US12289997B2
The thermoelectric module includes a first thermoelectric element including a first thermoelectric conversion layer and a first electrolyte layer stacked each other along a stacked direction, a second thermoelectric element stacking the first thermoelectric element in the stacked direction and including a second thermoelectric conversion layer and a second electrolyte layer stacked each other along the stacked direction, a first current collector located on a side of one edge in the stacked direction, a second current collector located on a side of another edge in the stacked direction, and an electron transmission layer located between the first thermoelectric element and the second thermoelectric element in the stacked direction.
US12289982B2
A transparent organic light emitting display apparatus includes a pixel area having an emission area and a transmission area disposed adjacent to the emission area, where the emission area is configured to display an image and the transmission area configured to pass external light. The transmission area includes a planarization layer covering a thin film transistor of the emission area, and including an overhanging portion, an encapsulation layer disposed on the planarization layer, and an undercut area disposed below the overhanging portion of the planarization layer and filled by the encapsulation layer. The transmission area further includes an emission layer, a cathode electrode, and the encapsulation layer covering the overhanging portion of the planarization layer. The emission layer, the cathode electrode and the encapsulation layer are disposed on the undercut area.
US12289981B2
In a foldable display device, stretchability is given to an outermost area of the folding area of the first support substrate to which a relatively high stress is applied. Thus, the folding radius at the outermost area increases, which relatively reduces the stress at the outermost area. Accordingly, it is possible to suppress occurrence of cracks in the outermost area.
US12289979B2
The present disclosure relates to a processing tool that includes a first wafer-mounting frame and a second wafer-mounting frame. The first wafer-mounting frame is configured to retain a target wafer. The second wafer-mounting frame is configured to retain a masking wafer. The masking wafer includes a mask pattern made up of a number of openings passing through the masking wafer to correspond to a predetermined deposition pattern to be formed on the target wafer. A deposition chamber is configured to receive the first and second wafer-mounting frames, when the first and second wafer-mounting frames are clamped together to retain the target wafer and the masking wafer. The deposition chamber includes a material deposition source configured to deposit material from the material deposition source through the number of openings in the mask pattern to form the material in the predetermined deposition pattern on the target wafer.
US12289977B2
A display panel, a method of manufacturing a display panel, and a display terminal are provided. Each of the light-emitting device includes a first electrode and a second electrode; the auxiliary wiring comprises a composite metal layer structure, side opening of the auxiliary wiring form an undercut structure, and the second electrode extends into the groove and electrically connects with the auxiliary wire by contacting a portion of metal layers in the undercut. The implementation of the present application can achieve electrical connection between the second electrode of the light-emitting device and the auxiliary wiring without additional manufacturing processes or photomasks.
US12289974B2
A display device includes a display panel including a first pixel area and a second pixel area. The first pixel area includes a first pixel, a second pixel, and a third pixel, and the second pixel area includes a fourth pixel, a fifth pixel, and a sixth pixel. The first pixel and the second pixel are arranged to be adjacent to each other in a first direction, and the third pixel is arranged to be adjacent to the first pixel and the second pixel in a second direction that intersects the first direction. The third pixel and the fourth pixel emitting a same color are arranged to be adjacent to each other in the second direction, the fifth pixel is spaced apart from the first pixel in the second direction, and the sixth pixel is spaced apart from the second pixel in the second direction.
US12289971B2
The present disclosure relates to a display substrate and a display device thereof. The display substrate comprises: a substrate; a first wiring extending in a first direction on the substrate; a first dielectric layer on the substrate and the first wiring; a second wiring extending in the first direction on the first dielectric layer, wherein an orthographic projection of the second wiring on the substrate at least partially overlaps with an orthographic projection of the first wiring on the substrate; a conformal dielectric layer on the first dielectric layer and the second wiring; a third wiring and a fourth wiring disposed at spacings in the first direction on the conformal dielectric layer, wherein orthographic projections of the third wiring and the fourth wiring on the substrate at least partially overlap with the orthographic projections of the first wiring and the second wiring on the substrate.
US12289966B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel having a display region and a non-display region and including a plurality of panel pads disposed in the non-display region, a flexible circuit board including a plurality of connection pads overlapping the plurality of panel pads, and a bonding layer disposed between the display panel and the flexible circuit board and including a conductive polymer, wherein the bonding layer includes a plurality of conductive portions overlapping the plurality of panel pads and the plurality of connection pads and having a first conductivity value, and a plurality of non-conductive portions not overlapping the plurality of panel pads and the plurality of connection pads and having a second conductivity value smaller than the first conductivity value.
US12289962B2
An electronic apparatus comprises a display panel and a component on a lower surface of the display panel. The display panel includes a first display area with first light-emitting diodes, a second display area with display element groups that include second light-emitting diodes, transmission areas in the second display area, a pixel-defining layer surrounding an emission area of each of the first and second light-emitting diodes, an upper insulating layer, and a thin-film encapsulation layer. The component overlaps the second display area in a plan view. In a boundary portion of the first and second display areas, the pixel-defining layer and the upper insulating layer form a staircase-shaped step, and the upper insulating layer includes at least one protrusion portion protruding towards the second display area from an edge of the upper insulating layer.
US12289950B2
An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes a substrate having a display area displaying an image and a periphery area. The periphery area is located next to the display area. A first organic insulating layer is disposed on the substrate. The first organic insulating layer includes a valley portion separating the first organic insulating layer from the periphery area. A plurality of organic light-emitting devices is disposed on the substrate. Each of the organic light-emitting devices includes a first electrode, an emission layer, and a second electrode, sequentially disposed over the first organic insulating layer. The second electrode covers the emission layer and the valley portion. A second organic insulating layer is disposed over the first organic insulating layer and incudes a first opening exposing a center portion of the first electrode and a second opening overlapping the valley portion. A capping layer covers the second electrode.
US12289949B2
Provided are a display substrate, a method for manufacturing the display substrate, and a display device. The display substrate has a display area, an opening area being provided in the display area, and the display substrate includes: a base substrate; at least one isolation structure provided on the base substrate and surrounding the opening area, and the isolation structure includes a first sidewall; a first filling structure provided on a side of the first sidewall away from the opening area, the first filling structure includes a second sidewall facing the first sidewall and a third sidewall facing away from the first sidewall; a first inorganic thin film disposed between the isolation structure and the filling structure; and a second inorganic thin film covering the isolation structure and the first filling structure.
US12289942B2
An optical element includes a photoelectric conversion film and an inorganic substance-containing film containing at least one selected from the group consisting of a metal nitride and a metal oxynitride, in which the photoelectric conversion film contains a quantum dot or at least one compound semiconductor selected from the group consisting of a III-V group compound semiconductor, a II-VI group compound semiconductor, and a IV-IV group compound semiconductor, and the optical density of an inorganic substance-containing film is 0.5 or more per 1.0 μm of a film thickness at a wavelength of 1,550 nm.
US12289940B2
A display device includes a pixel disposed in a display area; a first line electrically connected to the pixel; and a first control line disposed around the first line. The pixel includes a first electrode and a second electrode spaced apart from each other; at least one intermediate electrode including a first intermediate electrode disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode; light emitting elements electrically connected between a pair of adjacent electrodes among the first electrode, the second electrode, and the at least one intermediate electrode; and a first switching element electrically connected between the first intermediate electrode and the first line, the first switching element being controlled by a signal applied to the first control line.
US12289939B2
A display device includes first and second alignment electrodes disposed on a substrate, an alignment insulating film having a concave portion disposed between the first and second alignment electrodes, a light-emitting device disposed on the alignment insulating film, first and second electrodes electrically connected to the light-emitting device, a thin-film transistor connected to one of the first and second electrodes, and a plurality of insulating films providing a trench disposed on the concave portion, the trench having a larger width than the concave portion, thereby improving emission efficiency.
US12289936B2
A light-emitting element includes a first light-emitting layer including a first quantum dot and a second light-emitting layer including a second quantum dot provided between the cathode electrode and an anode electrode in order from the cathode electrode, the first quantum dot has a core-shell structure including a first core and a first shell, the second quantum dot has a core-shell structure including a second core and a second shell, and an energy level at a lower end of a conduction band of the first core is higher than an energy level at a lower end of a conduction band of the second core.
US12289935B2
A method for manufacturing a light-emitting element includes: providing a structure body including: a semiconductor structure body having a first surface, a second surface located on a side opposite to the first surface, and a lateral surface that connects the first surface and the second surface, a first insulating film covering the lateral surface of the semiconductor structure body, a second insulation film covering the first surface of the semiconductor structure body and an upper surface of the first insulating film on a first surface side, and a substrate facing the second surface of the semiconductor structure body; forming a mask on a part of the second insulating film located above the first surface of the semiconductor structure body; and removing a part of the second insulating film located around the mask in a top view and exposed from the mask.
US12289933B2
A light-emitting device includes a substrate provided with a first wiring and a second wiring, a first element including a first electrode pad, a second element including a second electrode pad, a first wire connecting the second wiring and the first electrode pad and including a first wire horizontal part that is level with respect to a top surface of the first element, a second wire connecting the second wiring and the second electrode pad and including a second wire horizontal part that is level with respect to the top surface of the first element, and a reflective resin exposing the top surface of the first element. The reflective resin has a bulged portion in a bulged dike shape such that a surface of the reflective resin is brought into contact with at least a part of the second wire horizontal part and extends along the second wire horizontal part.
US12289929B2
An infrared device comprises a first mesa portion. The lateral surface of the first mesa portion includes a first lateral surface located on a side close to a bottom surface of the first mesa portion, a second lateral surface located above the first lateral surface, and a third lateral surface located above the second lateral surface. A first angle θ1 formed by the first lateral surface and one face of the substrate is 0.6° or more and less than 45°, a second angle formed by the second lateral surface and one face of the substrate is 45° or more and 90° or less, and a third angle θ3 formed by a third lateral surface and one face of the substrate is 0.6° or more and less than 45°. W3/W2 is 0.15 or more and W1/W2 is 0.2 or more and 3.0 or less.
US12289922B2
A processing method for processing a single-crystal silicon wafer that has a first surface and a second surface formed in such a manner that a specific crystal plane included in a crystal plane {100} is exposed in each of the first and second surfaces and has devices formed in the respective regions marked out by planned dividing lines in the first surface. The method includes forming dividing origins along each planned dividing line, forming a separation layer along the crystal plane of the second surface through relatively moving a focal point and the wafer along a first direction that is parallel to the crystal plane of the second surface and in which an acute angle formed between the first direction and the crystal orientation <100> is equal to or smaller than 5°, and separating the wafer into a first-surface-side wafer including devices and a second-surface-side wafer including no devices.
US12289920B2
A semiconductor device includes a first and a second nitride-based semiconductor layers, a first and a second electrodes, a first and a second gate electrodes, a first and a second passivation layers and a conductive layer. The first passivation layer has a first portion covered with a first end portion of the first field plate and a second portion free from coverage of the first field plate. The second passivation layer has a first portion covered by the conductive layer and a second portion free from coverage of the conductive layer. A thickness difference between the first and the second portions of the first passivation layer is less than a thickness difference between the first and the second portions of the second passivation layer.
US12289919B1
A semiconductor device includes a dielectric layer over a back end of line (BEOL) metal layer, a metallic resistive layer over the dielectric layer, a resistor comprising a metallic resistive film that is a first portion of the metallic resistive layer, and a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor. The insulator of the MIM capacitor comprises at least two layers including a first layer that is a second portion of the metallic resistive layer and a second layer that is the dielectric layer.
US12289918B2
The present invention suppresses an increase in manufacturing cost and reduces switching noise. A field-effect transistor having a gate electrode embedded in a trench in an upper surface of a semiconductor substrate, a source region formed in the semiconductor substrate, and a drain region formed on a lower surface of the semiconductor substrate is provided with a gate wiring formed on the semiconductor substrate and being electrically connected to the gate electrode, a gate pad formed on the semiconductor substrate, a first resistor connected between the gate pad and the gate wiring and being configured to function when the field-effect transistor is turned ON, a second resistor connected between the gate pad and the gate wiring and being configured to function when the field-effect transistor is turned OFF, and a rectifier diode included in the first resistor or the second resistor between the gate pad and the gate wiring.
US12289909B2
Disclosed are a thin film transistor having an oxide semiconductor layer which is applicable to a flat display device requiring high-speed driving due to ultra-high definition, a gate driver including the same, and a display device including the same. The thin film transistor includes a first oxide semiconductor layer formed of iron-indium-zinc oxide (FIZO) and a second oxide semiconductor layer formed of indium-gallium-zinc oxide (IGZO), thus being capable of exhibiting effects, such as high reliability and high electron mobility.
US12289905B2
A process for fabricating a semiconductor structure is disclosed. The process includes: forming an isolation trench in a substrate; forming a trench fill layer to at least fill the isolation trench in the substrate, the silicon oxide trench fill layer comprising a portion in contact with the substrate below an upper surface of the substrate; exposing a sidewall of the isolation trench and without exposing a bottom of the isolation trench in the substrate; and forming a gate structure over the substrate, wherein the gate structure contacts the sidewall of the isolation trench.
US12289896B2
A magneto-resistive random access memory with segmented bottom electrode includes a magnetic tunnel junction pillar above a first portion of a bottom electrode layer, the first portion of the bottom electrode layer includes a metal region. A sidewall spacer is disposed along sidewalls of the magnetic tunnel junction pillar and above a second portion of the bottom electrode layer including a metal-oxide region. The first portion of the bottom electrode layer composed of the metal region and the second portion of the bottom electrode layer composed of the metal-oxide region form the segmented bottom electrode.
US12289895B2
A two-terminal memory device includes: a substrate; an extended drain extending from a drain and a lower surface of the drain and laminated on the substrate; a ferroelectric layer connected to the drain and covering the extended drain and the substrate; and a source laminated on the ferroelectric layer to face the drain.
US12289888B2
A memory device includes a substrate; a stacked structure including a plurality of gate layers and a plurality of interlayer insulating layers that are alternately stacked on the substrate in a vertical direction, the stacked structure including a row of cutouts, each of the cutouts extending in a first horizontal direction and being configured to cut the plurality of gate layers, the cutouts being apart from each other and arranged in a cell region of the stacked structure in the first horizontal direction; and a row of channel structures, the channel structures being arranged in the cell region in the first horizontal direction, each of the channel structures extending in the vertical direction to penetrate the plurality of gate layers.
US12289885B2
Three-dimensional (3D) NAND memory structures and methods to manufacture 3D NAND memory structures are disclosed. A method includes forming a stack of layers that includes a first sub-stack for a transistor structure and a second sub-stack for a memory structure positioned on the first sub-stack. The second sub-stack includes at least one layer of conductive material and at least one layer of non-conductive material. The first sub-stack and the second sub-stack are separated by at least one non-conductive layer. The method includes forming a channel opening in the stack of layers, forming a gate dielectric in the channel opening, and providing a channel structure within the channel opening. The channel structure includes a semiconductive-behaving material and aligned with the transistor structure. The method includes providing a charge trap layer within the channel opening and aligned with the memory structure.
US12289882B2
Embodiments of the disclosure disclose a semiconductor device and a method manufacturing thereof. The semiconductor device includes a substrate as well as a first groove and a second groove located in the substrate, in which the second groove is formed by etching the substrate downwards from part of a bottom surface of the first groove, and a sidewall of the second groove retracts inward by a preset length relative to a sidewall of the first groove; a word layer including a first sub-portion located in the second groove and a second sub-portion located in the first groove, in which a gap is provided between a sidewall of the second sub-portion and that of the first groove; and a word line cover layer located in the first groove and covering the second sub-portion, in which an air gap structure at least located at the gap is provided in the word line cover layer.
US12289880B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate including a plurality of active patterns and a bit line intersecting at least one of the plurality of active patterns on the substrate and extending in a first direction. The bit line includes a first conductive pattern extending in the first direction, a bit line capping pattern extending in the first direction on the first conductive pattern, and a graphene pattern extending in the first direction between the first conductive pattern and the bit line capping pattern. The first conductive pattern may include ruthenium (Ru). The semiconductor device may also include one or more bit line contacts arranged in the first direction under the bit line, the one or more bit line contacts electrically connected to a respective one of the plurality of active patterns.
US12289879B2
A memory device includes a substrate, an active layer that is spaced apart from the substrate and laterally oriented, a word line that is laterally oriented in parallel to the active layer along one side of the active layer, an active body that is vertically oriented by penetrating through the active layer, a bit line that is vertically oriented by penetrating through the active layer to be spaced apart from one side of the active body, and a capacitor that is vertically oriented by penetrating through the active layer to be spaced apart from another side of the active body.
US12289877B2
A semiconductor device includes: first and second active regions extending in a first direction and separated by a gap relative to a second direction substantially perpendicular to the first direction; and gate structures correspondingly over the first and second active regions, the gate structures extending in the second direction; and each of the gate structures extending at least unilaterally substantially beyond a first side of the corresponding first or second active region that is proximal to the gap or a second side of the corresponding first or second active region that is distal to the gap; and some but not all of the gate structures also extending bilaterally substantially beyond each of the first and second sides of the corresponding first or second active region.
US12289875B2
A storage device is configured for electromagnetic shielding and sound insulation to secure gadgets like phones and smartwatches in environments requiring cybersecurity or confidentiality. The device features a housing made from materials that block sound and electromagnetic interference comprising multiple compartments that detect stored gadgets via sensors. It employs passive acoustic insulation and active audio jamming to disrupt microphone functionality and prevent voice recognition. The compartments are adjustable, allowing different sliding or rotational configurations, and are equipped with locking mechanisms. A user interface provides real-time status updates, such as power state, compartment occupancy, and jamming activity. This multifunctional design ensures optimal protection of sensitive information during confidential meetings or in secure IT environments.
US12289862B2
A single-phase immersion cooling system includes an immersion cooling tank having a component area, which is separate from a main chamber and is configured to receive a heat-generating electronic device. A coolant circulates along a flow path, in a chamber path through the main chamber and a component path through the component area. A rotating propeller is mounted within the immersion cooling tank, causing a driven flow path in the component area. The driven flow path is configured to cause contact between the coolant in the driven flow path and the heat-generating electronic device when the heat-generating electronic device is received within the component area. The coolant in the driven flow path circulates at a faster speed than the coolant in the chamber path.
US12289861B2
A cooling system and method of cooling electronic components comprising a tank (or other vessel) in which a dielectric liquid cools low power electronic components within the tank, while a conductive liquid cools high power electronic components in the tank. The conductive liquid is supplied via a plurality of cooling modules, each arranged on or in proximity to a high power component. A cooling module arranged within the tank may enclose one or more of the electronic components in the tank using a fluid-tight seal.
US12289857B1
A bracket includes a main body, an elastic positioning and locking plate, a load-bearing part, and multiple reinforcement ribs. The front and rear sides of the main body are provided with a first hook and a second hook respectively. The first hook is provided with an operating hole, the elastic positioning and locking plate is connected to the operating hole and protruded with a locking part to form a locking, and provided with an operating part corresponding to the operating hole for a release purpose. The load-bearing part is integrally formed and bent from a lower edge of the main body to support a server chassis, and each reinforcement rib is integrally formed on the load-bearing part and the main body to reduce frictional resistance.
US12289854B2
An electronic assembly includes at least one circuit board and external electronic components including electrical connections, wherein the circuit board has contacts for connection to the connections of the external electronic components, and the at least one circuit board and the external components are able to be attached to a housing part. Also, an inverter includes a power unit. A carrier which is mounted so as to be able to be moved is provided on the housing part, wherein the carrier has holders for receiving contact elements for connection to the connections of the external electronic components and for connection to the contacts on the circuit board.
US12289839B2
Processes for localized lasering of a lamination stack and graphene-coated printed circuit board (PCB) are disclosed. An example PCB may include a lamination stack, post-lamination, that may further include a core, an adhesive layer, and at least one graphene-metal structure. A top layer of graphene of the graphene-metal structure may have never been grown before the lamination process or may have been removed post-lamination such that a portion of the top layer of graphene is missing. The localized lasering process described herein may grow (for the first time) or re-grow the graphene layer of the exposed portion of the metal layer without adverse effects to the rest of the lamination stack or PCB and while promoting a uniform layer of graphene on the top surface. A process of growing graphene through application of molecular layer and a self-assembled monolayer (SAM), are also described herein.
US12289838B2
A wiring substrate includes a first insulating layer, a first conductor layer formed on the first insulating layer, a second insulating layer formed on the first conductor layer, a second conductor layer formed on the second insulating layer, and a via conductor formed in the second insulating layer such that the via conductor is connecting the first and second conductor layers. The second insulating layer has a via hole in which the via conductor is formed, and the via conductor includes a first plating film and a second plating film such that the first plating film has a bottom portion formed at bottom of the via hole and a side portion formed on side of the via hole and separated from the bottom portion by gap and that the second plating film is covering the gap of the first plating film and at least part of the first plating film.
US12289832B2
There is provided a circuit board. The circuit board includes a signal hole array matched with a terminal array of a connector, and at least part of signal holes in the signal hole array are first signal holes (20); the first signal holes (20) are blind holes, are communicated with part of wiring layers of the circuit board, and are connected to auxiliary conductive structures (30) through auxiliary lines (03) located in auxiliary wiring layers; the auxiliary conductive structures (30) are at least communicated with the auxiliary wiring layers and a wiring layer not communicated with the first signal holes (20), and are connected to signal lead-out lines (04) located in a main wiring layer; and the signal lead-out lines (04) extend out of a region where the signal hole array is located.
US12289831B2
A structure includes a first copper layer and a first carbon layer applied directly to a surface of the first copper layer, a second copper layer and a second carbon layer applied directly to a surface of the second copper layer, and an insulating core disposed between the first and second copper layers. Each of the first carbon layer and the second carbon layer faces toward and directly contacts the insulating core. The structure provides electrical power to a component of an electronic device.
US12289826B2
A multilayer resin substrate includes insulating resin base material layers, and conductor patterns on at least one of the insulating resin base material layers. The conductor patterns include a ground conductor on a main surface of the insulating resin base material layers and extend into a frame shape or a planar shape, and the ground conductor includes openings. An aperture ratio of the openings in an outer peripheral portion of the ground conductor is less than an aperture ratio of the openings in an inner peripheral portion of the ground conductor.
US12289822B2
A shield enclosure includes a housing with a peripheral wall that defines a cavity, and a cover removably coupleable to the housing to at least partially seal the cavity. The cavity is sized to receive a printed circuit board therein. The housing shields the printed circuit board from electromagnetic interference and noise during noise figure testing of a radiofrequency component on the printed circuit board.
US12289820B2
A plasma-generation system is provided that includes a variable-frequency microwave generator configured to generate microwave power and a plasma applicator configured to use the microwave power from the microwave generator to (i) ignite a process gas therein for initiating a plasma in a plasma ignition process and (ii) maintain the plasma in a steady state process. The system also includes a coarse tuner connected between the microwave generator and the plasma applicator. At least one physical parameter of the coarse tuner is adapted to be set to achieve coarse impedance matching between the microwave generator and the plasma generated during both the plasma ignition process and the steady state process. A load impedance of the plasma generated during the plasma ignition process and the steady state process is adapted to vary. The microwave generator is configured to tune an operating frequency at the set physical parameter of the coarse tuner.
US12289819B2
A microwave hood system is provided. The microwave hood system includes a microwave oven enclosure defining a cooking cavity therein. A cooking component is positioned within the cooking cavity and configured to emit microwaves. The heating system defines a heating cavity therein, wherein the heating system is coupled to the microwave oven enclosure. A heating element is positioned in the heating cavity. The heating cavity reaches a temperature in a range from about 40° C. to about 80° C. when the heating element is in use. A broiler element is positioned within the heating cavity. The heating cavity reaches a temperature in a range from about hundred and 150° C. to about 300° C. when the broiler element is in use. A dual hood system is also coupled to the microwave hood system.
US12289818B2
The present disclosure relates to a drawer-type microwave oven comprising a cooker body, a door, a first slide rail, a second slide rail, a driving motor, a magnetron and a first fan. The cooker body includes a housing and a cooking cavity provided within the housing. The magnetron and the first fan are provided in the third spacing region, the housing is provided with an air inlet mesh that is in communication with the third spacing region. Cold air entering from the air inlet mesh is guided to flow through the magnetron and the driving motor in sequence when the first fan works. When the drawer-type microwave oven works, the first fan draws the cold air into the third spacing region through the air inlet mesh, and the cold air flows through the magnetron and the driving motor in sequence, which can dissipate the heat from the driving motor well, thereby reducing the temperature of the driving motor and ensuring the long-term normal operation of the driving motor and prolonging its service life.
US12289817B1
A microwave heating cavity includes a metal shell, a heating sleeve, a dielectric medium, an antenna bracket, a ceramic rod and a metal wire. The metal shell is provided with a middle cavity extending through the metal shell and including a first mounting cavity, a concave air cavity and a second mounting cavity. The heating sleeve is mounted in the first mounting cavity. An accommodating cavity is arranged in the heating sleeve, in which the dielectric medium is arranged. The antenna bracket is mounted in the second mounting cavity. The ceramic rod is mounted on the antenna bracket. The ceramic rod extends into the accommodating cavity and is in contact with the dielectric medium. The metal wire is spirally wound around the ceramic rod and is configured to be connected with an external power.
US12289815B2
A cooking apparatus includes an upper plate configured to support a cooking vessel, a heating module that is movably disposed in a space under the upper plate and that includes a coil, a substrate that is disposed between the upper plate and the heating module and that includes a plurality of coil patterns, an inverter configured to supply a resonance current to each of the plurality of coil patterns, and a controller configured to control the heating module, the substrate, and the inverter. The controller determines a position of the cooking vessel on the upper plate based on the number or a frequency of pulses of resonance current supplied to each of the plurality of coil patterns. The cooking apparatus recognizes the position of the cooking vessel disposed on the cooking apparatus and moves the heating module to the recognized position.
US12289814B2
A control method of an appliance, including: the appliance includes a first unit that includes a first lamp, a first cavity, a first door and a first sensor; a second unit that includes a second lamp, a second cavity, a second door and a second sensor; and a controller that controls operations of the first unit and the second unit, includes sensing vibrations generated in any one of the first unit or the second unit by the first sensor and the second sensor; determining whether the sensed vibrations are caused by a knock, and when determining that the sensed vibrations are caused by a knock using the first sensor and the second sensor, transferring a knock-on signal to the controller; and comparing the knock-on signals received from the first sensor and the second sensor and determining which of the first unit or the second unit is given the knock by the controller, and outputting a lamp-on output signal to the first unit or the second unit in which the knock is generated by the controller.
US12289809B2
An automotive lighting device and a method for operating an automotive lighting device including at least one solid-state light source. The method includes defining a color allowance condition, feeding the light source with a current value which produces a luminous flux value higher than a minimum luminous flux threshold value, measuring the temperature in the light source, checking whether the output color satisfies the allowance condition and increasing or decreasing the current value, always keeping the current such as it produces a luminous flux value higher than the minimum luminous flux threshold value and producing a color which satisfies the allowance condition.
US12289808B2
A multi-channel power supply system including a power supply circuit configured to generate a drive signal for powering a plurality of color channels based on an input power signal, a first current control circuit coupled to a first color channel of the plurality of color channels and configured to adjust a first channel current of the first color channel based on the drive signal and a first reference signal, and a channel controller configured generate the first reference signal based on a color temperature according to a black body curve.
US12289801B2
A sidelink capability sending method, a sidelink capability receiving method, and a terminal device are provided. The sidelink capability sending method includes generating, by a terminal device, a capability-reporting message, the capability-reporting message including capability information of the terminal device, and the capability information including at least one of: a combination of Long Term Evolution (LTE) PC5 frequency bands; a combination of New Radio (NR) PC5 frequency bands; and a combination of LTE PC5 frequency bands and NR-PC5 frequency bands; and sending, by the terminal device, the capability-reporting message. In this way, the capability information of the terminal may be reported.
US12289798B2
Various aspects include methods for supporting remote Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) profile provisioning that may be performed by a Lightweight Machine-to-Machine (LwM2M) server and LwM2M client computing devices, such as Internet of Things (IoT) devices. A LwM2M server may receive an indication of a SIM profile update for a LwM2M client computing device from a mobile network operator server, generating a remote SIM provisioning object for the LwM2M client computing device indicating that the SIM profile update for the LwM2M client computing device is available, and sending the remote SIM provisioning object to the LwM2M client computing device. A LwM2M computing device may receive a remote Subscriber Identity Module (SIM) provisioning object from a LwM2M server indicating that a SIM profile update for the LwM2M computing device is available, and download the SIM profile update in response to receiving the remote SIM provisioning object.
US12289796B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may initiate a first service, having a first priority during a time interval, associated with a first subscriber identification module (SIM), and a second service, having a second priority during the time interval, associated with a second SIM of the UE, the first priority having a higher priority than the second priority. The UE may identify a first type of communication associated with the second SIM. The UE may adjust, based at least in part on the first type of communication, at least one of the first priority or the second priority during the time interval. The UE may perform a communication in accordance with the adjusted at least one of the first priority or the second priority. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12289795B2
The present invention discloses methods and systems for establishing data communication at a network device. The method includes identifying a cellular network by the network device. After that, the network device sends a request to an MSA for an embedded subscriber identification module (eSIM) profile of the cellular network. The MSA may or may not have an eSIM profile of the cellular network available. When an eSIM profile of the cellular network is available, the network device receives the eSIM profile information from the MSA. The network device then sends a request for data communication access to the cellular network using the eSIM profile information to obtain data communication access through the cellular network. The network device may comprise at least one universal integrated circuit card (UICC) and/or embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC).
US12289792B2
Methods, apparatuses, and computer readable medium for assisting node discovery are provided. An example method may include receiving, from a network node, an indication of a communication with a second assisting node. The example method may further include transmitting the communication to the second assisting node or discovering a third assisting node based on information associated with the second assisting node.
US12289790B2
Provided are a measurement configuration processing method, a terminal device, a network device, a chip, a computer-readable storage medium, a computer program product and a computer program. The method includes that: cell reselection from a first area where a first frequency is located to a second area is performed; and at least a measurement configuration corresponding to the first frequency in an idle measurement configuration is processed. The idle measurement configuration includes a measurement configuration corresponding to at least one frequency. One or more frequencies in the at least one frequency may correspond to one validity area, and one or more validity areas may correspond to one timer. The first frequency is one of the one or more frequencies.
US12289788B2
A method, system, network node and wireless device are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, A network node configured to communicate with a wireless device is provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to: determine a short DRX configuration based at least on a delay value constraint associated with the wireless device, and transmit an indication of the short DRX configuration and a long DRX configuration where the short DRX configuration corresponds to a shorter cycle length than a cycle length of the long DRX configuration.
US12289782B2
A wireless device may connect, using a first subscriber identity module (SIM), to a first base station according to a first radio access technology (RAT) and a second base station according to a second RAT. The wireless device may also connect, using a second SIM, to a third base station according to the first RAT. The wireless device may, in response to the second SIM performing a call according to the first RAT, disable the first RAT for the first SIM and perform, using the first SIM, data communication according to the second RAT while the call is performed using the second SIM.
US12289780B2
A disclosure of this specification provides a device configured to operate in a wireless system, the device comprising: a transceiver configured with an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA)—New Radio (NR) Dual Connectivity (EN-DC), wherein the EN-DC is configured to use three bands, a processor operably connectable to the transceiver, wherein the processer is configured to: control the transceiver to receive a downlink signal, control the transceiver to transmit an uplink signal via at least two bands among the three bands, wherein a value of Maximum Sensitivity Degradation (MSD) is applied to a reference sensitivity for receiving the downlink signal.
US12289772B2
Provided is a wireless communication system in which, based on a random access scheme, a transmission opportunity (TXOP) acquired by a wireless access point is granted to a wireless station when performing uplink data transmission from the wireless station to the wireless access point and the TXOP acquired by the wireless station is granted to the wireless access point when performing downlink data transmission from the wireless access point to the wireless station, the system includes a scheduling unit for TXOP granting determining one or more wireless stations having a quality of an uplink data transmission lower than a prescribed value as TXOP responders to which the wireless access point grants the TXOP, and determining one or more wireless stations having a quality of a downlink data transmission lower than the prescribed value as TXOP holders which grant the TXOP to the wireless access point.
US12289766B2
An apparatus has means for causing a random access message to be transmitted from a communications device to a target cell while the communications device is connected to a source cell and for receiving from the source cell information indicating that the random access message has been received by the target cell.
US12289765B2
A method, device, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method may be applied to a base station. The base station may receive a random access preamble, transmitted by a terminal through an unlicensed band. The base station may occupy, in a first time window, a first control channel in the unlicensed band through a Listen Before Talk (LBT) mechanism without backoff. The first time window may be a time window where the terminal occupies the unlicensed band. The base station may transmit a first random access feedback is transmitted through the first control channel. The first random access feedback may indicate that the base station receives the random access preamble.
US12289762B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless device may perform a listen-before-talk (LBT) procedure for a narrowband communication that provides time and frequency synchronization and/or scheduling information for an ultra-wideband (UWB) communication. The wireless device may transmit the narrowband communication in response to the LBT procedure being successful. The wireless device may transmit the UWB communication based at least in part on the time and frequency synchronization and/or scheduling information. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12289749B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, the described techniques provide for a first transmission from a first device to be received at a second device. The second device may determine one or more interference parameters (e.g., a maximum allowable interference power) for receiving the first transmission from the first device, and the second device may transmit an indication of the one or more interference parameters using a full-duplex operation (e.g., using resources overlapping with resources used to receive the first transmission). The third device may receive the indication of the one or more interference parameters and determine transmission parameters (e.g., a maximum transmit power) for communicating with a fourth device based on the one or more interference parameters. The third device may transmit a second transmission to the fourth device based on the transmission parameters.
US12289743B2
Embodiments provide a method for sharing unused resources between at least two transceivers of a wireless communication system, at least a second transceiver of the at least two transceivers operating in a sidelink in-coverage, out of coverage or partial coverage scenario, in which resources for a sidelink communication over a sidelink are pre-configured by the wireless communication system or scheduled autonomously by the second transceiver, the method having: reporting, by a first transceiver of the at least two transceivers, a set of unused resources of the first transceiver to the second transceiver, determining, by the second transceiver, a set of candidate resources out of the resources of the sidelink, the set of candidate resources comprising at least a part of the unused resources of the first transceiver, performing, by the second transceiver, a sidelink transmission using selected resources selected out of the set of candidate resources.
US12289741B2
A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) determines PDCCH candidates. For a slot, the WTRU determines a number of valid PDCCH candidates associated with at least one search space based on a number of designated search spaces associated with the WTRU in the slot, a type of the search space, a priority associated with the search space, a number of required CCE channel estimates associated with the search space, a maximum number of PDCCH candidates in a slot, and a number of control resource sets (CORESETs) associated with the slot. The WTRU may then attempt to decode CCEs in the at least one search space to recover a PDCCH associated with the WTRU. The WTRU may drop PDCCH candidates from the search space when the number of PDCCH exceeds a maximum value.
US12289738B2
A method of communication of a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, by the UE, a first information, and the first information is relevant to an uplink resource allocation. This provides a method of uplink resource allocation and may further provide an indication field to include a resource selection indication. A user equipment and a base station are also provided.
US12289717B2
A method for transmitting an uplink signal by means of a terminal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present specification, comprises: receiving configuration information related to transmission of the uplink signal; receiving a message indicating an update of a panel related to the uplink signal; and transmitting the uplink signal on the basis of the configuration information and the message. On the basis of a specific panel being updated to a first panel through the message, the specific panel being configured in at least one specific uplink resource among uplink resources, a beam being configured in the at least one specific uplink resource is updated to a specific beam.
US12289707B2
A communication device is a communication device that transmits detection information including position information based on a communication system using LPWA, and includes a position information acquisition unit that acquires the position information, a storage unit that stores the detection information, a communication unit that performs wireless communication in compliance with the communication system, a movement detection unit that detects movement of the communication device, and a control unit that controls a communication speed of the wireless communication by the communication unit, in which, when the movement detection unit detects movement of the communication device, the control unit changes the communication speed.
US12289704B2
Various embodiments relate to a next generation wireless communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4th generation (4G) wireless communication system. According to various embodiments, provided are a method for transmitting/receiving a signal in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus for supporting same, and various other embodiments can also be provided.
US12289700B2
A terminal includes a receiving unit that receives information indicating whether each condition of one or more conditions for validating a time alignment is activated or deactivated; and a control unit that independently activates or deactivates each condition of the one or more conditions in accordance with the received information.
US12289696B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for wireless communication by a user equipment (UE). In one aspect, the UE is configured to select, by a user equipment (UE), a list of synchronization signal block (SSB) frequencies included in at least one message as a selected list of SSB frequencies. The UE is further configured to determine, based on whether a first frequency included in the selected list of SSB frequencies is an overlapping carrier or a non-overlapping carrier, whether to perform a new radio (NR) early measurement operation for the first frequency. The UE is also configured to identify a SSB-based measurement timing configuration (SMTC) based on a determination to perform the NR early measurement operation for the first frequency, and to initiate the NR early measurement operation for the first frequency using the identified SMTC.
US12289688B2
Disclosed in the present application are a signal transmission method, a network device and a UE, the method comprising: a network device determining a first instruction message, the first instruction message instructing a UE to use a first power control policy and/or a first transmission mode to send a first signal; and the network device sending the first instruction message to the UE. The problem in the prior art in which a UE cannot be controlled to use full power to send an uplink signal is solved.
US12289684B2
This disclosure relates to methods and devices for wireless communication resource configuration. Various schemes of configuration of sidelink control resources and/or sidelink data communication resources enable reduction of time duration that a user equipment is required to monitor sidelink communication resources for sidelink data, thereby providing power saving in sidelink communication.
US12289678B2
Disclosed are an SCG state control method and apparatus, a UE, an MN, an SN, and a medium. The method comprises: a UE determining whether there is data transmission at an SCG; when it is determined that there is no data transmission at the SCG, controlling a PSCell in the SCG to enter a sleep state; and when it is determined that there is data transmission at the SCG, controlling the PSCell in the SCG to enter an activated state. In the embodiments of the present application, when it is determined that there is no data transmission at an SCG, a UE controls a PSCell in the SCG to enter a sleep state, thereby avoiding wasteful power consumption; moreover, there is no need to release the SCG, such that there is also no need to configure the SCG again when data transmission is initiated at an SCG side again, and data transmission is scheduled at the SCG in a timely manner according to a CSI measurement result reported when the PSCell is in the sleep state, thereby reducing the data transmission delay. Provided is a solution for fast recovery of data transmission under energy saving conditions.
US12289670B2
An edge device that includes one or more first antenna arrays at a donor side of the edge device, and one or more second antenna arrays at a service side of the edge device. The edge device obtains wireless connectivity enhanced information from a central cloud server. The edge device receives a first donor beam associated with a first wireless carrier network (WCN) from a first base station via the one or more first antenna arrays and receives a second donor beam associated with a second WCN from a second base station. The edge device receives two or more time division duplex (TDD) patterns from two or more base stations of different service providers, finds a common TDD pattern for the received two or more TDD patterns, and follows the common TDD pattern for switching RF signals between different WCNs of different service providers for uplink and downlink communication.
US12289666B2
A Bluetooth audio broadcasting system includes: an audio broadcasting device arranged to operably broadcast BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) audio packets; a first Bluetooth member device arranged to operably parse the BLE audio packets to acquire a predetermined audio data and to operably control a first audio playback circuit to playback the predetermined audio data; and a second Bluetooth member device arranged to operably parse the BLE audio packets to acquire the predetermined audio data and to operably control a second audio playback circuit to playback the predetermined audio data. When the first or second Bluetooth member device receives an alert signal, or when a specific ambient sound occurs in the surrounding environment of the first or second Bluetooth member device, the audio broadcasting device utilizes a target control command to instruct the first and second Bluetooth member devices to synchronously reduce their volume to be lower than a predetermined threshold.
US12289658B2
Disclosed are a method for a Buffer Status reporting (BSR), and a terminal, and when both a BSR of a sidelink interface and a BSR of a Uu interface need to be sent by a terminal, the sending of the BSR of the sidelink interface and the BSR of the Uu interface can be dynamically determined, thus ensuring the quality of service of services at the Uu interface and a sidelink interface. The method includes a terminal determining a priority order of logical channels on which a Uu interface and a sidelink interface trigger the sending of a Buffer Status reporting (BSR); and the terminal sending the BSR according to the priority order of the logical channels on which the Uu interface and the sidelink interface trigger the sending of the BSR.
US12289656B2
A method for performing charging processing on a network slice customer includes: receiving a first charging request message including session information from a session management device, where the session information includes an attribute of a PDU session of a user equipment on a network slice instance; determining that charging processing is to be performed on a target network slice customer for the PDU session; and sending a second charging request message including an identifier of the target network slice customer and the session information to a network slice customer charging device, so that the network slice customer charging device performs charging processing on the target network slice customer for the PDU session. When the second charging request message further includes service unit information, the charging processing includes storing service unit usage information or granting a service unit quota.
US12289644B2
Systems and methods for wireless communications are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a master node (MN) determines that a candidate target PScell/SCG in a candidate target secondary node (SN) needs to be released, canceled, or deleted. The candidate target SN is involved in a conditional SN addition or change multi-RAT dual connectivity (MR-DC) procedure of a wireless communication device. The MN and a source SN are currently configured to provide communication services to the wireless communication device. The MN requests to release, cancel, or delete the at least one candidate target PScell/SCG in the candidate target SN using a first signaling procedure.
US12289642B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may measure quality of experience (QoE) metrics and transmit a QoE report that is formatted to be readable by a base station, such that a base station may receive the QoE report and independently perform adjustments associated with the service being utilized by the UE. A UE may receive a configuration message that includes a first configuration for reporting QoE measurements to a base station and a second configuration for reporting QoE measurements to a QoE server. The UE may measure one or more QoE metrics in accordance with the configuration message, and generate a first report for the base station based on the QoE measurements and the first configuration. Upon generating the report, the UE may transmit the first report to the base station in accordance with the first configuration.
US12289638B2
Avoiding media access control padding of trigger-based physical layer convergence protocol data unit
A wireless station (STA) in a wireless local area network (WLAN) performs a method to avoid media access control (MAC) padding of a physical layer convergence protocol data unit (PPDU) (e.g., a trigger-based (TB) PPDU, etc.). The method can reduce current or power consumption by the STA, which can in turn optimize the STA and, in certain instances, the WLAN as whole. In one example, the method includes the STA receiving a trigger frame from an access point (AP). The trigger frame specifies a length of a PPDU. The method further includes the STA generating a TB PPDU based on the specifications in the trigger frame. In particular, the STA generates a PPDU that has a length that is less than the length specified by the trigger frame. The method also includes the STA transmitting the generated PPDU to the AP.
US12289631B2
Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable mesh network capacity management via network metering using a processor an integrated roofing mesh network node in a mesh network to receive and transmit data packets in the mesh network. Each data packet includes a source address, a destination address, and a payload of data. The processor determines passthrough traffic including a subset of data packets routed between radio nodes of the mesh network through the gateway based on the source address and the destination address of each data packet and an address associated with the gateway. The processor determines a passthrough data capacity based on the payload of each data packet in the subset and determines a metric based on the passthrough data capacity to signify an amount of mesh network bandwidth provided by the integrated roofing mesh network node.
US12289623B2
An information transmission method, a terminal device, and a network device are provided. The terminal device includes: a processor, and a memory storing instructions executable by the processor. When the instructions are executed by the processor, the terminal device is caused to: in a case where Network Control Small Gap (NCSG) is supported, send first indication information to a network device. The first indication information is used to indicate NCSG configuration information supported by the terminal device.
US12289617B2
A communication device is a base station that communicates with mobile terminals by radiating communication beams within a coverage, the communication beams including a first beam and a second beam having a shorter radio wave propagation distance than the first beam at a same transmission power, the coverage including a plurality of virtual cells. The communication device includes: a grouping processing unit that groups the plurality of virtual cells such that virtual cells in which mobile terminals capable of uplink communication using the first beam and incapable of uplink communication using the second beam are located are aggregated; and a beam forming unit that controls a radiation direction of the communication beams such that the communication beams are radiated at a same timing to all virtual cells belonging to a same group.
US12289615B2
Radio alignment of downlink and uplink channels between a wireless device and a multi-antenna base station. A method performed by a network node comprises obtaining downlink channel data, wherein the downlink channel data comprises: estimates of a plurality of downlink channels each associated with a downlink reference signal being received from one of the antennas at the wireless device, and time synchronization information associated with each of the downlink channels; obtaining uplink channel data, wherein the uplink channel data comprises: estimates of a plurality of uplink channels each associated with an uplink reference signal being received at one of the antennas from the wireless device, and time synchronization information associated with each of the uplink channels; comparing the downlink channel data and the uplink channel data to determine whether the downlink channel and uplink channel between the wireless device and the multi-antenna base station are aligned.
US12289613B2
Aspects presented herein may enable wireless communications to be adaptive to a dynamic environment, where wireless devices may manage wireless communications, such as performing beam managements, based at least in part on environmental conditions. In one aspect, a network entity receives, from a sensor device or a UE, a request for an ML data service. The network entity establishes, with the sensor device or the UE, the ML data service based on the request. The network entity receives, from the sensor device, ML data including a set of features extracted from at least one sensor of the sensor device or information indicative of at least one beam for the ML data service. The network entity transmits, to the UE, a beam indication to modify the at least one beam based at least in part on the ML data received from the sensor device during the ML data service.
US12289604B2
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.
US12289598B2
A communication device may be configured to receive a sending request by executing communication at a network layer or above of an Open System Interconnection reference model. The communication device may be configured to, in a case where the sending request is received, send a public key by executing communication at the network layer or above. The communication device may be configured to, after the public key has been sent, receive an authentication request. The communication device may be configured to, in a case where the authentication request is received, send an authentication response. The communication device may be configured to, after the authentication response has been sent, receive first connection information. The communication device may be configured to, in a case where the first connection information is received, establish a second wireless connection with an external device by using the first connection information.
US12289597B2
The present disclosure provides a User Equipment (UE) comprising a transceiver circuit; and a controller configured to control the transceiver circuit to send, to an Access and mobility Management Function (AMF) of a communication node, an identifier, wherein upon successful authentication of a network access function of the UE in the communication node, the controller is configured to maintain a secure connection with the communication node.
US12289596B2
The present disclosure relates to a bendable display. For example, the bendable display device stores first information about a size of a screen of the bendable display device in a memory, outputs video data and audio data of content via the screen, receive second information about a curvature of the screen, and output the audio data adjusted based on the first information and the second information via the screen.
US12289580B2
The disclosure provides an electronic device including a substrate, a first vibrating unit, and a supporting unit. The substrate has a first surface. The first vibrating unit is disposed on the first surface and has a second surface. The second surface faces the first surface. The supporting unit is disposed between the substrate and the first vibrating unit. The first surface and the second surface are separated by a distance through the supporting unit. This distance ranges from equal to or greater than 0.06 mm to equal to or less than 65.4 mm.
US12289576B2
An insertion device includes a stent and a plurality of sealing elements where each sealing element is operatively rotationally attached to the stent.
US12289574B2
Implementations of the subject technology provide occupant-based audio for enclosed environments. For example, an apparatus having an enclosure and one or more speakers may determine a location and/or an identity of an occupant within an enclosed environment defined by the enclosure, and operate the one or more speakers to provide audio output to the location of the occupant. The apparatus may also operate the one or more speakers to reduce the audio output to one or more other locations within the enclosure, such as to one or more non-occupant locations and/or to one or more locations of one or more other occupants. The audio output may be occupant-specific audio output, such as a personalized notifications, in one or more implementations.
US12289572B2
Disclosed is an electronic device with a sounding function, including a shell structural member and a speaker. The speaker includes a first sounding unit used to emit low-frequency sounds and a second sounding unit used to emit high-frequency sounds that are coaxially arranged. The first sounding unit surrounds the second sounding unit. The shell structural member is provided with a first channel for transmitting the low-frequency sounds, a second channel separated from the first channel for transmitting the high-frequency sounds, and a common channel for communicating both the first and second channels with the outside of the electronic device. The second channel includes a front cavity of the second sounding unit and a connecting channel for communicating the front cavity with the common channel. The connecting channel is in a horn shape. The effect of the high-frequency sounds of the electronic device with a sounding function is improved.
US12289565B2
A communication control device includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire first video quality information of first video data transmitted from a first imaging device to the display device and second video quality information of second video data transmitted from a second imaging device to the display device; a band estimation unit configured to estimate an available communication band of the second video data from the second video quality information; a band prediction unit configured to predict an available communication band of the first video data based on a reception time difference between the first and second video quality information and predict a common available communication band based on a prediction result thereof and an estimation result; and a determination unit configured to determine transmission conditions of the respective items of first and second video data based on the available communication band common to the first and second imaging devices.
US12289562B2
Mechanisms are provided for replacing default advertisement streams in a media stream with replacement advertisement streams. User profile information is obtained for a particular user and/or device. A default advertisement stream is identified and replaced with advertisement streams selected using the user profile information. Timestamp information and sequence number information is maintained to allow uninterrupted delivery of the modified media stream while customizing media streams for particular users.
US12289552B2
An imaging device includes a plurality of pixels and a voltage supply circuit. Each of the plurality of pixels includes: a pixel electrode; a counter electrode; a photoelectric conversion layer located between the pixel electrode and the counter electrode; and a charge blocking layer located between the pixel electrode and the photoelectric conversion layer. The charge blocking layer contains an impurity and has a first surface facing the photoelectric conversion layer and a second surface facing the pixel electrode. The concentration of the impurity on the first surface is higher than the concentration of the impurity on the second surface. The voltage supply circuit supplies a first voltage between the counter electrode and the pixel electrode in a first period and supplies a second voltage different from the first voltage between the counter electrode and the pixel electrode in a second period.
US12289551B2
A unit pixel includes a first photoelectric conversion unit configured to generate first charges in response to a first incident light, a first transfer transistor connected between the first photoelectric conversion unit and a first node, a connecting transistor connected between a second node and the first node, a second photoelectric conversion unit configured to generate second charges in response to a second incident light, a second transfer transistor connected between a second photoelectric conversion unit and a third node, a switch transistor connected between the third node and the second node, a source follower connected to the first node, a selection transistor connected to the source follower, an overflow transistor connecting the first photoelectric conversion unit and a power supply voltage, and a comparator configured to turn on the overflow transistor.
US12289550B2
An imaging system according to the present disclosure includes: an imaging device that is mounted in a vehicle, and captures and generates an image of a peripheral region of the vehicle; and a processing device that is mounted in the vehicle, and executes processing related to a function of controlling the vehicle on the basis of the image. The imaging device includes: a first control line, a first voltage generator that applies a first voltage to the first control line, a first signal line, a plurality of pixels that applies a pixel voltage to the first signal line, a first dummy pixel that applies a voltage corresponding to the first voltage of the first control line to the first signal line in a first period, a converter including a first converter that performs AD conversion on the basis of a voltage of the first signal line in the first period to generate a first digital code, and a diagnosis section that performs diagnosis processing on the basis of the first digital code. The above-described processing device restricts the function of controlling the vehicle on the basis of a result of the diagnosis processing.
US12289538B2
Disclosed is imaging system (200) including controllable light source; image sensor; metalens to focus light onto IS; and processor(s). The processor(s) is configured to control CLS to illuminate given part of field of view of IS at a first instant, while controlling IS to capture first image (FImg). The image segment(s) represent a given part as illuminated and remaining image segment(s) represent a remaining part of the FOV as non-illuminated. The processor controls the CLS to illuminate the remaining part at second instant, while controlling IS to capture a second image whose image segment(s) represents a given part as non-illuminated and a remaining image segment(s) represents a remaining part as illuminated. Output image is generated based on: (i) image segment(s) of FImg and remaining image segment(s) of SImg, and/or (ii) remaining image segment(s) of FImg and image segment(s) of SImg.
US12289532B2
An extended reality (XR) system receives capture information from a first camera with a first image sensor that faces a first direction, for instance facing an environment. The capture information is associated with capture of first image data by the first image sensor, for instance including the first image data and/or first image capture settings used to capture the first image data. The XR system determines an image capture setting, such as an exposure setting, for a second image sensor based on the capture information. The second image sensor faces second direction, for instance facing a user of the XR system. In some examples, the XR system determines the image capture setting also based on information from a display buffer for a display that faces the second direction. The XR system causes a second image sensor to capture second image data according to the image capture setting.
US12289531B2
A method for decoding a 360-degree image includes: receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding a 360-degree image; generating a prediction image by making reference to syntax information obtained from the received bitstream; combining the generated prediction image with a residual image obtained by dequantizing and inverse-transforming the bitstream, so as to obtain a decoded image; and reconstructing the decoded image into a 360-degree image according to a projection format. Here, generating the prediction image includes: checking, from the syntax information, prediction mode accuracy for a current block to be decoded; determining whether the checked prediction mode accuracy corresponds to most probable mode (MPM) information obtained from the syntax information; and when the checked prediction mode accuracy does not correspond to the MPM information, reconfiguring the MPM information according to the prediction mode accuracy for the current block.
US12289522B2
A video may be captured by an image capture device in motion. A stabilization trajectory for the video may reflect stabilization rotational positions to compensate for at least some of the motion of the image capture device. The stabilization trajectory may have a stabilization trajectory length. The stabilization of the visual content may be assessed based on the stabilization trajectory length.
US12289518B2
An image photographing method and an electronic device, and the method includes: collecting M first images by using a camera in a first camera array, and collecting N second images by using a camera in a second camera array, where M is an integer greater than 1, and N is a positive integer; displaying P preview images, where each preview image is obtained by synthesizing an image in the M first images and an image in the N second images, synthesized images corresponding to different preview images are different, the synthesized image includes at least one of the following: the first image and the second image, and P is an integer greater than 1; and obtaining a corresponding final image based on a target image in the P preview images.
US12289504B2
Systems and methods are presented for detecting users within a range of a media device. A detection region may be defined that is within the range of the media device and smaller than the range. The detection region may be stored. It may be determined whether a user is within the detection region. The media device may be activated and settings associated with the user may be applied when a user is within the detection region. In some embodiments, settings associated with a user may be compared to provided media content when the user is within the detection region. The content may change when the settings conflict with the media content. Reminders may be provided to or directed to a plurality of users within the range of the media device.
US12289497B2
A user may want to share segments of content, such as video sequences of news reporting or sports events received from a service provider, SR, or content provider, CP, with the members of his social network using the user's social networking application. Therefore, a method is provided for sharing content that may include receiving a content segment by a Transmitter/Receiver Device, TRD. The TRD may transmit, to the SP/CP, a request for sharing the currently received content segment. The SP/CP may receive the request from the TRD and may prepare the content segment for sharing, for example by uploading it to a replay platform. The TRD may receive, from the SP/CP an indication that the content segment has been stored on the replay platform, including a locator to the content segment. The TRD may publish the locator in the user's social network application.
US12289485B2
There is provided a method of sending a content stream, comprising retrieving a sender framework associated with the at least one attribute, wherein the sender framework defines an arrangement of the plurality of tracks to be included in an output content stream. The output content stream is defined according to the sender framework. There is also provided a method of outputting a content stream on a user device, comprising receiving a content stream as defined by a sender framework, retrieving a user framework associated with the user electronic device, wherein the user framework defines at least one predetermined setting or instruction to be applied to the content stream, and applying the user framework to the content stream to update the content stream. The method may also include providing viewer engagement information and updating the sender framework in response to the viewer engagement information received.
US12289481B2
The present disclosure relates to a system, a method and a computer-readable medium for live streaming data search. The method includes receiving a search word, converting the search word into a search vector, receiving an attribute vector matching the search vector, and providing information of a first live streaming program corresponding to the attribute vector. The attribute vector varies according to contents of the first live streaming program while the first live streaming program is being distributed. The present disclosure can deliver contextual search results and text search results simultaneously in a real time manner.
US12289469B2
A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: encoding pieces of attribute information of respective three-dimensional points, using parameters; and generating a bitstream including the pieces of attribute information encoded, control information, and pieces of first attribute control information. The control information corresponds to the pieces of attribute information and includes pieces of type information each indicating a type of different attribute information, the pieces of first attribute control information correspond one-to-one with the pieces of attribute information, and each of the pieces of first attribute control information includes first identification information indicating that the first attribute control information is associated with one of the pieces of type information.
US12289457B2
This document describes systems and techniques for encoding a video frame using different compression ratios or compression algorithms for text blocks and non-text blocks. The described systems and techniques can determine, using a machine-learned model, which blocks of a frame include and do not include text. The described systems and techniques can then use a different compression ratio or compression algorithm for text blocks than the compression ratio or compression algorithm used for non-text blocks. For example, the systems and techniques can encode the text blocks using a first compression ratio that results in higher video quality than a second compression ratio used on at least some non-text blocks. In this way, the described systems and techniques can improve text legibility in a video file without significantly increasing the bandwidth requirements to transmit the video file to remote computing devices.
US12289455B2
This application provides a chroma block prediction method and apparatus. The method includes: obtaining chroma values of chroma samples; obtaining, luma values of luma samples corresponding to the chroma samples; obtaining, from the luma values, a first luma set and a second luma set; grouping the chroma values into a first chroma set and a second chroma set; determining a scaling coefficient in a linear model based on an average value of luma values in the first luma set, an average value of luma values in the second luma set, an average value of chroma values in the first chroma set, and an average value of chroma values in the second chroma set; determining, based on the scaling coefficient, an offset factor in the linear model; and determining prediction information of the chroma block based on the scaling coefficient and the offset factor.
US12289450B2
Point cloud encoding and decoding method and system, and point cloud encoder and point cloud decoder
A point cloud encoding method, including: obtaining attribute information about the attributes of a current point in a point cloud; processing the attribute information of the current point to obtain a residual value of the attribute information of the current point; using a target quantization manner, quantizing the residual value of the attribute information of the current point to obtain a quantized residual value of the attribute information of the current point; the target quantization manner comprises at least two of the following quantization manners: a first quantization manner, a second quantization manner, and a third quantization manner.
US12289448B2
Point cloud coding methods, an encoder, and a decoder are provided. The method includes the following. Morton codes for a point cloud are obtained according to geometry information of the point cloud after geometry decoding is completed and the geometry information is reconstructed. A value of K is determined according to a distribution of the point cloud, where K is a positive integer, where K is a positive integer. The point cloud is determined as an input point cloud of an iteration. Morton codes for an input point cloud of an i-th iteration are right shifted by K bits according to a number of points in the input point cloud of the i-th iteration. An i-th level of detail (LOD) layer is formed with a point selected after the Morton codes are shifted. Color information is decoded according to the LOD layer.
US12289443B2
According to an embodiment disclosed in the present specification, a history-based motion vector prediction (HMVP) candidate set with respect to a current block may be derived based on a history, the HMVP candidate set may be updated or initialized according to a condition, and motion information of the current block may be derived based on the HMVP candidate set, through which inter prediction efficiency can be improved.
US12289440B2
Provided are a video transmission delay measurement method testing an under-test system having an under-test system input port and an under-test system output port and comprising the following steps: generating an original test video and outputting the original test video to the under-test system input port of the under-test system, wherein the original test video has a central time corresponding to a video generating time at which the original test video is generated; receiving a played test video from the under-test system output port of the under-test system, wherein the played test video corresponds to the original test video and the played test video has the central time corresponding to the video generating time at which the original test video is generated; obtaining the central time of the played test video; calculating a time difference between a current time and the central time of the under-test system.
US12289433B2
Systems and techniques are described for device interoperability for extended reality (XR). An apparatus, such as a mobile handset, runs a software application and uses the software application to generate first content to be displayed using a first display of the apparatus. The apparatus causes the first content to be displayed using the first display of the apparatus. The apparatus uses the software application to generate second content that is based on the first content, that is distinct from the first content, and that is to be displayed using a second display of a head-mounted apparatus. The apparatus causes the second content to be displayed using the second display of the head-mounted apparatus at least in part by sending the second content to the head-mounted apparatus. In some cases, the apparatus and the head-mounted apparatus are both associated with the same user, and are of different device types.
US12289416B1
Embedding personalized media into electronic document signing sessions in an electronic signature service includes receiving an electronic document, and media associated with the electronic document, from a document sender during generation of a signing package for a document signer to electronically sign. The electronic signature service embeds the media into the signing package with the electronic document and transmits notice of the signing package to the document signer. The media is displayed to the document signer at predetermined times respective to the commencement of an electronic signing session with the electronic signature service to electronically sign the electronic document.
US12289405B2
The present disclosure provides a graphical watermark, a method and an apparatus for generating a graphical watermark, and a method and an apparatus for authenticating a graphical watermark. The graphical watermark includes: a plurality of graphical markers carrying position and pose information, and identity information of the graphical watermark; and a watermark pattern provided between a pair of graphical markers.
US12289400B1
A system encrypts and decrypts e-mail, messages, and other digital data. By using quantum random number generators, the system has improved data security. Using a quantum random number, an agent (at a sender side) generates an encryption key which is used to automatically encrypt a message. The encryption key is stored at a key server. The encrypted message will be sent by an application using its standard transmission means such as SMTP, SMS, and others. The encrypted message can be automatically unencrypted by using an agent (at a recipient side) and retrieving the key from the key server. The system also provides an optional double encryption, where the message is encrypted with a user-generated password before being encrypted using the encryption key.
US12289399B2
The disclosure provides systems and methods for a multi-party secret sharing protocol that includes determining device channel errors of a plurality of computing devices based on channel impulse response (CIR) of communication channels of the plurality of computing devices, training a linear regression model using the device channel errors to generate learning with error (LWE) secrets for each of the plurality of computing devices, generating a general access structure secret matrix using the LWE secrets from each of the plurality of computing devices, and distributing shares of the general access structure secret matrix to the plurality of computing devices based on a multi-party secret sharing protocol.
US12289398B2
A method and protocol for triple-blind identity mapping that sufficiently address the need to reduce accidental or nefarious attempts to re-identify the underlying identities pseudonymized by current hashing methods are disclosed. The system abates the privacy exposure risk derived from the simple exchange of hashed information, because the referenced actors do not come into possession of the input values required to produce a repeatable function.
US12289396B2
In a method of facilitating encrypted communications between a transmitting system having a unique identifier and a receiving system, a key generation system generates at least one encryption master key for use with the unique identifier and an encryption algorithm to produce a transmitting system-unique encryption key. The key generation system also generates a shared secret master key for use with the unique identifier and a second encryption algorithm to produce a shared secret value. The at least one encryption master key and the shared secret master key are then stored in an encryption information database. The key generation system transmits the at least one encryption master key and shared secret information to the transmitting system and transmits the at least one encryption master key, the shared secret master key and the unique identifier to the receiving data processing system.
US12289387B2
Systems and methods are provided for synchronizing a lower-power idle state. The systems and methods perform operations comprising: initializing, by a master physical layer (PHY) controller, a connection over a network with a slave PHY controller; during initialization, synchronizing a low power idle (LPI) timer of the master PHY controller with a LPI timer of the slave PHY controller; establishing an offset between the LPI timer of the master PHY controller and the LPI timer of the slave PHY controller; and after synchronizing the timer of the master PHY controller with the LPI timer of the slave PHY controller, establishing a link between the master PHY controller and the slave PHY controller to enable the master PHY controller and the slave PHY controller to exchange data.
US12289384B2
In accordance with the various aspects and embodiment of the invention, a system and method are disclosed that automate the process of generating protocol converters using machine-readable descriptions of the external hardware components interfaces and the associated protocol. One advantage of the invention is lowered mistakes in generating the protocol converters. Another advantage is increased productivity when designing the interconnect, such as a network-on-chip (NoC) interconnect used in a system-on-chip (SoC).
US12289378B2
Provided are a system and method for controlling a workflow across domains on the basis of a hierarchical engine framework. Inventive workflow control makes it possible to configure a flexible hierarchical engine framework and provide a workflow service with low latency. Also, the system and method make it possible to control a workflow by building an engine and a data pipeline across domains.
US12289354B2
One or more computer processors include (i) a distribution portion that distributes, to a viewing user terminal, information about a video including an animation of a character object of a distribution user, (ii) a receiver that receives a display request for a specified gift transmitted from the viewing user terminal, (iii) an object display device that displays a specified gift object corresponding to the specified gift in the video, based on the display request received by the receiver, (iv) a determination portion that determines whether behavior information of the distribution user or another gift object satisfies a predetermined condition associated with the specified gift object, and (v) an expression portion that changes at least one of a movement and a shape of the specified gift object when the determination portion determines that the predetermined condition is satisfied.
US12289349B2
A network monitoring device may receive, from a mediation device, flow-tap content data (generated by the mediation device based on current and/or previous investigation reports associated with flow tapping) that needs to be monitored. The network monitoring device may map the content data to a flow-tap content destination address of a content destination device in an entry of a flow-tap content filter. The network monitoring device may analyze, using the flow-tap content filter, network traffic of the network to detect a traffic flow that includes the content data. The network monitoring device may generate, based on successfully detecting a traffic flow that includes the content data, a traffic flow copy and may provide the traffic flow copy to the flow-tap content destination address, wherein the traffic flow copy is to be accessible to the content destination device to enable a context analysis of the content data.
US12289346B2
An access policy analysis system may use stored policy summaries to efficiently perform access analysis. A request that causes an access analysis of an entity in a cloud service provider with respect to a resource hosted in the cloud service provider may be received. An access policy summary generated for the entity based on a set of access policies applied by an access management system of the cloud service provider may be obtained. An access policy summary generated for the resource based on the set of access policies may be obtained. A tree structure that describes a hierarchy of entities in the cloud service provider may be traversed to identify a parent node of the entity in the hierarchy of entities. The access analysis may then be generated based on the access policy summaries for the identified node in the tree structure, for the entity and for the resource.
US12289332B2
The present invention includes systems and methods for providing cybersecurity to web-enabled applications for protection of critical software and host systems. The present invention is operable to build a Hidden Markov model of an application using automated analysis of code and documentation in order to characterize potential state and state transitions. The present invention is also operable to use additional data such as timing and proximity to assess incoming data. Incoming messages are then assigned a trust score based on Bayesian calculations.
US12289330B2
A system and method for securing software as a service (SaaS) platforms by providing inter-service visibility. A method includes identifying, based on log data of a first service, a second service connected to the first service, wherein each of the first service and the second service is a set of functions for performing a respective task, wherein the second service is called by the first service; identifying a plurality of patterns in communications between the first service and the second service in the log data of the first service; creating, based on the identified plurality of patterns, a baseline for communications between the first service and the second service; detecting an anomalous communication between the first service and the second service, wherein the anomalous communication deviates from the baseline; and performing a mitigation action with respect to the detected anomalous communication.
US12289329B2
Data packets transmitted to and from an IoT device are obtained and at least one of the data packets are analyzed using deep packet inspection to identify transaction data from payload of the at least one of the data packets. An event log is generated for the IoT device from the transaction data, the event log, at least in part, used to generate a historical record for the IoT device. The IoT device into a device profile based on the historical record for the IoT device. The event log is updated in real-time to indicate current operation of the IoT device. Abnormal device behavior of the IoT device is determined using the event log and the device profile. The device profile is updated to indicate the abnormal device behavior of the IoT device.
US12289324B1
A network incident summarization and visualization tool presents a summarized or filtered rendering of an analysis or narrative of a collection of events gathered from a stream of incident reports. A graph structure stores entities and relationships between network entities in a graph form based on temporal correspondence between different incidents. An evaluation of the entities and the relationships implements a scoring methodology that identifies the most significant incidents based on the entities and component groups of entities associated by a sequence of relationships. The scoring methodology provides a normalized score that is filtered based on a threshold that removes entities having little to no correspondence or effect. The resulting filtered rendering defines a graph of entities and relationships ordered by type and significance such that the most important aspects of the rendered narrative are apparent.
US12289322B2
A system and method for connected vehicle security incident integration. The method includes correlating a security incident violation with a connected vehicle, wherein the security incident violation is indicated in security incident data collected by at least one connected vehicle security system of the connected vehicle, wherein the security incident violation indicates a deviation from normal operation of the connected vehicle; enriching security incident data of a connected vehicle with cybersecurity data related to at least one of: the connected vehicle, and communications between the connected vehicle and at least one external system; generating a risk assessment for the connected vehicle based on the enriched violation data; and performing at least one mitigation action with respect to the connected vehicle based on the risk assessment.
US12289311B2
A controller includes one or more ports and a processor. The one or more ports are to communicate with a network that includes multiple network devices. The processor is to receive, from a network device in the network, a request to perform a software update in the network device, to evaluate a permission condition in response to the request, to send to the network device a response granting the request when the permission condition is met, and to at least temporarily deny the request when the permission condition is not met.
US12289306B2
Provided are computer-implemented methods for authenticating a mobile device based on a real-time mobile device application profile which may include generating, with a mobile device application on a mobile device, a real-time mobile device application profile associated with the mobile device, receiving the mobile device application profile by the mobile device; and determining whether there is an anomaly between the real-time mobile device application profile and a historical mobile device application profile associated with the mobile device. The methods may also include performing a remedial action associated with a transaction based on determining that there is an anomaly between the real-time mobile device application profile and the historical mobile device application profile. Systems and computer program products are also provided.
US12289283B2
Systems, methods, devices, computer readable instruction media, and other embodiments are described for automated image processing and insight presentation. One embodiment involves receiving a plurality of ephemeral content messages from a plurality of client devices, and processing the messages to identify content associated with at least a first content type. A set of analysis data associated with the first content type is then generated from the messages, and portions of the messages associated with the first content type are processed to generate a first content collection. The first content collection and the set of analysis data are then communicated to a client device configured for a display interface comprising the first content collection and a representation of at least a portion of the set of analysis data.
US12289281B2
A method and an electronic device employing an uninterrupted media play and call management system (UMPCMS) are provided for managing an incoming call without interrupting playing of media on the electronic device. The UMPCMS receives an indication of the incoming call, generates a notification object with one or more call management options for the incoming call in a configurable format based on preconfigured criteria, and overlays the generated notification object with the call management options on a graphical user interface (GUI) provided by the UMPCMS, while supporting continued playing of the media on the electronic device via the GUI without interruption by the incoming call. The UMPCMS receives a selection of a call management option from the electronic device and performs one or more executable actions on the incoming call and/or the playing of the media on the electronic device based on the received selection of the call management option.
US12289270B2
The present disclosure is designed to determine appropriate spatial resources for uplink control channels. A user terminal has a receiving section that receives, through higher layer signaling, a plurality of entries of information related to a spatial resource for an uplink control channel, and receives specifying information that specifies, amongst the plurality of entries, entries that correspond respectively to the plurality of uplink control channel resources, by means of a control element of media access control, and a control section that controls determination of one of the plurality of uplink control channel resources, and controls transmission of the uplink control channel, by using an entry that corresponds to the determined uplink control channel resource, amongst the specified entries.
US12289264B2
Aspects are provided allowing a UE to transmit repetitions of an ULT, PEI-R, or other uplink reference signal for on-demand SSB, RMSI, or paging transmissions. A base station initially transmits an indication of a configured uplink repetition mode, which may comprise a first, second, or third mode in which a one-to-one, one-to-many, or many-to-many mapping exists between downlink reference signals and uplink occasions, respectively. Afterwards, the UE receives downlink reference signals via different transmission beams of the base station. In response to the downlink reference signals, the UE transmits an uplink reference signal repetition in one or more uplink occasions associated with one or more of the downlink reference signals according to the configured uplink repetition mode. In response to the uplink reference signal repetition, the base station may transmit a SSB, RMSI, or paging message. Thus, a balance between network energy savings and uplink signal reliability may be achieved.
US12289260B2
This disclosure provides methods, devices and systems for wireless communication, and particularly, methods, devices and systems for physical (PHY) layer control signaling. A first physical layer convergence protocol (PLCP) protocol data unit (PPDU) may precede a second PPDU. The first PPDU may be referred to as a PHY control PPDU and may include a physical layer control signaling field (CNT-SIG) that informs one or more stations (STAs) regarding a physical layer configuration they should use for the second PPDU. The PHY control PPDU may enable dynamic subchannel assignments for one or more identified STAs, legacy STAs, or sub-bandwidth operating devices. The techniques of this disclosure may enable sharing of a wide bandwidth wireless channel by different types of devices or different basic service sets (BSSs) assigned to different subchannels of the wireless channel.
US12289259B2
Disclosed are a communication scheme and a system thereof for converging an IoT technology and a 5G communication system for supporting a high data transmission rate beyond that of a 4G system. The disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, services related to a smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, retail business, security, and safety) based on 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. Disclosed is a method of a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system. The method includes: receiving a message including secondary cell (SCell) configuration information from a base station; identifying whether a condition for transitioning the SCell to a dormant state is satisfied; and in case that the condition for transitioning the SCell to the dormant state is satisfied, releasing periodic transmission resources for the SCell configured in the UE.
US12289254B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for performing switching functions by a processing circuit of a switching device, the communication over the communication channel being organized according to successive first time slices and a second time slices, the processing circuit implementing a RTOS which in normal operation comprises a RTOS scheduler for scheduling a plurality of tasks having different priorities, said method comprising: applying, by the processing circuit, a first operating mode during each first time slice, in which normal operation of the RTOS is suspended and the processing circuit executes a single task which performs the switching functions; applying, by the processing circuit, a second operating mode in each second time slice, in which normal operation of the RTOS is resumed and switching functions are performed by a task which has not the highest priority of RTOS scheduler.
US12289249B2
In general, techniques are described for deploying and managing a virtual router having Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) functionality to a computing device. In an example, a method includes creating, by a container orchestration platform executing on a computing device, a virtual router custom resource instance of a virtual router custom resource definition, the virtual router custom resource instance for a virtual router to execute on the computing device; based on configuration data for the virtual router custom resource instance, by the container orchestration platform, modifying the virtual router custom resource instance with the configuration data and deploying a first virtual computing instance comprising a virtual router configured according to the modified virtual router custom resource instance; and executing, by the computing device, the virtual router to process a packet.
US12289239B2
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for dynamic load balancing for multi-core computing environments. An example apparatus includes a first and a plurality of second cores of a processor, and circuitry in a die of the processor separate from the first and the second cores, the circuitry to enqueue identifiers in one or more queues in the circuitry associated with respective ones of data packets of a packet flow, allocate one or more of the second cores to dequeue first ones of the identifiers in response to a throughput parameter of the first core not satisfying a throughput threshold to cause the one or more of the second cores to execute one or more operations on first ones of the data packets, and provide the first ones to one or more data consumers to distribute the first data packets.
US12289230B1
Headend nodes on a communication network can be configured to recover from a change of network conditions by generating new paths for demands. A headend node can generate paths both for demand(s) managed by the headend and other demand(s) managed by other headend(s). The headend nodes can be initialized with the same network representation and can deterministically identify paths, such that each headend identifies the same path for the same demand. The headend nodes can provide configuration instructions for the demands that they manage, but can provide them according to a deterministic schedule, to avoid conflicts.
US12289227B2
The present disclosure provides a computing system, a computing processor and a data processing method for the computing processor. The computing system includes: multiple computing clusters, each computing cluster includes multiple computing nodes, and each computing node includes multiple computing processors. At least some computing clusters among the computing clusters, at least some computing nodes in each computing cluster and at least some computing processors of each computing node are connected through direct links. Each computing processor of at least some computing processors of the computing node is configured with a local routing table, which is configured for the computing processor to determine, based on the local routing table, the next direct link through which a data packet performs routing from a data source to a data destination, and the computing processor forwards the data packet through the next direct link.
US12289225B2
Systems, methods, and related technologies for parsing network traffic are described. Network traffic transmitted by a set of devices communicatively coupled to a network is obtained. The network traffic is parsed to determine a set of field values from the network traffic based on the set of protocol fields. The set of field values are transmitted to the set of processing engines.
US12289222B2
To accurately infer a cause of a trouble occurring in a network. A network system acquires first information indicating a status of the network (S101), selects, from among a plurality of cause inference models provided for each type of a cause of a failure occurring in the network, each of the cause inference models being associated with a model selection condition, a cause inference model corresponding to the model selection condition satisfied by the acquired first information, the plurality of cause inference models being trained based on training data including input data that includes second information indicating the status of the network in a time period different from the time period of the first information and ground truth data indicating a cause of a trouble (S102), acquires an output obtained when the first information indicating the status of the network is input to the selected cause inference model (S103), and executes a process for responding to a trouble that has occurred in the network based on the acquired output of the selected cause inference model (S104).
US12289220B1
A network management system (NMS) generates a hierarchical attribution graph representing different scopes at different hierarchical levels of a wide area network (WAN); obtains logical path down data indicative of operational behavior including failure events associated with logical paths of network devices over the WAN; obtains total path data indicative of a historical number of active logical paths between the network devices; and determines a scope of a logical path down issue by, for a time period of the logical path down issue, determining a score for each scope of the different scopes based on the logical path down data aggregated across the respective scope and the total path data, and determining the scope of the logical path down issue as a particular scope of the different scopes having a highest score. The NMS may identify the particular scope as a root cause of the logical path down issue.
US12289198B2
Techniques are described for monitoring network performance and managing network faults in a computer network. A cloud-based network management system stores path data received from a plurality of network devices operating as network gateways for an enterprise network, the path data collected by each network device of the plurality of network devices for one or more logical paths of a physical interface from the network device over a wide area network (WAN). The network management system determines, based on the path data, one or more WAN link health assessments, wherein the one or more WAN link health assessments include a success or failure state associated with one or more of service provider reachability, physical interface operation, or logical path performance; and in response to determining the at least one failure state, outputs a notification including identification of a root cause of the at least one failure state.
US12289194B2
Methods and apparatus for identifying the root cause of deterioration of system level experience (SLE). Offending network components that caused the SLE deterioration are identified and corrective actions are taken.
US12289192B2
Communication systems are described that use signal constellations, which have unequally spaced (i.e. ‘geometrically’ shaped) points. In many embodiments, the communication systems use specific geometric constellations that are capacity optimized at a specific SNR. In addition, ranges within which the constellation points of a capacity optimized constellation can be perturbed and are still likely to achieve a given percentage of the optimal capacity increase compared to a constellation that maximizes dmin, are also described. Capacity measures that are used in the selection of the location of constellation points include, but are not limited to, parallel decode (PD) capacity and joint capacity.
US12289188B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to techniques for peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) reduction based on a tone reservation (TR) algorithm. For a TR algorithm, a suitable subset of tones from among a full set of tones in a given resource allocation are reserved for use as peak reduction tones (PRT). An apparatus such as a transmission/reception point receives a set of one or more PRT sequences and stores them in memory. The transmission/reception point then determines a set of PRTs based on one or more later-received PRT sequence selection parameters. Other aspects, embodiments, and features are also claimed and described.
US12289187B2
The present disclosure provides an isolation integrated circuit, a carrier frequency control circuit and a modulation signal generation method. The isolation integrated circuit includes a carrier frequency generation circuit, a carrier frequency control circuit and a modulation circuit. The carrier frequency generation circuit generates a carrier frequency signal. The carrier frequency control circuit detects enabling periods and disabling periods of an input signal, controls the carrier frequency generation circuit to output the carrier frequency signal during the enabling periods, and controls the carrier frequency generation circuit to stop outputting the carrier frequency signal in the output periods of timing pulses during the disabling periods. The timing pulses are generated in response to detection of entering the disabling periods. The modulation circuit receives the input signal and the carrier frequency signal, and outputs a modulation signal according to the input signal and the carrier frequency signal.
US12289184B2
An estimation system generates, from a value of a time series of an estimation object in a past period, a plurality of patterns of a transition of a value of the estimation object. Based on the plurality of generated patterns and a value of a time series of a factor in the past period, the estimation system specifies a dependency relationship between a transition pattern and a value of the factor and a transition pattern at a past (or future) time point and identifies a model in accordance with the specified dependency relationship. By inputting a value of a time series of the factor in a future period to the estimation model, the estimation system specifies a time series of a value in the future period of the estimation object using at least one transition pattern.
US12289182B1
This disclosure describes techniques are described for proactively computing configuration information for policy-driven on-demand tunnel creation and deletion between sites in a software-defined networking in wide area network (SD-WAN) environment. In some examples, a controller device is configured to precompute configuration data for an overlay tunnel through the wide area network to connect a first site and a second site of a plurality of sites in the SD-WAN environment. The controller device is further configured to obtain, after precomputing the configuration data, an indication to configure the overlay tunnel. The controller device is also configured to send, in response to receiving the indication to configure the overlay tunnel, at least some of the configuration data to the first site to configure the first site with the overlay tunnel.
US12289179B2
Systems and methods for automatically adjusting device volume based on learned volume preferences are disclosed herein. A first device receives a wireless signal from a second device. A signal strength of the wireless signal is determined, and a location of the second device is determined based on the signal strength of the wireless signal. Historical volume level data for the first device is retrieved from memory. A target volume level for the first device is determined based on the location of the second device and the historical volume level data. A volume setting of the first device is automatically adjusted to the target volume level.
US12289178B2
A control system for a bath includes one or more processors and one or more sensors. The one or more sensors are arranged to sense water flow parameter data as a user fills the bath and to transmit the water flow parameter data to the one or more processors. The one or more processors are arranged to determine water flow parameter values suitable for use to fill the bath based on the water flow parameter data, and store the determined water flow parameter values as a pre-set bath-fill option arranged to be used to automatically fill the bath for future use.
US12289173B2
A method to operate a transmitting radio device of a radio communications network is provided, wherein the method comprises: transmitting, to a receiving radio device, first data according to a first transmit mode; determining a first transmit mode time period of the first transmit mode so that the first transmit mode time period does not exceed a survival time period of the transmitting radio device; determining a last reception time when an acknowledgment was received from the receiving radio device, wherein the acknowledgement indicates a successful reception of the transmitted first data at the side of the receiving radio device; and transmitting, to the receiving radio device, second data according to a second transmit mode, wherein the second transmit mode is activated upon expiry of the first transmit mode time period since the determined last reception time.
US12289171B2
User equipment includes a control unit that selects a sidelink resource from candidate resources excluding a selected resource and a further resource within a predetermined time window and a transmitting unit that performs transmission or retransmission using the resource selected by the control unit.
US12289170B2
This disclosure relates to a network device comprising: a first input interface, a first output interface, and a second output interface, wherein the network device is configured to change from a first state, referred to as a time state, to a second state, referred to as a spatial state, and vice versa, wherein the network device is configured to generate each of a first output message and a second output message based on a first input message, wherein the network device is configured to transmit, in the time state, both, the first output message and the second output message, offset in time either via the first output interface or second output interface, and wherein the network device is configured to transmit, in the spatial state, the first output message via the first output interface and the second output message via the second output interface.
US12289160B2
A wireless communication method for use in a network node is disclosed. The method comprises receiving, from a communication node, a message indicating a capability of being a grand master clock, and transmitting, to the communication node, announce information associated with a first announce message based on the capability.
US12289152B2
An antenna system includes a first antenna array having a plurality of first antenna elements. The first antenna elements are operable to communicate one or more signals via a communication protocol. The antenna system includes a second antenna array having a plurality of second antenna elements. The antenna system includes a control circuit configured to control operation of one or more of the second antenna elements of the second antenna array in a first mode or a second mode. In the first mode, one or more of the second antenna elements are configured to provide a secondary function to support communication of the first antenna elements via the communication protocol. In a second mode, one or more of the second antenna elements are configured to support beam forming or beam steering of the first antenna elements.
US12289148B2
Methods, systems, and devices for spectral sharing wireless systems, wherein multiple user devices share time and frequency resources for uplink and/or downlink transmissions, are described. One example method includes transmitting transmission symbols from the network station to at least one user device by processing through a first precoder and a pre-compensation stage, wherein the pre-compensation stage is selected to have the transmission symbols receivable at the at least one user device to appear as if the transmission symbols are processed by a second precoder different from the first precoder.
US12289147B2
Disclosed herein is a reconfigurable phased array and a method for determining the current configuration of a phased array. Certain disclosed embodiments include a reconfigurable phased array including a constellation of antennas configured to receive and transmit radiation towards a far field target. Each of the antennas senses incidental power from the retransmitted radiation from the other antennas of the constellation of antennas. This incidental power may be referred to as mutual coupling. The reconfigurable phased array further includes a computer system configured to: measure the incidental power sensed by the each of the antennas; perform a physical constraint mapping of the constellation of antennas; perform an array shape construction to determine a current position of all the elements based on the physical constraint mapping of the constellation of antennas and the incidental power sensed by each of the antennas.
US12289146B2
This document generally relates to use of non-coaxial estimation and compensation for orbital angular momentum (OAM) communication. The transmitting node may transmit an OAM signal to a receiving node. A non-coaxial parameter estimation node may determine one or more non-coaxial parameters according to the OAM signal. The transmitting node and/or the receiving node may perform beam forming and/or channel compensation based on the non-coaxial parameters.
US12289145B2
Apparatus and methods are provided for CSI enhancement for multi-TRP coherent joint transmission. A user equipment (UE) receives signals from a plurality of transmission and reception points (TRPs). The UE determines, based on the signals, multiple TRP (multi-TRP) coherent joint transmission (CJT) channel state information (CSI) report information for a codebook based on a spatial basis selection matrix, a combination coefficient matrix, and a frequency basis selection matrix. The spatial basis selection matrix is layer common, polarization common, and TRP independent. The UE reports, to one or more of the plurality of TRPs, the multi-TRP CJT CSI report information.
US12289144B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A first user equipment (UE) may monitor sidelink transmissions, during a sensing window, using multiple active receive beams in accordance with a spatial sensing configuration. The multiple active receive beams may be usable for sidelink reception, and may correspond to multiple active transmit beams that are usable for sidelink transmission. The first UE may select multiple candidate resource sets associated respectively with the multiple active receive beams based on monitoring sidelink transmissions using the multiple active receive beams. The first UE may transmit, to a second UE, using an active transmit beam of the multiple active transmit beams, a sidelink message via one or more resources selected from a candidate resource set of the multiple candidate resource sets. The candidate resource set may be associated with an active receive beam corresponding to the active transmit beam.
US12289142B2
This disclosure discloses a communication method and apparatus. In the method, a reflector is used to assist in communication between a terminal and an access network device, and in a reflector-assisted communication process, the reflector is indicated to be in a working mode when being required by the terminal or the access network device, to assist in communication, and the reflector is indicated to be in a sleep mode when being required by the terminal or the access network device, to reduce power consumption.
US12289133B2
Devices to mitigate polarization mode dispersion are provided. An example device comprises: an input coupler configured to receive an optical signal comprising a first portion in a first polarization mode and a second portion in a second polarization mode, the second polarization mode about perpendicular to the first polarization mode; an output and/or an optical detector; and one or more optical components configured to convey the optical signal from the input coupler to the output and/or optical detector, one or more of the input coupler and the optical component(s) introducing a total differential group delay between the first and second portions. The optical component(s) comprising: a rotating component configured to rotate the first polarization mode of the first portion to the second polarization mode and rotate the second polarization mode of the second portion to the first polarization mode, to adjust the total differential group delay.
US12289131B2
Systems and methods are described for determining position of a receiver. The positioning system comprises a transmitter network including transmitters that broadcast positioning signals. The positioning system comprises a remote receiver that acquires and tracks the positioning signals and/or satellite signals. The satellite signals are signals of a satellite-based positioning system. A first mode of the remote receiver uses terminal-based positioning in which the remote receiver computes a position using the positioning signals and/or the satellite signals. The positioning system comprises a server coupled to the remote receiver. A second operating mode of the remote receiver comprises network-based positioning in which the server computes a position of the remote receiver from the positioning signals and/or satellite signals, where the remote receiver receives and transfers to the server the positioning signals and/or satellite signals.
US12289114B2
An example system includes a controller having a first controller terminal, a second controller terminal, and a third controller terminal and digitally locked loop (DLL) circuitry having a first DLL terminal and a second DLL terminal, the first DLL terminal coupled to the first controller terminal. The system also includes first retimer circuitry having a first retimer terminal, and a second retimer terminal, and a third retimer terminal, the first retimer terminal coupled to the second DLL terminal and the second retimer terminal coupled to the second controller terminal and second retimer circuitry having a fourth retimer terminal, a fifth retimer terminal, and a sixth retimer terminal, the fourth retimer terminal coupled to the second DLL terminal and the fifth retimer terminal coupled to the third controller terminal.
US12289108B2
A circuit may include (1) an external input, (2) an external output, (3) a flip-flop subcircuit including (A) a first sequential subcircuit for reading data-input signals from the external input, the first sequential subcircuit including a first internal input coupled to the external input and a first internal output and (B) a second sequential subcircuit for outputting data-output signals to the external output, the second sequential subcircuit including a second internal input coupled to the first internal output of the first sequential subcircuit and a second internal output coupled to the external output, and (4) a hysteresis subcircuit coupled to the external output and configured to reduce a short-circuit current of the circuit. Various other devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US12289102B2
An impedance calibration circuit includes a first leg set having an impedance calibrated to a first target impedance according to an impedance control code during an activation period of a first timing control signal, a second leg set having an impedance calibrated to a second target impedance according to the impedance control code during an activation period of a second timing control signal, a code generation circuit configured to calibrate and output a value of the impedance control code according to a result of comparing a voltage of a node, to which the first leg set is connected, with a reference voltage, and a timing control signal generation circuit configured to generate the first timing control signal and the second timing control signal having different activation periods in response to an impedance calibration enable signal.
US12289089B2
An acoustic wave device includes a piezoelectric substrate and a transducer. The piezoelectric substrate has a surface. The transducer is disposed on the surface. The transducer includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and at least one protrusion. The first electrode extends along a first direction and has a first end. The second electrode extends along the first direction and has a second end. The first electrode and the second electrode are spaced apart from each other along a second direction. The at least one protrusion is disposed at the first end of the first electrode. The at least one protrusion extends along the first direction and partially obstruct the first end.
US12289085B2
An example method of operation may include applying a set of initial power and gain parameters for a speaker, playing a stimulus signal via the speaker, determining a sound level at a microphone location and a sound level at a predefined distance from the speakers, determining a gain at the microphone location based on a difference of the sound level at the microphone location and the sound level at the predefined distance from the speaker, and applying the gain to the speaker output.
US12289084B2
Examples of amplifier circuitry regulate a transconductance value (Gm) of operational transconductance amplifiers (OTAs) in the amplifier to be approximately the same, which value is based on a supply voltage and a reference voltage applied to a reference OTA and the internal resistance of the reference OTA. The reference OTA generates an output current based on Gm and the reference voltage, which current is compared to current generated by the supply voltage and internal resistance of the reference OTA. A tail current transistor of each of the reference OTA and a main OTA that mirrors the Gm of the reference OTA provide a tail current feedback path by which Gm is regulated. Amplifying circuitry is coupled to the main OTA to receive current signals. Based on the received current signals, amplifying circuitry generates a differential output voltage signal. The gain of the amplifying circuitry is proportional to the supply voltage and remains relatively constant across process temperature variations.
US12289083B2
A communication device that can transmit and receive a signal with a large amplitude is provided. The communication device includes an amplifier circuit including first to fourth transistors, first to fourth bias transistors, first to fourth loads, and first to fourth terminals. The drains of the first to fourth transistors are electrically connected to the sources of the first to fourth bias transistors. The sources of the first to fourth transistors are electrically connected to power supply lines. The gates of the first and second bias transistors are electrically connected to a first wiring, and the gates of the third and fourth bias transistors are electrically connected to a second wiring. The first to fourth terminals are electrically connected to the gates of the first to fourth transistors, the drains of the third, fourth, first, and second bias transistors, and the first to fourth loads.
US12289080B2
A photovoltaic system includes a collection of photovoltaic modules, a base supporting the collection of photovoltaic modules, and a damper coupled between the collection of photovoltaic modules and the base. The damper resists movement of the photovoltaic modules relative to the base. The damper has a first damping ratio when the collection of photovoltaic modules moves at a first rate relative to the base and a second damping ratio when the collection of photovoltaic modules moves at a second rate relative to the base, and the damper passively transitions from the first damping ratio to the second damping ratio.
US12289079B2
An apparatus and method for mounting a solar panel array on a surface is disclosed. The solar panel array includes a plurality of solar panel modules and a hybrid solar panel module mounting assembly. The hybrid solar panel module mounting assembly includes a component of a rail-based mounting system and a component of a rail-less mounting system. At least one of the plurality of solar panel modules is mounted on the component of the rail-based mounting system and at least one of the plurality of solar panel modules is mounted on the component of the rail-less mounting system.
US12289077B2
There is provided a water solar power generation system including: a solar cell plate; a frame supporting the solar cell frame; and a float installed in the frame and positioning the solar cell plate on the surface of the water while floating on the surface of the water. The frame becomes a negative electrode and an optical electrode which becomes a positive electrode, and is electrically connected to the frame, and causes water decomposition while contacting water in the water to generate oxygen in the water.
US12289076B2
A method of controlling a power generation apparatus and a pumped storage power generation apparatus including a motor directly connected to a rotor of a generator or generator motor, the method performing speed control by providing a guide vane opening degree command to the motor, the guide vane opening degree command being calculated by a rotational speed controller including a proportional control element, an integral control element, and a differential control element, in which a first upper limit limiting function is multiplied by a second upper limit limiting function, the first upper limit limiting function being included in an output runaway prevention circuit of an integral control function provided in the integral control element and being defined according to an output signal of a load limiter.
US12289067B2
A drive arrangement comprising an electric motor can be operated. The drive arrangement comprises the electric motor, an electrical circuit for operating the electric motor, and a control device for actuating the electrical circuit; wherein the electric motor has at least one stator comprising at least three coils and a rotor comprising at least two magnetic poles; wherein the electrical circuit has at least a first potential connection and a second potential connection, which can be connected to different potentials of a DC voltage source; wherein the electrical circuit comprises three half-bridges between the potential connections, wherein each coil is electrically conductively connected to each half-bridge via a respective first connection and to the other coils via a respective second connection.
US12289053B2
A power supply device and a control method for the same are disclosed. The method comprises: controlling, when there is the abnormal situation in the first input power supply, a first access point of a first relay and a third access point of the first relay to be disconnected, a second access point of the first relay and a fourth access point of the first relay to be disconnected, a common access point of a third relay and a second access point of the third relay to be connected, a common access point of a fourth relay and a second access point of the fourth relay to be connected, a first access point of a second relay and a third access point of the second relay to be connected, and a second access point of the second relay and a fourth access point of the second relay to be connected.
US12289052B2
An integrated circuit for a power supply circuit that generates an output voltage from an input voltage. The power supply circuit includes a transformer, a transistor controlling an inductor current flowing through a primary coil of the transformer, a first capacitor, and a first diode charging the first capacitor. The integrated circuit is configured to control switching of the transistor. The integrated circuit includes a first terminal configured to receive a voltage across the first capacitor; a second terminal configured to receive a feedback voltage corresponding to the output voltage; a driving signal output circuit configured to output a driving signal to increase a switching period of the transistor, in response to a decrease in a load current; a driver circuit configured to drive the transistor in response to the driving signal; and a determination circuit configured to determine whether the power supply voltage drops below a first voltage.
US12289039B2
A high-frequency power supply system according to the present disclosure includes a first power supply, a second power supply, a first matcher, and a second matcher. The second power supply performs pulse modulation of repeating an ON operation of outputting a second forward wave voltage and an OFF operation of not outputting the second forward wave voltage. The first power supply performs frequency modulation control in a second power supply ON period, and performs frequency offset control of outputting a forward wave voltage having a fundamental frequency obtained by adding an offset frequency to a fundamental frequency in a second power supply OFF period.
US12289038B2
Methods and systems are provided for providing cooling to an electric motor via direct spray cooling. In one example, a system may include a shaft including an oil conduit extending axially therein and a plurality of openings fluidically coupling the oil conduit to an external surface of the shaft; a rotor positioned coaxial with the shaft, an inner diameter of the rotor greater than an outer diameter of the shaft; and a gas-filled chamber bounded by an inner surface of the rotor and the external surface of the shaft, the gas filled chamber fluidically coupled to the oil conduit via the plurality of openings, and a pressure of a gas in the gas-filled chamber lower than a pressure of oil in the oil conduit.
US12289036B2
The present invention provides a portable power storage device, and in particular, a portable power storage device with a self-generation and nano-capacitor storage structure. The portable power storage device includes: opposite fixed magnet plates disposed on both sides of a main body and having a plurality of radially arranged induction magnet bodies; and a rotating coil plate disposed between the opposite fixed magnet plates and having a plurality of radially arranged coil bodies to perform mutual induction action with the induction magnet bodies, such that when the rotating coil plate is rotated or reciprocated, electric charges are induced in the coil bodies by the induction magnet bodies to generate current, thereby electricity may be easily generated and used at all times regardless of the location, as well as the stored electricity may be output and used in a portable electric device as necessary.
US12289033B2
A motor assembly including an annulus gear including an annulus gear body having a hollow cylindrical form, and a plurality of annulus gear teeth disposed on an inner surface of the annulus gear body; at least one first outrunner motor disposed in an interior of the annulus gear, the at least one first motor being arranged to drive the annulus gear; a carrier disposed at least partially in the interior of the annulus gear, the carrier including a plurality of carrier gears rotationally connected to the carrier body, the carrier gears being engaged with the annulus gear; a center gear disposed in the interior of the annulus gear, the carrier gears being engaged with the center gear; and at least one second outrunner motor disposed in the interior of the annulus gear, the at least one second motor being arranged to drive the center gear.
US12289032B2
A drive assembly comprises at least an electric drive having a drive shaft, and a transmission having at least one input shaft, wherein a drive power of the electric drive can be transmitted to the input shaft via the drive shaft, and can be transmitted from the input shaft into the transmission. The drive shaft and the input shaft are coaxial to one another and are interconnected by way of a toothing that is form-fitting at least in a circumferential direction. The drive shaft and the input shaft are at least frictionally connected at least in relation to an axial direction at least via a press fit formed in each case between an inner circumferential surface and an outer circumferential surface which are parallel to an axis of rotation, or the drive shaft and the input shaft together form a form-fitting connection via a connecting element.
US12289030B2
A terminal assembly of an electric machine includes an electric machine housing including a terminal opening defined in the electric machine housing. A conductive terminal extends through the terminal opening, from an inside of the electric machine housing to an outside of the electric machine housing. An insulator is located at the terminal. The insulator is positioned between the terminal and a housing wall of the terminal opening. The insulator is sized and configured for installation into the terminal opening after installation of the terminal in the terminal opening.
US12289022B2
A planar drive system comprises a stator and a rotor. The stator comprises a plurality of energizable stator conductors. The rotor comprises a magnet device having at least one rotor magnet. A magnetic interaction can be produced between energized stator conductors of the stator and the magnet device in order to drive the rotor. The stator is configured to carry out energization of the stator conductors so that an alternating magnetic field can be generated via the energized stator conductors. The rotor comprises at least one rotor coil in which an alternating voltage can be induced due to the alternating magnetic field. The planar drive system is configured to transmit data from the rotor to the stator, and the rotor is configured to temporarily load the at least one rotor coil to temporarily cause increased current consumption of the energized stator conductors of the stator.
US12289018B2
The disclosure provides a direct drive transmission system. The direct drive transmission system includes a mover unit and a stator unit driving the mover unit to move. The stator unit includes a stator assembly, two first end covers, and two first guide rails. The mover unit includes a mover assembly, two second end covers, and two second guide rails. The direct drive transmission system further includes a limiting structure. An end of the limiting structure close to each of the second end covers is located between the two second end covers. The stator assembly drives the mover assembly to cause the second guide rail to move along the first guide rail, such that the second end cover contacts a side wall of the limiting structure to realize limiting.
US12289017B2
A rotor of a rotary electric machine includes a rotor core. The rotor core is a stacked body in which a plurality of electromagnetic steel sheets are stacked. The electromagnetic steel sheet includes an inner annular portion and an outer annular portion. A first insertion hole into which a rotating shaft is inserted is formed in the inner annular portion. A rotor inner diameter is defined as twice a distance from a center of the first insertion hole to an inner circumferential edge of the inner annular portion. A rotor outer diameter is defined as twice a distance from the center of the first insertion hole to an outer circumferential edge of the outer annular portion. A ratio of the rotor inner diameter to the rotor outer diameter is within a range of 1:1.5 to 1:3.5.
US12289015B2
There is provided a motor armature structure including an armature that includes: a winding body; an armature core having a plurality of winding cores; and a structure framework, at least a part of the structure framework includes an insulating member, and the armature core includes a molded magnetic material admixture.
US12289008B2
Technologies are disclosed for contingency vehicular signaling. A first DC power source may be connected with one or more indicators. The first DC power source may be connected with a second DC power source, and/or a third DC power source, via a semiconductor. The first DC power source may be configured to receive a second DC current flow from the second DC power source, and/or a third DC current flow from the third DC power source. The semiconductor may be configured to block a first DC current flow from the first DC power source to the second DC power source, and/or the third DC power source. The first DC power source may be configured to provide the one or more indicators with the first DC current flow via the at least one electrical switch regardless of a magnitude of the second DC current flow, and/or the third DC current flow.
US12289006B2
An apparatus for protecting a battery pack is configured to release reverse connection of the battery pack by detecting the reverse connection of the battery pack even in a case where the reverse connection of the battery pack is not detected through a battery pack controller.
US12288998B2
A power receiving apparatus capable of receiving power transmitted from a power transmitting apparatus capable of executing first foreign object detection and second foreign object detection, transmits, to the power transmitting apparatus, data to be used by the power transmitting apparatus to execute the first foreign object detection; before transmitting the data, determines whether a predetermined condition for the power transmitting apparatus to execute the second foreign object detection different from the first foreign object detection is satisfied; and transmits, to the power transmitting apparatus, a signal for causing the power transmitting apparatus to execute the second foreign object detection in accordance with the determination.
US12288995B2
Disclosed are a wireless charging apparatus, a wireless charging method, and a wireless charging system. The wireless charging apparatus includes: a charging interface; a wireless transmitting circuit configured to convert electric energy outputted from a power supply apparatus into an electromagnetic signal and transmit the electromagnetic signal to wirelessly charge a device to be charged; and a control module configured to determine a wireless charging mode to be adopted as a first wireless charging mode or a second wireless charging mode through communication between the wireless transmitting circuit and the device to be charged, periodically detect whether a condition for exiting the first wireless charging mode has occurred when in the first wireless charging mode, and adjust a current wireless charging mode to the second wireless charging mode in response to detecting that the condition for exiting the first wireless charging mode has occurred.
US12288989B2
A boost converter system including a power source, an inductor stage, and a voltage multiplication stage. The power source outputs a first direct current (DC) to the inductor stage. The inductor stage includes a plurality of diodes and a plurality of inductors. The inductor stage includes a first switched inductor cell and a second switched inductor cell. The first switched inductor cell is wired to a first metal-oxide-semiconductor field-effect transistor (MOSFET). The first MOSFET is wired to the voltage multiplication stage. The second switched inductor cell is wired to a second MOSFET. The second MOSFET is wired to the voltage multiplication stage. The voltage multiplication stage receives a first DC current from the first MOSFET and the second MOSFET. The voltage multiplication stage includes at least one voltage multiplier cell (VMC). The VMC includes a plurality of diodes and plurality of capacitors.
US12288984B2
A microcontroller includes a plurality of (Intellectual Property) IP blocks each configured to perform one or more functions; a hardware power estimator circuit for estimating power of the microcontroller, the hardware power estimator including a hardware artificial neural network including a plurality of interconnected nodes arranged in one or more stages, wherein each individual stage comprises: a first input layer including values indicating activities of the microcontroller and/or indicating active cells of the microcontroller; a second input layer including a weighted set of values; an output layer including values calculated for the individual node stage; and at least one intermediate layer situated between the input layer and the output layer, wherein each node of the at least one intermediate layer comprises a multiply and adder (MADD) circuit that is configured to calculate a value for the respective node using values received from the first and second input layers.
US12288981B2
A surge protecting circuit is provided. A first stage filter circuit is connected to an alternating current (AC) source. A surge detection driver circuit is connected to a first stage filter circuit. A first snubber circuit is connected to the AC source. A first terminal of a first power switch is connected to the first snubber circuit. A control terminal of the first power switch is connected to the surge detection driver circuit. A first terminal of a second power switch is connected to a second snubber circuit. A second terminal of the second power switch is connected to an output terminal of the surge protecting circuit. A control terminal of the second power switch is connected to the surge detection driver circuit. A multi-stage filter circuit is connected to a second terminal of the first power switch and the second snubber circuit.
US12288979B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for controlling a distance protection system, as well as a respective device and system for performing the method. Measurements are received. The measurements comprise current and/or voltage measurements at a first position along a transmission line for an electrical power system. A first impedance is computed from the received measurements. A fault location is determined from the computed first impedance and a first impedance boundary. Responsive to the determined fault location, a second impedance is computed. The fault location is redetermined from the computed second impedance and the first impedance boundary. The distance protection system is controlled based on the determined fault location or the re-determined fault location.
US12288972B2
A protector includes: a protector body having a routing part in which a wire harness is routed, and a clamp attachment part in which a locking hole is formed; and a clamp which is locked in the locking hole to hold the wire harness. The clamp includes a pair of clamp-side flat parts which are formed to face in directions opposite to each other. The clamp attachment part has a pair of rotation prevention portions which are provided with the locking hole therebetween and which include body-side flat parts facing the clamp-side flat parts.
US12288969B2
A cable support includes a support body with a saddle configured to support one or more cables, and a stem and a leg that extend from opposite ends of the saddle. A securing member is coupled to the leg. The securing member is movable between a first configuration configured to secure one or more cables within the saddle and a second configuration configured to permit one or more cables to be moved into or out of the saddle. The leg including a retaining tab that releasably secures the securing member in the second configuration.
US12288967B2
Various embodiments of the teachings herein include methods for determining the state of an electrical switchgear assembly. The method may include: measuring an electric current and a voltage dropped across the switchgear assembly; ascertaining a time interval of an arc occurring during a switching operation; comparing the ascertained time interval to a reference value specific to the switchgear assembly; measuring a voltage profile during the time interval; and comparing the voltage profile with a reference voltage profile. The time interval begins when the value of the measured voltage exceeds a first threshold value. The time interval ends when the value of the current intensity falls below a second threshold value.
US12288966B2
One embodiment of a bogie apparatus may comprise: a horizontal frame; vertical frames respectively coupled to both ends of the horizontal frame and provided in a pair; an end bar having both end parts respectively coupled to one end of the pair of horizontal frames; and a connector assembly coupled to the end bar so as to move in at least one direction among upward, downward, left, and right directions. The connector assembly may comprise: a socket portion having a plurality of wiring terminals; a socket mounting portion having the socket portion mounted thereon, and provided in a plate shape; and a guide bushing formed so as to protrude from the socket mounting portion and away from the socket portion, and having a hollow.
US12288965B1
Provided are a new vertical cavity surface emitting laser structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The structure includes a substrate layer, a lower N-type DBR, an active region, an upper N-type DBR and a mixed dielectric DBR sequentially arranged from bottom to top, where a second-class tunnel junction is arranged on one side of the active region close to the upper N-type DBR, where the second-class tunnel junction is embedded in a bottom of the upper N-type DBR and surrounded by the upper N-type DBR, and the substrate layer, the lower N-type DBR, the active region, the upper N-type DBR, the mixed dielectric DBR and the second-class tunnel junction are all coaxial elliptical cylinders; negative electrodes are arranged on the lower N-type DBR, and positive electrodes are arranged on the upper N-type DBRs substrate layer.
US12288959B2
Embodiments herein describe using a birefringent element (e.g., a half-wave plate, full-wave plate, birefringent crystal, or metasurface) or a band-pass filter to reduce the laser line broadening induced by the soliton self-frequency shift. The birefringent element may a free space element that is part of the laser cavity. Due to dispersion, different frequencies (or colors) of light in the laser travel through the birefringent element at different speeds. This dispersion results in the birefringent element introducing slightly different polarization shifts for the different frequencies of light in the laser. When this light passes through a polarizer (which is set to filter out polarizations different from a desired polarization), the polarizer attenuates or extinguishes the frequencies that do not have the polarization of the design frequency of the birefringent element.
US12288957B2
Embodiments of the microwave amplification system are described. In an embodiment, a microwave amplification system includes a microwave amplifier that contains a paramagnetic material with an impurity. The impurity has a plurality of nuclear spin and electron spin-based energy levels. The system includes an input to receive a pumping signal which is transmitted to the microwave amplifier to cause a population inversion in the impurity and excite it to one of the nuclear spin and electron spin-based energy levels. The system further includes another input to receive an input signal to be amplified by the microwave amplifier, the input signal having a lower power than the pumping signal. Once transmitted to the microwave amplifier, the input signal is amplified by the excited state of the impurity in the microwave amplifier thereby generating an amplified signal.
US12288943B2
An apparatus, system and method capable of providing a high precision connection between a plurality of pins of a C form factor pluggable (CFP) and a connection pad of a printed circuit board (PCB). The apparatus, system and method include: a connector mask suitable to receive therein a body of the CFP; a ruler suitable to receive therein the connector mask, and sized and shaped for direct physical associated with the PCB about the connection pad; and an adjustment mechanism at least partially passing through the ruler for contacting at least the connector mask and capable of adjusting the position of the pins in relation to the connection pad.
US12288934B2
An antenna has a plurality of dipoles disposed on a reflector plate. Mounted to the reflector plate is a PCB (Printed Circuit Board) having a plurality of keyed slots, one per radiator of the plurality of dipoles. Disposed within each keyed slot is a transition clip holding an RF (Radio Frequency) cable in place. The transition clip has a shape that holds it in place with a quarter turn, obviating the need to solder the transition clip in place before installing the RF cable. The transition clip is configured to mechanically and electrically couple to the outer conductor of the RF cable and holds in place during soldering. The transition clip and PCB are configured so that the steps of soldering the outer conductor to the transition clip and the inner conductor to an RF signal solder point on the PCB may be performed from the same side of the PCB.
US12288933B2
An antenna system for satellite applications is provide, the antenna system comprising an antenna array and a feed structure, and the antenna array is a passive antenna array configured to have a first state and a second state, the second state being a first deployed state. The feed structure is configured to provide a linearly polarized incident field for the antenna array in the first deployed state. The antenna array comprises a plurality of array elements, and the plurality of array elements forms a polarization conversion surface configured for converting the linearly polarized incident field to a reflected/transmitted circular polarized field. The antenna array is configured so that the radiation pattern of the reflected/transmitted circular polarized field corresponds to a predetermined radiation pattern and an array element geometry and an array element position of each of the plurality array elements are configured to provide the predetermined radiation pattern.
US12288931B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a support member, a front plate disposed on a front surface of the support member, a back plate disposed on a back surface of the support member, a non-conductive structure interposed between the back plate and an edge of the support member and fixed to the support member, and an antenna structure interposed between the back plate and an edge of the support member. At least a portion of the antenna structure may be disposed to face the non-conductive structure. In a region of the non-conductive structure, which faces the antenna structure, a separated distance from the antenna structure varies depending on a distance from a bottom surface of the support member to which the non-conductive structure is fixed.
US12288929B2
A stand-alone component for a radiating system of a wireless device comprises a dielectric support and first and second surfaces respectively comprising first and a second conductive surface elements spaced by the dielectric support and electrically connected by a conductor. The stand-alone component features a parallelepiped shape, and the first and second surfaces are polygons. The first and second surfaces are the largest surfaces of the parallelepiped component. The stand-alone component has a maximum size smaller than a longest operating wavelength of the stand-alone component divided by 20 and is connected to a radiofrequency system and coupled to a ground plane within the radiating system.
US12288924B2
A magnetic field focusing assembly includes a magnetic field generating device configured to generate a magnetic field, and a split ring resonator assembly configured to be magnetically coupled to the magnetic field generating device and configured to focus the magnetic field produced by the magnetic field generating device.
US12288918B2
There is provided a phase shifter having a phase shift region and a peripheral region, and including a first substrate, a second substrate and a dielectric layer between such two substrates; the first substrate includes a first dielectric substrate, a first electrode and a first auxiliary structure; the second substrate includes a second dielectric substrate, a second electrode and a second auxiliary structure; the phase shift region includes overlapping regions; the first electrode and the second electrode are located in the phase shift region, and have orthographic projections, on the first dielectric substrate, overlapped at least partially in the overlapping regions; the first auxiliary structure is in the peripheral region and on a side, close to the dielectric layer, of the first dielectric substrate; the second auxiliary structure is in the peripheral region and on a side, close to the dielectric layer, of the second dielectric substrate.
US12288906B2
A system for determining performance of a fuel cell stack may include a vehicle that collects a current of the fuel cell stack and a current of the fuel cell stack and a server that receives the voltage of the fuel cell stack and the current of the fuel cell stack from the vehicle in real time, determines an average state of health (SOH) of the fuel cell stack for each current section within an effective current range based on the current of the fuel cell stack and the voltage of the fuel cell stack within the effective current range, determines an overall average SOH in the effective current range based on the average SOH of the fuel cell stack for each current section, and determines whether the fuel cell stack has failed based on the overall average SOH.
US12288903B2
A battery pack case for a vehicle includes: a lower panel having a battery pack seated to support a lower surface of the battery pack; a recessed part formed on an upper surface of the lower panel and having a groove shape indented downward to extend; and an insulating sheet extending along the recessed part and attached to the recessed part to insulate between the lower panel and the battery pack at a point where the recessed part is formed.
US12288900B2
Energy storage devices, battery cells, and batteries of the present technology may include a first circuit board defining a plurality of apertures through the first circuit board. The batteries may include a battery stack overlying the first circuit board and electrically coupled with the first circuit board. The battery stack may include a plurality of battery cells. The battery stack may define a plurality of apertures axially aligned with a corresponding aperture through the first circuit board. The batteries may include a second circuit board that defines a plurality of apertures through the second circuit board. The batteries may include a plurality of fasteners, each fastener extending through a separate channel of the plurality of channels. The batteries may include a plurality of conductive extensions electrically coupling each battery cell of the battery stack with one or more fasteners of the plurality of fasteners.
US12288896B2
A battery module prevents an electrolyte solution from leaking out in the event of electrolyte solution leakage. To achieve the object, the battery module according to the present disclosure includes at least one cell assembly including a plurality of secondary batteries stacked in a direction, each secondary battery including an electrode lead, a base plate disposed below the cell assembly and extending in a horizontal direction to support a bottom of the cell assembly, and at least one base insulation member interposed between the cell assembly and the base plate and having a receiving portion formed concavely in a downward direction to receive a part of the cell assembly.
US12288893B2
A battery enclosure assembly includes first and second pieces of an enclosure having an interior area, a plurality of fasteners joining the first and second pieces at a fastening interface, and a seal system sealing the first and second pieces at a sealing interface that is outside the plurality of fasteners relative to the interior area. The seal system including a cured gasket and a non-setting sealant.
US12288882B2
A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an anode material that is used in a fluoride ion battery of a car and can prevent the decrease in operating voltage while inhibiting occurrence of short circuit. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a car including a fluoride ion battery, wherein the fluoride ion battery comprises a cathode layer, an anode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer formed between the cathode layer and the anode layer. The anode layer contains an anode material comprising a Mg metal powder and a fluoride ion conductive material comprised of Ca1-xBaxF2 in which x satisfies 0.5≤x≤0.60.
US12288869B2
A method of manufacturing a formed body for an electrode including: a step of jetting an electrode material containing an electrode active material from an outlet toward a surface FA of a first support while relatively moving the outlet jetting the electrode material and the first support in a plane direction of the first support, in which in the step, a contact member having a contact surface FB that is brought into contact with the electrode material is used, and in a case where a wall friction angle between the contact surface FB of the contact member and the electrode material is denoted by θ1, and a wall friction angle between the surface FA of the first support and the electrode material is denoted by θ2, a relationship (1) 1°≤θ1<15° and a relationship (2) 15°≤θ2 are satisfied.
US12288856B2
A device and method for heating a battery are provided. The device is provided on a first power-consuming device and includes: a first interface electrically coupled to a neutral point of a motor winding of the first power-consuming device; a second interface electrically coupled to a negative electrode of a battery of the first power-consuming device; and a control module coupled to a control system of the first power-consuming device and a control system of a second power-consuming device to coordinate and control the first power-consuming device and the second power-consuming device. The first interface is engageable with a third interface electrically coupled to a neutral point of a motor winding of the second power-consuming device. The second interface is engageable with a fourth interface electrically coupled to a negative electrode of a battery of the second power-consuming device. The control module is configured to perform a battery heating step.
US12288855B2
A battery module as provided includes a battery, a wiring harness board, a circuit board, a compressing piece and a temperature acquisition assembly. The battery includes a top cover. The wiring harness board is arranged on an outer side of the top of the top cover. The circuit board is arranged on a side, away from the battery, of the wiring harness board. The compressing piece is mounted on the wiring harness board. The temperature acquisition assembly includes a thermistor, and the thermistor is electrically connected to the circuit board. The compressing piece compresses the thermistor of the temperature acquisition assembly, so that the thermistor compresses the top cover. The temperature acquisition assembly acquires a temperature of the top cover of the battery, with a short temperature transfer path and rapid temperature transfer response.
US12288852B2
A battery management system for a high-voltage battery of a motor vehicle monitors battery cells of the high-voltage battery. The battery management system can be arranged in a battery housing of the high-voltage battery and has an electronic circuit which is arranged on a circuit carrier and has a processor and a communication interface for communication with at least one vehicle-side unit external to the high-voltage battery. The electronic circuit has at least one pressure sensor, which is designed to detect pressure signals in the battery housing and transmit same to the processor. The processor is designed to detect, on the basis of the transmitted pressure signals, a thermal runaway of at least one battery cell of the high-voltage battery, to generate a signal in the event that a thermal runaway is detected, and to provide the signal of the communication interface for transmission to the unit.
US12288849B2
A solid-state battery including a solid-state battery laminate having a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer interposed between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer, each of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer having an electrode active material. A first active material contour portion in which the electrode active material in one of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer extends to a first plan-view contour of the solid-state battery laminate, and a first non-active material contour portion in which the electrode active material in the other of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer does not extend to the first plan-view contour of the solid-state battery laminate face each other in a lamination direction.
US12288848B2
Described herein is a method of preparing an ionic liquid comprising a nitrogen or phosphorus cation and a bis(fluorosulfonyl)imidate (FSI) counter anion; the method comprising contacting a precursor selected from the group consisting of a tertiary amine, a tertiary phosphine, and an aromatic nitrogen heterocycle, with an alkyl bis(fluorosulfonyl)imidate in an aprotic solvent to alkylate the nitrogen or phosphorus of the precursor, and directly form a nitrogen or phosphorus cation with an FSI counter anion.
US12288843B2
The present invention concerns a new method for the preparation of a Li—P—S product, as well as the products obtainable by said methods, and uses thereof especially as solid electrolytes.
US12288842B2
An aspect of the present invention is a sulfide solid electrolyte that contains at least one element M selected from the group consisting of Al, Si, B, Mg, Zr, Ti, Hf, Ca, Sr, Sc, Ce, Ta, Nb, W, Mo, and V, and N and has a crystalline structure. Another aspect of the present invention is a sulfide solid electrolyte that contains Al and N and that has a crystalline structure.
US12288832B2
A method for manufacturing a light-emitting element includes forming a first light-emitting part, forming a tunnel junction part on the first light-emitting part, and forming a second light-emitting part on the tunnel junction part. The step of forming the first light-emitting part includes forming a first layer with a first p-type impurity concentration at a first temperature, and forming a second layer with a second p-type impurity concentration on the first layer. The second p-type impurity concentration is greater than the first p-type impurity concentration. The step of forming the second light-emitting part includes forming a third layer with a third p-type impurity concentration at a second temperature and forming a fourth layer with a fourth p-type impurity concentration on the third layer. The fourth p-type impurity concentration is greater than the third p-type impurity concentration. The second temperature is less than the first temperature.
US12288822B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an epitaxial structure over the substrate, a conductive structure, and a dielectric liner. The conductive structure extends from within the epitaxial structure to above the epitaxial structure. The dielectric liner extends along a sidewall of the conductive structure. The dielectric liner has a top end capped by the conductive structure.
US12288803B2
A transistor includes a body of semiconductor material, where the body has laterally opposed body sidewalls and a top surface. A gate structure contacts the top surface of the body. A source region contacts a first one of the laterally opposed body sidewalls and a drain region contacts a second one of the laterally opposed body sidewalls. A first isolation region is under the source region and has a top surface in contact with a bottom surface of the source region. A second isolation region is under the drain region and has a top surface in contact with a bottom surface of the drain region. Depending on the transistor configuration, a major portion of the inner-facing sidewalls of the first and second isolation regions contact respective sidewalls of either a subfin structure (e.g., FinFET transistor configurations) or a lower portion of a gate structure (e.g., gate-all-around transistor configuration).
US12288795B2
An optical device and method of forming the optical device include a substrate having an integrated metal pattern proximate a detector or top absorber layer to minimize diffraction effects. The integrated metal pattern is aligned with selective regions of the pixel array structure of the detector layer for masking pixels of the pixel array structure. The pattern of the integrated metal pattern may be used for alignment with modulation transfer function (MTF) structures of the detector layer for MTF testing, for alignment with reference pixels of the detector layer for spatial reference used during calibration of the optical device, or for forming a polarizer grid.
US12288794B2
An image sensor includes a storage device, where the storage device includes a memory element, a first dielectric layer and a light shielding element. The memory element includes a storage node and a storage transistor gate, where the storage transistor gate is located over the storage node. The first dielectric layer is located over a portion of the storage transistor gate. The light shielding element is located on the first dielectric layer and includes a semiconductor layer. The semiconductor layer is electrically isolated from the memory element, where the light shielding element is overlapped with at least a part of a perimeter of the storage transistor gate in a vertical projection on a plane along a stacking direction of the memory element and the light shielding element, and the stacking direction is normal to the plane.
US12288775B2
A light emitting device including a board, a first stacked structure configured to emit light having a first wavelength, a second stacked structure configured to emit light having a second wavelength, a third stacked structure configured to emit light having a third wavelength, a first connection electrode electrically connected to the first stacked structure, the second stacked structure, and the third stacked structure, and a protection material covering at least a portion of the first connection electrode, in which each of the first, second, and third stacked structures is configured to selectively emit light while being connected to the first connection electrode, and the protection material is configured to transmit at least 50% of light having the first wavelength, light having the second wavelength, and light having the third wavelength upon operation of each of the first, second, and third stacked structures.
US12288770B2
Semiconductor packages with embedded wiring on re-distributed bumps are described. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, a semiconductor package may include an integrated circuit (IC) having a plurality of pads and a re-distribution layer (RDL) coupled to the IC without any substrate or lead frame therebetween, where the RDL comprises a plurality of terminals, and where one or more of the plurality of pads are wire bonded to a corresponding one or more of the plurality of terminals.
US12288769B2
A micro-LED mounting substrate includes a wiring line substrate provided with at least a plurality of substrate-side connecting portions on one plate surface, a plurality of micro-LEDs disposed side by side in the one plate surface of the wiring line substrate and each including at least a light-emitting face and an LED-side connecting portion provided on a surface opposite to the light-emitting face and connected to the substrate-side connecting portion, a first positioning portion provided on at least a portion of the plurality of micro-LEDs, and facing an installation surface of the substrate-side connecting portion of the wiring line substrate, and a second positioning portion provided on the installation surface of the substrate-side connecting portion of the wiring line substrate and capable of positioning the micro-LEDs including the first positioning portion by being recess-projection-fitted to the first positioning portion.
US12288760B2
A semiconductor device including an element isolation in a trench formed in an upper surface of a semiconductor substrate, a trench isolation including a void in a trench directly under the element isolation, and a Cu wire with Cu ball connected to a pad on the semiconductor substrate, is formed. The semiconductor device has a circular trench isolation arrangement prohibition region that overlaps the end portion of the Cu ball in plan view, and the trench isolation is separated from the trench isolation arrangement prohibition region in plan view.
US12288756B2
In one aspect, a capacitor or network of capacitors is/are provided for vertical power delivery in a package where the capacitor(s) is/are embedded in or forms the entirety of the package substrate core. In a second aspect, a plurality of thin-film capacitor structures are provided for implementing vertical power delivery in a package. In a third aspect a method is provided for fabricating hermetically sealed thin-film capacitors.
US12288744B2
Microelectronic assemblies, and related devices and methods, are disclosed herein. For example, in some embodiments, a microelectronic assembly may include a package substrate having a core substrate with a first conductive structure having a first thickness on the core substrate, and a second conductive structure having a second thickness on the core substrate, where the first thickness is different than the second thickness.
US12288743B2
A semiconductor package includes a lower substrate that includes a lower wiring layer; a semiconductor chip disposed on the lower substrate, and an upper substrate disposed on the semiconductor chip. The upper substrate includes a lower surface that faces the semiconductor chip, an upper wiring layer, and a plurality of protruding structures disposed below the lower surface. The lower surface of the upper substrate includes a cavity region that overlaps the semiconductor chip in a first direction, and a plurality of channel regions that extend from the cavity region to an edge of the upper substrate. The cavity region and the plurality of channel regions are defined by the plurality of protruding structures.
US12288737B2
A thin semiconductor packaging unit includes a semiconductor die, a mold, two contact bulks, a first bridge layer, a second bride layer, and two insulation layers; the mold covers a side surface of the semiconductor die; the mold includes two sides, and each of the sides includes at least one first contact area; the two contact bulks are respectively mounted on the two sides of the mold; each of the contact bulks includes at least one second contact area connecting the at least one first contact area; the first bridge layer connects the top electrode of the semiconductor die to one of the contact bulks; the second bride layer connects the bottom electrode of the semiconductor die to the other one of the contact bulks; the two insulation layers respectively cover the first bridge layer and the second bridge layer; the present invention dissipates heat efficiently.
US12288736B2
The sensor semiconductor package (100) comprises a die pad (101), external connection terminals (103), semiconductor chip 105 and sealing member. The semiconductor chip (105) is located on a top surface of the die pad (101) and is electrically connected with the external connection terminals (103) and the die pad (101). The sealing member covers the die pad (101), the external connection terminals (103) and the semiconductor chip (105) and exposes an outer terminal (115) of each of the external connection terminals (103) and an outer contact surface (117) of the die pad (101). The outer contact surface (117) of the die pad (101) forms an electrode (117) of the sensor semiconductor package (100). The article comprises the sensor semiconductor package (100). The method manufactures the sensor semiconductor package (100) and the article.
US12288724B2
A method of classification of a film non-uniformity on a substrate includes obtaining a color image of a substrate with the color image comprising a plurality of color channels, obtaining a standard color for the color image of the substrate, for each respective pixel along a path in the color image determining a difference vector between the a color of the respective pixel and the standard color to generate a sequence of difference vectors, sorting the pixels along the path into a plurality of regions including at least one normal region and at least one abnormal region based on the sequence of difference vectors, and classifying the at least one abnormal region as overpolished or underpolished based on at least one difference vector of a pixel at a boundary between the abnormal region and an adjacent normal region.
US12288723B2
A method includes forming first and second gate stacks extending across a semiconductor fin on a substrate; forming source/drain regions in the semiconductor fin, wherein one of the source/drain region is between the first and second gate stacks; forming a dielectric layer laterally surrounding the first and second gate stacks; doping a portion of the dielectric layer between the first and second gate stacks with a dopant; removing the second gate stack to form a gate trench next to the doped first portion of the dielectric layer; performing an annealing process to expand the doped first portion of the dielectric layer toward the gate trench; forming an isolation structure in the gate trench and next to the expanded first portion of the dielectric layer; forming a source/drain contact extending through the dielectric layer to the one of the source/drain regions.
US12288721B2
A method includes etching a semiconductor substrate to form a trench between a first semiconductor strip and a second semiconductor strip. The first semiconductor strip has a first width at about 5 nm below a top of the first semiconductor strip and a second width at about 60 nm below the top of the first semiconductor strip. The first width is smaller than about 5 nm, and the second width is smaller than about 14.5 nm. The trench is filled with dielectric materials to form an isolation region, which is recessed to have a depth. A top portion of the first semiconductor strip protrudes higher than the isolation region to form a protruding fin. The protruding fin has a height smaller than the depth. A gate stack is formed to extend on a sidewall and a top surface of the protruding fin.
US12288717B2
A method of forming an electronic device is disclosed. The method comprises forming depositing a metal on a substrate, the metal comprising one or more of copper (Cu), titanium (Ti), or tantalum (Ta). A metal cap is deposited on the metal. The metal cap comprises one or more of molybdenum (Mo), ruthenium (Ru), iridium (Ir), rhodium (Rh), palladium (Pd), silver (Ag), osmium (Os), platinum (Pt), or gold (Au). The substrate is then exposed to an anneal process, e.g., a hydrogen high-pressure anneal. The formation of the metal cap on the metal minimizes parasitic adsorption of hydrogen by the underlying metal.
US12288716B2
A method includes forming a first metallic feature, forming a dielectric layer over the first metallic feature, etching the dielectric layer to form an opening, with a top surface of the first metallic feature being exposed through the opening, and performing a first treatment on the top surface of the first metallic feature. The first treatment is performed through the opening, and the first treatment is performed using a first process gas. After the first treatment, a second treatment is performed through the opening, and the second treatment is performed using a second process gas different from the first process gas. A second metallic feature is deposited in the opening.
US12288715B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a source/drain structure is formed over a substrate, a first interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer including one or more dielectric layers is formed over the source/drain structure, a first opening is formed in the first ILD layer to at least partially expose the source/drain structure, a sacrificial layer is formed on an inner wall of the first opening, a first insulating layer is formed on the sacrificial layer, a conductive layer is formed on the first insulating layer so as to form a source/drain contact in contact with the source/drain structure, the sacrificial layer is removed to form a space between the first insulating layer and the first ILD layer, and a second insulating layer is formed over the source/drain contact and the first ILD layer to cap an upper opening the space, thereby forming an air gap.
US12288711B2
A method of operating a die attach system is provided. The method includes the step of providing a verification substrate configured to receive a plurality of die, the verification substrate including a plurality of substrate reference markers. The method also includes the step of imaging each of the plurality of die with respective ones of the plurality of substrate reference markers using an imaging system of the die attach system for determining an alignment of the plurality of die with the verification substrate.
US12288710B2
The disclosure relates to a wafer processing apparatus for processing wafers with a rotatable table provided with a support constructed and arranged to support a removable holder for storing a plurality of wafers. A drive assembly may be provided to provide a rotary movement to the rotatable table around a vertical axis perpendicular to the table; and, a supply line may be constructed and arranged to supply utilities to the rotatable table. The drive assembly may be controlled and configured to create the rotary movement of the table in a clockwise and/or an anticlockwise direction to avoid breakage of the supply line.
US12288708B2
A wafer carrier dry cleaner includes a receiver, a tool and a movable nozzle. The receiver includes a clean room. The clean room includes a port used to load a wafer carrier. The wafer carrier comprises a box and a door closing an opening of the box. The tool is located in the clean room and configured to separate the door from the box. The movable nozzle is located in the clean room. The movable nozzle is configured to purge clean gas towards the box and the door at a first position between the box and the door when the box and the door are separated.
US12288699B2
The present invention presents a single wafer-type wafer cleaning device and a single wafer-type method for controlling the surface roughness of a wafer, in which, in a wafer cleaning process, mutually different cleaning processes are carried out on the respective two sides of a wafer, and also, mutually different chemicals are used depending on the side of the wafer being cleaned, thereby enabling the respective roughness of the two sides to differ. The single wafer-type wafer cleaning device comprises a spin chamber, a first chemical supply device, a second chemical supply device and a third chemical supply device.
US12288696B2
A kit of parts for forming a foreline for coupling a process chamber to a vacuum pumping and/or abatement system, the kit comprising: a plurality of foreline segments; wherein each foreline segment is a pipe that comprises: a first substantially straight end portion; a second substantially straight end portion opposite to the first end portion; and an intermediate portion disposed between the first and second end portions and connected to the first and second end portions by respective bends; the first and second end portions are substantially parallel to each other; the intermediate portion is oblique to the first and second end portions; and the foreline segments are configured to be attached together so as to form a continuous foreline.
US12288682B2
Energy is locally supplied to a cutting surface that is formed in an outer circumferential region of a wafer in a trimming step, before a grinding step of grinding the wafer. This can remove or repair at least part of a damage layer formed in the outer circumferential region of the wafer due to the trimming step. As a result, breakage of the wafer that originates from the outer circumferential region in the grinding of the wafer which has been subjected to the edge trimming and generation of dust in a step after this grinding can be suppressed.
US12288673B2
A physical vapor deposition system may include an RF generator configured to transmit an AC process signal to a physical vapor deposition chamber via an RF matching network. A controller of the RF matching network receives the DC magnitude and phase error signals and varies an impedance of the RF matching network in response to the DC magnitude and phase error signals. The matching network operates in a first mode until a tuning dead-zone is determined. Once a tuning dead-zone is determined, the matching network operates in additional modes until the network is tuned. The controller uses a composite value of magnitude and phase error to drive the variable tuning and load capacitors. In some cases, a blended mode (representing multiple tuning algorithms concurrently) may be implemented as a single mode that weights across what would have been multiple modes and thereby tunes the network using a weighted blended mode.
US12288671B2
In a mask pattern forming method, a resist film is formed over a thin film, the resist film is processed into resist patterns having a predetermined pitch by photolithography, slimming of the resist patterns is performed, and an oxide film is formed on the thin film and the resist patterns after an end of the slimming step in a film deposition apparatus by supplying a source gas and an oxygen radical or an oxygen-containing gas. In the mask pattern forming method, the slimming and the oxide film forming are continuously performed in the film deposition apparatus.
US12288670B2
A vapor deposition system and methods of operation thereof are disclosed. The vapor deposition system includes a vacuum chamber; a dielectric target within the vacuum chamber, the dielectric target having a front surface and a thickness; a substrate support within the vacuum chamber, the substrate support having a front surface spaced from the front surface of the dielectric target to form a process gap; and a signal generator connected to the dielectric target to generate a plasma in the vacuum chamber, the signal generator comprises a power source, the power source configured to prevent charge accumulation in the dielectric target. The method includes applying power to a dielectric target within a vacuum chamber to generate a plasma in a process gap between the dielectric target and a substrate support and pulsing the power applied to the dielectric target to prevent charge accumulation.
US12288668B2
A method of delayering a sample that includes a second layer formed under a first layer, where the first and second layers are different materials or different texture, the method including: acquiring a plurality of gray scale images of the region of interest in an iterative process by alternating a sequence of delayering the region of interest with a first charged particle beam and imaging a surface of the region of interest with a second charged particle beam; after each iteration of acquiring a gray scale image, calculating an entropy of the acquired gray scale image and calculating a second derivative of the entropy; determining whether a transition from the first layer to the second layer occurred based on the second derivative of the entropy; and if it is determined that a transition from the first layer to the second layer did not occur, proceeding with a next iteration of acquiring a plurality of gray scale images, and if it is determined that a transition from the first layer to the second layer did occurred, end pointing the delayering process.
US12288665B2
A sample display method by means of a scanning electron microscope comprises at most one active objective lens located above a first scanning element and a second scanning element. A primary electron beam is deflected so as to be focused by an objective lens so that the beam propagates from the second scanning element towards a sample approximately parallel to the SEM optical axis, wherein the sample is also tilted relative to the SEM optical axis by an angle other than 90°, or it is a sample with distinct topography.
US12288661B2
One or more embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a radiotherapy target device. The radiotherapy target device may include: a target component including a target body and a support supporting the target body; and a housing surrounding the target component. The housing may include a first surface and a second surface allowing radiation beams to pass through.
US12288651B2
A key structure is applicable to an electronic device having a housing. The key structure includes a seat, a switch, a button, and an elastic sheet. The seat is disposed in the housing and has a first through hole. The switch is disposed on the seat. A key pillar of the button passes through the first through hole to abut against the switch. The elastic sheet includes a body, and a plurality of first elastic arms, second elastic arms and third elastic arms. The first elastic arms extending from the body are abutting against the housing. The second elastic arms extending from an inner edge of the second through hole are engaged with the key pillar. The third elastic arms abutting against the keycap are configured to support the button and provide a restoring force that can restore the button from a pressed position to an initial position.
US12288649B2
The disclosure provides a micro-electromechanical system switch and a communication device. The micro-electromechanical system switch includes: a substrate; a DC bias line, arranged on one side of the substrate; a first signal transmission line and a second signal transmission line, arranged on the same side of the substrate as the DC bias line; a cantilever beam, arranged on a side, away from the substrate, of a layer on which the first signal transmission line is located; and a fixing structure, arranged on the side, away from the substrate, of the layer on which the first signal transmission line is located and not in contact with the first signal transmission line, where the fixing structure connects the free end and the substrate.
US12288644B2
A film capacitor including a laminate including: a first dielectric film, a second dielectric film, a first metal layer, and a second metal layer, and defining a first end surface and a second end surface opposing each other in a width direction. The first and second dielectric films face each other in a thickness direction. The first and second end surfaces each define an unevenness having a height of 0.07 mm to 0.25 mm and a pitch of 0.07 mm to 0.15 mm continuously along the thickness direction. First gaps having a length of 0.3 mm or greater are between the second dielectric film and a first external electrode on the first end surface, and second gaps having a length of 0.3 mm or greater are between the first or second dielectric film without the second metal layer and a second external electrode on the second end surface.
US12288638B2
A coil component includes a body; a coil portion disposed in the body and including a lead-out pattern; an external electrode disposed on a first surface of the body; and a plurality of connection vias disposed in the body, connecting the external electrode to the lead-out pattern, and integrated with each other, wherein, in each of the plurality of connection vias, a size of an end surface area of a lower portion adjacent to the external electrode is different from a size of an end surface area of an upper portion adjacent to the lead-out pattern.
US12288633B2
A multi-core cable is provided with a heat detection line including a twisted pair wire having a pair of heat detecting wires being twisted together, a plurality of electric wires spirally twisted around the heat detection line, and a sheath covering the heat detection line and the plurality of electric wires together. Each heat detecting wire includes a first conductor and a first insulator covering around the first conductor, and a jacket covers around the twisted pair wire. Each electric wire includes a second conductor and a second insulator covering around the second conductor. The jacket includes an inner layer, an outer layer, and an intermediate layer provided between the inner layer and the outer layer, and a hardness of the outer layer is higher than a hardness of the inner layer.
US12288623B2
Subjects who are potentially impacted by a medical condition are identified. An experimental group includes subjects having a positive indication for a specific criterion related to the medical condition in their medical profiles. A control groups includes subjects having a negative indication for the specific criterion. An artificial intelligence system is trained using the specific criterion and secondary characteristics of the subjects of the experimental and control groups to construct a classifier for the medical condition. The classifier is used to extract a target group of subjects from a population of subjects. A medical profile of each subject of the target group is marked as potentially affected by the medical condition. A system includes the artificial intelligence system and a database for storing the medical profiles. Deep learning or machine learning may be used to analyze medical images such as retinal images.
US12288621B2
An apparatus for generating a diagnostic label is disclosed. The apparatus includes at least a processor and memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor. The memory instructs the processor to receive a plurality of electrocardiogram signals and a plurality of electronic health records from a user. The memory instructs the processor to generate a plurality of structured electronic health records using the plurality of electronic health records. The memory instructs the processor to generate a plurality of representations as a function of the plurality of electrocardiogram signals and the plurality of structured electronic health records using a representation machine learning model. The memory instructs the processor to generate a diagnostic label as a function of the plurality of representations. The memory instructs the processor to display the diagnostic label using a display device.
US12288613B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods for automatically generating telemedicine platforms for providers. A marketplace of healthcare services and associated pricing and other terms is made available to employers, individuals, and/or health insurance companies. Employers and/or health insurance companies can select a subset of options from the marketplace to create a customizable sub-marketplace of healthcare services to offer to their employees or insureds. Providers may modify their offerings in the marketplace to fit within guidelines established by the employers or health insurance companies to be automatically included in the sub-marketplace of healthcare services.
US12288608B2
A system for recording, storing and processing diagnostic information, including: a computer implementing a computer-readable media including digital data and ground truth; a registry constructed and arranged to store and associate transactions or accesses on the data; and a machine learning system that considers each learning step modification a microtransaction for the data used in that step and which is recorded in the transaction registry. Other embodiments of this aspect include corresponding computer systems, apparatus, and computer programs recorded on one or more computer storage devices, each configured to perform the actions of the methods.
US12288607B2
The present disclosure relates to an apparatus and a method for analyzing medical data based on unsupervised learning. By using a machine learning model based on an adversarial generative neural network to detect and notify anomalies in medical data, the present disclosure allows accurate and rapid reading, in addition to saving time and cost incurred by reading.
US12288596B2
A semiconductor memory device may include a plurality of memory cells wherein identifiers may be provided to the memory cells. The semiconductor memory device may include a first circuit, a second circuit and a power control circuit. The first circuit may include a first power terminal and a second power terminal. The second circuit may include a third terminal and a fourth terminal. The power control circuit may be configured to apply a first power voltage or a ground voltage to the first power terminal and to apply the ground voltage to the second power terminal based on the identifiers.
US12288592B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems for performing sense operations in memory are disclosed. The memory can have a group of memory cells, and circuitry can be configured to perform a sense operation on the group, wherein performing the sense operation includes performing a first sense operation in a first polarity on the group of memory cells to determine a quantity of the memory cells of the group that are in a particular data state, and performing a second sense operation in a second polarity on the group of memory cells to determine a data state of the memory cells of the group. The second polarity is opposite the first polarity, and the second sense operation is a count-based sense operation that uses the determined quantity of memory cells in the particular data state as a counting threshold to determine the data state of the memory cells of the group.
US12288589B2
A test circuit may include: a plurality of replication receivers configured to generate a plurality of oscillation signal pairs in response to a plurality of oscillation enable signals; and an oscillation control circuit configured to generate the plurality of oscillation enable signals in response to a test enable signal, and to generate a detection signal in response to any one of the plurality of oscillation signal pairs.
US12288584B2
A machine-readable medium and methods of reading and writing same are disclosed. The machine-readable medium comprises a substrate having an array of addressable locations thereon, each addressable location adapted to be physically associated with a collection of non-polymeric molecules. The molecules in each collection are selected from a set of unambiguously identifiable molecules, each molecule uniquely associated with a predetermined position in a numerical value, wherein the presence of the molecule in the collection indicates a predetermined digit at the associated position and the absence of said molecule in the collection indicates a zero at said associated position.
US12288579B2
Provided herein are memory devices, systems including memory devices, and methods of operating memory devices in which multiple counters are provided to permit memory refresh commands greater freedom in targeting subsets of the memory device for data refresh operations. In one embodiment, a memory device is provided, comprising a plurality of memory banks, and circuitry configured to (i) store a plurality of values, each of the plurality of values corresponding to one of the plurality of memory banks; (ii) refresh first data stored in a first one of the plurality of memory banks; and (iii) update a first one of the plurality of values corresponding to the first one of the plurality of memory banks based at least in part on refreshing the first data.
US12288575B2
Described are methods for processing microelectronic device substrates by a lapping step, e.g., a final lapping step, wherein the step includes the use of an elastomeric pressure-sensitive adhesive to secure the microelectronic device substrate to a carrier that holds the substrate to a surface of the carrier during the lapping step, and wherein the pressure-sensitive adhesive can be a non-polysilicone based adhesive having mechanical properties that include a tan delta that is below about 0.2.
US12288567B2
A neural network, a system using this neural network and a method for training a neural network to output a description of the environment in the vicinity of at least one sound acquisition device on the basis of an audio signal acquired by the sound acquisition device, the method including: obtaining audio and image training signals of a scene showing an environment with objects generating sounds, obtaining a target description of the environment seen on the image training signal, inputting the audio training signal to the neural network so that the neural network outputs a training description of the environment, and comparing the target description of the environment with the training description of the environment.
US12288566B1
A device capable of using data from multiple sensors to determine an estimated position/direction of a user with respect to the device. The device may use estimated position data, along with confidence data, that originated from a plurality of sensors to fuse the data to determine the user's estimated position and comprehensive confidence of the estimated position. The system may use the location information to perform beamforming/beam steering and/or other downstream operations using the comprehensive estimated position.
US12288558B2
Systems and methods for managing multiple voice assistants are disclosed. Audio input is received via one or more microphones of a playback device. A first activation word is detected in the audio input via the playback device. After detecting the first activation word, the playback device transmits a voice utterance of the audio input to a first voice assistant service (VAS). The playback device receives, from the first VAS, first content to be played back via the playback device. The playback device also receives, from a second VAS, second content to be played back via the playback device. The playback device plays back the first content while suppressing the second content. Such suppression can include delaying or canceling playback of the second content.
US12288555B2
An electronic device receives a voice input, and determines whether the voice input is matched with a natural language understanding (NLU) model for determining the presence or absence of a verb. The electronic device further identifies a display context object associated with the voice input based on the voice input being matched with the NLU model. The electronic device calculates a similarity value between the voice input and the display context object, and update a user interface (UI) depending on the calculated the similarity values.
US12288550B2
Techniques are disclosed herein for focused training of language models and end-to-end hypertuning of the framework. In one aspect, a method is provided that includes obtaining a machine learning model pre-trained for language modeling, and post-training the machine learning model for various tasks to generate a focused machine learning model. The post-training includes: (i) training the machine learning model on an unlabeled set of training data pertaining to a task that the machine learning model was pre-trained for as part of the language modeling, and the unlabeled set of training data is obtained with respect to a target domain, a target task, or a target language, and (ii) training the machine learning model on a labeled set of training data that pertains to another task that is an auxiliary task related to a downstream task to be performed using the machine learning model or output from the machine learning model.
US12288549B2
An image search system uses a multi-modal model to determine relevance of images to a spoken query. The multi-modal model includes a spoken language model that extracts features from spoken query and a language processing model that extract features from an image. The multi-model model determines a relevance score for the image and the spoken query based on the extracted features. The multi-modal model is trained using a curriculum approach that includes training the spoken language model using audio data. Subsequently, a training dataset comprising a plurality of spoken queries and one or more images associated with each spoken query is used to jointly train the spoken language model and an image processing model to provide a trained multi-modal model.
US12288545B2
An acoustic signal processing device includes a noise cancelling section that is provided for each of multiple microphones and that generates a signal for canceling noise according to a sound signal inputted from the corresponding microphone, and a digital filter that processes an external input signal.
US12288536B2
A display panel, a method for driving the display panel, and a display device are provided. In an embodiment, the display panel includes: a first substrate; a display dielectric layer located at a side of the first substrate; pixel electrodes and peek-proof electrodes, all of the pixel electrodes and the peek-proof electrodes being arranged between the first substrate and the display dielectric layer; and a light-shielding structural layer including a light-shielding structure and a hollow-out portion. In an embodiment, along a direction perpendicular to a plane of the display panel, the peek-proof electrodes overlap with the light-shielding structure, and the pixel electrodes overlap with the hollow-out portion; and the light-shielding structural layer is located at a side of the peek-proof electrodes adjacent to a light exit surface of the display panel.
US12288534B2
In one embodiment, a new frame is to be presented on a display. A frame time is predicted for the new frame along with a current balance for a set of previously presented frames. A frame pattern for the new frame is determined based on the predicted frame time and the current balance.
US12288533B2
A display panel and a backlight compensation method therefor are disclosed. The backlight compensation method includes: detecting ambient light parameters at four positions of the display panel to obtain an ambient light intensity parameters at a first position, a second position, a third position, and a fourth position; obtaining a partition compensation table for a total number of n*m partitions based on the ambient light intensity parameters at the first and second positions, the second position, the first preset parameter, the partition parameter in the first direction, the ambient light intensity parameter at the third and fourth positions, the second preset parameter, and the partition parameter in the second direction; and driving respective backlight sources of different partitions according to the partition compensation table; where each partition includes at least one lamp bead.
US12288531B2
In particular embodiments, a computing system may receive receiving a first image frame of a sequence of image frames to be shown on a display having a plurality of backlight zones. The computing system may compute backlight unit statistics of the first image frame. The backlight unit statistics may represent grayscale levels for the plurality of backlight zones. The computing system may compute a global dimming gain for adjusting color values and backlight unit intensity of a second image frame of the sequence of image frames based on the backlight unit statistics of the first image frame. The computing system may adjust, using the global dimming gain, the color values and the backlight unit intensity of the second image frame.
US12288525B2
A method of processing data, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring voltage values of a plurality of sub-pixels to be detected in the pixel array; determining a plurality of sub-pixels to be compensated from the plurality of sub-pixels to be detected according to the voltage values of the plurality of sub-pixels to be detected, where differences between the voltage values of the plurality of sub-pixels to be compensated and voltage values of corresponding adjacent sub-pixels are greater than or equal to a first filtering threshold; determining at least one sub-pixel column to be compensated according to a position of the plurality of sub-pixels to be compensated in the pixel array; and performing a filtering compensation on the voltage values of a plurality of sub-pixels in the at least one sub-pixel column to be compensated based on a second filtering threshold.
US12288518B2
An organic light emitting diode display device can include a driving transistor, a first transistor connected to the driving transistor, a second transistor connected between a data voltage and the driving transistor, a third transistor connected between a high level voltage and the driving transistor, a fourth transistor connected to the driving transistor, a fifth transistor connected between an initial voltage and the driving transistor, a sixth transistor connected to the initial voltage, a seventh transistor connected to the high level voltage, an eighth transistor connected to a reference voltage, a storage capacitor connected between the driving transistor and the eighth transistor, and a light emitting diode connected between a low level voltage and the fourth transistor.
US12288510B1
An LED display screen configuration system for improving the gray scale recognition effect of human eyes used in a direct-view LED display screen sets a first current matched with a selected gamma value to output light to define a first brightness range, then uses a brightness X˜100% in the first brightness range to form a first modulation interval and a brightness Y % as a minimum allowable value, and sets the next current to form the next modulation interval, and so on and so forth. In any two adjacent modulation intervals, the maximum brightness outputted from the latter modulation interval is equal to or slightly greater than the brightness X % of the previous modulation interval, so that the respective current outputs of the 1st to the Nth modulation intervals show a power decreasing relationship, so as to set or switch to the most suitable modulation interval for the practical brightness requirements.
US12288509B2
A signal generation method and device, and a chip are provided. In the method, the target brightness for achieving the display effect can be obtained, and then a second display duration is determined according to a first display duration and the target brightness, to determine the duration that a target display unit needs to be in the ON state in a refresh cycle in order to achieve the display effect. Then, the second display duration can be allocated to the refresh cycle according to a control mode to obtain a target control signal.
US12288505B2
A driving circuit, a display panel, and a driving method thereof are disclosed. The driving circuit includes a light-emitting module, a data signal writing module, and a control module. The light-emitting module emits light under a driving current. The data signal writing module is connected to the light-emitting module and configured to control a magnitude of the driving current. The control module is electrically connected to the data signal writing module and the light-emitting module. The control module is configured to control a light-emitting time of the light-emitting module under a control of a light-emitting time control signal.
US12288497B2
A pixel circuit in a display panel includes a drive transistor and a first transistor, a first terminal of the drive transistor is electrically connected to a power signal line, a first terminal of the first transistor is electrically connected to an initialization signal line; a second terminal of the first transistor is electrically connected to the drive transistor, or the second terminal of the first transistor is electrically connected to the light-emitting element; and drive modes of the display panel include a first drive mode, a second drive mode, and a third drive mode, the first drive mode corresponds to a first drive frequency F1 and a first initialization signal Vref1, the second drive mode corresponds to a second drive frequency F2 and a second initialization signal Vref2, and the third drive mode corresponds to a third drive frequency F3 and a third initialization signal Vref3.
US12288492B2
Disclosed is a method for reducing degradation of a display of an electronic device, the method including: determining whether the display is in a low-power display mode for displaying an always on display (AOD) screen, identifying content of a first screen displayed on the display based on the display displaying the AOD screen, detecting a folding angle of the display, generating a second screen by reorganizing the first screen based on the folding angle, and displaying the second screen on the display.
US12288490B2
Methods, apparatus, devices, subsystems, and systems for holographically displaying three-dimensional objects are provided. In one aspect, a system includes: a display having a plurality of display elements and a driving device coupled to the driving device and configured to: obtain a hologram for the display, wherein the hologram comprises, for each display element of the plurality of display elements, a respective sum of electromagnetic (EM) field contributions of a plurality of primitives corresponding to at least one object to the display element; and generate, for each display element of the plurality of display elements, a respective modulation control signal based on the respective sum of EM field contributions of the plurality of primitives to the display element.
US12288482B2
The invention relates to a retractable lighting fixture, comprising an elongated drum rotatable over a length axis; and a flexible multilayer lighting sheet movable between a retracted position and a protracted position, with the multilayer lighting sheet in the retracted position being at least partially retracted in one or more windings around the drum and with the multilayer lighting sheet in the protracted position being fully unwound from the drum; the multilayer lighting sheet being composed of at least one LED layer and at least one diffusing optical layer, the at least one LED layer having a first LED layer edge mounted at a first mounting position of the drum and the at least one diffusing optical layer having a first optical layer edge mounted at a second mounting position of the drum, the first mounting position being located at an arc length from the second mounting position.
US12288480B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for artificial intelligence-driven avatar-based personalized learning techniques are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes obtaining multiple forms of input data from user devices associated with a user in a virtual learning environment; determining status information for user variables by processing at least a portion of the multiple forms of input data using a first set of artificial intelligence techniques; determining instruction-related modifications for the user by processing, using a second set of artificial intelligence techniques, at least a portion of the multiple forms of input data and at least a portion of the determined status information; implementing, based on the determined instruction-related modifications, modifications to an instructor avatar with respect to the user in the virtual learning environment; and performing one or more automated actions based on user response to the implemented modifications to the instructor avatar.
US12288479B2
Provided are a self voice training method for a patient with a voice disorder and a user terminal for self voice training. The user terminal for self voice training includes an input device configured to receive a training program selection command of a user, a storage configured to store voice training candidate programs for the user's voice training, a calculator configured to generate first guide content according to a first voice training program selected from among the voice training candidate programs by the user, an output device configured to output the first guide content, and a microphone configured to receive voice output by the user according to the first guide content output through the output device.
US12288474B2
A system and method for teaching arithmetic has a plurality of training aides or manipulatives wherein a child/student learns arithmetic facts by executing the method using the system. The physical training aids may include a die (10,12), a factor card (14) and a factor finder member (16). The physical training aids are used with the child where the child creates a multiplication product by rolls of the die (10,12) wherein the child uses the factor card (14) and the factor finder member (16) to identify factor numbers associated with the multiplication product. A game may be incorporated where the child can use the system and method in playing the game.
US12288468B2
A taxicab system includes a plurality of taxicab vehicles which are all autonomous vehicles, and a management device. Each taxicab vehicle can form a vehicle group with other taxicab vehicles according to an instruction from a customer or the management device. The vehicle group includes one representative vehicle and at least one subordinate vehicle. The representative vehicle and the subordinate vehicle execute at least one of a collective billing process for charging a representative customer a fare for each of the plurality of vehicles, and a collective setting process for setting a place designated by the representative customer as a destination of each of the vehicles.
US12288467B2
A collision avoidance system includes a periphery monitoring system which detects vehicles in proximity to a subject vehicle by use of a sensor, an approaching vehicle notifying system which communicates with another vehicle in proximity to the subject vehicle in vehicle-to-vehicle communication, and a detected vehicle comparison/determination system which is connected to the periphery monitoring system and the approaching vehicle notifying system, determines common vehicles detected by both the periphery monitoring system and the approaching vehicle notifying system, and controls the periphery monitoring system and the approaching vehicle notifying system.
US12288461B2
A vibration control method, a vibration control device, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium are provided. Target effect parameters are obtained in a preset vibration effect design model with reference to a haptic effect demand index, effect parameters in the vibration effect design model including a granularity parameter, a sharpness parameter and a hardness parameter. A vibration control signal is generated based on the target effect parameter. The actuator is controlled to vibrate based on the vibration control signal. With the implementations of the present disclosure, the vibration control models of the actuator can be adaptively designed based on different haptic effect demand scenarios, thereby ensuring the diversity of haptic effects and the adaptability to the scenarios. A variety of perception factors are considered in the vibration effect of the actuator, thereby providing the user with a more complex haptic feedback experience.
US12288460B2
A smoke detector system is provided. The smoke detector system includes a smoke detection element. The smoke detector system further includes an internal air quality (IAQ) sensor. The IAQ sensor is disposed and configured to confirm whether an alarm issued by the smoke detection element is real or a false alarm.
US12288455B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, for identifying wildfire in satellite imagery. In some implementations, a server obtains a satellite image of a geographic region and a date corresponding to when the satellite image was generated. The server determines a number of pixels in the satellite image that are indicated as on fire. The server obtains satellite imagery of the geographic region from before the date. The server generates a statistical distribution from the satellite imagery. The server determines a likelihood that the satellite image illustrates fire based on a comparison of the determined number of pixels in the satellite image that are indicated as on fire to the generated statistical distribution. The server can compare the determined likelihood to a threshold. In response to comparing the determined likelihood to the threshold, the server provides an indication that the satellite image illustrates fire.
US12288448B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for game play using virtual players, sometimes referred to herein as vBots, where they may have images including those of real world personalities, such as sports personalities, is disclosed. In one aspect, a system for electronic game play involves the use of the system wherein one or more virtual players are displayed to the player of the game, preferably, the virtual players have differing play characteristics, receiving from the user association with a selection of a virtual player, displaying a simulated game using the virtual players, identifying a subset of the virtual players as being winners of the simulated game, and awarding a win to the lottery user if the selected virtual player is in the subset of virtual players. In one aspect, a team may be formed in which real life sports personalities images are utilized.
US12288443B2
A lottery transaction processing method is provided and includes receiving a lottery play request by a lottery play generation processor. The method further includes generating play information including a unique play serial number, and a play random number key, by the play generation processor, generating a play digital signature as a function of the play information and the play random number key by the play generation processor, transmitting the play information and the play digital signature, but not the play random number key, over a network to a gaming system server for storage by the gaming system server, and issuing a lottery play record including the play information and the play random number key by the play generation processor.
US12288439B1
An apparatus and method for an oral nicotine dispensing system. The apparatus includes storing a plurality of a pods in a magazine within a body, receiving a fingerprint scan from a user via a fingerprint scanner coupled to the body, authenticating the fingerprint scan, de-activating a locking mechanism to allow access to at least a pod upon successful authentication of the fingerprint scan, and dispensing, using at least a drive mechanism, the at least a pod from the magazine through an opening of the body.
US12288434B2
Disclosed systems and methods relate to a smart access control reader for an access control system. According to embodiments, a method can include installing the smart access control reader to the access control system by connecting the smart access control reader to the access control system via wiring of the access control system. The method can also include receiving, by the smart access control reader, one or more first credentials for authenticating one or more users by the access control system. The method can further include determining, by the smart access control reader, that the one or more first credentials are authorized. Moreover, the method can include transmitting, by the smart access control reader, a second credential to an access control panel of the access control system, in response to a request by a first user to access an area monitored by the access control system.
US12288414B2
Technologies are presented herein in support of a system and method for performing fingerprint recognition. Embodiments of the present invention concern a system and method for capturing a user's biometric features and generating an identifier characterizing the user's biometric features using a mobile device such as a smartphone. The biometric identifier is generated using imagery captured of a plurality of fingers of a user for the purposes of authenticating/identifying the user according to the captured biometrics and determining the user's liveness. The present disclosure also describes additional techniques for preventing erroneous authentication caused by spoofing. In some examples, the anti-spoofing techniques may include capturing one or more images of a user's fingers and analyzing the captured images for indications of liveness.
US12288413B2
A computer, including a processor and a memory, the memory including instructions to be executed by the processor to acquire one or more images from a camera and determine first camera noise values based on the one or more images by determining reactions of camera photo receptors to light. The instructions can include further instructions to compare the first camera noise values with second camera noise values determined based on previously acquired images from the camera and output a tamper determination for the camera based on whether the first camera noise values match, within a tolerance value, the second camera noise values determined based on the previously acquired images from the camera.
US12288408B2
Systems and methods of monitoring inventory of a product storage facility include an image capture device configured to move about the product storage areas of the product storage facility and capture images of the product storage areas from various angles. A computing device coupled to the image capture device obtains the images of the product storage areas captured by the image capture device and processes the obtained images of the product storage areas to detect individual products captured in the obtained images. Based on detection of the individual products captured in the images, the computing device analyzes each of the obtained images to extract meta data from the packaging the individual products to detect one more keywords and determine the locations of the detected keywords on the packaging, and then utilize this information to predict an identity of the products associated with the packaging.
US12288407B2
An image processing apparatus includes circuitry to set first upper limit values for vertical and horizontal sizes of a character included in image data for erecting direction determination, segment the image data in units of character into a plurality of rectangular areas, determine, in the image data, a plurality of first rectangular areas each of which satisfies the first upper limit values, perform character recognition on characters in the plurality of first rectangular areas in four directions of a +X direction, a −X direction, a +Y direction, and a −Y direction, calculate degrees of certainty of the four directions, determine whether a direction having a highest degree of certainty among the calculated degrees of certainty of the four directions is an erecting direction of the image data to output a determination result, and perform, along the erecting direction, character recognition on characters in a plurality of second rectangular areas of the image data, the plurality of second rectangular areas satisfying second upper limit values for the vertical and horizontal sizes smaller than the first upper limit values for erecting direction determination.
US12288406B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media for accurately enhancing optical character recognition with a machine learning approach for determining words from reverse text, vertical text, and atypically-sized text. For example, the disclosed systems segment a digital image into text regions and non-text regions utilizing an object detection machine learning model. Within the text regions, the disclosed systems can determine reverse text glyphs, vertical text glyphs, and/or atypically-sized text glyphs utilizing an edge based adaptive binarization model. Additionally, the disclosed systems can utilize respective modification techniques to manipulate reverse text glyphs, vertical text glyphs, and/or atypically-sized glyphs for analysis by an optical character recognition model. The disclosed systems can further utilize an optical character recognition model to determine words from the modified versions of the reverse text glyphs, the vertical text glyphs, and/or the atypically-sized text glyphs.
US12288404B2
A game-agnostic event detector can be used to automatically identify game events. Game-specific configuration data can be used to specify types of pre-processing to be performed on media for a game session, as well as types of detectors to be used to detect events for the game. Event data for detected events can be written to an event log in a form that is both human- and process-readable. The event data can be used for various purposes, such as to generate highlight videos or provide player performance feedback. The event data may be determined based upon output from detectors such as optical character recognition (OCR) engines, and the regions may be upscaled and binarized before OCR processing.
US12288402B2
A computer includes a processor and a memory, and the memory stores instructions executable by the processor to receive first environmental data recorded by an environmental sensor on board a vehicle, receive nonenvironmental data recorded on board the vehicle independently of the first environmental data, add a plurality of annotations derived from the nonenvironmental data to the environmental data, and train a machine-learning program to process second environmental data by using the first environmental data as training data and the annotations as ground truth for the first environmental data.
US12288401B2
Technical challenge in unusual human activity detection task is to rightly identify only unexpected or unusual movements from constant regular movements present in a scene, with most techniques built on understanding that camera is static. However, ego view camera of mobile surveillance robot is in motion as robot navigates. Embodiments herein provide a method and system for anomalous activity detection for mobile surveillance robots by mimicking ‘Konio-Parvocellular-Magno’ cells of the human brain into a NN model, which are responsible for detecting slow, normal, and swift changes in perceived scenes. To detect anomalous activity, the static or normal movements of scene captured by ego view camera are identified as redundant information and only RoI is forwarded for further processing using the Optical flow and SSIM techniques. The NN model mimicking KPM is trained only on the RoI to detect normal or anomalous activity.
US12288397B2
Techniques are described that support automated generation of a digital document from digital videos using machine learning. The digital document includes textual components that describe a sequence of entity and action descriptions from the digital video. These techniques are usable to generate a single digital document based on a plurality of digital videos as well as incorporate user-specified constraints in the generation of the digital document.
US12288392B2
A method for training an object detection model includes: firstly obtaining M sample image sets; then, obtaining an initial object detection model; and finally, training the initial object detection model by using the M sample image sets to obtain the object detection model. A sample image set includes at least one sample image and object type(s) of object(s) in each sample image. An object type corresponds to one sample image set, and the M sample image sets correspond to N object types.
US12288382B2
A machine learning method for continual learning is provided, and the method includes following steps. Capturing an input image. Performing feature extraction on the input image by a plurality of sub-models to obtain a plurality of feature maps, where the sub-models correspond to a plurality of tasks, and the sub-models are determined by a neural network model and a plurality of channel-wise masks. Converting the feature maps into a plurality of energy scores. Selecting a target sub-model corresponding to a target task of the tasks from the sub-models according to the energy scores. Outputting a prediction result corresponding to the target task by the target sub-model.
US12288376B2
An image classification system defends against physically realizable attacks. A training dataset of input images is retrieved and an adversarial image is generated based on one of the input images that is selected. The adversarial image is created by occluding a portion of the selected image by superimposing a predetermined shape (e.g., a rectangle) containing noise on the selected image. A defense against occlusion attacks (DOA) classifier is trained using the training dataset and the adversarial image. The DOA classifier is utilized to classify captured images of items (e.g., street signs) that may have been attacked (e.g., sticker placement, vandalism).
US12288370B2
A method of operating a wearable electronic device includes: recognizing a first gesture of a hand of a user for setting a region of interest (ROI) corresponding to a view of the user in an image frame corresponding to a view of a camera; generating a virtual display for projecting the ROI based on whether the first gesture is recognized; extracting the ROI from the image frame; recognizing a second gesture of the hand for adjusting a size of the ROI; and adjusting the size of the ROI and projecting the ROI of the adjusted size onto the virtual display, based on whether the second gesture is recognized.
US12288368B2
Described herein is a computer implemented method for compressing a shape. The method includes: receiving input shape data defining first and second original shape commands and generating first and second compressed shape commands corresponding thereto. Generating the second compressed shape command includes generating a relative shape command that is a version of the second original shape command in which parameters are relatively defined; generating an absolute shape command that is a version of the second original shape command in which parameters are absolutely defined; and selecting a smaller or equal smallest of the relative shape command and the absolute shape command to be the second compressed shape command.
US12288362B2
Provided are methods for active alignment of an optical assembly with intrinsic calibration. Some methods described include performing a first active alignment using a multi-collimator assembly, determining a principal point of the camera assembly using a diffractive optical element (DOE) intrinsic calibration module, and adjusting the relative position of one or more of the lens and the image sensor to align the principal point of the camera assembly with an image center of the image sensor and to perform a second active alignment. Systems and computer program products are also provided.
US12288347B2
A method and apparatus with depth map generation. The method may include generating points for a point cloud by unprojecting multi-view depth maps, of plural views, into a corresponding three-dimensional (3D) space using respective camera parameters corresponding to each view of the multi-view depth maps, extracting feature embedding vectors corresponding to the generated points, generating a two-dimensional (2D) feature map of a set view based on the extracted feature embedding vectors, generating a residual depth map using a refinement network with respect to the 2D feature map, generating a new depth map based on the residual depth map and an initial depth map, of the set view, among the multi-view depth maps.
US12288345B2
When at least one mobile head-mounted display (HMD) is located in at least one vehicle, a control unit of the HMD performs inside-out tracking based on a six-degree-of-freedom (6DOF) algorithm with the aid of at least one camera image captured by at least one camera, using a 6DOF-algorithm-based translation of the at least one mobile HMD. The HMD control unit executes an application that creates an edge model of an interior of the vehicle and provides automated computer-vision-based 6DOF tracking of the at least one mobile HMD.
US12288344B1
A system for calibrating a computing device to track basketball shots has a camera for capturing two-dimensional (2-D) images of a basketball shot toward a basketball hoop. The system identifies the basketball and basketball hoop in the 2-D images and determines distances of the basketball from the camera based on sizes of the basketball in the 2-D images. The system also determines angles of the basketball from the camera based on positions of the basketball in the 2-D images. The system calculates a parabolic trajectory of the basketball based on the determined distances and angles and then determines an orientation and a position of the camera in three-dimensional (3-D) space based on the identified basketball hoop and the calculated trajectory. The system stores, in memory, calibration data indicative of the orientation and the position of the camera in 3-D space for use in tracking basketball shots by the computing device.
US12288343B2
The present disclosure provides a method of analyzing an image captured from an imaging device. The method includes receiving one or more images captured from a camera over a predetermined time period. Feature extraction and tracking are executed with respect to the received images. One or more features are detected as untracked features during the feature extraction and tracking. A geometrical prediction is executed with respect to the untracked features to predict one or more features and thereby achieving the one or more untracked features as the one or more tracked features.
US12288340B2
A method for 3D object perception is described. The method includes extracting features from each image of a synthetic stereo pair of images. The method also includes generating a low-resolution disparity image based on the features extracted from each image of the synthetic stereo pair images. The method further includes predicting, by a trained neural network, a feature map based on the low-resolution disparity image and one of the synthetic stereo pair of images. The method also includes generating, by a perception prediction head, a perception prediction of a detected 3D object based on the feature map predicted by the trained neural network.
US12288337B2
Systems and methods for assessing glaucoma loss using optical coherence topography. One method according to an aspect comprises receiving optical coherence image data and assessing functional glaucoma damage from retinal optical coherence image data. In an aspect, the systems and methods can map regions and layers of the eye to determine structural characteristics to compare to functional characteristics.
US12288330B2
A medical auxiliary information generation method and a medical auxiliary information generation system are provided. The method includes: obtaining a physiological image; identifying a target image region from the physiological image through at least one artificial intelligence model, wherein each pixel position in the target image region corresponds to an estimation value, and the estimation value meets a default condition; determining at least one target pixel position in the target image region according to a numerical distribution of the estimation value; and generating medical auxiliary information according to the target pixel position, wherein the medical auxiliary information carries prompt information related to the target pixel position.
US12288316B2
A method and electronic device are provided for providing a high dynamic range (HDR) image. The HDR image is obtained. A first area, in which the HDR image is displayed, and a second area, in which an image is displayed, are identified within a screen. The first area is white point-processed based on a first white point, and the second are is white point-processed based on a second white point that is set for a display of the electronic device and different from the first white point. The screen including the white point-processed first area and the white point-processed second area is displayed on the display.
US12288311B1
Scenes depicted within different media items may be used to generate in-between visual content for the different media items. The different media items may be combined by using the in-between visual content to fill a visual gap between the different media items. The in-between visual content may provide visual continuity between the different media items.
US12288310B2
In an imaging method an image is generated by an imaging device that includes a vessel structure of an object to be imaged and/or a device arranged in the object. A local asymmetrical contrast amplification algorithm is applied to the image to generate a filtered image that is displayed by a display device.
US12288306B2
A technology is described for aligning an image data set with a patient using an augmented reality (AR) headset. A method may include obtaining an image data set representing an anatomical structure of a patient. A two-dimensional (2D) X-ray generated image of at least a portion of the anatomical structure of the patient in the image data set and a visible marker may be obtained. The image data set can be aligned to the X-ray generated image by using data fitting. A location of the visible marker may be defined in the image data set using alignment with the X-ray generated image. The image data set may be aligned with a body of the patient, using the visible marker in the image data set as referenced to the visible marker seen on the patient through the AR headset.
US12288304B2
A method of creating a 3D model, which is a visual representation of at least one physiological parameter, the method comprises deploying an AI model to execute on a computing device communicably connected to a medical imaging device, said medical imaging device acquiring medical imaging data, wherein the AI model is trained so that when it is deployed, the computing device identifies at least one physiological parameter from medical imaging data; acquiring, at the computing device, new medical imaging data; processing, using the AI model, the new medical imaging data to identify at least one physiological parameter (the “at least one identified physiological parameter”); employing the at least one identified physiological parameter to select a corresponding 3D model; and modifying the corresponding 3D model to alter one or more model parameters therein, to match the at least one identified physiological parameter, thereby customizing the visual appearance of the corresponding 3D model.
US12288297B2
The invention relates to a method for displaying a visual reference in an image displayed by a viewing device masking all or some of the field of view of a user, said viewing device further comprising at least one movement sensor. The method defines a virtual tube around a viewing axis of the user, the walls of the tube corresponding to the peripheral visual field of the user. The visual reference comprises at least one frame and lines, the lines being placed on the walls of the tube. In response to a measurement of a rotational movement, the lines are modified to make a rotational movement about the viewing axis that is opposite the measured rotational movement and the frame is modified to make a rotational movement perpendicular to the viewing axis also opposite the measured rotational movement.
US12288294B2
Systems and techniques are provided for calibrating cameras in a real space for tracking puts and takes of items by subjects. The method includes first processing one or more selected images captured by an extrinsic calibration tool to extract from the images, a three-dimensional (3D) point cloud of points corresponding to displays or structures that remain substantially immobile in the real space, and a second processing of a second set of images captured by a camera installation in the real space to match points in the second set of images to the point cloud. Differences in position of matching points can be used to determine transformation information therebetween, which can be used to calibrate the installed cameras.
US12288292B2
An automatic generation method for three-dimensional morphology of ruts in asphalt pavements comprises: constructing a standard rut cross-section representation model, classifying ruts, acquiring detection data of a rutted section of an asphalt pavement, selecting different rut cross-sections at equal intervals in a longitudinal direction of the pavement, denoising and smoothening the rut cross-sections, selecting feature points according to geometric fluctuation features of the rut cross-sections, connecting the feature points and fitting a cross-sectional curve based on an evolution law of rut deformation, and fusing multiple reconstructed rut cross-sections to realize automatic generation and visualization of three-dimensional morphology of a rut.
US12288289B2
Systems and methods for generating and providing augmented virtual environments can include obtaining user data, processing the user data to determine a plurality of objects associated with the user data, and generating one or more renderings of the objects in an environment. The renderings can be generated based on a plurality of rendering datasets obtained based on the plurality of determined objects determined to available to a user. The plurality of rendering datasets can include a plurality of three-dimensional meshes and/or a plurality of neural radiance field datasets. The one or more renderings can be provided via an interactive user interface that can allow a user to view renderings of different views of the objects in the environment from different positions and view directions.
US12288288B2
Rendering system combines point sampling and volume sampling operations to produce rendering outputs. For example, to determine color information for a surface location in a 3-D scene, one or more point sampling operations are conducted in a volume around the surface location, and one or more sampling operations of volumetric light transport data are performed farther from the surface location. A transition zone between point sampling and volume sampling can be provided, in which both point and volume sampling operations are conducted. Data obtained from point and volume sampling operations can be blended in determining color information for the surface location. For example, point samples are obtained by tracing a ray for each point sample, to identify an intersection between another surface and the ray, to be shaded, and volume samples are obtained from a nested 3-D grids of volume elements expressing light transport data at different levels of granularity.
US12288287B2
An embodiment of an electronic processing system may include an application processor, persistent storage media communicatively coupled to the application processor, and a graphics subsystem communicatively coupled to the application processor. The graphics subsystem may include a first graphics engine to process a graphics workload, and a second graphics engine to offload at least a portion of the graphics workload from the first graphics engine. The second graphics engine may include a low precision compute engine. The system may further include a wearable display housing the second graphics engine. Other embodiments are disclosed and claimed.
US12288278B2
A computer-implemented method according to one embodiment includes performing object detection on a frame to identify a set of objects within the frame, and determining a location of each object of the set of objects within the frame. The method further includes constructing a code tree structure for the frame. The code tree structure defines the determined locations. A rule defining modifications to make to at least some of the objects is received and the code tree structure is crawled. The rule is applied to the objects during the crawling. The method further includes layering the modifications defined in the rule on the set of objects within the frame. A computer program product according to another embodiment includes a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith. The program instructions are readable and/or executable by a computer to cause the computer to perform the foregoing method.
US12288277B2
In various examples, high-precision semantic image editing for machine learning systems and applications are described. For example, a generative adversarial network (GAN) may be used to jointly model images and their semantic segmentations based on a same underlying latent code. Image editing may be achieved by using segmentation mask modifications (e.g., provided by a user, or otherwise) to optimize the latent code to be consistent with the updated segmentation, thus effectively changing the original, e.g., RGB image. To improve efficiency of the system, and to not require optimizations for each edit on each image, editing vectors may be learned in latent space that realize the edits, and that can be directly applied on other images with or without additional optimizations. As a result, a GAN in combination with the optimization approaches described herein may simultaneously allow for high precision editing in real-time with straightforward compositionality of multiple edits.
US12288275B2
Various systems are provided for non-uniform thickness and/or sampling of slabs of the breast to present DBT acquisitions. A method for generating a patient image as a set of slabs representing an imaged object, the method comprising acquiring a tomosynthesis projection, reconstructing a series of slab images, each slab representing a portion of a breast, and a plurality of slabs of non-uniform thickness and/or non-uniform sampling in a 3D reconstructed domain defined by x-, y-, and z-axes.
US12288269B2
A system for virtual networking in connection with a real component, such as a product or activity. The system may use virtual mechanisms and real-world components or activities, such as real-world food, real world 5K run, real-world track and field event, real-world motorsports, real-world golfing, or real-world dining, among other things.
US12288266B2
A content server (250) for managing a digital content item (80) sold in a content market (65) includes a content communication device (52) that communicates with a member terminal (40) including a display (40a) and a content control device (251) that causes the display (40a) to display an analytical graph (201a) through the content communication device (52). The analytical graph (201a) includes two or more nodes (202) representing different entities extracted from sales data and contract information and an edge (203) representing a relationship between the two or more nodes (202). The analytical graph (201a) includes the edge (203) extending from a node (202), as a center, representing identification information of the digital content item (80) to a node (202) representing an entity different from an entity for the digital content item (80).
US12288263B1
A workbench application is configured to present an interactive search display that includes a search field, and perform, using a search engine and a set of one or more search terms entered in the search field by a user, a search of one or more databases that collectively store policy information for a plurality of insurance policies. The application also presents to the user results corresponding to information returned by the search of the database(s), with the results including an entry for a first person associated with at least one of the insurance policies, and an interactive control associated with the entry for the first person. The application also receives a user input specifying a particular relationship between the first person and a loss event, and identifies, based upon the relationship, one or more loss reporting fields of a loss reporting tool.
US12288259B2
A system and method for completing a sale of digital shares representing an interest in an asset in an exchange, wherein the exchange comprising a transfer agent, includes registering, by the transfer agent, a user on an exchange; presenting to the user, by the transfer agent an interface allowing the user to select an interest in an asset to sell; communicating, by the transfer agent, with a broker dealer to transmit a sell contract to the user; pairing, by the transfer agent, a buyer with the user to sell the interest in the asset to the buyer; and executing, by the transfer agent, a sale of digital shares representing the interest in the asset.
US12288255B2
An intermediary server for intermediating ownership of energy between a supplier and a user, includes circuitry that transmits a first request to another intermediary server capable of requesting a change of ownership of energy to a decentralized ledge system that manages energy information on energy, the first request requesting to change ownership of energy produced by a same production method as a particular production method, from another intermediary agent managing the other intermediary server to an intermediary agent managing the intermediary server.
US12288254B2
The disclosed embodiments relate to systems/methods for low latency regulation of distributed, e.g., geographically and/or logically, transaction processing, such as trading of financial instruments, in accordance with centralized demand-based dynamically reallocated post-trade-based limits, e.g., credit/risk limits. In particular, the disclosed embodiments relate to monitoring credit demand across execution venues, as opposed to actual utilization, and, based thereon, modifying execution specific limits to reallocate of portions of a credit/risk allotment, such as a credit/risk limit, to multiple execution venues for use in approving transactions, which may implement order driven and/or quote driven markets, so as to dynamically rebalance the allocations to the execution venues based on demand/need, rather than utilization, thereby avoiding having to mitigate latencies in determining and responding to utilization. In addition, the disclosed embodiments may maximize the total available amount for reallocation by recognizing inter-execution venue limit offsetting positions, i.e., trades, during the rebalancing process.
US12288252B2
A system and method for grouping data files into related groups using a combination of deterministic matching and machine learning based cosine similarity matching. The method includes loading the data files into hive tables, combining files in the hive tables into common structured files, and providing prior stored base data hive tables. The method also includes performing a deterministic matching process that matches the common structured files with each other and with the prior stored matched groups of files into related groups, and performing a machine learning based cosine similarity matching process that matches the common structured files with each other and with the prior stored matched groups of files into related groups, where the machine learning based cosine similarity matching process uses at least one neural network. The method combines the matched files from the deterministic matching process and the machine learning based cosine similarity matching process.
US12288245B2
The present disclosure provides various methods and embodiments for substitution of remotely-ordered grocery items. When a customer places a grocery request, the system determines whether substitution items are available for the requested items and, if so, will communicate the substitution items to the customer. Upon acceptance of the substitution items, the system will schedule delivery of the substitution items to the customer.
US12288244B2
Disclosure includes selecting a merchant from a plurality of merchants, enabling a trial mode for the merchant, during the trial mode, receiving an indication of a first order for the merchant, forwarding the indication of the first order to the merchant, allocating a first payment for the first order to the merchant, requesting an acceptance of a membership status from the merchant, and receiving an indication of the payment for the first order.
US12288238B2
A recommendation system leverages multi-target search to provide item listing recommendations and/or query suggestions. For a given input image with multiple objects, multi-target search uses object detection to detect each object, and stores complementary object data associating each object from the image. Additionally, a search of an item listing datastore is performed using each object from the image as a search query. Based on item listings returned as search results, complementary item listings data associating item listings is stored. In some configurations, the complementary item listings data is also used to train a machine learning model to predict complementary item listings for a given item listing. When an input item listing is received, item listing recommendations and/or query suggestions are determined for the input item listing using the complementary object data, the complementary item listing data, and/or the machine learning model.
US12288237B2
Embodiments provide systems, methods, and computer storage media for a Nonsymmetric Determinantal Point Process (NDPPs) for compatible set recommendations in a setting where data representing entities (e.g., items) arrives in a stream. A stream representing compatible sets of entities is received and used to update a latent representation of the entities and a compatibility distribution indicating likelihood of compatibility of subsets of the entities. The probability distribution is accessed in a single sequential pass to predict a compatible complete set of entities that completes an incomplete set of entities. The predicted complete compatible set is provided a recommendation for entities that complete the incomplete set of entities.
US12288234B2
A method and apparatus for a commerce platform providing proof of application ownership of a network distributable application are described. The method may include receiving a request to approve an application developed by a merchant system, wherein the application includes an application programming interface (API) component, a software development kit (SDK) component, or a combination thereof provided by the commerce platform to the merchant system. The method may also include generating a unique identifier (ID) for the application to be included as metadata within the application. Furthermore, the method may include obtaining, from an application information system, data describing the application, and extracting an ID from metadata in the data obtained by the application information system. Then, the method may include that in response to determining that the ID extracted from the metadata matches the unique ID, associating the merchant with the application in a merchant account at the commerce platform and approving the application for interacting with the commerce platform.
US12288231B2
A charging controller is configured to carry out charging of a power storage with charging power to be restricted and to quit charging when a charging quitting condition is satisfied while charging is carried out. The charging controller is configured to change the charging quitting condition to move end of charging ahead in charging of the power storage by using a power feed facility when pricing of the power feed facility falls under time-based pricing and restriction of charging power is severer than a prescribed level, the time-based pricing being pricing that a fee is charged based on a charging time period.
US12288222B2
The present disclosure provides a method and system for application installation and detection of fraud in advertisement. The system receives a request for installing an application from a plurality of users in real time. In addition, the system provides one or more methods to the plurality of users for installing the application. Further, the system receives a first set of data and a second set of data in real time. Furthermore, the system analyzes the first set of data and the second set of data in real time. Moreover, the system identifies a user of the plurality of users and a publisher of a plurality of publishers committing the fraud. Also, the system blocks one or more users and one or more publishers committing the fraud in real time.
US12288218B2
A method includes receiving information indicative of a first vehicle identification number (VIN) for a first vehicle, determining that the first vehicle includes a first recalled component by comparing the first VIN to information in a recall database stored in a memory of an auditing system, receiving first image data generated by a mobile device, the first image data being reproducible as a first image of the first VIN on the first vehicle and associated with a first location of the mobile device, receiving second image data generated by the mobile device, the second image data being reproducible as a second image of at least a portion of the first recalled component and associated with a second location of the mobile device, and validating a status of the first recalled component by comparing the first location of the mobile and the second location of the mobile device.
US12288205B2
A method including receiving a first application user credential associated with a user profile; comparing, for a first match, the first application user credential with a stored second application user credential, wherein the stored second application user credential is associated with a user identity; and responsive to finding a first match, verifying the user identity by performing the following: communicating with a card using near field communication; receiving a public key of a key pair of the card and cardholder identification information of an account holder of the card; instructing the card to generate a digital signature; receiving the digital signature from the card; verifying the digital signature using the public key; and comparing, for a second match, at least a portion of the user identity with at least a portion of the cardholder identification information.
US12288199B2
Methods, systems and apparatus are provided for facilitating financial transactions using an IC type financial card presented at a terminal. A requested transaction for monetary value is processed via a first transaction type. If the transaction is successful, monetary value (such as cash or a monetary value ticket or receipt) is dispensed to the user. If unsuccessful, the card is not ejected and the transaction is processed via a second transaction type. The first transaction type might be a PIN based ATM or ticket transaction and the second transaction type might be a signature based transaction.
US12288197B2
A platform implementing a two-tier tokenization process to build a digital asset pool at a server. An application builds the digital asset pool, initializes general asset tokens to represent pro-rata ownership interests in a general pool of assets, and uses general asset tokens to create specific asset tokens to represent ownership interests in specific assets from that pool that a user of the platform selects, from a remote device in communication with the server, from the general pool. General asset tokens offered to eligible retail and/or institutional investors generate funding to build the asset pool. Owners of general asset tokens are periodically offered, by the server, the option to select portions of specific assets from the general asset pool, and create through the two-tier tokenization process, shares of specific asset tokens, subject to the technical protocols, ownership concentration limits, and bidding and allocation schema established by the present platform.
US12288195B1
Example systems, methods and apparatus to process medical prescription order rejections are disclosed. An example computer-implemented method, executed by one or more processors, to process a medical prescription order rejection may include: submitting, using one or more processors, a first order for a medical prescription to a third-party entity for payment; and when a rejection of the first order is received from the third-party entity: processing, with a trained machine learning model, the first order to form a second order for the medical prescription, wherein the machine learning model is trained by one or more processors based on training data representing a plurality of rejected orders for prescriptions and a plurality of approved orders for prescriptions by updating the machine learning model based on computed differences between (i) orders for medical prescriptions determined by the machine learning model, and (ii) associated approved and rejected orders; and submitting, using one or more processors, the second order for the medical prescription to the third-party entity for payment.
US12288193B2
A system for determining candidate answers during an interview. The system may include a memory storing executable instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute the instructions to perform operations. The operations may include capturing, by an image sensor, a plurality of images comprising a plurality of candidate answers; detecting, based on the captured images, a first bounding box comprising the plurality of the candidate answers; detecting, based on the captured images, a second bounding box comprising a plurality of alphanumeric characters, a first one of the alphanumeric characters being located on a line of software code; calculating a distance from a side of a first bounding box to a side of a second bounding box; and determining, based on the calculated distance, a source code alignment.
US12288184B2
A locker management system including a management server that manages status of shipping of items and status of keeping each of the items at the locker spots. The locker spot is equipped with an electronically controlled locker and a spot terminal, and the management server receives selection and designation of the locker spot to keep the item and designation of predetermined length of time for which the item is kept at the locker spot, and upon delivery of the item to the locker spot, notifies a customer terminal of a locker number. When a customer visits the locker spot and reads an identification code attached to the locker, and transmits this code and the customer ID to the management server, the management server performs necessary checking processing. If the answer of the checking processing is positive, the management server transmits a signal for unlocking a locker to the locker.
US12288182B2
A location-based transportation network for a transportation process is disclosed. The transportation process may be divided into the following stages: identification, communication, agreement, shipment, and payment. With identification, one party to the transport of the good is identified to the other party (e.g., potential carriers to a shipper, or potential shippers to a carrier). In the second stage, the shipper(s) and carrier(s) communicate with one another in order to discuss terms of the shipment. In a third stage, the shipper and carrier come to an agreement (e.g., price, timing, etc.). In a fourth stage, the carrier picks up and ships the goods. Finally, payment may be arranged between the shipper and the carrier. An index pricing model is configured to facilitate the identification stage. Further, a graphical user interface (GUI) can convey information, output search results, plan a route, facilitate communication between the shipper and carrier, and/or enable agreement between the shipper and carrier.
US12288180B2
Techniques for automated cargo selection in a transport system are provided. In some embodiments, a method comprises: receiving a list of materials to be received by a depot from a plurality of sources within a predetermined period of time; receiving a specification of materials to be received by a facility from the depot within the predetermined period of time; and generating a cargo plan based on the list and the specification, the cargo plan indicating quantities of each material of a plurality of materials to be loaded onto a transport within the predetermined period of time. The method may further comprise: moving a first material of the plurality of materials from a vehicle to the transport based on the cargo plan during the predetermined period of time; and initiating launch of the transport.
US12288179B2
A dynamic reconfigurable logistics environment can be combined with autonomous systems using a space-time volume-based resource allocation approach that permits dynamically changing paths of travel. This approach can enable a more flexible approach to the dynamic real-time reallocation of unused, unlocked resources whenever new resource requests are received, preventing blocking of later-received, more-difficult-to-allocate requests by earlier-received, less-difficult-to-allocate requests such that all resources as well as the paths of travel remain changeable and dynamic. Resource allocations can be subject to an autonomous system condition check, which can determine whether autonomous systems can perform tasks associated with the allocated resources, given the spatial layout of the resource and pathway allocation. An execution component can management the performance of the tasks by the autonomous systems within the dynamically changing environment. The tasks can be prioritized, and the autonomous systems can perform the tasks according that prioritization.
US12288178B2
The present invention discloses a system and method for modeling and monitoring processes in organizations using digital twins. The system has a model builder to create models, communicate with a first user device and create an integrated model of the process called digital twin definition. The digital twin includes a server component for executing the digital twin definition and the server component further communicates with multiple transaction systems and auxiliary systems. The digital twin has a client module that enables output on a second user device and deploys the digital twins to monitor the processes. The present invention discloses method for creating dynamic models and monitor said models using digital twin. The present invention also discloses a method for creating said PLAY.
US12288168B2
A blockchain-based room inventory management system includes a property management system (PMS) module and an intermediate server system. The PMS module may be under a hotel's direct control. The intermediate server system communicates with at least one online travel agency (OTA) module and/or at least one booking engine using Ethereum-based smart contracts for confirming and processing a room reservation event. If the room reservation event is confirmed to be a successful transaction, the intermediate server system also updates the successful transaction into the PMS module and a blockchain formed by multiple node servers. The blockchain contains multiple blocks arranged in a chronological order for distinguishing successful transactions of different moments. In this way, each successful transaction is prevented from wrongly preceded by a later successful transaction. And the room inventory management system neutralizes an overbooking issue accordingly.
US12288148B1
Systems and methods for constructing a layered artificial intelligence (AI) model are provided. The technology determines a set of layers and a set of variables for each layer for the AI model, with each layer relating to a specific domain context of the AI model. Using the layers, the AI model is trained to create layer-specific model logic for each layer using the variables of the layer. By applying the layer-specific model logic to incoming command sets, the model produces detailed layer-specific responses. The trained AI model then generates overall responses to command sets by aggregating the layer-specific responses, along with weights for each layer.
US12288139B2
Technologies are provided for iterative machine learning and relearning. A training dataset can be divided into a plurality of training data blocks which can be used to generate separate machine learning models. The accuracy of the machine learning models can be assessed using a test dataset. Training data blocks which result in models with good accuracy can be combined into larger training data blocks which can then be used to generate new machine learning models. The process of combining training data blocks can be repeated as long as the resulting machine learning model has acceptable accuracy. However, if a model for a combined training data block has a poorer accuracy than the machine learning models for its component training data blocks, then the combined training data block and its machine learning model can be forgotten and its component training data blocks (and their associated machine learning models) can be relearned.
US12288133B2
Aspects of the present disclosure may include a method and/or a system for identifying an ion chain having a plurality of trapped ions, selecting at least two non-consecutive trapped ions in the ion chain for implementing a qubit, applying at least a first Raman beam to shuttle at least one neighbor ion of the at least two non-consecutive trapped ions from a ground state to a metastable state, and applying at least a second Raman beam to one or more of the at least two non-consecutive trapped ions, after shuttling the at least one neighbor ion to the metastable state, to transition from a first manifold to a second manifold.
US12288121B2
A monitoring system includes a first monitoring module, a flow controller, a control device and a first signal conversion module. The first monitoring module electrically connects a humidity sensor for detecting the relative humidity of a field. The control device has a control unit and the data of an inflation rate table are stored therein, and the inflation rate table provides the reference inflation rate corresponding to the relative humidity data. The flow controller electrically connects the control device, and the control unit controls the flow controller to adjust inflation flow according to the reference inflation rate. The first signal conversion module electrically connects the control device and the first monitoring module.
US12288113B2
The technology described herein can generate a unique identifier for a visual media that comprises pre-printed visual indications on the visual media and a user's handwritten signature. The location of the signature on the visual media can be determined by including preprinted fiducial marks on the visual media. The fiducial markers act as landmarks that allow the size and location of the signature to be determined in absolute terms. The unique identifier is then stored in computer memory on a user-experience server. The user-experience server can associate the unique identifier with a digital asset, such as an image or video, designated by the user. When the unique identifier is provided to the user-experience server a second time, the digital asset can be retrieved and output to the computing device that provided the unique identifier.
US12288112B2
The present disclosure presents an electrical connector comprising a connector housing with machine-readable indicia printed on its surface. The indicia is bordered by a darker background on the surface, ensuring ample contrast for accurate reading by a digital scanner. This innovative design enhances the readability and reliability of the indicia, facilitating efficient data capture and identification processes.
US12288111B2
In one embodiment, an RFID device is disclosed that contains a first conductive structure and a second conductive structure formed from multiple conductive materials configured to move between a first operating condition and a second operating condition when exposed to an event or other stimuli. The second conductive structure is initially operatively coupled to the first conductive structure in the first operating condition. However, after exposure to the event, the first conductive structure is altered to change the behavior of the RFID device. The RFID device is attachable to a substrate, such as a garment or a fabric, and the event may be a single or multiple occurrence event, such as washing, stretching, heating, or exposure of the RFID device to electrical signals.
US12288108B2
Various embodiments include systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for managing data. Consistent with these embodiments, a method includes identifying a data record from a database; converting the data record into a data object; partitioning the data object into a plurality of files; generating a plurality of events based on the plurality of files; and causing the plurality of events to be transmitted to a destination.
US12288107B2
A distributed computer system is provided. The distributed computer system includes at least one sequencer computing node and at least one matcher computing node. Electronic data messages are sequenced by the sequencer and sent to at least matcher computing node. The matcher computing node receives the electronic data messages and a reference value from an external computing source. New electronic data messages are put into a pending list before they can be acted upon by the matcher. A timer is started based on a comparison of the reference value (or a calculation based thereon) to at least one attribute or value of a new electronic data message. When the timer expires, the electronic data message is moved from the pending list to another list—where it is eligible to be matched against other, contra-side electronic data messages.
US12288106B2
Systems and methods are provided for modeling cloud inefficiencies. The method includes connecting to services executing on cloud computing systems via APIs. The method also includes determining types of services for the services based on usage and performance data obtained from the APIs. The method also includes determining states of computing resources corresponding to the services based on the types of services and performance parameters obtained from the APIs. The method also includes cataloging cloud inefficiencies of the services using cloud wastage templates based on the states of the computing resources. The cloud wastage templates follow conventions of a domain specific language (DSL) that describe the one or more cloud computing systems. The templates can be written by a human, and/or can be generated, read, and/or manipulated by machines (e.g., neural networks). The templates use identifiers that help when it is difficult to understand or troubleshoot neural network generated output.
US12288088B2
A method, comprising: receiving, by a computing device, a user indication to start a teaching mode in which the user can teach an instance of a process; configuring the computing device to start the teaching mode in response to receiving the indication; capturing, when in the teaching mode, first information corresponding to a first stream of events captured by the computing device during performance of a first plurality of actions by the user when interacting with the computing device to perform the process; generating, using the first information, a first visualization of at least some of the first plurality of actions; and displaying the first visualization on a graphical user interface of the computing device.
US12288079B2
In some embodiments a distributed computing system is provided that includes a plurality of different feature modules and a matching engine. The different feature modules each provide different processing for handling parent requests and submitting, to the matching engine, commands for child data transaction requests that are associated with the parent request.
US12288076B2
A computer implemented method includes receiving a request for a boot into a system factory reset mode, accessing a virtual boot indication in an operating system memory area, identifying an address of a virtual boot user space memory area as a function of the virtual boot indication, and booting the system into the factory reset mode using the virtual boot user space memory without overriding user settings in the user space memory.
US12288067B2
Prediction circuitry predicts a number of iterations of a fetching process to be performed to control fetching of data/instructions for processing operations that are predicted to be performed by processing circuitry. The processing circuitry can tolerate performing unnecessary iterations of the fetching process following an over-prediction of the number of iterations. In response to the processing circuitry resolving an actual number of iterations, the prediction circuitry adjusts the prediction state information used to predict the number of iterations, based on whether a first predicted number of iterations, predicted based on a first iteration prediction parameter, provides a good prediction (when the first predicted number of iterations is in a range i_cnt to i_cnt+N, where i_cnt is the actual number of iterations and N≥1), or a misprediction (when the first predicted number of iterations is outside the range i_cnt to i_cnt+N).
US12288063B2
A method for controlling an application instance to be online or offline includes: acquiring target indication information, the target indication information including an identification of a target application instance; according to the target indication information and stored target instances, determining an online or offline control instruction of the target application instance, wherein the target instances including application instances that are started and are in an offline state; and according to the online or offline control instruction of the target application instance, controlling the target application instance to be online or offline.
US12288056B2
The invention relates to a computer implemented method for designing a firmware including writing the firmware version, and providing the firmware version with a version data identifying the firmware version. The method also includes providing the firmware version with a second data, called rollback data, the second data provided to be compared to the version data of other versions of the firmware, and authorizing, and indicating a limit for, older firmware versions to which the firmware may be downgraded. The invention further relates to a firmware obtained by such a method and a method for modifying the version of a firmware installed on a platform and designed by such a method.
US12288033B2
Disclosed is an approach for allowing an entity to perform semantic analysis in a SaaS semantic analysis platform upon private data possessed by one or more entities. In one or more embodiments, separate processing pipelines may be provided to the plurality of entities thereby keeping private data secure within the semantic analysis platform. In one or more embodiments, a common processing pipeline is provide with data associated a first entity being assigned a first identification code, and data associated with a second entity being assigned a second identification code.
US12288031B2
Filtering user intents corresponding to user utterances is provided. A list of allowed user intents is generated, using a natural language understanding model of a chatbot, based on identifying one or more of a set of user intents corresponding to a user utterance within a filtered user intent mapping table. It is determined whether a user intent having a highest confidence score in the set of user intents corresponding to the user utterance is contained in the list of allowed user intents. In response to determining that the user intent having the highest confidence score in the set of user intents corresponding to the user utterance is contained in the list of allowed user intents, content corresponding to the user intent having the highest confidence score is sent, using the chatbot, to a client device of a user who submitted the user utterance as a response to the user utterance.
US12288028B2
Improvement is made in performance of a trained neural network that uses positional information indicating a position at which each token included in an input sequence is present in the input sequence. An inferencer includes a first generation unit that generates an intermediate sentence representation based on a first sentence representation having information indicating a value of each token included in the input sequence and first positional information indicating a position at which each token is present in the input sequence; a second generation unit that generates second positional information by modifying the first positional information based on the first sentence representation and the intermediate sentence representation, and that generates a hidden state representation based on the second positional information and the intermediate sentence representation; and a third generation unit that generates a second sentence representation based on the intermediate sentence representation and the hidden state representation.
US12288027B2
Disclosed is a text sentence processing method performed by a computer device, including: acquiring sample text sentences including entity pairs and relationship labels of the entity pairs; extracting positive and negative example sentence pairs from the sample text sentences according to the relationship labels, and performing positive-negative example sampling, to obtain a training set; inputting the training set into a relationship extraction model to generate loss values; and adjusting parameters of the relationship extraction model according to the loss values, and repeating the step of extracting positive and negative example sentence pairs from the sample text sentences according to the relationship labels to perform iterative training of the relationship extraction model until a training end condition is met, to obtain an updated relationship extraction model, the relationship extraction model being configured to identify an entity relationship of an entity pair in an input text sentence.
US12288023B2
Methods and systems disclosed herein relate generally to systems and methods for analyzing various stroke properties determined from strokes inputted by a user to generate a new glyph set for rendering type characters. A font-generating application receives, via a stroke input on a typographic layer presented on a user interface, strokes that trace a visual appearance of a glyph set comprising one or more glyphs. The font-generating application determines stroke properties for the strokes. The font-generating application constructs a new glyph set from the stroke properties. The font-generating application applies the new glyph set to render, on a user interface, one or more type characters that match a visual appearance of the new glyph set.
US12288019B2
A chip design method includes determining a to-be-designed second device in a second module, arranging a second device in the first module, connecting the interface of the first device in the first module and the interface of the second device in the first module, performing physical design by analyzing physical wiring and time sequence convergence between the first device in the first module and the second device, copying the second device in the first module after the physical design as a designed second device in the second module, and disconnecting the interface of the first device in the first module from the interface of the second device in the first module and connecting the interface of the first device in the first module to an interface of the designed second device in the second module.
US12288016B2
Systems and methods provide a platform for a digital avatar that represents a particular physical device or a process using one or more processors and memory storing instructions. The instructions, when executed by one or more processors, are configured to implement the digital avatar. The digital avatar includes a system model for the particular physical device or the process configured to receive data and to process the data to model other parameters or behaviors of the particular physical device or process. The digital avatar includes a model calibration module configured to calibrate the system model during operation of the particular physical device or process to provide an up-to-date evergreen model that is customized for the particular physical device or process due to changes in characteristics of the particular physical device or the process.
US12288015B2
A method of designing an internal structure of a foamed resin sound absorbing material includes: setting a microscopic structure model with a structure equivalent to the internal structure of the foamed resin sound absorbing material; calculating an acoustic characteristic by homogenization for each of a plurality of microscopic structure models, each being the microscopic structure model; identifying a relational expression between a Biot's parameter of the foamed resin sound absorbing material and the microscopic structure model; setting a target acoustic characteristic; identifying a Biot's parameter for achieving the target acoustic characteristic set, by Biot's modeling; and identifying a microscopic structure model corresponding to the Biot's parameter identified.
US12288014B1
Discussed herein are methods and systems for an interdependent series/suite of AI models. In one embodiment, a processor receives projection assumption inputs from a user device and executes a population builder machine learning model to predict a dynamic adjustment table. It applies the model to population data to generate a value population file, which simulates a subset of the population based on the predicted table. The file contains value cells representing instances of a product. The device then runs a mortality machine learning model to determine mortality data for the product using the simulated population. Finally, it executes a flow projection model to generate a projection report for the product, incorporating mortality data and projection assumptions.
US12288008B2
Techniques for improving a quantum simulator are provided. In one example, a system includes a simulation component and a snapshot component. The simulation component determines a set of random numbers and simultaneously provides the set of random numbers to an arithmetic decoder to perform a stochastic simulation process. The snapshot component generates snapshot data indicative of a state of the stochastic simulation process based on data associated with a stochastic branching point for the stochastic simulation process.
US12287982B2
A system includes a memory device containing multiple dies that each have multiple pages, and a processing device, operatively coupled with the memory device, to perform various operations including scanning a group of pages residing on a die and determining a value of one data state metric and a corresponding value of another state metric. The operations can also include recording a set of values of the first metric and a corresponding set of values of the second metric, as well as calculating the value of the second metric corresponding to a predetermined value of the first metric associated with a failure condition of the die. Additionally, the operations can include identifying a particular criterion that is satisfied by the calculated value, assigning, to the die, a rating corresponding to the identified criterion, and performing scans on the die at a frequency determined by the assigned rating.
US12287975B2
A control method of a memory device includes: controlling a flash memory controller to transmit a command to a flash memory module; determining whether the flash memory controller is in an idle state; in response to the flash memory controller being in the idle state, determining whether an idle time of the idle state exceeds a threshold value, wherein the threshold value is less than a time required for the flash memory module to complete executing a write command or an erase command; and in response to the idle time exceeding the threshold value, controlling the flash memory controller to enter a power saving mode to turn off a part of components in the flash memory controller.
US12287974B2
A memory device includes control circuitry configured to perform an erase operation to erase memory cells of a memory block and perform an erase verify operation to verify whether the memory cells were sufficiently erased. To perform the erase operation, the control circuitry is configured to supply a first erase voltage pulse, perform the erase verify operation subsequent to supplying the first erase voltage pulse, subsequent to the erase verify operation, supply a first bias voltage to a first one of a plurality of memory strings and a second bias voltage different than the first bias voltage to a second one of a plurality of memory strings, and, while supplying the first and second bias voltages, supply a second erase voltage pulse. The second bias voltage is configured to inhibit the second erase voltage pulse supplied to the memory cells of the second one of the plurality of memory strings.
US12287973B2
An interface circuit includes multiple signal processing devices and a monitor and calibration module. A process monitor monitors a current or a voltage of a test element to generate a process detection result. A temperature monitor monitors an environment temperature to generate a temperature monitored result. A calibration circuit performs calibration operation on a signal processing device according to a preferred reference value subset to adjust a characteristic value of the signal processing device. A compensation control mechanism operation logic selects the preferred reference value subset from multiple reference value subsets according to the process detection result and the temperature monitored result and generates a calibration control signal to control the calibration operation of the calibration circuit. The compensation control mechanism operation logic includes a subset handle interface which generates a subset read control signal and transmits the subset read control signal to a corresponding storage circuit.
US12287964B2
A system and method for managing queues for persistent storage. In some embodiments, the method includes opening, by a first thread running in a host, a first storage object; and creating, by the host, in a memory of the host, a first block device queue, the first block device queue being dedicated to the first storage object.
US12287963B2
An example embodiment electronic device may include a display, a touchscreen, a keyboard-type input device including a plurality of keys, and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive a first input of a designated toggle key included in the keyboard-type input device; receive a user input by means of the keyboard-type input device, after receiving the first input of the toggle key; display text corresponding to the user input on each of the touchscreen and the display; display content, associated with the text, on the touchscreen based on a selected interaction function; receive a first touch input at the position at which the content is displayed on the touchscreen; and, based on the first touch input, stop displaying the text displayed on the display, and display the content on the display.
US12287961B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing a program and method for providing bot participants for virtual conferencing. The program and method provide, in association with designing a virtual space, a first interface for configuring plural participant video elements, each being assignable to a respective participant; receive, via the first interface, an indication of user input for setting first properties for the plural participant video elements; provide a second interface for configuring a bot participant for simulating an actual participant in association with a participant video element of the plural participant video elements; receive, via the second interface, an indication of second user input for setting second properties for the bot participant; and provide, in association with designing the virtual space, display of the virtual space based on the first and second properties, the bot participant being assigned to the participant video element.
US12287958B2
Disclosed are various methods of presenting result visualizations for test results. The visualization may include a timeline, a test label area, a test parameter indicator, and a test value representation. The test parameter indicator is associated with the test provided at a location corresponding with the test label of the test label area and with a location corresponding to a test time of the timeline, including a first test parameter indicator end associated with the upper test parameter threshold and a second test parameter indicator end associated with a lower test parameter threshold. The test value representation of a test value extends away from the test parameter indicator and proportionally represents the test value relative to an upper test limit and the test value to a lower test limit.
US12287953B2
In some embodiments, an electronic device receives an input corresponding to a request for information about a user-specified topic. In response, the electronic device displays information about media that is relevant to the user-specified topic, including concurrently displaying: a representation of respective media that is available for viewing on a first set of applications, the electronic device having a second set of applications downloaded on it, and a respective selectable user interface element associated with the respective media. In some embodiments, if the second set of applications includes at least one application in the first set of applications, the respective selectable user interface element is selectable to initiate a process for launching a respective application of the first set of applications.
US12287946B2
A system and method are disclosed for an interface system comprising a communication device and a system administrator, the system administrator is configured to initiate a setup process, receive an identification number, receive user information, and in response to the setup process, associate the identification number with the user information.
US12287944B2
Touch input devices are provided with the capability of sensing a capacitive load in a two-dimensional array while also being able to sense deflection or movement of the input device in multiple different locations under an input pad. A touch input device can beneficially be used in a remote control device and can be used with multiple input buttons or platforms overlaying multiple capacitive touch input regions on a capacitive touch sensor substrate. Movement and position of a capacitive load can be tracked and calculated via output signals from a set of electrodes or other capacitance sensors with irregular shapes, with inconsistent distances from the capacitive load, and which are positioned below variable materials and material compositions. Thus, tracking gestures and taps can be detected using the capacitance sensing devices, and deflection input can be detected using switches or other actuators situated under the capacitance sensing devices.
US12287918B2
Systems and methods are provided, which may be associated with brain computer interface (BCI), and which may use brain activity monitoring data in determining output for presenting a message or implementing a command on a device or system. Two or more signals may be obtained from a user, each generated by the user at least in part by the user engaging in specific thinking to cause value(s) of parameter(s) relating to the brain activity of the user to meet specified condition(s), where that which is thought in the specific thinking is not required to be related to the message or the command. The signals may be used in determining data values that may be used in determining a set of data values. The set of data values may be used in determining the message for presentation or the command for implementation on a system or device.
US12287904B2
Generating, using artificial intelligence algorithms and a training dataset, at least one machine learning model that is configured to generate scores for multiple attributes of one or more personal data handling approaches associated with a vehicle and/or an in-vehicle unit of the vehicle that handles personal data of a user. The training dataset comprises labelled documents that define the personal data handling approaches, each labelled document having scores pre-assigned to one or more of the multiple attributes of the respective personal data handling approach. Determining one or more personal data handling approaches associated with a target vehicle linked to received vehicle identification information and at least one in-vehicle unit of the target vehicle that handles personal data of the user. Performing semantical analysis of the personal data handling approaches. Generating, using the machine learning model and the personal data handling approaches that have been semantically analyzed, scores for the multiple attributes of each of the one or more personal data handling approaches. Processing the scores to generate a privacy score for the target vehicle, which can be dynamically adjusted for the target vehicle based on privacy change factors.
US12287900B2
A method includes encrypting a request received from a user device to generate an encrypted request. Encrypted data items are searched based on the encrypted request to identify desired encrypted data items. In response to determining that two or more encrypted data items of the desired encrypted data items have a same interaction identification, the two or more encrypted data items are locked and masked, and the masked two or more encrypted data items are removed. Algebraic operations are determined based on the encrypted request. An encrypted response is determined by performing the algebraic operations on the desired encrypted data items. The encrypted response is decrypted to obtain a decrypted response. An error is determined due to the algebraic operations performed on the desired encrypted data items. In response to determining that the error is less than an error threshold, the decrypted response is sent to the user device.
US12287890B2
Systems and methods of the present disclosure enable split communication routing. A communication request associated with an electronic activity is received, the communication request specifying a virtual token and a data content, where the virtual token is a proxy for multiple actual data source profiles. A split rule defining a proportion of the data content to be attributed to each actual data source profile is determined. A security score is determined based on each actual data source profile and each proportion of the data content. The communication request is authorized based on the security score exceeding a threshold security score and access to the proportion of the data content in each actual data source profile is enabled. Each proportion of the data content is consolidated into a single response, and the electronic activity is executed with the single response.
US12287883B2
An analysis unit 6 generates one or more pairs of a start point fact which is a fact representing possibility of the attack in a device that is a start point and an end point fact which is a fact representing possibility of the attack in the device that is an end point, analyzes, for each pair, whether or not it is possible to derive the end point fact from the start point fact, based on facts representing states of the devices generated based on information regarding the device that is the start point and information regarding the device that is the end point, the start point fact, and one or more analysis rules for analyzing the attack, and generates an attack scenario in a case where it is possible to derive the end point fact from the start point fact.
US12287882B2
In one aspect, a distributed security-testing infrastructure is used for attack-tree modeling for penetration testing. An API framework, fully distributed and scalable, is used to access the attack-tree modeling based on attack trees, or decision trees, to emulate attacker behavior and decisions taken during an attack. The API framework allows developers to implement the security tools into existing software to perform actions based on desired conditions as defined by the nodes of the attack tree. For example, APIs can be used along with if/else-type statements to create advanced threat models that react based on given conditions to test multiple paths through the attack tree. Nodes of the attack tree are configured to perform actions based on the output of previous attacks in other nodes. This flexible design allows for the easy modification of the threat modeling system to test new scenarios.
US12287874B2
Disclosed systems and techniques are directed to efficient integrity monitoring of computational operations using multiple memory arrays collectively representative of known events associated with the computational operations. Disclosed techniques include obtaining event identification value representative of a state of the computing device associated with execution of an operation on the computing device, obtaining memory pointers and selecting, based on the memory pointers, mapping values from multiple memory arrays, computing an event response value, and classifying the operation among a plurality of classes, based on the event response value.
US12287871B2
Provided is an intrusion detection technique configured to: obtain kernel-filter criteria indicative of which network traffic is to be deemed potentially malicious, determine that a network packet is resident in a networking stack, access at least part of the network packet, apply the kernel-filter criteria to the at least part of the network packet and, based on applying the kernel-filter criteria, determining that the network packet is potentially malicious, associate the network packet with an identifier of an application executing in userspace of the operating system and to which or from which the network packet is sent, and report the network packet in association with the identifier of the application to an intrusion-detection agent executing in userspace of the operating system of the host computing device, the intrusion-detection agent being different from the application to which or from which the network packet is sent.
US12287870B2
The present invention relates to a security policy and audit log two-way inquiry, collation, and tracking system and method capable of effectively inquiring and confirming various pieces of log information generated due to setting and change of various security policies, and capable of inquiring and confirming a security policy related to log information based on the collected log information. According to the present invention, it is possible to inquire, collate, and track logs generated and recorded by the various security policies, it is possible to inquire, collate, and track the security policy applied to the collected log, and it is possible to inquire, collate, and track the security policy and the log in two ways and in real time.
US12287866B2
Systems and methods for threat detection and analysis. A method includes monitoring at least one thread associated with at least one user process on a computing device. The method further includes detecting specific-system calls associated with at least one user process at user level. The specific-system calls are analyzed by applying a filter to system calls sequence feature sets associated with the specific-system calls for detecting one or more events of interest. A capture of a full stack trace of at least one user process is requested if the system calls sequence feature set is filtered and at least one event of interest is detected. A first level monitoring is provided to the computing device, which includes processing and analyzing the captured full stack trace by a machine learning (ML) stack trace analyzer to generate a first verdict for threat detection and analysis.
US12287860B2
A system for a vehicle configured to be driven by a driver is provided. The vehicle has a human-machine interface (HMI). The system includes an interior sensor suite, a processor electrically connected to the interior sensor suite and the HMI, and a memory. The memory has instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations including determine, based on the interior sensor suite, if there is a passenger in the vehicle, determine, when there is a passenger in the vehicle and based on the interior sensor suite, whether the passenger or the driver is attempting to use the HMI, and permit the passenger and not the driver to use the HMI.
US12287857B2
Techniques are disclosed relating to computing security and privacy. In some embodiments, a computing device provides, to a service computing system, a service request that identifies an action and includes an anonymous identifier for a user of the computing device. The computing device receives, from the service computing system, a score request for a trustworthiness score indicative of the user's trustworthiness. In response to receiving the score request from the service computing system, the computing device provides information indicative of the user's identity to a scoring computing system and receives the trustworthiness score and a corresponding score signature from the scoring computing system. In response to receiving the score and the score signature from the scoring computing system, the computing device provides the score to the service computing system.
US12287851B1
Systems and methods of sensor data fusion including sensor data capture, curation, linking, fusion, inference, and validation. The systems and methods described herein reduce computational demand and processing time by curating data and calculating conditional entropy. The system is operable to fuse data from a plurality of sensor types. A computer processor optionally stores fused sensor data that the system validates above a mathematical threshold.
US12287830B2
An overlay system is provided that includes a plurality of storage elements and processing circuitry coupled thereto. The plurality of storage elements store a plurality of executable graph-based models such that first and second storage elements store first and second executable graph-based models, respectively. Each executable graph-based model includes a plurality of nodes. The processing circuitry receives a stimulus to share a first node of the first executable graph-based model with a second node of the second executable graph-based model. The processing circuitry instantiates a tenant overlay node that is associated with the second node and includes a set of constraints to be adhered to by the second node while sharing the first node. The processing circuitry creates a sharing channel as a medium between the first and second storage elements. The sharing channel and the tenant overlay node enable sharing of the first node with the second node.
US12287822B2
Methods and systems are disclosed herein to address the problems discussed above and in particular to provide coordination for uncoordinated content. Beyond simply archiving and/or organizing available content, the methods and systems generate composite media assets that provide enriched details and supplemental data that extends beyond any given source content. The methods and systems achieve this through a novel data filtration and synchronization process.
US12287820B2
Systems and methods for correcting a voice query based on a subsequent voice query with a lower pronunciation rate. In some aspects, the systems and methods calculate first and second pronunciation rates of first and second voice queries. The systems and methods determine that the second pronunciation rate is lower than the first pronunciation rate and determine a first candidate pronunciation time for a first candidate word from the first voice query. The systems and methods determine a second candidate pronunciation time, adjusted to the first pronunciation rate, for the second candidate word from the second voice query. The systems and methods determine that the first candidate pronunciation time matches the second candidate pronunciation time and generate a third voice query based on the first voice query by replacing the first candidate word with the second candidate word.
US12287813B2
A method for determining a spatial relationship, includes: obtaining a calculation request for the spatial relationship, the calculation request including a polygonal region and a set of report points; determining a plurality of first coded values corresponding to the polygonal region; determining a plurality of second coded values corresponding to the set of report points and a group of report points corresponding to each of the plurality of second coded values; determining a second coded value matching each of the plurality of first coded values by sorting and matching the plurality of first coded values and the plurality of second coded values respectively; and determining a relationship between the polygonal region and each report point in the set of report points according to a group of report points corresponding to the second coded value matching each of the plurality of first coded values.
US12287799B2
Disclosed methods and systems allow a central server to monitor electronic units of work accessible to a group of computers and generate a nodal data structure representing the units of work. The server then uses various protocols, such as hashing algorithms and/or executing artificial intelligence and machine learning models to identify similar and/or related units of work. The server then merges/links the nodes corresponding to the similar/related units of work. The server also monitors all user activities. When a user or a software system/service accesses electronic content on his, her, or its electronic device, the server identifies a node corresponding to the accessed electronic content and associated unit(s) of work and presents searchable data and actions related to the identified node and any related/linked nodes.
US12287788B2
Aspects of the invention include techniques for providing a learned join cardinality estimation using a join graph representation. A non-limiting example method includes building a join cardinality estimation model. The model can be built by generating a training query having a known join cardinality, generating an adjacency matrix encoding a join graph of the training query, encoding one side of a diagonal axis of the adjacency matrix, and training the join cardinality estimation model using the encoded adjacency matrix and the known join cardinality. The method includes performing an inference using the join cardinality estimation model. The inference includes a predicted join cardinality for a query. The method includes executing a query execution plan for the query using the predicted join cardinality.
US12287785B2
Inferences may be obtained to handle access requests at a non-relational database system. An access request may be received at a non-relational database system. The non-relational database system may determine that the access request uses a machine learning model to complete the access request. The non-relational database system may cause an inference to be generated using data items for the access request as input to the machine learning model. The access request may be completed using the generated inference.
US12287770B2
Disclosed herein is a Dynamic Random Access Memory-Based Content-Addressable Memory (DRAM-CAM) architecture and methods relating thereto. The DRAM-CAM architecture can include a memory array, with the data organized into blocks including rows and columns. Input data can be converted into a format with first and second groups of columns. Each first group can correspond to one or more rows of the input data, and each second group can include one or more null columns. A query can be received and loaded into an available column of the second group, and pattern matching can be performed on the data to identify occurrences of elements defined by the query. The pattern matching can be performed concurrently on the first groups of columns and the available columns bit by bit. Results can include a count or location of each identified element.
US12287769B2
Various methods, apparatuses/systems, and media for generating platform and database agnostic reports without depending on reporting services are disclosed. A processor receives a configuration file via a user interface, the configuration file including reporting configurations for components associated with reporting service; interprets the configuration file by utilizing corresponding interpreter libraries; invokes, in response to interpreting the configuration file, a predefined application programming interface (API); processes, in response to invoking the API, the reporting configurations using the interpreter libraries to process data object references and pre-configured report layout formats; receives a request from a user to generate a custom report; and automatically renders, in response to receiving the request, a platform and a database agnostic report by implementing a desired visualization techniques.
US12287766B2
A method for machine learning-based data matching and reconciliation may include: ingesting a plurality of records from a plurality of data sources; identifying company associated with each of the plurality of records; assigning a unique identifier to each uniquely identified company; matching each of the records to one of the uniquely identified companies using a trained company matching machine learning engine; identifying a primary company record in the matching records and associating other matching records with the primary company record; matching each of the records to a contact using a trained contact matching machine learning engine; identifying a primary contact record in the matching records and associating other matching records with the primary contact record; synchronizing the plurality of records in a graph database using the unique identifier; receiving feedback on the matching companies and/or matching contacts; and updating the trained company matching machine learning engine.
US12287765B2
Embodiments are provided for a dropsite. In some embodiments, information is received on a creation location and a date and time of creation of a content item, and a determination is made if (i) the date and time of creation is within a predefined span of time, and (ii) the creation location is within a predefined geographical area to permit association of the content item with a shared folder whose inclusion criteria match said date and time and geographic location.
US12287761B2
A system and method for accelerated content classification and routing of digital files in a data handling and data governance service includes identifying a digital computer file; sequentially routing the digital computer file to one or more machine learning-based content classification models of a plurality of distinct machine learning-based content classification models based on a service-defined model instantiation and execution sequence, wherein: the service-defined model instantiation and execution sequence defines a model instantiation and execution order for the plurality of distinct machine learning-based content classification models that enables a fast content classification of the digital computer file while minimizing a computation time or runtime of the one or more machine learning-based content classification models; computing, via a machine learning-based filename classification model, a content classification inference based on extracted filename feature data of the digital computer file; and executing one or more computer-executable instructions based on the content classification inference.
US12287760B2
A system and method for pruning data based on metadata. The method may include receiving a query that includes a plurality of predicates and identifying one or more applicable files including database data satisfying at least one of the plurality of predicates. The identifying the one or more applicable files including reading metadata stored in a metadata store that is separate from the database data. The method further includes pruning inapplicable files including database data that does not satisfy at least one of the plurality of predicates to create a reduced set of files and reading the reduced set of files to execute the query.
US12287756B2
A systolic array cell is described, the cell including two general-purpose arithmetic logic units (ALUs) and register-file. A plurality of the cells may be configured in a matrix or array, such that the output of the first ALU in a first cell is provided to a second cell to the right of the first cell, and the output of the second ALU in the first cell is provided to a third cell below the first cell. The two ALUs in each cell of the array allow for processing of a different instruction in each cycle.
US12287755B2
This document describes systems and techniques for a hardware-based save-and-restore controller in an SoC. The described systems and techniques can automatically save and restore access control configurations (e.g., register states) of IP subsystems during a power-down and a power-up sequence, respectively. The save operation is initiated by a local save-and-restore (L SAR) controller and performed by the IP subsystems writing the configuration values to a central save-and-restore (C-SAR) controller before powering down a power domain. The C-SAR controller saves the configuration information in a memory located in an always-on power domain. The described systems and techniques initiate, via the L SAR controller, a restore operation as part of the power-up sequence. In this way, the described systems and techniques provide scalable save-and-restore services, support a large number of power domains, and allow a variable number of access control configurations to be saved and restored.
US12287754B2
A method for performing a data transmission between a control device and an electronics unit. A microcontroller and an Ethernet transceiver are provided in the control unit, and a microcontroller and an Ethernet transceiver are also provided in the electronics unit. For data transmission, the two Ethernet transceivers are first synchronized, taking into account a common clock cycle, and, for data transmission, an Ethernet connection is used as a physical route, and the data transmission is carried out with a serial protocol.
US12287753B2
A link controller includes a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) physical layer circuit for coupling to a communication link and providing a data path over the communication link, a first data link layer controller which operates according to a PCIe protocol, and a second data link layer controller which operates according to a non-PCIe protocol. A multiplexer-demultiplexer selectively connects both data link layer controllers to the PCIe physical layer circuit. A protocol translation circuit is coupled between the multiplexer-demultiplexer and the second data link layer controller, the protocol translation circuit receiving traffic data from the second data link layer controller in a non-PCIe format, encapsulating the non-PCIe format in a PCIe format, and passing traffic data to the multiplexer-demultiplexer circuit.
US12287750B2
Loading firmware onto an embedded controller (EC) integrated into a heterogeneous computing platform
Systems and methods for loading firmware onto an embedded controller (EC) integrated into a heterogenous computing platform. In an illustrative, non-limiting embodiment, an Information Handling System (IHS) may include: a heterogeneous computing platform having a Reduced Instruction Set Computer (RISC) processor and a Peripheral Component Interconnect Express (PCIe) controller coupled thereto; and an EC integrated into the heterogeneous computing platform and coupled to the PCIe controller, wherein the EC is configured to retrieve at least one of: firmware instructions, a configuration setting, or a table, from a PCIe device coupled to the PCIe controller.
US12287747B2
Accordingly, there is disclosed herein host device and bus communication method that enables fast sensor device reinitialization that minimizes outage time associated with an unexpected device reset. One illustrative bus communication method includes: providing each of one or more slave devices with a dynamically-determined bus address; querying each of the dynamically-determined bus addresses to obtain a unique device identifier associated with that dynamically-determined bus address; receiving a sequence of data frames each having time-division multiplexed data from the one or more slave devices; and between data frames in the sequence, checking to determine whether any of the one or more slave devices has been reset.
US12287746B2
An apparatus comprises a processing device comprising a processor coupled to a memory. The processing device is configured to receive, over a first communication channel from an orchestrator entity, at least one command specifying one or more actions to take involving an endpoint device, the one or more actions comprising at least one of writing data to a tag of a tag bridge device and reading data from the tag of the tag bridge device. The processing device is further configured to relay the at least one command to the tag of the tag bridge device over a second communication channel, the second communication channel being established between a tag interface of the processing device and the tag bridge device, wherein the tag bridge device, when plugged in to a port of the endpoint device, relays the at least one command from the tag to the endpoint device.
US12287744B2
System and methods are provided for improved directory enumeration on shared client directories in virtual desktops. A merged I/O request containing multiple expected I/O requests for enumerating a directory can be produced on the virtual desktop. The merged I/O request can be conveyed to the client device and a merged I/O response containing multiple I/O responses to the expected I/O requests can be received from the client device. The received I/O responses can be stored in cache memory on the virtual desktop and used to respond to subsequent queries for enumerating the directory on the virtual desktop.
US12287740B2
In at least one embodiment, processing can include receiving, at a first node, a read request directed to a logical address LA owned by a second node. The first node can locally cache content and an address hint corresponding to LA. The first node can issue a request to the second node. The request can include a flag to suppress the second node from returning content stored at the target logical address. The first node can receive a response including an address used to read current content of LA1 from back-end non-volatile storage. The first node can determine whether the address matches the address hint cached on the first node. If the first node determines the address and address hint match, the cached content of LA stored on the first node is valid and can be returned in response to the read as current content stored at LA.
US12287738B2
A system and method for caching in storage devices. In some embodiments, the method includes: opening a first file, by a first thread; reading a first page of data, from the first file, into a page cache in host memory of a host; adding, to a first data structure, a first pointer, the first pointer pointing to the first page of data; opening a second file, by a second thread; reading a second page of data, from the second file, into the page cache; and adding, to the first data structure, a second pointer, the second pointer pointing to the second page of data.
US12287734B2
In some examples, a computer identifies a plurality of memory servers accessible by the computer to perform remote access over a network of data stored by the plurality of memory servers, sends allocation requests to allocate memory segments to place interleaved data of the computer across the plurality of memory servers, and receives, at the computer in response to the allocation requests, metadata relating to the memory segments at the plurality of memory servers, the metadata comprising addresses of the memory segments at the plurality of memory servers. The computer uses the metadata to access, by the computer, the interleaved data at the plurality of memory servers, the interleaved data comprising blocks of data distributed across the memory segments.
US12287732B2
A method and device for storing data are provided. The method includes: selecting at least one block from a plurality of blocks in a storage device as a evicting block or a target block based on an expected expiration time of each of the plurality of blocks in response to a request for garbage collection, wherein the expected expiration time of each block is obtained based on an expected expiration time of valid data of each block; and performing garbage collection based on the selected at least one block.
US12287731B2
A method for storing data includes receiving a message to perform garbage collection on a first block of blocks included in a storage apparatus, and, based on the message, performing garbage collection on the first block by storing valid data that is stored in the first block into a second block according to a level of the first block among plural levels. A level of the second block among the plural levels is not lower than the level of the first block.
US12287723B1
A test case management tool integrated in a project management tool can include user interface elements supported by backend databases and a test case library database. The user interface elements can include an option for a user to request an automatic artificial intelligence-based recommendation for a ticket project stored in the project management tool. The automatic test case selection includes LLM summarization of the test cases in the test case library database, and semantic searching of ticket data against the summaries. Results can be improved by generating relationship counters, based on the relationships identified in the test case library database, scoring each test case, based on the relationship counters, and selecting higher scored test cases.
US12287722B2
A method for providing a function by a group of computing units in which computation instances are executed, each computation instance implementing the function using at least one algorithm and being set up to determine at least one result in response to a call of the function. The method includes: determining an integrity level for each of the computation instances; receiving a function request from a subscriber, the function request including a quality requirement that includes an integrity requirement; selecting a plurality of the computation instances corresponding to the quality requirement, so that the integrity level of the selected computation instances corresponds to the integrity requirement; calling the function in the selected computation instances corresponding to the function request in order to determine a plurality of results; determining a response based on the results, taking into account the quality requirement; and sending the response to the subscriber.
US12287714B2
Techniques for management of virtual representations (e.g., digital twins) of infrastructure are disclosed. For example, a method comprises obtaining at least one virtual representation of an infrastructure, wherein the virtual representation represents the infrastructure in a first state. The method further comprises applying at least one dataset to the virtual representation to artificially advance the virtual representation to represent the infrastructure in a second state. The method further comprises obtaining results representing the infrastructure in the second state, responsive to applying the at least one dataset to the virtual representation, wherein at least a portion of the results are indicative of an issue with the infrastructure, and then initiating one or more debugging actions with respect to the infrastructure to address the issue.
US12287712B2
Described are memory systems and devices in which each memory die in a three-dimensional stack of memory dies includes drive and receive circuitry that can communicate data signals from the stack on behalf of all the memory dies in the stack. The drive and receive circuitry, if defective on one device in the stack, can be disabled and substituted with the drive and receive circuitry from another. The stack of memory dies can thus function despite a failure of drive or receive circuitry in one or more of the memory dies. Each memory die includes test circuitry to detect defective drive and receive circuitry.
US12287709B2
A method for managing data includes obtaining, by a universal connector, a backup request for a backup of a set of files, in response to the backup request: performing a file system analysis on the set of files to determine an ordering of files to be accessed for the backup, generating a set of file read requests based on the ordering of files, sending a data access request based on the set of file read requests, obtaining a response from the NAS server, wherein the response comprises data associated with the set of files, and generating the backup using the data associated with the set of files.
US12287708B2
Embodiments of the present technology provide non-volatile memory devices comprising memory dies that natively generate “exclusive OR (XOR) data pages” that can be used to recover data pages corrupted by UECC errors. Through memory die native-XOR data page generation, embodiments can recover data pages corrupted by UECC errors more efficiently, more rapidly, and with fewer resources than potential alternative technologies.
US12287696B1
A computer-implemented method, according to one approach, includes: receiving observability data produced by a first portion of a distributed application. The observability data is evaluated and in response to determining that the observability data indicates the first portion of the distributed application is degraded, the amount of the observability data produced by the first portion of the distributed application is increased. Additionally, the amount of observability data produced by other portions of the distributed application that are correlated with the first portion of the distributed application is also increased.
US12287683B2
Systems and methods for managing airflow for cooling computing devices (e.g. in a data center) in normal and cold environments are disclosed. In one embodiment, the method comprises positioning the computing devices on a plurality of racks with air barriers to create hot and cold aisles. The computing devices may be configured in a first mode to draw in cool air the cold aisles and exhaust heated air into the hot aisles. Temperatures in the cold aisles may be periodically measured. In response to temperatures below a predetermined threshold, one or more of the cold aisles may be converted into a temporary hot aisle by adjusting ventilation openings and configuring a subset of the computing devices to temporarily draw in warm air from the temporary hot aisle.
US12287674B2
An electronic device for moving and displaying at least one object according to the expansion of a flexible display, and a method for controlling same. An electronic device may include a flexible display, and at least one processor operably connected to the flexible display, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: display multiple objects of a first application on the flexible display; detect an expansion event for expanding the flexible display while the multiple objects are being displayed on the flexible display; and while maintaining a position in which at least one object among the multiple objects is displayed, move one or more objects among the remaining objects to an area expanded according to the expansion event and display the one or more objects thereon.
US12287673B2
A display device includes a display panel including a folding region at which the display panel is foldable, and in order from the display panel a first plate facing the display panel and including a lower surface furthest from the display panel, a heat dissipation layer facing the first plate, and a second plate facing the heat dissipation layer, the second plate defining a first opening which exposes the lower surface of the first plate to outside the second plate.
US12287656B2
A method includes receiving temperature measurements from multiple temperature sensors in a power supply system that includes multiple coils arranged in a series downstream of a turbine, each coil configured to receive thermal energy from an air stream exhausted from the turbine as the air stream moves toward a data center, each coil associated with at least one fluid loop. The method also includes using a first subset of the temperature measurements to determine a blended fluid mix from a primary fluid path and a heated fluid reservoir in order to obtain a predetermined leaving fluid temperature at a first coil of the multiple coils. The method further includes controlling a position of one or more valves associated with the primary fluid path and the heated fluid reservoir to achieve the determined blended fluid mix.
US12287654B1
An irrigation controller is disclosed together with associated methods and computer program products. The watering schedule may be set to elevate an estimated in-soil water level to an estimated in-soil water capacity on or before an impermissible watering.
US12287650B1
A line-following robot in an assembly line. The line-following robot includes a microcontroller, a camera connected to the microcontroller, disposed on a front of the line-following robot, and configured to collect line images, an Infrared (IR) sensor array connected to the microcontroller, disposed on the line-following robot, and oriented in a direction of travel of the line-following robot, a first wheel set and a second wheel set disposed opposite one another on opposing sides of a bottom of the line-following robot, and a battery. The microprocessor controls a motor speed of the line-following robot based on an upcoming assembly line by continuously capturing and processing the lines images using an advance image processing technique and computer vision techniques.
US12287644B2
In the event of a failed engine, an automatic takeoff thrust asymmetry compensation system (“ATACS”) for an aircraft improves capabilities to reduce VMCG and deal with the potential side-effects simultaneously. The system commands selected control surfaces (which can be e.g., rudder and/or ailerons and/or spoilers or any combinations thereof) for a short period of time, improving the capability to reduce the VMCG without increasing the penalty on system failures or poor handling qualities.
US12287642B2
A sorting system includes a first number of entry points configured to provide sorting goods. The sorting system further has a second number of terminal points configured to receive the sorting goods, and a third number of driverless sorting vehicles configured to transport the sorting goods between the first number of insertion points and the second number of terminal points. Further, a control device is provided, configured to control the driverless sorting vehicles between the first number of insertion points and the second number of terminal points.
US12287638B2
A dock area control system includes a vehicle proximity detection system (PDSC). The PDSC includes a vehicle low frequency magnetic field generator (MFG) that generates a vehicle pulsed magnetic field that is sensed by a dock area controller electronics module (DEM).
US12287634B2
The present disclosure is directed to deviating from a planned path for an autonomous vehicle. In particular, a computing system comprising one or more computing devices physically located onboard an autonomous vehicle can identify one or more boundaries at least in part defining a lane in which the autonomous vehicle is traveling along a path of a planned route. Responsive to identifying one or more obstructions ahead of the autonomous vehicle along the path, the computing system can: determine one or more deviations from the path that would result in the autonomous vehicle avoiding the obstruction(s) and at least partially crossing at least one of the one or more boundaries; and generate, based at least in part on the deviation(s), a motion plan instructing the autonomous vehicle to deviate from the path such that it avoids the obstruction(s) and continues traveling along the planned route.
US12287633B2
In an approach to comparing simulated environments for unmanned ground vehicle development and testing, a system includes stored program instructions, the stored program instructions configured to: receive a first simulation scene and a second simulation scene; calculate a first costmap for the first simulation scene and a second costmap for the second simulation scene; calculate a traversability ratio metric comparing the first costmap and the second costmap; calculate a blob size metric comparing the first costmap and the second costmap; calculate an L2 distance between a first plurality of histograms from the first costmap and a second plurality of histograms from the second costmap; and determine whether a first environment of the first simulation scene and a second environment of the second simulation scene are similar based on the traversability ratio metric, the blob size metric, and the L2 distance.
US12287630B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to arranging a pick up and drop off locations between a driverless vehicle and a passenger. As an example, a method of doing so may include receiving a request for a vehicle from a client computing device, wherein the request identifies a first location. Pre-stored map information and the first location are used to identify a recommended point according to a set of heuristics. Each heuristic of the set of heuristics has a ranking such that the recommended point corresponds to a location that satisfies at least one of the heuristics having a first rank and such that no other location satisfies any other heuristic of the set of heuristics having a higher rank than the first rank. The pre-stored map information identifying a plurality of pre-determined locations for the vehicle to stop, and the recommended point is one of the plurality of pre-determined locations. The recommended point is then provided the client computing device for display on a display of the client computing device with a map.
US12287626B2
A device for controlling a safety apparatus comprises at least one OSSD-type output having an output terminal to be connected to a corresponding input of the safety apparatus, said OSSD output being powerable to a maximum threshold value and to a minimum threshold value of the supply voltage suitable for determining respectively the ON and OFF conditions of said at least one output, a control circuit suitable for carrying out a test of the operation of said at least one OSSD output by sending test micropulses for switching said output terminal to said minimum threshold value to send an error signal to the safety in case of detection of a value different from said minimum threshold value, said control circuit being adapted to generate test micropulses having variable or adjustable duration.
US12287625B2
A method and replay unit for sending secured messages via a messaging system to a receiver ECU to be tested, wherein the replay unit is connected to the device under test via the messaging system, wherein the replay unit is set up to receive first secured messages to be replayed, to remove from the first secured messages a first counter value and a first authenticator, and to generate a second authenticator by means of a second counter value, an encryption algorithm and a key, and wherein the replay unit is set up to generate second secured messages by adding the second counter value and the second authenticator to the first messages, and wherein the replay unit is further adapted to send the second secured messages to the recipient device under test via the messaging system.
US12287624B2
A method for time constraint management at a manufacturing system is provided. A first request to initiate a set of operations to be run at the manufacturing system is received. The set of operations include one or more operations that each have one or more time constraints. A first set of candidate substrates to be processed during the set of operations is determined. A first simulation of the set of operations for the first set of candidate substrates is run over a first period of time. The simulation generates a first simulation output indicate a first number of candidate substrates that were successfully processed during each of the simulated set of operations to reach the end of the first time period. The set of operations is initiated at the manufacturing system to process the first number of candidate substrates over the first time period.
US12287623B2
The systems and methods provide an action recognition and analytics tool for use in manufacturing, health care services, shipping, retailing and other similar contexts. Machine learning action recognition can be utilized to determine cycles, processes, actions, sequences, objects and or the like in one or more sensor streams. The sensor streams can include, but are not limited to, one or more video sensor frames, thermal sensor frames, infrared sensor frames, and or three-dimensional depth frames. The analytics tool can provide for analyzing ergonomic data from the one or more sensor streams.
US12287621B2
A storage device self-heating system includes a storage device having a processing system, a storage subsystem, and at least one heat transfer subsystem coupled between the processing system and the storage subsystem. The storage device determines that a temperature of the storage subsystem is below a temperature threshold and, in response, uses the processing system to perform a plurality of computations that are configured to generate an amount of heat that, when transferred via the heat transfer subsystem(s), raises the temperature of the storage subsystem. The heat transfer subsystem(s) transfer heat generated via the performance of the plurality of computations to the storage subsystem, and when the storage device determines that the temperature of the storage subsystem is above the temperature threshold, it performs at least one storage operation.
US12287617B2
A method for accessing a computer-numerically-controlled machine can include receiving a command to be executed by the computer-numerically-controlled machine. A hardware state of a component in the computer-numerically-controlled machine can be determined by receiving, from the component, data indicative of the hardware state. An origin of the command including a user identification of a user who sent the command and/or a machine identification of a device that sent the command can be determined. Whether the computer-numerically-controlled machine is allowed to execute the command can be determined by applying a set of rules and based on the hardware state and/or the origin of the command. In response to determining that the computer-numerically-controlled machine is allowed to execute the command, the command can be executed at the computer-numerically-controlled machine.
US12287616B2
A numerical controller includes: a model holding unit that holds a machine model, the machine model being a model that simulates deformation of a mechanical structure accompanying motion of the mechanical structure in axial directions and representing an error amount as an amount of displacement of a tool; a machining error estimation unit that estimates an error direction and the error amount in the error direction on the basis of axis data that is data on drive of a drive mechanism and the machine model, the error direction being a direction in which displacement of the tool occurs among the axial directions; and a correction amount arithmetic unit that selects one or more of the axes subject to correction, and performs arithmetic to find a correction amount used for correction of a command to be output to the drive mechanism for the axis selected.
US12287610B2
A watch component having an oxide film formed by oxidizing a base material containing iron as a main component, an average film thickness of the oxide film is from 70 nm to 145 nm, and a variation in film thickness of the oxide film is equal to or less than 35%.
US12287609B2
Disclosed is an adjustment method for a timepiece oscillator including a balance, a support and a flexure pivot connecting the balance to the support and guiding the balance in rotation as to the support about a virtual axis of rotation, the flexure pivot having, in orthogonal projection in a plane perpendicular to the virtual axis of rotation, an axis of symmetry which is also an axis of symmetry for the points where the flexure pivot joins the balance. In the method, the unbalance of the balance is adjusted so, in orthogonal projection in the plane, the center of mass of the balance is substantially on the axis of symmetry and at a position distinct from that of the virtual axis of rotation and chosen to reduce, and preferably render minimal, the dependency of the oscillation frequency with respect to the orientation of gravity for a predetermined amplitude of oscillation.
US12287608B2
An image cast system includes: a transparent holographic display screen; a first diffraction grating superimposed at a first display surface of the transparent holographic display screen; a second diffraction grating superimposed at a second display surface of the transparent holographic display screen; a plurality of cast light sources including a cast light source disposed outside and facing towards the transparent holographic display screen or a cast light source disposed inside the transparent holographic display screen; and a control device connected to the transparent holographic display screen, the first diffraction grating, the second diffraction grating, and the plurality of cast light sources. The control device controls at least one cast light source of the plurality of cast light sources to cast a virtual scene image onto the first display surface of the transparent holographic display screen; and outputs an electrical control signal to the second diffraction grating.
US12287604B2
An image forming apparatus includes: a housing; a drum cartridge as a first cartridge including a photosensitive drum; a second cartridge accommodating toner; and a drawer movable between an inside position where the drawer in its entirety is positioned inside the housing and an outside position where at least a part of the drawer is positioned outside the housing. The drum cartridge is attachable to and detachable from the drawer. The drawer includes: a side plate configured to receive the photosensitive drum; and a locking member supported by the side plate. The locking member is movable relative to the side plate between a locking position where the locking member locks the photosensitive drum to the side plate and an unlocking position where the locking member unlocks the photosensitive drum from the side plate in an attached state of the drum cartridge to the drawer.
US12287599B2
A static elimination apparatus includes a conveyance unit to convey a sheet along a conveyance path, a non-contact static elimination unit to eliminate static from the sheet, a first guide member including a contact portion to guide the sheet, and a plurality of openings arranged next to each other in a width direction. The plurality of openings expose the non-contact static elimination unit to a conveyance path. The contact portion includes a plurality of first ribs arranged on one side with respect to a conveyance center, and a plurality of second ribs arranged on the other side with respect to the conveyance center. The plurality of first ribs and the plurality of second ribs are inclined relative to the sheet conveyance direction so that the further downstream in the sheet conveyance direction each rib is, the greater a distance between each rib and the conveyance center is.
US12287598B2
A system performs a first analysis operation in which an operation history of an image forming apparatus and input information are analyzed, an issuance operation in which, in a case where a result of an analysis of the first analysis operation satisfies notification conditions, a second analysis operation in which a confidence for the result of the analysis of the first analysis operation is obtained, a transmission operation in which, in a case where the confidence is less than a threshold, a message requesting further input of input information is transmitted, and a control operation in which the notification conditions are controlled based on the input information obtained as a response to the message.
US12287586B2
A system for positioning, a stage system, a lithographic apparatus, a method for positioning and a method for manufacturing a device in which use is made of a stage system that includes a plurality of gas bearing devices. Each gas bearing device includes: a gas bearing body, which has a free surface, a primary channel which extends through the gas bearing body and has an inlet opening in the free surface, a secondary channel system which extends through the gas bearing body and which has a plurality of discharge openings in the free surface. The flow resistance in the secondary channel system is higher than the flow resistance in the primary channel.
US12287578B2
A method of processing a substrate includes receiving a substrate including a photoresist film including exposed and unexposed portions, etching parts of the unexposed portions of the photoresist film with a developing gas in a process chamber to leave a residual part of the unexposed portions, and purging the developing gas from the process chamber with a purging gas. After purging the developing gas, the residual part of the unexposed portions is etched with the developing gas. The substrate is etched using exposed portions of the photoresist film as a mask.
US12287576B2
An underlayer composition, comprising a polymer comprising a repeating unit of formula (1): wherein Ar is a monocyclic or polycyclic C5-60 aromatic group, wherein the aromatic group comprises one or more aromatic ring heteroatoms, a substituent group comprising a heteroatom, or a combination thereof; X is C or O; R1, R2; Ra and Rb are as provided herein; optionally, R1 and R2 can be taken together form a 5- to 7-membered ring; optionally, one of R11 to R13 can be taken together with R1 to form a 5- to 7-membered ring; wherein Ra and Rb optionally may be taken together to form a 5- to 7-membered ring; wherein one of Ra or Rb optionally may be taken together with R2 to form a 5- to 7-membered ring; and when X is O, Ra and Rb are absent.
US12287575B2
A system and method for depositing a photoresist and utilizing the photoresist are provided. In an embodiment a deposition chamber is utilized along with a first precursor material comprising carbon-carbon double bonds and a second precursor material comprising repeating units to deposit the photoresist onto a substrate. The first precursor material is turned into a plasma in a remote plasma chamber prior to being introduced into the deposition chamber. The resulting photoresist comprises a carbon backbone with carbon-carbon double bonds.
US12287570B2
A pressure control valve has: a passageway having a flow opening; an member displaceable relative to the opening for obstructing the opening by differing amounts; a piezo actuator; and a linkage mechanism adapted to amplify a dimensional change in the piezo actuator and to use the amplified dimensional change to displace the member relative to the opening, wherein the linkage mechanism comprises a frame attached to a wall and fixed at a first end in relation to the passageway, a portion of the frame moveable in a first direction while being substantially restrained in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction, the piezo actuator extending between the wall and the movable portion such that an expansion of the piezo actuator results in movement of the movable portion in the first direction by an amount greater than the expansion of the piezo actuator, the moveable portion connected to the member.
US12287569B2
A pellicle film for photolithography including a carbon nanotube film, in which the carbon nanotube film contains carbon nanotubes; the carbon nanotube film transmits 80% or more of EUV light at a wavelength of 13.5 nm; the carbon nanotube film has a thickness from 1 nm to 50 nm; the carbon nanotube film is deposited on a silicon substrate, in which the 3σ of the reflectance is 15% or less when the reflectance of the deposited carbon nanotube film is measured using a reflectance spectrophotometer-based film thickness meter under the following conditions: the diameter of measurement spots, 20 μm; the reference measurement wavelength, 285 nm; the number of measurement spots, 121 spots; the distance between the centers of adjacent measurement spots, 40 μm.
US12287551B2
An electro-optical device includes a substrate, a pixel electrode disposed at the substrate, and a pixel circuit portion disposed between the substrate and the pixel electrode. The pixel circuit portion includes a scanning line disposed along a first direction, a data line disposed along a second direction intersecting the first direction, a first constant potential line disposed along the scanning line, a second constant potential line disposed along the data line, and a transistor disposed corresponding to an intersection position of the scanning line and the data line and including a gate electrode electrically coupled to the scanning line, a source region electrically coupled to the data line, and a drain region electrically coupled to the pixel electrode. The pixel circuit portion also includes a coupling portion disposed corresponding to the intersection position and configured to electrically couple the first constant potential line and the second constant potential line.
US12287539B2
An electronic device includes: a non-collimated backlight module; a transparent backlight module disposed on the non-collimated backlight module, wherein the transparent backlight module includes a direct-lit backlight module or an edge-lit backlight module; and a display cell disposed on the transparent backlight module; wherein when in a narrow mode, the non-collimated backlight module is in an off-state, and the transparent backlight module is in an on-state, wherein when in a wide mode, the non-collimated backlight module is in an on-state.
US12287529B2
An image capture apparatus and a zoom lens are provided. The zoom lens in accordance with an exemplary embodiment of the invention includes a mount, a guide unit, a plurality of lens groups and a driving device. The guide unit is disposed in the mount in a first direction. The lens groups are disposed in the mount and include at least one movable lens group which can be moved along the guide unit. The driving device is configured for driving the movable lens group. The driving device includes magnets and coils. The magnets are fixed to one of the movable lens group and the mount, while the coils are fixed to the other of the movable lens group and the mount. The magnets and/or the coils are arranged in the first direction.
US12287518B2
The present disclosure provides an optical fiber connector, comprising an integrated ferrule assembly and an integrated outer housing assembly, the ferrule assembly being adapted to be fitted into the housing assembly. The ferrule assembly at least comprises an inner housing, a spring, a multi-hole ferrule, a multi-fiber optical cable, a sleeve and a thermal shrinkable tube. The housing assembly at least comprises an outer housing, an outer tail tube and an outer protection cap. In the present disclosure, a plurality of components such as the inner housing, the spring, the multi-hole ferrule, multi-fiber optical cable, the sleeve, the thermal shrinkable tube and the like can be preassembled into an integrated ferrule assembly, and a plurality of components such as the outer housing, the outer tail tube, the outer protection cap and the like can be preassembled into an integrated outer housing assembly; then, a worker only needs to insert the integrated ferrule assembly into the integrated outer housing assembly on site, thereby completing assembling operation of the whole optical fiber connector conveniently and quickly.
US12287505B1
A display device includes a display element, a light guide plate, and a light-emitting element. The display element has a display side and a back side, and the display side is opposite to the back side. The light guide plate is disposed on the display side. The light guide plate has a light-emitting surface, a light-incident surface, and a surface. The light-emitting surface faces away from the display side. The surface faces toward the display side. The surface has a plurality of optical microstructures, and the light-incident surface is located between the light-emitting surface and the surface. The light-emitting element is disposed opposite to the light-incident surface.
US12287504B2
An interference filter includes a transmissive first substrate including a first inner surface and a first outer surface facing each other, in which the first inner surface is provided with a first reflection film, a transmissive second substrate including a second inner surface and a second outer surface facing each other, in which the second inner surface is provided with a second reflection film, a first bonding portion configured to bond the first inner surface and the second inner surface to each other, and seal a first inner space between the first substrate and the second substrate, a transmissive third substrate facing the first outer surface, a second bonding portion configured to bond the first outer surface and the third substrate to each other, and seal a second inner space between the first substrate and the third substrate, a transmissive fourth substrate facing the second outer surface, and a third bonding portion configured to bond the second outer surface and the fourth substrate to each other, and seal a third inner space between the second substrate and the fourth substrate, wherein the first inner space, the second inner space, and the third inner space are lower in pressure than atmospheric pressure.
US12287498B2
A method for manufacturing a low-angle blazed grating on a semiconductor or silicon substrate, includes spin-coating the substrate with resist layer or hydrogen or polysilsesquioxane, being 100-1000 nm or few hundred nanometers thick, applying grayscale irradiation lithography exposure to the resist layer, generating a dose modulated pattern therein, varying in response to absorbed energy density from irradiation lithography exposure. The coated, irradiated substrate is developed in solution, such as TMAH or NaOH, enabling a blazed profile having structures of thickness-dependent diffusion barriers or SiO2, with 0-1000 nm height to emerge. Thermal oxidation in oxygen atmosphere at elevated temperature with the developed substrate, converts the upper silicon substrate layer into SiO2 to a depth depending on the thickness of the pattern in the resist layer above. Hydrofluoric acid fluid removes the SiO2, creating low-angle low-roughness blazed grating structure on silicon substrate.
US12287497B2
A optical apparatus to display an image to a user is disclosed. The apparatus comprises an image source to generate an image bearing light beam having a first numerical aperture; and a diffuser screen. The diffuser screen is configured to increase the numerical aperture of the image bearing light beam to a second numerical aperture. The diffuser screen comprises a first part comprising: a first face and second face substantially parallel to each other, a first array of a plurality of waveguides forming an optical path between the first face and the second face. A value of an optical property of each of the plurality of waveguides is selected randomly from a set of values of the optical property. The first array of a plurality of waveguides is arranged such that each of the plurality of waveguides has an optical axis that is substantially parallel to it's nearest neighbour. Substantially all the waveguides of the first array are sized below a size that would allow a single mode of visible light to propagate along each waveguide.
US12287492B2
The present invention provides a light flux controlling member that can determine the center of a lens surface (light flux control surface) that does not have a circular outer edge in plan view. A light flux controlling member of the present invention includes: a light flux control surface including an outer edge with a shape that is drawn by a point A when a straight line connecting a point O and the point A is rotated 360 degrees or more clockwise or counterclockwise around the point O while a length of the straight line is gradually increased in plan view; and a center determination mark disposed outside of the light flux control surface and on a circle around the point O in plan view.
US12287490B2
Apparatus and methods for controlling heating of an objective in a linescanning sequencing system to improve resolution are disclosed. In accordance with a first implementation, an apparatus includes or comprises a beam source for providing input radiation and a beam shaping group including or comprising one or more optical elements positioned to receive the input radiation from the beam source, and to perform beam shaping on the input radiation to form a shaped beam. The apparatus further including or comprising an objective positioned to receive the shaped beam and to transform the shaped beam into a probe beam and configured to provide the probe beam to a focal plane of the objective for optically probing a sample. The beam shaping group is configured to adjust one or more properties of the shaped beam over time to generally uniformly heat the objective over a region of incidence for the shaped beam.
US12287480B2
The information display apparatus configured to display video information of a virtual image on a reflecting surface of conveyance includes: a display configured to display the video information; and a virtual image optical system configured to display a virtual image at a front of the conveyance by reflecting light emitted from the display by means of the reflecting surface. The virtual image optical system includes a concave mirror and an optical element. The optical element is arranged between the display and the concave mirror, and is configured to correct distortion of the virtual image obtained so as to correspond to a viewpoint position of a driver on a basis of a shape of the concave mirror and a shape of the optical element. The information display apparatus further includes a virtual image double image conversion reducer configured to reduce double image conversion of the virtual image.
