US12317557B1
Structures for a high-voltage field-effect transistor that include a deep trench isolation region and methods of forming such structures. The structure comprises a semiconductor substrate, a semiconductor layer on the semiconductor substrate, and a doped layer between the semiconductor layer and the semiconductor substrate. The structure further comprises a trench isolation region including a metal layer that extends through the semiconductor layer and the doped layer into the semiconductor substrate.
US12317554B2
The present disclosure describes semiconductor devices and methods for forming the same. A method for forming a semiconductor device includes forming a source/drain structure and forming a gate structure. The method also includes performing a cleaning process on the source/drain structure and the gate structure. The method also includes disposing a portion of a byproduct of the cleaning process on a top surface of the gate structure and etching the portion of the byproduct so a remaining portion of the byproduct is formed on the top surface of the gate structure. The method further includes forming a gate contact structure, including depositing a metal material on the remaining portion of the byproduct to form a compound containing the metal material and the remaining portion of the byproduct. The method also includes forming a barrier layer between the compound and the top surface of the gate structure.
US12317538B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a gate electrode; a epitaxial source/drain region adjacent the gate electrode; one or more inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layers over the epitaxial source/drain region; a first source/drain contact extending through the ILD layers, the first source/drain contact connected to the epitaxial source/drain region; a contact spacer surrounding the first source/drain contact; and a void disposed between the contact spacer and the ILD layers.
US12317537B2
A semiconductor device is provided that includes a local passthrough interconnect structure present in a non-active device region of the device. A dielectric fill material structure is located between the local passthrough interconnect structure and a functional gate structure that is present in an active device region that is laterally adjacent to the non-active device region. The semiconductor device has reduced capacitance (and thus circuit speed is not compromised) as compared to an equivalent device in which a metal-containing sacrificial gate structure is used instead of the dielectric fill material structure.
US12317533B2
A semiconductor device for high-frequency amplification includes a substrate; a first nitride semiconductor layer above the substrate; a two-dimensional electron gas layer; a second nitride semiconductor layer; and a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a gate electrode spaced apart from each other above the first nitride semiconductor layer. In a plan view, an active region with a two-dimensional electron gas layer includes a high-electron-mobility transistor and the resistor provided above the second nitride semiconductor layer. In the plan view, a non-active region includes a drain terminal and a gate terminal connected to the drain electrode or the gate electrode; and a first resistor terminal and a second resistor terminal connected to the resistor.
US12317527B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor structure. The semiconductor structure includes device fins formed on a substrate; fill fins formed on the substrate and disposed among the device fins; and gate stacks formed on the device fins and the fill fins. The fill fins include a first dielectric material layer and a second dielectric material layer deposited on the first dielectric material layer. The first and second dielectric material layers are different from each other in composition.
US12317518B2
A semiconductor device can include first and second conductive layers that can be positioned over a substrate, and at least one dielectric layer between the first and second conductive layers. The at least one dielectric layer can be positioned over at least a portion of the second conductive layer, and the first conductive layer can be positioned over a portion of the least one dielectric layer. The semiconductor device can further include a third conductive layer that can be positioned over the substrate and can be conductively connected to the second conductive layer and the substrate. The third conductive layer includes a fusible link.
US12317516B2
A semiconductor device includes a stack including a plurality of electrode layers which include a plurality of capacitor first electrode layers and a plurality of capacitor second electrode layers alternately stacked on a substrate and a plurality of dielectric layers which are disposed alternately with the plurality of electrode layers; a first conductive pillar passing through the stack and coupled to the plurality of capacitor first electrode layers; a second conductive pillar passing through the stack and coupled to the plurality of capacitor second electrode layers; and a plurality of insulation layer patterns insulating the first conductive pillar and the plurality of capacitor second electrode layers from each other and insulating the second conductive pillar and the plurality of capacitor first electrode layers from each other.
US12317511B2
A Magnetic Random Access Memory (MRAM), a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic device including the same are provided. The MRAM includes a substrate, an array of memory cells arranged in rows and columns, bit lines, and word lines. The memory cells each include a vertical switch device and a magnetic tunnel junction on the switch device and electrically connected to a first terminal of the switch device. An active region of the switch device at least partially includes a single-crystalline semiconductor material. Each of the memory cell columns is disposed on a corresponding bit line, and a second terminal of each of the respective switch devices in the memory cell column is electrically connected to the corresponding bit line. Each of the word lines is electrically connected to a control terminal of the respective switch devices of the respective memory cells in a corresponding memory cell row.
US12317508B2
A device is provided. The device includes a multi-layered structure that is non-magnetic at room temperature, the multi-layered structure comprising alternating layers of Co and E, wherein E comprises at least one other element selected from the group consisting of Ge, Ga, Sn and Al, wherein a composition of the multi-layered structure is represented by Co1−xEx, with x being in a range from 0.42 to 0.55. The device also includes a combined layer provided in contact with the multi-layered structure, the combined layer including an insertion layer comprising Co or Fe or Mn or Al in contact with a Heusler compound.
US12317507B2
Disclosed is a semiconductor memory device including a substrate, a plurality of source lines extending in a first direction on the substrate, a plurality of word lines crossing the source lines and extending in a second direction different from the first direction, a plurality of bit lines crossing the source lines and the word lines and extending in a third direction different from the first direction and the second direction, and a plurality of memory cells disposed at intersections between the source lines, the word lines, and the bit lines. The first, second, and third directions are parallel to a top surface of the substrate.
US12317504B2
A semiconductor memory device may include a stack including word lines and interlayer insulating patterns alternatingly stacked on a substrate, the word lines being extended in a first direction parallel to a top surface of the substrate, semiconductor patterns crossing the word lines and having a long axis extended in a second direction parallel to the top surface of the substrate, data storage patterns respectively interposed between the semiconductor patterns and the word lines, the data storage patterns including a ferroelectric material, bit lines extended in a third direction perpendicular to the top surface of the substrate and spaced apart from each other in the first direction, each of the bit lines being in contact with first side surfaces of the semiconductor patterns spaced apart from each other in the third direction, and a source line in contact with second side surfaces of the semiconductor patterns.
US12317501B2
A semiconductor device includes a peripheral circuit region with a first substrate, circuit devices on the first substrate, and a first wiring structure, a memory cell region with a second substrate that has a first region and a second region, gate electrodes stacked in the first region, channel structures that penetrate the gate electrodes, a first horizontal conductive layer on the second substrate in the first region, an insulating region on the second substrate in the second region, a second horizontal conductive layer on the first horizontal conductive layer and the insulating region, and a second wiring structure, and a third wiring structure that connects the first substrate to the second substrate, and includes an upper via that penetrates the second horizontal conductive layer, the insulating region, and the second substrate, and a lower wiring structure connected to the upper.
US12317496B2
A memory, a controlling method thereof, a memory system and an electronic device are disclosed. The memory can include a semiconductor layer and a memory array disposed on the semiconductor layer. The memory array can include a plurality of memory strings connected with the same bit line. Each memory string can include a memory cell and a select cell connected on at least one side of the memory cell. The select cell can include a first kind of transistors with a first threshold voltage and a second kind of transistors with a second threshold voltage. The first kind of transistors can be connected with the second kind of transistors. The first threshold voltage can be different from the second threshold voltage. Different memory strings can be controlled to be on or off to realize selective controlling functions for a plurality of memory strings connected with the same bit line.
US12317494B2
A semiconductor storage device includes first and second stacks, and first to fourth semiconductor layers. The first stack includes first conductive layers and first insulating layers alternately stacked in a first direction. The first semiconductor layer extends through the first stack. The second semiconductor layer extends in a second direction above the first stack and connected to the first semiconductor layer. The second stack includes second conductive layers and second insulating layers alternately stacked in the first direction. The first and second stacks are arranged in a third direction. The third semiconductor layer extends through the second stack. The fourth semiconductor layer extends in the second direction above the second stack and connected to the third semiconductor layer. A third conductive layer is in contact with upper surfaces of the second and fourth semiconductor layers. The second and fourth semiconductor layers are separated from each other in the third direction.
US12317476B2
A memory structure includes a substrate; a first gate structure, a second gate structure and a third gate structure disposed on the substrate, separated from each other along the first direction and respectively extending along the second direction and the third direction; channel bodies separated from each other and passing through the first gate structure, the second gate structure and the third gate structure along the first direction; dielectric films disposed between the first gate structure, the second gate structure, the third gate structure and the channel bodies; and a first side plug electrically connected to the substrate and the channel bodies. The first gate structure, the second gate structure and the third gate structure surround each of the dielectric films and each of the channel bodies, and the dielectric films do not include a charge storage structure.
US12317462B2
In a method of manufacturing an electronic package, first grooves are formed on a circuit structure and a second groove is formed in each of the first grooves to allow the circuit structure to become circuit layers. Owing to the second groove is narrower than the first groove, each of the circuit layers has an encircled surface and a notch located on the encircled surface. When a shielding layer is provided to cover an encapsulating body located on the circuit layer, a space of the notch is not covered by the shielding layer such that a portion to be removed of the shielding layer will not remain on the electronic package to become burr after removing the portion to be removed.
US12317449B2
A structure for protecting an electronic component from coolant leaking from a liquid cooling system is disclosed. The liquid cooling system has a manifold collecting and supplying coolant to a cold plate via inlet and outlet tubes. The cold plate is mounted over a heat-generating component on a circuit board. The structure includes a drip tray having a top surface and a length approximately the distance between the manifold and the cold plate. The drip tray includes a trough for collection of leaking coolant. The tray is inserted between the circuit board and the inlet and outlet tubes.
US12317448B2
A liquid cooling plate is configured to be in thermal contact with at least one first heat source and at least one second heat source. The liquid cooling plate includes at least one first heat dissipation part and a second heat dissipation part. The first heat dissipation part is configured to be in thermal contact with the first heat source and has a fluid chamber. The second heat dissipation part is connected to the first heat dissipation part and configured to be in thermal contact with the second heat source. The second heat dissipation part has a fluid channel, and the fluid channel is in fluid communication with the fluid chamber.
US12317445B2
An air cooling insert for an information handling system includes a top portion and an insert portion. The insert portion is in physical communication with the top portion. The insert portion includes multiple supports and multiple twists. Each of the supports extends downward from the top portion. Each of the twists extends between two or more of the supports. The twists include first and second twists. The first twist has a first directional rotation, and the second twist has a second directional rotation. The second directional rotation is opposite the first directional rotation.
US12317441B2
A computer supernode including two or more printed circuit boards that each include two or more compute nodes, two or more switches, and two or more connectors. The compute nodes are connected to each switch, and the switches are connected to each connector by a number of lanes. The computer supernode also includes two or more H-cables connecting the printed circuit boards together in an all-to-all configuration. Each H-cable connects a connector of a printed circuit board to a connector in each of two or more other printed circuit boards.
US12317430B2
An electrical device includes a board, an electrical component bonded to the board by soldering, and a resin section that retains the board and the electrical component. The resin section is formed by insert molding with the board and the electrical component as inserts. A resin for configuring the resin section is a thermoplastic resin. A melting temperature of the resin for configuring the resin section is higher than a melting temperature of a solder for bonding the electrical component to the board.
US12317423B2
A device substrate includes a circuit substrate and a side wiring structure. The circuit substrate includes a substrate and a front circuit structure on a front side of the substrate. The side wiring structure is electrically connected to the front circuit structure and extends from the front circuit structure to a back side of the circuit substrate. A cross-sectional structure of the side wiring structure includes a first portion, a second portion, and a third portion respectively located above a front side, a side surface, and the back side of the circuit substrate. The first, second, and third portions each include streaks. A ratio of a maximum thickness of the first portion to a maximum thickness of the second portion is A. A ratio of a maximum thickness of the third portion to the maximum thickness of the second portion is B. Each of A and B is 0.25-0.6.
US12317420B2
A sensor includes a printed circuit board having a first region and a second region linked together by a flexible linking portion. A free end portion of the first region opposite the flexible linking portion is movable with respect to the second region. The flexible linking portion is part of the printed circuit board.
US12317414B1
An interface in a communications system includes a physical layer transceiver (PHY) for coupling to a wireline channel medium, and for coupling to a functional device via a single-ended cable. The PHY is an integrated circuit (IC) device having first and second differential input/output (I/O) conductors for coupling to the functional device, an impedance element configured to terminate a first one of the differential I/O conductors to a system ground, a second one of the differential I/O conductors being coupled to the single-ended cable, and a common-mode filter coupled to both of the differential I/O conductors. The PHY may further include a printed circuit board (PCB), with the IC device being mounted on the PCB, the first and second differential I/O conductors being signal traces on the PCB. The single-ended cable may be a coaxial cable.
US12317412B2
A high-frequency module includes a module substrate having main surfaces, one or more module components disposed on the main surface, a resin member covering the main surface, and a metal shield layer covering a top surface of each of the resin member and the one or more module components, and set to ground potential. A sub-module component, which is one of the one or more module components, has a sub-module substrate having main surfaces, a first circuit component disposed on the main surface, one or more second circuit components disposed on the main surface, a resin member covering the main surface, and a side surface shield layer covering a side surface of each of the resin member and the sub-module substrate, and set to the ground potential. An end surface on a top surface side of the side surface shield layer contacts the metal shield layer.
US12317411B2
A glass core wiring substrate incorporating a high-frequency filter having good high-frequency characteristics as a core material and allowing a more efficient arrangement of a conductor in the glass substrate, a module including the same, and a method of manufacturing the glass core wiring substrate incorporating a high-frequency filter. A conductive layer in a glass through a hole in a glass core substrate has a structure in which a hollow cylindrical conductor layer on a side wall of the glass through hole is connected to a cover conductor layer covering one of two openings of the glass through hole. To achieve such a structure, a carrier is attached to one surface of the glass core substrate to cover one of the openings of the glass through hole, and the carrier is peeled off and removed after lamination of the conductor.
US12317407B2
An electronic device includes a printed circuit board (“PCB”) structure which accommodates a thermal interface material (“TIM”). The PCB structure includes a base plate, a first component on the base plate, a second component on the base plate and apart from the first component, an interposer connected to the base plate and surrounding the first component and the second component, a cover plate connected to the interposer and covering the first component and the second component, and an accommodation part which is between the base plate and a heat conduction plate and accommodates the TIM.
US12317405B2
Disclosed herein is a waveguide cell having a helical cavity. The waveguide cell has a central axis and a cavity having a transverse cross section whose rotational position about the central axis varies along the central axis. There is also disclosed a method a determining the shape of a waveguide cell.
US12317404B2
There is provided a circular accelerator that accelerates a beam of charged particles circulating in a magnetic field such that a closed orbit for each energy of the beam is eccentric. The circular accelerator includes a beam extraction port for extracting beams of different energies from the closed orbit, a first bending magnet and a second bending magnet that bend the beam extracted from the beam extraction port, and a control unit that controls magnetic field strengths of the first bending magnet and the second bending magnet in accordance with the energy of the extracted beam. When the energy of the extracted beam is a designed maximum energy of the circular accelerator, the control unit excites both the first bending magnet and the second bending magnet to bend the beam.
US12317401B2
A fabric dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) device, a textile material comprising interconnected insulated conductive fibers can be used to generate a cold homogenous plasma by forming a discharge path from a conductive core of a first fiber, to a dielectric layer surrounding the conductive core, through an air gap towards, e.g., a second fiber or human skin. When the plasma that lights in and around the air gap comes into contact with a contaminated surface (containing, e.g., bacteria and/or viruses), it induces reactive species to form on the contaminated surface, and the reactive species are then allowed to kill the bacteria and/or viruses.
US12317393B2
To commission a plurality of nodes (200) to a network (100), a proximity-based commissioning has certain benefits. However, to get a proper proximity estimation in an area with a large number of nodes (200) deployed in a dense network may not be an easy task. To address this problem, nodes (200) to be commissioned are configured to spend most of its time on detecting beacons from a commissioning device (300) to derive proximity information in a one-to-many topology. And then the node (200) is further configured to feedback the proximity information to the commissioning device (300) at an adaptive beacon rate to further assist the commissioning device (300) to implement the proximity-based commissioning.
US12317388B1
A system configured to generate dynamic visual feedback by synchronizing smart lights with a rhythm and energy levels of music being output. A device may translate audio samples to luma (brightness), chroma (color), and location data using a low-latency algorithm. For example, the device may divide the full band audio data into separate frequency bands based on the number of output devices and control a brightness for an output device by tracking energy within a corresponding frequency band. The color and location may be controlled based on a number of beats per minute, direction, and/or the like. In addition to controlling external lighting via a smart home hub, the device can control LED light(s) on the device via an LED controller. To further reduce latency, the device can directly communicate between an audio processor, the smart home hub, and/or the LED controller using low level hardware abstraction layers (HALs).
US12317380B2
Provided is a tubular heater whose attachment process is facilitated and whose heating efficiency is high. Features of the tubular heater are that the tubular heater includes a tubular elastic body 200 and a flexible printed circuit board 100 provided integrally with the elastic body 200 and formed with a heating circuit and a heating unit 110 of the flexible printed circuit board 100 formed with the heating circuit is provided in the elastic body 200 in a state in which the heating unit 110 is exposed on an inner peripheral side and extends along an inner peripheral surface of the elastic body 200 with tip ends of the heating unit 110 being separated from each other with a clearance S in a circumferential direction.
US12317376B2
A method of auditing tracking area code (TAC) assignments includes obtaining one or more tracking area code (TAC) assignments for one or more new evolved Node B (eNB) sites added to a RAN network in a geographic area; verifying a TAC threshold, where the TAC threshold corresponds with a predetermined number of eNBs per TAC; in response a TAC being below the TAC threshold, assigning a TAC ID of a corresponding neighboring TAC to the TAC; and in response to the TAC being above the TAC threshold, splitting the TAC into two or more TACs.
US12317372B2
There is disclosed an apparatus comprising means for performing: receiving first radio capability information from a user equipment, the first radio capability information in a format of a first radio access technology; generating second radio capability information of the user equipment based on the first radio capability information, wherein the second radio capability information is generated in a format of a second radio access technology; and sending the first radio capability information and the second radio capability information to a core network node.
US12317366B2
A method, UE, and computer programs are provided where the UE has multiple universal subscriber identity modules. Information is received from a first PLMN indicating there is one of mobile terminating (MT) signaling or data in the first PLMN while the UE is in a second PLMN. Responsive to receiving the information, a service request is sent to an AMF node of the second PLMN. A radio resource control (RRC) connection release is received from a RAN node in response to sending the service request. Responsive to receiving the RRC connection release, the second PLMN is left to be in the first PLMN.
US12317364B2
Aspects described herein relate to activating, at a user equipment (UE), a first set of antennas or associated communication resources of the UE to measure a first synchronization signal block (SSB) for synchronizing communications in a first connected mode discontinuous receive (CDRX) period without activating a second set of antennas or associated communication resources of the UE to measure a second SSB, and activating, at the UE, the second set of antennas or associated communication resources of the UE to measure a second SSB for synchronizing communications in a second CDRX period without activating the first set to measure the first SSB.
US12317359B2
A method for data transmission is provided. The method includes: in response to the UE being in an inactive state, transmitting a first type acknowledged mode data protocol data unit (AMD PDU), wherein a bit length of a sequence number field of first type AMD PDU is less than a bit length of a sequence number field of a second type AMD PDU used in a connected state.
US12317358B2
The present disclosure provides a transmission method and apparatus for an AI-native service, and a storage medium. A terminal sends an AI-native service establishment request to a base station through air interface signaling; the base station determines to establish the AI-native service according to the AI-native service establishment request and sends AI-native service establishment indication information to the terminal. Then data and/or signaling of the AI-native service can be transmitted between the base station and the terminal over a radio bearer (RB) carrying the AI-native service. In the embodiment, the data and/or the signaling of the AI-native service serves as an independent service flow and is transmitted over a specific radio bearer between the base station and the terminal, to ensure reliable transmission of the data and/or the signaling of the AI-native service.
US12317356B2
The present disclosure provides to a link state notification method, a link state notification device, a link processing method, a link processing device, a storage medium and an electronic device. The link state notification method includes: transmitting, by a first communication node, link state information to a second communication node which is a child node of the first communication node.
US12317352B2
A network device may enable local breakout for a subscriber device, and may create, for the subscriber device, a primary path to a data network via a user plane function. The network device may create, for the subscriber device, a secondary path direct to the data network and based on the local breakout being enabled, and may determine whether a connection with the user plane function is available. The network device may selectively provide traffic between the subscriber device and the data network via the primary path based on determining that the connection with the user plane function is available, or may provide the traffic between the subscriber device and the data network via the secondary path based on determining that the connection with the user plane function is unavailable.
US12317348B2
In an aspect of the disclosure, a UE may be configured to receive a dataset in an encoded format on a network communication interface. The UE may be further configured to transmit a unicast transmission including a subset of the dataset on a direct communication interface to another UE when a non-unicast transmission is received indicating that the other UE failed to successfully receive the subset of the dataset. The other UE may be configured to transmit, on the direct communication interface, a non-unicast transmission indicating a failure to successfully receive a subset of a dataset on a network communication interface. The other UE may be further configured to receive a unicast transmission including the subset of the dataset on the direct communication interface. A base station may configure the UEs to communicate data on the direct communication interface after receiving the data on a network communication interface.
US12317346B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed from the perspective of a first device to perform sidelink communication. In one embodiment, the method includes the first device performing sidelink resource selection or reselection procedure for a sidelink transmission to a second device, wherein the sidelink resource selection or reselection procedure is performed to select at least one sidelink resource from candidate sidelink resources within a time duration of selection window. The method further includes the first device selecting a first sidelink resource based on sidelink active time or wake-up time of the second device, wherein the first sidelink resource is within the time duration of selection window. The method also includes the first device performing the sidelink transmission on the first sidelink resource to the second device.
US12317341B2
A method of establishing a connection between a remote User Equipment, UE, and a telecommunication network via a relay capable UE, wherein said telecommunication network comprises a core network and an access network, and wherein said connection is established using a Remote Radio Access Bearer between the remote UE, via a relay capable UE, via an access node in the access network, and the core network.
US12317335B2
A method and a device in a node used for wireless communication are disclosed in the present disclosure. A first node transmits a first Random-Access (RA) Preamble and a first radio signal, the first RA Preamble being associated with the first radio signal, the first RA Preamble being transmitted on a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH), and a first bit block being used for generating the first radio signal; receives Physical Downlink Control Channel PDCCH, the PDCCH comprising a first information block; and transmits a second RA Preamble and a second radio signal, the second RA Preamble being associated with the second radio signal, and the second RA Preamble being transmitted on a PUSCH, the first bit block being used for generating the second radio signal; the RA channels being Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) occasions.
US12317334B2
Provided in the embodiments of the present application are a method and apparatus for determining a behavior of a terminal device, and a terminal device and a network device. The method comprises: a terminal device receiving SCG configuration information sent by a network device, wherein the SCG configuration information comprises first indication information, and the first indication information is used to indicate whether the state of an SCG is an activated state or a deactivated state; and when the first indication information indicates that the state of the SCG is the deactivated state, the terminal device determining a behavior after the SCG is deactivated and/or whether to execute a procedure of random access to a PS Cell after the SCG is deactivated.
US12317332B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to contention resolution in random access procedure. An apparatus transmits a random access request to a further apparatus, and the random access request comprises a random access preamble and an identifier of the apparatus for a random access procedure. The apparatus then receives, from the further apparatus, control information on a control channel addressed to the identifier, and the control information indicates at least one of a resource and timing information for communication between the apparatus and the further apparatus. Next, the apparatus determines a result of the random access procedure based at least in part on the control information.
US12317329B2
In an aspect, a UE and BS perform a RACH procedure whereby a preamble sequence group for a preamble is associated with a downlink receive capability of the UE. In another aspect, a UE and BS perform a RACH procedure whereby a preamble sequence group is associated with a group-specific RA-RNTI that is used to scramble an associated DCI communication. In another aspect, UEs performing a RACH procedure with a BS via different sets of ROs may monitor the same GC-DCI scrambled with a common RA-RNTI. In another aspect, a UE and BS perform a 2-Step RACH procedure whereby a Msg-A payload includes information indicative of a downlink receive capability level associated with the UE.
US12317325B2
Disclosed are systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media for use in a wireless network for facilitating radio access synchronization. The method includes receiving, from a user equipment (UE) a message having a media access control (MAC) control element (CE) format and comprising a MAC protocol data unit (PDU) structure, the message being formed by multiplexing one or more MAC service data units (SDUs). The method further includes generating a response message to the received message by multiplexing a MAC random access response (RAR) with one or more MAC SDUs. The method then transmits the response message to the UE.
US12317321B2
Embodiments of this application provide an unlicensed frequency band-based resource configuration method and an apparatus, to resolve a problem of configuring a fixed frame period FFP for a terminal device operating in an unlicensed frequency band in a current technology. The method includes: A network device sends fixed frame period FFP configuration information to a terminal device, where the FFP configuration information indicates an FFP configuration of the terminal device, an FFP is a period used by the terminal device to transmit a signal, the FFP includes channel occupancy time COT and an idle period Idle period, the channel occupancy time COT is used by the terminal device to transmit the signal, and the idle period is used by the terminal device to perform LBT.
US12317319B2
A method for reducing transmission delays, implemented in a communication device, includes starting (502) a first timer. An expiration (504) of the first timer corresponds to a desired transmission time for a first message. The method also includes, before the expiration of the first timer, starting (504) a first channel access procedure of one or more channel access procedures, and determining (508), using the one or more channel access procedures, whether a shared carrier is available for transmission after the expiration of the first timer. The method also includes, based on whether the shared carrier is available for transmission after the expiration of the first timer (510), either transmitting (512) or not transmitting (514) the first message to another communication device via the shared carrier.
US12317312B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a repeater may receive configuration information associated with configuring involvement of the repeater in an access procedure. The repeater may generate a signal associated with the access procedure based at least in part on the configuration information. The repeater may transmit the signal to a wireless communication device based at least in part on the configuration information and other information associated with the access procedure. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12317311B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a network node may communicate, based at least in part on a physical data channel configuration corresponding to a physical data channel, a first extended reality (XR) data communication corresponding to a first physical data channel occasion associated with the physical data channel configuration, wherein a first priority level is associated with the first XR data communication. The network node may communicate a second XR data communication corresponding to a second physical data channel occasion, wherein a second priority level is associated with the second XR data communication, and wherein the second priority level is higher than the first priority level based at least in part on a packet delay budget associated with the physical data channel configuration being within a specified threshold of packet delay. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12317307B2
Disclosed are systems and techniques for performing wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless communication device may determine at least one parameter associated with a sidelink communication. Based on the at least one parameter, the wireless communication device may determine a status of a network coding indicator corresponding to the sidelink communication. The wireless communication device may transmit the sidelink communication and the network coding indicator including the determined status to at least one network entity configured to perform network coding.
US12317298B2
Systems, devices, and methods related to configuring multi-stream network based on stream capability
In some embodiments, a system can include a first stream to be opened with an arbiter device, the first stream associated with a first set of capabilities, a second stream to be opened with the arbiter device, the second stream associated with a second set of capabilities, and a wireless network architecture that determines a network messaging schedule based on the first set of capabilities and the second set of capabilities. The network messaging schedule can be sent to one or more client devices associated with the first stream or the second stream.
US12317297B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure relate to reporting of AI capabilities between network nodes, such as between a user equipment (UE) and a base station. A UE, for instance, generates a capability report that specifies whether the UE supports AI-enabled functionality and/or specific supported and non-supported AI-enabled features. The UE communicates the capability report to a base station and supported AI features can be implemented in conjunction with wireless communication between the UE and the base station, such as by the UE, by the base station, and/or cooperatively between the UE and the base station.
US12317291B2
A communication device receives an uplink grant from a node of a cellular network. The uplink grant indicates uplink radio resources allocated to the communication device in reoccurring time intervals. For each of these time intervals, the communication device selects between an active mode and an inactive mode. In the active mode the communication device performs an uplink transmission in the allocated uplink radio resources. In the inactive mode the communication device performs no uplink transmission in the allocated uplink radio resources.
US12317288B2
A communication technique for convergence between an IoT technology and a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4th generation (4G) system, and a system thereof is provided. The method includes intelligence services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, healthcare, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety related services, and the like.) On the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT-related technology. A method includes determining a scheduling-related parameter for at least one user, and transmitting scheduling information indicating the scheduling-related parameter to a radio unit (RU), wherein the scheduling information includes a first section extension field including information relating to a user equipment identifier (ueID) related to the at least one user, and a second section extension field including information relating to a number of ueIDs corresponding to each user.
US12317285B2
This application discloses methods and apparatuses for sending a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) and relates to the communication field. A network device sends indication information to a terminal device, where the indication information is used to indicate first information and second information. The first information is used to indicate first precoding information corresponding to a first nominal PUSCH repetition. The second information is used to indicate second precoding information corresponding to a second nominal PUSCH repetition. The terminal device sends N PUSCHs based on precoding information indicated by the indication information. The precoding information corresponding to the N PUSCHs includes at least one of the first precoding information and the second precoding information.
US12317282B2
A resource selection method, a terminal device, a chip, a computer-readable storage medium, a computer program product and a computer program are provided. The method comprises: a first terminal device performing resource selection at time n, and the first terminal device determining, according to an interception result, a transmission resource used for transmitting sidelink data, wherein the interception result comprises at least one of the following: an interception result obtained by the first terminal device performing interception at at least one time unit after the time n; and an interception result obtained by the first terminal device performing interception at at least one time unit before the time n.
US12317273B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure relate to methods and apparatus for reliable transmission of system information (SI). In some cases, a UE may send an indication to request SI in an on-demand manner. For example, a method for wireless communications by a UE may include determining system information (SI) desired by the UE is not currently being broadcast. The method for further include sending, in response to the determination, a first indication to request the SI, and sending a second indication to confirm reception of the requested SI or to indicate the UE has not received the requested SI after a time period.
US12317272B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to an intelligent service (for example, a smart home, a smart building, a smart city, a smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail business, a security and safety related service, or the like) on the basis of a 5G communication technology and an IoT related technology. The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, specifically, to a method and apparatus for decoding a downlink control signal.
US12317240B2
The disclosure provides techniques for a configuration of frequency domain aggregated (FA) physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) for trigger based (TB) PPDUs. An apparatus for an access point (AP) includes a radio frequency (RF) interface; and processing circuitry coupled with the RF interface. The processing circuitry is configured to: encode a trigger frame to be transmitted via the RF interface to stations (STAs) communicatively connected with the AP, wherein the trigger frame includes signaling to indicate a configuration of frequency domain aggregated (FA) physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) for at least two STAs; and decode an FA PPDU aggregated by composite trigger based (TB) PPDUs from the at least two STAs.
US12317229B2
Proposed is a method for operating a first device in a wireless communication system. The method may comprise: a step for requesting a report of a channel state, on the basis of information related to a sidelink resource and HARQ information; a step for transmitting an RS related to the measurement of the channel state to a second device; a step for receiving a measurement result related to the channel state from the second device; and a step for reporting the measurement result to a base station.
US12317228B2
A method and device are provided for transmitting control information and data. In the method, the device determines a time-frequency resource corresponding to control information and user data to be sent. The device transmits the control information and the user data on the time-frequency resource. In response to determining that a first time-frequency resource corresponding to the control information and a second time-frequency resource corresponding to the user data belong to the same time unit, the device set a part of the second time-frequency resource to occupy starting time-domain symbols of the time unit.
US12317225B2
This application provides a communication method and apparatus. The method includes: A terminal device receives information about an enhanced service area allowed to be accessed, where the information about the enhanced service area allowed to be accessed includes information about one or more enhanced service areas; the terminal device receives information about a first enhanced service area corresponding to a first area from an access node after entering the first area; and the terminal device determines that the terminal device is allowed to access the first enhanced service area based on the information about the enhanced service area allowed to be accessed and the information about the first enhanced service area.
US12317213B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to techniques for optimizing procedures to update a UE radio capability ID (URCID) when a UE moves to a new Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN) within a registration area. The techniques may help avoid unnecessary signaling traffic and reduce UE power consumption. An example method performed by a user equipment (UE) generally includes receiving at least one URCID assigned by a first PLMN; and taking one or more actions to delay or avoid updating the URCID when moving to a second PLMN in a same registration area as the first PLMN.
US12317193B2
An intent state management method, network element, and system are described. A first network element obtains a first network parameter value corresponding to an intent; and determines, based on the first network parameter value corresponding to the intent, that a condition for achieving the intent is not satisfied. In accordance with the determination, the first network element suspends execution of the intent, sends a first notification message to a second network element, where the first notification message notifies the intent to enter a sleep state; and sets the sleep state to an active state when the condition for achieving the intent is satisfied or the intent is modified. Network resources of the first network element can be saved. When the condition for achieving the intent is satisfied or the intent is modified, the intent enters the active state, so that a state of the intent can be adjusted in time.
US12317192B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide an apparatus for wireless communications. The apparatus generally includes a processing system configured to generate a frame for triggering transmission of a plurality of data units from a plurality of wireless nodes, a first interface configured to output the frame for transmission to the plurality of wireless nodes, and a second interface configured to obtain the plurality of data units after outputting the frame for transmission, wherein the plurality of data units have different lengths.
US12317187B2
An ultra-wideband (UWB) anchor using an UWB ON/OFF operation method to minimize degradation of ranging performance. The UWB anchor includes: a power supply to supply power to the UWB anchor; a transceiver to transmit/receive a UWB signal to and from a UWB tag for performing ranging; and a controller to end a ranging session when a cumulative sum of ranging failures for a specific time unit reaches a maximum number of failed ranging round attempts, and to control the power supply and the transceiver to re-enter a UWB signal-reception standby (or UWB ON) mode when a condition is satisfied.
US12317184B2
This disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for mapping wireless hotspots and points of interest (POIs), a computer-readable storage medium, and a computer device. The method includes: obtaining sniffing records, each of the sniffing records including data of wireless hotspots sniffed by sniffing devices; determining sniffing device overlap degrees between the wireless hotspots according to the sniffing records; determining, according to distances between the wireless hotspots and POIs, initial mapping probabilities between the wireless hotspots and the POIs; performing iterative propagation among the initial mapping probabilities based on the sniffing device overlap degrees, and obtaining target mapping probabilities between the wireless hotspots and the POIs when the iteration ends; and establishing a mapping between the wireless hotspots and the POIs according to the target mapping probabilities.
US12317181B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method in which a processing system creates a network element by consolidating a control plane including a combination of a plurality of 5G control plane functions and a plurality of IMS control plane functions with an associated user plane including a combination of a 5G user plane function (UPF) and one or more IMS user plane functions. The method also includes deploying the network element at a network edge of the service provider network, receiving a request from a user endpoint (UE) device for a network service, and attaching the UE to the network element. The network element is configured to facilitate providing the requested network service. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12317180B2
A vehicular electronic device and method thereof are disclosed herein. The electronic device includes memory, a network access device and a processor. The processor implements the method, including: monitoring, via at least one processor, whether a network access device of the electronic device enters a preset operation mode in which the network access device remains activated while a processor of the electronic device is in a sleep mode, based on detecting that the network access device enters the preset operation mode, identifying a network state of the network access device, based at least on the network state of the network access device, changing a search cycle of a network search as executed by the network access device, and executing the network search based on the changed search cycle.
US12317160B2
The subject disclosure relates to ways to ensure vehicle network connectivity. In some aspects, a process of the technology includes steps for receiving local network measurement data including one or more connectivity metrics for at least one network provider (e.g., an ISP), and updating a geo-connectivity database using the received local network measurement data. In some aspects, the process can include additional steps for transmitting a geo-connectivity request to a remote Intelligent Vehicle Connectivity Analytics (IVCA) gateway, and for receiving a geo-connectivity reply from the remote IVCA gateway, the geo-connectivity reply including information regarding network availability for the at least one network provider along a vehicle path. Systems and machine-readable media are also provided.
US12317158B2
A wireless device receives configuration parameters, of a multicast and broadcast service (MBS) session, that indicates a channel state information (CSI) report configuration and a group common identifier. Based on the group common identifier, a downlink control information (DCI) is received that includes a resource indication of a group common physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) for a multicast transmission of a transport block (TB), and a parameter indicating whether a CSI report is enabled for the MBS session. The TB is received via the group common PDSCH. In response to the parameter indicating that the CSI report is enabled, the CSI report is transmitted based on the CSI report configuration.
US12317154B2
An intelligent tracking system generally includes one or more tracking devices, some of which may be passive tracking devices. Each passive tracking device includes one or more transceivers and is energized by an energizing signal. Some of these passive tracking devices may operate in a first communication mode or a second communication mode based on the energizing signal. Some tracking devices may include encryption modules or authentication modules. Some of these devices may incorporate a bulk acoustic wave oscillator.
US12317137B2
Disclosed are a service switching method, a terminal and a network device. The method comprises: when a terminal receives data of a first service, if the terminal determines that a present condition is satisfied, then the terminal switches to receiving data of a second service. The preset condition comprises: the condition of the terminal stopping the first service, and/or the condition of receiving the data of the second service.
US12317135B2
Methods and apparatuses for communication between a radio equipment and a radio equipment controller are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a first transport equipment detects a bit rate of one of a radio equipment and a radio equipment controller. The one of the radio equipment and the radio equipment controller is connected with the first transport equipment through a first common public radio interface (CPRI) link. The first transport equipment locks a working bit rate of a first CPRI port of the first transport equipment to the detected bit rate. The first transport equipment generates a message indicating the detected bit rate and sends the message to a second transport equipment that is connected with the other of the radio equipment and the radio equipment controller through a second CPRI link.
US12317114B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In one aspect, a first network entity may transmit a request for resources (e.g., periodic, aperiodic, or semi-persistent resources) to monitor for reference signals from a second network entity, and the first network entity may perform CLI measurements on the reference signals received on the resources from the second network entity. The first network entity or the second network entity may be a mobile network entity. The CLI measurements may be used to schedule communications at the first network entity or the second network entity. In another aspect, a first network entity may receive an indication of aperiodic resources to monitor for reference signals from a second network entity, and the first network entity may perform cross link interference (CLI) measurements on the reference signals received on the aperiodic resources from the second network entity.
US12317112B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provides a measurement method, measurement configuration method, terminal, and network device. The measurement method includes: receiving an advance measurement condition from a network device, where the advance measurement condition is determined based on state information related when a first object is started, and the first object includes at least one of carrier aggregation CA and dual connectivity DC; and triggering proactive measurement in a non-connected state if the advance measurement condition is met.
US12317105B2
A method and/or system may receive a test application to be tested on a wireless communication network. The method and/or system may obtain a test design for the test application. The method and/or system may define at least one slice of the wireless communication network to test the test application based on the test design. The method and/or system may deploy at least one test wireless network service to test the test application in the wireless communication network based on the defined at least one slice of the wireless communication network. The method and/or system may simulate at least one component of the defined at least one slice of the wireless communication network to test the test application. The simulating the at least one component of the defined at least one slice of the wireless communication network may include communication with the at least one test wireless network service.
US12317101B2
A CAWN system includes: a centralized data unit for collecting and processing data of a network-side high-layer functional entity, a transmission network functional entity and/or a network-side low-layer functional entity, and generating a control command; the network-side high-layer functional entity for generating, under the control of the centralized data unit, a function of the high-layer functional entity according to measured user information, cell information, and information of a locally running device; the transmission network functional entity for generating, under the control of the centralized data unit, a function of the transmission network functional entity according to the measured user information, cell information, and information of the locally running device; and the network-side low-layer functional entity for generating, under the control of the centralized data unit, a function of the low-layer functional entity according to the measured user information, cell information, and information of the locally running device.
US12317098B2
A user terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a transmitting section that transmits information that indicates which beam correspondence that uses which downlink reference signal is supported; a receiving section that receives spatial relation information that indicates a downlink reference signal having a spatial relation with a sounding reference signal; and a control section that determines a spatial domain filter used to transmit an uplink signal, based on a spatial domain filter used to receive the downlink reference signal.
US12317095B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, identifying a private cellular network that includes a group of wireless communication devices and a private cellular service area in which the group of wireless communication devices may receive a private cellular network service. A radio access network (RAN) of a group of RANs in communication with a mobile core network of a public mobile cellular network is configured to provide a wireless coverage area that contains an entirety of the private cellular service area. A virtual machine is configured as a private cellular network controller that is adapted to provide the private cellular network service to wireless communication devices of the private cellular network group operating within the service area. The private cellular network service does not utilize the mobile core network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12317093B1
System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
US12317089B2
System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
US12317073B2
A disclosure of the present specification provides a method for performing relay communication by a first UE. The method may comprise the steps of: transmitting a request message including UE ID, relay information, UE type information, and UE public key information to an application server through a 5G core network; receiving, from the application server, a security-related message in response to the request message; establishing a security link with the relay UE on the basis of first credential information; and receiving an IP message for configuring a security channel in an IP layer from a second UE.
US12317070B2
The present disclosure provides solutions to registration and discovery of NFs in the vertical 5G networks, at the operator network, as well as handling tasks such as authentication of connecting end terminals at the operator network level. In one aspect, a method includes receiving, at network controller of an operator network and from an end terminal, a request for access to a network function (NF) of a vertical network, the request including a type of the NF in the vertical network; authenticating, at the network controller, the end terminal; upon authenticating the end terminal, identifying, at the network controller, the NF requested by the end terminal based at least on the type of the NF included in the request; and facilitating, by the network controller, access to the NF in the vertical network by the end terminal.
US12317069B2
An exchange of messages between an access point and a station can be facilitated, wherein the access point requests a unique identifier from the station. The station initiates a secure connection with the access point prior to associating with the access point. The station may either respond with a message declining to provide a unique identifier or respond with a message including a unique identifier to be used by the access point for the station via the secure connection. The response from the station may include additional limitations on the use of the unique identifier by the access point. The access point may enforce different policies against the station depending upon how the station responds to the unique identifier request. A station can provide a user interface for the configuration of the unique identifier based on one or more configuration parameters including a unique identifier requirement message.
US12317068B2
An example operation includes one or more of receiving a request into a transport network comprising at least one transport for a proposed use of personal data associated with the at least one transport prior to the at least one transport entering an area; receiving into the transport network a deletion time of the personal data, prior to the at least one transport entering the area; providing, from the transport network an acknowledgement of the deletion time; and providing, from the transport network, the personal data when the at least one transport is in the area based on the received acknowledgement. This enables an occupant of a transport to share personal data relating to the transport with confidence that the data will be deleted by an agreed time.
US12317061B2
A computer system outputs audio content via one or more audio output devices. If the audio content includes information that enables spatialization of the audio content, the system outputs the audio content in a simulated three-dimensional environment, including, if the audio content corresponds to a first category of content, causing the one or more audio output devices to simulate production of the audio content in a first virtual space, and if the audio content corresponds to a second category of content, causing the one or more audio output devices to simulate production of the audio content in a second virtual space that has different simulated acoustic properties than simulated acoustic properties of the first virtual space.
US12317059B2
A method for generating loudspeaker signals associated with a target screen size is disclosed. The method includes receiving a bit stream containing encoded higher order ambisonics signals, the encoded higher order ambisonics signals describing a sound field associated with a production screen size. The method further includes decoding the encoded higher order ambisonics signals to obtain a first set of decoded higher order ambisonics signals representing dominant components of the sound field and a second set of decoded higher order ambisonics signals representing ambient components of the sound field. The method also includes combining the first set of decoded higher order ambisonics signals and the second set of decoded higher order ambisonics signals to produce a combined set of decoded higher order ambisonics signals.
US12317051B2
A multifunctional speaker device is provided and includes a housing with an accommodating space, a sounder in the accommodating space, a motor assembly, and an auxiliary magnetic circuit unit. The sounder includes a frame, a vibration unit, and a magnetic circuit unit. The motor assembly includes an elastic member and a vibrator including driving coils. The vibrator. The driving coils are located at a side of the magnetic circuit unit away from the vibration unit. The auxiliary magnetic circuit unit is fixed to a side of the housing away from the vibrator and is directly opposite to and spaced apart from the magnetic circuit unit. The driving coils are spaced apart from each other between the magnetic circuit unit and the auxiliary magnetic circuit unit. The multifunctional speaker device provided by the disclosure can greatly enhance performance of the motor and sounder, and achieve good user experience.
US12317046B2
A double-sided speaker, comprising a combination of magnetic conductive carrying plate with a side magnetic conductive member (or a magnetic conductive carrying plate component), a first magnetic circuit module, a second magnetic circuit module, a first voice coil, a second voice coil, a first vibrating component, and a second vibrating component. The magnetic conductive carrying plate comprises two sidewalls and a bottom plate. The two sidewalls are disposed at two side edges of a side surface of the bottom plate. The side magnetic conductive member is disposed on two side edges of another side surface of the bottom plate. The first magnetic circuit module is disposed at one side of the magnetic conductive carrying plate. The second magnetic circuit module is disposed at another side of the magnetic conductive carrying plate. The first voice coil is disposed between the first magnetic circuit module and the sidewall.
US12317040B2
An ear-worn hearing device and an electrical cable assembly for such a hearing device are disclosed. The electrical cable assembly includes a discrete retention member rotationally and axially fixing the retention member at least partially about an end portion of an electrical conductor conduit. The retention member also axially and rotationally fixes the cable assembly to a housing. The housing can include an acoustic receiver and be configured for insertion at least partially in the user's ear. Alternatively, the housing can be part of a connector plug that mates with a base unit worn outside the user's ear.
US12317037B2
A hearing device, e.g. a hearing aid, comprises a) an input unit configured to provide at least one time-variant electric input signal representing sound, the at least one electric input signal comprising target signal components and optionally noise signal components, the target signal components originating from a target sound source; b) a signal processing unit for processing the at least one electric input signal and providing a processed signal; c) an output unit for creating output stimuli configured to be perceivable by the user as sound based on the processed signal from the signal processing unit; d) a speech presence probability prediction unit for repeatedly providing a measure of a predicted speech presence probability of the at least one electric input signal, or of a signal originating therefrom; and e) a speech intelligibility prediction unit for repeatedly providing a current measure of a predicted speech intelligibility of the at least one electric input signal, or of a signal originating therefrom. The speech intelligibility prediction unit is configured to determine said current measure of the predicted speech intelligibility in dependence of said measure of the predicted speech presence probability. A method of operating a hearing device is further disclosed. The invention may e.g. be used in hearing aids, headsets, earpieces (ear buds), etc.
US12317032B2
The invention provides a multifunctional sounding device, which includes a housing with a containment space and a sounding unit suspended in the containment space. The sounding unit includes a frame, a vibration system and a magnetic circuit system. The magnetic circuit system includes a main magnet and a secondary magnet. The multifunctional sounding device further includes a coil. The sounding unit of the present invention is a motor vibrator, the coil is a motor stator, and the magnetic circuit system can drive the vibration system to vibrate to realize the sound production function of the speaker. This allows the to motor and the speaker to share a set of the magnetic circuit system, which is easy to assemble, lower in cost, and saves space for the whole device.
US12317031B2
The electrical device is an electrical device that is mounted on a wall of a building, the electrical device including: an actuator that vibrates; and absorbing member that absorbs vibration of the actuator and is positioned behind the actuator in a predetermined direction, where a direction from a back side to a front side of the wall is defined as a direction toward a front in the predetermined direction in a state where the electrical device is mounted on the wall.
US12317025B2
This application provides an earphone, which can resolve a problem that a strain sensing module in the earphone and for implementing function keys occupies a large space area, thereby implementing the function keys of the earphone through pressing in multiple directions and reducing an overall size of the earphone. The earphone includes a housing and a pressure-strain structure arranged in a cavity formed by the housing. Two end portions of the pressure-strain structure are both in stable contact with an inner wall of the housing. A strain sensor is arranged on the pressure-strain structure. In a case that the housing is squeezed, the pressure-strain structure generates strain, and the strain sensor is configured to sense the strain generated by the pressure-strain structure.
US12317022B2
Aspects describe a raised feature to help a user remove an in-ear audio output device from a case. Aspects describe a device comprising an earbud housing shaped to fit in a concha of an ear of a wearer of the device, and a body coupled to the earbud housing, the body extending away from an ear canal of the wearer and oriented outside of the ear when the device is worn, the body comprising a top cap comprising a flat external portion and a raised feature proximate to a concha cymba of the wearer and external to the ear when the device is worn.
US12317012B2
Described herein is a wavelength selective switch (100), comprising an input array (102) of optical fibers. The array (102) comprises two or more columns of fibers that are spatially offset in one or both of a switching dimension or a dispersive dimension of the wavelength selective switch (100). Each column (102A, 102B) of fibers is adapted to project respective optical beams. A switching engine (112) is positioned to receive the optical beams and apply an angular switching to the beams to direct the beams to respective output fibers. The optical beams are encoded at respective angles or polarization states such that each column of optical beams is incident onto a different region of the switching engine (112).
US12316998B2
Method, system and computer program product for providing a second digital video stream. In a collecting step, a first and a second primary digital video stream are collected from at least two different digital video sources. In a first production step, a first produced video stream is produced based on the first and second primary streams. In a second production step, the second stream is produced based on the first produced stream and also based on the first and second primary streams. In the second production step, the first and second primary streams are time-delayed so as to time-synchronise them with the first produced stream, taking into consideration a latency of the first produced stream resulting from the first production step, the second produced stream being produced based on the time-delayed first and second primary streams.
US12316997B2
Method, system and computer program product for providing a second digital video stream. In a collecting step, a first and a second primary digital video stream are collected from at least two different digital video sources. In a first production step, a first produced video stream is produced based on the first and second primary streams. In a second production step, the second stream is produced based on the first produced stream and also based on the first and second primary streams. In the second production step, the first and second primary streams are time-delayed so as to time-synchronise them with the first produced stream, taking into consideration a latency of the first produced stream resulting from the first production step, the second produced stream being produced based on the time-delayed first and second primary streams.
US12316992B2
Provided are a solid-state imaging device capable of dynamically changing a measurable range of acceleration to accurately measure acceleration, and a method of controlling the solid-state imaging device. A solid-state imaging device according to the present disclosure is a solid-state imaging device disposed on a mobile body, the solid-state imaging device including: an imaging section that photoelectrically converts incident light into a charge amount according to a light amount and images a target object; a motion detecting section that calculates a speed of the target object on the basis of a plurality of images imaged by the imaging section; and an inertial measurement section that detects an acceleration or an angular velocity of the mobile body and changes a measurable range of the acceleration or the angular velocity of the mobile body according to the speed of the target object.
US12316991B2
An imaging device having a memory function is provided. Alternatively, an imaging device suitable for taking images of a moving object is provided. The imaging device includes first to third layers; the second layer is provided between the first and the third layer; the first layer includes a photoelectric conversion device; the second layer includes a first and a second circuit; the third layer includes a third and a fourth circuit; the first circuit and the photoelectric conversion device have a function of generating imaging data; the third circuit has a function of reading the imaging data; the second circuit has a function of storing the imaging data read by the third circuit; the fourth circuit has a function of reading the imaging data stored in the second circuit; and the first circuit and the second circuit include a transistor including a metal oxide in a channel formation region.
US12316987B2
A solid-state imaging device includes a photoelectric converter, a transfer gate transistor, and an overflow gate transistor. The photoelectric converter is provided in a semiconductor substrate and generates photocharge. The transfer gate transistor is provided at a surface of the semiconductor substrate as a vertical transistor and reads the photocharge stored in the photoelectric converter. The overflow gate transistor is provided at the surface of the semiconductor substrate as a planar transistor and transfers the photocharge overflowing from the photoelectric converter.
US12316985B2
An image sensor including an image signal processor and an operating method of the image sensor are provided. An image sensor may include a pixel array configured to convert a received optical signal into electrical signals, a readout circuit configured to analog-digital convert the electrical signals to generate image data, and an image signal processor configured to perform one-dimensional filtering in each of a first direction and a second direction on the image data to remove noise of the image data, the second direction being different than the first direction.
US12316980B2
A method for de-flickering frames captured by a camera including capturing a first frame with short exposure to generate a first short exposure frame, capturing the first frame with long exposure to generate a first long exposure frame, generating brightness energy information of the first frame according to the first short exposure frame and the first long exposure frame, generating a first set of parameters according to the brightness energy information of the first frame, generating brightness energy information of N next frames after the first frame according to the first set of parameters and the brightness energy information of the first frame, and generating de-flicker scalars of the N next frames after the first frame according to the brightness energy information of the N next frames after the first frame.
US12316978B2
A technique for generating a digital photograph comprises blending two related images, each sampled according to a different illumination environment. The two related images are blended according to a blend surface function that includes a height discontinuity separating two different blend weight regions. Color consistency between the two related images is achieved by spatial color correction prior to blending. The technique enables a digital camera to generate a strobe image having an appearance of consistent color despite discordant strobe and ambient scene illumination.
US12316976B2
An image processing apparatus includes a memory storing instructions, and a processor configured to execute the instructions to acquire first image information acquired by imaging using a polarization element configured to transmit lights with a plurality of polarization azimuths that are different from each other, determine whether a luminance of at least part of the first image information becomes higher than a threshold, and acquire polarization information using the first image information and a determination result. A predetermined condition is satisfied.
US12316972B2
The invention provides a positioning system that autonomously and continuously positions interchangeable camera devices on the subject as they move allowing the camera device to leverage its native functionality without modification or connectivity to the MTDS. The embodiments of the MTDS are configured to attach and align varying size of digital cameras, video cameras, mobile devices with a camera, or smart assistants with an embedded camera, action camera, webcam or laptop with embedded camera to the stand. The MTDS tracks the movements of the user during any video conference, photography or videography session. The MTDS includes a sensor, separate from the camera on the camera device, that sends the sensor data stream to a microcontroller in the stand and a machine learning co-processor detects the presence of a person. As the speaker or subject (user) moves, the MTDS tracks their movements and directs motors in the stand to pan or tilt the stand to orient the camera device's camera at the user. Through movement of the stand, the speaker or user stays centered in the camera frame. No data connections or software integrations are required to operate the MTDS.
US12316964B2
The present disclosure relates to an imaging apparatus and an imaging method that are capable of easily setting a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging. An image sensor acquires an image. An operation unit selects a type of a subject as a focusing target in each imaging of the image acquired by the image sensor. In the case where the type of the subject as a focusing target is selected by the operation unit, a microcomputer detects an area of the subject of that type from the image and sets the detected area as an in-focus area of the image. The present disclosure can be applied to an imaging apparatus, for example.
US12316963B2
An imaging apparatus includes: an imaging element that images a subject through an imaging optical system; and a processor, and the processor is configured to: detect a moving object present in a plurality of pieces of pixel data obtained by the imaging element at different time points; perform detection processing of obstruction of the moving object by an object at a time point in a future based on a result of comparison between a first distance that is a predicted distance to the moving object at the time point in the future and a second distance that is a distance to the object present at a predicted positional coordinate of the moving object at the time point in the future; and perform an imaging control based on a result of the detection processing.
US12316957B2
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods for capturing a new media content item. In various implementations, a device includes a display, one or more processors and a non-transitory memory. In some implementations, a method includes determining a plot template for generating a media content item based on other media content items that are distributed temporally. In some implementations, the plot template is defined by a set of one or more conditional triggers for capturing the other media content items. In some implementations, the method includes determining that a condition associated with a first conditional trigger of the set of one or more conditional triggers is satisfied. In some implementations, the method includes in response to the condition associated with the first conditional trigger being satisfied, displaying, on the display, a notification to capture a new media content item for populating the plot template.
US12316955B2
An electronic device may include a first housing; a second housing arranged to be slidable with respect to the first housing; a drive device driven to move the second housing with respect to the first housing; a display having a display area, on which visual information is displayed, that can be varied according to the sliding of the second housing with respect to the first housing via the drive device; and a processor operatively connected to the display and the drive device, wherein, during execution of a camera, the processor can perform control to display a camera preview screen through the display area, divide the display area of a second size into a first division area and a second division area on the basis of the sensing of a selection input of a first extension function item for additionally providing a preview screen and the extension of the display area of the display from a first size to the second size, display the camera preview screen through the first division area, and execute a first extension function corresponding to the selection through the second division area so that a first extension preview screen is displayed.
US12316937B2
An image pickup apparatus includes, in order from an image side to an object side along an optical axis a first base member, a second base member fixed to the first base member, an image sensor substrate having an image sensor mounted thereon, and being fixed to the second base member, and a structural member configured to support a lens. A linear thermal expansion coefficient of the second base member is larger than that of the first base member.
US12316936B2
An actuator assembly comprising: a support structure; an image sensor assembly comprising an image sensor having a light-sensitive region, the image sensor assembly being suspended on the support structure in a manner allowing movement of the image sensor assembly relative to the support structure; and at least two flexible printed circuits, each electrically connected at one end to the image sensor assembly, wherein the flexible printed circuits fold around the image sensor assembly such that their other ends are at the same side of the image sensor assembly.
US12316922B2
An interaction method, an interaction apparatus, and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: determining, in response to detecting a predefined size transformation operation, target transformation information of a target video based on whether a current size of the target video is a preset anchor point size, where the target video is a video played in a video play area; and transforming the target video based on the target transformation information, and playing the transformed target video.
US12316916B2
Smart glasses are provided with an imaging unit for imaging a working scene of a worker, a display unit, a controller for controlling a display of the display unit, and an input device configured to receive an input of a playback instruction to instruct a playback of a video obtained by imaging the working scene. The controller causes the display unit to display the video from a first time point in response to an input of the playback instruction. The first time point is a time point that goes back by a first period from the playback instruction.
US12316911B2
A system may include a presentation device and a hub coupled thereto. The hub has a hardware processor which executes first computer instructions facilitating a conditions engine and second computer instructions facilitating a preferences engine. The preferences engine may identify a presentation preference and generate a preference instruction based on the presentation preference. The conditions engine, upon receiving the preference instruction, may identify a presentation condition and output a condition instruction to the presentation device. The system may include the presentation device, upon receiving the condition instruction, being configured in accordance with the presentation condition. The presentation preference may be an abstract preference, a technical preference, or a default preference. The presentation preference may be identified by the preferences engine based on a presentation setting, such as a location. The presentation condition may include at least one of an abstract condition, a technical condition, and a default condition.
US12316906B2
The methods and systems described herein aid users by providing thorough and efficient content consumption. For example, the methods and systems buffer content segments related to a current portion of the content that the system is generating for display. The methods and systems determine a characteristic of the current portion of the content and related content segments based on the characteristic. Confidence scores are determined by the systems and methods for each of the related content segments, and one or more related content segments with higher confidence scores are buffered in memory. Accordingly, the methods and systems described herein provide a thorough viewing of content through related segments that are buffered in memory for quick access.
US12316904B2
A television receiver receives media data from a media content provider. The television receiver is also connected to a wireless network. When the television receiver receives a request via the wireless network to provide media content to an electronic device over the wireless network, the television receiver adjusts the size of a socket buffer associated with a TCP/IP socket and a transmission ring buffer associated with a wireless driver.
US12316899B2
A screen projection method includes: receiving an identification detection request transmitted by the source device when the source device is within a preset range of the sink device; obtaining real-time proximity information of the source device according to the identification detection request; matching the real-time proximity information of the source device with the learned proximity information to obtain the comparison result; and receiving the screen projection request transmitted by the source device according to the comparison result to perform screen projection.
US12316898B2
Disclosed are a display apparatus and a method. The method includes: in response to detecting that an external device is connected via an external device interface of the display apparatus, obtaining SPD data from the external device; reading device identification information from the SPD data; in response to the device model being found in a device management list pre-stored in the display apparatus, switching a version of the transmission protocol to a version of the transmission protocol matched with the device model stored in the device management list; in response to the device mode being not found in the device management list, detecting a tag for indicating a new version function; in response to the tag for indicating the new version function being detected, switching the version of the transmission protocol to the first version; otherwise, switching the version of the transmission protocol to the second version.
US12316896B2
Methods, systems, and machine-readable media for adapting content composites to device operations of an endpoint media device are disclosed. Blockchain data associated with a blockchain address may be processed by one or more processing devices. The blockchain data and/or the blockchain address may be mapped by the one or more processing devices to a first endpoint media device. Based at least in part on the blockchain data, a first content composite may be identified by one or more processing devices for delivery from a content provider system via one or more networks to the first endpoint media device. Transmission of the first content composite may be caused where, consequent to delivery of the first content composite to the first endpoint media device, the first endpoint media device or a second endpoint media device performs at least one operation relating to the first content composite.
US12316889B2
A post-processing of video content in order to provide a capability to insert ad content, having a method to produce a modified video content from an original video content. The method comprising: analyzing the original video content to detect at least one marker, said marker comprising a marker surface delimited by a marker identification; loading profile data of a target user; determining, based at least on the profile data a replacement content; adjusting the replacement content into the marker surface; and replacing into the original video content the marker surface by the adjusted replacement content to produce the modified video content.
US12316885B2
Example techniques may involve temporary configuration of a media playback system in a place of accommodation, such as a hotel. In particular, the media playback system in a guest's room is configured with one or more settings of the guest's home media playback system. Example settings include user accounts of a various services, such as streaming audio services and/or voice assistant services. Other example settings include artists, albums, audio tracks, audio books, stations, and other audio content that the guest previously designated as a favorite using their home media playback system. When the guest leaves (e.g., checks-out of) of the place of accommodation, these settings are removed from the media playback system in the guest's room.
US12316880B2
Examples of video encoding methods and apparatus and video decoding methods and apparatus are described. An example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a current picture of a video and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies that a number of entries in a reference picture list of the current picture is greater than 0 in response to (1) one or more slices in the current picture being allowed to have a slice type other than an Intra (I) slice type, and (2) reference picture list (RPL) information being present in a picture header.
US12316876B2
Disclosed herein is a method for decoding a video including determining a coding unit to be decoded by block partitioning, decoding prediction syntaxes for the coding unit, the prediction syntaxes including a skip flag indicating whether the coding unit is encoded in a skip mode, after the decoding of the prediction syntaxes, decoding transform syntaxes including a transformation/quantization skip flag and a coding unit cbf, wherein the transformation/quantization skip flag indicates whether inverse transformation, inverse quantization, and at least part of in-loop filterings are skipped, and the coding unit cbf indicates whether all coefficients in a luma block and two chroma blocks constituting the coding unit are zero, and reconstructing the coding unit based on the prediction syntaxes and the transform syntaxes.
US12316868B2
Systems and techniques are provided for coding video data. In some examples, a process may include obtaining a first plurality of prediction candidates associated with video data. The process may further include determining a first group of prediction candidates at least in part by applying a first grouping method to the first plurality of prediction candidates. The process may include reordering the first group of prediction candidates and selecting a first merge candidate from the reordered first group of prediction candidates. The process may further include adding the first merge candidate to a candidate list.
US12316865B2
A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a bitstream comprising a sequence parameter set (SPS), one or more sub-pictures partitioned from a picture, and one or more slice headers associated with one or more slices. The SPS is parsed to obtain sub-picture identifiers (IDs) for the one or more sub-pictures. The slice headers are parsed to obtain a current sub-picture ID associated with a current sub-picture. The current sub-picture ID indicating the slices are included in the current sub-picture of the one or more sub-pictures. The current sub-picture is decoded based on the current sub-picture ID to create a video sequence. The video sequence is forwarded for display.
US12316856B2
A method, performed by an image decoding apparatus, of decoding a motion vector, including obtaining information indicating a motion vector resolution of a current block from a bitstream; selecting a first neighboring block from among neighboring blocks adjacent to the current block, by using the obtained information indicating the motion vector resolution of the current block; based on the current block referring to a reference picture in a list 0, and the first neighboring block referring to the reference picture in the list 0, determining a prediction motion vector of the current block using a motion vector of the first neighboring block; based on the current block referring to the reference picture in the list 0 and the first neighboring block referring to a reference picture in a list 1, selecting a motion vector of a second neighboring block among the neighboring blocks as a basic motion vector, and determining the prediction motion vector of the current block using the determined basic motion vector; and determining a motion vector of the current block using the prediction motion vector of the current block.
US12316847B2
Concepts are presented which achieve a more efficient coding of coefficients of a transform block by use of dependent quantization and context adaptive entropy coding or achieve a coding of coefficients of a transform block in a manner which allows a more efficient coding even if a usage of dependent quantization is combined with the usage of context adaptive entropy coding.
US12316844B2
Systems and methods are described for refining first point cloud data using at least second point cloud data and one or more sets of quantizer shifts. An example point cloud decoding method includes obtaining data representing at least a first point cloud and a second point cloud; obtaining information identifying at least a first set of quantizer shifts associated with the first point cloud; and obtaining refined point cloud data based on at least the first point cloud, the first set of quantizer shifts, and the second point cloud. The obtaining of the refined point cloud data may include performing a subtraction based on at least the first set of quantizer shifts. Corresponding encoding systems and methods are also described.
US12316838B2
An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry, in operation, generates a first coefficient value by applying a CCALF (cross component adaptive loop filtering) process to a first reconstructed image sample of a luma component, generates a second coefficient value by applying an ALF (adaptive loop filtering) process to a second reconstructed image sample of a chroma component, and clips the second coefficient value. The circuitry generates a third coefficient value by adding the first coefficient value to the clipped second coefficient value, and clips the third coefficient value. The circuitry encodes a third reconstructed image sample of the chroma component using the clipped third coefficient value.
US12316832B2
Example techniques and devices are disclosed for coding video data. An example device includes memory configured to store the video data and one or more processors implemented in circuitry and communicatively coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to determine that multiple-hypothesis prediction (MHP) is enabled. The one or more processors are configured to, based on determining that MHP is enabled, determine a maximum number of merge candidates for a MHP merge candidate list. The one or more processors are configured to, based on the maximum number of merge candidates for the MHP merge candidate list, determine the MHP merge candidate list. The one or more processors are configured to code the video data based on the MHP merge candidate list.
US12316828B2
A mask inspection system employs TDI imaging. The mask inspection system is calibrated by iteratively repeating, until a stopping criterion is met: (i) simultaneously acquiring first and second TDI images using respective first and second TDI image sensors of the mask inspection system, the first and second TDI image sensors being configured to acquire the respective first and second TDI images with light of mutually orthogonal polarizations, and (ii) automatically adjusting a position of the second TDI image sensor using an electronic controller that receives a feedback error signal indicative of the shift of the second TDI image respective to the first TDI image along the shift direction. The adjusting may utilize an electronic controller that controls the motor based on a received feedback error signal indicative of the shift of the second TDI image respective to the first TDI image along the shift direction.
US12316827B2
Devices, systems, and methods are provided for receiving, by a first device, a first video feed from a first camera at a first televised event the first video feed comprising synthesized content preceding the first televised event, the synthesized content comprising a virtual representation of an object or being; detecting a first delay time between audio and video of the synthesized content in the first video feed; generating, based on the first delay time, video content comprising a first portion of the first video feed; and sending the video content to a second device for presentation of the televised event.
US12316825B2
An electronic device estimates a depth map of an environment based on matching reduced-resolution stereo depth images captured by depth cameras to generate a coarse disparity (depth) map. The electronic device downsamples depth images captured by the depth cameras and matches sections of the reduced-resolution images to each other to generate a coarse depth map. The electronic device upsamples the coarse depth map to a higher resolution and refines the upsampled depth map to generate a high-resolution depth map to support location-based functionality.
US12316817B2
An image processing apparatus includes a first selector that selects one or more first addresses from one or more addresses received from a terminal device by using a short-range wireless communication, a second selector that selects one or more second addresses different from the first addresses, and an image sender that sends an image to the first addresses and the second addresses.
US12316810B2
In a preferred embodiment, the method of caching media used in a telephony application includes: receiving a media request; sending the media request to a media layer using HTTP; the a media layer performing the steps of checking in a cache for the media resource; processing the media request within a media processing server; and storing the processed media in the cache as a telephony compatible resource specified by a persistent address. The system of the preferred embodiment includes a call router and a media layer composed of a cache and media processing server.
US12316807B2
A method for agent interaction analysis using artificial intelligence according to an embodiment includes receiving a transcript for a real-time agent interaction between a contact center agent and client, processing the interaction using at least one artificial intelligence model to determine a call adherence score, an agent positivity score, a client sentiment, an agent sentiment, and a plurality of agent skill levels associated with respective agent skills, determining a combined agent performance score based on the call adherence score and the agent positivity score, transmitting the combined agent performance score to an agent device for display on a gamification dashboard, retrieving agent-specific content of the contact center agent in response to determining that the agent sentiment is negative, and transmitting the agent-specific content to the agent device for display in conjunction with the real-time agent interaction to improve the agent sentiment.
US12316805B1
Technology for determining a queue position of a call from a user can include receiving, at an enterprise, the call from a user device associated with the user. The user device includes an application associated with the enterprise. The call is placed into an on-hold queue. A weighted level of importance associated with the call is determined based on call history information associated with the user device and call frequency associated with the user. The weighted level of importance is compared to at least one weight threshold. A wait time for the call is decreased based on the weighted level of importance meeting or exceeding the at least one weight threshold.
US12316803B2
An automated system, phone distraction detector and method for automatically detecting phone distraction events in a moving vehicle, caused by a driver of the moving vehicle by using a smartphone. An Internet of Things (IoT) server is communicatively coupled to the smartphone. The smartphone (comprises one or more sensors built into the smartphone, wherein sensory data of the one or more sensors, are captured by the sensors of the smartphone during a vehicle trip and are transmitted to the Internet of Things (IoT) server, and wherein the sensor data comprises one or more chunks of data streams associated with an IoT service from the smartphone. The sensory data are processed and analyzed by the server to identify one or more phone handling events associated with the smartphone during the vehicle trip. One or more phone handling events associated with the smartphone are aggregated into one or more macro events by the processing means of the server. The aggregated one or more macro events are processes by the server based on a set of preconfigured rules to determine a phone distraction event, wherein the set of preconfigured rules are based on predefined thresholds to determine the phone distraction event.
US12316802B2
A method is disclosed for driving an emergency reaction system within a moving motor vehicle carrying at least one vehicle occupant. The method includes monitoring health conditions of the vehicle occupant. The method also includes determining whether the health conditions are below a critical threshold and, if so, continuing to monitor the health conditions of the vehicle occupant. If the health conditions exceed the critical threshold, an emergency alert is issued without waiting for the motor vehicle to stop, and an autonomous safe stop maneuver is performed if the motor vehicle is moving autonomously or includes an autonomous driving system and is allowed to operate automatically.
US12316799B2
A navigation application running in the foreground of the mobile device is run in the background when the mobile device enters a screen locked state. A display may be activated while the mobile device remains in the screen locked state, and an image is rendered over a lock screen of the mobile device, where the image providing a glimpse into the navigation application running in the background while the mobile device remains in the screen locked state. The image displayed over the lock screen is iteratively updated to provide a continuous glimpse into the navigation application running in the background of the mobile device that is in the screen locked state, without having to unlock the mobile device.
US12316797B2
Provided is a stand and docking system, wherein a portable electronic device is easily attached and detached from the stand and the display of the portable electronic device is positionable over a wide range of travel in pitch, roll, and yaw. A stand for an electronic display device includes a base assembly having a non-magnetic bearing cup defining an upwardly facing rounded recess presenting a smooth upwardly facing surface and an opposing lower surface, and an attractor bowl made from ferrous material disposed proximate the lower surface, and a docking assembly having a cup interface presenting a smooth rounded outer surface portion conformingly shaped to the recess of the bearing cup, a securing magnet, and a device interface adapter adapted to receive the electronic display device.
US12316796B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a first housing, a second housing coupled to the first housing through a hinge structure to be rotatable about a first axis that faces a first direction, a first cover covering a rear surface of the first housing, a second cover covering a rear surface of the second housing, a flexible display defining a front surface of the electronic device and disposed over the first housing and the second housing, an antenna module, and at least one processor electrically connected to the flexible display and the antenna module, wherein the hinge structure is disposed in an area having a first width in a second direction that is perpendicular to the first direction with respect to the first axis, wherein the first housing has a first structure covering the hinge structure within the first width, wherein the first structure has an accommodation groove, in which the antenna module is accommodated, and wherein the at least one processor is configured to transmit and receive a high-frequency (millimeter wave) signal corresponding to a third direction that is perpendicular to both the first direction and the second direction by using the antenna module.
US12316785B2
The system for provisioning computerized devices of a tenant includes an enrollment certificate authority generating enrollment certificates in response to first provisioning requests for the enrollment certificates, a second certificate authority generating digital assets for onboard units and roadside units of the tenant in response to second provisioning requests from the computerized devices. A security credential management system platform, connected to the enrollment certificate authority and to the second certificate authority, receiving the first provisioning requests for enrollment certificates for the computerized devices, routing the first provisioning requests to the enrollment certificate authority based on the tenant identification (ID), receiving the second provisioning requests for digital assets for the computerized devices, and routing the second provisioning requests to the second certificate authority based on the device identifier. Each first provisioning request includes the tenant ID, and each second provisioning request includes a device identifier.
US12316776B2
Techniques for allowing third-party DNS service providers to programmatically initiate changes to DNS resource records using an interface provided by a registrar or registry are disclosed. Further, techniques for validating change requests received at such an interface are disclosed. The disclosed techniques reduce errors and increase convenience.
US12316774B2
Various techniques are provided to implement information leakage mitigation associated with elliptic curve operations. In one example, a method includes generating second data based on first data. The first data is associated with a message. The second data is associated with a decoy message. The method further includes performing a first elliptic curve operation based on the first data. The method further includes performing a second elliptic curve operation based on the second data. The first elliptic curve operation and the second elliptic curve operation are performed in a random order. Related systems and devices are provided.
US12316773B2
A method for managing message delivery in a computing infrastructure. For each message to be delivered, the message is sent simultaneously by a transmitting component, to each server of a plurality of receiving servers. For each server that received the sent message, the server computes a signature specific to the message received, which is identical for each server, and the server sends the computed signature to a synchronization component. The sent signature is received by the synchronization component. If a first condition according to which the received signature is not stored in a signature database is met, the received signature is stored in the signature database and an instruction is sent to store or transmit the received message to the server by the synchronization component. Otherwise, the synchronization component sends an instruction to the server to delete the received message and the computed signature.
US12316772B2
Context-aware authentication may be provided. First, a request may be received for content service. The request may comprise information associated with a context of a household from which the request came. Next, the request may be authenticated based on the information associated with the context of the household from which the request came. Then the content service may be provided in response to authenticating the request.
US12316771B2
A computer-implemented method for controlling an external process or system and allowing a modification of blockchain transaction outputs, the method comprising one or more steps to generate a blockchain transaction comprising at least one signed input which comprises a value and at least one modifiable output, extract one or more values from one or more signed inputs associated with one or more combination locks, provide one of the values to a portion of logic to obtain a result, and use the result to modify at least one modifiable output of the transaction, wherein the transaction represents the result, wherein the values are extracted external from the blockchain transaction, and wherein the transaction are submitted to the blockchain.
US12316768B2
Computer methods and systems provide management of payload data represented by electronic tokens. Applications may relate to asset-backed fungible tokens as well as non-fungible tokens. A payload data file may be added or kept current after initial token genesis by specifying, in token data, a pointer (e.g., as either a TXID specifying a wallet address as an endpoint, or as the wallet address) to one or more transactions that carry, such as in an OP_Return field, a link to a linking payload or to the added or current payload data file. A single transaction specifying the wallet address may thus update or enhance any number of electronic tokens linked to the payload data file.
US12316764B2
A method comprises a token requestor computer transmitting a first authorization request message comprising a token and first cryptogram for authorization of an interaction to a server computer. The token requestor computer receives a first authorization response message comprising a response code from the server computer, then generates a cryptogram request message comprising the token or a token identifier and the response code. The token requestor computer transmits the cryptogram request message to a token provider computer, which generates a second cryptogram. The token requestor computer receives the second cryptogram and credential and generates a second authorization request message comprising the second cryptogram and the credential. The token requestor computer transmits the second authorization request message to the server computer. A second authorization response message is received from the server computer in response to the second authorization request message. The second authorization response message indicates whether the interaction is authorized.
US12316757B2
This disclosure generally relates to encrypted communication between terminal devices and service applications via a communication network. Such encrypted communication may be based on various hierarchical levels of encryption keys that are generated and managed by the communication network. Such encrypted communication and key management may be provided by the communication network to the terminal devices as a service that can be subscribed to. The various levels of encryption keys may be managed to improve flexibility of the communication network and to reduce potential security breaches.
US12316746B2
A cross-blockchain data processing method is provided. The method includes: obtaining an asset transfer instruction triggered for a first asset on the first blockchain, and configuring an asset state of the first asset to a locked state on the first blockchain; determining the first asset in the locked state as an asset, and determining a cross-chain asset transfer request corresponding to the asset; obtaining an asset transfer interface associated with a second blockchain, and calling the asset transfer interface to transmit the cross-chain asset transfer request to a second server node on the second blockchain; and receiving signing response information transmitted by the second server node in response to determining that the verification succeeds, freezing the asset on the first blockchain according to the signing response information, and notifying the second server node to release a second asset associated with the asset on the second blockchain.
US12316739B2
Fully homomorphic encryption integrated circuit (IC) chips, systems and associated methods are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method of operation for a number theoretic transform (NTT) butterfly circuit is disclosed. The (NTT) butterfly circuit includes a high input word path cross-coupled with a low word path. The high input word path includes a first adder/subtractor, and a first multiplier. The low input word path includes a second adder/subtractor, and a second multiplier. The method includes selectively bypassing the second adder/subtractor and the second multiplier, and reconfiguring the low and high input word paths into different logic processing units in response to different mode control signals.
US12316736B2
A device for supporting a homomorphic encryption operation includes a ciphertext conversion circuit configured to convert first ciphertexts corresponding to a first operation size to second ciphertexts corresponding to a second operation size, different from the first operation size, to convert the operated ciphertext having the second operation size to a third ciphertexts corresponding to the first operation size, and to perform a homomorphic encryption operation on the second ciphertexts.
US12316726B2
A physical layer (PHY) processor of a network device receives: a timing packet that includes initial timing information, and one or more indicators of one or more parameters to be used by the PHY processor for embedding timing information into the timing packet, the one or more indicators including at least i) an indicator indicating that the timing packet is a type of packet into which timing information is to be embedded by the PHY device, ii) an indicator of a location of a field in the timing packet at which the timing information is to be embedded into the timing packet by the PHY device, and iii) an indicator of whether timing information in the timing packet needs to be updated by the PHY device. The PHY processor updates, based on the one or more indicators, the initial timing information in the timing packet.
US12316720B1
An implementation may involve: receiving, by an application launcher, a message on behalf of a client device; determining a server application based on the message and metadata, wherein the server application is associated with a path, wherein the path includes a set of steps, wherein each of the set of steps is respectively associated with program logic to perform a discrete set of functions, wherein a generate result step causes the server application to determine an outcome of executing the path, and wherein a handle request step causes the server application to provide, to an external service, a representation of a request related to the outcome; providing, by the application launcher, a client application to the client device; and executing, by an orchestrator, the path, wherein a context of the execution is written in a database between execution of at least some of the set of steps.
US12316718B2
An improved information management system that implements a staging area or cache to temporarily store primary data in a native format before the primary data is converted into secondary copies in a secondary format is described herein. For example, the improved information management system can include various media agents that each include one or more high speed drives. When a client computing device provides primary data for conversion into secondary copies, the primary data can initially be stored in the native format in the high speed drive(s). If the client computing device then submits a request for the primary data, the media agent can simply retrieve the primary data from the high speed drive(s) and transmit the primary data to the client computing device. Because the primary data is already in the native format, no conversion operations are performed by the media agent, thereby reducing the restore delay.
US12316712B2
Embodiments described herein relate to methods and apparatus for obtaining and/or providing Home Subscriber Service, HSS, information. A method in a first service based architecture, SBI, capable Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem, IMS, entity includes: transmitting a discovery request to a network repository function, NRF; receiving a response comprising HSS information from the NRF; and transmitting at least a portion of the HSS information to a second SBI capable IMS entity.
US12316700B2
Sharing data in a data exchange across multiple cloud computing platforms and/or cloud computing platform regions is described. An example computer-implemented method can include creating a listing in a data exchange, the listing including a data set hosted by a first cloud computing entity. The data set can be shared with a second cloud computing entity. The method further includes receiving a request associated with a customer account of the second cloud computing entity to access the data set of the listing hosted by the first cloud computing entity and replicating at least a subset of the data set of the listing from the first cloud computing entity to a provider account at the second cloud computing entity to be accessible by the customer account at the second cloud computing entity.
US12316692B2
A network-based apparatus includes at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code. The at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the network-based apparatus to: select at least a first bitstream from a central repository based on an indicator associated with a probability of concurrent, simultaneous or future execution of the first bitstream and a second bitstream at a network node, each of the first bitstream and the second bitstream including programming information for a device at the network node, the indicator being based on an embedding matrix mapping at least a subset of bitstreams in the central repository to an N-dimensional vector of real numbers; and output the first bitstream to the network node for storage and execution upon request.
US12316682B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide for a method, system, and apparatus for processing content during scan and/or remediation processing. The method includes receiving a scan request or a remediation request. Content from a datastore referencing one or more controls as well as one or more of a compliance value, remediation value, and an ignore switch corresponding to each control is then loaded. If a scan request is received, the computing environment is scanned to determine all controls in the computing environment and the current setting of each. Thereafter, a subset of controls is determined, where the current setting of each control in the subset is out of compliance, the out of compliance state for each control is not to be ignored, and a remediation value for the corresponding control is listed in the loaded content. Thereafter, information regarding each control is determined, captured, and then stored.
US12316677B2
Aspects of the present disclosure provide methods, devices, and computer-readable storage media that support dynamic enforcement of access control policies in a standardized manner. An administrator console enables access control policies to be defined as classes that may be combined and leveraged to rapidly define access control policies for enforcement in a standardized manner. An interceptor operates to detect access requests and perform policy administration (e.g., determining to grant/deny access) for the access requests and where access is granted, initiate policy resolution (e.g., determine any restrictions on the granted access request). An enforcer provides functionality for enforcing policy resolution outcomes, such as restricting access to information stored in a database or disabling interactive elements of a user interface. The enforcer may control enforcement of the policy resolution outcomes by modifying information in received access requests, such as to rewrite a query to incorporate restrictions on access to a data source.
US12316676B2
This disclosure describes techniques and mechanisms for defining dynamic security compliance in networks to proactively prevent security policy violations from being added and/or made, retroactively and continuously identify security policy violations based on data from the changing threat landscape, and provide auto-remediation of non-compliant security policies. The techniques enable automated security policies and provide improved network security against a dynamic threat landscape.
US12316674B1
A secure web gateway is deployed on the cloud between a web client and a web server. The secure web gateway sends the web client a redirect response status code with a replacement server location in response to a Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) request sent by the web client to access a target resource on the web server. The secure web gateway thereafter receives from the web client a Hypertext Transfer Protocol Secure (HTTPS) request to access the target resource, the HTTPS request includes the replacement server location. The secure web gateway sends the HTTPS request as an HTTP request to the web server. The secure web gateway receives an HTTP response from the web server, and forwards the HTTP response as an HTTPS response to the web client.
US12316671B2
Identifying a malicious web page that impersonates a legitimate web page, including extracting HMTL source and a certificate for a specified web page, parsing the extracted HTML to identify objects, forms, links, templates, images and logos embedded in the HTML, and determining whether or not the HTML source harvests user credentials. If the determining is negative, then marking the specified web page as clean. If the determining is affirmative, then verifying the origin and ownership of the extracted certificate by examining its digital signature to determine a possibility of an impersonation attempt, applying image recognition to the identified images and logos, and comparing the identified images and logos to known images and brand logos of the certificate owner. If the comparing is affirmative, then mark the web page as clean. If the comparing is negative, then mark the web page as suspicious and block the web page from being accessed.
US12316664B1
A method and related systems for isolating compromised edge nodes in a computing device network based on tracking event patterns in off-network data by obtaining an anomaly indication for an event type associated with a set of event participant identifiers indicated by temporal sequences for a network. Some embodiments may determine a set of compromised nodes based on the events of the event type and restrict or apply a monitoring filter to traffic for the set of compromised nodes.
US12316659B2
A system and methods of cybersecurity are provided, implementing: receiving multiple TCP/IP packets destined for a target host; determining from among the multiple TCP/IP packets, a subset of suspicious TCP/IP packets characterized by one or more suspicious traits; for each of the TCP/IP packets characterized by the one or more suspicious traits, extracting a TCP/IP timestamp header value and calculating a normalized timestamp value by subtracting a local system time from the TCP/IP timestamp header value; identifying a subgroup of the TCP/IP packets having a common normalized timestamp value indicative of generation by a common source host; receiving a subsequent TCP/IP packet destined for the target host; determining that the subsequent TCP/IP packet's normalized timestamp value is the common normalized timestamp value; and responsively blocking the subsequent TCP/IP packet from reaching the target host.
US12316650B2
Computing system defenses to rotating IP addresses by malicious entities during computing attacks are disclosed. An online entity may utilize a framework having computing operations for detecting and protecting from computing attacks using IP address rotation through multiple IP addresses to hide the malicious conduct. The threat detection system and framework may perform processes that indicate whether IP addresses are correlated and being used in the same computing operations, which may be malicious or fraudulent. If correlated, the framework may further determine that the IP addresses are being used to perpetrate the same or similar computing attack from a malicious actor. The framework may the execute one or more processes to protect from the computing attack that uses the rotation of IP addresses, including IP address blocking, manual challenges, and changing status code identifiers for webpage access requests.
US12316648B1
Methods and systems for identifying targets on a network. The disclosed methods involve classifying data as valuable or non-valuable, and then classifying an asset associated with the retrieved data as a target or a non-target based in part on the classification of the data.
US12316647B1
A video data loss prevention (vDLP) system that uses machine-learning for protection against data exfiltration of sensitive content across multiple tenants in a cloud-based network. The vDLP system consists of tenants that include end-user devices and a vDLP server. The vDLP server is configured to intercept traffic at an application layer of the cloud-based network and receive a video file from traffic. A viewer for the video file is remote from the cloud-based network. The vDLP server further recognizes text of audio and frames extracted from the video file using a machine-learning engine. The vDLP server then analyzes the frames and text using machine-learning classifiers, enforces policies against machine-learning classifiers for protection against data exfiltration of sensitive content in the video file, and sends a notification away from the cloud-based network upon detection of violation of a policy.
US12316641B2
A network device may receive a subscription request to subscribe to a multimedia priority service (MPS) for a user device, and may generate an MPS profile for the user device based on the subscription request. The network device may store the MPS profile in a data structure, and may receive, from the user device, a request to generate an MPS token for the user device. The network device may retrieve the MPS profile from the data structure based on the request to generate the MPS token, and may generate the MPS token based on the MPS profile. The network device may provide the MPS token to the user device.
US12316640B2
In some implementations, a device of an Internet of Things (IoT) network may receive, from a host associated with the IoT network, information associated with the IoT network. The device may store, via a memory controller of the device, the information in a memory with an embedded hardware security module of the device, wherein the device serves as a root of trust for the host using the information stored in the memory. The device may receive, from the host, a request to perform a security function. The device may perform, based on the request, the security function using the information stored in the memory. The device may generate an alert based on an outcome of the security function. Numerous other implementations are described.
US12316639B2
An access control list (ACL) management method is provided. The ACL management method is used in a file system and includes: storing an ACL pattern, where the ACL pattern corresponds to a subtree of a directory tree in the file system and includes a root access control list (RACL), the ACL of the root node of the subtree is the RACL, the ACL of each non-root directory of the subtree is the same inherited directory access control list (DACL) generated according to the RACL, and the ACL of each non-root file of the subtree is the same inherited file access control list (FACL) generated according to the RACL. A data storage device and a computer-readable medium for executing the ACL management method are also provided.
US12316635B1
A system for limiting access to a digital resource based on detection of unauthorized scraping of the digital resource includes one or more processors configured to execute the instructions to detect, over a network, first data representing a plurality of first interactions by a client device with the digital resource hosted on a host system; extract, from the hardware storage device, second data representing a plurality of second interactions with digital resources, with the second interactions satisfy conditions for an interaction to be authorized; determine a confidence score based on comparing the first and second data, with the confidence score indicating a likelihood that an interaction is unauthorized; based on the determined confidence score indicating that the first interactions are unauthorized, detect, by one or more processing devices, unauthorized scraping of the digital resource; and limit access of the client device to the digital resource.
US12316634B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for receiving, from a user, a command for a virtual assistant to perform a task on behalf of the user; determining a communication channel for the virtual assistant to communicate with a remote service in order to perform the task; registering a communication session with an identity provider service, wherein the communication session is associated with the communication channel; initiating the communication session with the remote service using the communication channel; receiving a communication session authentication query from the remote service; and determining, in response to the communication session authentication query, whether the user is authenticated.
US12316632B2
Techniques for transferring address rights (e.g., internet protocol address(es), media access control address(es), etc.) amongst devices in a data center network fabric. A data center (DC) authority (e.g., network controller and/or a service controller) of a data center network fabric may determine that a device in the network is to communicate on an address in the network. The DC authority may create and sign a token that indicates a verifiable authorization to communicate on the address. The token may allow any device that posses the token to communicate on the address, following verification from an associated network switch. Additionally, the token may be signed by a device in the network in possession of the token, and delegated to another device in the data center network fabric following a migration of a service from one server to another, for example.
US12316627B2
Provided are a smart card device, a device for generating a virtual code for authentication, a method of generating a virtual code for authentication using the same, and a server for verifying a virtual code for authentication. The method includes transmitting time data to a card upon tagging of the card in which an IC chip has been embedded, receiving, from the card, a virtual code for primary authentication generated based on the time data, generating a virtual code for secondary authentication by using the virtual code for primary authentication, transmitting at least one of the virtual code for primary authentication and the virtual code for secondary authentication to a server, and requesting the server to perform verification on the at least one.
US12316619B2
A method for Internet Key Exchange (IKE) re-authentication optimization includes sending, by a first network device and a second network device, a notification, which contains new Security Parameters Index (SPI) for new security association (SA), and sending, by the first network device alone, an OLD_SPI notification to map SPI of Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) (Authentication Header (AH)/Encapsulating Security Payload (ESP)) with the old IPSec SA.
US12316618B2
One disclosed example method includes obtaining a meeting cryptographic key; transmitting, from a client device to a video conference provider, a request to initiate an encrypted video conference, the encrypted video conference including a plurality of participants; distributing the meeting cryptographic key to each participant of the plurality of participants; obtaining a public cryptographic key of a key pair, the key pair including the public cryptographic key and a private cryptographic key; encrypting the meeting cryptographic key using the public cryptographic key; transmitting, from the client device to the video conference provider, a request to record the video conference; encrypting audio and video from a microphone and image sensor of the client device using the meeting cryptographic key; transmitting the encrypted audio and video to the video conference provider; and providing the encrypted meeting cryptographic key to the video conference provider.
US12316616B2
An information processing apparatus configured to perform encryption communications using an encryption communication protocol set as a used protocol from among a plurality of encryption communication protocols The information processing apparatus sets a version of the encryption communication protocol to be used for the encryption communications in association with a specific communication destination, and executes, in a case that a communication partner is the specific communication destination and the set version of the encryption communication protocol includes a version of an encryption communication protocol set in the communication partner, the encryption communications with the communication partner using the version of the encryption communication protocol set in the communication partner.
US12316615B1
Systems and methods for protecting user data received by, stored on, and/or requested by third-party computing devices include a data entry computing system on a first network node. A data entry computing system can include a processing circuit that can identify user-entered data as sensitive user data, generate a content encryption key (CEK), generate encrypted user data by encrypting the sensitive user data with the CEK, tag the encrypted user data and the CEK with a tag readable by a database server on a network node different than the data entry computing system, the tag comprising information indicative of the encrypted user data, and transmit the encrypted user data to the database server, wherein the database server excludes a private key of a key manager on a network node different than the data entry computing system.
US12316614B2
A request is made from a requesting computing device to an assistant computing device to query a dataset in communication with a remote computing device. The remote computing device resides in a secured data center. Encrypted access credentials are received at the requesting computing device from the assistant computing device. The encrypted access credentials are configured to allow the requesting computing device to access the remote computing device. The encrypted access credentials are decrypted at the requesting computing device to obtain access credentials. The remote computing device is accessed by using the access credentials. Query results are generated by the remote computing device. The query results are received at the requesting computing device from the remote computing device. Encrypted query results are generated at the requesting computing device. The encrypted query results are communicated from the requesting computing device to the assistant computing device.
US12316609B2
Disclosed herein are embodiments that provide for accessing a cloud environment with Zero Trust Network Access (ZTNA). In particular, the embodiments provide managing communications via an identity broker through a secure tunnel between at least one network device and a cloud environment via an access device. The access device is preconfigured to contact the identity broker to establish the secure tunnel. At least one policy may then be applied to the at least one network device via the access device. In such a configuration, the at least one network device, such as a legacy device or a plurality of network devices, does not require a software client to communicate directly with the identity broker.
US12316606B2
A universal resource locator (URL) collider processes a click event referencing a URL and directs a browser to a page at the URL. While the page is being rendered by the browser with page data from a web server, the URL collider intercepts the page data including events associated with rendering the page, determines microfeatures of the page such as Document Object Model objects and any URLs referenced by the page, applies detection rules, tags as evidence any detected bad microfeature, bad URL, or suspicious sequence of events, and stores the evidence in an evidence database. Based on the evidence, a judge module dynamically determines whether to condemn the URL before or just in time as the page at the URL is fully rendered by the browser. If so, the browser is directed to a safe location or a notification page.
US12316605B2
Techniques are disclosed for generating a network packet classifier for network security groups. The network packet classifier is processed by a graph-based packet processor in a communications network. The network packet classifier is configured to classify network packets based on features grouped into feature types corresponding to header fields of the network packets. A single feature classifier is generated to model all rules in a network security group for a single data traffic direction. The single feature classifier is generated by grouping header fields, features, and feature match actions for network packets in the communications network.
US12316604B2
A registration device (10) includes an extracting unit (131) that extracts inner header information and outer header information of an encapsulated packet, a filter unit (132) that calculates a hash value of the inner header information and the outer header information as an address of a hash table in which arrival information indicating whether a first packet of a series of flow has arrived is registered for each address and causes, based on the hash table, inner header information and outer header information of the first packet of the series of flow to pass, and a registering unit (133) that registers the inner header information and the outer header information of the first packet, which the filter unit (132) has caused to pass, in a database in association with each other.
US12316594B2
Systems, methods, and related technologies are provided for generating interactive emails and tracking user interactions. In one implementation, an email can be received within an email client. The email can be rendered within the email client, such as by: presenting a first selectable element within the email client, presenting a second selectable element within the email client, and presenting one or more content items within the email client. A selection of the first selectable element can be received within the email client. In response to the selection of the first selectable element, a presentation of the one or more content items can be adjusted within the email client.
US12316593B2
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums which provide for sidebar communication threads forked from, or related to, a principal thread. Messages in the sidebar communication thread may include a history of the principal thread, including one or more messages from the principal thread, and may include a proposed principal thread message that is the subject of the sidebar thread discussion. The sidebar thread may also include sidebar thread messages that carries the conversation of the sidebar thread participants. Once a termination condition is reached for the sidebar thread, the sidebar thread terminates and either the proposed principal thread message (as potentially modified by participants of the sidebar thread) becomes an accepted principal thread message and it is posted to the principal thread as if it was sent by the sidebar initiator or no message is posted (e.g., the proposed principal thread message is rejected). In some examples, users may select a fork point and a return point from the principal thread.
US12316589B2
Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging and imaging software and systems by generating and displaying media overlays with avatars of different users. For example, media overlays can be generated by the system and displayed in conjunction with media content (e.g., images and/or video) generated by an image-capturing device (e.g., a digital camera).
US12316588B1
A system is disclosed, where a non-transitory computer-readable medium including a communications interface and a processor, communicatively coupled to the non-transitory computer-readable medium and the communications interface. The processor may be configured to execute processor executable instructions stored in the non-transitory computer-readable medium. The processor may access one or more chat channels, where the one or more chat channels are established by a chat and video conference provider. The processor may determine that one or more messages, directed to a user via the one or more chat channels, includes one or more unread messages. The processor may generate a notification of the one or more unread messages corresponding to the one or more chat channels. The processor may generate an unread landing page including the one or more unread messages from each of the one or more chat channels.
US12316581B2
In one embodiment, a method receives a downstream signal and an upstream signal in a same frequency band. The downstream signal and the upstream signal are separated into a first path and a second path. The downstream signal using the first path and the upstream signal using the second path are amplified in an analog domain. The method isolates the downstream signal and the upstream signal from one another and sends the downstream signal downstream to a subscriber device and sends the upstream signal towards a full duplex node.
US12316566B2
The present application discloses a vehicle positioning method and device, a positioning vehicle, a vehicle to be positioned, and a storage medium. The method includes: determining configuration information of a positioning reference signal of a positioning vehicle; and transmitting, according to the configuration information, the positioning reference signal to a vehicle to be positioned, and the vehicle to be positioned determines a positioning measurement quantity based on the positioning reference signal. The configuration information of the positioning reference signal is determined by the positioning vehicle and the transmission of the positioning reference signal is started to the vehicle to be positioned according to the configuration information, and the vehicle to be positioned can determine the positioning measurement quantity according to the positioning reference signal, and improving the positioning performance and avoiding configuration conflicts between positioning reference signals.
US12316563B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a solution for. In a method for communication, a terminal device receives, from a network device, control information indicating a set of resources and transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for a communication between the terminal device and the network device. The terminal device determines resource subsets associated with the respective TCI states, each resource subset being a part of the set of resources in frequency domain. The terminal device determines a mapping of phase-tracking reference signals (PT-RSs) to the resource subsets. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide practical details on how to decide PT-RS presence/density/pattern/offset if a scheduled set of resources are shared by a plurality of TCI states, especially in case of scheme 2a/2b.
US12316562B2
Disclosed is a method for a terminal for receiving a positioning reference signal (PRS) in a wireless communication system. Particularly, the method includes: receiving first information related to a PRS resource group including a plurality of PRS resources, and second information related to a repetition count for the PRS resource group; and receiving a PRS on the plurality of PRS resources based on the first information and second information, wherein the PRS resource group may be allocated repeatedly as many times as the repetition count within a certain period.
US12316560B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for transmitting a sounding reference signal (SRS), and a network device, a terminal. The method includes determining SRS configuration information on the basis of uplink related information corresponding to a terminal; issuing the SRS configuration information to the terminal; and receiving a SRS signal sent by the terminal on the basis of the SRS configuration information. By means of the method the network device, the terminal, SRS configuration information is determined on the basis of uplink-related information, and the dynamic configuration of SRS-related parameters is realized, and the related configuration of a SRS can better adapt to rapid changes in a Doppler frequency shift and a transmission delay caused by fast movement of a satellite, an uplink time-frequency estimation can resist fast-changing timing and frequency deviations, and the timeliness requirement of the uplink time-frequency estimation is satisfied.
US12316557B2
This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and provides an information transmission method and an apparatus. The information transmission method includes: A transmit device generates a PPDU of a 320 MHz bandwidth, where some or all fields of the PPDU are rotated in the 320 MHz bandwidth based on a rotation factor sequence, the 320 MHz bandwidth includes sixteen 20 MHz sub-channels, the rotation factor sequence includes 16 rotation factors, and each 20 MHz sub-channel corresponds to one rotation factor. The transmit device sends the PPDU.
US12316551B2
A method transmits a data element between control units of a vehicle that are coupled via at least two communication channels. The first control unit determines a communication channel indicator of a first channel that is representative of available transmission resources. The first control unit receives a data element from a data source. The priority of the data element is ascertained depending on an associated vehicle application. If the communication channel indicator indicates that the available transmission resources of the first channel are insufficient for transmission of the data element and the priority of the data element is less than a predefined priority threshold value, then storing the data element in a temporary memory of the first control unit for a predefined time interval. In a different case, the data element is transmitted from the first control unit to the second control unit via assigned communication channel(s).
US12316550B2
The present disclosure is related to multi-queue management techniques and packet reordering techniques for inter-radio access technology (RAT) and intra-RAT traffic steering. The multi-queue management and packet reordering techniques may be used in Multi-Access Management Services (MAMS) framework, which is a programmable framework that provides mechanisms for the flexible selection of network paths in a multi-access (MX) communication environment, based on an application's needs. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed.
US12316536B2
Systems and techniques are provided for implementing multiprotocol label switching (MPLS) header extensions. In some examples, a method can include, receiving, by a router of a MPLS network, a data packet. In some aspects, the method can include adding, by the router of the MPLS network, at least one entry to an MPLS stack of the data packet, wherein the at least one entry includes an MPLS extension indicator (MEI) that is associated with at least one of an in-stack extension header presence indicator (IPI) and a bottom-of-stack extension header presence indicator (BPI). In some examples, the method can include adding, based on the IPI and the BPI, at least one of an in-stack extension header and a bottom-of-stack extension header to the MPLS stack of the data packet.
US12316535B2
Embodiments of the present invention may provide a decentralized infrastructure including efficient wireless communication, an infrastructureless communication network, a decentralized private network, securely communicating in a decentralized network perhaps using distributed ledger technology (62), named data networking (63), neural networks (85), or the like. Further embodiments may include consensus processing (150), dynamic smart contracts (151), universal artificial neural network multiplex asset class (3), and perhaps even an artificial neural network multiplex identification system.
US12316534B2
Systems and methods include maintaining a network plane in Segment Routing (SR) Flexible Algorithm having a Flexible Algorithm Definition (FAD) based on latency; receiving a request for a service over a SR network where the service is sensitive to a specific latency; and determining a label stack including one or more Segment Identifiers (SID) for the service, with the one or more SIDs based on the network plane in SR Flexible Algorithm. This can be used for Private Line Emulation (PLE) services and Circuit Emulation (CEM) services over SR, ensuring latency while not requiring large label stacks.
US12316531B1
A network device may include (1) at least one storage device configured to store a plurality of SIDs and (2) at least one processing device configured to (A) insert, into the storage device, a single instance of a SID corresponding to a multihomed network segment and/or (B) advertise the SID to a remote network device for aliasing to enable the remote network device to load-balance traffic across the multihomed network segment. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US12316530B2
Backup communication paths can be determined for use by different circuits of a network in the event of a failure of active communication paths. The disclosed backup path determination techniques can reduce contention in which multiple circuits share a backup path. Contention metrics are determined for communication paths in the network. The contention metrics are used to determine a communication path for contention reduction. A circuit that uses the communication path as a backup path is selected, and the backup path of the selected circuit is modified to avoid the communication path. Contention metrics can then be recalculated, and contention reduction techniques can be repeated until a desired convergence point is reached.
US12316519B2
Disclosed is a vehicle-mounted relay device that relays data flowing through a vehicle-mounted network mounted in a vehicle, including a control unit that controls processing relating to relaying of the data, wherein the control unit derives a threshold relating to a state of the vehicle-mounted network, and determines, based on the derived threshold, whether or not there is an abnormality in the vehicle-mounted network.
US12316516B2
A first UE may receive a V2X message from a second UE. The V2X message may be a suspicious message. The V2X message may include a plurality of values. Each value in the plurality of values may correspond to a respective field in a plurality of fields. The first UE may identify a health score associated with the V2X message. The first UE may adjust at least one value in the plurality of values if the health score is greater than a threshold. Accordingly, a health level of a suspicious V2X message may be analyzed quantitatively. A suspicious V2X message with a sufficiently low health level may be suppressed. Moreover, a correctable field value in a suspicious V2X message may be corrected based on a computed, measured, or prestored value.
US12316504B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining first information identifying each version of a policy rule base to which a control plane architecture of a wireless network has access; obtaining second information identifying each version of a policy rule base to which a user plane architecture of the wireless network has access; selecting as a selected version a common version of a policy rule base to which each of the control plane architecture and the user plane architecture has access; and communicating an identification of the selected version to each of the control plane architecture and the user plane architecture. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12316503B2
A data communication method includes: obtaining application data for an application to connect to a public network for data transmission; determining, according to the application data, whether the application needs to connect to a network slice, and in response to determining that the application needs to connect to a network slice, requesting a network operator to create a network slice channel and transmitting the created network slice channel to the application, so that the application switches the connected public network to another network slice corresponding to the network slice channel.
US12316488B2
Systems and methods are provided for monitoring the accessibility to a network from the gateway device involved in a cluster of gateway devices. For example, once the cluster of gateway devices are formed, the system may initiate a cluster heartbeat process. When a response is received from the first gateway and not the second gateway within a threshold period of time, the system may notify an uplink regarding a network issue. The uplink manager may be configured to suspend the virtual uplink as unreachable, suspend a WAN health check, update a default gateway to remove the virtual uplink and utilize the physical uplink outside of the cluster of gateway devices as a default connection to the first network accessible via the ISP of the first gateway device, and concurrently maintain data transmissions to the first network from the physical uplink outside of the cluster of gateway devices.
US12316487B2
Disclosed is a system to prioritize multiple issues associated with a wireless telecommunication network. The system obtains the multiple issues associated with the wireless telecommunication network, where an issue among the multiple issues impacts a UE associated with the wireless telecommunication network. The system obtains a number of UEs impacted by the issue, an indication of importance of severity associated with the issue, and an indication of importance of current UE experience. Based on the number of UEs impacted by the issue, the indication of importance of severity of the issue, and the indication of importance of current UE experience, the system computes a priority associated with the issue. Based on the priority, the system prioritizes the multiple issues to obtain a prioritized list. The system provides the prioritized list indicating an order in which to resolve the multiple issues.
US12316483B2
An encoding/decoding scheme for pulse amplitude modulation (PAM) communications systems is disclosed. In one embodiment, a transmitter unit includes an encoder circuit and a transmit circuit. The encoder circuit is configured to encode an input data word having a first number of bits into a output data word having a second number of bits. The encoder performs a comparison operation to determine if at least one pair of subsets of the second plurality of bits includes bit values that are complements of each other. The encoder is further configured to modify the second plurality of bits if none of the pairs of subsets includes bit values that are complements of each other such that the modified second plurality of bits does include at least one pair of subsets that includes values complementary to one another.
US12316481B2
An integrated circuit (IC) chip includes transfer circuitry to transfer signals between the IC chip and a second IC chip. The transfer circuitry includes equalization circuitry having at least one tap to equalize the signals. The equalization circuitry includes a tap weight adapter circuit to generate a respective tap weight for each of the at least one tap based on edge information of previously transferred signals.
US12316478B2
The disclosure provides an approach for processing inter-network communications. Embodiments include configuring, by a management component of a data center, a first virtual private network (VPN) session between a first endpoint outside of the data center and a first gateway of the data center. Embodiments include configuring, by the management component, a second VPN session between a second endpoint outside of the data center and a second gateway of the data center. Embodiments include programming, by the management component, one or more network address translation (NAT) tables of the data center such that, for the first VPN session and the second VPN session, a single public network address of the data center is exposed to the first endpoint and the second endpoint.
US12316476B2
Embodiments relate to a system for transmitting data in a motor vehicle. A central electronic control unit comprises at least one LIN master, and at least one local controller, which is coupled to the central controller by means of a first data connection. The local controller is additionally coupled to a LIN bus, which is paired with the LIN master and to which at least one LIN slave is connected. The data transmission speed of the first data connection between the central controller and the local controller is faster than the data transmission speed of the LIN bus. Methods for actuating a LIN slave connected to a LIN bus and to a motor vehicle are also provided.
US12316471B2
Some embodiments provide a method of multicasting data in a segregated logical network with multiple network segments. The network segments each have at least one router. The multicast originates from a multicast source in a first network segment and goes to multicast receivers in several other network segments. In the method, the router of the first network segment receives encoding data for a set of virtual tunnel endpoints (VTEPs) of the receivers. The router then receives the multicast data from the multicast source. For each VTEP, the router then encodes the data for the receiver using the encoding data for the VTEP of the receiver. The router then sends (e.g., as a unicast) the encoded data to a router of the network segment of the receiver. The router performing the method may be a domain router of the network segment of the receiver.
US12316469B2
A two-wire routing device includes an upstream communication interface for communication with a controller, a two-wire communication and power interface configured to convey communication and power to a field device over a two-wire link, and a router electronic controller. The router electronic controller is coupled to the upstream communication interface and the two-wire communication and power interface. The router electronic controller receives, via the upstream communication interface, a safe state command from the controller, and transmits, via the two-wire communication and power interface, the safe state command to a field device over the two-wire link. The router electronic controller further executes a secondary de-energization scheme for the field device to control a power switch to cut power over the two-wire link to the field device.
US12316465B2
Wireless communications are described. A central unit control plane (CU-CP) node of a base station may activate and/or deactivate packet duplication based on status information from self-monitoring, from a distributed unit (DU), from a wireless device, and/or from a central unit user plane (CU-UP) node. The CU-UP node and/or the DU may activate and/or deactivate packet duplication based on status information from self-monitoring, from each other, from the wireless device, and/or from the CU-CP node. The CU-UP node and/or the DU, after activating and/or deactivating packet duplication, may report the activation and/or deactivation to the CU-CP node.
US12316460B2
Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to devices, methods, apparatuses and computer readable storage media for HARQ retransmission for HARQ feedback. In example embodiments, a first device receives, from a second device, hybrid automatic repeat request, HARQ, negative acknowledgement, NACK, feedback for a data unit in a HARQ process. Moreover, the first device retransmits, to the second device, the data unit in the HARQ process and at least one data unit in at least one subsequent HARQ process, regardless of receiving HARQ feedback for the at least one data unit in the at least one subsequent HARQ process.
US12316459B2
A communication system is disclosed in which a user equipment (UE) receives data associated with an Ultra-Reliable and Low-Latency Communications (URLLC) service and data associated with an Enhanced Mobile Broadband (eMBB) service. The UE generates a first Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) codebook for URLLC service and a second HARQ codebook for the eMBB service, bundles the first HARQ codebook into a single bit, and appends it to the end of the second HARQ codebook to form a multiplexed HARQ codebook. The UE then transmits the multiplexed HARQ codebook to the access network node.
US12316456B2
An information processing method, a terminal device, and a network device are provided. In one method, a first bit in downlink control information includes two bits, a bit status of the first bit may belong to a first state set or may be a second state, and a terminal device may perform multi-TB scheduling or single-TB scheduling based on the first bit. When the bit status of the first bit belongs to the first state set, the first state set is {01, 10, 11}, N=4, and the downlink control information includes a first field, the bit status of the first bit can be used to determine a quantity L of TBs scheduled by the downlink control information, and a bit status of five bits of the first field can be used to determine HARQ process numbers of the L TBs and NDI information of the L TBs.
US12316455B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for configured grant uplink control information (UCI) mapping rules. In one embodiment, a network node is configured to transmit downlink control information for a configured grant physical uplink shared channel, CG-PUSCH; and receive configured grant uplink control information, CG-UCI, on the CG-PUSCH, the CG-UCI being mapped to the CG-PUSCH based at least in part on a presence of at least one Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest-acknowledgement, HARQ-ACK. In another embodiment, a wireless device is configured to receive, from the network node, downlink control information for a configured grant physical uplink shared channel, CG-PUSCH; and transmit a configured grant uplink control information, CG-UCI, on the CG-PUSCH, the CG-UCI being mapped to the CG-PUSCH based at least in part on a presence of at least one Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest-acknowledgement, HARQ-ACK.
US12316452B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may reserve a transmission resource for transmitting a transmission block (TB) via a sidelink communication; reserve a retransmission resource for retransmitting the TB, wherein the retransmission resource is reserved such that at least one hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback occasion occurs between transmission of the TB and a first retransmission of the TB; and communicate with another UE via the sidelink communication based at least in part on the transmission and retransmission resources. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12316442B2
System and techniques for synchronizing a real-time clock and a network clock are described herein. A network device maintains an always running time (ART) replica of an ART in a compute system. The network device samples network time updates (e.g., precision time protocol messages) and the ART replica to produce error correction of the ART replica to the network time. The error correction is written to memory of the compute device to enable high precision synchronization between clock sources local to the compute device and the network time.
US12316441B2
Techniques are provided for identifying and monitoring connections in an optical system. A plurality of optical ports is configured to receive a plurality of optical links that couple with one or more remote optical devices. At least one light source generates identification (ID) signals. At least one optical element configured to direct the ID signals into transmission paths from the source optical device to the remote optical device/s over the plurality of optical links. The remote optical device/s include one or more optical elements that direct the ID signals through a set of WDM filters and returns the ID signals. At least one optical element directs returned ID signals to an optical channel monitor. At least one microprocessor configured to execute control instructions to generate the ID signals and process one or more outputs of the optical channel monitor in response to the returned ID signals to identify the plurality of optical links.
US12316439B2
Systems and methods for synchronizing communications between a User Equipment (UE) and Base Station (BS) using a synchronization signal structure. The synchronization signal structure can include a sequence of Synchronization Signals (SS) including repetitions of a synchronization signal burst set. The synchronization signal burst set can include a plurality of synchronization signal bursts. The synchronization signal bursts can include a plurality of synchronization signal blocks, wherein the synchronization signal blocks can include a plurality of Synchronization Signals (SS).
US12316428B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a repeater may identify one or more parameters for mechanical beam steering. The repeater may perform mechanical beam steering based at least in part on the one or more parameters. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12316425B2
The present disclosure provides a beam failure processing method and a related device. The method includes: determining, based on a beam failure detection reference signal BFD RS resource group, whether a beam failure occurs in a first cell group, where the BFD RS resource group is configured in a first cell group; and sending a beam failure recovery request message to a network side device in a case that a beam failure occurs in the first cell group.
US12316422B2
The present subject matter relates to an apparatus. The apparatus includes circuitry being configured for encoding sets of data elements into corresponding larger sets of encoding elements using a rateless erasure coding method, for each subset of one or more encoding elements of the sets of encoding elements determining a set of one or more beams of a multi-antenna system; and transmitting the subset of one or more encoding elements in the set of beams simultaneously.
US12316419B2
This application relates to the field of communication technologies, and provides an information transmission method and an apparatus. In this method, a radio access network device sends, to a terminal device, first indication information indicating first information and second information and second indication information indicating a first quantity of DFT vectors, the first information indicates a first quantity of to-be-selected ports, and the second information indicates a first compression factor. The radio access network device further sends a reference signal to the terminal device. The terminal device sends downlink channel state information to the radio access network device based on the first indication information, the second indication information, and the reference signal. The compression factor is a compression factor of a complex coefficient matrix. There is a correspondence between the compression factor and a quantity of transport layers.
US12316417B2
A communication device for providing an explicit channel state information, CSI, feedback in a wireless communication system includes a transceiver to receive, from a transmitter a radio signal via a radio time-variant frequency MIMO channel, the radio signal including downlink reference signals according to a reference signal configuration, and downlink signals including the reference signal configuration, and a processor. The processor estimates the CSI using measurements on the downlink reference signals of the radio channel according to the reference signal configuration over one or more time instants/slots, constructs a frequency-domain channel tensor using the CSI estimate, performs a higher-order principal component analysis, HO-PCA, on the channel tensor, identifies a plurality of dominant principal components of the channel tensor, thereby obtaining a compressed channel tensor, and reports to the transmitter the explicit CSI including the dominant principal components of the channel tensor.
US12316411B2
Beamforming communication systems with high linearity are provided. In certain embodiments, a method of beamforming includes generating a transmit signal using a baseband processor, providing digital pre-distortion to the transmit signal, generating a radio frequency input signal based on the transmit signal using a transceiver, processing the radio frequency input signal to generate a plurality of radio frequency output signals using a plurality of transmit signal paths of a front end system, providing analog pre-distortion to at least one of the plurality of transmit signal paths using the front end system, and radiating a transmit beam in response to receiving the plurality of radio frequency output signals using an antenna array.
US12316408B2
A beam determination method, apparatus, electronic device, and computer-readable storage medium are provided. The method includes determining at least one to-be-measured narrow beam among narrow beams corresponding to at least one wide beam, acquiring received signal strength of reference signals transmitted through at least one to-be-measured narrow beam, and predicting a target narrow beam for transmitting data based on the received signal strength. In the process of determining the target narrow beam of the disclosure, user equipment (UE) only needs to measure the Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) of a part of the narrow beams used in the system, thereby reducing the occupation of measurement resources, reducing the measurement burden of the UE, and reducing the power consumption of the UE.
US12316406B2
An apparatus for wireless communication includes a memory and one or more processors coupled to the memory. The one or more processors are configured to determine a plurality of pre-coders available for uplink transmissions and to select a particular pre-coder from among the plurality of pre-coders. The one or more processors are further configured to initiate encoding of an uplink signal based on the particular pre-coder to generate a pre-coded uplink signal. The pre-coded uplink signal has one or more characteristics that enable a base station to identify the particular pre-coder. The one or more processors are further configured to initiate transmission of the pre-coded uplink signal.
US12316404B2
In aspects, a base station establishes a wireless connection with a user equipment, UE. The base station determines to include at least a first adaptive phase-changing device, APD, and a second APD in a wireless communication path with the UE. In response to determining to include multiple APDs in the communication path, the base station determines a first surface configuration for a first surface of the first APD and a second surface configuration for a second surface of the second APD. The base station directs the first APD to apply the first surface configuration to the first surface and directs the second APD to apply the second surface configuration to the second surface. The base station and the UE communicate with the UE using wireless transmissions that travel along a wireless communication path that includes the first surface of the first APD and the second surface of the second APD.
US12316391B2
Radio Frequency (RF) circuit (amplifiers, mixer, etc.) design with RFIC, e.g., implemented in CMOS, CaAs, SiGe, or other silicon processes, suffers performance variations (gain phase, frequency, bandwidth, nonlinearity) due to wafer process variations, temperature changes, and supply voltage changes, and random variations. In this invention, methods are proposed to precisely calibrate the bias current of all active devices in the system, and to precisely calibrate the gain of individual path leading to each amplifiers such that the same Pout is achieved for all antenna elements in the system.
US12316387B2
Provided is a data-coding apparatus that includes: a data-input line for receiving input data; a data scrambler having light sources coupled to the data-input line and modulated in accordance with the input data, and light sensors that receive light from the light sources; and at least one light-sensing processor coupled to the light sources and configured so as to selectively isolate light signals received from individual ones of the light sources based on at least one control signal input into such data scrambler. The light-sensing processor is dynamically controlled by the control signal(s) so as to rearrange words within the input data according to patterns that change in real time.
US12316381B2
A communication system includes a first device and a second device connected through an electro-optical composite cable. The electro-optical composite cable includes an optical fiber and a power supply cable. The optical fiber is used to transmit a data signal. The power supply cable is used to transmit a direct current. The first device is configured to send a first alternating-current signal to the second device through the power supply cable. The second device is configured to switch a running status based on the first alternating-current signal.
US12316368B2
A hybrid coupler-based T/R switch for use in a TDM system. An output hybrid coupler of a balanced amplifier is used to selectively switch a transmit or receive path to an antenna. During transmission, power at the output of the balanced amplifier is delivered directly to the antenna. During reception, power from the antenna is reflected through ports of the hybrid coupler connected to respective two amplifiers of the balanced amplifier, to constructively combine at a port of the coupler coupled to the receive path, with a ninety degrees phase shift. A pair of shunting switches or series switches coupled to the ports of the hybrid coupler connected to the two amplifiers, and a shunting switch coupled to the port coupled to the receive path, control operation of the hybrid coupler-based T/R switch. An additional switch coupled to the port of the coupler that is coupled to the receive path can provide a bypass path for reception or transmission through the antenna while bypassing the balanced amplifier of the transmit path and an amplifier of the receive path.
US12316362B2
A signal receiver and a slicer are capable of mitigating the static mismatch error of a far-end digital-to-analog converter. The slicer includes an adjustable slicing circuit and an error signal generating circuit. The adjustable slicing circuit determines which of (N+1) signal levels is corresponding to an input signal according to N slicer levels and thereby outputs an output signal, wherein the input signal is originated from the far-end digital-to-analog converter. The adjustable slicing circuit further adjusts at least some of the (N+1) signal levels according to an error signal and adjusts at least some of the N slicer levels, wherein the N is an integer greater than two. The error signal generating circuit is coupled to the adjustable slicing circuit and generates the error signal according to the input and output signals.
US12316355B2
Reconfigurable output baluns for wideband push-pull amplifiers are disclosed. In certain embodiments, a mobile device includes a transceiver that generates a first radio frequency signal of a first frequency band and a second radio frequency signal of a second frequency band, and a front-end system including a push-pull power amplifier that selectively amplifies one of the first radio frequency signal or the second radio frequency signal based on a band control signal. The push-pull power amplifier includes an input balun, an output balun, and a pair of amplifiers coupled between the input balun and the output balun. The band control signal is operable to control an impedance of the output balun.
US12316351B2
Some embodiments include an encoder to convert a thermometer code into a binary code output information or a Gray code output information. The encoder supports blind input swapping, such that it provides correct output information without prior knowledge of the input swapping. Some embodiments also include a truth table that has additional rows to describe output information when input information at inputs of the encoder is swapped. The encoder includes symmetrical logic functions with respect to information at its inputs as building blocks.
US12316350B1
Systems and methods are disclosed for processing data. In one exemplary implementation, there is provided a method of generating H output data from W data input streams produced from input data. Moreover, the method may include generating the H discrete output data components via application of the W data inputs to one or more transforming components or processes having specified mathematic operations and/or a generator matrix functionality, wherein the W data inputs are recoverable via a recovery process capable of reproducing the W data inputs from a subset (any W members) of the H output data streams. Further exemplary implementations may comprise a transformation process that includes producing an H-sized intermediary for each of the W inputs, combining the H-sized intermediaries into an H-sized result, and processing the H-sized result into the H output data structures, groups or streams.
US12316344B2
Disclosed is a method for constructing a fast converging polar code based on a belief propagation decoder. The method includes analyzing decoding importance for each individual bit of an initial belief propagation decoder, and reconstructing the polar code depending on an analyzing result.
US12316342B2
A processing circuit implements: an encoder configured to: supply k symbols of original data to a neural product encoder including M neural encoder stages, a j-th neural encoder stage including a j-th neural network configured by j-th parameters to implement an (nj,kj) error correction code (ECC), where nj is a factor of n and kj is a factor of k; and output n symbols representing the k symbols of original data encoded by an error correcting code; or a decoder configured to supply n symbols of a received message to a neural product decoder including neural decoder stages grouped into a l pipeline stages, an i-th pipeline stage of the neural product decoder including M neural decoder stages, a j-th neural decoder stage comprising a j-th neural network configured by j-th parameters to implement an (nj,kj) ECC; and output k symbols decoded from the n symbols of the received message.
US12316338B2
A high-speed successive-approximation register analog-to-digital converter (SAR ADC) is shown. A digital-to-analog converter (DAC), a comparator, and a SAR logic circuit are configured to form a loop for successive approximation of a digital representation of an analog input. The SAR logic circuit includes a plurality of latches. Each latch uses a one-gate-delay circuit to wire the comparator to one bit-control terminal of the DAC.
US12316331B2
A synchronization method for multi-channel signals, a power supply module, an electronic device, and a power supply device. In the synchronization method for multi-channel signals, a first power supply module (700) is connected to a plurality of mutually isolated second power supply modules (800), allocates target data information and a target duration to each of the second power supply modules (800) according to total data information input by a user; and then the first power supply module (700) synchronously transmits a clock signal to each of the second power supply modules (800), so as to trigger each of the second power supply modules (800) to synchronously output a data signal corresponding to the target data information, and to control an output duration of the data signal to be equal to the target duration.
US12316329B2
A zero-cross detection device includes: an input terminal configured to receive an input voltage via a diode from an application terminal for an alternating-current voltage relative to a reference potential; an input circuit including a resistor between the input terminal and a terminal at the reference potential; a period detection circuit configured to detect the length of the period of the alternating-current voltage based on the interval of the timings at which the input voltage exceeds a threshold voltage; a peak detection circuit configured to detect the peak timing at which the input voltage reaches a peak in each period of the alternating-current voltage; and a zero-cross timing detection circuit configured to detect the zero-cross timing of the alternating-current voltage based on the results of detection by the period detection circuit and the peak detection circuit.
US12316326B1
A delay circuit. In some embodiments, a non-transitory computer readable medium includes stored instructions, which when executed by a processor, cause the processor to generate a digital representation of a circuit including: a first inverter, having an input, an output, and two power supply connections; a first current source, electrically coupled in series between a power supply conductor and a power supply connection of the two power supply connections of the first inverter; and a ramp generator circuit, electrically coupled to the input of the first inverter.
US12316325B2
A first input node receives a first input signal and a second input node receives a second input signal. The first and second input signals are in phase quadrature. An edge detector circuit senses the first input signal and produces a pulsed signal indicative of edges detected in the first input signal. A pulse skip and reset circuit senses the pulsed signal and the second input signal, and produces a reset signal indicative of pulses detected in the pulsed signal while the second input signal is de-asserted. A sampling circuit senses the second input signal and the reset signal, and produces an output signal that is deasserted in response to assertion of the second input signal and is asserted in response to a pulse being detected in the reset signal.
US12316321B2
A circuit assembly and a method for controlling operation states The circuit can be shifted by idle signals from the active operation state into the idle state and can be shifted by wake-up signals in an edge-triggered manner from the idle state into the active operation state if the wake-up signal executes a change in potential from a non-activation potential to an activation potential. The wake-up signals are supplied to a wake-up signal input of the circuit with the interposition of a masking circuit, which passes through the wake-up signals to the wake-up signal input in the idle state of the circuit and, in the active operation state of the circuit, applies to the wake-up signal input a predetermined electric masking potential, from which a change in potential towards the activation potential of the wake-up signal shifts the circuit from the idle state into the active operation state.
US12316318B2
An integrated circuit comprising a plurality of MACs, connected to form a pipeline, to perform a plurality of multiply and accumulate operations, wherein each MAC includes: (A) a multiplier, coupled to memory to (i) receive the multiplier weight data, (ii) multiply first data and the multiplier weight data and (iii) output product data, (B) an accumulator, coupled to the multiplier of the MAC, to add second data and the first product data and output sum data, and (C) a load-store register, coupled to: (i) an output of the accumulator of the associated MAC and (ii) an input of the load-store register of an immediately successive MAC. Each load-store register may include two interconnected registers, and is configurable to, on the same clock cycle, (a) load the initialization data into the accumulator of the immediately successive MAC and (b) store the sum data from the associated MAC into the load-store register.
US12316314B1
A keyboard includes a plurality of keys. Each key includes a keycap, a coil spring extending from a top side of the keycap to a bottom side of the transparent top case, and a magnet positioned within the keycap. The coil spring biases the keycap toward an undepressed position.
US12316308B2
A high-performance and highly reliable load driving device is provided that can quickly charge an ESD protection capacitor even at the time of load disconnection and complete all diagnoses of the driving system driver within a required time in a load driving device including a diagnosis circuit of a driving system driver and an ESD protection capacitor. A load driving device includes a load; a first switch element connected to the load and configured to control driving of the load; an ESD protection capacitor connected between the load and the first switch element; a charging circuit connected between the load and the first switch element and configured to charge the ESD protection capacitor; and a second switch element connected between the ESD protection capacitor and the charging circuit.
US12316307B2
A switching device 1 includes a SiC semiconductor chip 11 which has a gate pad 14, a source pad 13 and a drain pad 12 and in which on-off control is performed between the source and the drain by applying a drive voltage between the gate and the source in a state where a potential difference is applied between the source and the drain, a sense source terminal 4 electrically connected to the source pad 13 for applying the drive voltage, and an external resistance (source wire 16) that is interposed in a current path between the sense source terminal 4 and the source pad 13, is separated from sense source terminal 4, and has a predetermined size.
US12316300B2
A real-time clock device includes a package that houses a resonator, an oscillation circuit, a clocking circuit, and a functional circuit, and on which external terminals are formed. The external terminals include a high-potential power supply terminal coupled to a high-potential power supply, a low-potential power supply terminal coupled to a low-potential power supply, a clocking signal terminal used at least for controlling the clocking circuit, and a functional signal terminal used for controlling the functional circuit, the functional signal terminal is arranged outside the high-potential power supply terminal, the low-potential power supply terminal, and the clocking signal terminal in a direction in which the external terminals are arranged, and the real-time clock device further includes a switching circuit that switches between a state in which the functional signal terminal and the functional circuit are coupled and a state in which the functional signal terminal and the functional circuit are not coupled.
US12316295B2
A process for fabricating a component includes an operation of transferring at least one layer of one or more piezoelectric or pyroelectric or ferroelectric materials forming part of a donor substrate to a final substrate, the process comprising a prior step of joining the layer to a temporary substrate via production of a fragile separating region between the donor substrate of single-crystal piezoelectric or pyroelectric or ferroelectric material and the temporary substrate, the region comprising at least two layers of different materials in order to ensure two compounds apt to generate an interdiffusion of one or more constituent elements of at least one of the two compounds make contact, the fragile region allowing the temporary substrate to be separated.
US12316290B2
The present technique pertains to a signal processing apparatus, a signal processing method, and a receiving apparatus that enable gain control to be appropriately performed on various interfering signals. An amplifier controls a gain according to a count value to amplify a signal, and a comparator compares the signal outputted by the amplifier with the count value. An accumulator counts the count value according to an output from the comparator. The present technique can be applied to, for example, a receiving apparatus that receives an RF signal for a television broadcast.
US12316286B2
Bias schemes for cascode power amplifiers are disclosed. In certain embodiments, a power amplifier system includes a cascode power amplifier powered by a first supply voltage and that amplifies a radio frequency input signal, and a bias circuit including a voltage regulator that generates a regulated voltage and is powered by the first supply voltage. The bias circuit further includes a bias voltage generation circuit that receives the regulated voltage and generates at least one cascode bias voltage for the cascode power amplifier, a switch that gates a second supply voltage to generate a gated supply voltage, a bias current generation circuit that controls a bias current of the cascode power amplifier and is powered by the gated supply voltage, and a gating circuit that controls the switch based on the regulated voltage and the second supply voltage.
US12316284B2
A multi-frequency low noise amplifier includes an input matching network, an amplifying circuit and an output matching network. The input matching network includes a first out-of-band rejection circuit and a first frequency band selection circuit. The output matching network includes a second out-of-band rejection circuit and a second frequency band selection circuit. The first out-of-band rejection circuit can reject signal of any frequency band in the radio frequency signals so that signals of the remaining frequency bands can pass through. The first frequency band selection circuit can screen out the signals of reference frequency spots from the remaining frequency bands. The second frequency band selection circuit can screen out the signals of partial frequency spots from the amplified signals of reference frequency spots. The second out-of-band rejection circuit can reject the signal of any frequency spot in the signals of partial frequency spots.
US12316279B2
Amplifier circuits, radio communication circuits, radio communication devices, and methods provided in this disclosure provide an amplifier circuit. The amplifier circuit may include an amplifier configured to amplify an input signal to provide an output signal. The amplifier circuit may further include an amplifier stack including a first transistor coupled to the amplifier. The amplifier stack may be configured to receive the output signal to amplify the output signal. The amplifier stack may be configured to receive an input control signal to control the first transistor based on an envelope of the input signal.
US12316278B2
An electronic device may include clocking circuitry with primary and secondary lasers that generate first and second optical local oscillator (LO) signals. A phase-locked loop (PLL) may tune the secondary laser based to phase lock the first and second optical LO signals. A self-injection locking loop path may couple an output of the secondary laser to its input. The self-injection locking loop path may include a first mixer and a second mixer. The first mixer may generate a beat signal using the first and second optical LO signals. The second mixer may generate a self-injection locking signal based on the first optical LO signal and the beat signal. A delay line or optical resonator may iteratively self-inject the self-injection locking signal onto the secondary laser. This may serve to minimize phase noise and jitter of the optical LO signals.
US12316269B2
A solar power collection system includes one or more photovoltaic (PV) panel assemblies positioned by one or more tracker drive units. Each PV panel assembly includes at least one PV panel comprising PV cells that collect solar energy and a base attached to the PV panel. The base includes at least one curved rocker surface that presents a first convex surface in at least a first direction to a substrate. The base is positionable on the substrate with the first direction aligned with an east-west orientation. The tracker drive unit is mechanically coupled to the base via a selected one of: (i) a drive rod; (ii) a closed loop cable; (iii) a torsion mechanism to impart a selected amounting of rolling-rocking movement of the base across the substrate to position the PV panel to efficiently receive sunlight.
US12316262B2
An electric working machine in one aspect of the present disclosure calculates an estimated heat value based on an electric current value and a parameter. The estimated heat value corresponds to an estimated heat generation amount of a motor. The electric current value corresponds to a magnitude of an electric current delivered from a power source to the motor. The electric work machine varies the parameter based on a load time. The load time corresponds to a time period during which a first load is continuously imposed on the motor. The first load has a specified magnitude or more. The electric work machine performs a protective operation for over temperature protection of the motor based on the estimated heat value having reached a heat threshold.
US12316260B2
A power conversion device according to the present disclosure has one end connected to a DC voltage source and another end connected to a load, and includes: an inverter circuit which converts DC voltage from the DC voltage source to AC voltage to be outputted to the load, and includes a leg in which an upper arm and a lower arm each having a switching element, and a resistor, are connected in series, and a smoothing capacitor connected in parallel to the leg; a current detection circuit which detects voltage across the resistor, to detect current of the resistor; and a control circuit which controls the inverter circuit. The control circuit corrects the current value detected by the current detection circuit, using an operation condition of the inverter circuit, and controls the inverter circuit using the corrected current value. Thus, error occurring in the current detection circuit can be corrected.
US12316259B2
A motor control system operable to control a motor includes a motor control circuit and an inverter circuit connected to the motor control circuit and configured to connect to the motor at phase output terminals. The inverter circuit, in response to one or more output control signals indicating a deceleration instruction from the motor control circuit, implements a multi-state deceleration sequence for at least one commutation state of a commutation scheme of the motor.
US12316257B2
A system includes a power module, wherein the power module includes an interlocking feature on a first surface of the power module; and at least one heat sink, wherein the surface of the at least one heat sink includes a layer of thermal interface material.
US12316256B2
A system for controlling a high-power drive device includes a fault detection integrated circuit product configured to provide an indication of a fault condition associated with the high-power drive device to a first terminal in a first voltage domain in response to detecting the fault condition in a second voltage domain. The system includes a gate driver controller integrated circuit product configured to drive a second terminal coupled to a control node in a second voltage domain based on a control signal and an enable signal received from a third terminal in the first voltage domain. The second voltage domain is higher than the first voltage domain. The system may include a redundant fault reporting integrated circuit product or an additional fault detection integrated circuit product configured to detect a second fault condition in the second voltage domain that is different from the fault condition.
US12316244B2
Example three-level inverters, control methods, and systems are provided. One example three-level inverter includes a first bus capacitor, a second bus capacitor, a power conversion circuit, and a controller. The first bus capacitor is connected in the middle of the current bus and the power conversion circuit. The power conversion circuit is configured to convert a direct current into a three-phase alternating current for output. The controller is configured to determine a balance reference by using a difference between absolute values of voltages of the positive and negative direct current buses and an even harmonic current in a grid-connected current, where the balance reference is used to enable the three-level inverter to generate a current signal for balancing the voltages of the positive and negative direct current buses.
US12316236B2
A method is configured for operating a converter (10) which is implemented as a modular-multilevel converter and comprises a control arrangement (38) and a number M of phase-legs (21 to 29). The method comprises detecting whether the converter (10) has to be set into one mode of a group comprising a static synchronous compensator mode or a grid unbalance mode, generating mode control signals (MCS) depending on the detected mode, generating balance voltage reference signals (ubal,ref) depending on a first side frequency (ωg), a second side frequency (ωm), second side current reference signals (im,ref) and the mode control signals (MCS), generating a phase-leg control signal (uref), generating cell control signals (51 to S4) and providing the cell control signals (51 to S4) to semiconductor switches (41 to 44) of cells (31) of the phase-legs (21 to 29).
US12316235B2
A transformer arrangement includes a first and a second arrangement side and a transformer with first windings coupled to the first arrangement side and with second windings having a first to a fourth tap. The transformer arrangement comprises a converter coupling the first, second and third tap to the second arrangement side, a first filter circuit coupling the first tap to the third tap and a second filter circuit coupling the third tap to the second tap.
US12316233B2
Systems and methods for controlling a dual active bridge converter are disclosed herein. A bus voltage of a dual active bridge (DAB) converter is detected and a first duty ratio of a primary bridge and a second duty ratio of a secondary bridge are determined, at least one of the first duty ratio and the second duty ratio are modified by adjusting at least one of a differential mode (DM) adjustment variable and a common mode (CM) adjustment variable based on the detected bus voltage. A plurality of switch control signals, which are provided to respective switches of the primary bridge and the secondary bridge, are caused to switch according to a time-based switching sequence based on the first duty ratio and the second duty ratio.
US12316228B2
A power switching apparatus (P100) for a switching-mode power supply is provided. The switching apparatus (P100) comprises a power switch (M100), a switching controller (SC100), a voltage converter (Ra100) and a power capacitor (Csc100). The power switch (M100) is configured for connection with a power input device to form a power supply circuit to receive power from a power source. The switching controller (SC100) is operable to turn on or turn off the power switch (M100). When the power switch (M100) is turned on, power is to flow from the power source into the power input device. When the power switch (M100) is turned off, power is to stop flowing from the power source into the power input device. The voltage converter (Ra100) is configured to receive power from the power source when the power switch (M100) is turned on and to output a regulated voltage.
US12316226B2
A power converter configured to be connected to three or more voltage parts, includes three or more power-conversion circuitries to be connected to respective ones of the three or more voltage parts, and a multi-port transformer connected to the three or more power-conversion circuitries at respectively different ports. The three or more voltage parts include a vehicle drive battery and a plurality of alternating-current (AC) voltage parts. Each of the plurality of AC voltage parts is configured to provide at least one of power input to a multi-port transformer side and power output from the multi-port transformer side.
US12316220B2
A system can include a bi-directional converter circuit comprising a plurality of switches and at least one flying capacitor. One or more the plurality of switches can experience overvoltage in a fault state. The system can include a control module operatively connected to the plurality of switches to control a state of the plurality of switches. The control module can be configured to receive a sense signal indicative of flying capacitor voltage and to control the one or more switches of the plurality of switches to turn on or remain on to prevent switch overvoltage of the one or more switches if the flying capacitor voltage is outside of a normal range.
US12316205B2
An electric machine configured to generate and transfer drive torque to a driveline for propulsion of an electric vehicle includes a gearbox assembly, an electric motor having a rotor and a stator having end windings, and a thermal management system. The thermal management system includes a first end plate disposed at an axial end of the rotor. The first end plate has a central hub and an overhang. The overhang includes an outwardly extending radial rim and a lip. The radial rim includes an outer surface, an inner surface, and at least two passages defined therethrough. The first end plate facilitates cooling of the electric motor by directing fluid (i) off of the outer surface of the radial rim and onto an inner diameter of the end windings, and (ii) through the at least two passages and onto the inner diameter of the end windings.
US12316198B2
A system for generating electricity from a body of water that comprises an enclosure having a first upper aperture, a second upper aperture, and a closable lower outlet. The system furthers comprises a buoyant container movable within the enclosure between an upper position and a lower position. The container has an upper end that is at least partially open and a lower end having a closable drain. The system further comprises a set of upper supports coupled to the enclosure and configured to support the container in the upper position, and a set of lower supports fixed to the lower end of the enclosure to allow water to partially surround the buoyant container and help it float up to the upper position. The system comprises a cable, rod, or other connection member coupled at one end to the container and configured to extend through the enclosure for connection to an electrical generator.
US12316194B2
A rotary electric machine including a stator and a rotor. The stator includes: (a) a stator core provided with a plurality of teeth are spaced apart by a plurality of voids; (b) a plurality of coils which are wound on the teeth, and which are disposed in the voids, and (c) a plurality of mold resin portions which fill the voids, and which cover the coils. The mold resin portions have respective resin surfaces which are substantially flush with protruding surfaces of the respective teeth, and which cooperate with the protruding surfaces to constitute an inner circumferential surface of the stator. At least some of the mold resin portions have grooves which are provided in the resin surfaces thereof, and which extend in an axial direction parallel to the axis.
US12316183B2
An electric machine including a stator (2) with a winding (3) having a plurality of conductors (4) associated with one or more phases and interconnected with each other, the ends (6) of at least two conductors (4) are associated with a phase projecting axially or radially from the winding (3) at the inner circumference and/or the outer circumference of the winding (3) and a connected to a power connection (9) that is mounted radially outside the winding (3) by a common connecting conductor (12a).
US12316181B2
A stator for a rotary electric machine. The stator includes: a tubular stator core and a coil including coil segments inserted in slots of the stator core. The coil segments include segment end portions outwardly protruding from an axial end face of the stator core. The coil includes welded portions each of which is constituted by the segment end portions that are welded to each other. The welded portions include a plurality of kinds of welded portions that are different from each other in a welded manner in which the segment end portions are welded to each other, such that the plurality of kinds of welded portions are arranged in circumferential direction of the stator core and/or in a radial direction of the stator core.
US12316176B2
Systems and methods for manufacturing stators for electric submersible pumps, where a stator core having an inner portion and an outer portion is formed. The inner portion has a plurality of teeth and outward-facing slots. Magnet wire coils are formed on the inner portion by holding the inner portion in a stationary position and using a linearly movable robotic arm to position the magnet wire in each slot while preventing the wire from sliding axially with respect to the stator and adjacent turns of the coil. After forming the magnet wire coils on the inner portion of the stator core, the outer portion of the stator core is press-fit onto the inner portion to close the slots. The magnet wire can thereby be positioned to maximize the fill factor of each slot and increase power density for a given temperature rise.
US12316171B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an inverter integrated motor that achieves both improvement in cooling performance of a current sensor and downsizing of an entire device. An inverter integrated motor includes: a power module that converts a direct current into an alternating current; a flow path forming body that is formed so as to flow and cover a refrigerant in the power module; an inverter that installs the power module and the flow path forming body inside; a current sensor that detects the alternating current; and a motor that houses a stator and a rotor, wherein the power module is disposed at a position facing a rotation shaft of the motor via the stator and the rotor, and the current sensor 13 is disposed between the flow path forming body and a coil end of the stator when viewed from a direction perpendicular to the rotation shaft, and at least a part of the current sensor is housed in a motor housing.
US12316170B2
An electric machine with variable torque generation having a tunable Halbach array configuration. The electric machine includes a magnet assembly for generating a magnetic field. The magnet assembly includes a plurality of fixed magnets disposed in a ring arrangement so that fixed magnets having a north pole faced toward the rotor or stator are alternated with fixed magnets having a south pole faced toward the rotor or stator, a plurality of rotatable magnets disposed within a respective slot formed between two adjacent fixed magnets, a drive assembly for turning the rotatable magnets within the slots to vary the magnetic field generated by the magnet assembly in the rotor or stator, the drive assembly configured to turn the rotatable magnets between a first position wherein the magnetic field in the rotor or stator is augmented and a second position wherein the magnetic field in the rotor or stator is cancelled.
US12316163B2
A plurality of conductive films are arranged so that their thickness directions intersect with respect to a direction of a magnetic flux generated from a plurality of magnetic poles. Each of the plurality of conductive films is configured so that a conductivity in a longitudinal direction is larger than a conductivity in a thickness direction, and a conductivity in a longitudinal direction is larger than a conductivity in a width direction.
US12316162B2
Rotor for an electric motor, having a rotor shaft and, mounted on the rotor shaft, a rotor core having a number of core laminations arranged along an axis of the rotor core. Each core lamination includes a central contoured aperture which is traversed by the rotor shaft and which includes at least two radially extending elevations and at least two cutouts positioned between the elevations, wherein, to form a press fit of the core laminations on the rotor shaft, a distance between the free ends of the elevations is less than a diameter of the rotor shaft, and wherein a duct extending peripherally on the rotor shaft is formed by the respective cutout in the successively arranged core laminations.
US12316160B2
An uninterruptible power supply apparatus includes an operation unit for setting a second reference voltage, a computation unit that calculates a first reference voltage higher than the set second reference voltage and lower than a maximum value of the first reference voltage, a first reference voltage generation unit that generates the first reference voltage calculated by the computation unit, and a second reference voltage generation unit that generates the second reference voltage set by the operation unit. Thus, a voltage of a DC line can be made lower than the maximum value of the first reference voltage for improved efficiency of the uninterruptible power supply apparatus.
US12316158B2
A system for providing power from a direct current (DC) source and/or alternative current (AC) source to a battery is described. The system may include DC power source terminals configured to connect to a DC power source, AC power source terminals configured to connect to an AC power source, a DC-DC converter configured to charge a battery from the DC power source terminals, an AC-DC converter configured to charge the battery from the AC power source terminals, a first switch connected between the AC power source terminals and the AC-D C converter, a second switch connected between the DC power source terminals and the DC-DC converter, and a controller configured to connect the battery to the DC power source terminals based on an absence of the AC power source, and connect the battery to the AC power source terminals based on an availability of the AC power source.
US12316157B2
A method can comprise determining, by a first controller comprising a processor, of a first vehicle, a first voltage rating of a first battery of the first vehicle and a state of charge of the first battery. In various embodiments, the method can further comprise determining, by the first controller, based on an output of a second controller of a second vehicle, a second voltage rating of a second battery of the second vehicle and a state of charge of the second battery. In further embodiments, the method can further comprise in response to a determination, by the first controller, that the first voltage rating matches the second voltage rating, transferring, by the first controller, power from the first battery to the second battery, wherein the state of charge of the first battery is greater than the state of charge of the second battery.
US12316154B2
Provided is an electronic device including: a battery, a resonant circuit including a coil and a capacitor configured to wirelessly receive power, a rectifying circuit configured to rectify an alternating current power provided from the resonant circuit to a direct current power, a DC/DC converter configured to convert the direct current power provided from the rectifying circuit and to output the converted direct current power, a charging circuit configured to charge the battery using the converted direct current power provided form the DC/DC converter, a controller, and a communication circuit, wherein the controller is configured to: control the charging circuit to set a magnitude of a reference current of the charging circuit to a first value, the first value being less than a maximum value of an output current of the charging circuit, control the charging circuit to set the magnitude of the reference current to a second value greater than the first value, measure a magnitude of an output current of the charging circuit after setting the magnitude of the reference current to the second value, control, based on a difference between the measured magnitude and the second value being less than or equal to a specified set value, the charging circuit to set the magnitude of the reference current to a third value greater than the second value, and control, based on the difference between the measured magnitude and the second value exceeding the specified set value, the charging circuit to set the magnitude of the reference current to the first value to receive wireless power.
US12316150B2
A charge system having a bi-directional linear charger is provided, The charge system is used to provide interrupted power to a load, The charger system has an input interface for receiving a supply voltage, an output interface for outputting a system voltage to the load, a DC/DC voltage regulator coupled between the input interface and the output interface, a charging electrical pathway from an output terminal of the DC/DC voltage regulator to the battery through the linear charger, and a discharge electrical pathway from the battery to the output interface through the linear charger. The linear charger operates in a linear regulating charge mode along the charging electrical pathway to charge the battery and operate in a discharge mode along the discharge electrical pathway to supply the load.
US12316149B2
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of charging equipment and discloses a charging device. The charging device includes a housing, a movable board, a charging circuitry, and a power interface. The housing comprises a cavity, a body, and a flip cover pivotably connected to the body. The charging circuitry, is located on the movable board, and the movable board is configured to be extendable or retractable relative to the cavity. The power interface is electrically connected to an external power supply and configured to transmit power supplied by the external power supply to the charging circuitry.
US12316148B1
A method for detecting whether a battery (110) is disconnected from a battery charger (120). The method comprises determining (S1) if the battery charger (120) is charging the battery (110), and obtaining (S2) a charger model indicative of a first expected output voltage (Umod) of the battery charger (120) as a function of time when the battery charger (120) is connected to, but not charging, the battery (110). When it is determined that the battery charger (120) is not charging the battery (110), the method comprises: measuring (S3) a first measured output voltage (Umeas1) of the battery charger (120) as a function of time; and determining (S4) if the battery (110) is disconnected from the battery charger (120) based on whether the first measured output voltage (Umeas1) differs from the first expected output voltage (Umod) by more than a first threshold value at one or more corresponding points of time.
US12316143B2
A charging method and apparatus for a terminal device, and a storage medium are disclosed. The method may include: in response to determining that the terminal device is connected to a charging connection device, acquiring each charging power corresponding to a respective one of a plurality of quick charging protocols stored in the terminal device that is matched with the charging connection device; determining, as a target quick charging protocol, a quick charging protocol corresponding to the charging power satisfying a preset condition; and, charging by using the target quick charging protocol.
US12316132B2
A wireless charging system for charging batteries (112) in a medical environment is provided. The wireless charging system may include a power transmitter and a power receiver. The power transmitter produces a strong near-distance magnetic field and transmits the magnetic field via a transmitting antenna to a power receiver. The power receiver may receive the transmitted magnetic field via a power receiver antenna. The converted electrical power may charge multiple rechargeable batteries (112) simultaneously with high efficiency.
US12316122B2
The present DC power supply and distribution system comprises: a plurality of power distribution lines each connected to a respective one of a plurality of loads; a first converter to receive an AC voltage from a commercial AC power source, convert the received AC voltage into a plurality of DC voltages and supply each of the plurality of DC voltages to a respective one of the plurality of power distribution lines; a second converter to receive a DC power from a power generating and/or storing source, convert the received DC power into a plurality of DC powers, and supply each of the plurality of DC powers to a respective one of the plurality of power distribution lines; and a controller to enhance the second converter in efficiency by controlling the first converter so that a ratio of the plurality of DC voltages is a predetermined first ratio.
US12316119B2
A filter apparatus for use in a converter in an alternating voltage supply system includes a choke unit, a capacitor unit and saturation reducing unit for the choke unit. A converter having the filter apparatus and to a method for operating the filter apparatus are also disclosed.
US12316117B2
A power controller system and method for monitoring available power from an input power source, such as one or more photovoltaic (“PV”) cells/panels, and controlling power output to one or more loads. A predetermined threshold input voltage value is assigned to the system. Using the predetermined value, the system determines whether there is enough available power to power the load by measuring only input voltage. In the event the input voltage is greater than the threshold voltage value, then the system delivers power to the load. In the event the load is greater than the available power, the input voltage will drop below the threshold voltage and the system stops delivering power to the load. Power to the loads may be prioritized based on available power so the system turns ON and OFF power to different loads in a particular order.
US12316092B2
A circuit system includes a power circuit and an operation circuit. The operation circuit is electrically connected to the power circuit. The operation circuit is configured to control operation of the power circuit, detect a first signal of the power circuit during the operation, and protect the power circuit in response to the first signal.
US12316082B2
A cable gland (1) comprising: an entry component (2) sized to fit through an orifice in a surface and having a flange (11) arranged to bear against the surface around the orifice; a middle component (3) in threaded engagement with the entry component (2); and a back component (4) in threaded engagement with the middle component (3), the cable gland (1) defining a through bore (5) for a cable through the entry component (2), the middle component (3) and the back component (4); the cable gland (1) further comprising a sealing body (6) which is arranged to provide a seal in at least two positions from the group comprising: between the surface and the flange (11) of the entry component (2) (typically acting as a ingress protection washer); between the cable and the back component (4) (typically acting as an ingress protection seal); between the back component (4) and the middle component (3) (typically acting as a shroud); and between the middle component (3) and the entry component (2) (typically acting as a deluge boot).
US12316081B2
An exposed terminal for a wire conductor, and a process for preparing the exposed terminal includes executing, via a mechanical device, a mechanical ablation process to remove the insulative material from an outer surface of the plurality of square edges along a predefined length of the portion of the wire conductor. The process also includes executing, via a laser tool, a laser ablation process to remove the insulative material from the first pair of opposed faces along the predefined length of the portion of the wire conductor; and executing, via the laser tool, the laser ablation process to remove the insulative material from the second pair of opposed faces along the predefined length of the portion of the wire conductor.
US12316080B2
A pliers-type cutting tool has two tool legs which cross at a joint pin and are pivotable about an axis of rotation in a pivot plane with respect to one another. The tool legs form gripping portions on one side of the joint pin and a pliers mouth on the other side. Cutting of the pliers mouth pass into a position one over the other, at least radially on the outside, for the first time in a closing region. The cutting edges have in the position one over the other only in the closing region a particular free length on this central plane, and that over the free length a greatest opening width is present along an intermediate length on the central plane, and that the greatest opening width makes up a third or more of the total length of the cutting edges.
US12316075B2
An apparatus is provided to receive a three dimensional (3D) map of at least a part of a body of a user. A light emitting device is included with tunable VCSEL laser with one or more active regions having quantum wells and barriers. The active regions are surrounded by one or more p-n junctions. The one or more active regions can include a selected shape structure one or more tunnel junction (TJ) 20s provided. One or more apertures are provided with the selected shape structure. One or more buried tunnel junctions (BTJ) or oxide confine the apertures, additional TJ's, planar structures and or additional BTJ's created during a regrowth process that is independent of a first growth process. A VCSEL output is determined in response to an application of the VCSEL laser. The VCSEL laser includes an HCG grating and a bottom DBR. A user monitoring device 100 includes the VCSEL laser. A user monitoring device that includes the VCSEL laser 10. The light emitting device is included in a camera of a communication device.
US12316067B2
In one embodiment, described herein is an apparatus for projecting linear illumination fanned out along the slow axis of a laser source array. In addition to the laser source array, the apparatus can include a number of fast axis collimators (FACs) to collimate the laser beams from the laser source array along the fast axis, a cylinder lens array for converting the collimated laser beams to parallel laser beams, and a prism array pair for reducing the pitch of the parallel laser beams. The system further includes a first cylinder lens for focusing the laser beams from the prism array pair onto a MEMS mirror, which redirects the laser beams as a linear laser beam towards a predetermined direction.
US12316056B2
Provided are a charging adapter device and an installing method of a charging adapter device. The charging adapter device includes a connector, and the connector includes a housing and a plurality of terminals. The charging adapter device further includes an adapter plate and a plurality of pins. The adapter plate is arranged in the housing and electrically connected to the terminals. The pins are electrically connected to the adapter plate such that the pins are electrically conductive with the connector through the adapter plate.
US12316055B2
A coupler couples a first connector with a second connector wherein each of the connectors is coupled to exactly two electrical conductors. Each coupler can be utilized in a shielded (e.g., metal) or non-shielded (e.g. non-metal) form as appropriate to a specific application. Each coupler includes exactly one pair of pin contacts, preferably with a square or rectangular cross-section. Each end of the pin contacts includes four tapered faces that join at a flattened apex and are configured to be received by the tuning fork contact of the connector. The pair of pin contacts are offset from one another and cross one another within the coupler to maintain electrical polarity as electricity travels from the tuning fork contacts of a first connector to the pin contacts of the coupler and onward to the tuning fork contacts of a second connector.
US12316050B2
The invention relates to a clamping device (5) for an electrical plug-in connection (1), which has an electrical plug-in connector (2), an electrical mating plug-in connector (3) that can be electrically and mechanically connected to the plug-in connector (2), and a primary latching arrangement (4) for latching the connection between the plug-in connector (2) and the mating plug-in connector (3). Provision is made for the clamping device (5) to be designed to brace the plug-in connector (2) and the mating plug-in connector (3) relative to one another in a connected state in addition to the latching by way of the primary latching arrangement (4).
US12316045B1
Disclosed is an electrical connector having: a body made from an electrically conductive material, at least one electrical conductor covered with a layer of electrically insulating material, at least one electrical terminal connected electrically to one end of the electrical conductor, and an insulating insert intended to electrically insulate the electrical terminal relative to the body of the electrical connector, the insulating insert having a first region of electrical continuity covered with a layer of electrically conductive material to provide electrical continuity with the body, and a second region of electrical continuity covered with a layer of electrically conductive material to provide electrical continuity with the electrical terminal, an elastic seal being arranged in a space in which a volume of air inside the electrical connector is liable to be subjected to a difference in electrical potentials between an electrical potential of the body and an electrical potential of the electrical terminal, the elastic seal being in contact with the first region of electrical continuity and with the second region of electrical continuity.
US12316042B2
A safety plug assembly includes a connector configured to be inserted behind a front plate of an electrical outlet, wherein the connector includes a first body member including a first body member including a central axis, a first side, and a second side radially opposite the first side with respect to the central axis, a second body member extending radially from the first body member and including a fixed end connected to the first side of the first body member and a free end, opposite the fixed end, that is insertable between a surface along which an electrical outlet is installed and a front plate of the electrical outlet, and a safety plug coupled to the connector, wherein the safety plug includes a plug member that is configured to be inserted within a contact opening of the electrical outlet.
US12316036B2
A cable assembly comprising a connector with a termination that enables high density and high signal integrity. Shields of cables are terminated to a paddle card via a conductive structure attached to a surface of the paddle card. The signal conductors of the cables are terminated to pads on the paddle card that are exposed within openings of the conductive structure. Such a structure creates a ground structure per cable that provides low insertion loss and low crosstalk, even when multiple cables are aligned side by side and terminated in one or more rows. The cables may be drainless, enabling a large number of cables, such as eight cables, to be packed within the width of a paddle card specified in high density standards such as QSFP-DD or OSFP. The cables may nonetheless have large diameter signal conductors, enabling 2.5 or 3 meter assemblies with less than 17 dB insertion loss.
US12316034B2
Antenna Array for passively modulating radio frequency signals. Specifically, an antenna array or system comprising a plurality of retroreflective antennas configured to passively receive a radiofrequency (RF) signal from a source, and configured to reflect the RF signal; and a passive modulation circuit, electrically connected to the plurality of retroreflective antennas, configured to modulate the RF signal to represent a code, wherein the code comprises information, and further comprising: a plurality of RF switches. Additionally, a method for passively reflecting modulated signals, comprising generating a radiofrequency (RF) signal at a source; receiving the a RF signal with a plurality of retroreflective antennas; passively modulating the signal's amplitude to create a modulated RF signal, wherein the modulated RF signal comprises a code, and wherein the code further comprises a unique identifier associated with the plurality of retroreflective antennas; and passively reflecting a modulated signal back to the source.
US12316030B1
A low-profile composite antenna device includes a base plate, a first antenna, and a second antenna. The first antenna has a patch electrode capable of receiving signals in a first frequency band. The second antenna, which is capable of receiving signals in a second frequency band, has a top load part as a capacitive element. The top load part is disposed near the patch electrode of the first antenna such that it does not cover the patch electrode in a top view and that the patch electrode is located on the longitudinal extension axis of the top load part. The second antenna has at least one stub that electrically divides the longitudinal direction of the top load part into front and rear sections so as to function as a waveguide for the first antenna.
US12316025B2
An antenna structure according to an embodiment includes a radiator including a plurality of radiating portions integrally connected to each other, the plurality of radiating portions having sequentially reducing widths, a transmission line electrically connected to the radiator, and a pair of ground patterns facing each other with the transmission line interposed therebetween to be physically spaced apart from the radiator and the transmission line. A broadband antenna structure capable of providing a multi-band radiation can be implemented.
US12316022B2
A phased array may include a clock stage configured to generate shifted clock signals. Each shifted clock signal may include a different phase. The phased array may also include a beamforming stage configured to generate a beamformed signal that includes a beam formed in a direction based on summed signals. In addition, the phased array may include slices. Each slice may include a filter stage and a feedback stage. The filter stage may be configured to generate a corresponding summed signal by filtering a portion of blocker and noise interference in a corresponding receive signal based on blocking signals and the shifted clock signals. The feedback stage may be configured to generate the blocking signals based on the shifted clock signals and the corresponding summed signal. The blocking signals may be representative of the blocker and noise interference in the corresponding receive signal.
US12316009B2
Base station antennas include a main module that has a first backplane that includes a first reflector. A vertically-extending array of first radiating elements is mounted to extend forwardly from the first reflector, and at least one first RF port is coupled to the vertically-extending array of first radiating elements. These antennas further include a sub-module that is attached to the first backplane. The sub-module includes a second backplane that has a second reflector that is separate from the first reflector. A vertically-extending array of second radiating elements is mounted to extend forwardly from the second reflector and is transversely spaced-apart from the vertically-extending array of first radiating elements. A plurality of second RF ports are coupled to the vertically-extending array of second radiating elements. The vertically-extending array of first radiating elements and the vertically-extending array of second radiating elements are configured to serve a common sector of a base station.
US12315998B2
An electronic device may have a phased antenna array. An antenna in the array may include a rectangular patch element with diagonal axes. The antenna may have first and second antenna feeds coupled to the patch element along the diagonal axes. The antenna may be rotated at a forty-five degree angle relative to other antennas in the array. The antenna may have one or two layers of parasitic elements overlapping the patch element. For example, the antenna may have a layer of coplanar parasitic patches separated by a gap. The antenna may also have an additional parasitic patch that is located farther from the patch element than the layer of coplanar parasitic patches. The additional parasitic patch may overlap the patch element and the gap in the coplanar parasitic patches. The antenna may exhibit a relatively small footprint and minimal mutual coupling with other antennas in the array.
US12315995B2
A semiconductor device may include an antenna array and a grounding assembly configured to at least partially electrically shield the antenna array. The grounding assembly may include a first grounding layer comprising a first plurality of openings and a second grounding layer comprising a second plurality of openings. The second grounding layer may at least partially occlude the first plurality of openings of the first grounding layer when viewed from above the antenna array.
US12315987B2
One example includes an antenna-on-package system that includes a multi-layer antenna structure. The antenna structure includes a first conductive layer having a patch antenna and a transmission line. The transmission line extends from a feed-side edge of the patch antenna to terminate in a launch structure. The antenna structure also includes a second conductive layer having a ground reflector spaced apart from the first conductive layer by a layer of dielectric material. An integrated circuit (IC) die has a signal terminal on surface of the IC die, and a conductive signal interconnect extends through the layer of dielectric material and is coupled between the signal terminal and the launch structure.
US12315985B2
Described herein are systems for radio-frequency (RF) localization. The systems developed by the inventors are designed to improve the accuracy of RF localization to millimeter and sub-millimeter ranges, and additionally, are designed to do so while also limiting manufacturing costs. The RF localization systems developed by the inventors leverage the relatively low costs associated with the manufacturing of printed circuit board assemblies (PCBAs). Manufacturing RF localization devices using PCBAs poses a number of challenges, including large minimum feature size and the presence of surface waves. Described herein are techniques for addressing challenges arising in connection with RF localization devices fabricated using PCBAs. One technique involves the use of slot-fed antennas, which makes the device efficient notwithstanding the large minimum feature size. Another technique involves the use of frequency selective surfaces for suppressing surface waves.
US12315984B2
The disclosed system may include a support structure, at least one lens mounted to the support structure, and a transparent antenna film layer that is disposed on at least a portion of the lens. The transparent antenna film layer may include at least one antenna, and placement of the transparent antenna film layer may form a gap between the support structure and the transparent antenna film layer. Various other apparatuses, wearable mobile devices, and methods of manufacturing are also disclosed.
US12315977B2
Presented are shock-force mitigation systems for fuel cell stacks, methods for making/using such systems, and electric-drive vehicles equipped with such systems. A fuel cell system includes multiple electrochemical fuel cells that are stacked face-to-face along a stack axis to define a fuel cell stack. A push plate abuts each longitudinal end of the fuel cell stack; these push plates translate rectilinearly along the stack axis inside a fuel cell stack housing. An end plate is located in facing spaced relation to each push plate to define a plate pair at each end of the stack. An active or passive force-modifying device is interposed between the two plates in each plate pair; these devices modify stack forces experienced by the fuel cell stack. For an active shock-force mitigation system, each force-modifying device may include a bladder system, spring, and/or linear actuator; an electronic system controller controls activation of the bladders/actuators.
US12315974B2
Disclosed are an electrolyte membrane of a membrane-electrode assembly comprising a plasma-treated filler and a manufacturing method thereof. The electrolyte membrane includes an ionomer having a membrane form and a filler dispersed in the ionomer and having a hydrophobic surface.
US12315973B2
A system for fuel cell membrane edge protection includes a fuel cell including a fuel-cell membrane-subgasket assembly. The assembly includes an anode gas diffusion electrode and a cathode gas diffusion electrode configured for facilitating an electrochemical reaction. The reaction creates water as a by-product. The assembly further includes a proton exchange membrane disposed between the electrodes and a subgasket. The subgasket includes an interior aperture portion defined by a perimeter and is connected to the anode gas diffusion electrode and the membrane about the perimeter such that an area of overlap between the subgasket, the electrode, and the membrane exists around the perimeter. The assembly further includes a carbon paper layer spanning the interior aperture portion. The layer includes patterned wettability and is configured to move the water away from the area of overlap into a center portion of the layer.
US12315967B1
The present disclosure provides a hybrid membrane based on UiO66 modification, a preparation method of the hybrid membrane, and a use of the hybrid membrane in a flow battery. A matrix of the hybrid membrane is doped with carbonized UiO-66, and a surface of the carbonized UiO-66 is further modified with β-CD.
US12315966B2
A bipolar plate for a proton exchange membrane fuel cell includes a laminate of carbon fiber reinforced plastic (CFRP) with a first outer ply. The CFRP includes a resin and carbon fibers. The first outer ply is arranged at a first lateral surface of the laminate, wherein the laminate includes a first plurality of carbon nanotubes (CNTs). The first outer ply includes a first groove, wherein the first groove is configured to define a first gas diffusion channel. At least some of the first plurality of CNTs extend through the first outer ply in a direction transversely to the first lateral surface of the laminate.
US12315965B2
The present application discloses a battery cell, a battery and a power consumption apparatus. The battery cell may include: a housing filled with an electrolyte inside; at least one core assembly arranged in the housing and at least one closed liquid bladder holding another electrolyte, the liquid bladder being arranged in the housing, and at least being provided corresponding to a side wall of the core assembly; at least one weakened structure being provided on the liquid bladder. Under a condition that a pressure in the liquid bladder reaches a threshold value, the another electrolyte in the liquid bladder may break through the weakened structure and flow out of the liquid bladder.
US12315961B2
An electrode terminal component used in a power storage device including a power storage cell and a package member covering it includes: an electrode terminal made of metal, plate-shaped, and connected to the power storage cell to protrude out of the package member; and a heat-seal member made of resin, having a heat-sealing property with both the package member and the electrode terminal, and formed to surround a predetermined area on the top, bottom, and opposite side faces of the electrode terminal. A depression or elevation is formed in a predetermined area on the opposite side faces of the electrode terminal. The dimension in the electrode width direction of the depression or elevation formed on the opposite side faces of the electrode terminal is 0.1 mm or more.
US12315942B2
The present disclosure provides batteries that have a reduced risk or no risk of esophageal or gastrointestinal damage in a conductive aqueous environment, such as when accidentally swallowed. The batteries are, in some embodiments, nominally 9V, 3V or 1.5V coin or button cell-type batteries.
US12315937B2
The present disclosure provides an electrode for a secondary battery capable of measuring the width of a first mixture layer and the width of a second mixture layer when the first mixture layer and the second mixture layer are stacked and formed on the surface of a metal foil. A positive electrode body (electrode for a secondary battery) includes a strip-like positive electrode foil and a positive electrode mixture layer provided on the positive electrode foil. The positive electrode mixture layer includes a first positive electrode mixture layer provided on the positive electrode foil and a second positive electrode mixture layer provided on the first positive electrode mixture layer. The first positive electrode mixture layer has a width greater than a width of the second positive electrode mixture layer.
US12315934B2
This application relates to the battery field, and specifically, to a positive electrode plate, an electrochemical apparatus, and an apparatus. The positive electrode plate in this application includes a current collector and an electrode active material layer disposed on at least one surface of the current collector, where the current collector includes a support layer and a conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the support layer, a single-sided thickness D2 of the conductive layer satisfies 30 nmD23 μm, a thickness D1 of the support layer satisfies 1 μmD130 μm, and the support layer is made of a polymer material or a polymer composite material; and the electrode active material layer includes an electrode active material, a binder, and a conductive agent, and a total thickness Dtotal of the electrode active material layer is not greater than 170 μm.
US12315931B2
The present invention relates to a negative electrode including a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer formed on the negative electrode current collector, wherein the negative electrode active material layer includes a silicon-based active material and a negative electrode binder, wherein the negative electrode binder includes an aqueous binder and a rubber-based binder in a weight ratio of 82:18 to 88:12, and the aqueous binder includes at least one selected from the group consisting of polyvinyl alcohol, polyacrylic acid, polyethylene glycol, polyacrylonitrile, and polyacryl amide.
US12315924B2
A positive electrode active material is constituted by lithium transition metal-containing composite oxide particles having a layered rock salt type crystal structure and are composed of secondary particles each formed of an aggregation of primary particles. The secondary particles have a d50 of 3.0 to 7.0 μm, a BET specific surface area of 1.8 to 5.5 m2/g, a pore peak diameter of 0.01 to 0.30 μm, and a log differential pore volume [dV/d(log D)] of 0.2 to 0.6 ml/g within a range of the pore peak diameter. In each of a plurality of primary particles having a primary particle size of 0.1 to 1.0 μm, a coefficient of variation of the concentration of an additive element M is 1.5 or less.
US12315920B2
A positive electrode active material for a lithium secondary battery includes a lithium composite transition metal oxide including transition metals including nickel (Ni), cobalt (Co), and manganese (Mn), and the lithium composite transition metal oxide is doped with doping elements including cobalt (Co) and titanium (Ti). The lithium composite transition metal oxide includes at least one lithium layer and at least one transition metal layer including the transition metals, and the lithium layer and the transition metal layer are alternately arranged. The thickness of the lithium layer ranges from 2.146 Å to 2.182 Å, and the thickness of the transition metal layer ranges from 2.561 Å to 2.595 Å.
US12315919B2
A cathode active material for a lithium secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present disclosures a plurality of composite particles, each of which comprises a lithium metal phosphate particle, and a carbon coating formed on at least a portion of a surface of the lithium metal phosphate particle. A standard deviation of thickness values of the carbon coating measured by an X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) for five different composite particles of the plurality of composite particles is 15 nm or less.
US12315915B2
The invention provides a positive electrode material for lithium ion batteries, comprising a lithium transition metal-based oxide powder having a general formula Li1+a ((Niz(Ni0.5Mn0.5)y Cox)1−kAk)1−aO2, wherein A is a dopant, with −0.025≤a≤0.025, 0.15≤x≤0.22, 0.42≤z≤0.52, 1.075
US12315914B2
An energy storage device can include a first electrode, a second electrode and a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode wherein the first electrode or the second electrode includes elemental lithium metal and carbon particles. A method for fabricating an energy storage device can include forming a first electrode and a second electrode, and inserting a separator between the first electrode and the second electrode, where forming the first electrode or the second electrode can include combining elemental lithium metal and a plurality of carbon particles.
US12315912B2
An electrochemical device includes a cathode including a cathode current collector, a first cathode active material layer including a first cathode active material, and a second cathode active material layer including a second cathode active material. The first cathode active material layer is disposed between the cathode current collector and the second cathode active material layer, and the first cathode active material layer is formed on at least one surface of the cathode current collector. The second cathode active material is embedded in the first cathode active material layer and forms a transition layer with the first cathode active material at an interface between the first cathode active material layer and the second cathode active material layer, and a thickness of the transition layer is less than a thickness of the second cathode active material layer.
US12315909B2
The positive electrode active material has high capacity and high output and exhibiting excellent cycle characteristics when being used for a positive electrode of a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. A positive electrode active material for a lithium ion secondary battery contains: a lithium-metal composite oxide containing secondary particles with a plurality of aggregated primary particles; and a compound containing lithium and tungsten present on surfaces of the primary particles. The amount of tungsten contained in the compound containing lithium and tungsten is 0.5 atom % or more and 3.0 atom % or less in terms of a ratio of the number of atoms of W with respect to the total number of atoms of Ni, Co, and an element M, and a conductivity when the positive electrode active material is compressed to 4.0 g/cm3 as determined by powder resistance measurement is 6×10−3 S/cm or less.
US12315892B2
A method for a tightness test of a test object filled with a liquid, said test object having an internal pressure which is lower than atmospheric pressure, comprising the following steps: inserting the test object into a test chamber, evacuating the test chamber to a pressure which is lower than the internal pressure inside the test object, drawing off the test chamber residual gas components together with gas components desorbing from a wall of the test chamber and parts of the liquid escaping from the test object through a leak in the latter without any carrier gas being fed to the test chamber from outside, transporting the drawn-off residual gas components together with the parts of the liquid escaped from the test object to a detector, and detecting parts of the liquid escaped through a leak in the test object by means of a detector.
US12315891B2
A method for constant pressure regulation of battery cells includes disposing the cells in a stacked arrangement within a battery cell placement volume of an apparatus configured to maintain a constant pressure on the cells, providing a gas pressure within a chamber of the apparatus, thereby causing an initial pressure to be applied on the battery cells, and detecting an expansion of the battery cells during a predetermined timespan using a linear displacement sensor. During the predetermined timespan, if the detected expansion is less than a maximum allowable expansion minus a predetermined measurement error, then the gas pressure within the chamber is increased, and if the detected expansion is greater than the maximum allowable expansion plus the predetermined measurement error, then the gas pressure within the chamber is decreased. An apparatus for constant pressure regulation of battery cells is also provided.
US12315889B2
A battery including power generation units each including a positive electrode layer, a separator layer, and a negative electrode layer. The area of either one of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer is larger than the area of the other one of the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer. The power generation units each has a non-facing region. In the non-facing region, a first penetration portion is placed. The power generation units provided as the pair are stacked along the thickness direction via a first current collector including a second penetration portion corresponding to the first penetration portions. In the power generation units provided as the pair, two separator layers facing each other are fixed by a first fixing portion positioned in the first penetration portion and the second penetration portion.
US12315883B2
An object is to provide a non-aqueous electrolyte solution that can improve the capacity deterioration and gas generation associated with the high-temperature storage of non-aqueous electrolyte batteries. A further object is to provide a non-aqueous electrolyte battery that uses this non-aqueous electrolyte solution. These objects can be achieved by using a non-aqueous electrolyte solution that incorporates, in prescribed contents, (A) a compound having at least two isocyanate groups per molecule and (B) a compound of formula (3): LiCnF2n+1SO3 (3) wherein n is an integer from 0 to 4.
US12315871B2
An ion-lithium battery that may include an anode, a cathode, and at least one out of an anode related self-healing combination and a solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) self-healing combination; wherein the SEI related self-healing combination comprises a SEI self-healing additive, a SEI forming moiety and a first linker for linking the SEI self-healing additive to the SEI forming moiety; and wherein the anode related self-healing combination comprises an anode self-healing additive, an anode connection functional group, and a second linker for linking the anode self-healing additive to the anode connection functional group.
US12315870B2
A lithium ion battery module includes a housing with dimensions that conform to overall dimensions for a standard lead acid battery. The lithium ion battery module also includes a plurality of lithium ion battery cells arranged in a stack within the housing and a heat sink outer wall feature of the housing. The heat sink outer wall feature substantially extends in at least one direction to an outermost dimension of the standard lead acid battery.
US12315866B2
A display device includes a substrate, first and second bridge electrodes on the substrate and spaced apart from each other, a first electrode on the first bridge electrode, a second electrode on the second bridge electrode and spaced apart from the first electrode, a first insulating layer on the first electrode and the second electrode, a light emitting element on the first insulating layer, and on the first electrode and the second electrode, a first connection electrode on the first electrode, and contacting the light emitting element and the first bridge electrode, and a second connection electrode on the second electrode, and contacting the light emitting element and the second bridge electrode, wherein the first electrode directly contacts the first bridge electrode, and is separated from the first connection electrode, and wherein the second electrode directly contacts the second bridge electrode, and is separated from the second connection electrode.
US12315859B2
A semiconductor memory device according to an embodiment includes a substrate, a first memory cell, a first bit line, a first word line, a first transistor, and a second transistor. The first memory cell is provided above the substrate. The first bit line extends in a first direction. The first bit line is coupled to the first memory cell. The first word line extends in a second direction intersecting the first direction. The first word line is coupled to the first memory cell. The first transistor is provided on the substrate. The first transistor is coupled to the first bit line. The second transistor is provided below the first memory cell and on the substrate. The second transistor is coupled to the first word line.
US12315844B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell, a first voltage generator and a second voltage generator. The memory cell is provided above a substrate. The first voltage generator is provided between the substrate and the memory cell. The first voltage generator is configured to generate a first voltage to be supplied to the memory cell. The second voltage generator is provided between the substrate and the memory cell. The second voltage generator is configured to generate the first voltage and have a circuit configuration equivalent to the first voltage generator.
US12315837B2
The present disclosure describes a semiconductor structure having bonded wafers with storage layers and a method to bond wafers with storage layers. The semiconductor structure includes a first wafer including a first storage layer with carbon, a second wafer including a second storage layer with carbon, and a bonding layer interposed between the first and second wafers and in contact with the first and second storage layers.
US12315835B2
A pre-packaged chip includes a chip having at least one electrical top contact at a top side of the chip and at least one electrical bottom contact at a bottom side, a first laminate layer on the top side, a second laminate layer on the bottom side, the first laminate layer and the second laminate layer being laminated together to sandwich the chip therebetween, a first metal layer on the first laminate layer and electrically contacted to the at least one electrical top contact via at least one top contact hole through the first laminate layer, and a second metal layer on the second laminate layer and electrically contacted to the at least one electrical bottom contact via at least one bottom contact hole through the second laminate layer. The pre-packaged chip is free from any contact hole extending from the first metal layer to the second metal layer.
US12315832B2
A semiconductor package includes a substrate including an upper pad at a top surface of the substrate, a semiconductor chip on the substrate and including a chip pad at a top surface of the semiconductor chip, a connecting structure on the semiconductor chip and including a connecting pad at a top surface of the connecting structure and electrically connected to the upper pad, an encapsulant covering the substrate, the semiconductor chip, and the connecting structure, and a test terminal on the connecting structure and extending through the encapsulant. The connecting structure electrically interconnects the semiconductor chip and the test terminal.
US12315829B2
A packaged RF transistor amplifier includes an RF transistor amplifier die having a first terminal, a first lead, an integrated passive device that includes a first series microstrip transmission line, a first bond wire coupled between the first terminal and the first series microstrip transmission line, and a second bond wire coupled between the first series microstrip transmission line and the first lead.
US12315825B2
In a semiconductor device, a semiconductor element has a front electrode and a back electrode. The back electrode is connected to a wiring member through a bonding member. Wire pieces are disposed in the bonding member, and bonded to a bonding surface of the wiring member to protrude toward the semiconductor element. The bonding member has, in a plan view, a central region that overlaps with a central portion of the semiconductor element including an element center, and an outer peripheral region that includes a portion overlapping with an outer peripheral portion of the semiconductor element surrounding the central portion and surrounds the central region. At least four wire pieces are disposed in the outer peripheral region at positions corresponding to at least four respective corners of the semiconductor element. At least one wire piece is disposed to extend toward the element center in the plan view.
US12315822B2
A semiconductor package includes a frame structure having a core portion and a lower pad under the core portion. A cavity penetrates the core portion, and a semiconductor chip is arranged in the cavity and has an active surface on which a bump pad is arranged and a non-active surface facing the active surface. A redistribution structure is positioned under the frame structure and the semiconductor chip, and is connected to the lower pad and the bump pad. A molding member covers the frame structure and the semiconductor chip and fills the cavity. The molding member surrounds a lower surface of the frame structure, the active surface of the semiconductor chip, the lower pad, and the bump pad.
US12315819B2
A method includes encapsulating a device die in an encapsulating material, planarizing the device die and the encapsulating material, and forming a first plurality of conductive features electrically coupling to the device die. The step of forming the first plurality of conductive features includes a deposition-and-etching process, which includes depositing a blanket copper-containing layer, forming a patterned photo resist over the blanket copper-containing layer, and etching the blanket copper-containing layer to transfer patterns of the patterned photo resist into the blanket copper-containing layer.
US12315818B2
An interconnection structure of a semiconductor chip may include an interconnection via, a lower pad, a conductive bump, and an upper pad. The interconnection via may be arranged in the semiconductor chip. The lower pad may be arranged on a lower end of the interconnection via exposed through a lower surface of the semiconductor chip. The conductive bump may be arranged on the lower pad. The upper pad may be arranged on an upper end of the interconnection via exposed through an upper surface of the semiconductor chip. The upper pad may have a width wider than a width of the interconnection via and narrower than a width of the lower pad. Thus, an electrical short between the conductive bumps may not be generated in the interconnection structure having a thin thickness.
US12315816B2
Disclosed are three-dimensional (3D) semiconductor memory devices and electronic system including the same. The 3D semiconductor memory device may include a substrate including first and second regions, a stack structure including interlayer dielectric layers and gate electrodes alternately and repeatedly stacked on the substrate and having a stepwise structure on the second region, a mold structure adjacent to the stack structure on the first region and including interlayer dielectric layers and sacrificial layers alternately and repeatedly stacked on the substrate, a first separation structure crossing the stack structure and extending along a first direction from the first region toward the second region, and a second separation structure crossing the mold structure and extending in the first direction on the first region. A level of a top surface of the first separation structure may be higher than a level of a top surface of the second separation structure.
US12315811B2
A method includes forming a trench within a dielectric layer, the trench comprising an interconnect portion and a via portion, the via portion exposing an underlying conductive feature. The method further includes depositing a seed layer within the trench, depositing a carbon layer on the seed layer, performing a carbon dissolution process to cause a graphene layer to form between the seed layer and the underlying conductive feature, and filling a remainder of the trench with a conductive material.
US12315810B2
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a first graphene-containing-material offset from a second graphene-containing-material. The first graphene-containing-material includes a first graphene-layer-stack with first metal interspersed therein. The second graphene-containing-material includes a second graphene-layer-stack with second metal interspersed therein. A conductive interconnect couples the first and second graphene-containing materials to one another.
US12315801B2
A microelectronic device comprises a stack structure, contact structures, and additional contact structures. The stack structure comprises a vertically alternating sequence of conductive material and insulative material arranged in tiers. The stack structure is divided into blocks each comprising a stadium structure including steps comprising horizontal ends of the tiers. The contact structures are within a horizontal area of the stadium structure and vertically extend through the stack structure. The additional contact structures are on at least some of the steps of the stadium structure and are coupled to the contact structures. Memory devices and electronic devices are also disclosed.
US12315797B2
A semiconductor substrate structure and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor substrate structure are provided. The semiconductor substrate structure includes a substrate, an electronic device, and a filling material. The substrate defines a cavity. The electronic device is disposed in the cavity and spaced apart from the substrate by a gap. The filling material is disposed in the gap and covers a first region of an upper surface of the electronic device.
US12315796B2
A semiconductor device includes a conductive pattern formed over a semiconductor substrate, and an interconnect structure formed over the conductive pattern. The semiconductor device also includes a first passivation layer over the conductive pattern; a second passivation layer over the first passivation layer; an interconnect structure disposed over the conductive pattern and in the first passivation layer and the second passivation layer; and an interconnect liner disposed between the interconnect structure and the conductive pattern and surrounding the interconnect structure, wherein inner sidewall surfaces of the interconnect liner are in direct contact with the interconnect structure, and a maximum distance between outer sidewall surfaces of the interconnect liner is greater than a width of the conductive pattern.
US12315795B2
The present application provides a semiconductor structure and a manufacturing method thereof. The method of manufacturing the semiconductor structure includes: providing a base, the base including a substrate and a first dielectric layer on the substrate; forming a through silicon via in the base, the through silicon via penetrating through the first dielectric layer, extending into the substrate, and having a depth less than a thickness of the base; forming an electrically conductive structure in the through silicon via; forming a filling hole in the first dielectric layer and the substrate, the filling hole surrounding the electrically conductive structure, exposing a sidewall of the electrically conductive structure and a part of the substrate, and having a stepwise sidewall; and forming a thermally conductive structure in the filling hole.
US12315789B2
A WBGA package and a method of manufacturing a WBGA package are provided. The WBGA package includes a first substrate having a first through hole and a second substrate having a second through hole over the first through hole of the first substrate. The WBGA package also includes an electronic component having an active surface over the second through hole of the second substrate.
US12315778B2
The invention provides a laminated assembly dedicated to an enhanced heat discharge type electronic device application by providing an enhanced thermal performance to a silicon device. A graphite thin film/silicon substrate laminated assembly is provided by cleaning the surfaces of a smoothed graphite thin film and a silicon substrate under deaeration conditions for activation, thereby bringing them close to each other for spontaneous bonding. In such a laminated assembly wherein the graphite thin film is provided on the silicon substrate, the silicon substrate and graphite thin film come into contact directly via an interface.
US12315775B2
An electronic device is formed by dispensing an underfill material around a perimeter of an integrated circuit (IC) chip bonded to a supporting substrate. A void in present in the underfill material that is present between the IC chip and the supporting substrate. An opening is present through at least one of the IC chip and the supporting substrate into communication with the void. A vacuum may be applied to the void through the opening that is present through the IC chip to reduce a size of the void to a first volume. The opening that is present through the IC chip is sealed with a sealing plate. The underfill material is cured after the sealing of the opening to reduce of the void to at least a second volume that is less than the first volume.
US12315771B2
A semiconductor module is provided, comprising a circuit board having a predetermined circuit pattern, a semiconductor chip placed on the circuit board, a wiring member configured to connect the semiconductor chip and the circuit pattern, and a sealing resin configured to seal the semiconductor chip and the wiring member, wherein the sealing resin has a first resin including an inorganic filler and an epoxy resin, which covers the semiconductor chip and a second resin having a smaller elastic modulus than the first resin, which is provided on a surface of the first resin, and wherein the second resin is separated from the semiconductor chip and the circuit board.
US12315767B2
A manufacturing method of a semiconductor device includes the following steps. A singulation process is performed to a semiconductor wafer for forming semiconductor dies and includes a first cutting step, a thinning step, and a second cutting step. The first cutting step is configured to form first openings in the semiconductor wafer by etching. A portion of the semiconductor wafer is located between each first opening and a back surface and removed by the thinning step. Each first opening penetrates through the semiconductor wafer after the thinning step. The second cutting step is configured to form second openings. Each second opening penetrates through the semiconductor wafer for separating the semiconductor dies. A semiconductor die includes two first side surfaces opposite to each other and two second side surfaces opposite to each other. A roughness of each first side surface is different from a roughness of each second side surface.
US12315765B2
Implementations of die singulation systems and related methods may include forming a plurality of die on a first side of a substrate, forming a seed layer on a second side of a substrate opposite the first side of the substrate, using a shadow mask, applying a mask layer over the seed layer, forming a backside metal layer over the seed layer, removing the mask layer, and singulating the plurality of die included in the substrate through removing substrate material in the die street and through removing seed layer material in the die street.
US12315744B2
A processing apparatus includes a holding table having a holding surface that holds a workpiece and is smaller than the workpiece, a processing unit that processes the workpiece held by the holding table, an imaging unit that images the workpiece held by the holding table, and a controller. The holding table has a reflecting unit that surrounds the holding surface and is allowed to be positioned below an edge of the workpiece held by the holding surface, and at least part of the reflecting unit is formed of a reflective component and is imaged by the imaging unit in a state where the edge of the workpiece is positioned above the reflective component.
US12315736B2
A semiconductor processing method may include providing a fluorine-containing precursor to a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. A substrate may be disposed within the processing region. The substrate may include an exposed region of silicon-and-oxygen-containing material. The substrate may include an exposed region of a liner material. The methods may include providing a hydrogen-containing precursor to the semiconductor processing region. The methods may include contacting the substrate with the fluorine-containing precursor and the hydrogen-containing precursor. The methods may include selectively removing at least a portion of the exposed silicon-and-oxygen-containing material.
US12315734B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure is provided. First, a first insulating layer is formed over a substrate, and a second insulating layer having an opening is formed over the first insulating layer. A conductive line structure is formed in the opening of the second insulating layer, thereby forming a contact void between the second insulating layer and the conductive line structure. A plasma oxide layer is conformally formed over the conductive line structure, the first insulating layer, and the contact void. A nitride capping layer is formed over the plasma oxide layer to fill the contact void. Then, nitrogen ions are introduced into a surface of the nitride capping layer surrounding the conductive line structure. An etching back process is performed to remove a portion of the nitride capping layer, thereby forming a refilled contact void between the first insulating layer and the conductive line structure.
US12315732B2
Methods and apparatus for etching a substrate in a plasma etch chamber are provided. In one example, the method includes exposing a substrate disposed on a substrate supporting surface of a substrate support to a plasma within a processing chamber, and applying a voltage waveform to an electrode disposed in the substrate support while the substrate is exposed to the plasma during a plurality of macro etch cycles. Each macro etch cycle includes a first macro etch period and a second macro etch period. The macro etch period includes a plurality of micro etch cycles. Each micro etch cycle has a bias power on (BPON) period and a bias power off (BPOFF) period, wherein a duration of the BPON period being less than a duration of the BPOFF period. Bias power is predominantly not applied to the electrode during the second macro etch period.
US12315723B2
A method for making a semiconductor device may include forming a superlattice above a semiconductor layer, the superlattice including a plurality of stacked groups of layers, with each group of layers including a plurality of stacked base semiconductor monolayers defining a base semiconductor portion and at least one non-semiconductor monolayer constrained within a crystal lattice of adjacent base semiconductor portions. The method may further include selectively etching the superlattice to remove semiconductor atoms and cause non-semiconductor atoms to accumulate adjacent the semiconductor layer, epitaxially growing an active semiconductor device layer above the semiconductor layer and accumulated non-semiconductor atoms after the selective etching, and forming at least one circuit in the epitaxially grown active semiconductor device layer.
US12315697B2
A method of generating a plasma is provided. The method uses a plasma antenna having a length, the method including driving an electrical conductor of the plasma antenna with RF frequency current to generate plasma both at a first location and at a second location spaced apart from the first location in a direction along the length of the antenna, there being a region adjacent to the antenna between the first location and the second location at which the generation of plasma is curtailed as a result of at least one shield member.
US12315682B2
A passive component includes an inorganic substrate having a first main surface and a second main surface, which are opposed to each other, and contains a semiconductor material; and a passive element portion on the first main surface of the inorganic substrate so as to be in contact with the first main surface. When a cross section in a plane that passes through a center of gravity in a whole of the first main surface and is orthogonal to the first main surface is defined as a first cross section, in the first cross section, the inorganic substrate has a first side surface and a second side surface, which are connected with the first main surface and opposed to each other, and each of line roughness of the first side surface and line roughness of the second side surface is larger than line roughness of the first main surface.
US12315671B2
An inductive component is provided, including: a winding; and a plurality of adjustment bodies configured to adjust an inductance of the inductive component, the adjustment bodies including a ferromagnetic material and surrounding at least some regions of the winding, the inductance being adjusted via a shape and/or a position and/or a number of the adjustment bodies, and a filling body including a non-magnetic material is disposed between at least two of the adjustment bodies.
US12315670B2
A magnetic coupling coil component according to one or more embodiments of the invention includes a magnetic base body, a first and second conductors disposed in a through-hole of the magnetic base body, and a non-magnetic portion disposed between the first and second conductors and having a relative magnetic permeability smaller than that of the magnetic base body. The magnetic base body has a mounting surface and the through-hole connecting first and second openings in the mounting surface. One end the first conductor is exposed through the first opening and the other end is exposed through the second opening. The second conductor is disposed at a position spaced away from the first conductor toward inside of the magnetic base body and is opposed to the first conductor. One end of the second conductor is exposed through the first opening and the other end is exposed through the second opening.
US12315662B2
The present invention provides a current transformer module that can prevent the primary coil from being lifted or dropped and prevent the bobbin from being cracked when the primary coil is inserted into the bobbin. The current transformer module 12 of the present invention comprises a current transformer 10 including a resin-made bobbin 20 and a core 50 mounted on the bobbin, wherein the bobbin has a U-shaped primary coil 30 disposed in a primary coil through-hole 40 and a wire-wound secondary coil 27, and a casing 80 for housing the current transformer, wherein the primary coil is a U-shaped pin having a pair of legs 32, 32 and a U-shaped bent portion 31 for connecting the legs, and the casing has a concaved contact area 82 positioned opposite the U-shaped bent portion of the primary coil to prevent the primary coil from falling out.
US12315657B2
A wiring member includes a sheet including a fusion layer, an adhesive tape including an adhesive layer and a base material layer, and a first wire-like transmission member to which the adhesive tape is fixed via the adhesive layer. The base material layer and the fusion layer are fused to each other, and the first wire-like transmission member is fixed to the sheet via the adhesive tape.
US12315655B2
A flexible flat cable manufacturing system comprises a tape conveying device conveying an adhesive tape along a first direction, and a wire conveying device conveying a row of wires along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and parallel to a width direction of the conveyed adhesive tape. A wire pressing device presses and pastes the part of the row of wires facing the adhesive tape onto the adhesive tape. A wire cutting device cuts the row of wires to obtain a row of wire segments pasted on the adhesive tape and separated from the row of wires and produces a flexible flat cable including the adhesive tape and the wire segments pasted on the adhesive tape.
US12315647B2
A shielding mesh to counter scattered ionizing radiation is provided. The shielding mesh includes a plate, arrangement of depressions, a mesh of trenches, and an x-ray-absorbing material. The plate has a first side and a second side opposite the first side. The arrangement of depressions are in the plate and are open toward the second side. The mesh of trenches are in the plate and are open toward the first side. The x-ray-absorbing material is in the mesh of trenches. The mesh of trenches and arrangement of depressions are configured so that a wall of the plate remains between the arrangement of depressions and the mesh of trenches.
US12315642B2
Disclosed herein are systems, methods, and devices for an image-based, computer vision approach for anthropometric measurement of a user using an automatically generated three-dimensional model of the user. Also disclosed herein are systems, methods, and devices associated with a telehealth proctoring platform that can be used to remotely proctor, monitor, and manage patients over the course of a medical treatment plan. The telehealth proctoring platform may be used to collect and retrieve various kinds of data associated with a patient, such as at-home diagnostic test data, the anthropometric measurements of the patient, or the generated three-dimensional models in order to remotely monitor and track changes to the body of a patient over time and make dynamic adjustments to the patient's medical treatment plan.
US12315638B2
A surgery support system according to the present disclosure includes an analysis unit that generates risk analysis information from a first surgery image acquired by an acquiring unit, by adopting the first surgery image to a trained model generated using learning data including a second surgery image that is a surgery image different from the first surgery image, the second surgery image having associated information on a complication risk due to surgery, and an output unit that outputs surgery support information that is based on the risk analysis information generated by the analysis unit, in a superimposed manner on the first surgery image.
US12315637B2
A computer system for automatically performing medical diagnoses having a main portal configured to allow data communication with a user device, an AI bot in data communication with the main portal, the AI bot being configured to guide the user through a medical assessment, perform the medical assessment and diagnose the patient, wherein the AI bot is further configured to receive video data of the patient performing a physical activity, analyze each individual frame of the video using a custom trained model in order to diagnose the patient, a patient portal in data communication with a processing and communication module and the AI bot, a central database in data communication with the processing and communication module, an internal database, the AI bot and the patient portal, the central database being configured to facilitate an interconnection of the AI bot with the internal database and an external database.
US12315636B2
This invention provides a system for automation of a pathology process, which includes a processor having trained artificial intelligence (AI) modules operating in association therewith, adapted to receive image data from camera images of whole tissue acquired by a camera assembly and whole slide images (WSIs) of inked and segmented tissue samples. A mask produces image results for tissue with holes and free of holes, and a filter provides filtered image results to the AI modules, detecting tumors and macroarchitecture features. A quality assessment process produces quality score outputs for tumors and macroarchitecture features. A report generator provides reports with one or more parameters to a user via an interface. More particularly, the report generator automatically creates a pathology report, having a written description and pictorial diagram relative to the gross images of the tissue integrating the outputs of the AI modules used to analyze the whole slide digital images.
US12315635B2
Artificial intelligence systems that incorporate expert knowledge related to hypertension treatments
Embodiments of the present disclosure include a system, including an AI application, that determines updates prescriptions for a patient. Based on information about the patient's condition, an expert system uses pharmaceutical-specific models to predict the patient's responses to pharmaceuticals and/or potential dosages thereof. The system determines priority scores of classes of pharmaceuticals and, based on the priority scores, determines and stores an updated prescription.
US12315630B2
Methods and devices to monitor an analyte in body fluid are provided. Embodiments include continuous or discrete acquisition of analyte related data from a transcutaneously positioned in vivo analyte sensor automatically or upon request from a user. The in vivo analyte sensor is coupled to an electronics unit holding a memory with instruction to cause processing circuitry to initiate a predetermined time period that is longer than a predetermined life of the sensor, during the predetermined time period, convert signals from the sensor related to glucose to respective corresponding glucose levels, without relying on any post-manufacture independent analyte measurements from a reference device, and at the expiration of the predetermined time period, disable, deactivate, or cease use of one or more feature.
US12315628B2
A computer-implemented method for managing medical equipment includes presenting, at a display of a mobile computing device associated with an inspector, an inspection user interface configured to capture one or more user inputs from the inspector, receiving inspection account information via the one or more user inputs, receiving a location of the mobile computing device, providing, at the inspection user interface, identification information for transported medical equipment that is associated with the inspection account information, receiving status information for the transported medical equipment via the one or more user inputs, receiving, at a remote medical equipment database, location information for the transported medical equipment, and updating a maintenance report for the transported medical equipment by storing an inspection information entry in the maintenance report. The inspection information entry includes a time stamp, the location information, the received status information, and the location of the mobile computing device.
US12315619B2
A blood sugar management device includes a blood sugar information acquisition unit, a meal information acquisition unit, a storage unit, a blood sugar determination unit, and an information organization unit. When the blood sugar determination unit determines that a measured blood sugar value is within a predetermined range, the information organization unit deletes meal information corresponding to the measured blood sugar value from the storage unit, and when the blood sugar determination unit determines that the measured blood sugar value is not within the predetermined range, the information organization unit holds meal information corresponding to the measured blood sugar value in the storage unit.
US12315616B1
Various embodiments of a system and associated method for modeling an average surgical corridor based on a plurality of datasets are disclosed herein.
US12315615B2
A sleep sensing system comprising a sensor to obtain real-time information about a user, a sleep state logic to determine the user's current sleep state based on the real-time information. The system further comprising a sleep stage selector to select an optimal next sleep state for the user, and a sound output system to output sounds to guide the user from the current sleep state to the optimal next sleep state.
US12315599B2
A method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for optimal pooling of nucleic acid samples for next generation sequencing, including receiving sample records corresponding to samples, each sample record comprising a sample identifier and a nucleic acid reference sequence of the sample, determining unique nucleic acid reference sequences in the sample records, computing, a nucleic acid overlaps between the unique nucleic acid reference sequences, and determining an optimal grouping of the plurality of samples into a plurality of sample pools based at least in part on the nucleic acid reference sequence of each sample record, the nucleic acid overlaps between the unique nucleic acid reference sequences, and one or more constraints, the one or more constraints including a maximum overlap constraint.
US12315594B2
A clock buffer device for a memory module includes a first clock input coupled to an input of a first phase-locked loop (PLL), and a second clock input coupled to an input of a second PLL. An output of the first PLL is selectably coupled to clock output buffers, and an output of the second PLL is selectably coupled to a subset of the clock output buffers. The clock buffer device receives a first indication that a first information handling system is configured to provide a first clock signal on the first clock input but to not provide a second clock signal on the second clock input, and, in response to the indication, couples the output of the first PLL to the clock output buffers and to disables the second PLL.
US12315592B2
Apparatuses for timing control in a write path are disclosed. An example apparatus includes: a clock input circuit that receives a clock signal and provides an internal clock signal; a command decoder that receives command signals and the internal clock signal, and provides an active write command signal when the command signals indicates a write operation; a write latency shifter that receives the write command signal, a latency value and a WICA value, adjusts timing of the write command signal responsive to the latency value and the WICA value, and provides a shifted write command signal; and a write DLL including a delay line that receives the shifted write command signal and provides a delayed write command signal. The write DLL provides the WICA value to set a propagation time from the clock input circuit to the write DLL to be a multiple of a period of the clock signal.
US12315588B2
An apparatus is described. The apparatus includes a power management integrated circuit (PMIC) to generate a supply voltage for a memory module. The PMIC is to perform a measurement during bring-up of the memory module of a worst case current draw of the memory module and/or corresponding droop in the supply voltage. The PMIC is to apply a step-up to the supply voltage in accordance with the measurement in response to detection by the PMIC of a surge in the memory module's current draw during operation of the memory module.
US12315583B1
A repairable semiconductor memory device includes an input/output bus, a plurality of stacked memory chips, and a redundant repair unit. Each of the memory chips compares a memory address information with an address information to be repaired to generate a first comparison result for determining whether to allow the input/output bus to access the data corresponding to the memory address information in the memory chips. The redundancy repair unit compares the memory address information with the address information to be repaired to generate a second comparison result for determining whether to allow a redundant memory cell corresponding to the memory address information to be coupled to the input/output bus. In this way, the semiconductor memory device can repair any layer of the memory chips to improve the yield to solve the problem of previously having a lower yield.
US12315580B2
Methods, systems, and devices related to built-in self-test (BIST) circuitry of a controller. The controller can be coupled to multiple memory devices. The BIST circuitry can include registers configured to store burst patterns. The BIST circuitry can perform a BIST operation on the memory devices contemporaneously and using the number of burst patterns.
US12315579B2
A memory device includes a sense amplifying circuit coupled between a pull-up voltage line and a pull-down voltage line and configured to sense and amplify data of bit lines according to a sensing control signal; a fail detection circuit configured to calculate counting values of fail bits for each temperature based on the data and configured to generate a minimum error code for each temperature by detecting a minimum value for each temperature from the counting values for each temperature, in response to a test mode signal; and a sense amplifying control circuit configured to drive the pull-up voltage line and the pull-down voltage line by generating a pull-up voltage and a pull-down voltage corresponding to current temperature information based on the minimum error code for each temperature and configured to generate the sensing control signal according to the test mode signal.
US12315573B2
Power consumption of sensing circuitry in a NAND Flash device is reduced by reducing the voltage supply to a portion of logic circuits in sensing circuitry. A first power domain provides power to a first portion of the logic circuits in the sensing circuity and a second power domain provides power to a second portion of the logic circuits in the sensing circuitry. The first power domain has a higher voltage than the second power domain.
US12315571B2
An electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) includes a substrate, isolation structures, a row of erase gate and a row of floating gates. The isolation structures are defined in the substrate to extend in a first direction. The row of erase gate having a wave shape is disposed across the substrate. The row of floating gates having staggered islands is disposed parallel to the row of erase gate. A method of forming said electrically erasable programmable read only memory (EEPROM) is also provided.
US12315569B2
A differential memory cell array structure for a MTP non-volatile memory is provided. The array structure is connected to a source line, a word line, a bit line, an inverted bit liner and an erase line. After an erase operation (ERS) is completed, the stored data in the differential memory cells of the selected row are not all erased. That is, only the stored data in a single selected memory cell of the selected row is erased.
US12315559B2
A storage circuit includes a multi-stage latch circuit having first to fourth transistor pairs therein, which respectively include a pull-up transistor and a pull-down transistor connected in series through a corresponding one of first to fourth storage nodes. An access circuit is provided, which has a plurality of access transistors of different conductivity type therein. The access transistors are electrically coupled to at least two of the first to fourth storage nodes and configured to enable writing of data bits into at least some of the first to fourth storage nodes, and reading of data bits from at least some of the first to fourth storage nodes. A control circuit is provided, which controls the access circuit during the writing and reading.
US12315550B2
Memory devices, systems, and associated methods with per die temperature-compensated refresh control, and associated methods, are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a memory device includes a plurality of memory cells and a sensor configured to measure a temperature of the memory device. The memory device determines a frequency at which it is receiving refresh commands. The memory device is further configured to skip refresh operations of the memory cells based, at least in part, on the determination and on the temperature of the memory device.
US12315546B2
A signal control circuit includes: a generating circuit configured to accumulate execution times of an activation operation and output a block signal in response to an accumulated value being greater than or equal to a first preset value; and a logic circuit configured to receive an activation operation signal and the block signal, block outputting of the activation operation signal in response to receiving the block signal, and output the activation operation signal in response to not receiving the block signal.
US12315539B2
A heat assisted magnetic recording (HAMR) write head contains a main pole, a waveguide, and a near-field transducer containing an antenna disposed between the waveguide and the main pole. A first portion of the antenna includes a layer stack of three or more gold-based component layers that contain a waveguide-side outermost gold-based component layer, a pole-side outermost gold-based component layer, and one or more intermediate gold-based component layers. An intermediate gold-based component layer of the one or more intermediate gold-based component layers includes at least one platinum group metal (PGM) at a maximum total atomic percentage that is greater than a total atomic percentage of the at least one PGM in the waveguide-side outermost gold-based component layer and is greater than a total atomic percentage of the at least one PGM in the pole-side outermost gold-based component layer.
US12315532B2
Proposed is an audio data identification apparatus for collecting random audio data and identifying an audio resource obtained by exacting any one section of the collected audio data. The audio data identification apparatus includes: a communication unit that collects and transmits the random audio data; and a control unit that identifies the collected audio data. The control unit includes: a parsing unit that parses the collected audio data into predetermined units; an extraction unit that selects, as the audio resource, any one of a plurality of parsed sections of the audio data; a matching unit that matches identification information of the audio resource via a pre-loaded artificial intelligence algorithm; and a verification unit that verifies the identification information matched to the audio resource.
US12315530B2
Systems and methods for generating anonymized acoustic fingerprints. For a predetermined time interval, raw audio data associated with an environment can be captured and processed. Based on the captured raw audio data, a plurality of discrete data elements can be generated.
US12315528B2
A filtering method includes: receiving a first audio signal and a second audio signal that include sound emitted from a same sound source at different volumes; generating a filter signal by convoluting adaptive filter coefficients into the second audio signal; removing components of the filter signal from the first audio signal; and limiting a gain of the adaptive filter coefficients to 1.0 or less.
US12315525B1
A voice interaction architecture has a hands-free, electronic voice controlled assistant that permits users to verbally request information from cloud services. The voice controlled assistant may be positioned in a room to receive voice commands from the user. The voice controlled assistant may also pick up background sources of speech, music, or other noise, such as from a television or stereo system, which may adversely impact the user's intended vocal input to the assistant. The assistant transmits the aggregated audio data (user command and background noise) over a network to the cloud services, which implements noise cancellation functionality to remove the background noise while isolating and preserving the user's command. Once isolated, the cloud serves can process and interpret the user input to perform some function, and return the response over the network to the voice controlled assistant for audible output to the user.
US12315515B2
Certain embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques training a user detection model to identify a user of a software application based on voice recognition. The method generally includes receiving a data set including a plurality of voice interactions with users of a software application. For each respective recording in the data set, a spectrogram representation is generated based on the respective recording. A plurality of voice recognition models are trained. Each of the plurality of voice recognition models is trained based on the spectrogram representation for each of the plurality of voice recordings in the data set. The plurality of voice recognition models are deployed to an interactive voice response system.
US12315514B2
Systems and methods are described for assigning a voice assistant service (VAS) from multiple VASs, based on a voice input. The system generally comprises a processor that is configured to process at least one voice input, e.g., with a wake word, and assign at least one VAS to output a response based on the voice input. Some embodiments support the skill or skills of a secondary VAS when the primary VAS is unavailable or when the primary VAS does not possess the required skill. The system may evaluate the skills required to process a user request based on the context and/or intent. The system may distribute data related to voice input and context and/or intent among various VASs to complete a task. Furthermore, the system may classify voice input as generic voice input or target VAS-specific voice input, e.g., by utilizing a trained model.
US12315512B2
In one example, a method includes method comprising: receiving audio data generated by a microphone of a current computing device; identifying, based on the audio data, one or more computing devices that each emitted a respective audio signal in response to speech reception being activated at the current computing device; and selecting either the current computing device or a particular computing device from the identified one or more computing devices to satisfy a spoken utterance determined based on the audio data.
US12315510B2
The present disclosure is generally related to a data processing system to selectively invoke applications for execution. A data processing system can receive an input audio signal and can parse the input audio signal to identify a command. The data processing system can identify a first functionality of a first digital assistant application hosted on the data processing system in the vehicle and a second functionality of a second digital assistant application accessible via a client device. The data processing system can determine that one of the first functionality or the second functionality supports the command. The data processing system can select one of the first digital assistant application or the second digital assistant application based on the determination. The data processing system invoke one of the first digital assistant application or the second digital assistant application based on the selection.
US12315508B2
Implementations can reduce the time required to obtain responses from an automated assistant by, for example, obviating the need to provide an explicit invocation to the automated assistant, such as by saying a hot-word/phrase or performing a specific user input, prior to speaking a command or query. In addition, the automated assistant can optionally receive, understand, and/or respond to the command or query without communicating with a server, thereby further reducing the time in which a response can be provided. Implementations only selectively initiate on-device speech recognition responsive to determining one or more condition(s) are satisfied. Further, in some implementations, on-device NLU, on-device fulfillment, and/or resulting execution occur only responsive to determining, based on recognized text form the on-device speech recognition, that such further processing should occur. Thus, through selective activation of on-device speech processing, and/or selective activation of on-device NLU and/or on-device fulfillment, various client device resources are conserved.
US12315507B1
Techniques for performing automatic speech recognition (ASR) processing are described. The ASR processing may involve use of a segmenter and a decoder. The segmenter may be configured to identify audio segments, from audio data containing speech, based on word boundaries. The decoder may be configured to generate multiple word hypotheses for individual audio segments. A fixed-size representation of an audio segment may be generated. The described ASR processing techniques may be computationally less expensive than at least some other systems. Also, the described ASR processing techniques may maintain a larger number of word predictions per audio segment as compared to at least some other systems.
US12315506B2
Implementations set forth herein relate to an automated assistant that can bias speech processing towards certain requests according to whether those requests are relevant to content that is being rendered, or is expected to be rendered, at a computing device. In this way, speech processing can be dynamically biased according to features of content that may be rendered by a particular application and/or a particular device. Biasing can be performed during rendering of a portion of content determined to be relevant to a particular request by adjusting a score threshold which is generated based on a quantity and/or rate, in historical usage data, that is used for determining whether a particular request was received. When the portion of content is no longer being rendered, the threshold can return to a particular value, or be adjusted again according to a subsequent portion of the content.
US12315499B2
A method includes receiving a sequence of acoustic frames extracted from unlabeled audio samples that correspond to spoken utterances not paired with any corresponding transcriptions. The method also includes generating, using a supervised audio encoder, a target higher order feature representation for a corresponding acoustic frame. The method also includes augmenting the sequence of acoustic frames and generating, as output form an unsupervised audio encoder, a predicted higher order feature representation for a corresponding augmented acoustic frame in the sequence of augmented acoustic frames. The method also includes determining an unsupervised loss term based on the target higher order feature representation and the predicted higher order feature representation and updating parameters of the speech recognition model based on the unsupervised loss term.
US12315498B1
Techniques for action recommendation based on conversational log for real time assistance are described. Pre-generated intent clusters can be used to identify a relevant intent of a user in a given conversation between the user and a contact center agent. Based on the identified intent, certain recommended actions can be performed on the computing device of the contact center agent to facilitate the conversation between the user and the contact center agent. Feedback relating to the conversation and/or the recommended actions can be recorded and used to update the pre-generated intent clusters to improve the quality and relevance of the actions recommended for future conversations.
US12315490B2
The present disclosure relates generally to speech processing. Humans change their speech patterns in noisy environments. The systems and devices described herein can compensate for noisy environments to be more human-like. Thus, the configurations and implementations herein can determine a sound profile for the sound environment where the user is listening. Based on the sound profile, the devices can determine a transform to apply to output speech from the device. This transform is applied to the wake word, speech recognition, and to the output speech to compensate for the noise level of the environment by mimicking the Lombard effect.
US12315483B2
A pickup, a stringed instrument, and a pickup control method are disclosed. The pickup comprises: pickup components (110), multi-touch screens (130) and processing components (140). The multi-touch screens (130) and the processing components (140) are connected. The pickup components (110) and the processing components (140) are connected. The pickup components (110) is configured to pick up sound information emitted by a musical instrument. The multi-touch screen (130) is configured to display function application information that is selected from a group consisting of timbre adjustment function application information, tone adjustment function application information, and equalizer adjustment function application information. The multi-touch screen is configured to receive a function triggering instruction. The multi-touch screen displays information as to functional applications available through the pickup capabilities. Control functions available to a user are expanded beyond control by a single knob as in the prior art, the playing experience of a user on the instrument is enhanced.
US12315478B2
A vibrato control device for a guitar, including a body, a rotation mechanism within the body having an axis, and an arm connected to the body so as to allow rotation of the arm relative to the body about the axis. The arm is oriented so as to rotate generally parallel to the side of the body. The arm has particular application to a mechanically operated but electronically sensed vibrato control device.
US12315476B2
A tambourine including a frame provided with circumferentially disposed slots and respective pairs of jingles therein. The jingles of at least one pair of jingles differ in weight from that of the jingles of at least one other pair of jingles; and/or the slots, and thus the respective jingle pairs therein, are arranged about the circumference of the frame in at least two of the following three configurations: (a) a single row configuration, wherein one or more slots are substantially aligned with a horizontal plane that bisects the frame; (b) a staggered configuration, wherein adjacent slots alternate between being above and below the plane; and (c) a stacked configuration, wherein two slots are vertically aligned with one another, with one slot being above the plane and the other being below the plane.
US12315473B2
In an exemplary process, a virtual object is displayed in an enhanced reality setting. A request to transfer the virtual object is received, wherein a determination is made whether a set of one or more virtual object transfer criteria is satisfied. Movement of the virtual object away from an avatar is displayed in accordance with a determination that the set of one or more virtual object transfer criteria is satisfied. Displaying movement includes determining whether a size of the virtual object satisfies a set of one or more size criteria. In accordance with a determination that the size of the virtual object satisfies the set of one or more size criteria, a reduction in the size of the virtual object is displayed. In accordance with a determination that the size of the virtual object does not satisfy the set of one or more size criteria, displaying of a reduction in the size of the virtual object is foregone.
US12315469B2
The present application provides a gate drive circuit, a drive device and a display device. The gate drive circuit includes m switch groups, n first shift registers and m second shift registers. Each switch group includes n first switch units. The n first shift registers cyclically output a first row-scan signal, while each second shift register controls the n first switch units connected to each first controlled node corresponding to the second shift register to be turned on, so that the first row-scan signal is fed back to each gate-line in turn, to realize a line-by-line scan driver. The gate drive circuit only needs n+m shift registers to complete the gate drive, compared with the existing gate drive circuit requiring n×m shift registers, the number of shift registers is reduced, the cost is reduced and the manufacturing process is simplified.
US12315451B2
Provided is a pixel circuit configured to drive, in an Xth frame period, a light emitting device to emit light. The Xth frame period includes Y data writing stages and Z light emitting stages, in which a yth data writing stage includes a first sub-stage to a third sub-stage. The pixel circuit includes: a driving transistor; a first reset module configured to transmit, in the first sub-stage, a first initialization signal to the driving transistor in response to a first scanning signal; a gating module configured to perform, in the second sub-stage, a threshold compensation on the driving transistor in response to a second scanning signal; and an input module configured to transmit, in the third sub-stage, a data signal to the driving transistor in response to a third scanning signal. X, Y, Z and y are positive integers, y≤Y, and Y>Z.
US12315444B2
Provided is a pixel circuit capable of preventing slight light emission of an organic EL element due to leakage current from a driving transistor. Provided is a pixel circuit including: a light-emitting element that emits light at luminance corresponding to an amount of current; a first capacitance, which is a metal insulator metal (MIM) capacitance; and a second capacitance, which is a metal insulator semiconductor (MIS) capacitance disposed in parallel to the light-emitting element.
US12315439B2
A stage including: an output circuit connected to a first node and a second node; an input connected to a third node and a fourth node; and a plurality of signal processors between the output and the input, the plurality of signal processors electrically connecting the first node and the third node and electrically connecting the second node and the fourth node, wherein the input includes: a seventh transistor connected between a first input terminal and the fourth node and having a gate electrode connected to a second input terminal; a plurality of eighth transistors serially connected between the third node and the second input terminal and having gate electrodes connected to the fourth node; and a ninth transistor connected between the third node and a second power source and having a gate electrode connected to the second input terminal.
US12315437B2
A display device includes: a substrate including a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area; a light emitting element layer on the display area on the substrate and including a plurality of light emitting elements; and an encapsulating layer on the light emitting element layer and on a portion of the display area and the non-display area; and wherein the substrate comprises an upper surface on which the light emitting element layer is located, a bottom surface opposite to the upper surface, a side surface connected to the upper surface and not parallel to the upper surface, and a first inclined surface connected to the side surface and the bottom surface and not parallel to the side surface and the bottom surface, wherein an edge area of the upper surface of the substrate adjacent to an edge of the substrate, in which a processing trace remains.
US12315428B2
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of pixels, the plurality of pixels driven during a first frame with a first driving frequency and a second frame with a second driving frequency, a frequency generation unit configured to generate first frequency information indicative of the first driving frequency of the first frame after an end of the first frame, a gain generation unit configured to receive the first frequency information indicative of the first driving frequency generated by the frequency generation unit and generate a first gain value for the second frame based on the first driving frequency of the first frame indicated in the received first frequency information, and a video data output unit configured to output video data generated based on the first gain value to a data driving unit during the second frame.
US12315418B2
Display panel redundancy schemes and methods of operation are described. In an embodiment, and display panel includes an array of drivers (e.g. microdrivers), each of which including multiple portions to independently receive control and pixel bits. In an embodiment, each driver portion is to control a group of redundant emission elements.
US12315416B2
System for presenting a digital art image comprising a server (1) and a digital art frame (2), wherein the digital art frame (2) comprises an electronic paper display, wherein the digital art frame (2) comprises a mounting means configured to fix the digital art frame (2) on a wall, wherein the server (1) is configured to store a plurality of dithered digital art images, wherein the processed digital art images have the same number of intensity levels as the electronic paper display (21), wherein the processed number of intensity levels is at least four, wherein the system is configured to transfer one of the processed digital art images to the digital art frame (2) and to display the transferred processed digital art image on the electronic paper display (21).
US12315415B2
A display device including: a pixel unit including first pixels disposed in a first pixel area and second pixels disposed in a second pixel area; an image data corrector adjusting a limit grayscale of first image data corresponding to the first pixel area based on a dimming level defining a maximum luminance at which the pixel unit is able to emit light, and correcting the first image data based on the limit grayscale; a data driver supplying data signals to the pixel unit based on the corrected first image data and second image data corresponding to the second pixel area; and a scan driver supplying scan signals to the pixel unit.
US12315413B2
A display, system and method of providing a display are described. The display includes sets of microLEDs. Each set of microLEDs corresponds to one of a plurality of pixels of the display and produces a combination of light that forms a color of the corresponding one of the pixels. Lenses control an emission angle and emission profile of the light emitted by the sets of microLEDs. Each set of microLEDs has a red microLED that emits red light, a green microLED that emits green light, a blue microLED that emits blue light, and another microLED that emits light along a red-green locus. The red-green locus light is selected to enhance efficiency at a white point to compensate for reduced emission from the red microLED dependent on a size of the red microLED.
US12315408B2
The present application relates to a display device and a method of providing the same. A display device includes a display panel which is bendable, the display panel including a bending area and a pad area which is adjacent to the bending area, and a lower layer extending along the pad area of the display panel. The lower layer includes a lower film layer defining an opening at the pad area, the opening exposing a portion of the pad area to outside the lower film layer, and a step compensation member which is in the opening of the lower film layer and on the portion of the pad area which is exposed to outside the lower film layer.
US12315405B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel driven based on a first gate clock and a second gate clock, a clock supply circuit including a first output terminal for an output of the first gate clock and a second output terminal for an output of the second gate clock, supplying the first output terminal with one of a gate high voltage and a gate low voltage as a first test voltage, and supplying the second output terminal with the other of the gate high voltage and the gate low voltage as a second test voltage, for a first time immediately after a system power is applied thereto, a power generator generating the gate high voltage and the gate low voltage and supplying the gate high voltage and the gate low voltage to the clock supply circuit, and an overcurrent detector receiving a flag signal to recognize overcurrent from the power generator to shut down the power generator, when the first output terminal and the second output terminal are short-circuited with each other at the first time interval.
US12315400B2
A projector includes an image generator that includes an image display apparatus having an image display region in which image light is displayed, a projection system that projects the image light output from the image display apparatus onto a projection receiving surface, a lens shift mechanism configured to shift the position of the projection system in a plane perpendicular to the optical axis of the projection system, and a controller that controls the image display apparatus when the lens shift mechanism moves the projection system to display the image light having been reduced in size in a reduced display region that is part of the image display region.
US12315398B2
A method is provided for tracking and/or locating a delivery item transport equipment label. A delivery-item transport equipment label is scanned. At least one of a first identifier that is attached to a bracket or an RFID chip that is attached to the bracket is scanned to associate the delivery-item transport equipment label with the RFID chip. The RFID chip is scanned during use of a delivery-item transport equipment to which the bracket is attached. A location of the delivery-item transport equipment label is identified based on the scanning of the RFID chip.
US12315397B2
Methods and apparatus for organizing items according to various aspects of the present invention may comprise a hanger tag system to convey information relating to an item on a hanger. The hanger tag system may comprise, for example, a mount connected to the hanger and an information medium mounted on the mount, wherein the information medium provides information relating to the item. In various embodiments, the hanger tag system further comprises a connector configured to connect the mount to the hanger. In various embodiments, the information medium comprises a labeling surface.
US12315394B2
The disclosure provides a cheating estimation device including an answer acquisition part acquires a character string input into an answer column of a question as an answer; an operation history information acquisition part acquires operation history information indicating an operation history of an input operation of the answer to the answer column; and an estimation part estimates whether cheating has been committed in the answer to the question based on the operation history information acquired by the operation history information acquisition part.
US12315390B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for configuring, accessing, identifying, and delivering a plurality of data structures that include interfaces configured to guide users through an elementary school writing curriculum based on interactions of users with one or more of the interfaces. In one aspect, a system comprises a data processing system for reading a plurality of data structures representing educational modules and ordering data specifying an order in which the educational modules and their corresponding lessons are rendered from a hardware storage device. In another aspect, the system generates a computer program based on the read data structures for causing rendering of a graphical user interface including a visual representation of a lesson of an educational module that specifies which one or more visual representations to render and maintains a state of the computer program for specifying which educational module is currently being rendered and which lesson of that educational module is currently being rendered, the updating of which causes accessing, identifying, and delivering of a plurality of data structures that include interfaces for transitioning to another lesson of the module or another module.
US12315389B2
A anatomy education assembly includes a body table that has body indicia printed thereon. A heart table is provided which has heart indicia is printed thereon to represent the human heart. A lungs table is provided which has lung indicia printed thereon to represent human lungs. A plurality of syringes is each coupled to a respective one of the body table, the heart table and the lungs table. The plurality of syringes contains a respective first fluid which has a bluish color or a second fluid which has a reddish color. A plurality of tubes is fluidly coupled between a respective pair of the syringes thereby facilitating fluid communication between the respective pair of syringes. Each of the tubes is comprised of a translucent material to facilitate the first fluid and the second fluid to be visible while passing through the tubes for educational purposes.
US12315388B2
A trainer for practicing an intraosseous infusion is presented. The trainer includes a mannequin and an injection-site simulant. The mannequin is in the form of a body, either human or animal, in part or whole. The injection-site simulant further includes a pocket, an insert, and an outer cover. The pocket extends into the mannequin. The insert simulates a hard exterior of a bone and is disposed within the pocket. The outer cover with a plug simulates a skin, either human or animal. The outer cover conceals the insert, pocket, and plug. The pocket and insert cooperate to form a cavity where marrow resides within the bone. The cavity is capable of receiving a fluid injected through a hole formed during use through the outer cover, plug, and insert. The plug sealingly contacts and cooperates with the insert and/or the wall within the pocket to confine the fluid within the cavity.
US12315376B1
Methods, apparatus, and systems are provided for an aircraft superhighway system comprising: at least one superhighway node and/or a plurality of spaced apart superhighway nodes/towers, wherein each superhighway node/tower has an overlapping coverage area (e.g. wireless communication coverage area and/or surveillance coverage area) with the coverage area of another adjacent superhighway node/tower and the airspace within each of the coverage areas forming a continuous airspace corridor or aircraft superhighway; and a superhighway controller in communication with at least one of the superhighway nodes/towers; wherein the superhighway controller is configured to use the superhighway nodes/towers for authorising, monitoring and controlling air traffic permitted to transit a flight path within one or more portions of the airspace corridor or aircraft superhighway.
US12315373B2
A method for assisting a motor vehicle during a trip of the motor vehicle within an infrastructure, the trip of the motor vehicle being guided in an at least semiautomated manner. The method includes: receiving regional signals, which represent a first region of the infrastructure monitored using a surround-sensor system; for the motor vehicle approaching the first region, determining if a second region is free of a possible collision object for the motor vehicle at an expected arrival time of the motor vehicle at the first or second region, based on the regional signals; if the second region is free of a possible collision object for the motor vehicle at the expected arrival time, outputting a release signal for transmitting to the motor vehicle a communications message, that the second region is free of a possible collision object at the expected arrival time.
US12315364B2
A remote coding setting method is to be implemented by a receiver of a ceiling fan, and includes steps of: (A) when receiving a setting signal during a predetermined time period, obtaining a code length of the setting signal; (B) retrieving, from pre-stored coding data, a piece of coding format information that corresponds to the code length; (C) setting a fan coding format based on the piece of coding format information; and (D) when receiving a control signal after the predetermined time period, decoding the control signal based on the fan coding format, and controlling operation of the ceiling fan based on a result of the decoding.
US12315359B2
A method for determining the position and vital signs of an occupant of a transportation vehicle and a transportation vehicle having a radio system and a control unit connected to the radio system. The method is based on channel impulse response (CIR) measurements and is performed using at least two UWB antennas during the operation of the transportation vehicle to determine a position and a vital sign of one or more occupants of the transportation vehicle.
US12315358B2
Various systems and methods for registering a panic button for intervention are described herein. A system is configured to receive at a server, an indication that a panic button was used by a user; access a database to determine a responsive action, the responsive action being one of: transmitting a speaking prompt or activating a device function of a device associated with the user; and establish a communication session with the user to perform the responsive action.
US12315354B2
There is provided a method and apparatus for detecting a fall event of the user. The method includes collecting data associated with activities of the user from sensors and distributing the collected data to data sub-windows using signal windowing and segmentation, the data sub-windows indicative of a pre-fall moment, a fall moment, and a post-fall moment. The method includes extracting features from the data sub-windows and determining whether the event is a fall event using the extracted features. The determination of whether the event is a fall event can be determined by applied support vector machine technique. The developed machine learning based methods may balance a trade-off between accuracy and complexity of the evaluation. The method further includes multiple rejection filters mitigate false alarms due to fall-like activities of daily living. The method includes a personalization process to update the machine learning based methods associated with each user.
US12315352B1
A method may include receiving, via at least one processor, alert data that may include an alert associated with a vehicle identifier of an additional vehicle and location data. The method may then include cross referencing the alert data with image data to identify a match between the alert data and the image data, such that the image data is acquired over a period of time by one or more image sensors coupled to a vehicle. The method may also include presenting a notification via an electronic display of the vehicle in response to identifying a match between the alert data and the image data.
US12315350B2
A medium processing apparatus, including: a banknote device configured to process a banknote, including a banknote device door arranged at an opening of a safe box and being movable between an open position and a closed position; a banknote device lock configured to switch the banknote device door between a locked state and an unlocked state; a loose coin device configured to process a loose coin, including a loose coin device door arranged at an opening of a safe box and being movable between an open position and a closed position; a loose coin device lock configured to switch the loose coin device door between a locked state and an unlocked state, wherein the banknote device lock and the loose coin device lock perform a switching between the locked state and the unlocked state independently from each other.
US12315344B2
An electronic method of operating a gaming system. The method includes selecting a plurality of symbols, displaying the selected symbols, and upon the displayed symbols including one or more designated symbols, retaining each displayed designated symbol for a subsequent game round at a respective symbol display position at which the designated symbol is displayed. The method also includes, in the subsequent game round, selecting, a plurality of symbols from the symbol data, upon a further designated symbol being selected for display at a symbol display position at which the retained designated symbol is displayed, modifying the retained designated symbol to indicate that a win containing the retained designated symbol will be increased, and upon the selected symbols in the subsequent game round corresponding to a winning outcome incorporating the modified retained designated symbol, making an award of an award value corresponding to the winning outcome modifier by the increase.
US12315343B2
A gaming system for enabling the simultaneous play of social virtual currency, wager-based gaming and free, play-for-fun gaming is described. The gaming system is configured to deliver a fun game to a client in conjunction with a virtual currency gaming event and to initiate play of a fun game upon a predesignated triggering event of the virtual currency game. The fun game is played by a plurality of players and fun game controller directs game information to a fun game server. Fun game information can be displayed for multiple players to drive competitive-type play among players and can be used to provide awards and incentivize play.
US12315342B2
The present disclosure relates generally to systems and methods for providing game symbol removal operations in games. The game symbol removal operation allows a player of the gaming device to provide input regarding a set of game symbols to be removed from a first configuration of an array of cells. Removing the game symbol(s) in the set of game symbols from the first configuration of the array of cells forms a second configuration of the array of cells. A selected game symbol of the unremoved game symbols can have a higher probability of being a first game payline on the array of cells in the second configuration than on the array of cells in the first configuration. Removal of a particular game symbol from the array of cells allows a player to control his or her chances of winning and alter the proposed payouts for winning distributions of game symbols for at least one subsequent play of the game.
US12315341B2
Disclosed are example embodiments of systems and methods for gaming. An example gaming system includes at least one processor and a memory coupled to the at least one processor. The at least one processor is configured to track a first received bet and present a representation of a first wheel-based game of chance having a first number of possible outcomes. The at least one processor is configured to track a second received bet and present a representation of a second wheel-based game of chance having a second number of possible outcomes. Presenting at least one of the representations of the first wheel-based game or the representation of the second wheel-based game occurs after receiving at least one of the first received bet and the second received bet, respectively.
US12315340B2
A bonusing system for gaming devices provides a first bonus award eligible to be won via participating gaming devices. The bonusing system is configured to: establish the first bonus award as available to participating gaming devices based on a bonus award configuration; register a plurality of electronic gaming machines (EGMs) and a plurality of table gaming devices to participate in the first bonus award; receive, from a first electronic gaming machine (EGM), a first wager event message indicating a first wager being performed by a first player at the first EGM; receive, from a first table gaming device, a second wager event message indicating a second wager being performed by a second player at the first table gaming device; determine that one of the first and second wager events results in an award of the bonus award based on output of a random number generator (RNG), the award of the bonus award identifying one or more of a winning player and a winning gaming device; and award the bonus award to the winning player at the winning gaming device based on the determination.
US12315327B2
An electronic gaming device which comprises a control unit a plurality of electronic display devices and a mechanical device. The plurality of electronic display devices comprising a flexible control panel display coupled to the control unit. The flexible control panel display being configured to display selectable indicia and receive and register touch input. The mechanical device being coupled to the control unit and configured to engage at least a portion of the flexible control panel display. Upon engagement by the mechanical device, the flexible control panel being manipulated from a flat condition to a curved condition.
US12315322B2
A sheet medium stacking and separating apparatus includes a frame, a supporting plate and a paper shifting mechanism. The frame is provided with a storage cavity. A first end of the storage cavity along a stacking direction of the sheet medium is provided with a paper inlet, and a second end of the storage cavity along the stacking direction of the sheet medium is provided with a paper outlet and a separation mechanism. The supporting plate can move along the stacking direction of the sheet medium, and has an output position and a receiving position. The paper shifting mechanism is disposed adjacent to the paper outlet, and the paper shifting mechanism is configured to drive the sheet medium to move into the storage cavity and away from the paper outlet.
US12315312B2
The present disclosure provides systems and methods that identify tractors associated with faults at a trailer or a dolly in a tractor trailer configuration. In one form, the present disclosure provides a system positioned on a trailer that comprises a memory and at least one processor of a braking system. The at least one processor is configured to execute instructions stored in the memory and to receive a VIN from a tractor that is connected to the trailer; detect a fault of the braking system of the trailer; and associate the VIN of the tractor with the fault of the braking system and store the associated fault of the braking system and the VIN of the tractor in the memory.
US12315302B2
Devices and methods for an occupant of a vehicle are provided in this disclosure. A device for identifying an occupant of a vehicle may include a processor. The processor may be configured to determine an identity for the occupant based on a first sensor data including information indicating a detection of a facial attribute of the occupant. The processor may further be configured to estimate a behavior for the occupant based on a second sensor data including information indicating a detection of a body attribute of the occupant. The processor may further be configured to determine a spoofing attempt result indicating whether the occupant attempts a spoofing based on the determined identity and the estimated behavior.
US12315297B2
A personal information display device can recognize card information or service information in advance so that passwords required for various cards or services can be immediately recognized and can display a password or an ID associated with the information after authenticating the individual. In order to achieve this, a processing method of a personal information display device having a glasses-shaped display unit includes: capturing an iris of an individual wearing the personal information display device and acquiring iris information from the captured iris; capturing information of various cards or various services and acquiring recognition information of the various cards or the various services from the captured information of the various cards or the various services; and registering personal information from the iris information and registering an ID or a password associated with the recognition information of the various cards or the various services.
US12315296B2
A system for contemporaneously calibrating a gaze-tracking system and authorizing access to a first other system can include a processor and a memory. The memory can store a preliminary operations module, an authorization module, and a gaze-tracking module. The preliminary operations module can include instructions to compare a trajectory, of a point of gaze of an eye, with a pattern associated both with a calibration of the gaze-tracking system and with a first authorization process, that excludes an iris recognition process, for the first other system. The authorization module can include instructions to cause an access to the first other system to be authorized. The gaze-tracking module can include instructions to: (1) cause the gaze-tracking system to be calibrated and (2) cause, in response to the gaze-tracking system being calibrated, the gaze-tracking system to be configured to be a user interface for a second other system.
US12315293B2
A method of generating a reenacted image includes: extracting a landmark from each of a driver image and a target image; generating a driver feature map based on pose information and expression information of a first face shown in the driver image; generating a target feature map and a pose-normalized target feature map based on style information of a second face shown in the target image; generating a mixed feature map by using the driver feature map and the target feature map; and generating the reenacted image by using the mixed feature map and the pose-normalized target feature map.
US12315292B2
This description describes a system for identifying individuals within a digital file. The system accesses a digital file describing the movement of unidentified individuals and detects a face for an unidentified individual at a plurality of locations in the video. The system divides the digital file into a set of segments and detects a face of an unidentified individual by applying a detection algorithm to each segment. For each detected face, the system applies a recognition algorithm to extract feature vectors representative of the identity of the detected faces which are stored in computer memory. The system applies a recognition algorithm to query the extracted feature vectors for target individuals by matching unidentified individuals to target individuals, determining a confidence level describing the likelihood that the match is correct, and generating a report to be presented to a user of the system.
US12315289B2
A latent print extraction apparatus is described. An input receives an image of light reflected from a curved surface. A comparison unit compares a shape of the reflected light in the image to an expected shape of light reflected from a flat surface and thereby determines an estimated curvature for the curved surface. A correction unit corrects curvature distortions of an image of a latent print on the curved surface based on the estimated curvature. The latent print extraction apparatus allows the calculation of a value for the curvature of the curved surface to be done remotely, without the need to physically measure the surface. This saves time and avoids accidentally or otherwise contacting any latent prints when measuring the curvature of the surface.
US12315284B2
Disclosed aspects include computer-implemented method for preventing Carpal Tunnel Syndrome (CTS), a computer program product, and a laptop computer. One embodiment of the method may comprise collecting, by a device having an associated keyboard, data of a user's interaction with the keyboard. The method may further comprise analyzing, by a first machine learning model, the audiovisual data to identify ergonomic issues in the user's interaction with the keyboard. The method may further comprise notifying the user of the identified ergonomic issues in real time.
US12315281B2
The image processing apparatus having a scan function and including: a memory storing a program; and a processor executing the program to set a property of a business form file by using results of character recognition processing for a business form image obtained by reading a business form; perform predetermined preprocessing before the character recognition processing for the business form image; and perform the character recognition processing for each character area within the business form image for which the preprocessing is performed, wherein as the preprocessing, first preprocessing performed as a default and second preprocessing performed additionally for improving accuracy of the character recognition processing exist and in the performing preprocessing, whether to perform the second preprocessing following the first preprocessing is determined based on information specifying contents of preprocessing to be performed, which is registered in advance for a past business form image similar to the business form image.
US12315280B2
Described herein are systems and methods for extracting borderless checkbox tables from electronic documents. A server detects checkboxes in a textual electronic document. The server extracts text blocks from the textual electronic document. The server identifies table headers corresponding to a borderless checkbox table in the textual electronic document based on the text blocks. The server determines a table boundary corresponding to the borderless checkbox table based on the table headers. The server identifies table rows and table columns corresponding to the borderless checkbox table based on the table boundary and the checkboxes. The server identifies table cells corresponding to the borderless checkbox table based on the table rows and the table columns. The server generates a data structure comprising data representing the borderless checkbox table based on at least the table cells and the checkboxes.
US12315275B2
An image processing method according to the invention includes obtaining a ground truth image teaching a cell region occupied by a cell in an original image for each of a plurality of the original images obtained by bright-field imaging of the cell, generating a reverse image by reversing luminance of the original image at least for the cell region based on each original image, and constructing a classification model by performing machine learning using a set of the original image and the ground truth image corresponding to the original image and a set of the reverse image and the ground truth image corresponding to the original image as a basis of the reverse image respectively as training data.
US12315272B2
A system for identifying an aspect of interest on a vehicle that includes a local AI system that can analyze sensor data from an on-site sensor to make an attempt to identify the aspect of interest according to first criterion. The aspect of interest can be information printed on the vehicle and/or on a seal of the vehicle. If the local AI system is unable to identify and validate the information on the first effort, it can consult with a central/global AI system that can leverage its own database and other local systems at other locations for subsequent attempts at identifying and validating the aspects of interest.
US12315268B2
A system includes one or more cameras configured to attach to an aircraft and capture a plurality of images. The plurality of images includes a first image including a runway and a subsequently captured second image including the runway. The system includes an aircraft computing system configured to identify common features in the first and second images, determine changes in locations of the common features between the first and second images, and determine a predicted landing location of the aircraft in the second image based on the changes in locations of the common features. The aircraft computing system is configured to abort landing on the runway based on the predicted landing location relative to the runway.
US12315246B2
The present disclosure discloses a remote sensing-based extraction method for a type of a river channel, including: obtaining multi-source remote sensing data of a target area including a river channel; preprocessing the multi-source remote sensing data, and obtaining corresponding reflectance data; according to the reflectance data, analyzing a water index and a vegetation index of the target area; and according to the water index and the vegetation index, constructing first preset conditions for determining whether there is water in the river channel and second preset conditions for determining whether the river channel is a non-dry river channel to determine the type of the river channel. Types of river channels can be divided into four types: non-dry river channels, seasonal dry river channels, temporary water channels, and dry river channels.
US12315245B2
The invention relates to a method and a device for determining altitude obstacles. The method includes, for a given geographical area, obtaining (50) digital aerial images of portions of terrain of said geographical area from at least one digital aerial image source, forming a set of digital aerial images covering said geographical area. The method includes applying (54) a first image processing to the digital images of said set of images so as to obtain a first set of obstacles present in said geographical area and an associated first height estimate, then applying (56) a second image processing to the images of said set of digital images so as to obtain a second set of obstacles present in said geographical zone and a second associated height estimate, greater than or equal to said predetermined minimum height. Depending on the first and second height estimates, a consolidated set of altitude obstacles with a height greater than or equal to said predetermined minimum height, present in said geographical area, is obtained (66, 68) and attributes of said altitude obstacles are stored (70).
US12315228B2
A processor-implemented method includes: generating a first sample image and a second sample image by performing data augmentation on an input training image; generating a first feature map of the first sample image and a second feature map of the second sample image by performing feature extraction on the first sample image and the second sample image using an encoding model; determining first loss data according to a relationship between first feature vectors of the first feature map and second feature vectors of the second feature map; estimating relative geometric information of the first feature map and the second feature map using a relationship estimation model; determining second loss data according to the relative geometric information, based on label data according to a geometric arrangement of the first sample image and the second sample image in the input training image; and training the encoding model and the relationship estimation model, based on the first loss data and the second loss data.
US12315225B2
Methods, systems, and computer program products, for training a multitask neural network. First and second datasets are provided, containing samples for a first task and a second task, respectively. First and second batch miners are provided for mining samples from the first and second datasets. First and second costs for completing the first and second tasks, respectively, are assessed using a first sample mined by the first batch miner from the first dataset and a second sample mined by the second batch miner from the second dataset. When the first or second cost, respectively, falls within a range delimited by lower and upper thresholds, the is added to a first or second batch, respectively. When a termination condition is reached for either the first or second batch, the first or the second batch is used to update the neural network.
US12315221B2
A storage unit holds a classification model that calculates a confidence score from image data, and a transformation model that is a model for transforming a feature value having fewer dimensions than the image data into the image data and is created such that a set of feature values corresponding to a set of image data follows a probability distribution. A processing unit extracts a feature value according to the probability distribution. The processing unit transforms the feature value into image data using the transformation model and calculates a confidence score corresponding to the image data using the classification model. The processing unit updates, based on the probability distribution and the feature value, a feature value to be input to the transformation model from the feature value to a feature value in such a manner that a confidence score to be calculated is higher than the confidence score.
US12315218B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and instrumentalities associated with tracking groups of small objects in medical images. The tracking may be accomplished by, for each one of a sequence of medical images, determining a plurality of candidate objects captured in the medical image, grouping the plurality of candidate objects into a plurality of groups of candidate objects and dividing the medical image into a plurality of regions that each surrounds a corresponding group of candidate objects. Each of the plurality of regions may be examined to extract respective features associated with each corresponding group of candidate objects. A match between a first group of candidate objects in a first medical image and a second group of candidate objects in a second medical image may be determined based on first features associated with the first group and second features associated with the second group.
US12315211B2
A method for identifying defects in a web of material translating along a travel path is provided. The method includes receiving a first image from a first camera; receiving a second image from a second camera; identifying a candidate as a possible defect within the first image; determining a first x-y position of the candidate relative to the first image; identifying the candidate within the second image; and determining the candidate is a probable defect based on the first x-y position and a second x-y position of the candidate within the second image. The first x-y position and the second x-y position predict the candidate is located on the web of material within a margin-of-error.
US12315195B2
A system includes a server and a data repository storing a three-dimensional environment model, where the server is configured to: receive, from a client device a first image of a real-world environment captured by camera along with information indicative of a first measured pose of the client device; utilise the 3D environment model to generate a first reconstructed image from a perspective of a first measured pose; determine a transformation indicative of a difference in the first measured pose and a first actual pose of the client device; use the transformation to calculate the first actual pose; and send information indicative of at least one of: the first actual pose, or the first spatial transformation, to the client device for calculating subsequent actual poses.
US12315185B2
A method of object identification includes: capturing an image of an object having a material presenting surface artifacts; detecting a boundary within the captured image; selecting a portion of the image depicting the surface material within the boundary; based on the selected portion of the image, determining attributes of the surface artifacts; generating, based on the determined attributes of the surface artifacts, a physical identifier corresponding to the object; and storing the generated physical identifier.
US12315178B2
An eye movement analysis method comprises: acquiring a first scene video seen by a target user in a preset environment, and simultaneously acquiring eye movement gaze data of the target user in the environment; performing semantic segmentation on the first scene video based on a deep learning algorithm to obtain a second scene video, wherein the second scene video is divided to have eye movement area of interest; superposing the eye movement gaze data with the second scene video to obtain a gaze pixel point corresponding to the eye movement gaze data in the second scene video; and determining the gaze pixel point corresponding to each frame image in the second scene video and outputting eye movement data index of the target user gazing at the eye movement area of interest in combination with time sequence.
US12315177B2
Refining a rational functional model (RFM) by subdividing the multiple images into multiple groups of sub-images according to the imaging sensor, then performing the RFM refinement for each group separately and estimating a 3D transformation using the sub-images from the central sensor as a reference.
US12315174B2
An image processing apparatus includes an image obtainer that obtains captured images captured with a camera in a time series, an accumulator that accumulates movement information about a moving object in the captured images in the time series, a calculator that calculates movement information about the moving object based on the captured images in the time series obtained by the image obtainer, a comparator that compares the movement information about the moving object calculated by the calculator with the movement information about the moving object accumulated by the accumulator, a determiner that determines, based on a result of comparison of the movement information about the moving object performed by the comparator, whether the moving object being a target for the comparison performed by the comparator shows abnormal movement, and an output unit that outputs a result of determination performed by the determiner.
US12315173B2
An image processing system includes an image acquisition unit that acquires a plurality of images including a moving object image, an image capturing direction data calculation unit that calculates image capturing direction data indicating an image capturing direction in which an imaging device captures an image of a moving object at a time when the images is captured, a feature amount calculation unit that calculates a feature amount of the moving object image extracted from the images, and an associating unit that associates the moving objects in the images with each other based on the image capturing direction data and the feature amount.
US12315172B2
In combination, a detection section detects a target based on a first image signal from a first image sensor, a setting section sets an area of interest in which at least part of the target is included, a calculation section calculates, based on a second image signal from a second image sensor that asynchronously generates an image signal when a change in intensity of light incident on each of pixels is detected, a distribution of the second image signal in the area of interest, a tracking section tracks the detection target in the area of interest on the basis of at least one of the first image signal and the second image signal, a tracking controlling section discerns a movement of the detection target in the area of interest based on the tracking, and an information outputting section outputs a result of the tracking by the tracking section.
US12315169B2
A world in which a moving body moves is analyzed by using a semantic model of the world. A space feature characterizing a space in the world is defined by an item set that at least includes attribute information of a plurality of components present in and around the space. A specific space is a space where the moving body exhibits a characteristic behavior in the world. A specific space feature is the space feature characterizing the specific space. A plurality of components present in and around the specific space in a first world is extracted, and the specific space feature is defined by the item set. Then, a similar space having the space feature similar to the specific space feature regarding the specific space in the first world is extracted from a second world.
US12315167B2
Various methods and systems are provided for image data segmentation. In one example, a method includes receiving a first segmentation input selecting a first set of pixels of a two-dimensional (2D) projected rendering, the 2D projected rendering generated from a 3D medical image dataset, retropropagating the selected first set of pixels to 3D space based on a mapping between the 2D projected rendering and the 3D medical image dataset to form a 3D segmentation mask, and saving the 3D segmentation mask in memory and/or applying the 3D segmentation mask to the 3D medical image dataset, wherein the 2D projected rendering is an intensity projection rendering.
US12315166B2
In accordance with aspects of the present disclosure, a system includes at least one processor and at least one memory storing instructions which, when executed by the processor(s), cause the system to access images of a portion of a gastrointestinal tract (GIT) captured by a capsule endoscopy device; for each of the images, provide, by a deep learning neural network, scores for classifying the image to each of consecutive segments of the GIT; classify each image of a subset of the images, whose scores satisfy a confidence criterion, to one of the consecutive segments of the GIT; refine the classifications of the images in the subset by processing a signal over time corresponding to the classifications of the images in the subset; and estimate, among the images in the subset, a transition (1010) between two adjacent segments of the GIT based on the refined classifications of the images in the subset.
US12315141B2
Described here are systems and methods for quantifying vessel features in non-contrast microvasculature images obtained with an ultrasound imaging system. Vessel features that are quantified include, but are not limited to, vessel structure features (e.g., number of vessels, vessel density, number of branch points), vessel diameter, and vessel tortuosity. Morphological filtering is used to generate vessel segments from which the quantitative vessel features can be reliably quantified.
US12315134B2
An acquisition section (12) acquires a reflected wave intensity image in which a reflected wave intensity of an electromagnetic wave that has been radiated in a direction through a surface of a reinforced concrete structure toward an interior of the reinforced concrete structure at respective positions on the surface of the reinforced concrete structure is expressed by pixel values of pixels corresponding to each of the respective positions. A setting section (14) sets an evaluation target range in the acquired reflected wave intensity image. A computation section (16) computes a statistical indicator of a type set according to the set range for pixel values in the reflected wave intensity image. An evaluation section (18) evaluates a degree of deterioration of the reinforced concrete structure using the computed values.
US12315131B2
In order to determine contour edges within a provided image, a plurality of image cells (e.g., groupings of pixels) are created within the image. For each image cell, a numerical value for each of the pixels is compared to a predetermined threshold value to determine comparison values for each pixel. A total numerical value for each image cell may then be determined utilizing the comparison values and numerical values for each pixel within each image cell. An associated contour cell (indicating present contour edges) is then determined for each image cell by comparing the total numerical value for the image cell to a contour cell index. These operations may be performed in parallel by a graphics processing unit (GPU) for each image cell, which may improve a performance of contour edge determination for the image. The stitching of contour edges may also be performed using the GPU, which may provide additional performance improvements for image contour extraction.
US12315117B2
Provided are illumination field non-uniformity detection system, detection method, correction method, and device provided. The system includes displacement control module, controlling displacement platform to drive photodetector and image sensor to move within illumination field; illumination signal acquisition module, controlling the photodetector to collect different response signals at various collecting frequencies within the illumination field and controlling the image sensor to collect response images within the illumination field; data processing module, obtaining, based on different response signals, multiple illumination fields with different light radiation intensities and light intensity distribution considered to be uniform; based on this, obtaining multiple corrected image sensor grayscale matrices; fitting the multiple corrected image sensor grayscale matrices to obtain parameter matrix; and non-uniformity detection module, correcting the response images based on the parameter matrix; and characterizing non-uniformity of light intensity distribution within the illumination field using non-uniform metrics of grayscale distribution of the corrected response images.
US12315116B2
A method and device for counting colonies in a sample in a medium. A bright field image is generated from light transmitted through the sample and the medium in a bright field configuration and collected by a detection unit, and a dark field image is generated from light scattered from the sample and the medium in a dark field configuration and collected by a detection unit. A fusion image is generated by a computer processing unit by combining two operand images, one an inverted image of the bright field image, and the other the dark field image. Colonies of the sample are counted by the computer processing unit based on processing of the fusion image. A single detection unit can generate the bright and dark field images, or the detection units can be separate. Light and dark diffusing surfaces can be separately retained or formed by a single diffuser.
US12315115B2
Disclosed is an image fusion method and apparatus. The fusion method includes detecting first feature points of an object in a first image frame from the first image frame; transforming the first image frame based on the detected first feature points and predefined reference points to generate a transformed first image frame; detecting second feature points of the object in a second image frame from the second image frame; transforming the second image frame based on the detected second feature points and the predefined reference points to generate a transformed second image frame; and generating a combined image by combining the transformed first image frame and the transformed second image frame.
US12315113B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose an image processing method and apparatus. The method may include obtaining a harmonized image. The harmonized image may be harmonized with a promotional content image. The method may further include performing context feature extraction on the harmonized image to obtain context feature information of the harmonized image and extracting multi-level semantic information of an object in the harmonized image based on the context feature information. The method may further include performing image reconstruction based on the context feature information and the multi-level semantic information to obtain a reconstructed image. This solution can improve an image harmonization effect.
US12315106B2
A booster engine enhances the quality of a frame sequence. The booster engine receives, from a first stage circuit, the frame sequence with quality degradation in at least a frame. The quality degradation includes at least one of uneven resolution and uneven frame per second (FPS). The booster engine queries an information repository for reference information on the frame, using a query input based on at least a region of the frame to obtain a query output. The booster engine then applies a neural network to the query input and the query output to generate an optimized frame, and sends an enhanced frame sequence including the optimized frame to a second stage circuit.
US12315104B1
A method and device for generating a satellite remote-sensing image with high spatial, temporal and spectral resolutions is provided. The method includes: fusing a multispectral image with high temporal and spatial resolutions but a low spectral resolution and a hyperspectral image with a high spectral resolution but low temporal and spatial resolutions to generate a fused image with high spatial, temporal and spectral resolutions. Compared with a current spatial-temporal-spectral integrated fusion method, the proposed method is more in line with resolution characteristics of current mainstream satellite-borne remote-sensing data and can achieve high-fidelity fusion performance.
