US12030329B2
Provided is a thermal transfer sheet having a good foil holding property of a transfer layer and a good foil cutting property of the transfer layer. A thermal transfer sheet which comprises a substrate 1, a release layer 2, and a transfer layer 10 which are layered in this order, wherein the interval between the release layer 2 and the transfer layer 10 corresponds to the transfer interface of the transfer layer 10, and the release layer 2 contains an acid-modified polyolefin.
US12030328B2
A thermosensitive recording medium includes a base material; a thermosensitive recording layer; and an under layer disposed between the base material and the thermosensitive recording layer and containing a non-thermally-expandable hollow filler. The thermosensitive recording medium includes a hydrocarbon, where an amount of the hydrocarbon having from 3 through 16 carbon atoms is 0.2 mg/m2 or more, relative to an area of the thermosensitive recording medium.
US12030322B2
A printing apparatus includes a support portion supporting a medium, a jetting unit configured to jet a pretreatment agent onto the medium supported on the support portion, a lid member to which the jetting unit is attached, the lid member being configured to cover a printing region of the medium, an ejecting unit configured to eject ink onto the printing region to which the pretreatment agent is jetted from the jetting unit, and a moving unit configured to move the support portion to a first position at which the lid member is configured to cover the printing region and a second position at which the ejecting unit is configured to eject the ink onto the printing region.
US12030317B2
A printing apparatus includes an inkjet head having a nozzle surface on which a nozzle for ejecting ink is formed, a cleaning liquid tank configured to store a cleaning liquid, a cleaning member provided inside the cleaning liquid tank and configured to wipe the nozzle surface, a holding member extending from an outside of the cleaning liquid tank into the cleaning liquid tank and configured to hold the cleaning member, a drive device configured to drive the holding member, and a liquid leakage suppression member provided to at least one of the cleaning liquid tank and the holding member and configured to suppress the cleaning liquid from leaking from the cleaning liquid tank.
US12030315B2
There is provided a liquid discharge head, including: a first channel member including individual channel rows and first common channels that correspond to the respective individual channel rows; a second channel member including a second common channel provided in common to the first common channels; and a third channel member including at least parts of connection channels connected to the second common channel. One of the connection channels is connected to an end in a longitudinal direction of the second common channel. The liquid discharge head further comprises a communication opening disposed at any other part of the second common channel except the end in the longitudinal direction, the second common channel communicating with the outside through the communication opening.
US12030314B2
A liquid ejection head includes a nozzle for ejecting a droplet of a liquid, a pressure chamber connected to the nozzle, an actuator for changing a volume of the chamber according to a voltage signal, and a drive circuit generating the signal for ejecting n droplets, where n is an integer of 3 or more. The signal includes (n−1) ejection pulses, comprising a first pulse lowering the voltage signal to a first value to expand the chamber and then to a second value to contract the chamber, and a second pulse lowering the voltage signal to the first value and then to a third value higher than the second value. The pulses are input at intervals of 0.8λ to 1.2λ, where λ is a primary natural vibration period of the chamber filled with the liquid.
US12030313B2
There is provided a liquid discharge apparatus, in which a first inductance element included in a first demodulation circuit has a first terminal which a first amplified modulated signal is input, a second terminal which a first driving signal is output, a second inductance element included in a second demodulation circuit has a third terminal which is provided in a fourth side portion, and to which a second amplified modulated signal is input, a fourth terminal which is provided in a fifth side portion that faces the fourth side portion, and from which a second driving signal is output, and a second lead member coupled to the third terminal and the fourth terminal and having a third refraction point and a fourth refraction point, and the first inductance element and the second inductance element are positioned such that the second side portion and the fourth side portion face each other.
US12030305B2
A recording apparatus including a recording head that performs recording, a feed roller that feeds out a set medium, a transport driving roller that transports the medium, which is fed out by the feed roller, towards an opposing position that opposes the recording head, and an auxiliary roller provided between the feed roller and the transport driving roller, the auxiliary roller assisting transportation of the medium. When the apparatus is seen from a side of the apparatus, the auxiliary roller overlaps the feed roller in a height direction of the apparatus.
US12030303B2
Disclosed is a printing apparatus in which web paper is transported to a printing face contact roller in a swirling form while a direction thereof is turned by first to fourth turning rollers. Heating units are arranged so as to face a printing face of the web paper between the two first and second turning rollers, between the two third and fourth turning rollers, and between the fourth turning roller and the printing face contact roller individually. Such arrangement can achieve a compact drying mechanism. The heating units each directly heat inks on the printing face, and thus do not overheat the web paper. Moreover, the heating units are not directed upward. This avoids contact of the web paper to a front side face of each of the heating units when the web paper slackens.
US12030299B2
In some examples, a processing machine for processing a substrate includes at least one shaping unit. The at least one shaping unit includes at least one forme cylinder and at least one impression cylinder. A processing point for processing a substrate is arranged between the at least one forme cylinder and the at least one impression cylinder. The processing machine includes a control unit for correcting a processing length of the substrate, and which controls a speed of at least one of the at least one forme cylinder or the at least one impression cylinder. The at least one forme cylinder and the at least one impression cylinder have a speed ratio with respect to one another that is changeable at the processing point as a function of the processing length of the substrate, and the speed ratio differs at least once within a full cylinder revolution.
US12030297B2
Provided is a glass film-resin composite, which prevents the breakage of a glass film and enables the production of an elongated glass film. The glass film-resin composite of the present invention includes: an elongated glass film; a resin tape, which is arranged on at least one surface of the elongated glass film and is linearly arranged at least near each of both ends in a widthwise direction of the elongated glass film in one surface of the elongated glass film; a protective layer, which is arranged near each of both the ends in the widthwise direction of the surface of the elongated glass film having arranged thereon the resin tape and on an outside of the resin tape in the widthwise direction; and a resin layer arranged on one surface of the elongated glass film.
US12030296B2
A lightning strike protection (LSP) apparatus includes a first layer of fiber glass. The LSP apparatus also includes a second layer positioned on the first layer. The second layer includes carbon nanotubes (CNT). The LSP apparatus also includes a third layer positioned on the second layer. The third layer includes a surfacer. The LSP apparatus also includes a fourth layer positioned on the third layer. The fourth layer also includes the fiber glass. The LSP apparatus also includes a fifth layer positioned on the fourth layer. The fifth layer includes a primer. The LSP apparatus also includes a sixth layer positioned on the fifth layer. The sixth layer includes an outer surface material.
US12030290B2
A panel, such as a floor panel, including a core, an optional upper arrangement and an optional lower arrangement. One or more of the core, the upper arrangement (5) and the lower arrangement includes a mineral-based layer, preferably including magnesium oxide. One or more of the mineral-based layers includes reinforcement fibres embedded in a mineral-based matrix, preferably including magnesium oxide. The fibres are configured to increase the tensile strength of the mineral-based layer.
US12030281B2
A method of manufacturing a glass resin laminated body includes a step of sticking a glass film on a resin film via an adhesive layer while holding the glass film and the resin film between a first roller that presses against the resin film and a second roller that is disposed opposite to the first roller and that presses against the glass film. A ratio of an elastic modulus P1 of a surface layer of the first roller to an elastic modulus P2 of the resin film P1/P2 satisfies a relation of 3×10−3≤P1/P2≤1.0.
US12030276B2
A glass article including an ultra-thin glass layer and an optically transparent polymeric hard-coat layer having a pencil hardness of 8H or more bonded to the ultra-thin glass layer. The optically transparent polymer hard-coat layer may include an organic polymer material or an aliphatic or aromatic hexafunctional urethane acrylate. In some embodiments, the glass article may have an impact resistance defined by the capability of the glass article to avoid failure at a pen drop height that is 2 times or more than that of a control pen drop height of the ultra-thin glass layer without the optically transparent polymeric hard-coat layer, where the pen drop height and the control pen drop height are measured according to the Pen Drop Test. In some embodiments, the glass article may survive a bend radius of 5 mm or less.
US12030262B2
A rotating manifold includes an axle, a hub rotatable relative to the axle about an axis of rotation, and a compressed air line in fluid communication housed in the axle. The rotating manifold further includes a vacuum line in fluid communication with the hub. The rotating manifold further includes a plurality of conduits connected to the hub. Each conduit of the plurality of conduits is in fluid communication with the vacuum line and houses a compressed air line arm in fluid communication with the compressed air line.
US12030260B1
This document describes slab products, and systems and methods of forming slab products. Some example methods include placing a first slab section having a first surface within an enclosure, arranging a second surface of a second slab section adjacent the first surface within the enclosure, such that a seam is defined between the first surface and the second surface, sealing the enclosure, providing a resin at an inlet of the enclosure, and flowing the resin through the seam.
US12030259B2
A first plastic part is fixtured in a first fixture, and a second plastic part is fixtured in a second fixture for welding to each other. The first plastic part can be independently moved relative to the second plastic part in each of three directions: 1) linearly in a direction parallel with a z-axis, 2) linearly in a direction parallel with an x-axis, and 3) circularly in a circular arc about an axis parallel with a y-axis.
US12030253B2
The invention is a method and device for producing three-dimensional objects, having a gradient of properties and multi-material objects, from powders. A method involves the selection of powders of various materials according to diameter, the successive application of layers of powder of a given thickness during the vertical displacement of a piston of a device build chamber with an object to be sintered, and the programmed selective sintering/melting of a given area in the plane of each layer. After sintering, piston is raised, unsintered powder is removed from a layer. The piston is then returned, and a layer of powder having a different diameter and being of a dissimilar material is applied and selectively sintered. When the object-sintering process is finished, the unsintered powder is removed from the build chamber, and the powders are separated according to diameter. The separated powders are returned to feed containers of device for re-use.
US12030249B2
A three-dimensional (3D) printer including a floating solution for reducing resin usage may include a main frame, a water tank disposed inside the main frame, a build platform slidable in a vertical direction along the water tank, an optical assembly disposed at an upper portion of the main frame and irradiating a laser beam to the build platform, resin contained inside the water tank, and the floating solution contained inside the water tank, wherein the floating solution is not mixed with the resin, has a higher density than the resin, and supports the resin.
US12030235B2
A transportable/portable bending machine for arcuately contacting an end section of a synthetic resin or plastic composition planar member which includes a frame having a substantially planar frame base member. The machine includes a heating assembly mounted within the frame below the planar frame base member to heat an end section of the synthetic resin or plastic composition to a temperature which allows the end section to become pliable. A forming mechanism includes a cylindrical bar and a rotatable forming member for arcuately forming the end section of the resin or plastic composition planar member around the cylinder bar. An adjustment height mechanism adjusts the displacement distance between an upper surface of the planar frame base member and the cylindrical bar with an adjustable and rotatable lever mechanism connected to the forming mechanism for arcuately displacing the forming mechanism through a predetermined arc length.
US12030224B2
A molding system is provided, which includes at least one mold part and a heating and cooling module. The at least one mold part defines a mold cavity having an opening. The heating and cooling module is inserted into the opening to close the mold cavity. The heating and cooling module includes a die insert defining a mold surface, a layered heater for heating the mold surface, and a cooling unit for cooling the mold surface. The layered heater is disposed between the die insert and the cooling unit and includes functional layers formed directly on a surface of the cooling unit or a surface of the die insert opposite to the mold surface by using layered or layering processes selected from a group consisting of thick film, thin film, thermal spray and sol-gel processes.
US12030223B2
A strand manufacturing apparatus capable of reducing variations among diameters of resin strands without stopping the operation of an extruder is provided. A strand manufacturing apparatus includes a die in which an outflow hole for discharging a resin material contained in an extruder as a string-shaped resin strand is formed, an adjustment valve configured to adjust opening of the outflow hole, an image acquisition unit configured to acquire an image of the resin strand extruded from the outflow hole, a diameter acquisition unit configured to acquire a diameter of the resin strand in the image, and an opening adjustment unit configured to adjust the opening by driving the adjustment valve based on the diameter of the resin strand acquired by the diameter acquisition unit.
US12030220B2
A method of making a homogeneous mixture of polyolefin solids and carbon solids without melting the polyolefin solids during the making. The method comprises applying acoustic energy at a frequency of from 20 to 100 hertz to a heterogeneous mixture comprising the polyolefin solids and the carbon solids for a period of time sufficient to substantially intermix the polyolefin solids and the carbon solids together while maintaining temperature of the heterogeneous mixture below the melting temperature of the polyolefin solids, thereby making the homogeneous mixture without melting the polyolefin solids.
US12030214B2
A skin-forming die includes an inlet face; an outlet face; one or more slots, each of the one or more slots comprising one or more slot inlets extending between the one or more slot inlets and the outlet face; a plurality of feedholes extending between the inlet face and the one or more slot inlets; and a central opening configured to receive a matrix die. Extrusion die apparatus and methods of manufacturing honeycomb bodies are also disclosed.
US12030206B2
A glass container that includes a base defining a hole, and methods of manufacturing and using the glass container, is disclosed. The glass container is manufactured by providing the container and cutting a hole in a wall of the container. The hole may be cut into the wall by any technique in which glass material is separated from the wall including by mechanical shearing, thermal energy, and/or fluid impingement. To use the glass container, a deformable blow-out plug may be inserted into the hole to fluidly seal the hole, a liquid beverage may be introduced into the container, a closure may be coupled to the container to close the container and provide a pressurizable package, and thereafter the package may be internally pressurized by introducing a pressurizing gas into the package.
US12030201B2
A razor has a handle with an articulable joint intermediate the cutting blade and the portion of the handle grasped by a user. The joint connects first and second portions of the handle. A spring is mounted around the tail of a plunger between the portions. The spring projects into a spring channel in the second portion and urges the portions to an initial non-use position.
US12030198B2
A method of controlling a component handler includes acquiring and using calibration data. The component handler includes a calibrated actuator comprising a stationary part, a movable part, coil(s), and an actuating member, and a component holder comprising a distal end and an elastic member. The component holder is actuable from a resting to an extended position by the actuating member and in reverse by the elastic member. The calibration data is acquired by: bringing the actuating member into contact with an actuable portion of the component holder, moving the component holder in a position within the resting and extended position, measuring a required current in the coil(s) to maintain or move the component holder in the position, and determining the calibration data from the current, which is used to control the actuator such that the distal end applies a predetermined force on the component in a pick-up position.
US12030197B2
A method of calibrating a delta robot, the method including executing an arm movement by moving one driving link relative to other two driving links; measuring a movement of a point in fixed relationship with a tilting body during the arm movement as an arm measurement; executing a tilting movement by tilting the tilting body about a fifth axis; measuring a movement of the point during the tilting movement as a tilting measurement; and calibrating a fourth axis based on a comparison of the arm measurement and the tilting measurement. A method of calibrating the fifth axis, a control system, and a robot system are also provided.
US12030196B2
Systems, methods, and computer program products for automating tasks are described. A multi-step framework enables a gradient towards task automation. An agent performs a task while sensors collect data. The data are used to generate a script that characterizes the discrete actions executed by the agent in the performance of the task. The script is used by a robot teleoperation system to control a robot to perform the task. The robot teleoperation system maps the script into an ordered set of action commands that the robot is operative to auto-complete to enable the robot to semi-autonomously perform the task. The ordered set of action commands is converted into an automation program that may be accessed by an autonomous robot and executed to cause the autonomous robot to autonomously perform the task. In training, simulated instances of the robot may perform simulated instances of the task in simulated environments.
US12030195B2
An articulation assembly for a robotic surgical instrument includes a plurality of rotatable but longitudinally fixed lead screws extending between first and second base plates, a collar threaded about each lead screws and configured to translate therealong in response to rotation of the corresponding lead screw, an articulation cable coupled to each collar and defining or having a threaded shaft, and a threaded nipple threaded about each of the threaded shafts. Each threaded nipple is engaged with one of the collars to thereby engage each of the articulation cables with a corresponding one of the collars such that longitudinal translation of the corresponding collar pushes or pulls the corresponding articulation cable. Each threaded nipple is configured for further threading or unthreading about the corresponding threaded shaft to vary a pre-tension on the corresponding articulation cable.
US12030193B2
A method for robot-assisted wiring of electrical components of an electrical switchgear arranged on a mounting plate. The method includes providing a planning of a switchgear which has at least location information about a plurality of electrical components of the switchgear on a mounting plate and wiring information about a plurality of electrical wirings between every two of the electrical components. A cable routing is extracted including a cable source coordinate and cable destination coordinates and a routing path between the cable source coordinate and the cable destination coordinate from the wiring information for at least one of the plurality of wirings. Trajectory and/or vector points are generated along the cable routing and parameter to parameterize the trajectory and/or vector points to generate robot control.
US12030190B2
Provided are a method of controlling a mobile robot, apparatus for supporting the method, and delivery system using the mobile robot. The method, which is performed by a control apparatus, comprises acquiring a first control value for the mobile robot, which is input through a remote control apparatus, acquiring a second control value for the mobile robot, which is generated by an autonomous driving module, determining a weight for each control value based on a delay between the mobile robot and the remote control apparatus and generating a target control value of the mobile robot in combination of the first control value and the second control value based on the determined weights, wherein a first weight for the first control value and a second weight for the second control value are inversely proportional to each other.
US12030188B2
The present invention provides a collaborative robot system in which a robot and a worker share tasks and perform the tasks. The collaborative robot system including: a work-time-measurement-unit that measures work time for locations assigned to the worker and the robot; a difference-at-increase/decrease-prediction-unit that predicts a difference between the work time of the worker and the robot, when the number of locations assigned to the worker is increased or decreased; an assigned-location-adjustment-unit that increases or decreases the number of locations so that the difference in the work time becomes smaller, in a case in which a predicted-difference-value based on the work time of the worker and the robot, when the number of locations assigned to the worker is maintained is greater than the predicted-difference-value; and an assigned-location-indication-unit that indicates the locations assigned to the worker after the number of assigned locations is increased or decreased.
US12030184B2
One embodiment can provide a robotic system. The system can include a machine-vision module, a robotic arm comprising an end-effector, a robotic controller configured to control movements of the robotic arm, and an error-compensation module configured to compensate for pose errors of the robotic arm by determining a controller-desired pose corresponding to a camera-instructed pose of the end-effector such that, when the robotic controller controls the movements of the robotic arm based on the controller-desired pose, the end-effector achieves, as observed by the machine-vision module, the camera-instructed pose. The error-compensation module can include a machine learning model configured to output an error matrix that correlates the camera-instructed pose to the controller-desired pose.
US12030183B1
Robot control systems, methods, control modules and computer program products that leverage one or more large language model(s) (LLMs) in order to achieve at least some degree of autonomy are described. Robot control parameters and/or instructions may advantageously be specified in natural language (NL) and communicated with the LLM via an NL prompt or query. The LLM module provides a task plan in NL, which can be evaluated for at least one fault or error. If at least one fault or error is identified, the LLM module can be queried to provide a resolution.
US12030180B2
Approaches presented herein enable maneuvering collaborative robots to rescue persons in a hydrological disaster. A plurality of robots are dispersed in a body of water to spread out and seek victims using cooperative foraging techniques within resource constraints. A location of victims located by a robot using sensing techniques is communicated to other robots. A situational assessment is performed using victim location information to determine a number of robots to deploy to the location. The deployed robots are directed to perform coordinated maneuvers to create a connected floatation unit to support floatation of victims for rescue.
US12030175B2
In order to simplify the control configuration for controlling a driving device and improve reliability of the operation of the driving device, an information processing device includes a detection unit and a processing unit. The detection unit detects the detection target from a captured image by using reference data that is a learning result obtained by machine learning of the detection target including the position of the center of gravity of the object in the captured image. The processing unit controls the driving device to be controlled that acts on the object having the center of gravity detected by the detection unit, by using the detection result of the detection unit.
US12030162B2
A handling tool is provided for handling an adaptor for a fuel injector testing machine, the adaptor being arranged to configure a testing assembly of the testing machine for use with a respective fuel injector. The handling tool includes a tool body configured to be gripped by a user and a capture device that can be inserted into the testing assembly to capture the adaptor and retain the adaptor as the handling tool is withdrawn from the testing assembly.
US12030152B2
A method for checking a tool uses a device with a light emitter for beam emission for tool scanning and with a beam receiver for beam reception and for outputting a shadow signal; and an evaluation unit for processing the shadow signal; rotation of the tool; moving the tool until it reaches a starting position in which the blade dips into the beam and shades this such that a threshold of a range of the evaluation unit is reached or undershot; moving the tool, starting from the starting position, out of the beam and registering the shadow signal; ascertaining that the shadow signal for a cutting edge does not fall below the lower switching threshold or exceed the upper switching threshold such that a shadow signal lies above the lower and below the upper switching threshold; wherein the feed is determined in proportion to a measurement range.
US12030149B2
A method for sensing a cutting-edge load in a motor-driven machine-tool unit having a stator unit and a rotor unit that is rotatable at least about an axis of rotation. The rotor unit includes a tool receiving unit that is adjustable along the axis of rotation and to which a clamping force can be applied, for fixing and clamping a releasably fixable tool shank of a tool. A tool head of the tool includes at least one individual cutting edge. A tool sensor is provided for sensing the load on the tool, the tool sensor being realized as an individual-cutting-edge sensor for sensing a cutting-edge load on the individual cutting edge.
US12030142B2
A method and apparatus for providing welding type power is disclosed. A welding type power supply includes an input circuit, a controller and an output circuit. The input circuit receives an input power signal and provides an intermediate power signal. The output circuit receives the intermediate power signal and provides a welding type power output. The output circuit has an inverter with at least two inverter switches, and a clamp circuit that limits the voltage across the inverter. The clamp circuit captures and buffers the excess energy, and returns the excess energy to an input of the inverter over a plurality of switching cycles. The controller has control outputs connected to the input circuit and the output circuit, to control them.
US12030133B2
A metal strip and a process for manufacturing such a metal strip are disclosed. In order to be able to reproducibly manufacture a durable metal strip, it is proposed for a butt seam to extend essentially between a first cladding layer of a first strip transverse portion and a second strip transverse portion.
US12030132B2
A beam delivery system including a shield which includes at least one beam passage for transmission of at least one laser beam; an optics assembly configured to at least partly focus the at least one laser beam on the at least one beam passage; and means for providing a fluid flow through the at least one beam passage. Also provided is a train and a transport system, as well as a beam delivery method that includes: transmitting at least one laser beam through a respective at least one beam passage of a shield; at least partly focusing the at least one laser beam on the at least one beam passage; and providing a fluid flow through the at least one beam passage.
US12030130B2
The invention relates to a method for machining the tip circle diameter of a tooth system (4) of a gearwheel (6), in which the gearwheel (6) rotates about a workpiece axis of rotation (Rw), and in which at least one tooth (9) of the tooth system (4) is machined, by removing chips, by means of a tool (7, 7′) that rotates about a tool axis of rotation (Rz) oriented at an axial distance (A′, A″) relative to the workpiece axis of rotation (Rw). According to the invention, the tool (7, 7′) is disk-shaped, the disk-shaped tool (7, 7′) machines the tip surface (8) of the tooth (9), by removing chips, with at least one partial segment (10a) of its circumferential edge configured as a defined blade (10), wherein a relative movement between the tool (7, 7′) and the gearwheel (6), oriented in the axial direction of the tooth system (4), is carried out during the chip-removing machining, as a consequence of which movement the tool (7, 7′) sweeps over the tip surface (8), and the tool axis of rotation (Rz) is oriented at an axis intersection angle (Σ″) of 5° to 40° with respect to the workpiece axis of rotation (Rw). In this way, efficient and highly precise machining of the tip circle diameter is made possible. The invention also states a method for producing a gearwheel, in which the tooth system (4) is produced on a gearwheel blank (5) by means of hob peeling before machining of the tip circle diameter according to the invention, as well as a combination tool, in which a hob-peeling wheel for producing the gearwheel and a disk-shaped tool for machining the tip circle diameter according to the invention are combined with each other.
US12030124B2
In a sizing device equipped with a turntable having a plurality of accommodation holes that accommodate workpieces, carrying the workpiece in each of the accommodation holes to a through hole of a die disposed at a workpiece shaping position one by one, and causing the workpiece to be pressed by upper and lower punches, while each of the accommodation holes is moved from a workpiece supply position to a workpiece taking-out position by the turntable being rotated about a rotation axis, the sizing device includes a plurality of identification information holding units, a supply-side input unit, a shaping position read unit, a punch control unit, and a shaping position input unit.
US12030116B2
A monitoring system may monitor a casting environment, for example, including a mold. The monitoring system may include a camera and a computer system. The camera may be positioned to capture or detect optical data associated with one or more components in a casting environment. The camera may send the optical data to the computer system and the computer system may generate a profile associated with the casting environment. The profile may be compared with a baseline profile to determine whether a particular event has occurred. Based on the event that may have occurred, operating instructions can be generated. The operating instructions may be used to adjust the casting process.
US12030115B2
The invention relates to the reduction of core losses in soft magnetic applications utilizing amorphous foil as the core material. Amorphous foil is known to have lower losses when compared to crystalline silicon steel laminations. It is found that a reduction of 10-40% of losses can be achieved over the current state of the art amorphous material by mechanical scribing of the surface of the soft magnetic laminations comprising the wound core in power conditioning devices such as a transformer. The scribing process introduces control of the magnetic domains causing ease of magnetic flux reversal
US12030113B2
A method for producing a hollow article made of amorphous metal comprising the steps of: a) providing a metal composition, b) melting the composition according to step a) in order to obtain a melt, c) introducing the melt according to step b) into a cavity of a casting mold, the casting mold comprising an inner core, at least a portion of the lateral surface of the inner core being surrounded by a separation element, d) cooling the melt in the casting mold in order to obtain a molded part made of amorphous metal, e) removing the inner core and the separation element from the molded part according to step d) in order to obtain a hollow article made of amorphous metal. The present invention also relates to a hollow article made of amorphous metal, more particularly to a pipe made of amorphous metal.
US12030111B2
A directional solidification casting method includes fluidly coupling a feed line conduit with a source of molten metal and with a directional solidification mold at a gating. The mold has an interior chamber with a shape of an object to be cast using directional solidification in a growth direction. The feed line conduit is fluidly coupled with the gating in a downward direction oriented at an angle that is closer to the growth direction of the mold than to another direction that is perpendicular to the growth direction of the mold. The method also includes positioning a downstream portion of the feed line conduit below the gating, directing the molten metal into the mold via the feed line conduit, and casting the object in the mold using directional solidification.
US12030109B2
A bending process is controlled for bending a bending body, such as a bending profile. A bending device has a bending unit provided with at least one bending element that executes a defined movement based on a control signal. A data processing process is carried out in which a target geometry of the bent bending body is described in the form of target bending information by comparing at least two coordinate systems. A bending process is carried out, wherein before and/or during the bending process, the control signal controlling the at least one bending element is used on the basis of the target bending information to bend the bending body using the at least one bending element.
US12030107B2
A symmetric, modular base for a can processing system. The base includes a leg portion comprising a plurality of openings adapted for receiving at least one of a transfer star wheel and a turret mechanism configured to perform a working operation on an article. The base further includes a first foot portion extending from a first side of the leg portion. The base further includes a second foot portion extending from the second side of the leg portion. The base further includes a plurality of openings in the first foot portion and the second foot portion, the plurality of openings of the first and second foot portion providing access to an interior portion of the base. The base is generally symmetric about a center line drawn vertically through a midpoint of the leg portion of the base between the first foot portion and the second foot portion to allow for mounting of components on either a first side or a second side of the base.
US12030105B2
This structural member is manufactured using a structural member manufacturing device including a first clamping part having a first lower clamping member and a second upper clamping member disposed to face each other and capable of being opened and closed; a second clamping part having a third lower clamping member and a fourth upper clamping member disposed to face each other corresponding to the first lower clamping member and the second upper clamping member and capable of being opened and closed; and clamping part driver for allowing the first clamping part and the second clamping part to be relatively separated from each other while causing a position in an X-axis direction and a position in a Z-axis direction to correspond to each other.
US12030088B2
A material sorting system sorts materials utilizing multiple stages of classification and sorting, including a vision system that implements a machine learning system in order to identify or classify each of the materials, and Laser Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy to perform a subsequent classification and sorting of the remaining materials.
US12030085B2
Techniques are provided to optomechanically couple light to a crystal structure, thereby producing stable, coherent bulk acoustic modes within the structure. In some embodiments, a resonator may comprise a plano-convex crystal structure to which pump light may be applied. The pump light may transfer energy to acoustic phonon modes of the crystal structure so as to create acoustic phonon modes with a coherence length greater than a length of the crystal structure. High frequency and high quality factor resonators may thereby be produced and operated.
US12030084B2
The present disclosure provides an ultrasonic transducer unit and a manufacturing method thereof. The ultrasonic transducer unit includes a substrate, a first electrode arranged on the substrate, an insulating layer arranged on the first electrode, a vibrating film arranged on the insulating layer, a closed cavity being between the vibrating film and the insulating layer, and a second electrode arranged on the vibrating film. The vibrating film is made of a photoresist. The ultrasonic transducer unit disclosed by the present disclosure adopts the photoresist as a material of the insulating layer and/or the vibrating film, so that the ultrasonic transducer unit with better performance can be obtained.
US12030081B2
Disclosed herein are inventive methods of making thin films, inventive thin films, and inventive articles and systems comprising thin films. Certain embodiments are related to methods of making thin films in which reagents are arranged within a first phase and a second phase such that at least one reagent reacts to form a thin film proximate to the interface between the first phase and the second phase. Thin films (including two-dimensional materials) disclosed herein can have one or more of a variety of beneficial properties including large lateral dimension(s), lateral continuity, high mechanical strength, consistent spatial composition, and/or consistent thickness. In accordance with certain embodiments, thin films disclosed herein can be combined to form a variety of inventive multi-layer articles, including multi-layer articles comprising a combination of thin films having different compositions that interact with each other via van der Waals forces.
US12030069B2
A dispenser pump has a plunger operable in a body including an outer cylinder body having a vent opening in its sidewall and a body insert fitting into the top of the outer body and providing an external collar through which the plunger stem operates. The body insert has lock-down threads to lock down the plunger for shipping. The insert also has formations for blocking or unblocking the vent opening by rotation between the outer body and body insert, driven by rotation of the plunger head which makes a catch engagement with the top of the body insert. This plunger head rotation is the locking or unlocking action for the plunger lock-down. Blocking the vent during shipping reduces leakage.
US12030063B2
A separation assembly comprises a housing, a jet that expels a fluid within the housing, and a turbine positioned within the housing and positioned so as to be contacted by the fluid expelled from the jet. The fluid causes the turbine to rotate about a center rotational axis within the housing. The turbine comprises a first axial end, a second axial end, and a plurality of vanes extending axially relative to the center rotational axis from the first axial end to the second axial end. The plurality of vanes defines axially-extending channels between each of the plurality of vanes. The first axial end is axially open such that fluid can flow unblocked axially through the first axial end and into the channels. The jet is positioned such that at least a portion of the fluid enters into the turbine through the first axial end.
US12030052B2
A method and device for transfecting a cell to introduce an exogenous material into the cell. The method includes exposing the cell to a region of unsteady flow in the presence of an electric field to encourage introduction of the exogenous material into a cell without lysing the cell.
US12030048B2
Disclosed is a microfluidic chip, including a chip upper cover, a chip lower layer, a membrane, a sealing gasket and a sealing ring. The microfluidic chip is provided with a sample storage zone, a droplet formation zone, a droplet storage zone, a droplet detection zone and a waste liquid storage zone. The sample storage zone, the droplet formation zone, the droplet storage zone, the droplet detection zone and the waste liquid storage zone communicate by means of a micropore or a micro-channel. The droplet formation zone is used to transform the sample phase into tens of thousands to millions of droplets, the droplets undergo the PCR reaction in the droplet storage zone, the droplet detection zone is used to perform optical detection on the droplets after PCR reaction, and the waste liquid storage zone is used to collect and store the detected droplets and continuous phase.
US12030047B2
Described herein are systems and methods for analyzing biological samples. Including a method for processing an analyte, comprising providing a fluidic device comprising the analyte and one or more polymer precursors; selecting a discrete area within said fluidic device; providing an energy source in optical communication with fluidic device; and selectively supplying a unit of energy generated from the energy source to the fluidic device to generate a polymer matrix within the fluidic device, wherein the polymer matrix is within the discrete area or adjacent to the discrete area.
US12030041B2
A structured catalyst for steam reforming of the present disclosure is used for producing reformed gas containing hydrogen from a reforming raw material containing hydrocarbon, and includes a support having a porous structure constituted of a zeolite-type compound, and at least one catalytic substance present inside the support. The support includes channels connecting with each other, and the catalytic substance is metal nanoparticles and present at least in the channels of the support.
US12030038B2
An exhaust gas purification catalytic device includes: a substrate; at least one type of noble-metal catalyst that is supported on the substrate; and a coating layer on the surface of the substrate. The substrate includes a plurality of cells which are demarcated by porous walls. The substrate and the coating layer each include ceria-zirconia composite oxide particles.
US12030036B2
A method for preparing C2 to C5 paraffins includes introducing a feed stream including hydrogen gas and a carbon-containing gas selected from carbon monoxide, carbon dioxide, and mixtures thereof into a reaction zone of a reactor. Converting the feed stream into a product stream including C2 to C5 paraffins in the presence of a hybrid catalyst. The hybrid catalyst includes a microporous catalyst component; and a metal oxide catalyst component selected from (A) a bulk material consisting of gallium oxide, (B) gallium oxide present on a titanium dioxide support material, and (C) a mixture of gallium oxide and at least one promoter present on a support material selected from Group 4 of the IUPAC periodic table of elements.
US12030030B1
A system for synthesizing organic polymers utilizing one or more independent synthesizer elements of similar design configured to interconnect to one another for combined operations. The synthesizer module contains at least two small-cavity pumps in a symmetric valve and tubing arrangement for delivery, blending and/or recirculation of synthesis reagents. The synthesizer module allows it to operate independently to perform synthesis chemistry, or two or more modules can be combined.
US12030023B2
An apparatus and method for delivering oxygen, oxygen enriched air, or air through a delivery system from one vessel containing a higher pressure concentration of the gas into another vessel containing a liquid at atmospheric pressure introduced through a diffuser or dispersion nozzle including one or more passages in a controlled regulated manner. This process and apparatus provide the liquid with an oxygenation level for improved flavor in a short amount of time.
US12030022B2
Composite structures composed of inorganic membranes or polymer membranes supported on a multilayered woven wire mesh substrate are provided. Also provided are methods of making the composite structures and methods of using the composite structures as separation membranes. The mesh substrates are composed of a stack of two or more layers of woven wire mesh, wherein the different mesh layers in the stack have different mesh sizes. The multilayered mesh structure can support a defect-free, or substantially defect-free, membrane and has sufficient mechanical strength to allow the supported membranes to be used for chemical separations.
US12030021B2
The present disclosure concerns a micromechanical device and a method for manufacturing the same. The micromechanical device may comprise a membrane structure suspended on a substrate. The membrane structure may comprise a perforated gas permeable membrane comprising a plurality of perforations, and a reinforcement structure being coupled with the perforated membrane for stiffening the perforated membrane and/or for increasing the mechanical stability of the perforated membrane in order to attenuate an oscillation of the perforated membrane.
US12030020B2
A photothermal distillation membrane including a polydopamine (PDA) coated, polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) membrane is disclosed, as well as a process for synthesizing same. A photothermal aerogel membrane including a polydopamine (PDA)-containing bacterial nanocellulose (BNC) is also disclosed, as well as a process for synthesizing same.
US12030019B2
A hollow fiber membrane module includes: a hollow fiber membrane bundle; a housing formed with a port for allowing a cleaning gas for the hollow fiber membrane bundle to inflow therethrough for accommodating the hollow fiber membrane bundle; and a diffuser having a receiving surface for receiving the cleaning gas having entered through the port, the receiving surface being formed with diffusion hole for diffusing the cleaning gas to the hollow fiber membrane bundle in housing. The diffuser includes a partition dividing a space under the receiving surface into an inner space and an outer space surrounding the inner space and permitting the cleaning gas having entered through the port to flow thereinto. The diffusion hole is arranged to allow at least a part of the cleaning gas flowing in the outer space to diffuse from the inner space to the hollow fiber membrane bundle.
US12030010B2
A filter candle is provided, comprising one or more filter elements shaped as hollow cylinders of porous material, the filter elements having substantially identical inner and outer diameters and are disposed coaxially with each other; a support element comprising a metal tube disposed within the filter element(s), said metal tube having an outer diameter smaller than the inner diameter of the filter element(s), said metal tube having a wall with a plurality of perforations; and at least two annular sealing disks having an outer diameter equal to or larger than that of the filter element(s) and an inner diameter smaller than that of the filter element(s), wherein first and second terminal sealing disks are disposed at opposite axial end faces of a single filter element or of a plurality of filter elements disposed in line, wherein the filter elements are compressed between the first and second terminal sealing disks.
US12030005B2
Various example embodiments relate to an automatic drain system for use with a fluid water separator. The automatic drain system includes a liquid-in-fuel sensor configured to detect a liquid level in a water sump. A pump includes an inlet in fluid communication with the water sump and an outlet in fluid communication with the inlet. The pump has an active state and an inactive state. The active state causes the pump to draw liquid in from the inlet and direct liquid toward the outlet. A battery is configured to power the pump. A circuit board is operably connected to the pump and battery. The circuit board includes at least one circuit having a first state and a second state. The first state prevents power flow from the battery to the pump. The second state facilitates power flow from the battery to the pump, transitioning the pump from inactive to active.
US12030002B2
A filtration recovery device according to the present disclosure may include: a filtration filter having a plurality of through-holes; and a holder having an introduction port configured to introduce a liquid, a discharge port configured to discharge the liquid, and a flow path configured to communicate the introduction port and the discharge port with each other, in which the filtration filter is disposed in the flow path between the introduction port and the discharge port of the holder.
US12029999B2
A method for separating at least one target compound from a feed solution is provided. The method includes filling a bioprocess package with a chromatography resin. The bioprocess package includes a 2D flexible container comprising an interior compartment, a height having an upper half and a lower half, an inlet and an outlet, the inlet and the outlet being disposed on the same half of the 2D flexible container, the channel-forming feature being configured to maintain a fluid flow path that fluidly connects the interior compartment of the flexible container with the outlet. The method further includes flowing a feed solution into the bioprocess package to contact the chromatography resin such that substantially all of the at least one target compound binds to the chromatography resin, washing the chromatography resin in the bioprocess package, and eluting the chromatography resin.
US12029996B2
An electronic toy brick configured to be selectively attached to other toy bricks. One electronic toy brick having at least a top plate with projections, walls, an electrical node for receiving electricity, and a light device electrically coupled to the electrical node. At least one of the top plate and walls are translucent, partially translucent or have a hole to permit light from the light device to exit the toy brick.
US12029989B2
Chip racks include a rack for holding chips and a card reader. Gaming devices may include such chip racks.
US12029983B2
An example of an information processing apparatus performs, in a predetermined area (e.g., a room) in a virtual space, editing including at least one of selecting a placement object to be placed in the area, placing the placement object, and moving the placement object, on the basis of an operation input. The information processing apparatus counts an editing time during which the editing is performed. The information processing apparatus stores, in a memory, arrangement data indicating arrangement of the placement object in the predetermined area. The information processing apparatus performs evaluation of the editing, based on at least the editing time such that a lower evaluation is given when the editing time is shorter than when the editing time is longer.
US12029980B2
Systems, methods, and media are provided for the selective indication of the presence of off-screen objects in the shared gaming environment of a multiplayer game played on a mobile device. The shared gaming environment can include a game space and a plurality of objects located at various places of the game space. The player may view a portion of the game space via a screen view presented by the mobile device. The screen view can be bordered by a frame area that includes a portion of the game space that is outside of the screen view. Based on a predetermined rule set, the presence of an object that is located within the frame area can be selectively indicated within the screen view by a visual indicator, such as an icon. The visual indicator can be assembled from a library of elements to visually communicate contextually relevant information to the player.
US12029970B2
A furniture-type apparatus on which a user can sit includes a leg sensor configured to be disposed on a surface in proximity to user legs and obtain a measurement value representing a displacement of each of the left and right legs as a virtual movement amount of the user in the virtual space, and a back sensor configured to be disposed on a part in proximity to a back of the user and recognize forward movement or backward movement in the virtual space, based on a displacement of the back, wherein the virtual movement amount and a recognition result indicating forward movement or backward movement are output as a virtual movement amount of forward movement or backward movement.
US12029964B2
A special 21-point electronic score device for games like Corn Hole. It is a portable, easy-to-see electronic scoreboard designed specifically for the popular backyard game of cornhole. It is made of durable materials with a fold-in base and includes 42 LEDs (21 on each side) stacked in the traditional score tower style that allows it to be used any time of day or night. It stands approximately fifty (50) inches high when in use and then can fold down to approximately thirty-six (36) inches for easy storage and portability. It has a handle for convenient carrying, a drink holder, and a compartment on top to hold a phone in place for video recording competitive games. The scoreboard can be used for any game played to 21 points.
US12029960B1
Basketball passing systems with virtual coaching capabilities are provided. An interface comprises selectable pass receipt locations arranged about a visual depiction of basketball court elements to visually correspond with locations at said basketball playing area a launching device is capable of passing basketballs to. A controller receives a user selection of the selectable pass receipt locations and commands the launching device to launch basketballs to the selected locations for the user to catch and shoot. A sensor determines if the shot is successfully made. A camera records images of the shot. The controller generates a virtual coaching display with images from the camera and a visual indication of whether displayed images resulted in a successfully made shot.
US12029949B2
Described herein is a hollow body iron-type golf club head having a sole and ballast configured to relieve stress within a forward portion of the sole. In a first configuration, the golf club head comprises a ballast undercut for relieving stress. In other configurations, the ballast undercut is combined with additional stress relief features, such as a cascading sole near the face sole juncture, for further reductions to face thickness.
US12029945B1
A computer implemented system provides a cruise control function, during a fitness equipment-based workout, to report a power output amount based on a cruise control set-point. The system includes a piece of fitness equipment, a control device, and a computing device. The fitness equipment produces an output corresponding to actual power produced on the fitness equipment. The control device transmits an indication of power being produced to the computing device as an input to a fitness training game. In a first operational state, the indication represents the actual amount of power being produced via operation of the fitness equipment by the user, but in a second operational state, the numerical indication is a virtual power amount corresponding to a cruise control set-point amount established via the control device.
US12029942B2
An apparatus, a method, and a computer program product for use in performing, monitoring, and evaluating the performance of therapeutic exercises. The apparatus includes a human-device interface and a motion sensor. In response to movement of the human-device interface, a controller receives motion data from the motion sensor, and transmits the motion data to a computing device. Based on the motion data, the computing device displays a graphical element that depicts the movement. The computing device compares the movement to a target motion, and if the movement matches the target motion, displays a graphical element indicating an exercise is being performed properly. If the movement does not match the target motion, the computing device indicates the exercise is not being performed properly and displays another graphical element indicating how to correct the motion.
US12029940B2
A system for rehabilitation is disclosed. The system for rehabilitation includes a monitoring device that includes a memory device storing instructions and a network interface card. The monitoring device is configured to detect information from a body part of a user. The system for rehabilitation further includes one or more processing devices operatively coupled to the monitoring device. The one or more processing devices are configured to execute the instructions to receive configuration information specified in a treatment plan for rehabilitating the body part of the user. The one or more processing devices are configured to execute the instructions for receiving the information from the monitoring device. The one or more processing devices are further configured to execute the instructions to transmit the configuration information and the information to a computing device controlling an electromechanical device, via the network interface card.
US12029923B2
Disclosed herein are radiotherapy methods and systems that can display a workflow-oriented graphical user interface(s). In an embodiment, a method comprises presenting, by a server, for display on a graphical user interface, an image of a position of a patient on a couch of a radiotherapy machine, whereby at least a gantry of the radiotherapy machine is configured to rotate around the patient; calculating, by the server, one or more predicted collisions between a part of the radiotherapy machine and at least one of (a) the patient or (b) another part of the radiotherapy machine; and when a portion of the patient is calculated to be in a collision with the part of the radiotherapy machine, revising, by the server, the graphical user interface such that the portion of the patient calculated to be in the collision is visually distinct in the image.
US12029920B2
A system and a method for monitoring anatomical changes in a subject in radiation therapy are provided, as well as an arrangement for medical imaging and analysis and a computer program product for carrying out the method. For monitoring anatomical changes in a subject in radiation therapy, the following steps are performed. First anatomical image data and subsequent anatomical image data of the subject are received. The first anatomical image data and the subsequent anatomical image data are analyzed. This analysis comprises registering the subsequent anatomical data to the first anatomical data. Changes between the first anatomical image data and the subsequent anatomical image data are identified as change states, and the identified change states are matched to corresponding qualitative descriptions. A monitoring report is provided, which comprises the qualitative descriptions of the identified changes.
US12029911B2
A magnetic stimulation device includes: a U-shaped magnetic core including a core body and a pair of legs extending in the same direction from the core body; conductors including a conductor having conductive layers that are wound around the leg and stacked in different levels and a conductor having conductive layers that are wound around the leg and stacked in different levels. The conductive layers and are each formed of a wire having a rectangular cross section that is parallel to the longitudinal direction of the legs, and are connected in parallel to the respective legs. Between the legs, the wires of the conductive layers around the leg are respectively connected, at each level, to the wires of the conductive layers around the second leg.
US12029907B2
Methods and apparatus for improving cognitive function within a human. The invention utilizes a neurostimulation device, such as a signal generator, to affect tissue elements at a lateral temporal lobe of the human brain. The implanted device delivers treatment therapy to thereby improve cognitive function by the human. A sensor may be used to detect various characteristics of cognition. A microprocessor algorithm may then analyze the output from the sensor to regulate delivery of the stimulation therapy.
US12029906B2
A cochlear implant hearing aid system is disclosed. The system comprises an external unit configured to receive acoustic sound and process the acoustic sound into a coded audio signal, and an implantable unit configured to receive the coded audio signal. Further, the external unit comprises a power supply unit connected via a first path to a switching unit, wherein the switching unit is connected via a second path to ground and is connected at an output thereof to a first coil. Furthermore, the switching unit is configured to operate as a switching element configured to switch between switching states, wherein the switching states include a first state for applying and a second state for not applying a current to the first coil. The coded audio signal is supplied to the switching unit as a control signal, and the first coil is inductively linked to a second coil arranged in the implantable unit. The system further comprises a measuring unit connected to at least one of the first and second paths and configured to measure a dissipative current occurring in relation to the switching states of the switching unit. Based on the at least one measured dissipative current, a resonance frequency of the inductive link between the first and second coils is adapted.
US12029899B1
A method and device for controlling nausea, anxiety and stress. The device includes a wristwatch-like housing, electrical circuitry for generating electrical impulses of which low-frequency of which direct current (DC) electrical pulses are preferred, a metal ground plate, three adjustable metal contact points, indicator lights, function buttons on the housing, and a strap for securing the housing to the wrist. There may also be a screen display for visualizations of different functions. An internal processor controls all device functions and can optionally communicate via USB or short-range communications with a telephone App. The method allows simultaneous application of a pulse voltage output to acupuncture points H7, Lu9 and P6 (Buddha's Triangle). An alternate embodiment uses three permanent magnets to simultaneously stimulate the three points of Buddha's Triangle.
US12029898B2
Tumor treating fields (TTFields) can be delivered to a subject's body at higher field strengths by switching off one or more electrode elements that are overheating without switching off other electrode elements that are not overheating. This may be accomplished using a plurality of temperature sensors, with each of the temperature sensors positioned to sense the temperature at a respective electrode element; and a plurality of electrically controlled switches, each of which is wired to switch the current to an individual electrode element on or off. A controller input signals from the temperature sensors to determine the temperature at each of the electrode elements, and controls the state of the control input of each of the electrically controlled switches to selectively switch off the current or adjusted the duty cycle at any electrode element that is overheating.
US12029885B2
The invention regards a protective cap for a delivery system, said cap comprising a tip part releasably attached to a main part, wherein the tip part and the main part together form an elongated body with a closed tip end, and the main part comprises at least one means for assisting the use of the delivery system.
US12029883B2
A syringe assembly includes a syringe and a vibrator configured to vibrate at at least one frequency to reduce stopper friction. The vibrator is attached to the syringe. The syringe assembly may further include an infusion pump configured to draw fluid from the syringe with a negative pressure.
US12029873B2
There is disclosed systems and methods for non-invasive delivery of an agent to biological tissues. Delivery of the agent to the tissues can be by one or more modalities. In some embodiments the systems and methods use agent carrier body including a tissue contacting surface for non-invasively engaging tissues under treatment. The tissue contacting surface can be at least partly defined by a plurality of protrusions that are in fluid communication with one or more reservoirs forming part of the agent carrier body. The protrusions may extend outward from an inside of a void and terminate at said tissue contacting surface.
US12029871B1
The present invention relates to a nasal catheter with a guide wall, and more particularly, to a nasal catheter with a guide wall, the nasal catheter including a tube main body which is connected to one end of each shaft of a device spraying a medicinal fluid or irrigation fluid and an aspiration device performing aspiration inside a nasal cavity and which is inserted into the nasal cavity and a guide wall portion which is configured to form a slope at one side of an inner portion of a front end portion of the tube main body to allow the medicinal fluid or irrigation fluid to be sprayed in an eccentric direction.
US12029860B1
The present invention discloses a motion sickness prevention wristband and a control method thereof, wherein the motion sickness prevention wristband comprises wristband body, and further comprises microcontroller unit MCU, pressure sensor, electrode assembly, and air bag control assembly; pressure sensor, electrode assembly, and air bag control assembly are electrically connected to the MCU, and air bag control assembly is resisted against electrode assembly; pressure sensor, for obtaining contact pressure value between electrode assembly and the surface of the human skin; the MCU, for determining air pressure control data; and air bag control assembly, control air pressure change to enable the MCU to apply electrical stimulation to electrode assembly after the air pressure change. The air pressure change enables electrode assembly to better adhere to the skin, the electrical stimulation performed can maintain contact resistance, keep the electrical stimulation, thereby significantly enhancing the effect of anti-motion sickness.
US12029854B2
An irrigating intraluminal suction inner cannula system for a tracheostomy tube may be a suction-powered system that may be used for suction alone or a combination of rinse and intraluminal suction for tracheostomy tubes in place of conventional catheter-based intraluminal suction. An inner cannula includes chambers, or regions, and holes that facilitate intraluminal suction and cleaning at multiple locations within the tracheostomy tube. It may be applied/actuated by a patient, healthcare worker, caretaker, or via an electronic system either on-demand or on regular or triggered intervals, in either inpatient/hospital or outpatient/ambulatory care setting.
US12029842B2
A negative pressure wound therapy device can include a negative pressure source and a controller configured to activate the negative pressure source for a first duration of time to attempt to reduce pressure under the wound dressing to approximately ae negative pressure set point, subsequent to expiration of the first duration of time, deactivate the negative pressure source after pressure under the wound dressing is reduced to approximately the negative pressure set point, activate the negative pressure source for a second duration of time to attempt to reduce pressure in the fluid flow path, the second duration of time subsequent to the first duration of time, determine a pressure change in a fluid flow path over the second duration of time, and, in response to determining that the pressure change in the fluid flow path over the second duration of time indicates reduction in pressure, provide indication of a blockage.
US12029839B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a membrane oxygenator including an upper cover, a lower cover, a shell, and an oxygenation structure. Both ends of the shell are connected with the upper cover and the lower cover respectively. The oxygenation structure includes a mandrel, an oxygen pressure membrane, and a temperature-changing membrane, wherein an upper end of the mandrel enters a first blood path space of the upper cover, a lower end of the mandrel is opposite to a blood outlet of the lower cover, the oxygen pressure membrane is provided around the mandrel and connects a first gas path space and a second gas path space, and the temperature-changing membrane wraps around the oxygen pressure membrane. A gap is provided between the temperature-changing membrane and an inner wall of the shell. A blood inlet is provided on the shell near the upper cover.
US12029835B2
A valve including an antimicrobial agent can be used with needleless access connectors. The valve can have an insert that includes an antimicrobial coating thereon and/or the valve can have physical features, such as a series of tunnels or groves or a patterned surface, containing an antimicrobial formulation and/or the valve can be made of a material that includes an antimicrobial agent.
US12029833B2
Disclosed herein are tissue scaffold materials with microspheres of one density embedded in hydrogel of a different density. The disclosed materials have improved ability to facilitate cellular invasion and vascularization for wound healing and tissue regeneration. The inventors have found that materials having components with different densities promotes invasion of cells, including desirable cells such as fibroblasts and endothelial precursor cells, into the scaffold.
US12029831B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to methods for preparing high optical density solutions of nanoparticle, such as nanoplates, silver nanoplates or silver platelet nanoparticles, and to the solutions and substrates prepared by the methods. The process can include the addition of stabilizing agents (e.g., chemical or biological agents bound or otherwise linked to the nanoparticle surface) that stabilize the nanoparticle before, during, and/or after concentration, thereby allowing for the production of a stable, high optical density solution of silver nanoplates. The process can also include increasing the concentration of silver nanoplates within the solution, and thus increasing the solution optical density.
US12029821B2
Vesicles, including exosomes, having a coating of a hydrophilic, neutral polymer such as PEG have an increased ability to form a suspension or colloid compared to uncoated vesicles. This enables the coated vesicles to be used to form aerosol droplets such that a liquid formulation containing vesicles can be used in a nebulizer for inhaled administration thereof. Such coated vesicles are also able to pass through mucus and can deliver their cargo into lung cells. Exosomes from mesenchymal stem cells can deliver additional proteins, miRs, mRNAs and other nucleic acid sequences to lung cells providing a regenerative gene therapy for CF, COPD lung cancer and other lung diseases.
US12029820B2
The present invention generally relates to sustained release 4-aminopyridine tablets, which include a core and a coating. The sustained release tablets of the invention are generally suitable for once daily oral administration for the treatment of neurological disorders.
US12029815B2
The present invention provides a mucoadhesive patch for attachment to a mucosal surface in a patient, the patch comprising a fibrous polymeric mat substrate and a plurality of polymeric flock particles that are attached to the substrate.
US12029806B2
The present application pertains to the field of cosmetics, more specifically the field of topical care of bad odors, by the action of a bactericidal and/or bacteriostatic topical composition, and of capturing odors. The topical composition according to the invention comprises at least one cyclodextrin, a 1,4-3, 6-dianhydrohexitol and/or a 1,4-3, 6-dianhydrohexitol derivative. It can be useful for the oral sphere, but also for areas of the skin where bad odors may develop due to microbial activity, namely the underarms, crotch and feet. Preferably, the topical composition of the invention is used for treating the oral sphere, most preferably for treating halitosis.
US12029805B2
Provided herein are long lasting hair styling compositions and markers for selecting the same.
US12029803B2
Described herein, personal cleansing compositions, methods and uses. Personal cleansing compositions can include a surfactant, a perfume, a hydric solvent, and water, wherein the composition is structured.
US12029799B2
The Dissolvable Solid Structure as described herein can be in the form of a fibrous structure comprising: (a) a polymeric structurant; (b) a high melting point fatty compound such as a fatty amphiphile, and (c) a cationic surfactant. The polymeric structurant has a weight average molecular weight of from about 10,000 to about 6,000,000 g/mol, and the components of the fibrous material form a homogenous material when molten. When water is added to the dissolvable solid structure at a ratio of about 5:1 a lamellar structure is formed.
US12029789B2
The present invention relates to agents for use in the treatment of glioma, in particular astrocytoma WHO II° and III°, as well as IV° (glioblastoma), in a subject.
US12029786B2
Compositions and methods are provided for potent mRNA vaccines for prevention and treatment of 2019 novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV) infections. The compositions include a pharmaceutical composition containing one or more mRNA molecules encoding spike protein epitopes, including mutated epitopes, or mRNA cocktails that encode critical viral genes together with pharmaceutically acceptable polymeric nanoparticle carriers and liposomal nanoparticle carriers. Methods for stimulating system immune responses and treatment are provided, including subcutaneous, intraperitoneal and intramuscular injections.
US12029771B2
A pharmaceutical product of the present invention contains plant parts obtained from the neem tree Azadirachta indica or active ingredients derived from such plant parts for use in treating, preventing and/or alleviating symptoms of restless legs syndrome.
US12029759B2
Provided herein are compositions and methods for treating neurological disorders. In particular, provided herein are neutrophils that rescue damaged neurons, methods of making such neutrophils, and methods of promoting generation of such neutrophils in vivo.
US12029757B2
The present disclosure is in the field of ointments which can be useful for the treatment of diseases or conditions associated with lipid barrier damage of the skin. The ointment comprises a semifluorinated alkane and a solid thickening agent, e.g., a wax, a triglyceride, cetyl alcohol, cetyl palmitate, or tetradecanol.
US12029749B2
Provided are methods of treating urothelial carcinomas of the lower tract comprising administering comprising administering gemcitabine continuously and locally to the bladder of an individual in an induction therapy and/or maintenance therapy.
US12029748B2
The present invention relates to compositions, particularly compositions useful in maintaining and supporting healthy microflora in the female urogenital tract which could lead to inhibition of vaginal infections, as well as methods of treating and preventing vaginal infections. Compositions useful in supporting healthy microflora, disclosed herein, generally include a first therapeutic agent including α methyl-D glucoside and a second therapeutic agent including a nitrogen containing compound at a therapeutic amount. In some embodiments, the nitrogen containing compound can be, for example, L-Cysteine, Cytidine, D-Asparagine, Pyrimidine, D-Alanine, D-Glucosamine HCL, and N-Acetyl-D-Glucosamine.
US12029746B2
Provided is an oral composition, including the following components (A), (B), and (C): (A) non-polymer catechins; (B) rutin; and (C) astragalin, wherein a content of the component (A) in solids is from 2 mass % to 50 mass %, wherein a mass ratio between the component (A) and the component (B), [(B)/(A)], is from 0.05×10−2 to 50×10−2, and wherein a mass ratio between the component (A) and the component (C), [(C)/(A)], is from 1.0×10−3 to 50×10−3.
US12029740B2
Amorphous solid dispersions and pharmaceutical compositions of the protein kinase inhibitor nilotinib. The pharmaceutical compositions may be used in methods of treating a proliferative disorder such as cancer. In some embodiments, the pharmaceutical compositions can be administered without regard to food consumption. In other embodiments, the pharmaceutical compositions can be administered at a significantly lower dose as compared to a commercially available immediate-release nilotinib formulation, while providing a comparable therapeutic effect.
US12029738B2
Provided herein is 4-(4-(4-(((2-(2,6-dioxopiperidin-3-yl)-1-oxoisoindolin-4-yl)oxy)methyl)benzyl)piperazin-1-yl)-3-fluorobenzonitrile, or an enantiomer, a mixture of enantiomers, a tautomer, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and methods for treating, preventing or managing multiple myeloma using such compounds. Also provided are pharmaceutical compositions comprising the compounds, and methods of use of the compositions.
US12029734B2
The invention provides dosage forms and methods utilizing nicotine to treat symptoms of a neurologic disorder. In some embodiments, the invention provides compositions for treatment of gait and balance problems associated with Parkinson's Disease.
US12029732B2
Disclosed herein are compositions, methods, and systems useful in the prevention, management, or treatment of various conditions associated the lymphatic vasculature, including, but not limited to lymphedema. The disclosed methods and compositions are useful in reducing the activity of p53 in a subject at risk for or suffering from a disease or condition associated with lymphatic vasculature, including adults, children, infants, and embryos. Reduction in p53 activity may be achieve through reduction in one or more of p53 gene expression, p53 transcriptional activity, p53 DNA-binding affinity, etc. In many embodiments, the disease or condition is lymphedema, for example lymphedema associated with Milroy's disease, Klippel-Trenaunay and Cloves Syndromes. In many embodiments, treatment may involve administering a compound or pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof to a subject in need thereof, exemplary compounds include, anti-p53 compounds, PFT, and PFT-β.
US12029724B2
The present invention provides a method for inhibiting growth of at least one tumor selected from the group consisting of uterine cancer, esophageal cancer, pancreatic cancer, liver cancer, biliary tract cancer, duodenal cancer, lung cancer, kidney cancer, sarcoma, brain tumor, urothelial cancer, thyroid cancer, stomach cancer, and lymphoma in a patient, by administering to the patient a liposome composition comprising eribulin or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof.
US12029721B2
The present disclosure is related to the use of compositions and their use in reducing and treating pain.
US12029717B2
The present invention relates to methods for treating brain metastasis by inhibiting gap junction functionality. It is based, at least in part, on the discovery that cancer cells expressing Protocadherin 7 and Connexin 43 form gap junctions with astrocytes that promote the growth of brain metastases, and that inhibition of Protocadherin 7 and/or Connexin 43 expression in cancer cells reduce progression of brain metastases. It is further based on the discovery that treatment with gap junction inhibitors tonabersat and meclofenamate inhibited progression of brain metastatic lesions and enhanced the anti-cancer activity of the conventional chemotherapeutic agent, carboplatin.
US12029716B2
An antibiotic compound of formula (I): or a salt or stereoisomer thereof; wherein: R1-R3 and R5-R6 are independently selected from H or a C1-C5 alkyl group or a C1-C5 substituted alkyl group; R4 is a C1-C5 alkyl group or a C1-C5 substituted alkyl group; X1-X2 are independently selected from the group consisting of ═O, H, and OH; Y is an acyclic hydrocarbon chain having 2 to 20 carbon atoms or a substituted acyclic hydrocarbon chain having 2 to 20 carbon atoms; and Z is a neutral or positively charged organic group including a nitrogen or phosphorus atom, the nitrogen or phosphorous atom forming a covalent bond with a carbon atom of Y. Also disclosed are methods of treating a bacterial disease including administering an effective amount of the compound to a subject in need thereof, wherein the bacterial disease is caused by a gram-negative bacteria.
US12029715B2
The invention relates to the field of retinoid X receptor (RXR) signaling and a novel vitamin A pathway called Vitamin A5 pathway. Compounds which are useful to provide (R)-9-cis-13,14-dihydroretinoic acid, an endogenous RXR ligand, are claimed as well as their uses and method for preparation thereof. The compounds of the invention are useful for pharmaceutical and nutritional uses.
US12029714B2
Pharmaceutical combinations and methods for using such combinations to treat depression are disclosed. In various embodiments the pharmaceutical combinations include combinations of omega-3 fatty acids, pharmacological sleep agents, and nonpharmacological sleep therapies, and may include other ingredients such as antidepressants. The present invention relates pharmaceutical combinations and methods for their use to treat depression.
US12029713B2
Compositions and methods are provided for the alleviation of pathology induced by traumatic brain injury.
US12029705B2
An insert that has a one-way valve that allows for one-way flow of liquid in response to reduced pressure. The insert is configured to be installed in a baby bottle to form two chambers—a reservoir chamber and a dispensing chamber. The insert also is provided with a valve failure mechanism which allows a user to force the one-way valve open in the absence of reduced pressure, which allows a user to prime the dispensing chamber (the nipple) prior to beginning feeding.
US12029701B2
An auricular peripheral nerve field stimulator may include at least one therapy electrode configured for percutaneous insertion into an auricle of a human ear near at least one neurovascular bundle located therein, and an electrical stimulation device electrically coupled to the electrical stimulation device, the electrical stimulation device programmed to generate and deliver electrical stimulation signals, with defined stimulation parameters, to the at least one therapy electrode to stimulate, with the at least one therapy electrode percutaneously inserted, at least one auricular peripheral nerve field within the auricle, the defined stimulation parameters including a defined pulse frequency and at least one of a defined pulse width and a defined duty cycle.
US12029698B2
An upper arm module of a wearable muscular strength assisting apparatus is provided. The upper arm module includes a base part configured to be connected to a wearer's body, and an upper arm part having a first end thereof coupled to the base part to be rotatable about a fixed point. The upper arm part is coupled to the wearer's upper arm to apply a torque thereto. The upper arm module further includes an elastic body having a first end thereof fixedly coupled to the upper arm part and generating an elastic force by deformation. In particular, the upper arm module also includes a first link having a first end thereof rotatably coupled to the base part at a point of application, and a second link rotatably coupled to the second end of the first link at a first point.
US12029696B2
A cradle lift assist harness for assisting patients who are unable to independently get up from the floor to return to a chair, a bed or ambulation is disclosed. The harness includes a first tension member having a first handle. Further, the harness includes second and third tension members, each being longitudinally extended and having a first end respectively coupled to an end of the first tension member. The second and third tension members each respectively have a second end releasably coupled one to the other to form a cradle support about a patient. A second handle is disposed proximate to the second end of one of the second and third tension members. The cradle that is formed is configured to have a respective intermediate portion thereof be in contiguous contact with portions of a patient's buttocks as tension forces are applied to the first and second handles.
US12029695B2
A system is provided that comprises a patient support apparatus and a unit being independent from the patient support apparatus. The patient support apparatus comprises a support structure having a base and a patient support surface for a patient. The patient support apparatus also comprises an electrical distribution system, one or more electrical devices, and an energy storage device (ESD) configured to store energy to power the one or more electrical devices through the electrical distribution system. The unit is configured to autonomously interact with the patient support apparatus to remove the ESD from the patient support apparatus and/or to place a replacement ESD on to the patient support apparatus.
US12029690B2
According to the present disclosure, a patient support system includes patient support tops for accommodating various body positions of a patient occupying the patient support tops. The patient support system may include various features to accommodate patient body positioning to facilitate surgical access.
US12029689B2
Devices, systems, and methods for patient support include arrangement of a patient support top for rotation and a rotation lockout assembly for selectively blocking against rotation of the patient support top.
US12029687B2
The present invention relates to an ophthalmic knife and methods of its use for treatment of various conditions including eye diseases, such as glaucoma, using minimally invasive surgical techniques. The invention relates to a multi-blade device for cutting the tissues within the eye, for example, a trabecular meshwork (TM).
US12029683B2
An ocular implant including a drug releasing element and having an inlet portion and a Schlemm's canal portion distal to the inlet portion, the inlet portion being disposed at a proximal end of the implant and sized and configured to be placed within an anterior chamber of a human eye, the Schlemm's canal portion being arranged and configured to be disposed within Schlemm's canal of the eye when the inlet portion is disposed in the anterior chamber.
US12029679B2
Mandibular repositioning devices have a mandibular piece having a first teeth covering and having a housing proximate each of a left molar portion and a right molar portion, a protrusive flange extending cranially from each housing, and a maxillary piece having a second teeth covering and having a housing proximate each of a left molar portion and a right molar portion. Each housing encloses a power source electrically connected an on-board circuit board and the housings of the maxillary piece further have the power source electrically connected to a motor operatively connected to a drive for anterior and posterior movements of the mandibular piece. The maxillary piece sits on the mandibular piece with the driver operatively engaged with the protrusive flange. The protrusive flange has a concavely-shaped anterior surface mated to a convexly-shaped head of the driver shaped to match the concavely-shaped anterior surface of the protrusive flange.
US12029675B2
Disclosed are systems and methods of correction of spinal deformity that overcome current limitations by utilizing a dynamic, multi-segment torso orthosis that allows motion during wear. The disclosed embodiments utilize a series of elastically coupled segments that conform to the circumference of the torso of a patient. Adjustable elastic coupling mechanisms are utilized to create and alter forces and moments that are applied to the torso through the segments. These elastic coupling mechanisms also allow each circumferential segment to move relative to the other segments giving the brace dynamic capability.
US12029666B2
An illustrative stent may comprise an elongated tubular member having a first end and a second end and an intermediate region disposed therebetween. The elongated tubular member may include at least one barb attached thereto. The barb may be configured to be tucked under a filament of the stent during delivery of the stent and protrude radially from the stent, when the stent is deployed.
US12029662B2
A spinal implant has proximal and distal regions, and includes upper and lower bodies. A proximal adjustment assembly is disposed between the upper and lower bodies in the proximal region of the spinal implant and is adjustably coupled to the upper and lower bodies, and a distal adjustment assembly is disposed between the upper and lower bodies in the distal region of the spinal implant and is adjustably coupled to the upper and lower bodies. The proximal and distal adjustment assemblies are independently movable with respect to each other, both concurrently and alternately, to change a vertical height of at least one of the proximal or distal regions of the spinal implant. A set screw is removably disposed within the proximal region of the spinal implant to lock the vertical height of the proximal and distal regions of the spinal implant.
US12029660B2
A method comprising cutting a channel through a femoral neck and into a femoral head of a femur, and inserting a femoral implant within the channel such that a porous portion of the femoral implant is positioned within the femoral head and a resorbable portion of the femoral implant is positioned within the femoral neck, the porous portion being coupled to the resorbable portion and extending therefrom along a longitudinal axis of the femoral implant, the resorbable portion having a cross-sectional area defined in a plane extending transverse to a longitudinal axis of the femoral implant, the cross-sectional area of the resorbable portion consisting essentially of a resorbable material.
US12029653B1
A medical implant has a textured tissue contact surface comprising a roughened surface that includes a plurality of macroscale and microscale projections and recesses and a plurality of nanostructures on the projections and within the recesses. The nanostructures comprise a plurality of spaced elongated waves, each wave having a crest and a trough. Each wave and recess comprise a plurality of individual polygonal structures, some of which comprise pyramidical-type shapes. The textured tissue contact surface is formed by initially laser ablating a tissue contact surface on the implant with a nanosecond pulsed laser followed by laser ablating the initially ablated surface with a femto-second pulsed laser.
US12029640B2
An implant injection system and method for introducing a bone implant material into a patient's bone to serve as an anchor or to fill a void in the bone. The system and method provide a quantity of meltable material which is melted in situ so that the melted material can flow and diffuse into, and be anchored to, the cancellous bone portion beneath the cortical bone layer. The flowing of the bone implant material can be accomplished by a heater located at the distal end of the implant injection system. The implant material may be provided in multiple layers with an inner layer having a lower flowing temperature than the outer layers. There can also be a looped suture that passes though the meltable material, with the free ends of the suture extending outwardly to be tied to soft tissue to affix the soft tissue to the bone.
US12029634B2
A product including a feminine hygiene pad in a folded configuration provided within an individualized envelope package is disclosed. The pad is folded separately of the envelope package and is entirely contained within the package. The package has a rectangular shape and includes a section of polymeric film, a pair of side seams, and a closure flap overlapping an opening edge, wherein the package is configured to create an access opening upon lifting of the closure flap, while allowing material along the side seams to remain unseparated.
US12029632B2
A permeable undergarment comprising, a top portion and a bottom portion wherein the top portion of the undergarment is provided by a waistband, and the bottom portion of the undergarment is provided with the permeable layer. The permeable layer comprises a mesh of wicking fibres to wick the body fluids discharged from a user and transfers the body fluids through the permeable layer. A detachable pouch having a base layer and a plurality of side walls is also provided. The detachable pouch is defined such that, the base layer and the plurality of side walls together form a housing region. The housing region may house at least one absorption pad. The detachable pouch may be detachably attached or joined to the undergarment such that, the body fluids discharged from the user flows through the permeable layer and into the detachable pouch for absorption by the at least one absorption pad.
US12029625B2
A dental implant that facilitate insertion and can be used in all bone types. The implant includes a body having a coronal end, and an apical end opposite the coronal end. A tapered region may be adjacent the apical end. On the apical part one or more taps are provided so the tap is cutting when rotating, clockwise and counter-clockwise. The implant can have at least one variable profile helical thread that extends along the tapered region. The implant can have also micro-threads below the main threads, a gradual compressing tapered core, a self drilling apical end and a narrow coronal region.
US12029622B2
An oral-area positioning device is provided in the invention. The oral-area positioning device includes a storage circuit, a positioning circuit and a calculation circuit. The storage circuit stores information corresponding to a plurality of oral areas. The positioning circuit obtains a target image from an oral-image extracting device, and obtains a first position estimation result according to the information corresponding to the plurality of oral areas and a first algorithm. The positioning device obtains a second position estimation result at least according to the information corresponding to the plurality of oral areas, a second algorithm and a reference image position of a reference image, wherein the reference image position is one of the oral areas. The calculation circuit generates a third position estimation result according to the first position estimation result and the second position estimation result.
US12029616B1
A foreskin restoration device with a pump and two valves is disclosed for the purpose of elongating the shaft skin of the human penis to promote new skin growth. The disclosed invention comprises a gripper body comprised of an inner gripper element to hold and form an air-tight seal with the shaft skin, an outer gripper element to hold the shaft skin in position, a male annular joint element, and a first valve element that allows air to flow only into the sealed shaft skin cavity, so that the shaft skin cavity can be inflated to hold air and elongate the shaft skin. A pump body comprises a pump element, female annular joint element, and second valve element. The disclosed invention makes foreskin restoration devices more convenient and less time-consuming to operate and wear compared to other foreskin restoration devices.
US12029611B2
An ultrasonic endoscope includes: an ultrasonic transducer having an ultrasonic vibrator; a distal end portion body disposed continuously with a proximal end side of the ultrasonic transducer; an erecting base housing portion that is disposed in the distal end portion body and has an opening which opens toward one side in a direction perpendicular to the axial direction of the distal end portion body; a treatment tool lead-out port that communicates with the inside of the erecting base housing portion; an erecting base that is disposed in the inside of the erecting base housing portion and changes a lead out direction of a treatment tool led out from the treatment tool lead-out port; and a cleaning communication hole that is formed in a wall surface on a side opposite to a side where the opening of the erecting base housing portion is disposed and communicates with an outside.
US12029610B2
An intraluminal imaging device is provided. In one embodiment, the imaging device includes a flexible elongate member having a distal portion and a proximal portion. The flexible elongate member can be positioned within a vessel. The imaging device has an imaging assembly that can be mounted within the distal portion. The imaging assembly includes a side-looking array of imaging elements and a micro-beamformer IC that is coupled to the side-looking array of imaging elements. The micro-beamformer IC can control the array of imaging elements, can determine a first angle and a second angle, and can perform beam forming for the array of imaging elements. The micro-beamformer IC can receive the first imaging signals associated with a first plane (410) at the first angle (+45°), and the second imaging signals associated with a second plane (420) at the second angle (−45°). In some embodiments, the first and second angles are selected to satisfy predetermined criteria.
US12029608B2
A device and system for and methods of using an ultrasound probe housing containing ultrasound probes configured to produce images inside the body of a patient for procedures requiring needle or probe insertion. The ultrasound probe housing can be configured with a guide channel cut-out or aperture between the ambient side and body side of a patient. A needle guide assembly may be pivotally connected internal to the guide channel cut-out or aperture of the ultrasound probe housing at a pivot point such that during use the needle enters the patient through the needle guide assembly within the ultrasound probe housing so that the needle can be visualized by the ultrasonic probes in real time. The ultrasound probe housing may also provide an adhesion or suction quality to the body side of the device to facilitate aspects of the invention.
US12029606B2
A medical device (20) includes a case (32), having a front surface that is configured to be brought into contact with a body of the living subject (24). A microphone (34) is contained in the case and configured to sense acoustic waves emitted from the body and to output an acoustic signal in response thereto. A proximity sensor (56) is configured to output a proximity signal indicative of contact between the front surface and the body. At least one speaker (49) is configured to output audible sounds. Processing circuitry (50) is coupled to detect, in response to the proximity signal, that the front surface is in contact with the body, and in response to the detected contact, to process the acoustic signal so as to generate an audio output and to convey the audio output to the at least one speaker.
US12029600B2
A method and system for generating material decomposition images from plural-energy x-ray based imaging, the method comprising: modelling spatial relationships and spectral relationships among the plurality of images by learning features from the plurality of images in combination and one or more of the plurality of images individually with a deep learning neural network; generating one or more basis material images employing the spatial relationships and the spectral relationships; and generating one or more material specific or material decomposition images from the basis material images. The neural network has an encoder-decoder structure and includes a plurality of encoder branches; each of one or more of the plurality of encoder branches encodes two or more images of the plurality of images in combination; and each of one or more of the plurality of encoder branches encodes a respective individual image of the plurality of images.
US12029590B2
The features of blood pressure surges are classified based on blood pressure information, which is one type of biological information. An information processing apparatus includes a classification unit configured to classify a blood pressure surge determined with reference to time-series data of blood pressure values that change in conjunction with heartbeats, into one or more patterns based on a feature point and a feature amount that characterize the blood pressure surge; and a display unit configured to, upon one of the classified patterns being selected, display a waveform that corresponds to the selected pattern, or display a period in the time-series data to which the waveform corresponds.
US12029576B2
A seizure detection system including one or more circuits, the one or more circuits configured to receive an electroencephalogram (EEG) signal generated based on electrical brain activity of a patient and determine different types of metrics based on the EEG signal, the different types of metrics indicating non-linear features of the EEG signal. The one or more circuits are configured to determine whether one or more of the different types of metrics exhibit changes over time that meet a predefined level of statistical significance, generate a user interface, the user interface including a real-time trend of the EEG signal and the one or more of the different types of metrics, and cause a user interface device to display the user interface.
US12029570B1
A method for quantifying a metric indicative of a condition of cardiac tissue in an electrogram is disclosed. The method comprises detecting extrema in the electrogram, analyzing the detected extrema, selecting certain extrema based on a threshold and generating a fractionation metric comprising a count of the selected extrema.
US12029568B2
An electrode pad with a defibrillation circuit and a separate ECG tracing circuit. The electrode pad includes a foam base layer, first and second conductive layers, and a hydrogel layer. The foam base layer has a first side and the first conductive layer is centrally located on the base layer. The first conductive layer has a first circuit configured to provide a defibrillation current. The second conductive layer extends at least partially around the first conductive layer on the first side of the base layer. The second conductive layer has a separate second circuit configured to receive an electrical signal. The hydrogel layer covers the first and second conductive layers on the first side of the base layer. The electrode pad additionally includes an electrical connector attached to the first and second conductive layers. The electrical connector is configured for providing a voltage to the first and second conductive layers.
US12029567B2
To achieve both user convenience and measurement accuracy without degrading reliability. A biopotential measuring electrode according to the present disclosure includes at least a portion in contact with a living body, the portion including: a base material resin layer containing a predetermined resin material, rubber, or an elastomer, as a main component; and a conductive particle contained in the base material resin layer, in which the conductive particle includes a predetermined base material particle, and a surface-treated region in which at least a part of a surface of the base material particle is coated or substituted with a predetermined material.
US12029563B2
An apparatus and method for collecting a predetermined amount of blood or other fluid using an automated sampling system is provided.
US12029560B2
Various examples are directed to systems and methods of and using analyte sensors. An example analyte sensor system comprises an analyte sensor and a hardware device in communication with the analyte sensor. The hardware device may be configured to perform operations comprising applying a first bias voltage to the analyte sensor, the first bias voltage less than an operational bias voltage of the analyte sensor, measuring a first current at the analyte sensor when the first bias voltage is applied, and applying a second bias voltage to the analyte sensor. The operations may further comprise measuring a second current at the analyte sensor when the second bias voltage is applied, detecting a plateau bias voltage using the first current and the second current, determining that the plateau bias voltage is less than a plateau bias voltage threshold, and executing a responsive action at the analyte sensor.
US12029555B2
An apparatus for extracorporeal treatment of blood (1) comprising a treatment unit (2), a blood withdrawal line (6), a blood return line (7), a preparation line (19) and a spent dialysate line (13); a non-invasive blood volume sensor (50) for determining an additional property of blood is active on a tube segment (61) of the blood withdrawal line or of the blood return line; the sensor includes one source (53) for directing a signal towards the blood, a plurality of detectors (57) for receiving the signal, and a controller (65) receiving the output signals from the detectors (57) and determining a blood volume variation and a value of sodium concentration in the blood (Napl) both based on the output signals. A process of determining at least one parameter and on property of blood circulating an extracorporeal blood circuit is also disclosed.
US12029553B1
An example continuous glucose monitor includes a printed circuit board (“PCB”) having first and second outer layers and an inner layer; a semiconductor package having a plurality of pins coupled to the first outer layer of the PCB; an electrical contact formed on the second outer layer of the PCB; a trace having a first portion disposed on the first outer layer, a second portion disposed on the inner layer, and a third portion disposed on the second outer layer, the trace having a first end coupled to a first pin of the plurality of pins and a second end coupled to the electrical contact; and an encapsulant disposed around a perimeter of the semiconductor package, the encapsulant covering the plurality of pins, the first portion of the sensor trace, the third portion of the sensor trace, wherein an upper surface of the semiconductor package remains exposed.
US12029551B2
A drowsiness sign notification system that gives a drowsiness sign notice to a driver that shows a drowsiness sign includes a driver monitor and a controller. The driver monitor detects the driver state being a state of the driver. The controller executes a drowsiness level estimation process in which a drowsiness level of the driver from a plurality of drowsiness levels based on the driver state. And, the controller executes an accumulation process in which a drowsiness point that is numerical value corresponding to the drowsiness level estimated in the drowsiness level estimation process is accumulated. Then, when an accumulation value of the drowsiness point calculated in the accumulation process exceeds a predetermined threshold, the controller determines that the driver shows the drowsiness sign.
US12029537B2
An electronic device including a light source and a detector are provided. The light source includes an electromagnetic spectral emission source configured to output an electromagnetic spectral emission, a polarization optical element configured to polarize the electromagnetic spectral emission, a collimation optical element configured to focus or collimate the electromagnetic spectral emission into narrow or tight beam to reduce diffusion, and a diffractive optical element configured to separate the electromagnetic spectral emission into a predetermined arrangement.
US12029536B2
A device for monitoring heart rate or blood oxygen level during exercise is disclosed having sensors (106) and emitters (104), wherein the sensors (106) are used to monitor transmission from each of the emitters (104) in turn. This provides a possibility that a smaller device can be provided since less sensors and emitters can be used while obtaining more number of observations. In some embodiments the repeated use of sensors with different emitters introduces redundancy into the device so that the device is more robust and may function even in the event that one or two of the emitters and sensors have broken down.
US12029533B2
A blood pressure analysis system/method allowing conversion from an analog sensor input to a standardized analog output interface is disclosed. In some preferred embodiments the system/method permits a fiber optic pressure sensor to be interfaced to a standard patient care monitor (PCM) system using standardized Wheatstone Bridge analog interface inputs. Within this context the Wheatstone Bridge sensed output is defined by stimulus from the PCM and modulation of bridge element values by the conditioned output of an analog pressure sensor. The use of analog-to-digital-to-analog conversion in this blood pressure analysis permits retrofitting of PCM devices having analog Wheatstone Bridge inputs with advanced patient monitoring sensors without the need for specialized modifications to the baseline PCM data collection framework. Methods disclosed herein include techniques to connect arbitrary types/numbers of analog sensors to traditional PCM systems without the need for PCM system hardware/software modifications.
US12029529B2
A method for differentiating between tissue states or types including receiving a sequence of thermal data of a tissue, wherein the sequence is sampled at at least one location of the tissue while the tissue is being thermally disturbed, deriving from the thermal data at least one tissue-related thermal variable associated with each of the tissue locations, segmenting the tissue into segments comprising the locations having corresponding the at least one thermal variable and generating an output indicating the tissue segments. The disclosure also includes a system and computer product for differentiating between tissue states or types.
US12029526B2
A therapeutic pelvic region analyzer and method of use thereof that includes an expandable device sized and shaped for insertion into an opening in a pelvic region of a user and a collapsible reservoir fluidly coupled to the expandable device. The collapsible reservoir is configured to temporarily retain and expel an amount of fluid. A tube defining a fluid-flow path for the amount of fluid is between the expandable device and the collapsible reservoir. The therapeutic pelvic region analyzer also includes fluid-flow control valve disposed between the expandable device and the collapsible reservoir. The fluid-flow control valve is operable to provide a selectively variable level of resistance as the amount fluid passes from the expandable device to the collapsible reservoir.
US12029525B2
A reverberant shear wave field in an object such as a patient's body or organ causes deformations in one or more selected directions measured with an imaging modality such as ultrasound or MR equipment or other imaging equipment, to estimate displacements in one or more selected directions over time increments and then viscoelastic properties such as stiffness or other parameters of the ROI.
US12029517B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for detecting image degradation during a surgical procedure are provided. A method includes receiving images of a surgical instrument; obtaining baseline images of an edge of the surgical instrument; comparing a characteristic of the images of the surgical instrument to a characteristic of the baseline images of the edge of the surgical instrument, the images of the surgical instrument being received subsequent to obtaining the baseline images of the edge of the surgical instrument and being received while the surgical instrument is disposed at a surgical site in a patient; determining whether the images of the surgical instrument are degraded, based on the comparing of the characteristic of the images of the surgical instrument and the characteristic of the baseline images of the surgical instrument; and generating an image degradation notification, in response to a determination that the images of the surgical instrument are degraded.
US12029516B2
A robotic manipulator includes an arm including at least one joint driven by a transmission comprising an output, an isolation mechanism coupled to the output of the transmission, and a force/torque sensor coupled to the isolation mechanism. The force/torque sensor includes a body, which includes a stationary part and a movable part coupled to and being movable relative to the stationary part. The force/torque sensor also includes one or more sensing elements configured to sense forces and torques applied to the movable part. The isolation mechanism is configured to deform in response to forces induced by the transmission to mechanically isolate the force/torque sensor from forces induced by the transmission.
US12029514B2
For control about a remote center of motion (RCM) of a surgical robotic system, possible configurations of a robotic manipulator are searched to find the configuration providing a greatest overlap of the workspace of the surgical instrument with the target anatomy. The force at the RCM may be measured, such as with one or more sensors on the cannula or in an adaptor connecting the robotic manipulator to the cannula. The measured force is used to determine a change in the RCM to minimize the force exerted on the patient at the RCM. Given this change, the configuration of the robotic manipulator may be dynamically updated. Various aspects of this RCM control may be used alone or in combination, such as to optimize the alignment of workspace to the target anatomy, to minimize force at the RCM, and/or to dynamically control the robotic manipulator configuration based on workspace alignment and force measurement.
US12029512B2
A telesurgical system may comprise a teleoperated manipulator and a control system to execute instructions to perform operations. The operations may comprise determining a remaining usable life value of a surgical instrument. The surgical instrument may comprise a distal end component and an actuation component coupled to move the distal end component when driven by the teleoperated manipulator. The operations may also comprise monitoring an amount of use of the actuation component during a use of the surgical instrument. Monitoring the amount of use of the actuation component comprises determining the amount of use of the actuation component based on a force or torque on the actuation component. The operations may also comprise updating the remaining usable life value to an updated usable life value of the surgical instrument based at least on the amount of use of the actuation component during the use of the surgical instrument.
US12029508B2
A surgical instrument includes a body, a shaft assembly, an end effector, a stapling assembly, and a drive system. The shaft assembly extends distally from the body. The end effector is disposed on a distal end of the shaft assembly and includes a first jaw and a second jaw. The stapling assembly is supported by one of the first jaw or the second jaw of the end effector. The drive system includes a shift mechanism configured to selectively modify a mechanical advantage of a drive input driven by a motor and used to power one or more functions associated with operation of the end effector.
US12029504B2
An electromagnetic navigation device for guiding and tracking an interventional tool (40) within an anatomical region. The electromagnetic navigation device employs a guidewire (20) insertable into the anatomical region, and a hub (30) translatable and/or rotatable in conjunction with the interventional tool (40) relative to the guidewire (20). In operation, the guidewire (20) includes one or more guidance electromagnetic sensors generating guidance data informative of an electromagnetic sensing of a position and/or an orientation of the guidewire (20) relative to the anatomical region, and the hub (30) includes a tracking electromagnetic sensor (31) generating tracking data informative of an electromagnetic sensing of a position and/or an orientation of the hub (30) relative to the guidewire (20). Responsive to the electromagnetic sensing data, a navigation controller (76) controls a determination of a position and/or an orientation of the interventional tool (40) relative to the guidewire (20).
US12029498B2
Optical-fiber connector modules are disclosed. In one example, an optical-fiber connector module can include a receptacle disposed in a housing, a cable extending from the housing, and an optical fiber within at least the cable. The receptacle can be configured to accept insertion of a first plug for establishing a first optical connection between the optical-fiber connector module and an optical-fiber stylet of a medical device. The cable can include a second plug for establishing a second optical connection between the optical-fiber connector module and an optical interrogator. The optical fiber extends from the receptacle through the cable to the second plug. The optical fiber can be configured to convey input optical signals from the optical interrogator to the optical-fiber stylet and reflected optical signals from the optical-fiber stylet to the optical interrogator. Shape-sensing systems including the optical-fiber connector modules and methods of the foregoing are also disclosed.
US12029491B2
To provide a technique for estimating, using an image photographed by a camera with a low sampling frequency, information on a position and a size of a pupil or an iris in time units that are finer than the actual sampling frequency. An eye information estimation apparatus includes: a profile determination information acquiring unit which acquires, from an image obtained by photographing an eye of a person who is a subject, coordinates of two points P1 and P2 corresponding to a limbus of a pupil or an iris of a prescribed row included in the image and, when a shape of the pupil or the iris is assumed to be an ellipse, a length of a major axis of the ellipse and eye rotation center coordinates of a three-dimensional eye rotation system that constrains the pupil or the iris; and an eye information calculating unit which calculates an ellipse profile including center coordinates and a deflection angle of the ellipse that represent a position of the pupil or the iris and a length of a major axis and a length of a minor axis of the ellipse that represent a size of the pupil or the iris from the coordinates of the points P1 and P2, tangent slopes of the ellipse at the points P1 and P2, the length of the major axis, the eye rotation center coordinates, and an eye rotation radius of the three-dimensional eye rotation system.
US12029484B2
The present disclosure provides a method of determining a distance and a height, including: measuring, a first distance, a second distance and a third distance from the security inspection device to the tested person as well as measuring a first height, a second height and a third height of the tested person; determining, a relationship between the first distance and a minimum distance threshold as well as a maximum distance threshold, a relationship between the second distance and the minimum distance threshold as well as the maximum distance threshold, and a relationship between the third distance and the minimum distance threshold as well as the maximum distance threshold; determining, a final distance from the security inspection device to the tested person and a final height of the tested person; and performing a pixel conversion and a size conversion on the pupil image of the tested person.
US12029483B2
An eye segmentation system for determining a center point of an eye, a radius of an iris of the eye, and an area of interest from a white area (sclera) of the eye. The system includes at least one input interface that receives a facial image of a user, wherein the facial image is captured using an image capturing device and a data processing arrangement that receives the facial image of the user as input data and processes the facial image to segment an eye region of the facial image. The system determines an eye that is suitable for segmentation from a left eye and a right eye using at least one quality metric, determines a center point of the eye using at least one directional filter, determines, using the at least one directional filter, a radius of an iris of the eye from the center point of the eye.
US12029480B2
A system includes a base, and an emitter including a light source operable to generate a beam of visible radiation. The beam of radiation impinges a substantially horizontal support surface at a location approximately three meters from the emitter when the base is disposed on the support surface and the emitter is supported by the base. The system also includes a vision screening device supported by the base, the vision screening device having a first display, and a second display opposite the first display and facing the location. The system further includes a controller operable to cause the second display to output an image included in a visual acuity examination based at least in part on generation of the visible beam.
US12029477B2
In one aspect of the present disclosure, a laser fiber may include an optical fiber. The optical fiber may include a proximal portion. The optical fiber also may include a distal portion having a distal end. The optical fiber may be configured to transmit laser energy from the proximal portion to the distal portion for emission of the laser energy from the distal end. The optical fiber also may include a distal tip surrounding the distal portion to protect the distal portion. The distal tip may include a sheet glass material having a laser energy emitting surface. The laser energy emitting surface may be defined by a chemically-strengthened surface layer.
US12029475B2
Apparatus for removal of a thrombus from a body of a subject includes an electrically-insulating tube, which includes a distal end having a circumferential wall that is shaped to define one or more perforations, configured for insertion into the body of the subject, an outer electrode, disposed over the distal end of the electrically-insulating tube, and configured to lie at least partly within the thrombus while the electrically-insulating tube is inside the body of the subject, and an inner electrode, configured to lie, within the tube, opposite the perforations, while the outer electrode lies at least partly within the thrombus. The outer electrode is configured to attract the thrombus while the outer electrode lies at least partly within the thrombus and the inner electrode lies opposite the perforations, when a positive voltage is applied between the outer electrode and the inner electrode such that electric current flows through the perforations.
US12029467B2
A method and system for creating permanent lesions in an area of target tissue, such as tissue at or proximate a junction between a pulmonary vein and the left atrium. The method may generally include positioning a medical device in contact with a pulmonary vein ostium, ablating the tissue, and recording a plurality of temperature measurements from one or more of three temperature sensors. The device may include an occlusion element in communication with a coolant source, a first sensor located distal of the occlusion element, a second sensor located proximal of the occlusion element, and a third sensor located in the occlusion element. One or more temperature measurements may be compared with each other to assess occlusion of the pulmonary vein, and/or may be compared with a set of reference temperatures to predict a real-time temperature within the target tissue.
US12029466B2
According to some embodiments, a method of treating a subject having diabetes or symptoms associated with diabetes is provided. The method includes delivering a neuromodulation catheter within a vessel (e.g., hepatic artery) having surrounding nerves that innervate the liver (e.g., sympathetic nerves of the hepatic plexus). The method may also include modulating (e.g., disrupting, ablating, stimulating) the nerves by mechanical compression, energy delivery, or fluid delivery.
US12029464B2
A wire driver for inserting a wire into bone. The wire driver includes a housing having proximal and distal ends, with a handpiece extending to the proximal end. The handpiece is connected to a gripping portion, which extends to the distal end. A channel extends through the gripping portion and is connected to a gripping mechanism. A drive mechanism within the handpiece is connected to the channel. The drive mechanism is configured to rotate the channel when actuated by a first actuator positioned on the handpiece (which can be on the distal end of the handpiece). A second actuator is connected to the gripping portion and the gripping mechanism. The second actuator is movable between a relaxed position and a compressed position. The user can operate both first and second actuators with the same handpiece grip. The gripping portion and second actuator are rotatable relative to the housing and first actuator.
US12029463B2
System and methods for transversely displacing structures in the body can include a device for displacing structures in a patient's body, the device having: a handle; a first longitudinal member fixed in position relative to the handle; a second longitudinal member coaxial with the first longitudinal member, the second longitudinal member movable relative to the first longitudinal member between a retracted position and an extended position; and at least one resilient blade extending from a proximal end to a distal end, the proximal end of the at least one resilient blade mechanically fixed in position relative to the second longitudinal member; wherein the distal end of the at least one resilient blade is engaged with the first longitudinal member when the second longitudinal member is in its extended position and disengaged from the first longitudinal member when the second longitudinal member is in its retracted position.
US12029460B2
Embodiments of the present invention relate to systems, methods, and apparatus for immobilizing and/or securing bone portions. Particularly, at least one embodiment involves a compact anti-rotation device that can secure adjacent bones and/or bone portions in a manner that prevents or limits relative rotational movement thereof.
US12029458B2
A surgical guide used in computer-aided orthognathic or similar bone surgery, the guide being structured to properly locate the osteotomy marking members and implant fixation screw-receiving holes on the bone surfaces of the patient, and/or the cutting of the osteotomy or the drilling of implant fixation screw-receiving holes. The guide has a bone-conforming member and a dental-interface member connected by a bridging member, the inner surfaces of the bone-conforming member and the dental interface member conforming to the topographical surfaces of the patient's bone and teeth. The dental-interface member abuts the front and sides of the teeth. A similarly designed fixation implant may also be provided.
US12029456B2
The invention comprises a method for fixating bones in the foot by aligning the bones in their desired position, inserting a screw in the aligned bones, inserting at least one transverse element near the head or tip of the screw, and tightening the screw to compress the bones. The screw comprises a shaft having first and second ends with spirally wound screw threads beginning near the first end and extending along the shaft. Advantageously, the screw is cannulated and screw threads are formed on an interior surface of the cannulation. Illustratively, the transverse elements may be staples, open-ended washers, or open-ended nuts. Reduction instruments and drill guides used in the invention are also disclosed.
US12029455B2
An intermedullary nail for targeted arthrodesis of the tibiotalar joint. The intramedullary nail may be advanced through a bore extending through the calcaneus, talus, and into the tibia. In an example, a distal end portion of the intramedullary nail is disposed proximal to the subtalar joint. It has been recognized that creation of a bore for introduction of the intramedullary nail does not significantly disrupt the articular surface area of the subtalar joint. Furthermore, locking fasteners used to secure the intramedullary nail may introduced laterally and/or anteriorly to facilitate benefits in relation to patient placement and manipulation during an operation. Furthermore, arthrodesis may be extended to adjacent anatomy through use of extension plates at least partially secured by locking fasteners also engaging the intramedullary nail.
US12029452B2
A bone anchoring device includes a receiving part with a rod receiving portion having a first end, a second end, a recess for the rod, an outer surface, and a first engagement structure on the outer surface that extends farther radially outwardly than other parts of the rod receiving portion, and a flexible head receiving portion for inserting and clamping the head. The bone anchoring device also includes a locking ring configured to be arranged around the head receiving portion for locking the head, the locking ring having an outer surface and a second engagement structure on the outer surface that extends farther radially outwardly than the outer surface of the rod receiving portion. The engagement structures are configured to be engaged by an instrument to move the locking ring from a locking position to a position where the inserted head is pivotable.
US12029451B2
The present disclosure provides a burr hole cover (e.g., burr hole cover) and method of manufacturing such apparatus. The burr hole cover disclosed herein may be multi-functional in that it may be used to: (a) form a burr hole which provides access to the brain, and (b) facilitate concealing the burr hole without employing any fastening devices (e.g., surgical screws, wires, etc.). In embodiments, the burr hole cover may include a sleeve having an outer surface, an inner surface, and a hollowed portion. In embodiments, the outer surface of the sleeve may define external serrations. The sleeve may be configured to create a burr hole in a skull, and the external serrations may be configured to secure the sleeve within the burr hole. The burr hole cover may also include a plate configured to fit with the sleeve and conceal the burr hole.
US12029450B2
To ensure that a biodegradable medical implement dissolves in vivo at an appropriate dissolution rate. The biodegradable medical implement of the present invention is formed of a magnesium material, and, at least in one transverse section, a layer of magnesium crystal grains in which a (0001) plane in a hexagonal crystal structure is oriented toward a surface side is continuous over an entire circumference.
US12029446B2
In some examples, a medical device includes a substrate defining a central port configured to provide surgical access to a surgical site opposite the substrate during a surgical procedure; and a plurality of reinforcement features disposed around the central port, wherein each reinforcement feature of the plurality of reinforcement features is configured to receive a suture, and wherein the plurality of reinforcement features are positioned to cause the substrate to tighten around the central port in response to tension being applied to ends of at least one suture connecting two or more reinforcement features.
US12029444B2
Provided is a gripping mechanism including: a frame; a first jaw that is supported by the frame so as to be rotatable about a first rotation axis; a second jaw that is supported by the frame so as to be rotatable about a second rotation axis that is different from the first rotation axis and that is parallel to the first rotation axis; a slit that is formed in at least one of the jaws; a transmission pin that passes inside the slit and that transmits a force between the jaws; and a wire that is connected to the first jaw and that transmits a rotational force about the first rotation axis to the first jaw through tension. Movement of the transmission pin inside the slit through rotation of the first jaw rotates the second jaw.
US12029442B2
A clot removal device comprising an outer cage, an inner cage concentrically positioned within the outer cage, a first elongated member in communication with the outer cage, and a second elongated member in communication with the inner cage. The first elongated member can be attached to a proximal end of the outer cage and configured to move the outer cage between delivery and expanded configurations. The second elongated member can be attached to a proximal end of the inner cage and configured to move the inner cage between delivery and expanded configurations.
US12029440B2
A reaming device for preparing a glenoid of a patient may include a base configured for mounting to bone and an oscillatory rasp configured to be translatable in a proximal-distal direction relative to the base while the base is coupled to the glenoid of the patient.
US12029437B1
Provided is an osteotome handpiece that may be driven by compressed gas. In an embodiment, a spherical piston may be movable inside a cylinder having a liner, which may be made of a low-friction material such as a fluoropolymer. The spherical piston may impact a blade holder that transmits force to a blade. A piston return spring may be provided, along with a piston washer to avoid any possible outward deformation of the spring. The blade holder may be retained by a split and threaded retaining collar. Single-stroke or multi-stroke operation may be chosen by the user. The device has long-operating low-maintenance advantages.
US12029435B2
Described embodiments provide systems and methods for a tourniquet system compression device. The compression device includes a spooling mechanism, a ratchet release, a safety release, and a profile surface. The spooling mechanism includes a first side loading configured to receive a first tourniquet strap, and a second side loading slot configured to receive a second tourniquet strap. The ratchet release disengages a ratchet gear from a pawl. The safety release prevents the ratchet gear from disengaging with the pawl when the safety release is active. The profile surface generates a pressure profile against a subject. The compression device includes a fixed end of webbing. The compression device is coupled to the webbing. The spooling mechanism is configured to gather the webbing. The compression device includes a preset pressure profile. The compression device includes a fixed end fitting. The compression device is configured for side entry loading of the webbing.
US12029430B2
Disclosed is an umbilical orthesis plug for an infant, child or toddler. The plug comprises a flange and a body, wherein the body is connected to the flange and wherein the body tapers in width from the flange to the end of the plug. Methods for using the plug and kits comprising the plug are also disclosed.
US12029429B2
Embodiments of the present invention encompass systems and methods to prevent complications from atrial fibrillation by preventing or reducing the likelihood of blood flow out of the left atrial appendage, to eliminate a possible source of aberrant electrical circuits, or both. Accordingly, techniques are provided for delivering ligature loops or closure means to the left atrial appendage, and to other anatomical structures of a patient which may be desirable in other surgical procedures.
US12029428B2
A surgical stapling system includes an adapter assembly, a trocar assembly attachable to the adapter assembly, a processor, and memory. The memory includes instructions executable by the processor to cause the trocar assembly to move relative to the adapter assembly and determine whether the trocar assembly is properly attached to the adapter assembly. Such determination is based on an amount of force applied between the trocar assembly and the adapter assembly, an amount of current detected in the surgical stapling system, or an amount of time the trocar assembly moves relative to the adapter assembly without an indication that the amount of force is within a predetermined range.
US12029423B2
A surgical stapling instrument comprising a replaceable staple cartridge is disclosed. The staple cartridge comprises a cartridge body comprising a proximal end, a distal end, and a longitudinal slot extending between the proximal end and the distal end. The staple cartridge further comprises a pan attachable to the cartridge body, wherein the pan is configured to prevent staples from falling out of a base of the cartridge body. The pan comprises a pan slot aligned with the longitudinal slot when the pan is attached to the cartridge body. The pan slot comprises a proximal portion comprising a first width and a distal portion comprising a second width. The first width is different than the second width.
US12029422B2
A surgical device includes a handle assembly including a controller and a first electrical connector. The surgical device also includes an adapter assembly having: a tubular housing having a proximal end portion configured to couple to the handle assembly, and a distal end portion; a second electrical connector disposed at the proximal end portion and configured to couple to the first electrical connector; an electrical contact assembly disposed at the distal end portion; and a wire harness disposed within the tubular housing and interconnecting the second electrical connector and the electrical contact assembly. The surgical device also includes a surgical end effector configured to couple to the distal end portion of the adapter assembly, the surgical end effector includes an electrical contact configured to couple to the electrical contact assembly.
US12029414B2
A minimally invasive surgical suture end locking device includes a hooking assembly, a clamping structure, a power rod and an external conduit. The hooking assembly includes an annular structure enclosed by a flexible material and a force application end, the clamping structure is configured to press the locking pin, the power rod is configured to press the clamping structure by linear motion, and the external conduit is provided with a through hole, the through hole being provided on the side of a position where the clamping structure and the power rod contact each other for a portion of the suture passing through the through area to be led out. There is provided in the present invention a device that allows to tighten and lock the suture directly at the end proximal to the position where the suture is led out from the human tissue.
US12029410B2
A suture construct having a soft button, defining a multiplicity of first apertures and a set of second apertures. Also, a suture loop assembly has a suture defining a lumen and forming a double loop, formed by a double trap having a first end and a second end, formed in a trap region of the suture, and in which a first portion of the suture is threaded through the trap region lumen from the first end to the second end and the first portion extends out from the second end, and a second portion of the suture is threaded through the trap region lumen from the second end to the first end, and the second portion extends out from the first end. Finally, the double loop passes through the set of second apertures of the soft button.
US12029403B2
A snare device for retrieving and/or manipulating an object within a space, such as a body lumen. In one embodiment, the snare device includes a support and a core wire. The support includes a proximal portion terminating in a proximal end, a distal portion terminating in a distal end, and a lumen, the lumen extending distally from the proximal end. The core wire is flexible and includes a proximal portion and a distal portion. The distal portion of the core wire and the distal portion of the support are complementarily shaped and are fixedly fitted together, wherein the core wire forms a loop extending away from the distal end of the support, and wherein the core wire passes through the lumen and emerges from the proximal end of the support. The distal portion of the support and the distal portion of the core wire may be complementarily dimensioned helical structures.
US12029371B2
A dishwashing apparatus comprises a housing containing a series of zones, each zone adapted for performing a step of a dishwashing cycle. A drive means transports a shuttle loaded with a soiled item in a loop from a loading/unloading area atop the housing, into the housing, through each of the wash-step zones and out of the housing back to the loading/unloading area. Different shuttle types are provided, each type adapted to carry one of: an individual item of plateware, an individual item of cupware or an individual place setting of cutlery. A method of washing dishes utilising the apparatus is described. The apparatus is compact for installation flush with countertop adjacent to a kitchen sink. The apparatus and method permit rapid and efficient washing of small numbers of items such as a single place setting.
US12029367B2
A modular cleaning set includes one or more separable components magnetically attached to each other, and including a broom, dustpan, mini-brooms, and one or more brushes. The handles and rods of the cleaning set may be reversibly attached to any of the individually separable components.
US12029360B2
The shower and bath scrubbing accessory that can be used with a disposable scrubber having an attached string. The accessory includes an elongated body with a handle portion and a head portion. The head portion has a scrubber holder and a string channel adjacent to it, which guides the string from one side of the head portion to the opposite side. Additionally, there is a string securing feature on the elongated body, which holds the scrubber tightly at the scrubber holder. The elongated body may be a single piece or a multi-piece elongated body. The scrubber holder may be a cup defined by a raised wall or raised protrusions on the first side of the head portion, and the string channel may be positioned within the cup. The string securing feature may be positioned on the handle or head portion of the elongated body, and it may include a plurality of string holders positioned at various distances from the string channel.
US12029357B2
A fastening system for the fastening of a sanitary article comprising a carrier element, at least one upper stop portion which lies on the carrier element and which strikes against an upper stop of the sanitary article, at least one lower stop portion which lies on the carrier element and which strikes against a lower stop of the sanitary article, and at least one clamping element. At least one of the stop portions is mounted on the carrier element so as to be displaceable with respect to the carrier element, and is connected to the at least one clamping element in such a way that, as a result of actuation of the clamping element, the stop portion can be displaced in a direction of actuation such that the two stop portions can be braced between the two stops of the sanitary article.
US12029344B2
A system includes: a water reservoir configured to store water; a brew chamber extending below and contiguous with the water reservoir; a piston configured to run in the brew chamber, defining a base of the water reservoir, defining a port extending between the water reservoir and the brew chamber, and including a valve coupled to the fill port and operable in a) a closed position during downward advancement of the piston and b) an open position during upward retraction of the piston; a heating element configured to heat water occupying the brew assembly; and an actuator configured to retract the piston to transfer water from the water reservoir, through piston via the port, and into the brew chamber and to advance the piston by a target piston travel distance—corresponding to a piston swept volume that yields a target brew volume—to displace liquid from the brew chamber.
US12029336B2
A glass double-walled beverage container, having an inner body sidewall lower end portion in fluid-tight engagement with an inner body end wall to define an interior beverage cavity, an outer body sidewall lower end portion in fluid-tight engagement with an outer body end wall, the outer body sidewall extending fully about the inner body sidewall, an inner body sidewall upper end portion and an outer body sidewall upper end portion being rigidly connected together and in fluid-tight engagement, the inner body end wall being positioned above and spaced apart from the outer body end wall to provide an interior space therebetween, and a non-glass adhesive material positioned in the interior space adhered to both the inner and outer body end walls. A method of making same is provided.
US12029328B1
A chair cover includes a back panel configured to fit or cover a backside of a chair; a top or seat panel configured to fit or cover a front and seat area of the chair; and two side panels, each side panel configured to substantially cover an opposing side of the chair. A first fastener extends at least partially along a portion of the chair corresponding to a top or headrest of the chair. Two second fasteners each extend at least partially along a portion of the chair cover corresponding to an armrest of the chair. Each panel includes a flexible or elastic fabric, and the chair cover is configured to prevent a person from sitting in the chair.
US12029321B2
A dismantlable electric bed includes a fixation frame, a moveable frame, and an actuator. The moveable frame includes two longitudinal rods and a transverse rod having two ends. The two longitudinal rods are pivotally connected with the fixation frame, respectively. Each longitudinal rod has at least one insertion hole. Each end of the transverse rod is provided with at least one post detachably inserted into the at least one insertion hole of one longitudinal rod. The actuator has two ends pivotally connected with the fixation frame and the transverse rod, respectively. As such, the electric bed is dismantlable to reduce the packing volume thereof and convenient to be assembled by the user herself/himself.
US12029317B2
A trim is used for being covered on a vertical beam of a shelving system, wherein the trim is matched with the shape of the vertical beam, and the trim is configured such that when the trim is covered on the vertical beam, a force is generated between the trim and the vertical beam, the trim is fixed on the vertical beam with the force and the trim is covered on at least part of the surface of the vertical beam. A vertical beam assembly comprises a vertical beam and a trim which is covered on the vertical beam. A shelving system comprises a horizontal beam and a vertical beam which contains a magnetic trim. The connection mode between the trim and the vertical beam is very convenient for installation and disassembly. The trim is covered on the vertical beam, which may improve the overall aesthetics of the vertical beam and prevent other items from being hooked on the vertical beam and thus causing damage to the shelving system.
US12029314B2
A device for cable management has a rectangular cloth that is tightened from four corners to an underside of a table. The cloth supports cables, power sources or other electrical accessories against the table. The cloth may be canvas, fabric, net, mesh or similar, made from flexible thin material. The cloth is lifted close to the table by tightening a cord that travels inside the outer seams. The cord is tightened against four fastening means at each corner of the rectangular cloth. The arrangement allows items of various sizes and shapes to be supported and gently pushed against the underside of the table.
US12029296B2
Extendable and retractable luggage comprises a housing including a first compartment therein for storage. The luggage also includes a module movably connected to the housing. The module includes a second compartment in communication with the first compartment of the housing. The module is configured to move within the housing in a retracted position and extend away from the housing in an extended position. The housing and the module are in an axial alignment, such that both the extended and retracted positions of the module within the housing are maintained in the axial alignment. A portion of the module and a portion of the housing overlap each other and connect together when in the extended position, and when the module is positioned within the portion of the housing, a frame at a lower end of the module is positioned against a rim of the housing to provide the retracted position.
US12029294B1
The present disclosure discloses a card holder, which includes a shell and an elastic piece. The shell having a first accommodating cavity and a first accommodating opening, the first accommodating opening being communicated with the first accommodating cavity, and first accommodating cavity being used for accommodating a card. The elastic piece being arranged in the first accommodating cavity, and the elastic piece being used for pressing and locking the card in the first accommodating cavity. Through the structure, when the card is placed in the first accommodating cavity through the first accommodating opening. The elastic piece arranged in the first accommodating cavity is pressed by both sides of the card. An elastic reset force generated when the elastic piece is pressed tightly presses the card in the first accommodating cavity, which can effectively prevent the card from sliding out of the first accommodating cavity through the first accommodating opening.
US12029291B2
A protective cover and mount for a personal electronic device that is capable of using a wireless charging system comprising a wireless charger and a power cord having a plug. The protective cover features a cavity recessed into underlying structure. The cavity is shaped to accommodate the wireless charger, and the underlying structure is shaped so that power cords connected to the wireless charger can be conveniently managed.
US12029289B1
A metal slide wallet which includes a case having a hollow space inside for storing a plurality of plastic cards and paper money; a dispensing mechanism; and a slide cover, mechanically coupled to the dispensing mechanism, operative to slide in a first direction to dispense the plurality of plastic cards and to slide in a second direction perpendicular the first direction to expose the paper money.
US12029285B2
Provided is a closure device including a first closure part that includes a locking element, a force transmission element operatively connected to the locking element, which can be loaded along a force direction, and an actuating element movable relative to the locking element, and a second closure part that includes an engagement element. The locking element and the engagement element can be attached to each other for connecting the first closure part and the second closure part to each other and are connected to each other in a closed position. In the closed position, when the force transmission element is loaded along the force direction, the locking element is loaded in a locking direction towards contact with the engagement element by the action of force of the force transmission element. The actuating element can be actuated in order to adjust the locking element against the locking direction.
US12029279B2
Footwear that includes a closure system that enables a wearer to quickly and easily fasten the closure system is disclosed. The closure system may include a primary strap and a secondary strap arranged on opposite sides of the footwear where the secondary strap releasably attaches at one end to the primary strap and the primary strap releasably attaches at one end to the upper. The closure system allows for the secondary strap to be selectively attached to the primary strap prior to a wearer inserting a foot into the article of footwear such that the article of footwear is configured to be secured to the foot by simultaneously securing the primary strap and the secondary strap when releasable attachment region of the primary strap is attached to a releasable attachment region of located on the upper.
US12029274B2
A sole structure may include a midsole element, a plate, a first chamber, and a second chamber. The midsole element may be formed from a foamed polymer material. The plate may be formed from a substantially non-foamed polymer material, and the plate has an upper surface and an opposite lower surface. The plate is embedded within the midsole element such that the foamed polymer material exposes a first area and a second area of the lower surface. The first chamber and the second chamber each have a fluid-filled configuration. The first chamber is secured to the first area, and the second chamber is secured to the second area.
US12029271B2
A shield lock mechanism for attachment to a shell includes a holding member configured to be moved by an external operation between a holding position at which a shield is held and an attachment-detachment position at which the shield can be attached or detached, a biasing member configured to constantly bias the holding member toward the holding position, and a restriction member configured to be moved by an external operation between a restricting position at which movement of the holding member arranged at the holding position is restricted and a cancelling position at which the restriction is cancelled.
US12029267B2
It is disclosed a garment (1) having an inner side (1a), and an outer side (1b) opposite to the inner side (1a), the garment (1) comprising one or more woven fabrics (2, 3), wherein at least two ends (2a, 3a) of different woven fabrics (2, 3) and/or two ends (2a, 3a) of the same woven fabric are seamed by means of one or more threads (4a) that form a stitch (4), wherein said stitch (4) is an overlock stitch (4) and it is arranged so that at least one of said thread (4a) is present on the inner side (1a) of the garment (1), and at least one of said thread (4a) is present on the outer side (1b) of the garment (1), the thickness (T1) of the stitch (4) on the inner side (1a) of the garment (1) is less than the thickness (T2) of the stitch (4) on the outer side (1b) of the garment (1).
US12029262B2
An exemplary, nonlimiting embodiment of the present disclosure provides a lightweight, breathable protective garment configured to encompass the entirety of two limbs and their corresponding extremities, such as a pair of legs and feet, of an individual as a means of preventing an insect biting the skin of the limbs and corresponding extremities. The exemplary, nonlimiting embodiment of the present disclosure comprises a pair of pants and a pair of footwear. The pair of pants is constructed of a fabric which preferably comprises a single layer mesh impenetrable to a variety of insects. The footwear is secured to the pair of pants near the bottom of each pant leg.
US12029257B2
A case for an aerosol-generating device is provided, including: a case housing; a holder to receive the device and being movable with respect to the case housing between a closed position in which removal of the device from the holder is prevented and a docking position in which the device is removable; a case power supply within the case housing; a case electrical connector to supply power to the device received within the holder; a charging connector to receive power from an external power supply; a sensor to sense a position of the holder and to generate a signal indicative of the position; and a controller to receive the signal from the sensor, supply power to the case power supply when the signal indicates the holder is the closed position, and supply power when the signal indicates the holder is in the docking position. A charging system is also provided.
US12029252B2
The present disclosure relates to a system, a method, a device, and an electronic atomizing device for detecting a nicotine content in an e-liquid. The system includes: a sampling circuit configured to acquire characteristic parameters, and the characteristic parameters being configured to calculate an impedance of the e-liquid in an e-liquid containing component; and a controller electrically connected to the sampling circuit, configured to calculate the impedance of the e-liquid according to the characteristic parameters fed back by the sampling circuit, and determine the nicotine content in the e-liquid according to the impedance of the e-liquid and a preset corresponding relation between the impedance and the nicotine content.
US12029249B2
A cartridge for a radiation heated aerosol-generating device. A wall of the cartridge defines a cavity. An aerosol-forming substrate is housed within the cavity. The outer surface of the wall of the cartridge comprises a high emissivity material. The invention further relates to an aerosol-generating device for use with the cartridge, and to an aerosol-generating device or a shisha device comprising the aerosol-generating device, to a system comprising both the aerosol-generating device and the cartridge, and to a method for forming an aerosol in an aerosol-generating device.
US12029246B2
A cartridge includes a storage that stores a liquid composition including an aerosol generating material, and an aerosol generator connected to the storage and including a generation space where an aerosol is generated from the aerosol generating material, wherein the aerosol generator includes a supplier configured to supply the liquid composition from the storage to the generation space, a liquid delivery element disposed in the generation space and configured to absorb the liquid composition supplied from the supplier, a heating element configured to heat the liquid composition absorbed into the liquid delivery element, and a bubble discharger configured to discharge bubbles generated in the generation space such that the bubbles are not discharged through the supplier.
US12029245B2
A device for heating a smokable material includes an elongate housing assembly having a mouth end with an opening and an opposing open component end. The housing assembly includes a hollow inner tube longitudinally extending therethrough, wherein the inner tube is in fluid communication with the opening of the mouth end and the open component end. A cartridge contains the smokable material and is disposed within the inner tube. A main node assembly includes an upper portion and a lower portion, the upper portion is insertable through the open component end into the inner tube. The lower portion of the main node assembly includes a pressure sensor configured to detect a draw on the mouth end by the user and a membrane assembly configured to generate low-frequency air vibrations in response to a signal received from the pressure sensor.
US12029238B2
Provided is an aerosol generating system including a holder configured to generate aerosol by heating a cigarette; and a cradle including an inner space into which the holder is inserted. The holder is configured to be tiltable with respect the cradle. The holder is inserted into the inner space of the cradle and then tilted to generate the aerosol.
US12029224B2
A clean in place assembly for a soft serve ice cream dispenser includes an ice cream dispenser. A clean in place system having a water tank including a heater disposed therein is attached to the ice cream dispenser. A control interface is disposed on the tank. The control interface is connected to operating circuitry of the ice cream dispenser. A nozzle of the ice cream dispenser is formed of a conductive metal material and includes a notch formed therein circumferentially about a portion of the nozzle and includes radiused surfaces that extend to portions of the nozzle that house O-rings.
US12029223B2
A frozen product dispenser provides a controller to control the rate of freezing and the temperature range of a frozen product. The controller monitors the temperature of the product as well as the torque applied to a scrapper blade. For example, the torque may be measured based on monitoring a current draw of a scrapper motor. The torque may be tracked over time to determine a rate of change in the torque. The rate of freezing may be controlled by setting a maximum rate of increase in the torque. Upon determining that the rate of increase in the monitored torque exceeds the maximum rate, a compressor for the frozen product dispenser may be turned off for a predetermined period of time and/or a hot gas bypass may be opened. A heat transfer medium may decouple thermal contact between an evaporator and the product to control the rate of freezing.
US12029219B2
The present invention relates to a process for producing a more crispy food product based on multi-layered laminated dough such as croissants and the like, to the tools for making such products and the food products prepared according to this process.
US12029217B2
Disclosed herein are safened compositions comprising (a) a pyridine carboxylate herbicide or an agriculturally acceptable N-oxide, salt or ester thereof and (b) a safener comprising isoxadifen or agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof. Also disclosed herein are methods of controlling undesirable vegetation, comprising applying to vegetation or an area adjacent the vegetation or applying in soil or water to control the emergence or growth of vegetation (a) a pyridine carboxylate herbicide or an agriculturally acceptable N-oxide, salt or ester thereof and (b) a safener comprising isoxadifen or agriculturally acceptable salt or ester thereof.
US12029216B1
A plant growth regulator contains thiophene acetic acid. A method of regulating growth of plants includes preparing a plant growth regulator comprising thiophene acetic acid and applying the plant growth regulator. Shoot regeneration from tomato cotyledon explants in vitro is enhanced in the presence of the antibiotic timentin. Timentin degrades into thiophene acetic acid (TAA) over time. Thiophene acetic acid (TAA) performs particularly well as a plant growth regulator. TAA was surprisingly found to enhance root and shoot formation and growth in explants, and in particular in cotyledon explants. TAA is also advantageous in that it may be used to enhance growth in whole plants.
US12029207B1
A fishing line connector system is described that can be used in the field to change out a fly pretied to a tippet quickly and easily. The connector system comprises lightweight buoyant left and right halves that can be easily coupled and decoupled by way of a threaded connection. Each includes fishing line bores through which fishing line can be tied with one half typically being tied to a leader line and the other half to a tippet line. The connector system is brightly colored to permit an angler to see the connector floating on the surface of the water and thereby serve as an indicator as to general location of the fly.
US12029193B2
The invention provides seeds and plants of pepper hybrid SVPB7456. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid SVPB7456 and to methods for producing a pepper plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a pepper plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of pepper hybrid SVPB7456, comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits.
US12029184B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the corn variety designated CV402863. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CV402863, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CV402863 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to corn seeds and plants produced by crossing plants of variety CV402863 with plants of another variety, such as another inbred line. The invention further relates to the inbred and hybrid genetic complements of plants of variety CV402863.
US12029180B2
The invention relates to the wheat cultivar designated 01095214. Provided by the invention are the seeds, plants and derivatives of the wheat cultivar 01095214. Also provided by the invention are tissue cultures of the wheat cultivar 01095214 and the plants regenerated therefrom. Still further provided by the invention are methods for producing wheat plants by crossing the wheat cultivar 01095214 with itself or another wheat cultivar and plants produced by such methods.
US12029178B2
New lettuce variety designated ‘Crispenza’ is described. ‘Crispenza’ is a lettuce variety exhibiting stability and uniformity.
US12029176B2
Plant holder for a hydroponic growth system, comprising a body having a top section, a middle section and a bottom section, where the plant holder comprises a first conduit having a rear wall and a front wall, where the plant holder comprises a plant hopper with a plant mouth arranged at the top section, where the first conduit comprises a sloping bottom wall having an outlet opening arranged at the bottom section, where the plant holder further comprises a lid arranged at the plant mouth, where the lid comprises a collector plate extending from the interior of the first conduit into the plant hopper, where the collector plate ends outside of the periphery of the plant holder.
US12029173B2
An irrigation system comprises an irrigation controller that receives user input and provides a power signal and command and message data to an encoder. The encoder encodes the command and message data onto the power signal to provide a data encoded power waveform that is sent over a two-wire path. The irrigation system further comprises one or more decoders in communication with the two-wire path to receive the data encoded power waveform and one or more irrigation valves in communication with the one or more decoders. The data encoded power waveform provides power to the decoders and the decoders decode the command and message data from the data encoded power waveform to control the irrigation valves according to the user input.
US12029171B2
A tree limb connector and method of use has a first member and second member that, when connected, securely hold two limbs of a tree in place. The device has a first member with a hook at a first end and a hollow receptacle at a second end. A second member has a hook at a first end and a threading on a second end with a length and teeth. Each hook attaches onto one limb of a tree. The threading is pulled into a first end of receptable and out of a second end of the receptacle, held securely in place via a tongue at the second end of the receptacle that catches a rib at a desired length. The present invention and methods may be used to bring two plant limbs closer together to reduce bare spots for ornamental reasons, such as on a Christmas tree, or provide added support.
US12029167B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for emitting light from a header reel are disclosed. More particularly, systems, methods, and apparatuses for selectively emitting light from different portions of a reel header are disclosed. In some implementations, light is selectively emitted from different parts of a reel header based on a position of the reel header. For example, light may be emitted based on a position of the portion of the reel header as the reel header is rotated. The emitted light provides for illumination and operator visualization during, for example, agricultural operations performed at night or during low ambient light conditions.
US12029162B2
Crop is routed past a sample window on an agricultural combine harvester. Light it is impinged on the crop from an illumination source and reflected radiation is directed to a sensor. The output of the sensor is indicative of various constituents in the harvested crop. The illumination source is controlled based on the temperature proximate the crop sample.
US12029158B1
A mulching lawn mower blade preferably includes a base cutting blade and at least one mulching cutting blade. The base cutting blade includes a first cutting edge formed on one edge, extending inward from a first end thereof and a second cutting edge formed on an opposing edge, extending inward from a second end thereof. A middle section of the base cutting blade may have any suitable hole (s) or opening pattern (s) to accommodate attachment to a drive shaft of a lawn mower. The at least one mulching cutting blade may be a single mulching cutting blade, which is bolted to the drive shaft, or two separate mulching cutting blades, which are attached to the base cutting blade with any suitable method, such as welding. A first mulching cutting blade includes a first mulching cutting edge and a second mulching cutting blade includes a second mulching cutting edge.
US12029154B2
A mower-conditioner machine which includes a frame, a cutter bar connected to the frame, the cutter bar is configured to cut a crop material from a field, and a crop-engaging member connected to the frame. The crop-engaging member is configured to contact the crop material. The mower-conditioner machine also includes at least one moisture sensor connected to the crop-engaging member. The at least one moisture sensor is configured to sense a moisture content of the crop material.
US12029149B2
A fertilizer device is described in one example, that is configured to connect to an irrigation system and direct water past fertilizer. The fertilizer device may include a cap rotatably disposed on a base portion. Depending on the rotational position of the cap relatively to the base portion, different amounts of water are directed against or past the fertilizer within a chamber of the device. The device also may include a water path around the fertilizer such that, even if water flow to the fertilizer is cut off, water without fertilizer will still pass through and out of the device.
US12035627B2
A power generation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a cooling unit, a thermoelectric module comprising a thermoelectric element disposed on one surface of the cooling unit, and a heat sink disposed on the thermoelectric element; a guide plate disposed opposite the thermoelectric module; and a branch unit disposed on another surface perpendicular to the one surface of the cooling unit. The heat sink includes multiple heat dissipation fins which are spaced apart from each other. The ratio of the shortest horizontal distance between the heat sink and the guide plate to the shortest horizontal distance between the branch unit and the guide plate is 0.0625 to 0.25.
US12035619B2
An organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer; and at least one organometallic compound of the present embodiments. In the organic light-emitting device, the emission layer may further include a host, and the at least one organometallic compound may be a phosphorescent material or a delayed fluorescent material. The organic light-emitting device including the organometallic compound may have a low driving voltage, a high luminance, a high efficiency, and a long lifespan.
US12035617B2
An organic electroluminescence device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and a plurality of organic layers disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein at least one organic layer of the plurality of organic layers includes a first compound represented by Formula 1, a second compound represented by Formula 2, and a third compound represented by Formula 3, wherein Formulae 1-3 are defined herein.
US12035611B2
The present application provides a display panel and an electronic device. A support plate of the display panel includes a support member stacked in multiple layers. An area of a first support member corresponding to the first bending area is hollowed out. A calendered direction of the first support member is perpendicular to a bending axis of the second bending area. An area of a second support member corresponding to the second bending area is hollowed out. A calendered direction of the second support member is perpendicular to a bending axis of the first bending area to alleviate the fracture risk of the metal support.
US12035610B2
A foldable display device includes a flexible display module and a first plate. The flexible display module includes a foldable area and the non-foldable area. The foldable area includes a first area, a second area spaced apart from the first area and disposed in at least two sides of the first area, and a third area disposed between the first area and the second area. The non-foldable area is disposed in at least two sides of the foldable area. The first plate is disposed under the flexible display module. The first plate includes a plurality of grooves overlapping the second area and penetrating the first plate. The first plate overlapping the third area does not include grooves.
US12035609B2
A display panel and a method of manufacturing the same are disclosed. The display panel includes a bending area. The display panel includes a first flexible substrate. A buffer layer is disposed on a surface of the first flexible substrate. A rough structure is disposed on a surface of the first flexible substrate in contact with the buffer layer in the bending area.
US12035607B2
A display device includes a substrate, a first insulating layer disposed on the substrate, a through portion passing through the substrate and the first insulating layer, a display unit disposed on the first insulating layer and including a plurality of pixels surrounding at least a portion of the through portion, and a dummy pixel unit. Each pixel includes a light-emitting element including a pixel electrode and an opposite electrode facing each other, and an emission layer disposed between the pixel electrode and the opposite electrode. The dummy pixel unit includes a plurality of dummy pixels disposed between the through portion and the display unit, and including a metal pattern including a same material as the pixel electrode. The dummy pixels are disposed adjacent to the display unit.
US12035606B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel has an array substrate, a plurality of light-emitting pixel units, a micro lens layer, and a passivation layer. The micro lens layer has a plurality of micro lenses and a plurality of openings. The plurality of openings have a plurality of first openings. In a direction along a plane of the display panel, each of the first openings has a main body portion and at least one expansion portion. The expansion portion is provided at a corner of the main body portion, and the expansion portion is an arc-shaped convex surface, which is beneficial to improve a light concentration effect of micro lenses.
US12035603B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes: a substrate; a driving circuit layer including a plurality of first thin film transistors and a second thin film transistor located on the substrate, wherein the second thin film transistor is located between adjacent first thin film transistors; a plurality of light-emitting elements located on one side of the driving circuit layer away from the substrate, and electrically connected to the plurality of first thin film transistors respectively; a photosensitive element located between adjacent light-emitting elements and electrically connected to the second thin film transistor; and a photoresist element located on an optical path of ambient light transmitted to a thin film transistor channel of the second thin film transistor within the display panel, so as to reduce ambient light transmitted to a thin film transistor channel of the second thin film transistor.
US12035599B2
An array substrate and a display device are disclosed. The array substrate includes a first block group, a second block group, a third block group and a fourth block group, a connection line between a center of the first color sub-pixel block of the first block group and a center of the first color sub-pixel block of the second block group has a first length in the first direction, a distance between center of the first color sub-pixel block of the first block group and center of the first color sub-pixel block of the third block group ranges from the first length to 3/2 of the first length, a distance between center of the first color sub-pixel block of the fourth block group and center of the first color sub-pixel block of the second block group ranges from ½ of the first length to the first length.
US12035595B2
A display apparatus including a display area for displaying an image and a peripheral area that is a non-display area includes a base substrate, a first data line disposed in the display area on the base substrate, a first connecting line at least partially disposed in the display area on the base substrate and electrically connected to the first data line through a connection contact hole, a data pad disposed in the peripheral area, and a first data spider line disposed in the peripheral area between the data pad and the display area and electrically connected to the first connecting line and the data pad.
US12035579B2
A display device includes a plurality of pixels that is arrayed in a first direction and a second direction. Each pixel includes; a first sub-pixel, a second sub-pixel that is disposed to be adjacent to the first sub-pixel in the first direction, a third sub-pixel that is disposed to be adjacent to at least one of the first sub-pixel and the second sub-pixel in the second direction, and a light shielding portion that is disposed corresponding to the position on which the third sub-pixel is disposed, so as to limit a viewing angle of the third sub-pixel in the first direction.
US12035577B2
A display device includes an inorganic insulating layer having a groove surrounding pixel areas, a first thin film transistor in a first pixel area of a substrate, a second thin film transistor in a second pixel area of the substrate, a first electrode layer overlapping a first gate electrode of the first thin film transistor and a second gate electrode of the second thin film transistor, an organic material layer disposed in the groove, a data line extending over the organic material layer in a second direction, and a first connecting line extending across the organic material layer in a first direction, disposed between the first electrode layer and the data line, and overlapping the first electrode layer.
US12035567B2
A display device includes a substrate having a light emission area, a light emitting element layer including a light emitting element on the light emission area, and an sensing layer on the light emitting element layer and including a sensing electrode having a first opening overlapping the light emission area, a first refraction layer directly on the sensing electrode and having a second opening overlapping the light emission area, and a second refraction layer on the light emitting element layer and the first refraction layer, a first optical refractive index of the first refraction layer being less than a second optical refraction index of the second refraction layer.
US12035565B2
A light emitting device in which light emitting elements are arranged on a surface of a substrate is provided. Each of the light emitting elements comprises a light emitting layer, a reflective layer arranged between the light emitting layer and the surface, a first electrode arranged between the reflective layer and the light emitting layer, an optical distance adjustment layer arranged between the reflective layer and the first electrode, an insulating layer covering a peripheral portion of the first electrode and arranged, between two light emitting elements adjacent to each other, between the optical distance adjustment layer and the light emitting layer, and a conductive plug extending from the insulating layer to pass through the optical distance adjustment layer and reach a height of an upper surface of the reflective layer while being in electrical contact with the first electrode.
US12035564B2
A TFT layer; a light-emitting element layer including a first electrode, a light-emitting layer, and a second electrode; a wavelength conversion layer formed above the light-emitting element layer and being configured to convert a color of light from the light-emitting layer; a dielectric layer formed above the wavelength conversion layer; and a particle layer formed above the dielectric layer and including metal nanoparticles including a core and a shell around the core.
US12035557B2
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a display device includes a display panel having a substrate, a back cover which supports the display panel on one surface of the display panel, a flexible film which is electrically connected to a pad unit of the display panel, a sealing layer which covers one ends of the pad unit and the flexible film and a dam which is disposed at an end of the display panel in which the flexible film is located and is in contact with a rear surface of the flexible film. Therefore, according to the present disclosure, the overflowing of the conductive adhesive layer at the end of the substrate is suppressed and the un-curing of the micro seal is suppressed to suppress the curling of the polyimide substrate and the tearing of the flexible film.
US12035552B2
An organic electroluminescence device (OLED) of an embodiment includes a first electrode, a hole transport region on the first electrode, an emission layer on the hole transport region, and an electron transport region on the emission layer. The hole transport region may include an amine compound represented by Formula 1, and the OLED may thereby exhibit high luminous efficiency:
US12035546B2
The invention relates to a process for the production of an electronic component comprising a self-assembled monolayer (SAM) using compounds of the formula I R1-(A1-Z1)r—(B1)n—(Z2-A2)s-Sp-G (I) in which the groups occurring have the meanings defined in Claim 1; the present invention furthermore relates to the use of the components in electronic switching elements and to compounds for the production of the SAM.
US12035539B2
The present application provides a magnetic memory and a reading/writing method thereof. The magnetic memory includes at least one cell layer, the cell layer including: a plurality of paralleled first conductors located in a first plane; a plurality of paralleled second conductors located in a second plane, the first plane being parallel to the second plane, a projection of the second conductor on the first plane intersecting with the first conductor; a plurality of memory elements arranged between the first plane and the second plane, the memory element including a magnetic tunnel junction and a bidirectional gating device arranged in series along a direction perpendicular to the first plane, the magnetic tunnel junction being connected to the first conductor, the bidirectional gating device being connected to the second conductor, and the bidirectional gating device being configured to be turned on when a threshold voltage and/or a threshold current are/is applied.
US12035532B2
A memory array and a structure of the memory array are provided. The memory array includes flash transistors, word lines and bit lines. The flash transistors are arranged in columns and rows. The flash transistors in each column are in serial connection with one another. The word lines are respectively coupled to gate terminals of a row of the flash transistors. The bit lines are respectively coupled to opposite ends of a column of the flash transistors. Band-to-band tunneling current at a selected flash transistor is utilized as read current during a read operation. The BTB tunneling current flows from one of the source/drain terminals of the selected flash transistor to the substrate, rather than flowing from one of the source/drain terminals to the other. As a result, charges stored in multiple programming sites of each flash transistor can be respectively sensed.
US12035531B2
A 3D semiconductor device including: a first level including a single crystal layer, a memory control circuit which includes a plurality of first transistors; a first metal layer overlaying the single crystal layer; a second metal layer overlaying the first metal layer; a third metal layer overlaying the second metal layer; second transistors which include a metal gate are disposed atop the third metal layer; third transistors disposed atop the second transistors; a fourth metal layer disposed atop the third transistors; and a memory array including word-lines, the memory array includes at least four memory mini arrays, each including at least four rows by at least four columns of memory cells, where each of the memory cells includes at least one of the second transistors or at least one of the third transistors, the memory control circuit includes at least one Look Up Table circuit (“LUT”).
US12035530B2
In an example, a three-dimensional (3D) memory device includes a memory stack and a through stair contact (TSC). The memory stack includes interleaved conductive layers and dielectric layers. The memory stack includes stairs in a staircase region. The TSC extends through the memory stack in the staircase region. The TSC includes a first conductor layer and a first spacer circumscribing the first conductor layer. The first conductor layer of the TSC is insulated from the conductive layers of the memory stack by the first spacer.
US12035513B2
A discharge unit of an embodiment includes a drain pan, a discharge portion having an insulation property, a grounded drain piping, and a liquid separation part having an insulation property. The drain pan receives a liquid. The discharge portion is connected to the drain pan and drains the liquid remaining in the drain pan. The liquid separation part prevents the liquid from flowing continuously between the discharge portion and the drain piping.
US12035507B2
Technologies for dynamic cooling include a computing device having a multi-chip package including multiple dies and a cold plate coupled to the multi-chip package. Micro nozzle valves are coupled to fluid passage zones of the cold plate positioned adjacent to the dies, and are configured to control fluid flow into the fluid passage zones. The computing device reads a predetermined die junction temperature for each die, determines a current die junction temperature for each die, compares the predetermined die junction temperature to the current die junction temperature for each die, and determines a fluid flow rate for each die based on that comparison. The computing device controls the micro nozzle valves adjacent to each die based on the respective fluid flow rate. The dies may include processor cores, field-programmable gate arrays, memory devices, or other computer chips. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US12035505B2
A micro control unit (“MCU”) controls operation of a cooling fan in a compute device. The MCU is responsive to determining that a fan speed of the cooling fan is above a predetermined speed threshold to periodically determine power consumption of the cooling fan. In response to a periodic determination of power consumption exceeding a predetermined power consumption limit, the MCU reduces the fan speed of the cooling fan by a predetermined increment and continues periodically determine power consumption of the cooling fan. Upon determining that the power consumption does not exceed the predetermined power consumption limit, the MCU discontinues any prior reduction of the fan speed.
US12035498B2
[Problem] Provided is an airtight terminal that is configured to lessen distortion-borne stress caused in a metallic outer ring as a result of screw fastening or other fixing means to prevent the stress from readily propagating to an insulating material in a sealed place of a lead. [Solution] An airtight terminal is provided that includes a metallic outer ring 13 having through holes 11 formed for screw fastening and sealing holes 12, leads 14 inserted through the sealing holes 12 in the metallic outer ring 13, and pieces of an insulating material 15 to seal gaps between the metallic outer ring 13 and the respective leads 14. The metallic outer ring 13 is provided with pairs of cavities 13a and steps 13b surrounding the respective sealing holes 12.
US12035497B2
A display device provided. The display device includes a display portion and a bonding portion disposed opposite to each other and a bent portion connected between the display portion and the bonding portion; a support layer, including a second support portion close to a side of the bent portion; and a buffer portion, disposed on the second support portion. The bent portion includes a bent sub-portion. A length of the buffer portion in a first direction is greater than or equal to a distance from any position on the bent sub-portion to a first plane in the first direction. The first direction is a thickness direction along the display portion.
US12035485B2
A printed circuit board includes a first insulating layer having a through cavity and containing an insulating material. A length between one side surface and the other side surface opposite to the one side surface of the through cavity is greater than a thickness of the first insulating layer, and the first insulating layer includes a recess located in each of an upper edge and a lower edge of the one side surface of the through cavity.
US12035483B2
Board assembly processes are disclosed that may be implemented using multiple different electrically conductive solder types to assemble or attach different electronic components to a printed circuit board (PCB). For example, multiple different electronic components may be attached to a common PCB using a multiple-step assembly process that may be performed at different solder reflow temperatures and/or which may incorporate multiple different solder types having different respective minimum reflow temperatures (i.e., melting point temperatures). The disclosed processes may be implementing using a variety of different forms of solder, such as solder paste form, wire solder form, ingot solder form, etc.
US12035479B2
A bulk feeder includes a feeder main body, a track member having a reception region in which multiple components discharged from a component case accommodating the components in a bulk state are received, a supply region to which the components are supplied, and a conveyance path of the components from the reception region to the supply region, a vibration device configured to apply vibration to the track member such that the components on the conveyance path are conveyed, and a conveyance control section configured to execute a feeding operation of conveying the components on the conveyance path in a direction toward the supply region and a returning operation of conveying the components on the conveyance path in a direction toward the reception region.
US12035476B2
A detection device includes a sensor substrate provided with a plurality of photosensors, a control board provided with a control circuit configured to control the photosensors, and a flexible printed circuit board provided with wiring configured to electrically couple the sensor substrate to the control board. The flexible printed circuit board is provided with a plurality of cutting indication lines for changing a length between the sensor substrate and the flexible printed circuit board.
US12035470B2
An electroconductive substrate including a base material and a metal wiring made of at least either of silver and copper, and the electroconductive substrate has an antireflection region formed on part or all of the metal wiring surface. This antireflection region is composed of roughened particles made of at least either of silver and copper and blackened particles finer than the roughened particles and embedded between the roughened particles. The blackened particles are made of silver or a silver compound, copper or a copper compound, or carbon or an organic substance having a carbon content of 25 wt % or more. The antireflection region has a surface with a center line average roughness of 15 nm or more and 70 nm or less. The electroconductive substrate is formed from metal wiring from a metal ink that forms roughened particles, followed by application of a blackening ink containing blackened particles.
US12035458B2
A quadrupole accelerator includes a center member, a first side member, and a second side member. The center member includes a center outer frame part, a first electrode and a second electrode. The first side member includes a first side outer frame part, a first wall part and a third electrode. The second side member includes a second side outer frame part which extends from the second side outer frame part toward an outside, a second wall part and a fourth electrode. The center member is formed seamlessly. The first side member is formed seamlessly. The second side member is formed seamlessly. The first side outer frame is fixed to a first side of the center outer frame part by a first fixing member. The second side outer frame is fixed to a second side of the center outer frame part by a second fixing member.
US12035446B2
A microwave cooking appliance allowing better access into the cooking cavity. The microwave cooking appliance may include a bottom articulating from the housing. The appliance may include an actuator. The appliance may include one or more linkage members connected to the actuator and bottom. The appliance may include a linkage track guiding the one or more linkage members and/or bottom between positions.
US12035443B2
A control device configured to control an amount of power delivered to an electrical load may provide feedback regarding the amount of power being delivered to the electrical load. The control device may include a visual indicator that is illuminated by a plurality of light sources. The control device may comprise a control circuit configured to determine the amount of power being delivered to the electrical load and control the light sources to illuminate a portion of the visual indicator to indicate the amount of power being delivered. Different sections of the illuminated portion of the visual indicator may be illuminated to different intensity levels and the intensity levels may be adjusted between different operational states.
US12035440B2
A system is configured to determine light effects from a dynamic light scene (271, 272) which correspond to a first moment (275) in the dynamic light scene and control one or more lighting devices to render these light effects. The system is further configured to receive a user input signal, determine a second moment (276) in the dynamic light scene based on the user input signal, and determine a transition from the first moment to the second moment. This transition is faster than a normal transition from the first moment to the second moment, as specified in the dynamic light scene. The system is further configured to determine further light effects which correspond to the second moment in the dynamic light scene and control the one or more lighting devices to render these further light effects after the transition.
US12035435B2
The disclosure provides a multi-step shorting switch and an illumination device. The multi-step shorting switch includes a housing, wherein an upper surface or a side surface thereof is provided with an opening; a toggle device provided in the housing, wherein a top portion or a side surface, corresponding to the above opening, of the toggle device is provided with a toggle, the toggle passes through the opening, and a bottom portion of the toggle device is provided with a sliding contact member; and multiple contact terminals provided on a substrate, wherein the sliding contact member is configured to, in a sliding process caused by that the toggle is shifted, simultaneously contact at least two of the multiple contact terminals, to form multiple steps which are continuously in a turn-on status without a turn-off status. The multi-step shorting switch according to the disclosure solves problems in the related art that a switch circuit structure is complicated and a double-sided Printed Circuit Board (PCB) board is required, and has the beneficial effects that a structure is simple, and it may work with or without a single-sided PCB board.
US12035430B2
A correlated color temperature (CCT) of one or more luminaires is controlled by obtaining a target CCT for the one or more luminaires and obtaining a first profile associated with a first luminaire of the one or more luminaires. A first target power for a first direct-current (DC) power input of the first luminaire and a second target power for a second DC power input of the first luminaire are calculated based on the target CCT and the first profile so that the first target power and the second target power drive the first luminaire to emit light at the target CCT. A first DC power supply is controlled to deliver the first target power to the first DC power input of the first luminaire and a second DC power supply is controlled to deliver the second target power to the second DC power input of the first luminaire.
US12035428B2
Several embodiments include a cooking appliance/instrument (e.g., oven). The cooking appliance/instrument can include a cooking chamber, a support tray adapted to hold food in the cooking chamber; and a heating system comprised of at least a heating element. The heating system is adapted to emit waves according to a particular configuration such that the emitted waves is substantially transparent or substantially opaque to the support tray and thus enabling the cooking instrument to select what to heat.
US12035422B2
Disclosed herein are a number of example embodiments where a proxy node is used in a wireless network to expand the functionality of one or more wireless nodes on the network. The proxy node can include a circuit whose function is made available to an associated wireless node in the wireless network via proxy. The wireless nodes and one or more such proxy nodes can be arranged in a wirelessly connected environment to support a variety of remote management operations, including location tracking, status monitoring, and remote control. In an example embodiment, the wireless nodes can be deployed in a retail store and provide remote management and control over any combination of product display assemblies, locks, power strips, display shelves, display hooks, and other node types.
US12035421B2
An apparatus for use by a communication network control element or function configured to control a setting of parameters of a self-organizing communication network, the apparatus comprising at least one processing circuitry, and at least one memory for storing instructions to be executed by the processing circuitry, wherein the at least one memory and the instructions are configured to, with the at least one processing circuitry, cause the apparatus at least: to obtain a pre-trained network optimization model indicating a mapping between a communication network environment forming an input of the model, optimization actions or decisions forming an output of the model, and system performance indicators forming a reward, to cause sending, to at least one communication network element or function forming a part of the self-organizing communication network, a request for providing similarity data for a similarity analysis allowing to determine a similarity between a part of the self-organizing communication network for which the pre-trained network optimization model is derived and a part of the self-organizing communication network of the at least one communication network element or function to which the request is sent, to perform the similarity analysis for determining a similarity between the part of the self-organizing communication network for which the pre-trained network optimization model is derived and each part of the self-organizing communication network for which similarity data for the similarity analysis are received, to determine, on the basis of the similarity analysis, at least a part of the pre-trained network optimization model to be provided to the at least one communication network element or function forming a part of the self-organizing communication network from which the similarity data are received, and to cause sending of the determined part of the pre-trained network optimization model to the at least one communication network element or function forming a part of the self-organizing communication network from which the similarity data are received.
US12035416B2
An embedded subscriber identification module (eSIM) card change method and a related device are disclosed. The method includes receiving, by an entitlement server, a first card change request sent by a terminal device, where the first card change request includes a user account, a password, a user number, and embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) identification. The method further includes verifying a user identity of the terminal device based on the user account and the password. If the verification succeeds, a second card change request is sent to an operator business support system (BSS). The second card change request includes the user number and the eUICC identification, and the second card change request is used to indicate to the BSS to complete the eSIM card change and to indicate to an eSIM server to generate an eSIM profile and associate the eSIM profile with the eUICC identification.
US12035410B2
A communication system is presented in which a base station operates a first cell using a first component carrier and a second cell using a second component carrier. A control channel and reference signals of a first type are provided using the first component carrier. The control channel and the reference signals of the first type are not provided, and reference signals of a second type are provided, using the second component carrier. The base station determines from results of measurements performed on reference signals of the second type whether or not the mobile communication device is within an area covered by said second cell and, if it is, transmits cell configuration information to the mobile communication device.
US12035404B2
Wireless communications and beam failure recovery are described. A wireless device may send one or more messages associated with a beam failure recovery for a cell. The one or more message may comprise an indication that the wireless device has not selected a candidate beam for the cell. The wireless device may receive a response and determine that a beam failure recovery procedure has successfully completed.
US12035402B2
A wireless device may receive, from a base station, radio resource control (RRC) configuration parameters of a cell comprising a bandwidth part (BWP). A wireless device may transmit a radio link failure report indicating a connection failure during a random access procedure of the wireless device. The radio link failure report may comprises a cell identifier of the cell and a subcarrier spacing parameter indicating a subcarrier spacing of the BWP associated with the connection failure.
US12035399B2
The disclosure is directed to a system and method of operating a user equipment (UE) to make the new radio (NR) carrier aggregation more effective. The system and method can include at least: receiving a release message confirming release of the UE from a base station, the release message including Long Term Evolution radio access technology (RAT) frequencies and New Radio (NR) RAT frequencies; measuring during an IDLE state, the LTE RAT frequencies and the NR RAT frequencies; transmitting a resume request message to the base station, the resume request message including an indication of a measurement report available from the UE, the measurement report including frequency measurements for the LTE RAT frequencies and the NR RAT frequencies; and after a security setup with the base station, transmitting a resume complete message to the base station, the resume complete message including the measurement report with the LTE RAT frequency measurements and NR RAT frequency measurements.
US12035397B2
A transmitting multi-link device (MLD) in a wireless local area network system enables a first station (STA) to perform a back-off operation again without transmitting PPDU, if a second STA is in the middle of receiving even when a back-off counter (BC) of the first STA becomes 0. The first STA and the second STA are included in the same transmitting MLD. The first STA operates on a first link and the second STA operates on a second link. The first and second links are included in a non-simultaneous transmit and receive (NSTR) link pair.
US12035388B2
According to various embodiments, disclosed are a method by which a device-to-device (D2D) terminal (UE) forms a communication link in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus for the same. Disclosed are a method by which a D2D UE forms a communication link in a wireless communication system, and an apparatus for the same, the method comprising the steps of: acquiring load information on the load measured according to beam direction; selecting, on the basis of the load information, any one communication device among at least one communication device corresponding according to beam direction; and forming a communication link with the selected communication device.
US12035380B2
An industrial 5G dynamic multi-priority multi-access method based on deep reinforcement learning includes the following steps: establishing an industrial 5G network model; establishing a dynamic multi-priority multi-channel access neural network model based on deep reinforcement learning; collecting state, action and reward information of multiple time slots of all industrial 5G terminals in the industrial 5G network as training data; training the neural network model by using the collected data until the packet loss ratio and end-to-end latency meet industrial communication requirements; collecting the state information of all the industrial 5G terminals in the industrial 5G network at the current time slot as the input of the neural network model; conducting multi-priority channel allocation; and conducting multi-access by the industrial 5G terminals according to a channel allocation result. The method allocates multiple channels to the industrial 5G terminals of different priorities in the industrial 5G network in real time to ensure large-scale concurrent access.
US12035379B2
The present disclosure discloses example communication methods and apparatuses. One example method includes obtaining physical random access channel (PRACH) configuration information of one or more cells by a first central unit (CU). The PRACH configuration information of the one or more cells is sent from the first CU to a first distributed unit (DU).
US12035375B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide for a user equipment (UE) to adjust a random access message that is transmitted to a base station in an asynchronous uplink transmission. The UE may use a constrained mapping of time and frequency resources for the random access message or transmit all portions of the message in a continuous transmission. The UE may also adjust the timing of the portions of the message. The base station may use a portion of the message, such as a preamble, to perform channel estimation for another portion of the message, such as a payload, to improve decoding of the transmitted message. Additionally, the UE may configure a waveform of the message to improve the continuous transmission of the message, for example by reducing interference between portions of the message.
US12035372B2
A user equipment includes a transmitting unit that transmits first data in a first step of a 2-step RACH for a contention based random access procedure and a receiving unit that receives second data in a second step of the 2-step RACH for the contention based random access procedure. The first data includes a preamble and a PUSCH and information indicating a predetermined correspondence relationship of a PUSCH resource is indicated or defined.
US12035369B2
A method and apparatus for initial access based on a Channel Access Priority Class in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device receives, from a network, a specific Channel Access Priority Class (CAPC). A wireless device performs LBT procedure based on the specific CAPC. A wireless device attempts an uplink access to the RAN node after the LBT procedure, wherein the specific CAPC is included in a paging.
US12035368B2
There is proposed a mechanism that makes it possible to achieve fair channel access between a plurality of nodes. A base station including a control unit that notifies a terminal device of setting information regarding a channel access scheme to be used and carrier sense. The terminal device is configured to use, as channel access schemes, a first scheme in which the terminal device performs carrier sense at any timing and a second scheme in which the terminal device performs carrier sense at predetermined timing.
US12035365B2
A first base station central unit (BS-CU) communicates, with one or more wireless devices, packets via a first cell operating in an unlicensed spectrum. The BS-CU receives, from a first base station distributed unit (BS-DU), a channel occupancy ratio (CR) of the first cell, wherein the CR is for a plurality of time intervals and indicates utilization of unlicensed channel resources that have been utilized for transmissions by the first cell. The BS-CU transmits, to a second base station, the CR.
US12035361B2
A user equipment is configured to connect to a base station (BS) over a shared channel subject to channel access operations. The UE receives a first configuration for a BS-initiated fixed frame period (FFP) (BS-FFP) and a second configuration for a UE-initiated FFP (UE-FFP), determines that no downlink (DL) transmissions are detected during a predefined time of the BS-FFP and determines that at least one condition associated with an uplink (UL) transmission is satisfied. When no downlink (DL) transmissions are detected during the predefined time of the BS-FFP and the at least one condition is satisfied, the UE performs a UE-initiated channel access operation. When the UE-initiated channel access operation is successful, the UE performs the UL transmission during the UE-FFP.
US12035356B2
Techniques for mobile broadband and machine type communication network coexistence are provided. A method can include embedding, by a system comprising a processor, narrowband carriers, comprising a first narrowband carrier having a first bandwidth and a second narrowband carrier having the first bandwidth, into respective portions of an enhanced wireless broadband carrier, the enhanced wireless broadband carrier having a second bandwidth that is greater than the first bandwidth; transmitting, by the system to network equipment via the first narrowband carrier, a master information block comprising a first bandwidth field indicative of the first bandwidth and a second bandwidth field, distinct from the first bandwidth field, indicative of the second bandwidth; and scheduling, by the system, the network equipment on the second narrowband carrier in response to transmitting the master information block to the network equipment.
US12035352B2
According to one configuration, a wireless network is shared amongst a hierarchal tier of users. The wireless network environment includes one or more allocation management resources (such as so-called spectrum access systems). Each of one or more wireless network service providers operating respective wireless equipment such as one or more wireless base stations relies on a respective allocation management resource to allocate wireless channels for use. If desired, a respective wireless network service provider operating respective equipment can select an appropriate channel notification mode suitable to provide notification of incumbent use and/or reassignment of wireless bandwidth to the wireless base stations. In such an instance, in the event of re-assignment due to incumbent use, the allocation management resources communicate amongst each other regarding the incumbent use/reassignment and provide protected use of newly assigned wireless bandwidth to the first wireless network service provider.
US12035349B2
A communication processing method, a communication processing apparatus, and a system, to improve resource utilization. A first terminal device generates first information. The first terminal device sends the first information to a network device, where the first information is used to indicate any one or more of the following content: information indicating that the first terminal device releases a first resource; the first resource released by the first terminal device; and information indicating that the first terminal device requests a second resource from the network device.
US12035345B2
Embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for data channel mapping type and demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) configuration to enable a physical layer (L1) crosslink interference (CLI) measurement and reporting. Some embodiments are direct to a method of operating a base station (BS), where the method can include generating, by the BS, a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS), determining, by the BS, a position of the DM-RS in a first transmission slot, transmitting, by the BS, the DM-RS to a UE based on the determined position in the first transmission slot, processing, by the BS, a crosslink interference (CLI) measurement fed back based on the DM-RS, wherein the CLI measurement fed back is in a channel state information (CSI) report, and performing, by the BS, a CLI mitigation based on the CLI measurement.
US12035340B2
A user terminal according to the present invention includes: a receiving section that receives a plurality of pieces of downlink control information (DCI) each of which includes a certain field value indicating a same slot for an uplink control channel used for transmission of transmission confirmation information to a plurality of downlink shared channels; and a control section that controls derivation of an index of a control channel element (CCE) used for determination of a resource for the uplink control channel. With this, it is possible to appropriately determine a resource for the uplink control channel.
US12035337B2
A method and apparatus for exchange of capability information for sidelink communications in a wireless communication system is provided. The first wireless device acquires sidelink configuration for sidelink transmission. The first wireless device determine capability information elements related to the first wireless device based on the sidelink configuration. The first wireless device transmits, to a second wireless device, a first message including the capability information elements.
US12035334B2
Embodiments include systems, methods, and devices for radio resource allocation to support multicast services in a network, such as a Fifth Generation (5G) New Radio (NR)(5G NR), etc. In some embodiments, the methods may be performed by a processor of the base station. In some embodiments, the methods may be performed by a processor of a wireless device. Various embodiments may include configuring two or more downlink (DL) frequency resources for multicast communication within a carrier bandwidth. Various embodiments may include selecting a DL frequency resource for multicast communication of the two or more DL frequency resources for multicast communication to monitor for transmission of multicast data from a base station based at least in part on an active DL bandwidth part (BWP) of a wireless device.
US12035332B2
Aspects relate to cross-carrier scheduling in wireless communication. A scheduling entity generates scheduling information that schedules a plurality of data transmissions to or from a user equipment (UE) on a first carrier having a first numerology. The scheduling entity then transmits the scheduling information to the UE on a second carrier having a second numerology different than (e.g., less than) the first numerology. The scheduling information is transmitted using control resources allocated based on slot indexes of a plurality of slots configured for communicating the data transmissions on the first carrier.
US12035321B2
Disclosed are a method and device for PDCCH monitoring capable of reducing power consumption of a terminal device while ensuring satisfaction of the latency requirement of data transmission. The method includes: a terminal device monitoring a PDCCH according to first configuration information, the first configuration information indicating a first PDCCH search space used to monitor the PDCCH; and if the terminal device monitors downlink control information (DCI) at a first monitoring time point in the first PDCCH search space, the terminal device performing additional monitoring of the PDCCH after the first monitoring time point.
US12035313B2
Provided are a radio transmission apparatus and a radio transmission method whereby the increase of number of signaling bits can be suppressed and further the flexibility of frequency scheduling can be improved. A notified RBG calculating unit (203) that adds a predetermined offset value of “1” or “−1” to one of the start RBG number and the end RBG number of allocated RBG number information (b′i) output by a scheduling unit (201), thereby calculating notified RBG number information (bi). An RBG total number setting unit (204) calculates the total number of RBGs, which is to be notified, by adding “1” to the total number of allocated RBGs. A notified information generating unit (205) applies the notified RBG number information (bi) and the notified total number of RBGs (Nrb′) to a predetermined formula, thereby generating and transmitting, to terminals, notified information (r).
US12035310B2
The disclosed techniques enable resource configuration for sidelink communications. An example method includes receiving, by a first network element, a sidelink resource request transmitted from a communication node. The method also includes communicating, via an interface between the first network element and a second network element, information about resource configuration for the communication node. The method further includes transmitting, by the first network element, a response to the sidelink resource request.
US12035308B2
A method for scheduling multiple transport blocks includes: receiving first downlink control information (DCI); performing monitoring for the detection of second DCI in a time interval between the reception termination of the first DCI and the transmission or reception start of transport blocks (TBs) scheduled by the first DCI, on the basis of the number of TBs scheduled by the first DCI being less than a specific number; and omitting the monitoring for the detection of the second DCI in the time interval between the reception termination of the first DCI and the transmission or reception start of the TBs scheduled by the first DCI, on the basis of the number of TBs scheduled by the first DCI being greater than or equal to the specific number.
US12035307B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Some wireless communications systems may support configurations for grouping feedback information within a codebook. A user equipment (UE) may support one or more types of feedback. In some cases, the UE may generate subsets of feedback information within the codebook based on each type of feedback, which may increase overhead. To reduce overhead, the UE may receive signaling that indicates a configuration for grouping feedback information within a codebook. The UE may receive downlink messages that may be associated with a same set of uplink resources for transmitting a feedback message. The UE may generate a codebook to include one or more groups of feedback information in accordance with the configuration and based on the downlink messages. The UE may transmit the feedback message based on the codebook and via the set of uplink resources.
US12035294B2
A first terminal receives first sidelink (SL) carrier configuration information from a second terminal, the first SL carrier configuration information includes first bandwidth part (BWP) configuration information, and the first BWP configuration information includes one or more first resource pools; the first terminal performs unicast connection communication with the second terminal based on the first BWP configuration information.
US12035289B2
A system described herein may identify a first set of channel parameters associated with a User Equipment (“UE”). The first set of channel parameters may include timing parameters indicating time intervals at which traffic is able to be wirelessly communicated between the UE and a radio access network (“RAN”), and resource allocation parameters indicating a measure of wireless resources allocated to communicating traffic between the UE and the RAN. The system may generate a second set of channel parameters based on a quantity of instances that traffic was communicated between the UE and the RAN at a beginning of one or more time intervals, indicated by the first set of channel parameters, and a measure of utilization of the allocated wireless resources during the particular timeframe. The UE and the RAN may subsequently communicate using the second set of channel parameters.
US12035281B2
Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communication. In aspects, a base station may determine one or more signaling parameters to be used to transmit one or more reference signals that identify the base station in association with remote interference management, wherein the one or more signaling parameters include at least one of: multiple time periods in which the one or more reference signals are to be transmitted; one or more mini-bands, within one or more sub-bands, in which the one or more reference signals are to be transmitted; one or more scrambling codes, selected from a pool of scrambling codes, to be used to scramble the one or more reference signals; or a combination thereof. The base station may transmit the one or more reference signals using the one or more signaling parameters to identify the base station in association with remote interference management. Other aspects are provided.
US12035279B1
The present disclosure describes methods, system, and devices for determining a location of paging early indication (PEI). One method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), configuration information of a paging early indication occasion (PEI-O), wherein the configuration information comprises a frame-level offset list and a symbol-level offset list, the frame-level offset list comprises one or more frame-level offset, and the symbol-level offset list comprises one or more symbol-level offset; and detecting, by the UE, a paging early indication (PEI) in the PEI-O, wherein the PEI-O is determined by a frame-level offset from a start of a first paging frame (PF) of at least one PF associated with the PEI-O to a reference point and a symbol-level offset from the reference point to a start of a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitor occasion of the PEI-O.
US12035278B2
A wireless communication method and apparatus are provided. One example method includes: receiving first PEI by a first terminal device, where the first PEI corresponds to at least one PO, and the first PEI is associated with first information, where the first information is used to indicate that a paging message in the at least one PO is a RAN-initiated paging message or a CN-initiated paging message.
US12035275B2
A Bluetooth (BT) or Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) controller includes: a physical (PHY) layer; a baseband radio frequency (RF) layer; and a link layer (LL). The LL is configured to: obtain an incoming transmission awareness request regarding a later incoming transmission event; and perform incoming transmission operations to prepare for the later incoming transmission event responsive to the incoming transmission awareness request.
US12035272B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration signal, the configuration signal indicating a configuration for a positioning reference signal. The UE may determine one or more properties associated with the positioning reference signal based on the configuration signal. The UE may determine an accuracy level associated with one or more timing measurements based on the one or more properties associated with the positioning reference signal, and transmit a measurement report associated with the positioning reference signal to a base station. In some examples, the measurement report may be related to the accuracy level associated with the one or more timing measurements.
US12035269B2
A user equipment (UE) for wireless communication includes one or more non-transitory computer-readable media having computer-executable instructions embodied thereon, at least one processor coupled to the non-transitory computer-readable media, and configured to execute the computer-executable instructions to: detect a presence of a first multiple-universal subscriber identity module (USIM) based operation and a second USIM based operation in the UE, the first USIM based operation belonging to a first Public Land Mobile Network (PLMN), the second USIM based operation belonging to a second PLMN different than the first PLMN; perform a first registration procedure, using the first USIM based operation, with the first PLMN; perform a second registration procedure, using the second USIM based operation, with the second PLMN; wherein the UE receives information of one or more operation gaps during the first registration procedure, and performs the second registration procedure during at least one of the operation gaps.
US12035266B2
An example system includes an application processor (AP), a transceiver associated with a firmware layer and a controller. The controller is configured to perform operations that include receiving data representing a clock synchronization request from a remote device, such as a UWB clock synchronization request. The request is received by the transceiver over a wireless communication link. The controller generates a response to the synchronization request. The response is configured for synchronizing a remote clock of the remote device and a local clock of the mobile device. The controller sends, to the remote device by the transceiver, the response to the synchronization request.
US12035262B2
Methods for determining a location of an unknown device (UD) from a plurality of known devices (KDs) are provided including receiving, at the UD, periodically broadcasted messages from each of a plurality of KDs. Corresponding arrival time stamp (Tarrival-i-UD) of each periodically broadcasted message from each of the plurality of KDs are recorded. Each of the plurality of KDs are clock synchronized to a common clock source at a master device(MD). A departure time of the periodically broadcasted message from each of the plurality of KDs is known by the UD in master device time units (Tdepart-i-md). X, y and z coordinates of a location of each of the KDs is known by the UD. The x, y and z coordinates of an actual location of the UD is calculated using the x, y and z coordinates of each of the KDs, the recorded arrival times (Tarrival-i-UD) of each of the periodically broadcasted messages from each of the plurality of KDs and the known departure times of each of the periodically broadcasted messages (Tdepart-i-md) from each of the plurality of KDs.
US12035257B2
The present application discloses an information processing method, including: the terminal device detects a synchronous signal block (SSB) and a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) of the RMSI in a control resource set of the remaining minimum system information (CORESET of the RMSI) associated with the SSB; information about a time domain candidate position of the CORESET of the RMSI associated with the SSB is determined based on a time domain parameter impact factor of the SSB. The present application also discloses another information processing method, device and storage medium.
US12035256B2
A parameter server located at a base station may coordinate federated learning among multiple user equipment (UEs) using over-the-air (OTA) aggregation with power control to mitigate aggregation distortion due to amplitude misalignment. The parameter server may select a first group of UEs for a first OTA aggregation session of a federated learning round based on a common received power property of each UE in the first group of UEs. The parameter server may transmit a global model to the first group of UEs. Each UE in the first group may train the global model based on a local dataset and transmit values associated with the trained local model. The parameter server may receive, on resource elements for the first group of UEs, a first aggregate amplitude modulated analog signal representing a combined response from the first group of UEs.
US12035248B2
Various embodiments disclosed herein provide for a power control system in a multi-hop integrated access and backhaul network. In the multi-hop integrated access and backhaul network, a donor node can communicate with user equipment devices and relay nodes that have varying power levels; and to avoid receiving uplink transmissions with varying power levels which can impact automatic gain control systems and lower overall throughput, the power control system can manage the power levels of the relay node in order to reduce the difference in power levels. The power control system can schedule relay node devices to transmit uplink transmissions alongside user equipment devices that have a high signal strength; schedule relay nodes and user equipment devices to separate symbols within a time slot; and/or perform closed loop power control management at the relay node to reduce the power level for an uplink transmission.
US12035247B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, an uplink power control configuration for a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource set associated with an uplink component carrier, wherein the uplink power control configuration configures separate power control adjustment states between SRS transmissions and physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) transmissions, and wherein the uplink power control configuration indicates one of a first SRS power control adjustment state or a second SRS power control adjustment state. The UE may transmit, to the base station, an SRS based at least in part on the uplink power control configuration for the SRS resource set. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12035246B2
A method performed by a wireless device configured with dual connectivity between a first group of cells and a second group of cells is provided. The method includes determining a limit of a power of transmission of a first uplink transmission in the first group of cells. The limit is determined based on an identified second uplink transmission in the second group of cells overlapping in time with the first uplink transmission. The method further includes setting the power of transmission for the first uplink transmission based on the limit. Methods performed by a first network node and/or a second network node are also provided.
US12035242B2
Embodiments of this disclosure provide a PDCCH monitoring method and a terminal. The method includes: receiving configuration information sent by a network device, where the configuration information is used to configure a monitoring duration; determining M first monitoring durations from monitoring durations in each DRX cycle, where M is a positive integer, and the number N of monitoring durations in at least one DRX cycle is greater than M; and monitoring a PDCCH in the M first monitoring durations, where the PDCCH is used to transmit power saving indication information.
US12035236B2
Disclosed herein are related to a wireless communication. In one aspect, a wireless communication device receives a frame including a first indication that indicates the wireless communication device to disable transmission during a quiet period. The quiet period may overlap with a restricted service period of a restricted target wake time (TWT) schedule of the wireless communication device. In one aspect, the wireless communication device may determine to ignore the first indication for the quiet period based on a defined rule or a separate indication indicating the wireless communication device to ignore the first indication.
US12035234B1
Techniques for increasing the security and reliability of frame transmission are described. In an example, a network access device transmits a first frame indicating that a protected frame is to be used for a power mode change. The network access device receives a second frame that includes an identifier of a device and a change to a power mode of the device. The network access device determines whether the second frame is protected. In addition, the network access device determines whether data received for the device is to be stored prior to transmission to the device based at least in part on whether the second frame is protected.
US12035215B2
There is provided a communication device comprising: a BLE communication section configured to perform BLE communication with another communication device different from the communication device, the BLE communication being wireless communication conforming to BLE communication standards; a UWB communication section configured to perform UWB communication with the another communication device, the UWB communication being wireless communication conforming to UWB communication standards; and a control section configured to control the BLE communication of the BLE communication section and the UWB communication of the UWB communication section, wherein the control section performs control to start the UWB communication based on a response signal transmitted by one of the BLE communication section and the another communication device as a response to a request signal transmitted by other one of the BLE communication section and the another communication device during the BLE communication.
US12035214B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure leverage near field communication (NFC) technology to provide dynamic and interactive monitoring of an environment. NFC devices may be used to check items in and out of a storage facility, obtain readings from instruments or other machinery present in the environment (e.g., to perform tests on the items, etc.), track movement of users and items within the environment, and to prompt users with information about the environment, such as information about the instruments or machinery currency being used to perform operations with respect to one or more items checked out to the user. Additionally, the NFC device may be used to configure the instruments with appropriate settings for the particular item(s) for which the instrument is currently being used or for other purposes.
US12035212B2
A wireless communication device including a network device, a wireless base station, and a server device includes: a plurality of surfaces that is a plurality of logical network sections; and a control device connected to the network device. The network device has: a plurality of first NW-IFs connected to the server device; and a second NW-IF connected to at least one of a network and wireless base station and connected to any one of the plurality of first NW-IFs. The server device has: a plurality of applications; a plurality of network settings; and a plurality of SV-IFs connected to the plurality of first NW-IFs. Each of the plurality of surfaces includes an application, network setting, SV-IF, and first NW-IF. The control device selects a surface conforming to conditions, and causes the network device to execute surface switching for connecting the second NW-IF to the first NW-IF in the selected surface.
US12035210B1
The system detects damage and tampering of electronic devices, including tablets. A damage detector secured to the tablet provides a detection circuit. The system detects damage to the device/tablet by determining if the detection circuit is broken or otherwise interrupted. A broken or interrupted detection circuit indicates that the electronic device has been damaged or otherwise tampered with. A damage reader is installed within a base that accepts the device. The damage reader checks if the detection circuit is complete and determines if all of the RFID tags associated with a tablet can be read. If the damage reader fails to detect any of the damage detectors, the system indicates that the device/tablet is damaged.
US12035204B2
The present embodiments may relate to determining an actual driver of a vehicle based upon telematics data. For instance, a driver identification (DI) computing device may be configured to: (1) receive a first plurality of measurements captured at a first user device during a trip taken by a vehicle; (2) receive a second plurality of measurements captured at a second user device during the trip; (3) determine, based upon the measurements, that the user devices are within the vehicle during the trip; (4) calculate a respective enhanced geographic location measurement for each of the measurements based upon the measurements; (5) determine, based upon the enhanced geographic location measurements, a predicted position of the second user device relative to the first user device; and (6) identify, from among the user devices, a driver user device based upon the predicted position of the second user device relative to the first user device.
US12035201B2
Disclosed are systems and techniques for wireless communications. For example, a process can include determining a subset of radio frequency (RF) sensing devices from a plurality of available RF sensing devices for performing an RF sensing technique for a target object. The subset of RF sensing devices may be determined based on a plurality of factors associated with the plurality of available RF sensing devices. The process can include transmitting, to at least one RF sensing device of the subset of RF sensing devices, at least one message instructing the subset of RF sensing devices to perform the RF sensing technique for the target object to obtain one or more characteristics of the target object.
US12035200B2
Systems and methods provide technology for wayfinding assistance for visually-impaired passengers, including short-range transmitters distributed within a passenger cabin of an aircraft, a transit vehicle or a vessel, each short-range transmitter located proximate to a respective waypoint in the passenger cabin to transmit a signal identifying the respective waypoint in the passenger cabin, and a client application to, responsive to passing within a range of one of the plurality of short-range transmitters, receive a first transmission from the short-range transmitter and emit one or more of a first audible signal or a first haptic signal, based on the first transmission, as wayfinding assistance to a user of the client device. The technology can also include a mid-range transmitter located proximate to a service area in the passenger cabin, to transmit a signal providing at least one of a status of or a location of the service area.
US12035195B2
A method and base station are disclosed. The base station comprises a transceiver and a processor. The base station transmits a system information block (SIB) to a wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU), wherein the SIB indicates random access transmission uplink resources. After transmitting the SIB, the base station receives a random access preamble from the WTRU. After receiving the random access preamble, the base station receives, using one or more of the uplink resources indicated by the SIB, a first message from the WTRU, wherein the first message includes a first radio network temporary identifier (RNTI) of the WTRU. After receiving the first message, the base station transmits a second message to the WTRU, wherein the second message is derived from a second RNTI, the second RNTI being different than the first RNTI. The base station may be configured to communicate with the WTRU on a plurality of cells.
US12035194B2
Systems and methods for switching communication pathways between a mobile device and connected “Internet of Things” (IOT) device are described to improve scalability and communication between devices. An application on the mobile device may determine whether local or virtual local endpoints are available to route communications without using a remote IoT server endpoint. Communications and updates from multiple co-located, but not necessarily user-related connected devices may be aggregated, and sent to a remote IoT server to reduce the peak load scalability requirement of the server.
US12035191B2
Aspects of the disclosure include transmitting first payload data to a first communication device via a first link, subsequent to the transmitting of the first payload data, obtaining a first indication that a handover is being negotiated between the first communication device and a second communication device, based on the first indication, placing, at a processing system, the first link in an inactive state, based on the first indication, storing second payload data in a buffer, and responsive to obtaining a second indication that the second communication device has accepted the handover: activating, at the processing system, a second link between the processing system and the second communication device, obtaining the second payload data from the buffer, and transmitting, based on the activating of the second link, the second payload data obtained from the buffer to the second communication device via the second link. Other aspects are disclosed.
US12035186B2
A optical wireless communication system, method and apparatus for use in the optical wireless communication system, that enable communication of data, e.g. LiFi, and wherein fast handover can be achieved by having neighboring access points (AP1, AP2) announce themselves using very short frames, that get picked up by user devices (EP1) that detect the identity of a neighbor access point (AP2) and then communicate this to the current access point (AP1) to share information on the user device (EP1) with its neighbor access point (AP2), so that the neighbor access point (AP2) can be pre-configured to allocate resources and/or synchronize.
US12035183B2
A method and apparatus for a fast access considering service assistant information in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device selects a new cell. The wireless device performs a Random Access (RA) procedure to the new cell. The wireless device performs a cell reselection procedure based on a mobility information. The RA procedure includes (1) selecting a special RA preamble for service assistance information related to an intended slice, (2) transmitting, to the new cell, a RA message including the service assistance information; and (3) receiving, from the new cell, a response message including the mobility information.
US12035177B2
A communication device, user terminal, communication system, notification method, and program for handover connections is provided. The communication device may specify a type of handover used to request a communication handover executed by a user terminal, and may notify a user terminal of information related to a specified interface handover type.
US12035171B2
Provided are a method and device for transmitting load balancing factors. The method includes generating a system message, the system message including load balancing factors of each Bandwidth Part (BWP); and sending the system message by broadcasting.
US12035162B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine to switch from monitoring for a first reference signal to monitoring for a second reference signal, and monitor for the second reference signal. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12035159B2
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for determining a starting point of a measurement gap. For example, the present disclosure is directed to a user equipment (UE) that includes a memory and processor circuitry coupled to the memory. The processor circuitry may be configured to receive an indication of a measurement gap timing advance. The processor circuitry may be further configured to, based on the indication of the measurement gap timing advance, determine a starting point of a measurement gap in a dual connectivity mode that provides dual connectivity with a new radio (NR) and an evolved universal mobile telecommunications system terrestrial radio access (EUTRA). The NR may serve as a master Radio Access Network (RAN) and the EUTRA may serve as a secondary RAN. The processor circuitry may also be configured to perform a signal quality measurement during the measurement gap, wherein the signal quality measurement is performed on a target cell of the NR or EUTRA.
US12035157B2
In an enterprise network environment where there is deployment of two (or more) types of access network technologies, when a terminal device is unable to connect to one of the access networks, techniques are presented herein that the terminal device and the network can use for sharing error conditions/cause codes/remedial hints on the access technology that the terminal device is able to connect. With this approach, self-healing, proactive reporting and diagnostic actions are brought to terminal device access connectivity issues.
US12035156B2
Disclosed are a communication method and apparatus for a plurality of administrative domains, where the plurality of administrative domains include a composite network service (NS) administrative domain and a nested network service (NS) administrative domain, and the composite NS administrative domain and the nested NS administrative domain respectively include a composite network functions virtualization orchestrator (NFVO) and a nested NFVO. According to the communication method and apparatus for a plurality of administrative domains, the composite NFVO sends a subscription request message for analysis and prediction information of a nested NS instance to the nested NFVO, and performs a corresponding management operation based on received analysis and prediction information.
US12035151B2
Communication systems are described that use unequally spaced constellations that have increased capacity compared to conventional constellations operating within a similar SNR band. One embodiment is a digital communications system including a transmitter transmitting signals via a communication channel, the transmitter including a coder capable of receiving user bits and outputting encoded bits at a rate, a mapper capable of mapping encoded bits to symbols in a constellation, and a modulator capable of generating a modulated signal for transmission via the communication channel using symbols generated by the mapper, wherein the constellation is unequally spaced and characterizable by assignment of locations and labels of constellation points to maximize parallel decode capacity of the constellation at a given signal-to-noise ratio so that the constellation provides a given capacity at a reduced signal-to-noise ratio compared to a uniform constellation that maximizes the minimum distance between constellation points of the uniform constellation.
US12035147B2
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums that detect evil twin and other anomalous access points in an IT infrastructure by detecting access points that are not in their expected locations based upon an analysis of access point reports from one or more computing devices.
US12035146B1
A cross-scheduling resource allocation method for NOMA-based DSS is provided for a first wireless technology carrier and a different second wireless technology carrier co-existing on a same network communication channel. The method includes providing a resource subframe the first carrier within the channel at a specified bandwidth and duration, synchronizing the second wireless carrier to the specified duration within the specified bandwidth, allocating first PRBs within a first portion of the specified bandwidth for the first technology user traffic and second PRBs within a second non-overlapping portion of the specified bandwidth for the second technology user traffic, programming a frequency gap between the first PRBs and the second PRBs, obtaining channel information regarding the target communication channel, and dynamically adjusting the programmed frequency gap based on the obtained channel information.
US12035140B2
An information verification method and a related device are disclosed. The method includes: receiving, by a first profile server, a remote profile management request sent by a remote profile management server, where the remote profile management request includes a first profile owner identifier; obtaining a second profile owner identifier in profile information; determining whether the first profile owner identifier is the same as the second profile owner identifier; and sending a remote profile management command to user equipment when the first profile owner identifier is the same as the second profile owner identifier. In this way, a loss caused to an operator or a profile owner due to a user's access to an invalid network or random profile unlocking is avoided, network security is improved, and a waste of network resources is reduced.
US12035133B2
A communication device and method are provided for communicating data, such as a cryptographic key, wirelessly to another communication device. The communication device and the other device each include an oscillator circuit portion, an inverter, a non-inverting buffer, and a switch for switching between the inverter and non-inverting buffer. A circular loop is formed wirelessly between the oscillator circuit portions of both devices by placing both communication devices near each other. A control circuit in each device measures a parameter such as frequency or waveform pattern of the circulating signal to determine how to position the switches. The oscillator circuit portions may be portions of the same oscillator distributed between the devices, such as a delay line-controlled oscillator or a chaotic oscillator. Inverting and not inverting the circulated signal changes the parameter of the signal so that it is difficult for an eavesdropper to learn the communication.
US12035127B2
An apparatus configured to: obtain at least one spatial audio signal that defines an audio scene forming at least in part an immersive media content; obtain metadata associated with the at least one spatial audio signal; obtain at least one augmentation control parameter associated with the at least one spatial audio signal; obtain at least one augmentation audio signal; render an output audio signal that is based, at least partially, on the at least one spatial audio signal, the metadata associated with the at least one spatial audio signal, the at least one augmentation control parameter, and the at least one augmentation audio signal; and obtain an indication that at least part of the at least one spatial audio signal has been omitted from the output audio signal based, at least partially, on at least part of the at least one augmentation audio signal included in the output audio signal.
US12035125B2
An apparatus, method and computer program are disclosed. The apparatus may include circuitry configured for determining, relative to one or more real audio sources in an environment, a relative position of a virtual object in the environment. The circuitry may be configured for determining, based on the relative position, an occluded region of the environment in which audio signals from the one or more real audio sources would be occluded by the virtual object. The circuitry may be configured for outputting, to a user in the environment, audio data, the outputting circuitry configured to operate in a first mode and in a second mode. The circuitry may be configured for switching the outputting means circuitry between the first mode and the second mode based on a location of the user relative to the occluded region.
US12035123B2
A system for determining the impulse response of an environment, the system comprising an audio emitting unit operable to emit a predetermined sound in the environment, an audio detection unit operable to record the sound output by the audio emitting unit, and an impulse response generation unit operable to identify an impulse response of the environment in dependence upon a frequency response of the audio emitting unit and/or the audio detection unit, and a difference between the predetermined sound and the recorded sound.
US12035112B2
Disclosed are an earphone ear-oriented debugging method, apparatus and system, and a wireless earphone. The method comprises: confirming an in-ear state signal indicating that a first earphone and a second earphone are in an in-ear state; sending a plurality of first ear-oriented debugging waves to the second earphone according to the in-ear state signal, wherein the plurality of first ear-oriented debugging waves respectively correspond to a plurality of frequency points for wireless communication in a one-to-one correspondence; receiving a first earphone configuration instruction sent from the second earphone, wherein the first earphone configuration instruction is generated by the second earphone according to the first ear-oriented debugging waves; and configuring a configuration parameter of an antenna matching element of the first earphone according to the first earphone configuration instruction, to optimize a communication state.
US12035111B2
A method of providing a custom visual marking on a earing device includes: providing a hearing device comprising a behind-the-ear (BTE) component, an in-the-ear (ITE) component, and a connector having a proximal end connected to the ITE component and a distal end connected to the BTE component, the connector comprising a flexible member extending between the proximal and distal ends; arranging the BTE component behind the ear of the user, and arranging the ITE component in the ear canal of the user so that the connector has a covered portion inserted in the ear canal and an exposed portion outside the ear canal; and providing a visual marking on the connector, wherein the visual marking distinguishes the covered portion from the exposed portion. Further disclosed is a connector and a hearing device.
US12035109B2
The disclosure relates to a hearing device comprising a magnetic induction coil, a magnetic induction control unit interconnected with the magnetic induction coil. The magnetic induction control unit and the magnetic induction coil being configured for wireless communication. The hearing device comprises a behind-the-ear housing module, the behind-the-ear housing module comprising a signal processor for processing received audio signals into a signal modified to compensate for a user's hearing impairment, a connecting module configured for providing the modified signal to an ear of the user, a coupling module interconnecting the behind-the-ear housing module and the connecting module. The magnetic induction control unit is provided in the behind-the-ear housing module, and the magnetic induction coil is provided in the coupling module.
US12035103B2
This application provides a speaker apparatus includes: a speaker sound emission unit that includes a speaker diaphragm and configured to convert an electrical signal into a sound signal by using the speaker diaphragm; a horn includes a sound inlet and a sound outlet, the speaker sound emission unit is disposed on the sound inlet, and the horn is configured to amplify the sound signal and then propagate an amplified sound signal through the sound outlet; and a phase plug, configured to adjust a phase and/or an amplitude of the sound signal from the sound inlet; where relative locations of the speaker diaphragm and the phase plug remain unchanged to form an incompressible air cavity.
US12035099B2
A speaker module includes a casing and a speaker unit. The casing has a sound outlet. The speaker unit is arranged in the casing, the speaker unit and the sound outlet are arranged along a transverse axis, and the speaker unit includes a bearing base, a first speaker assembly, and a second speaker assembly. The first and second speaker assemblies are disposed on the bearing base. The first speaker assembly and the second speaker assembly are symmetrical relative to the bearing base. A first sound cavity is formed between the casing and the first speaker assembly, a second sound cavity is formed between the casing and the second speaker assembly, the first sound cavity and the second sound cavity are communicated with the sound outlet, and the first sound cavity and the second sound cavity have the same size and are symmetrical relative to the bearing base.
US12035089B2
A shower assembly. The assembly may include a shower device including a device housing defining an inlet communicating with an inlet chamber, an outlet and a waterway communicating between the inlet chamber and the outlet, the device housing further defining a receptacle having a closed end and an open end, the inlet chamber being behind the closed end, the waterway extending along the receptacle from the closed end toward the open end; and a second device supportable in the receptacle. The outlet may define an outlet plane, and the second device may include a housing providing an outlet, the outlet being one of aligned with and positioned forwardly of the outlet plane when the speaker is supported in the receptacle. The assembly may further include a magnetic connecting structure operable to releasably connect the second device and the shower device.
US12035077B2
A surveillance system including a fixed camera and one or more temporary cameras and a control means coupled to the fixed camera and the one or more temporary cameras is disclosed. The control means is configured to extend coverage of the fixed camera using the one or more temporary cameras coupled to the fixed camera. Each of the one or more temporary cameras includes one or more sensors and is configured to be deployed and adjusted based on sensor data obtained from the one or more sensors of the one or more temporary cameras and from one or more fixed camera sensors co-located with the fixed camera.
US12035076B2
Real-time gunshot detection and reporting. A computing device detects, in an audio signal received by an audio receiver that includes a plurality of audio receiving elements, at least one gunshot. The computing device determines, based on the plurality of audio receiving elements, an audio location of the at least one gunshot. The computing device sends control signals to at least two cameras to cause the at least two cameras to capture at least two corresponding images of the audio location. The computing device, based on the at least two corresponding images, identifies a gunshot location and transmits a gunshot location identifier that identifies the gunshot location to a destination.
US12035072B2
A method, medium, and apparatus for allowing evaluation of property, such as damaged property, remotely and efficiently. A mobile computing device may be used to conduct bilateral communication between a client and an agent for evaluating property. Systems and methods may be used to efficiently automate intake of communications and intelligently load-balance resources for handling calls.
US12035063B2
Accuracy of results obtained by integrally processing information acquired by different sensors is improved. A solid-state imaging device according to an embodiment includes: a first sensor that detects light in a first wavelength band; and a second sensor that detects light of a second wavelength band different from the first wavelength band, in which the first sensor includes a first pixel (110) that detects light of the first wavelength band in incident light, and the second sensor includes a second pixel (110) that detects light in the second wavelength band that has transmitted through the first pixel among the incident light.
US12035058B2
To suppress image quality degradation due to artifacts. Electronic equipment includes a display unit, an imaging unit disposed on a side opposite to a display surface of the display unit, and a signal processing unit. The imaging unit includes a plurality of on-chip lenses and a plurality of pixels, in which the on-chip lens includes a first on-chip lens, the plurality of pixels includes a first pixel, the first pixel is disposed to overlap the first on-chip lens, and the first pixel includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units. The signal processing unit processes signals output from the plurality of pixels.
US12035041B2
A system includes one or more edge devices an integrated management apparatus configured to manage the one or more edge devices. The edge devices include a photodetector. The integrated management apparatus manages a first trained model and a first condition in association with each other. The first condition sets a condition for a photodetector used in generating the first trained model. The integrated management apparatus is configured to deliver the first trained model and the first condition to the edge devices.
US12035037B2
An image capturing apparatus capable of being operated by an operation device that is external, the apparatus comprising: an image capturing unit configured to output a first image by capturing an object; and a control unit configured to control, when the first image that is outputted from the image capturing unit is being displayed on a first display unit, in a case where there has been an operation on the operation device to display a second image that is different from the first image on a second display unit of the operation device, whether or not to display the second image on the first display unit.
US12035027B2
A vehicular camera includes a camera housing having a rear camera housing and a front camera housing. The front camera housing includes a lens, an imager and an imager printed circuit board. The lens is held in position relative to the imager by a UV-curable adhesive. With the lens held in position relative to the imager by the adhesive, the outer surface of the imager is devoid of the adhesive and an air gap exists between the lens and the outer surface of the imager. With the adhesive disposed in an uncured state on the imager printed circuit board and laterally outboard of the imager, and with the lens positioned relative to the imager, the adhesive is cured from its uncured state to an at least partially-cured state by exposure to UV light. The rear housing portion is joined at the front housing portion.
US12035024B2
A camera module according to an embodiment may include a first circuit board on which the image sensor is disposed; a base disposed on the first circuit board; a lens assembly disposed within the base; and a third circuit board disposed on one side of the base, on which a coil part constituting the lens assembly and a driving device for controlling driving of the coil part are disposed, wherein the driving device comprises: a coil driver configured to apply a current to the coil, and a Hall sensor configured to sense a position of the lens assembly.
US12035015B2
Systems and methods for providing targeted content in streaming content online that takes into account content, including advertising content, delivered in a corresponding linear broadcast over a defined period of time (e.g., one day, one week). A broadcast content management system is provided that generates a multicast log that corresponds to a broadcast log, and sends the multicast log to a streaming content management system. The streaming content management system utilizes information in the multicast log to select advertisement content to be served to media player systems (e.g., video players).
US12035014B2
A device, system and method for allocating resources for video streaming is provided. A device determines respective differences between reserved and actual allocated resources for videos provided to a streaming system by client devices, and selects, at the streaming system, first reserved aggregate allocated resources, from discrete selectable allocated resources, the first reserved aggregate allocated resources for streaming the videos to video-playing devices, the first reserved aggregate allocated resources selected based on: the actual allocated resources for videos; and respective associated regions of the client devices and video-playing devices. The device monitors used resources for streaming the videos to the video-playing devices and, in response to determining that the used resources are within a threshold value of the first reserved aggregate allocated resources: from the discrete selectable allocated resources, selects second reserved aggregate allocated resources based on the respective differences between the reserved and actual allocated resources for the videos.
US12035005B2
An automatic flagging of sensitive portions of a digital dataset for media production includes receiving the digital dataset comprising at least one of audio data, video data, or audio-video data for producing at least one media program. A processor identifies sensitive portions of the digital dataset likely to be in one or more defined content classifications, based at least in part on comparing unclassified portions of the digital dataset with classified portions of the prior media production using an algorithm, and generates a plurality of sensitivity tags each signifying a sensitivity assessment for a corresponding one of the sensitive portions. The processor may save the plurality of sensitivity tags each correlated to its corresponding one of the sensitive portions in a computer memory for use by a media production or localization team.
US12034998B2
Disclosed is a viewport display method and display apparatus. The method includes: receiving a user operation for continuously moving out of a viewport by causing a selector position on a boundary element of the viewport; determining first element numbers that correspond to elements in a virtual list in which the boundary element is located according to the user operation; determining second element numbers that correspond to to-be-displayed elements on the virtual list according to the first element numbers and the direction of the selector moving out of the viewport; sorting the second element numbers; updating a virtual list rendered by the elements that correspond to the first element numbers by utilizing the sorted second element numbers; and controlling total elements in the updated virtual list to be displayed in the viewport.
US12034995B2
A method and device for controlling a pop-up window, a computer-readable medium, and an electronic device are provided. According to the method, a target sub-video in a first target hotspot is played when entering a hot video playing page, a pop-up window is controlled to pop up on reception of a pop-up window display instruction. The pop-up window display instruction is generated in response to a click instruction received in a more hotspot prompt area on the hot video playing page. The pop-up window includes video prompt screens corresponding to multiple candidate hotspots, the video prompt screens are displayed in a horizontally scrolled manner in the pop-up window, and the first target hotspot is included in the candidate hotspots, a video prompt screen corresponding to the first target hotspot is partially displayed at a boundary of the pop-up window.
US12034992B1
A content distribution platform is disclosed. The content distribution platform enables content creators to upload video based content onto the platform. Users can then view the videos or shortened versions of the videos. The videos may be classified/categorized based on the contents of the video. Based on the categorization/classifications, specific product and service recommendations may be made to users. Recommendations can also be made based on tracking user behavior across the platform.
US12034985B2
Systems and processes are provided for a micro ATSC transmitter including a satellite signal decoder configured to decode a satellite broadcast signal to generate a received audio video program, a data decoder configured to decoding a data signal from an ATSC broadcaster, a video processor configured to generate an altered audio video program in response to the received audio video program and the data signal, an ATSC encoder configured to encode the altered audio video program to generate an ATSC broadcast signal, and an ATSC transmitter configured to transmit the ATSC broadcast signal.
US12034983B2
A method and system for controlling dynamic ad replacement. An example method involves a computing system detecting that first and second ad-replacement platforms are or will be in contention with each other for replacement of a replaceable ad in a media stream and, responsive to at least the detecting, the computing system (i) deciding that the first ad-replacement platform should replace the replaceable ad and that the second ad-replacement platform should not replace the replaceable ad, and (ii) based on the deciding, causing the first ad-replacement platform to replace the replaceable ad and the second ad-replacement platform to not replace the replaceable ad.
US12034982B2
Methods, systems and apparatus for processing of volumetric media data are described. One example method of volumetric media determining, from a media presentation description (MPD) file, one or more preselection elements corresponding to a preselection of a volumetric media, accessing, using the one or more preselection elements, one or more atlas data components and associated video-encoded components of the volumetric media; and reconstructing the volumetric media from the one or more atlas data components and the associated video-encoded components.
US12034968B2
Reconstructing a coded current picture for video decoding including decoding picture partitioning information corresponding to the current picture; determining whether padding is applied to sub-regions of the current picture using the picture partitioning information; based on determining that padding is not applied, decoding the sub-regions without padding the sub-regions; based on determining that padding is applied, determining whether the padding includes wrap-around padding using the picture partitioning information; based on determining that the padding does not include wrap-around padding, applying repetition padding to the sub-regions, and decoding the sub-regions using the repetition padding; based on determining that the padding includes wrap-around padding, applying the wrap-around padding to the sub-regions, and decoding the sub-regions using the wrap-around padding; and reconstructing the current picture based on the decoded sub-regions.
US12034963B2
Generating a compound predictor block for a current block of video includes generating, for the current block, a first predictor block using one of inter-prediction or intra-prediction and generating a second predictor block. The first predictor block includes a first pixel and the second predictor block includes a second pixel that is co-located with the first pixel. A first weight is determined for the first pixel using a difference between a value of the first pixel and a value of the second pixel. A second weight is determined for the second pixel using the first weight. The compound predictor block is generated by combining the first predictor block and the second predictor block. The compound predictor block includes a weighted pixel that is determined using a weighted sum of the first pixel and the second pixel using the first weight and the second weight.
US12034962B2
At least one of a vector candidate derivation unit and a merge candidate derivation unit derives a motion vector of each of multiple sub-blocks contained in a decoding target block by referring to motion vectors at multiple control points including two points at an interval which is longer than one side of the target block, and a prediction image generation unit refers to the motion vector of each sub-block to generate a prediction image.
US12034958B2
A moving picture coding method includes: making a determination as to whether or not to code all blocks in a current picture in the skip mode; setting, based on a result of the determination, a first flag indicating whether or not a temporally neighboring block is to be referenced, a value of a parameter for determining a total number of merging candidates, and a second flag for each block included in the current picture, the second flag indicating whether or not the block is to be coded in the skip mode; calculating, as a merging candidate, a neighboring block usable for merging; and coding an index which indicates a merging candidate to be used for coding of the current block and attaching the coded index to a bitstream.
US12034945B2
The present disclosure relates to a processing method of a video signal, the processing method comprising the steps of: scaling a transform coefficient for a current block on the basis of an intermediate scaling factor array; when the flag indicates that a low frequency non-separable transform is applied to the current block, obtaining a residual for the current block by applying an inverse transform of a non-separable transform and an inverse transform of a primary transform on the scaled transform coefficient, wherein the primary transform is a transform applied to a residual signal of a spatial domain before the low frequency non-separable transform; and reconstructing the current block on the basis of the residual and a predictor of the current block.
US12034944B2
This application discloses a video encoding method and apparatus, a video decoding method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: obtaining a current video frame, the current video frame being divided into a plurality of tile-divided Tile regions; determining a resolution corresponding to each Tile region in the plurality of Tile regions to obtain a plurality of resolutions, the plurality of resolutions including at least two different resolutions; and decoding the Tile region based on the resolution corresponding to the Tile region among the plurality of resolutions, to obtain a decoded video frame.
US12034934B2
A method of converting 10-bit pixel data (e.g. 10:10:10:2 data) into 8-bit pixel data involves converting the 10-bit values to 7-bits or 8-bits and generating error values for each of the converted values. Two of the 8-bit output channels comprise a combination of a converted 7-bit value and one of the bits from the fourth input channel. A third 8-bit output channel comprises the converted 8-bit value and the fourth 8-bit output channel comprises the error values. In various examples, the bits of the error values may be interleaved when they are packed into the fourth output channel.
US12034928B2
Decoder for decoding a transformed representation of a sample block from a data stream. If a first coded coefficient is located inside a predetermined subarea of the transform coefficient block and if the underlying transform is within a first set of available transforms, the decoder decodes coefficients along a first coefficient scan order. If the transform is within a second set of In available transforms, the decoder decodes coefficients located within the predetermined subarea along a second coefficient scan order, and infers that coefficients located outside the predetermined subarea are zero. The first coefficient scan order is so that coefficients outside the predetermined subarea are scanned between two transform coefficients located inside the predetermined subarea. The second coefficient scan order does not scan any coefficient outside the predetermined subarea between scanning the coefficients within the predetermined subarea.
US12034924B2
Provided is a video decoding method of applying a deblocking filter to neighboring pixels adjacent to a boundary of a current block, the video decoding method including selecting a deblocking filter to be applied to the neighboring pixels from among a plurality of deblocking filters according to pixel values of the neighboring pixels and a size of the current block, and applying the selected deblocking filter to the neighboring pixels, wherein the plurality of deblocking filters include three or more deblocking filters having different ranges of neighboring pixels to which deblocking filtering is applied.
US12034922B2
A method of filtering reconstructed video data is disclosed. The method comprising: inputting reconstructed luma component sample values; deriving a filtered sample value by using cross component filter coefficients and the reconstructed luma component sample values prior to an adaptive loop filtering process; deriving a refinement value for chroma components by using the filtered sample value; and deriving a refined chroma sample value by using a sum of a sample value of chroma components and the refinement value for chroma components.
US12034921B2
The present disclosure relates to video encoding or decoding and, more specifically, to an apparatus and a method for applying an artificial neural network (ANN) to video encoding or decoding. The apparatus and the method of the present disclosure are characterized by applying a CNN-based filter to a first picture and at least one of a quantization parameter map and a block partition map to output a second picture.
US12034919B2
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method performed by an image decoding apparatus according to the present invention may comprise deriving an intra-prediction mode of a current block, and performing intra-prediction for the current block based on the intra-prediction mode. The deriving of the intra-prediction mode may comprise decoding a predetermined mode sameness indicator.
US12034912B2
Methods of selectively applying Bi-directional Optical Flow (BDOF) and Decoder-side Motion Vector Refinement (DMVR) on inter mode coded blocks employed in video coding standards, such as the now-current Versatile Video Coding (VVC) design, are performed at a computing device. In one method, when a current block is eligible for both applications of DMVR and BDOF based on a plurality of pre-defined conditions, the computing device uses a pre-defined criterion to classify the current block and then uses the classification in applying either BDOF or DMVR, but not both, on the block.
US12034904B2
Endoscopic imaging systems are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, an endoscopic imaging system can include an endoscope having a distal tip with a distal face configured to face a scene, such as a portion of a body cavity of a patient. The endoscope can further include first cameras for capturing first image data of the scene, a projector for projecting a light pattern into the scene, and second cameras for capturing second image data of the scene including the light pattern. A processor can be communicatively coupled to the first and second cameras for receiving the first and second image data. The processor can process the first and second image data to generate an image of the scene at the perspective of a virtual camera, and can vary the perspective, the aperture, the focus plane, and/or another parameter of the virtual camera without requiring the endoscope to be physically moved.
US12034902B2
It is guaranteed that a designated color that is a target of spot color matching is converted correctly into a destination color thereof at the time of output. In a case where drawing data for causing an image output apparatus to perform drawing of an image is generated, whether a designated color in a first color space, which is included in an input image, is converted into a destination color in a second color space, which can be handled by the image output apparatus, is determined at the time of output of the image. Then, in a case where it is determined that the conversion is performed, control is performed such that color adjustment is not performed for at least the designated color of colors included the input image.
US12034894B2
An image reading apparatus includes a first image reading unit, a second image reading unit provided on a side opposite from the first image reading unit with respect to a sheet feeding passage, a first guiding member, a second guiding member, a first unit holding the first image reading unit and the second guiding member, and a second unit holding the second image reading unit and the first guiding member. One of the first unit and the second unit is movable relative to the other unit so as to open the sheet feeding passage.
US12034883B2
A system comprises a database configured to store a plurality of baseline scripts, an applications server communicatively coupled to the database, and an analytics engine. Each of the plurality of baseline scripts is associated with a client of a call center and comprises a plurality of questions for guiding a communication session between an agent and a party. The applications server is configured to monitor a plurality of communication sessions. Each of the plurality of communication sessions is guided by a respective one of the plurality of baseline scripts. The applications server is further configured to obtain information about an actual call flow of each of the communication sessions and send the obtained information about the actual call flow of each of the communication sessions to the analytics engine. The analytics engine is configured to determine one or more proposed changes to a baseline script.
US12034876B2
A physically unclonable function (PUF) device comprises a plurality of conductors, at least some of which are arranged so that they interact electrically and/or magnetically with one another. A media surrounds at least a portion of each of the conductors and a plurality of temperature compensation particles are arranged throughout the media, where the temperature compensation particles have a temperature coefficient selected such that they compensate for temperature-related effects in the PUF device by making the permittivity and/or permeability of the media substantially temperature independent. Circuitry applies an electrical challenge signal to at least one or the conductors and receives an electrical output from at least one of the other conductors to generate an identifying response to the challenge signal that is unique to the device.
US12034870B2
Provided is a method for securely diversifying a generic application stored in a secure processor of a terminal, said method comprising: Generating at the request of a manager application hosted in an application processor of said terminal, at the level of a distant server, a server challenge; Sending said server challenge to said application; Generating a first message at said application, said first message being function of said server challenge, an application challenge and an unique identifier of said application; Sending said first message to a Root-Of-Trust service hosted in a secure processor of said terminal, said Root-of-Trust service generating an attestation of said first message, said attestation guaranteeing that said first message has not been modified and originates from said secure processor; and Transmitting said attestation of said first message to said distant server in an enablement request message.
US12034869B2
One or more computing devices employs a method that includes requesting a transient credential (e.g., a one-time PKI certificate) as a first identity credential for an application component instance based on a unique identifier associated with the application component instance. The method includes requesting a dynamically-created second identity credential for the application component instance of the application using a request signed (e.g., using the public key of the first identity PKI certificate) based on the transient credential. The method includes receiving the dynamically-created second identity credential and using the dynamically-created second identity credential in a cryptographic function by the application component instance; and managing the replacement of this credential in environments without persistent archival storage accessible by the device/application.
US12034864B2
A method including receiving, by a distributor device from an infrastructure device, an invitation link to enable the distributor device to distribute to a user device network services provided by the infrastructure device; receiving, by the distributor device from the infrastructure device based on the distributor device activating the invitation link, seed information to be utilized by the distributor device to determine a distributor key pair including a distributor public key and a distributor private key; transmitting, by the distributor device to the infrastructure device, an action request related to an action to be performed regarding the network services, a portion of the action request being signed based on utilizing the distributor private key; and performing, by the distributor device, the action regarding the network services based on validation of the action request based on utilization of the distributor public key is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US12034863B2
A method for authenticating a user prior to allowing a transaction or access to a website, in which the user's computer is identified via a recognized computer signature that is associated with a geographical location. The location of the user's cell phone is compared to the associated location, and the transaction or access is permitted if the difference in locations is within a predetermined acceptable distance.
US12034855B2
It is desired to try to increase the security of a computing system running computer applications that may access data in a data storage system. In some embodiments, a token associates a user with a task that is being executed by a computing node. It may therefore be possible to determine which user executed which tasks. In some embodiments, the validity of a token is tied to the lifespan of a task associated with the token, rather than to a fixed amount of time. Therefore, if the task associated with the token is complete, the token may become invalid, rather than remaining valid for a duration of time that possibly exceeds the lifespan of the associated task. In some embodiments, a token is used to enforce data access control, e.g. to deny certain users access to certain data in the data storage system.
US12034854B2
A method of enabling single sign-on (SSO) access to an application executing in an enterprise, wherein authorized, secure access to specific enterprise applications are facilitated via an enterprise-based connector. In response to successful authentication of an end user via a first authentication method, a credential associated with the successful authentication is encrypted to generate an encrypted user token. The encrypted user token is then forwarded for storage in a database accessible by the enterprise-based connector. Following a redirect (e.g., from a login server instance) that returns the end user to the enterprise-based connector, the encrypted user token is fetched and decrypted to recover the credential. The credential so recovered is then used to attempt to authenticate the user to an application via a second authentication method distinct from the first authentication method. Typically, the first authentication method is an HTML form-based authentication initiated from a client browser, and the second authentication method is one of: NTLM, and Kerberos.
US12034852B2
A block operation method, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. A plurality of clusters are calculated according to computing power and rewards of each blockchain node, a node computing power and reward carried by each broadcast block being determined when a blockchain node receives a broadcast block. A target cluster to which a blockchain node belongs is determined, and a target difficulty weighting is determined, corresponding to the target cluster. A target difficulty of the target blockchain node is determined according to the node power and reward and the target difficulty weighting. A block is generated after the blockchain calculations are processed according to the target difficulty, the method improves decentralization of the blockchain.
US12034843B2
Methods and a system of generating a master seed using location-based data. The system includes a pseudo-random number generator configured to generate a random number and a global positioning system module configured to determine a location of the system. The system also includes an encryption module configured to generate a signing request message. The signing request message includes the random number and the location. The system further includes a communication device configured to transmit the signing request message to a location authority for authorization. The communication device further configured to receive a signature from the location authority upon authorization of the signing request message. The system is further configured to generate a master seed based on the signature.
US12034840B2
A method of sharing a first common secret among a plurality of nodes for enabling secure communication for blockchain transactions. The method comprises determining, for at least one first node a plurality of second common secrets, wherein each second common secret is common to the first node and a respective second node, is determined at the first node based on a first private key of the first node and a first public key of the second node and is determined at the second node based on the first private key of the second node and the first public key of the first node. The method further comprises exchanging encrypted shares of the first common secret among the plurality of nodes to enable each of the plurality of nodes to reach a threshold number of shares of the first common secret to access the first common secret.
US12034839B2
A multi-party session key agreement method includes: a test session for exchanging a short-term key between parties of 3 to n peers; and an original session for exchanging a long-term key between the parties who have exchanged the short-term key. Peer (n) that has conducted the test session and the original session has cluster (n) that manages the keys as a result of conducting the sessions, and cluster (n) agrees with a result of the session conducted in peer (n) by communicating with cluster (n+1) of another peer (n+1).
US12034828B2
According to one aspect there is provided an audio system 10 comprising a transmission unit 100 and a plurality of speaker units 110-1, 110-2, 10-N, wherein the transmission unit 100 comprises a controller 101 and a wireless communication interface 103 arranged for communication according to an IEEE 802.11 standard (WiFi™), wherein the controller 101 is configured to: receive an audio data package to be played back; and to transmit the audio data package to be played back over the wireless communication interface 103 utilizing the same protocol for the transmission of the audio data package and for synchronizing the playback of the audio data, and wherein each of plurality of the speaker units 110-1, 110-2, 10-N comprises a controller 111, a PCM 111-1, a speaker element 114 and a wireless communication interface 113 arranged for communication according to an IEEE 802.11 standard (WiFi™), wherein the controller 111 is configured to: receive the at least one data package to be played back through the wireless communication interface 113 and to cause audio represented by the received audio data package to be played back through the speaker element 114 by feeding the audio data to the PCM 111-1 being connected to the speaker element 114.
US12034827B2
Various systems and methods for implementing a software defined industrial system are described herein. For example, an orchestrated system of distributed nodes may run an application, including modules implemented on the distributed nodes. In response to a node failing, a module may be redeployed to a replacement node. In an example, self-descriptive control applications and software modules are provided in the context of orchestratable distributed systems. The self-descriptive control applications may be executed by an orchestrator or like control device and use a module manifest to generate a control system application. For example, an edge control node of the industrial system may include a system on a chip including a microcontroller (MCU) to convert IO data. The system on a chip includes a central processing unit (CPU) in an initial inactive state, which may be changed to an activated state in response an activation signal.
US12034824B2
Systems and methods for processing a DNS query to identify and implement pre-processing information by a DNS server component in anticipation of a corresponding content request from a client computing device are provided. The pre-processing information can correspond to identification of content to be preloaded or other actions to be implemented by one or more computing devices in association with an anticipated client content request. Based on identification of the content or future actions, a DNS server component can provide the pre-processing information to one or more computing devices, such as computing devices of a CDN service provider and/or an original content provider, in advance of a corresponding request for content from the client computing device in order to improve performance associated with responding to the client request.
US12034823B2
An operating method of an interactive service platform including the steps of: communicating with a plurality of user end devices via an application software; receiving physiological measurement information of user from the user end devices via the application software; analyzing the physiological measurement information to identify a physical and mental state/lifestyle of an associated subscriber; and automatically responding content information associated with at least one associated subscriber according to requests from the user end devices.
US12034821B2
A computing aware-session management method includes sending, by a second computing aware-user plane function, computing service information to a first computing aware-user plane function. The computing service information is useable to indicate that an edge computing node associated with the second computing aware-user plane function is configured to support a first computing service. The computing aware-session management method further includes receiving, by the second computing aware-user plane function, a service request packet from the first computing aware-user plane function. The service request packet is useable for requesting the first computing service. The computing aware-session management method further includes sending, by the second computing aware-user plane function, the service request packet to the edge computing node.
US12034806B2
A specialized network (“merchant”) node to facilitate fast distribution of blockchain transactions over a network of interconnected nodes, as subset of which are merchant nodes interconnected by an overlay network. The merchant node includes a memory storing an assigned portion of a distributed mempool structured as a distributed hash table, the distributed mempool containing pending transactions awaiting confirmation. The merchant node operates by receiving a transaction, including a transaction identifier; hashing the new transaction identifier to obtain a key; determining, using the key, whether the transaction is stored in the distributed mempool or not and, if not, then storing the transaction in the distributed mempool as a pending transaction; and sending the transaction to a set of nodes other than merchant nodes using peer-to-peer connections. The invention may be used in conjunction with the Bitcoin blockchain or an alternative.
US12034786B2
In a server, a client information acquiring section acquires information related to a user operation from an image processing device. An operation status identifying section of an image generating section identifies the contents displayed on the image processing device side at the time when the user operation is performed. A drawing section generates a frame corresponding to the details of the user operation and the contents displayed at the time when the user operation is performed. A discard processing section determines whether or not to discard the data, on the basis of the contents of a provisional frame generated before the detection of the user operation.
US12034784B1
Example methods and systems provide automatic detection of companion mode for a virtual conference application in hybrid events. A client device joins a virtual event session via the virtual conference application provided by a virtual conference provider. During the virtual event session, the virtual conference application receives a first audio signal from an audio source at an on-site event and a second audio signal from the virtual conference provider. The virtual conference application determines a correspondence between the first audio signal and the second audio signal during the virtual event session. The second audio signal is muted in response to determining the correspondence.
US12034777B2
The disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or 6th generation (6G) communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate. A method performed by a session management function (SMF) node in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from the user equipment (UE), a protocol data unit (PDU) session establishment request for establishing at least one PDU session between the UE and multiple internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) networks, subscribing, with a unified data manager (UDM) node to receive a first notification for a proxy-call session control function (P-CSCF) restoration, by providing an identifier for each PDU session, receiving, from the UDM node, the first notification for the P-CSCF restoration based on a subscription with a UDM, and performing, the P-CSCF restoration for the PDU session of the UE based on the received first notification for the P-CSCF restoration.
US12034774B2
A method and apparatus are disclosed for controlling access of a computing device to a multi-layer network implementing a zero-trust architecture, the multi-layer network including a switch and apparatus for controlling access to a plurality of hierarchical levels of the multi-layer network. The method includes receiving, at the apparatus, an access request message from the computing device, the access request message including one or more identifiers associated with the computing device for requesting access to the multi-layer network. The method further includes determining a hierarchical penetration level among the plurality of hierarchical levels of the multi-layer network to be assigned to the computing device based on the one or more identifiers within the access request message. The method further includes assigning the hierarchical penetration level to the computing device, and granting the computing device access and control privileges to the multi-layer network, based on the assigned hierarchical penetration level.
US12034765B1
Off-the-shelf computing systems, even in the presence of malware infecting those computing systems, are used to access securely other network computing systems—Secured sites. The use may take shape in various ways and the potential use of two, three, or more computing systems is described. The use in a malware-infected environment is advantageous and exposes hacking attempts in real-time.
US12034760B2
A method and system for tracking potentially fraudulent activities associated with one or more web sites is disclosed. The system includes a fraud tracking server connected to a fraud tracking database. The fraud tracking server includes a communications module to facilitate the exchange of data between the server and multiple client devices. The fraud tracking server receives data from one or more client devices that identifies a potential spoof site. The fraud tracking server also includes control logic to generate a spoof site tracking record in the fraud tracking database. The spoof site tracking record includes the data identifying the potential spoof site. After the spoof site tracking record has been created, the fraud tracking server notifies an administrator of the potential spoof site by communicating the data received and stored in the fraud tracking database to an administrator.
US12034753B2
A system that detects malicious traffic flows in a network includes a computer system including a processor in communication with at least one memory device. The processor is programmed to store a plurality of context information about the network including a plurality of devices. The processor is also programmed to determine a network configuration of the network at a specific point in time. The processor is further programmed to generate one or more security policies for one or more devices of the plurality of devices in the network based on the network configuration and the plurality of context information. In addition, the processor is programmed to deploy the one or more security policies to the one or more devices in the network, wherein the one or more devices are configured to execute an algorithm to monitor communications on the network in view of a corresponding security policy of the one or more security policies.
US12034751B2
A method for detecting unauthorized and/or malicious hands-on-keyboard activity in an information handling system derived from the telemetry from one or more client systems, tokenizing a plurality of partial values/idiosyncrasies detected in the telemetry to form a plurality of tokens, aggregating the plurality of tokens or features over a selected time window to at least partially develop an aggregate feature vector, submitting the aggregate feature vector to one or more machine learning subsystems, and applying an ensemble model to one or more outputs from the one or more machine learning subsystems to generate an overall behavioral threat score of the potentially malicious hands-on-keyboard activity.
US12034746B2
Systems and methods are provided for automated retrieval, processing, and/or distribution of cyber-threat information using a cyber-threat device. Consistent with disclosed embodiments, the cyber-threat device may receive cyber-threat information in first formats from internal sources of cyber-threat information using an accessing component of the cyber-threat device. The cyber-threat device may receive cyber-threat information second formats from external sources of cyber-threat information using an accessing component of the cyber-threat device. The cyber-threat device may process the received cyber-threat information in the first formats and the second formats into a standard format using a processing component of the cyber-threat device. The cyber-threat device may provide the processed items of cyber-threat information to a distributor using a distributing component of the cyber-threat device. The cyber-threat device may automatically report information concerning the processed items of cyber-threat information to a device of a user with a reporting component of the cyber-threat device.
US12034744B2
A method and system disclosed dynamically throttling a rate or volume in time of a power user for avoiding throughput penalties imposed by SaaS vendors on a user group due to excessive Application Programming Interface (API) events from users in the group, monitoring API event rate for requests from the group, collectively, and from individual users of the user group to a SaaS vendor is disclosed. Also, identifying a power user as submitting API events in excess of a limit, and on behalf of the user, throttling the power user's rate of API events submissions, based on a configurable policy specific to the SaaS vendor managed by a proxy, to reduce the user's impact on the API event rate of the group at least when the group's API rate, overall, exceeds or approaches a SaaS imposed trigger of a throughput penalty on the group, thereby avoiding triggering of the throughput penalty by the SaaS.
US12034743B2
The present disclosure provides a method and a system for generating a decision tree that tests security event files. The method comprises receiving attack data comprising a plurality of attack execution operations and determining threat attribute data based on the attack data. The method also comprises generating a decision tree using the threat attribute data. The decision tree includes at least one first node and a plurality of second nodes connected to the at least one first node. A first nodal data may be generated and assigned to each second node based on one or more threat attributes associated with the threat attribute data. In response to receiving a security event file, the method executes one or more security tests, using the decision tree, for the security event file.
US12034742B2
A system including a deep learning processor obtains response data of at least two data types from a set of process stations performing operations as part of a manufacturing process. The system analyzes factory operation and control data to generate expected behavioral pattern data. Further, the system uses the response data to generate actual behavior pattern data for the process stations. Based on an analysis of the actual behavior pattern data in relation to the expected behavioral pattern data, the system determines whether anomalous activity has occurred as a result of the manufacturing process. If it is determined that anomalous activity has occurred, the system provides an indication of this anomalous activity.
US12034740B1
In response to a process being triggered, at least in part by receipt of information regarding communication directed to a first application by a second application, a threat level is computed based at least in part on the information. As a result of the threat level being of a first severity, the second application is migrated to a destination zone that allows for improved communications with the first application. As a result of the threat level being of a second severity, migration of the second application to the destination zone is delayed. As a result of the threat level being of a third severity, a mitigation action is performed.
US12034735B2
A method includes: accessing objects, generated by a set of sources, representing attributes of assets, affiliated with a computer network, including a set of endpoint devices and a first application; partitioning the objects into object groups including a first object group representing the first application; aggregating objects in the first object group into a first user container representing the first application during the first time interval; and, in response to selection of the first application at an operator portal: generating a visualization representing a subset of endpoint devices, in the set of endpoint devices, on which the first application is installed during the first time interval based on a set of attributes, exhibited by the first application during the first time interval, contained in the first application container; and rendering the visualization at the operator interface.
US12034728B2
One example method includes performing dynamic access control in a computing network. A computing environment is configured such that an application can access a service without specifying secrets. The secrets needed to access the service are obtained and stored in a credential store. The secrets can be obtained using the service mesh in a manner that isolates the application from the secrets.
US12034726B1
A proxy server receives a first request from a first user to access a resource hosted by a cloud-based server. The proxy server inserts a first tenant control header into the first request specifying a tenant identifier. The tenant identifier indicates a tenant permitted to access the resource. The proxy server then transmits the first request with the inserted first tenant control header to the cloud-based server. In response to receiving a first response indicating a rejection of the first request with the inserted first tenant control header, the proxy server transmits the first request again to the cloud-based server but without the first tenant control header. The proxy server then logs the first request as an access request using a non-permitted tenant identifier.
US12034723B2
A Controlled Environment Secure Media Streaming System manages the delivery of content to Secured Devices. Cloud Services provide content to Integration Hub. The Integration Hub interfaces with various cloud services providers and prepares content for consumption by a resident of a secured facility. Integration Hub utilizes Content Filter to inspect content received from cloud service providers for suitability for use in a secured environment. Once content is retrieved, filtered, formatted, and packaged by Integration Hub, the content is stored in Data Warehouse. Secured Devices request content from the Distribution Hub, the Distribution Hub retrieves the content from the Data Warehouse, and then Distribution Hub manages the transfer of content to the Secured Devices. In some embodiments, Distribution Hub utilizes Content Filter to determine whether or not a particular Secured Device can access particular content.
US12034721B2
Systems and methods for authenticating data transmissions are provided, such as e.g., analog radio streams received at a vehicle. In one aspect, the vehicle includes features that allow for detection and decryption of an encrypted source identifier embedded or introduced into a data transmission transmitted to the vehicle. The source identifier may be used to determine whether the source is authorized to transmit data transmissions to the vehicle and the data transmission may be authenticated accordingly. In another aspect, the vehicle includes features that determine the location of the transmitting device used to transmit the data transmission to the vehicle. The location is then used to determine whether the data transmission should be authenticated.
US12034717B2
One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for managing a firmware password of a User Equipment (UE) are provided. In an example, the UE determines that a first firmware password variable is indicative of a firmware password of a firmware of the UE. The UE transmits the first firmware password variable to a first computer for storage in a first dataset. The UE generates a password. The UE sets a second firmware password variable, in a second dataset stored on the UE, to the password. The UE transmits the second firmware password variable including the password to the first computer for storage in the first dataset. The UE sets the firmware password of the firmware of the UE to the second firmware password variable including the password.
US12034714B2
Techniques to pre-authenticate an identity for an electronic account are described and claimed by the present disclosure. The electronic account may enforce a multi-factor authentication procedure that involves a number of steps. In addition to the electronic account, a user may have other accounts requiring authentications. Successful authentications with respect to those other accounts may provide evidence of the user's identity. If sufficient evidence is present, one or more steps of the multi-factor authentication procedure may be bypassed. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US12034711B2
The techniques herein are directed generally to a “zero-knowledge” data management network. Users are able to share verifiable proof of data and/or identity information, and businesses are able to request, consume, and act on the data—all without a data storage server or those businesses ever seeing or having access to the raw sensitive information (where server-stored data is viewable only by the intended recipients, which may even be selected after storage). In one embodiment, source data is encrypted with a source encryption key (e.g., source public key), with a rekeying key being an encrypting combination of a source decryption key (e.g., source private key) and a recipient's public key. Without being able to decrypt the data, the storage server can use the rekeying key to re-encrypt the source data with the recipient's public key, to then be decrypted only by the corresponding recipient using its private key, accordingly.
US12034710B2
Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for selectively decrypting SSL/TLS communications. Contents of the decrypted communications that may result in some action; for example, to terminate the communications, or to log and store the plaintext packets of the communications for subsequent content inspection and analysis. A SSL/TLS proxy may examine the information contained in the TLS handshake protocol and/or examine other information associated with the connection. Based on the examination, a proxy may determine whether or not to decrypt the encrypted communications. The proxy may take additional actions based on content inspection.
US12034698B2
Examples of the present disclosure describe systems and methods for providing enhanced security in edge computing environments. A first aspect describes a method for moving security features dynamically applied to an application at a first deployment location to an application at a second deployment location. A second aspect describes a method for locally expanding/contracting an instance of a deployed application. A third aspect describes a method for redirected network traffic associated with detected malicious conduct from a first application deployment environment to a secured second application deployment environment. A fourth aspect describes a method for performing multi-stage network traffic filtering.
US12034692B2
A method provides an automatic notification manner of data changes. After collecting information related to a target user (202) such as a dataset, a data dashboard, or a data report, the analysis preference of the user can be determined based on the collected information (204). Then, upon the dataset is updated, a variety of critical data changes in the dataset may be detected as an alert (206), and a notification related to the alert may be provided to the user via various manners (208). The method does not require the user to manually configure or create an alert rule for data changes, which makes data-driven alerting much easier for the user, thereby improving the user experience.
US12034685B2
A method for automatically modifying hyper-text markup language (HTML) code of an e-mail within an email pre-deployment platform comprises receiving previously-created e-mail content comprising a plurality of e-mail content types, each of the e-mail content types written in HTML code, automatically detecting, by parsing the received HTML code, one or more deficiencies in the e-mail content, identifying the one or more deficiencies in the HTML of the e-mail content types for a user by presenting a natural language explanation of the one or more deficiencies on the user interface, guiding a user of the platform to rectify the one or more deficiencies in the e-mail content by using one or more user interface tools for rectifying the one or more deficiencies; and automatically editing the HTML code based on the user's use of the one or more user interface tools.
US12034683B2
A system includes a memory and at least one processor to receive text from a client computing device, the text received one character at a time, as each character of the text is received, determine a recommendation in real-time to be added to the text based on at least one of a list of rules, word embedding, an n-gram model, and a co-occurrence model, the recommendation comprising at least one of a word, a list of hashtags, a quotation, and a list of emojis, and send the recommendation to the client computing device.
US12034677B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods and devices for reference signal (RS) transmission. In example embodiments, a method implemented in a network device is provided. According to the method, one or more RS patterns are determined for a plurality of RS ports. A RS pattern indicates a configuration of a RS to be transmitted to a terminal device via one or more RS ports. Afterwards, information of the RS patterns is transmitted to the terminal device.
US12034675B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine a set of bandwidth part (BWP) combinations for an inter-band carrier aggregation configuration in a frequency range above 24 GHz. The UE may transmit an indication of the set of BWP combinations to initiate a reconfiguration of a BWP combination for the UE. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12034674B2
Disclosed are a resource allocation method and apparatus for a V2X service, and a storage medium, a terminal and a base station. The method comprises: acquiring resource allocation auxiliary information of a secondary link with a resource allocation requirement; and transmitting secondary link information, wherein the secondary link information comprises the resource allocation auxiliary information, and the resource allocation auxiliary information is associated with a destination identifier of the secondary link.
US12034664B2
Implementations of the present disclosure provide a method and apparatus for indicating a reference signal, a terminal, and a network device. The method includes: the terminal receives first configuration information, wherein the first configuration information includes first indication information, the first indication information is used for indicating the reference signal for use in link quality measurement, and the first indication information is first index information representing a transmitting position of the reference signal or second index information representing a OCL relationship of the reference signal.
US12034660B2
Radio network node, wireless device, and related methods are described. According to one aspect, when a first radio access technology and a second radio access technology are coexisting on the same carrier, the symbol location of the reference signals of the first radio access technology may be moved or changed when the reference signals of the first radio access technology collide with the reference signals of the second radio access technology.
US12034638B2
Disclosed embodiments utilize a layer three and/or layer four protocol to collect physical layer properties along a multi-hop network path between a source node and a destination node. The use of a layer three or layer four protocol provides an ability to span multiple links or networks between the source node and destination node, while also collecting the physical layer properties. Once physical layer properties along a network path can be understood, decisions relating to the configuration of the network path and/or whether to communicate via the network path are improved.
US12034636B2
This application provides a packet processing method, including: receiving, by a current network node, a first packet; determining, by the current network node, a flow identification corresponding to the first packet, where the first packet does not include the flow identification; obtaining, by the current network node based on the first packet and the flow identification, a second packet, where the second packet includes the flow identification and an IOAM header, and in the second packet, the flow identification is located before the IOAM header; and sending, by the current network node, the second packet to a next network node. This resolves a problem that as a quantity of passed IOAM nodes increases, traffic classification performed by a subsequent node consumes a longer delay, thereby deteriorating forwarding performance.
US12034624B2
A node includes circuitry configured to create a sequence of encoded blocks with the blocks including i) data blocks from a plurality of clients and ii) overhead blocks, insert one or more Operations, Administration, and Maintenance (OAM) fields representing client overhead in the overhead blocks, wherein each client has corresponding client overhead, and transmit the sequence of encoded blocks in an order.
US12034622B2
A method is disclosed for distributed routing data with latencies using relay nodes. The method includes automatically measuring one-way latencies between a plurality of nodes comprising a first node, a second node, and a relay node, producing a first signal associated with a proof of uptime for the relay node, producing a second signal associated with a proof of bandwidth for the relay node, after the proof of uptime and the proof of bandwidth of the relay node are validated, automatically identifying a relayed data routing path from the first node to the second node via the relay node based on the one-way latencies between the plurality of nodes, in response to a command to transfer data from the first node to the second node, and transferring data from the first node to the second node along the relayed data routing path.
US12034619B2
A CMTS may instruct one or more cable modems to transmit an upstream test signal with a particular preamble (and or any other type of signature) in the upstream transmission bandwidth. The preamble may be within a significant band of the upstream transmission bandwidth. A leakage detection device may be brought in the vicinity of the cable network to listen for various signals. The leakage detection device may filter received signals to retain the portions thereof within a desired limited band and further filter the band-limited signals to reduce noise, e.g., removing the payload following the preamble. A correlation filter in the leakage detection device may compare the pattern in the band-limited filtered signal with a stored preamble. If there is a match, the leakage detection device may generate an indication that leakage is detected in the upstream transmission.
US12034615B1
A vehicle network logging system (VNLS) is described and includes an automated driving systems computer (ADSC) installed on the vehicle, the ADSC comprising a load balancing module; and at least one logger installed on the vehicle, wherein the at least one logger is connected to the ADSC via a communications network comprising a plurality of communications links and wherein the at least one logger receives from the ADSC data for logging in at least one database of the at least one logger, wherein the data is received from the ADSC via the plurality of communications links; wherein the load balancing module performs load balancing of the data across the plurality of communications links, wherein the load balancing is performed based at least in part on disk utilization information for the at least one logger and network utilization of the communications network.
US12034604B2
The simulation device is provided with a user space and a network adapter. The method comprises: a simulation device obtains a serialization command of a simulation test and configures the serialization command for a plurality of MQTT client instances, controls the plurality of MQTT client instances to package the serialization command by using a simulation protocol stack of a user space so as to obtain a simulation message, transmits the simulation message to a network adapter, and the network adapter sends said message to an MQTT server for simulation testing.
US12034596B2
The techniques described herein relate to methods that include: obtaining criteria for a mobile network deployment; selecting a server configuration template for a server configuration based upon the criteria; generating the server configuration for the mobile network deployment based upon the server configuration template; validating the server configuration to ensure the criteria are met by the mobile network deployment of the server configuration; deploying the server configuration as the mobile network deployment; obtaining key performance indicators from the mobile network deployment; updating the mobile network deployment in response to obtaining the key performance indicators; and updating the server configuration template in response to obtaining the key performance indicators.
US12034591B2
A base station may generate first configuration information to configure a first user equipment (“UE”) to operate using a first bandwidth within a wideband carrier of a cell, generate second configuration information to configure a second UE to operate using a second bandwidth within the wideband carrier of the cell, and cause transmission of the first and second configuration information to the first and second UEs, respectively. The base station may configure the first and second UEs based upon capabilities received from each UE, respectively.
US12034590B2
A method for operation of a central office point of delivery within a broadband access network of a telecommunications network and/or for flexibly providing, within the central office point of delivery, user-related traffic to at least one central functional entity providing at least one specific functionality within the central office point of delivery or for the central office point of delivery includes: in a first step, the user-related traffic is routed to a specific service edge node, wherein the specific service edge node is selected or determined, by at least one repository node, based on the at least one specific network termination node and/or the specific line termination node; and in a second step, the user-related traffic is provided to the at least one central functional entity.
US12034587B1
Some embodiments of the invention provide a method of remediating anomalies in an SD-WAN implemented by multiple forwarding elements (FEs) located at multiple sites connected by the SD-WAN. The method is performed iteratively. The method receives multiple performance metrics that over a duration of time express a performance of the SD-WAN for at least one particular application associated with flows that traverse the SD-WAN during the time duration. The method uses the received performance metrics to update generated weight values for a topology graph that includes (1) multiple nodes representing the multiple FEs and (2) multiple edges between the multiple nodes representing paths traversed between the FEs by the flows associated with the particular application, said generated weight values associated with said paths. The method uses a topology-based machine-trained process to analyze the topology graph with the generated weight values in order to identify an anomaly in the topology graph that is indicative of an anomaly the SD-WAN for the particular application's traffic flows. For an identified anomaly, the method implements a remedial action to modify the SD-WAN in order to remediate the identified anomaly.
US12034580B2
One example according to the present specification relates to a technique related to configuration of a preamble in a wireless LAN (WLAN) system. According to various embodiments, a receiving STA may receive an NDP frame. The NDP frame may comprise a first signal field and a second signal field. The first signal field may comprise first information about a PHY version. The second signal field may comprise second information about transmission of a PPDU, set on the basis of the first information. The receiving STA may perform channel sounding on the basis of the NDP frame.
US12034578B2
Aspects of this disclosure relate transmitting and/or receiving reference symbols. A first reference symbol includes a symbol and a cyclically shifted portion of the symbol, where the cyclically shifted portion has cyclic shift length. A second reference symbol includes a cyclically shifted version of the first reference symbol that is cyclically shifted relative to the first reference symbol by the cyclic shift length. The first and second reference symbols are transmitted consecutively from at least one antenna.
US12034568B2
This application provides a data transmission method, a device, and a network system. The method is applied to a backbone device, and the backbone device is connected to at least two access devices. After obtaining first data that needs to be sent to a first user device, the backbone device determines a first tunnel interface identifier corresponding to the first user device. The first user device is a single-homing user device. The backbone device sends, based on the first tunnel interface identifier, a first data packet including the first data to a first access device of the at least two access devices. The first access device is configured with the first tunnel interface identifier. This can optimize a data forwarding path, implement traffic optimization for the single-homing user device, and reduce traffic pressure on the network system.
US12034567B1
Various embodiments set forth a computer-readable media storing program instructions that, when executed by one or more processors, cause the processors to perform steps of establishing, by a first node of a first cluster, a respective first connection with each of a plurality of second nodes in a second cluster; and establishing, by third node of the first cluster, a second connection with the first node. The third node is prevented from establishing a connection with any of the second nodes. The steps further include sending, by the third node, a message to the second cluster by sending the message to the first node via the second connection, where the first node is configured to forward the message to one of the second nodes via a corresponding one of the respective first connections.
US12034566B2
Methods and systems to operate an Ethernet ring protection switching (ERPS) network. In one embodiment, a method performed by a network device in the ERPS network device is disclosed. The ERPS network comprises a major ring and a sub-ring, where the network device is a first interconnection network device that is on both major ring and sub-ring. The method comprises determining that a topology change notification is received from the sub-ring, identifying a link that is coupled to the network device and that is towards a second interconnection network device, where the second interconnection network device is also on both major ring and sub-ring. The method further comprises terminating the topology change notification and transmitting a first message using the link towards the second interconnection network device, where the first message is a filtering database (FDB) flush message.
US12034563B2
A computer implemented method in a smart home system is provided. The method comprises defining, by sensing an indoor position of a wearable electronic device comprising an indoor positioning module, an area in a real-world indoor environment, and attributing a rule to the defined area, the rule comprising one or more settings to be applied to one or more electronic devices upon a user being detected in the defined area.
US12034556B2
In one embodiment, the system connects to a communication session with a number of participants; receives a transcript of a conversation between the participants; extracts utterances from the transcript; associates a subset of the utterances with a first group of speakers and the remaining subset of the utterances with a second group of speakers; calculates one or more statistical metrics for a number of engagement metrics based on the utterances of the first group of speakers and the utterances of the second group of speakers; assigns a weight to each of the engagement metrics; determines an engagement score for the communication session based on the assigned weights for the engagement metrics; and presents, to one or more users, the engagement score for the communication session.
US12034545B2
A device, system, method, machine readable medium. The method includes: decoding a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from a Node B, the PDCCH scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); determining at least one of a control resource set (CORESET) index or a starting control channel element (CCE) index of the PDCCH; decoding the PDSCH; determining, based the at least one of the CORESET index or the CCE index, a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource to carry hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgment (ACK) (HARQ-ACK) feedback corresponding to the PDSCH to the Node B; and causing transmission of the HARQ-ACK feedback based on the PUCCH resource.
US12034533B2
Presented are a method by which a multi-RU receives a LDPC-tone-mapped PPDU in a wireless LAN system, and an apparatus. Particularly, a reception STA receives, from a transmission STA, a PPDU including a data field and decodes the data field. The data field is received through the multi-RU. LDPC tone mapping for data tone included in the data field is performed on the basis of a first parameter with respect to the multi-RU. The first parameter is 18 when the multi-RU is an RU in which the 242 tone RU and the 484 tone RU are aggregated.
US12034530B2
Embodiments herein provide method of determining modulation and coding scheme (MCS) at a base station (BS). The method comprises obtaining, by the BS, downlink channel state information (DL-CSI) corresponding to a plurality of UEs. Also, the method comprises receiving feedback from the plurality of UEs, said feedback is at least one of explicit interference power and noise power feedback, post processing signal power-to-interference power plus noise power-based and determining MCS associated with a subset of UEs from the plurality of UEs using a predefined mapping between the MCS and a combination of DL-CSI and the feedback from the plurality of UEs. Further, the method comprises indicating the determined MCS to the subset of UEs from the plurality of UEs.
US12034525B2
A method is disclosed for providing, for display to a content provider, a user interface comprising an option to view new audiences to be added to a plurality of users currently designated to receive content of the content provider, receiving a user selection of the option, and causing display of information identifying the new audiences, the information identifying the new audiences comprises, for each new audience, an audience identifier, an indication of an estimated number of user actions related to the content of the content provider, and an option to request that a corresponding audience be added to the plurality of users currently designated to receive the content of the content provider.
US12034523B2
An aircraft based satellite communication (SATCOM) terminal includes a broadband aperture configured to communicate through non-geostationary orbit (NGSO) satellites for broadband communications, a management aperture configured to receive NGSO satellite management information from a geostationary orbit (GSO) satellite, and at least one processor that performs operations. The operations receive the NGSO satellite management information from the GSO satellite, where the NGSO satellite management information indicates positions and associated time of a set of the NGSO satellites. The operations acquire a second communication link with a second NGSO satellite among the set using the NGSO satellite management information during handoff switching from using a first communication link that was previously acquired with a first NGSO satellite to using the second communication link being acquired with the second NGSO satellite. The operations then perform broadband communications through the broadband aperture and the second communication link with the second NGSO satellite. Related ground-based control centers are disclosed.
US12034508B2
A method performed by a wireless device (510, 700, 1100) is disclosed. The wireless device obtains (601) a configuration for a sub-band channel quality indicator (CQI) granularity and a sub-band precoding matrix indicator (PMI) granularity for the wireless device. The wireless device determines (602) channel state information (CSI) feedback according to the configured sub-band CQI granularity and the sub-band PMI granularity. The sub-band PMI granularity corresponds to a first sub-band size and the sub-band CQI granularity corresponds to a second sub-band size. The first sub-band size is smaller than the second sub-band size. The wireless device transmits (603), to a network node (560, 1000), the determined CSI feedback.
US12034502B2
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for a user equipment to receive a downlink control information message from an access point in a wireless communications network and to echo a new beam index in the PUCCH feedback resource in response to the message indicating a PUCCH feedback resource and containing a beam change information or in response to the message indicating a downlink grant containing a beam change indication MAC control element but so CSI-feedback is scheduled for the PUCCH feedback resource. If a scheduling request resource is indicated by the message or the MAC control element, the user equipment is triggered to transit a scheduling request on that indicated scheduling request resource. If a scheduling request resource is not indicated by the message or the MAC control element, the user equipment is triggered to perform a scheduling request procedure on a periodic scheduling request resource.
US12034501B1
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit capability information indicating a capability of the UE to support a rate splitting multiple input multiple output (MIMO) communication. The UE may receive, based at least in part on the capability information, configuration information associated with the rate splitting MIMO communication. The UE may identify, based at least in part on the configuration information, at least one of a downlink control information (DCI) format, a DCI size, one or more DCI fields, or one or more DCI field sizes associated with a DCI communication associated with the rate splitting MIMO communication. The UE may monitor the DCI communication and decoding the rate splitting MIMO communication based at least in part on the configuration information and the DCI communication. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12034492B2
The base station simulator 10 as a signal analysis device performs communication with a UE 70 by simulating a base station to test an operation of a communication function of the UE 70, and includes a reception unit 21a that receives a signal to be measured modulated by an OFDM method, transmitted from the UE 70, an analog signal processing unit 22 that calculates signal data of the signal to be measured received by the reception unit 21a, a data analysis unit 27c that analyzes the signal data for a predetermined analysis item for each time domain defined by the OFDM method, and calculates analysis results of a plurality of analysis items corresponding to each time domain, and an analysis result display unit 28c that displays the analysis results of the plurality of analysis items side by side.
US12034490B2
A reconfigurable QKD transceiver capable of transmitting and/or receiving qubits using a single optical hardware platform. This reconfigurable QKD transceiver enables various link scenarios specially for LEO-ground network, where the satellites have limited engagement time with a ground station. The reconfigurable QKD transceiver may reduce the optics SWaP by 50 percent and may allow for new mission scenarios that were otherwise not feasible with a transmitter only architecture or receiver only architecture.
US12034480B2
A method includes detecting, by a mobile device, a light sequence emitted from a light emitting diode associated with an access point and determining, by the mobile device, an identifier for the access point based on the light sequence. The method also includes reporting, by the mobile device, a geospatial location of the mobile device and the identifier for the access point to an automated frequency coordination (AFC) server to perform AFC for the access point.
US12034478B2
The technology relates to free-space optical communication systems that correct for errors in tracking and pointing accuracy to maintain connection integrity. Such systems can both proactively and reactively correct for errors in tracking performance and pointing accuracy of terminals within the system. An aspect includes receiving information indicative of at least one external disturbance associated with a communication device. A determination is made for a proactive estimation indicative of a first error associated with an effect of the at least one external disturbance at a current timestep. A determination is made for a reactive estimation indicative of a second error associated with the effect of the at least one external disturbance at a previous timestep. A final control signal is determined based on the proactive estimation and the reactive estimation. A controller is able to actuate an optical assembly of the communication device based on the determined final control signal.
US12034471B2
The present invention provides a method of determining a transmission power for device to device, D2D, transmissions between a first user equipment device and a second user equipment device using transmission resources being used for transmissions to a cellular network entity by a third user equipment device, the method comprising determining a measure of a path loss between the cellular network entity and the first user equipment device, and using the measure of the path loss to determine a maximum transmission power such that the D2D transmissions are received at the cellular network entity with a signal level around or below a noise level.
US12034467B2
Communication circuitry and an electronic device including the communication circuitry are disclosed. The communication circuitry may include a first RF chain configured to output a first transmission signal in a first frequency band through a first antenna or receive a first reception signal in the first frequency band through the first antenna; a second RF chain configured to output a second transmission signal in a second frequency band through a second antenna or receive a second reception signal in the second frequency band through the second antenna; a first reception chain configured to receive a first signal in the first frequency band, which is received through the second antenna; a second reception chain configured to receive a second signal in the second frequency band, which is received through the first antenna; and a switch configured to connect the first RF chain and the second reception chain to the first antenna and connect the second RF chain and the first reception chain to the second antenna.
US12034466B2
In an embodiment, an electronic device may include a housing including a hinge module, a first housing, and second housing. The first and second housings are rotatably coupled to each other via the hinge module to be in a folded state or an unfolded state. The electronic device may further include a flexible display, at least one conductive pattern disposed in the first housing, at least one conductor disposed at a position in the second housing corresponding to the at least one conductive pattern such that the at least one conductor is capacitively coupled to the conductive pattern when the electronic device is in the folded state, and a wireless communication circuit electrically connected to the at least one conductive pattern in the first housing. Other embodiments are also possible.
US12034465B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing; a first antenna for transmitting and receiving at least one of a first wireless transmission signal and a first wireless reception signal using the first portion of the housing; a first PCB electrically connected to the first antenna and including a first connector; a second PCB electrically connected to the first PCB and including a second connector; a signal connection member having a first end connected to the first connector and a second end connected to the second connector; a communication module electrically connected to the second connector and controlling the at least one of the first wireless transmission signal and the first wireless reception signal; a sensor module which is electrically connected to the second connector, and adjusts at least one sensing parameter based on frequency information of the at least one of the first wireless transmission signal and the first wireless reception signal, and measures capacitance for a path of the at least one of the first wireless transmission signal and the first wireless reception signal between the first antenna and the second connector; and a processor configured to control the transmission power of the communication module according to the capacitance measured by using the sensor module.
US12034460B2
Described herein is a fractional phase locked loop with sigma-delta modulator (SDM) quantization noise cancellation. The fractional phase includes a digital filter configured to receive an error signal based on a comparison of a reference clock and a feedback clock, a controlled oscillator configured to generate an output clock by adjusting a frequency of the controlled oscillator based on a control signal output by the digital filter, the feedback clock being based on the output clock, a sigma-delta modulator configured to control division of the output clock to generate a divided output clock which includes a sigma-delta modulator quantization noise and a digital-to-time converter configured to receive a cancellation code from an integrator in the sigma-delta modulator and cancel the sigma-delta modulator quantization noise in the divided output clock with the cancellation code to generate the feedback clock.
US12034456B2
A transmitter generates an encoded vector by encoding a data vector, the encoded vector representing payload information and parity information. The encoding is mathematically equivalent to calculating three or more forward error correction (FEC) codewords from the data vector and then calculating the encoded vector from the codewords, at least one codeword being calculated from at least one recursion of a mathematical operation, and at least one codeword comprising more than 6 terms. The transmitter transmits a signal representing the encoded vector over a communication channel. A receiver determines a vector estimate from the signal and recovers the data vector from the vector estimate by sequentially decoding the codewords, wherein at least one codeword that is decoded earlier in the decoding enhances an estimate of at least one codeword that is decoded later in the decoding.
US12034455B2
An LDPC decoder receives channel information and performs a bit flipping algorithm to correct unsatisfied checks with respect to a parity matrix H. The threshold condition for determining whether to flip a bit is a function of the channel information itself. A threshold Thk used to evaluate the threshold condition may vary between iterations based on the number of iterations, number of bits flipped in the previous iteration, and number of unsatisfied checks. A threshold Thki may be calculated for each bit position. Thki and the threshold condition may be a function of whether bit position i was flipped in a previous iteration. A binning approach for parameters of the threshold condition may be used to reduce hardware complexity.
US12034434B2
Piezoelectric acoustic metamaterial resonators include a piezoelectric substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface and a plurality of magnetostrictive members disposed on the top surface of the piezoelectric substrate and extending along a length of the piezoelectric substrate and spaced across a width of the piezoelectric substrate.
US12034433B2
A vibrator device includes a vibration element including a vibration portion and a fixed portion, a supporting member to which the fixed portion is attached to support the vibration element, and a first substrate to which the supporting member is attached, the supporting member includes a attaching portion attached to the first substrate, and A1≥A2 is satisfied in a case where an area of a rectangular region including the fixed portion is A1 and an area of a rectangular region including the attaching portion is A2 in a plan view seen from a thickness direction of the vibration element.
US12034431B2
A piezoelectric MEMS resonator is provided. The resonator comprises a single crystal silicon microstructure suspended over a buried cavity created in a silicon substrate and a piezoelectric resonance structure located on the microstructure. The resonator is designed and fabricated based on porous silicon related technologies including selective formation and etching of porous silicon in silicon substrate, porous silicon as scarified material for surface micromachining and porous silicon as substrate for single crystal silicon epitaxial growth. All these porous silicon related technologies are compatible with CMOS technologies and can be conducted in a standard CMOS technologies platform.
US12034430B2
A vibrator device includes a package including a base that is a semiconductor substrate and a lid that is a semiconductor substrate and has a housing section, a vibrator element and a passive element housed in the housing section and placed at the base, an oscillation circuit placed at the base and electrically coupled to the vibrator element, and a mounting terminal placed at the package and electrically coupled to the passive element, and at least one of the base and the lid is coupled to fixed potential.
US12034429B2
This invention focuses on minimizing the hot spots on a filter chip by creating thermal radiators using the mechano-acoustic structures and connection circuitry. A gradual increase of metal to wafer relation is made to provide better heat dissipation and heat sinking. Preferably the shunt lines of the ladder type arrangement of SAW resonators (RS1, RS2, RS3) comprise a broadened section (BBCN). Each two series resonators (RS1, RS2, RS3) that are subsequent to each other in the series signal line are connected via a common busbar (BBCN) extending over a whole length of that subsequent series resonators, a lateral extension of the common busbars represents a first section of a respective shunt line each, each first shunt line section between a node and the parallel resonator (RP1, RP2) of a shunt line (SLS1) comprises a broadened section (BS) that is broader than the common busbar, the broadened section extends over the whole width of the parallel resonator (RP1), the first reflector (REF1) of the parallel resonator that faces the laterally adjacent series resonator is formed from the broadened section (BS).
US12034427B2
An acoustic wave device includes a support substrate, a piezoelectric film, a functional electrode, and a support. The support substrate includes a cavity. The piezoelectric film is provided on the support substrate to cover the cavity. The functional electrode is provided on the piezoelectric film to overlap the cavity when viewed in a plan view. The support is in the cavity of the support substrate to support the piezoelectric film. The functional electrode includes electrodes arranged in a direction crossing the thickness direction of the piezoelectric film. The electrodes include a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode oppose each other in a direction crossing the thickness direction of the piezoelectric film and are connected to different potentials. Adjacent ones of the electrodes overlap each other in a direction orthogonal to a longitudinal direction of the first electrode.
