US12028014B2
A method may include obtaining a normal set point of a solar panel and a wind velocity measurement corresponding to wind that affects the solar panel. The method may include determining an allowable range of tilt angles according to a first lookup table that describes a relationship between the wind velocity measurement and the allowable range of tilt angles. The method may include identifying whether the normal set point of the solar panel is outside of the allowable range of tilt angles, and responsive to identifying that the normal set point of the solar panel is outside of the allowable range of tilt angles, determining a temporary stow set point. The method may include rotating the solar panel to the temporary stow set point.
US12028008B2
A system comprises a control unit for operating an electrical circuit arrangement connected to an electrical machine, wherein the electrical circuit arrangement is designed to energize a stator of the electrical machine, the control unit being connectable to at least one further circuit arrangement which is designed to energize a rotor of the electrical machine, the control unit being set up to operate the further circuit arrangement.
US12028007B2
A method for driving electric motors using a pulse-width-modulated signal, wherein the pulse-width-modulated signal is a square-wave pulse consisting of successive pulses whose impulse duration is adjustable, as a result of which it is possible to change a duty cycle, which is the ratio of the impulse duration and the period of the square-wave pulse, wherein the reciprocal of the period of the square-wave pulse is the PWM frequency at which the impulses follow one another, wherein, during operation of the electric motor, the PWM frequency within a frequency band, without the duty cycle changing, is changed repeatedly and in accordance with a predefined scheme or randomly.
US12028006B2
An embodiment is power module including a plurality of first switching elements of a first type semiconductor on a first substrate, a plurality of second switching elements of a second type semiconductor and a third switching element of the first type semiconductor or the second type semiconductor on a second substrate, wherein the first substrate has a different thermal conductivity than the second substrate, and a connection spacer configured to electrically connect the first substrate and the second substrate.
US12028002B2
A motor control device capable of improving damping effects of a motor. In a motor control device, a control switching determination unit determines whether or not a control region of a motor is in a voltage saturation region. A voltage command value generator generates a voltage command value of the motor based on a velocity command value and a velocity of the motor. When the control switching determination unit determines that the control region of the motor is in the voltage saturation region, the voltage command value generator determines a voltage vector angle of an output voltage applied to the motor from a total torque command value and a limit value of the maximum voltage capable of being output to the motor, and generates a voltage command value based on the voltage vector angle.
US12027999B2
In accordance with an embodiment, an omnidirectional energy harvester device includes: a harvesting member including an electrode pad having a first electrode disposed on an upper surface of the electrode pad, and a friction pad spaced apart from the electrode pad and having a second electrode disposed on an upper surface of the friction pad; and a vortex-induced vibration column fixedly coupled to the harvesting member at a lower surface of the vortex-induced vibration column. The vortex-induced vibration column is configured to generate vibration by an external force at an upper portion of the vortex-induced vibration column, wherein the first electrode disposed on the electrode pad and the second electrode disposed on the friction pad are electrically connected.
US12027988B2
A power conversion apparatus includes: a reactor; a rectifier circuit that includes a first leg including switching elements connected in series and a second leg connected in parallel with the first leg, including switching elements connected in series; and a smoothing capacitor that smooths an output voltage of the rectifier circuit. The power conversion apparatus also includes an inverter that converts a direct-current voltage smoothed by the smoothing capacitor into a drive voltage for a motor and applies the drive voltage to the motor; a voltage detection unit that detects the direct-current voltage; and a control unit that controls operation of the rectifier circuit and the inverter. The control unit controls operations of the switching elements on the basis of an induced voltage induced in the motor and a detected value of the direct-current voltage.
US12027986B2
A power system includes a traction battery, an auxiliary battery, and a 3-phrase resonant DC/DC converter that permits charge and discharge of the traction battery, and includes a 3-phase transformer, 3-phase matching capacitors, and 3-phase resonant inductors. The vehicle also includes auxiliary circuitry that permits charge of the auxiliary battery with power from the traction battery, and is magnetically coupled with the 3-phase transformer.
US12027983B2
A multi-phase current mode hysteretic modulator implements phase current balancing among the multiple power stages using slope-compensated emulated phase current signals and individual phase control signal for each phase. In some embodiments, the slope-compensated emulated phase current signals of all the phases are averaged and compared to the slope-compensated emulated phase current signal of each phase to generate a phase current balance control signal for each phase. The phase current balance control signal is combined with the voltage control loop error signal to generate a phase control signal for each phase where the phase control signals are generated for the multiple phases to control the phase current delivered by each power stage.
US12027971B2
Disclosed is a display apparatus including: a display; a transformer configured to boost an input alternating current (AC) first voltage and output a second voltage; a switch configured to allow an electric current to flow or stop in the transformer based on a control signal; a power factor correction (PFC) converter configured to correct a power factor of the output second voltage, and output a direct current (DC) third voltage to the display; and a controller configured to modulate a frequency of the control signal so that the second voltage has a target level, and increase or decrease the frequency of the control signal within a specified range to synchronize with an AC period of the first voltage.
US12027961B2
A DC-DC converter includes a first converter outputting a first power voltage in a first driving method of generating an inductor current by alternately turning on transistors in a normal mode and outputting the first power voltage in a second driving method of generating the inductor current with the number of turn-on times less than that of the first driving method in a power saving mode, a second converter outputting a second power voltage in a third driving method of generating the inductor current with the number of turn-on times less than that of the second driving method in the power saving mode and determining differently magnitudes of the second power voltage in the power saving mode and the second power voltage in the normal mode, and a mode selector supplying a mode control signal to the converters to drive the converters according to one of the modes.
US12027960B2
Controller and method for a power converter. For example, a controller for a power converter includes: a feedback detector configured to receive a feedback voltage, sample the feedback voltage, and generate a sampled voltage based at least in part on the feedback voltage, the sampled voltage being associated with one or more fluctuations in magnitude; a resistor selector configured to receive the sampled voltage and generate one or more control signals based at least in part on the one or more fluctuations associated with the sampled voltage; a variable resistor network configured to receive the one or more control signals, determine a network resistance based at least in part on the one or more control signals, and output a compensation voltage based at least in part on the network resistance; and a voltage generator connected to the variable resistor network and configured to receive the compensation voltage.
US12027952B2
The present disclosure provides a superconducting power generation device and a power generation method. The device includes a superconductor, a conductive coil, a permanent magnet and a cooling medium. When ambient temperature is lower than its superconducting critical temperature, the superconductor, made of the second-type superconducting material, is capable of generating a magnetic levitation force to an outer permanent magnet and levitate it. When an external force is applied to the permanent magnet, its position changes compared to the conductive coil, which affects the magnetic flux passing through the coil and induces the generation of electromotive force in the coil, thereby converting mechanical energy to electric energy. By using the device provided by the present disclosure, the conversion from the mechanical energy to the electric energy in an ultra-low temperature environment can be achieved, and thus, problems about energy sources on low-temperature celestial bodies in extrasolar systems are solved.
US12027951B1
The present disclosure discloses a strong magnetic power generation vehicle mounted power device including a strong magnetic power generation equipment, an installation seat installing on a vehicle body, a support plate fixedly connected to the strong magnetic power generation equipment; a socket providing on the support plate; a support rod inserted into the socket; a bottom plate providing on the installation seat; a spring fixedly connected between the bottom plate and the support plate; the socket is elliptical, and the support rod is also elliptical; a top end of the support rod extends out the socket; a top end of the support rod is fixedly connected with a threaded part; the threaded part is connected with a nut; the nut is provided with a rim; the rim abuts against the support plate. The present disclosure can reduce vibration generated by the strong magnetic power generation equipment.
US12027949B2
The disclosure provides a motor and a method for assembling the motor. The motor includes: a bus bar including a first portion of the bus bar and a second portion of the bus bar, the first portion of the bus bar and the second portion of the bus bar are defined separately; a first support component having a first support surface supporting the first abutting portion of the first portion of the bus bar toward the first direction; and a second support component having a second support surface supporting the second abutting portion of the second portion of the bus bar toward the first direction. The first portion of the bus bar further includes a first connecting portion, and the second portion of the bus bar further includes a second connecting portion. A distance between the first connecting portion and the second connecting portion is variable in the first direction.
US12027945B2
A frame of an electric motor has inlet holes to allow ambient air to flow into an inside of the motor and outlet holes to allow the ambient air entering through the inlet holes to flow out to an outside of the motor. The motor includes a shaft, a rotor, a stator, a fan to rotate integrally with the shaft, and a guide. The guide is disposed outwardly of the fan in the radial direction and has a shape for suppressing foreign materials contained in the ambient air entering through the inlet holes from coming into contact with the stator and the rotor.
US12027944B2
An electric drive unit that includes an electric motor having a rotor with a rotor shaft and a heat exchanger that is received in the rotor shaft. The heat exchanger has a plurality of heat exchanger plates, each of which having a hub, a rim member, and disc spring portion that interconnects the hub and the rib member. Each disk spring portion defines a plurality of coolant apertures. The heat exchanger plates are press-fit to the rotor shaft such that each disc spring portion is deflected from a pre-installation state, and each rim member is engaged to an interior surface of the rotor shaft while being spaced apart from adjacent rim members along a rotational axis of the rotor. A first coolant passage is disposed through the hubs of the plates. The coolant apertures in the heat exchanger plates cooperate to form a plurality of second coolant passages.
US12027941B2
Disclosed is a bearing assembly capable of preventing a lubricant from being thrown out. A bearing and a wire plate are fixedly mounted via a fixed portion and an inner ring which can prevent the lubricant from being thrown out during use, and the lubricant can be directly added to the bearing in use. The present disclosure is mounted on a motor via a first raised ring and a second raised ring, and the first raised ring and the second raised ring can prevent dust from entering the bearing. The present disclosure has simple structure and reasonable design. A wire frame for a bearing is provided. The bearing is mounted in a bearing mounting portion. With the inner ring, the sealability between the bearing and the wire plate is better, so as to prevent the lubricant in the bearing from being thrown out during the rotation of the bearing.
US12027939B2
A voice coil motor includes a base, a lens housing, a voice coil, a magnet, a first elastic sheet, a second elastic sheet and a yoke member. The lens housing has a first margin wall, and a first protrusion and a second protrusion extend from the first margin wall. The height of the second protrusion is lower than the height of the first protrusion. The yoke member has a first wall, a connection wall, a second wall, and a side wall. The first wall, the connection wall, and the second wall together form a stepped structure. The first wall is disposed on the first protrusion, and the second wall is disposed on the second protrusion. The lens housing has a deflectable angle relative to a horizontal reference line. When the lens housing deflects to a maximum value of the deflectable angle, the second protrusion abuts against the second wall.
US12027927B2
There are provided core part manufacturing method and apparatus for manufacturing a core part of a rotary electric machine. The core part manufacturing method includes: injecting a molten resin from a side on one end surface of an iron core body into a plurality of space portions provided in the iron core body in a state where the iron core body is sandwiched and pressed. In injecting of the resin, a contact surface on an opposite side to a side where the resin is injected includes: a relief portion that is recessed without contacting to the one end surface; and a remaining portion that is adjacent to a non-contact region. The remaining portion is disposed in the contact surface on an outer peripheral side from the non-contact region, and the relief portion is disposed further in the contact surface on an outer peripheral side from the remaining portion.
US12027907B2
The computer case wireless charging apparatus enables charging wirelessly-chargeable external devices using a laptop battery, and includes a computer housing having a notebook computer, a notebook computer battery and USB ports; and a charging pad device connected to the computer housing. The charging pad device includes a charging pad housing enclosing an inductive charging coil. A small PCB is operably connected to the inductive charging coil, the notebook computer battery and the USB ports of the notebook computer. An optional soft outer protective sleeve may retain the computer housing. Portions of the apparatus may be made of materials including plastic, polylactic acid (PLA), silicon and combinations thereof. The inductive charging coil may be made of copper. The charging pad housing includes at least one charging surface for charging wirelessly-chargeable devices. The notebook computer housing may include a charging area constructed and arranged for receiving and retaining the charging pad housing.
US12027905B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for charging, an apparatus for charging, a device and a storage medium. The method includes determining a degree of change in charging performance of a battery corresponding to a current voltage range when the battery is in a charging state; determining an adjustment amplitude of a current charging current based on the degree of change when the degree of change satisfies a condition; determining a target charging current based on the adjustment amplitude and the current charging current; and charging the battery with the target charging current.
US12027903B2
A method includes charging a battery through a first charger and a second charger connected in parallel, during a first transition from a constant current charging phase to a constant voltage charging phase, enabling the second charger at a first time instant and disabling the first charger at a second time instant, the second time instant being after the first time instant, and during the constant voltage charging phase, enabling the first charger at a third time instant upon detecting that a current flowing the battery is less than a predetermined current threshold and disabling the second charger at a fourth time instant, the fourth time instant being after the third time instant, wherein the first charger and the second charger are configured to charge the battery simultaneously between the first time instant and the second time instant, and between the third time instant and the fourth time instant.
US12027875B2
The present invention relates to a coil-based electromagnetic wave resonance transfer device for improving energy efficiency, which comprises: a housing; an electronic circuit board which is installed in the housing and senses an external signal generated outside the housing, to generate an electric wave signal having a specific waveform, of which a frequency is adjusted by using a multi-frequency modulation method; and a coil member which is installed in the housing and generates a resonant magnetic field through the electric wave signal output from the electronic circuit board to output an electromagnetic resonance wave to the outside of the housing.
US12027872B2
A method is disclosed for controlling the operating of a consumption appliance by way of a selector switch controlled by an energy saving device connected to a management center. The consumption appliance is kept in its default power mode, until receiving, by the energy saving device, an authentic secured control message sent by the management center. This message includes a command onto the mode in which the consumption appliance has to be switched. A counter is initialized with an initialization value before to be triggered. The consumption appliance is switched in the mode indicated by the command, either until the counter has reached a threshold value, or until receiving another authentic control message. If the counter has reached the threshold value, then the consumption appliance is switched in its default power mode. If another authentic secured control message has been received, then returning to the step of initializing the counter.
US12027869B2
Different systems to achieve solar power conversion are provided in at least three different general aspects, with circuitry that can be used to harvest maximum power from a solar source (1) or strings of panels (11) for DC or AC use, perhaps for transfer to a power grid (10) three aspects can exist perhaps independently and relate to: 1) electrical power conversion in a multimodal manner, 2) alternating between differing processes such as by an alternative mode photovoltaic power converter functionality control (27), and 3) systems that can achieve efficiencies in conversion that are extraordinarily high compared to traditional through substantially power isomorphic photovoltaic DC-DC power conversion capability that can achieve 99.2% efficiency or even only wire transmission losses. Switchmode impedance conversion circuits may have pairs of photovoltaic power series switch elements (24) and pairs photovoltaic power shunt switch elements (25).
US12027857B2
A method for controlling peak saving by wind power grid. The method includes: S1: evaluating dispatchability of a cluster virtual wind power unit; S2: developing a method for calculating a dispatchability index of the cluster virtual wind power unit; S3: analyzing a source-load peak-shaving resource strategy; and S4: distributing a control strategy for tie-line peak shaving. The present disclosure has the following beneficial effects: In the present disclosure, real-time dispatchability of wind power participating in real-time power balance is first analyzed, specific evaluation indexes and calculation methods are provided, and calculation examples are given for verification. Then, an optimized real-time dispatch strategy is provided based on demand-side response resources, and DC and AC tie-lines are coordinated for operation. The peak shaving control method for emergent source-grid coordination when a sending-end power grid is faulty can ensure normal operation.
US12027843B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are disclosed for high-speed falling conductor protection in electric distribution systems. An example method may include calculating, by a processor, at a first time, and for each phase, one or more first impedance values associated with one or more terminals of a transmission line. The example method may also include calculating, by the processor, at a second time, and for each phase, one or more second impedance values associated with the one or more terminals. The example method may also include determining, by the processor, that a rate of change of an impedance of the one or more terminals is greater than a threshold rate of change. The example method may also include determining, by the processor and based on the determination that the rate of change of the one or more terminals is greater than the threshold rate of change, that the transmission line has broken. The example method may also include sending, by the processor and based on the determination that the transmission line has broken, a signal to de-energize the transmission line before a broken conductor reaches a ground surface.
US12027830B2
A switchgear system may include a switchgear frame, a truck and circuit breaker mounted thereon. A drive mechanism is mounted on the switchgear frame and configured to rack the circuit breaker into a) a first connected position where the primary and secondary circuits are electrically connected, b) a second test position where the primary circuit is electrically disconnected and secondary circuit connected, and c) a third disconnected position where the primary and secondary circuits are electrically disconnected, wherein said drive mechanism comprises a drive chain and shuttle configured to engage the truck and rack and fix the circuit breaker into the first connected position.
US12027829B2
A switchgear system includes a switchgear frame having an interior compartment and front opening and containing therein at least one electrical switchgear component. A truck carries an electrical component and is supported for movement on the switchgear frame. A drive mechanism connects the truck and is configured to rack in the truck into an electrically connected position with the at least one electrical switchgear component, rack out the truck from the electrically connected position into an electrically disconnected position, and rotate the truck upward from its disconnected position into a rotated position to allow operator access through the front opening to the at least one electrical component.
US12027824B2
The present disclosure describes various linear VCSEL arrays, as well as VCSEL array chips incorporating such linear VCSEL arrays, and modules, host devices and other apparatus into which one or more of the linear VCSEL arrays are integrated. Implementations can include, for example, varying the aperture size of the VCSELs, tapering the shape of the transmission line, and/or changing the density of the VCSELs.
US12027802B2
A connector includes a connector body and a terminal attached to the connector body, the connector being fitted with a counterpart connector, the connector body includes a recess being fitted with a counterpart connector body of the counterpart connector and side walls extending in a longitudinal direction of the connector body, the side walls defining both sides of the recess. The terminal includes a plurality of terminals disposed along each of the side walls, and the plurality of terminals disposed along each of the side walls include one high frequency terminal and ground terminals disposed on both sides of the high frequency terminal. In plan view, a straight line connecting high frequency terminals disposed along both the side walls is inclined with respect to a center line of the connector body in a width direction, and a shield plate of the counterpart connector extends along the center line.
US12027787B2
An antenna module is to be installed in a communication device. The antenna module includes a dielectric substrate that has a multilayer structure, a ground electrode that is disposed in the dielectric substrate, and a first radiating element that has a flat plate shape. The first radiating element has a first surface (a smooth surface) and a second surface (a rough surface) that has a higher degree of surface roughness than that of the smooth surface. The smooth surface of the first radiating element faces the ground electrode.
US12027783B2
A multi-loop resonance structure and a multiple-input and multiple-output (MIMO) antenna communication system. The multi-loop resonance structure includes a metal floor, a first feed branch plate, and a first metal patch, where the metal floor is disposed on a lower surface of the first dielectric substrate, and the metal floor is provided with a resonant-tank set; the first feed branch plate is disposed in parallel on an upper surface of the first dielectric substrate, and a first straight plate in the first feed branch plate is disposed opposite to the resonant-tank set along a substrate line; an end, in the first feed branch plate, far away from the substrate line is connected to the metal floor; and the first metal patch is connected to the metal floor through the first dielectric substrate along a first surface, in the second dielectric substrate, perpendicular to the first dielectric substrate.
US12027780B2
A system includes one or more antennas and a processor to communicate with a predetermined target using 5G or 6G protocols.
US12027768B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device may comprise: a housing; an antenna structure disposed in an inner space of the housing, the antenna structure including a substrate having a first surface and a second surface oriented toward a direction opposite to the first surface, and at least one first antenna element disposed in a space between the first surface and the second surface and having a beam pattern formed toward a conductive part; an electric wave absorbing member disposed between the conductive part and the at least one first antenna element so as to be disposed in a path in which the beam pattern is formed; and a first wireless communication circuit disposed in the inner space of the housing and configured to transmit or receive a wireless signal of a first frequency band through the at least one first antenna element.
US12027756B2
A communication system and method for vehicles, particularly trains, are described with the vehicle having antenna sets. Each antenna set includes a plurality of antennas mounted onto a convex-shaped vehicle roof in which an axis of one antenna set is approximately perpendicular to an axis of another antenna set and in which the antenna sets are mounted below roof level of the convex-shaped vehicle roof A switching device is operable to switch between a first antenna configuration and a second antenna configuration based on a difference in measured signal power received at the antenna sets. The first antenna configuration is associated with a first stationary communication system of the plurality of stationary communication systems and a second antenna configuration is associated with a second stationary communication system of the plurality of stationary communication systems.
US12027754B2
An antenna substrate includes a flat section where a radiating element is disposed, a flexible section disposed adjacent to the flat section, a first electrical conductor having one end portion connected to the radiating element inside the flat section, and a second electrical conductor having one end portion connected to the other end portion of the electrical conductor inside the flexible section. The average or median grain size in the extension direction of the first electrical conductor is larger than the average or median grain size in the extension direction of the second electrical conductor, and the average or median aspect ratio of the electrical conductor is larger than the average or median aspect ratio of the electrical conductor.
US12027753B2
An electronic package is provided, in which a ground layer is arranged on one side of an insulator, and a first antenna portion and a second antenna portion embedded in the insulator are vertically disposed on the ground layer, where a gap is formed between the first antenna portion and the second antenna portion, such that the first antenna portion and the second antenna portion are electrically matched with each other, and the ground layer is electrically connected to the second antenna portion but free from being electrically connected to the first antenna portion.
US12027747B2
An antenna assembly including flexible antenna elements connected to a non-flexible antenna element which connects to a counterpoise where the non-flexible antenna element is between the counterpoise and the flexible antenna elements. The flexible antenna elements are a plurality of peripheral flexible antenna elements and a central flexible antenna element. The plurality of peripheral flexible antenna elements are separated from and surrounding the central flexible antenna element. The non-flexible antenna element is a biconical antenna, formed from two tapered shapes connected at a central feed point such that a constant electrical impedance as the currents radiate outward from the central feed point. A total length of the flexible antenna elements connected to the non-flexible antenna element is ≤43.0 cm, and the flexible antenna elements connected to the non-flexible antenna element has a realized gain of at least 2 dB over at least a frequency range of 200-7000 MHz.
US12027744B2
A communication system for communication between at least one vehicle guided along a predefined movement path and a stationary station using a slotted waveguide which extends parallel to the movement path of the vehicle and into which at least one antenna connected to a transceiver unit of the stationary station and at least one antenna of the vehicle project. The antenna of the vehicle is moved in the longitudinal direction of the slotted waveguide with movement of the vehicle. The slotted waveguide includes at least two sections separated from one another by a respective gap. At least one antenna projecting into the respective section is provided for each section of the slotted waveguide. Two neighboring antennas projecting into different sections of the slotted waveguide are coupled via a coupling device both to a common transceiver unit of the stationary station and to one another.
US12027743B2
There is provided a transmission apparatus having a transmission line into which a low-impedance part is inserted. The transmission apparatus includes a package having a first impedance, a first transmission line and a second transmission line respectively connected on either side of the package and having a second impedance different from the first impedance, and an intermediate section respectively disposed in a connection between the package and the first transmission line and in a connection between the package and the second transmission line. The intermediate section is adjusted to have an electrical length of λ/4 (where λ is an electromagnetic wavelength corresponding to a desired frequency) and an impedance that is intermediate between the first impedance and the second impedance.
US12027734B2
A humidity transfer assembly includes a pressure vessel and a humidity transfer device disposed in the pressure vessel. The humidity transfer device includes an enclosure, a first inlet line fluidly coupled to the enclosure and configured to supply anode exhaust thereto, a first outlet line fluidly coupled to the enclosure and configured to output anode exhaust therefrom, and a second inlet line fluidly coupled to the enclosure and configured to supply feed gas thereto. The humidity transfer device is configured to transfer steam from anode exhaust to feed gas and to output feed gas into the pressure vessel.
US12027726B2
A secondary battery manufacturing method according to an example embodiment of the present disclosure includes an electromagnetic welding step of joining together a first metallic component and a second metallic component included in the secondary battery by electromagnetic welding, and a laser welding step of applying laser light to weld an unjoined part of the first metallic component and the second metallic component, the unjoined part being not joined by the electromagnetic welding step.
US12027721B2
An electronic device includes a flexible substrate, a circuit substrate, and a battery pack including a conductor portion. The battery pack includes a battery that supplies power to the circuit substrate and includes a main surface and a side surface. The flexible substrate includes a radiating conductor. The flexible substrate includes bent portions at a central portion in the direction in which a transmission line extends so that the flexible substrate faces the side surface. The radiating conductor overlaps the conductor portion of the main surface of the battery pack in plan view.
US12027719B2
The present application provides a battery module, which includes a plurality of batteries, an end plate and an output electrode connecting sheet. The plurality of batteries are arranged in a longitudinal direction. The end plate has: a main body portion, located on one side of the plurality of batteries in the longitudinal direction; and an extension portion, formed on the main body portion and extending in the longitudinal direction away from the batteries. The output electrode connecting sheet has: a first connecting portion, connected to a corresponding battery; and a second connecting portion, connected to one end of the first connecting portion and fixed to the extension portion of the end plate.
US12027716B2
An electric generator including a number of electric accumulators and at least one heat-sink device using a phase-change material configured to pick up the excessive thermal energy produced by one of the electric accumulators and change phase in order to absorb a large quantity of thermal energy in the form of latent heat.
US12027712B2
A flexible battery is provided. A flexible battery according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: an electrode assembly; an exterior material for sealing the electrode assembly together with an electrolyte; and a plurality of patterns having ridge portions and groove portions repeatedly formed along the lengthwise direction, wherein the maximum bending curvature at which the battery can be bent through the plurality of patterns is adjusted through the gap (L) between two neighboring patterns and the depth (d) of the patterns.
US12027708B2
A negative electrode for a nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery, said negative electrode comprising a negative-electrode current collector, and a negative-electrode active material layer provided upon the negative-electrode current collector, wherein the negative-electrode active material layer includes a negative-electrode active material and polyvinylpyrrolidone, and an area that extends 10% in the thickness direction from the surface of the reverse side of the negative-electrode active material layer from the negative-electrode current collector has a higher polyvinylpyrrolidone content than an area that extends 10% in the thickness direction from the surface of the negative-electrode current collector side of the negative-electrode active material layer.
US12027699B2
The present invention provides an active electrode material comprising a mixture of (a) at least one niobium oxide and (b) at least one mixed niobium oxide; wherein the mixed niobium oxide has the composition M1aM21-aM3bNb12-bO33-c-dQd, wherein: M1 and M2 are different; M1 is selected from Mg, Ca, Sr, Y, La, Ce, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, B, Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, P, Sb, Bi and mixtures thereof; M2 is Mo or W; M3 is selected from Mg, Ca, Sr, Y, La, Ce, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, B, Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, P, Sb, Bi, and mixtures thereof; Q is selected from F, Cl, Br, I, N, S, Se, and mixtures thereof; 0≤a<0.5; 0≤b≤2; −0.5≤c≤1.65; 0≤d≤1.65; one or more of a, b, c and d does not equal zero; and when a, b, and d equal zero, c is greater than zero. Such materials are of interest as active electrode materials in lithium-ion or sodium-ion batteries.
US12027697B2
Disclosed, as a particle for cathode active materials, is a novel one-body particle for cathode active materials, including a core of lithium transition metal oxide containing Ni and a surface-layer portion formed on at least a part of the core, wherein the surface-layer portion contains both Co and a structure-stabilizing element, the core is present as a non-aggregated primary particle, and the structure-stabilizing element has a bond dissociation energy (BDE) with oxygen (O) greater than a bond dissociation energy (BDE) of Co and oxygen (O).
US12027696B2
The invention discloses a ternary positive electrode material coated with nitride/graphitized carbon nanosheets and preparation method thereof. The ternary positive electrode material coated with nitride/graphitized carbon nanosheets includes a ternary positive electrode material matrix and a coating layer; the coating layer is composed of nitride and graphitized carbon; and the graphitized carbon is formed in situ in the coating process of the nitride. Compared with a physical mixing method, the in-situ generated carbon layer is connected to the material matrix more tightly, and the formed conductive network is denser. So that the rate performance of the material is improved to the maximum extent. The preparation method is simple and easy to realize industrial production. And the obtained ternary positive electrode material coated with nitride/graphitized carbon nanosheets has excellent rate performance and cycling stability.
US12027692B2
Methods of forming electrochemical cells are described. In some implementations, the method can include providing an electrochemical cell having an electrode with at least about 20% to about 99% by weight of silicon. The method can include providing a formation charge current at a first rate and at a second rate to the electrochemical cell. The first rate can be in a range from about C/100 to about C/10 and the second rate can be greater than about C/10.
US12027678B2
A thermal runaway detection system includes: a venting device including a sealing body in a venting passage and a thermal runaway detection circuit. The sealing body being configured to close the venting passage in a first position and to open the venting passage in a second position different from the first position. The thermal runaway detection circuit being configured to monitor a position of the sealing body and to output a signal corresponding to the position of the sealing body.
US12027673B2
An electrode assembly manufacturing device includes a winding mechanism, a heating mechanism, a conveyor belt arranged between the heating mechanism and the winding mechanism, and a forming mechanism. The winding mechanism is configured to wind a positive electrode sheet, a separator, and a negative electrode sheet into an electrode assembly. The conveyor belt is configured to transfer the electrode assembly from the winding mechanism to the heating mechanism. The heating mechanism is configured to heat the electrode assembly. The forming mechanism is configured to press and form the electrode assembly.
US12027660B2
An electrochemical cell is provided comprising a thin metal foil packaging made from at least one sheet of metal foil and having a perimeter extending around at least a portion of the electrochemical cell, as well as an electrochemical cell stack contained within the thin metal foil packaging, and a metal-to-metal welded seal around at least a portion of the perimeter of the thin metal foil packaging. The metal-to-metal welded seal is hermetic or nearly hermetic. Furthermore, the metal-to-metal welded seal is narrow, having a width of less than about 1 mm, and is less than about 5 mm away from the electrochemical cell stack. In some embodiments, the thin metal foil packaging functions not only as a hermetically or near hermetically sealed packaging, but also as either electrode of the cell bonded to the foil packaging.
US12027655B2
A light emitting device includes: a base including: a first lead including: a first A surface, a first B surface opposite to the first A surface, and a first C surface located between the first A surface and the first B surface and defining at least one first protrusion, a second lead separated from the first lead, and a resin body covering the first C surface and holding the first lead and the second lead; a light emitting element disposed on the first A surface; and a protecting member disposed continuously on at least a portion of the first A surface and in at least a portion of a gap between the first protrusion and the resin body. In a cross-sectional view, the first protrusion extends from a first end portion of the first A surface at a second lead side toward the second lead.
US12027648B2
A light-emitting diode chip, a display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. The light-emitting diode chip includes a first conductive type semiconductor layer, a light-emitting layer, at least two second conductive type semiconductor layers, and at least two first electrodes; the at least two second conductive type semiconductor layers are at a side of the light-emitting layer away from the first conductive type semiconductor layer, the at least two first electrodes are electrically respectively connected with the at least two second conductive type semiconductor layers. Orthographic projections of the at least two second conductive type semiconductor layers on the first conductive type semiconductor layer are spaced apart from each other, and orthographic projections of the at least two first electrodes on the first conductive type semiconductor layer are spaced apart from each other.
US12027641B2
A solar cell and a photovoltaic module. The solar cell includes: a substrate including a first surface; a tunneling oxide layer covering the first surface; a doped conductive layer covering a surface of the tunneling oxide layer away from the substrate; an intrinsic polycrystalline silicon layer formed on one side of the doped conductive layer away from the tunneling oxide layer; and a plurality of first electrodes arranged on one side of the intrinsic polycrystalline silicon layer away from the doped conductive layer and electrically connected to the doped conductive layer. At least a portion of the first electrode is located in the intrinsic polycrystalline silicon layer, and a gap is defined between a top end of the first electrode and the substrate.
US12027636B2
A solar module includes solar cells that are encapsulated. A back layer is disposed towards back sides of the solar cells and a transparent layer is disposed towards front sides of the solar cells. A protection coating is formed on a surface of the solar cells. The protection coating can be continuous or have a pattern with cutouts that expose the surface of the solar cells.
US12027633B2
An imaging device may include single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). To improve the sensitivity and signal-to-noise ratio of the SPADs, light scattering structures may be formed in the semiconductor substrate to increase the path length of incident light through the semiconductor substrate. The light scattering structures may include a low-index material formed in trenches in the semiconductor substrate. The light scattering structures may have different sizes and/or a layout with a non-uniform number of structures per unit area. SPAD devices may also include isolation structures in a ring around the SPADs to prevent crosstalk. The isolation structures may include metal-filled deep trench isolation structures. The metal filler may include tungsten.
US12027626B2
Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. An exemplary method of manufacture comprises receiving a substrate including a semiconductor material stack formed thereon, wherein the semiconductor material stack includes a first semiconductor layer of a first semiconductor material and second semiconductor layer of a second semiconductor material that is different than the first semiconductor material. Patterning the semiconductor material stack to form a trench. The patterning includes performing a first etch process with a first etchant for a first duration and then performing a second etch process with a second etchant for a second duration, where the second etchant is different from the first etchant and the second duration is greater than the first duration. The first etch process and the second etch process are repeated a number of times. Then epitaxially growing a third semiconductor layer of the first semiconductor material on a sidewall of the trench.
US12027623B2
A high-voltage switching device that can be fabricated in a standard low-voltage process, such as CMOS, and more specifically SOI CMOS. Embodiments include integrated circuits that combine, in a unitary structure, a FET device and an integrated, co-fabricated modulated resistance region (MRR) controlled by one or more Voltage-Drop Modulation Gates (VDMGs). The VDMGs are generally biased independently of the gate of the FET device, and in such a way as to protect each VDMG from excessive and potentially destructive voltages. In a first embodiment, an integrated circuit high voltage switching device includes a transistor structure including a source, a gate, and an internal drain; an MRR connected to the internal drain of the transistor structure; at least one VDMG that controls the resistance of the MRR; and a drain electrically connected to the MRR. Each VDMG at least partially depletes the MRR upon application of a bias voltage.
US12027622B2
A semiconductor device includes a region of semiconductor material of a first conductivity type. A body region of a second conductivity type is in the region of semiconductor material. The body region includes a first segment with a first peak dopant concentration, and a second segment laterally adjacent to the first segment with a second peak dopant concentration. A source region of the first conductivity type is in the first segment but not in at least part of the second segment. An insulated gate electrode adjoins the first segment and is configured to provide a first channel region in the first segment, adjoins the second segment and is configured to provide a second channel region in the second segment, and adjoins the source region. During a linear mode of operation, current flows first in the second segment but not in the first segment to reduce the likelihood of thermal runaway.
US12027621B2
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having a first gate operatively adjacent a channel region, a first source/drain region on a first side of the channel region, and a second source/drain region on an opposing second side of the channel region. The first source/drain region is spaced from the channel region by an intervening region. The first and second source/drain regions are gatedly coupled to one another through the channel region. A second gate is adjacent a segment of the intervening region and is spaced from the first gate by an insulative region. A lightly-doped region extends across the intervening region and is under at least a portion of the first source/drain region. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US12027620B2
A field effect transistor has a semiconductor layer with a top surface extending in a horizontal plane, and an active area defined in which are trench gate regions, which extend in depth with respect to the top surface and have an insulating coating layer and a conductive inner layer, and source regions, adjacent to the trench gate regions so as to form a conductive channel extending vertically. The trench gate regions have a plurality of first gate regions, which extend in length in the form of stripes through the active area along a first direction of the horizontal plane, and moreover a plurality of second gate regions, which extend in length in the form of stripes through the same active area along a second direction of the horizontal plane, orthogonal to, and crossing, the first gate regions. In particular, the first gate regions and second gate regions cross in the active area, joining with a non-zero curvature radius.
US12027616B1
A device includes a semiconductor die, a source contact, a drain contact, a first passivation layer, a T-shaped gate contact, a field plate, and a second passivation layer. The semiconductor die generally includes a plurality of semiconductor layers disposed on an insulating substrate. The source contact and the drain contact are electrically coupled to a channel formed in the semiconductor layers and defining an active area of the device. The first passivation layer generally covers the active area of the device, the source contact, and the drain contact. The T-shaped gate contact may be disposed within the active area of the device. The T-shaped gate contact is generally electrically separated from the channel and comprises a column portion and a cap portion. The field plate may be disposed above the active area of the device. The field plate is generally adjacent to and laterally separated from the cap portion of the T-shaped gate contact. The second passivation layer generally covers the first passivation layer, the cap portion of the T-shaped gate contact, and the field plate.
US12027615B2
A nitride-based semiconductor device includes a buffer, a first nitride-based semiconductor layer, a shield layer, a second nitride-based semiconductor layer, a pair of S/D electrodes, and a gate electrode. The first nitride-based semiconductor layer is disposed over the buffer and forms a first interface with the buffer. The shield layer includes a first isolation compound and is interposed between the buffer and the first nitride-based semiconductor layer. The first isolation compound has a bandgap greater than a bandgap of the buffer and greater than a bandgap of the first nitride-based semiconductor layer. The second nitride-based semiconductor layer is disposed on the first nitride-based semiconductor layer and has a bandgap less than the bandgap of the first isolation compound and greater than the bandgap of the first nitride-based semiconductor layer. The S/D electrodes and a gate electrode are disposed over the second nitride-based semiconductor layer.
US12027605B2
The present disclosure describes a method includes forming a fin structure including a fin base portion and a stacked fin portion on a substrate. The stacked fin portion includes a first semiconductor layer on the fin base portion, a second semiconductor layer above the first semiconductor layer, and a sacrificial semiconductor layer between the first and second semiconductor layers. The method further includes replacing the sacrificial semiconductor layer with a negative capacitance (NC) layer and forming gate electrodes around the NC layer, the first semiconductor layer, and the second semiconductor layer. The NC layer includes an NC dielectric material.
US12027597B2
A semiconductor device structure, along with methods of forming such, are described. The semiconductor device structure includes a first source/drain epitaxial feature disposed in an NMOS region, a second source/drain epitaxial feature disposed in the NMOS region, a first dielectric feature disposed between the first source/drain epitaxial feature and the second source/drain epitaxial feature, a third source/drain epitaxial feature disposed in a PMOS region, a second dielectric feature disposed between the second source/drain epitaxial feature and the third source/drain epitaxial feature, and a conductive feature disposed over the first, second, and third source/drain epitaxial features and the first and second dielectric features.
US12027594B2
In a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, a sacrificial gate structure including sacrificial gate electrode is formed over a substrate. A first dielectric layer is formed over the sacrificial gate structure. A second dielectric layer is formed over the first dielectric layer. The second and first dielectric layers are planarized and recessed, and an upper portion of the sacrificial gate structure is exposed. A third dielectric layer is formed over the exposed sacrificial gate structure and over the first dielectric layer. A fourth dielectric layer is formed over the third dielectric layer. The fourth and third dielectric layers are planarized, and the sacrificial gate electrode is exposed and part of the third dielectric layer remains on the recessed first dielectric layer. The recessing the first dielectric layer comprises a first etching operation and a second etching operation using a different etching as from the first etching operation.
US12027593B2
The present disclosure relates to a Gallium-Nitride (GaN) based module, which includes a module substrate, a thinned switch die residing over the module substrate, a first mold compound, and a second mold compound. The thinned switch die includes an electrode region, a number of switch interconnects extending from a bottom surface of the electrode region to the module substrate, an aluminium gallium nitride (AlGaN) barrier layer over a top surface of the electrode region, a GaN buffer layer over the AlGaN barrier layer, and a lateral two-dimensional electron gas (2DEG) layer realized at a heterojunction of the AlGaN barrier layer and the GaN buffer layer. The first mold compound resides over the module substrate, surrounds the thinned switch die, and extends above a top surface of the thinned switch die to form an opening over the top surface of the thinned switch die. The second mold compound fills the opening.
US12027592B2
A field effect transistor includes a channel made of germanium and a source/drain portion. The source/drain portion includes a germanium layer, an interfacial epitaxial layer over the germanium layer, a semiconductor layer over the interfacial epitaxial layer, and a conducting layer over the semiconductor layer. The interfacial epitaxial layer contains germanium and an element from the semiconductor layer and has a thickness in a range from about 1 nm to about 3 nm.
US12027589B2
Provided is a semiconductor device including graphene. The semiconductor device includes: a substrate including an insulator and a semiconductor; and a graphene layer configured to directly grow only on a surface of the semiconductor, wherein the semiconductor includes at least one of a group IV material and a group III-V compound.
US12027586B2
A semiconductor device includes: a fin-type active region extending on a substrate in a first direction that is parallel to an upper surface of the substrate; and a source/drain region in a recess region extending into the fin-type active region, wherein the source/drain region includes: a first source/drain material layer; a second source/drain material layer on the first source/drain material layer; and a first dopant diffusion barrier layer on an interface between the first source/drain material layer and the second source/drain material layer.
US12027559B2
An optoelectronic device comprises a first semiconductor layer of a first conductivity having a front side and a backside. A second semiconductor layer of a second conductivity is arranged on the front side of the first semiconductor layer, and further comprises a first semiconductor region and a second semiconductor region forming a photodiode in the second semiconductor layer. A signal path electrically connects the photodiode to a fixed potential.
US12027553B2
The present disclosure relates to semiconductor structures and, more particularly, to photodetectors with buried airgap mirror reflectors. The structure includes a photodetector and at least one airgap in a substrate under the photodetector.
US12027551B2
Transmitted light loss in an image pickup device is reduced in forming an underlying film of optical elements. The image pickup device includes photoelectric conversion units, optical elements, and an underlying film of the optical elements. The photoelectric conversion units convert incident light into electric signals. The optical elements provide the incident light to the photoelectric conversion units. The underlying film of the optical elements is provided in a region between a first open region and a second open region of the optical elements in a layer between the optical elements and the photoelectric conversion units. Furthermore, the underlying film of the optical elements may be provided in a light-shielding region and a contact region outside an effective pixel region.
US12027548B2
An image sensor includes: a group of autofocus sensor units; neighboring sensor units adjacent to and surrounding the group of autofocus sensor units, wherein each of the neighboring sensor units has a first side close to the group of autofocus sensor units, and a second side away from the group of autofocus sensor units. The image sensor further includes: a first light shielding structure disposed between the group of autofocus sensor units and the neighboring sensor units; a first extra light shielding structure laterally extending from the first light shielding structure and disposed on at least one of the first side and the second side of one or more of the neighboring sensor units.
US12027544B2
A detection device includes a sensor area in which a plurality of detection elements each comprising a photoelectric conversion element are arranged in a detection region, a drive circuit configured to supply a plurality of drive signals to the detection elements, and a detection circuit configured to process a detection signal output from each of the detection elements.
US12027526B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an integrated chip. The integrated chip includes a semiconductor substrate having a device substrate overlying a handle substrate and an insulator layer disposed between the device substrate and the handle substrate. A gate electrode overlies the device substrate between a drain region and a source region. A conductive via extends through the device substrate and the insulator layer to contact the handle substrate. A first isolation structure is disposed within the device substrate and comprises a first isolation segment disposed laterally between the gate electrode and the conductive via. A contact region is disposed within the device substrate between the first isolation segment and the conductive via. A conductive gate electrode directly overlies the first isolation segment and is electrically coupled to the contact region.
US12027516B1
A GaN power semiconductor device integrated with a self-feedback gate control structure comprises a substrate, a buffer layer, a channel layer and a barrier layer. A gate control area is formed by a first metal source electrode, a first P-type GaN cap layer, a first metal gate electrode, a first metal drain electrode, a second P-type GaN cap layer and a second metal gate electrode. An active working area is formed by the first metal source electrode, a third P-type GaN cap layer, a third metal gate electrode, a second metal drain electrode, the second P-type GaN cap layer and a second metal source electrode. The overall gate leaking current of the device is regulated by the gate control area, the integration level is high, the parasitic effect is small, and the charge-storage effect can be effectively relieved, thus improving the threshold stability of the device.
US12027513B2
A layout design methodology is provided for a device that includes two or more identical structures. Each device can have a first die, a second die stacked over the first die and a third die stacked over the second die. The second die can include a first through-silicon via (TSV) and a first circuit, and the third die can include a second TSV and a second circuit. The first TSV and the second TSV can be linearly coextensive. The first and second circuit can each be a logic circuit having a comparator and counter used to generate die identifiers. The counters of respective device die can be connected in series between the dice. Each die can be manufactured using the same masks but retain unique logical identifiers. A given die in a stack of dice can thereby be addressed by a single path in a same die layout.
US12027509B2
A micro multi-color LED device includes two or more LED structures for emitting a range of colors. The two or more LED structures are vertically stacked to combine light from the two more LED structures. Light from the micro multi-color LED device is emitted substantially vertically upward through each of the LED structures. In some embodiments, each LED structure is connected to a pixel driver and/or a common electrode. The LED structures are bonded together through bonding layers. In some embodiments, planarization layers enclose each of the LED structures or the micro multi-color LED device. In some embodiments, one or more of reflective layers, refractive layers, micro-lenses, spacers, and reflective cup structures are implemented in the device to improve the LED emission efficiency. A display panel comprising an array of the micro tri-color LED devices has a high resolution and a high illumination brightness.
US12027508B2
A display device may include: a substrate including a display area and a non-display area; and pixels disposed on the display area, and each including sub-pixels, each sub-pixel including a pixel circuit layer, and a display element layer including a light emitting element. The display element layer includes first and second electrodes spaced apart from each other; a first insulating layer disposed between the pixel circuit layer and the light emitting element; and a second insulating layer disposed on the light emitting element and filling spaces between the first insulating layer and ends of the light emitting element. The light emitting element includes a first conductive semiconductor layer, an active layer enclosing at least one side of the first conductive semiconductor layer, a second conductive semiconductor layer enclosing the active layer, an electrode layer enclosing the second conductive semiconductor layer, and an insulating film covering the electrode layer.
US12027501B2
A method of manufacturing a surface light source includes providing an intermediate structure body that includes a composite board including a supporting member and a wiring layer disposed on the supporting member and includes a plurality of light-emitting elements disposed apart from each other on the wiring layer of the composite board, disposing a plurality of covering members apart from each other to cover upper surfaces and lateral surfaces of the light-emitting elements and portions of the composite board around the light-emitting elements, disposing a light-shielding member such that a gap between the covering members is filled, removing the covering members to form a plurality of hole portions, and disposing a light-transmissive member in the hole portions.
US12027500B2
A circuit structure includes a plurality of semiconductor elements arranged side by side, and each semiconductor element includes source terminals and at least one gate terminal arranged side by side with the source terminals. The circuit structure includes: a first bus bar connected to the source terminals of the semiconductor elements; connection portions that connect the source terminals and the first bus bar and are arranged side by side along the arrangement direction of the semiconductor elements and whose one ends are connected to the source terminals of the respective semiconductor elements; an insulating portion provided so as to be present between each adjacent pairs of the connection portions; and conductive portions provided in the insulating portion and connected to the gate terminals.
US12027497B2
A semiconductor memory package includes a substrate, a first stack of memory dies, and a second stack of memory dies. The first stack of memory dies includes a first substack of staggered memory dies offset with respect to each other in a first direction and a second substack of staggered memory dies offset with respect to each other in the first direction and positioned above the first substack. The second stack of memory dies includes a third substack of staggered memory dies offset with respect to each other in a second direction and a fourth substack of staggered memory dies offset with respect to each other in the second direction and positioned above the third substack. The top memory die of the first substack and a memory die positioned below the top memory die of the third substack are at least partially coplanar.
US12027493B2
A chip package assembly and method for fabricating the same are provided which utilize a plurality of posts in mold compound for improved resistance to delamination. In one example, a chip package assembly is provided that includes a first integrated circuit (IC) die, a substrate, a redistribution layer, a mold compound and a plurality of posts. The redistribution layer provides electrical connections between circuitry of the first IC die and circuitry of the substrate. The mold compound is disposed in contact with the first IC die and spaced from the substrate by the redistribution layer. The plurality of posts are disposed in the mold compound and are laterally spaced from the first IC die. The plurality of posts are not electrically connected to the circuitry of the first IC die.
US12027488B2
Methods of bonding and structures with such bonding are disclosed. One such method includes providing a first substrate with a first electrical contact; providing a second substrate with a second electrical contact above the first electrical contact, wherein an upper surface of the first electrical contact is spaced apart from a lower surface of the second electrical contact by a gap; and depositing a layer of selective metal on the lower surface of the second electrical contact and on the upper surface of the first electrical contact by a thermal Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) process until the gap is filled to create a bond between the first electrical contact and the second electrical contact.
US12027481B2
A device includes a first semiconductor chip including a first face, wherein a first contact pad is arranged over the first face. The device further includes a second semiconductor chip including a first face, wherein a first contact pad is arranged over the first face, wherein the first semiconductor chip and the second semiconductor chip are arranged such that the first face of the first semiconductor chip faces in a first direction and the first face of the second semiconductor chip faces in a second direction opposite to the first direction. The first semiconductor chip is located laterally outside of an outline of the second semiconductor chip.
US12027478B2
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes forming a first redistribution structure including a first conductive pattern. The method further includes placing a die over the first redistribution structure. The method further includes disposing a molding material over the first redistribution structure to surround the die. The method further includes removing a portion of the molding material to form an opening. The method further includes disposing a dielectric material into the opening to form a dielectric member. The method further includes forming a second redistribution structure over the molding material and the dielectric member, wherein the second redistribution structure includes an antenna structure over the dielectric member and electrically connected to the die.
US12027467B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device package and a method of manufacturing the same. The semiconductor device package includes a substrate, an interconnection structure, a package body, and a first electronic component. The interconnection structure is disposed on the substrate. The package body is disposed on the substrate and partially covers the interconnection structure. The package body has a position limiting structure around the interconnection structure. The first electronic component is disposed on the interconnection structure and electrically connected to the interconnection structure.
US12027466B2
Conductive routes for an electronic substrate may be fabricated by forming an opening in a material, using existing laser drilling or lithography tools and materials, followed by selectively plating a metal on the sidewalls of the opening. The processes of the present description may result in significantly higher patterning resolution or feature scaling (up to 2× improvement in patterning density/resolution). In addition to improved patterning resolution, the embodiments of the present description may also result in higher aspect ratios of the conductive routes, which can result in improved signaling, reduced latency, and improved yield.
US12027464B2
A semiconductor module parallel circuit includes: a plurality of power semiconductor modules; and a multilayer substrate that interconnects the plurality of power semiconductor modules, each of the power semiconductor modules includes: a power semiconductor switching element; a first signal terminal connected to a gate potential of the power semiconductor switching element; and a second signal terminal connected to a source potential of the power semiconductor switching element, the multilayer substrate includes: an external connection terminal; first signal terminal connection patterns connected to the first signal terminals of the power semiconductor modules; and second signal terminal connection patterns connected to the second signal terminals of the power semiconductor modules, and inductances of gate wiring for the plurality of power semiconductor modules, from the external connection terminal to the first signal terminal connection pattern and from the second signal terminal connection pattern to the external connection terminal are equal to one another.
US12027457B2
An interconnection structure and a method of manufacturing the same, and an electronic device including the interconnection structure are provided. According to an embodiment, the interconnection structure includes: a first interconnection line at a first level, including at least a first portion extending along a first direction; a second interconnection line at a second level higher than the first level, including at least a second portion extending along a second direction crossing the first direction; a via plug disposed between the first portion of the first interconnection line and the second portion of the second interconnection line, and configured to electrically connect the first interconnection line and the second interconnection line, wherein the via plug includes a first pair of sidewalls respectively extending substantially parallel to corresponding sidewalls of the first portion and a second pair of sidewalls respectively extending substantially parallel to corresponding sidewalls of the second portion.
US12027456B2
Provided is a manufacturing method of a semiconductor structure, comprising: forming a sacrificial layer on a substrate; forming a trench in the sacrificial layer; forming a first spacer structure in the trench, the first spacer structure at least covering sidewalls of the trench; forming a first conductive structure in the trench; forming a second conductive structure, the second conductive structure covering an outer sidewall of the first spacer structure; forming a second spacer structure, the second spacer structure covering an outer sidewall of the second conductive structure; and forming a third conductive structure, the third conductive structure covering an outer sidewall of the second spacer structure.
US12027451B2
A wiring substrate includes an insulating layer, a conductor layer formed on the insulating layer and including a conductor pad, and a solder resist layer formed on the insulating layer such that the solder resist layer has an opening entirely exposing an upper surface and a side surface of the conductor pad. The conductor layer is formed such that the conductor pad has a pad body extending along a surface of the insulating layer, and a protective layer covering an upper surface and a side surface of the pad body and including material different from material of the pad body, and the pad body of the conductor pad has a notch part formed at a peripheral edge portion of the pad body such that the notch part separates a lower surface of the pad body and the surface of the insulating layer and is filled with the protective layer.
US12027437B2
An integrated circuit is provided that comprises a first thermal sink layer, a first ground plane associated with a first set of circuits that have a first operational temperature requirement, a first thermally conductive via that couples the first ground plane to the first thermal sink layer, a second thermal sink layer, a second ground plane associated with a second set of circuits that have a second operational temperature requirement that is higher than the first operational temperature requirement, and a second thermally conductive via that couples the second ground plane to the second thermal sink layer. The first thermal sink layer is cooled at a first temperature to maintain the first set of circuits at the first operational temperature requirement and the second thermal sink layer is cooled at a second temperature to maintain the second set of circuits at the second operational temperature requirement.
US12027436B2
A package and method of manufacturing is disclosed. In one example, the package which comprises a carrier with at least one component mounted on the carrier. A clip is arranged above the carrier and having a through hole. At least part of at least one of the at least one component and/or at least part of an electrically conductive connection element electrically connecting the at least one component is at least partially positioned inside the through hole.
US12027412B2
A method of forming a three-dimensional (3D) memory device includes: forming a layer stack over a substrate, the layer stack including alternating layers of a first dielectric material and a second dielectric material; forming trenches extending through the layer stack; replacing the second dielectric material with an electrically conductive material to form word lines (WLs); lining sidewalls and bottoms of the trenches with a ferroelectric material; filling the trenches with a third dielectric material; forming bit lines (BLs) and source lines (SLs) extending vertically through the third dielectric material; removing portions of the third dielectric material to form openings in the third dielectric material between the BLs and the SLs; forming a channel material along sidewalls of the openings; and filling the openings with a fourth dielectric material.
US12027409B2
Some examples provide a vacuum wafer chuck assembly for supporting a wafer. An example chuck assembly comprises a chuck hub and a centering hub disposed within the chuck hub. Chuck arms are mounted to the chuck hub, with each chuck arm extending radially between a proximal end adjacent the chuck hub, and a distal end remote therefrom. At least one vacuum pad is provided for supporting the wafer during a wafer centering or wafer processing operation. A vacuum sensor detects a presence or absence of a vacuum pressure at the vacuum pad during the wafer centering or processing operation, a detection indicative of a presence or absence of the wafer in the chuck assembly, or a presence of a defective wafer.
US12027397B2
A set of one or more shelves is configured to be disposed within an enclosure system of a substrate processing system. The set of one or more shelves includes first upper surfaces disposed substantially in a first plane, carrier alignment features configured to align a carrier on the first upper surfaces, second upper surfaces disposed substantially in a second plane that is above the first plane, and process kit ring alignment features configured to align a process kit ring on the carrier above the second upper surfaces.
US12027394B2
A method includes: supplying a processing liquid to a center position of a substrate surface; shifting a supply position of the processing liquid from the center position to a first eccentric position; holding the supply position of the processing liquid at the first eccentric position and supplying a substitute liquid to a second eccentric position; shifting the supply position of the processing liquid in a direction away from the center position, and shifting a supply position of the substitute liquid to the center position; and supplying the processing liquid to the first eccentric position at a first flow rate, and reducing the flow rate of the processing liquid to a second flow rate after the supply position of the processing liquid starts to be shifted from the first eccentric position in the direction and until the supply position of the substitute liquid reaches the center position.
US12027380B2
In one embodiment, a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus includes a substrate holder configured to hold a plurality of substrates such that the substrates are arranged in parallel to each other. The apparatus further includes a fluid injector including a plurality of openings that inject fluid to areas in which distances from surfaces of the substrates are within distances between centers of the substrates adjacent to each other, the fluid injector being configured to change injection directions of the fluid injected from the openings in planes that are parallel to the surfaces of the substrates by self-oscillation.
US12027375B2
A method for selectively etching a silicon oxide region with respect to a lower oxygen silicon containing region is provided. A sacrificial mask selectively deposited on the lower oxygen silicon containing region with respect to the silicon oxide region. An atomic layer etch selectively etches the silicon oxide region with respect to the sacrificial mask on the lower oxygen silicon containing region.
US12027374B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to fabricating electronic devices, such as memory devices. In one or more embodiments, a method for forming a device includes forming a film stack on a substrate, where the film stack contains a plurality of alternating layers of oxide layers and nitride layers and has a stack thickness, and etching the film stack to a first depth to form a plurality of openings between a plurality of structures. The method includes depositing an etch protection liner containing amorphous-silicon on the sidewalls and the bottoms of the structures, removing the etch protection liner from at least the bottoms of the openings, forming a plurality of holes by etching the film stack in the openings to further extend each bottom of the openings to a second depth of the hole, and removing the etch protection liner from the sidewalls.
US12027369B2
The present application relates to a mask structure, a semiconductor structure and methods for manufacturing the same. The method for manufacturing a mask structure includes: dividing an overall structure into two regions, and developing the array region and the periphery region with a negative photoresist.
US12027366B2
Exemplary methods of semiconductor processing may include treating a surface of a substrate with a hydrogen-containing precursor. The substrate may be disposed within a processing region of a semiconductor processing chamber. The methods may include contacting the substrate with a tungsten-containing precursor. The methods may include forming an initiation layer comprising tungsten on the substrate. The methods may include treating the initiation layer with a hydrogen-containing precursor. The methods may include forming a plasma of the tungsten-containing precursor and a carbon-containing precursor. Hydrogen in the plasma may be limited to hydrogen included in the carbon-containing precursor. The methods may include forming a tungsten-containing hardmask layer on the initiation layer.
US12027357B2
In one aspect, a method of modulating transmission of ions in a mass spectrometer is disclosed, which comprises generating an ion beam comprising a plurality of ions, directing the ion beam to an ion optic positioned in the path of the ion beam, wherein the ion optic includes at least one opening through which the ions can pass, and applying one or more voltage pulses at a selected duty cycle to said ion optic so as to obtain a desired attenuation of brightness of the ion beam passing through the ion optic, where a pulse width of said voltage pulses at said selected duty cycle is determined by identifying a pulse width on a calibration normalized ion intensity versus pulse width relation for said ions that corresponds to said desired attenuation on an ideal normalized ion intensity versus pulse width relation for said ions.
US12027354B2
A physical vapor deposition processing chamber is described. The processing chamber includes a target backing plate in a top portion of the processing chamber, a substrate support in a bottom portion of the processing chamber, a deposition ring positioned at an outer periphery of the substrate support and a shield. The substrate support has a support surface spaced a distance from the target backing plate to form a process cavity. The shield forms an outer bound of the process cavity. In-chamber cleaning methods are also described. In an embodiment, the method includes closing a bottom gas flow path of a processing chamber to a process cavity, flowing an inert gas from the bottom gas flow path, flowing a reactant into the process cavity through an opening in the shield, and evacuating the reaction gas from the process cavity.
US12027353B2
There is provided a substrate processing method of a substrate processing apparatus. The substrate processing apparatus includes at least two targets, magnet-moving mechanisms disposed in one-to-one correspondence with the at least two targets, each of the magnet-moving mechanisms being configured to reciprocate a magnet in a first direction on a back surface of each target, and a substrate moving mechanism configured to move a substrate in a second direction orthogonal to the first direction. The method includes causing the magnet-moving mechanisms to reciprocate the magnets at different phases with each other.
US12027349B2
A plasma processing apparatus is provided. The plasma processing apparatus comprises: a dielectric member having a placement surface on which an object to be processed is placed and a back surface opposite to the placement surface, and having a first through-hole penetrating through the placement surface and the back surface; a mounting table having a support surface for supporting the dielectric member and a base having a second through-hole communicating with the first through-hole; and an embedded member disposed in the first through-hole and the second through-hole, wherein the embedded member includes a first embedded member disposed in the first through-hole and a second embedded member disposed in the second through-hole, and the rigidity of the second embedded member is lower than the rigidity of the first embedded member.
US12027343B2
System and methods are described for directly measuring mechanical properties of a sample while concurrently imaging the sample using a scanning beam microscope (e.g., a scanning electron microscope (SEM)).
US12027341B2
X-ray target element is comprised of a planar wafer. The planar wafer element includes a target layer and a substrate layer. The target layer is comprised of an element having a relatively high atomic number and the substrate layer is comprised of diamond. The substrate layer is configured to support the target layer and facilitate transfer of thermal energy away from the target layer.
US12027339B2
Embodiments provide an Energy Reduction Maintenance Setting (ERMS) key that includes a data connector configured to communicatively couple to a data port of a target device. The ERMS key further includes an illumination device and an actuator mechanism having a base positional state and an actuated positional state. The ERMS key includes logic configured to, upon detecting the actuator mechanism has moved from the base positional state to the actuated positional state, generate and transmit a first data message to the target device through the data connector instructing the target device to enter a protected mode. The logic is further configured to, upon receiving a second data message from the target device over the data connector acknowledging that the target device has successfully entered the protected mode, cause the illumination device to illuminate.
US12027336B2
A MEMS switch having a substrate, a micromechanical function layer situated above the substrate, and a fixed part and an electrically operable, deflectable switch element are developed in the micromechanical function layer, the switch element for closing an electrically conductive contact with the fixed part being suspended on at least one first spring in a deflectable manner. In a first operating state, the switch element is in a first position at a first distance from the fixed part, and the electrical contact is open. In a second operating state, the switch element is in a second position at a second distance from the fixed part, and the first spring is deflected and exerts a first restoring force, and the switch element establishes an operative connection with at least one second spring and the electrical contact is open. In a third operating state, the switch element is in a third position.
US12027325B2
A transparent photovoltaic cell is provided. The transparent photovoltaic cell includes a first visibly transparent electrode, a visibly transparent active layer including a light absorbing material that has a bandgap greater than or equal to about 2.75 eV, and a second visibly transparent electrode. The active layer is disposed between the first transparent electrode and the second transparent electrode. The transparent photovoltaic cell is visibly transparent.
US12027319B2
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes a multilayer body, and external electrodes on a portion of a side surface portion including four side surface of the multilayer body, and on a portion of a first main surface of the multilayer body. The first main surface includes first regions covered with the external electrodes and a second region exposed from the external electrodes. The first regions of the first main surface each include recesses therein. The recesses in each of the first regions each include a spherical curved wall surface. The recesses in each of the first regions each have an average inlet size of about 0.3 μm or more and about 10.5 μm or less.
US12027318B2
A capacitor includes a bus bar. The bus bar includes a bus bar body member and a terminal formation member configured to be superposed on and fixed to a terminal formation part of the bus bar body member. In the terminal formation part, a plurality of first connection terminal parts are formed so as to be arranged in one direction, by portions of the terminal formation part being cut and raised. In the terminal formation member, a plurality of second connection terminal parts are formed so as to be arranged in one direction, by portions of the terminal formation member being cut and raised, and second openings are formed in places where the portions have been cut and raised. The first connection terminal parts and the second connection terminal parts are alternately arranged in one direction, by the first connection terminal parts being passed through the second openings.
US12027310B2
The present disclosure relates to a dual hybrid electromagnet module for controlling a microrobot. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to an electromagnetic field system in which a dual hybrid electromagnet module including a permanent magnet and an electromagnet is used for controlling a microrobot so that it is possible to reduce the number of used electromagnets so as to reduce power consumption and the amount of heat generated from the electromagnet module. The electromagnetic field system is capable of being used for various medical procedures and surgeries using a microrobot.
US12027309B2
A spool has a cylindrical outer shape extending in an axial direction intersecting an upward/downward direction, the spool having an outer circumferential surface in which a plurality of annular groove portions extending in a circumferential direction are formed with a space being interposed between the plurality of annular groove portions in the axial direction, a superconducting coil being wound and accommodated inside each of the plurality of annular groove portions. A cover portion is attached to the spool so as to cover each of the plurality of annular groove portions, the cover portion and the plurality of annular groove portions forming a plurality of annular flow paths for refrigerant to cool the superconducting coil. One or more communication paths extend in parallel with the axial direction to communicate adjacent annular flow paths of the plurality of annular flow paths with each other.
US12027300B2
An inductor includes a body that includes a coil and that contains a magnetic portion in which the coil is embedded, and a pair of outer electrodes that is disposed on a mounting surface of the body. The coil includes a winding portion formed by winding a conductive wire that has a coating layer and that has a pair of wide surfaces, and a pair of extended portions that extends from the winding portion. The pair of extended portions includes a twisted portion that is connected to the winding portion. The twisted portion is twisted about a virtual center line of an end portion of the winding portion, and a twisted part bends toward the mounting surface about an axis substantially perpendicular to the wide surfaces at the end portion. End portions of the pair of extended portions near the mounting surface are connected to the pair of outer electrodes.
US12027298B2
An inductor device includes a first trace, a second trace, a third trace, a fourth trace, and a double ring inductor. The first trace is disposed in a first area, and located on a first layer. The second trace is disposed in the first area, coupled to the first trace, and located on a second layer. The third trace is disposed in a second area, and located on the first layer. The fourth trace is disposed in the second area, coupled to the third trace, and located on the second layer. The double ring inductor is disposed on the first layer, located at outer side of the first trace and the third trace, and coupled to the first trace and the third trace.
US12027294B2
A method of producing a SmFeN-based rare earth magnet, the method including: dispersing a SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder including Sm, Fe, La, W, R, and N, wherein R is at least one selected from the group consisting of Ti, Ba, and Sr, using a resin-coated metal media or a resin-coated ceramic media to obtain a dispersed SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder; mixing the dispersed SmFeN-based anisotropic magnetic powder with a modifier powder to obtain a powder mixture; compacting the powder mixture in a magnetic field to obtain a magnetic field compact; pressure-sintering the magnetic field compact to obtain a sintered compact; and heat-treating the sintered compact.
US12027289B2
The present disclosure relates to a power unit and a power cable for a mobile communication base station, which have sufficiently low inductance and thus minimize voltage oscillation regardless of a change of the amount of power transmitted when communication load of a mobile communication base station increases, thereby providing stable communication services, and which enhance workability of connection to a remote radio unit (RRU) at a base station.
US12027276B1
The present disclosure generally relates to methods for determining the healing outcome of a wound, as well as related devices, systems and methods of treatment using a Bayesian Belief Network model that utilizes wound effluent biomarkers and clinical parameters for determining a patient-specific probability of the healing outcome of a wound.
US12027275B2
Computer-implemented methods are disclosed for estimating values of hemodynamic forces acting on plaque or lesions. One method includes: receiving one or more patient-specific parameters of at least a portion of a patient's vasculature that is prone to plaque progression, rupture, or erosion; constructing a patient-specific geometric model of at least a portion of a patient's vasculature that is prone to plaque progression, rupture, or erosion, using the received one or more patient-specific parameters; estimating, using one or more processors, the values of hemodynamic forces at one or more points on the patient-specific geometric model, using the patient-specific parameters and geometric model by measuring, deriving, or obtaining one or more of a pressure gradient and a radius gradient; and outputting the estimated values of hemodynamic forces to an electronic storage medium. Systems and computer readable media for executing these methods are also disclosed.
US12027269B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are disclosed herein for automatically identifying and selecting, based on machine learning model(s), one or more patient educations instructions as suggested smart recommendations for a particular patient, based on parameter matching and filtering with other patient parameters. The parameters of a current patient can be automatically matched to parameters that are associated with other patients, on a one-to-one parameter basis or based on specific combinations parameters. Based on the presence of one or more shared parameters between a current patient and other patients as well as the strength of the parameter match, one or more instructions that were provided to the other patients can be recommended for the current patient automatically. Instruction(s) selected for the current patient can then be stored in association with the parameters of the current patient and used to evaluate and make recommendations for subsequent patients.
US12027267B2
An information processing apparatus is configured to acquire case information containing first information that is information on a feature of a case of a patient and that is obtained as a result of a diagnosis of the patient and determine, based on the first information that is the information contained in the case information, whether the case information is used as training data for machine training.
US12027266B2
A method of administering insulin includes receiving glucose measurements of a patient at a data processing device from a continuous glucose monitoring system. The glucose measurements are separated by a time interval. The method also includes receiving patient information at the data processing device and selecting a subcutaneous insulin treatment from a collection of subcutaneous insulin treatments. The selection is based on the glucose measurements and the patient information. The selection includes one or more of a subcutaneous standard program, a subcutaneous program without meal boluses, a meal-by-meal subcutaneous program without carbohydrate counting, a meal-by-meal subcutaneous program with carbohydrate counting, and a subcutaneous program for non-diabetic patients. The method also includes executing, using the data processing device, the selected subcutaneous insulin treatment.
US12027237B2
An analytics system creates a data structure counting strings of methylation vectors from a healthy control group. The analytics system enumerates possibilities of methylation state vectors given a sample fragment from a subject, and calculates probabilities for all possibilities with a Markov chain probability. The analytics system generates a p-value score for the subject's test methylation state vector by summing the calculated probabilities that are less than or equal to the calculated probability of the possibility matching the test methylation state vector. The analytics system determines the test methylation state vector to be anomalously methylated compared to the healthy control group if the p-value score is below a threshold score. With a number of such sample fragments, the analytics system can filter the sample fragments based on each p-value score. The analytics system can run a classification model on the filtered set to predict whether the subject has cancer.
US12027230B2
A method for accessing of memory cells where a set of user data is stored in a plurality of memory cells of the memory array, including: latching a current row address of a selected plurality of memory access; comparing a last row address with the current row address; if the result of the comparison is negative, executing a leakage compensation algorithm through a memory sensing circuitry; if the result of the comparison is positive, waiting for the completion of a write to read procedure on the selected plurality of memory cells.
US12027225B2
A memory module is provided including a plurality of semiconductor memory devices mounted on a circuit board. A control device is mounted on the circuit board and configured to receive a command signal, an address signal, and a clock signal and to provide the command signal, the address signal, and the clock signal to the plurality of semiconductor memory devices. A first group of the semiconductor memory devices is disposed between the control device and a first edge portion of the circuit board, and a second group of the semiconductor memory devices is disposed between the control device and a second edge portion of the circuit board. The control device is configured to transmit the address signal to the first group of the semiconductor memory devices and the second group of the semiconductor memory devices through a first transmission line and a second transmission line, respectively. The first transmission line and the second transmission line are physically symmetric with respect to an axis intersecting the control device.
US12027223B2
A method for repairing a failed bit includes: acquiring a repair specification of redundancy of a chip where the failed bit is located; standardizing the repair specification of the redundancy to obtain a standardized repair specification; acquiring the position of the failed bit on the chip; processing the position of the failed bit on the chip according to the standardized repair specification to obtain standardized position of the failed bit; allocating the redundancy by the redundancy allocation algorithm according to the standardized position of the failed bit and the standardized repair specification to obtain standardized repair position of the redundancy; and restoring the standardized repair position of the redundancy to the repair a position of the redundancy on the chip according to the standardized repair specification to repair the failed bit.
US12027221B2
An integrated circuit (IC) device includes a first active region extending along a first direction, a first pair of gate regions extending across the first active region along a second direction transverse to the first direction, and a first metal layer. The first pair of gate regions and the first active region configure a first program transistor and a first read transistor sharing a common source/drain region. The first metal layer includes a first program word line pattern over and coupled to the gate region of the first program transistor, a first read word line pattern over and coupled to the gate region of the first read transistor, a first source line pattern coupled to another source/drain region of the first program transistor, and a first bit line pattern coupled to another source/drain region of the first read transistor.
US12027220B2
Various one-time-programmable (OTP) memory cells are disclosed. An OTP memory cell includes an additional dopant region that extends at least partially under the gate of a transistor, such as an anti-fuse transistor. The additional dopant region provides an additional current path for a read current. Alternatively, an OTP memory cell includes three transistors; an anti-fuse transistor and two select transistors. The two select transistors can be configured as a cascaded select transistor or as two separate select transistors.
US12027218B2
A method for performing a program verify operation with respect to a target memory cell in a memory structure of a non-volatile memory system is provided. The method may include the step of determining a location of the target memory cell within the structure and, based upon the determined location of the target cell and with respect to each programmable memory state: (1) applying a first sense signal at a first point in time, and (2) applying a second sense signal at a second point in time. A time interval between the first and the second points in time is equal to a predetermined optimal time period plus or minus an offset parameter time value.
US12027214B2
A sensing device for a non-volatile memory includes a reference circuit, two switches, a sensing circuit and a judging circuit. The reference circuit is connected to a first node. A first terminal of the first switch is connected with the first node and a control terminal of the first switch receives an inverted reset pulse. A first terminal of the second switch is connected with the first node, a second terminal of the second switch receives a ground voltage, and a control terminal of the second switch receives a reset pulse. The sensing circuit is connected between the second terminal of the first switch and a second node. The sensing circuit generates a first sensed current. The judging circuit is connected to the second node. The judging circuit receives the first sensed current and generates an output data according to the first sensed current.
US12027211B2
A processing device in a memory sub-system initiates a partial block handling protocol for a closed block of a memory device. The block includes a plurality of wordlines. The processing device further sends a first programming command to the memory device to program one or more wordlines of the block with first padding data. The one or more wordlines are adjacent to a last wordline of the block programmed before the block was closed. In addition, the processing device sends a second programming command to the memory device to concurrently program a remaining set of the plurality of wordlines of the block to a threshold voltage.
US12027206B2
The embodiments herein describe technologies of initializing resistive memory devices (e.g., non-volatile and volatile memory devices). In one method, a first voltage is applied across a resistance change material of a memory cell to form an initial filament and multiple cycles are performed to condition the initial filament. Each of the multiple cycles includes: applying a second voltage with a first polarity across the resistance change material; and applying a third voltage with a second polarity across the resistance change material.
US12027204B2
Disclosed herein are related to a memory array. In one aspect, the memory array includes a set of resistive storage circuits including a first subset of resistive storage circuits connected between a first local line and a second local line in parallel. The first local line and the second local line may extend along a first direction. In one aspect, for each resistive storage circuit of the first subset of resistive storage circuits, current injected at a first common entry point of the first local line exits through a first common exit point of the second local line, such that each resistive storage circuit of the first subset of resistive storage circuits may have same or substantial equal resistive loading.
US12027196B2
A memory system includes: a first nonvolatile memory; a second volatile memory; a controller; a power control circuit configured to perform control such that a first voltage is applied to the first memory, the second memory, and the controller based on first power supplied from an external power supply; and a power storage device configured to supply second power to the power control circuit while the first power from the external power supply is interrupted. While the first power supplied from outside is interrupted, the power control circuit applies a second voltage based on the second power supplied from the power storage device to the first memory, the second memory, and the controller. The power control circuit stops the application of the second voltage to the second memory after the data is read from the second memory and before the data is written into the first memory.
US12027182B2
The technology disclosed herein enables automatic implementation of a physical barrier to protect access to data on removable storage media. In a particular embodiment, a method provides determining that the item moved into a storage position using an automatic transfer mechanism and determining that a condition for protecting the item is satisfied. Upon determining that the condition is satisfied, the method provides implementing a physical barrier that prevents the automatic transfer mechanism from removing the item from the storage position.
US12027179B1
A thermally assisted magnetic head includes a slider having a slider substrate and a magnetic head part, and a light source unit having a laser diode and a sub-mount. The magnetic head part includes a medium-opposite surface, a light source-opposite surface, and a slider-front end surface. The sub-mount includes a joined-end surface and a mount-front end surface, the laser diode includes an electrode surface and an LD-front end surface. The light source unit includes a shift joined structure which the laser diode is joined to a shift area of the joined-end surface, and the light source unit is mounted on the slider substrate so that the electrode surface intersects with a laminated surface of the magnetic head part. The shift area is set in a position which is shifted so that the LD-front end surface is away from the slider-front end surface than the mount-front end surface.
US12027172B2
Provided is an electronic device that includes a first processor for receiving an audio signal, performing first voice recognition on the audio signal, and transferring a driving signal to a second processor based on a result of the first voice recognition. The second processor performs second voice recognition based on a voice signal by the first voice recognition or the audio signal, in response to the driving signal.
US12027165B2
A non-transitory computer readable medium stores computer executable instructions which, when executed by at least one processor, cause the at least one processor to acquire a speech signal of speech of a user; perform a signal processing on the speech signal to acquire at least one feature of the speech of the user; and control display of information, related to each of one or more first candidate converters having a feature corresponding to the at least one feature, to present the one or more first candidate converters for selection by the user.
US12027156B2
Described are techniques for noise-robust and speaker-independent keyword spotting (KWS) in an input audio signal that contains keywords used to activate voice-based human-computer interactions. A KWS system may combine the latent representation generated by a denoising autoencoder (DAE) with audio features extracted from the audio signal using a machine learning approach. The DAE may be a discriminative DAE trained with a quadruplet loss metric learning approach to create a highly-separable latent representation of the audio signal in the audio input feature space. In one aspect, spectral characteristics of the audio signal such as Log-Mel features are combined with the latent representation generated by a quadruplet loss variational DAE (QVDQE) as input to a DNN KWS classifier. The KWS system improves keyword classification accuracy versus using extracted spectral features alone, non-discriminative DAE latent representations alone, or the extracted spectral features combined with the non-discriminative DAE latent representations in a KWS classifier.
US12027155B2
Disclosed are a method and apparatus for automatically adding sound effects into an audio file. At least one trigger word may be identified from text content corresponding to the audio file (1210). Context information of the at least one trigger word may be determined from the text content (1220). It may be decided, based on the context information of the at least one trigger word, that sound effect addition is applicable the at least one trigger word (1230). A sound effect corresponding to the at least one trigger word may be selected from a sound effect library (1240). The sound effect may be integrated into the audio file (1250).
US12027154B2
A method includes receiving a training example that includes audio data representing a spoken utterance and a ground truth transcription. For each word in the spoken utterance, the method also includes inserting a placeholder symbol before the respective word identifying a respective ground truth alignment for a beginning and an end of the respective word, determining a beginning word piece and an ending word piece, and generating a first constrained alignment for the beginning word piece and a second constrained alignment for the ending word piece. The first constrained alignment is aligned with the ground truth alignment for the beginning of the respective word and the second constrained alignment is aligned with the ground truth alignment for the ending of the respective word. The method also includes constraining an attention head of a second pass decoder by applying the first and second constrained alignments.
US12027147B2
A storage medium storing a musical performance program and a musical performance device are provided. A musical sound is output through a clicking operation performed on an operation button, and a tone parameter is changed through a dragging operation. A parameter display part 6a is displayed on the operation button. When the musical sound is output through a clicking operation performed on the operation button, a user can recognize a state of the tone parameter of the output musical sound in advance through the parameter display part. Since the tone parameter set through a dragging operation performed on the operation button is reflected to the parameter display part, the tone parameter is recognized without looking away from the operation button.
US12027122B2
Provided are a method for driving a display panel, the method comprises a plurality of picture update periods, wherein at least one of the plurality of picture update periods comprises a first data write stage, a second data write stage, and a data retention stage; at least one of the first data write stage precedes at least one of the second data write stage; at the first data write stage, a gate scanning signal is provided for and a first data voltage is written to a pixel unit; at the second data write stage, the gate scanning signal is provided for and a second data voltage is written to the pixel unit, wherein the first data voltage is less than the second data voltage.
US12027119B2
In a display device having an external compensation function, a decrease in compensation accuracy caused by coupling noise generated in a data signal line is prevented. An emission driver that applies a light-emission control signal (EM) to each of a plurality of light-emission control lines includes a shift register formed of a plurality of unit circuits. The shift register generates a light-emission control signal (EM) to be applied to each light-emission control line on the basis of a plurality of light-emission control clock signals (ECK1 to ECK4) outputted from a display control circuit. The display control circuit stops the outputs of the plurality of light-emission control clock signals (ECK1 to ECK4) throughout a current measurement period in which a current corresponding to the characteristic of the drive transistor is measured.
US12027118B2
Various examples are provided related to driving a light emitting display in which variations in image quality and brightness can be suppressed despite long-term use, without adding a complicated circuit configuration. In one example, a method includes applying a voltage based on image data to be displayed to a gate electrode of a vertical organic light emitting transistor and applying a voltage, having a polarity opposite to that of the voltage applied to the gate electrode of the vertical organic light emitting transistor, to the gate electrode of the vertical organic light emitting transistor based on a value of a voltage being applied to a source electrode of the vertical organic light emitting transistor.
US12027116B2
A display device including: a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a matrix, each including an electro-optical element having a structure in which a display functional layer is sandwiched between an upper electrode and a lower electrode; and an auxiliary interconnect contact in a pixel area in which the plurality of sub-pixels are arranged in a matrix and electrically connecting the upper electrode to an auxiliary interconnect, wherein m (m is an integer equal to or larger than two) sub-pixels adjacent to each other along an arrangement direction of the sub-pixels are regarded as one group, and n (n is a natural number smaller than m) auxiliary interconnect contacts are formed for each group.
US12027110B2
A display apparatus includes a display panel including a pixel, a gate driver providing a gate signal to the pixel, a data driver providing a data voltage to the pixel and an emission driver providing an emission signal to the pixel. The pixel includes a driving switching element applying a driving current to the light emitting element, a storage capacitor connected to the driving switching element, a bias capacitor connected to the storage capacitor and receiving a bias gate signal, a threshold voltage compensation switching element connected to an electrode of the driving switching element and a light emitting element initialization switching element connected to an electrode of the light emitting element. A control signal applied to an electrode of the threshold voltage compensation switching element and a control signal applied to an electrode of the light emitting element initialization switching element are generated from different signal generators.
US12027103B2
A display apparatus including a screen portion in which unit panels in which a plurality of pixels formed from light-emitting elements is disposed are arranged, in which a first pixel-to-pixel pitch that is a space between two outer end pixels adjacent to each other across outer peripheries of the unit panels is equal to or larger than a second pixel-to-pixel pitch that is a space between each of the outer end pixels and a pixel adjacent to the outer end pixel, and the pixel-to-pixel pitches adjacent to each other in the array of the pixel-to-pixel pitches in a direction in which the first and second pixel-to-pixel pitches are arranged in the unit panel are set to be P(in)≤P(out) where P(in) denotes the pixel-to-pixel pitch located on a central side of the unit panel and P(out) denotes the pixel-to-pixel pitch located on an outer peripheral side of the unit panel.
US12027088B2
A shift register, a gate driver circuit, and a display device are disclosed. In the shift register, when a pull-up node is at a low level, a third signal control end controls a conduction of a first noise reduction module and provides the pull-up node with a low-level signal of a first power supply end, so as to pull down a signal of the pull-up node to reduce noise. Therefore, an issue of noise interference on an output end of a gate driving signal is solved when a clock signal provided by a clock signal end is at a high level.
US12027085B2
A sampling circuit includes: a first input terminal, a second input terminal, a first voltage acquisition sub-circuit, and a current integrating sub-circuit. The first voltage acquisition sub-circuit is coupled to the first input terminal and the current integrating sub-circuit, and is configured to acquire a first voltage of the first input terminal and transmit the first voltage to the current integrating sub-circuit. The current integrating sub-circuit is further coupled to the second input terminal, and is configured to, generate and output a second voltage according to the first voltage and an integral of a driving current transmitted to the current integrating sub-circuit through the second input terminal over time, and output the first voltage in response to an integral control signal received by the current integrating sub-circuit.
US12027078B2
A barrier sign kit that includes a barrier post having one or more vertically oriented splines positioned on an outer side; and a rigid planar sign member having an aperture sized and shaped to securely mount the sign member on a spline. The planar sign member can be mounted on the spline of the barrier post to provide a simple sign mounting on the barrier post. The barrier post may be a conventional barrier post as used in existing queueing solutions. The sign member may be formed of rigid card or plastic.
US12027074B2
An adhesive label for a multi-part container having a threaded member and a container body includes a first, sheet-like label portion adapted to be attached to the threaded member of the container, and a second label portion adjacent the first label portion and adapted to be attached to the container body of the container. The second label portion has a comb-like structure with strip-shaped fixing elements such that the adhesive label couples the threaded member to the container body relative to a condition applied to the container and opposes movement of the threaded member relative to the container body.
US12027066B2
A biomechanical system for illustrating body mechanics. The system includes components representing the torso, upper leg, and lower leg which can be altered in length to represent the variations in human segmental proportions and their combined influences on an individual's mechanical ability to move between a standing position and a seated or squatting position. Manipulation of these variables is further influenced by a range of available mobility of respective joints interconnecting the body segments. Outcomes of permutations of both the variations in segmental proportions and joint mobility is further influenced by variations in the relative plane of gross lower extremity motion as demonstrated by manipulation of a secondary hip axis. The system also incorporates various muscle segments to demonstrate impact of body movements on muscles and restrictions that muscles may present for body movements.
US12027064B2
A system for training surgical camera navigation skills is provided. A plurality of two-dimensional targets is printed on an upper surface of a flat sheet. The sheet is transportable and placed onto a base of a box trainer that defines a simulated abdominal cavity between the base and a top. A scope is inserted through a port in the top and the targets are viewed on a live video feed displayed on a screen. A trainee can move the scope back and forth, roll, and angulate the scope about the port to view the targets on the sheet at different angles and distances. The trainee is instructed to follow a sequence of targets marked on the sheet and manipulate the scope to align consecutively each target with the edges of the screen in the sequence provided.
US12027061B2
Systems and methods for Artificial Intelligence (AI) Virtual Reality (VR) emotive conversation training.
US12027060B2
A data generation device generates at least a part of data used for a generation of an image displayed on a display unit. The display unit displays a workspace model modeled after an actual workspace, as a video. The workspace model includes a robot model modeled after an actual robot, and a peripheral object model modeled after a given peripheral object around the actual robot. The robot model is created so as to operate according to operation of an operator to a manipulator. The data generation device includes a state information acquiring module configured to acquire state information indicative of a state of the peripheral object, and an estimating module configured to estimate, based on the state information, a state of the peripheral object after a given period of time from the current time point, and generate a result of the estimation as peripheral-object model data used for a creation of the peripheral object model displayed on the display unit.
US12027038B2
The present invention relates to visible components with a functional coating in the interior and exterior of motor vehicles and a method for the production thereof.
US12027036B2
Embodiments of a central security monitoring device for reducing incidences of false alarms in a security system is disclosed. In one embodiment, a method is described, comprising receiving an alarm signal from an occupancy sensor via a receiver, receiving a second alarm signal from a barrier alarm device after receiving the alarm signal, determining, by a processor, an elapsed time from when the alarm signal from the occupancy sensor was received to when the second alarm signal from the barrier alarm device was received, transmitting, by the processor via a network interface, a message to a personal communication device indicating that a false alarm has occurred when the elapsed time is less than the predetermined time.
US12027023B2
A touchless modular containment system for delivering one or more articles to a person includes a modular frame that defines a plurality of discrete cubbies. Each cubby has a front door that is coupled to the modular frame and includes a sliding drawer assembly for controllably delivering the one or more articles to the person. The sliding drawer assembly has a base tray that is secured to the modular frame. The sliding drawer assembly has a movable traveler assembly that defines a top surface of the sliding drawer assembly and moves between a fully extended position and a fully retracted position. A front of the traveler assembly is positioned relative to and adjacent the front door such that forward driving of the traveler assembly toward the fully extended position opens the front door by the traveler assembly urging the front door open without any interaction between the person and the front door.
US12027021B2
The present disclosure relates generally to a gaming system conducting a streaming session with a plurality of viewer systems through a streaming system. Conducting of the streaming session can comprise receiving media content from a plurality of input devices and providing the media content and game play information of a gambling event to the streaming system. During the streaming session, an indication of an action by a user of one of the viewer systems and indicating a transfer of value from the user of the one of the viewer systems to a participant in the gambling event associated with the gaming system can be received. An indication of the action by the user of the one of the viewer systems can be provided to the participant in the gambling event.
US12027017B2
A gaming system comprises a presentation assembly presenting a plurality of symbol positions and game-logic circuitry configured to cause the presentation assembly to associate, in response to an activation event, a first symbol position with an award region and present a subsequent game outcome by populating the symbol positions with randomly selected symbols. The game-logic circuitry detects whether or not a symbol of a linked symbol group including value-bearing symbols with respective positions within the linked symbol group and award indicia visibly indicating corresponding award values occupies the award region in the subsequent game outcome. The game-logic circuitry causes, in response to detecting a first value-bearing symbol occupying the award region, the presentation assembly to provide an award for the award values of at least one value-bearing symbol within the linked symbol group based on the position of the first value-bearing symbol relative to the positions of other value-bearing symbols.
US12027013B2
A fraud detection system which detects fraud in a game of performing collection and redemption of chips in accordance with a win or lose result includes a camera which captures an image of chips contained in a chip tray of a dealer, an image analyzing apparatus which analyses the image captured by the camera to detect an amount of the chips contained in the chip tray, a card distribution device which determines a win or lose result of a game, and a control device which compares the win or lose result of the game and the amount of the chips contained in the chip tray before and after collection and redemption of the chips to detect fraud.
US12027008B2
Various types of graphical leaderboards for electronic multiplayer gaming events are disclosed. Examples of player-specific graphical leaderboards that may be presented to individual players in the multiplayer gaming event to provide leaderboard information tailored to their own scores are disclosed, as well as player-agnostic graphical leaderboards that may present relative ranking information for a plurality of players in a player-non-specific manner.
US12027003B2
A medication container system and method of use thereof that may be locked using a locking mechanism. A request from a user is received by a medication provider for a medication and placed in a medication container with a locking mechanism that is operable to lock and unlock the medication container. The medication container is locked using the locking mechanism. The locked medication container with the medication within is provided to the user. Subsequent to providing the locked medication container to the user, a request is received from the user to access the medication in the medication container. A credential is sent to the user that is usable, via the locking mechanism, to unlock the medication container. The user may then input the credential into the locking mechanism to unlock the medication container and access the medication therein.
US12026994B2
An oil diagnostic device includes a generator configured to generate a statistical causal search model showing a correlation between a plurality of kinds of driving information by using first data that is the individual kinds of driving information acquired in advance from sensors connected to an on-board unit mounted on a vehicle, an acquirer configured to acquire second data that is driving information acquired from a sensor mounted on the vehicle and provided independently of the on-board unit, an estimator configured to estimate the driving information corresponding to the second data by using the statistical causal search model, and a deriver configured to derive a precursor accumulation amount of the vehicle from the estimated driving information.
US12026988B2
In estimation of a future state of a first product (an estimation-target individual), a first estimated extrapolation value is calculated from data on a past side of data relevant to the first product, and a second estimated extrapolation value is calculated from data relevant to a second product (a same-type different-individual of the estimation-target individual) that is different from the first product. A synthesis ratio between the first estimated extrapolation value and the second estimated extrapolation value is decided from data on a present side of the data relevant to the first product, and an estimation value is calculated by performing synthesis between the first estimated extrapolation value and the second estimated extrapolation value based on the decided synthesis ratio.
US12026976B2
An authentication system, wherein an RF tag stores a first facial feature point extracted from a captured image of a user's face. In an authentication device, a wireless communication unit wirelessly reads and writes information from and to the RF tag. A controller adjusts wireless communication conditions of the wireless communication unit, and estimates a position of the RF tag according to a distance to the RF tag. The controller adjusts imaging conditions of an imaging unit. A position of the user is detected according to an imaging resulting from the imaging unit. A second facial feature point is extracted from an image of the user's face captured by the imaging unit, and is collated with the first facial feature point read from the RF tag. Based on a collation result, authentication of the user is performed.
US12026975B2
Example aspects of the present disclosure are directed to computing systems and methods that perform whole person association with face screening and/or face hallucination. In particular, one aspect of the closure is directed to a multi-headed person and face detection model that performs both face and person detection in one model. Each of the face and person detection can find landmarks or other pose information and also a confidence score. The pose information for the face and person detections can be used to select certain face and person detections to associate together as a whole person detection, which can be referred to as an “appearance.”
US12026972B2
Provided is an electronic device that includes a plurality of pixels, each of at least two pixels of the plurality of pixels includes a first lens that collects incident light, a first light shielding film portion having a first hole through which a part of the incident light that has been collected passes, and a photoelectric conversion unit that converts the incident light having passed through the first hole. A shape of the first hole with respect to the first light shielding film portion is different between a first pixel among the at least two pixels and a second pixel different from the first pixel among the at least two pixels.
US12026971B2
A sensor assembly includes a cover layer and a first sensor apparatus. The cover layer is molded from a first material to have a planar surface and non-uniform thickness, where a thickness of the first material at a first region of the cover layer is less than a thickness of the first material surrounding the first region. The first sensor apparatus is disposed beneath the planar surface of the cover layer, within the first region. The first sensor apparatus is configured to transmit and receive first capacitive sensing signals through a portion of the planar surface coinciding with the first region. For example, the first sensor apparatus may be a fingerprint sensor configured to detect a fingerprint on the portion of the planar surface coinciding with the first region based on changes in the first capacitive sensing signals.
US12026970B2
A detection device includes a substrate, a plurality of photodiodes that are provided on the substrate, and include organic semiconductors, a plurality of transistors that are provided correspondingly to the respective photodiodes, and each include a semiconductor layer, a gate electrode, and a source electrode, a plurality of lower electrodes that are provided between the transistors and the photodiodes in a direction orthogonal to the substrate, and are provided correspondingly to the respective photodiodes, an upper electrode provided across the photodiodes, a first auxiliary capacitor electrode provided between the substrate and each of the photodiodes in the direction orthogonal to the substrate, and a second auxiliary capacitor electrode that is provided in the same layer as that of the semiconductor layer or the source electrode, and faces the first auxiliary capacitor electrode with an insulating film interposed between the first auxiliary capacitor electrode and the second auxiliary capacitor electrode.
US12026956B1
Techniques are discussed herein for controlling autonomous vehicles within a driving environment, including generating and using bounding contours associated with objects detected in the environment. Image data may be captured and analyzed to identify and/or classify objects within the environment. Image-based and/or lidar-based techniques may be used to determine depth data associated with the objects, and a bounding contour may be determined based on the object boundaries and associated depth data. An autonomous vehicle may use the bounding contours of objects within the environment to classify the objects, predict the positions, poses, and trajectories of the objects, and determine trajectories and perform other vehicle control actions while safely navigating the environment.
US12026953B2
In some implementations, an adverse environment detection system may receive an image of a road scene associated with a vehicle. The adverse environment detection system may determine a set of features associated with the image based on providing the image to an initial portion of a model. The adverse environment detection system may determine a first condition associated with the image based on providing the set of features to a first processing layer of the model, a second condition associated with the image based on providing the set of features to a second processing layer of the model, and a third condition associated with the image based on providing the set of features to a third processing layer of the model. The first processing layer, the second processing layer, and the third processing layer may process the set of features in parallel.
US12026951B2
The present disclosure provide a method and an Internet of Things system for place management and control of a smart city. The method includes receiving a query request for an intended place initiated by a user; generating a query instruction, wherein the query instruction includes a regional location of the intended place; obtaining a query result according to the query instruction; determining a flow of the intended place at a future time by adjusting the current flow of the intended place based on an adjustment factor; and performing flow management and control on the intended place when the flow of the intended place at the future time is greater than a preset threshold.
US12026948B2
Techniques performed by a data processing system include establishing an online presentation session for conducting an online presentation, receiving first media streams comprising presentation content from the first computing device, receiving second media streams from the second computing devices of a subset of the plurality of participants, the second media streams including audio content, video content, or both of the subset of the plurality of participants, analyzing the first media streams using first machine learning models to generate feedback results, analyzing the set of second media streams to identify first reactions by the participants to obtain reaction information, automatically analyzing the feedback results and the reactions to identify discrepancies between the feedback results and the reactions, and automatically updating one or more parameters of the machine learning models based on the discrepancies to improve the suggestions for improving the online presentation.
US12026935B2
An image processing method includes generating a first augmented image by applying first data augmentation on an input image, generating a second augmented image by applying second data augmentation on the input image, generating a first output by inputting the first augmented image to a neural network, generating a second output by inputting the second augmented image to the neural network, calculating an output difference indicating a degree of difference between the first output and the second output, and updating a weight coefficient of each layer of the neural network based on the output difference.
US12026927B2
A processor performs machine learning, which uses a radiographic image that does not include a suture needle as a surgical tool and a surgical tool image that includes the suture needle in a posture different from a linear posture as training data, to construct a trained model for detecting a region of the suture needle from an input radiographic image.
US12026924B1
A method of training one or more neural networks, the one or more neural networks being for use in lossy image or video encoding, transmission and decoding, the method comprising the steps of: receiving an input image at a first computer system; encoding the input image using a first neural network to produce a latent representation; decoding the latent representation using a second neural network to produce an output image, wherein the output image is an approximation of the input image; evaluating a function based on a difference between the output image and the input image; updating the parameters of the first neural network and the second neural network based on the evaluated function; and repeating the above steps using a first set of input images to produce a first trained neural network and a second trained neural network; wherein the difference between the output image and the input image is determined based on the output of a neural network acting as a discriminator; the parameters of the neural network acting as a discriminator are additionally updated based on the evaluated function; and the parameters of the neural network acting as a discriminator are updated at a first learning rate; wherein, after at least one of the updates of the parameters of the neural network acting as a discriminator, the first learning rate is updated; and the update to the first learning rate is based on an error of the output of the neural network acting as a discriminator.
US12026923B2
Examples of methods are described herein. In some examples, a method includes determining a quantity of inner voxels in a canonical direction from each surface voxel of a set of surface voxels of a three-dimensional (3D) object model. In some examples, the method includes generating an encoded representation of the 3D object model, the encoded representation indicating a location of each surface voxel and the quantity of inner voxels for each surface voxel.
US12026921B2
In one embodiment, a first device may receive, from a second device, a reference landmark map identifying locations of facial features of a user of the second device depicted in a reference image and a feature map, generated based on the reference image, representing an identity of the user. The first device may receive, from the second device, a current compressed landmark map based on a current image of the user and decompress the current compressed landmark map to generate a current landmark map. The first device may update the feature map based on a motion field generated using the reference landmark map and the current landmark map. The first device may generate scaling factors based on a normalization facial mask of pre-determined facial features of the user. The first device may generate an output image of the user by decoding the updated feature map using the scaling factors.
US12026911B2
This application relates to a battery test apparatus and an operating method thereof to check whether the direction of battery cells provided inside a battery tray is correct by implementing a computer vision AI algorithm. In one aspect, the method includes performing a first test for checking whether a battery tray has been correctly aligned with the battery test apparatus. The method may also include capturing a battery tray image including a plurality of battery cells using a camera upon alignment of the battery tray. The method may further include obtaining related information on battery cells from the battery tray image, and loading the related information on the battery cells. The method may further include performing a second test for checking whether directions of the battery cells are correct.
US12026907B2
Imaging systems, including radio frequency, microwave and millimeter-wave arrangements, and related methods are described. According to one aspect, an imaging system includes an antenna array, a position capture system configured to generate position information indicative of locations of one of the antenna array and the target at the first and second moments in time, and wherein the one of the antenna array and the target move between the first and second moments in time, a transceiver configured to control the antenna array to emit electromagnetic energy towards the target and to generate an output that is indicative of the received electromagnetic energy, a data acquisition system configured to generate radar data, processing circuitry configured to process the position information and the radar data to generate image data regarding the target, and an interface configured to use the image data to generate visual images regarding the target.
US12026906B1
Each pixel of a plurality of pixels captures a portion of outgoing light illuminating a local area reflected from the one or more objects in the local area. A flag is generated via a flag determination logic circuit coupled to each pixel of the plurality of pixels. The flag indicates whether the reflected light was captured within a threshold amount of time from a current time. A time to digital converter is enabled via a flag determination logic circuit. The time to digital converter is associated with each pixel of the plurality of pixels to generate a digital representation of time when each pixel of the plurality of pixels captured the reflected light. Depth information is determined for the one or more objects in the local area based in part on the generated flag and the digital representation of time.
US12026905B2
In one aspect, a method of extracting depth information from a stereoscopic pair of images comprises: in a first depth extraction phase, determining a set of support points in 3D space for at least a first image of the stereoscopic image pair; using the set of support points to determine a 3D surface prior; and in a second depth extraction phase, computing, for the first image, a second-stage disparity map, by optimizing a second cost function defined so as to penalize deviation in the second-stage disparity map from the 3D surface prior. Disparity smoothness may be encouraged in at least one of the first and second depth extraction phases using a cost function that penalizes deviations in disparity between nearby pixels.
US12026897B2
Augmented reality method comprising: receiving continuously from a SLAM system in an HMD SLAM data and performing a SLAM tracking; performing an IR object tracking comprising at each IR iteration of the IR object tracking; and displaying at each IR iteration an AR visualization on an AR display in the HMD such that the AR visualization appears on an AR position or an AR pose in the world coordinate system depending on the pose of the object in the world coordinate system of the current IR iteration.
US12026895B2
A monocular vision-based method for measuring displacement and trajectory of planar motion. In this method, a sequence image of a motion of a high-contrast feature mark fixed on a moving plane to be measured is collected using a camera. A sub-pixel coordinate of a feature edge of a linear motion of the sequence in an X direction and a Y direction is extracted using a sub-pixel edge detection method, and the sub-pixel coordinate is converted into a corresponding world coordinate. The world coordinate of the feature edge is fitted based on a least squares principle to obtain a straight line of the feature edge to realize decoupling measurement of a displacement in the X direction and the Y direction. The planar motion trajectory is obtained through measuring the displacement in the X direction and the Y direction.
US12026889B2
A device may obtain field images of a tissue sample, apply, to the field images, spatial distortion and illumination-based corrections (including corrections for photobleaching of reagents) to derive processed field images, identify, in each processed field image, a primary area including data useful for cell or subcellular component characterization, identify, in the processed field images, areas that overlap with one another, and derive information regarding a spatial mapping of cell(s) and/or sub-cellular components of the tissue sample. Deriving the information may include performing segmentation based on the data included in the primary area of each processed field image, and obtaining flux measurements based on other data included in the overlapping areas. The device may cause the information to be loaded in a data structure to enable statistical analysis of the spatial mapping for identifying factors defining normal tissue structure, associated inflammatory or neoplastic diseases and prognoses thereof, and associated therapeutics.
US12026888B2
An imaging mass spectrometry unit (1) executes predetermined analysis on each of a plurality of micro areas set in a two-dimensional measurement region on a sample or a three-dimensional measurement region in a sample to acquire spectrum data. A clustering execution section (21) classifies spectrum data for a plurality of measurement points obtained for a reference sample into any of a plurality of clusters. A clustering model information storage section (22) stores a clustering model obtained by clustering processing. A segmentation execution section (23) classifies respective spectral data for a plurality of measurement points obtained for a sample other than a reference sample using a clustering model, and a spatial distribution image creation section (24) creates a segmentation image obtained by partitioning a two-dimensional or three-dimensional image into a plurality of small regions on the basis of a result of the classification.
US12026876B2
This invention provides systems and methods that can detect incidental OVFs in CT examinations at the level of practicing radiologists. The OVF detection system leverages a deep convolutional neural network (CNN) to extract radiological features from each CT scan slice. These extracted features are processed through a feature aggregation module to make the final diagnosis for the full CT scan. Feature aggregation, can be performed in a variety of ways, including the use of a long short-term memory (LSTM) network. In one example, the CNN can be trained on a predetermined number of CT scans, which are established as reference standards. This result can effectively the performance of practicing radiologists on this test set in real world clinical circumstances. The system and method can be employed to assist and improve OVF diagnosis in clinical settings by pre-screening routine CT examinations and flagging suspicious cases prior to review by radiologists.
US12026863B2
An image processing method includes determining a target area and a background area in an image by performing mask segmentation on the image. Different color processing modes are applied to the target area and the background area, so that luminance of the target area is greater than luminance of the background area, or chrominance of the target area is greater than chrominance of the background area, and a main object corresponding to the target area is more prominently highlighted.
US12026856B2
An apparatus includes a subject detection unit configured to detect a specific subject in an input image, an acquisition unit configured to acquire camera information, an estimation unit configured to estimate a target of interest in an image using the subject information and the camera information, a first motion detection unit configured to detect background motion and subject motion, a conversion unit configured to convert the detected background motion and the detected subject motion to a first blur correction amount for correcting background blur and a second blur correction amount for correcting subject blur, respectively, and a correction amount calculation unit configured to, based on the target of interest, combine the first blur correction amount and the second blur correction amount and generate a final blur correction amount.
US12026852B2
Disclosed are techniques for image processing that mitigate artifacts that otherwise appear when an IQVR camera moves with respect to a scene between image frames.
US12026850B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, an input sensing circuit capable of acquiring a handwriting input inputted through the display, and at least one processor electrically connected to the display and the input sensing circuit, wherein the at least one processor uses the input sensing circuit to recognize written characters generated by means of the handwriting input inputted through the display, determines the slope of the recognized written characters, horizontally aligns the recognized written characters on the basis of the determined slope, and controls the display so that the recognized written characters and the horizontally aligned written characters are overlapped and displayed.
US12026849B2
According to example embodiments, an Image View Aggregator identifies a frontal view of an item within an image. The Image View Aggregator identifies at least one reflection view of the item within the image. Each reflection view of the item having been captured off a corresponding reflective physical surface. The Image View Aggregator extracts the frontal view of the item and each reflection view of the item from the image. The Image View Aggregator generates a representation of the item based at least on the extracted frontal view of the item and each extracted reflection view of the item.
US12026838B2
A display system includes a display device and a remote terminal device. The display device includes an image shooting device, an image recognizer, and a display controller. The image recognizer recognizes real objects in an image shot by the image shooting device, and recognizes positions of the recognized real objects on space coordinates. The display controller superimposes a virtual object at a designated position on the space coordinates in the shot image. The image recognizer recognizes a gesture of the real object at the designated position of the virtual object in the shot image. The display controller executes image processing on the virtual object in response to the recognized gesture.
US12026833B2
Systems and methods are described for utilizing an image processing system with at least one processing device to perform operations including receiving a plurality of input images of a user, generating a three-dimensional mesh proxy based on a first set of features extracted from the plurality of input images and a second set of features extracted from the plurality of input images. The method may further include generating a neural texture based on a three-dimensional mesh proxy and the plurality of input images, generating a representation of the user including at least a neural texture, and sampling at least one portion of the neural texture from the three-dimensional mesh proxy. In response to providing the at least one sampled portion to a neural renderer, the method may include receiving, from the neural renderer, a synthesized image of the user that is previously not captured by the image processing system.
US12026829B2
A method for processing a 3D scene, and corresponding device, system and computer program are disclosed. In an example embodiment, the disclosed method includes: obtaining an image comprising at least a nadir view of a 3D scene, captured by at least one camera; detecting, in the image, at least one shadow cast by at least one object of the 3D scene acting as a support for the at least one camera; and determining a direction of at least one real light source from the at least one detected shadow and at least information representative of the object.
US12026825B2
Apparatus and method for efficient BVH construction. For example, one embodiment of an apparatus comprises: a memory to store graphics data for a scene including a plurality of primitives in a scene at a first precision; a geometry quantizer to read vertices of the primitives at the first precision and to adaptively quantize the vertices of the primitives to a second precision associated with a first local coordinate grid of a first BVH node positioned within a global coordinate grid, the second precision lower than the first precision; a BVH builder to determine coordinates of child nodes of the first BVH node by performing non-spatial-split binning or spatial-split binning for the first BVH node using primitives associated with the first BVH node, the BVH builder to determine final coordinates for the child nodes based, at least in part, on an evaluation of surface areas of different bounding boxes generated for each of the child node.
US12026820B2
Methods and hardware for texture address generation comprise receiving fragment coordinates for an input block of fragments and texture instructions for the fragments and calculating gradients for at least one pair of fragments. Based on the gradients, the method determines whether a first mode or a second mode of texture address generation is to be used and then uses the determined mode and the gradients to perform texture address generation. The first mode of texture address generation performs calculations at a first precision for a subset of the fragments and calculations for remaining fragments at a second, lower, precision. The second mode of texture address generation performs calculations for all fragments at the first precision and if the second mode is used and more than half of the fragments in the input block are valid, the texture address generation is performed over two clock cycles.
US12026819B2
A method of performing anisotropic texture filtering includes generating one or more parameters describing an elliptical footprint in texture space; performing isotropic filtering at each sampling point of a set of sampling points in an ellipse to be sampled to produce a plurality of isotropic filter results, the ellipse to be sampled based on the elliptical footprint; selecting, based on one or more parameters of the set of sampling points and one or more parameters of the ellipse to be sampled, weights of an anisotropic filter that minimize a cost function that penalises high frequencies in the filter response of the anisotropic filter under a constraint that the variance of the anisotropic filter is related to an anisotropic ratio squared, the anisotropic ratio being the ratio of a major radius of the ellipse to be sampled and a minor axis of the ellipse to be sampled; and combining the plurality of isotropic filter results using the selected weights of the anisotropic filter to generate at least a portion of a filter result.
US12026817B2
Provided are systems and methods for animating a single image of a human body and applying effects. An example method includes receiving an input image that includes an image of a body, receiving, through an interface, a user input including parameters associated with a motion, generating, based on the image of the body and the parameters associated with the motion, a video featuring the body repeating the motion, and providing an option to share the parameters associated with the motion with a further user of a further computing device. The method further includes, prior to generating the video, receiving a further user input including a hair animation effect selected from a list of hair animation effects, and while generating the video, applying the hair animation effect to a hair image in frames of the video.
US12026809B2
In implementations of systems for generating anti-aliased vector objects, a computing device implements an anti-aliasing system to receive input data describing a Bezier curve of a vector object. The anti-aliasing system generates an aliased curve by rasterizing the Bezier curve in a pixel space having pixels including intersected pixels that are intersected by the aliased curve and non-intersected pixels that are not intersected by the aliased curve. The anti-aliasing system segments the pixels into segments in a virtual space, and the segments have a higher density than the pixels. An intersected segment is identified that is intersected by a portion of the aliased curve in the virtual space. The anti-aliasing system determines a winding number for the intersected segment and generates a portion of an anti-aliased curve for display in a user interface by applying a color value to a coverage mask for an intersected pixel of the pixels.
US12026799B2
A system and a method are disclosed improving forward progress of preempted workloads. A graphics pipeline processes tiles of a first low-priority job. A controller stops the first job by resetting the GPU and preempting the first job with a second job having a higher priority, determine whether the first job has been previously preempted one or more times, and adjust a batch-binning parameter reducing a likelihood that the first job will again be preempted in the current frame. In one embodiment, the controller is configured to stop the first job at a preemption boundary during a draw call or by resetting the GPU. A batch-binning parameter may include postponing sorting primitives into tiles during a binning process, increasing a number of tiles for backend rendering, reducing a quality of anti-aliasing, decreasing a shading rate quality, and/or decreasing input resolution and increasing upscaling of the first job.
US12026796B2
Systems and methods for describing, simulating and/or optimizing spaceborne systems and missions. Configurations for spaceborne systems are generated and validated based on simulation output.
US12026782B2
A computing system can determine a subset of users being affected by an event occurring in a given area based on data received from one or more monitoring services. For each respective user of the subset of users, the system can generate a live dashboard providing real-time, localized contextual information of the event for a location corresponding to the respective user. The system can further transmit content data to the computing device of the respective user, the content data causing the live dashboard to be presented on a computing device of the respective user.
US12026761B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and system for obtaining and delivering at least one alcoholic beverage through at least one supply chain are described. In some examples, the present disclosure includes obtaining and delivering at least one alcoholic beverage, through the supply chain, to at least one user. In some examples, the at least one alcoholic beverage can be delivered with at least one item that is not an alcoholic beverage. In some examples, the at least one alcoholic beverage can be delivered with at least one free alcoholic beverage obtained from a manufacturer. Some examples of the present disclosure also allow for management of inventory of alcoholic beverages throughout at least one supply chain.
US12026759B2
In one aspect, a method includes receiving merchant profile data describing attributes of merchants; generating, using one or more machine-trained models and the merchant profile data, a respective first profile for each merchant of the merchants; generating, using the one or more machine-trained models, a respective second profile for each of the plurality of merchant services using at least one type of description for each of the plurality of merchant services, wherein the respective first profile for each merchant and the respective second profile for each of the plurality of merchant services are numerically comparable; identifying a list of merchant service recommendations for at least one of the merchants using generated first profiles and second profiles; and configuring a merchant computing device of the at least one merchant with at least one merchant service selected by the merchant from the list of merchant service recommendations.
US12026758B2
Systems, methods, and computer-readable medium storing instructions for identifying low-quality signals of an electronic listing of a listing entity are described herein. The method, system, or instructions may include ingesting text including listing information of the electronic listing and listing entity information of the listing entity; normalizing the text; parsing the text to identify a plurality of phrases; generating a set of category scores for each of at least one of the plurality of phrases; identifying, based on the on the sets of category scores, one or more low-quality signals each including a low-quality phrase and low-quality categories; and presenting an indication of the one or more low-quality signals with the electronic listing.
US12026756B2
Recommending reviewers from which to request reviews is disclosed. A list of potential reviewers is received. A determination is made that at least one potential reviewer included in the list of potential reviewers should be targeted with a request to review an entity. The transmission of a review request to the potential reviewer is facilitated.
US12026753B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for speech recognition are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a candidate adword from an advertiser. The method further includes generating a score for the candidate adword based on a likelihood of a speech recognizer generating, based on an utterance of the candidate adword, a transcription that includes a word that is associated with an expected pronunciation of the candidate adword. The method further includes classifying, based at least on the score, the candidate adword as an appropriate adword for use in a bidding process for advertisements that are selected based on a transcription of a speech query or as not an appropriate adword for use in the bidding process for advertisements that are selected based on the transcription of the speech query.
US12026747B2
Methods are disclosed for providing an ad-supported mobile data plan, where ad display may be tied to data usage levels and user input. A method includes receiving, using at least one processor, user interaction with advertisement content displayed on a device; retrieving, using the at least one processor, a data usage limit associated with the device; and causing a change in the data usage limit based on the user interaction with the advertisement content displayed on the device.
US12026745B2
A method includes causing a computer of a communication terminal to perform a process including acquiring, in response to receipt of a beacon signal transmitted from a vending machine, identification information and type information of a plurality of drinks from the vending machine by using short-range wireless communication; acquiring preference information on drinks of a user of the communication terminal; generating, based on the identification information, the type information, and the preference information, a push notification screen that recommends at least one drink that matches a preference of the user indicated by the preference information from among the plurality of drinks stored in the vending machine indicated by the identification information; and displaying the push notification screen on a display of the communication terminal.
US12026735B2
A ticket exchange server is configured to distribute tickets to an event based on predicted attendance. The ticket exchange server accesses a set of training data describing statistics of and attendance during a historical event for a plurality of historical events. Using the training data, the ticket exchange server trains a machine-learned model, which is configured to predict a likelihood of a seat at a stadium being vacant during an event based on real-time statistics. During an event at the stadium, the ticket exchange server detects a vacant seat associated with a first ticket of a first user. The ticket exchange server determines a value of a second ticket for the vacant seat at least in part by applying the machine-learned model to real-time statistics of the event and distributes the second ticket to a second user.
US12026732B2
The present invention is directed to a brand value growth and retention system for brand drugs commercialized by brand drug advertisers through a brand drug's lifecycle during patent exclusivity and after loss of exclusivity. The brand value growth and retention system iteratively analyzes combined computational models of consumer, healthcare provider retailer and payor segment data to produce brand drug promotional campaigns that are predictive with modifying parameters that transform the promotional campaigns over time. As a result, the brand drug promotional campaign generates an increased number of brand drug purchases while predicting the point where incremental promotional campaign investments produce a diminishing number of incremental brand drug purchases.
US12026731B2
Method for personalized marketing or advertising of products for purchase from retail stores. Generally, the method includes utilizing information monitoring devices to gather shopping activities of the persons, including product interaction information, to obtain an information analysis about the shopping activities of the persons, further includes tracking the persons utilizing information monitoring devices, and further includes providing the persons a communication to a retailer location at which the persons can purchase related products. Such communication to the persons further includes marketing/advertising information regarding the products, coupons regarding the products, promotions regarding related products, purchase options regarding the products.
US12026728B2
Systems and methods including one or more processing modules and one or more non-transitory storage modules storing computing instructions configured to run on the one or more processing modules and perform acts of accessing first transaction data stored in a transaction database, the first transaction data describing first transactions for first items from first users; determining, using the first transaction data, first micro-intents associated with the first transaction data; grouping the first micro-intents into clusters; labeling each cluster of the first micro-intents with a respective label; receiving second transaction data of a user, the second transaction data describing second transactions for second items for the user; determining, using the second transaction data, second micro-intents present in the second transactions; receiving current transaction data from a user interface of an electronic device of the user; determining, using the current transaction data, that the user is expressing a current micro-intent, the current micro-intent having at least one associated label; and transmitting an instruction to display, on the user interface of the electronic device, a user interface element correlated with the at least one associated label. Other embodiments are disclosed herein.
US12026727B2
Systems, methods, and media for managing and modifying web content are provided. An exemplary method may include the steps of providing a web content management application via a web site, the web content management application adapted to maintain a global marketing framework; generating a web marketing campaign from at least a portion of the global marketing framework, wherein the data included in the web content is generated by the web content management application according to a predetermined format of rendering engines; gathering marketing data from at least one of the web server associated with the web marketing campaign and consumer devices accessing the web marketing campaign, the marketing data including information indicative of interests of consumers; storing the marketing data in a database; analyzing the marketing data; and periodically or continually modifying the content of a web marketing campaign to substantially correspond to the interests of the consumers.
US12026721B2
Disclosed herein are methods and systems of visually representing and tracking transactions on a graphical user interface to identify fraudulent or money-laundering entities. A server may receive data corresponding to a plurality of transactions for display on the graphical user interface as a set of graphical nodes linked by a set of graphical components. When the server receives a selection of a graphical node from a user, the server may display on the graphical interface a first subset of graphical nodes directly linked by a first subset of graphical components to the selected graphical node, a visual attribute of each of the first subset of graphical components directly linked to the selected graphical node, and a second subset of graphical nodes indirectly linked by a second subset of graphical components having at least one degree of separation from the selected graphical node.
US12026707B2
Example embodiments of systems and methods for data transmission between a contactless card and a client device in support of a FIDO authentication are provided. In an embodiment, upon receipt of a challenge issued by a server in connection with a pending transaction, the contactless card may authorize the client device to utilize a FIDO private key to respond to the challenge. If the response to the challenge is successful, the FIDO authentication may proceed and the transaction may be completed.
US12026692B2
This invention is for tracking at least one plant. A method of this invention comprises: putting at least one seed or at least one stem in a corresponding at least one pot; positioning a corresponding at least one RFID tag with respect to the seed or stem in a manner, wherein the RFID tag comprises a RFID label and a strap; provisioning the RFID label; packaging a harvested material into a packaged product and attaching the RFID tag from the potted plant, or a product RFID tag that is associated with the plurality of tags to the packaged product; confirming a request for authorization by a RFID buy card; and after confirming ID information, transferring at least one product.
US12026689B2
An accounting system according to the present disclosure includes a terminal that is placed on a table used by a customer, a connection apparatus that is connected to the terminal at the time of accounting, and a server that communicates with the terminal and the connection apparatus via a network. The terminal receives an order for a product from the customer and then transmits table identification information by which the table can be identified and product information regarding the product to the server, the server stores the table identification information and the product information in association with each other as accounting information, and the terminal acquires, when it is connected to the connection apparatus, the accounting information associated with the table identification information from the server and performs accounting processing.
US12026686B2
Systems and methods for facilitating payment service-based guest checkout with a merchant are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method for facilitating payment service-based guest checkout with a merchant may include: (1) receiving, from a merchant's application or website, a redirect of an online interaction between the merchant and a customer; (2) retrieving, from an issuer payment service, wallet information comprising a plurality of payment options for the customer; (3) receiving a selection of one of the payment options; (4) communicating the selection of the payment option to the payment service for the issuer. The issuer payment service provides a session identifier to the merchant application website, the merchant application or website provides transaction information and the session identifier to a merchant payment host, the merchant payment host retrieves the selected payment option from the issuer payment service and conducts the transaction using the selected payment option.
US12026685B2
The system is a scalable, flexible, and extensible platform for building, deploying, and managing distributed applications that interact with multiple blockchain technologies. The system implements well-defined and well-managed microservices to encapsulate functionality, isolate sensitive data, enable responsive and efficient scaling, and provide a framework for future improvements and support for future blockchain technologies. The system in one embodiment uses an event-driven architecture to construct fast, responsive systems, but still provide support for alternate modes of operation. The system exposes high-level abstractions of the foundational elements of distributed applications in a powerful, well-understood programming environment to simplify development of extensions, adapters, and applications.
US12026680B2
Techniques are provided that may include receiving sensor data from one or more machine sensors, the sensor data indicating machine failure. Informational data about current repair technician backlog, shop availability backlog, and parts availability are retrieved and inputted to a machine learning model for computing an estimated time to when the failed machine will be repaired. Customer data and dealer site data are retrieved and an estimated financial impact from a potential loaner machine is computed. The various computed and retrieved data are inputted to a decision tree algorithm, which computes an optimal solution for maintaining customer productivity. The network-accessible dealer site is notified of the optimal solution, which is intended for the customer.
US12026679B2
A method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and an apparatus for automated estimation of repair data includes applying a first generated artificial intelligence model on a received vehicle damage image associated with an electronic claim to identify damaged component(s) on a vehicle without using any metadata. A heat map analysis is performed on the received actual vehicle damage image to identify a damage severity value associated with at least one of the identified damaged component(s). A second generated artificial intelligence model is applied on the received actual vehicle damage image and the damage severity value associated with the identified damaged component(s) to determine repair data and a repair-or-replace designation. The determined repair data and the determined repair-or-replace designation for at least one of the identified one or more damaged components is provided in response to the received actual vehicle damage image associated with the electronic claim.
US12026677B2
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for interactive job recommendation and application submission tools of employment website entities. A system includes processor(s). The processor(s) are configured to retrieve, during a session on an employment app operating on a computing device, a first employment opportunity for the candidate based upon candidate information and employment preferences of the candidate. The processor(s) are configured to detect, during the session, an employment command received from the candidate via the computing device in response to presenting the first employment opportunity to the candidate via the computing device. The processor(s), in response to determining that the employment command is a first predefined single swipe motion across a touchscreen of the computing device, are configured to automatically populate an electronic application for the first employment opportunity utilizing the candidate information, automatically submit the electronic application to an employer, and present a second employment opportunity via the computing device.
US12026676B2
In some embodiments, apparatuses and methods are provided herein useful to verifying integrity of associate training. In some embodiments, there is provided a system for verifying integrity of associate training at a facility including a plurality of wireless devices; a plurality of sensors; one or more databases; and a control circuit. By one approach; the control circuit is configured to: receive first and second associate identifiers; determine first, second, and third areas; determine whether the first, second, and third areas each correspond to the same area, wherein the determination verifies that the trainer-associate is with the trainee-associate at a designated area associated with a first training module; and provide a verification message that the first training module has been completed.
US12026675B2
Methods and apparatus for generating feedback, reviewing feedback, and conducting interviews by use of VMocks are provided. A VMock, or Virtual Mock, is a virtual profile of a candidate that includes resume, text, video and a document. VMock profiles may be created that have one or more VMocks. Contacts associated with the VMock profile may be managed. Feedback may be requested from the contacts concerning the one or more VMocks, who may then generate the requested feedback. The feedback may then be reviewed. This feedback process may be performed in the context of interviews for employment opportunities and in other similar situations.
US12026674B2
The present invention provides a method for determining and organizing multimedia content of a network page, related to reactions of at least one user to at least one common content object or context. The method comprising the steps of: receiving plurality of comments originated by different users relating one or more common multimedia object, wherein the user is required to define characteristics of their comment from multiple choice of definition types, enabling users to react to said comment by selecting one type of reaction from multiple choice of reaction types, wherein the each reaction type define different characteristics of the comment, analyzing comment characteristics as defined by the originator user and/or by reaction type; and selecting and organizing of comments and/or content objects which are related to the comments and/or and the relevant reactions according to the said analysis.
US12026673B2
In an embodiment, an automated computer-based method for improving a computer system to be able to predict rejections of requisitions submitted to the computer system, the method comprising receiving a requisition from a client device; determining, at a scoring unit of a computer system, a probability value indicating a likelihood that the requisition would be rejected if the requisition is submitted to a requisition approval chain; transmitting the probability value from the computer system to the client device to be displayed on a display of the client device.
US12026669B2
Supply management systems for a supply item. The supply management systems include a weight detector, an item identifier, a platform, and a computer. The weight detector is configured to detect a current weight of the supply item. The item identifier is configured to identify the supply item. The platform is supported on the weight detector and configured to support the supply item. The computer is in data communication with the weight detector and the item identifier. The computer is configured to receive supply item identifier data; identify the supply item; store a reorder threshold weight value; receive the current weight of the supply item; dynamically compare the current weight with the reorder threshold weight value; and update a supply status of the supply item to indicate that a reorder threshold has been reached.
US12026668B2
An inventory management loadout system is a system that expedites the delivery of products in a warehouse or distribution center by simplifying the loading process. The system may include a support platform, a support wheel, a wheel frame, a plurality of tubular shelves, an inbound conveyor system, and an outbound conveyor system. The support platform supports the operation of the system. The support wheel enables the temporary storing of the products so that the products are ready to be loaded onto the corresponding truck. The wheel frame supports the load from the support wheel and enables the rotation of the support wheel. The plurality of tubular shelves facilitates the vertical storage of the products to prevent bottlenecking. The inbound conveyor system enables the loading of the products to the plurality of tubular shelves. The outbound conveyor system facilitates the unloading of the products from the plurality of tubular shelves.
US12026667B2
Methods, systems, and devices for data capture instructions for asset tracking are provided. An example method for capturing data involves obtaining raw data from a data source onboard an asset and monitoring the raw data for satisfaction of a simplified data capture trigger. When the simplified data capture trigger is satisfied, a dataset simplification algorithm is performed on the raw data to generate a simplified set of raw data, and the simplified set of raw data is logged. The method further involves monitoring the raw data for satisfaction of a rich data capture trigger. When the rich data capture trigger is satisfied, an unsimplified block of raw data is identified and logged for rich data analysis. The data is transmitted to a server. The unsimplified block of raw data contains raw data that is additional to the raw data contained in the simplified set of raw data.
US12026664B2
Methods, apparatus, and processor-readable storage media for automatically generating inventory-related information forecasts using machine learning techniques are provided herein. An example computer-implemented method includes training a machine learning model for calculating weights for multiple statistical forecasts for inventory-related data by processing historical data pertaining to at least a portion of the multiple statistical forecasts; generating two or more statistical forecasts for inventory-related data associated with an enterprise by processing data pertaining to multiple system parts across multiple geographic granularities associated with the enterprise; calculating weights for the generated statistical forecasts by processing data associated with at least a portion of the generated statistical forecasts using the trained machine learning model; generating at least one composite inventory-related forecast by combining the generated statistical forecasts in accordance with the calculated weights; and performing automated actions based on the at least one composite inventory-related forecast.
US12026656B2
A method for pairing commercial shipping assets includes identifying the presence of a second asset using a sensor system of a first asset, retrieving a master asset identifier of the second asset using a controller of the first asset, physically connecting the first asset and the second asset, and updating a dynamic information discovery protocol environment.
US12026646B2
The present disclosure is related to computing devices, systems, and methods for a new task-engine system that connects to a variety of task-interaction providers, enabling a user to use any one of multiple task-interaction providers to create and complete tasks within a workflow. That is, the connection to a variety of task-interaction providers allows a user to interact with the workflow through any of the task-interaction providers and create and/or complete any number of tasks in the workflow. The task-engine system may also update the creation and/or completion of a workflow task in all other task-interaction providers, such that all users may be aware of, or notified of, the current state of the workflow through any of the task-interaction providers.
US12026645B2
Methods, devices, and platforms related to welds. More particularly a device includes a processor that when in operation receives a first signal indicative of completion of action undertaken with respect to a weld. The processor of the device when in operation generates a data log corresponding to receipt of the first signal for addition to a set of one or more previous data logs that correspond to the weld.
US12026641B2
A system and method for arranging a transport service is described. A system can receive a request for transport service from a user device. The request can include a requested pickup location data point. The system determines a predetermined location data point associated with the requested pickup location data point. The first predetermined location data point can be different from the requested pickup location data point. The system selects a driver to perform a transport service for the user based, at least in part, on the requested pickup location data point, and transmits the predetermined location data point to a driver device of the selected driver.
US12026636B2
Adaptive modification and presentment of user interface elements in a computerized therapeutic treatment regimen. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide for non-linear computational analysis of cData and nData derived from user interactions with a mobile electronic device executing an instance of a computerized therapeutic treatment regimen. The cData and nData may be computed according to one or more artificial neural network or deep learning technique to derive patterns between computerized stimuli or interactions and sensor data. Patterns derived from analysis of the cData and nData may be used to define an effort metric associated with user input patterns in response to the computerized stimuli or interactions being indicative of a measure of user engagement or effort. A computational model or rules engine may be applied to adapt, modify, configure or present one or more graphical user interface elements in a subsequent instance of the computerized therapeutic treatment regimen.
US12026632B2
A theme phrase feature value calculation unit 103 calculates a feature value Fq of a given theme phrase Q based on the cosine similarity with a feature keyword of a feature keyword DB 107b. A positive/negative example determination unit 104 applies the feature value Fq to a positive/negative example determination model to determine whether a response phrase A is a positive example or a negative example. A response phrase score calculation unit 105 calculates the cosine similarity between the theme phrase Q and a plurality of theme phrases that form a pair with a response phrase A determined to be a positive example, and the highest value of the calculated cosine similarity is set as a score of the response phrase A. A response phrase selection unit 106 selects the response phrase indicating the maximum score as the response phrase for the theme phrase Q.
US12026630B2
An artificial intelligence system for improving user adaptability using textual communication includes a communication device, the communication device configured to initiate a textual communication session with a user input, and using the textual communication session, at least a first textual datum from the user, identify, using a language processing model, at least an adaption problem category using the at least a first textual datum, determine an adaptability profile of the at least a user, generate at least an adaption solution as a function of the at least a first textual datum, the at least an adaption problem category, and the adaptability profile, and output at least a second textual datum to the user as a function of the adaption solution.
US12026629B2
A method for configuring a character in a game includes generating a first non-player character of a first generation in the game, the first generation being associated with a first difficulty level, and detecting a target event affecting the first non-player character of the first generation in the game. The method further includes, based on the first non-player character of the first generation affected by the target event, obtaining an evolution indicator of an evolution from the first generation to a second generation associated with a second difficulty level higher than the first difficulty level. The method further includes, in response to the evolution indicator indicating that the evolution from the first generation to the second generation is successful, generating the second generation comprising two or more second non-player characters while one or more non-player characters of the first generation remain in the game.
US12026628B2
A broadcast subsystem of a processor system includes: a set of broadcast buses, each broadcast bus in the set of broadcast buses electrically coupled to a subset of primary memory units in the set of primary memory units; a primary memory unit queue: configured to store a first set of data transfer requests associated with the set of primary memory units; electrically coupled to the data buffer a broadcast scheduler: electrically coupled to the primary memory unit queue; electrically coupled to the set of broadcast buses; and configured to transfer source data from the data buffer to a target subset of primary memory units in the set of primary memory units via the set of broadcast buses based on the set of data transfer requests stored in the primary memory unit queue.
US12026620B2
There is provided an information processing device which efficiently executes machine learning. The information processing device according to one embodiment includes: an obtaining unit which obtains a source code including a code which defines Forward processing of each layer constituting a neural network; a storage unit which stores an association relationship between each Forward processing and Backward processing associated with each Forward processing; and an executing unit which successively executes each code included in the source code, and which calculates an output value of the Forward processing defined by the code based on an input value at a time of execution of each code, and generates a reference structure for Backward processing in a layer associated with the code based on the association relationship stored in the storage unit.
US12026616B2
The present application discloses a preparation method of high resistance gallium oxide based on deep learning and vertical Bridgman growth method. The prediction method comprises: obtaining a preparation data of the high resistance gallium oxide single crystal, the preparation data comprises a seed crystal data, an environmental data, a control data and a raw material data, and the raw material data comprises a doping type data and a doping concentration; preprocessing the preparation data to obtain a preprocessed preparation data; inputting the preprocessed preparation data into a trained neural network model, and obtaining a predicted property data corresponding to the high resistance gallium oxide single crystal through the trained neural network model, the predicted property data comprises a predicted resistivity.
US12026612B2
A computer-implemented method can include receiving, by one or more computing devices, one or more prior evaluations of performance of a machine learning model, the one or more prior evaluations being respectively associated with one or more prior variants of the machine-learning model, the one or more prior variants of the machine-learning model each having been configured using a different set of adjustable parameter values. The method can include utilizing, by the one or more computing devices, an optimization algorithm to generate a suggested variant of the machine-learning model based at least in part on the one or more prior evaluations of performance and the associated set of adjustable parameter values, the suggested variant of the machine-learning model being defined by a suggested set of adjustable parameter values.
US12026610B2
Methods and systems for reinforcement learning with dynamic agent grouping include gathering information at a first agent using one or more sensors. Shared information is received at the first agent from a second agent. An agent model is trained at the first agent using the gathered information and the shared information. A contribution of the shared information is weighted according to a degree of similarity between the first agent and the second agent. An action is generated using the trained agent model responsive to the gathered information.
US12026602B1
A method of determining a claim value corresponding to a damaged vehicle of a customer includes receiving exception data and image(s) corresponding to the damaged vehicle, generating a set of image parameters by analyzing the one or more image corresponding to the damaged vehicle using a first trained artificial neural network, generating the claim value corresponding to the damaged vehicle by analyzing the set of image parameters and the exception data using a second trained artificial neural network, and transmitting the claim value corresponding to the damaged vehicle. The method may include respective training of the first artificial neural network and second artificial neural network using labeled images and labeled telematics data.
US12026598B2
A training system may create and train a machine learning model with knowledge transfer. The knowledge transfer may transfer knowledge that is acquired by another machine learning model that has been previously trained to the machine learning model that is under training. The knowledge transfer may include a combination of representation transfer and instance transfer, the two of which may be performed alternatingly. The instance transfer may further include a filter mechanism to selectively identify instances with a satisfactory performance to implement the knowledge transfer.
US12026590B2
Disclosed are a quantum computing task processing method and a quantum computing task processing apparatus, and a quantum computer operating system. The method includes: cutting a quantum circuit corresponding to a quantum computing task into a plurality of quantum sub-circuits based on an evolution process of a quantum state of a qubit in the quantum circuit; separately preparing an initial quantum state of a qubit in each of the quantum sub-circuits; measuring a qubit, obtained after the initial quantum state is prepared, in each of the quantum sub-circuits, to obtain measurement results of each of the quantum sub-circuits; and combining the measurement results of each of the quantum sub-circuits to obtain computation results of the quantum computing task.
US12026581B2
Some embodiments of the present disclosure provide a wearable scanner. The wearable scanner includes: a scanner body and a wearable portion. A wearing space for a user to wear is formed between the scanner body and the wearable portion; the wearable portion includes at least one adjusting section configured for adjusting a length of the wearable portion; the adjusting section includes a plurality of hole structures that are disposed in a circumferential direction of the wearable portion, and a plurality of air-permeable grooves formed by hole walls of the hole structures in a matching manner are provided on a surface of the adjusting section facing the wearing space.
US12026580B2
There is provided in one embodiment an apparatus having an image sensor array. In one embodiment, the image sensor array can include monochrome pixels and color sensitive pixels. The monochrome pixels can be pixels without wavelength selective color filter elements. The color sensitive pixels can include wavelength selective color filter elements.
US12026556B2
A method for processing a neural network includes receiving a graph corresponding to an artificial neural network including multiple nodes connected by edges. The method determines a set of independent nodes of multiple nodes to be executed in a neural network. The method also determines a next node in the set of independent nodes to add to an ordered set of the multiple nodes corresponding to an order of execution via a hardware resource for processing the neural network. The next node is determined based on a common hardware resource with a first preceding node in the ordered set or a frequency of nodes in the set of independent nodes to be executed via a same hardware resource. The ordered set of the plurality of nodes is generated based on the next node. The method may be repeated until each of the nodes of the graph are included in the ordered set of the nodes.
US12026555B2
Adjunct processor command-type filtering includes determining whether a target adjunct processor is configured to support a selected command-type filtering mode, and whether another adjunct processor is configured to support the selected command-type filtering mode. Based on determining that the target adjunct processor is not configured to support the selected command-type filtering mode and based on the other adjunct processor being configured to support the selected command-type filtering mode, a command is forwarded to the other adjunct processor for processing to determine whether the command is valid for the selected command-type filtering mode. An indication is obtained, based on processing at the other adjunct processor, of whether the command is valid for the selected command-type filtering mode. Based on obtaining an indication that the command is valid for the selected command-type filtering mode, the command is sent to the target adjunct processor for execution.
US12026554B2
A resource management system receives a set of application priorities. The resource management system determines, based at least in part on the received set of application priorities, a resource allocation corresponding to a proposed distribution of the computing applications and the users amongst the computing devices of a computing infrastructure. The resource management system determines, using the resource allocation, a recommended device configuration for each of the computing devices. The resource management system automatically implements the determined resource allocation using the device configuration determined for each of the computing devices.
US12026543B2
The present invention discloses a cooperative computing device, wherein a task dispatching module receives a plurality of original image frames and dynamically dispatches the original image frames as a first amount of original image frames and a second amount of original image frames based on a loading result. A first computing module and a second computing module, which are of different types, respectively receive the first amount and the second amount of original image frames and respectively generate a first amount and a second amount of processed image frames. An image sorting module receives the first amount and the second amount of processed image frames, sorts and recovers the processed image frames based on a first timing sequence, and generating the loading result. The present invention also discloses a cooperative computing method which corresponds to the cooperative computing device.
US12026540B2
Methods, computer program products, and systems are presented. The method computer program products, and systems can include, for instance: predicting, with use of one or more predictive model, subsequent future state data of a computing node having an associated working memory, wherein the subsequent future state data specifies that a certain transaction currently uninvoked will be invoked by the computing node; prior to the invoking of the certain transaction, proactively establishing one or more control parameter value for controlling the working memory in dependence on the future state data; invoking the certain transaction in response to receipt, by the computing node, of transaction invoking request data for invoking the certain transaction; and executing the certain transaction in dependence on at least one control parameter value of the one or more control parameter value for controlling the working memory.
US12026535B2
Controlling and provisioning a robot of a virtual machine (VM) includes transmitting a connection request between a first service installed in a virtual machine and a second service. The robot is associated with at least one process running on the virtual machine. The virtual machine is authenticated based on a token associated with the second service and the virtual machine. A connection is established between the first service and the second service. A command is transmitted associated with the controlling of the robot from the second service to the first service based on the authentication of the virtual machine. The command is associated with a corresponding command identifier for identifying a type of the command. The command is then executed for controlling the robot.
US12026534B2
A computing device may customize the presentation of webpages according to alternative acquisition protocols. The computing device may receive a webpage identifying an object for acquisition by a user using a first acquisition protocol. The computing device may then execute a call to a server that includes an identification of a user interacting with the webpage and a request for an identification of one or more alternative acquisition protocols based on the identification of the user. In response, the computing device may receive JavaScript code configured to provide information associated with the one or more alternative acquisition protocols. The computing device may generate a modified webpage that includes a modification to a portion of the webpage based on at least one of the one or more alternative acquisition protocols. The modified webpage may be displayed to a user.
US12026533B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for enhancing parameter-less exit-calls from a command line interface (CLI). An embodiment operates by obtaining a parameter and a name for a task script, and then generating a shell script including the name of the task script and an instruction to execute the task script based on the parameter. Then, an execution request for a task including an exit-call is sent to the CLI. The execution request includes a name of the shell script for the exit-call. The CLI calls the shell script in response to the exit-call during execution of the task. Further, the task script is executed based on the parameter in response to the CLI calling the shell script.
US12026528B1
Techniques for resolving multiple user requests from multiple user accounts by an interactive interface are described. An interactive interface can obtain a first multi-dimensional context graph for a first user account and a second context graph for a second user account. Each graph comprises correlated contexts related to the user account. The interface can also receive a first user request associated with the first user account and a second user request associated with the second user account; determine, based on the first graph, a first current context and one or more first previous contexts for the first user request; determine, based on the second graph, a second current context and one or more second previous contexts for the second user request; determine one or more interrelationships between the first and the second graphs; and resolve the user requests based on the contexts and the interrelationships.
US12026527B2
The present disclosure provides world-controlled augments and application-controlled augments. World-controlled augments can be controlled directly by a shell in the artificial reality environment. To allow even inexperienced users to develop world-controlled augments, a world-controlled builder system is provided. Application-controlled augments may be resource intensive (e.g., using eye-tracking, social-media tie-ins, etc.), may support complicated interactions among themselves, may require or have extensive use of inputs and permissioned resources, and are controlled by their hosting application. When a running application is halted, the application closes its application-controlled augments but can choose to have the XR system run a “place-holder” world-controlled augment for as long as the application is not running. The place-holder world-controlled augment preserves the appearance of the application in the artificial reality environment but uses few system resources. Upon a user selecting a place-holder world-controlled augment, the XR system can run the associated application and close the place-holder world-controlled augment.
US12026526B2
A method includes accessing a first well header dataset from a first repository; accessing a second well header dataset from a second repository; identifying matches and mismatches between data within the first well header dataset and data within the second well header dataset using information identifying different formats of the first well header dataset and the second well header dataset; and presenting, within a mapping interface, graphical representations of the matches and mismatches between the data within the first well header dataset and the data within the second well header dataset in a mapping interface.
US12026523B1
Provided herein are system, method and computer program products for providing dynamically-updatable deep transactional monitoring of running applications in real-time. A method for monitoring a target software application operates by injecting a software engine into a new thread within a target process of the target software application. The method then retrieves a monitoring script and initiates execution of the monitoring script within the software engine. The monitoring script determining the address functions and calls to the functions and inserts a trampoline call within the one or more functions. The trampoline saves the execution state of the target process and calls a corresponding monitoring function that to retrieves data associated with the target process. The method then restoring the execution state of the target process and resumes execution of the target function.
US12026522B2
A database of deployed configurations, as well as attempted configurations that failed is maintained and used as reference to compare against configurations of attempted software deployments. Upon detecting a failed deployment, disclosed embodiments search the database for working configurations that most closely resemble the failed configuration, and rank the configurations based on various criteria. Disclosed embodiments may then automatically select a highest ranked working configuration, and perform an automatic upgrade of the necessary components to create a working configuration.
US12026521B2
A serial bus repeater includes first and second ports adapted to be coupled to respective devices. A first termination resistor network couples to the first port. A second termination resistor network couples to the second port. A squelch detect circuit couples to the first bus port and is configured to detect activity on the first bus and to generate a squelch signal responsive to detection of activity on the first port. A first state machine is configured to: determine an elapsed time during which the squelch signal indicates activity on the first port; determine that the elapsed time exceeds a first threshold; and, responsive to the determination that the elapsed time exceeds the first threshold, assert configuration signals to reconfigure the first and second termination resistor networks.
US12026519B2
A control method for powering timing, performed by a controller, includes: performing a delay modulation procedure when triggered by a delay modulation command, wherein the delay modulation procedure includes: after a delay duration has passed, determining whether a number of output voltage values of a number of voltage converters reach a number of target levels respectively, wherein the target levels correspond to the output voltage values respectively. The method further includes: if any one of the output voltage values does not reach a corresponding one of the target levels, increasing the delay duration according to a first default interval and updating the delay duration, and performing the delay modulation procedure when triggered by the delay modulation command again; and if the output voltage values reach the target levels respectively, outputting a power good signal to a central processing unit, for the central processing unit to perform a booting procedure.
US12026511B2
A method for performing opportunistic write-back discard of single-use vector register values. The method includes executing instructions of a GPU in a default mode, detecting a beginning of a single-use section that includes instructions that produce single-use vector register values, and executing instructions in a single-use mode. The method includes discarding the write-back of a single-use vector register value if the single-use value gets forwarded either via a bypass path or via register file cache. The method includes inserting hint instructions into an executable program code that demarcates single-use sections. A system includes a microprocessor to execute instructions in the default mode. The microprocessor detects a beginning and an ending of a single-use section that includes instructions that produce single-use vector register values.
US12026507B2
A method for providing a platform-integrated SDK capable of developing multiple platforms with single source code, includes: receiving, from a user, a build instruction in which any one of the multiple platforms is designated as a build target platform, with respect to source code integrally written for the multiple platforms; importing a software development kit (SDK), among pre-stored SDKs, corresponding to the build target platform; building the source code after the SDK is imported; and providing the built object file to the user.
US12026497B2
A control system includes a moving body control unit configured to control a moving body, an update control unit configured to control reception of an update program of the moving body control unit from an external device and control update of the moving body control unit by the update program, and a determination unit configured to determine whether the moving body is refueled during a time until a predetermined time elapses before the update of the moving body control unit by the update program is started. When the determination unit determines that the moving body is refueled, the update control unit stops starting of the update of the moving body control unit by the update program.
US12026488B2
Methods and systems for transforming bytecodes using virtual artifacts are disclosed. In one aspect, a method is provided that includes receiving a build request to convert source code into a first bytecode. A first virtual artifact may be identified within the source code and it may be determined that a local repository does not store the first virtual artifact. A real artifact that corresponds to the first virtual artifact may be retrieved from a centralized repository. A bytecode transformation may be applied to the real artifact to generate a second bytecode and the second bytecode may be added to the first bytecode.
US12026480B2
A computer-implemented method includes receiving, by a processing system, a user story for developing software. The processing system characterizes the user story to determine a plurality of attributes. The processing system classifies a complexity of the user story associated with the attributes. The processing system determines a history score of the user story based on a similarity of one or more previously analyzed user stories having a similar complexity. The processing system recommends one or more modifications to the user story to increase alignment of one or more attributes of the user story with the one or more previously analyzed user stories.
US12026478B1
In a multiply accumulate (MAC) unit, an accumulator may be implemented in two or more stages. For example, a first accumulator may accumulate products from the multiplier of the MAC unit, and a second accumulator may periodically accumulate the running total of the first accumulator. Each time the first accumulator's running total is accumulated by the second accumulator, the first accumulator may be initialized to begin a new accumulation period. In one embodiment, the number of values accumulated by the first accumulator within an accumulation period may be a user-adjustable parameter. In one embodiment, the bit width of the input of the second accumulator may be greater than the bit width of the output of the first accumulator. In another embodiment, an adder may be shared between the first and second accumulators, and a multiplexor may switch the accumulation operations between the first and second accumulators.
US12026474B2
An artificial intelligence (AI) model includes one or more feature models coupled to one or more observer models in a hierarchical fashion. The feature models are configured to process an input to detect different features within that input. The observer models are configured to analyze the operation of the feature models during processing of the input to generate various types of observations. One type of observation includes a natural language expression that conveys how various architectural and/or functional characteristics of a given feature model influence the processing of the input to detect features, thereby exposing the underlying mechanisms via which the given feature model operates.
US12026473B2
A computer implemented method for the automated analysis or use of data is implemented by a voice assistant. The method comprises the steps of: (a) storing in a memory a structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable language (‘machine representation’); the machine representation including representations of user speech or text input to a human/machine interface; and (b) automatically processing the machine representations to analyse the user speech or text input.
US12026469B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to detecting random and/or algorithmically-generated character sequences in domain names. A computing platform may train a machine learning model based on a set of semantically-meaningful words. Subsequently, the computing platform may receive a seed string and a set of domains to be analyzed in connection with the seed string. Based on the machine learning model, the computing platform may apply a classification algorithm to the seed string and the set of domains, where applying the classification algorithm to the seed string and the set of domains produces a classification result. Thereafter, the computing platform may store the classification result.
US12026462B2
Methods, systems and computer program products for determining recommended parameters for use in generating a word embedding model are provided. Aspects include storing a plurality of meaningful test cases. Each meaningful test case includes a test data profile and one or more test model parameters used to create a word embedding model that has been classified as yielding meaningful results. Aspects include receiving a production data set to be used in generating a new word embedding model. The production data set includes data stored in a relational database having a plurality of columns and a plurality of rows. Aspects include generating a data profile associated with the production data set. Aspects include generating a recommendation for one or more production model parameters for use in building a word embedding model based on the data profile associated with the production data set and the plurality of meaningful test cases.
US12026458B2
A template generation system for generating document templates from a mixed set of document types including a template generation server programmed to receive a batch of documents, identify a plurality of text blocks, generate a plurality of clusters, generate a plurality of document arrays corresponding to the plurality of clusters, and compare each document array to each other document array to determine a percentage match. When the percentage match between two or more frameworks exceeds a threshold, the template generation system defines a subset of documents, and for each subset of documents, template generation system generates a template for the subset of documents. The template is a collection of the text blocks that are commonly included in each of the documents of the subset.
US12026453B2
An annotation method, a method of relation extraction, a non-transient computer storage medium, and a computing device are provided. The annotation method includes: traversing each sentence in a text to be annotated to generate a first template and selecting the first template; traversing each sentence in the text to be annotated, based on the selected first template, to match at least one new seed; evaluating the at least one new seed having been matched; repeating the above steps until a selected condition is met, and outputting the matched correct seed and a classification relationship between a first entity and a second entity in the matched correct seed.
US12026452B1
A method of enabling a remotely hosted AI to enhance a document while withholding sensitive information from the AI includes identifying sensitive terminology associated with the sensitive information and replacing by an exclusion filter of the sensitive terminology with redaction markers that cannot be interpreted as misspelled words or coined terms, thereby creating a redacted draft that is submitted to the AI. Upon receiving an enhanced, redacted draft from the AI, the original sensitive terminology is restored in place of the redaction markers, and the resulting enhanced document is delivered to a user. Sensitive terms can be local or global. Globally sensitive terms can be stored in databases directed to categories of sensitive information. Sensitive terms can include indicators directed to sensitive numerical quantities and/or other targets. In embodiments, the exclusion filter automatically corrects any grammatical errors arising from replacement of the redaction markers by the original sensitive terminology.
US12026449B1
A document storage system includes a document digitizing device making an electronic copy of a document. A Liquid neural network (LNN) annotates the video files with document terms producing an annotated document. A semantic analyzer generates a relationship between document terms. A blockchain based data transaction forwards the annotated document to a server. A photonic spiking neural network (PSNN) server uploads and downloads annotated documents from the server. The interface will be changed automatically based on the individual's physical characteristics.
US12026448B2
A font file processing method, an electronic device, and a readable storage medium are provided. The method includes: obtaining an original font file, where the original font file includes an original font; and obtaining a new font file by editing the original font and/or based on the original font and a background picture.
US12026436B2
A platform for design of a lighting installation generally includes an automated search engine for retrieving and storing a plurality of lighting objects in a lighting object library and a lighting design environment providing a visual representation of a lighting space containing lighting space objects and lighting objects. The visual representation is based on properties of the lighting space objects and lighting objects obtained from the lighting object library. A plurality of aesthetic filters is configured to permit a designer in a design environment to adjust parameters of the plurality of lighting objects handled in the design environment to provide a desired collective lighting effect using the plurality of lighting objects.
US12026435B2
A system for building information modeling comprising a plurality of 2D documentation sets associated with a building. A 3D model associated with the building, the 3D model including a plurality of user-selectable controls, wherein each user-selectable control comprises an icon and an associated balloon that is generated when the icon is selected. The balloon for each user-selectable control comprising a first selection control that causes one of the plurality of 2D documentation sets to be shown after an animation sequence. The balloon for each user-selectable control comprising a second selection control that causes a transition to a 3D model having an overlay of the 2D documentation sets.
US12026432B1
A system is configured to (1) receive data indicating a first command to present media content at a display device of a media playback system that comprises a playback device, (2) determine a playback condition comprising a user identity, (3) identify, from one or more user accounts associated with the playback device, a given user account corresponding to the user identity, (4) based at least on (i) the first command and (ii) at least one property of the given user account, identify a set of media items that are to be presented, (5) cause the set of media items to be presented at the display device, (6) receive data indicating a second command to play back at least one given media item from the set of media items presented at the display device, and (7) cause the playback device to play back the at least one given media item.
US12026430B2
Provided is an information processing device and an information processing method, the information processing device including a control unit that, on the basis of a position of a recognized operation object, dynamically controls output of an information associated with at least one operation region in which the recognized operation object is located, the control unit being configured to, in a case where the recognized operation object is located in the operation region, control execution of a device function corresponding to the operation region in which the recognized operation object is located, and the operation region including a region incapable of being visually recognized by a user.
US12026427B2
Example techniques involve identification of device groups. In an example implementation, a mobile device displays, via a control application, a synchrony group control including controls to select playback devices for a synchrony group. The mobile device receives input data representing a command to create a new synchrony group, the input data including input data representing selection of two or more playback devices for a new synchrony group. In response, the mobile device forms the synchrony group by receiving input data indicating a particular group identification for the new synchrony group, determining that the particular group identification is unique among other synchrony groups, and sending data representing instructions to the playback devices to form the new synchrony group with the particular group identification. In response to forming the new synchrony group, the mobile device updates an interface for the media playback system to indicate the new synchrony group.
US12026424B2
A display apparatus includes a half mirror configured to form a mirror image of an object existing in space in front of the half mirror; a display placed behind the half mirror; and overlay image generating means for generating an overlay image to be displayed by the display in a size appropriate for the mirror image at a position appropriate for the mirror image.
US12026404B2
A memory device including a memory array with a plurality of memory macros, a power supplying circuit, and a controller is provided. The power supplying circuit is coupled to the memory array. The controller is coupled to the memory array. The power supplying circuit is configured to provide power to perform write operations to a number of the memory macros at the same time. The number of the memory macros for the write operations performed at the same time is not higher than a maximum number of the memory macros. The controller obtains the maximum number of the memory macros for the write operations performed at the same time by the power supplying circuit. The controller re-arranges a schedule for a sequence of the write operations of the memory macros to generate a re-arranged schedule. The maximum number is taken as a threshold value. In the re-arranged schedule, a number of part of the memory macros for the write operations performed at the same time is equal to or less then the threshold value.
US12026395B2
Various embodiments enable a memory sub-system to perform a read operation based on consolidated memory region description data, which can be generated based on a memory region description data (e.g., SGL) provided by a host system for the read operation.
US12026392B2
A method for operating a memory system includes: collecting, by a memory controller, information on rows that are determined as row-hammer-attacked in a memory by the memory controller; collecting, by the memory, information on rows that are determined as row-hammer-attacked by the memory; confirming, by the memory, that the row collected by the memory controller is the same as the row collected by the memory; and resetting, by the memory, information on the row collected by the memory which is the same as the row collected by the memory controller in response to the confirmation.
US12026382B2
In some embodiments, storage path routing in a container system includes: determining, within the container system, a storage operation directed to a storage resource; determining one or more conditions associated with a plurality of network paths to the storage resource, where the plurality of network paths includes a first network path through a storage area network and a second network path through a container system communication network; and routing, based on the one or more conditions, the storage operation to the storage resource using the first network path.
US12026379B2
A data storage device and method for host-initiated transactional handling for large data set atomicity across multiple memory commands are provided. In one embodiment, a data storage device is provided comprising a memory and a controller. The controller is configured to commence performance of a plurality of atomic operations; and prior to successful completion of the plurality of atomic operations: determine an available capacity of the memory, wherein memory locations storing data written by the plurality of atomic operations are considered unavailable even though the data is not yet committed to the memory locations; and inform the host of the determined available capacity of the memory. Other embodiments are possible, and each of the embodiments can be used alone or together in combination.
US12026367B2
Embodiments of this application provide a split-screen display method and an apparatus. The method includes: displaying a first interface; receiving a trigger operation for an identifier of a first application; displaying the identifier of the first application in a first state; receiving a trigger operation for a control used to display a second application in a floating window; displaying content of the first application in full screen and displaying content of the second application in a floating window; and when a trigger operation for moving the floating window to a first split-screen region is received, displaying the content of the second application in the first split-screen region of a second interface, and displaying the content of the first application in a second split-screen region of the second interface. The terminal device can implement quick screen splitting, so that flexible screen splitting in a plurality of scenarios is implemented.
US12026365B2
Constrained stroke editing techniques for digital content are described. In these examples, a stroke constraint system is employed as part of a digital content creation system to manage input, editing, and erasure (i.e., removal) of strokes via a user interface as part of editing digital content. To do so, locations and attributes of a displayed stroke are used to constrain location and/or attributes of an input stroke.
US12026364B2
A device detects, while displaying a first user interface that includes a first plurality of notifications in a list of notifications, a first user input that includes a first input. In response to detecting the first user input, the device, in accordance with a determination that the first input includes a swipe input in a first direction and a determination that an end of the list of notifications has been reached, displays a search input region. In response to detecting the first user input, the device, in accordance with a determination that the first input includes the swipe input in the first direction and that an end of the list of notifications has not been reached, displays a second plurality of notifications that are between the first plurality of notifications and the end of the list of notifications.
US12026359B2
A graphical user interface may switch between presentation of a timeline representation of media items and a tile representation of media items. The timeline representation may include graphical representation of the lengths of the media items. The tile representation may include graphical representation of the content of the media items.
US12026357B2
A method implemented via execution of computing instructions configured to run at one or more processors and stored at one or more non-transitory computer-readable media. The method can include receiving, via a computer network, a user interaction signal from a user device for a user. The method further can include after receiving the user interaction signal, determining, in real-time via a machine learning model, a plurality of user intent labels based at least in part on transaction data, interaction data, and incident data for the user. The machine learning model can include pre-trained based on historical input data and historical output data associated with multiple users comprising the user. The historical input data can comprise historical feature embedding vectors for historical transaction data, historical interaction data, and historical incident data associated with the multiple users. The historical output data can include historical intent labels determined based at least in part on user-uttered intents by the multiple users in historical conversation data, identified by natural language understanding. In some embodiments, the method also can include, after determining the plurality of user intent labels, determining, in real-time, one or more user intent candidates of the plurality of user intent labels based on a confidence threshold. In a few embodiments, the method further can include, after determining the one or more user intent candidates, determining, in real-time, one or more user interface components for the one or more user intent candidates. After determining the one or more user interface components, the method further can include transmitting, via the computer network, the one or more user interface components to be presented on a user interface executed on the user device for the user. Other embodiments are described.
US12026349B2
A system and method are provided for displaying objects in electronic user interfaces. The method includes receiving, via a user interface, a first input defining a rotation to be applied to each of a plurality of three-dimensional (3D) objects displayed in the user interface. The method also includes manipulating, in the user interface, each of the plurality of 3D objects in tandem according to the first input, the manipulating comprising rotating each of the plurality of 3D objects individually in tandem according to the rotation to be applied.
US12026346B2
Disclosed is a display device including a signal line and a pad connected to the signal line. The pad includes metal lines disposed on the same layer as the signal line and spaced apart from the signal line on a plane and a transparent conductive oxide pattern disposed on the signal line and the metal lines and electrically connected to the signal line and the metal lines. An opening corresponding to the metal lines is defined in the transparent conductive oxide pattern.
US12026344B2
Measured signal data, detected by a sensor array of a device, is used to create a generated representation from the measured signal data. The generated representation is compared with a measured representation of the measured signal data to create a correlation coefficient corresponding to a correlation between the generated representation and the measured representation of the measured signal data. A hover event is detected for the device if the correlation coefficient exceeds a first threshold. If the correlation coefficient does not exceed the first threshold, then the measured signal data is determined to not be indicative of a hover event.
US12026341B2
An image processing method includes detecting pointer contact positions trajectories on a display surface, displaying a first image on the display surface, displaying a second image having first and second portions on the display surface using the first image as a background, moving a second image display position on the display surface along the pointer trajectory when a pointer trajectory starting point is included in a display surface area on which the second image is displayed, providing a drawing effect to a first image portion overlapping a second image trajectory when the starting point is included in an area in which the first portion is displayed in the moving the second image display position, and keeping the first image portion display overlapping the second image trajectory when the starting point is included in an area in which the second portion is displayed in the moving the second image display position.
US12026333B2
Provided are a touch display device and a display panel. A bridge pattern connecting touch electrodes is provided in an open area in which a single color filter is provided, so as not to overlap an area in which a plurality of color filters are provided. Short circuit defects between the touch electrodes and touch lines are prevented, and improved touch sensing or accurate touch sensing is enabled.
US12026330B2
A conductive laminate includes a first organic film, a fine metal wire arranged on the first organic film, and a second organic film arranged to cover the fine metal wire, in which the fine metal wire includes a blackening layer, an intimate attachment layer, and a metal conductive layer in order from a side of the first organic film, and moisture contents of the first organic film and the second organic film are less than 3.00%.
US12026324B2
An electronic pen is provided with a light source that emits irradiation light, a rotatable rotating body, a deflecting member that deflects, toward the rotating body, the irradiation light emitted by the light source and transmits the irradiation light reflected by the rotating body, and a detecting member that receives the irradiation light transmitted through the deflecting member.
US12026322B2
An ultra-high frequency-based method for activating a function of a vehicle with a portable item of user equipment having an accelerometer. The method including the following steps: Comparing signals from the accelerometer with a predetermined signature; Detecting a characteristic movement of the portable item of equipment, associated with a command to activate a function of the vehicle, performed by the user on the basis of the result of the comparison; Checking the establishment of ultra-high frequency communication between the portable item of equipment and the vehicle, i) If communication is established, then transmitting a command to activate the function of the vehicle to the vehicle in order to activate said function, ii) If not, if communication is not established within a predetermined time interval following detection of the characteristic movement, then the method is stopped.
US12026313B1
A haptic device with coupled resonance at tunable frequencies includes an actuator, a first structure coupled to the actuator, a second structure coupled to the first structure and separate from the actuator, and at least one local mass coupled to the first or second structure; the first and second structure having resonance such that application by the actuator of a resonance frequency to the first structure causes the first and second structures to resonate in phase and displace the local mass. A method of forming a haptic device includes coupling an actuator to a first structure, coupling the first structure to a second structure, locating a mass on at least one of the first or second structures, and configuring the actuator to, upon activation, excite the first structure at a resonance frequency of the haptic device such that the first and second structures resonate in phase and displace the mass.
US12026306B2
Systems and methods for adjusting a display in a vehicle are provided. The display is configured to present information in one or more regions of the display. The position of a user in the vehicle is detected and based on detecting a change in position of the user, the position of information on the display may be adjusted. For example, when the change in position of the user causes information on the display to be obstructed, the position of the information may be adjusted to an unobstructed region of the display.
US12026303B2
There is provided a sight line position processing apparatus. A detection unit repeatedly detects a sight line position of a user. A first determination unit determines a reliability of the sight line position detected by the detection unit. A generation unit generates a statistical sight line position by calculating a statistical value for a plurality of sight line positions detected by the detection unit. The generation unit controls a number of sight line positions used to calculate one statistical value on the basis of the reliability.
US12026296B2
A system for multi-track playback of media content includes: a media device; a user interface, provided at the media device, which displays a visual array of media options, a playback logic, provided within the media device, which is configured so that, while a selected point or region is determined by the user interface as being moved in response to user input, within the visual array of media options, the system determines media options that are proximate to the selected point or region, and adjusts playback parameters for corresponding media content items, by crossfading or otherwise combining playback to reflect the media options relative distances from the selected point or region; and a tempo logic, provided within the media device, which is configured to provide or receive a selected tempo and provide the one or more media content items associated with the selected tempo.
US12026283B2
The present disclosure relates to methods for “cookieless” tracking across a wide range of websites and mobile applications. The methods do not involve the use of cookies or code on individual webs pages, and associated web or other servers and may be achieved through use of a single URL for tracking a user across multiple websites. Methods of enhanced tracking of user activity without requiring tracking pixels are also described herein.
US12026280B2
In one example embodiment, a server that is in communication with a network that includes a plurality of network elements obtains, from the network, a service request record that includes sensitive information related to at least one of the plurality of network elements. The server parses the service request record to determine that the service request record includes a sequence of characters that is repeated in the service request record, and tags the sequence of characters as a particular sensitive information type. Based on the tagging, the server identically replaces the sequence of characters so as to preserve an internal consistency of the service request record. After identically replacing the sequence of characters, the server publishes the service request record for analysis without revealing the sequence of characters.
US12026279B2
A system accesses a scan of a document that shows first user information. The system extracts the first user information from the scan of the document. The system identifies an entity associated with the document, where an identifier associated with the entity is shown on the scan of the document. The system communicates a request to provide second user information to a computing device associated with the entity. The system receives a response comprising the second user information and compares each component in the first user information with a counterpart component in the second user information. The determines whether the document is valid based on the comparison between the first user information and the second user information.
US12026273B2
The present disclosure describes a computer-implemented method that includes: detecting an incident that an outbound email violates a data leakage prevention (DLP) rule of an enterprise, wherein the DLP rule specifies contents that are reserved for within the enterprise; automatically alerting one or more members of the enterprise of the incident based on a report detailing the incident; and receiving a response from each of the one or more members of the enterprise.
US12026272B2
Managing the loading of third-party tools on a website is described. Configuration is received for loading the third-party tools. An intermediary server receives a request for a page that is hosted at an origin server. The intermediary server retrieves the page and modifies the page including automatically including a third-party tool manager to the retrieved page. The third-party tool manager includes a set of one or more client-side scripts that, when executed by the client network application, collects, and transmits information to the intermediary server for loading the third-party tools. The intermediary server loads the third-party tools based on the received information and the configuration. The intermediary server causes event data to be transmitted to third-party tool servers that correspond with the third-party tools.
US12026265B2
An information system is provided that enables stakeholders to define a secure data object that sets permissions, rules, and rights for an asset. The secure data object may be communicated to entities, such as computer hosts or hardware agents, and the entities are enable to act within the permissions, rules, and rights to conduct transactions and gather information as agents of the stakeholders. The secure data object may be received into a hardware agent attached to an asset, and the agent may have sufficient permission to monitor environmental conditions, adjust pricing, consummate a transaction, or communicate a report.
US12026260B2
The present invention relates a device for improving robustness of deep-learning based detection of source-code vulnerability, the device at least comprises a code-converting module, a mapping module, and a neural-network module, wherein the mapping module is in data connection with the code-converting module, the mapping module is in data connection with the neural-network module, respectively, and the neural-network module includes at least two first classifiers, based on a received first training program source code, the mapping module maps a plurality of code snippets, and the neural-network module trains the at least two first classifiers according to a first sample vector. The present invention improves the robustness of detection of source-code vulnerability by performing classification training on the feature generators and the classifiers.
US12026254B2
A method includes predicting, before a first period of time, a plurality of predicted event metric values and value ranges corresponding to a first plurality of events to occur over the first period of time based on a plurality of prediction models, determining an actual event metric value of the first plurality of events, and determining a plurality of model range multi-partition error (MRME) values indicative of an accuracy, precision, and relative range of the forecasting models based on the actual event metric values, value ranges, and the predicted event metric values. The method includes selecting one of the forecasting models based on the MRME values, determining a cyber security control limit based on a predicted event metric value or predicted event metric range by the selected forecasting model, and outputting an alert based on an actual event metric value being outside of the cyber security control limit.
US12026243B2
Example implementations include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium comprising determining, by a processor of a control panel, that a security event has happened, wherein the security event is associated with a user identification or authentication; capturing one or more still images or videos by at least one camera in the control panel subsequent and in response to determining that the security event has happened; and using the one or more still images or videos to perform facial recognition.
US12026241B2
Detecting a replay attack on a voice biometrics system comprises receiving a speech signal; forming an autocorrelation of at least a part of the speech signal; and identifying that the received speech signal may result from a replay attack based on said autocorrelation. Identifying that the received speech signal may result from a replay attack may be achieved by: comparing the autocorrelation with a reference value; and identifying that the received speech signal may result from a replay attack based on a result of the comparison of the autocorrelation with the reference value, or by: supplying the autocorrelation to a neural network trained to distinguish autocorrelations formed from speech signals resulting from replay attacks from autocorrelations formed from speech signals not resulting from replay attacks.
US12026230B2
Technical solutions relate to the field of artificial intelligence such as deep learning, computer vision and intelligent imaging. A method may includes during training of a one-stage object detecting model, acquiring values of a loss function corresponding to feature maps at different scales respectively in the case that classification loss calculation is required, and the loss function is a focal loss function; and determining a final value of the loss function according to the acquired values of the loss function, and training the one-stage object detecting model according to the final value of the loss function.
US12026227B2
Systems and methods for viewing, storing, transmitting, searching, and editing application-specific audiovisual content (or other unstructured data) are disclosed in which edge devices generate content on the fly from a partial set of instructions rather than merely accessing the content in its final or near-final form. An image processing architecture may include a generative model that may be a deep learning model. The generative model may include a latent space comprising a plurality of latent codes and a trained generator mapping. The trained generator mapping may convert points in the latent space to uncompressed data points, which in the case of audiovisual content may be generated image frames. The generative model may be capable of closely approximating (up to noise or perceptual error) most or all potential data points in the relevant compression application, which in the case of audiovisual content may be source images.
US12026224B2
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to reconstruct scenes using convolutional neural networks are disclosed. An example apparatus includes a sensor data acquirer to acquire ground truth data representing an environment, an environment detector to identify an environmental characteristic of the environment, a synthetic database builder to apply noise to the ground truth data to form a training set, a model builder to train a machine learning model using the training set and the ground truth data, and a model adjustor to modify the machine learning model to include residual OR-gate connections intermediate respective layers of the machine learning model. The synthetic database builder is further to store the machine learning model in association with the environmental characteristic of the environment.
US12026209B2
Example systems and methods provide input suggestions to a user to improve user experience on user devices. The input suggestions can be fill information from another app on device to the present app being used by user, information for performing a search (without the user having to copy-paste data or entering the data manually), responses to a message/notification received by the user, information/content/data to be shared between apps (without switching between apps), and emojis/GIFs that can be used by the user. The method includes analyzing one or more content of one or more screen displayed on device, generating at least one of a logical tree structure and a data mashup model of the one or more analyzed content for each screen, and providing a recommendation to a user. The recommendation can be a connected action or an input suggestion.
US12026203B1
Techniques for aligning (merging) knowledge graphs is described. Graph entity alignment is the problem of “joining” two knowledge graphs based on common entities. Most approaches in literature solve this using some annotated seed entity pairs and train a supervised model to rank entities in one knowledge base against another. In some examples, unsupervised alignment approach that uses graph-to-text summaries to encode entities in two or more distinct graphs into the same representation space, encodes those summaries into a common space, and then uses similarity analysis to determine when graph entities should be aligned (merged).
US12026201B2
Automated product identification within hosted and streamed videos is performed based on video content of a video received at an online video platform and text content associated with the video. First embeddings representative of one or more first candidate products are determined based on video content of the video, such as one or more frames selected from within the video. Second embeddings representative of one or more second candidate products are determined based on text content associated with the video, such as a title, description, or transcript of the video. A product candidate index is produced based on the second embeddings. A product identification representative of a product featured in the video is determined based on a comparison of the first embeddings against entries of the product candidate index, such as including by a nearest neighbor search responsive to the comparison. An indication of the product identification is then output at the online video platform.
US12026198B2
The present disclosure describes techniques for identifying music attributes. The described techniques comprises receiving audio data of a piece of music; determining at least one attribute of the piece of music based on the audio data of the piece of music using a model; the model comprising a convolutional neural network and a transformer; the model being pre-trained using training data, wherein the training data comprise labelled data associated with a first plurality of music samples and unlabelled data associated with a second plurality of music samples, the labelled data comprise audio data of the first plurality of music samples and label information indicative of attributes of the first plurality of music samples, and the unlabelled data comprise audio data of the second plurality of music samples.
US12026195B2
A plurality of on-road vehicles moving along streets of a city, while utilizing onboard cameras for autonomous driving functions, are bound to capture, over time, random images of various city objects such as structures and street signs. Images of a certain city object may be captured by many of the vehicles at various times while passing by that object, thereby resulting in a corpus of imagery data containing various random images and other representations of that certain object. Per each of at least some of the city objects appearing more than once in the corpus of imagery data, appearances are detected and linked, and then analyzed to uncover behaviors associated with that city object, thereby eventually, over time, revealing various city dynamics associated with many city objects.
US12026189B2
A computer-implemented method, a computer program product, and a computer system for ranking explanatory variables in multivariate analysis. A computer system extracts words from documents related to categories, creates a histogram of the words in each category, and selects top words in each histogram, where the top words are used as representing words in each category. A computer system generates respective feature vectors of explanatory variable candidates and a feature vector of an objective variable, where a feature vector of a corresponding variable includes elements corresponding to respective ones of the categories and a value of element indicates whether a name of the corresponding variable is included in the top words. A computer system calculates cosine similarity between each of the respective feature vectors of the explanatory variable candidates and the feature vector of the objective variable. A computer system ranks the explanatory variable candidates, based on the cosine similarity.
US12026185B2
Keywords obtained from a user and/or extracted from uploaded document(s) may be used to generate potential keywords. Documents may be identified based on the keywords and the potential keywords accepted by the user. A knowledge graph model representing the identified documents may be generated. The knowledge graph model may include document nodes representing the identified document and a search node representing the keywords. The relative position of the document nodes with respect to the search node may represent similarity between the corresponding documents and the keywords.
US12026181B2
Disclosed herein are a network environment synchronization apparatus and method. The network environment synchronization apparatus includes one or more processors, and execution memory for storing at least one program that is executed by the one or more processors, wherein the at least one program is configured to collect data from a network environment and generate a management structure in which collected data is distributed into preset respective group units, generate data discriminators for respective group units using a preset hash function, determine whether data of the management structure has changed with reference to data newly collected from the network environment based on the data discriminators, and when it is determined whether data of the management structure has changed, update the data of the management structure with the newly collected data.
US12026177B2
In some examples, a computing device may store a first snapshot of a state of data in a first partition at a first point in time. The computing device may create a second partition and a third partition to each receive a portion of the data, the second partition and the third partition each including a metrics schema, and may determine information for the metrics schemas based on information in the first snapshot. During the determining of the information for the metrics schemas, the computing device may receive a write to the first partition. The computing device may update the first partition based on the write and may add a split update command to a data structure based on the write. In addition, the computing device may update at least one of the metrics schemas in the second partition or the third partition based on the split update command.
US12026169B2
Methods and systems are disclosed for a sequential federated query for information in a residential, commercial, and/or distributed system. A method of processing a sequential federated query for distributed systems may comprise receiving a sequential federated query; deconstructing the sequential federated query into query elements; identifying a Contextual-Characteristic Data Source (CCDS), a Transactional-Unstructured Data Source (TUDS), and a data organization parameter based on the query elements; generating a CCDS result data set from the CCDS based on the data organization parameter; processing the CCDS result data set to develop a TUDS query based on the data organization parameter; generating a TUDS result data set from the TUDS based on the developed TUDS query and the data organization parameter; generating a final sequential federated query data set based on the TUDS result data set and the data organization parameters; processing a formatted sequential federated query data set based on the processing of the final sequential federated query data set and the data organization parameter; and providing the formatted sequential federated query data set to a management system for action.
US12026165B2
A computing system including a cooperative system architecture for cataloging, informing, sharing, and managing engineering assets within an organization includes a user management subsystem for creating a registered user profile associated with a specific user of the computing system. The registered user profile includes user metadata that provides identifying characteristics of the specific user. The computing system includes an asset management subsystem including an asset repository for recording one or more engineering assets. The asset management subsystem modifies the user metadata of the registered user profile in response to the specific user recording an engineering asset in the asset repository. The computing system includes a test management subsystem including a test repository for recording one or more test bill of materials.
US12026163B1
A query including a time range can be received. The query can be processed to determine data associated with the time range of the query. Cached data can be analyzed to identify a first block of data including metadata identifying a first timestamp associated with the time range of the query. A communication can be generated to include the first timestamp associated with the first block of data. Based on the communication, a second block of data can be received with metadata identifying a second timestamp associated with the time range of the query. A query result can be generated to include the first block of data and the second block of data.
US12026159B2
Queries executed against a materialized view can execute up to orders of magnitude faster than equivalent queries on a source (or base) table. However, although a query can reference a materialized view directly, a user (e.g., query author) may not know about a relevant materialized view. Moreover, if a source table has multiple materialized views generated, the user may not know which materialized view to reference in the query. Thus, embodiments of the present disclosure provide techniques for automatically rewriting queries directed to a source table to utilize existing materialized views.
US12026147B2
A system includes memory hardware that stores an event logging database including entries corresponding to events processed at local servers. The processor hardware executes instructions including, in response to receiving a first message from a first local server (the first message indicates that a first event occurred), identifying a causal parent event preceding the first event. The causal parent event is a most recent event that occurred at the first local server. The instructions include identifying a temporal parent event preceding the first event. The temporal parent event is a most recent event that occurred across all of the local servers. The instructions include generating a new entry based on data from the first message and a cryptographic hash based on a hash of a first entry recording the causal parent event and a hash of a second entry recording the temporal parent event.
US12026140B1
Methods, systems, and computer programs are presented for providing performance metrics in an online performance analysis system employing customer production workloads. A plurality of metric source data is received from a cloud data platform. A workload is identified as a stable workload candidate based at least in part on the plurality of metric source data. The cloud data platform generates a performance index based on the workload being identified as a stable workload candidate. The performance index is tracked over a period of time to identify changes in workload.
US12026136B2
In some embodiments, a computer system may obtain resource data from a data source of an entity, where the resource data corresponds to resources of the entity, and then determine that the resource data does not comply with one or more rules. In response to the determining that the resource data does not comply with the rule(s), the computer system may send a notification to an electronic destination associated with the entity, where the notification indicates that the resource data does not comply with the rule(s). Next, the computer system may obtain a modified version of the resource data from the data source, determine that the modified version of the resource data complies with the rule(s), and, in response to the determining that the modified version of the resource data complies with the rule(s), store the modified version of the resource data in a data registry.
US12026133B2
A system for data space limitation includes and interface and a processor. The interface is configured to receive a query for a structured data set. The processor is configured to determine an ordered list for calculations to respond to the query; perform the calculations according to the ordered list until an allowed time required for interactivity is reached; and in response to the allowed time being reached, provide results of the calculations.
US12026130B2
A cloud-based write-once object store is configured to store inode-based data exported to the store from an enterprise file system. For each version of data (e.g., a file) exported to the store, there is a version of the inode corresponding to that data. As versions of the data are exported to the cloud, the system creates multiple versions of the inode. The set of inode versions corresponding to the versions of the file have a pointer associated therewith that specifies the latest version of the data associated with the inode. The inode versions in the set share the same pointer. The inode versions represent a revision history for the inode. For each inode version corresponding to a version of the data, information is received and stored in a new portion of the object store. The inode version for a file version comprises a list of data chunks for the file.
US12026129B2
Systems and methods for caching file system collections atomically. The systems and methods perform operations comprising: receiving a request to access a collection of data comprising a plurality of files stored on a storage device; in response to receiving the request, transferring the collection of data from the storage device to a first subfolder in a cache associated with the storage device; generating a lock file comprising a reference to the first subfolder in the cache; and atomically controlling access to the collection of data in the first subfolder and removal of the collection of data in the first subfolder from the cache via the lock file.
US12026124B2
A system and method include receiving, by a database engine of a database system associated with a virtual computing system, a user request via a dashboard for provisioning a source database with the database system, receiving, by the database engine via the dashboard, selection of a database engine type, and receiving, by the database engine via the dashboard, selection of a Service Level Agreement (“SLA”) and a protection schedule. The system and method also include provisioning, by the database engine, the source database based upon the database engine type, creating, by the database engine, an instance of a database protection system based upon the SLA and the protection schedule, including associating the instance of the database protection system with the source database, and displaying, by the database engine, the source database within the dashboard.
US12026118B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, are described for performing asymmetric data communication at a host-device interface of a system. The methods include identifying devices coupled to a host of the system and generating a system topology that identifies a connectivity of the devices and identifies bus lanes that enable data transfers at the system. The host determines that a first connection between the host and a first device of the multiple devices has an asymmetric bandwidth requirement. The host configures a set of bus lanes of a data bus connecting the first device and the host to allocate a different number of the bus lanes to data egress from the host than to data ingress to the host. The bus lanes are configured to allocate the differing number of bus lanes based on the asymmetric bandwidth requirement of the first connection.
US12026113B2
A packet processing apparatus includes a packet processor that performs processing on a packet received from a communication line and outputs data that is a result of the processing, a data combiner that concatenates a plurality of pieces of data output from the packet processor to generate a data block, and a combination data transferor that DMA-transfers the data block generated by the data combiner to a data memory. The combination data transferor writes information on an address in the data memory of a beginning of an individual piece of data in the data block to a descriptor that is a data area on a predetermined memory.
US12026102B2
Systems, apparatuses, and methods related to isolating virtual machines in a memory device are described. A memory apparatus includes a memory device and a controller coupled to the memory device, wherein the controller is configured to provide a plurality of Peripheral Component Interconnect express (PCIe) functions of the memory device and isolate access to each of the plurality of PCIe functions via respective passwords and digital signatures created from host keys.
US12026098B1
Techniques are disclosed relating to updating page pools in the context of cached page pool descriptors. In some embodiments, a processor is configured to assign a set of processing work to a first page pool of memory pages. Page manager circuitry may cache page pool descriptor entries in cache circuitry, where a given page pool descriptor entry indicates a set of pages assigned to a page pool. In response to a determination to grow the first page pool, the processor may communicate a grow list to the page manager circuitry, that identifies a set of memory blocks from the memory to be added to the first page pool. The page manager circuitry may then update a cached page pool descriptor entry for the first page pool to indicate the added memory blocks and generate a signal to inform the processor that the cached page pool descriptor entry is updated.
US12026070B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to generating backups of assets. More specifically, in one or more embodiments of the invention, multiple copies of a backup are stored in separate locations. The copies may then be used to perform a restoration when one of the copies is corrupted. If all copies are corrupted the invention allows for partial restoration of those portions of the copies that are not corrupted. By using copies, embodiments of the invention allow the backups to be more resilient to attacks and system failures.
US12026064B2
According to certain embodiments, an electronic device comprises: a secure element storing at least one content application and backup data associated with the at least one content application; a memory storing instructions; and a processor electrically connected to the secure element and the memory and configured to executed the instructions, wherein execution of the instructions by the processor causes the processor to perform a plurality of operations comprising: when receiving a message requesting a backup operation from an external electronic device, loading encrypted backup data from the secure element, transmitting the backup data to the external electronic device, and when receiving a message about backup completion from the external electronic device, setting the backup data to an unavailable state.
US12026058B2
Embodiments of the invention relate to methods and systems for predicting what files and/or folders will be skipped during a backup based on the file system's meta-data. Various embodiments of the invention may determine based on a file system's meta-data that specific files and/or folders will not be backed up in accordance with a backup's current rules or configuration. The aforementioned information can then be used to notify a user or administrator what files and/or folders will not be backed up and based on that notification, they may make changes to the backup's current rules or configuration. This advantageously provides the user or administrator knowledge of gaps in the protection provided by a backup and the ability to configure it to meet their needs.
US12026052B2
A memory component comprises a cyclic buffer partition portion and a snapshot partition portion. In response to receiving a signal that a trigger event has occurred, a processing device included in the memory component performs an error correction operation on a portion of data stored in the cyclic buffer partition portion, copies the data stored in the cyclic buffer partition portion to the snapshot partition portion in response to the error correction operation being successful, and sends the data stored in the cyclic buffer partition portion to a processing device operatively coupled to the memory component in response to the error correction operation not being successful.
US12026049B1
Methods, systems, and storage media including instructions for resolving technology issues is described. One of the methods includes receiving, by at least one processor, a session record of user producing a technical error on a computer system. The method includes providing, by the at least one processor, the session record for resolution to a processing system. The method also includes providing, by the at least one processor, a potential solution to the technical error.
US12026044B2
A method for execution by a storage network begins by creating a plurality of vaults in memory addressable by the storage network, where a vault is a virtual memory block associated with a portion of storage network memory, and then determining dispersed storage error encoding parameters for each vault. The method then continues by creating a plurality of vault regions within each vault, wherein a vault region is configured to store a data type of a plurality of data types, where at least one data type of the plurality of data types is associated with a unique access restriction.
US12026043B2
The present disclosure concerns a method to train, on a computing device, a machine-learning model adapted to determine a dysfunction of a monitored vehicle electronic control unit (ECU) or vehicle embedded computer. In aspects, the computing device stores, in a memory, historical data from a plurality of ECUs having a dysfunction. The historical data may include usage values over a period of time of at least one ECU resource by applications running on the ECUs. Further, the computing device may process the historical data to obtain two-dimensional training files. In implementations, each usage value may be linked with a specific application in a first dimension and a specific time in a second dimension. Still further, the computing device may train a machine-learning model with the training files.
US12026036B2
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for providing distributed tracing in a computing system comprising a plurality of microservices. An embodiment operates by transmitting, from a first microservice, a request associated with a task to a second microservice. The embodiment generates distributed tracing data associated with the request, comprising: propagating trace context associated with the request between the first microservice and the second microservice; propagating the trace context associated with the request between operators within the first microservice; and propagating the trace context associated with the request between functions within the first microservice or the second microservice. The embodiment receives, from the second microservice, a response associated with the task. The embodiment then ceases, at least based on the response, generating the distributed tracing data associated with the request.
US12026029B2
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, an image forming apparatus checks a connection status of devices to an USB host interface, and then turns off once a GPIO controlling a Vbus of interfaces to which USB devices are not connected, and then turns on the GPIO (that is, writing an enable signal “1” after writing a disable signal “0”), and then remove a cutoff state of electrical connection with the USB devices by a overcurrent preventing mechanism.
US12026024B1
A tray in a chassis and the chassis are provided in the present disclosure. The tray includes a tray housing, a handle assembly and an anti-falling elastic sheet, wherein the handle assembly includes a fixing portion and a handle, the fixing portion is fixedly disposed at a bottom of the tray housing, and the handle and the fixing portion are connected through a rotating shaft; a side wall of the handle is provided with a grip convex column, and the grip convex column is disposed between the rotating shaft and a grip of the handle; and an anti-falling elastic sheet, wherein the anti-falling elastic sheet includes a mounting portion, a convex portion and a connecting portion, the mounting portion is fixedly mounted with the bottom of the tray housing.
US12026017B2
An electronic device may comprise a housing, a first audio module positioned on a first side surface of the housing and a second audio module positioned on a second side surface of the housing, a display which includes a touch sensor panel, and moves with respect to the housing so at least a part of the display is exposed from the inside of the housing to the front side of the electronic device, and processor operatively connected to the display, wherein the processor is configured to identify whether the display moves by sliding or rolling with respect to the housing to allow at least a part of the display to be exposed, and correct an audio signal with respect to the at least one first audio module and the at least one second audio module corresponding to the display being moved.
US12026011B2
A novel electronic device is provided. Alternatively an electronic device of a novel embodiment is provided. An electronic device includes a ring portion and a display portion. The display portion is flexible. The display portion has a top surface and a first side surface in contact with at least one side of the top surface. The first side surface has a curved surface. The top surface includes a first display region. The first side surface includes a second display region. The first display region and the second display region are continuously provided. The electronic device is mounted such that the ring portion is in contact with a user's finger.
US12026008B2
An integrated circuit die includes input buffer circuits that are enabled during an input mode of operation in response to first control signals to transmit input signals into the integrated circuit die from conductive bumps. Each of the input buffer circuits is coupled to one of the conductive bumps. The integrated circuit die also includes output buffer circuits that are each coupled to one of the conductive bumps. The output buffer circuits are enabled during an output mode of operation in response to second control signals to transmit output signals from the integrated circuit die to the conductive bumps. The input buffer circuits are disabled from transmitting signals during the output mode of operation in response to the first control signals. The output buffer circuits are disabled from transmitting signals during the input mode of operation in response to the second control signals.
US12026006B2
A POI popularity derivation device (10) includes: a dictionary generation unit (11) that assigns a feature word used as a co-occurrence word of a POI name to each popularity-assigned POI name serving as a popularity assignment target to generate a popularity-assigned POI dictionary in which a popularity-assigned POI name and a feature word are associated with each other; an extraction unit (12) that extracts posted data serving as a search target from posted data on the basis of predetermined criteria; and a popularity derivation unit (18) that searches for the posted data on the basis of a predetermined rule regarding feature words while referring to the popularity-assigned POI dictionary, to extract posted data linked to the popularity-assigned POI name, and derives the popularity of each popularity-assigned POI name on the basis of the number of pieces of extracted posted data for each popularity-assigned POI name.
US12026004B2
An input device includes an operating body that moves through an operation performed by an operator, a movable portion that slides in accordance with movement of the operating body, a lever including a first end portion that engages with the movable portion, a rotation center, a second end portion located on an opposite side of the rotation center from the first end portion, and a magnet provided on the second end portion, where the lever rotates in accordance with sliding of the movable portion, and a magnetic sensor disposed facing the magnet. A second length from the rotation center of the lever to the magnet is greater than a first length from the rotation center to the first end portion of the lever.
US12025991B2
Provided is an unmanned aircraft that is used to quickly and accurately specify a target location and operate a specific mechanism having a predetermined function at the target location. An unmanned aircraft 100 refers to a target location marker pattern 120d3 representing an appearance of a target location marker 161 disposed to have a predetermined relative position relationship with the target location, detects an image portion corresponding to the target location marker 161 from an image obtained by a camera 106 that obtains the image below the unmanned aircraft 100, and is guided directly above the target location, based on the image portion, where the specific mechanism is operated.
US12025990B2
An apparatus for controlling the movement of a material transfer vehicle with respect to the front end of a paving machine that is being operated by a driver/operator and is being supplied with asphalt paving material by the material transfer vehicle includes a controller that is mounted on the material transfer vehicle and is operatively connected to control mechanisms for controlling the speed and braking of the material transfer vehicle. A sensor is mounted on the material transfer vehicle and is operatively connected to the controller. The sensor is located and adapted to execute non-contact sensor scan passes across the front end of the paving machine to determine the distance from the sensor to the paving machine. The sensor is also adapted to communicate information to the controller about the distance from the sensor to the paving machine. The apparatus includes no components that are mounted on the paving machine.
US12025980B2
When an autonomous mobile robot is acquires enters a stuck state in which the autonomous mobile robot cannot autonomosly move, an autonomous mobile apparatus control system according to the present disclosure transmits an autonomous cancel notification for notifying the higher-level management apparatus that the autonomous mobile robot cannot autonomosly move, waits for an operation instruction from the higher-level management apparatus after the transmission of the autonomous cancel notification. The higher-level management apparatus gives an operation instruction to the autonomous mobile robot in response to receiving the autonomous cancel notification based on information acquired from at least one of the plurality of environment cameras. The autonomous mobile robot is configured to resume autonomous driving in response to safety confirmation based on a proximity sensor provided in the autonomous mobile robot after operating in accordance with the operation instruction.
US12025978B2
A remote control adapted to modify an Unmanned Aerial Vehicle (UAV)'s autonomous flight of a predetermined trajectory is provided. The remote control includes at least one moveable control member for adjusting a set point of an adjustable control parameter of the UAV. Further, the remote control includes at least one actuator capable of controllably applying a torque to the at least one control member. The remote control additionally includes a processing circuit configured to determine a set point of torque to be applied to the at least one control member based on a reference set point of the control parameter. The reference set point of the control parameter is related to the predetermined trajectory. The processing circuit is further configured to control the at least one actuator to apply the determined set point of torque to the at least one control member.
US12025976B2
The disclosure describes a method associated with a simulation model of a process module configured to execute at least one module service. The process module is interlinkable or interlinked with further process modules to carry out a technical process in a cascade of module services, and includes Providing a process logic specification of the technical process, a control logic specification of the process module, a state engine of the process module from a configuration of the at least one service, and a process connection information of the technical process; Generating at least a part of the simulation model from a combination thereof, and Linking at least a part of the generated simulation model to a module type package for the process module, or extending a module type package for the process module by at least a part of the generated simulation model.
US12025967B2
A control system including a controller system and a support device is provided. The controller system controls a control target. The support device supports setting of the controller system. The support device includes a system-configuration input part, a threat analysis database, a threat-scenario creating part, a countermeasure database, a countermeasure creating part, and a security setting part. The countermeasure creating part creates a countermeasure scenario containing a countermeasure for each of protected assets of the controller system according to a threat scenario and countermeasures of the countermeasure database.
US12025966B2
An apparatus includes: a process control system; at least one process module; and a process module logic entity associated with the at least one process module. The process control system communicates with the at least one process module via a process module interface. The process module logic entity provides a control logic of the at least one process module.
US12025964B2
Irrigation controllers, methods, and computer readable media for altering a watering schedule for an irrigation controller in accordance with determined drought conditions are disclosed. A drought category for a watering zone may be determined. An adjusted landscape evapotranspiration rate may be calculated based on the drought category. The watering schedule for the watering zone may be altered in accordance with the adjusted landscape evapotranspiration rate.
US12025962B2
A portable handheld device pairs with a first building control device, to form a first wireless connection. The portable handheld device receives information about a second building control device via the first wireless connection, at least some of the information is received by the first building control device from the second building control device over a building control network before the first building control device provides at least some of the received information to the portable handheld device via the first wireless connection. The portable handheld device sends one or more messages to the first building control device via the first wireless connection, wherein the one or more messages cause the first building control device to communicate with the second building control device via the building control network to initiate a commissioning and/or maintenance process of the second building control device.
US12025951B2
The toner has a toner matrix particle containing a crystalline polyester resin. Associated silica including two or more of primary particles is present on the surface of the toner matrix particle. The coverage with associated silica onto the toner matrix particle is 1% or more to 30% or less, and the adherence strength of associated silica to the toner matrix particle is 20% or more to 90% or less.
US12025945B2
An image forming apparatus is disclosed, which includes an optical scanning portion which forms an electrostatic latent image on a photosensitive body; a placing member on which the optical scanning portion is placed; a first supporting member to which the placing member is fixed; a second supporting member opposite the first supporting member across the placing member; and a connecting member which connects the second supporting member and the placing member, the connecting member including a first surface which is fixed to the second supporting member and a second surface which is bent at an approximately right angle with respect to the first surface and is fixed to the placing member.
US12025944B2
An image forming apparatus includes a rotatable image bearing member, a developing unit to develop an electrostatic latent image at a developing portion, a transfer unit to transfer a developer image to a recording member at a transfer portion; and a brush provided with a plurality of fibers contacting the image bearing member at downstream of the transfer portion and upstream of the developing portion in a rotational direction of the image bearing member. An average contacting pressure of the brush per one fiber to the image bearing member is smaller than a depositing force of the developer not transferred to the recording member to the image bearing member. As the brush in a state of not in contact with the image bearing member is viewed from a free end side of the fibers, an average number of the fibers included in a circumference of a diameter of 100 μm is more than one.
US12025931B2
A fixing unit includes an endless belt, a heating unit configured to heat the belt, a pressure rotary member configured to form a fixing nip portion that nips and conveys a recording material with the belt, a pad configured to press the belt toward the pressure rotary member, a sliding sheet provided on the pad and configured to slide against the belt, a plate-like member configured to fix the sliding sheet to the pad, the sliding sheet being fixed in a manner sandwiched between the plate-like member and the pad, and fixing tools configured to fix the plate-like member at a plurality of positions along a longitudinal direction of the plate-like member. A width of the sliding sheet is wider than a width of the fixing nip portion and narrower than a width of the plate-like member in the longitudinal direction.
US12025921B2
The inventive concept provides a cooling unit. In an embodiment, the cooling unit comprises: a cooling plate with a seating surface; a pin member arranged at the cooling plate and supporting a substrate; a decompression hole formed on the seating surface; a decompression path formed within the cooling plate and connected to the decompression hole; a decompression member for decompressing the decompression path; and a controller for controlling the decompression member, wherein the controller controls the decompression member to decompress a space between the substrate and the seating surface of the cooling plate and thereby adjusting a distance between the substrate and the seating surface of the cooling plate.
US12025917B2
A method of supplying a chemical solution to a photolithography system. The chemical solution is pumped from a variable-volume buffer tank. The pumped chemical solution is dispensed in a spin-coater. The variable-volume buffer tank is refilled by emptying a storage container filled with the chemical solution into the variable-volume buffer tank.
US12025915B2
A resist underlayer film-forming composition having a dramatically improved crosslinking ability over conventional compositions, and further, a resist underlayer film-forming composition that crosslinks with a component of a resist material, in order to improve the adhesion of a resist underlayer film to a resist pattern. A resist underlayer film-forming composition for lithography including a copolymer having a structural unit of formula (1) and a structural unit of formula (2): (wherein each R1 is independently a hydrogen atom or a methyl group; each R2 is independently a C1-3 alkylene group; R3 is a single bond or a methylene group; A is a linear, branched, or cyclic aliphatic group having a carbon atom number of 1 to 12 and optionally having a substituent, or a C6-16 aromatic or heterocyclic group optionally having a substituent; and Pr is a protecting group); a crosslinking agent; an organic acid catalyst; and a solvent.
US12025909B2
Provided is a compound which is fluidized by light irradiation and is less colored. The compound is a compound represented by the following general formula (1), which is fluidized by light irradiation: R1—CH═N—R2 General Formula (1) wherein R1 is a substituted or unsubstituted cyclic hydrocarbon group or a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group; and R2 is a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group containing a nitrogen atom bonded to the nitrogen atom in the general formula (1).
US12025908B2
Provided is an imaging apparatus that includes a movement restriction member that mechanically sandwiches a movable member. The imaging apparatus includes the movable member that includes an imaging element, a support member that supports the movable member within a plane that intersects an optical axis of the imaging element, and a movement restriction member that includes a first member and a second member. The first member and the second member move between sandwiching positions at which the first member and the second member sandwich a sandwiching target member provided on the movable member and non-sandwiching positions separated from the sandwiching target member, and at the sandwiching positions, the first member and the second member sandwich the sandwiching target member at at least two or more points.
US12025904B1
The present utility model discloses a camera assembly of a visual earpick, which comprises: a sleeve, a camera module and a light-emitting assembly, wherein a front end of the camera module is provided with a first convex step, and the light-emitting assembly is arranged on the first convex step; the camera module comprises a lens and a circuit board assembly, the circuit board assembly comprises a flexible circuit board, a fixed plate and a support plate, the fixed plate is arranged below the lens, one end of the support plate is vertically fixed below the fixed plate, a clamping groove is arranged at a lower part of an inner side of the sleeve, and the other end of the support plate is at least partially inserted into the clamping groove to limit and fix the circuit board assembly.
US12025902B2
A method includes capturing a first image of a scene, detecting a face in a section of the scene from the first image, and activating an infrared (IR) light source to selectively illuminate the section of the scene with IR light. The IR light source includes an array of IR light emitting diodes (LEDs). The method includes capturing a second image of the scene under selective IR lighting from the IR light source, detecting the face in the second image, and identifying a person based on the face in the second image.
US12025896B2
A display device includes a first pixel electrode having a first strip electrode and a second strip electrode, a second pixel electrode having a third strip electrode and a fourth strip electrode disposed in the second main pixel, and a light-shielding layer overlapping the first strip electrode. The light-shielding layer has a first opening exposing the second strip electrode, and a second opening exposing the third strip electrode and the fourth strip electrode. A size of the first opening is less than a size of the second opening. A width of the second strip electrode is less than a width of the first strip electrode.
US12025885B2
This application discloses a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. A light-adjusting liquid crystal cell of the display panel includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a light-adjusting liquid crystal layer and a sealing layer. The ultraviolet light transmittance of the first substrate in a display area is less than a predetermined threshold, and the ultraviolet light transmittance of the second substrate in the display area is greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold. During the curing of frame glue, it can prevent pre-polymerized molecules from being exposed to light in advance. During the curing of the pre-polymerized molecules, it can make the pre-polymerized molecules have a cross-linking reaction to form a polymer network.
US12025884B2
A display device includes a first substrate, a first alignment layer, a second substrate, a second alignment layer, and a display medium. The first alignment layer is disposed on the first substrate. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The second alignment layer is disposed on the second substrate, and the first and second alignment layers are located between the first and second substrates. The display medium is located between the first and second alignment layers, where a surface of the first alignment layer facing the display medium and a surface of the second alignment layer facing the display medium have topographies with irregular areas surrounded by micro-structures. Besides, a manufacturing method of the display device is also provided.
US12025880B2
A light source device includes light sources arranged on a substrate in a matrix, and a reflective member. The reflective member includes first walls respectively surrounding the light sources, and defining first regions, and second walls located on an outer side of the first walls, and defining second regions each having an opening facing outside of the reflective member. The reflective member defines a pair of first sides parallel to one of a vertical direction and a lateral direction in a plan view, the pair of first sides being constituted by a part of the reflective member including at least one of the first walls and the first regions, and a second side inclined or curved with respect to the pair of first sides, the second side being constituted by a part of the reflective member including at least one of the second walls and the second regions.
US12025879B2
A display module provided by this application includes a backlight module, a display panel, and a sealing structure. The backlight module includes a backplane and a backlight assembly. The backplate includes a bottom wall and side walls provided on side edges of the bottom wall. The bottom wall and the side walls enclose an accommodation space, the bottom wall has a hollow area, and the backlight assembly is disposed in the accommodation space. A sealing structure is connected with the bottom wall and seals the accommodation space, which can prevent water vapor, dust, and other impurities from entering the display module from an edge of the hollow area to cause wrinkle and deformation or damage to a light guide plate or film layers in the display panel.
US12025877B2
The present invention discloses a display panel and a manufacturing method thereof. The display panel includes a plurality of liquid crystal cells, each of the plurality of liquid crystal cells includes cholesteric liquid crystals, and a chiral rotation direction of the cholesteric liquid crystals in one of the plurality of liquid crystal cells is opposite to a chiral rotation direction of the cholesteric liquid crystals in its adjacent ones of the liquid crystal cells, so that the cholesteric liquid crystals films with different rotation directions are designed between adjacent pixels, and one of any two adjacent pixels allows light to pass through, and another one of the two adjacent pixels blocks the light from passing through and reflects the light back into the display device, thereby achieving an object of reducing crosstalk.
US12025868B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a dimming liquid crystal cell and a display liquid crystal cell. The dimming liquid crystal cell includes a first substrate, a second substrate, a dimming liquid crystal layer, a first electrode layer, and a second electrode layer. A first resistance reduction metal layer is disposed on the first substrate, and the first resistance reduction metal layer is electrically connected to the first electrode layer.
US12025863B2
An optical structure includes an input waveguide, a beam splitter, a first arm, a second arm, a beam combiner, and an output waveguide. The first arm and the second arm each include a conventional waveguide region and a modulation waveguide region. The modulation waveguide region of the first arm includes a first modulation waveguide region and a second modulation waveguide region. The modulation waveguide region of the second arm includes a third modulation waveguide region and a fourth modulation waveguide region. The electrical structure includes a traveling wave electrode including a ground-signal-signal-ground electrode structure. The traveling wave electrode includes a signal input region, a modulation electrode region, and a matching resistor region. The modulation electrode region includes a first modulation electrode region and a second modulation electrode region. The first modulation electrode region is connected to the second modulation electrode region.
US12025844B2
A cable includes: a cable main body; a first adhesive layer in contact with an outer peripheral surface of the cable main body; a protective member that covers an end part of the cable main body; an outer peripheral member that covers a part of the protective member; and a second adhesive layer on an inner peripheral surface of the outer peripheral member and in contact with the protective member. Adhesive strength of the second adhesive layer is larger than adhesive strength of the first adhesive layer.
US12025841B2
A method and system for an optical package assembly is disclosed. According to one example, the optical package assembly includes a photonic integrated circuit (PIC) chip, at least one fiber coupled to the PIC chip, a fiber lid plate disposed on at least a portion of the at least one fiber, and a cover plate having a surface coupled to the PIC chip and the fiber lid plate.
US12025840B2
A display panel and an electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes the display panel. The display panel includes a display panel main body, a protective layer, a light source module, and a light sensor. Outgoing light emitted by the light source module can be totally reflected in the protective layer. When a finger touches an area of the protective layer corresponding to a display area, light emitted to the finger can be reflected to light sensor. As such, a range of under-screen fingerprint recognition can be increased.
US12025835B2
An optical waveguide structure of a semiconductor photonic device includes a first semiconductor waveguide, a second semiconductor waveguide, and an air seam between the first and second semiconductor waveguides. The semiconductor waveguides extend in a first direction, and a plurality of air seams extend in a second direction. Each of the air seams is disposed between two adjacent semiconductor waveguides. A distance between the two adjacent semiconductor waveguides is less than a width of each semiconductor waveguide.
US12025834B2
The invention concerns a polarization rotator, comprising a first waveguide layer containing at least a first waveguide, said first waveguide having an input end and an output end, a second waveguide layer having at least a second waveguide, said second waveguide having an input end and an output end, and at least a first vertical mirror element arranged at the end of at least one of said waveguides to couple light between the output end of the first waveguide and the input end of the second waveguide. The optical axis of said first or second waveguide which has the vertical mirror element at its end is rotated in its waveguide layer at a first angle in order to induce rotation of polarization of light coupled between said first and second waveguides with an amount that corresponds to said first angle.
US12025825B2
The invention provides a light-emitting composite film layer, a backlight module, and a display device. The light-emitting composite film layer includes a quantum dot film layer and a diffusion film layer. The diffusion film layer is disposed on at least one surface of the quantum dot film layer. Quantum dots and light diffusion particles are dispersed in the quantum dot film layer. The quantum dots include green light and red light quantum dots, and light diffusion particles are dispersed in the diffusion film layer. The invention makes blue light divergent, makes the blue light reach same brightness viewing angles as red light and green light, and reduces or even eliminates color cast.
US12025823B2
A volume diffractive optical element (E) comprising: a carrier (1) having an optical relief pattern (P) on at least one surface thereof, and at least one optically functional layer (2) applied over or onto at least one or more portions or relief features (P) of the relief pattern on the carrier (1); wherein in embodiments the at least one optically functional layer (2) comprises a plurality of discrete bodies, beads or globules (2) of optical material applied over or onto the respective individual relief portions or relief features or relief elements (P) of the relief pattern on the carrier (1).
US12025818B2
The disclosure relates to an optical element, including: a substrate, a first coating, which is disposed on a first side of the substrate and is configured for reflecting radiation having a used wavelength (λEUV) in the EUV wavelength range, and a second coating, which is disposed on a second side of the substrate, for influencing heating radiation that is incident on the second side of the substrate. The disclosure also relates to an optical arrangement having at least one such optical element.
US12025816B2
The present invention provides a viewing angle diffuser film and a display panel, including a base substrate and refractive protrusions. By setting space ratios of adjacent refractive protrusions in a first direction and a second direction, refraction directions of the viewing angle diffuser film can be controlled, and therefore light diffusion effects can be controlled. In the display panel of the present invention, the space ratios of the refractive protrusions in different directions are adjusted according to different usage scenarios to improve display brightness and reduce color shifts.
US12025815B2
According to one embodiment, a display device includes a first display panel including a first display surface, a second display panel opposed to the first display panel, configured to transmit image light emitted from the first display surface, and including a second display surface on a side opposite to a side opposed to the first display surface, and an imaging optical element located between the first display panel and the second display panel, and generating in space an imaging plane where the image light is imaged.
US12025807B2
A system projects a user-viewable, computer-generated or -fed image, wherein a head-mounted projector is used to project an image onto a retro-reflective surface, so only the viewer can see the image. The projector is connected to a computer that contains software to create virtual 2-D and or 3-D images for viewing by the user. Further, one projector each is mounted on either side of the user's head, and, by choosing for example a retro angle of less than about 10 degrees, each eye can only see the image of one of the projectors at a given distance up to 3 meters, in this example, from the retro-reflective screen. The retro angle used may be reduced with larger viewing distance desired. These projectors use lasers to avoid the need for focusing, and in some cases these projectors use instead of lasers highly collimated LED light sources to avoid the need for focusing.
US12025797B2
An optical system, including a reflective polarizer, and a display and a mirror disposed on a same side of, and generally facing, the reflective polarizer. The reflective polarizer may transmit at least 80% of incident light having a first polarization state and may reflect at least 80% of incident light having a second polarization state, and the mirror may reflect at least 80% of the incident light for each of the first and second polarization states. The central locations of the display, reflective polarizer, and mirror may define a midplane which includes first, second, and third regions, such that the first region includes portions of the image rays that pass at least once across the region, the second region includes portions of the image rays that pass at least twice across the region, and the third region includes portions of the image rays that pass three times across the region. The first, second, and third regions may have respective areas A1, A2, and A3, such that A3/A2 is greater than or equal to about 0.20, or 0.22, or 0.24, or 0.26, or 0.28, or 0.30.
US12025791B2
A fine-displacement adjusting device is constructed to have a first base portion and a second base portion spacedly encircled therewithin. The fine-displacement adjusting device further includes a first retractable element biased between the first and second base portions, and a first resilient element biased between the first and second base portions. The first retractable element is configured to extend and retract its length along a first axis to move the second base portion in a reciprocating manner. When the second base portion is moved by the first retractable element, the first resilient element moves the second base portion along the first axis to restore the second base portion. Therefore, the second base portion is fine-moved along the first axis in a reciprocating manner for adjusting the fine-displacement of an optical lens relative to an optical light source of a light engine in the first axis.
US12025778B2
An optical imaging system includes: a first lens having a concave image-side surface; a second lens having refractive power; a third lens having a concave image-side surface; a fourth lens having a concave object-side surface or a convex image-side surface; a fifth lens having refractive power; a sixth lens having a concave image-side surface; and a seventh lens having negative refractive power. The first to seventh lenses are sequentially disposed from an object side and 1.62<(N2+N5+N6)/3, where N2 is a refractive index of the second lens, N5 is a refractive index of the fifth lens, and N6 is a refractive index of the sixth lens.
US12025766B2
Provided is a method for detecting a target using a metal detector, including transmitting a transmit magnetic field using a transmitter; determining positions of a receiver of the metal detector as the receiver changes positions; receiving receive magnetic fields due to the transmit magnetic field to produce receive signals associated with positions using the receiver and receive electronics; and producing an audio output signal. The audio output signal is dependent on one or more receive signals associated with positions related to a current determined position in a selected relationship.
US12025764B2
An embedded-object scanner device includes a housing and a sensing device, which is housed in the housing and senses one or more embedded objects embedded in a target material when moved across the target material. One or more illumination devices is provided on the housing for illuminating at least a portion of the surface of the target material.
US12025761B2
This is an early identification method for a shallow soil landslide, belonging to the technical field of landslide prevention and control engineering. The present invention accurately determines and identifies a shallow soil landslide in a quantitative manner, improving the early identification efficiency of a landslide and helping to improve the disaster prevention effect.
US12025760B2
Disclosed apparatus comprises: a radiation detection panel in a housing, for detecting incident radiation as an electrical signal related to a radiation image; a support base in the housing and located on a side opposite to a radiation incident surface, for supporting the radiation detection panel from a back surface side; an internal structure in the housing and disposed on the back side surface of the support base; and fixing members in the housing, for fixing the internal structure to the support base, the difference in the radiation shielding efficiency between at least one of the fixing members and the support base is less than 50%, and when viewed from a radiation incident direction, a sheet like member having a radiation shielding efficiency of 50% or more is not arranged on a region on the back surface side of the radiation detection panel overlapping with the fixing member.
US12025758B2
Disclosed herein are variations of megavoltage (MV) detectors that may be used for acquiring high resolution dynamic images and dose measurements in patients. One variation of a MV detector comprises a scintillating optical fiber plate, a photodiode array configured to receive light data from the optical fibers, and readout electronics. In some variations, the scintillating optical fiber plate comprises one or more fibers that are focused to the radiation source. The diameters of the fibers may be smaller than the pixels of the photodiode array. In some variations, the fiber diameter is on the order of about 2 to about 100 times smaller than the width of a photodiode array pixel, e.g., about 20 times smaller. Also disclosed herein are methods of manufacturing a focused scintillating fiber optic plate.
US12025754B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for performing ultrasound imaging. Channel domain data can be received from an ultrasound transducer to form one or more channel domain data sets. A first ultrasound processing operation can be applied to the channel domain data to generate a first subset of one or more images from the one or more channel domain data sets. A second ultrasound processing operation can be applied to the channel domain data to generate a second subset of one or more images from the one or more channel domain data sets. Image characteristics of the first subset of one or more images and the second subset of one or more images can be regionally analyzed to identify regional image characteristics of the first and second subsets of one or more images. The first subset of one or more images can be blended with the second subset of one or more images based on the regional image characteristics to generate one or more composite images.
US12025749B2
A LIDAR system includes a light source configured to generate an outgoing light signal that includes multiple channels that are each of a different wavelength. The system includes optical components that generate composite light signals. Each composite light signal includes light from a LIDAR input signal combined with light from a reference signal. The LIDAR input signals each includes light that was reflected by an object located apart from the system and that was included also in one of the channels. The reference signals do not include light that was reflected by the object but include light from one of the channels. Each of the composite signals is generated such that the reference signal and the LIDAR input included in the composite signal includes light from the same channel.
US12025745B2
A method may include generating, within a device, separate and discrete wavelengths, and generating light intensity profiles based on an interaction between the separate and discrete wavelengths and a multi-wavelength diffractive optic element. The method may include detecting an object from light reflected from the object using the light intensity profiles. The light intensity profiles may include a shorter range light intensity profile and a longer range light intensity profile, each light intensity profile having different energy per solid angle patterns.
US12025738B2
The present disclosure relates to a ranging device and a ranging module that allow a light emitting element and a light receiving element to be integrated with a simple structure. A light emitting substrate having a light emitting element is connected to a circuit substrate through first bumps, and a light receiving substrate having a single light emitting element or light emitting elements that are two-dimensionally disposed is connected to the circuit substrate through second bumps. The optical axis of a lens, the optical axis of the light emitting element, and the center axis of the light receiving element are disposed on substantially the same axis. The present technique can be applied to a ranging device that carries out ranging, and so forth.
US12025737B2
The present invention relates to a lidar device for measuring a distance of an external object using light. According to the present invention, the transmission mirror and the reception mirror are integrally formed, and a shadow region, which has not been conventionally used, is utilized as a light transmission region such that a separate light transmission space is unnecessary, thereby enabling a minimized design of the lidar device.
US12025735B2
The present invention relates to a coordinate measuring device for detecting a position of a target object which can move in space and which comprises a retroreflector, wherein an automatic identification of a recognized target object and an assignment of specifications associated with the target object takes place.
US12025731B2
A radar sensor includes: a transceiver unit for emitting a radar beam along a beam path in an outgoing direction and receiving radar radiation along the beam path in an incoming direction; and a reference object placed in the beam path to redirect part of the outgoing radar beam in the incoming direction. The reference object is one of a plurality of reference objects placed in the radar beam. A size of the reference objects in at least one dimension is smaller than a wavelength of the radar beam.
US12025730B2
The disclosure provides a method for estimating the nondirectional wave spectrum from the sea echoes of multiple HF radar frequencies. The method includes: dividing the radar detection area into a plurality of fan-shaped units at an equal range interval and angle interval according to the distance resolution and the angular resolution of an HF radar; obtaining the Doppler spectrum from the sea echo of a single radar frequency at a fan-shaped unit by performing the first fast Fourier transform (FFT) in distance dimension, the second FFT in Doppler frequency dimension and the digital beamforming; extracting the positive first-order peak and the negative first-order peak from the aforementioned Doppler spectrum by the peak-searching method; and selecting the stronger first-order peak σR(1)(ω); dividing the second-order spectrum on the stronger first-order peak side into an inner second-order spectrum and an outer second-order spectrum.
US12025729B2
A method is provided for facilitating radar detection robust to IQ imbalance. The method comprises the step of generating a radar signal in digital domain comprising a number of M periodic repetitions of a code sequence with a length Lc, multiplied with a progressive phase rotation e j · π K · n , where Lc and M are integers, K is an integer or a non-integer, and n is a discrete integer variable. The method further comprises the step of generating a process input signal in digital domain from a reflection signal corresponding to the radar signal by multiplying the reflection signal with a progressive phase rotation e - j · π K · n . In this context, K is defined such that a ratio Lc K is a non-integer, and M is defined such that a ratio Lc · M K is an integer.
US12025726B2
An antenna apparatus includes multiple antenna elements each performing at least one of transmission and reception of radio waves. The coverage areas of main lobes of radiation patterns of the multiple antenna elements are overlapped with each other and the shapes of side lobes thereof are varied among the multiple antenna elements. With this configuration, it is possible to discriminate and acquire the signal of the radio waves coming from the coverage areas of the main lobes of the antenna from the signal of the radio waves coming from the outside of the coverage areas.
US12025721B2
Systems and methods of a wireless communications system using signals not traditionally used for positioning purposes for positioning measurements in both uplink (UL) and downlink (DL) are described herein. A user equipment (UE) may generate a UE capability information message indicating one or more signal types that the LE can process for DL positioning measurements and/or that the UE can send for UL positioning measurements. The one or more signal types so indicated may include signals not traditionally used for positioning measurements. The UE may send, to the base station, the UE capability information message. The wireless communications system may then configure the base station and/or the UE to use such signal types with one or more positioning methods. In some embodiments, the base station may also indicate to the UE a subset of signals of an indicated type which should be processed for DL measurements/sent for UL measurements.
US12025720B2
Processing sound signals acquired by a microphone, for example an ambisonic type, to locate a sound source in a space including at least one wall. A time-frequency transform is applied to the acquired signals, and, from the acquired signals, a velocity vector, complex with real and imaginary parts, is expressed in the frequency domain, wherein the velocity vector characterizes a composition between: a first acoustic path, direct between the source and the microphone, represented by a first vector; and a second acoustic path resulting from a reflection on the wall and represented by a second vector. The second path has a first delay with respect to the direct path. Depending on the first delay and the first and second vectors, a parameter is determined from among a direction of the direct path, a distance from the source to the microphone, and a distance from the source to said wall.
US12025710B2
A machine vision device is provided usable in conjunction with power equipment machines. By way of example, an array of sensors can be deployed to detect proximity of objects to the power equipment machine, and issue an alert in response to detecting an object within a threshold distance. The alert can be utilized by the power equipment machine to take corrective action to mitigate or avoid running over or striking the object. Sensors having respective fields of view can be arranged along an arc to facilitate machine vision of a spatial volume in a proximity of the machine, and ranging determinations can be coupled with low cost processing devices to facilitate a machine vision solution far more cost effective than other technologies in the art.
US12025707B2
A slope monitoring system for monitoring deformation of a wall or slope from a virtual point of view. A slope monitoring device directs signals at a slope or wall and compiles direction data, range data and amplitude data from signals reflected from the slope or wall. The direction data, range data and amplitude data comes from a first real position and a second real position. The data may be recorded sequentially or concurrently.
US12025697B2
The present disclosure relates to a dual-polarized phased array antenna and a dual-polarized phased array weather radar. According to the dual-polarized phased array antenna, a plurality of dual-polarized row feeds are arranged on a horizontal cylindrical support surface to form a dual-polarized antenna in a horizontal cylindrical shape. This allows two polarized signals in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction to be simultaneously received and transmitted, and ensures digital multi-beam signals with constant beam bandwidth, antenna gain, and dual polarization performance. The dual-polarized phased array weather radar provided in the present disclosure uses the formed dual-polarized microstrip patch antenna or a dual-polarized waveguide slot antenna in the horizontal cylindrical shape. This can ensure consistency of weather detected at different scan angles, and improve the accuracy of weather target 3D construction. In addition, this can simplify the calibration requirement of an existing phased array weather radar.
US12025684B2
RF coil assemblies are disclosed that include multiturn loops formed of conductors configured to receive RF signals from a patient during MRI. The multiturn loops include an inner loop and an outer loop that both lie substantially in a plane of the RF coil assembly. The inner loop is at least partially nested within the outer loop.
US12025674B2
A durability evaluation method of a secondary battery includes a durability step of continuing to apply an alternating current voltage of a durability frequency to a first secondary battery for evaluation over a durability test period, and an evaluation step of evaluating durability of an associated battery reaction associated with the durability frequency from among battery reactions of the first secondary battery. A temperature and a state of charge of the first secondary battery are adjusted to a first temperature and a first state of charge, respectively.
US12025671B2
An overvoltage characteristics evaluation apparatus for a battery includes a sensing unit to measure a current and a voltage of the battery, and a control unit to determine a measured capacity history and a measured voltage history of the battery during a discharge event executed subsequent to polarization-inducing pretreatment for the battery. The control unit determines a first measured voltage curve indicating a correlation between the measured capacity history and the measured voltage history, and a second measured voltage curve indicating a correlation between a depth of discharge history obtained by normalizing the measured capacity history to a total discharge capacity of the measured capacity history and the measured voltage history. The control unit determines a differential voltage curve by differentiating the measured voltage history. The control unit determines overvoltage characteristics information associated with the polarization-inducing pretreatment by comparing the differential voltage curve with a reference differential voltage curve.
US12025669B2
A device for monitoring spacecraft electric potential includes a first conductor configured to be in electrical communication with a conductive structure of a spacecraft, a second conductor capacitively coupled to the first conductor, a switch connected to the first conductor and the second conductor such that closure of the switch electrically ties the first conductor to the second conductor, and a monitoring circuit in electrical communication with the second conductor, the monitoring circuit being configured to detect an electric potential of the second conductor relative to the first conductor, the detected electric potential being indicative of a change in electric potential of the first conductor relative to the second conductor since an opening of the switch.
US12025668B2
Discussed is a battery diagnosing system that may include a battery management system (BMS) configured to obtain battery information including at least one of a temperature, a current and a voltage of a battery, and generate a first diagnosis result corresponding to a current state of the battery based on the battery information; and a server configured to receive the battery information and the first diagnosis result from the BMS, generate a second diagnosis result corresponding to the current state of the battery and a third diagnosis result corresponding to a future state of the battery from the battery information based on a state estimation model, which is pre-trained, and determine the current state of the battery based on a plurality of diagnosis results of the first diagnosis result, the second diagnosis result and the third diagnosis result.
US12025664B2
A monitoring system includes a frame, a fixed contact, a moveable contact, a drive mechanism, and a linkage mechanism, wherein the fixed contact is fixed in position with respect to the frame, and wherein the linkage mechanism is coupled to the drive and the moveable contact, and wherein activation of the drive is configured to move the linkage mechanism such that the moveable contact is moved towards or away from the fixed contact, and wherein the monitoring system comprises a sensor system having a position sensor and a processor, the position sensor configured to be positioned with respect to the frame and the linkage mechanism such that lateral movement of a part of the linkage mechanism generates at least one displacement signal; and the processor configured to convert the at least one displacement signal to a displacement movement of the moveable contact toward or away from the fixed contact.
US12025660B2
A system of performing boundary scan test on pin through test point and a method thereof are disclosed. When an under-test pin of a target connector is determined to be unable to perform a boundary scan test, a test point connected to and closest to the under-test pin is searched, a test signal is transmitted to a target connector, a result signal from the target connector in response to the test signal is received, an expected result and the result signal are compared to generate a test result, so that a boundary scan function can be applied to test a connector of a computer product, to achieve the technical effect of providing a better test range and a better test coverage to improve test efficiency and reduce test cost, compared to conventional boundary scan test.
US12025658B2
Embodiments of the invention provide for integrated circuits for testing one or more transistors for process variation effects. According to an embodiment, the integrated circuit can include: a plurality of ring oscillator macro circuits, wherein each ring oscillator macro circuit includes two ring oscillators, a first multiplexer, and a first divide-by-two circuit; a multiplexer stage; a divide-by-two circuit stage; a second multiplexer; a second divide-by-two circuit; and frequency measurement circuit. According to another embodiment, the integrated circuit can include: a first shift register including a plurality of devices-under-test; a second shift register including a plurality of static latches; a first multiplexer configured to receive outputs from each of the plurality of DUTs; a second multiplexer configured to receive outputs from each of the plurality of static latches; and a comparator configured to compare an output from the first multiplexer with an output from the second multiplexer.
US12025656B2
A semiconductor module includes a substrate; a plurality of semiconductor packages provided on the substrate; and an environment information indicator configured to display information related to an environment surrounding the plurality of semiconductor packages.
US12025655B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a system for testing semiconductor device. The method includes the following operations. A wafer having an IC formed thereon is provided. The IC is energized by raising the voltage of the IC to a first voltage level during a first period. A stress signal is applied to the IC. The stress signal includes a plurality of sequences during a second period subsequent to the first period. Each of the sequence has a ramp-up stage and a ramp-down stage. The stress signal causes the voltage of the IC to fluctuate between a second voltage level and a third voltage level. Whether the IC complies with a test criterion is determined after applying the stress signal.
US12025652B2
An apparatus and a method for inspecting a semiconductor includes a water tank which includes a housing, an interior of which is filled with a liquid, and a support block which provides a settling surface for an inspection object inside the housing. A plurality of signal generators are installed on a bottom surface of the housing, and output a frequency signal in a direction in which the inspection object is located. A power supply operates the signal generators. A probe is placed above the inspection object, and a receiver which operates with the probe and is attached to a bottom surface of the support block. Foreign matter remaining on the inspection object are removed, using a plurality of frequency signals which are output by the plurality of signal generating units.
US12025649B2
A test control port (TCP) includes a state machine SM, an instruction register IR, data registers DRs, a gating circuit and a TDO MX. The SM inputs TCI signals and outputs control signals to the IR and to the DR. During instruction or data scans, the IR or DRs are enabled to input data from TDI and output data to the TDO MX and the top surface TDO signal. The bottom surface TCI inputs may be coupled to the top surface TCO signals via the gating circuit. The top surface TDI signal may be coupled to the bottom surface TDO signal via TDO MX. This allows concatenating or daisy-chaining the IR and DR of a TCP of a lower die with an IR and DR of a TCP of a die stacked on top of the lower die.
US12025642B2
A permittivity measuring method includes measuring a set of phases at sampling frequencies of at least three points in each of a first-half portion and a second-half portion of a phase characteristic of electromagnetic waves that passed through a measurement target, if the mode of the phase changes of both sets of phases belongs to a phase group in which change of the at least three points in the first half and change of at least three points in the second half are both monotonic change, maximal values, or minimal values, calculating the permittivity using the phase slope of the phases in the first-half portion and the phases in the second-half portion, and if the mode of the phase changes does not belong to the phase group, calculating the permittivity by fitting the phases of either the first half or the second half to a quadratic function.
US12025635B2
A pressure probe affixable in a scale three-dimensional model of direct environment, buildings, and other objects and having a plurality of orifices open in circumferential spaced apart relation on a probe side surface each connected through a dynamic pressure flow path to a plurality of pressure sensors each of which generates a pressure signal which varies based on change dynamic pressure at a corresponding one of the plurality of orifices which pressure signals can be analyzed to determine fluid flow direction and fluid flow speed of a fluid flow about the pressure probe affixed in the scale three-dimensional model.
US12025631B2
An automatic sample introduction device includes a needle, a sample loop, a mixer and a suction injection switch mechanism. The mixer is provided between the needle and the sample loop. The suction injection switch mechanism sequentially sucks first and second fluids into the sample loop through the needle and the mixer and injects the first and second fluids held in the sample loop into a predetermined injection port. A chromatograph includes the automatic sample introduction device having the above-mentioned configuration, an analysis column and a detector. The analysis column is connected to the injection port of the automatic sample introduction device, and the detector is connected to the analysis column.
US12025629B2
A processing unit for automated preparation of biological samples included in specimen tubes is described herein. The processing unit includes a removable sample preparation component configured to receive specimen tubes, read identifiers associated with the biological samples contained in the specimen tubes, mix reagents included in the specimen tubes, and transfer the specimen tubes to at least one of a centrifuge or a storage compartment. The processing unit further includes a centrifuge loader for automatic loading and unloading of the specimen tubes onto a centrifuge. The automated centrifuge loader includes a magnetic brake that can stop the centrifuge rotor at a precise position to facilitate loading and unloading of a specimen tube. The centrifuge includes a swing bucket designed to pivot around an axis and slide vertically to enable moving the bucket to a position in which the swing bucket can engage with the port where the specimen tube resides.
US12025628B2
A test strip code reader is provided. The test strip code reader includes a test strip carrier for accommodating a test strip, a first conductive element for decoding a code of the test strip, a second conductive element configured to be in a contact state or a separation state with the first conductive element, and an activation element having a body and a plurality of protrusions, wherein the body is used to prevent the first conductive element from being contaminated, and according to whether the plurality of protrusions are actuated by the test strip, the contact state or the separation state between the first conductive element and the second conductive element is determined to decode the code of the test strip.
US12025627B2
A management system including at least one processor, wherein the processor is configured to acquire a captured image obtained by imaging an outer surface of each of plural sample containers which contains a sample and in which discrimination information for discriminating a subject from whom the sample is collected is given to the outer surface, and associate a test result related to the sample contained in each of the sample containers with a test order in which information of a discrimination image including the discrimination information is registered in advance for each subject, based on the captured image and the test order.
US12025617B2
A method to calibrate measurements of a test analyte in a test sample including measuring at least one test-light level responsive to reactions of at least one reagent group and at least one reactive test analyte in the test sample and measuring at least one control-light level responsive to reactions of at least one reagent group and at least one control analyte in a control sample. Each control analyte is a known amount of at least one reactive test analyte. The method further includes determining a presence of the reactive test analyte in the test sample based on the measured test-light levels and control-light levels. The reagent group and the reactive test analyte react by attaching to each other.
US12025614B2
The present invention relates to methods that utilize a combination of immunoassay and magnetic immunoassay techniques to detect an analyte within an extended range of specified concentrations. In particular, a method includes forming, in a biological sample, a first complex of signal antibodies and analyte, and a second complex of the first complex and capture antibodies immobilized on magnetic beads, and contacting a first immunosensor with the biological sample to form a third complex localized on or near a surface of the first immunosensor. The first immunosensor includes an immobilized layer of capture antibodies configured to bind to the analyte, and the third complex includes the first complex bound to the immobilized layer of capture antibodies. The method further includes contacting a magnetic field localized around a second immunosensor with the biological sample such that the second complex is localized on or near a surface of the second immunosensor.
US12025611B2
Disclosed herein are devices, systems and methods for performing cell culture using animal-chip hybrids. A cell culture device may comprise a fluid channel portion having a first port at a first end and a second port at a second end, and a first compartment for culturing cells. A continuous or intermittent perfusion of blood from an animal subject may enter the cell culture device at the first port and exit the cell culture device at the second port.
US12025603B2
Provided is a method for analyzing the metal impurity content that includes passing water to be analyzed through a monolithic organic porous anion exchanger, thereby allowing the monolithic organic porous anion exchanger to capture metal impurities in the water to be analyzed; passing an eluent through the monolithic organic porous anion exchanger which has been allowed to capture metal impurities in the water to be analyzed, to collect an effluent, thereby obtaining a collected eluent containing metal impurities in the water to be analyzed eluted from the monolithic organic porous anion exchanger; and measuring the content of each metal impurity in the collected eluent.
US12025601B2
Systems and methods monitor a space for environmental pollutants. A sensing device senses and reports air quality anomalies to a cloud detection service. The cloud detection service uses artificial intelligence to analyze raw sensor data from the sensing device, determines whether the raw sensor data indicates an air quality event, and sends an air quality report indicative of the air quality event to a client device associated with the sensing device and/or the monitored space. A sensing device may be deployed in an air extraction vent to detect and report indications of vaping in prohibited spaces. A sensing device may be deployed in a vehicle to detect and report smoking in vehicles where smoking is prohibited. An application running on a mobile device reports detection of a short-range wireless beacon within a serviceable space to a cloud detection service, which tracks servicing of the serviceable space.
US12025598B2
Techniques and apparatus for an analytical data acquisition process are described. In one embodiment, for example, an apparatus may include logic to submit a sample list for acquisition via an instrument system, the sample list comprising a plurality of injections for a mass analysis system, generate a queue element in a queue for the sample list, the queue element representing the plurality of injections of the sample list to be performed by the at least one instrument system, the queue comprising a plurality of queue elements submitted by a plurality of users and to indicate a progress of each of the plurality of queue elements, and perform a control function on at least one of the plurality of queue elements responsive to user input, the control function comprising one of stopping, starting, or editing the at least one of the plurality of queue element. Other embodiments are described.
US12025597B2
A liquid chromatograph includes a liquid sender that sends a plurality of solvents, a mixer that has an internal capacity for mixing the plurality of solvents sent by the liquid sender, a sample injector that injects a sample into an analysis flow path through which the solvents mixed in the mixer flow as a mobile phase, a separation column provided on the analysis flow path for separating the sample injected by the sample injector to each component, a detector provided downstream of the separation column on the analysis flow path for detecting the components of the sample separated in the separation column, a capacity information storage medium that is attached to the mixer to store information as to the internal capacity of the mixer, configured to read the information stored in the capacity information storage medium to specify the internal capacity of the mixer.
US12025592B1
A method for purifying exosomes from a cell culture medium comprising combining at least three (03) treating stages of a sample containing exosomes in the following specific order: (A) filtering the sample containing exosomes by tangential flow filtration (TFF) to obtain a TFF-filtered sample; (B) centrifuging the TFF-filtered sample by sucrose cushion centrifugation (SCC) to obtain a SCC-centrifuged sample; and (C) purifying the SCC-centrifuged sample by bind-elute size exclusion chromatography (BE-SEC) to obtain a purified exosomes. The present invention provides a comprehensive and efficient approach for purifying exosomes from a cell culture medium, facilitating using exosomes in various biomedical applications.
US12025591B2
Provided are a material testing machine that can improve the responsiveness and the stability and perform a feedback control for a test condition, and a method for controlling a material testing machine. A monitor amount conversion unit (23) calculates an estimation testing force by multiplying an elongation amount measured by an elongation amount measurement unit (22) by a control stiffness of a test piece (TP). A material test control unit (24) determines an operation amount for a servo motor (43) for reducing a deviation between an actual testing force applied to the test piece (TP) and a target testing force according to a test condition based on an estimation testing force, and executes a tensile test for the test piece (TP).
US12025590B2
A loading system for a Hopkinson pressure bar test under water-gas-temperature multi-field coupling action includes: a sample sealed cabin which includes sealing flanges, Y-shaped and high-temperature resistant sealing rings, and a sealed cabin body; a gas pressure loading device which includes a high-pressure gas tank, a pressure regulating valve, a second barometer, a second high-pressure valve and a first three-way valve connected in sequence; a water pressure loading device which includes an electric pressure test water pump, a water pressure gauge, an accumulator and a one-way valve connected in sequence; a temperature loading device which includes thermocouple heating rods, a temperature display and a thermocouple temperature control circuit board connected in sequence; and a dynamic and static combined loading device which includes an axial pressure loading device, an impact loading device and a Hopkinson pressure bar member.
US12025580B2
An ion detection sensor fabrication method includes: preparing an ion-sensitive film preparation solution; preparing an ion-sensitive mixed layer preparation solution by mixing the ion-sensitive film preparation solution with graphene powder; and forming an ion-sensitive mixed layer sensitive to a target ion by applying the ion-sensitive mixed layer preparation solution to fill a gap between a source and a drain spaced apart from each other and to cover at least a portion of an upper surface of each of the source and the drain.
US12025577B2
The present invention generally relates to a system for preparing reduced graphene-cobalt chromate composite for humidity sensor applications comprises a first glass beaker for pouring 3-7 grams of sucrose; a preheated muffle furnace for heating the first glass beaker containing sucrose for 5-15 minutes at 450-500° C. in an oxygen environment and obtaining the black foam of rGO after hydrating the sugar; a second glass beaker for mixing 3-7 grams rGO, 3-7 grams carbamide, 3-7 grams cobaltous, and 3-7 grams chromium nitrate and dissolving with double-distilled water; and a magnetic stirrer for stirring the mixed solution for 450 minutes to generate a homogenous solution and burning the uniform mixture at 425° C. in the preheated muffle furnace for 20 minutes to obtain graphene-cobalt chromate composite.
US12025575B2
Optical elements that efficiently propagate x-ray radiation over a desired energy range and reject radiation outside the desired energy range are presented herein. In one aspect, one or more optical elements of an x-ray based system include an integrated optical filter including one or more material layers that absorb radiation having energy outside the desired energy band. In general, the integrated filter improves the optical performance of an x-ray based system by suppressing reflectivity within infrared (IR), visible (vis), ultraviolet (UV), extreme ultraviolet (EUV) portions of the spectrum, or any other undesired wavelength region. In a further aspect, one or more diffusion barrier layers prevent degradation of the integrated optical filter, prevent diffusion between the integrated optical filter and other material layers, or both. In some embodiments, the thickness of one or more material layers of an integrated optical filter vary over the spatial area of the filter.
US12025569B2
An inspection device includes an illumination optical system that irradiates a sample with light having a predetermined wavelength, a detection optical system that includes a photoelectric conversion unit, and a data processing unit that extracts positional information of a foreign substance or a defect on the sample. The light collection optical system includes a polarized light transmission control unit that changes transmission characteristics according to polarization characteristics of the collected reflected light or scattered light. The polarized light transmission control unit includes a birefringence phase difference control unit that causes a predetermined phase difference between a fast phase axis and a slow phase axis of the reflected light or scattered light according to the polarization characteristics of the reflected light or scattered light, and a polarized light transmission unit that selectively transmits light according to a polarization direction of output light of the birefringence phase difference control unit.
US12025565B2
The present disclosure provides an inspection system and method for inspecting an optical surface of a laser scanner, the system including a directional optical source and an optical detector. The method includes moving one of the laser scanner or the inspection system to a position in which a beam axis of the directional optical source extends across but does not intersect the optical surface, between the optical surface of and the optical detector. The method further includes emitting a light beam from the directional optical source, across the optical surface so that light from the light beam is incident on debris disposed on the optical surface. The method further includes collecting the light at the optical detector to form an image that indicates presence of the debris on the optical surface of the laser scanner; and generating feedback to alert a user of the presence of the debris.
US12025557B2
Provided herein are devices, systems, and methods for characterizing a biological sample in vivo or ex vivo in real-time using time-resolved spectroscopy. A light source generates a light pulse or continuous light wave and excites the biological sample, inducing a responsive fluorescent signal. A demultiplexer splits the signal into spectral bands and a time delay is applied to the spectral bands so as to capture data with a detector from multiple spectral bands from a single excitation pulse. The biological sample is characterized by analyzing the fluorescence intensity magnitude and/or decay of the spectral bands. The sample may comprise one or more exogenous or endogenous fluorophore. The device may be a two-piece probe with a detachable, disposable distal end. The systems may combine fluorescence spectroscopy with other optical spectroscopy or imaging modalities. The light pulse may be focused at a single focal point or scanned or patterned across an area.
US12025555B2
A photodetector comprises a substrate, and supported by the substrate, a configuration to act as optical resonator and to absorb incident radiation of a band, including infrared. The configuration comprises: a resonant frontside structure facing the incident radiation; a backside structure and arranged between the frontside structure and the substrate; and a layer of an active material made from a semiconducting material, and configured to convert at least part of the incident radiation of the band into charge carriers. The frontside structure or the backside structure is made from electrically conducting material and is in contact with the active material. The configuration is configured to selectively absorb the incident radiation of the band. The frontside structure or the backside structure that is in contact with the active material is contacted by electrical contacts for sensing the charge carriers in the active material. The active material comprises amorphous or polycrystalline material.
US12025553B2
A device for the contactless determination of at least one property of a metal product during the metallurgical production of the metal product comprises a housing and at least one measuring device comprising a transmitting unit and a receiving unit. An electromagnetic field is generated by the transmitting unit and directed onto the metal product, thereby inducing a physical interaction in the material of the metal product, and a remaining and/or resulting part of this physical interaction is subsequently received by the receiving unit. At least one component of the measuring device comprising the transmitting unit and/or the receiving unit can be moved relative to the housing or the metal product moving therein, in order to thereby set or selectively change a predetermined distance to the metal product for the transmitting unit and/or the receiving unit.
US12025550B2
The disclosure relates to devices and methods for analyzing particles in a sample. In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides devices and methods for cytometry and additional analysis. In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides a cartridge device and a reader instrument device, wherein the reader instrument device receives, operates, and/or actuates the cartridge device. In various embodiments, the present disclosure provides a method of using a device as disclosed herein for analyzing particles in a sample.
US12025545B2
The present technology relates to an analytical device for quantitative or qualitative analysis of one or more analytes in a sample. The analytical device comprises a reaction component and a capping component. The reaction component is capable of performing an analysis on a sample placed within an inner reaction chamber that is connected to an output end and conduit that eliminates the air or liquid component of the sample. Once the output end is sealed, the inner reaction chamber may be used as an extraction, reaction and analysis chamber with an optically clear path for interrogation of the sample. The analytical device may also feature a sealing device that seals the inner reaction chamber during analysis. The sealing device may also have an inner chamber for accommodating lyophilized reagents that can be added at any point during the procedure.
US12025544B2
A mixed solution in which a compound which forms a nonvolatile membrane at a gas-liquid interface through self-aggregation is dispersed in a volatile liquid, is ejected and atomized in a gas or in a vacuum to produce a droplet particle, and a nonvolatile membrane is then formed at the gas-liquid interface by aligning the compound on a surface of the droplet particle having a reduced diameter due to evaporation of the volatile liquid in the gas or in the vacuum to stabilize the droplet particle. The method produces a novel droplet particle which stably exists in a gas or in a vacuum without collapsing or without evaporation of the volatile liquid inside the droplet particle.
US12025534B2
A method for sensing a leak in a unit under test includes scanning a SKU on a unit under test, sending the SKU information to a compute, connecting the unit under test to a testing apparatus, removing gas from an interior volume of the unit under test, monitoring the vacuum pressure within the interior volume of the unit under test until the vacuum pressure reaches a test pressure, initiating delivery of helium to the exterior of the unit under test through a helium gun by pulling a trigger on the helium gun to dispense helium therefrom, positioning the helium supply gun so that helium is released over a weld of the unit under test, detecting the movement speed of the helium supply gun during the dispensing of helium therefrom, and displaying the helium content internal to the unit under test on a graphical user interface.
US12025532B2
A device for monitoring a shaft coupling coupling a first shaft to a second shaft includes an optical unit comprising a receiving element which is designed to receive an electromagnetic radiation in a form of light, and an error notification element designed for arrangement on and/or within the first shaft and on and/or within the second shaft. The error notification element is designed to notify when the first shaft runs asynchronously with respect to the second shaft.
US12025530B2
An optical pulse tester includes an optical divider configured to cause a return light to divide into first divided light and second divided light, a first optical receiver configured to receive the first divided light and output a first optical receiver signal, a second optical receiver configured to receive the second divided light and output a second optical receiver signal, and a signal processor configured to obtain a waveform indicating an intensity distribution of the return light in a longitudinal direction of the optical fiber by performing level conversion of the first optical receiver signal and the second optical receiver signal on the basis of a divided ratio of the optical divider and optical receiver sensitivities of the first optical receiver and the second optical receiver and synthesizing the first optical receiver signal and the second optical receiver signal which have been subjected to the level conversion.
US12025528B2
Disclosed are devices and methods of detecting and mitigating oscillatory instabilities in systems with turbulent flow, such as thermoacoustic, aeroacoustic or aeroelastic equipment. The system includes a sensor array for measuring one or more parameters of an operating equipment S, and an analysis and prediction unit. The analysis and prediction unit is configured to estimate a state tensor to identify a state of the equipment indicating stable operation or impending oscillatory instability. The system further includes an actuator array configured to implement a control action to promote stable operation of the equipment. Methods for robust prediction of the state of stability are also disclosed. A neural ordinary differential equation (ODE) method of predicting stability or instability is disclosed, involving forming a neural network that incorporates an equation characteristic of the operational state. The invention further discloses a hybrid convolutional neural network based prediction method for stability.
US12025525B2
A tactile sensor includes a first layer formed of flexible material having an outer contact surface and an opposed inner interface surface, a second layer formed of substantially transparent flexible material arranged in substantially continuous contact with the flexible first layer at the interface surface, a camera, and reflective material. The first and second layers are configured so that pressure exerted by an object or objects contacting the outer contact surface causes at least localized distortion of the interface surface. The camera is arranged to capture an image of the interface surface through the flexible second layer. The reflective material is configured so that the appearance of at least part of the reflective material changes as the viewing angle changes and the reflective material is located between the layers at the interface surface.
US12025518B2
A pressurized fluid container having a pressure indicator device, the device having-a piston sensitive to the prevailing pressure in the pressurized fluid container, the piston moving, depending on the value of the pressure in the pressurized fluid container, between at least a retracted position and a deployed position; an indicator component configured to cooperate with the piston, the indicator component moving, depending on the position of the piston, between at least a first position representing a first pressure value and a second position representing a second pressure value.
US12025513B2
A wellbore environment including a downhole tool coupled with a conveyance and operable to be disposed within a wellbore, at least one strain measurement devices coupled with a surface of the downhole tool; and a control facility communicatively coupled with the at least one strain measurement device.
US12025512B2
Resonating sensors for use in high-pressure and high-temperature environments are provided. In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a sensor with a double-ended tuning fork piezoelectric resonator that includes a first tine and a second tine. These tines are spaced apart from one another so as to form a slot between the first and second tines. The width of the slot from the first tine to the second tine varies along the lengths of the first and second tines. Various other resonators, devices, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US12025509B2
A temperature measurement circuit for measuring a temperature using a temperature sensitive element includes a voltage control circuit configured to apply a control voltage to the temperature sensitive element. The temperature measurement circuit includes a first switching circuit configured to switch levels of the control voltage based on a current flowing through the temperature sensitive element. The temperature measurement circuit includes a conversion circuit configured to convert the current flowing through the temperature sensitive element into a voltage level corresponding to the measured temperature, by using predetermined conversion gain. The temperature measurement circuit includes a second switching circuit configured to switch values of the conversion gain based on the voltage level.
US12025500B2
Systems and methods for thermal radiation detection utilizing a thermal radiation detection system are provided. The thermal radiation detection system includes one or more Indium Antimonide (InSb)-based photodiode infrared detectors and a temperature sensing circuit. The temperature sensing circuit is configured to generate signals correlated to the temperatures of one or more of the plurality of infrared sensor elements. The thermal radiation detection system also includes a signal processing circuit.
US12025496B2
A drug scanning and identification system including a spectrometer, a drug holder, a mobile device and a drug identification model is provided. The spectrometer includes a light source, a diffraction grating, a light-absorption element, a wavelength selector, and a single-point photodetector. The drug holder includes a transparent area and a light-absorption area. The drug is disposed on the transparent area. The light-absorption area surrounds the transparent area. The mobile device is adapted to send a control command to trigger the spectrometer scanning the drug so as to obtain spectrum data of the drug. The spectrometer is adapted to transmit the spectrum data of the drug to the drug identification model. The drug identification model is adapted to identify the spectrum data of the drug such that the drug identification model generates an identification result. The identification result is displayed by the mobile device.
US12025489B1
Optical fiber based acoustic sensors are provided herein. The optical fiber based acoustic sensors described herein include acoustically responsive optical structures configured to detect and receive acoustic signals, including ultrasound signals, and provide associated optical signals to a system for processing and interpretation to implement tracking, location, and imaging capabilities. Optical fiber based sensors provided herein may be disposed at ends of or along the length of optic fibers. Optical fiber based sensors may be included within various devices, including, for example, medical devices. Optical fiber based sensors may provide a compact technology with high sensitivity to visualize and track objects and provide anatomical imaging.
US12025485B1
Fishing tournament recording and verifying systems suitable for ensuring honesty, accuracy and integrity in reporting and recording sizes of fish caught in a fishing tournament may include at least one scale configured to obtain at least one measured weight of a fish. At least one head unit may communicably interface with the at least one scale. The at least one head unit may be configured to capture at least one image of the fish and pair the at least one image of the fish with the at least one measured weight. At least one external database may communicably interface with the at least one head unit. The at least one external database may be configured to receive weight and image data corresponding to the at least one measured weight paired with the at least one image of the fish. At least one personal electronic device may communicably interface with the at least one external database. The at least one personal electronic device may be configured to receive the weight and image data from the at least one external database. A mobile app may be provided on the at least one personal electronic device. The mobile app may be configured to present the at least one measured weight paired with the at least one image of the fish on the personal electronic device. Fishing tournament recording and verifying methods are also disclosed.
US12025484B2
A thin film forming method includes: a first operation of supplying a source gas at a first flow rate into a reactor; a second operation of purging the source gas in the reactor to an exhaust unit; a third operation of supplying a reactive gas at a second flow rate into the reactor; a fourth operation of supplying plasma into the reactor; and a fifth operation of purging the reactive gas in the reactor to the exhaust unit, wherein, during the second to fifth operations, the source gas is bypassed to the exhaust unit, and a flow rate of the source gas bypassed to the exhaust unit is less than the first flow rate. According to the thin film forming method, the consumption of the source gas and the reactive gas may be reduced, and the generation of reaction by-products in the exhaust unit may be minimized.
US12025479B2
The method comprises producing a measurement signal (s1) having a signal parameter, followed with a temporal change (Δx1/Δt; Δx1′/Δt) of a primary measured variable (x1) and a temporal change (Δy1/Δt) of a disturbing variable (Δ1), and producing a measurement signal (s2) having a signal parameter, followed by a temporal change (Δx2/Δt; Δx2′/Δt) of a primary measured variable (x2). The method comprises ascertaining measured values (XI) of first type representing the primary measured variable (x1) or a secondary measured variable (f(x1) Δx1′) of measured values (XII) of second type representing the primary measured variable (x2) or a secondary measured variable (f(x2) Δx2′). The method comprises using measured values (XI) of first type and measured values (XII) of second type for ascertaining an error characterizing number (Err) representing a velocity error (ΔXI/ΔXII) caused by a change of the disturbing variable (y1).
US12025478B2
A device for providing at least one signal color for a level gauge is provided, the device including: a parameterization device configured to provide a signal color for a network of level measuring devices; and a transmission device configured to transmit the provided signal color as signal color data to the network of level measuring devices. A method of providing a signal color for a level measuring device and a nontransitory computer-readable storage medium are also provided.
US12025472B2
An apparatus and method for estimating a vehicle pitch relative to a road. The apparatus includes a wheel speed sensor part which obtains wheel speed data, an inertial measurement unit (IMU) sensor part which obtains IMU data, a preprocessing part which extracts a stop section and a moving section on the basis of the wheel speed data and the IMU data, and a slope estimation part which estimates a vehicle pitch in the stop section and a road slope in the moving section and estimates a vehicle pitch relative to a road on the basis of the vehicle pitch and the road slope.
US12025469B2
A multi-distance ranging reticle for an optical device is provided. The reticle can include a primary vertical crosshair transverse to a primary horizontal crosshair, a secondary horizontal crosshair having a first vertical marking and a second vertical marking, separated by a distance, the secondary horizontal crosshair corresponding to a first range. A first object having a first known width can be placed between the first and second vertical markings to estimate a first estimated range to the first object. An assortment of other vertical markings can be disposed along the secondary horizontal cross hair, and/or other additional horizontal crosshairs and separated by other distances corresponding to other known widths of other objects. By selectively framing an object of a known width between certain vertical markings along a particular horizontal crosshair, a user can quickly and efficiently estimate range of the object. A related method of use is provided.
US12025468B2
A measuring system for triangulation-based distance measuring device having a light emitting unit, a light receiving unit for detecting measuring light reflected from an object and a processing unit for deriving distance information based on a detected reflection of measuring light. The system comprises a visual guiding unit projecting a visual marker onto the object. The light emitting unit and the visual guiding unit provide a light reflection onto the object by emitting the measuring light and the projection of the visual marker onto the object. The measuring system comprises a camera, the field of view of the camera being greater than the field of view of the light receiving unit and the camera captures an image covering the light reflection and the projection of the visual marker and to provide image information according to a captured image.
US12025462B2
A computer implemented method for determining the position of a vehicle, wherein the method comprises: determining at least one scan comprising a plurality of detection points, wherein each detection point is evaluated from a signal received at the at least one sensor and representing a location in the vehicle environment; determining, from a database, a predefined map, wherein the map comprises a plurality of elements in a map environment, each of the elements representing a respective one of a plurality of static landmarks in the vehicle environment, and the map environment representing the vehicle environment; matching the plurality of detection points and the plurality of elements of the map; determining the position of the vehicle based on the matching; wherein the predefined map further comprises a spatial assignment of a plurality of parts of the map environment to the plurality of elements, and wherein the spatial assignment is used for the matching.
US12025458B2
A method of positioning a vehicle (N) that is provided with an electronic processor unit (2) connected both to a nonoptical positioning device (3, 4) and to an optical device (5) for taking external images, the electronic processor unit (2) including a database of landmarks including at least the geographical position of each landmark and a descriptive element describing each landmark, the method comprising the steps of: estimating a first geographical position (P1e) for the vehicle (N) by means of the nonoptical positioning device (3, 4); from the database, preselecting landmarks having geographical positions situated within a predetermined radius around the first geographical position (P1e) of the vehicle (N); selecting the triplets that minimize geometrical errors; controlling the optical device (5) for taking external images to take images of the selected landmarks; selecting images in which the landmarks are indeed visible, identifying the landmarks in the images, and, from the images, measuring a relative or absolute bearing for each visible landmark; and determining a second geographical position (POraw or POc) for the vehicle (N) from the measured relative or absolute bearings, optionally while taking account of movement of the vehicle (N) while the images of the landmarks of the triplet were being taken.
US12025457B2
Systems, methods, and non-transitory computer readable media configured to provide three-dimensional representations of routes. Locations for a planned movement may be obtained. The location information may include tridimensional information of a location. Route information for the planned movement may be obtained. The route information may define a route of one or more entities within the location. A three-dimensional view of the route within the location may be determined based on the location information and the route information. An interface through which the three-dimensional view of the route within the location is accessible may be provided.
US12025453B2
The present technology is effective to cause at least one processor to determine that a vehicle is within a threshold distance from a point of interest, determine details about the point of interest, and present the details about the point of interest. The vehicle may be characterized by having the ability to take any route to a destination requested by a passenger and to travel to the destination at any speed that is appropriate for road and traffic conditions. The details about the point of interest to present may be based upon a location and a speed of the vehicle.
US12025448B2
The disclosed computer-implemented method may include (i) receiving, by a dynamic transportation matching system, a request for transportation between initial waypoints, (ii) calculating, by the dynamic transportation matching system, a value metric for an initial driving route between the initial waypoints (iii) calculating a value metric for a walk-enabled driving route that comprises at least one alternate waypoint that is within a predetermined walking range of one of the initial waypoints, and (iv) improving, by the dynamic transportation matching system, a value of fulfilling the request for transportation by determining that a difference between the value metric of the walk-enabled driving route and the value metric of the initial driving route satisfies a walking-value threshold and selecting, based on the determination that the difference satisfies the walking-value threshold, the walk-enabled driving route for fulfilling the request for transportation. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US12025447B2
A map matching method, an apparatus and an electronic device related to the technical field of artificial intelligence such as high-precision map, autonomous driving, internet of vehicles, and smart cockpit, where a specific implementation is: when matching a high-precision map with a standard-precision map, firstly acquire road network data corresponding to the high-precision map and the standard-precision map to be matched; and construct a first graph network based on the road network data corresponding to the high-precision map, and construct a second graph network based on the road network data corresponding to the standard-precision map, then determine a matching result between the high-precision map and the standard-precision map based on the first graph network and the second graph network. By the method using the graph network, the matching of the high-precision map with the standard-precision map can be accurately realized, thereby effectively improving accuracy of the matching result.
US12025446B2
Some embodiments of the present invention provide a method of navigating through a terrain using a human-scale vehicle, the method including: receiving an origin point and one or more destination points in the terrain; selecting route segments of a plurality of predefined route segments to navigate a user from the origin point to the one or more destination points in the terrain using the human-scale vehicle; obtaining motion data from one or more motion sensors disposed on at least one of the user and the human-scale vehicle during traveling of the human-scale vehicle along the selected route segments; and determining, based on at least a portion of the obtained motion data, terrain characteristics of the selected route segments.
US12025439B2
Surveying apparatus comprising an event-based camera comprising a dynamic vision sensor. The events detected by the camera are used, by means of target radiation, to determine a direction to a target to be surveyed or to determine camera poses of the camera in the context of visual odometry or determining the location of the surveying apparatus
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A miniature, micrometer-accuracy, three-dimensional (3D) position-to-optical displacement sensor that has at least one extrinsic Fabry-Perot interferometer (EFPI) in Z direction and a series of plasmonic metasurface resonators with distinctive wavelength-selective characteristics in X and Y directions. The interferometer comprises at least one single mode optic fiber for light propagation, and a substrate mirror to create a light interference fringe as a function of distance between the mirror and the distal end of the optic fiber. Each plasmonic resonator is capable of modifying the substrate mirror and comprises an array of multiple unit nanostructure unit cells that are arranged in a two-dimensional (2D) square lattice or array in the X-Y plane. The nanostructure unit cells are preferably inscribed in the top layer of a three-layer thin film via the focused ion beam (FIB).
