bank are repeatedly written according to a second distributor permutation. A presentation bank exists into which each input vector available from the staging bank are repeatedly written according to a third distributor permutation. One or more encoders repeatedly encode input vectors from the presentation bank; there being as many encoders as electromagnetic propagation pathways, and each encoder makes available each encoded ordered series of output levels for communication over the pathways. The banks and encoders are in up to four timing domains. A corresponding receiver, decoder, and reception, staging and disassembly banks and a sink are at the end of the pathways.
US12176926B2
Encoding and decoding apparatuses and methods for implementing multi-mode coding are provided. The apparatus includes a transmitter and a receiver connected to a data bus. When data bursts are converted by the transmitter into codewords each including a plurality of symbols and/or a codeword received by the receiver is recovered as data bursts, maximum transition avoidance (MTA) codeword mappings in which no maximum transition (MT) event occurs between the plurality of symbols and minimum DC current (MDC) codeword mappings related to minimum power consumption of the plurality of symbols are used.
US12176923B2
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). A channel encoding method in a communication or broadcasting system includes identifying an input bit size, determining a block size (Z), determining an LDPC sequence for LDPC encoding, and performing the LDPC encoding based on the LDPC sequence and the block size.
US12176922B1
Length-adapter input parameters for length-adaptive encoding include a data word length and a length-adapted codeword length, which are positive integers. Length-adapter output parameters include a primary data word length, a secondary data word length, a primary codeword length, and a secondary codeword length. A received data word is split according to splitter parameters into a primary data word based on the primary data word length and a secondary data word based on the secondary data word length. The primary data word is encoded in accordance with primary encoder parameters to generate a primary codeword from a primary code. The secondary data word is encoded in accordance with secondary encoder parameters to generate a secondary codeword from a secondary code. The primary and secondary codewords are combined in accordance with combiner parameters to generate a length-adapted codeword transmitted via a channel to a decoder.
US12176919B2
Disclosed is a memory device which includes a memory cell array that stores first data and first parity data, an error correction code (ECC) circuit that performs ECC decoding based on the first data and the first parity data and outputs error-corrected data and a decoding status flag, and an input/output circuit that provides the error-corrected data and the decoding status flag to a memory controller. The ECC circuit includes a syndrome generator that generates a syndrome based on the first data and the first parity data, a syndrome decoding circuit that decodes the syndrome to generate an error vector, a correction logic circuit that generates the error-corrected data based on the error vector and the first data, and a fast decoding status flag (DSF) generator that generates the decoding status flag based on the syndrome, without the error vector.
US12176909B2
Apparatuses and methods of capacitance-to-digital code conversion are described. One capacitance-to-digital converter (CDC) includes front-end circuitry, including a comparator. The CDC further includes a first capacitive digital-to-analog converter (CDAC) coupled to a first input of the comparator and, in a first phase, to a sensor cell. The CDC further includes a second CDAC coupled to a second input of the comparator and, in a second phase, to the sensor cell. The front-end circuitry provides a digital output. The digital output is proportional to a sensor capacitance of the sensor cell.
US12176906B2
A circuit includes a microcontroller having a clock output and a data output. The microcontroller includes a serial-peripheral interface (SPI) circuit, a pulse-width modulation (PWM) generator, and a central processing unit (CPU). The SPI circuit is configured to provide an SPI clock signal and an SPI data signal to the data output. The PWM generator is configured to provide a continuous PWM signal to the clock output. The CPU is coupled to the SPI circuit and the PWM generator, and the CPU has executable instructions configured to synchronize the PWM signal to the SPI clock signal.
US12176902B2
A chip package comprises an interposer; an FPGA IC chip over the interposer, wherein the FPGA IC chip comprises a programmable logic block configured to perform a logic operation on its inputs, wherein the programmable logic block comprises a look-up table configured to be provided with multiple resulting values of the logic operation on multiple combinations of the inputs of the programmable logic block respectively, wherein the programmable logic block is configured to select, in accordance with one of the combinations of its inputs, one from the resulting values into its output, and multiple non-volatile memory cells configured to save the resulting values respectively; multiple first metal bumps between the interposer and the FPGA IC chip; and an underfill between the interposer and the FPGA IC chip, wherein the underfill encloses the first metal bumps.
US12176901B2
A field-programmable-gate-array (FPGA) IC chip includes multiple first non-volatile memory cells in the FPGA IC chip, wherein the first non-volatile memory cells are configured to save multiple resulting values for a look-up table (LUT) of a programmable logic block of the FPGA IC chip, wherein the programmable logic block is configured to select, in accordance with its inputs, one from the resulting values into its output; and multiple second non-volatile memory cells in the FPGA IC chip, wherein the second non-volatile memory cells are configured to save multiple programming codes configured to control a switch of the FPGA IC chip.
US12176894B2
A method is provided for operating a hand-held machine tool including a drive device, with a control device for actuating the drive device and at least two capacitive sensor elements operatively connected to the control device being provided. The method includes the following method steps of determining a first and second electrical charge of the first and second sensor element comparing the determined first electrical charge with a defined first threshold value and the determined second electrical charge with a defined second threshold value which differs from the first threshold value; enabling, via the control device, the actuation of the drive device when the first electrical charge is greater than the defined first threshold value and/or the second electrical charge is greater than the defined second threshold value. A machine tool for carrying out a method of this kind is also described.
US12176878B2
An acoustic resonator is provided that includes a substrate; an acoustic Bragg reflector supported by the substrate; a piezoelectric plate above the acoustic Bragg reflector and opposite the substrate, the piezoelectric plate having at least one groove extending into a surface thereof; and an interdigital transducer (IDT) having a plurality of interleaved fingers with at least one finger is disposed in the at least one groove of the piezoelectric plate, respectively.
US12176874B2
A signal receiving circuit and a noise filtering method thereof are provided. The signal receiving circuit includes an operational amplifier circuit and a voltage offset adjustment circuit. A first input terminal and a second input terminal of the operational amplifier circuit receive a differential signal, a third input terminal receives a reference voltage, and the operational amplifier circuit compares the differential signal with the reference voltage to generate an output signal. The voltage offset adjustment circuit is coupled to the third input terminal of the operational amplifier circuit, and provides an offset voltage to adjust the reference voltage.
US12176857B2
This Doherty amplifier includes: a carrier amplifier for amplifying a first signal and outputting the amplified first signal; a peaking amplifier for amplifying a second signal and outputting the amplified second signal, the peaking amplifier having a non-linear output capacitance; a first output circuit for transmitting the first signal output from the carrier amplifier; a second output circuit for functioning as a virtual short stub when the peaking amplifier does not perform an amplification operation, and transmitting the second signal output from the peaking amplifier; and a combining circuit for combining the first signal transmitted by the first output circuit and the second signal transmitted by the second output circuit and outputting a combined signal of the first signal and the second signal, wherein, when the peaking amplifier performs the amplification operation, the second output circuit transforms an impedance seen by looking into the combining circuit from the peaking amplifier into an impedance in an inductive region.
US12176855B2
Power amplifiers having improved gate oxide integrity are disclosed. In particular, a dynamic asymmetric cascode bias circuit is used to provide a bias signal to a cascode power amplifier stage. The bias signal swings in synchronicity with an output signal from the power amplifier stage. By having this dynamic bias signal, the gate-drain stress on the device is reduced, preserving gate oxide integrity. Preserving gate oxide integrity helps preserve the operational profile and extend device life, providing an enhanced user experience.
US12176849B2
A system includes first and second photovoltaic modules, each of which includes a first side lap portion, a plurality of solar cells arranged in a plurality of rows, a first electrical connector on the first side lap portion and electrically connected to the first row of the solar cells, and a second electrical connector on the first side lap portion electrically connected to the second row of the solar cells. The system includes a first power electronics unit connected to the first and second electrical connectors of the first photovoltaic module; and a second power electronics unit connected to the first and second electrical connectors of the second photovoltaic module. The first power electronics unit is electrically connected to the second power electronics unit.
US12176844B2
Systems and methods for regulating an outlet coolant temperature of a genset and an inlet coolant temperature of the genset are provided. A load condition of the genset may be determined. An operating mode can be selected from between a first mode associated with a first load condition and a second mode associated with a second load condition responsive to determining the load condition of the genset. The first mode and the second mode may be configured to determine a target inlet coolant temperature using one or more control loops. The target inlet coolant temperature may be determined using the selected operating mode, a target outlet coolant temperature and the outlet coolant temperature. The outlet coolant temperature may be regulated based on the determined target inlet coolant temperature and the inlet coolant temperature by adjusting an operation of one or more coolant valves.
US12176842B2
The invention relates to a method for controlling a power generating unit. The method includes determining a virtual impedance value, determining a virtual grid power based on the virtual resistance value and the grid current, determining a virtual synchronous machine rotational speed and/or a synchronous machine angle of a virtual synchronous generator, and determining a voltage reference for controlling a line side converter to generate the desired reactive power based on the virtual synchronous machine rotational speed or angle, a virtual voltage and the voltage magnitude reference.
US12176836B2
Control of an energy storage and provisioning system is disclosed, including a method in which electrical power is received from a power generator in an energy storage system having energy storage cells. Each of the energy storage cells has switching elements selectively operable to connect with terminals of other energy storage cells. The method further includes determining a condition of a number of the energy storage cells via electrical measurement; and grouping, by controlling operation of the switching elements, a subset of the energy storage cells into a topology configuration based on a condition of individual cells of the subset of energy storage cells. The method further includes storing the received electrical power into the subset of energy storage cells arranged into the topology configuration to optimize storage of the electrical power received from the power generator.
US12176831B2
An input end of a first power conversion circuit of the system is connected to a power supply, and an output end of the first power conversion circuit is connected to a stator winding of an electrical excitation motor. An input end of a second power conversion circuit is connected to the power supply, and an output end of the second power conversion circuit is connected to a primary side of an excitation transformer. The excitation transformer transmits energy required by an excitation winding of the electrical excitation motor from a stator to a rotor. A first controller controls the first power conversion circuit to inject a current excitation into the stator winding, so that a current is generated on the excitation winding. A detection circuit obtains a response signal of the primary side of the excitation transformer and sends the response signal to a second controller.
US12176828B2
An energy storage device and a method thereof for supplying power are provided. Control a power conversion circuit to lower an AC output voltage during a preset period to a preset voltage, control the power conversion circuit to change from outputting the preset voltage to outputting a surge voltage, so that the power conversion circuit enters a surge generation period, and determine whether to turn off the energy storage device according to whether an output terminal of the power conversion circuit generating a surge current during the surge generation period.
US12176816B2
Provided are a charger and a control method. The charger includes: a transformer; at least one primary-side switch tube for carrying out chopping modulation on a voltage input into the transformer; a first control unit; a second control unit for generating feedback information on the basis of a voltage and/or current information output from an output end of the charger; and a first microwave unit respectively connected to the first control unit and the second control unit, and used for transmitting the feedback information to the first control unit. The first control unit is used for outputting a first control signal according to the feedback information, so as to control the turning on or the turning off of the at least one primary-side switch tube.
US12176809B2
A drain and a source of an N-channel type FET included in a power feeding control apparatus are provided on an electric current path along which an electric current flows from a DC power supply to a load, the drain being a part of the FET into which the electric current is input and the source being a part of the FET from which the electric current is output. A driving circuit switches the FET off when a first determination circuit determines that a control voltage between a gate and the source of the FET is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, and a second determination circuit determines that a drain-source voltage between the drain and the source of the FET is greater than or equal to a second threshold value.
US12176807B2
Described embodiments include a circuit for adapting the on time in a switching voltage converter that includes a first transistor having a current terminal coupled to an output voltage terminal and to its control terminal. A second transistor is coupled between the first transistor and a ground terminal, and has a control terminal coupled to the first transistor. A third transistor is coupled between the output voltage terminal and a capacitor, and has a third control terminal coupled to the first control terminal. A current source is configured to provide a current that varies linearly between a first value and a second value. A fourth transistor is coupled between terminals of the capacitor, and has a fourth control terminal. A comparator has a first comparator input coupled to the capacitor. A logic circuit has an input coupled to the comparator output, and an output coupled to the fourth control terminal.
US12176796B2
The present disclosure relates to a drive unit (1) with a housing (2) and an electric motor (3) arranged therein. A transmission (8) is coupled to the electric motor (3). At least one oil chamber (15) is arranged in the housing (2), the oil chamber(s) having an oil zone (21) and an air zone (22), where the air zone (22) is flow-connected by way of an inlet opening (36) to a venting channel (35) that leads to a vent (32) such that the inlet opening (36) is arranged in a central area (40) of the housing (2) of the drive unit (1).
US12176792B2
An example engine-driven generators includes: a stator assembly having first mounting holes; a first generator housing configured to couple the stator assembly to an engine, and having second mounting holes; first stator alignment hardware configured to align the first mounting holes of the stator assembly with corresponding ones of the second mounting holes of the first generator housing; stator securing hardware configured to secure the stator assembly in cooperation with the first stator alignment hardware; first locating faces configured to mate with mating faces of corresponding ones of the second mounting holes to locate the first mounting holes with the second mounting holes; and first housing securing hardware configured to secure the first generator housing to the stator assembly.
US12176783B2
A system and method for holding position of a mover in an independent cart system includes receiving a current feedback signal corresponding to a current present in at least one coil for a linear drive system in the independent cart system. A motion command for the mover is received, where the motion command defines a desired position along a track of the independent cart system to which the mover is to travel. An electromagnetic pinning control mode is disabled while controlling operation of the at least one mover to the desired position and enabled when the at least one mover is at the desired position.
US12176782B2
A vibration apparatus comprising: a vibration assembly comprising a counterweight block, a first magnet group and an elastic member, the first magnet group is fixed on the counterweight block, the vibration assembly is suspended in the vibration apparatus through the elastic member; a stator assembly comprising a coil and a second magnet group, the second magnet group is installed in a winding hole of the coil; the first magnet group comprises at least two side magnets, magnetization directions of the two side magnets are perpendicular to a plane on which the coil is located, the side magnets are magnetized in opposite directions, a magnetization direction of the second magnet group is parallel to the plane, two poles of second magnet group are respectively attracted to poles of side magnets adjacent to the coil, the vibration assembly is configured to produce vibration relative to the stator assembly.
US12176775B2
A stator winding structure (100) for a motor. The motor is a three-phase alternating current motor having eight poles. Each phase comprises four shunt wound branches. The stator winding consists of multiple U-shaped flat copper wires (10). A connection portion of each U-shaped flat copper wire (10) disposed in the motor is located on the same side with respect to the motor. The technical solution also provides a motor comprising the stator winding structure (100) and a vehicle comprising the motor.
US12176767B2
A linear permanent magnet motor may include a stator unit having a coil, a mover including an array of permanent magnets, and a position sensing device operable to determine a position of the mover. The mover is arranged to move along a motion direction. The position sensing device has a sensing element operable to sense a magnetic field of the array of permanent magnets The sensing element is fixed to the stator unit. The array of permanent magnets is spaced apart from the stator unit by an air gap in which electromagnetic fields created by the array of permanent magnets and by coil are configured to interact thereby generating traction. The sensing element is positioned such that it is within a magnetic leakage field of the array of permanent magnets when the array of permanent magnets is positioned in correspondence with the sensing element.
US12176766B2
In an embodiment an EMC filter component includes a first interface, a second interface, a filter circuit, a mechanical connection and a DC-Link capacitor as a circuit element, wherein the filter circuit is electrically connected between the first interface and the second interface, wherein the mechanical connection is configured for mechanically connecting the EMC filter component to an external mounting location, and wherein the mechanical connection is configured for electrically connecting the filter circuit to a ground potential of the external mounting location.
US12176758B2
A stator of an electrical machine is provided including a body axially extending along the longitudinal axis between two opposite axial ends, the body radially extending perpendicular to the longitudinal axis between a radially inner surface and a radially outer surface, wherein at least one of the two opposite axial ends includes a plate inclined with respect to the longitudinal axis of an angle greater than 0° and lower than 90°.
US12176754B2
An electric machine that increases structural freedom to increase output of the electric machine while satisfying requirements of an outer shape. An armature portion includes armature cores (H1, H2) and a plurality of coils (CL) attached to the armature core (H1). A magnetic field portion (Fs) is relatively rotatable to the armature portion and includes a plurality of magnets (Mg) and a plurality of magnetic field cores (22N, 22S). In the magnetic field portion (Fs), the magnets (Mg) are disposed between two magnetic field cores (22N, 22S) adjacent in a rotation direction. Each of the armature cores (H1, H2) includes magnetic pole groups (G1, G2). The magnetic pole group (G1) included in the armature core (H1) and the magnetic pole group (G2) included in the armature core (H2) constitute a magnetic pole group pair (P) that forms a magnetic path through the magnetic field portion (Fs).
US12176752B2
A plurality of UPSs are connected in parallel between an AC power supply and a load. The UPSs each include a first switch connected between the AC power supply and an AC node. During the first power feeding mode, a control device turns on the first switch, and controls a power conversion device so as to receive AC power from the AC node and generate AC power. During a second power feeding mode, the control device turns off the first switch, and controls the power conversion device so as to receive DC power from a power storage device and generate AC power. When the AC power supply recovers during the second power feeding mode, the control device successively switches the plurality of UPSs to the first power feeding mode by successively turning on a plurality of the first switches each of which corresponds to each of the plurality of UPSs.
US12176749B2
A power supply method and apparatus for dual power load includes a low voltage direct current-direct current converter (LDC) configured to convert a voltage of a high-voltage battery to supply power, a first low-voltage battery configured to be charged by receiving the power from the LDC and to supply power to a general load or a dual power load, a second low-voltage battery configured to be charged by receiving the power from the LDC and to supply power to the dual power load, a first relay disposed between the LDC and the first low-voltage battery, a second relay disposed between the LDC and the second low-voltage battery, a first battery sensor configured to measure a voltage of the first low-voltage battery, and a second battery sensor configured to measure a voltage of the second low-voltage battery.
US12176747B2
A charging device connected to a power source for charging a plurality of electronic devices is provided. Each of the electronic devices has a predetermined charging power. The charging device comprises a power input end, a plurality of power output ends, a plurality of charging units, and a controller. The power input end is connected to the power source. The power output ends are utilized to connect the electronic devices. The charging units are electrically connected to the power output ends respectively. The controller is electrically connected to the power input end, the power output ends and the charging units for accessing an output power of the power source via the power input and each of the predetermined charging powers via the power output ends, and controlling the charging units according to the output power and the predetermined charging powers.
US12176739B2
An electronic system includes a first device and a second device is provided. The first device includes a power connector, a first connector, a first battery, and a charging controller. The second device includes a second connector and a second battery. The power connector is configured to receive an external voltage. The first battery is electrically connected to the power connector and the first connector. The charging controller is electrically connected to the power connector and the first battery. The second connector is utilized for connecting the first connector. The second battery is electrically connected to the second connector. When the first connector is connected to the second connector, the charging controller selectively connects the first battery and the second battery in a series via the first connector and the second connector according to the level of the first battery and the second battery.
US12176734B2
A power transmission apparatus comprises: transmission unit configured to perform wireless power transmission to a power reception apparatus; first communication unit configured to perform communication via a first communication method; and second communication unit configured to perform communication via a second communication method, wherein, in a case where the transmission unit stops wireless power transmission to the power reception apparatus in a state in which the second communication unit and the power reception apparatus are connected based on information transmitted and received between the first communication unit and the power reception apparatus, the second communication unit performs communication to connect the second communication unit and the power reception apparatus.
US12176733B2
A provided wireless power system includes a plurality of wireless devices, and a wireless power transmitting apparatus including a plurality of transmitting coils, which transmit wireless power to the plurality of wireless devices, and a control panel, wherein the wireless power transmitting apparatus displays, on the control panel, a guide screen related to a selection of simultaneous control or sequential control of the plurality of wireless devices based on the sum of required powers of the plurality of wireless devices in relation to a preset maximum power.
US12176729B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for wireless charging are disclosed. An apparatus has a wireless charging apparatus has a battery charging power source coupled to a charging circuit, a plurality of charging cells configured to provide a charging surface, and a controller. The controller may be configured to provide a pulse to the charging circuit, detect a frequency of oscillation of the charging circuit responsive to the pulse or a rate of decay of the oscillation of the charging circuit, and determine that a chargeable device has been placed in proximity to a coil of the charging circuit based on changes in a characteristic of the charging circuit. The pulse may have a duration that is less than half the period of a nominal resonant frequency of the charging circuit.
US12176727B2
Methods and systems for safely and effectively supplying a beam of wireless power from a transmitter to at least one receiver. A delta signal is generated by repeatedly calculating the difference in power between the power of the beam emitted by the transmitter and the amount of power received at the receiver. The system dynamically generates a time delay, which is a time period shorter than the maximal exposure duration relating to safe exposure durations for the power level of the delta signal. If the time delay is exceeded, the system changes an operational parameter of the system, such as terminating the beam. Because of limitations to building a perfect timing system, the system is built to be more sensitive to time delays having longer safe exposure durations, with large delta signals having short safe exposure durations being responded to immediately and without significant regard to the time delay.
US12176722B2
A wireless power supply device and method applied to an electronic lock is implemented between a power supply unit and a power receiving unit. The power supply unit is connected to an external power source and has a first radio frequency coil and a first wireless communication module. The power receiving unit is connected to an electronic lock and has a second radio frequency coil and a second wireless communication module. When the power supply unit wirelessly transmits the power provided by the external power source to the power receiving unit, the power receiving unit and the power supply unit perform a handshaking process to confirm whether they are paired objects, if yes, the power is allowed to be transmitted to the electronic lock, so that the security of wireless power supply can be improved.
US12176721B2
An apparatus for transmitting power wirelessly using capacitive coupling, provided in a wearable device, includes: a transmission electrode including a plurality of unit electrode pairs, each unit electrode pair being formed by a transmission signal electrode and a transmission ground electrode; and a control module configured to select a unit electrode pair, forming capacitive coupling with the reception electrode, among the plurality of unit electrode pairs provided in the reception electrode, to wirelessly transmit power to a reception electrode included in an implantable device.
US12176720B2
A self-generating power supply apparatus includes a power generating body, an energy harvester, and a power consumer. The power generating body generates an electromagnetic field when a force is applied, an energy of the electromagnetic field is received by the energy harvester and subsequently transferred to the power consumer; or alternatively, the energy harvester is not provided and the energy of the electromagnetic field is directly received and used by the power consumer. The energy of the electromagnetic field is harvested by the energy harvester contacting or not contacting the power generating body, and then is converted into electrical energy, which is transferred out in a wired or wireless manner to enable self-generating power supply for the apparatus. The self-generating power supply apparatus has an immeasurable impact on the development in the fields such as wearable devices, small mobile communication devices, Internet of Things, new energy etc.
US12176712B2
A power management system, which manages a transaction of power generated based on renewable energy, includes: a power supply system capable of supplying power generated based on the renewable energy to a power demand system; and a power demand-supply management apparatus that manages demand and supply of the power. The power demand-supply management apparatus requests the power supply system to supply the power to the power demand system in a power generation time zone of the power, and issues, to the power demand system, a certificate that an amount of supplied power has been consumed in accordance with generation of the power.
US12176710B2
A method for operating a converter-based grid unit disposed electrically within an AC voltage section or adjacently to an AC voltage section of an electrical grid and electrically connected to the AC voltage section, includes using a control device to adjust infeed and drawing of active power and/or reactive power into and from the AC voltage section by actuating at least one converter of the converter-based grid unit. A multiplicity of measurement values is transmitted to the control device. The measurement values at least relate to different measurement variables and/or measurement locations within the AC voltage section or the converter-based grid unit. The control device selects a measurement value group from the multiplicity of available measurement values by selecting in accordance with a predefined selection guideline, and the at least one converter is actuated based on measurement values of the selected measurement value group.
US12176706B2
A method of power management of one or more line modules in a network device includes obtaining a power rating of a line module of the one or more line modules; determining, based on the power rating, one or more of a current threshold and a shutdown voltage for the line module; and providing the current threshold and the shutdown voltage to the line module for storage thereon, wherein the line module is configured to monitor the current threshold and the shutdown voltage and operate based thereon.
US12176697B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure provide an aircraft assembly. The aircraft assembly includes an aircraft structure comprising a component with a plurality of wire openings. A plurality of high voltage wires are disposed in the wire openings in the component such that each wire opening receives one high voltage wire, and the each wire opening has an opening size larger than a size of the one high voltage wire, the opening size being smaller than a size of a connector attached to an end of the one high voltage wire. The high voltage wires are installed in the wire openings before curing the aircraft structure.
US12176696B2
The invention relates to an insert component (4) for a cable feed-through for walls, comprising: a frame component (4a) consisting of a hard material component and at least partially surrounding a component opening; a membrane (5) consisting of a soft material component and covering the component opening; a securing device which is designed to secure the frame component (4a) together with the membrane (5) to a cable feed-through for walls, when said frame component is inserted into a through-opening of the cable feed-through for walls; and an arrangement of cable-receiving means having cable-receiving means (15) distributed over a surface of the membrane (5), each of which has a pierceable membrane section (16) provided on the front side and a cable bushing provided on the rear side, in a cable insertion direction miming transverse to the surface of the membrane (5), which bushing is designed to provide strain relief for an inserted cable. The invention also relates to a kit for a cable feed-through for walls.
US12176695B2
An apparatus, such as an electrical device or a wall box, may have a mounting mechanism that may be configured to mount the apparatus to a wall in a manner that may facilitate secure fastening to the wall. The apparatus may comprise at least one mounting clamp that may have a fin and a drum that receives a mounting screw. The fin of the mounting clamp may be configured to be located within a pocket formed in the body. When a mounting screw is driven, the mounting clamp may rotate from the pocket into a position in which the drum of the mounting clamp may be received in a channel formed in the body. The drum may be configured to move through the channel as the mounting screw is further driven. The gap may be sized to retain the mounting clamp within the channel as the drum moves therethrough.
US12176693B2
An electrical junction box (pull box) that is used for connecting electrical utilities to public fixtures such as streetlamps and stop lights and designed to be used in new construction with walls that can withstand the pressures and forces of having concrete poured around it. The pull box also includes improved security features including a security cover and a decorative cover. The security cover is secured to the pull box one or more oval shaped security nuts each fitted over a threaded post and locked down with a special security tool. The one or more threaded posts are secured to the pull box by novel high strength security brackets that are fitted to the rear of the pull box. The security nuts are fitted to the threaded posts in a recessed well that is covered by a threaded cover installed with a second special tool. Once the security cover is installed, a decorative cover is installed over the security cover typically with screws.
US12176687B2
A power converter includes a field graded substrate, a plurality of power device dies attached to the field graded substrate, a polymer layer on the field graded substrate, one or more conductors over the polymer layer, and a plurality of power conditioning components mounted on the field graded substrate to form a power converter circuit. The field graded substrate includes a first conductor layer, a graded layer that blends conductor and insulator material, and a second conductor layer, the graded layer having an insulator core.
US12176682B2
An infrared-laser source device provided with an external housing, said external housing comprising: a light output interface arranged in a front part of the external housing, at least one infrared-laser source arranged in a rear part of the external housing and configured to emit an IR-laser beam providing a first emitting area at the light output interface, and a first light distributing element configured to diverge light at the light output interface, wherein said infrared-laser source device further comprises a second light distributing element separated from the first light distributing element and providing, at the light output interface, a second emitting area larger than the first emitting area.
US12176667B2
An electrical assembly includes a terminal having a terminal body, a first wing extending from the terminal body, and/or a second wing extending from the terminal body. An electrical assembly may include a conductor in electrical contact with the first wing. The conductor may include a conductive layer and/or an insulative layer. An inner surface of the first wing and/or an outer surface of the first wing may be in direct contact with the conductive layer of the conductor.
US12176665B1
An adapter coupler for hybridization of power connectors includes a threaded back nut a threaded retaining ring and a scheme for modification of existing incompatible power connectors. The threaded back nut has an outer flange face and is affixed using its internal threading to a power connector. The threaded retaining ring slips over a power connector and back nut interfacing with the back nut flange face and allowing the assembly to be affixed using its internal threading to a magnetic breakaway connector. The modification scheme retrofits the power connector and magnetic breakaway connector with new internal profiles and electrical connections to achieve a unified power connector hybridization. This enables the hybrid connector to be superimposed over a device's inbuilt power connection terminal and provide the benefits of a magnetic breakaway connector where this functionality was previously incompatible. Devices, in particular motion-picture cameras, are thus made to be more efficient in the connection and disconnection of external cabled power sources and therefore faster and more convenient to operate during filming.
US12176652B2
A lever of a connector can rotate between a first position and a second position and can slide between the second position and a third position. When the lever is rotated to the second position in a state in which the connector whose lever is on the first position is on a fitting preparation position with respect to a mating connector, the connector is drawn to a fitting position, which is closer to the mating connector, by a cam mechanism and a main terminal of the connector and a mating main terminal of the mating connector are connected with each other. When the lever is slid to the third position, a flange portion provided to a housing of the connector and a mating flange portion provided to a mating housing of the mating connector are accommodated in a groove portion of the lever.
US12176651B2
Disclosed herein is a conductor connection clamp that includes a bus bar and a clamping spring, the clamping spring including a main portion for clamping an electrical conductor to the bus bar, the main portion and bus bar defining a clamping spring connection, and a spring member adjacent to the main portion and rigidly coupled to the main portion. The clamp further includes a housing defining a conductor insertion opening that leads to the clamping spring connection, and an operating lever configured to apply force to the spring member in order to deflect the main portion to open the clamping spring connection.
US12176648B2
An electrical connector is provided. The electrical connector can include a female housing and a terminal position assurance member forming a pre-installed assembly. The TPA member can be in a final lock position to provide reinforcement or secondary locking for a terminal, and terminal position assurance. A male housing can be provided to receive the assembly.
US12176647B2
A connector assembly includes a first connector housing, a second connector housing, and a connector position assurance (CPA) locking mechanism. The connector housings are connected via a detent connection. The CPA locking mechanism secures the detent connection against unintentional disconnection. The CPA locking mechanism forms a cable holder for fastening adjacent connecting lines.
US12176643B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include sockets and electronic packages with socket architectures. In an embodiment, a socket comprises a housing with a first surface and a second surface. In an embodiment, a plurality of interconnect pins pass through the housing. In an embodiment, an alignment hole is provided through the housing. In an embodiment, an alignment post extending out from the first surface of the housing is also provided.
US12176636B2
A distributing/synthesizing circuit includes first to fourth ports. A first radio frequency circuit transmits and receives a radio frequency signal to and from the first port through a first transmission line. A second transmission line is connected to the second port. A first radiating element is connected to the third port and the fourth port through a third transmission line and a fourth transmission line, respectively. The distributing/synthesizing circuit distributes and outputs the radio frequency signal input to the first port to the third port and the fourth port, synthesizes radio frequency signals that are reflected by the first radiating element and that are input to the third port and the fourth port to output the synthesized radio frequency signal to the second port. The second transmission line is longer than all of the first transmission line, the third transmission line, and the fourth transmission line.
US12176631B1
Systems and methods for providing an electrically small antenna are provided. The antenna can include an arm or a pair of arms disposed on a surface of a substrate. The substrate and the arm or arms are generally disposed in an aperture or volume formed in a housing. A capacitive gap is provided between the arm and the housing, or between the arms. Where the antenna includes a pair of arms, each arm generally includes a main portion disposed on the first surface of the substrate and a perpendicular portion that extends from the first surface of a substrate towards a ground plane on a second surface of the substrate. The perpendicular portions of the arms face one another. In addition, the main portions of the arms can be tapered in plan view. A ground plane can be provided on the second surface side of the substrate.
US12176628B2
Certain aspects relate to techniques for z-axis rotation estimation for compensating signaling transmitted between two or more nodes over a wireless channel where an antenna array of at least one of the nodes is misaligned about the z-axis relative to another node. For example, a transmitting node may transmit pilot signals defined by phase shifts to provide a receiving node with a basis for estimating the angle of rotation by which the antenna arrays are misaligned. The transmitting node may then take remedial action to address the misalignment based on the estimation.
US12176626B2
Disclosed embodiments include systems and methods for position-based playback of multichannel audio. Some embodiments include (i) receiving, via a network interface of a first playback device, an indication of a position of a second playback device, (ii) determining, based on the received indication of the position of the second playback device, an audio characteristic of the first playback device, and (iii) playing back, via one or more transducers associated with the first playback device, a first portion of media content according to the determined audio characteristic in substantial synchrony with playback, via the second playback device, of a second portion of the media content.
US12176623B2
The present disclosure provides a phase shifting device and a base station antenna. The phase shifting device comprises a driving module, a transmission rack plate, and a plurality of annular phase shifters. The driving module comprises a transmission rod. The transmission rack plate comprises a transmission nut, through which the transmission rack plate is pivotally connected to the transmission rod of the driving module. The plurality of annular phase shifters are disposed on the periphery of the transmission rack plate at intervals and are respectively engaged with the transmission rack plate. The rotation of the transmission rod drives the transmission nut to move back and forth on the transmission rod, and along with the back and forth movement of the transmission nut, the transmission rack plate drives the plurality of annular phase shifters to rotate.
US12176619B2
An antenna design solution is provided. A metal frame and a PCB ground layer of an electronic device are used to form a slot. Through symmetric feeding and anti-symmetric feeding, the slot can be excited to generate two slot antenna patterns: a CM slot antenna pattern and a DM slot antenna pattern. In addition, the two slot antenna patterns share a same slot antenna radiator.
US12176617B2
The present disclosure improves an antenna characteristic related to high-frequency radio waves. An antenna device includes a first line antenna which includes a straight first feeder line, and a plurality of first antenna elements, each connected at an end to the first feeder line and extending perpendicularly from the first feeder line, and a second line antenna which includes a second feeder line and a plurality of second antenna elements that are line symmetry from the first line antenna with respect to an imaginary line parallel to the first feeder line as an axis of symmetry.
US12176614B2
The present disclosure provides an antenna. The antenna includes: a main body structure having a first surface, wherein the main body structure is formed by placing a reflective metal plate in a mold and performing injection molding, and the main body structure is of an integrally formed structure; a radiation layer, wherein the radiation layer is electroplated on the first surface; and a power distribution layer, wherein the power distribution layer is electroplated on the first surface, the power distribution layer is electrically connected to the radiation layer, and the power distribution layer feeds the radiation layer.
US12176610B1
An apparatus comprising a first layer, a second layer and a third layer. The first layer may comprise a plurality of first through via openings, a plurality of first blind openings and a coplanar waveguide input. The second layer may comprise a plurality of second through via openings, a plurality of second blind via openings and an aperture. The third layer may comprise a ground. The coplanar waveguide input may comprise a vertical transition to a waveguide. The first through via openings and the second through via openings may provide a through via between the first, second and third layer. The first blind via openings may provide a blind via from the first to the second layer. The second blind via openings may provide a blind via from the second to the third layer. The coplanar waveguide input may transmit an output from a circuit to the waveguide.
US12176605B2
A transmission device for a motor vehicle for transmitting a radio signal is provided. A coil antenna is provided for emitting the radio signal, and an electric driver circuit is designed to generate an electric alternating current with a specified transmission frequency in the coil antenna. The coil antenna is arranged on at least one support element, and a parasitic parallel capacitance acting parallel to an intrinsic inductance of the coil antenna is produced by virtue of the geometry and/or the material of the at least one support element and/or by virtue of the shape of the coil antenna, the parasitic parallel capacitance together with the intrinsic inductance functioning as a parallel resonant circuit with a specified intrinsic resonant frequency with respect to the driver circuit.
US12176603B2
An electronic device may include a display panel, a conductive pattern panel disposed on the display panel, an antenna pattern formed in a second region of the conductive pattern panel, a first dummy pattern including a plurality of conductive lines, a wireless communication circuit electrically connected to the antenna pattern, and at least one processor electrically connected to the display panel, the conductive pattern panel, and the wireless communication circuit, and the at least one processor may be configured to receive a radio frequency (RF) signal at least by using the antenna pattern and/or the wireless communication circuit.
US12176595B2
A radio-frequency high-voltage waveguide device including an electrical conductor configured for operation with a radio frequency and a high voltage relative to a gaseous environment and/or a ground body, an electrically conductive contact unit that is in contact with the conductor at at least one point, the contact unit being arranged on an electrically insulating mount, and an electrically conductive field distribution assembly arranged on the electrically conductive contact unit, the assembly being electrically conductively connected to the contact unit and arranged at least partly in an inside of the mount.
US12176594B2
Coaxial transmission lines and methods of providing thereof are disclosed. The coaxial transmission lines include an inner conductor extending between first and second ends along a longitudinal axis, an outer conductor surrounding the inner conductor along the longitudinal axis, and at least one linear actuator coupled to the inner conductor at the first end for applying a tension force to the inner conductor. The second end of the inner conductor is fixed to an electromagnetic load. The methods involve providing an inner conductor having a longitudinal axis and extending from a first end to a second end; fixing the second end of the inner conductor to an electromagnetic load; providing an outer conductor that surrounds the inner conductor; coupling at least one linear actuator to the inner conductor at the first end; and actuating the at least one linear actuator to apply a tension force to the inner conductor.
US12176591B2
An electrical filter structure for forwarding an electrical signal from a first port, e.g. P1, to a second port, e.g. P2, in a frequency selective manner, wherein the filter is a microwave filter, the electrical filter structure comprising: a plurality of pairs of an open stub and a short-circuited stub coupled electrically in parallel to a transmission line comprising a plurality of transmission line portions at a plurality of respective junctions between adjacent transmission line portions, e.g. Cross junction; and wherein the first port is connected with a first of the junctions having a first pair comprising a first open stub and a first short-circuited stub; wherein the second port is connected with a last of the junctions having a last pair comprising a last open stub and a last short-circuited stub; wherein lengths of the pair of the open stub and the short-circuited stub coupled to a same of the junctions are chosen such that electrical lengths of the open stub and short-circuited stub of the respective pairs are equal within a tolerance of +/−10%.
US12176579B2
The present invention relates to an electrode assembly and an inspection method therefor, whereby tab folding and alignment of an electrode may be accurately checked. The electrode assembly, according to one embodiment, has a structure in which at least one unit cell is laminated, the unit cell having a structure of a first electrode/a separator/a second electrode/a separator/a third electrode, wherein the first electrode and the third electrode may each comprise a tab protruding toward the outer periphery of one side, and the second electrode may comprise a tab protruding toward the outer periphery of the other side facing the one side.
US12176574B2
A porous carrier including a cellulose substrate and a functional layer is provided. The functional layer is located on at least one surface of the cellulose substrate, wherein the functional layer includes an organic polymer elastic filler and a polymer binder. An electrochemical device separator including the porous carrier is also provided.
US12176571B2
An exhaust apparatus, a battery cell, a battery, and an electric apparatus, are provided. The exhaust apparatus includes an exhaust body and an exhaust mechanism, where the exhaust mechanism includes a connection member and a ventilation member that are provided on the exhaust body, the connection member is configured to connect the exhaust body, the connection member is provided with a plurality of first through holes, the ventilation member covers the plurality of first through holes, and the ventilation member is configured to, when a pressure of gas inside a battery cell reaches a first threshold, exhaust the gas to the outside of the battery cell through the plurality of first through holes.
US12176568B2
An embodiment of the present invention relates to a cylindrical lithium ion secondary battery. The technical problem to be solved is to provide a cylindrical lithium ion secondary battery which is designed such that a safety vent is formed and at the same time or afterwards excess metal can be guided to a curved portion adjacent to the safety vent, thereby enhancing the flatness of a can floor and reducing damage to the safety vent. To this end, the present invention provides a cylindrical lithium ion secondary battery comprising: a cylindrical can; an electrode assembly accommodated in the cylindrical can; and a cap assembly for sealing the cylindrical can, wherein the cylindrical can comprises a circular floor portion, a curved portion curved from the floor portion towards the electrode assembly, and a safety vent formed on the curved portion.
US12176567B2
A sealed battery with a battery case that includes a bottomed cylindrical outer can and an opening-sealing body that closes an opening section of the outer can; and an electrode body that is accommodated inside the battery case. The opening-sealing body includes a metal plate, and the metal plate includes a protruding section that bulges toward the outside of the battery cast, and a flange section that is formed on the circumference of the protruding section. The protruding section includes an inclination section that inclines inward from the radial outside of the opening sealing body so as to be progressively separated from the electrode body, wherein a thin wall section, which has a thickness less than portions other than the inclination section and is preferably broken when the inner pressure of the battery case exceeds a predetermined threshold, is formed in at least a portion of the inclination section.
US12176564B2
A battery casing system for a traction battery in a motor vehicle, said battery casing system comprising a battery casing having a plastic battery casing shell which at least partially defines a battery casing volume for accommodating at least one battery component. The battery casing system of the invention is characterized in that same includes at least one reinforcing means which can be connected to an outer face of the battery casing shell and which is formed separately from the battery casing shell. The invention further relates to a traction battery comprising a battery casing system as well as to a motor vehicle comprising a traction battery.
US12176558B2
A battery module includes a plurality of battery cells stacked on one another in a first direction and configured to form a stacked structure. In particular, some battery cells of the plurality of battery cells are coated with hot melt respectively interposed between some battery cells of the plurality of battery cells to fix the battery cells. The battery module further includes a pair of end plates that surface-contact with opposite end battery cells of the stacked structure; and a pair of bus bar assemblies arranged at opposite ends of the stacked structure in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and configured to connect electrodes of the plurality of battery cells located at opposite ends in the second direction to each other.
US12176552B2
A battery cell includes an electrode assembly and a packaging bag configured to accommodate the electrode assembly. The electrode assembly includes a first electrode plate, a separator, and a second electrode plate that are stacked. A first tab is disposed on the first electrode plate. The first tab protrudes from the packaging bag. The first tab includes a connecting portion accommodated in the packaging bag. A first insulation layer is disposed on the connecting portion. The first insulation layer includes a free end towards the electrode assembly.
US12176550B2
A rechargeable battery includes: an electrode assembly including a first electrode, a second electrode, a separator between the first and second electrodes, and first and second electrode tabs respectively coupled to the first and second electrodes; a case accommodating the electrode assembly and coupled to the first electrode tab; and a cap assembly sealing an opening in the case. The cap assembly includes: a cap plate covering the opening in the case; and a terminal plate coupled to the cap plate. The terminal plate includes: a flange portion coupled to and electrically insulated from the cap plate; and a tab connecting portion protruding from the flange portion toward the electrode assembly and extending through a terminal opening in the cap plate to be coupled to the second electrode tab. The terminal plate has a flat outer surface, and the tab connecting portion has a flat inner surface.
US12176547B2
A catalyst layer for polymer electrolyte fuel cells that improves drainage or gas diffusion, reduces or prevents the occurrence of cracking in a catalyst layer, enhances catalyst utilization efficiency, exerts high output power and high energy conversion efficiency, and has high durability, and also provides a membrane-electrode assembly and a polymer electrolyte fuel cell using the catalyst layer. The catalyst layer for polymer electrolyte fuel cells contains a catalyst, carbon particles, a polymer electrolyte, and a fibrous material. In the catalyst layer, the carbon particles carry the catalyst1. The catalyst layer for polymer electrolyte fuel cells has voids. The percentage of frequencies of the voids having a cross-sectional area of 10,000 nm2 or more is 13% or more and 20% or less among the voids observed in a thickness-direction cross section of the catalyst layer for polymer electrolyte fuel cells perpendicular to the surface thereof.
US12176544B2
A negative electrode including a negative electrode active material layer including a negative electrode active material, wherein the negative electrode active material includes a core and a coating layer disposed on the core. The core includes natural graphite and an amorphous carbon layer on the natural graphite, wherein the natural graphite has an average particle diameter, D50, of 10 μm to 14 μm.ONH The negative electrode active material includes 1,500 ppm wt % to 2,000 ppm wt % of oxygen, 200 ppm wt % to 300 ppm wt % of nitrogen, and 200 ppm wt % to 300 ppm wt % of hydrogen as measured by an ONH analysis, and the coating layer includes carbon nanofibers.
US12176543B2
A polyimide-based binder for power storage device having a repeated breaking energy retention ratio of 70% or more. The use of the binder enables improvement of a power storage device having a high capacity.
US12176539B2
A negative electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery includes graphite particles for which an R value measured by Raman spectrometry is less than 0.27, and an intensity ratio (P1/P2) of a diffraction peak (P1) on a hexagonal structure (101) plane to a diffraction peak (P2) on a rhombohedral structure (101) plane in an X-ray diffraction pattern by CuKα ray is 5.0 or less.
US12176535B2
A positive electrode active material for a secondary battery includes a lithium composite transition metal oxide including nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), and manganese (Mn), and a glassy coating layer formed on surfaces of particles of the lithium composite transition metal oxide, wherein, in the lithium composite transition metal oxide, an amount of the nickel (Ni) in a total amount of transition metals is 60 mol % or more, and an amount of the manganese (Mn) is greater than an amount of the cobalt (Co), and the glassy coating layer includes a glassy compound represented by Formula 1. LiaM1bOc [Formula 1] wherein, M1 is at least one selected from the group consisting of boron (B), aluminum (Al), silicon (Si), titanium (Ti), and phosphorus (P), and 1≤a≤4, 1≤b≤8, and 1≤c≤20.
US12176534B2
The present application discloses a positive electrode active material, a positive electrode plate, a lithium-ion secondary battery, and an apparatus. The positive electrode active material satisfies a chemical formula Li1+x(NiaCobMnc)1−dMdO2−yAy, wherein M is one or more selected from Zr, Sr, B, Ti, Mg, Sn and Al, A is one or more selected from S, N, F, Cl, Br and I, −0.01≤x≤0.2, 0.12≤b/c≤0.9, 0.002≤b×c/a2≤0.23, a+b+c=1, 0≤d≤0.1, and 0≤y≤0.2; and an interval particle size distribution curve of the positive electrode active material has a full width at half maximum DFW of from 4 μm to 8 μm. The positive electrode active material provided in the present application has relatively low cobalt content and relatively high cycle life and capacity performance.
US12176522B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to carbon foams, processes for forming carbon foams, doped carbon composites, processes for forming doped carbon composites, and uses thereof, e.g., as electrodes. Processes described herein relate to fabrication of carbon foam and materials derived from the pyrolyzation of biomass at supercritical and subcritical conditions for CO2, N2, H2O, or combinations thereof. The process includes exposing biomass to CO2, N2, H2O, or combinations thereof under various parameters for temperature, pressure, heating rate and fluid flow rate. Silicon-carbon composites and sulfur-carbon composites for use as, e.g., electrodes, are also described.
US12176521B2
This invention relates to particulate electroactive materials comprising a plurality of composite particles, wherein the composite particles comprise: (a) a porous carbon framework including micropores and/or mesopores having a total volume of at least 0.7 cm3/g, wherein at least half of the micropore/mesopore volume is in the form of pores having a diameter of no more than 5 nm; and (b) silicon located within the micropores and/or mesopores of the porous carbon framework in a defined amount relative to the volume of the micropores and/or mesopores.
US12176519B2
Embodiments described herein relate generally to systems and methods for continuously and/or semi-continuously manufacturing semi-solid electrodes and batteries incorporating semi-solid electrodes. In some embodiments, the process of manufacturing a semi-solid electrode includes continuously dispensing a semi-solid electrode slurry onto a current collector, separating the semi-solid electrode slurry into discrete portions, and cutting the current collector to form a finished electrode.
US12176516B2
A secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode active material layer including a lithium-cobalt composite oxide. The lithium-cobalt composite oxide has a layered rock-salt crystal structure. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode active material layer including graphite. When the secondary battery is charged and discharged with an upper limit of a closed circuit voltage being set to 4.42 V or higher, a unit capacity (mAh/g) satisfies a condition represented by 168 mAh/g≤unit capacity (mAh/g)≤(−0.28×area rate (%)+178) mAh/g.
US12176513B2
The present invention provides a fabrication method of a multilayer electrode for a secondary battery including: (a) preparing two or more electrode slurries each containing an electrode active material, a binder, and a solvent and heating at least one electrode slurry selected from the prepared two or more electrode slurries to a temperature lower than a boiling point (Tb) of the solvent contained in the selected electrode slurry; (b) coating the two or more electrode slurries on a current collector; and (c) cooling the coated two or more electrode slurries.
US12176508B2
A battery rack includes a plurality of battery modules including at least one battery cell and a module case configured to accommodate the at least one battery cell and including a fire extinguishing unit capable of supplying a fire extinguishing agent into the module case when thermal runaway or fire occurs in the at least one battery cell; a rack case configured to accommodate the plurality of battery modules; and a drainage guide unit provided to the rack case and configured to guide the fire extinguishing agent used when the thermal runaway or fire occurs to be drained.
US12176501B2
Various disclosed embodiments include illustrative control units, systems, and methods. In an illustrative embodiment, a control unit includes a processor and non-transitory computer-readable media that stores computer-executable instructions configured to cause the processor to determine a start charging time, receive a battery temperature value, and instruct the thermal control system to start heating the battery responsive to the start charging time and the battery temperature value in an energy saving way.
US12176500B2
A battery includes at least one row of energy storage cells. The row of energy storage cells has a longitudinal extension direction with an upper side and lateral sides being respectively defined by a series of upper and lateral faces of the energy storage cells and of spaces separating the energy storage cells in the longitudinal extension direction. The battery also includes a dielectric fluid circuit with one or more spray orifices. The spray orifices are flush with the upper side of the row of energy storage cells and are located facing a lateral side of the row such that the dielectric fluid circuit leaves the upper side of the row free.
US12176499B2
Provided herein are methods and systems for preventing and/or suppressing fire in a rechargeable battery.
US12176495B2
A battery pack including a housing defining an aperture, a first battery cell within the housing, a second battery cell within the housing, and a switch. The first battery cell is electrically connected to a first terminal. The second battery cell is electrically connected to a second terminal. The switch is configured to be in a first position and a second position. The switch includes a user-interface, that may extend through the aperture, and a plate, located within the housing. The plate includes a conductive portion and a non-conductive portion. The conductive portion is configured to electrically connect the first terminal to the second terminal when the switch is in the first position. The non-conductive portion is configured to galvanically isolate the first terminal from the second terminal when the switch is in the second position.
US12176480B2
Provided is a laminated battery that exhibits high volume energy efficiency and allows preventing intrusion of an insulating material between layers during production of the battery. A laminated battery disclosed herein includes a first collector layer, a first electrode layer, a solid electrolyte layer, a second electrode layer and a second collector layer. The first electrode layer opposes the second electrode layer across the solid electrolyte layer. An insulating layer is provided at an edge of the second electrode layer, in at least one edge of the laminated battery. In a direction perpendicular to a stacking direction of the laminated battery, the edge of the second electrode layer is positioned closer to a center of the laminated battery than an edge of the first electrode layer, and an outer edge of the insulating layer lies at the same position as that of the edge of the first electrode layer, or is positioned closer to the center of the laminated battery than that of the edge of the first electrode layer. The thickness of the insulating layer is equal to or smaller than the thickness of the second electrode layer.
US12176470B2
A light emitting diode may include a light emission layer and a charge transport layer disposed on the light emission layer. A grating including a plurality of nanoholes may be formed by removing a portion of the charge transport layer and/or the light emission layer and depositing a plasmonic metamaterial on a remaining portion of the charge transport layer and/or the light emission layer. The nanoholes may include the plasmonic metamaterial deposited inside the recesses formed by the remaining portion of the charge transport layer and/or the light emission layer, with an additional portion of the charge transport layer disposed on top. A pitch, diameter, and/or depth of the nanoholes may be configured to maximize the quantum efficiency of the light emitting diode, especially at a microscale of less than 100 microns.
US12176469B2
The invention relates to various aspects of a μ-LED or a μ-LED array for augmented reality or lighting applications, in particular in the automotive field. The μ-LED is characterized by particularly small dimensions in the range of a few μm.
US12176468B2
A light emitting device includes a light emitting element, a light guide member, a reflecting member, a wavelength conversion member. The light emitting element has a light emitting surface and lateral surfaces. The light guiding member is provided on at least a portion of the lateral surfaces of the light emitting element. The reflecting member is provided on the lateral surface of the light emitting element with the light guiding member interposed therebetween. The wavelength conversion member is provided on the light emitting surface of the light emitting element, the light guiding member and the reflecting member. The wavelength conversion member is provided with a recess between an outer lateral surface of the wavelength conversion member and the light guiding member. The reflecting member is provided in the recess.
US12176467B2
An electromagnetic radiation emitting device and a method for applying a converter layer to an electromagnetic radiation emitting device are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method includes applying converter elements to a surface of a carrier, applying the converter elements to an electromagnetic radiation emitting device by applying the carrier to the electromagnetic radiation emitting device such that the surface of the carrier with the applied converter elements faces the electromagnetic radiation emitting device and forming a converter layer on the electromagnetic radiation emitting device by depositing a plurality of thin layers on the converter elements using an atomic layer deposition process.
US12176466B2
An LED device and a bracket thereof. The bracket includes a first photo-etched metal part, composed of a first electrode and a chip placement layer stacked thereon, wherein an area of the chip placement layer is greater than an area of the first electrode; a second photo-etched metal part, composed of a second electrode and a connection layer stacked thereon; wherein a first insulation trench is provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a second insulation trench is provided between the chip placement layer and the connection layer. The LED device and the bracket thereof can increase the placement area for placing LED chips, thereby improving the luminance of the LED device.
US12176464B2
A method for producing an optoelectronic component by providing a semiconductor layer sequence on a substrate where the semiconductor layer sequence is configured to emit radiation. The method may further include applying a contact layer to the semiconductor layer sequence where the contact layer has a layer thickness of at most 10 nm. The method may further include applying a reflective layer to the contact layer and applying a barrier layer directly to the reflective layer.
US12176458B2
A light emitting device includes a substrate; a pattern of a plurality of protrusions protruding from the substrate; a first semiconductor layer provided on the substrate; an active layer provided on the first semiconductor layer; and a second semiconductor layer provided on the active layer, in which each of the protrusions includes a first layer formed integrally with the substrate and protruding from an upper surface of the base substrate; and a second layer provided on the first layer and formed of a material different from that of the first layer.
US12176456B2
A wire bonding system attaches wires to a solar cell wafer. The wire bonding system includes a feed tube through which a wire is drawn. Rollers contact the wire through openings in the feed tube to facilitate movement of the wire. The wire bonding system includes a soldering heater tip and a wire cutter. The solar cell wafer is placed on a platform, which moves the solar cell wafer. The system has multiple lanes for attaching multiple wires to the solar cell wafer at the same time in parallel operations.
US12176449B2
Described herein are methods of fabricating solar cells. In an example, a method of fabricating a solar cell includes forming an amorphous dielectric layer on the back surface of a substrate opposite a light-receiving surface of the substrate. The method also includes forming a microcrystalline silicon layer on the amorphous dielectric layer by plasma enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD). The method also includes forming an amorphous silicon layer on the microcrystalline silicon layer by PECVD. The method also includes annealing the microcrystalline silicon layer and the amorphous silicon layer to form a homogeneous polycrystalline silicon layer from the microcrystalline silicon layer and the amorphous silicon layer. The method also includes forming an emitter region from the homogeneous polycrystalline silicon layer.
US12176448B2
A photovoltaic cell is provided, including a substrate, a doped layer, a tunneling dielectric layer, doped conductive layers, first electrodes, and conductive transport layers. A doping concentration of the doped layer is greater than that of the substrate. The doped layer includes first doped regions, second doped regions and third doped regions. A doping concentration of each first doped region is less than that of each second doped region and that of each third doped region. The tunneling dielectric layer is disposed on the first and second doped regions. Each doped conductive layer is aligned with a first doped region and is disposed on a tunneling dielectric layer. Each first electrode is disposed on and electrically connected to the doped conductive layer. Each conductive transport layer is aligned with a second doped region and is disposed on the tunneling dielectric layer.
US12176441B2
A diode of the present disclosure includes a stacked structure, and a first connection section and a second connection section provided at respective ends of the stacked structure in a length direction. The stacked structure includes a first structure and a second structure each having a nanowire structure or a nanosheet structure and stacked alternately in a thickness direction. The first connection section has a first conductivity type, and the second connection section has a second conductivity type. The diode further includes a control electrode section formed to extend at least from a top portion to a side surface of the stacked structure and spaced apart from the first connection section and the second connection section. The first connection section and the control electrode section or the second connection section and the control electrode section are connected electrically.
US12176433B2
The present disclosure relates a ferroelectric field-effect transistor (FeFET) device. The FeFET device includes a ferroelectric structure having a first side and a second side. A gate structure is disposed along the first side of the ferroelectric structure, and an oxide semiconductor is disposed along the second side of the ferroelectric structure. The oxide semiconductor has a first semiconductor type. A source region and a drain region are disposed on the oxide semiconductor. The gate structure is laterally between the source region and the drain region. A polarization enhancement structure is arranged on the oxide semiconductor between the source region and the drain region. The polarization enhancement structure includes a semiconductor material or an oxide semiconductor material having a second semiconductor type that is different than the first semiconductor type.
US12176416B2
Embodiments of the present invention are directed to methods and resulting structures for nanosheet devices having defect free channels. In a non-limiting embodiment of the invention, a nanosheet stack is formed over a substrate. The nanosheet stack includes alternating first sacrificial layers and second sacrificial layers. One layer of the first sacrificial layers has a greater thickness than the remaining first sacrificial layers. The first sacrificial layers are removed and semiconductor layers are formed on surfaces of the second sacrificial layers. The semiconductor layers include a first set and a second set of semiconductor layers. The second sacrificial layers are removed and an isolation dielectric is formed between the first set and the second set of semiconductor layers.
US12176415B2
A method includes forming an active channel region, forming a dummy channel region, forming a first gate dielectric layer over the active channel region, forming a second gate dielectric layer over the dummy channel region, removing the second gate dielectric layer from the dummy channel region, forming a gate isolation region over and contacting the dummy channel region, and forming a first gate stack and a second gate stack. The first gate stack is on the active channel region. The gate isolation region separates the first gate stack from the second gate stack.
US12176404B2
A semiconductor structure comprises a substrate defining a first axis and a second axis in orthogonal relation to the first axis, first and second nanosheet stacks disposed on the substrate, a gate structure on each of the first and second nanosheet stacks, a source/drain region adjacent each of the first and second nanosheet stacks, a wrap-around contact disposed about each source/drain region and an isolator pillar disposed between the wrap-around contacts.
US12176393B2
Provided are a nanowire/nanosheet device with a support portion, a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic apparatus including the nanowire/nanosheet device. According to the embodiments, the nanowire/nanosheet device may include: a substrate; a first source/drain layer and a second source/drain layer opposite to each other in a first direction on the substrate; a first nanowire/nanosheet and a second nanowire/nanosheet, wherein the first nanowire/nanosheet and the second nanowire/nanosheet are spaced apart from a surface of the substrate, the first nanowire/nanosheet and the second nanowire/nanosheet extend from the first source/drain layer to the second source/drain layer, respectively, and are arranged adjacent to each other in a direction parallel to the surface of the substrate; a first support portion connected between the first nanowire/nanosheet and the second nanowire/nanosheet; and a gate stack extending in a second direction intersecting the first direction to surround the first nanowire/nanosheet and the second nanowire/nanosheet.
US12176391B2
A semiconductor device structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. The structure includes first and second dielectric features and a first semiconductor layer disposed between the first and second dielectric features. The structure further includes an isolation layer disposed between the first and second dielectric features, and the isolation layer is in contact with the first and second dielectric features. The first semiconductor layer is disposed over the isolation layer. The structure further includes a gate dielectric layer disposed over the isolation layer and a gate electrode layer disposed over the gate dielectric layer. The gate electrode layer has an end extending to a level between a first plane defined by a first surface of the first semiconductor layer and a second plane defined by a second surface opposite the first surface.
US12176384B2
A method of transferring micro-devices includes selectively treating a first adhesive layer to form a treated portion and an untreated portion while micro-devices are attached the first adhesive layer. A second adhesive layer on a second surface is placed to abut the micro-devices. The first adhesive layer is exposed to illumination in a region that overlaps at least some of the treated portion and at least some of the untreated portion. Exposing the first adhesive layer to illumination neutralizes the at least some of the untreated portion to create a neutralized portion that is less adhesive than an exposed area of the treated portion. The first surface is separated from the second surface such that micro-devices in the treated portion remain attached to the first surface and micro-devices in the neutralized portion are attached to the second surface and separate from the first surface.
US12176376B2
An image sensor includes a substrate including a first surface and a second surface facing the first surface, a first photodiode located in a first region of the substrate and generating photocharges from light incident on the first region, a second photodiode located in a second region of the substrate and generating photocharges from light incident on the second region, and an isolation structure defining the first region in which the first photodiode is located and the second region in which the second photodiode is located, and extending between the first photodiode and the second photodiode. An area of the second region is smaller than an area of the first region, a first end of the isolation structure is coplanar with the second surface, and the isolation structure extends in a vertical direction from the second surface of the substrate toward the first surface of the substrate.
US12176372B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards a pixel sensor. The pixel sensor includes a substrate having a front-side opposite a back-side. An image sensor element comprises an active layer disposed within the substrate, where the active layer comprises germanium. An anti-reflective coating (ARC) structure overlies the back-side of the substrate. The ARC structure includes a first dielectric layer overlying the back-side of the substrate, a second dielectric layer overlying the first dielectric layer, and a third dielectric layer overlying the second dielectric layer. A first index of refraction of the first dielectric layer is less than a second index of refraction of the second dielectric layer, and a third index of refraction of the third dielectric layer is less than the first index of refraction.
US12176369B2
A photoelectric conversion apparatus includes pixels having adjacent first and second pixels. The pixels each include, in a semiconductor layer of a substrate, a photoelectric conversion portion that generates charges, a charge holding portion that holds the charges, and a floating diffusion layer that converts the charges into a voltage. At least parts of the charge holding portion in the first pixel and the floating diffusion layer in the second pixel, parts of the charge holding portion in the first pixel and the charge holding portion in the second pixel, and/or parts of the floating diffusion layer in the first pixel and the floating diffusion layer in the second pixel overlap each other without physically touching each other in a depth direction of the substrate in a state where a region for separating the at least parts of the charge holding portions and the floating diffusion layers is provided therebetween.
US12176366B2
An image sensor that provides a uniform sensitivity for pixels having color filters of the same color to increase the image quality is provided. The image sensor includes a substrate, a first grid pattern disposed on the substrate and including a first side wall and a second side wall opposite to the first side wall, a first pixel including a first photoelectric conversion element and a first color filter, and a second pixel including a second photoelectric conversion element and a second color filter. The first color filter contacts the first side wall and the second color filter contacts the second side wall. The first color filter and the second color filter are color filters of same color, and a first thickness of the first color filter is greater than a second thickness of the second color filter.
US12176360B2
An image sensor includes a pixel array including pixels, wherein each pixel includes at least one photodiode generating electrical charge and a pixel circuit providing a pixel signal based on the electrical charge. The images sensor also includes a logic circuit configured to generate an image based on the pixel signal, wherein the pixel circuit includes a parallel-connected first reset transistor and second reset transistor, and the logic circuit determines whether the second reset transistor is turned ON/OFF based on a level of incident light received by the at least one photodiode during an exposure time period.
US12176352B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes at least two non-recesses, a recess and an organic layer. The recess is disposed between the at least two non-recesses. The at least two non-recesses and the recess are formed in an insulating layer. The organic layer is disposed on the at least two non-recesses and in the recess. The organic layer includes an end which is in contact with one of the at least two non-recesses.
US12176351B2
Structures for a photonics chip that include a fully-depleted silicon-on-insulator field-effect transistor and related methods. A first device region of a substrate includes a first device layer, a first portion of a second device layer, and a buried insulator layer separating the first device layer from the first portion of the second device layer. A second device region of the substrate includes a second portion of the second device layer. The first device layer, which has a thickness in a range of about 4 to about 20 nanometers, transitions in elevation to the second portion of the second device layer with a step height equal to a sum of the thicknesses of the first device layer and the buried insulator layer. A field-effect transistor includes a gate electrode on the top surface of the first device layer. An optical component includes the second portion of the second device layer.
US12176335B2
A semiconductor device has a first semiconductor package including a substrate and an encapsulant deposited over the substrate. An adhesive tape is disposed on the encapsulant. A conductive via is formed by trench cutting through the adhesive tape and encapsulant to expose the substrate. A second semiconductor package is disposed over the adhesive tape opposite the first semiconductor package. The first semiconductor package and second semiconductor package are bonded together by the adhesive tape.
US12176330B2
In an embodiment, an optoelectronic device includes a carrier, at least one optoelectronic semiconductor component arranged on an upper side of the carrier and at least one light channel associated with the optoelectronic semiconductor component which extends between a first end of the light channel which is distant from a light-active surface of the semiconductor component and which includes an opening into the outer space and a second end of the light channel including an opening directed towards the light-active surface of the semiconductor component, wherein the at least one light channel extends between its respective first and second ends in a non-rectilinear manner, wherein the light channel includes a cavity extending between the two ends, wherein an inner wall surrounds the cavity, and wherein at least a section of the inner wall is reflective.
US12176325B2
A stretchable display panel, a preparation method therefor, and a display apparatus, relating to the technical field of display. Wherein the stretchable display panel includes an island region (01) disposed with a display apparatus (A), a bridge region (02) disposed with wiring (B), and a hole-region (03). A separation region (10) is disposed at an edge of the island region (01) and/or an edge of the bridge region (02). The separation region (10) includes a slope layer (11) and a plurality of isolation columns (12) disposed along a slope plane of the slope layer (11).
US12176308B2
A package substrate may include an insulation substrate, at least one redistribution layer (RDL) and a redistribution pad. The RDL may be included in the insulation substrate. The redistribution pad may extend from the RDL. The redistribution pad may include at least one segmenting groove in a radial direction of the redistribution pad. Thus, the at least one segmenting groove in the radial direction of the redistribution pad may reduce an area of the redistribution pad. Therefore, application of physical stress to a PID disposed over the redistribution pad may be suppressed, and thus generation of cracks in the PID may be reduced. Further, spreading of the cracks toward the redistribution pad from the PID may also be suppressed, and thus reliability the semiconductor package may be improved.
US12176307B2
A wafer-scale die packaging device is fabricated by providing a high-k glass carrier substrate having a ceramic region which includes a defined waveguide area and extends to a defined die attach area, and then forming, on a first glass carrier substrate surface, a differential waveguide launcher having a pair of signal lines connected to a radiating element that is positioned adjacent to an air cavity and surrounded by a patterned array of conductors disposed over the ceramic region in a waveguide conductor ring. After attaching a die to the glass carrier substrate to make electrical connection to the differential waveguide launcher, a molding compound is formed to cover the die, differential waveguide launcher, and air cavity, and an array of conductors is formed in the molding compound to define a first waveguide interface perimeter surrounding a first waveguide interface interior.
US12176306B2
An apparatus and method for generating an electrical circuit of semiconductor channel resistor including a first passive element part including a resistor and a capacitor connected in parallel between a first port and a second port, and an ohmic resistor connected in series to the resistor and the capacitor which are connected in parallel are provided. The apparatus includes a substrate selection part configured to receive a selected substrate item; a resistor selection part configured to receive a selected resistor item; a capacitor selection part configured to receive a selected capacitor item; and a circuit generating part configured to generate an electrical circuit from the selected substrate item, the selected resistor item, and the selected capacitor item.
US12176296B2
A semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor chip and a second semiconductor chip, each including first signal pads, and second signal pads disposed in a region different from that of the first signal pads. The first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip are mounted on a package substrate. The package substrate includes first signal lines connected to the first signal pads and second signal lines connected to the second signal pads. The first signal lines and the second signal lines are disposed in a same layer.
US12176292B2
Microelectronic assemblies, related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a microelectronic component may include a substrate having a first face and an opposing second face, wherein the substrate includes a through-substrate via (TSV); a first mold material region at the first face, wherein the first mold material region includes a first through-mold via (TMV) conductively coupled to the TSV; and a second mold material region at the second face, wherein the second mold material region includes a second TMV conductively coupled to the TSV.
US12176287B2
An integrated circuit device includes a substrate and a first electrically insulating layer on the substrate. An electrically conductive contact plug is provided, which extends at least partially through the first electrically insulating layer. The contact plug includes a protrusion having a top surface that is spaced farther from the substrate relative to a top surface of a portion of the first electrically insulating layer extending adjacent the contact plug. An electrically conductive line is provided with a terminal end, which extends on a first portion of the protrusion. A second electrically insulating layer is provided, which extends on a second portion of the protrusion and on the first electrically insulating layer. The second electrically insulating layer has a sidewall, which extends opposite a sidewall of the terminal end of the electrically conductive line.
US12176281B2
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate; a bottom conductive layer positioned on the substrate; at least one bottom conductive protrusion positioned on the bottom conductive layer; an insulator layer positioned on the bottom conductive layer and the at least one bottom conductive protrusion; at least one bottom insulating protrusion protruding from the insulator layer towards the bottom conductive layer and adjacent to the at least one bottom conductive protrusion; and a top conductive layer positioned on the insulator layer. The bottom conductive layer, the at least one bottom conductive protrusion, the insulator layer, the at least one bottom insulating protrusion, and the top conductive layer together configure a capacitor structure.
US12176257B2
A semiconductor structure including a first semiconductor die, a second semiconductor die, a passivation layer, an anti-arcing pattern, and conductive terminals is provided. The second semiconductor die is stacked over the first semiconductor die. The passivation layer covers the second semiconductor die and includes first openings for revealing pads of the second semiconductor die. The anti-arcing pattern is disposed over the passivation layer. The conductive terminals are disposed over and electrically connected to the pads of the second semiconductor die.
US12176244B2
A method for bonding a first substrate and a second substrate comprises bringing the first and second substrates into contact and implementing heating of a peripheral zone of at least one of the first and second substrates. The heating is initiated before the substrates are brought into contact and continued at least until the substrates are brought into contact in the zone. The heating is implemented by an infrared lamp configured to emit radiation having an outer boundary corresponding to the edge of the substrates.
US12176243B2
There is provided a method of filling one or more recesses by providing the substrate in a reaction chamber and introducing a first reactant to the substrate with a first dose, introducing a second reactant to the substrate with a second dose, wherein the first and the second doses overlap in an overlap area where the first and second reactants react and leave an initially substantially unreacted area where the first and the second areas do not overlap; introducing a third reactant to the substrate with a third dose, the third reactant reacting with the first or second reactant to form deposited material; and etching the deposited material. An apparatus for filling a recess is also disclosed.
US12176238B1
Disclosed is a susceptor which can operate with durability, even at a low or cryogenic temperature. The present invention provides a susceptor characterized by comprising: a base member; a ceramic plate having electrodes on the base member; and an electrode connector assembly for applying power to the electrodes of the ceramic plate through the base member. The electrode connector assembly comprises: a first connector terminal which is the end in contact with the electrodes; a second connector terminal which is the end where power is input; and a connector rod connecting the first connector terminal and the second connector terminal.
US12176229B2
An apparatus of storing container includes a stocker including shelves being configured to support containers, respectively, a purging unit being configured to provide a purge gas for each of the shelves to purge the containers when the stocker is in a purge mode, and to provide the purge gas only for each of the shelves when the stocker is in a normal mode, an inspection unit being configured to inspect a purge quality of the purge gas provided to each of the shelves while the stocker is in the normal mode, and a control unit being configured to change the stocker between in the purge mode and in the normal mode, and being configured to control the purging unit according to a switch between the purge mode and the normal mode. Thus, the apparatus has improved operation efficiency.
US12176226B2
A method for temperature control includes: acquiring the present temperature of a reaction window in a process chamber of a semiconductor machine; comparing the present temperature with the preset temperature to acquire a comparison result; and adjusting the exhaust amount of an exhaust passage of the process chamber based on the comparison result to control the temperature of the reaction window.
US12176222B2
A method of forming a semiconductor package includes providing a metal baseplate having a base section and a plurality of metal posts, the base section being a planar pad of substantially uniform thickness, the plurality of metal posts each extending up from a planar upper surface of the base section, mounting a semiconductor die on the upper surface of the metal baseplate, forming an encapsulant body of electrically insulating mold compound on the upper surface of the base section, electrically connecting terminals of the semiconductor die to the metal posts, and removing the base section so as to form package contacts from the metal posts at a first surface of the encapsulant body.
US12176218B2
A bevel etching method includes forming a target layer over a semiconductor substrate, and forming an energy-sensitive layer over the target layer. The method also includes performing an energy treating process to form a treated portion in the energy-sensitive layer. The treated portion is in a peripheral region. The method further includes removing the treated portion such that a remaining portion of the energy-sensitive layer is in a central region surrounded by the peripheral region, and transferring a pattern of the remaining portion of the energy-sensitive layer to the target layer.
US12176216B2
There is provided a technique that includes: organically terminating a first region of a substrate by supplying an adsorption control agent containing an organic ligand to the substrate while regulating a temperature of the substrate including the first region and a second region different from the first region formed on a surface of the substrate depending on a composition of the first region; and selectively growing a film on the second region by supplying a deposition gas to the substrate.
US12176210B2
A semiconductor device with high reliability is provided. A first step of forming a metal oxide containing indium over a substrate and a second step of performing microwave treatment from above the metal oxide are included. The first step is performed by a sputtering method using an oxide target containing indium. The second step is performed using a gas containing oxygen under reduced pressure, and by the second step, a defect in which hydrogen has entered an oxygen vacancy (VoH) in the metal oxide is divided into an oxygen vacancy (Vo) and hydrogen (H).
US12176209B2
A method of making stacked lateral semiconductor devices is disclosed. The method includes depositing a stack of alternating layers of different materials. Slots or holes are cut through the layers for subsequent formation of single crystal semiconductor fences or pillars. When each of the alternating layers of one material are removed space is provided for formation of single crystal semiconductor devices between the remaining layers. The devices are doped as the single crystal silicon is formed.
US12176208B2
An apparatus is provided. The apparatus has a chuck having a first side configured to retain a superstrate or a template and a second side, an array of image sensors disposed at the second side of the chuck and spaced from the chuck, and an array of light sources disposed between the transparent chuck and the array of image sensors.
US12176207B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure, the method comprises: providing a non-planar surface in the manufacturing of a silicon carbide (SiC) device; depositing a reflowable dielectric material on said non-planar surface; and heating said reflowable dielectric material to a temperature and for a time sufficient to cause reflowing of said reflowable dielectric material and thereby provide a dielectric layer comprising a substantially planar surface, wherein said dielectric layer is substantially free of voids.
US12176206B2
Semiconductor device structures having dielectric features and methods of forming dielectric features are described herein. In some examples, the dielectric features are formed by an ALD process followed by a varying temperature anneal process. The dielectric features can have high density, low carbon concentration, and lower k-value. The dielectric features formed according to the present disclosure has improved resistance against etching chemistry, plasma damage, and physical bombardment in subsequent processes while maintaining a lower k-value for target capacitance efficiency.
US12176205B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to methods and apparatus for backside stress engineering of substrates to combat film stresses and bowing issues. In one embodiment, a method of depositing a film layer on a backside of a substrate is provided. The method includes flipping a substrate at a factory interface so that the backside of the substrate is facing up, and transferring the flipped substrate from the factory interface to a physical vapor deposition chamber to deposit a film layer on the backside of the substrate. In another embodiment, an apparatus for depositing a backside film layer on a backside of a substrate, which includes a substrate supporting surface configured to support the substrate at or near the periphery of the substrate supporting surface without contacting an active region on a front side of the substrate.
US12176198B2
A device (1) for manipulating charged particles, the device comprising a series of electrodes (2, 3) that form a channel for transportation of the charged particles. A power supply unit (5, 6) provides a voltage to axially segmented bunching electrodes to create a potential well within the channel having one or more local minima between local maxima (50, 51). The well is translated along the channel. An axial extraction region (54) comprises electrodes defining an end of the channel. They receive a supply voltage to create a pseudo-potential within the channel such that the depth of the potential well varies according to the mass-to-charge ratio (m/z) of the charged particles transported therein and reduces as a local maxima of the potential well is translated axially towards the axial extraction region thereby to release the transported charged particles of different mass-to-charge ratio (m/z) at different respective times.
US12176195B2
A method of performing mass spectrometry includes obtaining, based on a series of mass spectra of detected ions derived from components eluting from a chromatography column, a plurality of extracted ion chromatograms (XICs), each XIC comprising a plurality of detection points representing detected intensity for a distinct selected m/z as a function of time; detecting, based on the series of mass spectra, precursor ions of each distinct selected m/z of the plurality of XICs; and determining, for each XIC based on a set of detection points of the XIC, a predicted next detection point to be obtained based on a next mass spectrum to be acquired.
US12176186B2
A wafer placement table includes a ceramic substrate having a wafer placement surface on an upper surface thereof and containing an electrode therein; a conductive substrate disposed adjacent to a lower surface of the ceramic substrate, serving also as a plasma generating electrode, and having the same diameter as the ceramic substrate; a support substrate disposed adjacent to a lower surface of the conductive substrate, having a greater diameter than the conductive substrate, and electrically insulated from the conductive substrate; and a mounting flange constituting a part of the support substrate and radially extending out of the conductive substrate.
US12176180B2
A lamella 10 including an analysis portion 11 and a cutout portion 12 separated from the analysis portion 11 is produced. When a plurality of the lamellae 10 are transported to a lamella grid 20, the plurality of lamellae 10 are supported by a support portion 22 protruding from a surface of a substrate 21, and are mounted adjacent to each other in a Z direction. At this time, the cutout portion 12 prevents the analysis portion 11 from damage.
US12176178B2
The present disclosure provides a method to adjust asymmetric velocity of a scan in a scanning ion beam deposition or etch process to correct asymmetry of depositing or etching between the inboard side and the outboard side of device structures on a wafer, while maintaining the overall uniformity of the respective deposition or etch across the full wafer.
US12176173B1
A field emission (FE) cathode for a vacuum electronic device (VED) includes a metallic substrate configured to be connected to one of an electrical power supply and an electrical ground, and at least one continuous carbon nanotube (CNT) fiber in tension around at least a portion of the metallic substrate. The substrate can be a cylinder, hoop, plate, stub etc. The at least one continuous CNT fiber can include a filament, yarn, braided yarn, film, fabric, or combination thereof. The at least one continuous CNT fiber is secured to the electrically conductive substrate by vacuum brazing or any other suitable means. Also, a continuous CNT fabric can be secured in either tension or compression to maintain a uniform height of the continuous CNT fabric.
US12176172B2
A power conversion circuit includes a high-side switch and a low-side switch connected in series with one another and configured to control a load current flowing through a load, wherein at least one of the high-side switch and the low-side switch comprise a power relay circuit for switching the load current, and wherein the power relay circuit comprises a micro-electro-mechanical system switch, and a semiconductor power switch, wherein the MEMS switch and the semiconductor power switch are connected in series with the load.
US12176160B2
An external switch actuator includes: a guide tube having a first end and a second end, the first end configured to be attached to a door of a compartment in substantial alignment with both a hole in the door and a switch actuator within the compartment, and the second end configured to be disposed within an interior of the compartment and separated from the switch actuator by a gap when the door is closed; a coupling shaft configured to be operably placed within the guide tube, the coupling shaft having an electrical insulator disposed between an actuator side adapter and a switch side adapter, and a length equal to or greater than a distance between the switch actuator and the hole in the door when the door is closed.
US12176151B2
A multilayer capacitor includes a body including a laminate structure in which at least one first internal electrode and at least one second internal electrode are alternately stacked in a first direction with at least one dielectric layer therebetween, and first and second external electrodes spaced apart on the body, to be connected to at least one first internal electrode and at least one second internal electrode, respectively. The body includes, in a larger molar content, at least one selected from the group consisting of Dy, Tb, Y, Sm, Ho, Gd, Er, Ce, La and Nd in a capacitance formation region including a region between at least one first internal electrode and at least one second internal electrode than in a margin region including a region between a boundary line of at least one first internal electrode and at least one second internal electrode and a surface of the body.
US12176147B2
Disclosed herein are IC structures with three-dimensional capacitors with double metal electrodes provided in a support structure (e.g., a substrate, a die, a wafer, or a chip). An example three-dimensional capacitor includes first and second capacitor electrodes and a capacitor insulator between them. Each capacitor electrode includes a planar portion extending across the support structure and one or more via portions extending into one or more via openings in the support structure. The capacitor insulator also includes a planar portion and a via portion extending into the via opening(s). The planar portion of the capacitor electrodes are thicker than the via portions. Each capacitor electrode may be deposited using two deposition processes, such as a conformal deposition process for depositing the via portion of the electrode, and a sputter process for depositing the planar portion of the electrode.
US12176143B2
An input device comprising a processor(s), an input element, an electropermanent magnet (EPM) assembly including: a permanent magnet operable to generate a magnetic field; and a magnetizing assembly configured to set a magnetic field generated by the permanent magnet, a first ferromagnetic element, and a second ferromagnetic element. The first ferromagnetic element is configured to part and move away from the second ferromagnetic element as the input element is depressed. When the EPM assembly magnetizes the permanent magnet to a first polarity, the first and second ferromagnetic elements are magnetically attracted to each other and provide an attracting that magnetically opposes the first and second ferromagnetic elements from parting, and when the EPM assembly magnetizes the permanent magnet to a second polarity, the first and second ferromagnetic elements are not magnetically attracted to each other and do not magnetically oppose the first and second ferromagnetic elements from parting.
US12176141B2
The present invention relates to a magnet unit including: a tubular holder having a central axis; and a magnet formed inner region of one end side of the tubular holder, in which the magnet includes a protruding portion at a corner portion where an end surface of the magnet in a central axis direction intersects with an outer peripheral surface of the magnet, which is provided along an inner peripheral surface of the tubular holder, and the protruding portion protrudes in the central axial direction.
US12176137B2
A coil component includes: a body having a first surface and a second surface opposing each other, and a side surface connecting the first surface and the second surface to each other; a support member disposed in the body; a coil unit disposed in the body and including a coil pattern disposed on the support member, and first and second lead patterns respectively extending from the coil pattern and exposed to the first surface of the body; a first insulating layer disposed on the first surface of the body and having first and second openings exposing at least a portion of the first and second lead patterns, respectively; and a second insulating layer covering the side surface of the body.
US12176132B2
The present disclosure generally relates to spin-orbit torque (SOT) device comprising a first bismuth antimony (BiSb) layer having a (001) orientation. The SOT device comprises a first BiSb layer having a (001) orientation and a second BiSb layer having a (012) orientation. The first BiSb layer having a (001) orientation is formed by depositing an amorphous material selected from the group consisting of: B, Al, Si, SiN, Mg, Ti, Sc, V, Cr, Mn, Y, Zr, Nb, AlN, C, Ge, and combinations thereof, on a substrate, exposing the amorphous material to form an amorphous oxide surface on the amorphous material, and depositing the first BiSb layer on the amorphous oxide surface. By utilizing a first BiSb layer having a (001) orientation and a second BiSb having a (012) orientation, the signal through the SOT device is balanced and optimized to match through both the first and second BiSb layers.
US12176125B2
A method of manufacturing an insulated conductive component having an electrically conductive element is provided. The method includes applying a first layer of a first material comprising a thermally conductive ceramic on a portion of the conductive element, and applying a second layer of a second material comprising a polymeric resin over the first layer. The method includes curing the conductive element to infuse the second material into the first material to define an electrically insulative, thermally conductive coating on the portion of the electrically conductive element.
US12176124B2
The device, system and process of the present invention provides a means and method for assembly of wire harnesses. The present invention comprises at least a wire viewer module, a machine vision and optical character recognition module, a cassette tray platform, designed to receive and hold in place a cassette tray, having one or more receptacles designed to receive and hold in place a wire harness connector, having multiple pin-hole cavities illuminated from below or behind by a light source mounted on a two-axis translation stage or gantry to identify a cavity for wire insertion. Moreover, the present invention may further comprise a portable, computer-implemented system capable of executing a series of automated process steps designed to identify wire markings and guide the insertion of identified wires into wire harness connector pin-hole receptacles for assembly of a wire harness.
US12176106B1
In an example, a server associated with a healthcare management service provider can receive first instructions defining rule(s) associated attribute(s) of a claim and/or a target member of a healthcare management service provider. The server can receive second instructions defining a schema for translating the rule(s) into logical expression(s). Using the rule(s) and/or the logical expression(s), a first data entry can be identified. A second data entry can be identified using a model. The server can generate an output identifying the first data entry and the second data entry and can perform an operation based at least in part on the output.
US12176105B2
A contactless patient monitoring system includes a first imager configured to capture first image data of a target area within a first field of view. A second imager is operably coupled to the first imager. The second imager is configured to capture second image data of the target area within a second field of view. An emitter is operably coupled to at least one of the first imager and the second imager. The emitter is configured to emit light within a predetermined wavelength range. A controller is communicatively coupled to the first imager, the second imager, and the emitter. The controller is configured to determine a facial region of a person in the first image data, determine a region of interest in the second image data that coincides with the facial region in the first image data, and determine a coordinate of a head position within the facial region.
US12176100B2
Computer-implemented methods and systems are provided that receive, at an implantable medical device (IMD), a programming package comprising a collection of configuration change requests, transaction credentials, and a signature indicative of a source of the programming package. The transaction credentials include a first hash of the collection of configuration change requests. The IMD validates an external device as the source by decrypting the signature using a key that is uniquely associated with the external device. The IMD verifies the transaction credentials and the configuration change requests of the programming package, and generates a second hash of the collection of configuration change requests. Responsive to both (i) the second hash matching the first hash and (ii) the transaction credentials and the configuration change requests being verified, the IMD executes the collection of configuration change requests to update an operating configuration of the IMD.
US12176087B2
Methods for identifying patients diagnosed with treatment resistant or refractory depression, pain or other clinical indications who are eligible to receive N-methyl-D-aspartate receptor antagonist, glycine receptor beta (GLRB) modulator, or α-amino-3-hydroxy-5-methyl-4-isoxazolepropionic acid receptor (AMPAR)-based therapies to include determining the appropriate medication, an optimal dose for each patient, and determining which patients are not eligible to receive the therapy. The pharmacogenomic clinical decision support assays include targeted single nucleotide polymorphisms and clinical values or a combination of targeted single nucleotide polymorphisms, targeted ketamine-specific expansion and contraction of topologically associated domains, and clinical values. The methods described herein allow for a more effective determination of which patients will experience drug efficacy and which patients will experience adverse drug events. The methods provide personalized patient recommendations for dose, the frequency of medication administration, and recommendations on drug choice.
US12176081B2
Systems/techniques that facilitate customized exceptions for intelligent protocoling are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a data candidate associated with a medical patient. In various aspects, the system can execute a trained machine learning model on the data candidate, thereby identifying a first medical imaging protocol to be performed by a medical imaging scanner on the medical patient. In various instances, the system can determine whether the data candidate triggers a conditional protocol exception, wherein the conditional protocol exception identifies a second medical imaging protocol that is to be implemented when a condition is satisfied by the data candidate. In various cases, the system can, in response to determining that the data candidate satisfies the condition, select the second medical imaging protocol to be performed by the medical imaging scanner on the medical patient instead of selecting the first medical imaging protocol.
US12176066B2
Embodiments of a method and/or system for facilitating characterization of one or more conditions can include: generating a set of target-associated molecules; generating a reference-associated set of molecule; facilitating generation of at least one spike-in mixture; determining one or more abundance metrics based on an analysis of the at least one spike-in mixture; and facilitating the characterization of the one or more conditions based on the one or more abundance metrics.
US12176059B2
Some memory dies in a stack can be connected externally to the stack and other memory dies in the stack can be connected internally to the stack. The memory dies that are connected externally can act as interface dies for other memory dies that are connected internally thereto. The external connections can be used for transmitting signals indicative of data to and/or from the memory dies while the memory dies in the stack can be connected by a cascading connection for transmission of other signals such as command, address, power, ground, etc.
US12176057B2
In accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure, a system may include a driver configured to drive a load with a single-ended driving signal and a signal return path for the load, wherein the signal return path comprises a voltage-mode driver configured to create a signal offset during an idle channel mode of the system in order to minimize idle channel noise at the load.
US12176049B2
A memory device is disclosed. The memory device includes a plurality of memory cells, each of the memory cells including an access transistor and a resistor coupled to each other in series. The resistors of the memory cells are each formed as one of a plurality of interconnect structures disposed over a substrate. The access transistors of the memory cells are disposed opposite a first metallization layer containing the plurality of interconnect structures from the substrate.
US12176048B2
A one-time programmable (OTP) fuse includes a fuse link including a thin film resistor (TFR) layer between a first insulator layer and a second insulator layer. A first terminal of the OTP fuse includes a first conductive pillar through one of the first and second insulator layers and in contact with the TFR layer; and a second terminal of the OTP fuse includes a second conductive pillar through one of the first and second insulator layers and in contact with the TFR layer. The second conductive pillar and the TFR layer have a lateral contact interface having a same shape as an outer portion of the second conductive pillar. The second conductive pillar does not simply land on the TFR layer, but extends through it. Application of a current to the OTP fuse results in programming via rupture of the lateral contact interface (not electromigration in the fuse link).
US12176047B2
A method for controlling cache programming of a NAND flash memory is disclosed. A programming failure signal is received by a memory controller from the NAND flash memory indicative of failure of the cache programming. After receiving the programming failure signal, a first page buffer release command is sent by the memory controller to the NAND flash memory to release new programming data cached by the NAND flash memory. The cached new programming data is received by the memory controller from the NAND flash memory. After receiving the cached new programming data, a second page buffer release command is sent by the memory controller to the NAND flash memory to release current programming data used for the cache programming. The current programming data is received by the memory controller from the NAND flash memory. The current programming data is reconstructed by the NAND flash memory after releasing the cached new programming data.
US12176036B2
A memory device and an operating method thereof adjust a slope of a word line voltage. The memory device includes a memory cell array including a plurality of cell strings, a voltage generating circuit configured to generate a word line voltage provided to a plurality of word lines, and a control logic configured to output a slope control signal adjusting a voltage level variation characteristic of the word line voltage provided from the voltage generating circuit, wherein, during a prepulse period of a read operation of the memory device, a slope of a first word line voltage provided to an edge group including one or more word lines, the edge group adjacent to a string selection line is greater than a slope of a second word line voltage provided to a center group including one or more word lines in a center region.
US12176035B2
A memory array comprising strings of memory cells comprises laterally-spaced memory blocks individually comprising a vertical stack comprising alternating insulative tiers and conductive tiers directly above a conductor tier. Strings of memory cells comprise channel-material strings that extend through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers. The channel-material strings directly electrically couple with conductor material of the conductor tier. A through-array-via (TAV) region comprises TAVs that individually extend through the insulative tiers and the conductive tiers into the conductor tier. Individual of the TAVs comprises an upper portion directly above and joined with a lower portion. The individual TAVs in a vertical cross-section comprises at least one external upper jog surface. The individual TAVs comprise at least one external lower jog surface in the conductor tier in the vertical cross-section and that is below the upper jog surface. Other embodiments, including method, are disclosed.
US12176033B2
A memory device, an operating method thereof, a system, and a non-transitory tangible storage medium are disclosed. The memory device includes a source line (SL), a bit line (BL), a memory string, a word line, a select line and a peripheral circuit. The memory string includes a memory cell and a select transistor including a storage layer. The word line is coupled to the memory cell. The select line is coupled to the select transistor. The peripheral circuit is coupled to the SL, the BL, the select line, and the word line. The peripheral circuit is configured to: apply a first voltage to the select line; and apply a second voltage to the SL and/or the BL, in which a first peak level of the first voltage is greater than a second peak level of second voltage.
US12176030B2
A method for operating a sense amplifier in a one-switch one-resistance (1S1R) memory array, includes: generating a regulated full voltage and a regulated half voltage; applying the regulated full voltage and regulated half voltage to selected and unselected bit lines of the 1S1R memory array during read operations as an applied read voltage; and inducing and compensating for a sneak-path current during read operations by adjusting the applied read voltage based on the cell state of an accessed bit cell and an amplitude of the sneak-path current.
US12176019B2
A semiconductor device includes a memory circuit including first and second banks and configured to count the numbers of inputs of first and second active signals for executing active operations on the first and second banks to generate a counting signal and to generate first and second hammering detection signals when the numbers of inputs of the first and second active signals are equal to or greater than a set number, and an active control circuit configured to store an active address as a target address when at least one of the first and second hammering detection signals is enabled, and to execute addition and subtraction operations on the target address to output a result of the addition and subtraction operations as an internal address for at least one of the first and second banks for executing a smart refresh operation, based on the counting signal in a refresh operation.
US12176015B1
A data storage device comprises a disk and a head having a read and write elements. A read heater is powered based on a dual heater ratio (DHR) to thermally adjust a spacing of the read element from a disk surface, and a write heater is powered based on the DHR to thermally adjust a spacing of the write element from the disk surface. A read spacing slope profile is determined comprising read touchdowns (TDs) over a range of DHRs, and a write spacing slope profile is determined comprising write TDs over the range of DHRs. An operating DHR of the head is set to be where the read spacing slope profile intersects the write spacing slope profile.
US12176010B1
A solution for providing laser mode hop detection in hard disk drives can include a first circuit to provide a signal having a step voltage whose amplitude is adjustable according to a first control signal. The solution can include a second circuit causing the signal to be delayed by a time period to produce a delayed signal, the time period adjustable according to a second control signal. The solution can include a filter to receive the delayed signal as input and provide as output an offset signal corresponding to a frequency response a sensor. The system can subtract the offset signal from a sensor signal of a sensor to provide an output.
US12176009B2
A method for synchronizing exercise equipment with workout video files to reduce latency may include executing a workout video file to display a workout video on a display; retrieving a configuration change command and a configuration change criterion from the workout video file; generating a message comprising the configuration change command and the configuration change criterion; and transmitting, over a communications network, the message to the workout device. The workout device may aggregate the configuration change command and the configuration change criterion into a queue of one or more configuration change commands that is stored in a memory of the workout device; and change operation according to the configuration change command in response to determining the configuration change criterion is satisfied.
US12176006B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for generating videos. In one aspect, a method comprises: receiving: (i) an input video comprising a sequence of video frames, and (ii) data indicating a target object type; processing the input video to generate tracking data that identifies and tracks visual locations of one or more instances of target objects of the target object type in the input video; generating a plurality of sub-videos based on the input video and the tracking data, including: for each sub-video, generating a respective sequence of sub-video frames that are each extracted from a respective video frame of the input video to include a respective instance of a given target object from among the identified target objects of the target object type; and generating an output video that comprises the plurality of sub-videos.
US12176001B1
Improved tools and techniques for configuring a write head of a hard disk drive and/or for writing data to a hard disk drive. The write surface of a disk in the hard disk drive can be divided into multiple logical zones, with different interleave sizes for each zone. This scheme can meet latency requirements for regions closer to the center of the write surface while providing for better error rate performance in regions further away from the center of the write surface.
US12176000B2
A disk media retaining and exchange system configured to accept a disk media assembly including a disk and a ferromagnetic material coupled therewith, includes a spindle motor assembly with a spindle motor and a permanent magnet retainer coupled therewith, whereby the system is configured to retain the disk on the spindle motor by a magnetic force between the ferromagnetic material of the disk media assembly and the permanent magnet retainer of the spindle motor assembly. An electromagnet disk exchange tool may be employed, configured such that energization of coils in close proximity to the disk media assembly overcomes the magnetic force to release the disk media assembly from retention with the spindle motor assembly, and generates another magnetic force between the ferromagnetic material of the disk media assembly and at least one electromagnet of the exchange tool to remove the disk away from the spindle motor for disk exchange.
US12175996B2
Systems and methods for visualizations of music may include one or more processors which receive an audio input, and compute a simulation of a human auditory periphery using the audio input. The processor(s) may generate one or more visual patterns on a visual display, according to the simulation, the one or visual patterns synchronized to the audio input.
US12175994B2
Embodiments are directed to a companding method and system for reducing coding noise in an audio codec. A compression process reduces an original dynamic range of an initial audio signal through a compression process that divides the initial audio signal into a plurality of segments using a defined window shape, calculates a wideband gain in the frequency domain using a non-energy based average of frequency domain samples of the initial audio signal, and applies individual gain values to amplify segments of relatively low intensity and attenuate segments of relatively high intensity. The compressed audio signal is then expanded back to the substantially the original dynamic range that applies inverse gain values to amplify segments of relatively high intensity and attenuating segments of relatively low intensity. A QMF filterbank is used to analyze the initial audio signal to obtain a frequency domain representation.
US12175987B2
A time-domain stereo parameter encoding method and a related product are provided. The time-domain stereo parameter encoding method includes: determining a channel combination scheme for a current frame; determining a time-domain stereo parameter of the current frame based on the channel combination scheme for the current frame; and encoding the determined time-domain stereo parameter of the current frame, where the time-domain stereo parameter includes at least one of a channel combination ratio factor or an inter-channel time difference.
US12175982B2
Systems and methods are provided in which a speaker profile-data inquiry is transmitted to a mobile device associated with a first speaker. In response to the speaker-profile-data inquiry, speaker profile data associated with the first speaker is received. Audio data representing a voice input is received. The first speaker is identified as providing the voice input, the identification being based on a comparison of characteristics of the received audio data with the speaker profile data of a plurality of speakers for whom speaker profile data is stored. An instruction, which includes a speaker-relative signifier, is determined from the received audio data, and determining the instruction includes determining a referent of the speaker-relative signifier based on the first speaker profile data. An action indicated by the instruction is performed.
US12175981B2
Implementations are directed to dynamically adapting which assistant on-device model(s) are locally stored at assistant devices of an assistant device group and/or dynamically adapting the assistant processing role(s) of the assistant device(s) of the assistant device group. In some of those implementations, the corresponding on-device model(s) and/or corresponding processing role(s), for each of the assistant devices of the group, is determined based on collectively considering individual processing capabilities of the assistant devices of the group. Implementations are additionally or alternatively directed to cooperatively utilizing assistant devices of a group, and their associated post-adaptation on-device model(s) and/or post-adaptation processing role(s), in cooperatively processing assistant requests that are directed to any one of the assistant devices of the group.
US12175977B2
Systems and processes for operating a digital assistant are provided. In one example, a method includes receiving a first speech input from a user. The method further includes identifying context information and determining a user intent based on the first speech input and the context information. The method further includes determining whether the user intent is to perform a task using a searching process or an object managing process. The searching process is configured to search data, and the object managing process is configured to manage objects. The method further includes, in accordance with a determination the user intent is to perform the task using the searching process, performing the task using the searching process; and in accordance with the determination that the user intent is to perform the task using the object managing process, performing the task using the object managing process.
US12175970B2
An automotive assistant that is connected to microphones and loudspeakers that are associated with different seats in a passenger vehicle includes a dialog manager that is configured to initiate a dialog based on an utterance received at a first one of the microphones and to advance that dialog based on an utterance received from another of the microphones.
US12175963B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech synthesis. The methods, systems, and apparatus include actions of obtaining an audio representation of speech of a target speaker, obtaining input text for which speech is to be synthesized in a voice of the target speaker, generating a speaker vector by providing the audio representation to a speaker encoder engine that is trained to distinguish speakers from one another, generating an audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker by providing the input text and the speaker vector to a spectrogram generation engine that is trained using voices of reference speakers to generate audio representations, and providing the audio representation of the input text spoken in the voice of the target speaker for output.
US12175955B2
An instrument holder body having a first and second wall distal the first wall, the second wall portioned into a first side portion, a second side portion, and a central portion with the central portion interposed between the first and second side portions. The body further having a first side wall and a second side wall distal to the first wall, and the first and second side walls being adjacent and sharing an interface with the first wall and the second wall. The holder body further having a top and a bottom wall distal to the top wall, the top and bottom walls having adjacency and sharing an interface with the first wall and the second wall and the third wall and the fourth walls. The holder body also having a first protrusion extending outward from the first side portion of the second wall, the first protrusion having a first protrusion end and an inner portion inwardly biased towards the central portion of the second wall. The body further having a second protrusion, extending outwardly from the second side portion of the second wall, distal to the first protrusion and having a second protrusion end and having an inner portion inwardly biased towards the central portion of the second wall. A cavity is formed between the inner portion of the first protrusion and the inner portion of the second protrusion, the cavity orientated with a first opening oriented towards the top wall and a second opening distal the first opening oriented towards the bottom wall. Additionally, a third opening is formed therebetween the first protrusion and the second protrusion ends where an instrument neck may pass therethrough while being placed into the cavity whereby the holder body releasably holds the neck of the instrument, such that the instrument and holder can be supported by vertical surface for storage.
US12175953B2
A string instrument contains: a string holding member that holds the end portions of strings; and a body reinforcement member that is inside a body portion and has a joining surface adhered to a front panel, a rear panel, and a side panel. A facing surface of a string holding section of the string holding member has a joining surface fixedly adhered to the front panel, the side panel, and the body reinforcement member. A portion of the front panel and the body reinforcement member is cut out, and the string holding member is disposed as fixedly adhered to the body reinforcement member.
US12175939B2
The present disclosure provides a driving method, and relates to a field of display technology. The driving method is used to drive a pixel array, and the driving method includes operation to operation: in operation, setting a timing of a gate driving signal (Gate) based on an effective time difference between a data signal (Vdata) and an effective signal of the gate driving signal (Gate); and in operation, driving the pixel array by using the gate driving signal (Gate). The present disclosure further provides a display device.
US12175936B2
A display apparatus includes: a display panel in which a display region including first to third regions is defined, and which includes a first data line and a second data line connected to first and second pixels of the first and second regions; a driving transistor, a sampling transistor, and a data supply transistor included in each of the first and second pixels; a vertical link line in the first region, and forming a parasitic capacitance with a first node of the first pixel; a horizontal link line in the third region, and connecting the vertical link line and the second data line; and a data compensation portion which calculates a voltage coupling amount caused in the first pixel according to a change of data voltage applied to the vertical link line and provided to the second pixels during the sampling section after the data writing section of the first pixel, calculates a compensation value for the voltage coupling amount, and applies the compensation value to a first input image data of the first pixel to generate a compensated image data.
US12175934B2
An electro-optical device includes a scanning line, a data line intersecting with each other, a pixel circuit which is provided corresponding to the intersection thereof, and a wire. The pixel circuit includes a light emitting element, one transistor which controls a current flowing to the light emitting element, and the other transistor of which conduction state is controlled according to a scanning signal which is supplied to the scanning line between a gate node of the one transistor and the data line. The wire is provided between the data line and the one transistor.
US12175929B2
Proposed are a display substrate and a preparation method therefor, and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes a drive circuit layer disposed on a substrate and a light emitting structure layer disposed at a side of the drive circuit layer away from the substrate, the drive circuit layer includes a plurality of circuit units, the light emitting structure layer includes a plurality of light emitting devices; at least one circuit unit includes a first power supply line, an initial signal line including a first initial signal line extending in a first direction and a second initial signal line extending in a second direction, and a pixel drive circuit; the first direction intersects the second direction, and an orthographic projection of the second initial signal line on the substrate overlaps at least partially with an orthographic projection of the first power supply line on the substrate.
US12175921B2
A display device is provided including a display panel. A pixel of the display panel includes a light emitting element, first through sixth transistors, and a capacitor. The first transistor is connected between a power line and the light emitting element and operates depending on a potential of a first node. The second transistor is connected between a data line and a second node. The capacitor is connected between the first node and the second node. The third transistor is connected between the first transistor and the first node. The fourth transistor is connected between the first node and a reference voltage line. The fifth transistor is connected between the second node and the reference voltage line. The sixth transistor is connected between the power line and the second node.
US12175908B1
A system for displaying a digital window sticker within a vehicle includes a system controller adapted to select a digital image to be displayed, determine a location for the selected digital image to be displayed, and display, via a display within the vehicle, the selected digital image.
US12175900B2
A display device is disclosed that includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, a printed circuit board connected to the display panel, a temperature sensor disposed on the printed circuit board, a flexible circuit board that connects the display panel to the printed circuit board, a data driver disposed on the flexible circuit board, and a temperature sensing part disposed on the printed circuit board. The flexible circuit board is bent such that the printed circuit board is disposed under the display panel and the temperature sensor is disposed adjacent to a sensing pixel outputting a sensing current among the pixels.
US12175890B2
An asynchronous content delivery system is provided that pushes messages or notifications of content designed for spaced repetition. Machine learning may be used to create, select and prioritize the messages/notifications. The asynchronous content delivery system may support asynchronous promotion of the content to the user. The asynchronously delivered content may be at least partially derived from a conversation agent operating on a user device. In another example, the content may be created or selected independently by a plurality of content providers and artificial intelligence algorithms. The content may be classified in sets according to a set of rules of combination. The content may be asynchronously delivered to end user devices according to a set of rules of delivery. The rules of delivery may influence a manner in which the content, or a representation thereof, is manifest on the end user devices.
US12175888B2
A computerized method and apparatus are disclosed for determining the accuracy of written characters input by a user and whether the characters were formed with the correct strokes and complied with applicable rules and providing visual and audio feedback to the user. A computing device comprises a character comparison engine, rules engine, stroke engine, art rendering engine music engine, and vocalization engine and has access to a character library, rules library, stroke library, art library, and audio library. The computing device shows the user the appropriate way to write a character, allows the user to then write the character, assesses the quality of the character, and provides audio and/or visual feedback to the user in response to the quality of the user's work to provide positive feedback. The visual feedback can include step-by-step instruction on how to paint using the traditional Chinese outline or no-outline painting techniques.
US12175874B2
A method for updating a flight plan by an avionics device includes receiving a first flight plan comprising a first set of flight parameters having at least one fuel-related first flight parameter, receiving a second flight plan for a subsequent second flight, the second flight plan based on a fuel remaining in the aircraft without refueling subsequent to the first flight, and receiving an update to the first flight plan. The method further includes, determining, with the avionics device, a set of first updated flight parameters comprising at least one fuel-related first updated flight parameter, determining, whether the fuel-related first updated flight parameter will satisfy predetermined criteria of the second flight plan, and when the fuel-related first updated flight parameter will not satisfy the predetermined criteria, displaying a first notification onboard the aircraft, and receiving a selection of a refueling locations.
US12175869B2
A control method and a related device, applied to the field of autonomous driving, advanced driver assistance, or automatic control. The method includes: receiving at least one piece of first information from at least one first apparatus, where the first apparatus may include a roadside device, a network device, or a first vehicle; and determining, by a device, a first state of a second apparatus based on the received at least one piece of first information, where the second apparatus may be a vehicle light, an exterior horn, an interior signal lamp, an interior horn, an interior vibration apparatus, or the like. The first information may indicate a status such as on/off, blinking, and luminance of the vehicle light, or the interior horn plays a specific voice prompt.
US12175866B2
The embodiment of the present disclosure provides a method for setting time of traffic lights in a smart city and an Internet of Things system. The method is implemented by an Internet of Things system for setting time of traffic lights in a smart city, which includes a user platform, a service platform, a management platform, a sensor network platform, and an object platform. The method includes: obtaining pedestrian information and intersection information of a target intersection, and the target intersection being an intersection provided with the traffic lights; determining, based on the pedestrian information and the intersection information, the scheme for setting time of the traffic lights at the target intersection; and sending a control instruction corresponding to the scheme for setting the time to the object platform, and in response to the received control instruction, controlling lighting duration of the traffic lights by the object platform.
US12175864B2
A method controls traffic at an intersection having three or more branches. The method comprising the steps of: capturing image data by a plurality of camera units positioned at the intersection; sending the image data to a control unit; determining from the image data a plurality of variables; and based on the plurality of variables, setting orders and durations of lights of a plurality of traffic lights positioned at the intersection. A system performs the method.
US12175858B2
A computing system receives data indicating signal strength of signals transmitted between a plurality of beacons and a mobile device. The system determines a location of the mobile device within a vehicle coordinate system, wherein the beacons have known locations within the coordinate system, the determination being based in part on the signal strength. The system also determines that the location of the mobile device is proximate to a predefined vehicle element location and instructs issuance of an alert responsive to the proximity.
US12175851B2
Electronic Article Surveillance in which a radio frequency identification (RFID) interrogation signal is transmitted, over a first window of time, into an RFID interrogation zone of the EAS system. A plurality of response signals are detected from a first RFID tag of the EAS system responding to the interrogation signal. Over a second window of time overlapping at least in part with the first window of time, image data is captured within a field of view. The field of view and the RFID interrogation zone overlap to form a zone of interest. Movement of a non-tag object is characterized during the first window of time based on the image data. Whether the first RFID tag is associated with the characterized non-tag object is determined based on a comparison of the detected plurality of response signals and the characterized movement of the non-tag object.
US12175849B2
Systems and methods for providing a tag. The tag comprising a flexible elongate structure comprising a cord or a cable; an electronic thread device integrated into the cord or cable that is operative to wirelessly communicate with external devices for inventory management or security purposes; and/or an Electronic Article Surveillance (“EAS”) component integrated into the cord or cable.
US12175848B2
A computer implemented method of privacy masking video surveillance data is provided, wherein the video surveillance data includes metadata associated with video data, the metadata describing objects or activity in the video data. A location of each item of metadata within its respective frame is compared with privacy mask data defining a position of a privacy mask in the frame; and based on the comparison, it is determined if the metadata is to be masked. The item of metadata is masked if it is determined that the item of metadata is to be masked.
US12175845B2
In response to detecting an incident at a building, a risk assessment for the building is performed. The risk assessment identifies dynamic security constraints for different locations at the building. A set of behavioral rules for controlling a sensor system at the building is updated based on the risk assessment to obtain an updated set of behavioral rules. The sensor system operating under the updated set of behavioral rules is referenced to detect a visitor at a location of the building during the incident. The location of the visitor is correlated to the risk assessment to determine a specific information security risk posed by the visitor. A recommended follow-up action is generated based on the specific information security risk.
US12175842B2
A vending machine is adapted for dispensing a pre-packaged food product provided in a refrigerated enclosure housed in the vending machine. The vending machine includes an oven including a housing defining a cavity for receiving the pre-packaged food product. The housing has a sidewall with a sidewall opening providing access to the cavity. A side door is mounted to the sidewall for closing and opening the sidewall opening. A drive mechanism is connected to the side door and adapted to mechanically move the side door of the oven between a closed position and an opened position. The drive mechanism includes a sensing device adapted to determine whether the side door is in one of the closed position and the opened position. A door frame is mounted to the sidewall and has a guide track. The side door is movably received in the guide track.
US12175834B2
A game management system manages a casino game performed in a plurality of tables in casino facilities. The game management system includes: a camera obtaining an image by capturing bet gaming tokens; a control device specifying a betting amount on the basis of the type and the number of gaming tokens in the image by specifying a betting target on the basis of a position of the gaming token in the image; a card distribution device determining a game result of the casino game; an arithmetic device calculating a profit of a casino manager for each table and each game of the plurality of tables, on the basis of the betting target, the betting amount, and the game result; and a recording apparatus recording the profit.
US12175825B2
A coin discrimination system eliminates the task of visiting the location of an existing coin depositing/dispensing machine to exchange an existing coin discrimination apparatus incorporated in the machine for a new one and the task of additionally setting a new coin discrimination criterion manually to the existing apparatus. Pieces of specific information from pieces of sensor information are compared with pieces of current discrimination criterion information, conducting authenticity and denomination discrimination of coins. New discrimination criterion information setting coins are selected through judgement on whether the denomination of each coin is consistent with a target denomination and judgement on whether each coin is suitable for generating new discrimination criterion information while conducting the authentication and denomination discrimination. A piece of new specific information is extracted from the pieces of sensor information about the setting coins. The piece of new discrimination criterion information is set using the piece of new specific information.
US12175820B2
A medium handling device includes a first portion having a first transport, a recognition circuit, and a connection port to a first transport path; a second portion having an internal storage; and a third portion having a mounter to which an external cassette is detachably mounted, and a second transport that transports a medium along a second transport path. At least a part of the third portion is supported by the second portion on an outside of the second portion, and the second transport is moved to connect to the first transport path via the connection port when the third portion is used.
US12175818B2
A method of receiving, by an access controlling server, a danger-related communication for an inclement danger condition. The access controlling server is in operational communication with a locking mechanism, controlling an opening and closing condition of a door of the enclosed structure. The access controlling server enables, based on the danger-related communication, an entry allowance setting of the locking mechanism of the door of the enclosed structure. The access controlling server adjusts the security restriction associated with the security-protected machine or the enclosed structure. The access controlling server transmits a push notification, informing a user in the area that the entry allowance setting of the locking mechanism of the access controlling server of the door of the enclosed structure is enabled. When the inclement danger condition has passed, the access controlling server instructs to re-adjust the entry allowance setting of the locking mechanism of the door of the enclosed structure.
US12175811B2
A method for monitoring operation of at least one electrical load for a vehicle. A comparison of an actual value of an operating parameter with four threshold values is performed. A monitoring signal is also generated dependent on a result of the comparison, the monitoring signal being generated with a first signal characteristic if the actual value lies between the first threshold value and the third threshold value or between the second threshold value and the fourth threshold value, or being generated with a second signal characteristic if the actual value lies above the third threshold value or below the fourth threshold value. The first signal characteristic effects activation of at least one safety function that maintains an active operating state of the at least one electrical load. The second signal characteristic effects deactivation of the at least one electrical load.
US12175803B2
An information processing device includes at least one processor. The processor communicates with a vehicle and receives deterioration information that is involved in deterioration of a part provided within a cabin of the vehicle; stores the received deterioration information; and estimates a deterioration degree of the part on the basis of the stored deterioration information.
US12175802B2
The present disclosure that relates to automatic generation of activity determinations of a vehicle and generation and provision of notifications thereof. As an example, a trained model is applied that is adapted to execute a contextual analysis of signal data, including activity signal data retrieved from analysis of signals provided by a mobile computing device onboard a vehicle, and generate activity determinations therefrom. Exemplary graphical user interface (GUI) notifications can be automatically generated pertaining to activity determinations of a vehicle (vehicle activity determinations), where the GUI notifications can be automatically provided to one or more users. For instance, a GUI notification is automatically provided to an emergency contact of a driver in real-time (or near real-time) when it is detected that a vehicle has stopped (e.g., on a specific road such as a highway). Additional examples of the present disclosure pertain to an improved GUI for a driving safety application/service.
US12175801B1
Described herein relates to a system of and method for predicting and/or casting votes via a brain-computer interface. The voting system may be configured to allow at least one user to input and/or cast a vote using their brain activity. Additionally, the voting system uses a machine learning and/or classifying algorithm for classification of the brain data and prediction of the vote of the user. The voting system is also configured to synchronize brain activity to the at least one user, such that each vote may be correctly tallied to the at least one user, eliminating fraudulent voting via false identification, or the like. The voting system may also allow at least one user having a motor disability to vote without requiring any movement and/or physical assistance, such that the at least one user with a motor disability may maintain voting privacy.
US12175785B2
The system prepares PDF documents to be digitally populated or signed. The method may comprise converting a document into an image; detecting words on the document; searching the words for keywords; searching for an object on the document; determining an object field based on the keywords and the object; creating a tag with metadata about the object field; and associating the tag with the object field. The method may also comprise determining, by a processor, metadata about a document; creating, by the processor, a hash from the metadata; storing, by the processor, an association of the hash, the metadata and the document in a knowledge database; creating, by the processor, a new hash for a new document; comparing, by the processor, the hash with the new hash; and determining, by the processor, that the new document has similar characteristics as the document based on the comparing.
US12175784B2
An information processing apparatus includes circuitry that generates transmission guide information according to a second form issued in response to a first form, and registers information representing the second form and first form information in a memory in association with each other. The information representing the second form is transmitted based on the transmission guide information. The first form information is included in first form image data.
US12175781B2
Systems and methods relate generally to performing a machine learning task on training documents to generate an output. In an example method, a pretrained Sentence Bidirectional Encoder Representational Transformers (“S-BERT”) model is obtained. The training documents are scanned by a plurality of scanners. Content of the training documents is recognized with character recognition. The content is templated responsive to the character recognition. The content is processed with the pretrained S-BERT model for training thereof. A trained S-BERT model is generated from the processing of the content as the output. The trained S-BERT model is configured to automatically categorize and assemble non-training documents into original configurations thereof.
US12175777B2
A computing device obtains an image of a user and detects at least one fashion accessory depicted in the image. The computing device determines a fashion accessory category for each of the at least one detected fashion accessory and retrieves at least one candidate fashion accessory associated with the accessory category from a data store. The computing device determines attributes of the fashion accessory and a replacement fashion accessory and performs virtual application of the replacement fashion accessory on the user based on the attributes of the fashion accessory and the replacement fashion accessory.
US12175774B2
Some embodiments provide a non-transitory machine-readable medium that stores a program executable by a device. The program receives a request to process an image for multiple objects. The program further uses a machine learning model to detect a plurality of objects in the image. The program also generates a plurality of images based on the plurality of objects in the image. For each image in the plurality of images, the program further converts text in the image to machine-readable text. For each image in the plurality of images, the program also uses a set of machine learning models to determine a set of values for a set of attributes. For each set of values determined for the set of attributes, the program further generates a record comprising the set of attributes and storing the set of values for the set of attributes in the record.
US12175771B2
A control system for a vehicle includes a camera mounted on the vehicle and configured to take an image of an occupant of the vehicle, and an anti-droplet protective equipment providing device mounted on the vehicle and configured to provide anti-droplet protective equipment to the occupant, a determination unit configured to determine whether the occupant is wearing the anti-droplet protective equipment based on the image of the occupant taken by the camera, and a provision control unit configured to provide the anti-droplet protective equipment to the occupant with the anti-droplet protective equipment providing device when the determination unit determines that the occupant is not wearing the anti-droplet protective equipment.
US12175761B2
An information processing apparatus (100) includes: a person detecting unit (102) that executes processing of detecting a person and a location with respect to each of a first image generated in a first camera (5a) and a second image generated in a second camera (5b); a coordinate generating unit (104) that generates coordinates of the location of the detected person; and a determination unit (106) that determines, by using a first location generated from the first image and a second location generated from the second image, whether the person detected from the first image and the person detected from the second image are the same person.
US12175747B2
Techniques described herein enable a user to interact with an automated assistant and obtain relevant output from the automated assistant without requiring arduous typed input to be provided by the user and/or without requiring the user to provide spoken input that could cause privacy concerns (e.g., if other individuals are nearby). The assistant application can operate in multiple different image conversation modes in which the assistant application is responsive to various objects in a field of view of the camera. The image conversation modes can be suggested to the user when a particular object is detected in the field of view of the camera. When the user selects an image conversation mode, the assistant application can thereafter provide output, for presentation, that is based on the selected image conversation mode and that is based on object(s) captured by image(s) of the camera.
US12175740B2
The present disclosure is directed to encoding images. In particular, one or more computing devices can receive data representing one or more machine learning (ML) models configured, at least in part, to encode images comprising objects of a particular type. The computing device(s) can receive data representing an image comprising one or more objects of the particular type. The computing device(s) can generate, based at least in part on the data representing the image and the data representing the ML model(s), data representing an encoded version of the image that alters at least a portion of the image comprising the object(s) such that when the encoded version of the image is decoded, the object(s) are unrecognizable as being of the particular type by one or more object-recognition ML models based at least in part upon which the ML model(s) configured to encode the images were trained.
US12175737B2
A system that is configured to receive a sequence of task inputs and to perform a machine learning task is described. The system includes a reinforcement learning (RL) neural network and a task neural network. The RL neural network is configured to: generate, for each task input of the sequence of task inputs, a respective decision that determines whether to encode the task input or to skip the task input, and provide the respective decision of each task input to the task neural network. The task neural network is configured to: receive the sequence of task inputs, receive, from the RL neural network, for each task input of the sequence of task inputs, a respective decision that determines whether to encode the task input or to skip the task input, process each of the un-skipped task inputs in the sequence of task inputs to generate a respective accumulated feature for the un-skipped task input, wherein the respective accumulated feature characterizes features of the un-skipped task input and of previous un-skipped task inputs in the sequence, and generate a machine learning task output for the machine learning task based on the last accumulated feature generated for the last un-skipped task input in the sequence.
US12175732B2
A system comprises a computer including a processor and a memory. The memory includes instructions such that the processor is programmed to determine a pairwise region of interest feature similarity based on features extracted from a first cropped image portion and corresponding point cloud data and features extracted from a second cropped image portion and corresponding point cloud data. The processor is also programmed to determine a loss using a loss function based on the pairwise region of interest feature similarity, wherein the loss function corresponds to at least one a first deep neural network or a second deep neural network. The processor is also programmed to update at least one weight of the at least one of the first deep neural network or the second deep neural network based on the loss.
US12175730B2
Image learning method, apparatus, program, and recording medium using generative adversarial network
The present disclosure relates to image learning method, apparatus, program, and recording medium using a generative adversarial network. The present disclosure allows to learn various images as well as medical radiographic images to maintain structural information on the basis of a generative adversarial network. The present disclosure prevents the structural information of the generated image with respect to an original image from being lost, and improves image qualities, such as resolution, noise degree, contrast, etc. to the level of a target reference dataset. When the present disclosure is used for image standardization, medical radiographic images imaged by different institutions and any number of image datasets having various qualities can be standardized universally.
US12175729B2
Disclosed is a liveness test method and liveness test apparatus. The liveness test method includes determining a presence of a subject using a radar sensor, performing a first liveness test on the subject based on radar data obtained by the radar sensor, in response to the subject being present, acquiring image data of the subject using an image sensor, in response to a result of the first liveness test satisfying a first condition, and performing a second liveness test on the subject based on the image data.
US12175726B2
An information processing system includes a processor configured to perform: (a) identifying, by inputting photographic image data representing a photographic image of an object into a machine learning model, identification information of the object; and (b) determining, based on the identification information identified in (a), inspection settings used for inspecting the object.
US12175717B2
An image display apparatus according to an embodiment of the present technology includes a display control unit and a processing executing unit. The display control unit controls display of a designation image capable of designating a region with respect to a target image. The processing executing unit executes processing associated with the designation image on a designated region designated by the designation image. The processing executing unit executes, on an overlap region in which a first designated region designated by a first designation image and a second designated region designated by a second designation image overlap with each other, first processing associated with the first designation image and second processing associated with the second designation image. The display control unit moves the second designation image in conjunction with movement of the first designation image when the overlap region exists.
US12175716B2
A system receives encoded data regarding a points in a point cloud. The data includes a prediction tree having a nodes generated based on spatial information regarding the points and properties of a sensor system that obtained the spatial information. A value of each node represents first spatial coordinates of a respective one of the points according to a first coordinate system, and the value of at least a first node in the prediction tree is determined based on ancestor nodes of the first node and the properties of the sensor system. The system decodes the data to determine first data, including the first spatial coordinates of at least some of the points, and quantization parameters associated with the first spatial coordinates. The system determines second data based on the first data, including second spatial coordinates of at least some of the points according to a second coordinate system.
US12175709B2
Durable calibration standards are described herein for inspection systems for manufactured vials, such as glass pharmaceutical vials, and methods of using the same. A grayscale calibration standard is provided for calibration of camera settings of imaging components in an inspection system. The grayscale calibration standard comprises a vial having a laser etched gradient image on a portion of the vial. A region of interest (ROI) calibration standard is provided for calibration of spatial difference of imaging components and to align imaging components in an inspection system to capture desired regions of interest. The ROI calibration standard comprises a vial comprising laser etchings on one or more portions of the vial, wherein the laser etchings comprise laser markings formed in a geometric pattern. By providing laser-marked calibration standards, the calibration standards may be used in many different modes of metrology.
US12175708B2
Systems and methods described herein relate to self-supervised learning of camera intrinsic parameters from a sequence of images. One embodiment produces a depth map from a current image frame captured by a camera; generates a point cloud from the depth map using a differentiable unprojection operation; produces a camera pose estimate from the current image frame and a context image frame; produces a warped point cloud based on the camera pose estimate; generates a warped image frame from the warped point cloud using a differentiable projection operation; compares the warped image frame with the context image frame to produce a self-supervised photometric loss; updates a set of estimated camera intrinsic parameters on a per-image-sequence basis using one or more gradients from the self-supervised photometric loss; and generates, based on a converged set of learned camera intrinsic parameters, a rectified image frame from an image frame captured by the camera.
US12175695B2
Disclosed are methods, devices, and computer-readable media for detecting lanes and objects in image frames of a monocular camera. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving a sample set of image frames; detecting a plurality of markers in the sample set of image frames using a convolutional neural network (CNN); fitting lines based on the plurality of markers; detecting a plurality of vanishing points based on the lines; identifying a best fitting horizon for the sample set of image frames via a RANSAC algorithm; computing an inverse perspective mapping (IPM) based on the best fitting horizon; and computing a lane width estimate based on the sample set of image frames using the IPM in a rectified view and the parallel line fitting.
US12175692B2
A localization method includes scanning a surrounding space by using laser outputted from a reference region; processing spatial information about the surrounding space based on a reflection signal of the laser; extracting feature vectors to which the spatial information has been reflected by using a deep learning network which uses space vectors including the spatial information as input data; and comparing the feature vectors with preset reference map data, and thus estimating location information about the reference region.
US12175690B2
A display apparatus 1 for a video monitoring system is provided, the video monitoring system being configured to monitor a monitoring area 9 having a plurality of monitoring cameras 3. In one example the display apparatus includes a model module 12 that includes a model 8 of the monitoring area 9 having the monitoring cameras 3. A display module 10 for a display device 4 is configured to display the model 8 on the display device 4. A processing module 11 is configured to select at least one of the monitoring cameras 3 as a selected monitoring camera, the selected monitoring camera defining a line of sight S. The display module 10 is configured to display the model 8 on the display device 4 in such a way that the model 8 is aligned in accordance with a model perspective on the basis of the line of sight S of the selected monitoring camera.
US12175682B2
There is provided a counting method for counting a moving bonded body by exerting an external force in a predetermined direction, on a sample capable of containing the bonded body in which a target substance and a moving substance moving in response to exertion of the external force are bonded, the counting method including: obtaining a captured image of an object in the sample captured in a period from a first time point to a second time point later than the first time point during which the external force is exerted; determining a moving direction of the object from a locus, in the image, formed by the object; and counting the object as the bonded body in a case where a degree of coincidence between the predetermined direction and the moving direction is greater than a first threshold.
US12175681B2
An image processing method includes displaying a first key frame image obtained from a sequence frame video stream; obtaining a first foreground image and a first background image obtained after foreground and background separation processing is performed on the first key frame image; obtaining a second foreground image obtained after foreground image processing is performed on a first target object in the first foreground image; obtaining a third background image obtained after background repair processing is performed on the first background image using a second background image, where the second background image is a background image included in a second key frame image obtained by photographing a target scene before the first key frame image is obtained; and obtaining a first key frame image obtained after foreground and background compositing processing is performed on the second foreground image and the third background image.
US12175678B2
An image processing apparatus, including a memory configured to store one or more instructions; and at least one processor configured to execute the one or more instructions to: based on a first image and a probability model, optimize an estimated pixel value and estimated gradient values of each pixel of an original image corresponding to the first image, obtain an estimated original image based on the optimized estimated pixel value of the each pixel of the original image, obtain a decontour map based on the optimized estimated pixel value and the estimated gradient values of the each pixel of the original image, and generate a second image by combining the first image with the estimated original image based on the decontour map.
US12175663B2
The present invention concerns a device for producing a “digital video classifier” configured to determine the quality of cleanliness of one or more segments of the digestive tube in a video capsule endoscopy (VCE) of a subject, comprising: a VCE allowing the acquisition of videos of segments of the digestive tube, video storage means, coupled with the VCE, an “image database” with images extracted from VCE exams, a “video database” with videos extracted from VCE exams, calculating means connected to the video storage means, and to the databases, and configured for performing a statistical learning for the generation of a “digital image classifier” from the “image database” and which classifies the images in adequate cleanliness or non-adequate cleanliness; generating the “digital video classifier” capable of classifying a video of a subject as being of adequate cleanliness or of non-adequate cleanliness of one or more segments of the digestive tube.
US12175655B2
A substrate inspection method includes: (i) acquiring a plurality of defect of interest (DOI) images of a substrate having a DOI, under a corresponding plurality of different optical conditions, (ii) acquiring a plurality of DOI difference images from differences between the plurality of DOI images and a reference image, and (iii) acquiring a plurality of DOI difference-of-difference (DOD) images from differences between the plurality of DOI difference images. The method also includes setting two optical conditions corresponding to a DOI DOD image having the highest signal-to-noise ratio (SNR) among the plurality of DOI DOD images, as a first optical condition and a second optical condition, and acquiring a first image of the substrate under the first optical condition and a second image of the substrate under the second optical condition. A first difference image is also acquired, which is a difference between the first image and the reference image, and a second difference image is acquired, which is a difference between the second image and the reference image. A DOD image is acquired that is a difference between the first difference image and the second difference image. A low-SNR defect candidate region is then detected from the first difference image, the second difference image, and the DOD image.
US12175647B1
An advanced lens system includes an advanced lens configured to be worn by an individual. The advanced lens system includes a camera configured to obtain one or more images of a property. The advanced lens system includes one or more processors communicatively coupled to the advanced lens and the camera, the one or more processors being configured to receive the one or more images of the property and process the one or more images to identify primary damage to the property. The one or more processors are also configured to predict, based on the primary damage and previous damage data stored in a database, secondary damage that is likely to be present with the primary damage. The one or more processors are further configured to provide an output indicative of the secondary damage that is likely to be present with the primary damage via a display of the advanced lens.
US12175645B2
The invention relates to digital video image processing. In particular, the invention provides methods, systems and computer program products that optimize processes for generation of high dynamic range output video streams by optimizing the processes of parsing or extracting information from multiple input image frames and combining the multiple input image frames into a composite high dynamic range output video frames.
US12175640B2
A computing device obtains a to-be-optimized image. The device aligns the to-be-optimized image to obtain a to-be-optimized aligned image. The to-be-optimized aligned image includes a target region having points of objects that are distributed in a standard position. The computing device uses the to-be-optimized aligned image as an inputs to a generation network. The device performs feature extraction on the to-be-optimized aligned image using the generation network, to obtain an optimized image. The generation network is obtained by training a to-be-trained generative adversarial deep neural network model according to a low-quality image pair and a joint loss function. The low-quality image pair includes a target image and a low-quality image corresponding to the target image.
US12175631B2
The present disclosure relates to a method, performed by a processor, for processing a blood vessel image from a blood vessel image, the method comprising the steps of: extracting a target blood vessel from a blood vessel image; determining a region of interest (ROI) in an extraction result of the target blood vessel on the basis of a first input received from a user; and within the determined ROI, identifying an error portion in the extraction result on the basis of a second input received from the user, and correcting the identified error portion.
US12175624B2
A pixel is appropriately interpolated regarding a histogram image in which a distance histogram is allocated to each pixel position. A signal processing apparatus according to the present technology includes a histogram generation unit that inputs a histogram image in which a distance histogram indicating results of a plurality of times of distance measurement as frequency information for each distance is allocated to each pixel position and generates a distance histogram of an interpolation target position in the histogram image on the basis of distance histograms of a plurality of pixel positions near the interpolation target position.
US12175619B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media that modify two-dimensional images via scene-based editing using three-dimensional representations of the two-dimensional images. For instance, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems utilize three-dimensional representations of two-dimensional images to generate and modify shadows in the two-dimensional images according to various shadow maps. Additionally, the disclosed systems utilize three-dimensional representations of two-dimensional images to modify humans in the two-dimensional images. The disclosed systems also utilize three-dimensional representations of two-dimensional images to provide scene scale estimation via scale fields of the two-dimensional images. In some embodiments, the disclosed systems utilizes three-dimensional representations of two-dimensional images to generate and visualize 3D planar surfaces for modifying objects in two-dimensional images. The disclosed systems further use three-dimensional representations of two-dimensional images to customize focal points for the two-dimensional images.
US12175617B2
An information processing system comprises processing circuitry configured to render a virtual space; render each mobile medium associated with each user, each mobile medium being able to move within the virtual space; associate designated movement authority information to a first mobile medium, the first mobile medium being associated with a first user based on a first input from the first user; switch the designated movement authority information from association with the first mobile medium to association with a second mobile medium, the second mobile medium being associated with a second user different from the first user and based on a second input from the first user; and judge, based on the designated movement authority information, whether to allow one mobile medium to move toward a designated position within the virtual space.
US12175615B2
The subject technology determines at least one primitive shape based on at least one graphical element in an augmented reality (AR) facial pattern. The subject technology generates a JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) file using at least one primitive shape. The subject technology generates internal facial makeup format (IFM) data using the JSON file.
US12175614B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media including instructions for presenting information in a first display region having predefined boundaries, the information manipulatable via a user interface presentable in the first display region; presenting, via a wearable extended reality appliance, a second display region beyond the predefined boundaries of the first display region, wherein the second display region is visible via the wearable extended reality appliance; providing a control for altering a location of the user interface, wherein in a first mode, the user interface is presented in the first display region while the information is presented in the first display region and in a second mode, the user interface is presented in the second display region outside the predefined boundaries of the first display region while the information is presented in the first display region; and enabling toggling between the first mode and the second mode via the control.
US12175599B1
A method for three-dimensional (3D) imaging of an underground goaf includes: obtaining a video image and point cloud data of an underground goaf; determining a posture transformation matrix, and aligning the video image and the point cloud data; identifying a material texture based on the video image to obtain material texture information; dividing the point cloud data into triangular meshes to form an initial 3D model of the underground goaf; mapping the material texture information onto the 3D model to form a target 3D model with a material texture attribute; calculating a bidirectional reflectance distribution function (BRDF) of the target 3D model based on the material texture attribute; simulating global illumination, and constructing a rendering equation; and making a setting to emit ray from a viewpoint, and performing ray tracing based on the rendering equation to obtain a high-brightness real scene image of the underground goaf.
US12175597B1
A method for arranging clothing patterns implemented on a computing device is provided. The method comprise: determining sewing relationships between clothing patterns to be transformed into a digital garment on a 3D avatar; performing iterations to process the clothing patterns, each of the iterations comprising: selecting one or more clothing patterns to be processed in the iteration from the clothing patterns based on the sewing relationships; and arranging the one or more clothing patterns to warp around the 3D avatar; and generating the digital garment that is worn on the 3D avatar by sewing the arranged clothing patterns corresponding to the iterations based on the sewing relationships.
US12175593B2
A display device (10) according to the present disclosure includes: a detection unit (11) that detects, in a three-dimensional space including measurement point group data measured by a three-dimensional optical sensor, intermediate point group data of an intermediate region from a viewpoint for two-dimensionally displaying the measurement point group data to target point group data within the measurement point group data; a setting unit (12) that sets, based on the detected intermediate point group data, a display aspect of the measurement point group data or the target point group data in such a way that the target point group data become visually recognizable from the viewpoint; and a display unit (13) that two-dimensionally displays the measurement point group data and the target point group data according to the set display aspect.
US12175588B2
One embodiment of a method for rendering one or more graphics images includes tracing one or more rays through a graphics scene; storing one or more hit points based on one or more coordinate frames associated with one or more voxels of a grid, where the one or more rays intersect one or more surfaces of geometry in the one or more voxels; and rendering one or more graphics images based on the one or more hit points that are stored.
US12175586B2
Texture filtering is applied to a texture represented with a mipmap comprising a plurality of levels, wherein each level of the mipmap comprises an image representing the texture at a respective level of detail. A texture filtering unit has minimum and maximum limits on an amount by which it can alter the level of detail when it filters texels from an image of a single level of the mipmap. The range of level of detail between the minimum and maximum limits defines an intrinsic region of the texture filtering unit. If it is determined that a received input level of detail is in an intrinsic region of the texture filtering unit, texels are read from a single mipmap level of the mipmap, and the read texels from the single mipmap level are filtered to determine a filtered texture value representing part of the texture at the input level of detail. If it is determined that the received input level of detail is in an extrinsic region of the texture filtering unit: texels are read from two mipmap levels of the mipmap, and the read texels from the two mipmap levels are processed to determine a filtered texture value representing part of the texture at the input level of detail.
US12175584B2
Provided is a method and apparatus for animation rendering, an electronic device, and a storage medium. The method for animation rendering includes: in a vertex animation mode, acquiring vertex position information and normal information from a same first texture file, wherein the vertex position information occupies a part of an R channel, a part of a G channel and a part of a B channel, and the normal information occupies another part of the R channel, another part of the G channel, another part of the B channel, and an A channel; and performing animation rendering according to the vertex position information and the normal information.
