US12024212B2
A train movement authorization method includes obtaining, by a train, current task information from an automatic train supervision system; obtaining, by the train, current resource allocation information from a trackside resource management center; reckoning, by the train, a first train in an operation direction downstream of the train based on the received resource allocation information; sending, by the train, a location request to the first train in the operation direction downstream of the train based on an operation task of the train and responding to a location request of another train; calculating, by the train, movement authorization of the train based on train information sent by the first train downstream in the operation direction; and applying for, by the train, a corresponding line resource from the trackside resource management center based on the task of the train and a status of the calculated movement authorization.
US12024211B2
A railroad hopper car having a single cargo-receiving hopper extending over substantially the length of a car body having a cargo discharge portion occupying most of the available distance between the wheeled trucks supporting opposite ends of the car body. The car has no pair of slope sheets separating longitudinally-adjacent hoppers and defining unusable space beneath the slope sheets, and so the overall length of such a hopper car capable of carrying a desired volume of cargo can be less than that of one with multiple separate hoppers. Cargo discharge openings are arrayed along the length of the cargo discharge portion, and a unitary multi-gate assembly is supported within the cargo discharge portion of the car body so as to be movable longitudinally of the car body to open or close all of the cargo discharge openings simultaneously.
US12024206B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to testing situational awareness of a test driver tasked with monitoring the driving of a vehicle operating in an autonomous driving mode. For instance, a signal that indicates that the test driver may be distracted may be identified. Based on the signal, that a question can be asked of the test driver may be determined. A plurality of factors relating to a driving context for the vehicle may be identified. Based on the determination, a question may be generated based on the plurality of factors. The question may be provided to the test driver. Input may be received from the test driver providing an answer to the question.
US12024205B2
A control device of a vehicle including an automated traveling unit capable of executing automated traveling functions includes an acquisition unit for acquiring information regarding a use state of a remote driving service for the vehicle, and a control unit for determining a content of the automated traveling function to be executable by the automated traveling unit based on the use state of the remote driving service for the vehicle. In a case where the vehicle is not using the remote driving service, the control unit disables at least some of the automated traveling functions that are executable in a case where the vehicle is using the remote driving service.
US12024201B2
Disclosed are various embodiments related to coordinated monitoring and responding to an emergency situation at a building structure as a supplement to a traditional emergency response. In some embodiments, a system comprises a computing device that is configured to receive sensor data from a sensor network. The sensor network includes monitoring units that monitor various locations of an infrastructure. The computing device determines an occurrence of an emergency event at a location in the infrastructure using an anomaly detector model based at least in part on the sensor data. A hybrid mobile unit is instructed by the computing device to navigate to the location of the emergency event. The hybrid mobile unit is configured to provide mobile sensor data associated with the location to confirm the emergency event.
US12024185B2
Exemplary method, system, device and computer-accessible medium can be provided for synchronizing a plurality of sensor systems with respect to a respective phase for providing data. For example, each of the sensor systems can periodically provide the data. This can be done by, e.g., (i) generating a phase request from at least one processing unit for each of the plurality of sensor systems, whereas the processing unit(s) can be configured to receive the data from the plurality of sensor systems, (ii) analysing all phase requests to ascertain executeability thereof, (iii) generating target phase requests if the phase requests have been determined and/or confirmed as being executable, and (iv) transmitting the respective target phase requests to the respective sensor systems for synchronizing the phases of the plurality of the different sensor systems.
US12024163B2
Systems and methods of alerting an occupant of a vehicle to an obstacle to a side of the vehicle. The systems and methods include receiving turn indicating data from at least one vehicle system, receiving perception data from a perception system of the vehicle, predicting a vehicle turn based on the turn predicting data, generating an obstacle alert, which is output through an output device of the vehicle, when an obstacle is detected within a first sized detection zone or a second sized detection zone using the perception data, and switching from using the first sized detection zone to using the second sized detection zone for generating the obstacle alert in response to predicting the vehicle turn. The second sized detection zone is extended as compared to the first sized detection zone.
US12024162B2
Techniques are described that enable automatic emergency braking (AEB) for a path-crossing target when a collision between a host vehicle and the target that is deemed imminent. Based on whether an acceleration of the host vehicle is above a threshold. Based on the acceleration, and, optionally, a location of the target relative to a crossing path (e.g., whether a portion of the target is within a suppression zone), an AEB system of the host vehicle is either activated or not activated, for example, suppressed. This suppression of the AEB system may include gating or nulling an AEB activation signal to prevent an emergency braking event. By managing the AEB system in a path-crossing scenario, many common false-positive AEB events (warnings, alerts, and/or braking) may be avoided. Furthermore, intentional vehicle maneuvers that comply with normal driving etiquette or rules can still be allowed for operator and passenger comfort, without risking safety.
US12024152B2
There is provided a motor control device that is configured to control a drive motor configured to output a driving force to a wheel, the motor control device including: a calculation circuit that is configured to calculate an instruction value based on an amount of an accelerator operation, a motor rotation speed, and an amount of a change operation; and a control circuit that is configured to control the driving force of the drive motor in accordance with the instruction value from the calculation circuit. The calculation circuit is configured to form a virtual clutch configured to change a power transmission ratio between the drive motor and the wheel according to the amount of the change operation, and to calculate the instruction value corresponding to coasting traveling according to the motor rotation speed when the virtual clutch is disengaged.
US12024149B2
The present disclosure provides a wheel speed sensor interface circuit, an operation method thereof, and an electronic control system, the wheel speed sensor interface circuit comprising: a first signal processing unit for receiving a first current signal sensed by a high side of a wheel speed sensor and processing the first current signal to output a first voltage signal; a second signal processing unit for receiving a second current signal sensed by a low side of the wheel speed sensor and processing the second current signal to output a second voltage signal; and a verification unit for comparing the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal with each other and verifying whether the first voltage signal and the second voltage signal are normal. According to the present disclosure, reliability and redundancy for a process of transmitting wheel speed information can be secured.
US12024141B2
A pump assembly for generating pressure in a brake circuit of a controllable power brake system of a motor vehicle. The pump assembly has, as a pressure generator, a piston-cylinder unit in which a piston is actuated with the aid of a piston drive. The piston drive converts a rotational movement, with which a nut of this piston drive is driven, into a translatory movement of a spindle, which is in turn connected to the piston in a rotationally fixed manner. The piston is a steel component in which a plastic deformation at a piston head forms a device for connecting the spindle to the piston in a rotationally fixed manner.
US12024129B1
A vehicle seat-top storage device has a lower layer formed from a flexible material configured to overlay and conform to portions of a vehicle seat. An upper layer of a flexible sheet material is coupled along side edges to the lower layer to define an interior space between the lower and upper layers. An opening of the device allows access to the interior space through the opening. A closure device is provided for selectively opening and closing the opening. Securing straps are coupled to the device to secure the device to the vehicle seat.
US12024116B2
In this buckle device, a base end portion of a belt is folded back on itself to form a ring-shaped portion, and the belt is wound onto a spool in a state in which the ring-shaped portion of the belt has been inserted through an insertion hole in the spool. This enables a winding radius of the belt to be increased by the base end portion of the belt and enables a load at which the belt is permitted to be pulled out to be reduced, when the belt is pulled out from the spool.
US12024111B2
A driver seat airbag apparatus includes a steering wheel and an airbag module. The steering wheel has a central hub and a rim. The rim has a shape in which a portion of the upper portion of the rim is omitted. The hub includes: a module housing part which houses the airbag module; and a cover which covers the module housing and is cleavable at the expansion pressure of the cushion. The cover includes cover doors which open at the expansion pressure of the cushion. When the cover is cleaved, the cover doors are open in the right and left diagonal upward directions when viewed from the center of the hub, while a space portion without the cover doors is formed in the direction directly above the center of the hub when viewed from the center of the hub.
US12024109B2
The present invention relates to an anti-abandonment system comprising: a first sensor (2) associable with a restraining device (R) placed in the vehicle, a second sensor (3) associable with a fastening tab or with a fastening buckle of a safety belt of the vehicle. The anti-abandonment system comprises a control unit connected to the first and second sensors and configured to perform a control procedure comprising the steps of: determining, as a function of the signal emitted by the first sensor, the presence of a child and/or an infant on the restraining device; determining, as a function of the signal emitted by the second sensor, a fastened or unfastened condition of the safety belt, defining an alarm condition in the event that the control unit determines the presence of a child and/or an infant on the restraining device and at the same time the unfastened condition of the safety belt. The present invention also regards a process for warning of a potentially hazardous situation relative to the presence of an infant/child inside a vehicle.
US12024108B2
Provided are a method and an apparatus for controlling the deployment of an airbag. The method includes steps of: determining whether a complex collision has occurred, based on collision-related physical quantities due to a vehicle collision; and adjusting a threshold value as a criterion for determining whether to deploy an airbag when the complex collision has occurred as a result of the determination.
US12024107B2
A control device to be mounted on a vehicle, includes: a board; a control circuit which is provided on the board and is configured to execute a control in a case of a collision of the vehicle; a case in which the board is accommodated; and a bracket that extends from a side surface of the case and is to be fixed to the vehicle with a fastening member, and the bracket includes: a groove portion that extends in an intersection direction intersecting an extending direction of the bracket from the case; and a protrusion that closes a part of the groove portion.
US12024105B2
The present invention is about a bumper beam comprising: —a first end portion and a second end portion, —a center beam contiguous with and oriented between the first end portion and the second end portion, wherein the center beam comprises a front face and a back face; wherein the center beam has a center section and end sections at opposite ends of the center section, the end sections being adjacent to the end portions, respectively, wherein the center beam comprises horizontal and vertical ribs extending from the front face and the back face and/or between the front face and the back face, wherein the bumper beam is made of a plastic material.
US12024100B2
Described herein are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for self-detection of a fault condition by a vehicle component, generation of a device health code that includes multiple tiers of information relating to the fault condition experienced by the vehicle component, and broadcasting of the device health code to one or more other vehicle components via one or more vehicle communication networks. A recommended vehicle response measure indicated by a reaction code in the device health code can then be taken or alternate vehicle response may be selected and initiated based on an evaluation of current vehicle operational data.
US12024093B2
An actuator for a rear view device of a vehicle, a rear view device and a vehicle with such an actuator includes a body defining a folding axis for a rear view device of a vehicle, an actuator housing being rotatably and axially displaceably borne by the body and a drive assembly being supported by the actuator housing and being configured for automatically rotating the actuator housing relative to the body about the folding axis between a first angular position and a second angular position and for axially displacing the actuator housing relative to the body along the folding axis between a first axial position and a second axial position.
US12024082B2
A truck mountable kayak loader and carrier including a support frame having a front frame, a back frame, and a pair of side rails. Rotatably affixed to the back frame is a kayak support structure having a pair of telescoping rails, with a winch support structure secured at and between one of the ends of the telescoping rails and a pull bar secured at and between the other ends of the telescoping rails. A telescoping cylinder is provided to raise and lower the front end of the kayak support structure relative to the support frame, and a winch system is provided to pull the kayak onto the kayak support system. Also provide is a kayak support structure for mounting on a carrier or storage structure. Further, methods of loading a kayak onto a truck or kayak support structure are provided, using the disclosed technology.
US12024077B1
A cover for a seating and/or cargo area and doors of a vehicle includes front, middle and rear panels or portions. Door panels are attached to an upper portion of left and right sides of the front panel. Left and right front straps are spaced apart and attached to the front panel. Rear straps are attached to the rear panel. Window inserts are attachable to the left and right side door panels. For vehicles having fold-up seats, the cover may include a rear panel having independently foldable first, second, and optionally third sections attached by a zipper, and split seat top clips on opposite sides of the zipper. First and second top seats straps are attached on opposite sides of the rear panel. The fold-up seats, which may be split or un-split seats, may be folded up or down, without displacing or removing the cover.
US12024076B2
A distribution system for a vehicle seat. The distribution system includes one or more plenums that each have a cap layer, a support layer, and an open space formed between the cap layer and the support layer. The support layer is a generally rigid material and the cap layer is a generally flexible material that is connected to the support layer. The open space includes one or more baffles that assist in directing fluid between a blower connected to the one or more plenums and one or more ventilation holes.
US12024066B2
A multi-position seat configured to maximize usability thereof through various changes in the positions of a seat back and a seat cushion may include a height assembly configured to move a base frame mounted on a vehicle body, a slide assembly configured to move a seat cushion frame, which is positioned above the base frame and is connected to the base frame via a link mechanism, upwards and downwards by sliding action of the link mechanism in a forward and backward direction, a tilt assembly configured to move a rear end portion of the seat cushion frame upwards and downwards, and a seat back frame hingedly coupled to a rear end portion of the base frame to be reclined.
US12024060B2
A system for reducing overdraw of power in a vehicle includes a power source having a battery and a fuel cell circuit. The system further includes an ECU that transmits a power limit signal to a vehicle controller, the power limit signal corresponding to an instantaneous maximum amount of power of the power source. The ECU also determines a battery allowed power corresponding to an amount of power available to be drawn from the battery to cause the SOC of the battery to remain above a lower SOC threshold. The ECU also determines a current battery power draw from the battery corresponding to an instantaneous amount of power being drawn from the battery. The ECU is designed to reduce the instantaneous maximum amount of power in the power limit signal when the current battery power draw is greater than the battery allowed power, reducing the current battery power draw.
US12024059B2
A vehicle system is provided and includes a modular dynamically allocated capacity storage system (MODACS) and an active management module. The MODACS includes blocks of cells. The active management module is configured to: detect a first state of a first block of cells of the blocks of cells; determine whether a safety fault condition exists with the first block of cells based on the first state of the first block of cells; in response to detecting existence of the safety fault condition, isolate the first block of cells from other ones of the blocks of cells; subsequent to isolating the first block of cells, actively discharge and detect a second state of the first block of cells; and based on the second state, continue isolating the first block of cells or reconnecting the first block of cells such that the first block of cells is no longer isolated.
US12024053B2
A battery management system includes monitoring devices arranged in a housing that houses batteries and a control device. The monitoring device includes (i) a monitoring IC capable of acquiring battery information and (ii) a wireless IC. At a start-up time of the plurality of monitoring devices, each of the wireless ICs performs an advertising operation in a cyclic advertising event for establishing a connection of wireless communication between the plurality of monitoring devices and the control device, and the control device performs a scan operation. The wireless IC of each of the two or more monitoring devices has, respectively, an event management unit that manages a generation cycle of the adverting event, for performing the advertising operation at respectively different timings.
US12024047B2
A method for controlling the charging process of an electrical energy storage device, at an electric charging device, wherein the charging device has a temperature control system and the energy storage device has a temperature control system, including at least the following steps: transfer of electrical energy between the charging device and the energy storage device, transfer of thermal energy between a temperature control system of the charging device and the temperature control system of the energy storage device, and transmission of at least one first item of information from a computing unit associated with the charging device to a computing unit associated with the energy storage device, and/or transmission of at least one second item of information from a computing unit associated with the energy storage device to a computing unit associated with the charging device.
US12024046B2
Charging guidance systems and methods for charging electrified vehicles may be configured to influence a user's charging decisions in a manner that simplifies the vehicle charging experience. Exemplary charging guidance systems may be configured to coach the user to charge a traction battery pack of the vehicle at a lower level charging option as opposed to a higher level charging option. Charging at lower level charging options when certain conditions are met reduces the amount of times the vehicle is charged using more aggressive charging methodologies, thereby improving battery performance, reducing costs, and preserving the life/warranty and asset utilization of the traction battery pack over the entire usage life of electrified vehicles.
US12024044B2
A charge control system includes: a charging apparatus; and a charge control device including a processor calculating a charge amount of the charging apparatus and perform charging control. Further, the charge amount is calculated in a manner that a first charge amount is greater than a second charge amount, the first charge amount being the charger amount which is charged in a first time period which is from a predetermined reference time point until the engine driving prohibited zone is set, the second charge amount being the charger amount which is charged in a second time period which is from the predetermined reference time point until the engine driving prohibited zone is set, and the first time period being shorter than the second time period.
US12024042B2
Methods and systems for charging rate management based on usage rate of charging stations for use in a server are provided. The charging field includes a plurality of electric vehicle charging stations for charging at least one electric vehicle. First, the server connects to each of the electric vehicle charging stations through the network to obtain a usage status of the respective electric vehicle charging station. Then, the server calculates a usage rate of the charging field according to the usage status of the respective electric vehicle charging station, and determines a charging rate for the charging field according to the usage rate.
US12024039B2
A vehicle charging system having a ground assembly is provided. The system includes a first transmitting coil at a first position and is configured to move a first charging field location in a first direction and a second direction. A second transmitting coil is provided at a second position spaced apart from the first position, the second transmitting coil being configured to move a second charging field in the first direction and second direction. A controller is operably coupled to the first transmitting coil and the second transmitting coil. The controller is configured to selectively energize at least one of the first transmitting coil or the second transmitting coil in response to receiving a signal. The controller is further operable to move a position of the at least one of the first charging field and the second charging field in response to the signal.
US12024037B2
A charging system for an electric vehicle includes: a rechargeable energy storage device adapted to store electrical energy and to supply the stored electrical energy to at least one electric motor of the vehicle to propel the vehicle; a charger adapted to supply electrical energy to the energy storage device according to a selectable power rating of at least two power ratings to charge and/or recharge the energy storage device based on a selected one of power ratings; and a controller adapted to select one of the power ratings of the charger to set the charger to charge and/or recharge the energy storage device based on the selected one of the power ratings.
US12024033B2
An electric machine is coupled to at least the respective alternating current output terminal or to a plurality of alternating current output terminals of the inverter. The electric machine has a rotor with a rotational speed that is capable of converting rotational mechanical energy of the rotor into electrical energy at the direct current bus terminals until the rotational speed declines below a critical speed. In response to the detection of an impaired state of the battery, a controller is configured to provide control signals to switch or toggle the corresponding low-side switch or switches to manage the charging and discharging of the direct current (DC) bus voltage between a minimum DC voltage and a maximum DC voltage that define a range suitable for providing energy sufficient to power an electronic data processor and control logic of the controller.
US12024022B2
A hybrid powertrain for a vehicle includes an internal combustion engine having a crank shaft rotatable about a geometric axis, an electric machine and a transmission having an input shaft rotatable about the geometric axis, and a clutch by which clutch the internal combustion engine and the transmission are selectively connectable to each other. A rotor of the electric machine is arranged on the crank shaft for rotating together with the crank shaft about the geometric axis, and the clutch is a dog clutch arranged for connecting and disconnecting the crank shaft of the internal combustion engine and the input shaft of the transmission to and from each other.
US12024000B2
A vehicle includes a body defining an interior cabin having at least one seat and a tailgate rearward of the at least one seat at a rear end of the cabin interior, a shelf configured to extend between lateral sides of the cabin interior in a region between the at least one seat and the liftgate. The shelf is configured to be arranged in one of a first shelf position, a second shelf position and a seat backrest position, and a heating device operable to heat the shelf. The vehicle also includes an orientation sensor to sense orientation of the shelf in one of the first position, second position and backrest position, and a controller controlling temperature of the heating element based on the sensed orientation of the shelf.
US12023992B2
The present invention relates to a clutch and a compressor comprising same, and it provides a compressor that operates with low noise and low vibration by reducing an amplitude of vibration transmitted in an axial direction of a clutch.
US12023990B2
A vehicle may include: a battery charged by a charging device; an air conditioner; and a controller configured to check whether the battery is being charged, and in response to checking that the battery being charged, apply power supplied from the charging device to the air conditioner. The air conditioner may preform an air blowing operation to execute an after-blow function using the applied power.
US12023989B2
A system includes heat generating components in a vehicle and a coolant flow path connected to the heat generating components. The system includes a coolant pump that circulates coolant through the coolant flow path and a reversing mechanism that reverses a direction of circulation of coolant.
US12023982B2
A proximity air conditioner is capable of performing energy-saving and efficient air-conditioning. A proximity air-conditioning unit for vehicles includes: a housing; a temperature adjustment unit including a temperature adjuster and a blower; and ducts, wherein upper ends of blowout ports of ducts are located above seat surfaces of seats, end portions in a long-side direction of the blowout ports are located on a front side with respect to other end portions thereof in a front-back direction of the seats, and the temperature adjustment unit is disposed between both end portions in the long-side direction of each of the blowout ports.
US12023981B2
An air-handling system for a vehicle includes a housing defining a first flow path through which a first flow of air is configured to selectively flow and a second flow path through which a second flow of air is configured to selectively flow. A heat exchange passageway provides fluid communication between the first flow path and the second flow path within the housing. A heat sink is disposed within the heat exchange passageway and is associated with cooling a linear power module of a blower assembly disposed within the housing. The heat sink is configured to exchange heat with air disposed within the heat exchange passageway to provide cooling of the linear power module regardless of a mode of operation of the blower assembly.
US12023980B2
The suspension apparatus may include a driving unit configured to provide driving power to a wheel, a first knuckle coupled with the driving unit, rotated around a steering axis, and configured to change a steering angle of the wheel, a second knuckle disposed to face the first knuckle and configured to rotatably support the first knuckle, a suspension arm configured to extend from a vehicle body and to support the second knuckle against the vehicle body, a shock absorber connected to the second knuckle and configured to absorb a shock that is applied to the second knuckle, and a rotation restriction member provided between the second knuckle and the shock absorber and configured to restrict the second knuckle from being rotated along with the first knuckle.
US12023970B2
In a pneumatic tire including a carcass layer mounted between a pair of bead portions and a belt reinforcing layer disposed on an outer circumferential side of the carcass layer, the carcass layer is formed of a carcass cord made of an organic fiber cord, an elongation at break of the carcass cord is set to 20% or more, an elongation under a load of 1.5 cN/dtex of the carcass cord in sidewall portions is set to from 5.0% to 8.0%, the belt reinforcing layer is formed of a cover cord made of an organic fiber cord, and a tensile strength of the cover cord per width of 50 mm at a 3.0% elongation is set to from 2.8 kN to 4.0 kN.
US12023967B2
A non-pneumatic tire includes a rim part in which an insertion groove is formed and being connected with an axle; a tread part formed in a shape of surrounding an outer side of the tire in a circumferential direction thereof and being in contact with the ground; a spoke part formed between the rim part and the tread part and provided with upper arch bodies and lower arch bodies of an arch shape to absorb impacts transmitted from the ground to the tread part; a structural reinforcement part inserted into the inside of the tread part to perform load support and stress distribution of the spoke part; a conductive structure part formed between an outer surface of the rim part and an inner surface of the tread part, and having fiber plated using a metal salt.
US12023964B2
A pneumatic tire can include a tread portion, a pair of sidewall portions, bead portions, and a carcass. At least one sidewall portion can include a first sidewall rubber arranged outside the carcass in a tire axial direction. The first sidewall rubber can include a different color rubber layer and a barrier rubber layer. The different color rubber layer can have a color different from a basic color of an outer surface of the at least one sidewall portion. At least a part of the different color rubber layer can be exposed in the outer surface of the at least one sidewall portion. The barrier rubber layer can be arranged between the different color rubber layer and the carcass. The barrier rubber layer can include a first portion having a rubber compounding to suppress migration of rubber compounding agents on the carcass side to the different color rubber layer.
US12023959B2
A sensing device for vehicle includes a housing having an opening formed at one side thereof; a sensing part disposed inside the housing and configured to sense wheel-related information to generate a signal; an insert on which the sensing part is mounted and disposed in the housing through the opening; at least one connection part connected to the sensing part so as to supply power to the sensing part or to transmit the signal from the sensing part; a body coupled to the housing and formed of a first material such that a portion of the insert is embedded in the body; and a filling material provided to fill an inner space of the housing therewith and formed of a second material different from the first material.
US12023954B1
The combination marker and eraser includes both a marker, such as those used with erasable whiteboards and markerboards, for example, and an eraser for the marker combined in a single writing implement. The combination marker and eraser includes the marker and a hollow housing. The body of the marker is received within the hollow housing such that the writing tip of the marker is positioned exterior to the hollow housing. A strip of eraser material is attached to an exterior surface of the hollow housing. The combination marker and eraser further includes an outer shell rotatably mounted about the hollow housing. The outer shell has a slot formed therethrough such that rotation of the outer shell with respect to the hollow housing selectively either covers the strip of eraser material or exposes the strip of eraser material through the slot.
US12023953B2
The invention relates to a layer structure containing: (A) a first transparent radiation-engravable layer (A) with a first surface a1) and a second surface a2) which runs substantially parallel to the surface a1), said first layer (A) having a colorful or black part-engraving, said engraving being generated by means of nonionizing electromagnetic radiation (E), on the first surface a1) which forms a first outer surface of the layer structure; (B) optionally an additional transparent radiation-engravable layer (B) with a first surface b1) facing towards the first layer (A) and another surface b2) facing away from the first layer (A) and running substantially parallel to the surface b1); and (C) optionally at least one additional transparent plastic layer (C), wherein the additional layer (C) is selectively provided in one of a group of options consisting of: on the face of the first surface a1) of the layer (A), on the face of the additional surface b2) of the additional layer (B), between the two layers (A) and (B), or, in the event of additional layers (C), a combination of at least two of said options, and an image of the colorful or black part-engraving is located on the surface of the layer structure in the form of a nontransparent structural modification forming an additional outer surface of the layer structure and lying opposite the first surface a1). The invention likewise relates to the production of the layer structure as well as to a security document containing the layer structure according to the invention.
US12023948B2
The recording medium according to the present invention includes a substrate, an ink receiving layer (1), and an ink receiving layer (2) arranged on the outermost surface. The ink receiving layer (2) has a thickness of 10 nm or more and 4000 nm or less. The ink receiving layer (1) contains a first inorganic particle and a first binder, and the ink receiving layer (2) contains a second inorganic particle and a second binder. The first binder and the second binder are each a water-insoluble resin. The contact angle θ1 formed between water and a surface of the ink receiving layer (1) is 90° or more, and the contact angle θ2 formed between water and the surface of the ink receiving layer (2) is 60° or more and 85° or less.
US12023946B2
Various photo-luminescent films and associated methods are enabled. For instance, a photo-luminescent film comprises a substrate layer comprising a plurality of pores, and a composite comprising luminescent nanoparticles disposed in the plurality of pores.
US12023945B2
The invention relates to a printing system and a method for printing print material, with a number of printing stations, at least one pre- and/or post-treatment station and a number of print product carriers for taking up a print product and for transporting the print product to the stations. It is provided according to the invention that the print product carriers each have their own drive, a steerable chassis and a control unit for independent movement of the print product carriers and that the stations are arranged on a transport surface, on which the print product carriers are freely movable.
US12023936B2
A liquid cartridge includes a valve mechanism including a pressed member configured to be movable in a predetermined depressing direction, a valve element for a communicating hole, a biasing member that biases the valve element, and a switching mechanism that restricts a movable range of the pressed member, and that switches a range of restricting the movable range. The valve element closes the communicating hole with a first depressing amount, and maintains the closed state under a second depressing amount. The restricting portion has a first restricting portion that restricts the movable range to a first movable range, and a second restricting portion that restricts the movable range to a second movable range. The switching mechanism switches the movable range from one to another of a first restricting state by the first restricting portion and a second restricting state by the second restricting portion.
US12023932B2
An image forming apparatus includes a recording head, a wiping unit and a moving mechanism. The recording head has a nozzle area where a plurality of ink ejection ports is opened downward. The wiping unit is moved in a first direction with coming into contact with the nozzle area and wipes the ink ejection ports. The moving mechanism performs a wiping operation and a returning operation. The moving mechanism includes a first drive source and a guide part. The first drive source moves the wiping unit in the first direction and in the second direction. The guide part guides the wiping unit in the first direction in the wiping operation, and guides the wiping unit in the first direction so as to separate the wiping unit from the nozzle area downward and then guides the wiping unit in the second direction in the returning operation.
US12023923B2
In a droplet ejection apparatus and a droplet ejection method using the droplet ejection apparatus, the droplet ejection apparatus includes a liquid supply unit, a nozzle and a standing wave generating unit. The liquid supply unit is configured to provide a pressure to a liquid. The nozzle is connected to the liquid supply unit through a connecting conduit, to eject the liquid with a droplet. The standing wave generating unit is configured to generate a standing wave around the nozzle at which the droplet is formed, to detach the droplet from the nozzle.
US12023921B2
An MFD is disclosed. For example, the MFD includes a printhead to dispense print material, an enhancement printhead to dispense an enhancement printing fluid, a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing a plurality of instructions. The instructions when executed by the processor cause the processor to perform operations that include determining that an automated enhancement feature was selected, analyzing each pixel of an image to be printed to determine one or more pixels that are to receive the enhancement printing fluid, controlling the printhead to print the image, and controlling the enhancement printhead to dispense the enhancement printing fluid on the one or more pixels that are to receive the enhancement printing fluid.
US12023912B2
A coater includes a coating device and a rotator. The coating device is configured to apply a coating liquid on a sheet material. The rotator is configured to contact a coated surface of the sheet material to which the coating liquid is applied in the coating device. The rotator has a plurality of fine particles on a circumferential surface of the rotator.
US12023911B2
An inkjet recording apparatus includes a sheet conveyance portion, a pair of registration rollers, a recording portion, a plate portion, a suction roller, and an exhaust portion. The exhaust portion is disposed over an area from upstream of the recording portion to upstream of the pair of registration rollers with respect to the sheet conveyance direction and sucks air from above the conveyance belt and the plate portion in the direction away from the conveyance belt. The exhaust portion includes an exhaust hood and an exhaust fan. The exhaust fan guides the air in the exhaust hood through an air inlet into a recording portion housing and then passes the air through an exhaust outlet to discharge it via an air flow passage.
US12023905B2
Tear and heat resistant foams used in packaging, protective packaging bags and related methods are provided. The tear and heat resistant foam can include a nonwoven substrate, a polyethylene film, and a base layer of polyethylene foam joined together by applying at least one of heat or heat and pressure to the top nonwoven substrate, the polyethylene film and the polyethylene foam to heat the first surface of the top nonwoven substrate to a temperature that is above the melting point of polyethylene film but below the melting point of top nonwoven substrate. The temperature of the polyethylene film rises causing the polyethylene film to melt and bind the top nonwoven substrate to the polyethylene foam to form the heat and tear resistant packaging foam.
US12023903B2
A method for thinning a fingerprint identification module includes the steps of: providing at least one fingerprint identification module, wherein the fingerprint identification module includes a glass substrate and a plurality of laminated fingerprint identification members; providing a protective layer on each laminated fingerprint identification member; providing a dissociable sealant around each laminated fingerprint identification member and the protective layer of the fingerprint identification module and being adhered to support plate to form a carrier plate to be etched; etching the carrier plate to be etched and allowing an etching solution to etch the glass substrate until a thickness to be thinned is etched to form a semi-finished carrier plate; dissociating the dissociable sealant of the semi-finished carrier plate to reduce its viscosity; and removing the support plate, the dissociable sealant and the protective layer to complete a finished product of the thinned fingerprint identification module.
US12023902B2
A glass assembly with a resin frame for a vehicle window includes a glass plate; and a resin frame disposed on a peripheral edge area of the glass plate, wherein an electrical component disposed in a second section and an electrical connection member disposed in a first section are electrically connected together via a through hole as a relay portion interposed between a surface and an inner side surface with an adhesive applied thereto, and wherein the through hole is sealed with a sealing member.
US12023890B2
A system and method of manufacturing reinforced bags having reinforcing elements applied about the bags to support the bags in an opened and/or upstanding configuration. A web of bag material can be fed from a supply and can be folded and secured to form the bags. A series of reinforcing strips can be fed through an adhesive application station for application of an adhesive material thereto in a desired pattern. The reinforcing strips and bags are brought into registration and are adhesively attached to form the reinforced bags.
US12023888B2
A forming unit for a container from a blank of the container. The unit includes a conveyor and at least one equipment secured to the conveyor. The equipment includes a forming device moving with continuous movement and forming a container from the blank during a predetermined forming path on the conveyor.
US12023886B2
Provided is a method for producing a shoe member that includes a plurality of portions including a first portion and a second portion, each of which is constituted by one or more of members, the method including: a step of preparing a collective body including a first member that constitutes the first portion and a second member that constitutes the second portion and formed of a material different from that of the first member; and a step of irradiating electromagnetic wave toward the collective body, wherein the electromagnetic wave irradiation step including partly shielding the electromagnetic wave irradiated toward the second member by a shielding member capable of shielding electromagnetic wave, thereby reducing the electromagnetic wave irradiated onto the second member. Also provided is a molding die having a molding space corresponding to a shoe member and capable of being used for producing the shoe member by performing the method.
US12023877B2
An AFP head providing a plurality of fiber element tows under tension to a compaction roller which in operation presses the individual tows onto a substrate to produce a part. A separate laser heat source, such as an individual laser module, is provided for each pair of tows or tetrad of tows. Each laser is separately controllable to provide an on/off capability.
US12023871B2
A slicer in a material drop ejecting three-dimensional (3D) object printer identifies the positions and local densities for a plurality of infill lines within a perimeter to be formed within a layer of an object to be formed by the printer. The local density of each infill line is filtered and a control law is applied to the filtered local density to identify an error in the local density compared to a target density. This process is performed iteratively until the error is within a predetermined tolerance range about the target local density. The error is used to generate machine ready instructions to operate the 3D object printer to achieve the target density for the infill lines.
US12023869B2
A system for detecting irregularities in three-dimensional parts being manufactured using an additive manufacturing process. Images of the manufactured cross section are obtained via an apparatus, then processed for irregularities as the object manufacturing cycle progresses. These images are processed through computational algorithms in order to identify areas of compromised integrity or quality. This data is then used to determine the risk of the part as manufactured, and an assessment is performed to determine if the process should continue. Should the manufacturing process be determined to proceed, the data is stored to be further assessed later by technicians, operators, and/or engineers.
US12023865B2
A light engine for a three-dimensional printer includes a plurality of light emitting diodes (LEDs) arranged into respective groups, each respective group of LEDs including one or more LEDs, e.g., LEDs of different wavelengths. Corresponding to each respective LED group is a respective light pipe for receiving outputs of radiation from each the LEDs of the respective group and providing an output of the light pipe, and a respective telecentric optical system for collimating the output of the respective light pipe to provide a collimated output of the respective LED group. The respective telecentric optical system of each LED group includes a plurality of lenses, an absorber for constraining high angle rays of electromagnetic radiation propagating from the respective light pipe, and a crosstalk filter arranged to prevent rays of electromagnetic radiation propagating between adjacent ones of the light pipes of the light engine through the telecentric optical system.
US12023860B2
According to some embodiments, system and methods are provided comprising receiving, via a communication interface of a parameter development module comprising a processor, a defined geometry for one or more parts, wherein the parts are manufactured with an additive manufacturing machine, and wherein a stack is formed from one or more parts; fabricating the one or more parts with the additive manufacturing machine based on a first parameter set; collecting in-situ monitoring data from one or more in-situ monitoring systems of the additive manufacturing machine for one or more parts; determining whether each stack should receive an additional part based on an analysis of the collected in-situ monitoring data; and fabricating each additional part based on the determination the stack should receive the additional part. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12023856B2
A multi-material printer for using multiple materials, e.g., bioinks, to quickly fabricate structures, such as high-throughput screening microfluidic chips. The printer's light projector for emits light in an exposure sequence to cure material in an additive manufacturing process. The printer further includes a motion stage operable to move a build platform into and out of the reservoir in coordination with the exposure sequence. The printer further includes an indexing stage having a work table for supporting the reservoir. The indexing stage is operable to selectively align the build platform with multiple different materials of the reservoir. The multiple materials may be arranged at distinct angular positions within a single reservoir, and the indexing stage may be operable to rotate the work table to align the build platform with different materials during the exposure sequence for a quick transition among different materials without refilling of materials, exchange of reservoirs, etc.
US12023855B2
A core-sheath filament having a non-tacky sheath and a hot-melt processable adhesive core, the sheath exhibiting a melt flow index of less than 15 grams per 10 minutes, is provided. Methods of making the core-sheath filament and methods of using the core-sheath filament to print a hot-melt processable adhesive onto a primer-treated substrate surface to provide a structural bond are described.
US12023847B2
A reinforced refractory container having a cast refractory container which includes a sidewall defining an interior volume, the sidewall having inner and outer surfaces, the container cast from a castable refractory composition, and a wound, continuous fiber tensile reinforcement structure integrated with the container sidewall. A method of fabricating the reinforced refractory container is also provided.
US12023838B2
The invention relates to a blown film line for generating a blown film with at least one extruder for generating at least one melt strand, at least one distribution tool for converting the at least one melt strand into a circulating melt layer, an outlet nozzle for outputting the at least one melt layer, wherein this melt layer forms the blown film, and at least one device for subjecting the blown film to at least one fluid stream, in particular an air stream, for cooling the blown film. At least one pressure-providing device is furnished, with which the blown film may be brought to the device for subjecting the blown film to a fluid stream by means of at least one overpressure and/or one underpressure.
US12023833B2
The present invention offers a technique for providing assistance in setting up control for releasing gas from the interior of a mold device to the outside of the mold device. A display device for an injection molding machine display a screen. The screen includes a tab display field, in which a plurality of tabs are arranged, and a selection screen display field, in which selection screens that are selected for the respective plurality of tabs are displayed. The tab display field includes a first tab. The first selection screen, displayed in the selection screen display field when the first tab is selected, includes a plurality of input columns for use in a control of the release of gas from the inside of the mold device to the outside of the mold device.
US12023820B2
A hair cutting device is provided including a helmet suitable to be placed on the head and defining an inner surface facing the hair when the helmet is worn and counter-shaped to the head; the helmet includes channels each defining an inlet section for the hair in the channels and a main extension axis radial with respect to the inner surface; and a hair cutter in the channels defining a cutting direction perpendicular to the main extension axis.
US12023816B2
The invention relates to a curable coating composition comprising at least one surface-modifying amphiphilic additive and at least one siloxane-polyurethane coating composition. The invention also relates to methods of making and using the curable coating composition of the invention. The invention also relates to methods for reducing or preventing biofouling of a surface exposed to an aqueous environment comprising the use of the curable coating composition of the invention.
US12023815B2
Any technical error with robotic arms that are used to automatically perform object packing can affect quality and efficiency with which the packing is being carried out, and this in turn affects space utilization when a large quantity of objects are to be accommodated in tight packing spaces. This disclosure relates generally to automated object packing and more specifically to an object packing mechanism in which corrections are made when placement of object is identified as violating one or more regulations. The system packs objects by calculating ICP-BCP pairs for each empty space in a packing space. After packing each object, the system checks whether placement of the object violates one or more regulations, and if any violation is found, then the system determines and executes one or more corrective action to correct placement of the object that violates the regulation.
US12023799B2
A suction box for a gripper includes: a first part made of composite material, a second part made of composite material, the second part including orifices, and a third part connected, on the one hand, to the first part and, on the other hand, to the second part to form at least one cavity of the suction box. The third part is made of composite material. The first part and the third part are connected to each other by bonding. The second part and the third part are connected to each other by bonding.
US12023792B2
An impact tool having an exchangeable handle structure includes an impact tool main body. A rear-end portion of the impact tool main body forms an engaging portion having two lugs respectively on a top surface and a bottom surface and an annular body on a rear-end surface. Two penetrated portions respectively extend from a top side and a bottom side of the annular body. A left-half part and a right-half part of a front-end portion of a casing cover the lugs and the annular body. A plurality of fixing members respectively passes through the lugs, arm casings formed by the casing, the penetrated portions, and a rear annular casing of the casing. The rear annular casing is connected to a handle having a triggering member. The impact tool main body is detachably engaged with a handle device through the engaging portion.
US12023783B2
An abrasive article including a substrate; and an abrasive layer overlying the substrate, where the abrasive layer includes a blend of abrasive particles including a first type of abrasive particle comprising a polycrystalline material and having a first average friability F1, and a second type of abrasive particle comprising a polycrystalline material and having a second average friability, F2, where the blend comprises an average friability difference, ΔF=|F1−F2|, within a range of at least 0.5% to not greater than 80%.
US12023782B2
Superabrasive elements may be produced by method includes providing a superabrasive element including a polycrystalline diamond table that includes a metallic material disposed in interstitial spaces defined within the polycrystalline diamond table. The polycrystalline diamond table includes a superabrasive face and a superabrasive side surface extending around an outer periphery of the superabrasive face. The method also includes leaching the metallic material from at least a volume of the polycrystalline diamond table to produce a leached volume in the polycrystalline diamond table by (1) exposing at least a portion of the polycrystalline diamond table to a processing solution, (2) exposing an electrode to the processing solution, and (3) applying a charge to the electrode.
US12023781B2
A shot processing apparatus in which a projection machine projects projection media onto a workpiece. The shot processing apparatus includes plural hanger transport devices and a control unit. The hanger transport devices are each, in a hanging state of a member on which a workpiece is set or a hanging state of a workpiece, capable of moving along a guide path inside the shot processing apparatus and capable of stopping. The hanger transport devices are also capable of providing self-identifying identification information. The control unit controls the hanger transport devices by outputting to each of the plural hanger transport devices a control signal appropriate to each of the hanger transport devices. This control is based on the identification information provided from each of the individual hanger transport devices and based on information related to each of the individual hanger transport devices stored in advance in association with the identification information.
US12023779B2
Embodiments provided herein include a system and method for cleaning a first surface of a substrate using a brush carousel assembly. In one embodiment, the brush carousel assembly includes one or more rotatable brush mounting assemblies coupled to a rotatable carriage, having a carriage support structure configured to rotate about a carriage axis. The brush carousel assembly further includes a second brush mounting assembly disposed a second radial distance from the carriage axis, and coupled to the support structure of the carriage that includes the one or more rotatable support members.
US12023774B2
Disclosed is a device for polishing an intraocular lens by using an electrorheological effect. The device comprises a supporting plate (14), an electric motor (16), a conductive slip ring (18), an outer sleeve (20), a tool shaft (22), a connecting flange (24), an annular electrode (26) and a tool needle (28). The electric motor (16), an outer ring of the conductive slip ring (18), and the outer sleeve (20) are all installed on the supporting plate (14). The electric motor (16) drives the tool shaft (22) to rotate by means of a transmission assembly. One end of the tool shaft (22) is closely fitted with an inner ring of the conductive slip ring (18), and the other end of the tool shaft extends into the outer sleeve (20). The connecting flange (24) is installed on the outer sleeve (20). The annular electrode (26) is connected to the connecting flange (24). One end of the tool needle (28) is connected to the tool shaft (22), and the other end of the tool needle extends out of the annular electrode (26). The tool needle is used as a cathode and the annular electrode is used as an anode in the apparatus. The apparatus thus has a good insulation effect and both tool needle and annular electrode can be detached and adjusted, such that different polishing requirements can be met, and high-quality deterministic polishing for an aspherical intraocular lens can be completed. Further the present invention provides a method for polishing an intraocular lens by using an electrorheological effect.
US12023771B2
A device for holding in position a product to be processed includes a base connectable by magnetic interaction to a work surface of an apparatus for tumbling or polishing and comprising a first portion and a second portion movable along an operating direction mutually towards or away from a first and a second operating position. The device also includes a retaining support connected to the base and configured to hold in a stable position a product to be processed between a first and a second retaining element. Between the first and the second portion of the base an actuation member is interposed, configured to move the same portions between the first operating position and the second operating position. A method for holding in position a product to be processed is also disclosed.
US12023766B2
A hydraulic tensioning and release tool for an expansion fastener of a type having an elongate member with a tapered portion for fastening a workpiece. The tool includes a sleeve for placement about the tapered portion; a cylinder(s) including a cylinder for generating compressive force against the workpiece; a release piston for displacing the sleeve and a tension piston for coupling to elongate member. The tension piston and the cylinder(s) defining a tension chamber and the release piston. One of cylinder(s) defines at least one release chamber. Hydraulic ports are in fluid communication with the tension chamber and the release chamber for application of hydraulic pressure to displace the tension piston and the release piston for respectively tensioning the elongate member and for releasing the sleeve from the tapered portion. A tension retaining arrangement retains the elongate member in tension subsequent to removal of hydraulic pressure from the tensioning chamber.
US12023753B2
The present invention relates to a friction stir welding head including a central pin shaft, a peripheral shoulder part, a shaft for driving in rotation the part and the shaft about the axis, the shaft being integral in rotation with the part and being free in translation with respect to the part along the axis, the head including an external interface part intended to be secured to a rotary spindle of the machine, a device for transmitting the rotation of the shaft about the axis of rotation from the part and a device for driving in translation the shaft along the axis from the motor during the rotation of the shaft and of the part.
US12023750B2
Disclosed are a multi-channel electrochemical machining device and method for a blisk, and relate to the technical field of blisk electrochemical machining. The multi-channel electrochemical machining device for a blisk comprises an electrolytic bath used for accommodating an electrolyte, a blisk workpiece, a tube electrode and a top cover plate. The top cover plate is located above the blisk workpiece. An electrolysis chamber used for the tube electrode to electrolyze the blisk workpiece is formed between the lower surface of the top cover plate and the surface of the blisk workpiece. The electrolysis chamber communicates with the electrolytic bath. A drainage seam communicating the electrolysis chamber and the electrolytic bath along the axial direction of the blisk workpiece is formed in the upper surface of the top cover plate.
US12023749B2
A method for grinding a gear toothing, in which a target value with a tolerance range is defined for the tooth width. The method includes: a) measuring the location of the surface of the tooth flanks of the gear at least two axial positions offset in the direction of the axis of rotation; b) determining the actually present allowance of the gear based on the measured values determined in step a); c) grinding the toothing by radial infeed of the grinding tool relative to the toothing, c1) wherein the radial infeed corresponds to the target value of the tooth width, if the determination under step b) indicated that such an allowance is present on all tooth flanks that material will be removed from all tooth flanks, or c2) wherein the radial infeed takes place at a value higher than the target value of the tooth width, the higher value still corresponding to the tolerance range for the tooth width, if the determination under step b) indicated that such an allowance is present on all tooth flanks that material will be removed from all tooth flanks only with increased radial infeed.
US12023746B2
A forcible entry tool includes at least a cutter and a spreader. The forcible entry tool further includes a first tool portion having a first cutter part and a first spreader part. The forcible entry tool further includes a second tool portion having a second cutter part and a second spreader part. The first tool portion and the second tool portion are rotatable relative to one another to apply force to either or both of the cutter and the spreader.
US12023738B2
An apparatus is disclosed to create a breakaway junction for 3D printed parts. Powder is spread along a target zone, such as a build bed. A liquid functional agent is selectively dispensed upon the powder to form a 3D object, a supporting part, and the breakaway junction between them.
US12023736B2
A method for manufacturing in which alternating layers of a powdered magnetically susceptible material and a powdered insulating material are deposited onto a table as it is rotated about a first rotational axis.
US12023734B2
A technique for improving cold spray deposition conditions for cold spray additive manufacture of parts involves providing an in-situ temperature feedback controller with a remote instantaneous temperature sensor supplying surface temperature measurements of the deposition surface, and a (preferably long pulse) laser for heating. Temperature feedback allows for control over deposition conditions yielding predictable deposition properties.
US12023727B2
Provided herein is a method and apparatus for a starting head for a continuous casting mold, and more particularly, to a starting head configured to clinch a casting for drawing the casting from a continuous casting mold in a manner that reduces stresses within the casting decreasing the likelihood of stress cracks forming in the casting. An example starting head for a continuous casting mold includes: a body; a top surface of the body; two or more recesses defined within the top surface, where each recess extends from a first end to a second end, where the first end of a respective recess is closer to a center of the top surface than the second end of the respective recess, and where a depth of the first end of the respective recess relative to the top surface is less than a depth of the second end of the respective recess relative to the top surface; and a clinch point defined by the second end of the respective recess.
US12023715B2
An optical sorter includes an intermittent light source configured to intermittently emit light toward a plurality of sorting targets in transit, an optical sensor configured to detect the light associated with one sorting target among the plurality of sorting targets in transit during a plurality of intermittent light scan periods, a determination part configured to determine a foreign object and/or a defective product with respect to the one sorting target based on a signal acquired by the optical sensor, and a light source control part configured to control the intermittent light source. The light source control part is configured to control the intermittent light source in such a manner that, in a case where the intermittent light source is turned on during at least one intermittent light scan period among the plurality of intermittent light scan periods, a lighting period during which the intermittent light source is on and a non-lighting period during which the intermittent light source is off are provided and the lighting period is started at a timing delayed behind a start of the at least one intermittent light scan period in each of the at least one intermittent light scan period.
US12023713B2
Embodiments of a system and method for sorting and sequencing articles in a processing facility are disclosed. Delivery endpoints are divided and grouped into stop groups. A first sorter sorts items according to stop group and outputs the items to trays. The output trays from the first sorter are loaded to a second sorter in stop group order. The second sorter can then sort the items into output bins in delivery sequence order.
US12023703B2
A dispenser and a method of delivering an ingredient from a dispenser are disclosed. The dispenser includes a dispenser container and a valve assembly comprising a valve connected to the dispenser container. The dispenser container is partly filled with activated carbon or another adsorbent and a dispensing carrier gas. An ingredient is contained in an ingredient containing reservoir. The valve assembly includes a component comprising a tube, an upper end of which is in operative communication with an actuator spray nozzle, and a lower end of which divides into first and second fitments which receive respectively first and second tubes. The first tube is connected to the ingredient containing reservoir. The second tube includes a frit or filter to prevent the activated carbon passing into the second tube when the pressurized dispensing carrier gas is released.
US12023692B2
A shower system includes on one or more valves and a plurality of showerheads. The plurality of showerheads are electrically coupled to one another and configured to receive electrical signals from one another. The plurality of showerheads are fluidly coupled to the one or more valves and configured to receive water therefrom. The plurality of showerheads includes a sprayer, one or more sensors, and an integrated user interface. The sprayer is configured to dispense water provided by the one or more valves. The one or more sensors are configured to register motion gestures made by a user. The integrated user interface is configured to control operation of the sprayer. The one or more sensors generates an internal signal to the plurality of showerheads corresponding to the motion gesture. One of the plurality of showerheads is a master showerhead.
US12023681B2
The present invention relates to the field of garbage landfill. The present invention discloses a classified landfill device and method for garbage landfills, and the problem solved by the present invention is that the device proposed in the above background absorbs metals in the garbage using a magnet, but when the surface of the magnet has absorbed a large amount of metal, the device needs to be closed to treat the metal adsorbed on the surface of the magnet. The present invention comprises a screening mechanism, crushing mechanism and discharge mechanism. According to the classified landfill device and method for garbage landfill, the second crushing knife is set at an angle to divert the falling garbage to the front and rear sides, so that the two first crushing knives and the second crushing knife cooperate to crush the garbage respectively to avoid excessive accumulation of garbage.
US12023679B2
A labware aligning system for use with a labware includes a frame and fixation system. The frame includes a seat. The fixation system includes a pusher and a pusher actuator. The pusher is movable relative to the frame between an open position and a closed position. The pusher actuator includes an actuator linkage and a biasing mechanism. The actuator linkage is configured to: move the pusher from the closed position toward the open position when the actuator linkage is displaced; and, permit the pusher to move toward the closed position when the actuator linkage is not displaced. The biasing mechanism is operative to force the pusher toward the closed position when the actuator linkage is not displaced and to thereby cause the pusher to align the labware in the seat.
US12023675B2
A system and/or method for determining an immune activation state of a subject can include: deforming leukocytes within a microfluidic channel, acquiring a plurality of images of the leukocytes, determining biophysical parameters of the leukocyte, adjusting the biophysical parameters, and determining the immune activation state of the subject based on the biophysical parameters.
US12023673B2
The present disclosure relates to devices and methods for the detection and/or sorting of nucleic acids. Further disclosed are methods for device fabrication.
US12023669B2
Computerized devices provide microscopy and electrochemistry tests, performed in dual channels. The devices can be brought to the field, for on-site testing with instant results. The dual channels include an imaging (optical or microscopic) channel and a signal channel. Microfluidic chips are disclosed for use with the microscopy channel optics.
US12023667B1
A non-aqueous fluidic system for extracting, filtering and concentrating lipid biomarkers from geological samples includes a sample input for receiving a sample, a combined comminution-extraction unit, a filter in fluid communication with the container, and a concentrator operable to receive the solvent phase from the filter and to concentrate lipid extracts for further analysis. The combined comminution-extraction unit has a container into which the received sample is introduced, a port through which one or more organic solvents are introduced into the container for mixing with the sample to thereby extract lipids into an organic phase, and a comminutor configured to rotate in the container to pulverize the sample to a uniform, reduced particle size and comprising a sonicator configured to agitate and disperse the sample into the one or more organic solvents.
US12023665B2
Devices and methods for modifying optical properties of biological samples or aspects thereof are provided. The subject methods include generating a reaction product with a device and reacting the reaction product to sufficiently modify an optical property to allow detection of the modified optical property.
US12023662B2
A system for segregating a mixture of oxidizable catalyst material and inert support media. The system comprises an enclosure configured to contain inert gas. The enclosure includes a plurality of stacked screens disposed therein. The stacked screens include openings that decrease in size from a top of the stack to a bottom of the stack. The enclosure also includes an inlet to deliver the mixture to an uppermost stacked screen and outlets to direct the separated support media and catalyst material to a location outside the enclosure.
US12023656B2
Catalyst particles comprising one or more active metal components and methods for manufacturing such catalyst particles are provided. The particles are a composite of a granulating agent or binder material such as an inorganic oxide, and an ultra-stable Y (hereafter “USY”) zeolite in which some of the aluminum atoms in the framework are substituted with zirconium atoms and/or titanium atoms and/or hafnium atoms. The one or more active phase components are incorporated prior to mixing the binder with the post-framework modified USY zeolite, extruding the resulting composite mixture, and forming the catalyst particles. The one or more active phase components are incorporated in the binder material prior to forming the catalyst particles.
US12023637B2
A droplet generating system includes a reservoir configured to receive an organic fluid and an aqueous fluid, a barrier separating the reservoir into a first reservoir portion and a second reservoir portion, a tube, and an indexer. The barrier is capable of preventing the aqueous fluid from entering the second reservoir portion from the first reservoir portion. The tube is disposed near the barrier, and the tube has a microfluidic channel. The indexer guides the aqueous fluid and the organic fluid into the microfluidic channel so as to form droplets of the aqueous fluid.
US12023636B2
Provided is a method for producing a liquid medium composition, including using a junction conduit structure 10 having a structure in which a first inlet conduit 11 and a second inlet conduit 12 are joined together to form an outlet conduit 13, and flowing a first liquid 1 containing a particular compound into the first inflow conduit 11 and flowing a second liquid 2 containing a linking substance into the second inlet conduit 12, and allowing the flows of the both liquids to join together to mix the both liquids, thus forming a liquid medium composition 3 containing structures formed by the particular compound linked via the linking substance dispersed therein while being flown through the outlet conduit 13.
US12023628B2
The present disclosure provides a drinking water purification system with a backwashable filter cartridge and a nanofiltration system. The drinking water purification system includes a backwashable pre-filtration unit, a nanofiltration unit and a cleaning unit. The backwashable pre-filtration unit is provided with a backwashable filter cartridge. The nanofiltration unit is provided with a nanofiltration filter cartridge. A water outflow side of the backwashable filter cartridge is connected to a water inflow side of the nanofiltration filter cartridge. The cleaning unit is connected to the water outflow side of the backwashable filter cartridge.
US12023616B1
Disclosed is a method for preparing an unbreakable micro-electrostatic filter, which comprises: using raw materials obtained by the secondary granulation, cutting after extrusion moulding to obtain an electrode material isolating and carrying frame, arranging an interval-retaining spacer between the upper panel and the lower panel of the electrode material isolating and carrying frame, arranging a strip-shaped conductive material with a preset size on a surface of the electrode material isolating and carrying frame at regular interval in a direction perpendicular to the quadrilateral air channel to obtain a basic filtering plate, then stacking basic filtering plates to form a filter mold base, hot-melt cutting a micro-electrostatic filter with a required size out of the filter mold base through relative movement of the filter mold base and the heating wire, wherein each edge of the micro-electrostatic filter is subjected to hot-melt cutting, to form a micro-electrostatic filter with completely sealed electrodes.
US12023615B1
A filter cleaning system with a cleaning chamber. The cleaning chamber has a container, a plurality of shafts and a plurality of nozzles inside of the container, and an outlet. The shafts extend along a length of the cleaning chamber and are configured to support a cylindrical filter. Each of the shafts is rotatable with respect to the chamber and is configured to cause the filter to rotate about an axis of the filter. The nozzles are positioned below the shafts and are configured to spray water upward toward a gap between the shafts. Each nozzle has a spray pattern comprising a flat fan pattern with a centerline. Each nozzle is oriented such that the centerline is nonparallel with the axis of the filter. The outlet is configured to drain recovery water out of the interior of the cleaning chamber.
US12023612B2
A filtration media with improved filtration, strength, tear resistance and air permeability in the form of a relatively thin and lightweight wet-laid fibrous web that has a wet Mullen ratio of 60% to 80% to ensure that the media is flexible enough to be formed into a fluted structure, and strong enough to retain the fluted structure when wound into a roll and to permit further processing without the media becoming too brittle. The filtration media comprises a blend of cellulose and synthetic fibers having a weight percent of 81 wt % to 87 wt % of a weight of the media and a resin binder having a weight of 13 wt % to 19 wt % (preferably about 16 wt %) of the weight of the media.
US12023611B2
An filtration apparatus is disclosed. The filtration apparatus is to remove non-liquid contaminant from liquid carrier. The filtration apparatus may include an electrode having a first surface, wherein the electrode is to generate an electric field towards liquid carrier containing non-liquid contaminant. The filtration apparatus may include a reservoir having a wall defined at least partially by the first surface, the reservoir to house a volume of liquid carrier. The filtration apparatus may include a plurality of plates, each plate having an accumulation surface, wherein a portion of each plate is within the reservoir, so as to be submerged in the volume of liquid carrier. An electric field formed between the first surface and the accumulation surface of each plate of the plurality of plates may act on the liquid carrier, to thereby cause non-liquid contaminant to adhere to an accumulation surface of a plate of the plurality of plates. A method and a print apparatus are also disclosed.
US12023610B2
A self-cleaning filtration media for use in hydrocarbon fluid filtration applications has a first layer on an upstream side and a second layer on downstream side of the self-cleaning filtration media. The first layer is composed of polyethersulfone nanofibers having a diameter of 50-1000 nm (0.05-1 micron) and a basis weight of at least 1 gsm. The second layer is a nonwoven substrate suitable for filtration applications. The self-cleaning filtration media exhibits a dust holding capacity of at least 6 mg/cm2 and a filtration efficiency of greater than 90% for 4 micron particles when the self-cleaning filtration media is tested according to ISO 19438 for fuel filtration and according to ISO 4548-12 for oil filtration. When the second layer includes glass fibers, the self-cleaning filtration media has a dust holding capacity of at least 10 mg/cm2 and a filtration efficiency of greater than 99% for 4 micron particles when the self-cleaning filtration media is tested according to ISO 19438 for fuel filtration and according to ISO 4548-12 for oil filtration. The self-cleaning filtration media also has a fuel-water separation efficiency of at least 99% when a flat sheet is tested according to ISO 16332; and a lifetime of at least 90 minutes when tested with fuel and oil according to ISO 19438 and ISO 4548-12 using Medium Test Dust and a pressure drop of 70 kPa.
US12023609B2
An effluent collector includes a filtrate receiving portion having a filtrate opening, and a pressate receiving portion having a pressate opening. The effluent collector includes a diverter barrier adjustably positioned above the pressate receiving portion. The diverter barrier is configured to adjustably direct at least a portion of a flow path toward or away from the pressate receiving portion.
US12023604B2
A method and a system for purification of oil, wherein the method comprises the steps of:—adding to a contaminated oil provided in a preparation tank a chemical booster for boosting capturing of impurities and/or a separation of phases in the contaminated oil; —waiting for allowing different phases to be separated; —pumping content out from the preparation tank through a fluid connection; sensing at least one property of the content in the fluid connection; —controlling a valve provided in the fluid connection to transfer the content to a next step in the purification process or to another destination in dependence of the sensed at least one property.
US12023596B2
A sensor used by a smart magic cube is disclosed. The sensor includes: a stator configured to be fixedly disposed on the smart magic cube; a first rotor rotatable in synchronization with a first magic cube layer of the smart magic cube, such that when the first rotor rotates with the first magic cube layer with respect to the stator, the stator or the first rotor outputs a rotation signal of the first magic cube layer; and a second rotor rotatable in synchronization with a second magic cube layer of the smart magic cube, such that when the second rotor rotates with the second magic cube layer with respect to the stator, the stator or the second rotor outputs a rotation signal of the second magic cube layer. A smart center shaft, a smart magic cube and a monitoring method for the smart magic cube are also disclosed.
US12023587B2
An example of an information processing system automatically determines a play target game to be played by a player, from among a plurality of types of games. The information processing system automatically determines a usage character to be operated by the player, from among a plurality of characters whose operation methods are different from each other. The information processing system executes the play target game by controlling the determined usage character in a virtual space, based on an operation performed by the player, and advances the game based on whether or not a clear condition for the play target game has been satisfied within a time limit.
US12023583B2
This application discloses a method and apparatus for selecting an accessory in a virtual environment. The method includes: displaying a first virtual environment interface; receiving a trigger operation on an accessory switching control; displaying a candidate accessory zone in a local peripheral region of the accessory switching control according to the trigger operation; receiving a selection operation on a target gun accessory in n gun accessories; and displaying a second virtual environment interface according to the selection operation. The accessory switching control is displayed superimposed on a picture. When the trigger operation on the accessory switching control is received, the candidate accessory zone is displayed in the peripheral region of the accessory switching control, and the n gun accessories of the same accessory type are displayed in the candidate accessory zone.
US12023579B2
Methods and systems for spectating a live video game are presented. In one method embodiment, an operation includes providing an interface for presenting an overhead view of an interactive environment of a video game on a head mounted display (HMD). The method also provides an operation for providing a magnifying window for displaying a magnified view of the interactive environment, where the magnified view is associated with a second vantage point that is closer to the interactive environment than is a first vantage point of the overhead view. The method further provides an operation for tracking a real-world position of a controller of the spectator and moving the location of the magnifying window to correspond to the real-world position of the controller.
US12023574B2
The present disclosure provides for the dynamic mapping of functions within a content development application to a control surface including a plurality of distinct modular input consoles. The system includes a console controller that is configured to monitor usage of the content development application by the user and to dynamically control the mapping of functions to the control surface based on the contextual operation of the content development application. The console controller can determine the functions that are to be mapped to the control surface based on the context of the application and the functions that are prioritized for use by a user of the content development application.
US12023573B2
Content of an application is presented for display. A virtual controller module receives information relating to keyboard characters for controlling operation of the application. The virtual controller module presents, based on the received information, a first set of buttons for display, where the buttons are to control operation of the application, and where the buttons are mapped to corresponding ones of the keyboard characters.
US12023571B2
A rotatable sports-board binding adapter mounts to a sports board and allows a user to adjust an angle of one foot relative to the sports board. The adapter includes a base plate forming a series of lock holes and at least one pocket that accommodates a low-friction puck. A rotatable plate connects to the base plate and includes a locking mechanism that can engage with any one of the lock holes to prevent rotation of the rotatable plate. When the low-friction puck is inserted into the pocket, the puck is translatable so that it contacts the rotatable plate, advantageously preventing the rotatable plate and base plate from directly contacting each other while providing a low-friction surface that enables the rotatable plate to easily rotate with respect to the base plate. As the low-friction puck wears, it may be additionally translated, or replaced with a new puck.
US12023558B2
Some disclosed golf club heads include body having at least one raised sole portion and a cantilevered ledge extending down around a perimeter of the club head below the level of the raised sole portion. Some disclosed golf club heads include one or more sole openings in the body and a sole insert that is mounted inside the body over the sole openings. The sole can include weight tracks as well, and a rear weight track can extend between a toe side sole opening and a heel side sole opening. A crown insert can also be included that is mounted over an upper opening in the body.
US12023550B2
A program is presented to a user including a stream of content including a first auditory content and a first visual content related to the workout. A context state of the user participating in the workout is determined based on information from a sensor. A responsive content is selectively added based on the context state of the user to the stream of content in a manner that avoids conflict with the stream of content.
US12023545B2
An exercise bar assembly includes a pair of rotating grip assemblies, each including a generally planar frame and a hand grip mounted within the frame for rotation within in the plane of the frame. The rotating grip assemblies are attachable to opposite ends of a center bar assembly along the longitudinal axis of the bar assembly. A plate bar assembly is attachable to each of the rotating grip assemblies opposite the center rod, with the plate bar assembly aligned with the longitudinal axis to form a weight lifting bar. A user-selectable elastic band is engageable between the pair of rotating grip assemblies along the longitudinal axis so that the elastic band resists rotation of each hand grip in each of the rotating grip assemblies. The rotating grip assemblies of the exercise bar assembly allow for the full range of motion of the bicep, and the elastic band creates a resistance exercise through the bicep's full range of motion.
US12023539B2
A weightlifting machine includes a user-engaging device, a carriage support, a carriage moveably mounted on the carriage support and configured to move along the carriage support, and a cable system including a cable operably connected to the user-engaging device and the carriage and one or more pulleys to guide a path of the cable. The cable may have a vertical cable section extending vertically within the center passage of a vertical rail of the carriage support. The machine may also include a platform to support the user during the exercise, the platform having a slot through which a section of the cable extends, and a friction reducing structure positioned along at least a portion of a periphery of the slot to engage the cable, which includes one or more rollers positioned along the at least a portion of the periphery of the slot.
US12023530B2
A structural post for fall arrest and rope access has a baseplate having baseplate fixing holes. A vertical mast is attached to an upper surface of the baseplate, and a main attachment plate comprising main attachment plate fixing holes is affixed to an upper end of the mast. The structural post may be mounted to concrete floor garden landscapes, steel structures and the like on high-rise buildings, for fall arrest and rope access, and which facilitates versatility and adaptability for various locations and applications, for construction, beside cleaning and other building and maintenance activities.
US12023529B1
A system, method, and computer program product for performing a respirator fit test. An example aspect is configured to: instruct a user to select a respirator; instruct the user to connect at least one set of tubing to the respirator and a fit testing device; instruct the user to don the respirator; prompt the user to begin the respirator fit test; perform the respirator fit test upon receiving a positive response from the user; detect at a processor, a signal from the respirator fit testing device; analyze data of the respirator fit test on the processor; troubleshoot at least one failure of the respirator fit test when a failing fit factor is detected; display to the user a subset of videos on a graphical user interface to correct the failure; and, perform the respirator fit test at least a second time.
US12023505B2
A sensing electrode selection algorithm is disclosed for use with an implantable pulse generator having an electrode array. The algorithm automatically selects optimal sensing electrodes in the array to be used with a pre-determined stimulation therapy appropriate for the patient. The algorithm preferably senses stimulation artifacts using different sensing electrodes, and more specifically different sensing electrode pairs as is appropriate when differential sensing is used. The algorithm further preferably senses these stimulation artifacts with the patient placed in two or more postures. The algorithm processes the stimulation artifact features measured at the different sensing electrodes and at the different postures to automatically determine one or more sensing electrode pairs that best distinguishes the two or more postures given the prescribed stimulation therapy.
US12023502B2
The invention relates to improvements in the technical field of external electromedical pulse generators. For this purpose, it is proposed in the case of an electromedical pulse generator that it has an electronics module and a control module separate therefrom, which can be used spatially separated from one another when the electromedical pulse generator is used.
US12023497B2
An improved stimulus coil for use in wireless stimulation of biological tissue (e.g., nerves, muscle tissue, etc.) and, in one exemplary implementation, to glaucoma therapy based on the wireless administration of energy to the eye of a mammalian subject (e.g., human, rodent, etc.) to reduce an elevated intraocular pressure (IOP) involving the use of an improved stimulus coil. The improved stimulus coil may be implanted in the eye of a mammalian subject or positioned on the exterior of the eye, such as (by way of example) by being disposed within a contact lens worn by a mammalian subject.
US12023494B2
The present invention relates to a device for performing a tVNS treatment having at least one electrode for generating a stimulation pulse, with the device having at least one detection means that is configured to detect one or more parameter values, and with the device having a control or regulation unit that is suitable to set one or more parameters of the stimulation pulse delivered by the electrode in dependence on the detected parameter value or values.
US12023492B2
A neuromodulation system, device, and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a neuromodulation method includes providing a neuromodulation system including a processor, a signal generator communicatively coupled to the processor, and at least one transcutaneous electrode communicatively coupled to the signal generator. The method also includes causing the at least one transcutaneous electrode to be applied a human patient having at least one dysfunctional spinal circuit. The method further includes facilitating transcutaneous electrical stimulation of the patient's spinal cord via the processor in cooperation with the signal generator causing activation of at least one spinal network (“SN”) to enable or improve voluntary movements of the patient's arms, trunk, and legs, or autonomic control of at least one of sexual activity, vasomotor activity, speech, swallowing, chewing, cardiovascular function, respiratory activity, body temperature, metabolic processes, or cognitive function.
US12023491B2
A microcurrent treatment device has one or more electrodes or emitters configured for electrical communication with the surface of a subject's skin. A voltage or current supply is adapted to generate an electrical waveform or other energetic waveform for application to the skin surface, via the one or more electrodes or emitters, and a controller is configured to modulate the waveform. The controller can modulate consecutive pulses of the waveform so that the pulse width, period, frequency, amplitude or integrated amplitude of the consecutive pulses varies in a predefined, random, pseudorandom, or other aperiodic manner, or so that the pulses exhibit a degree of statistical randomness, over a predefined period. The period can cover a set of consecutive pulses defining a treatment cycle, or a continuous subset of consecutive pulses defining one or more phases of a treatment cycle.
US12023488B2
The present technology is generally directed to medical implants, such as stimulation assemblies for stimulating heart tissue. In some embodiments, a stimulation assembly includes a body, circuitry positioned at least partially within the body, an electrode coupled to the body, and a hook mechanism coupled to the body. The stimulation assembly can be implanted at cardiac tissue of a patient such that the electrode electrically contacts the tissue. The circuitry can be configured to receive acoustic energy and convert the acoustic energy to electrical energy, and the electrode can deliver the electrical energy to the tissue to stimulate the tissue. The hook mechanism can be configured to engage the tissue to pull the tissue and the electrode toward and into engagement with one another.
US12023486B2
Systems and methods are provided for stimulating one or more nerves with an implantable device. The implantable device may comprise an antenna circuit including a loop antenna and a control circuit including a rectifying diode for rectifying an alternating voltage induced in the antenna circuit by an external electromagnetic field. The implantable device may also include a chargeable storage element for storing energy from the rectified voltage without using a battery. The device may also include an electrode array containing a set of electrodes for emitting an electric field using the stored energy in response to a control signal received from the control circuit. The components of the device may be affixed onto a soft polymer substrate including a linkable peripheral tab on at least two edges of a substantially rectangular body section of the substrate for forming a cuff about the one or more nerves to be stimulated.
US12023484B2
Presented herein are dual-function surgical tools for insertion of implantable stimulating assemblies, such as intra-cochlear stimulating assemblies. In addition to facilitating intra-operative positioning of a stimulating assembly within a recipient (e.g., operating to guide the stimulating assembly of an implantable medical device into position), the surgical tool also includes a plurality of electrodes configured to apply an electroporation electrical field to a recipient's nerve cells to enable introduction of treatment substance into the nerve cells.
US12023472B2
A dosing device for an injection device, the dosing device including an actuating element for adjusting and/or dispensing a dose from the injection device, a thrust element for generating a forward movement for discharging a dose and a coupling to which the actuating element and the thrust element are coupled such that a rotational movement of the actuating element is transmitted directly to the thrust element and an axial movement of the actuating element is different than an axial movement of the thrust element.
US12023471B1
A plungerless aspiration and/or injection device and a method of using the same are disclosed herein. The plungerless aspiration and/or injection device includes a housing with an end portion extending outwardly from the housing, the end portion having an outer edge; a needle portion disposed in the housing, the needle portion including a needle tip, and the needle tip configured to be extended beyond the outer edge of the end portion of the housing; and a bulb portion disposed in the housing, the bulb portion defining a fluid containing cavity that is fluidly coupled to the needle portion, and the bulb portion being elastically deformable to perform aspiration, injection, and/or implantation on a patient. The outer edge of the end portion of the housing is configured to be pressed against a body portion of the patient prior to insertion of the needle tip so as to reduce a pain sensation.
US12023467B2
An extender for filling a syringe cartridge at a filling station having an elevating bar has a connector portion connecting a proximal portion of the extender to a distal portion of the syringe cartridge. A head on a distal portion of the extender is sized and shaped to engage the elevating bar of the filling station. The syringe cartridge having the extender may be provided to a filling station that is configured for filling a long syringe cartridge having a long syringe-cartridge length greater than a length of the syringe cartridge. The syringe cartridge and extender may be supported on a syringe support of the filling station and passed through the filling station to fill the syringe cartridge.
US12023463B2
Methods, computer systems, and computer-storage medium are provided for providing clinical information for a person, such as a test result, immediately and the information automatically and immediately pushed to the ordering physicians device. A graphical representation is generated for a clinician to select clinical notification options. The received selection creates a notification to be automatically sent to one or more clinician devices. Automatic notifications reduce delay in clinician action when new clinician information is provided.
US12023462B2
Fluid connector systems including first and second connector portions couplable together to form a fluid pathway therethrough, and can resist fluid flow through the connector when the connector portions are separated from each other. A connector portion can include a connector housing, a luer portion, and a deformable valve member. The deformable valve member is disposed within the connector housing and includes a spherical portion extending partially through a valve opening of the connector housing. The spherical portion defines a slit, and the deformable valve member is configured to selectively prevent fluid flow from the housing volume through the valve opening and to deform to expand the slit and permit fluid flow from the housing volume through the valve opening.
US12023460B1
Certain embodiments of a medicinal applicator can comprise a base, a medicinal cream receiving port in the base, and a shaft with a shaft axis that is defined extending down the center of the shaft from the base and terminating at an applicator tip. There is at least one longitudinal outlet port located along a portion of the shaft. A medicinal cream passageway is in communication with the medicinal cream receiving port and the longitudinal outlet port via a funneled chamber. The medicinal cream passageway exits into the funneled chamber partway along the length of the longitudinal outlet port via a passageway exit port. A stop plate that extends essentially radially from the base delineates the base from the shaft.
US12023457B2
Embodiments are directed to support structures for drainage tubes to relax dependent loops and mitigate fluid pooling. Embodiments include support structures configured to receive an elastic tube and impart rigid or malleable properties thereon. These properties allow a clinician to position the tube to provide a consistent negative incline. Embodiments of support structures include an interlocking segmented tube, a bi-stable or mono-stable support structure, a jacket support structure, or a magnet support structure. Embodiments further include a malleable wire disposed within a wall of an elastic tube, or portions of a tube displaying differing elastic, malleable, or rigid properties. Embodiments also include magnetic peristalsis devices configured to urge fluid through a tube lumen.
US12023440B2
The invention is related to ventilation apparatuses and methods for operating a ventilator of a ventilator apparatus. In the method at least one duration ratio factor is set in a computing system of the ventilator apparatus; at least one minute volume, at least one functional dead space volume and at least one time constant are determined; a respiration frequency is computed, based on a previously defined lung model, depending on the determined parameters. The computed respiration frequency is optimized on at least one minimum of a delivered parameter, which is induced to a patient using the ventilator; an inspiratory time and an expiratory time are determined based on the computed respiration frequency and the duration ratio factor; at least one tidal volume based on the previously computed respiration frequency and the determined minute volume is computed; and a delivered respiratory parameter of the ventilator is closed loop controlled.
US12023437B2
An insufflation system having a processor configured to calculate a first target gas feeding flow rate based on a difference between a body cavity internal pressure and an insufflation target pressure of a body cavity, determine whether the first target gas feeding flow rate is lower than a threshold gas feeding flow rate, and in response to determining that the first target gas feeding flow rate is lower than the threshold gas feeding flow rate, feed gas at a second target gas feeding flow rate by controlling a first valve provided at a gas feeding conduit and a second valve provided at a suction conduit, wherein the processor is configured to cause the suction conduit to suction at a first suction flow rate, and wherein the second target gas feeding flow rate is obtained by adding the first suction flow rate to the first target gas feeding flow rate.
US12023434B2
Vaporizer cartridges and vaporizer apparatuses, and methods for making, using and delivering vapor to a user, that are leak-resistant for use with cannabinoids. In particular, described herein are leak-resistant vaporizer cartridges and apparatuses adapted for use with oil-based vaporizable materials including cannabis oils.
US12023431B2
A triple-chambered container includes: a main container body with a first chamber which has an opening at its distal end; a main barrel formed and movable longitudinally within the first chamber, the main barrel defining therein a second chamber for receiving fluids, the main barrel further having an apertured stopper at its distal end; a second barrel formed within the main barrel, the second barrel defining a third chamber for receiving fluids, the second barrel being movable longitudinally within and with respect to the main barrel, the second barrel having a distal end which is engageable and disengageable with the apertured stopper; a shaft adapted to fit within the second barrel, the shaft being movable longitudinally within and with respect to the second barrel, the shaft having a distal end which is engageable and disengageable with an aperture in the second barrel; a device for controlling engaging and disengaging of the distal end of the shaft with the aperture of the second barrel. The first chamber, the second chamber and the third chamber may be selectively moved to receive and discharge fluids with respect to one another.
US12023430B2
Provided is a molded filter used for a flexible disposable bag which is produced so as to be capable of sucking and storing, for example, bodily secretions of a patient and being disposed when a fixed storage amount is reached, wherein a laminate of at least two elements of a powdered hydrophilic swelling agent and a charged nonwoven fabric, and more preferably, a laminate of three elements with a hydrophobic porous film added thereto, is used as a filter base material and the charged nonwoven fabric is arranged downstream of the powdered hydrophilic swelling agent in a direction of flow of expiratory air inside the body. Thus, the molded filter has functions of air permeability that is equal to or higher than a PE sintered body CMC filter, short term and long term waterproof properties, and a better microbial barrier property.
US12023425B2
Method for transferring one or more portions of fluid from a specimen tube, comprising: providing an elongate connector comprising an elongated tube having a lumen or through-hole extending between proximal and distal ends thereof, a Luer-compatible female taper provided on the proximal end of the connector, a flange provided proximate the distal end of the connector; providing a tube seal mounted on the distal end of the connector, the tube seal comprising an elastomeric member having a longitudinal axis, a proximal end, a distal end, and a through-hole extending therebetween, the distal end having a frustoconical or chamfered face forming a funnel, the elastomeric member having an outer diameter sized to sealingly engage with an inner surface of the specimen tube; advancing the distal end of the connector and the tube seal into the specimen tube, the funnel directing the first layer into the through-hole of the connector.
US12023419B2
The present invention includes a synthetic collagen that facilitates adhesion prevention and methods of use thereof. The present invention includes a prokaryotic collagen that facilitates adhesion prevention and treatment and methods of use thereof. The prokaryotic collagen includes an isolated and purified triple helical backbone protein that facilitates adhesion prevention: one or more alteration in a triple helical backbone protein sequence, and one or more binding motifs, wherein the isolated and purified triple helical backbone protein facilitates adhesion prevention.
US12023413B2
Modules, systems and methods that disinfect surfaces using ultraviolet (UV) light are disclosed. In one aspect, a UV light-emitting module comprises an enclosure including an aluminum rear wall comprising a ventilation opening and a face plate spaced from the rear wall and comprising a light-transmitting aperture. Four aluminum sidewalls extend between the rear wall and the face plate, with at least one sidewall comprising a ventilation opening. At least one aluminum UV light emitter support within the enclosure is electrically coupled to plurality of UV light emitters. A thermally conductive and electrically insulating separator is located between the support and the rear wall. At least one electrical conductor extends through the rear wall and the separator into the support, and an electrically insulating bushing extends between the conductor and surfaces of the rear wall.
US12023412B2
Disclosed is a dissolvable, gel-forming film, and methods for its use, comprising a water-soluble cellulose ether, a hydrophilic rheological modifying agent, and an active proteolytic enzyme or other drug substance. The gel-forming film has a water content of less than 15% w/w and is capable of forming a hydrogel when contacted with water or other aqueous medium. The disclosed films achieve delivery of stable proteolytic enzymes to the desired site of action in a manner that provides uniform delivery of the enzymes.
US12023406B2
The invention provides gastric residence systems, or components of gastric residence system such as segments or elongate members of gastric residence systems, with release rate-modulating films and methods for making and using such systems. The release rate-modulating films provide good control over release of agents (such as therapeutic, diagnostic, or nutritional agents) present in the gastric residence system. The films also permit higher drug loading in the gastric residence systems and components of gastric residence systems while maintaining good control over release of agents. Some embodiments of the films can provide resistance against burst release of agent upon exposure to alcohol.
US12023403B2
Provided is an oil-in-water emulsion cosmetic composition having a high UV protection or blocking effect (particularly, boost effect of SPF value) and excellent water resistance and the like of a film (e.g., cosmetic film) without impairing the tactile sensation or the feeling of use particular to the oil-in-water emulsion cosmetic composition. The oil-in-water emulsion cosmetic composition comprises: (A) a carboxylic acid-modified silicone in a liquid form at 50° C., (B) a vinyl-based polymer emulsion, (C) a basic compound, and (D) an inorganic UV protecting agent consisting of hydrophobic fine particulate metal oxide. The oil-in-water emulsion cosmetic composition is useful as a sunscreen cosmetic composition.
US12023401B2
The present invention relates to sulfate-free aqueous personal care composition comprising a surfactant system comprising at least one methyl oleoyl taurate, one isethionate and one alkoxylated sulfosuccinate, and from about 0.2 pbw to about 15 pbw of a conditioning agent. It is also directed toward the use of such a composition for washing keratin substrates, in particular the hair or the scalp.
US12023397B2
Disclosed herein is a scalp protection composition that includes a carboxylate compound, an emulsifier, and water. The carboxylate compound is represented by formula (I): In formula (I), R1 represents a C4-C8 alkyl group, and R2 represents a C10-C26 alkyl group.
US12023396B2
Suggested are new flavour and fragrance compositions comprising selected acetophenone derivatives for dissolving flavours and fragrances, and further especially for dissolving lipophilic compounds, which are implemented in these products.
US12023394B2
Methods and compositions for rapid and efficient assembly of substrates (e.g., fibers) coated with lamellar vesicles are provided, wherein the vesicles are more strongly attached to the substrate than those made using other methods.
US12023391B2
The present invention provides peptide conjugates that target an integrin such as αvβ6 integrin. In particular embodiments, the peptide conjugates comprise a moiety such as a PEG moiety, an imaging agent, or a therapeutic agent. The peptide conjugates of the present invention are particularly useful for imaging a tumor, organ, or tissue. Compositions and kits containing the peptide conjugates of the present invention are also provided herein.
US12023387B2
Small molecule compounds having aggregation-induced emission (AIE) characteristics include donor-acceptor (D-A) structural NIR fluorophores based on 1,3-bis(dicyanomethylene)indan (BDCI), a strong and steric electron-deficient acceptor. A twisted quasi-double bond (TQDB) links each electron donor with the acceptor. The compounds can be used as NIR-II fluorescent dyes for in vivo imaging. The compounds can conjugate with bioactive molecules, such as peptides, sugars, aptamers and antibodies, to provide specific and active NIR-II fluorescent probes. The compounds can serve as active NIR-II fluorescent probes in many applications, such as, cancer cell-targeted imaging, accurate diagnosis of disease, and image-guided phototherapy.
US12023379B2
In some embodiments, described herein is a method of tumor treatment or tumor vaccination. The method generally comprises applying to a human being in need thereof a tumor therapeutic composition or tumor vaccine defined herein. The tumor therapeutic composition or tumor vaccine can be produced by protein transfer of glycosyl-phosphatidylinositol (GPI)-anchored immunostimulatory or costimulatory molecules.
US12023376B1
Immunogenic compositions and methods of their use in eliciting immune responses to coronaviruses, such as SARS-CoV-2 are provided.
US12023375B2
Compositions and methods are provided that enable activation of innate immune responses through RIG-I like receptor signaling. The compositions and methods incorporate synthetic nucleic acid pathogen associated molecular patterns (PAMPs) that comprise elements initially characterized in, and derived from, the hepatitis C virus genome.
US12023369B2
Use of collagen hydrolysate for improving endurance performance and for stimulating lipid catabolism
The present invention relates to the use of collagen hydrolysate for improving endurance performance by increasing mitochondrial activity. Further, the invention relates to the use of collagen hydrolysate for stimulating lipid catabolism, and in particular for reducing body weight, by increasing mitochondrial activity.
US12023368B2
The present invention generally relates to immunoconjugates, particularly immunoconjugates comprising a mutant interleukin-2 polypeptide and an antibody that binds to PD-1. In addition, the invention relates to polynucleotide molecules encoding the immunoconjugates, and vectors and host cells comprising such polynucleotide molecules. The invention further relates to methods for producing the mutant immunoconjugates, pharmaceutical compositions comprising the same, and uses thereof.
US12023360B2
The present invention relates to a symbiotic composition comprising a probiotic bacterial strain and a prebiotic growth medium which is specific to the growth of the probiotic bacterial strain, wherein the bacterial strain is capable of producing the same growth medium by reverse enzyme reaction. The present invention also relates to methods of producing and screening for such compositions.
US12023357B2
The invention relates to rejuvenated hematopoietic stem cells and methods of use.
US12023352B2
Described are methods of producing an autologous composition useful for treatment of damaged and/or injured connective tissues, chronic tendinosis, chronic muscle tears and/or chronic degenerative joint conditions and skin inflammatory disorders in a mammal. The method comprises preparing an anti-inflammatory/anti-catabolic component of the autologous composition comprising IL-1ra and TIMPs. An anti-inflammatory/anti-catabolic component is prepared comprising: collecting blood from the mammal; delivering the blood to a tube; incubating the blood at a temperature of from about 37° C. to about 39° C. for about 24 hours, preferably in the presence of sodium citrate; centrifuging the blood to separate the blood into a supernatant component and a cellular fraction; and collecting the supernatant component. The method further comprises the step of preparing a regenerative component of the autologous composition comprising: collecting blood from the mammal; delivering the blood to a tube in the presence of about 4% citric acid; centrifuging the blood to separate a platelet-rich plasma component from a whole blood; collecting the platelet-rich plasma component; and mixing the supernatant component with the platelet-rich plasma component to provide the autologous composition. Also provided is a method of treating damaged and/or injured connective tissues, chronic tendinosis, chronic muscle tears and/or chronic degenerative joint conditions and skin inflammatory disorders in a subject with the autologous composition, an autologous composition for treating damaged and/or injured connective tissues, chronic tendinosis, chronic muscle tears and/or chronic degenerative joint conditions and skin inflammatory disorders in a mammal and the use of the autologous composition for the treatment of damaged and/or injured connective tissues, chronic tendinosis, chronic muscle tears and/or chronic degenerative joint conditions and skin inflammatory disorders in a mammal.
US12023335B2
A method for treating pancreatic cancer in a subject in need thereof comprising, administering to the subject an effective amount of a tubulin polymerization inhibitor compound is described herein. More particularly, a method for treating pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma in a subject in need thereof comprising, administering to the subject an effective amount of a substituted reverse pyrimidine tubulin polymerization inhibitor compound alone or in combination with other chemo-therapeutic agents is described herein.
US12023329B2
Disclosed herein is a method of treating diseases and/or disorders associated with the activation of inflammasomes. The method includes administering to a subject in need thereof an effective amount of 4-[4-[(5-tert-butyl-2-quinolin-6-ylpyrazol-3-yl)-carbamoylamino]-3-fluorophenoxy]-N-methylpyridine-2-carboxamide, a salt, a solvate or an ester thereof.
US12023325B2
The present disclosure relates to methods of treating gastrointestinal stromal tumors to a subject in need thereof, comprising administering to the subject a therapeutically effective amount of ripretinib or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US12023320B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a therapeutic agent for fatty liver diseases. The above object can be achieved by a therapeutic agent for a fatty liver disease, comprising a compound represented by the following formula (1): or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US12023318B2
The present invention provides a pharmaceutical composition which comprises: (a) an HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor; and (b) cholesterol or a pharmaceutically acceptable precursor thereof; for use in treating Inflammatory Linear Verrucous Epidermal Nevus (ILVEN).
US12023317B2
Disclosed is a composition for use in preventing, alleviating, or treating psoriasis containing cimicifugolide A as an active ingredient.
US12023315B2
The present invention describes the administration of an NK1 antagonist, in combination with neostigmine methylsulfate, intravenously, via subcutaneous infusion, or both intravenously and via subcutaneous infusion to facilitate the treatment of a patient suffering from myasthenia gravis by providing a therapeutically effective neostigmine methylsulfate daily dose without the dose-limiting gastrointestinal adverse effects associated with neostigmine methylsulfate.
US12023313B2
The present invention provides compositions and pharmaceutical compositions of GPR84 agonists and GPR120 agonists for use in the treatment of obesity and overweight. The invention provides methods of treatment accordingly as well as a kit for use in the treatment of obesity and overweight.
US12023299B2
The present invention relates to an electric massage device capable of gradually increasing a massage force during an outward stroke, mainly comprising a massage module and a control module. In the outward stroke, the control module applies a driving current to the electromagnetic driving unit, and the driving current is gradually increased with an elapsed time or a stroke displacement of the output shaft. In a return stroke, the control module deenergizes the driving current or applies a weak reverse current less than one-fifth of the driving current. At the beginning of the outward stroke, the massage force is weak due to the smaller driving current and hence would not cause skin hurt. At the end of the outward stroke, the massage force is strong due to the greater driving current and hence produces a deep muscle massage effect.
US12023296B2
An apparatus for assisting a rescuer in performing chest compressions during CPR on a victim, the apparatus comprising a pad or other structure configured to be applied to the chest near or at the location at which the rescuer applies force to produce the chest compressions, at least one sensor connected to the pad, the sensor being configured to sense movement of the chest or force applied to the chest, processing circuitry for processing the output of the sensor to determine whether the rescuer is substantially releasing the chest following chest compressions, and at least one prompting element connected to the processing circuitry for providing the rescuer with information as to whether the chest is being substantially released following chest compressions.
US12023294B2
A percussive massage device with a force meter that includes a housing, an electrical source, a motor positioned in the housing, a switch for activating the motor, and a controller configured to obtain a voltage of the motor, generate a lookup table correlating voltage to force applied by the percussive massage device, and display a force magnitude corresponding to the obtained voltage using the lookup table.
US12023287B2
A patient support, such as a mattress, includes a plurality of inflatable bladders. Depth sensors are included in the support that measure the degree of penetration of a patient into the mattress. An air pressure sensor is also included that measures the pressure inside at least one bladder. A suitable inflation level of the mattress is determined by monitoring the rate of change of the depth with respect to air pressure as the bladder is either inflated or deflated. By detecting an inflection point in the graphical relationship of the depth and pressure outputs, a suitable inflation point for the bladders is determined that reduces interface pressures experienced by the patient, yet does not overly sink the patient into the mattress to a degree of discomfort. Analyzing the outputs of the depth and pressure sensors can also be used to detect a patient's heart rate and respiration rate.
US12023281B2
Module for housing electronic and electromechanical medical equipment including a portable digital camera and processing circuitry with machine vision and machine learning software for automatically documenting healthcare events and healthcare equipment operations in the electronic health record.
US12023277B2
A contact lens application aid including a lens holder dock structured and dimensioned to receive a lens holder and a light unit optically coupled to the lens holder dock and illuminating the lens holder dock. The contact lens application aid further includes a first supporting member extending downwardly away from the light unit whereby the light unit and lens holder are supported at a desired height above a horizontal work surface. The first supporting member is supported on a surface engaging supporting base coupled to the supporting member. The contact lens application aid enables a user to keep both hands free to manipulate eyelids while applying a contact lens to the eye.
US12023270B2
A cervical collar is provided, including: a collar member; a chin support, movably disposed on the collar member; a connection member, movably disposed on the collar member, connected with the chin support; and an adjustment assembly, including an inner thread portion, a thread shaft and a knob, the inner thread portion being disposed on the connection member, the thread shaft being disposed on the collar member and rotatable about an axial direction, the inner thread portion and the thread shaft being screwed with each other, the knob being connected with the thread shaft on the axial direction and located outside an end of the collar member in the axial direction, wherein the thread shaft rotates to drive the inner thread portion to move in the axial direction.
US12023269B2
An assembly comprises a first component having a first structure, and a second component having a second structure corresponding to the first structure. The first and second structures form interlocking profiles. A third component extends over the first and second structures, with the third component maintaining the first and second structures together to form an interlocked section.
US12023266B2
The techniques of this disclosure generally relate to an iliac branch device having an external iliac body, a common iliac branch, and an internal iliac branch. A diameter of the proximal opening of the common iliac branch is greater than a diameter of a distal opening of the external iliac body. The iliac branch device is configured to be deployed without going up and over the aortic bifurcation and without using some form of supra-aortic antegrade access such as through brachial or axillary artery access. This simplifies the procedure and reduces procedure time thus maximizing the success rate of the procedure and allows the procedure to be performed on a broad patient population.
US12023260B2
The present invention provides an expandable fusion device capable of being installed inside an intervertebral disc space to maintain normal disc spacing and restore spinal stability, thereby facilitating an intervertebral fusion. In one embodiment, the fusion device includes a body portion, a first endplate, and a second endplate, the first and second endplates capable of being moved in a direction away from the body portion into an expanded configuration or capable of being moved towards the body portion into an unexpanded configuration. The fusion device is capable of being deployed and installed in both configurations.
US12023259B2
Disclosed are sterile instruments and instrument kits for use in surgery, said instruments including a reamer assembly comprising a reamer depth stop and a reamer, a grommet placer instrument, and a sizing instrument for use in joint implant surgery. The invention also concerns a kit for use in joint implant surgery, comprising said reamer assembly, said grommet placer instrument, a wire guide, comprising a wire guide body, and a guide wire. A method for using one or more of the instruments and kit as described herein is also provided.
US12023254B1
A reverse shoulder system can include, for example, a glenoid baseplate comprising a longitudinal axis, the glenoid baseplate further including a stem and a central channel within a sidewall of the stem. The stem can include a longitudinal axis. The longitudinal axis of the glenoid baseplate can be angled with respect to the longitudinal axis of the stem, wherein the longitudinal axis of the glenoid baseplate is not perpendicular with respect to the longitudinal axis of the stem. Other components including a glenosphere, tools, and methods of use are also disclosed.
US12023253B2
A stemless humeral shoulder assembly having a base member and an anchor advanceable into the base member. The base member can include a distal end that can be embedded in bone and a proximal end that can be disposed at a bone surface. The base member can also have a plurality of spaced apart arms projecting from the proximal end to the distal end. The anchor can project circumferentially into the arms and into a space between the arms. When the anchor is advanced into the base member, the anchor can be exposed between the arms. A recess can project distally from a proximal end of the anchor to within the base member. The recess can receive a mounting member of an anatomical or reverse joint interface.
US12023245B2
Devices, systems and methods are described for implantation of a prosthesis within a lumen or body cavity and delivery systems for delivering the prosthesis to a location for implantation. A delivery system can include a tether connected to a single directional handle knob for release of the prosthesis within the lumen or body cavity and retraction of the tether towards the handle.
US12023243B2
A prosthetic valve for implantation within a native mitral valve may be provided. The prosthetic valve may include an annular valve body. The prosthetic valve may also include a plurality of tissue anchors arranged about the valve body and configured to extend from connection points on the valve body. The prosthetic valve may also include at least one protective fabric covering extending over each of the connection points between each tissue anchor and the valve body.
US12023236B2
A hybrid endoprosthetic device comprises a stented tubular part and a branched tubular body connected such that a main lumen of the stented tubular part communicates with a main lumen of the branched tubular body. The branched tubular body has multiple branch lumens for connection with natural vessels of the vasculature, and includes at least one branch lumen for access to facilitate delivery and implantation of the hybrid endoprosthetic device by an endovascular step in a hybrid surgical procedure. The hybrid endoprosthetic device is configured to replace a part of the aorta and common iliac artery. A delivery system for use with the device is also disclosed.
US12023230B2
A leak-proof cuff (28) is divided into a lower region (40) and a upper region (41). The upper region (41) includes a first region (41A) located at the side of a free edge (28B) relative to the center in the width direction (Y) and a second region (41B) located at the side of a folding line (42). In each of the first region (41A) and the second region (41B), at least one elastic member (29) extending along the longitudinal direction (X) is provided in a stretched state. In a case where the elongation of the upper region (41) in a natural state is 0, and the elongation in a maximum stretched state is 100, the stress σ1 of the first region (41A) is larger than the stress σ2 of the second region (41B) at an elongation of 5, and the stress σ2 of the second region (41B) is larger than the stress σ1 of the first region (41A) at an elongation of 100.
US12023220B2
A multi-unit abutment aligning a dental implant and a screw-attached prosthesis with copings is disclosed. The multi-unit abutment has a threaded base post for attachment to the implant and a ball portion. A swivel post into the implant with the multi-unit assembly in a linear configuration. The swivel shell is then positioned and fixed at a desired tilt and azimuthal angle. The swivel shell has a mating surface for a coping. The lock screw remains accessible through an aperture in the coping when the prosthesis is positioned on the implant abutments. Different embodiments are disclosed for capturing the swivel shell on the ball. Methods for improving passive alignment of the prosthesis to the implants are described.
US12023218B1
A dental alignment device positioning tool for use in safely and effectively positioning or repositioning dental alignment devices on teeth is provided. The positioning tool generally includes a handle having an elongate shaft and a soft chewy formed on and extending from a first end of the elongate shaft. A handle end portion is formed on a second end of the elongate shaft to enhance the user's control of the chewy to prevent choking. The handle, including the shaft and the handle end portion, and the chewy are integrally formed as a single monolithic structure. The chewy may be flavored to enhance the enjoyment of the user.
US12023214B2
Disclosed are example embodiments of methods and systems for improving teeth appearance and repositioning of the teeth. One of the systems is an appliance that includes: an outer shell with simulated teeth that approximate a final teeth arrangement; and inner cavities configured to receive a patient's teeth and to incrementally reposition the teeth toward the final teeth arrangement.
US12023213B2
The present disclosure discloses a water flosser comprises a housing, a tooth irrigation portion, a water nozzle portion, a winding mechanism, and a water pipe configured to be bent and wound. The tooth irrigation portion is disposed in the housing and comprises a water inlet and a water outlet. The water nozzle portion is in communication with the water outlet of the tooth irrigation portion.
US12023209B2
Tissue localization devices and methods of localizing tissue using tissue localization devices are disclosed. The tissue localization device can comprise a handle comprising a delivery control, a delivery needle extending out from the handle, and a localization element within the delivery needle. The localization element can be deployed out of the delivery needle or retracted back into the delivery needle when the delivery control is translated in a first direction or a second direction, respectively. The localization element can be coupled to a flexible tracking wire.
US12023205B2
Implementations relate to breakage detection of a tension element for a counterbalance mechanism. In some implementations, a tension element breakage detection mechanism includes a tension element, a moveable detection element contacting the tension element, and an actuator. The moveable detection element is biased by the tension element toward a first configuration in a range of motion of the moveable detection element. The moveable detection element is biased toward a second configuration in the range of motion of the moveable detection element by a force generated by the actuator on the moveable detection element. The breakage detection mechanism includes a sensor of a change of the moveable detection element from the first configuration to the second configuration, the change being in response to breakage of the tension element.
US12023201B2
Beamforming circuitry for an ultrasound device is disclosed, that may directly calculate the position in receive line space for an incoming ultrasound data sample given the time of flight (ToF) of that ultrasound data sample. In some embodiments, this may be done without initially buffering the ultrasound data sample received from the particular receive datapath multiplexed to the beamforming circuitry. The beamforming circuitry may then associate the ultrasound data sample with that position in receive line space, and in particular, with a memory address corresponding to that location. Thus, when the beamforming circuitry multiplexes between different receive datapaths, it may not need to buffer ultrasound data samples from different receive datapaths prior to saving the data to memory.
US12023198B2
An ultrasonic transducer element according to an embodiment includes a plurality of layers including a piezoelectric element layer. At least one surface of electrodes that forms a pair of adjacent layers among the plurality of layers is made of metal including a plurality of needle-like structures, the pair of adjacent layers being made of conductive material and facing each other.
US12023196B2
An ultrasonic diagnostic apparatus of an embodiment includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to acquire a B mode image in which a signal intensity of reflected waves obtained in such a manner that ultrasonic waves are transmitted to a scanning area in a subject and reflected in the subject is represented by luminance levels, and a Doppler image of a region of interest included in the scanning area. The processing circuitry is configured to cause a display to display the Doppler image superposed on the B mode image acquired. In addition, the processing circuitry is configured to change a display mode of the Doppler image displayed on the display using a feature quantity obtained on the basis of at least one of the B mode image and the Doppler image in a time series acquired.
US12023188B2
A method for SMS imaging may include obtaining target k-space data related to a region of interest (ROI) of an object. The method may also include generate, based on the target k-space data using a trained reconstruction model, a plurality of target images each of which corresponds to one of a plurality of target slices of the ROI at one of a plurality of target acquisition periods.
US12023187B2
Disclosed is a system for imaging a system. The system may be operated to acquire image data of a subject in one or more manners. The image data acquired may be used to various purposes, such as generating an image for display, navigating a procedure, or other appropriate procedures.
US12023184B2
A gantry frame for a computed tomography system is described. The gantry frame comprises a cylindrical drum frame with a cylinder barrel which has a profiled barrel structure. A gantry is also described. Additionally, a computed tomography system is described. A method for manufacturing a gantry frame for a computed tomography system is also described.
US12023180B1
Systems, methods, and devices of a health device network may include: a non-invasive glucometer that non-invasively measures analyte levels; an invasive glucometer communicatively coupled directly to the non-invasive glucometer; a cloud-based server communicatively coupled to the non-invasive glucometer or the invasive glucometer; a user device communicatively coupled to the cloud-based server; and/or a user interface that displays the invasive glucose measurement, the non-invasive glucose measurement, a data batch, and/or processed data to the user. The non-invasive glucometer and/or the invasive glucometer may aggregate an invasive glucose measurement and a non-invasive glucose measurement into the data batch. A data analytics application on the cloud-based server may be configured to: integrate the invasive glucose measurement and the non-invasive glucose measurement; identify a correlation between the invasive glucose measurement and the non-invasive glucose measurement; and/or generate a predictive model based on the invasive glucose measurement and the non-invasive glucose measurement.
US12023175B1
A computer-implemented method improves efficacy of diabetes self-management to obtain a measurement message and/or contextual activity information used to determine a suitable insulin dosage to treat a patient. The method includes simulating a health coach in a natural conversation to obtain a measurement of the patient's blood-glucose level, processing the measured blood-glucose level with a personalized insulin titration algorithm to determine an insulin dosage recommendation, and generating an electronic signal configured to cause a corresponding action to be performed by a computing device.
US12023169B2
We report a method comprising receiving a first indication to gather a first biological signal or feature thereof from a patient; gathering the first biological signal or feature thereof; receiving a second indication to stop gathering the first biological signal or feature thereof, wherein the second indication relates to a detection of an end of a brain state change; and stopping gathering the first biological signal or feature thereof. We also report a medical device system configured to implement the method. We also report a non-transitory computer readable program storage unit encoded with instructions that, when executed by a computer, perform the method.
US12023168B2
A method includes receiving a plurality of data points including electrophysiological (EP) values measured at respective positions in at least a portion of an organ of a patient. Some of the EP values are classified as outlier values in accordance with a defined criterion. A visual representation of at least the portion of the organ is derived from the plurality of data points. The visual representation represents the EP values with respective colors, and visualizes less than all the outlier values, by performing one or both of (a) identifying outlier values that deviate from respective neighboring EP values by less than a defined deviation, and representing the outlier values using colors that match the neighboring EP values, and (b) setting for the visual representation a mapping, which maps the EP values to the colors and which excludes at least some of the outlier values.
US12023156B2
A dermal patch system for collecting a physiological sample includes a cartridge configured to attach to the skin of a subject. The cartridge includes a bottom material layer, a middle material layer, a top material layer, and a sample collection pad. The top layer and the middle layer define a vacuum pin receptacle and the vacuum pin is disposed within the vacuum pin receptacle. The vacuum pin creates a vacuum within the cartridge when moved to a deployed position. The system further includes a lancet with a needle(s). The lancet is configured to move the needle(s) from an undeployed position to a deployed position when engaged with into the cartridge. The needle(s) is configured to draw a physiological sample from the subject when the needle(s) is in the deployed position. The vacuum created by the vacuum pin draws the physiological sample to the sample collection pad.
US12023149B2
Systems and methods for detecting the quality of signals captured by a sensor device monitoring a biological function. Sensor data associated with the sensor device is received, the sensor data representing time-series measurement samples of one or more parameters associated with the biological function, the sensor data including usable and unusable samples of the time-series measurements. Data representing two or more features of samples of the time-series measurements is extracted and filtered to reduce outliers in the extracted data based on an expected outlier ratio. A machine learning algorithm is then trained to identify events based on the filtered extracted data.
US12023140B2
A biological information analysis apparatus includes a sensor data acquirer that acquires biological information of a user measured by a sensor, a data analyzer that analyzes time-series data for the biological information over a plurality of time intervals and, from multiple pieces of biological information that were acquired at mutually corresponding times of measurement in respective ones of the plurality of time intervals, calculates representative values for the multiple pieces of biological information, a measurement anomaly detector that detects an anomaly contained in the measured biological information based on time-series data with the representative values calculated by the data analyzer or on the time-series data for the multiple pieces of biological information that was used in calculation of the time-series data with the representative values, and a presenter that outputs the calculated representative values for the multiple pieces of biological information and information indicating the detected anomaly.
US12023130B2
System and method for measuring diabetes mellitus condition of a subject is disclosed. The disclosed system and method includes thermal sensors for capturing thermal images and/or videos of a body part; and a processing engine to detect a predefined region of the body part in each frame of the captured images and/or videos. The processing engine segments one or more portions from the detected predefined region in each frame of the captured images and/or videos to identify a region of interest comprising major arteries in the segmented portions. Based on the ROI, the engine extracts pixel values, representing biosignals, from each frame of the captured images and/or videos so as to determine one or more parameters associated with the hemodynamic factors and a rate of atherosclerosis of the subject. Further, a risk score for the diabetes mellitus condition based on the determined parameters using computational models is measured.
US12023121B2
A robotic surgical assembly includes a slave manipulator with an actuator, a pushing device connected to the actuator, a sensor detecting a contact force on the pushing device, a position sensing system, and a control unit. A surgical instrument is detachable to the slave manipulator and separated from the slave manipulator by a sterile barrier. The surgical instrument includes a frame; an articulated link; a tendon associated with the actuator, having proximal and distal portions secured to the link. A transmission device in contact with the tendon proximal portion exerts a traction action. The transmission device has one degree of freedom of motion relative to the frame. The pushing device releasably and selectively connects with the transmission device to transmit a pushing action to the transmission device through the sterile barrier. An elastic device biases the transmission device to exert a traction action on the tendon.
US12023114B2
An instrument system includes a flexible shaft having a proximal portion and a distal portion, a backend mechanism coupled to the proximal portion of the flexible shaft, and a plurality of tendons. The backend mechanism includes a plurality of capstans. Each capstan engages a respective drive motor that rotates to cause rotation of the capstan. A first capstan of the plurality of capstans is engageable with a first respective drive motor while a second capstan of the plurality of capstans is disengaged from a second respective drive motor. Each of the plurality of tendons includes a proximal section coupled to one of the plurality of capstans and a distal section coupled to a member disposed at the distal portion of the flexible shaft.
US12023108B2
Embodiments of the invention provide a system and method for resecting a tissue mass. The system for resecting a tissue mass includes a surgical instrument and a first sensor for measuring a signal corresponding to the position and orientation of the tissue mass. The first sensor is dimensioned to fit insider or next to the tissue mass. The system also includes a second sensor attached to the surgical instrument configured to measure the position and orientation of the surgical instrument. The second sensor is configured to receive the signal from the first sensor. A controller is in communication with the first sensor and/or the second sensor, and the controller executes a stored program to calculate a distance between the first sensor and the second sensor. Accordingly, visual, auditory, haptic or other feedback is provided to the clinician to guide the surgical instrument to the surgical margin.
US12023103B2
The disclosed technology provides for printing a 3D structure in-situ within a patient during a surgical procedure. The disclosed technology can include generating instructions for a 3D printer of a surgical robot to print a structure within the patient's body, simulating and verifying the instructions, and autonomously or semi-autonomously executing the instructions, once verified, during a surgical procedure. Generating the instructions for printing the 3D structure within the patient can be based on image data of the patient. Generating the instructions can also include selecting substrate materials that are both safe for the patient and having desired properties of the final printed structure. Modifications can be made to the instructions based on results from the simulation. The disclosed technology provides for application of safe substrate material directly to hard and/or soft tissues within the patient's body via an additive manufacturing process, such as 3D printing.
US12023087B2
An electrosurgical system includes an RF current generator, a handle body, and an end effector in mechanical communication with the handle body. The end effector has a first jaw including a first electrode having a first electrode surface in electrical communication with a first terminal of the generator. The end effector also includes a second jaw including a second electrode having an essentially planar second electrode surface in electrical communication with a second terminal of the generator The first jaw includes at least one feature configured to apply an amount of a compressive force to a tissue compressed between the at least one feature and the second electrode surface that differs from an amount of a compressive force applied to the tissue compressed between the first electrode surface and the second electrode surface when the first jaw is placed in a proximate position to the second jaw.
US12023079B2
The present invention relates generally to implants used in medical procedures such as bone fixation or fusion. More specifically, this application relates to fenestrated implants used in bone fixation or fusion.
US12023065B2
A waveguide configured for use with an ultrasonic instrument includes a horn which engages an ultrasonic transducer to receive ultrasonic energy. A body distally extends from the horn in order to receive ultrasonic energy from the horn. A blade is fixedly engaged to a distal end of the body, and distally extends from the distal end of the body in order to receive ultrasonic energy from the body for treating tissue in contact with the blade. A bi-stable spring-latch connector releasably couples, under compression, the horn and the body, or the body and the blade.
US12023062B2
An apparatus and method for an articulating microsurgical instrument is disclosed herein. The articulating microsurgical instrument may be configured to be operable with a Doppler probe, bone grasper, soft tissue grasper/dissector, scissors, flexible forceps, or a suction/irrigation line configured to provide tools within a surgical location that can be adjusted to a desired angle of operation. A tip assembly may comprise an articulating portion at a distal tip and the articulating portion may be configured to deflect upon actuation of an articulation control. The articulation control may be a trigger assembly or a roller wheel. A bayonet-style handle may include a set of posts configured to interact with the one or more control wires during actuation of the articulation control. One or more control wires may be housed in a lumen and actuated using a articulation control of a handle assembly.
US12023060B2
An instrument drive assembly for use with a surgical instrument includes a housing assembly supporting a drive assembly therein, a coupling tube supported at a distal end of the housing assembly and extending distally therefrom, a coupling assembly, and a retention mechanism. The coupling assembly is supported in the housing assembly and is configured to releasably couple to an instrument drive shaft of the surgical instrument, and the retention mechanism is configured to releasably couple to an instrument sleeve of the surgical instrument.
US12023059B2
Disclosed herein are systems, devices, and methods for the removal of objects from the body. The device may be a urethral catheter configured to aspirate kidney stones from the urinary tract through one or more aspiration ports at the distal face or along a lateral side of the catheter. The catheter may include one or more irrigation ports at the distal face or along the lateral side of the catheter for dislodging kidney stones. The device may be steerable. The spatial arrangement of the one or more irrigation ports with respect to the one or more aspiration ports may vary. The device may include an irrigation tube and/or a shield member configured to spatially confine the kidney stones adjacent the catheter. Various temporal patterns of aspiration and irrigation are disclosed for optimizing removal of kidney stones.
US12023056B2
A medical device for cutting substances inside a body lumen includes a flexible and elongated drive shaft including a distal portion and a proximal portion, a cutting member connected to the distal portion of the drive shaft to be rotatable with the drive shaft, and a hub located at the proximal portion and supporting the drive shaft, the hub including a first bearing mounted on the drive shaft and an elastic ring that is made of an elastic material on an outer periphery of the first bearing.
US12023055B2
A balloon catheter system assisted by ultrasound and microbubbles and a method for vasodilation are provided. The system includes: a controller; a sensor catheter; a highly focused ultrasound probe, and the highly focused ultrasound probe and the sensor catheter is connected to the controller; and a balloon catheter. The method of vasodilation includes: providing a sensor catheter into a blood vessel, and controlling a highly focused ultrasound probe to focus at a hardened portion of the blood vessel; removing the sensor catheter from the blood vessel and inserting a balloon catheter into the blood vessel; infusing microbubbles into the balloon catheter and controlling the highly focused ultrasound probe to start working to destroy a calcification point of the hardened portion of the blood vessel, and smoothly inflating the balloon catheter at the hardened portion of the blood vessel.
US12023046B2
A bone tissue collection device is provided with an exterior collection container and a porous interior filter container. The device includes a lid having an upper face and is configured to releaseably seal the exterior collection container and interior filter container. A suction inlet tube and a suction outlet tube are operably coupled to the lid and angled from the upper face of the lid.
US12023045B2
An orthopedic impacting tool comprises a motor, a linear motion converter, an air chamber, a compression piston, an impacting element, an anvil element, and a broach adapter. The compression piston may cause the impacting element to apply controlled force on a broach adapter to create a precise opening for subsequently disposing a prosthesis in a patient. The tool allows forward or backward impacting for expanding the size or volume of the opening or for facilitating removal of the broach and tool from the opening. A force adjustment control of the tool allows a user to increase or decrease the impact force. A light source and hand grips improve ease of operation of the tool.
US12023033B2
A surgical anvil assembly for use with a circular stapling instrument includes an anvil center rod defining a longitudinal axis and an anvil head pivotally coupled to the anvil center rod and movable between a first operative condition and a second tilted condition. The anvil assembly further includes a locking assembly configured to selectively lock the anvil head in each of the first and second conditions.
US12023025B2
A surgical stapler including an anvil, a staple cartridge, and a buttress material removably retained to the anvil and/or staple cartridge. In various embodiments, the staple cartridge can include at least one staple removably stored therein which can, when deployed, or fired, therefrom, contact the buttress material and remove the buttress material from the anvil and/or staple cartridge. In at least one embodiment, the anvil can include at least one lip and/or groove configured to removably retain the buttress material to the anvil until deformable members extending from the surgical staple are bent by the anvil and are directed toward and contact the buttress material.
US12023017B1
Embodiments of a corpectomy method, comprising the steps of: providing a distractor unit comprising at least a first hydraulic cylinder configured to removably receive a piston of a predetermined length during a surgical procedure; providing the piston; providing a plurality of bone screws; affixing a first bone screw of the plurality of bone screws to a first vertebrae of a spine and a second bone screw of the plurality of bone screws to a second vertebrae of the spine; mounting the distractor unit onto the first bone screw and the second bone screw; and extending the hydraulic piston of the distractor unit to cause the first vertebrae and the second vertebrae to move away from each other are disclosed.
US12023015B2
The present disclosure can include a system including a surgical arm, a retractor connected to the surgical arm, a force sensor mounted on the surgical arm, the force sensor configured to receive sensor data indicating force on the retractor from the force sensor, and a magnetorheological fluid actuator for actuating the surgical arm, the actuator configured to actuate according to the received sensor data, and adjust the surgical arm according to the received sensor data so as to maintain a constant retraction force. The present disclosure can additionally include a method for retracting tissue including applying force to the tissue with a magnetorheological fluid actuator to induce a retraction force, sensing a change in force applied to the tissue using a force sensor, and maintaining the retraction force by adjusting the force applied to the tissue.
US12023010B2
Methods and devices described herein facilitate improved access of locations within the body.
US12023009B2
An endoscope reprocessor includes: a holding member to/from which a filtering tool is attachable and detachable; a fluid introduction conduit and a fluid discharge conduit that communicate with the filtering tool in a state in which the filtering tool is attached to the holding member; a moving member configured to, when the filtering tool is attached to the holding member and a weight of the filtering tool is less than a predetermined value, position the filtering tool in a first position and, when the filtering tool is attached to the holding member and the weight of the filtering tool is greater than or equal to the predetermined value, position the filtering tool in a second position that is different from the first position; and a hindering unit configured to, when the filtering tool is positioned in the second position, hinder removal of the filtering tool from the holding member.
US12023006B2
A stereoscopic endoscope comprises a first lens train; a second lens train; a prism; and a continuous image sensor surface. The first lens train directs light along a first path through the first lens train and the prism to be incident on a first region of the continuous image sensor, and the second lens train directs light along a second path through the second lens train and the prism to be incident on a second region of the continuous image sensor.
US12023005B2
An illumination system for illuminating a lumen within a body of a patient comprising a tube having a proximal end and an opposed distal end and an internal chamber, the tube being configured for placement within a lumen of the body. The system also includes an illumination subsystem including an optical fiber that is sized and configured to seat within the internal chamber of the tube and a light source for generating light that is emitted by the fiber optic cable. The optical fiber, when mounted within the tube and when the light source generates light, emits light at the distal end of the tube so as to transilluminate the lumen and surrounding tissue so as to be able to locate the distal end of the tube within the lumen of the patient.
US12023002B2
Various apparatuses to attach a first medical device to a second medical device are described that allow the physician to grasp only a single device while the other device remains securely attached to the one being grasped. The apparatuses, once they are attached to the first medical device, are designed to be easily and quickly attached and detached to a second medical device, normally only requiring the use of one hand. Furthermore, the apparatuses oftentimes include a base that can easily couple and decouple from the portion that is attached to the second medical device so that if the need arises to separately use the second medical device, it can be decoupled from the first medical device without completely removing the apparatus from the second medical device.
US12022979B2
A micro puree machine including a housing, a power shaft, a bowl assembly and a platform. The power shaft extends from the housing. The bowl assembly including at least one locking bowl element. The platform includes at least one complementary locking platform element that is configured to engage the at least one locking bowl element such that rotation of the bowl assembly relative to the platform is prevented at times the bowl assembly is positioned thereon. The platform is rotatable from a first position to a second position relative to the housing such that the platform raises the bowl assembly towards the power shaft during the rotation of the bowl assembly and platform. The raising of the bowl assembly facilitates connection between the power shaft and a blade assembly that is positioned in a lid assembly on the bowl assembly.
US12022975B2
A system for attaching a blender container to a blade assembly, which comprises a first mechanism to secure a blender container to a blade assembly. Some embodiments of the system include a second latch mechanism to lock the blender container to the blade assembly while the container and blade assembly are mounted to a base for operation of the blender.
US12022973B2
A tea brewing device, having a cup body, a tea leaf chamber, and a top cover connected with the cup body; a tea leaf chamber separation mechanism is provided at the top cover, containing a sliding block and a separation magnet protruding out of a bottom side of the sliding block; the sliding block changes its position relative to the top cover by sliding; the tea leaf chamber is disposed inside with a sealed magnetic metal; the tea leaf chamber is attracted to a bottom side of the top cover via magnetic attraction between the separation magnet and the magnetic metal; the sliding block is driven to slide so that the separation magnet is moved away from the magnetic metal, and the magnetic attraction between the two becomes weaker than a gravitational force of the tea leaf chamber, which then drops down to the cup body, thereby beginning tea brewing.
US12022970B2
Systems and methods for dispensing items utilizing a housing having a compartment configured to store a quantity of items, a dispensing device configured to dispense at least one of the items from the housing to an individual, an activation device configured to activate the dispensing device to dispense the at least one item from the housing in response to an interaction with the individual, an outlet in the housing through which the items may be individually dispensed from the housing by the dispensing device, and one or more light sources that emit UV-C radiation within the housing and irradiate exterior surfaces of the items or packaging of the items with the UV-C radiation. Methods utilizing the system may be used to dispense items, such as sacramental elements for Communion.
US12022962B2
The present invention provides a protection net apparatus fixed to a baby chair having a tray, comprises: a plurality of net supporting parts fixed to different positions of the tray and each including a clamp portion fixing the net supporting part to the tray; and a supporting rod portion coupled to the clamp portion and extending outwards; a net part including a net with an edge having an inner edge, an outer edge located on an opposite side of the inner edge, and lateral edges each connecting between ends of the inner edge and the outer edge; and a receiving pocket attached to the net on an outer edge portion adjacent to the outer edge in a direction that an opening of the receiving pocket heads toward the inner edge and receiving a top end of the supporting rod portion through the opening.
US12022960B2
Furniture can include a charging port assembly. In some embodiments, the charging port assembly can include a universal serial bus (USB) port. The assembly can be configured to facilitate the routing of a power cord for making installation occur more quickly and easily while also positioning the port in a position that is under a work surface (e.g. tablet, desktop, tabletop, etc.).
US12022956B2
A modular mattress comprising a plurality of modules configured to be positioned adjacent to each other forming a unique body having a support surface for a user, and comprising a plurality of engagement elements configured to reversibly engage a first and a second module of said plurality of modules, for avoiding movement from a correct relative position. The plurality of modules comprises a group of modules providing respective through holes aligned and oriented along a first predetermined direction, said aligned through holes being arranged to form a passageway passing through said modules of each group. There is one connection element configured to be positioned within said passageway, each connection element being provided at opposite ends, with respective engagement elements for reversibly engaging with respective engagement elements of a first and a second end module positioned, respectively, at opposite sides of each group of modules.
US12022944B2
Provided is a furniture part assembly that includes a fitting and a panel. The panel is provided with a first engaging structure, and the fitting is provided with a second engaging structure configured to engage with the first engaging structure and thereby connect the fitting and the panel in a detachable manner. A piece of furniture having the furniture part assembly is also provided.
US12022929B2
A cup for a mechanism of a cosmetic stick includes an irremovable portion and a removable portion. The irremovable portion can be assembled with the mechanism. The removable portion is configured to receive a cosmetic stick and provided with a mounting threads coupled to the irremovable portion. The removable portion is nested inside the irremovable portion and includes a lower neck. The lower neck includes a lower transverse bottom provided with a through opening, and an internal face. The internal face is couplable with an intermediate part configured to be attached at a level of the lower neck of the removable portion.
US12022918B2
A fastener tape, a slide fastener, a skin product, and a method of forming the fastener tape are provided. The method includes forming fabric tapes made from high-melting warp yarns and weft yarns. The fabric tapes each include an outer connecting portion and an inner connecting portion. Fastener teeth are sewn to an outer side of the inner connecting portion through a sewing thread. The inner connecting portion includes an teeth sewing region. A low-melting component is provided in at least the teeth sewing region, and the low-melting component thermally welds the high-melting sewing thread, warp yarns, and weft yarns to form a hardened structure. The method further includes heating, after the fastener teeth are sewn to the fabric tapes, the fabric tapes for bending and shaping, such that the low-melting component thermally welds the sewing thread, the warp yarns, and the weft yarns.
US12022916B2
A rapid-entry shoe includes an actuator arm, having a pivot point, and a closure system. Movement of the actuator arm from an uncollapsed position to a collapsed position opens the closure system and movement of the actuator arm from the collapsed position to the uncollapsed position closes the closure system, according to various embodiments.
US12022914B2
A wearable article, a system, and methods include a structural material configured to enable the wearable article to the worn on a body, a piezoelectric generator, positioned with respect to the structural material in a configuration to be flexed to output a voltage, a data translator, coupled to the piezoelectric generator, configured to output electronic data based on the voltage, and an electronic data storage, coupled to the data translator, configured to store the electronic data from the data translator.
US12022910B2
A sole structure for an article includes a first layer including a first bundle of fibers affixed to a first substrate, a second layer including a second bundle of fibers affixed to a second substrate, a traction element having a first portion disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and a second portion extending from one of the first layer and the second layer. The sole structure further includes a resin that consolidates the first bundle of fibers and the second bundle of fibers, and secures the traction element between the first bundle of fibers and the second bundle of fibers.
US12022906B2
The invention relates to a protective helmet, and in particular, to a protective motorcycle helmet, comprising an antenna (1) for radio transmission, an outer shell (2) for distributing impact forces, an inner layer (3), which is accommodated by the outer shell (2), for damping impact forces, and a socket (4), which is firmly connected to the outer shell (2), for contacting a digital device (5) for wireless communication, wherein the socket (4), when contacting the digital device (5), electrically connects the latter to the antenna (1) for wireless communication. The protective helmet is characterized in that at least a partial layer of the outer shell (2) is disposed between the antenna (1) and the inner layer (3).
US12022898B2
A flexible mask substrate (MS) with a rigid front plate (FP) which may be a viewing window (VW) causing the mask substrate to extend forward from a patient's face, forming a chamber in front of the patient's mouth. Instrument ports (IP) allow instruments to be introduced through the mask into the patient's oral or nasal cavity to perform dental or medical procedures. An elastic band (CE) on the mask substrate to conform the mask to contours of the patient's face. A malleable metal strip (MM) for conforming the mask to the patient's nose. Methods of fabricating the mask. The mask, and variations thereof, may be used to perform various treatments, including non-oral procedures. Using a nebulizer in conjunction with the mask, wherein the nebulizer is supported independently of the mask.
US12022896B2
A self-contained finger sleeve, having a cover, a thumb pocket, and a four-finger pocket, each having an opening; one edge of the opening of the four-finger pocket is connected to an edge of the opening of the cover; an opposite edge of the opening of the four-finger pocket is connected to an edge of the opening of the thumb pocket via a U-shaped connecting strap; in a self-contained condition, the openings of the cover and the four-finger pocket face towards each other to define a storing space that stores the thumb pocket and the U-shaped connecting strap; in an unfolded condition, the four-finger pocket is flipped inside out and misaligned with the cover; the thumb pocket is exposed from the storing space and positioned on one side of the four-finger pocket flipped inside out; the thumb pocket and the four-finger pocket flipped inside out from and ergonomic finger sleeve.
US12022894B2
A compression garment with an integrated receptacle that provides liquid to a user is disclosed. The compression garment has at least one exterior cavity for receiving a receptacle and at least one tube channel with tube channel openings for receiving the tube from the exterior cavity and to route the tube across the chest of a user and into a webbing loop. An o-ring that locks a breakable foil seal in place is provided when a spout is connected to the neck element and the spout secures the liquid in the reservoir by compressing the o-ring on the foil seal. A grab ridge is then used to release the reservoir from the cavity of the compression garment as desired by the user.
US12022892B2
A system and method for social-physical haptic interaction that include receiving sensor data from a plurality of sensors that are disposed within a haptic vest. The system and method also include training a neural network with at least one haptic interaction profile based on the sensor data. The system and method additionally include analyzing at least one haptic interaction profile during execution of at least one haptic application. The system and method further include electronically controlling the haptic vest to provide haptic feedback during the execution of at least one haptic application that is based on at least one haptic interaction profile.
US12022875B2
A vaporizer has a main unit, an atomizer, a mouthpiece and a quick connect adapter. The quick connect adapter includes a housing, air flow path, a quick release connector and an adapter connector. The housing defines an inner channel. The inner channel has a first open end and a second open end. The air flow path is defined by the housing to allow vapor to flow from the atomizer to the mouthpiece. The quick release connector is coupled to, and located adjacent, the first end of the housing. The quick release connecter is configured to allow the mouthpiece to be releasably coupled to the main unit via the quick connect adapter. The adapter connector coupled to, and located adjacent, the second end of the housing. The adapter connector is configured to allow the quick connect adapter to be releasably coupled to the main unit.
US12022874B2
An atomizing unit with a circuitous air passage, including a base, an outer cover, a liquid conducting member, a supporting member, and a heating member. A first air hole and a second air hole communicating with the first air hole are defined in the base; a third air hole is defined in the outer cover; an accommodating cavity is defined in the liquid conducting member and extends through two sides thereof; a groove is defined in an outer side of the supporting member, and the second air hole faces a bottom surface of the supporting member; the supporting member supports the heating member to be attached to an inner side of the liquid conducting member; the groove and the heating member define a ventilation passage communicated with the third air hole; at least a part of the bottom surface of the supporting member and the base define an air space.
US12022872B2
A tobacco-heating smoking set includes: a first component and a second component, wherein the first component includes: a first housing and a bracket, wherein the bracket is fixed on the first housing, and a heating chamber is formed inside the bracket; the second component includes: a second housing and a heating component, the second housing is matched and engaged with the first housing to form a housing of the tobacco-heating smoking set, the heating component is fixed on the second housing, the heating component includes a heating element, the heating element is accommodated in the heating chamber and is configured for heating a cigarette, and the first component is capable of being removed from the second component to expose the heating element.
US12022871B2
An aerosol generator comprises: a reservoir configured to contain a liquid medium; a heating body comprising a plurality of channels and an electrically-conductive sheet, the sheet having a first surface and an opposite second surface; and an electric power unit configured to inject pulses of electric current through the sheet. The channels are disposed in the sheet and extending through the sheet from the first surface of the sheet to the opposite second surface of the sheet. The channels are configured for providing directional flow of a vapor from the channels. In some embodiments, the channels have variable width along the length. The sheet material includes heavily doped silicon. The electric power unit provides correlation of the pulse parameters with the thermal time constant of the heating body for pulsed operation of the heating body. The aerosol generator produces dense inhalable aerosol at reduced hazardous risks and is manufactured more standardized at a low cost.
US12022866B2
An atomizer and an electronic cigarette are provided. The atomizer comprises an outer housing, and an e-liquid storage chamber and an atomization assembly are disposed in the outer housing. The atomization assembly comprises a porous element and a heating element. The porous element comprises an e-liquid absorbing surface. A bubble guiding element opposite to the e-liquid absorbing surface is further provided in the outer housing, and comprises a bubble guiding surface opposite to the e-liquid absorbing surface. At least a portion of the bubble guiding surface is obliquely configured in a direction facing away from the e-liquid absorbing surface, such that bubbles emerging from the e-liquid absorbing surface of the porous element are guided toward the direction facing away from the e-liquid absorbing surface.
US12022862B2
A device (100) for heating an aerosol-forming substrate includes a heater (160), a receptacle inlet (143) and outlet (147), and an air inlet channel (170). The heater includes a heating element, an internal surface, and an external surface. The internal surface defines at least a portion of a receptacle (140) configured to receive the aerosol-forming substrate or a cartridge comprising the aerosol-forming substrate. The receptacle inlet is in communication with, and upstream of, the receptacle. The receptacle outlet is in communication with, and downstream of, the receptacle. The air inlet channel is in communication with an ambient environment and the receptacle inlet. The air inlet channel defines a tortuous path between the ambient environment and the receptacle inlet. The air inlet channel is positioned relative to the heater to cause air in the tortuous path to be heated by the heater.
US12022860B2
A cellulose acetate particle aggregate, a preparation method therefor and an application thereof, which relate to the field of harm reduction additives in cigarettes. The cellulose acetate particle aggregate includes 49-99.5 wt % of cellulose acetate particles, 0-50 wt % of a second kind of particles, and 0.5-20 wt % of a binder. The preparation method involves selecting cellulose acetate particles and a second kind of particles in a certain ratio, or cellulose acetate particles alone, preparing particle aggregates by using an air fluidized granulation method while adding a binder thereto, and sieving the particle aggregates to obtain a cellulose acetate particle aggregate having a required particle size. The cellulose acetate particle aggregate has a porous structure, an irregular shape, and a rough and uneven surface, which help to improve the efficiency of filtering out particulate matters or one or more harmful ingredients in cigarette smoke.
US12022852B2
Provided are foodstuff treatment systems that are convertible between a processing mode in which foodstuffs are processed (e.g., disinfected) and a clean-in-place mode in which the system operates to clean material (e.g., biological buildup) that has accumulated within the system.
US12022845B2
A coffee degassing method is disclosed. A diffusion gas is supplied into a degassing tree in an bin containing roasted coffee. The degassing tree is in the roasted coffee. Carbon dioxide is diffused from the coffee with the diffusion gas. Carbon dioxide and the diffusion gas are exhausted from the bin. Another method of coffee degassing is disclosed. A diffusion gas is supplied into a degassing chamber in a bin containing roasted coffee. The degassing chamber is in the roasted coffee. Carbon dioxide is diffused from the coffee with the diffusion gas. Carbon dioxide and the nitrogen are exhausted from the bin.
US12022844B2
Provided is a method that makes it possible to promote proliferation of probiotics having a low ability to assimilate human milk oligosaccharides (HMOs), in the presence of HMOs. A nutritional composition is described that includes bacteria belonging to Bifidobacterium bifidum, one or more types of probiotics having a low ability to assimilate human milk oligosaccharides, and human milk oligosaccharides. The nutritional composition as described herein may be suitably used for foods/drinks, medicines, quasi-drugs, feeds, and the like.
US12022842B2
Methods to prepare a fruit ferment containing propionic acid and/or a salt thereof comprising i) obtaining a liquid fruit preparation, ii) optionally supplementing the liquid fruit preparation with water and/or with additional components to support fermentation, iii) fermenting the optionally supplemented liquid fruit preparation with a propionic acid-producing bacterial strain, iv) optionally further processing the fermentation product, to obtain the fruit ferment. Next to a propionic acid-producing bacterial strain, a lactic acid-producing bacterial strain may be used in the fermentation. And, a fruit ferment obtainable by said method.
US12022839B2
Example L-shaped smoker boxes for gas grills are disclosed. An example smoker box includes a base and a lid. The base includes a bottom wall having an L-shaped profile. The lid includes a top wall having an L-shaped profile.
US12022838B1
A frozen block separation system is disclosed herein. An example system includes a product receptacle having an elevator and an opening configured to receive a frozen product in a stacked block format and elevate the frozen product to a cutting height, a cutting member positioned above the product receptacle, the cutting member configured to move perpendicularly to the frozen product and remove a portion of the frozen product when the frozen product is at the cutting height, and a first plate that is configured to move the portion in a first direction, from the cutting member into a batch enclosure.
US12022837B2
Disclosed are an animal fat grading device and an animal fat grading method. The device includes a frame, a barrel, a temperature control device, a collecting part, a compacting part and a collecting and stirring assembly; the frame is fixedly connected with the barrel, the barrel is connected with the temperature control device, the collecting part is located at a bottom of the barrel, the compacting part is located inside the barrel, and a top of the frame is telescopically connected with the collecting and stirring assembly; the collecting and stirring assembly includes a connecting plate, a stirring part and a scraper; the top of the connecting plate is telescopically connected with the top of the frame, and the bottom of the connecting plate is fixedly connected with the stirring part and the scraper; the stirring part is located in a center of the scraper, and the scraper corresponds to the compacting part. The application achieves an objective of grading fats with different melting points.
US12022833B2
A compound represented by formula (A) has excellent control efficacy against a harmful arthropod.
US12022825B1
A preparation method for a modified nano-zinc oxide powder includes the following steps: step 1) immersing a raw material zinc oxide into a first active liquid, filtering and drying to obtain an activated zinc oxide; step 2) crushing the activated zinc oxide by an airflow crushing to obtain a crushed zinc oxide; step 3) immersing the crushed zinc oxide into the second active liquid, filtering, drying and grinding to obtain an activated nano-zinc oxide; and step 4) mixing the activated nano-zinc oxide and a surface modifier in a weight ratio of 1:(0.8-1.5) uniformly, drying and grinding to obtain a modified nano-zinc oxide powder with a particle size of 10-90 nm.
US12022802B2
Provided herein are methods of making a training aid for detecting a biohazard, and related devices and methods of using the device, including a canine training aid. The devices are made by positioning a polymer layer in proximity and physically separated from a biological material, so that volatile organic compounds contact and bind or infuse the polymer layer. The device is made render-safe by inactivating the infused polymer layer, such as by heating to a temperature sufficient to inactivate biological agents on or in the analyte-infused polymer layer. The device can be stored in a substantially air-tight configuration for subsequent use in training, such as canine and/or or artificial detectors.
US12022788B2
The present invention relates to novel watermelon plants displaying an increased number of male flowers. The present invention also relates to seeds and parts of said plants, for example fruits. The present invention further relates to methods of making and using such seeds and plants. The present invention also relates to novel genetic determinants associated with an increased number of male flowers and to molecular markers linked to said novel genetic determinants.
US12022782B2
A system for warning of excess water saturation of a root ball includes a lateral network of perforated tubing located below the root ball in a planting pit, connected to vertical tubing containing a shaft and bladder, the shaft's height indicating the water level within the soil of the planting pit. The system may indicate the historical water level and the real-time water level. The system may also contain a sump and may be configured to measure and calculate the percolation rate of the soil.
US12022778B2
A root irrigation apparatus includes a chamber including a first end, a second end, and, an irrigation aperture, a valve operably connected to the first end of the chamber, and, a cap configured to couple to the first end of the chamber.
US12022776B2
A method of stacking sod rolls can include: (a) moving a head of a sod handling apparatus to a sod pick-up location containing a plurality of sod rolls; (b) picking up a first sod roll with a first sod carrier, picking up a second sod roll with a second sod carrier, and picking up a third sod roll with a third sod carrier; (c) moving the head to a sod drop-off location; (d) depositing the first sod roll from the first sod carrier at the sod drop-off location; (e) after depositing the first sod roll, moving the second sod carrier and the third sod carrier toward the first sod carrier to reduce the spacing between the second and third sod rolls; and (f) depositing the second and third sod rolls at the drop-off location.
US12022771B2
A walk reel mower has a pivotal rear traction drum that can be selectively disposed in two different mowing positions that allow a single mower to cut grass on golf course greens as well as tee boxes with no degradation in cutting or power performance. The reel cutting unit has a pivotal rear shield to allow the rear shield to be pivotally adjusted to maintain its radial spacing relative to the orbit of the reel at a desired amount as the reel diameter decreases due to wear.
US12022770B2
A shaft coupler, a tool and a method of assembling a tool. The shaft coupler may generally include substantially identical coupling members operable to couple two shaft segments of a tool. The shaft coupler may include a first coupling member including a first body having a first coupling end and an opposite first shaft end defining a first opening configured to receive a first shaft segment; and a second coupling member including a second body having a second coupling end and an opposite second shaft end defining a second opening configured to receive a second shaft segment. The first coupling member and the second coupling member may be identical. The first coupling end may be configured to engage the second coupling end to selectively couple the first coupling member to the second coupling member and, thereby, the first shaft segment to the second shaft segment.
US12022768B1
The present disclosure provides a high-efficiency and low-damage potato combine harvester, including a digging device, a conveyance and separation device, a separation and elevation reversing device, a potato collection box, and a control unit. The digging device is provided at a front end of the potato combine harvester. The conveyance and separation device is provided behind the digging device, and configured to perform preliminary conveyance and separation on a potato-soil-stem mixture dug by the digging device. The separation and elevation reversing device is provided at a side of the conveyance and separation device, and configured to separate the potato-soil-stem mixture from the conveyance and separation device and elevate potatoes to the potato collection box. The potato collection box is located at a tail end of the separation and elevation reversing device, and configured to load the potatoes and feed weight information of carried potatoes back to the control unit.
US12022762B2
A system for controlling fan operation of an agricultural implement includes a tank configured to store an agricultural product and a conduit configured to receive the dispensed agricultural product. Furthermore, the implement includes a conduit fan configured to supply pressurized air to the conduit such that the pressurized air conveys the dispensed agricultural product through the conduit and a tank fan configured to supply pressurized air to the tank. Additionally, a computing system is configured to determine a first pressure of the pressurized air within the conduit and a second pressure of the pressurized air within the tank based. Moreover, the computing system is configured to determine a pressure differential between the first and second pressures. Furthermore, the computing system is configured to control a flow of the pressurized air supplied to the tank based on the determined pressure differential.
US12029145B2
According to one embodiment, a memory device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a resistive layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, containing at least one of antimony (Sb) and bismuth (Bi) as a first element, and tellurium (Te) as a second element, and having a variable resistance value. The resistive layer includes a first layer having a hexagonal crystal structure containing the first element and the second element. The first layer contains a group 14 element as a third element.
US12029139B2
A semiconductor device includes: a substrate comprising a magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) region and a logic region; a first MTJ on the MTJ region; a first metal interconnection on the logic region; and a cap layer extending from a sidewall of the first MTJ to a sidewall of the first metal interconnection. Preferably, the cap layer on the MTJ region and the cap layer on the logic region comprise different thicknesses.
US12029131B2
The disclosed technology features methods for the manufacture of electrical components such as ultrasound transducers. In particular, the disclosed technology provides methods of patterning electrodes, e.g. in the connection of an ultrasound transducer to an electrical circuit; methods of depositing metal on surfaces; and methods of making integrated matching layers for an ultrasound transducer. The disclosed technology also features ultrasound transducers produced by the methods described herein.
US12029125B2
A system includes a high-power laser surface unit capable of generating a high-power laser beam having an output power of at least 10 kW, an optical fiber connected to the high-power laser surface unit, and at least one harvesting cell disposed around the optical fiber. The optical fiber includes an optical cladding surrounding an optical fiber core. Each harvesting cell includes an anode, a cathode, and a thermoelectric layer disposed adjacent to and electrically connected to the anode and the cathode, where the thermoelectric layer includes a polymer-based thermoelectric material.
US12029119B2
Organic EL devices having excellent performance and electronic devices comprising the organic EL devices are provided. The organic EL device comprises a cathode, an anode, and an organic layer disposed between the cathode and the anode, wherein the organic layer comprises one or more layers that comprise a fluorescent emitting layer and the fluorescent emitting layer comprises a first compound represented by formula (P) and a second compound that is not the same as the first compound. The electronic device comprises the organic EL device. wherein, π1, π2, Z, RB, RC, m, and n are as defined in the description.
US12029113B2
The present disclosure relates to an organic compound having improved luminescent properties, an organic light emitting diode and organic light emitting device including the organic compound, the organic compound having the following structure. The organic compound is a bipolar compound having both a p-type moiety and an n-type moiety and has high energy level, large energy bandgap and improved thermal stability. Applying the organic compound into an emissive layer of the OLED allows holes and electrons to be recombined at whole area of an emitting material layer, and thereby enhancing the luminous efficiency and the luminous lifetime of the OLED.
US12029110B1
A passivated perovskite film is provided, the passivated perovskite film comprising: a perovskite film, which includes an upper surface and at least one grain boundary; and a biphenyl methyl ammonium halide coating on the upper surface of the perovskite film, wherein the halide is selected from the group consisting of chloride, bromide and iodide.
US12029106B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a n-type semiconductor element having improved n-type semiconductor characteristics and excellent stability, where the n-type semiconductor element includes a second insulating layer, where the second insulating layer contains: A. (a) a compound having one carbon-carbon double bond or one conjugated system bound to at least one group represented by general formula (1) and at least one group represented by general formula (2); and (b) a polymer; or B. a polymer having, in its molecular structure, the remaining group after removing some hydrogen atoms from R1, R2, R3, or R4 in the compound (a), or the remaining group after removing some hydrogen atoms from the carbon-carbon double bond or the conjugated system in the compound (a).
US12029101B2
Provided are a mask-frame assembly including (i) a frame including an opening portion, (ii) an open mask coupled to the frame to cover the opening portion and including a main portion including a plurality of openings located in the opening portion, a first rib connected to the main portion and extending in a first direction away from a center of the main portion, a second rib connected to the main portion and extending in a second direction across the first direction and away from the center of the main portion, and a first bridge portion connecting a first edge of the first rib in a direction toward the second rib to a second edge of the second rib in a direction toward the first rib, and (iii) mask sticks overlapping the open mask, having both ends coupled to the frame, and including a plurality of holes.
US12029100B2
A method for manufacturing a display device includes a mounting process in which a frame terminal of a flexible display panel and a counter terminal of a flexible printed circuit substrate are electrically connected by thermocompression bonding. In the mounting process, the thermocompression bonding is performed in a state in which the flexible display panel is folded so that the flexible display panel includes an abutting portion abutting on a mounting stage and a folding portion where the flexible display panel is to be folded over the abutting portion in plan view.
US12029098B2
A display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes a light-emitting functional layer and a color filter layer, and the light-emitting functional layer includes a plurality of pixel light-emitting units disposed at intervals. In a first display area, the color filter layer includes a first light-filtering layer and a first transparent planarization layer, the first light-filtering layer includes at least two first light-filtering units corresponding to the pixel light-emitting units by one to one, and the first transparent planarization layer fills gaps among the first light-filtering units adjacent to each other.
US12029093B2
An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The OLED display panel includes an optical filter layer and a light-emitting layer stacked and disposed along a first direction. The optical filter layer includes a substrate, a first capping layer, and a color filter are sequentially stacked along the first direction. The light-emitting layer includes a second capping layer, a first electrode, a light-emitting functional layer, a hole transport layer, and a second electrode are sequentially stacked along the first direction. Thus, the light loss inside the OLED display panel can be reduced, and the light extraction efficiency can be improved.
US12029084B2
The embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a display substrate, a fabrication method thereof and a display apparatus. The display substrate includes: a base substrate, including a display region and a bonding region located on at least one side of the display region; a conductive layer, located on the base substrate and in the bonding region and including a plurality of first conducive terminals; and an insulation protection layer, located on one side, facing away from the base substrate, of the conductive layer, and having hollow regions and pattern regions, where the hollow regions cover the first conductive terminals, and the pattern regions cover gaps among the plurality of first conductive terminals.
US12029082B2
A display device includes: a base layer comprising a first portion, a second portion extending from the first portion, and a third portion extending from the second portion; a first light emitting element disposed on the first portion; a first front signal line electrically connected to the first light emitting element and disposed on the first portion; a second front signal line electrically connected to the first front signal line, disposed on the first portion, disposed in a different layer from the first front signal line, and overlapping the first front signal line; a first connection line electrically connected to the first and second front signal lines, disposed on the second portion, and disposed in a different layer from the first and second front signal lines; and a first rear signal line electrically connected to the first connection line and disposed on the third portion.
US12029071B2
A method of assembling a display panel includes laminating a back plate to a display layer to form an untrimmed display panel, the back plate including a metal layer that includes a trimming path defined by one or more line segments having reduced metal content compared to other portions of the metal layer. The method further includes trimming the untrimmed display panel along the one or more line segments to define one or more edges of the display panel. For one or more locations along each of the one or more edges defined by the line segments, the metal layer is flush with the corresponding edge of the display panel.
US12029064B2
A foldable, flexible display apparatus includes a flexible display panel which displays an image and includes a display side on which the image is displayed and of which portions thereof face each other in a folded state of the flexible display apparatus; a cover window on the display side of the flexible display panel and including: a window film comprising a transparent plastic film having a modulus of elasticity of about 6.3 gigapascals or more; and a coating layer on the window film, and configured to be transparent and to protect the window film from physical damage thereto; and an adhesive layer between the window film and the display side of the flexible display panel, and configured to have elasticity and bond the window film and the flexible display panel to each other.
US12029057B2
A novel light-emitting device is provided. Alternatively, a light-emitting device with favorable emission efficiency is provided. Alternatively, a light-emitting device with a favorable lifetime is provided. Alternatively, a light-emitting device with a low driving voltage is provided. Provided is a light-emitting device including an anode, a cathode, and a layer including an organic compound that is positioned between the anode and the cathode, in which the layer including the organic compound includes a first layer, a second layer, and a light-emitting layer in this order from the anode side, the first layer includes a first substance and a second substance, the second layer includes a third substance, the first substance is an organic compound a HOMO level of which is higher than or equal to −5.8 eV and lower than or equal to −5.4 eV, the second substance is a substance that has an electron-acceptor property with respect to the first substance, and the third substance is an organic compound having a structure in which at least two substituents comprising carbazole rings are bonded to a naphthalene ring.
US12029051B2
Techniques for growing, at least one of: (a) quantum dots and (b) nano-crystals, on a surface of a material are provided. One method comprises placing a precursor on the surface; adding an antisolvent to the precursor; and growing at least one of the quantum dots and the nanocrystals on the surface.
US12029050B2
A 3D semiconductor device including: a first level including a single crystal layer, and a memory control circuit which includes at least one temperature sensor circuit and first transistors; a first metal layer overlaying the first single crystal layer; a second metal layer overlaying the first metal layer; a third metal layer overlaying the second metal layer; second transistors—which may include a metal gate—disposed atop the third metal layer; third transistors disposed atop the second transistors; a fourth metal layer disposed atop the third transistors; a memory array including word-lines and at least four memory mini arrays (each mini array includes at least four rows by four columns of memory cells), each memory cell includes at least one second transistor or at least one third transistor; and a connection path from fourth metal to third metal, the path includes a via disposed through the memory array.
US12029034B2
A semiconductor storage device includes a stacked body, a first columnar portion, a second columnar portion, and second insulating layers. The stacked body includes a plurality of conductive layers and a plurality of first insulating layers alternately stacked in a first direction. The first columnar portion being in a first region, and the second columnar portion being in a second region. The first columnar penetrates the stacked body in the first direction and includes a semiconductor layer. The second columnar portion penetrates the stacked body in the first direction and includes an insulating layer thereon. The second insulating layers are between the second columnar portion and either the conductive layers or the first insulating layers. The insulating layer on the second columnar portion. The second insulating layers are between the insulating layer on the second columnar portion and one of the conductive layers or the first insulating layers.
US12029023B2
A method of forming a memory circuit includes generating a layout design of the memory circuit, and manufacturing the memory circuit based on the layout design. The generating of the layout design includes generating a first active region layout pattern corresponding to fabricating a first active region of a first pull down transistor, generating a second active region layout pattern corresponding to fabricating a second active region of a first pass gate transistor, and generating a first metal contact layout pattern corresponding to fabricating a first metal contact. The first metal contact layout pattern overlaps the cell boundary of the memory circuit and the first active region layout pattern. The first metal contact electrically coupled to a source of the first pull down transistor. The memory circuit being a four transistor (4T) memory cell including a first and second pass gate transistor, and a first and second pull down transistor.
US12029022B2
A bottom portion of a Ta pillar serving as a contact portion is connected to an N+ layer and a P+ layer, and a gate HfO2 layer is connected to side surfaces of Si pillars and a Ta pillar serving as a contact portion and an upper surface of a SiO2 layer between the Si pillars and the Ta pillar serving as the contact portion. Gate TiN layers are provided on a side surface of the gate HfO2 layer surrounding the Si pillars. Midpoints of the Si pillars and the Ta pillar serving as the contact portion are on one first line in plan view.
US12029020B2
A multilayer electromagnetic shielding system providing two stacks spaced apart by an air gap, wherein each stack has an electric-field-attenuating layer adhered to a magnetic-field-attenuating layer. An electromagnetically inert material may sandwich the spaced apart stacks for insulative and structural purposes.
US12029017B2
A semiconductor module has a heat conduction section provided between a multilayer substrate, on which semiconductor chips are mounted, and a cooler. The heat conduction section includes a frame and an opening, and the opening has a grease portion which is provided partly in the opening and is in contact with the multilayer substrate and the cooler, and a space portion which is provided between the grease portion and the frame in a partial and band-shaped manner.
US12029001B2
An explosion-proof apparatus with an explosion-proof housing and a cooling device. The explosion-proof housing has a plurality of outer walls enclosing a housing interior. A pressure-relief arrangement of the cooling device has at least one pressure relief opening with at least one gas-permeable, flameproof pressure-relief body. The pressure-relief opening passes through at least one of the outer walls. The cooling device also has at least one heat sink which forms at least one heat sink wall part of one the outer walls and which, as a heat sink wall part of this outer wall, directly borders, on its outer face, the surrounding area and directly borders, on its inner face, the housing interior.
US12028981B2
An electronic circuit, which includes: a printed circuit, at least one first electronic component and at least one second electronic component. The at least one first electronic component includes an interconnection face provided with electrical interconnections brazed on an external face of the printed circuit. The interconnection face is opposite the external face. The brazed electrical interconnections form at least one space between the interconnection face and the external face. The at least one second electronic component is brazed on the external face and is at least partly housed in the at least one space.
US12028975B2
According to various embodiments of the disclosure, an electronic device may comprise a housing at least partially including an electrically conductive material, a first circuit board disposed in the housing, a connection member disposed on the first circuit board and partially extending past an edge of the first circuit board, a second circuit board disposed in the housing and connected to the connection member from a side of the first circuit board in which the connection member extends, and a shielding member disposed to surround the connection member and the second circuit board inside the housing. The shielding member may be electrically connected to at least one of the housing and the first circuit board. Other various embodiments are possible.
US12028972B2
A wiring board is disclosed. The wiring board includes a substrate including a first element, a diffusion layer in contact with the substrate and including a first metal element, and a first metal film in contact with the diffusion layer and including a second metal element. The diffusion layer has at least a region including the first element and the first metal element and a region including the first metal element and the second metal element. A concentration of the second metal element in the diffusion layer may decrease as it approaches the substrate in a depth direction. A concentration of the first element in the diffusion layer may decrease as it approaches the first metal film in the depth direction.
US12028971B2
There is provided a semiconductor apparatus including a first high-speed communication controller and a second high-speed communication controller that perform high-speed communication; a first high-speed communication terminal group that includes a first high-speed communication terminal for inputting a first signal; a second high-speed communication terminal group that includes a second high-speed communication terminal for inputting a second signal; and a terminal mounting surface, in which the terminal mounting surface includes a first side and a second side, a shortest distance from the first high-speed communication terminal group to the first side is shorter than a shortest distance from the second high-speed communication terminal group to the first side, and a shortest distance from the second high-speed communication terminal group to the second side is shorter than a shortest distance from the first high-speed communication terminal group to the second side.
US12028967B2
A wiring substrate includes a first insulating layer with a first opening, a second insulating layer with a second opening, a high-frequency wiring layer, a first wiring layer, a second wiring layer, and a plurality of conductive pillars. The high-frequency wiring layer including a high-frequency trace is sandwiched between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. The first opening and the second opening expose two sides of the high-frequency trace respectively. The high-frequency trace has a smooth surface which is not covered by the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer and has the roughness ranging between 0.1 and 2 μm. The first insulating layer and the second insulating layer are all located between the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer. The conductive pillars are disposed in the second insulating layer and connected to the high-frequency trace.
US12028966B2
A printed circuit board (PCB) and a method of manufacturing the same is described. The PCB includes a substrate defining a major plane and an integrated electromagnetic interference and compatibility (EMC/EMI) shielding enclosure configured to enclose the substrate. The shielding enclosure includes a metallic top layer deposited on top of the major plane of the substrate so as to envelop an uppermost layer of the substrate, a metallic bottom layer deposited on bottom of the major plane of the substrate so as to envelop a bottommost layer of the substrate, and a metallic side layer formed along a length of one or more edges of the substrate to electrically connect the metallic top layer and the metallic bottom layer.
US12028960B2
According to various embodiments, a system for using magnetic reconnection to accelerate plasma is disclosed. The system includes a pair of electrodes including two concentric rings separated by an electrode gap and held at different electrostatic potential by applying a voltage to generate an inter-electrode electric field. The system further includes a plurality of magnetic coils configured to produce magnetic field lines that connect the pair of electrodes. The system additionally includes a gas injector configured to inject gas into the electrode gap, the injected gas being partially ionized by the inter-electrode electric field to generate a poloidal current that flows along open magnetic field lines across the electrode gap. A total Lorentz force causes oppositely directed magnetic field lines to be expanded around a region of the gas injector to further create an azimuthal current in the form of an axially elongated current sheet that is unstable such that the axially elongated current sheet reconnects and breaks into plasmoids.
US12028954B2
An induction heating apparatus according to one embodiment may confirm a feature of a container and determine an operation mode based on the feature of the container before performing an operation of heating the container. In one embodiment, the operation mode of the induction heating apparatus may be determined as any one of a frequency doubler mode, a half bridge mode, and a full bridge mode. In one embodiment, a power control mode of the induction heating apparatus may be determined based on an operation mode of the induction heating apparatus. In one embodiment, the power control mode of the induction heating apparatus may be determined as any one of an asymmetric pulse width modulation (APWM) mode and a phase shift mode.
US12028940B2
Provided are methods and apparatuses for performing a communication in a wireless communication system. An IAB node of performing a communication, according to an embodiment, includes a transceiver and a processor coupled with the transceiver and configured to perform an authentication and a setup of an IP connectivity with an OAM (operations, administration and maintenance) server, in response to an architecture in which a DU (distribution unit) and a CU (central unit) are split, establish a F1 interface between a DU of the IAB node and a CU of an IAB donor, and provide a service to a UE based on a result of the establishment.
US12028936B2
A wireless communication device (UE) may provide information pertaining to one or more operating capabilities of the UE to LTE and 5G-NR networks. The UE may transmit information to an LTE base station directly, and to a 5G-NR base station directly, or indirectly via the LTE base station. The information may include preferred values corresponding to any number of different operating parameters associated with wireless communications or wireless communication capabilities of the UE in both LTE and 5G-NR networks, to inform and/or request the LTE and 5G-NR networks to make provisions based on the transmitted information for the wireless communications of the UE on those networks. The UE may thereby provide assistance information to LTE and 5G-NR networks in a multi-radio-access-technology dual-connectivity setting to request the respective networks to adjust certain operating capabilities of the UE in order to alleviate one or more operating issues that may be affecting the UE.
US12028931B2
In a location reporting notification method regarding user equipment (UE) moving from an area served by a first mobility management network element (MMNE) to another area served by a second MMNE, the second MMNE receives from the first MMNE a current value of a first timer regarding the UE, wherein the first timer is maintained by the first MMNE. The second MMNE starts a second timer regarding the UE, and setting an initial value of the second timer to be the current value of the first timer. When the second MMNE detects a current location of the UE, it sends a reporting notification including information regarding the current location to a service capability exposure function when the second timer expires.
US12028926B2
This document describes techniques and devices for handling an attempt to resume a wireless connection using a base station that supports a different core-network type. While in a current resource control state, such as an inactive state 332, a user equipment (UE) 111 or 112 selects a base station 124 with a different core-network type than a previously selected base station 122 or 121. In some cases, this selected base station 124 does not support the current resource control state or does not enable the UE 111 or 112 to transition to a different resource control state, such as a connected state 330. Consequently, if the UE 111 or 112 attempts to perform a procedure that would result in the UE 111 or 112 transitioning to the unsupported resource control state, the procedure may fail and consequently waste network resources or delay communications with the UE 111 or 112.
US12028917B2
A method, apparatus and computer program product establish at least two redundant protocol data unit sessions to at least one user equipment. The at least two redundant protocol data unit sessions are established based on dual connectivity in a radio access network. The method, apparatus and computer program product collect network status information related to the at least two redundant protocol data unit sessions. The method, apparatus and computer program product configure a set of protocol data unit session switching patterns for the at least two redundant protocol data unit sessions based on the real-time network status information.
US12028899B2
A communication apparatus compliant with an IEEE 802.11 series standard capable of performing Multi-Link communication with a plurality of other communication apparatuses using a plurality of links with different frequency channels is provided. The communication apparatus generates a key for encrypting a frame to be communicated for each one of the plurality of links, receives, from a first communication apparatus from among the plurality of other communication apparatuses, a notification indicating disconnection or suspension of one or more links of the plurality of links, confirms a state of communication via the plurality of links between the plurality of other communication apparatuses and the communication apparatus in a case where the notification is received, and determines whether or not to re-generate the key for each one of the plurality of links on the basis of a result of the confirmation.
US12028896B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to multiple starting points for new radio sidelink transmission over unlicensed band are provided. In some aspects, a UE may perform a channel access procedure to access a first physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) transmission resource of an unlicensed new radio spectrum. In some aspects, the first PSSCH transmission resource may be reserved by a control message and may include a plurality of transmission starting points. Further, the first UE may transmit first data to a second UE via the first PSSCH transmission resource starting at a later transmission starting point than one or more prior transmission starting points of the plurality of transmission starting points when the performing the channel access procedure fails at each of the one or more prior transmission starting points.
US12028872B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Wireless communications systems may employ one or more scheduling constraints to support efficient utilization of techniques for intra-device handling of overlapping scheduled uplink transmissions (e.g., intra-device dynamic resource cancelation and multiplexing) as well as inter-device handling of overlapping scheduled uplink transmissions (e.g., inter-device dynamic resource cancelation and multiplexing). Scheduling constraints may define how a device may apply intra-device and inter-device multiplexing and cancelation rules for various scenarios. For example, a device may apply intra-UE cancelation rules before inter-device cancelation rules. In some examples, later-received grants or uplink preemption indications (ULPIs) may not change a device's previously established decision to drop an uplink transmission. As another example, a device may not expect to receive a grant for an uplink transmission that would arise in subsequent cancelation of that uplink transmission due to a previously-received grant or previously-received ULPI.
US12028851B2
A method is described for communicating in a network. The method includes setting a type bit in a frame to indicate whether the frame is scheduling an uplink transmission for only a first set of stations in the wireless network or the first set of stations and a second set of stations in the wireless network and transmitting the frame to (1) all stations in the first set of stations when the type bit indicates that the trigger frame is scheduling the uplink transmission for the first set of stations and (2) all stations in the second set of stations when the type bit indicates that the trigger frame is scheduling the uplink transmission for the first set of stations and the second set of stations.
US12028850B2
Provided are a method for a terminal for carrying out uplink communication in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus using the method. The method receives an uplink communication-related parameter independently configured for each analog beam, and carries out the uplink communication on the basis of the parameter. If the uplink communication is carried out using a particular analog beam, then an uplink communication-related parameter configured on the particular analog beam is applied to the uplink communication.
US12028848B2
Methods and devices are provided for facilitating wireless communication. In one exemplary aspect, a method for a terminal device is provided. The method includes receiving access resource information at a first frequency band, wherein the access resource information indicates an access resource available for accessing a network device in a second frequency band; and performing a network access operation using the access resource at the second frequency band.
US12028847B2
Latency reduction techniques for radio access networks are described. In various embodiments, a reduced transmission time interval (rTTI) may be implemented in order to reduce air interface latency in a radio access network. In some embodiments, an rTTI block may be defined, and some operations may be performed in rTTI block-wise fashion in order to reduce the marginal overhead associated with implementation of the rTTI. In various embodiments in which an rTTI is implemented, DM-RS granularity may be improved by use of techniques that enable data and reference signals to be multiplexed within a same OFDM symbol. In some embodiments, a current transmission time interval (TTI) may be maintained, and latency reduction may be achieved via the use of novel techniques for one or more of code block (CB) segmentation, uplink (UL) resource element (RE) mapping, and HARQ cycle timing. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US12028846B2
An apparatus comprises a sampling circuit configured to sample transmit and receive signals of a first radio node to be transmitted to or received from a second radio node. Transmit-side and receive-side envelope detectors are configured to produce transmit-side and receive-side envelope signals based on sampled transmit and receive signals. A transmit-side time measurement unit is configured to generate, based on the transmit-side envelope signal, a transmit-side marker signal based on a pre-defined transmit-side threshold, measure at least one first time delay between at least one time start pulse and at least one marker of the transmit-side marker signal and store to a memory and/or output said at least one first time delay. A receive-side time measurement unit is configured to implement the corresponding functionalities as described for the transmit-side time measurement unit in the receive-side.
US12028845B2
A beam correspondence capability reporting method includes determining, by a terminal device based on first determining information and a first determining condition, whether the terminal device has a beam correspondence capability. When the terminal device has the beam correspondence capability and a beam strength of a downlink receive beam is not less than a first strength threshold, determining, by the terminal device, an uplink transmit beam using the beam correspondence capability. Transmitting, by the terminal device, first communication information using the uplink transmit beam, receiving, by the terminal device, n transmission requests for the first communication information, performing detaching, by the terminal device, and reporting, by the terminal device, first capability information in a process of re-accessing a base station, indicating that the terminal device does not have the beam correspondence capability.
US12028841B2
Provided is a multi-band communication apparatus including a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter transmits, in a wireless network and to multi-band communication devices, frames on a frequency band that include actions related to the frequency band and to at least one other frequency band in which the multi-band communication apparatus transmits. The receiver receives, in the wireless network, from the multi-band communication devices, frames on the frequency band that include actions related to the frequency band and to the at least one other frequency band in which the multi-band communication apparatus receives.
US12028827B2
The present disclosure relates to a method for operating a wireless receiver to receive station signals from transmitting stations via communication channels and to emit a selected one of the station signals. The method selects communication channels to transmit the selected one of the station signals, detects reception properties for the selected communication channels, detects position data of the wireless receiver, assigns the position data of the wireless receiver to the reception properties detected with regard to the selected communication channels, determines a position-related received data set for the selected one of the station signals, and transmits the position-related received data set to a server device that stores the position-related received data set to be retrievable by the server device.
US12028814B2
Disclosed is a wireless communication device that can suppress an increase in power consumption of a terminal while preventing the degradation of SINR measurement precision resulting from TPC errors in a base station. A terminal controls the transmission power of a second signal by adding an offset to the transmission power of a first signal; an offset-setting unit sets an offset correction value in response to a transmission time gap between a third signal transmitted the previous time and the second signal transmitted this time; and a transmission power control unit controls the transmission power of the second signal using the correction value.
US12028812B2
Method and system for controlling transmission power between a base station and a terminal apparatus
A base station apparatus determines whether or not, with respect to a connected terminal apparatus, a condition regarding interference to an up-link signal transmitted from the terminal apparatus to the base station apparatus is satisfied; and executes transmission power control using a first method with respect to the terminal apparatus that has been determined to satisfy the condition.
US12028809B2
The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for relaxing signaling characteristic evaluation measurements in wireless communication systems.
US12028802B2
In a wireless local area network (LAN) system, a sharing access point (AP) may transmit a first selection frame to a first shared AP and transmit a second selection frame to a second shared AP on the basis of information relating to channels between a reception station (STA) and the first shared AP and between the reception STA and the second shared AP. The sharing AP may receive a first selection response frame from the first shared AP. The sharing AP may determine to use the first shared AP in multi-AP transmission on the basis of the first selection response frame.
US12028801B2
A communications device provided in a vehicle having a plurality of functions involving communication includes: a communications portion configured to use a communications standard designated for each of the functions; and a controlling portion configured to determine whether the communications standard is to be restricted from being used by the communications portion or not, in accordance with a state of the vehicle.
US12028799B2
Methods and nodes related to subscription handling and notifications, for instance, with respect to Network Function (NF) management services, are described.
US12028797B2
Example uncrewed aerial vehicle communication methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes a first access network device receives indication information used to indicate access information of a next hop of the uncrewed aerial vehicle, where the access information includes at least one of information about a second access network device or information about a cell of a second access network device. The first access network device sends a first request based on the indication information, where the first request is used to request the second access network device to prepare an access resource for the uncrewed aerial vehicle. The second access network device prepares the access resource for the uncrewed aerial vehicle after receiving the first request.
US12028789B2
In accordance with an embodiment, a method of operating a vehicle server in line with a plurality of vehicle terminals includes collecting broadcasting station titles of broadcasting channels serviced at respective positions; collecting position information from the plurality of vehicle terminals; constructing big data based on the collected broadcasting station titles and position information; learning a relationship between the position information and the broadcasting station titles using machine learning based big data analysis; and generating a broadcasting station title estimating model for estimating broadcasting station titles corresponding to the position information of the plurality of vehicle terminals.
US12028783B2
The system receives a message from a user, along with a recipient list and generated personalized messages for recipients of the recipient list. The system determines the format of the message, and whether to, and how to, modify the message based on information about the recipient. For example, a recipient category may be used to determine how to personalize a message for each recipient. A relationship between a sender and recipient may be determined using, for example, a database of relationship information. The system modifies, for example, text, images, or video of the message to generate the personalized message. The system may access historical communications records such as a chat group record, a contacts list, a text message record, an email message record, a social media post record, or a comments record corresponding to a media content item to determine how to personalize a message.
US12028781B2
A wireless communication system includes a plurality of user devices, UEs, and at least one logical group defined in accordance with one or more logical group criteria. The logical group includes a plurality of member UEs to be connected via sidelink for sidelink communication with each other, and all member UEs of the logical group have assigned the same destination identification, ID, the destination ID being unique for the logical group.
US12028773B2
Systems and methods associate operators with machinery, such as materials-handling vehicles. Embodiments of the disclosed system comprise a first communication module configured to determine a distance between a frame of reference associated with a vehicle and respective portable devices and first logic configured to designate a first portable device as an operator device based, at least in part, on a first distance determined by the communication module. The first logic may be further configured to exclude the first portable device from a pedestrian detection function in response to classifying the first portable device as an operator device.
US12028772B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: examining data of a plurality of traveling users, wherein at least some of the plurality of traveling users have associated mobile client computer devices, and determining, by machine logic, based on the examining that certain traveling users of the plurality of traveling users are traveling in a group; deciding, by machine logic, based on the determining that one or more action is to be performed, wherein the deciding is in dependence on a processing of historical data, the historical data specifying activities of the certain traveling users when the certain traveling users travel in a group; and providing one or more output for performance of the one or more action.
US12028763B1
Methods and systems for selecting a primary component carrier for use in new radio (NR) carrier aggregation are described. A load of a first Dynamic Shared Spectrum (DSS) component carrier is monitored. When the load of the first DSS component carrier reaches a threshold value, an identification of one or more NR user equipment that are assigned to use the first DSS component carrier as a primary component carrier for carrier aggregation is made. The one or more NR user equipment are handed over from the first component carrier to a second component carrier for use as a primary component carrier for the one or more NR user equipment. Methods and systems for selecting a secondary component carrier for use in NR carrier aggregation are also described. A load of a first DSS component carrier is monitored, wherein the carrier is assigned as the secondary component carrier for one or more NR user equipment. A determination is made that the load of the first DSS component carrier has reached a threshold value. A second component carrier is re-assigned as the secondary component carrier for the one or more NR user equipment.
US12028761B2
A cell reselection method is a method that allows a user equipment to perform cell reselection of reselecting a cell to be used as a serving cell. The cell reselection method includes: transitioning from an RRC connected state to an RRC inactive state when a message is received from a network, the message including a configuration of a RAN notification area in which paging for the user equipment is performed; and after the transitioning to the RRC inactive state, selecting, among cells included in the RAN notification area, a redistribution target configured with a highest priority in the cell reselection, based on the RAN notification area configured according to the message and a redistribution parameter broadcast from the network.
US12028760B2
This application provides a communication method, apparatus, and system, which may be used to position a terminal device in a handover scenario, so that continuity of a positioning service can be maintained, and a positioning success rate can be improved. The method includes: A communication device sends a first message to a location management function network element after determining that a terminal device is handed over to a target cell, where the first message includes identifier information of the target cell, so that the location management function network element receives the first message.
US12028747B2
The present invention relates to methods and apparatus for reducing delay while providing secure communications between nodes. An exemplary method embodiment includes a first node performing the steps of: identifying packets corresponding to a first communications session, the first communications session corresponding to a first application type; segmenting at least a first packet corresponding to the first communications session into at least a first packet portion and a second packet portion, the first packet including a first packet header and a first packet payload, the first packet portion including at least a portion of the first packet header, the second packet portion including at least a portion of the first packet payload; communicating, in encrypted form, the first packet portion from the first node to a security function node; and communicating, in unencrypted form, the second packet portion from the first node to the security function node.
US12028737B2
A method and apparatus for reducing latency in a virtual reality system including a plurality of devices comprises capturing and transmitting, by a first device, a first batch of data to a second device. The second device renders and encodes a second data based upon the first batch of data, and transmits the first encoded image to the first device. Based upon a determination of a likelihood of collision between a transmission of a second batch of data from the first device and the transmission of the second data, the first device adjusts a frequency of capturing and transmitting the second batch of data.
US12028730B2
There is provided a method for a mobile communication system comprising receiving at a communication device cell configuration information from a network node, and the configuration information being related to cells in a network area comprising a first cell and one or more second cells. Further, the method further comprises receiving at the communication device environment information indicative of overlaps between coverage areas of the first cell and the one or more second cells, and causing transmission of measurement results obtained in the first cell for use in radio resource management of the communication device in the one or more second cells.
US12028726B2
A fifth generation (5G) network can provide testing capabilities by employing a test server to generate requests for testing at remote locations of the 5G network. The test server can be used to initiate tests, determine test conditions for conducting the tests, direct test locations, and receive test data from test tools remote from the server. The test server can initiate, establish, maintain, format, or otherwise determine tests that are usable to improve operation of the 5G network.
US12028718B2
A base station includes a communication unit configured to perform communication with a plurality of terminals through one or more cells, and a control unit configured to perform measurement of the number of active terminals in layer 2 measurement, wherein the control unit measures the number of the active terminals for each cell.
US12028714B1
For validation of wireless signals, a wireless receiver receives a validation signal that includes information from a target signal. By using digital signature, message authentication code (MAC), and/or hashing, the validation signal is verified to be from a trusted source. By comparing the information from the verified validation signal with the target signal, the target signal is confirmed to be genuine or not a spoofing signal. In one approach, the validation signal is provided from a different transmission source than the target signal. In another approach, modulation estimation rather than known modulation is used as the information for the validation signal for comparison with the target signal despite not knowing the spread pattern of the coding. In yet another approach, a one-way function is used to generate a pseudorandom code to spread a first component of the a first signal below the noise floor. The input to the one-way function is a second component sent at a time later than the time.
US12028713B2
A tracking device can provide a hashed identifier to a mobile device, for instance within an advertisement packet. The mobile device can query each of a plurality of entities with the hashed identifier to identify an entity associated with the hash key used to generate the hashed identifier. In some embodiments, the mobile device can query a centralized key server, which in turn can query the plurality of entities to identify the entity associated with the hash key. The mobile device can then receive a public key from the identified entity, can determine a location of the mobile device, and can encrypt the location with the public key. The mobile device can then provide the hashed identifier and the encrypted location to the identified entity, which can provide the encrypted location to an owner of the tracking device for decryption using a private key corresponding to the public key.
US12028708B2
Method and system for authorizing the communication of a network node of a communication network, wherein the communication of the network node is only permitted if the network node receives an authorization after a completed NFC connection with a defined (certified) mobile communication terminal.
US12028707B2
A first apparatus includes a processor, a memory, and communication circuitry. The first apparatus is connected to a communications network via its communication circuitry. The first apparatus further includes computer-executable instructions stored in the memory of the first apparatus which, when executed by the processor of the first apparatus, cause the first apparatus to: receive voice content or other biometric content of a user; prepare a message including the voice or other biometric content; send the message to the communications network or a second apparatus through a control plane of the communications network in order to authenticate and authorize the first apparatus and the user; receive a response message from the communications network or the second apparatus, wherein the response message includes authentication and authorization results for the first apparatus and identification information that identifies the user.
US12028697B2
Provided is a method and system of sound processing for a mobile terminal based on hand-holding and orientation detection. The method includes: detecting whether the mobile terminal is held by hand; in response to determination of the mobile terminal being held by hand, detecting whether it is one-hand holding or two-hand holding; in response to determination of one-hand holding, detecting whether it is landscape holding or portrait holding, and conducting corresponding frequency response equalization and stereo processing control; and in response to determination of two-hand holding, determining whether the mobile terminal is in an interaction procedure, and conducting corresponding frequency response equalization and stereo processing control. Compared with the related art, the problem that frequency response of the speakers of existing mobile terminals significantly changes with different holding postures that may eventually lead to poor sound quality is solved, to provide more consistent speaker sound quality in real life.
US12028690B2
A concept for modifying a loudspeaker signal to prevent diaphragm over-deflection, in which a diaphragm deflection signal is predicted block by block, in overlapping time blocks, on the basis of the loudspeaker signal, so as to obtain one diaphragm deflection signal block per time block, is made more efficient. In accordance with an embodiment, a temporal evaluation position is determined at which then an attenuation factor is calculated from the current diaphragm deflection signal block, with the application of which a modified current diaphragm deflection signal block is obtained, and then a modified loudspeaker signal is synthesized on the basis of the modified current diaphragm deflection signal block.
US12028682B2
The present invention relates to a mobile hearing aid having foldable earphones and howling prevention circuits mounted on headwear, including: a support member disposed on the inner periphery of the headwear and made of plastic or metal; and sensors provided on the surfaces of the earphones facingly covering a wearer's ears to detect the infrared radiation emitted from the human body, wherein hearing aid sounds are provided to the wearer when the earphones are covered on his or her ears and muted when the earphones are open from his or her ears, thereby preventing the occurrence of howling from the earphones open from his or her ears.
US12028675B2
A method of determining an audio controller for a headphone that is configured to use an acoustic transducer to develop sound that is delivered to an ear of a user and that includes a feedback microphone that is configured to sense sound developed by the acoustic transducer, and a related computer program product and system. A first audio transfer function between the acoustic transducer and the feedback microphone is measured. A second audio transfer function between the acoustic transducer and the feedback microphone with a feedback controller applied is determined. The audio controller is calculated based on both the first audio transfer function and the second audio transfer function.
US12028657B2
A projection device and a keystone correction method thereof are provided. The keystone correction method is adapted for the projection device and includes the following steps. A first image is obtained. A first line-taking position parameter is determined according to a ratio of a first target edge length to a second target edge length. At least one line of input pixels disposed in a first direction is retrieved from the first image according to the first line-taking position parameter. A first scaling process related to the first direction is performed according to at least one line of input pixels of the first image, such that a line of output pixels of a second image disposed in the first direction is generated. The projection device projects the second image onto a projection screen to display a rectangular projected image.
US12028656B2
Systems and methods for managing current flow in a power circuit used to dynamically share power are disclosed. A Zener diode may automatically adjust current flow in the power circuit. If the power circuit has not received sufficient current for dynamic power sharing, the Zener diode may draw additional current from a power source. An electrical current in the power circuit may be divided into a plurality of current loads. Each of the plurality of current loads may be directed through a different path in the power circuit.
US12028654B1
A system includes a plurality of satellites in orbit around a celestial body in a plurality of orbital planes. Each satellite includes an imaging device having a field of view (FOV) to capture an image of a sky that includes celestial image features of resident space object (RSO), stars, and/or planets. The satellite processor is configured to receive image data from sensors in the imaging device, to increase a positional detection accuracy of the celestial image features by defocusing imaging optics of the imaging device, to capture image data in a volume of the sky as the FOV of the imaging device on each satellite moves in an orbital plane, and generate by a centralized computer at least 1,000 celestial image features using the image data transmitted from each of the satellites.
US12028649B2
A wireless screen projection method for a wireless network including a receiver that includes a first input module and at least one transmitter, includes: switching, using the receiver, to a preemption enabled mode in response to a first trigger signal received by the receiver that is generated by the first input module in response to a user's first operation on the first input module; and in the preemption enabled mode, sending, using the receiver, a projection instruction to a target transmitter in response to a screen preemption request sent by the target transmitter. The projection instruction is to trigger the target transmitter to send audio and video data of a terminal device connected to the target transmitter to the receiver through the wireless network, and the receiver is to transmit the audio and video data to a display device connected to the receiver.
US12028645B2
A communication device provides subject-based segmentation and selective presentation of a video feed. A processor identifies a primary subject and a secondary subject within a captured video stream. The processor delineates the video stream into a primary segment and at least one secondary segment respectively encompassing the primary and secondary subjects. The processor identifies for each connected second device, a request type from among: (i) a first request type to only receive the primary segment; (ii) a second request type to receive the primary segment and secondary segment(s); and (iii) a third request type to receive secondary segments, but not the primary segment. The processor transmits, to each second device, specific segments of the video feed based on the request type associated with each respective second device. An accessibility setting enables a second device to selectively receive video segments of a sign language interpreter along with a main presenter.
US12028643B2
In one aspect, a first device may include at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to facilitate a video conference with a second device and to apply a virtual background for a video stream provided to the second device as part of the video conference. The video stream may also show at least one user. The virtual background may change perspective as a field of view showing the user changes and/or as an actual background behind the user changes.
US12028640B2
A social entertainment user interface operating on a wireless networked record session device capable of producing a live video and/or audio stream as if made in a vintage record booth. Record sessions are listened to and/or watched by a plurality of other social entertainment user interfaces operating on other networked listening/watching wireless networked devices. Video and audio filters emulate various altered looks and sounds. Record sessions are streamed live or near-live for other social entertainment user interfaces operating on other networked wireless devices to listen and/or watch, and passively and actively rated to dynamically enable watching of the most preferred record sessions.
US12028639B2
A photosensitive device includes a peripheral circuit semiconductor region, a photosensitive circuit semiconductor region including at least one group of at least two photosensitive elements configured to generate a photoelectric signal on a node called critical node. The device further includes an integrator circuit per group of photosensitive elements, each including: a differential circuit for each photosensitive element of the group, in the photosensitive circuit semiconductor region, an amplification circuit, in the peripheral circuit semiconductor region, and a feedback circuit for each photosensitive element of the group, comprising a capacitive element located in the photosensitive circuit semiconductor region coupled between the output node of the amplification circuit and the respective critical node.
US12028630B2
In the control method of the signal processing apparatus of the present embodiment, the portion at which a predetermined number of pixel values exceeding a first threshold value is continuous is specified as floating data of continuous image data indicated by pixel values output from a plurality of continuous light-shielded pixels. Reference data indicating a reference of a specific color is output, which is obtained by using a rest of image data, which is the continuous image data from which the floating data is removed, and alternative image data having pixel values not exceeding the first threshold value, which is used in place of the floating data.
US12028629B2
An image sensor (102) includes a photoelectric conversion unit (10) that generates a photoelectric charge, a sense node (SN) (21) that is connected to the photoelectric conversion unit (10) and holds the photoelectric charge generated by the photoelectric conversion unit (10), a discharge transistor (15) for discharging the photoelectric charge held by the sense node (SN) (21) to the outside, and a voltage control unit (114) that controls a voltage value of an off voltage to be applied to a gate of the discharge transistor (15) when the discharge transistor (15) is turned off.
US12028621B2
A vision system for a motor vehicle includes an optical image capture device configured to capture images of objects in its field of vision. A lighting device includes a plurality of lighting elements forming a lighting matrix configured to illuminate the field of vision of the optical device. A control device associated with the optical device and the lighting device is configured to determine the nature of each image of an object captured by the optical device. The control device is configured to locate the object, select the lighting elements of the lighting matrix capable of illuminating the object relative to the location of the object, and individually control at least one lighting characteristic of each selected lighting element so as to be able to determine the nature of the image of the object captured by the optical device.
US12028619B2
An image processing device (1) includes an exposure control unit (102), a Δ pose estimating unit (109), and an integration unit (111). The exposure control unit (102) controls exposure by sequentially performing positive correction of increasing exposure from proper exposure or negative correction of decreasing exposure from the proper exposure as the exposure at a time of acquiring each of a plurality of image frames in time series in a predetermined execution order. The Δ pose estimating unit (109) estimates first position pose of the image processing device based on matching between image frames subjected to the positive correction and second position pose of the image processing device based on matching between image frames subjected to the negative correction. The integration unit (111) integrates the first position pose and the second position pose.
US12028611B1
Various embodiments disclosed herein include techniques for determining autofocus for a camera on a mobile device. In various instances, a depth imaging system (e.g., a time-of-flight autofocus system (ToF-AF system)) is used to determine distance of a subject in order to determine autofocus for a camera. In some instances, however, the ToF-AF system may be unable to detect a subject that is very close to the camera when the objects are below a minimum detectable distance of the ToF-AF system. In such instances, an existing IR detector outside of the ToF-AF system may be implemented to measure reflected signals from the ToF-AF system. A power ratio may be determined from the reflected signals and used to determine information about the distance of the subject from the camera.
US12028608B2
An exchangeable lens includes: a mount unit at which a camera body is detachably engaged; a plurality of drive target members, conditions of which change as a drive force is applied thereto; an initialization unit that executes initialization processing for each of the plurality of drive target members; an initialization status transmission unit that transmits initialization statuses, each indicating a status of the initialization processing executed for one of the drive target members, to the camera body via a first transmission path over predetermined first cycles; and a drive condition transmission unit that transmits a drive condition of at least one drive target member among the plurality of drive target members to the camera body via a second transmission path different from the first transmission path over predetermined second cycles different from the predetermined first cycles.
US12028606B2
A system for remotely controlling microscopic machinery and a method thereof are provided. The system includes at least one local device and a remote host for sending a control command thereto. A microslide is placed on a microscopic camera device in the local device, and the microscopic camera device captures an image of the microslide according to a capture command in the control command. The local device transmits the image to the remote host in a video format. A motorized stage moves to a next preset position according to a movement command in the control command to capture another image of the microslide. The steps of capturing and transmitting the image and the step of moving are repeated until the microslide is captured completely. The invention can solve the problem of time delay when the image captured by the remote control microscopic camera device is displayed.
US12028604B2
Systems and techniques are provided for a camera server for heterogeneous cameras. Image data may be received from a first camera and second image data from a second camera of a heterogenous system that may be a trapped ion quantum computer. The first camera may observe trapped ions. The second camera may observe optical systems and laser beams. The second image data may have a different format than the first image data. The image data and the second image data may be converted into a format for a common data structure for image data. The image data may be sent in the format for the common data structure for image data to client computing devices. The second image data may be sent in the format for the common data structure for image data to additional client computing devices.
US12028601B2
Method of generating modified media content item based on user's setting selection starts with a processor causing a camera personalization interface to be displayed by a display of a client device. The processor receives a setting selection from the client device via the camera personalization interface. The processor determines a pre-capture setting and a post-processing setting based on the setting selection. The processor calibrates a camera of the client device using the pre-capture setting. The processor receives a media content item including an image captured using the camera and generates a modified media content item by modifying the media content item using the post-processing setting. Other embodiments are described herein.
US12028596B2
A camera module, including a module housing, a first bracket, and a camera, where the module housing has an inner housing chamber, the first bracket is at least partly disposed in the inner housing chamber, the camera is at least partly disposed in the inner housing chamber, the camera is hinged to the first bracket by a first hinge shaft, the camera is able to rotate around the first hinge shaft, the first bracket is hinged to the module housing by a second hinge shaft, the first bracket rotates around the second hinge shaft, and an axis of the first hinge shaft and an axis of the second hinge shaft intersect or lie on different planes. The present invention discloses an electronic device.
US12028594B2
An embodiment comprises a lens driving part including a lens, a connection substrate connected to the lens driving part, and a connector part connected to the connection substrate. The connector part comprises a substrate including, on the upper surface thereof, a cavity and a ground layer, a noise shield part located within the cavity of the substrate and contacting the ground layer, and a reinforcement member located on the noise shield part. The reinforcement member is located in the cavity of the substrate and on the upper surface of the substrate. In a top view, the length of one side of the noise shield part is less than the length of one side of the cavity of the substrate.
US12028587B2
According to one or more embodiments, a playback device is provided. The device includes processing circuitry configured to receive a video stream including a plurality of video packets, where each of the plurality of video packets is associated with a respective video timestamp value. The playback device is further configured to store at least one of the plurality of video packets in a jitter buffer, and to adjust each of the respective video timestamp values by a respective delay value, where each of the respective delay values is either a dynamic delay value based on a first condition being satisfied or a fixed delay value based on a second condition being satisfied. The playback device is further configured to play the video stream according to the adjusted video timestamp values for reduced initial delay at the jitter buffer.
US12028581B2
A method can be provided which includes receiving a channel line-up for an over-the-top media content system, receiving a preferred channel line-up containing a portion of the channel line-up, displaying individual channels of the channels of the preferred channel line-up in a preferred order on a display associated with the processor, monitoring a location of the processor while displaying the preferred channel line-up, determining whether the location of the processor corresponds to a channel exclusion zone, and removing excluded channels from the channel line-up based on the channel exclusion zone. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12028573B2
The present invention enables detection of a sponsorship credit display in a broadcast program with higher precision. A sponsorship credit display detection device 100 according to the present invention includes: a learning data creation unit 140 that creates, as learning data, from a broadcast program in which the sponsorship credit display has been detected, a still image where the sponsorship credit display is displayed and a still image where the sponsorship credit display is not displayed; a learning unit 150 that uses the learning data created by the learning data creation unit 140 to learn a parameter to be applied to a detection model for detecting a sponsorship credit display in a broadcast program; and a sponsorship credit display detection unit 170 that uses the detection model to which the parameter learned by the learning unit 150 has been applied to detect a sponsorship credit display in a recognition target broadcast program.
US12028561B2
A method and system for aligning the duration of supplemental content with the duration of modifiable content in content modification operations. An example method includes determining a duration of a modifiable content segment in a media sequence being received by a content-presentation device. The example method then includes identifying a supplemental content segment to replace the modifiable content segment and selecting from a predefined set of multiple different-duration versions of the identified supplemental content segment, a particular instance of the identified supplemental content segment based on the particular instance of the identified supplemental content segment having a duration closest to the determined duration of the modifiable content segment. The method further includes causing the selected particular instance of the identified supplemental content segment to be transmitted to the content-presentation device to facilitate dynamic replacement of the supplemental content segment with the particular instance of the identified supplemental content segment.
US12028538B2
The present invention relates to an image information decoding method. The decoding method includes receiving a bit stream including a Network Abstraction Layer (NAL) unit that includes information related to encoded image, and parsing a NAL unit header of the NAL unit. The NAL unit header may not include 1 bit flag information that represents whether a picture is a non-reference picture or a reference picture in the entire bit stream during encoding.
US12028536B2
According to the disclosure of the present document, chroma quantization parameter offset-related information can be signaled through palette syntax coding, and index information for a chroma quantization parameter offset list can be efficiently parsed/signaled on the basis of information about the number of entries in the chroma quantization parameter offset list. Accordingly, bits that are required to be signaled in order to code a video/image can be reduced, and the coding efficiency can be enhanced.
US12028535B2
A method for video processing is provided to include: performing a conversion between a current video block of a video and a coded representation of current video block, wherein the conversion uses a coding mode in which the current video block is constructed based on a first domain and a second domain and/or chroma residue is scaled in a luma-dependent manner, and wherein information used for the coding mode is signaled in a parameter set that is different from a sequence parameter set (SPS), a video parameter set (VPS), a picture parameter set (PPS), or an adaptation parameter set (APS) used for carrying adaptive loop filtering (ALF) parameters.
US12028533B2
An image information decoding method performed by means of a decoding device according to the present invention comprises the steps of: decoding a non-separable secondary transform (NSST) index from a bitstream if NSST is applied to a target block; decoding information relating to transform coefficients with respect to the target block from the bitstream on the basis of the decoded NSST index; and deriving the transform coefficients with respect to the target block on the basis of the decoded information relating to the transform coefficients, wherein the NSST index is decoded prior to the information relating to the transform coefficients with respect to the target block.
US12028531B2
In the present invention, a method for processing an image on the basis of an intra prediction mode and an apparatus therefor are disclosed. Particularly, the method for processing an image on the basis of an intra prediction mode may comprise the steps of: partitioning a block to be processed, on the basis of an intra prediction mode of the block to be processed; and performing intra prediction for the split block to be processed, wherein the direction in which the block to be processed is split is perpendicular to the prediction direction of the intra prediction mode of the block to be processed.
US12028527B2
A video encoder, a video decoder, and a corresponding method, where the method includes, when a plurality of preset conditions are satisfied, performing bi-directional optical flow (BDOF) processing on a current picture block to obtain a predicted sample value of the current picture block, where the plurality of preset conditions include at least a condition that a height (H) of the current picture block is greater than or equal to 8, a width (W) of the current picture block is greater than or equal to 8, and a product of W and H is greater than 128. Thus encoding/decoding complexity and prediction accuracy can be balanced to some extent.
US12028525B2
There is disclosed a computer-implemented method for lossy image or video compression, transmission and decoding, the method including the steps of: (i) receiving an input image at a first computer system; (ii) encoding the input image using a first trained neural network, using the first computer system, to produce a latent representation; (iii) quantizing the latent representation using the first computer system to produce a quantized latent; (iv) entropy encoding the quantized latent into a bitstream, using the first computer system; (v) transmitting the bitstream to a second computer system; (vi) the second computer system entropy decoding the bitstream to produce the quantized latent; (vii) the second computer system using a second trained neural network to produce an output image from the quantized latent, wherein the output image is an approximation of the input image. Related computer-implemented methods, systems, computer-implemented training methods and computer program products are disclosed.
US12028523B2
A system and method for regenerating high dynamic range (HDR) video data from encoded video data, extracts, from the encoded video data, a self-referential metadata structure specifying a video data reshaping transfer function. The video data reshaping transfer function is regenerated using data from the metadata structure and the extracted reshaping transfer function is used to generate the HDR video data by applying decoded video data values to the reshaping transfer function.
US12028521B2
The present invention provides an encoder which comprises an input portion configured to be input an encoding target image acquired from an image capturing portion, wherein the encoder is arranged to divide the encoding target image into coding units, the coding units including an encoding block of a luma signal and an encoding block of a chroma signal; to acquire characteristics of chroma components of the encoding target image; and to further divide the encoding block of the luma signal and the encoding block of the chroma signal into encoding blocks of a same division structure or different division structures, in accordance with the acquired shooting condition.
US12028516B2
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method performed by an image decoding apparatus may comprise determining a current block by splitting an image, identifying whether a palette mode is applied for the current block based on a palette mode flag obtained from a bitstream, obtaining palette mode encoding information of the current block from the bitstream based on a tree type of the current block and whether the palette mode is applied for the current block, and obtaining chroma component prediction information of the current block from the bitstream based on the palette mode being not applied for the current block.
US12028511B2
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus for encoding or decoding a video signal. According to the present invention, a plurality of reference units for image prediction of the current unit is acquired and combined to obtain a unit prediction value, thereby improving the accuracy of image prediction. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method for inducing a variety of reference units using a motion vector prediction value or a motion vector which is used in conventional inter-prediction, and also relates to a method which combines the reference units so as to obtain the prediction value for the current unit. In addition, the present invention relates to a method which involves acquiring a plurality of reference units for a merging mode, and combining the reference units so as to perform image prediction.
US12028499B2
An image processing apparatus includes circuitry to determine a type of a document read by a scanner, set a top-bottom determination method based on the type of the document, and determine a top-bottom orientation of a target image by the top-bottom determination method. The target image is obtained by reading the document with the scanner.
US12028493B2
An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet, a casing accommodating the image forming unit, a pair of doors which open from center, and a protrusion portion. The pair of doors which open from center include a first door, a second door, and a handle. The handle is disposed on an opposite surface of an exterior surface of the first door. The protrusion portion protrudes from an end of the second door toward the first door in a direction intersecting with the second pivot axis and extending an exterior surface of the second door when the pair of doors are closed. The handle covers a gap between the first door and the protrusion portion in a front-back direction of the image forming apparatus when the pair of doors are closed.
US12028480B1
One example method of operation may include identifying a plurality of mobile device telephone numbers associated with a plurality of mobile devices, forwarding the plurality of mobile device telephone numbers to a content delivery device, hashing the plurality of mobile device telephone numbers, storing the hashed plurality of mobile device telephone numbers in the content delivery device, identifying a scheduled call campaign to the plurality of mobile devices, forwarding call content associated with schedule call campaign to the plurality of mobile devices prior to calling the plurality of mobile devices, and responsive to receiving confirmation that the content was successfully forwarded to the plurality of mobile devices, initiating a calling device to begin calling the plurality of mobile devices.
US12028479B2
A method for protecting subscriber data includes intercepting network traffic associated with a call. The network traffic includes call parameters and call stream data. A first set of the call parameters is analyzed. A first probability value of the call being declared as unwanted is determined. The call stream data is analyzed to define a second set of call parameters. The first set of call parameters is reanalyzed based on the second set. A second probability value of the call being declared as unwanted is determined. A determination is made if the second probability value exceeds a second threshold value. The call is declared as unwanted, in response to determining that the second probability value exceeds the second threshold. The first and second sets of call parameters are transmitted to an application configured to protect data of a protected subscriber.
US12028477B2
A display method applied to an electronic device, a graphical user interface, and an electronic device are provided. The electronic device may perform, based on a most power saving display color of a display, color transformation on an interface element to be displayed on the display, so as to change a color of the interface element to be displayed on the display, thereby reducing power consumption of the display. In addition, in a color transformation process, color fidelity is performed on an interface element that includes rich information, so that rich meanings represented by the interface element can be preserved. In addition, different color transformations are performed on drawing elements that constitute the interface element and that are used as the foreground and the background, so as to distinguish between the foreground and the background that are adjacent to each other and that are obtained after the color transformations.
US12028467B2
A terminal with an adjustable screen size includes: a first body; a second body disposed opposite to the first body; one or more stepping motors disposed on the first body or the second body and configured to drive a relative movement of the first body and the second body; a rotating shaft disposed on the second body; a chain plate driven around the rotating shaft, wherein a side of the chain plate is fixedly connected to the first body; and a flexible display screen flatly fixed onto the chain plate.
US12028461B2
A request to add tags (e.g., labels, key-value pairs, or metadata) to resources can be digitally signed by the entity making the request, such that the source can be verified and an authorization determination made for each tag. For a request involving multiple services (or entities) that can each add tags, any tag added by a service can be included in the request and digitally signed by that service. Each service processing the request can also digitally sign the request before forwarding, so that each service signs a version of the request, which includes elements signed by other services earlier in the request chain. When the request is received to a tagging service, the service ensures that every tag was digitally signed by the appropriate authorized entity or service, and validates the signatures to ensure that no data was modified or omitted, before adding the tags to the designated resource(s).
US12028456B2
A computer-implemented system for authorizing access to one or more smart devices provided in a local environment is disclosed herein. The system comprises a client device, a local network node, and a remote network node. The remote network node is configured generate a link and send it to an address associated with a personal identifier of the client device, and in response to the client device having executed the link, the client device being configured to receive an authorization code. The authorization code is locally or remotely validated based on a challenge previously generated by the client device. An access token is generated and sent to the client device, thereby authorizing the client device access to the one or more smart devices in the local environment.
US12028452B2
Disclosed is a neural network enabled interface server and blockchain interface establishing a blockchain network implementing event detection, tracking and management for rule based compliance, with significant implications for anomaly detection, resolution and safety and compliance reporting.
US12028451B2
A key generation method based on a deep learning generative adversarial network includes: preparing a training set image; construction of a key generation network: constructing the key generation network according to a generator network and a discriminator network, and inputting the training set image to the key generation network; and training of the key generation network: training the key generation network by a deep learning method to generate a key.
US12028445B2
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums for secure, low end-user effort computing device configuration. In some examples the IoT device is configured via a user's computing device over a short range wireless link of a first type. This short range wireless communication may use a connection establishment that does not require end-user input. For example, the end user will not have to enter, or confirm a PIN number or other authentication information such as usernames and/or passwords. This allows configuration to involve less user input. In some examples, to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks, the power of a transmitter in the IoT device that transmits the short range wireless link is reduced during a configuration procedure so that the range of the transmissions to and from the user's computing device are reduced to a short distance.
US12028434B2
An intermediary server receives a request from a client that identifies an asset that is handled by an origin server. The intermediary server generates an informational response that includes one or more link header fields that reference one or more pieces of content respectively that are predicted by the intermediary server to be linked within a final response for the asset. The intermediary server transmits the generated informational response to the client prior to a final response for the request. The intermediary server transmits the request to the origin server and receives a final response to the request. The intermediary server transmits the final response to the request to the client.
US12028431B1
Systems and methods are provided for providing a unified notification system. A notification is transmitted to a receiving device and a determination is reached as to whether the message was successfully delivered to the receiving device. If the message was not delivered, a second notification type is utilized to deliver the message to the receiving device. If the message was not delivered to the receiving device, a third notification type is utilized. This cycle repeats a number of times.
US12028428B2
Methods and systems are described for tracking content consumed by a guest subscriber consuming content with a host subscriber. A host device accessing content transmits a discovery request to identify nearby devices. A guest device in the vicinity receives the discovery request and transmits a response to the host device. As content is played back on the host device, the guest device may receive a content identifier and a progress time from the host device. Using the content identifier and the progress time, a guest device may transmit a request to a server to update a viewing history or subscriber profile associated with the guest subscriber and/or device. A guest subscriber may later resume a program or series from where the content was left on his or her own home or mobile device(s). Communications between a host device and guest device may be direct or via network server and may be secured as private.
US12028427B2
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a CDN utilizing a Direct Server Return (DSR) request command to create a tunnel from one content server to another content server of the CDN. Through the DSR tunnel, a request for content may be served from a content server that is more advantageous for the CDN for any number of reasons, such as from a content server that is logically closer to the content server. In determining when a DSR tunnel is created to provide the content, the CDN may access a database storing various information concerning the CDN, such as the location of egress gateways of the CDN in relation to one or more content servers, connecting network location information, the capabilities of one or more content servers, and/or load information of available content servers.
US12028421B2
Methods and systems are provided for collecting, storing, and transmitting account information in a matchable form, and for using this information to quickly set up accounts. Account information is maintained and shared between one or more client devices and an intermediate server. Account information can be reconciled locally to determine whether to add or enable an active account or an account proxy to a client device. Account proxies can be quickly enabled by a single user action. The methods and systems allow enabled accounts and account proxies to be removed from a first client device without propagating the deletion to a second client device.
US12028418B1
A virtual reality software method allows a user in virtual reality to receive customer service remotely from a live operator having a live view as well as remote-control abilities. The software process sends no live video, but encodes and decodes a computational instructional set of commands that are streamed then decoded and processed as instructional commands to emulate a live rendering of the sender to receiver and vice versa. The operator can see an emulated live stream of a user in virtual reality with the ability to offer assistance by remote control.
US12028417B2
A sensor device allocation apparatus that allocates a sensor device to an IoT service of the present invention includes a scoring unit that performs ranking of sensor devices satisfying a service requirement by an evaluation function based on specification conditions of the sensor devices and a scheduling unit that determines a control law of the sensor devices ranked by the scoring unit, in which the scheduling unit determines whether a service is satisfied based on collected data of the sensor device collected based on the control law, and the scoring unit corrects the evaluation function and repeats ranking of the sensor devices when the scheduling unit determines that the service is not satisfied.
US12028408B2
A method and system for policy-driven traffic management in cloud-based multi-tenant systems is disclosed. Routes delivers services to end user devices. The routes are specified for policies. The policies specify residencies for the routes, cloud services, and data storage. An application running on an end user device selects a policy and a cloud service. A route corresponding to the policy, a residency specified by the policy, and the cloud service is returned to the application. An operation of the end user device in compliance with the policies is monitored to generate telemetry. An access resource server receives a non-compliance with the policy, and identify new routes, policies and configuration for remediation.
US12028406B1
In some implementations, a device may receive file location information identifying a file to be transferred to a user device associated with the first network provider. The file location information identifies a domain name associated with a second network provider. The device may provide, based on the file location information, a first request to obtain one or more first records. The one or more first records identify a first supplemental content device. The device may provide, based on the one or more first records, a second request to obtain one or more second records. The one or more second records identify a second supplemental content device. The device may obtain, based on the one or more second records, the file from the second supplemental content device, and provide the file to the user device.
US12028399B2
During a conference, a first video stream is obtained from a first participant device connected to a local area network and a second video stream is obtained from a second participant device connected to the local area network. A first frame rate is determined for the first participant device to use based on information particular to the first video stream and based on a network constraint associated with the local area network. A second frame rate is determined for the second participant device to use based on information particular to the second video stream and based on the network constraint associated with the local area network. The first participant device and the second participant device are then instructed, during the conference, to respectively capture the first video stream at the first frame rate and the second video stream at the second frame rate.
US12028389B1
The present disclosure is related to a focal awareness system that includes processors and memory storing instructions. The instructions may cause the processors to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to present an online meeting window on a display during an online meeting, identify a location of a camera with respect to the display, and position the online meeting window on the display based on the location of the camera. instructions may also cause the processors to identify a position of a video window within the online meeting window, identify a respective location of each camera of a matrix of cameras with respect to the position of the video window, determine a closest camera having a shortest distance with respect to the position of the video window based on the respective location of each camera of the matrix of cameras, and activate the closest camera.
US12028388B2
A patient station for telemedicine enabling transmission of patient data to a remote doctor station, via a telecommunication network includes a processing unit with an operating system, a main display device, and at least one first sensor of a first type generating first patient data. The processing unit is configured to generate a first video signal or a first image from the first patient data and display the first video signal or the first image on the main display device in a first display window, capture at least one display area of the first display window to generate a captured video signal, generate an output video signal comprising the captured video signal, emulate a digital-camera peripheral, wherein the output video signal is provided as output from the emulated digital camera peripheral to the operating system as digital camera-type peripheral device output, and provide the output video signal to the doctor station via the telecommunication network.
US12028380B2
A method of building a risk management model, the method including: sampling a plurality of organization networks; assessing identified security features; ranking the identified security features based on security risk; transforming ranked features into categorized factors; building logistic model to blend the categorized factors into a likelihood of breach; and transforming the logistics model from a multiplicative model to an additive model by scaling the logistics model.
US12028379B2
Aspects of the present invention disclose a method for configuring security settings of a defined area that includes internet of things (IoT) devices for contextual situations utilizing virtual reality (VR) and gamification. The method includes one or more processors identifying an IoT device within a defined area. The method further includes collecting data of the IoT device corresponding to the defined area. The method further includes generating a first VR interactive scene in a VR environment corresponding to physical attributes of the defined area, wherein the VR interactive scene is based on a set of conditions of a knowledge corpus corresponding to the collected data of the IoT device. The method further includes identifying a security threat in the VR environment. The method further includes configuring a security rule of the defined area that modifies functions of the IoT device based on the set of conditions.
US12028372B1
Systems, methods and products for identifying “similar” threats by clustering the threats based on corresponding forensics. A corpus of forensic data for a plurality of threat URLs is obtained by a threat protection system, the data including forensic elements corresponding to each threat URLs. For each pair of threat URLs, the corresponding forensic elements are examined to identify shared forensic elements. A similarity score is then generated for the pair of threat URLs based on the comparison of the corresponding forensic elements, including both malicious and non-malicious elements. Based on the similarity score generated for each pair of threat URLs, clusters of the threat URLs are identified, with each cluster including a subset of the plurality of threat URLs. Clusters of URLs similar to a selected URL may be identified by accessing the threat cluster information using a similar-threat search interface or through internal APIs of the threat protection system.
US12028368B1
A system and method for detecting a combined cybersecurity risk for an artificial intelligence (AI) model is presented. The method includes: inspecting a computing environment for an AI model deployed therein; generating a representation of the AI model in a security database, the security database including a representation of the computing environment; detecting a first cybersecurity risk respective of the AI model; inspecting the computing environment for a cybersecurity object; determining that the AI model is exposed to a toxic combination cybersecurity risk based on the detected first cybersecurity risk and the cybersecurity object; and initiating a mitigation action based on the toxic combination cybersecurity risk.
US12028365B2
CAN bus signal format inference includes: extracting candidate signals from training CAN bus message traffic; defining one or more signals, each signal being a candidate signal that matches structural characteristics of a matching data type and each signal being assigned the matching data type; and generating an inferred CAN bus protocol with which the defined one or more signals conform. Signals are extracted from CAN bus message traffic using the inferred CAN bus protocol, an anomaly in an extracted signal is detected, and an alert is generated indicating the detected anomaly. In another aspect, a transport protocol (TP) signal is extracted and analyzed to determine a fraction of the TP signal that matches opcodes of a machine language instruction set, and an anomaly is detected based at least in part on the determined fraction exceeding an opcode anomaly threshold.
US12028353B2
A threat information analysis server includes: an update manager that manages update information indicating that function addition to an IoT device is performed; a threat information manager that stores threat information of a cyberattack; a risk level manager that manages risk level information defining a risk level of the IoT device; a related threat information manager that manages the threat information and related threat information associating the IoT device with the risk level; a risk level updater that associates the threat information and the risk level of the IoT device with each other and updates the related threat information, based on the update information; and an outputter that outputs the related threat information managed by the related threat information manager.
US12028352B2
A learning device generates a character class series abstracting a structure of a predetermined character string included in each of requests to the server which have been generated in a predetermined period. Also, for each of the combinations of the predetermined identification information and the character class series included in the requests, the learning device calculates a score for update which becomes higher as the number of times of appearance of the combination is increased and becomes higher as the appearance of the combination is continued. Based on the score for update, the learning device updates the profile of each combination for determining whether the request is an attack or not.
US12028351B2
A computer-implemented method, system and computer program product for protecting against application programming interface (API) attacks. A connection is established between an API user and an API provider. The established connection is then monitored to assess connection security and trustworthiness of the connection as well as trustworthiness of the API user and/or API provider. A score is then generated for each factor used in assessing the connection security and trustworthiness of the connection as well as the trustworthiness of the API user and/or API provider based on the monitoring. A level of risk for an API attack with respect to the API user and/or API provider is then generated based on such scores. An action (e.g., blocking traffic) is then performed with respect to the API user and/or API provider based on the level of risk for an API attack with respect to the API user and/or API provider, respectively.
US12028348B2
A processor is configured to access a virtual environment comprising a plurality of virtual locations. The processor is configured to generate a primary avatar in a first virtual location based on a superset of the user data associated with a first set of the interaction criteria objects. The processor is configured to receive an interaction request from a user device for an interaction with the entity in a second virtual location. The processor is configured to generate a secondary set of user data based on the superset of the user data and the second set of the interaction criteria objects. The processor is configured to generate a secondary avatar associated with the user device in the second virtual location. The processor is further configured to conduct the interaction between the secondary avatar and the entity in the second virtual location based on the second set of the interaction criteria objects.
US12028347B2
A system and method for enabling a user to obtain authenticated access to an application using a biometric combination lock. The system is configured for registering a user by receiving a set of biometric expressions and a set of biometric samples of the user, corresponding to two or more biometric factors associated with each biometric expression. Further, the method includes steps of processing the set of biometric samples to compute a Secret-Key (S1) corresponding to the user, generating a Unique-Number (N1) using a random number generation algorithm, applying a Function (F1) to the Secret-Key (S1) and the Unique-Number (N1), to compute a Public-Key (P1).
US12028340B1
A computer-implemented method for data segmentation to improve security is described. The method includes receiving a request, from a client device of a user, for authentication information; parsing the request; based on the parsing, determining an authentication score that represents a likelihood that the request is from an authenticated device; determining, from the authentication score, a number of segments into which the requested authentication information is divided; and for each of the segments, assigning one or more portions of the authentication information to that segment, in which each segment is associated with one or more times at which to transmit information assigned to that segment, and at one or more times specified by that segment, transmitting one or more portions of the authentication information assigned to that segment to the client device.
US12028333B2
A method for variable length decoding, the method including: receiving, in a default word length mode, at least one first data word having a default first word length; combining the received at least one first data word as a first portion of data; receiving, after the at least one first data word, a transition word indicative of transitioning to a variable word length mode; receiving, after the transition word, a first word length word indicative of a second word length; receiving, after the first word length word, at least one second data word having the second word length; and combining the received at least one second data word as a second portion of the data.
US12028321B1
Mesh agents for an overlay network may be provided such that each mesh agent may be hosted on network computers in the overlay network. In response to a network interface providing raw datagrams to a mesh agent in the overlay network further actions may be performed, including: determining a payload protocol based on the raw datagrams; determining payload datagrams included in the raw datagrams based on the payload protocol; determining a request from a client based on the payload datagrams and the payload protocol; or the like. In response to an infrastructure security computer determining validation information that validates the request further actions may be performed, including: modifying the payload datagrams based on the payload protocol and the validation information; modifying the raw datagrams to include the modified payload datagrams; forwarding the modified raw datagrams to a next mesh agent identified with the validation information; or the like.
US12028314B2
Techniques are presented herein for providing a persistent external Internet Protocol (IP) address for extra-cluster services. One example involves initiating, in a cluster, a first pod with a label that identifies a service. The first pod is configured to provide the service to one or more network entities outside the cluster. The first pod is assigned an IP address configured for communicating outside the cluster. A mapping of the service to the IP address is stored. In response to a determination that the service has been disrupted, a second pod is initiated in the cluster with the label that identifies the service. The second pod is configured to provide the service to the one or more network entities outside the cluster. Based on the mapping and the label that identifies the service, the IP address is assigned to the second pod.
US12028309B2
The disclosed technology is directed towards delivering electronic messages from senders to recipients in an intelligent way, based on the determined likelihood of each recipient acting on a message. Message delivery can be delayed upon delayed message delivery criterion being satisfied, based on user profile data the user establishes for each messaging application. Predicted recipient user availably, predicted recipient user receptivity and/or the identity of the sender, for example, can be used as factors in determining delivery data representing the likelihood of a recipient acting on a message. Delivery of the message is to a recipient's device is delayed when the delivery data satisfies delayed delivery criterion. The delayed delivery time can be determined from the recipient user's predicted availably and/or receptivity data, and/or the identity of the sender. The sender is notified of a delayed message delivery, and can be presented with options as to other actions to take.
US12028305B2
Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums are described for bridging brokers of messages from Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In an example system, a first message broker receives a message and an associated topic from an IoT device. A bridging coordinator accesses a topic-to-broker map that indicates, for a second broker, a list of topic filters for which the second message broker has at least one subscriber. The bridging coordinator determines whether the list of topics includes the associated topic. In response to a determination that the list of topic filters in the topic-to-broker map includes the associated topic, the bridging coordinator forward the message to the second message broker. In response to a determination that the list of topic filters does not include the associated topic, the bridging coordinator prevents forwarding of the message to the second message broker.
US12028298B2
Provided are an information interaction method and apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The information interaction method includes: receiving a mail sharing request sent by a sharer party based on a target mail; creating a sharing group including the sharer party and a sharee party and sharing the target mail with the sharee party according to the mail sharing request, to enable the sharer party and the sharee party to perform, based on the target mail, information interaction in the sharing group.
US12028293B2
Wireless communications systems and methods related to communicating a serving cell dormancy indication field and acknowledgement. In some implementations, a wireless communication device (e.g., user equipment), may detect a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) with a secondary cell (Scell) dormancy indication field. The user equipment can change states from an initial state to another state (e.g., a dormancy-like state to a non-dormancy like state) based on detecting Scell indicator field in the PDCCH. The user equipment may also transmit a hybrid-ARQ acknowledgment (HARQ-ACK) in response to the detecting the PDCCH with the Scell dormancy indication field. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US12028292B2
Techniques are described to perform transmission of a reference signal such as a sounding reference signal (SRS). An example wireless communication method includes performing, by a network device, a first transmission that indicates a plurality of partial frequency factor values to a communication device, wherein each partial frequency factor value indicates a number used to determine a reduced number of resource blocks by the communication device to transmit a reference signal; and performing a second transmission, after the first transmission and to the communication device, of one or more bits that indicate a partial frequency factor value from the plurality of partial frequency factor values.
US12028289B2
Embodiments are presented herein of apparatuses, systems, and methods for performing vehicle-to-everything (V2X) sidelink communications with hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback include using a new long physical sidelink feedback channel (PFSCH) format, i.e., PFSCH format 1, to assign feedback resources for various sidelink communication networks and environments where the existing or legacy sidelink feedback format, i.e., the short PFSCH format, referred to herein as PFSCH format 0, is insufficient to support effective acknowledgements (ACKs) and non-acknowledgements (NACKs) due to the limited nature of the format design.
US12028283B2
A base station capable of appropriately transmitting a reference signal in an unlicensed band and a reception quality report measured using said reference signal. A control unit (102) of a base station (100) changes: the reference signal transmission timing which was set before carrier sensing on the basis of a time resource set according to carrier sensing results; and/or the report timing of the quality information measured in a terminal 200 using the reference signal. A transmission unit (108) and a receiving unit (109) communicate the reference signal or quality information on the basis of the changed timing.
US12028270B1
A device may receive load data identifying loads of network functions provided by a cloud computing environment, resource data associated with resources of the cloud computing environment, and resource distribution data associated with the resources. The device may perform data analytics on the load data, the resource data, and the resource distribution data to identify, from the network functions, a network function being impacted and to determine that the network function requires resource modification. The device may calculate, based on the data analytics and based on determining that the network function requires resource modification, parameters for the resource modification and may perform one or more actions based on the parameters for the resource modification.
US12028268B1
Techniques implemented by a cloud computing system for providing fallback capacity providers to ensure that infrastructure capacity required to run containerized services is available despite primary capacity providers experiencing a failure. Cloud providers offer container-management services that automate the management and scaling of containerized services of users. The container-management services are supported by capacity providers that manage the computing infrastructure on which the containerized services run (e.g., servers, VMs, etc.). However, there are times when a capacity provider is unable to provision capacity for containerized services, such as due to a large scale failure. Rather than leaving capacity requests unserved, the container-management service designates a fallback capacity provider that acts as a failover for provisioning requested infrastructure capacity. The fallback capacity providers have different provisioning paths than the primary capacity providers, and thus different availability postures and failure modes, to ensure resiliency in provisioning capacity for containerized services.
US12028265B2
Various embodiments relate to a path computation element (PCE) configured to control a network having ingress edge nodes, interior nodes, and egress edge nodes, including: a network interface configured to communicate with the network; a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and the network interface, wherein the processor is further configured to: receive a request for a first continuous guaranteed latency (CGL) flow to be carried by the network; make routing and admission control decisions for the requested first CGL flow without provisioning of the first CGL flow and the configuration of schedulers in the interior nodes of the network; and provide flow shaping parameters to a flow shaper at an ingress edge node of the first CGL flow.
US12028259B2
A method of operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network comprises establishing a radio bearer in accordance with a radio resource connection procedure for transmitting data via a wireless access interface to the wireless communications network, the radio bearer including one or more quality of service flows. Each of the quality of service flows is associated with a communications service provided to the communications device and each of the quality of service flows is defined by parameters for communicating the data for the communications service. The parameters include a relative priority indicator providing an indication of a relative priority level for transmitting from the communications device the data with respect to other quality of service flows.
US12028253B2
Techniques for dynamically adapting a router capacity to system needs in a network. The border router may receive a list of summarized prefixes for endpoint devices associated with the router from control-plane nodes. The router may store the list of summarized prefixes in memory of the border router. Once the router receives traffic that is destined for endpoint devices associated with the border router, it may determine that the destination address is included in the summarized prefixes. In some examples, the router may download complete prefixes from the control-plane nodes, and forward the traffic to the destination address indicated by the complete prefixes.
US12028248B2
Techniques for using global virtual network instance (VNI) labels in a multi-domain network to route network data with a multi-tenant network overlay are described herein. A routing device provisioned in a network domain of the multi-domain network may register with a service discovery system of the network domain for use of network configuration data to establish routes through the multi-domain network with network nodes. Each network domain of the multi-domain network may include an application programming interface (API) server for processing API requests to make changes to configurations of a network domain. A border gateway protocol (BGP) large community may be utilized to encode global VNI labels, network addresses, local next hop nodes, and/or additional network information and sent to routing devices provisioned in separate network domains. A service chain may be signaled by global VNI labels to route network traffic through various services prior to reaching a destination endpoint.
US12028243B2
A routing control device of the present invention includes: a storage unit that stores, for each IP address block, a next hop, information on a route to the IP address block, and quality information regarding the route; a quality requirement determination unit that receives communication data bound for a communication destination host and determines a quality requirement of the communication data; and a next hop selection unit that references the storage unit and selects a next hop for the communication data based on quality information regarding a route to an IP address block to which an IP address of the communication destination host belongs and the quality requirement.
US12028235B2
The present disclosure relates generally to network diagnostics, and more specifically to techniques for determining the health of customer premises equipment (CPE) devices. In certain examples, a scoring system can determine a health score for a CPE device, the health score indicating the health of the CPE device. The health score is determined by receiving, analyzing, and integrating information from different sources, including sources in addition to CPE diagnostic data for the CPE device at the current time. Such sources can include CPE diagnostic data for the CPE device at other times, CPE diagnostic data for other CPE devices related to the CPE device (e.g., in the same household or surrounding area as the CPE device), technical specifications of the CPE device (e.g., make, model and firmware of the CPE device), or per-equalization parameters obtained by the CPE device.
US12028230B1
A computer-implemented method may comprise detecting an occurrence of an information technology (IT) incident between a cloud service and a software application based on observability data of the cloud service, where the observability data indicates a current state of the cloud service, the cloud service runs within a first network, and the software application runs within a second network different from the first network. The computer-implemented method may further comprise obtaining context information for the IT incident from the second network in response to the detecting of the occurrence of the IT incident, where the context information indicating circumstances in which the IT incident occurred, and then determining a countermeasure for the IT incident based on the context information. The computer-implemented method may additionally comprise performing an action based on the countermeasure.
US12028223B2
A computer implemented method includes receiving telemetry data corresponding to capacity health of nodes in a cloud based computing system. The received telemetry data is processed via a prediction engine to provide predictions of capacity health at multiple dimensions of the cloud based computing system. Node recoverability information is received and node recovery execution is initiated as a function of the representations of capacity health and node recoverability information.
US12028221B2
In various examples, upon receiving data comprising a plurality of key performance indicators (KPIs), an anomaly may be detected in a first KPI. An engine may apply rules associating two or more KPIs together to confirm, reject, or narrow the anomaly in the first KPI. Through this technology, the mean time for detecting an anomaly in a network may be reduced thereby preventing the potential for more serious anomalies in the network.
US12028220B2
A method for identifying devices on a network, comprising: determining, by a discovery application, a prioritized discovery plan including a plurality of tiers of requests, each of the tiers specifying one or more probes for targeting specific types of devices. For each of the tiers in the prioritized discovery plan: the method further comprises causing, by the discovery application, one or more of the probes specified for the tier to transmit targeted requests to a set of active addresses on the network. Upon receiving responses from at least a subset of the one or more addresses, the method comprises identifying, by the discovery application, one or more devices connected to the network based on the responses to the targeted requests. The method further comprises removing, by the discovery application, addresses corresponding to the identified one or more devices from the set of active addresses on the network.
US12028214B1
One embodiment provides a method for discovering an entity communicating using a network communication protocol. A scanning system of a system transmits, at a plurality of communication ports, a message using the network communication protocol to elicit a response from an entity accessing one of the communication ports. The transmitting includes emulating a portion of the network communication protocol. The scanning system receives a response to the message from the entity accessing one of the communication ports. The scanning system determines the entity is an entity of interest by determining that the response is provided using the network communication protocol and is responsive to the message. Responsive to determining that the entity is an entity of interest, the entity is added to a group of entities of interest.
US12028210B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: marking of a request to define a marked request that includes associated metadata, wherein the metadata specifies action for performing by a resource interface associated to a production environment resource of a production environment, wherein the resource interface is configured for emulating functionality of the production environment resource; and sending the marked request to the resource interface for performance of the action specified by the metadata.
US12028209B2
Computerized systems and methods are provided for managing changes being made on a geographically diverse mobile telecommunications network. An intelligent application for network change management collects change requests to be implemented in a geographically disperse mobile telecommunications network. The intelligent application determines whether the changes to be implemented are for devices that high risk from a network impacting event, such as a major event or weather. The application initiates actions to suspend the changes from being implemented to the network until the devices are no longer at high risk from a network impacting event.
US12028203B2
A solution implementation system includes a solution registry with a corrective action for each of a plurality of predefined root causes of exception errors. The system receives communication data transmitted through a distributed network comprising a plurality of servers. An exception error is detected corresponding to a failed transmission of the communication data between communicatively coupled servers of the distributed network. A first root cause of the exception error is determined. Properties of the distributed network at the time of the detected exception error are determined. Using the solution registry, a first corrective action is determined for the first root cause that is associated with the determined properties of the distributed network at the time of the detected exception error. The first corrective action is automatically implemented to resolve the exception error.
US12028197B2
A guard band indication method on an unlicensed spectrum is described that includes: a network device generating one or any combination of the following four types of information on the unlicensed spectrum: an indication of bandwidth configuration information, an indication of available bandwidth information, an indication of unavailable bandwidth information, or an indication of guard band information; and the network device sends the one or any combination of the foregoing four types of generated information. The one or any combination of the four types of information is used to determine a guard band that is based on a listen before talk (LBT) result.
US12028195B2
A method of transmitting an On-Off Keying, OOK, signal includes an ON waveform and an OFF waveform forming a pattern representing transmitted information. The method includes obtaining a basic baseband waveform; scrambling the basic baseband waveform by applying a first binary randomised sequence where one of the binary values cause transformation to a complex conjugate, modulating the information to be transmitted by applying the scrambled basic baseband waveform for the ON waveform and applying no waveform for the OFF waveform; and transmitting the modulated information.
US12028190B1
A driver circuit includes a feed-forward equalization (FFE) circuit. The FFE circuit receives a plurality of pulse-amplitude modulation (PAM) symbol values to be transmitted at one of multiple PAM levels. The FFE circuit includes a first partial lookup table, one or more additional partial lookup tables, and an adder circuit. The first partial lookup table contains partial finite impulse-response (FIR) values and indexed based on a current PAM symbol value, a precursor PAM symbol value, and a postcursor PAM symbol value. The one or more additional partial lookup tables each contain partial FIR values and indexed based on a respective additional one or more of the PAM symbol values. The adder circuit adds results of lookups from the first partial lookup table and the additional partial lookup tables to produce an output value.
US12028189B2
The present disclosure relates to a signal processing device and an image display apparatus including the same. A signal processing device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure comprises: a synchronizer configured to perform a Fourier transform based on the received baseband signal; and an equalizer configured to calculate a channel transfer function value, symbol based noise, and subcarrier frequency based noise based on the signal from the synchronizer, and calculate channel state information based on the calculated channel transfer function value, symbol based noise, and subcarrier frequency based noise. As a result, performances for burst noise and narrow band noise can be improved.
US12028185B2
Systems and methods for steering data packets among a plurality of available network devices. A device connected to a wide area network through multiple network interfaces may dynamically select which network interface to use to transmit individual packets sent to, and received from, client devices over a local area network.
US12028179B2
A conference participant is provided replay content during a conference responsive to the conference participant needing content and/or context of current conversations. During the conference, a replay request is received, which may be initiated by the conference participant or other participants or automatically based on an event such as detecting a topic relevant to the conference participant, detecting a request associated with a name of the conference participant, or detecting inattentiveness of the conference participant. Content is obtained from a buffer for a period of time relative to or associated with the replay request. The content is annotated based on one or more annotation inputs. Device and user settings associated with the conference participant are used to determine a presentation mode for the replay content. Based on that determination, the replay content is presented to the conference participant to guide discussions.
US12028178B2
Conferencing system and methods for facilitating conferencing sessions in an environment using virtual assistant systems and artificial intelligence algorithms are disclosed. Virtual assistant systems may be integrated into devices of the conferencing system in order to enable higher quality experiences with the virtual assistant by providing improved audio and visual feedback. The conferencing system can provide improved control, configuration, and interaction with the devices of the conferencing system through use of artificial intelligence algorithm that processes voice commands and characteristics of the environment and conferencing sessions, which can result in better system performance and increased user satisfaction.
US12028177B1
A system for using generative AI to automate electronic communication responses includes receiving, from an initiating entity, an electronic communication at a receiving entity. The system provides the electronic communication to a large language model (LLM). The system provides instructions to the LLM, causing the LLM to evaluate the electronic communication to determine whether a meeting is requested, to produce a meeting indicator, to evaluate the electronic communication to determine if there are one or more tasks, to produce a task list, and to produce a responsive electronic communication based on user-defined rules. The system receives a dataset from the LLM. If a meeting is requested, the system identifies mutually available meeting times between the initiating and receiving entities. The system sends a meeting invitation at a mutually available meeting time. The system sends the responsive electronic communication. The system generates the tasks from the task list.
US12028174B2
A network includes a centralized power and signal distribution device deployed at a communication closet at a site. The centralized device includes a switch controller connected to a direct current power supply. The network includes at least one customer premises termination device connected to the switch controller, an access apparatus deployed at each of the multiple customer premises, and a power over cable system to carry power and signals. Each access apparatus connected to the at least one customer premises termination device and to provide access to user devices. The switch controller power cycles at least one of the switch controller, the at least one customer premises termination device, or applicable access apparatus in response to a power cycle command from a controller when at least one of the switch controller, the at least one customer premises termination device, or any access apparatus fail to transmit a status signal.
US12028169B2
A wireless communication method, a receiving-end device, and a sending-end device are provided. When the sending-end device transmits data to at least two receiving-end devices, the at least two receiving-end devices may implement acknowledgement feedback, and the sending-end device may implement HARQ transmission. The wireless communication method includes: a receiving-end device receiving a first control channel sent by a sending-end device, wherein the first control channel is used to schedule a first data channel, the first data channel is used to transmit a first transmission block, the first transmission block includes information sent to the at least two receiving-end devices, and the at least two receiving-end devices include the receiving-end device; and the receiving-end device determining a first control resource, wherein the first control resource is used to transmit feedback information corresponding to the first transmission block in the first data channel.
US12028168B2
A system may include primary and secondary integrated circuits. The primary integrated circuit may receive a first subset of data packets associated with a first set of sequence numbers. The secondary integrated circuit may receive a second subset of data packets associated with a second set of sequence numbers. The primary integrated circuit is configured to manage the first set of sequence numbers and the second set of sequence numbers on behalf of the secondary integrated circuit and for the system.
US12028166B2
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for ACK/NACK-triggered communications with a UE based on multiple ACK/NACK bits in HARQ feedback from a UE. The UE may receive a configuration for a resource, monitor for one or more PDSCH transmissions, and transmit an uplink transmission including HARQ feedback carrying multiple NACK or ACK bits for the one or more PDSCH transmissions. The UE may transmit or receive communication in the resource based on a trigger in the HARQ feedback for transmission or reception of the communication in the resource.
US12028164B2
An electronic device comprises: a wireless communication circuitry configured to support a Bluetooth protocol, wherein the wireless communication circuitry can be configured to: transmit an IAC-based ID packet for a communication connection with an external electronic device, receive, from the external electronic device, an FHS packet corresponding to the ID packet, identify whether an EIR field included in the FHS packet indicates the transmission of an EIR packet, identify whether a reserved field included in the FHS packet indicates the retransmission of the EIR packet based on the EIR field indicating the transmission of the EIR packet, receive the EIR packet from the external electronic device, and transmit, to the external electronic device, an ACK signal for the reception of the EIR packet in response to the reception of the EIR packet.
US12028159B2
Systems, methods, and instrumentalities are disclosed for interleaving coded bits. A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may generate a plurality of polar encoded bits using polar encoding. The WTRU may divide the plurality of polar encoded bits into sub-blocks of equal size in a sequential manner. The WTRU may apply sub-block wise interleaving to the sub-blocks using an interleaver pattern. The sub-blocks associated with a subset of the sub-blocks may be interleaved, and sub-blocks associated with another subset of the sub-blocks may not be interleaved. The sub-block wise interleaving may include applying interleaving across the sub-blocks without interleaving bits associated with each of the sub-blocks. The WTRU may concatenate bits from each of the interleaved sub-blocks to generate interleaved bits, and store the interleaved bits associated with the interleaved sub-blocks in a circular buffer. The WTRU may select a plurality of bits for transmission from the interleaved bits.
US12028158B2
Reliability, in 5G and emerging 6G, is a continuing challenge due to signal fading, heavy interference, and phase noise, among others. The disclosed procedures show how to locate the most likely faulted message elements according to a deviant modulation, excessive amplitude or phase instability, and inconsistency between successive transmissions of the message. In addition, the receiver can rectify the message either by altering the faulted message elements to other modulation states, or by selectively merging two versions of the message according to signal quality. In either case, reliability is improved, range is extended, and time is saved.
US12028148B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to cell recovery techniques. One example method generally includes receiving, on a first cell, an indication that one or more channel measurements are to be reported for a second cell for which beam failure is detected; transmitting a first message triggering reporting of at least one preferred beam for communicating on the second cell, the first cell being different from the second cell, wherein the first message is transmitted in response to the indication that the one or more channel measurements are to be reported; receiving a report indicating the at least one preferred beam; and configuring a transmission configuration state in accordance with the at least one preferred beam for communicating on the second cell.
US12028140B2
Disclosed are a method for transmitting and receiving a radio signal in a wireless communication system and an apparatus therefor. Particularly, a method for performing, by a terminal, channel state information (CSI) reporting in a wireless communication system comprises the steps of: receiving, from a base station, bandwidth part (BWP) configuration information on a BWP for uplink and/or downlink transmission; receiving, from the base station, reporting configuration information including a reporting configuration for the CSI reporting; and performing the CSI reporting on the basis of the BWP configuration information and the reporting configuration information, wherein the reporting configuration is associated with the BWP, and whether or not the reporting configuration is activated may be determined on the basis of whether or not the BWP is activated.
US12028131B2
The present disclosure relates to radio network communication. In one of its aspects, the present disclosure relates to a method, performed by a first APU, for sequential transmit precoding in a radio stripe system. The system comprises at least two APUs connected 5 in series from a CPU and serves at least two UEs. According to the method, channel estimates for channels to the served UEs are obtained and based on these, a precoding filter is determined. The precoding filter is going to be applied to signals that are to be transmitted from the first APU to the UEs. Thereafter, based on the determined precoding filter and the obtained channel estimates, effective precoded channels for the 0 signals to the UEs are determined. These represent the effective channel created after the precoding filter being applied to each channel for the UEs. The effective precoded channels are transmitted to at least one subsequent second APU.
US12028128B2
The present disclosure relates to a near-field communication device including a near-field communication controller. The near-field communication controller includes at least one first demodulator, adapted to apply a first type of demodulation to a first signal modulated according to a first or a second type of modulation; and at least one second demodulator, adapted to apply a second type of demodulation to the first signal.
US12028124B2
Architectures and techniques are presented that can provide point-to-point analysis to generate an improved signal strength prediction (SSP) based on, e.g., earth surface image data processing and analysis to draw conclusions of line of sight (LOS) along the propagation path between a BTS or another AP transmitter and CPE receiver. For example, USGS image data and/or elevation data of locations are identified to correspond to signal propagation between the transmitter and receiver can be analyzed for LOS signal quality at a fixed location, in addition to the statistical model prediction of the RF signal quality. As a result, foliage or terrain that obstructs the LOS can be identified and utilized to improve SSP by eliminating the additional pathloss due to LOS obstructions. Such can provide a significant improvement to SSP results that are conventionally predicted by statistical models rather than a point-to-point analysis.
US12028120B2
Antenna monitoring systems and methods can include, among other things, a transmitter near each of the antennas in a distributed antenna system (DAS). The transmitter can transmit an antenna identifier corresponding to that antenna, so that the various transmitters in the DAS each transmit different antenna identifiers. These antenna identifiers can be detected by a receiver and can be processed to determine whether any antenna identifiers are missing. If any expected antenna identifier is missing, the receiver can infer that the antenna or a component associated with the antenna (such as cabling) may have failed. The receiver can then output an indication or notification that may be accessed by maintenance personnel and/or emergency personnel to enable them to identify and repair the non-functioning antenna or component. The transmitter can transmit other data, such as environmental data, RF data, or the like, to facilitate additional or alternative monitoring functionality.
US12028119B1
An apparatus for wireless communication includes a memory and a processor coupled to the memory. The processor is configured to: receive one or more signals for determining frequency dependent in-phase quadrature imbalance (FDIQI) estimates; generate one or more FDIQI estimates based on the one or more signals; and transmit the one or more FDIQI estimates to a network node.
US12028112B2
Methods, systems, and devices for network communications to reduce optical beat interference (OBI) in upstream communications are described. For example, a fiber node may provide a seed source to injection lock upstream laser diodes. Therefore, upstream communications from each injection locked laser diode may primarily include the wavelength associated with each seed source. The seed sources may be unique to each end device and configured to minimize OBI. That is, the upstream laser diodes may be generic, but the collected seed source may enable upstream communications at varying wavelengths. The end device may provide upstream communications by externally modulating a signal generated by the injection locked laser diode.
US12028106B2
The present disclosure provides a communication device which is suitable for use in an unmanned aerial vehicle operating in an unmanned aerial vehicle collaboration system including multiple unmanned aerial vehicles and enables both a data communication with another unmanned aerial vehicle and a measurement of a distance to another unmanned aerial vehicle. According to an aspect of an exemplary embodiment, a communication device of an unmanned aerial vehicle includes: an ultra-wideband (UWB) communication circuit configured to perform a UWB communication with other unmanned aerial vehicle; and a UWB communication manager configured to send transmit data to the other unmanned aerial vehicle and receive data sent by the other unmanned aerial vehicle through the UWB communication circuit, and transmit or receive shared data to be shared by unmanned aerial vehicles in a form of being appended to a distance measurement frame.
US12028097B2
A radio communication device includes: a plurality of antenna elements; a phase shifter that applies weights for each of the antenna elements respectively to first-band data and second-band data of different frequency bands to form beams corresponding to the first-band data and the second-band data; a power amplifier that is arranged for each of the antenna elements; and a processor configured to compensate for non-linear distortion. The processor executes a process including calculating, using a first distortion compensation coefficient, a distortion compensation signal that compensates for in-band non-linear distortion of the first-band data and the second-band data, and calculating, using a second distortion compensation coefficient, an out-of-band compensation signal that compensates for out-of-band non-linear distortion of the first-band data and the second-band data, and the power amplifier amplifies a signal obtained by synthesizing the distortion compensation signal and the out-of-band compensation signal.
US12028095B2
A method includes determining, based at least in part on parameters of a software-defined radio (SDR), waveform data descriptive of an electromagnetic waveform. The method also includes generating feature data based on the waveform data and based on one or more symbols decoded from the electromagnetic waveform. The method further includes providing the feature data as input to a first machine-learning model and initiating a response action based on an output of the first machine-learning model.
US12028087B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described for one or more aspects of dynamically configuring an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). A user equipment (UE) may determine a set of supported ADC resolution sizes including one or more dynamically configurable bit quantities. The UE may transmit a capability message including an indication of the set of ADC resolution sizes to a base station. The UE may indicate, to the base station, a power consumption factor or a table of signal-to-quantization noise ratios (SQNR) per bit quantity supported by the UE's ADC. In some cases, the base station may enable, based on the set of ADC resolution sizes, clipping of a power amplifier and one or more associated precoding parameters, and may indicate the precoding parameters to the UE. The UE may select an ADC resolution size for processing received messages.
US12028084B2
An atomic clock employs hybrid long/short quantum clock frequency regulation wherein each of a series of regulation cycles includes a relatively long (four Ramsey-cycle) combination error signal (CES) cycle and plural relatively short (two Ramsey-cycle) single error signal (SES) cycles. The CES cycles provide for better long-term stability than can be provided using only SES cycles. However, including the SES cycles between CES cycles improves short term stability with negligible diminishment of long-term stability.
US12028083B2
A numerically controlled oscillator system for maintaining a consistent phase reference while switching data rates may include a numerically controlled oscillator (NCO) circuit. The NCO circuit may include a phase accumulator, a phase-to-signal mapping circuit, and a first free-running counter. The phase accumulator may receive a new phase value as an input in response to an update signal. The phase-to-signal mapping circuit may map a value from the phase accumulator to a periodic signal. The first free-running counter may continue counting, without being reset, while the numerically controlled oscillator system is switching digital data rates. The first free-running counter may be configured to provide the new phase value to the phase accumulator using a representation of a counter value of the first free-running counter and a frequency tuning word defined by a representation of a frequency of the periodic signal.
US12028082B2
A phase-locked loop circuit includes a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO) that generates a VCO clock in response to a voltage control signal, a divider that divides the VCO clock to output a division clock, a phase-frequency error detector that receives a reference clock and outputs a first error compensation signal, a sampler that receives the reference clock and oversamples the reference clock at a rising edge or a falling edge to output a sampling clock, a window phase error detector that receives the reference clock and outputs a second error compensation signal, a residue phase error detector that outputs a third error compensation signal, an adder that accumulates the first error compensation signal, the second error compensation signal, and the third error compensation signal to output a final error compensation signal, and a loop filter that converts and output the final error compensation signal into the voltage control signal.
US12028076B1
A circuit and corresponding method for determining a delay are presented. The circuit includes a delay circuit, a feedback circuit and a controller. The delay circuit receives an input signal having an input edge and provides an output signal having an output edge. The input edge and the output edge are separated by a delay. The feedback circuit causes the delay circuit to generate a series of consecutive output pulses. The controller sets the delay to a first delay value and measures a first period of output pulses; sets the delay to a second delay value and measure a second period of output pulses. The controller then calculates the delay based on a difference between the first period and the second period.
US12028067B2
The present disclosure describes various aspects of complementary 2(N)-bit redundancy for single event upset (SEU) prevention. In some aspects, an integrated circuit includes a data storage element to store a data value, another data storage element to store a complementary data value, a multi-bit data storage element (e.g., a 2-bit storage element) to store both the data value and the complementary data value, and voting logic that may enable a complementary data storage scheme with inter-circuit redundancy to prevent SEU. Additionally, the voting logic of the integrated circuit may enable detection and correction of data value errors and/or enable programming of voting logic criteria, which may be implemented dynamically based on a type of SEU failures that are detected or corrected.
US12028066B2
In a transistor turnoff system, a transistor control circuit is configured to adjust a control voltage at a transistor control output responsive to a comparison signal at a control input. The control voltage has a slew rate. A comparator has a comparator output and first and second comparator inputs. The first comparator input is coupled to the transistor control output. The comparator is configured to: provide the comparison signal at the comparator output based on a reference voltage at the second comparator input; and deactivate the transistor control circuit by changing a state of the comparison signal responsive to the control voltage falling below the reference voltage. A slew-rate compensator is configured to increase the reference voltage by a compensation voltage that compensates for a time delay of the comparator or the transistor control circuit. The compensation voltage is proportional to the slew rate.
US12028062B2
A system for sensing touch or proximity include: a first number of input terminals configured to couple one or more capacitive sensors, a second number of transferring units configured to transfer charges from the one or more capacitive sensors through the first number of input terminals in transferring phases of cycles of the one or more capacitive sensor, wherein at least one of the first and second numbers is equal to or greater than two, and a first switching unit, coupled between the first number of input terminals and the second number of transferring units, configured to selectively electrically couple any one of the first number of input terminals to any one of the second number of transferring units in the transferring phases.
US12028060B2
Methods and devices used to cancel non-linear capacitances in high power radio frequency (RF) switches manufactured in bulk complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) processes are disclosed. The methods and devices are also applicable to stacked switches and RF switches fabricated in silicon-on-insulator (SOI) technology.
US12028059B2
A common gate input circuit for III/V D-mode Buffered FET Logic (BFL) maximizes the dynamic range to drive a level shift section to set the proper voltage levels to switch the BFL and allows for decoupling of the switch point from the dynamic range. A common gate switching section includes a D-mode FET (FET1) configured as a load and a D-mode FET (FET2) configured as a common gate connected in series between high and low supplies Vdd and Vee1 (typically ground potential). The gate electrode of FET2 is coupled to Vee1 and the source electrode of FET2 is driven by the external digital signals. This eliminates the additional supply Vss, thus maximizing the dynamic range of the section to switch between Vdd and Vee1 and decouples the dynamic range from the switch point. An input level shift section may shift the Data In to the source electrode of FET2 to shift the switch point and to present a high input impedance.
US12028054B1
According to some embodiments, re-programmable and/or reconfigurable analog circuitry may be provided. A plurality of reference floating-gate transistors are each programmable to be connectable to a plurality of global reference control lines of the analog circuitry to facilitate temperature compensation. In some embodiments, the plurality of analog nonvolatile memory cells are associated with parameter floating-gate transistors. Moreover, the plurality of analog parameter nonvolatile memory cells may be programmed to several orders of parameter magnitude.
US12028047B2
An adaptive RF acoustic resonator contains tunable and switchable hybrid surface-bulk acoustic waves (SAW-BAW). The surface and bulk acoustic waves couple for the spectral sensing and configurable filtering. The acoustic resonator includes a piezoelectric or ferroelectric layer, such as a SLAIN layer, which is patterned into interdigital transducers, and an intermediate layer of AlGaN—GaN, which is built on a SiC substrate. The device is protected under a plastic packaging cap. An external tuning voltage applies on the acoustic resonator to generate the tunable frequency and bandwidth of the bulk and surface acoustic waves. An RF switch generates an electric field to suppress a residual polarization during acoustic resonator switching. The bulk acoustic wave excited in the piezoelectric or ferroelectric layer couples with the surface acoustic wave propagating in the intermediate layer. The Sc concentration in the ferroelectric layer exceeds 28%. The transducers are capped with Bragg reflectors made of multiple Al and W layers.
US12028045B2
A bulk acoustic resonator filter includes: a series bulk acoustic resonator electrically connected, in series, between first and second ports through which a radio frequency (RF) signal passes; a second shunt bulk acoustic resonator, electrically shunt connected between the series bulk acoustic resonator and a ground and having a resonance frequency lower than that of the series bulk acoustic resonator; and a first shunt bulk acoustic resonator electrically connected to the second shunt bulk acoustic resonator in series and having a resonance frequency higher than that of the second shunt bulk acoustic resonator. One or both of the series bulk acoustic resonator and the first shunt bulk acoustic resonator includes a first electrode disposed above a substrate; a piezoelectric layer disposed on the first electrode; a second electrode disposed on the piezoelectric layer; and a trench formed in an upper surface or above the second electrode and recessed downwardly.
US12028042B2
In a piezoelectric resonator device according to one or more embodiments, an internal space for hermetically sealing a vibrating part including a first excitation electrode and a second excitation electrode of a crystal resonator plate is formed by bonding a first sealing member and a second sealing member respectively to the crystal resonator plate. A through hole is formed in the second sealing member. A through electrode is formed along an inner wall surface of the through hole to establish conduction between an electrode formed on a first main surface and an external electrode terminal formed on a second main surface. A corrosion resistance structure to solder is formed on the through electrode that establishes conduction between the electrode and the external electrode terminal with a conductive metal other than Au.
US12028035B2
This application provides a monolithic integrated BAW resonator production method, including: preparing an imprint template; forming a mask material layer on a substrate; pressing the mask material layer by using the imprint template in a direction of the substrate, to form a mask groove; performing plasma etching on the substrate by using the mask material layer, as a mask, that is used to form the mask groove, to form, on the substrate, grooves that one-to-one correspond to positions of several mask grooves; and forming, in the several grooves, bottom electrode layers, piezoelectric layers, and top electrode layers that are sequentially stacked, to form resonators of different frequencies.
US12028034B2
A first and second input tone are applied to a continuous-time complex filter within an integrated circuit. The magnitude of the output of the filter at the frequency of each of the first and second input tones are measured and compared to determine the value of a filter tuning control signal. A tuning control signal is applied to the filter with the determined value to tune the filter.
US12028028B2
A digital isolator device which includes a first input buffer configured to receive a first differential signal from a transmitter and to provide a second differential signal, the first differential signal being characterized by a first magnitude, the second differential signal being characterized by a second magnitude, the first magnitude being greater than the second magnitude. The device also includes a second input buffer configured to receive a third differential signal from the transmitter and to provide a fourth differential signal, the second input buffer being coupled to the second ground terminal. The device also includes a common-mode circuit coupled to the second differential signal and the fourth differential signal, the common-mode circuit being configured to reduce a common-mode transient voltage, the common-mode transient voltage being associated with a voltage differential between the first ground terminal and the second ground terminal.
US12028024B2
A transmitter including a frequency synthesizer with a voltage-controlled oscillator that provides an oscillating signal, a programmable delay circuit that delays the oscillating signal to provide a delayed oscillating signal, a power amplifier that is configured to use the delayed oscillating signal for transmitting a signal, and a delay controller that programs the delay circuit with a delay time that reduces interference caused by coupling from the power amplifier to the voltage-controlled oscillator. The delay circuit may be programmed to reduce control voltage change of the voltage-controlled oscillator as a function of delay change, and/or to reduce phase noise degradation at an output of the transmitter as a function of delay change. The delay may be adjusted based on detected operating temperature. A calibration value may be determined at a calibration frequency, in which a frequency offset may be determined based on a selected channel frequency.
US12028022B2
A power amplifier, such as a radio-frequency (RF) Doherty power amplifier, for amplifying an input signal to an output signal is disclosed. The power amplifier includes a peaking amplifier circuit, where the peaking amplifier circuit is formed in gallium nitride materials on a silicon substrate. The power amplifier further includes a main amplifier circuit, where the main amplifier circuit is formed in gallium nitride materials on a silicon carbide substrate.
US12028021B2
A current mode end-to-end signal path includes, a digital to analog converter (DAC), operating in current mode and an upconverting mixer, operating in current mode and operatively coupled to the DAC, wherein analog inputs and analog outputs of the DAC and the upconverting mixer are represented as currents, and the DAC generates a baseband signal.
US12028020B2
A crystal oscillator internally includes a package storing a crystal unit. The crystal oscillator is configured to include: a substrate having one surface side on which the crystal unit is disposed and another surface side on which a circuit component and a heating element are disposed, the circuit component including an oscillator circuit that oscillates the crystal unit, and the heating element regulating a temperature inside the package; a stepped portion formed at an inner wall of the package to support only an end portion of the substrate from the one surface side such that the crystal unit, the circuit component, and the heating element are spaced from a wall portion of the package; and a wire that connects between a terminal disposed at the heating element and a terminal disposed inside the package without via the substrate.
US12028019B2
Remotely surveying a photovoltaic system site includes receiving a photograph uploaded by a user device; analyzing the photograph using a trained machine learning model; receiving a confidence score from the trained machine learning model; determining if the photograph includes predetermined information, the predetermined information being used to perform a remote photovoltaic (PV) system site survey remotely; and in response to a determination that the photograph does not include the predetermined information, provide specific instructions regarding the missing information, wherein the specific instructions include guidance on how to retake the photograph to capture the predetermined information.
