US12029434B1
The present disclosure provides a method for using a wearable device involved with the surgery of a patient preoperatively, intraoperatively, and postoperatively in which the patient condition is assessed and determines at least one medical wearable device. A profile is created for the patient that interacts with the wearable device and at least one condition is communicated preoperatively through the wearable device and the patient's profile is updated intraoperatively using the wearable device and postoperatively the wearable device communicates at least one second condition based on the updated profile.
US12029424B2
Embodiments include an end effector including an anvil, the anvil having an anvil face, a cartridge having a cartridge face, the cartridge being configured to retain a plurality of staples, a cord, and a buttress being coupled with the anvil face or the cartridge face and including a planar section of material and a plurality of loops extending laterally from a first side and a second side of the planar section of material, wherein at least one of the anvil or the cartridge includes a plurality of cord supports.
US12029421B2
A surgical instrument comprising a power source, a first voltage regulator, and a second voltage regulator are disclosed. The surgical instrument further comprises a power source configured to sequentially power the first voltage regulator and the second voltage regulator.
US12029416B2
Surgical instruments and their methods of use are disclosed. In some embodiments, the surgical instrument may include a handle and an elongated shaft extending distally from the handle. The surgical instrument may also include a fastener deployment system for deploying fasteners from the elongated shaft including a reciprocating driveshaft disposed within the elongated shaft. In other embodiments, the fastener deployment system may include a follower disposed within the elongated shaft for displacing one or more fasteners within the elongated shaft towards a distal fastener deployment position. In some embodiments, the surgical instrument may include a magnetic preload lock-out to place the follower in a zero-load state in which the follower does not apply a preload to the fasteners.
US12029415B2
A motor-driven surgical cutting and fastening instrument that comprises an end effector, an electric motor, and a motor control circuit. The motor control circuit is for monitoring a parameter of the electric motor that is indicative of movement of a moveable member of the end effector, and for adjustably controlling the electric motor based on the monitored parameter to thereby adjustably control movement of the moveable member of the end effector during forward rotation of the electric motor.
US12029411B2
Devices and methods for delivering surgical fasteners to a controlled, specific depth in tissue and locking the fasteners closed to provide a secure and reliable attachment. Devices includes a body with a handle with a trigger extending therefrom; a shaft extending from the body; a delivery tip at a distal end of the shaft; a driver member disposed within the shaft; and a fastener with no points, barbs, or sharp edges held at the delivery tip. The fastener is inserted into a fixed depth and locks into a closed loop.
US12029408B2
A method of facilitating access to a neonate through a caesarean incision in the woman's abdomen by opening the incision, includes providing a supporting ring dimensioned to allow delivery of a neonate through the ring and comprising a non-adjustable pelvic-region retractor and handle fixed to the supporting ring and articulating the supporting ring to insert the non-adjustable pelvic-region retractor into the incision to cover and hold back the woman's bladder with the supporting ring disposed over the woman's abdomen. A first adjustable saddle-shaped retractor is then inserted into the incision to cup a first section of abdominal tissue on an abdominal side of the incision, before attaching the first adjustable saddle-shaped retractor to the supporting ring while it is cupping the first section of abdominal tissue at a first position spaced apart from the non-adjustable pelvic-region retractor to anchor the supporting ring to the woman and partially open the incision.
US12029364B2
A cleaner can include a cleaner main body including a suction motor configured to generate a suction force to suction air containing dust on a cleaning surface, the cleaner main body being configured to separate the dust from the air suctioned; a nozzle placed on the cleaning surface and configured to suck the air containing dust on the cleaning surface; and an extension tube to which the nozzle is detachably connected, one end connected to the nozzle and the other end connected to the cleaner main body to guide the air containing dust from the cleaning surface to the cleaner main body.
US12029359B2
A back washing assembly includes a belt that is comprised of a fluid permeable material for washing a user's body. A plurality of pouches is each coupled to the belt to contain a piece of soap. Each of the pouches is comprised of a fluid permeable material release the soap on the user's body for bathing. A pair of handles is each of the handles is coupled to the belt for gripping. Each of the handles is positioned on opposite ends of the belt with respect to each other to facilitate the belt to be extended across the user's back for scrubbing the user's back. A hook is movably positioned on a respective one of the handles to engage a support for suspending the belt from the support for storage. The hook is attachable to the strap when the belt is rolled up for storing the belt.
US12029358B2
A bath receptor includes a water inlet, a first basin, a second basin, and a partition positioned between the first basin and the second basin. The water inlet is configured to supply water to the bath receptor. The first basin includes a first whirlpool system configured to direct water in a first direction within the first basin. The second basin includes a second whirlpool system configured to direct water in a second direction within the second basin. The second direction opposite the first direction. The partition is vertically provided along at least a portion of a height of the bath receptor.
US12029356B2
A drying apparatus is proposed. The main body (100) may constitute the frame of the drying apparatus. The fan receiving part (104) may be provided in an upper part of the main body (100), and the fan assembly (160) may be installed in the fan receiving part (104). In the fan receiving part (104), the fan of the fan assembly (160) may be relatively located at a side of a rear end of the main body (100), and a fan motor (170) may be relatively located at a side of the front end of the main body (100). Accordingly, outside air may be introduced through the side edges of the rear end of the main body (100); may flow through a filter assembly (180) directly to the fan housing (162); and may flow through the air exit (169) of the fan housing (162) directly to the duct (130).
US12029355B2
An electronic dispenser comprising a housing; a feed roller rotatably mounted within the housing; a motor operable to drive rotation of the feed roller, and wherein the motor is at least partially within the feed roller; and wherein actuation of the motor results in a noise level, external to the housing, of less than 53 A-weighted decibels.
US12029351B2
A holding bin includes a plurality of compartments defined across a width of the holding bin, each compartment of the plurality of compartments configured to receive a plurality of food holding trays. A housing defines an outer perimeter of the holding bin. A first display is secured through the housing. A second display is removably secured to the housing. A controller is communicatively connected to the first display and the second display. The controller is configured to operate the first display and the second display to coordinately present a location and a status of a food tray within a compartment of the plurality of compartments.
US12029348B2
A wood burning grill includes a cabinet that defines a coal support platform for supporting burning wood during a grilling process. A grate is positioned above the coal support platform and a grate positioning assembly mechanically couples the grate to the cabinet. The grate positioning assembly includes two four-bar linkage systems positioned on opposite sides of the grate for suspending the grate in cantilevered manner from the cabinet. Each four-bar linkage system includes a drive arm that is mechanically coupled to the drive gear and a support arm that maintains the grate in a substantially horizontal orientation while moving between the raised position and the lowered position. A hand wheel is rotatably mounted to the cabinet and is coupled to the drive gear through a rotating shaft and a worm gear such that rotating the hand wheel moves the grate between the raised position and the lowered position.
US12029345B2
A cooking system positionable on a support surface including a housing including at least a top wall, bottom wall, and side walls, said housing defining a hollow chamber including a cooking chamber and a convecting chamber. A convection heater is disposed within the convecting chamber. At least one fluidly communicable opening extends between the convecting chamber and the cooking chamber. The at least one fluidly communicable opening fully extends between the top wall and the bottom wall of the housing.
US12029342B2
The coffee machine comprises at least one hydraulic infusion circuit comprising at least one feed pump (2) for supplying water, at least one boiler (3) hydraulically connected to the feed pump (2) by cascade connection, at least one infusion unit (4) that is hydraulically connected to the boiler (3) by cascade connection and through which a flow rate of hot water can pass for execution of an infusion cycle, means for regulating the flow rate of the water, means for measuring said flow rate of the water, and a feedback controller (6) connected to the regulating means and to the measuring means and configured to compare in real time the current value of the flow rate of the water, as measured by the measuring means, with a corresponding reference value, and to control the regulating means so as to eliminate any deviation of the current value with respect to the corresponding reference value.
US12029337B2
A receptacle rack including a base providing a surface for abutting support for a retainer plate and a plurality of mounting receptacles; the retainer plate coupled to the base; the plurality of mounting receptacles integrally molded to the retainer plate; the retainer plate moveable from a first closed position parallel and proximal to the surface for abutting support to a second open position; a back panel extending from the base, the back panel substantially perpendicular relative to the surface for abutting support, an electronic display installed in the back panel.
US12029335B2
An eating utensil doubling as a plate and a bowl. A plate has a center, four quadrants, an outer plate edge and an underside. A perforation is formed through the plate extending from the center to the outer edge. Adhesive tape is secured to the underside, the tape including a receiving portion and spanning portion, the spanning portion being of a length substantially equal to the perforation and traveling adjacent to the perforation; and, the receiving portion disposed substantially perpendicular to the spanning portion, wherein upon one of the four quadrants being partially separated from the plate at the perforation to thereby form a quarter piece, the quarter piece can be folded and adhered to the receiving portion such that a cone-like bowl is formed from the plate. An accompanying generally rectangular strip forms the base of the bowl.
US12029333B2
A product management system includes a product management apparatus, a product wireless tag provided on the product and into which a product identifier indicating the product is written, a tool wireless tag provided on a holding tool for holding the product and into which a tool identifier indicating the holding tool is written, a display zone communication apparatus provided in a display zone in which at least one set of the product and the holding tool is disposed and having a wireless tag reader for reading the product identifier from the product wireless tag and reading the tool identifier from the tool wireless tag. The display zone communication apparatus transmits both the product identifier and the tool identifier read by the wireless tag reader to the product management apparatus. The product management apparatus links the holding tool and the product held by the holding tool with each other.
US12029331B2
A diagnostics system for a display case includes a display case, a display device, and a remote controller, according to some embodiments. The display case includes a local controller, a refrigeration apparatus, and multiple sensors. The remote controller includes a processing circuit configured to receive diagnostics data from the local controller of the display case, according to some embodiments. The processing circuit is configured to identify one or more events using the diagnostics data and assign a rank to each of the one or more events. The processing circuit is configured to promote the rank of each of the one or more events based on an amount of time that each of the one or more events persists. The processing circuit is configured to operate the display device to notify a user regarding the one or more events and the rank of each event.
US12029305B2
A cosmetic package for dispensing a cosmetic product, the cosmetic package includes a replaceable cartridge for housing the cosmetic product. The cosmetic package further includes a bottle body and a screw member that is secured inside the bottle body such that the screw member does not have any axial or rotational movement relative to the bottle body. The replaceable cartridge comprises a sheath and a plate housed within the sheath. The sheath is rotatably engaged to the screw member, and moves up and down along the length of the screw member to hide or expose the cosmetic product housed in the sheath. The plate is stationary relative to the screw member when the sheath moves up and down. The sheath and the plate that can be replaced or refilled, while the bottle body, screw member, cover body of the cosmetic package can be retained for reuse.
US12029304B2
A paper lipstick tube with threads, including a lipstick tube body which includes an A lipstick tubing, a B lipstick tubing, a C lipstick tubing, a pin, a D lipstick tubing, an F lipstick tubing, an M lipstick tubing, a K lipstick tubing, a cover tube H, a circular gasket and cream. The B lipstick tubing is rotatably installed inside the F lipstick tubing. The lipstick tube body is a container with a push-pull function made of only paper and a small amount of natural bamboo or wood materials. Through mutual rotation of the F lipstick tubing and the B lipstick tubing, upward and downward shearing forces are applied to the pin spirally through the threaded groove in the B lipstick tubing. At the same time, the pin is also in up-and-down guide openings of the D lipstick tubing, so that the C lipstick tubing can only move up and down.
US12029300B1
A device, system and method for treating the scalp hair of an individual including the storing, processing, and dispensing hair building material, wherein the device includes at one or more housings connected to a base and a plurality of bristle elements disposed in a flow receiving relation to hair building material contained within the different housings of the base. A vibratory force is exerted on the base, housings and/or hair building material contained therein to facilitate a con current dispensing of different portions of the hair building material in a manner which accomplishes and at least partial blending of the different portions of the hair building material in the area of a bristle portion of the base. Once blended the hair building material is distributed throughout intended portions of the hair of a user by the bristles.
US12029275B2
An article of footwear including an adaptive support system includes a plurality of support members. Each support member includes an outer chamber and an inner chamber, the inner chamber being filled with a magnetorheological fluid. An electromagnet is disposed adjacent to the inner chamber and can be used to vary the viscosity of the magnetorheological fluid.
US12029273B2
A shoe sole comprising an elastomeric composition comprising: (D) 100 phr of a mixture of rubbers comprising: i. from 40 to 70% by weight of an isoprene polymer; ii. from 20 to 50% by weight of polybutadiene; iii. from 10 to 40% by weight of an SBR having a glass transition temperature (Tg) from −60 to −40° C.; (E) from 50 to 100 phr of amorphous carbon black having a surface area greater than 85 m2/g measured with the ASTM D6556 method, and a dibutyl phthalate absorption index (DBPA) greater than 90 measured with the ASTM D2414 method; (F) from 1 to 30 phr of graphene nano-platelets, wherein at least 90% of said graphene nano-platelets has a side dimension (x, y) from 50 to 50000 nm and a thickness (z) of 0.34 to 50 nm, and wherein said graphene nano-platelets have a C/O ratio ≥100:1.
US12029270B2
A hard hat attachment system is described with front, back, and side mounts to support various accessories. Mounts of hard hat receive slots of a bracket that fit around the ridges. Auxiliary ridges receive clips within ports. The user customizes the hard hat for the particular task with the preferred accessories used to complete the job. For example, lamps, face-shields, reflectors, tool carriers, and eyeglass holders are interchangeably releasably coupled to mounting and/or auxiliary ridges on the hard hat. In this way, the hard hat is customized and/or modified to support a wide variety of accessories that are securely and releasably attached to mounting and/or auxiliary ridges without destructive alterations to the hard hat. Brackets couple to mounts and clips couple to ports to secure and/or lock various accessories in place during operation and prevent accidental knocks or jarring the accessory loose.
US12029268B2
An article of apparel including insulation material includes an insulating layer formed of waterfowl fibers and synthetic fibers. The waterfowl fibers can be present in an amount of at least 20% by weight of the insulating layer. The insulating layer is generally free of waterfowl plumage.
US12029259B2
A fused brassiere having an elastic outer fabric; an elastic lining bonded to the outer fabric compressed against an inner surface of the outer fabric to form first and second pocket portions; first and second cup-shaped pad portions inserted into the pocket portions, respectively; and a core member formed in a region between the pocket portions and in a circumferential portion of the pocket portions and disposed between and bonded together when the outer fabric and the lining are compressed against each other. The core member includes connecting portions which surround and connect lower and upper portions of the pocket portions to each other. The cup-shaped pad portions include first and second breast points, respectively. The connecting portions surround the pocket portions so that when viewed from the front, opposite ends of a first connecting portion are disposed higher than the first and second breast points, respectively.
US12029258B2
Aspects described herein generally relate to articles of apparel having an upper body garment, a lower body garment, and an engagement device configured to removably engage the upper body portion and the lower body portion. The engagement device may comprise a continuous zipper.
US12029247B2
A personal vaporizer is configured to be used with a separately-formed vial. The vial can be sandwiched between a proximal and distal portion of the vaporizer, which in turn can be releasably attached to, and powered by, a battery assembly. Attaching the proximal and distal portions, with the vial in place, can both hold the vial in place and provide access to the vial so that vaporizing media within the vial can flow to an atomizer of the vaporizer. The vaporizer can include a child-proof locking structure for releasably engaging the proximal and distal portions.
US12029240B2
A spill-resistant water pipe, water pipe base, and water pipe assembly for filtering smoldering herbal materials. There is a fluid vessel having a bottom surface, a smoking bowl coupled to the fluid vessel, a neck with a mouthpiece coupled to the fluid vessel, and a base removably coupled to the bottom of the fluid vessel. The base has a rounded/convex bottom with a weight greater than a combined weight of the fluid, the fluid vessel, the smoking bowl, and the neck. There is also an annular bumper member (disc) circumscribing the base and extending laterally outward therefrom, with an exterior wall extending upwardly from a lateral edge of the annular bumper member and a container disposed thereon. There is a power module that powers one or more of: speakers, wireless signal transponders, scent dispensers, clocks, light emitters, light sensors, and position sensors.
US12029234B2
A non-combustion type inhalation article comprising a tobacco filler having a tobacco particle density of not more than 0.51 g/cm3.
US12029233B2
A method for forming a marbled foodstuff (FM) product includes the steps of extruding a first foodstuff (F1) into a foodstuff conduit (26, 36) and injecting a second foodstuff (F2) into the first foodstuff (F1) within the foodstuff conduit (26, 36). The first foodstuff (F1) includes water, red dye #3, natural smoke flavor, bacon flavor, soy isolate, wheat gluten, native tapioca starch, wheat protein texturizer, and megacell-80 texturizer, in combination with other elements. The second foodstuff (F2) includes water, starch, egg whites, soy protein isolate, bacon flavor paste and bacon type flavor, and soy oil, in combination with other elements. The first foodstuff (F1) and the second foodstuff (F2) provided a non-homogenous, marbled appearance when the second foodstuff is injected into the first foodstuff to provide a vegetarian foodstuff having the appearance and flavor of natural bacon.
US12029229B2
An ultrasonic freezing equipment, which includes a casing, a circulating pump system, an ultrasonic generator, a vortex-tube freezing device and a temperature-measuring device. A vertex tube is configured for refrigeration. A circulating salt solution inside the casing is configured to quickly and uniformly take away a heat of a food to be frozen, so as to efficiently freeze the food. A freezing method using the ultrasonic freezing equipment is also provided.
US12029227B2
The present invention relates to an additive to poultry feed including nitrates, nitrites or their mixtures that reduces the incidence of pectoral myopathy in poultry, for example, wooden breast myopathy in broiler chickens. In one aspect, a method for reducing the incidence of pectoral myopathy in poultry is disclosed. The method includes feeding poultry a feed having one or more nitrates, one or more nitrites, or a mixture thereof, wherein the amount of nitrates and/or nitrites in the feed is 3 g to 2,500 g per ton of feed.
US12029221B2
A method for preparing a food product, from a half chicken breast having a longitudinal axis, an outwardly facing surface, and an opposite surface, includes making cuts along cut lines oriented transversely with respect to the longitudinal axis, dividing the half chicken breast into first, second, third, and fourth transverse sectional pieces, each having a respective outward axially oriented surface formed from the outer facing surface, a respective inward axially oriented surface, and respective first and second transversely oriented surfaces oriented transversely with respect to the longitudinal axis. Respective inward axially oriented surfaces of the first and fourth transverse sectional pieces are aligned in facing engagement to form a first chicken-breast steak, and the second and third transverse sectional pieces form a second chicken-breast steak. The outward axially oriented surfaces form an axially oriented perimeter surface of each chicken-breast steak. A strip of bacon may wrap each perimeter surface.
US12029218B2
The invention describes to compositions useful to stabilize peracetic acid, acetic acid and hydrogen peroxide compositions with polymeric phosphonic acid resins or with 1-hydroxyethylidene-1,1,-diphosphonic acid associated with the interior surface of a container to stabilize the peracetic acid, acetic and hydrogen peroxide compositions.
US12029210B2
An electrical apparatus to kill a plant or at least attenuate plant growth, the apparatus comprising: an power supply unit; an applicator unit comprising an applicator electrode; an return unit comprising an return electrode; electrical circuitry; the power supply unit arranged to apply electrical energy through a transmission circuit comprising the applicator electrode, and the return electrode, wherein said electrical circuitry implements a detection system to determine a condition of electrical arcing of the electrical energy from one or both of said electrodes, the electrical circuitry arranged to control the electrical energy through the transmission circuit to at least partially reduce the electrical arcing based on said determined condition of electrical arcing.
US12029208B2
Embodiments of the Dripper Bag for Attracting Game and Fish include a pouch, where the pouch forms a sombrero hang hole, a duel core tin tie removably affixed to the side of the pouch, a spout, a foil tamper seal, and a spout cap, and where on the bottom of the dripper bag is formed three selections of areas to puncture with varying flow rate and therefore varying total effluent time. Another embodiment of the Dripper Bag for Attracting Game and Fish includes a pouch, a top flow reducer, a bottom flow reducer wherein the top flow reducer is affixed to the pouch via a threaded aperture formed by the pouch.
US12029204B2
The present specification relates to a transgenic animal and a transgenic embryo producing components of an engineered nuclease. According to the disclosure of the present specification, the transgenic animal (or embryo) producing components of an engineered nuclease is a transgenic animal (or embryo) which includes a first cell having a genome including a first toolbox; and a second cell having a genome including a second toolbox, wherein the first toolbox and the second toolbox include at least one of a polynucleotide encoding an RNA-guided endonuclease and a polynucleotide encoding a guide nucleic acid that is able to specifically bind to a target site, respectively, wherein the first toolbox is present in a first locus of the genome of the first cell; the second toolbox is present in a second locus of the genome of the second cell; and the first locus is different from the second locus.
US12029197B1
A livestock location tracking system is used to establish a history of locations of livestock animals throughout their lifespan to determine time spent in pasture, in pens, at feed stations, and/or other locations of interest. The recordation of locations of livestock occurs within the context of a livestock management system that includes a management system platform, a remote computer system, one or more local sensors and/or transceivers, one or more advanced livestock tags, one or more basic livestock tags and/or enhanced basic livestock tags, and one or more mobile devices.
US12029187B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH010996. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH010996, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH010996 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH010996.
US12029183B2
According to the invention, there is provided seed and plants of the hybrid corn variety designated CH011225. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds and tissue cultures of the variety CH011225, and to methods for producing a corn plant produced by crossing a corn plant of variety CH011225 with itself or with another corn plant, such as a plant of another variety. The invention further relates to genetic complements of plants of variety CH011225.
US12029179B2
An aneuploid Stevia cultivar from colchicine-induced polyploidy, designated ‘AP-1’. The plant parts of Stevia cultivar ‘AP-1’, the plants of stevia ‘AP-1’ and methods for producing a Stevia plant produced by crossing the cultivar ‘AP-1’ with itself or another Stevia variety, including methods using colchicine treatments for producing an aneuploidy Stevia plant. The disclosure further relates to hybrid Stevia seeds and plants produced by crossing the cultivar ‘AP-1’ with another Stevia cultivar. Ten highly polymorphic SNPs and the corresponding genomic sequences used to identify ‘AP-1’.
US12029177B2
An indoor gardening appliance includes a grow module that is seated on a turntable that is rotatably mounted within a grow chamber and is rotated by a drive assembly. A position sensing assembly monitors an angular position using two proximity sensors, such as Hall-effect sensors, mounted below the sump, and the turntable includes a plurality of proximity indicators, such as magnets, positioned at various circumferential positions on the turntable. A controller is configured to initiate rotation of the turntable from a first angular position, determine that the turntable should have reached a second angular position, e.g., based on the operating duration or drive signal of the drive motor, and identify a drive assembly fault upon determining that the turntable has not reached the second angular position.
US12029175B2
Plant supplement delivery assemblies are provided that can include an insert having collapsible insert sidewalls complimentary to the exterior sidewalls of the delivery assembly housing, the collapsible insert sidewalls defining at least a portion of a container configured to house a plant supplement. A butt end of the insert can be configured to operably engage a biased member. Methods for providing plant supplements are also provided. The methods can include operably engaging a biased member with a butt end of a container to collapse sidewalls of the container and provide plant supplement from the container through a stem into a plant. Methods for recycling components of a plant supplement delivery assembly are also provided. The methods can include, after providing plant supplements from an insert of a plant supplement delivery assembly, removing the spent insert from the assembly and replacing the spent insert with a sealed insert.
US12029172B1
A water control device includes a valve pipe section with an inlet, an outlet and a lower diaphragm valve housing with an internally disposed fluid aperture. An upper diaphragm valve housing includes an extension with an adjustment screw opening for a flow adjustment screw. A diaphragm valve assembly seals and unseals to the fluid aperture by an electric motor driven mechanical actuation fluid pressure diverter assembly. The flow adjustment screw includes a tamper proof surface that can be engaged by a flow adjustment tool. A base structure and cover protect sensitive components and are removable via a cover nut that also has a tamper proof surface. A flow turbine assembly is also removably disposed within the valve pipe section. The entire water control device can be removed and replaced through the use of pipe stub fittings using connecting nuts to engage the inlet and outlet of the valve pipe section.
US12029147B2
Systems and methods for predicting crop diseases in a crop field using machine learning are disclosed. The method includes receiving one or more ambient weather parameters related to environmental conditions around the crop field from an environmental sensor; determining a disease risk indicator associated with the disease and the crop field based on the one or more ambient weather parameters, using a disease risk machine learning module trained on historical weather data from a weather database; receiving a pathogen incidence indicator related to the presence of a pathogen around the crop field from a pathogen sensor, wherein the pathogen is associated with the disease; and generating a disease score based on the disease risk indicator and the pathogen incidence indicator, where the disease score represents the severity of the disease around the crop field.
US12029146B2
An implement includes a frame having a main section and a wing section pivotally coupled to the main section. A row unit is mounted to the frame wing section to dispense a product to the ground surface. A weight transfer system transfers weight from the frame main section to the frame wing section to reduce the load carried by the main wheel assembly. A row unit downforce system applies a force on the row unit relative to the frame wing section. A pressure transducer measures the force applied by the row unit downforce system and generates a signal indicative of the applied force. A control system operates the weight transfer system in response to the signal from the pressure transducer to assist the row unit downforce system. The control system actuates the weight transfer system to apply an additional force on the frame wing section in response to the signal.
US12035644B2
A device for quantum information processing is disclosed herein. According to examples, the device comprises a first plurality of confinement regions for confining spinful charge carriers for use as data qudits. The device further comprises a second plurality of confinement regions for confining spinful charge carriers for use as ancillary qudits, each confinement region of the second plurality of confinement regions couplable to measurement apparatus for measuring an ancillary qudit. The device further comprises a third plurality of confinement regions for confining spinful charge carriers, each confinement region of the third plurality of confinement regions situated between a first confinement region of the first plurality of confinement regions and a second confinement region of the second plurality of confinement regions and for use in mediating interactions between a data qudit of the first confinement region and an ancillary qudit of the second confinement region. The device further comprises one or more charge reservoirs. Each confinement region of the third plurality of confinement regions is couplable to a charge reservoir of the one or more charge reservoirs. Methods for operating a device for quantum information processing, and computer-readable media, are also described herein.
US12035638B2
A magnetoresistance effect element includes: a laminate in which a first ferromagnetic layer, a non-magnetic layer, and a second ferromagnetic layer are laminated in order in a first direction; a magnetic body that is present on the second ferromagnetic layer or above the second ferromagnetic layer of the laminate; and a wiring that is in contact with a first side surface of the magnetic body and extends in a second direction crossing the first direction. The thickness of the second ferromagnetic layer in the first direction is thinner than the minimum length of the second ferromagnetic layer in a plane orthogonal to the first direction. The thickness of the magnetic body in the first direction is thicker than the minimum length of the magnetic body in a plane orthogonal to the first direction.
US12035636B2
A magnetic memory includes a first spin-orbital-transfer-spin-torque-transfer (SOT-STT) hybrid magnetic device disposed over a substrate, a second SOT-STT hybrid magnetic device disposed over the substrate, and a SOT conductive layer connected to the first and second SOT-STT hybrid magnetic devices. Each of the first and second SOT-STT hybrid magnetic devices includes a first magnetic layer, as a magnetic free layer, a spacer layer disposed under the first magnetic layer, and a second magnetic layer, as a magnetic reference layer, disposed under the spacer layer. The SOT conductive layer is disposed over the first magnetic layer of each of the first and second SOT-STT hybrid magnetic devices.
US12035633B2
Disclosed is method for etching a magnetic tunnel junction. An etching apparatus used comprises a sample loading chamber, a vacuum transition chamber, a reactive ion plasma etching chamber, an ion beam etching chamber, a film coating chamber and a vacuum transport chamber. The method comprises multiple performances of the steps of reactive ion and plasma etching, ion beam etching and film coating. Multiple performances of entry into and exit from the chambers are required during the process, and the delivery between the chambers is performed under vacuum.
US12035631B2
The present disclosure relates to driver circuitry for driving a piezoelectric transducer. The circuitry comprises: output stage circuitry configured to receive an input signal and to drive the piezoelectric transducer to produce the output signal; variable voltage power supply circuitry configured to output a supply voltage for the charge drive output stage circuitry, wherein the supply voltage output by the variable voltage power supply circuitry varies based on the input signal; a supply capacitor for receiving the supply voltage output by the variable voltage power supply circuitry; a reservoir capacitor; and circuitry for transferring charge between the reservoir capacitor and the supply capacitor.
US12035628B2
A thermoelectric transducer includes a substrate, a thermoelectric film on the substrate, a first electrode on the substrate, and a second electrode on the substrate, the second electrode being different from the first electrode in work function. The first electrode and the second electrode are in contact with the same side of the thermoelectric film. The outer edge of the thermoelectric film is located inner than the outer edge of the substrate.
US12035625B2
The invention relates to compounds of formula (1) which are suitable for use in electronic devices, and to electronic devices, in particular organic electroluminescent devices, containing said compounds. X is, identically or differently in each occurrence, CR or N, or two adjacent X stand for a group of the following formula (2), wherein the dashed bonds mark the bonding of said group in formula (1), with the stipulation that the compound of formula (1) contains one or two groups of formula (2); X1 is, identically or differently in each occurrence, CR or N; Y is, identically or differently in each occurrence, CR or N; Z1, Z2, Z3 are, identically or differently in each occurrence, O, S, N—Ar or CR2.
US12035615B2
Provided are an organic light-emitting device, an apparatus including the same, and an organometallic compound represented by Formula 1. The organic light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; and an organic layer between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an emission layer. The organic layer includes an organometallic compound represented by Formula 1.
US12035608B2
A foldable display device is capable of improving a strength of a folding area and substantially reducing or minimizing a dead space of a non-folding area. The foldable display device includes: a display panel including a folding area and a non-folding area, and having a front surface and a back surface that are opposite each other; a window adjacent the front surface of the display panel; an auxiliary layer adjacent the back surface of the display panel; a first adhesive layer between the display panel and the window; and a second adhesive layer between the display panel and the auxiliary layer. A width of the window at the folding area is greater than a width of the window at the non-folding area.
US12035604B2
A display panel including a first area and a second area includes a substrate, a first pixel electrode disposed in the first area, and an opposite electrode disposed on the first pixel electrode. The opposite electrode includes a first layer including a first material and a second layer including an alloy including the first material.
US12035602B2
A display device includes a substrate including an opening area and a display area at least partially surrounding the opening area; and a metal layer including a first region and a second region adjacent to a non-display area between the opening area and the display area, the first region and the second region are spaced apart from each other, and one of the first region and the second region includes a protrusion extending toward the other of the first region and the second region, and the other of the first region and the second region has a shape to receive the protrusion.
US12035601B2
Provided is a display device including a display panel partitioned into a display region and a non-display region, and an input sensing unit including a sensing pad in a pad region overlapping the non-display region, a sensing electrode overlapping the display region, and a signal line electrically connecting the sensing pad and the sensing electrode, wherein the display panel has a spacer overlapping the non-display region, and defining an opening in which a first portion of the signal line is located, the first portion of the signal line having a greater width than a second portion adjacent thereto.
US12035597B2
Discussed is an organic light emitting display device, including a plurality of pixels. Each pixel includes a red sub pixel, green sub pixels, and a blue sub pixel. The red sub pixels and the blue sub pixels are aligned in a first direction. The green sub pixels are disposed between the red sub pixel and the blue sub pixel. The red sub pixel, the green sub pixels, and the blue sub pixel of a first pixel form a first group, and the red sub pixel, the green sub pixels, and the blue sub pixel of a second pixel form a second group. The first group and the second group are symmetric with the first direction. The red sub pixels and the blue sub pixels are disposed at a second line parallel to a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US12035592B2
A display device includes a first pixel including a first transistor, a second transistor, and a third transistor, a second pixel disposed adjacent to the first pixel in a first direction, and including a first transistor, a second transistor, and a third transistor, and an initialization voltage line disposed between the first pixel and the second pixel, and extending in a second direction crossing the first direction. The second transistor of the first pixel and the second transistor of the second pixel are connected to the initialization voltage line. The first, second, and third transistors of the first pixel and the first, second, and third transistors of the second pixel are symmetrical with respect to the initialization voltage line.
US12035591B2
A first pixel circuit and a third pixel circuit are connected to a first scan signal line, and a second pixel circuit and a fourth pixel circuit are connected to a second scan signal line. Of two first pixel circuits connected to a common, first scan signal line, a capacitive element in the first pixel circuit in a group that is located farther in a row direction from a center of a display area has a larger capacitance value than does a capacitive element in the first pixel circuit in a group that is located closer.
US12035588B2
The present disclosure provides an array substrate, a method for manufacturing an array substrate and a display panel. The array substrate includes: a base having a display area, a peripheral area surrounding the display area, and a visible area located between the display area and the peripheral area; a plurality of voltage signal lines disposed on the base; a metal strip disposed on the base, the voltage signal lines are coupled to the metal strip, at least a portion of the metal strip is located in the visible area, and the portion of the metal strip located in the visible area is provided with an opening.
US12035587B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes: a display part including a plurality of data lines; a fan-out part including a plurality of fan-out lines; and a lead wire part including a plurality of first lead wires which are respectively connected with the plurality of data lines through the plurality of fan-out lines, and the plurality of fan-out lines are fanned out between the lead wire part and the display part. The plurality of first lead wires each include a first lead wire subpart and a compensation part to form a plurality of first lead wire subparts and a plurality of compensation parts, the plurality of first lead wire subparts are respectively connected with the plurality of compensation parts; the first lead subparts (WS1) have a width different from that of the compensation parts.
US12035581B2
A display panel, a method for manufacturing the display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a base, a functional film layer, and a plurality of first light-emitting elements. The functional film layer includes a power source signal line layer, a data line layer and a compensation functional layer, the power source signal line layer includes a power source signal line pattern arranged at each subpixel region, the data line layer includes a data line pattern arranged at each subpixel region, and the compensation functional layer includes a compensation functional pattern arranged at at least one subpixel region. The first light-emitting element includes a first anode, a first light-emitting pattern and a first cathode sequentially laminated.
US12035575B2
Embodiments described herein relate to a sub-pixel. The sub-pixel includes an anode, overhang structures, separation structures, an organic light emitting diode (OLED) material, and a cathode. The anode is defined by adjacent first pixel isolation structures (PIS) and adjacent second PIS. The overhang structures are disposed on the first PIS. The overhang structures include a second structure disposed over the first structure and an intermediate structure disposed between the second structure and the first structure. A bottom surface of the second structure extends laterally past an upper surface of the first structure. The first structure is disposed over the first PIS. Separation structures are disposed over the second PIS. The OLED material is disposed over the anode and an upper surface of the separation structures. The cathode disposed over the OLED material and an upper surface of the separation structures.
US12035566B2
A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes light-emitting units located in a display region and on a side of a substrate, an organic layer located in the display region and on a side of the light-emitting units facing away from the substrate, and a carrier layer located in the display region and between the organic layer and the light-emitting units and in contact with the organic layer. The display region includes a first display region and a second display region located between the first display region and the non-display region. The carrier layer includes at least one first groove in the second display region. A projection of the organic layer on the carrier layer covers the at least one first groove. The at least one first groove overlaps with none of the light-emitting units in a normal direction of the substrate.
US12035563B2
A display device includes a display device including a substrate, and a display unit disposed on the substrate. An encapsulating unit encapsulates the display unit. The encapsulating unit includes a barrier organic layer. The barrier organic layer includes a plurality of organic materials and a plurality of inorganic materials. The inorganic materials are arranged in free volumes between the organic materials.
US12035562B2
A display panel includes a substrate having an opening area, and a display area at least partially surrounding the opening area. Display elements are arranged in the display area. The display elements includes a pixel electrode, an opposite electrode, and an intermediate layer interposed therebetween. A multilayer film includes a first insulating layer between the substrate and the pixel electrode and a second insulating layer, of a different material, on the first insulating layer. A thin film encapsulation layer covers the display elements and includes at least one organic encapsulation layer and at least one inorganic encapsulation layer. The multilayer film includes a first groove disposed between the opening area and the display area. The first groove has an undercut structure in which a lower width of the first groove is greater than an upper width of the first groove.
US12035560B2
The present disclosure relates to an organic light-emitting diode. The organic light-emitting diode includes a substrate, an anode layer, an organic functional layer, a cathode layer, and a cover layer that are sequentially stacked from bottom to top.
US12035559B2
A flexible screen and a display device. The flexible screen includes a substrate, a cover plate and a display unit located between the substrate and the cover plate, where the flexible screen further includes a sealing layer and an insulating flow blocking medium, the sealing layer is located between the substrate and the cover plate, and surrounds a periphery of the display unit, a gap is formed between the sealing layer and the display unit, and the flow blocking medium fills the gap to isolate the display unit from outside.
US12035558B2
An electronic apparatus includes a window, a display module that includes a module hole, an optical member disposed between the window and the display module and in which a first opening that overlaps the module hole is formed, and a cover pattern disposed on an inner surface of the first opening of the optical member.
US12035553B2
A light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an interlayer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the interlayer including an emission layer. The first electrode may be doped with a metal oxide having a work function of less than about −5.05 electron volts (eV), and a layer including a halide of a lanthanide may be between the first electrode and the emission layer. An electronic apparatus including the light-emitting device is also provided.
US12035547B2
An image pickup element 10 includes a first electrode 21, a charge accumulation electrode 24 that is arranged apart from the first electrode 21, a photoelectric conversion unit 23 that contacts the first electrode 21 and is formed above the charge accumulation electrode 24 via an insulation layer 82, and a second electrode 22 formed on the photoelectric conversion unit 23. The photoelectric conversion unit 23 includes, from the second-electrode side, a photoelectric conversion layer 23A, and an inorganic oxide semiconductor material layer 23B including InaGabSncOd, and 0.30≤b/(a+b+c)≤0.50 and b≥c are satisfied.
US12035536B2
Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having first and second pillars of semiconductor material. The first pillar includes a first source/drain region, and the second pillar includes a second source/drain region. First and second bottom electrodes are coupled with the first and second source/drain regions, respectively. The first and second source/drain regions are spaced from one another by an intervening region. First and second leaker-device-structures extend into the intervening region from the first and second bottom electrodes, respectively. Top-electrode-material extends into the intervening region and contacts the first and second leaker-device-structures. Ferroelectric-insulative-material is between the top-electrode-material and the bottom electrodes. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US12035528B2
A semiconductor device includes gate electrodes stacked along a direction perpendicular to an upper surface of a substrate, the gate electrodes extending to different lengths in a first direction, and each gate electrode including subgate electrodes spaced apart from each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and gate connection portions connecting subgate electrodes of a same gate electrode of the gate electrodes to each other, channels extending through the gate electrodes perpendicularly to the upper surface of the substrate, and dummy channels extending through the gate electrodes perpendicularly to the upper surface of the substrate, the dummy channels including first dummy channels arranged in rows and columns, and second dummy channels arranged between the first dummy channels in a region including the gate connection portions.
US12035523B2
Embodiments of three-dimensional (3D) memory devices and fabricating methods thereof are disclosed. The method includes: forming an alternating dielectric stack on a substrate; forming a structure strengthen plug in an upper portion of the alternating dielectric stack, wherein the structure strengthen plug has a narrow support body and two enlarged connecting portions; forming a gate line silt in the alternating dielectric stack to expose a sidewall of one enlarged connecting portion of the structure strengthen plug; and forming a gate line slit structure in the gate line slit including an enlarged end portion connected to the one enlarged connecting portion of the structure strengthen plug.
US12035521B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a stack structure including interlayer insulating layers and gate electrodes alternately and repeatedly stacked on the substrate in a first direction perpendicular, a channel structure that penetrates the stack structure, a contact plug disposed on the channel structure, and a bit line on the contact plug. The channel structure includes a core pattern, a pad structure on the core pattern, and a channel layer on a side surface of the core pattern and a side surface of the pad structure. The pad structure includes a pad pattern, a first pad layer, and a second pad layer, the first pad layer that is between the channel layer and the pad pattern, and the second pad layer including a first portion between the channel layer and the first pad layer, and a second portion between the first pad layer and the core pattern.
US12035517B2
Various implementations described herein are related to a device having multiple transistors in a single stack arranged as a cross-coupled bitcell latch. Also, the multiple transistors may be disposed in a multi-transistor stack configuration that is formed within a single monolithic semiconductor die. In some implementations, the multiple transistors may be arranged as a bitcell for single-port memory applications.
US12035511B2
The invention provides a chassis structure, a server, and a method of dissipating heat from server. The chassis structure comprises chassis body, two fan components, two tray components, and a power supply. The chassis body defines a receiving space bounded by two spaced partitions, the two partitions divide the receiving space into a middle cavity and two side cavities. The fan components are at one end of each side cavity and are connected to the chassis body. The two tray components carry slots for inserting hard disks. The power supply is arranged in the middle cavity and supplies power to the hard disks inserted in the slots, the power supply also has a fan, the power supply positioned at one end of the middle cavity.
US12035510B2
An integrated power electronic package includes a cold plate having a microcontroller, driver circuit, and power module embedded within a top surface of the cold plate. A 3D-printed circuit board is printed on and/or around the microcontroller, driver circuit, and power module to create electrical connections between the components. Additional electrical components are mounted to the 3D-printed circuit board to form the integrated power electronics package. The cold plate further includes a hollow interior recess having a plurality of fins. The plurality of fins have varying densities to allow targeted cooling of the microcontroller, driver circuit, and power module embedded in the cold plate.
US12035508B2
An immersion cooling system and methods for operating the system are described. The system can comprise a vessel configured to hold thermally conductive, condensable dielectric fluid; a pressure controller to reduce or increase an interior pressure of the vessel; a computer component configured to be at least partially submerged within the dielectric fluid; and a fluid circulation system configured to draw the dielectric fluid from a sump area of the vessel, pass the dielectric fluid through a filter and deliver the dielectric fluid to a bath area of the vessel.
US12035503B2
A heat dissipation system of portable electronic device includes a body, at least one fan and at least one spacing member. At least one heat source of the portable electronic device is arranged in the body. The fan is a centrifugal fan disposed in the body. The fan has at least one flow inlet located in the axial direction and at least one flow outlet located in the radial direction. The spacing member is disposed on at least one of the body or the fan to form a stratified air flow in the body along the axial direction. The stratified air flows into the fan through the flow inlet and out of the fan through the flow outlet respectively.
US12035494B2
A flexible display device including connection frames and hinge members, can include a display panel, a back cover supporting a rear surface of the display panel, a plurality of fixing sliders fixed on a rear surface of the back cover and arranged along a longitudinal direction, a central frame disposed at a center of the rear surface of the back cover and having first and second longitudinal ends, a pair of connection frames rotatably connected to the first and second longitudinal ends of the central frame and provided with slot holes through which respective fixing sliders among the plurality of fixing sliders are slidably supported, and a plurality of hinge members. Each hinge member connects a respective one of the first and second longitudinal ends of the central frame to a respective one of the pair of connection frames.
US12035493B2
A display device includes: a first case and a second case connected to each other by a folding member; and a display panel that is at least partially disposed on a first surface of the first case, wherein a second surface of the first case is opposite to the first surface of the first case, wherein a third surface of the second case faces the second surface of the first case when the display device is in a folded state, and the third surface of the second case is coplanar with the second surface of the first case when the display device is in an unfolded state, wherein a first end portion of the display panel is fixed to the second case, and a position of a second end portion of the display panel is configured to change on the first surface of the first case.
US12035492B2
A latch mechanism includes a mounting bracket, a stop connected to the mounting bracket, a first spring connected to the mounting bracket and in contact with the stop to preload the first spring, and a latch. The latch includes a second spring rotatably connected to the mounting bracket, and a body connected to the second spring. The body includes a pad at one end of the body, and a first pawl at a second end of the body opposite of the pad.
US12035490B2
A switched-mode light-emitting diode (LED) display unit satisfying fire-fighting smoke exhaust and ventilation requirements includes an LED display unit, a mounting member, an opening-closing actuator and a pressing member. The LED display unit is mounted on the mounting member and the mounting member is mounted on a display panel by an opening-closing actuator and pressed against the display panel by a pressing member. The switched-mode LED display unit provides the pressing member that works to release the pressed mounting member after obtaining a triggering command and the opening-closing actuator that turns on the LED display unit subsequently, thereby meeting the fire smoke exhaust ventilation requirement of the internal surface or the external surface of a building.
US12035489B2
According to an embodiment of the disclosure, an electronic device may include a housing including a rear plate including a first region having a first concavo-convex pattern formed therein, and a second region having a second concavo-convex pattern formed therein, and a processor disposed inside the housing. The first concavo-convex pattern and the second concavo-convex pattern may be integrally formed with the rear plate, and a first depth of the first concavo-convex pattern may be different from a second depth of the second concavo-convex pattern.
US12035482B2
An electronic device may include a connector having a connector body and conductive pins extending outwardly from the connector body, and a circuit board having a dielectric layer, and spaced apart female contacts extending therein. Each female contact may include a conductive tubular via, a core within the conductive tubular via, and a conductive cup having a lower end abutting and joined to the conductive tubular via and an upper end defining a recess receiving a corresponding conductive pin of the connector. The conductive cup may have an outer diameter greater than an outer diameter of the conductive tubular via.
US12035475B2
A semiconductor package and a method of forming the same are provided. The semiconductor package includes a package substrate, a semiconductor device, an underfill element, and a groove. The semiconductor device is bonded to the surface of the package substrate through multiple electrical connectors. The underfill element is formed between the semiconductor device and the surface of the package substrate to surround and protect the electrical connectors. The underfill element includes a fillet portion that extends laterally beyond the periphery of the semiconductor device and is formed along the periphery of the semiconductor device. The groove is formed in the fillet portion and spaced apart from the periphery of the semiconductor device.
US12035472B2
A stackable via package includes a substrate having an upper surface and a trace on the upper surface, the trace including a terminal. A solder ball is on the terminal. The solder ball has a solder ball diameter A and a solder ball height D. A via aperture is formed in a package body enclosing the solder ball to expose the solder ball. The via aperture includes a via bottom having a via bottom diameter B and a via bottom height C from the upper surface of the substrate, where A
US12035461B2
A low dielectric substrate for high-speed millimeter-wave communication includes a quartz glass cloth with a dielectric loss tangent of 0.0001 to 0.0015 and a dielectric constant of 3.0 to 3.8 at 10 GHz, and an organic resin with a dielectric loss tangent within 80% to 150% of the dielectric loss tangent of the quartz glass cloth at 10 GHz and a dielectric constant within 50% to 110% of the dielectric constant of the quartz glass cloth at 10 GHz. This provides a low dielectric substrate for high-speed millimeter-wave communication where the low dielectric substrate makes it possible to send signals that are stable and have excellent quality with no difference in propagation time between wirings even if the substrate has an uneven resin distribution and the quartz glass cloth above and below the wirings, and the difference in dielectric loss tangent between members has been reduced to lower transmission loss.
US12035459B2
A method of forming a flexible interconnect circuit is described. The method may comprise laminating a substrate to a conductive layer and patterning the conductive layer using a laser while the conductive layer remains laminated to the substrate thereby forming a first conductive portion and a second conductive portion of the conductive layer. The substrate maintains the orientation of the first conductive portion relative to the second conductive portion during and after patterning. The method may also comprise laminating a first insulator to the conductive layer and removing the substrate from the conductive layer such that the first insulator maintains the orientation of the first conductive portion relative to the second conductive portion while and after the substrate is removed. The method may also comprise laminating a second insulator to the second side of the conductive layer while the first insulator remains laminated to the substrate.
US12035455B2
Disclosed herein are particle-assisted wakefield electron acceleration devices, accelerated electrons generated using said devices, and methods of use thereof.
US12035453B1
A Short-Wave Radiation (SWR) system comprising: (i) a light assembly, comprising at least one light source and being configured to: (a) illuminate a front side of an ionization target with first illumination; and (b) illuminate a back side of the ionization target with second illumination; (ii) a controller, configured to control the light assembly for illuminating the ionization target from the front side of the ionization target using the first illumination and at least partly concurrently illuminating the ionization target from the back side of the ionization target using the second illumination; and (iii) an optical assembly configured to collect SWR emitted from the front side of the ionization target and to direct the collected SWR toward a designated beam direction of the SWR system, wherein the SWR emitted from the front side results from a target illumination scheme that comprises at least the first illumination and the second illumination.
US12035452B2
An X-ray tube has at least one grid electrode arranged between an anode electrode and a cathode electrode. Via a focusing unit, an electron flow from the cathode electrode to the anode electrode is focused in that the focusing unit supplies the grid electrode with a first electric grid potential. The focusing unit is supplied with electrical energy in an electrically isolated manner via an energy converter. The first electric grid potential is provided via an adjustable voltage divider, and the adjustable voltage divider is adjusted via a control circuit of the focusing unit in that the control circuit is supplied with an electrically isolated control signal of a control unit. The control signal depends on a value for the first electric grid potential.
US12035445B2
A resonant frequency tracker for driving an electromagnetic load with a driving signal may include a signal generator configured to generate a waveform signal at a driving frequency for driving an electromagnetic load and control circuitry. The control circuitry may be configured to, during driving of the electromagnetic load by the waveform signal or a signal derived therefrom, receive a current signal representative of a current associated with the electromagnetic load and a second signal representative of a second quantity associated with the electromagnetic load, the second quantity comprising one of a voltage associated with the electromagnetic load or a back electromotive force of the electromagnetic load. The control circuitry may be further configured to calculate a phase difference between the current signal and the second signal, determine a frequency error of the waveform signal based on the phase difference, and control the driving frequency based on the frequency error.
US12035444B2
A method of commissioning a lighting device in a lighting system comprises receiving (121) a first message from a mobile device (41) on the lighting device (11,13). The first message indicates that the mobile device intends to scan, using the first wireless communication technology, for any lighting device which can be commissioned using the first wireless communication technology. The method further comprises determining (123) whether the lighting device can be commissioned using the first wireless communication technology and controlling (125) a light source to render a light effect upon receipt of the message in dependence on the determination whether the lighting device can be commissioned via the first wireless communication technology. The method also comprises receiving (127) a second message from the mobile device and responding by transmitting (129) a third message confirming that the mobile device can control the lighting device, using the first wireless communication technology.
US12035442B2
The invention relates to the technical field of shoe lights; in particular, to a shoe light device capable of flashing in different modes and a driving method thereof. A motion sensor, an integrated chip and a light-emitting device are integrated on a shoe, and the motion sensor and the light-emitting device are electrically connected to the integrated chip. The integrated chip is configured to control the light-emitting device to emit light in a preset constant-sequence output mode when the duration of reception of pulse signals generated by the motion sensor reaches a preset threshold, so that trigger control over the light-emitting device is realized. The shoe light device capable of flashing in different modes has the advantages of high integrity of elements, simple structure, simple production process, and various integrated cyclic output modes for flashing of the light-emitting device.
US12035439B2
Disclosed is a performance directing system by using a plurality of layers including a control console device generating and transmitting a data packet including direction information for each of the plurality of layers and a plurality of light emitting devices, each of which receives the data packet from the control console device and each of which emits light based on the direction information included in the data packet.
US12035436B2
A system, method, and assembly for controlling a power supply for at least one ultraviolet lamp where at least one ultraviolet lamp uses input received from at least one sensor of at least one ultraviolet lamp to measure a characteristic of the at least one ultraviolet lamp and, if based on that at least one sensor, the at least one ultraviolet lamp determines that at least one characteristic of a power supply operatively coupled to the at least one ultraviolet lamp should be changed, generates a command for that power supply to modify that at least one characteristic either by modulating its output or adjusting an output level.
US12035427B2
Systems and methods for modulating power provided to a heating element of a vehicle exhaust system is provided. One system includes a controller controlling a switch, and an alternator having a first field terminal input, wherein the first field terminal input is connected to the switch. The system further includes a heating element connected to at least an output of the alternator. The controller is configured to determine a power demand for the electric heating element and modulate the first field terminal input to cause the alternator to provide power to the heating element according to the power demand.
US12035425B1
Disclosed is a temperature control and safety circuit for detecting the temperature of a PTC heating element and the status of a solid state switch powered by an AC power source in both a positive and a negative power voltage half cycle. The AC-powered solid state switch, e.g., a triac, is provided in series with a current sense resistor, the voltage drop across the resistor being proportional to current through the PTC heating element. A voltage shifting circuit is also provided for rendering a positive voltage to an analog to digital converter during both a positive and a negative half cycle. Preferably, the voltage input to the analog to digital converter controls, at least in part, the temperature of the PTC heating element and the status of the AC-powered solid state switch during both of the positive and negative half cycles.
US12035412B2
The present invention discloses methods and systems for providing UICC/eUICC related response information to information requests at a cellular router. The method includes receiving an information request from a wireless communication module, and determining whether a response to the information request is cached. When the response information is not cached, forwarding the information request to a massive SIM apparatus (MSA). MSA will then respond to the information request. A response based on the MSA's response will then be sent to the wireless communication module for the information request. When the response information is cached, retrieve the response information and send it to the wireless communication module.
US12035405B2
Disclosed herein are related to resuming a wireless communication between a first device and a second device. In one aspect, the first deice enters a wake up mode from a sleep mode. In one aspect, the first device obtains, in response to entering the wake up mode, stored information indicating a wireless channel previously used to communicate with a second device, to monitor for a beacon frame from the second device. In one aspect, the first device receives the beacon frame from the second device, according to the stored information. In one aspect, the first device transmits to the second device, an association frame in response to receiving the beacon frame.
US12035392B2
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided apparatus comprising at least one processing core, at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code being configured to, with the at least one processing core, cause the apparatus at least to receive, from a primary cell, a candidate secondary cell configuration which comprises at least one condition, determine that the at least one condition is fulfilled, and activate, as a response to the determining, the candidate secondary cell into a carrier aggregation or a dual connectivity session of the apparatus.
US12035382B2
The present invention provides a data transmission method and a communications device. The communications device includes: a transceiver, configured to send a transmission frame to a second communications device, so that the second communications device acquires data information in the transmission frame, where the transmission frame includes a first part and a second part, the transceiver sends the first part of the transmission frame by using a first quantity of subcarriers, the transceiver sends the second part of the transmission frame by using a second quantity of subcarriers, and the first quantity is not equal to the second quantity; and the transceiver, further configured to perform a next time of information transmission with the second communications device. A throughput can be effectively increased.
US12035377B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a data processing method and user equipment. The method includes: performing any one of the following based on a relationship between a target time domain gap and a first preset value: sending a random access channel; sending an uplink data channel; sending a random access channel and an uplink data channel; or skipping sending a random access channel and an uplink data channel, where the target time domain gap is a gap between a time domain location of a first resource and a time domain location of a second resource, the first resource is a resource for the random access channel, the second resource is a resource for the uplink data channel, and the random access channel and the uplink data channel are used to carry a random access message.
US12035364B2
An apparatus may receive a media access control (MAC) control element (CE) from a base station (BS) indicating a secondary cell (SCell) to be activated in an unlicensed band. The apparatus may initiate a timer with an end value in response to receiving the MAC CE and may further adjust a radio-frequency (RF) chain from a first state to a second state corresponding to the SCell to be activated. The apparatus may determine, based on measurements of one or more synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) transmitted from the BS indicating one or more listen before talk (LBT) failures corresponding to the SCell, one or more failed SSB transmissions corresponding to the SCell. Accordingly, the apparatus may readjust, in response to expiry of the timer, the RF chain from the second state to the first state and receive one or more additional SSBs in the first state.
US12035362B2
Provided is a wireless communication terminal that wirelessly communicates with a base wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication terminal includes a transceiver, and a processor. The processor is configured to set an integer selected from a range of 0 to a value equal to or smaller than an OFDMA Contention Window (OCW) as a counter for random access, receive a trigger frame for triggering random access using one or more resource units (RUs) allocated for the random access from the base wireless communication terminal using the transceiver, decrement a value of the counter based on the one or more RUs allocated for the random access, randomly select one RU based on the one or more RUs allocated for the random access when the value of the counter is 0 or reaches 0, and attempt transmission to the base wireless communication terminal using the selected RU.
US12035360B2
A first apparatus may be implemented as a user equipment (UE) or a component thereof. The first apparatus may be configured to receive a pre-grant message from a base station on a wireless channel. The first apparatus may be further configured to determine an interference level associated with the wireless channel. The first apparatus may then indicate the interference level to the base station in response to the pre-grant message. A second apparatus may be implemented as a base station or a component thereof. The second apparatus may be configured to transmit a pre-grant message to a UE on a wireless channel. The second apparatus may be further configured to detect for an acknowledgement (ACK) message responsive to the pre-grant message from the UE. The second apparatus may then determine an interference level associated with the wireless channel proximate to the UE based on detecting for the ACK message.
US12035359B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) may perform a random access channel (RACH) procedure with a base station. The UE may receive a message configuring a RACH preamble occasion and an uplink data occasion. The message may be a radio resource control (RRC) message or a system information (SI) message. In some cases, the UE may determine if the RACH preamble occasion, the uplink data occasion, or both are restricted for cancellation based on the message. The UE may determine when to monitor a downlink control channel for dynamic scheduling based on determining which occasions are restricted for cancellation and may transmit a RACH message based on monitoring—or not monitoring—the downlink control channel for dynamic scheduling preempting a RACH occasion. In some other cases, a base station may schedule transmissions to not overlap with configured RACH occasions.
US12035355B2
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, assessing a priority of a particular user at a service area in a mobile communications network for a strong radio signal from a cell site of the mobile communications network, and providing the strong radio signal to a mobile device of the particular user according to the priority of the particular user, wherein the providing the strong radio signal comprises focusing an antenna beam of a beamforming antenna at the service area and assigning the antenna beam to the particular user for downlink communication between the cell site of the mobile communications network and the particular user. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12035354B2
A method for processing data, includes: transmitting a priority of a Uu logic channel for Uu data, in which, the priority of the Uu logic channel for the Uu data and a priority of sidelink data are jointly configured to, in response to a transmission conflict between the Uu data and the sidelink data, select data with a higher priority from the Uu data and the sidelink data for preferential transmission; and there are at least two priorities for the sidelink data.
US12035351B2
Embodiments of the present invention disclose a data processing method and a device, and relate to the field of communication technologies, so as to resolve a problem that UE cannot transmit a plurality of pieces of data simultaneously, resulting in collision between the plurality of pieces of data. A specific solution is determining first transmission priorities of at least two pieces of data, where time-domain resources used for transmitting the at least two pieces of data overlap; and determining a target processing manner based on the first transmission priorities, where the target processing manner is used to process the at least two pieces of data. The embodiments of the present invention are applied to a process in which the UE determines the target processing manner for processing the at least two pieces of data in a sidelink transmission process.
US12035342B2
An apparatus and a method of wireless communication of same capable of providing good sidelink (SL) system operation performance and saving SL resources are provided. A method of wireless communication of a user equipment includes receiving, from a base station, a sidelink resource configuration signaling for more than one radio access technology (RAT) and reporting to the base station that a UE capability supports cross-RAT control. This provides good sidelink (SL) system operation performance and saving SL resources.
US12035328B2
A resource indication method in a communication system includes: determining a first time-frequency resource of a first antenna panel configured to send downlink data to a first terminal; determining a second time-frequency resource of a second antenna panel configured to send downlink data to a second terminal; generating preemption indication information indicating the second time-frequency resource in response to determining that the first antenna panel is the same as the second antenna panel and the first time-frequency resource overlaps with the second time-frequency resource; and sending the preemption indication information to the first terminal, such that the first terminal determines, based on the preemption indication information, an overlapped resource between the first time-frequency resource and the second time-frequency resource, and determines not to receive the downlink data on the overlapped resource.
US12035327B2
Systems, devices, and techniques for antenna port configuration in wireless communication systems are described. A described technique performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving configuration information that determines a bit-width value for an antenna port indication field of a downlink control information (DCI) format; receiving a DCI message that is in accordance with the DCI format; and determining an antenna port configuration for one or more demodulation reference signals based on the DCI message, the configuration information, and the bit-width value.
US12035324B2
This application provides a data sending method, a data sending apparatus, and a terminal device, to improve utilization of a configured grant resource. The method includes: A terminal device receives a configuration message from a network device. The configuration message is used to indicate a configured grant, and the configuration message includes information about a timer corresponding to the configured grant. The terminal device determines that the configured grant is used for a HARQ process, and starts the timer for the HARQ process. To-be-sent data in the HARQ process is data on a first logical channel. During running of the timer, when there is to-be-newly-transmitted data on a second logical channel, the timer stops running, or a running state of the timer is ignored. The data on the second logical channel is sent by using the configured grant.
US12035317B2
A base station (BS) and a method for configuring uplink control information (UCI) multiplexing performed by a BS are provided. The method includes: transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), a Radio Resource Control (RRC) configuration to configure a first sequence and a second sequence; transmitting, to the UE, a first downlink control information (DCI) format including a first indicator and a second DCI format including a second indicator; and receiving, from the UE, a UCI message which is multiplexed by the UE based on one of a first value corresponding to the first indicator and a second value corresponding to the second indicator. The first value corresponding to the first indicator is determined by the UE based on the first sequence. The second value corresponding to the second indicator is determined by the UE based on the second sequence.
US12035314B2
This application provides a method for multiplexing uplink control information, and relates to the wireless communications field. When a resource of a first uplink control channel that carries first HARQ-ACK information does not overlap a resource of a second uplink control channel that carries second HARQ-ACK information in time domain, but a resource of a third uplink control channel that carries an SR/CSI overlaps both the resource of the first uplink control channel and the resource of the second uplink control channel in time domain, a base station and UE determine, based on a format of the first uplink control channel, a format of the second uplink control channel, and a format of the third uplink control channel, that third HARQ-ACK information and first UCI are multiplexed for transmission, where the third HARQ-ACK information is the first HARQ-ACK information or the second HARQ-ACK information.
US12035306B2
A communications device comprising a transmitter configured to transmit signals on communications resources of a wireless access interface of the wireless communications network, a receiver configured to receive signals transmitted on the communications resources of the wireless access interface, and a controller configured to control the transmitter and the receiver to transmit data representing the signals. The controller is configured to determine communications resources of the wireless access interface to be used to transmit the signals representing the data to be transmitted, and to determine a schedule for monitoring the wireless access interface to receive control information, wherein the monitoring schedule is based on the determined communications resources to be used to transmit the data, and the control information is monitored for a pre-emption indication that at least a portion of the determined communications resources are allocated for transmitting signals by another communications device.
US12035305B2
Disclosed are a method for operating a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system supporting an unlicensed band, and a device for supporting same. More specifically, one embodiment of the present disclosure discloses a method comprising receiving first control information including information about at least one sub transmission band of a full transmission band, receiving second control information including information about at least one interlace from among a plurality of interlaces, and transmitting an uplink signal in a resource determined on the basis of the first control information and the second control information, and a device for supporting same.
US12035287B2
Method and apparatus to allocate radio resources for transmitting a message part in an enhanced RACH
A method and apparatus for allocating resources to a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) includes the WTRU transmitting a signature sequence to a Node B, receiving an acknowledge signal from the Node B, and determining a default resource index. The resource index is associated with enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) parameters.
US12035274B2
A communication method and system for converging a 5th generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system include intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method, a terminal, and a base station for paging and SI update transmission and reception in a wireless communication system are provided. The method includes receiving, from a base station, information on a default discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle, identifying a UE specific DRX cycle, identifying whether an indicator indicating that the UE monitors a paging occasion (PO) based on the UE specific DRX cycle is configured, identifying whether the UE specific DRX cycle is greater than the default DRX cycle, identifying a first paging frame (PF) for monitoring a paging message and a second PF for monitoring a short message in case that the indicator is configured and the UE specific DRX cycle is greater than the default DRX cycle, identifying a first PO corresponding to the first PF and a second PO corresponding to the second PF, and monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) addressed to a paging-radio network temporary identity (P-RNTI) in the identified first and second POs.
US12035271B2
Systems and methods for detecting and locating a signal source. The system contains an antenna array with antennas, a control unit that is connected to the antenna array, and an evaluation unit to receive data from the control unit. The antennas are designed to acquire a signal emitted by the signal source. The control unit is designed to ascertain a cross-correlation or covariance matrix of a signal received from the antenna array, and to transmit the cross-correlation or covariance matrix to the evaluation unit. The evaluation unit is designed to ascertain a position of the signal source on the basis of the cross-correlation or covariance matrix received from the control unit.
US12035267B2
A timing advance update method and device, where the method includes: A terminal obtains a transmission delay variation, where the transmission delay variation is a delay variation of transmission between the terminal and a network device; the terminal determines a new timing advance based on the transmission delay variation, a current timing advance, and a timing advance critical value, where the timing advance of the terminal is not greater than the timing advance critical value; and the terminal performs uplink transmission based on the new timing advance.
US12035244B2
A method performed by a wireless device for wirelessly transmitting a wake-up signal. The method includes wirelessly transmitting a legacy physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) to protect a wake-up receiver PPDU, wherein the legacy PPDU includes a preamble and a legacy frame, wherein the legacy frame includes a power management field that indicates that the wireless device is transitioning to a doze state to cause other wireless devices to refrain from transmitting to the wireless device and wirelessly transmitting a wake-up receiver PPDU after transmitting the legacy PPDU.
US12035241B2
Embodiments are provided for resource monitoring and power saving in a user equipment (UE) operating according to a discontinuous reception (DRX) in new radio (NR) wireless communication system. The UE, operating in the DRX mode, monitors for a wake up occasion in control signal prior to the DRX ON time. If the wake occasion is detected, then the EFE monitors for a channel state information (CSI) resource signal (RS) prior to the DRX ON time. If no wake up occasion is detected, then at least a portion of the UE remains in a sleep mode prior to DRX ON time.
US12035229B2
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for slice-aware network selection. Particular aspects provide for a method for wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes obtaining, for one or more networks, network slicing information indicating one or more slice identifiers supported in the one or more networks, deriving a list of one or more preferred networks based, at least in part, on the network slicing information, and selecting a network to register with from the list of one or more preferred networks.
US12035226B2
Some embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing mechanisms for exchanging a searcher number between an electronic device (for example, a UE) and a network for cell detection and measurement. For example, some embodiments relate to an electronic device including a transceiver and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor determines a searcher number associated with the electronic device. The searcher number is greater than two. The processor further transmits, using the transceiver, a signal to the network, where the signal includes an indication of the searcher number.
US12035224B2
Embodiments provide a controller for a participant of a communication system wirelessly communicates in a frequency band used for communication by a plurality of communication systems, wherein the controller is configured to identify a network-specific channel access pattern, wherein the network-specific channel access pattern indicates a frequency hop-based and/or time hop-based occupancy of resources of the frequency band that is usable for the communication of the communication system, wherein the controller is configured to identify a relative channel access pattern, wherein the relative channel access pattern indicates, from the usable frequency hop-based and/or time hop-based occupancy of resources of the network-specific channel access pattern, an occupancy of resources that is to be used for the transfer of data of the participant.
US12035217B2
A system includes physiologic sensors and devices. The physiologic sensors sense human physiologic data and the system processes and transmits signals representing the physiologic data. The physiologic data represent at least one physiologic parameter, such as heart rate, respiration rate, blood pressure, body temperature, blood chemistry, other blood constituents, muscle contraction, movement, activity, speech, and brain waves. The system also determines that a device and an object are in proximity to each other, and secures physiologic data at times when the device and object are in proximity to each other, in order to correlate a person's physiologic state while in proximity with or while using the object.
US12035209B2
A computer-based system to improve data transfer rates between stationary or moving remote devices having sensors and a server. A sensor data ingestion device is provided at the remote devices, having instructions therein which, when executed, receive and process data to place it in a form suitable for rapid download by a remote server. A memory buffer and a queue unit including computational circuitry configured to generate a queue status associated with triggering event data which is stored in the memory buffer. Instructions in the sensor data ingestion device may provide for a queue modification procedure, or the server may present a queue modification menu including one or more instances of a priority level choice. A queue controller may be provided. Streaming messages are downloaded by the server using a persistent WebSocket connection. Files configured to file chunks at the sensor data ingestion device, and the file chunks are downloaded by a server using a webhook. The file chunks are reconfigured at the server into time layered files associated with triggering event data. Time layered files may include a plurality of files having LiDAR point cloud data, video data readable topics, or GPS position data therein.
US12035202B2
The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies. Disclosed in the present invention is a method for processing location information of terminals concurrent in a mobile communication system.
US12035198B2
The present invention relates to a system to facilitate the identification of geo-cells, and the distribution of media content. A visitation tracking system is configured to retrieve location data from a client device, identify a geo-cell from among a set of geo-cells based on the location data, access a database that comprises media content associated with one or more physical location within the geo-cell, ranking a first media content among the media content, and loading the first media content at the client device based on the ranking, according to certain example embodiments.
US12035197B2
This application provides a communication method, a network device, and a terminal. The communication method includes: determining, by a first network device, at least one candidate target cell and first configuration information, where the first configuration information is used to trigger a terminal to determine one of the at least one candidate target cell as a to-be-handed-over-to cell; and sending, by the first network device, a first message to the terminal, where the first message includes first cell indication information and the first configuration information, and the first cell indication information is used to indicate the at least one candidate target cell.
US12035190B2
A radio network node, such as a gNodeB (gNB), a User Equipment (UE) and a method, for configuring the UE for camping on a cell in a radio network for Synchronization Signal (SS) Blocks based cell re-selection measurements for RRC_IDLE and RRC_INACTIVE states. The method includes providing information to the UE, including configuration parameters for a measurement window, the configuration parameters defining a window periodicity, offset and duration, for configuring the UE for the SS Blocks based cell re-selection measurements for RRC_IDLE and RRC_INACTIVE states. Radio Resource Control (RRC) signaling is used to convey the information to the UE prior to or in conjunction with switching the UE from RRC_CONNECTED state to RRC_INACTIVE or RRC_IDLE state, a RRCConnectionRelease message is used to convey the information to the UE and the information is also provided to the UE in system information (SI).
US12035185B2
The present disclosure relates to the area of mobility management In wireless communication systems, and in particular to methods for managing mobility of a wireless communication device (10) based on a discovery signal transmitted by the wireless communication device (10). According to a first aspect of embodiments it is provided a method, for use in a wireless communication device (10), for supporting mobility. The method comprises determining (S1) whether to transmit a discovery signal configured for use by one or more of the radio network nodes (30, 40) in a wireless communication network (1) for mobility and upon the determining being positive, transmitting (S4) the discovery signal, wherein the discovery signal comprises an identifier of the wireless communication device (10) and an indication that the discovery signal is for use in mobility management.
US12035180B2
A first network node transmits, to a wireless device, a first indication. The first indication indicates to select, out of a plurality of target links simultaneously fulfilling a respective condition to switch from a source link to a target link, a first target link to switch from the source link to the selected first target link. The selecting is based on at least one of: a Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) value, a Reference Signal Received Quality (RSRQ) value, a Signal to Interference and noise ratio (SINR) value, a priority, Random Access Channel (RACH) resources, a cell in which latest measurements were made, or a frequency, of the respective target links in the plurality of target links. The first network node then handles the link switch from the source link to the target link, based on the transmitted first indication.
US12035174B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for rate control are provided. In one aspect, a rate control method includes: receiving, by a control device, a connection establishment request from a terminal, the connection establishment request being for establishing a connection for the terminal to transmit data, and sending, by the control device, rate control time management information to a data sending device. The data sending device is configured to perform rate control over the data sent through the connection based on the time management information. The ratio control time management information includes start time indication information of a rate control time unit used for rate control, and the start time indication information indicates a start time of the rate control time unit.
US12035173B2
According to an aspect, there is provided a method performed by a communication network for negotiating a data transfer between an application service and a user equipment, UE, via the communication network. The method comprises: receiving (620), from the application service or a backend controller associated with the application service, a request for network capacity available for data transfer, wherein the request includes an indication of an amount of data to be transferred and one or more trajectories of the UE; determining (630) network capacity along the one or more trajectories based on load information associated with a radio access network, RAN, of the communication network; and sending (640), to the application service or the backend controller associated with the application service, a response including information related the determined network capacity.
US12035168B2
The invention relates to the field of communication, and provides a method and a device for configuring a redundant PDU session. The method includes: obtaining first redundancy indication information for establishing or modifying the PDU session and/or a QoS flow; and configuring the redundant PDU session and/or a redundant QoS flow on a corresponding RAN node, according to the first redundancy indication information. In the present invention, establishing and modifying of a user plane multi-connectivity can be realized by obtaining the redundancy indication information for establishing or modifying the PDU session and/or the QoS flow, and configuring the redundant PDU session and/or the QoS flow to the corresponding RAN node according to the redundancy indication information.
US12035163B2
The present disclosure relates to measurement logging and reporting in wireless communications. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a wireless device in a wireless communication system comprises: transiting from an inactive state to an idle state based on a transition cause; logging the transition cause; and transmitting a logged measurement report comprising the logged transition cause to a network.
US12035161B2
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for downlink assignments for downlink control channels. One method includes determining a third set of downlink control channel monitoring occasions that comprises first downlink control channel monitoring occasions and second downlink control channel monitoring occasions, and associated search spaces correspond to two different control resource sets comprising a first control resource set and a second control resource set, wherein: demodulation reference signal ports of the first control resource set are quasi-collocated with a first set of reference signals; demodulation reference signal ports of the second control resource set are quasi-collocated with a second set of reference signals. The method includes monitoring one or more downlink control channel candidates in at least one slot of the third set of monitoring occasions if the one or more downlink control channel candidates carry the same downlink control information.
US12035155B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for characterizing radio propagation channels. One method includes receiving, at a first modem, a first unit of communication over a radio frequency (RF) communication path from a second modem, wherein the first modem and the second modem process information for RF communications. The first modem identifies fields in the first unit of communication, the fields used to analyze the RF communication path. The first modem extracts data from the fields. The first modem accesses a channel model for approximating a channel representative of the RF communication path from the first modem to the second modem, wherein the channel model includes machine learning models. The first modem trains the channel model using the extracted data. The first modem applies the trained channel model to simulate a set of channel effects associated with the communication path.
US12035154B2
The present invention discloses methods and systems for providing UICC/eUICC related response information to information requests at a cellular router. The method includes receiving an information request from a wireless communication module, and determining whether a response to the information request is cached. When the response information is not cached, forwarding the information request to a massive SIM apparatus (MSA). MSA will then respond to the information request. A response based on the MSA's response will then be sent to the wireless communication module for the information request. When the response information is cached, retrieve the response information and send it to the wireless communication module.
US12035153B2
A system described herein may provide a technique for the analysis of antennas in a wireless network, and the ensuing detection of misaligned antennas. Images reflecting measures of interference associated with different antennas may be analyzed based on structural similarity index (“SSIM”) or other similarity analysis techniques, and antennas may be paired according to this analysis. The paired antennas may be compared to a known configuration. Mismatches may indicate misalignment or other malfunctions, based on which automated remedial measures (e.g., antenna realignment) may be performed.
US12035150B2
Methods and apparatuses for communicating in a satellite communication framework with spatial diversity are described. In one embodiment, a method for controlling communication in a satellite communication network having multiple constellations and a satellite terminal with a single electronically steered flat-panel antenna capable of generating a plurality of beams for communication links with multiple satellites, comprises: determining, under network control, availability of a plurality of networks by which network traffic may be exchanged with the single electronically steered flat-panel antenna; and managing, under network control, two or more satellite links between the single electronically steered flat-panel antenna and two or more satellites of different networks to route the network traffic, including determining when to use each of the two or more satellite links, the two or more satellite links being generated using two or more beams from the single electronically steered flat-panel antenna.
US12035148B2
A maritime network provides network coverage for nautical or aerospace vehicles traveling over the sea. Generating the network configuration for the maritime network includes receiving client information for client devices in range of a given node of the maritime network for a period of time that the client devices are traveling asea, as well as location information for the period of time from a plurality of nodes in the network including the given node. Based on the client information and the location information, a network configuration is determined to include a plurality of links to be formed for routing paths through the maritime network. The routing paths are configured to transmit data related to the client devices, and the plurality of links includes a link between the given node and another node in the network that is within a maximum distance from the given node.
US12035144B2
A spectrum management device, an electronic device, a radio communication method, and a storage medium. The spectrum management device is located in a coexistence system. The coexistence system includes at least two radio access networks using different radio access technologies. The spectrum management device includes a processing circuit, and is configured to: generate an interference overlapping graph for the coexistence system; and allocate spectrum resources for the at least two radio access networks according to the interference overlapping graph. By using the spectrum management device, the electronic device, the radio communication method, and the storage medium, spectrum resources can be reasonably allocated to a secondary system in the coexistence system comprising multiple radio access technologies.
US12035142B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for dynamic communication channel switching for secure message propagation. The present invention may be configured to receive wireless signals from a plurality of devices and identify, from the plurality of devices and based on the wireless signals, a trusted device. The present invention may be configured to receive, from another device, a secure message, where the secure message includes information identifying a vulnerability in a network to which the trusted device is connected. The present invention may be configured to establish, based on receiving the secure message and using a first wireless communication interface, a communication link with a second wireless communication interface of the trusted device to establish a wireless data channel with the trusted device and transmit, via the wireless data channel, the secure message to the trusted device.
US12035136B1
Aspects of the disclosure provide techniques for using bio-behavior based information for providing and restricting access to a secure website or computer network and its assets to a user entity. The bio-behavior system and method 100 uses processes to learn models that relate heterogeneous data that connects the analog, physical space with the online/cyber world. The process is a nonparametric, probabilistic mixture model. The system 100 is capable of detecting behavioral patterns in mixed data composed of inputs of varying complexity. This includes the low-level, mainly unprocessed data generated by a user entity device's intrinsic sensors that monitor the internal state of the phone as well as extrinsic sensors that capture the state of the surrounding environment.
US12035130B2
In cases of rendering a multichannel signal such as a 22.2 channel signal as a 5.1 channel signal, a three dimensional (3D) audio signal may be reproduced using a two dimensional (2D) output channel, but rendered audio signals are sensitively affected by a layout of speakers and may cause distortion of a sound image when the layout of arranged speakers is different from a standard layout. The present invention may solve the aforementioned problem of the prior art. The audio signal rendering method for reducing distortion of a sound image even when the layout of the arranged speakers is different from the standard layout, according to one embodiment of the present invention, includes: receiving a multi-channel signal including a plurality of input channels that are to be converted to a plurality of output channels; obtaining deviation information about at least one output channel, from a location of a speaker and a standard location corresponding to each of the plurality of output channels; and modifying a panning gain from a height channel included in the plurality of input channels to the output channel having the deviation information, based on obtained deviation information.
US12035128B2
Provided is a signal processing device including: a reverberation sound signal generation unit that generates a reverberation sound signal according to a sound source position of a virtual sound source and a distance to a reference point; and a drive signal generation unit that generates a drive signal for a speaker array by a wavefront synthesis filter, in which the drive signal generation unit generates the drive signal on the basis of a signal obtained by performing wavefront synthesis filtering processing on a signal obtained by convolving the reverberation sound signal with a signal of the virtual sound source and/or a signal obtained by performing wavefront synthesis filtering processing on the reverberation sound signal to make the reverberation sound signal into a virtual sound source.
US12035122B2
A speaker system includes a first speaker and a second speaker. The first speaker includes a first sound signal input interface configured to acquire a first sound signal, and a first sound emitter configured to output a first sound based on the first sound signal in a state in which a position of a host device is fixed. The second speaker includes a second sound signal input interface configured to acquire a second sound signal, a moving body that includes a position information acquisition interface configured to acquire information relating to position and that is configured to move based on the information relating to position, and a second sound emitter configured to output a second sound based on the second sound signal.
US12035121B2
The present disclosure discloses a conductive film for a sound generation device and the sound generation device, the conductive film comprises a conductive layer and base material layers on two sides thereof the conductive layer comprises a first conductive layer on an inner side portion, a second conductive layer on an deformation portion and a third conductive layer on an outer side portion, two ends of the second conductive layer are respectively electrically connected to the first and third conductive layers, the first and third conductive layers are metal sheets, the second conductive layer is a conductive adhesive layer formed by coating or printing, a thickness of the conductive adhesive layer is 6 μm to 15 μm, a sheet resistance of the conductive adhesive layer is 10 to 30 mΩ/mm2/mil. The conductive film has conductivity, it can be used as a sound generation diaphragm and a supporting diaphragm.
US12035119B2
A base speaker system for use with a turntable that eliminates feedback playback while playing vinyl records is described. The base speaker system for use with the turntable prevents feedback, resonance, or other audio-disruptive noise that typically occurs when a turntable is placed near to a speaker system. Moreover, the base speaker system may be a standalone model that receives a turntable thereon or may be configured as a cabinet assembly for a built-in setup.
US12035098B2
Disclosed is a smart head-mounted device. The smart head-mounted device comprises a lens and an arm connected to the lens, the same arm being provided with a sound production unit including a first sound production apparatus and a second production apparatus. The first sound production apparatus and a second production apparatus radiate sound waves outward through their respective sound outlets, have opposite phases during operation, and are apart from the same ear hole of a wearer by different distances.
US12035097B2
A headset accessory comprises circuitry and is configured to mechanically attach to an audio headset. The circuitry of the headset may be operable to establish a link to the audio headset that supports conveyance of bias voltage, bias current, and/or information between the circuitry of the accessory and circuitry of the audio headset. The headset accessory may be configured to attach to a housing of the headset on a surface of the housing opposite an ear cup. A state of the circuitry of the accessory may be controlled based on the information received from the audio headset via the link. The information may include characteristics of audio being processed by the audio headset. The circuitry of the headset accessory may comprise non-volatile memory, and the non-volatile memory may store parameter settings for configuring audio processing circuitry of the audio headset.
US12035091B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing including a microphone hole, a support member connected to the housing, wherein the support member includes an antenna structure facing at least a part of the housing and a microphone chamber configured to receive external sound of the electronic device from the microphone hole, and a microphone module connected to the support member and configured to receive external sound of the electronic device through the microphone hole and the microphone chamber.
US12035090B2
A panel audio loudspeaker includes a panel and an actuator attached to a surface of the panel and configured to cause vibration of the panel. The actuator comprises a magnetic coil in thermal communication with the panel. The panel audio loudspeaker further comprises a plurality of electrical sensors electrically coupled to the magnetic coil and configured to output time-varying electrical data for the magnetic coil, and an electronic control module in communication with the magnetic coil and the electrical sensors. The electronic control module is configured to perform operations comprising: providing a current to the magnetic coil; receiving the time-varying electrical data for the magnetic coil; determining an electrical energy provided to the magnetic coil between a first time and a second time; accessing a thermal model of the panel; and determining a change in a panel temperature between the first time and the second time.
US12035084B2
There is provided an optical network comprising first and second PONs, each including an OLT; one or more ONUs; and an optical splitter downstream of the OLT and upstream of the one or more ONUs. The splitter includes a plurality of inputs, one of the inputs being coupled to the OLT, and a plurality of outputs, each of the ONUs being coupled to one of the outputs. The optical network further includes an optical switch configured to switch the optical network from a first configuration to a second configuration in response to a fault being detected on the first PON. The second PON's splitter has a spare output that is uncoupled in the first configuration; and the first PON's splitter has a spare input that is: uncoupled in the first configuration, and coupled to the spare output of the second PON's splitter in the second configuration.
US12035075B1
A method for providing embodied interface for face-to-face communication between humans and artificial intelligence agents is disclosed. An example method includes generating, based on an avatar model, a data stream including an image of a face of the avatar model, audio data of a speech of the avatar model, and a rotation instruction; and transmitting the data stream to a three-dimensional video call system including a stand, an axle extended from the stand, a plurality of display devices attached to the axle, and a controller. The display devices display portions of the image of the face and play back the audio data. The actuator rotates the axle according to the rotation instruction. The controller analyzes an ambient video signal and an ambient acoustic signal to obtain environmental features and transmits the environmental features to the avatar model. The environmental features include an emotional state and facial expression of the user.
US12035047B2
A camera module inspection system and a method for operating the inspection system. More specifically, the inspection system can quickly check and correct the alignment of the camera module.
US12035040B2
A collation device includes a light source unit; a camera unit that receives light emitted from the light source unit and reflected in a collation area of an object to acquire a photographed image of the collation area; and a processor configured to, by executing a program: detect a positional relationship between the light source unit and the camera unit by using the photographed image, and notify of a collation result between the photographed image and a registered image prepared in advance by using the positional relationship.
US12035039B2
Embodiments disclosed are directed to a computing system that performs steps for automatically capturing images. The computing system receives an automatic image capture control signal from an application installed on a device and captures, by a camera of the device during a predetermined time interval, preview frames of an object and a background. For each of the preview frames, the computing system identifies an outline of the object in the preview frame, removes the background of the preview frame based on the outline to generate a modified preview frame, and determines a focus value of the modified preview frame. Subsequently, the computing system determines whether a predetermined amount of focus values are greater than a threshold focus value corresponding to the device and, if so, automatically captures, via the camera, an image of the object.
US12035036B2
A communication device, method and computer program product provide multiple simultaneous camera previews of different imaging modes of the same image. The communication device includes a communication subsystem that receives a photographic image stream from a second communication device. The communication device includes a display driver that presents content on a display device. A controller of the communication device is communicatively coupled to the display driver. The controller simultaneously presents the more than one camera previews on the display device. The communication device presents a particular imaging mode of the photographic image stream corresponding to the particular camera preview that is user selected. The communication device transmits, via the communication subsystem to the second communication device, a report of a user selection by the at least one user input device, of the particular imaging mode of the photographic visual stream that is being presented on the display device.
US12035034B2
According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a method, apparatus, device and storage medium for image shooting are provided. The method comprises initiating a first camera and a second camera different from the first camera for image shooting. The method further comprises presenting a shooting page in a graphical user interface displayed by a display device. The shooting page comprises a first shooting window for presenting a first scene captured by the first camera and a second shooting window for presenting a second scene captured by the second camera. The method further comprises presenting a composite image on the shooting page in the graphical user interface in response to an indication of shooting completion. The composite image is generated based on a first image taken by the first camera and a second image taken by the second camera. In this way, flexible and interesting image shooting experience is provided.
US12035030B2
A camera module includes a fixed base, a carrier, an elastic element, an imaging lens, a coil, a magnetic element, a connection wire and a light-blocking coating. The carrier is disposed opposite to the fixed base and has a bobbin. The elastic element is connected to the fixed base and the carrier so as to provide freedom of movement of the carrier with respect to the fixed base. The imaging lens is disposed on the carrier and has an optical axis. The coil is disposed on the carrier. The magnetic element is disposed corresponding to the coil so as to provide a driving force for moving the carrier. The connection wire is disposed on the bobbin and electrically connected to the elastic element and the coil, and the connection wire has at least part facing towards the optical axis where the light-blocking coating is disposed.
US12035028B2
Disclosed are a camera module and a photosensitive assembly thereof, an electronic device, and a manufacturing method. The photosensitive assembly includes a photosensitive chip, at least one resistance-capacitance device, an extended wiring layer, a filter element assembly, and a molded base. The filter element assembly includes a filter element and a bonding layer bonded around the filter element. The filter element assembly is attached to a top surface of the extended wiring layer, and the filter element of the filter element assembly corresponds to a light transmission hole of the extended wiring layer, so that external light is filtered by the filter element before reaching a photosensitive area of the photosensitive chip through the light transmission hole.
US12035017B2
Systems and methods for a computer-based process that determines content display preferences of nearby detected devices, and transmits content tracks to those devices according to their individual preferences. For example, language preferences are determined from nearby devices, and content is played with corresponding language tracks sent to each device. In this manner, different tracks of content may be sent to different devices according to each device's preferences, so that individualized or personalized versions of content may be played for each different device. Thus, for instance, content may be played with different language tracks, where each track is selected to conform to the preferences of each different device. Accordingly, content may be played with different users or viewers experiencing the content in their preferred language. Embodiments of the disclosure also contemplate any other settings and preferences besides language.
US12035010B2
An information processing device displays a video view of a video including a first avatar object reflecting movement of a distributing user that distributes a video on a display, receives an input operation, displays a game view of a game including a second avatar object reflecting the input operation and the movement of the distributing user on the display, and transmitting video data for distributing a video of the game to another information processing device to a server that distributes the video.
US12034996B2
This application provides a video playing method performed by a computer device. The method includes: playing a target video in a playing interface; when a video picture of the target video comprises a target object and there is a text associated with the target object, displaying the text in a display region associated with a face posture of the target object in a process of playing the target video; and adjusting a display posture of the text with the face posture when the face posture of the target object changes in a process of displaying the text.
US12034994B2
In some implementations, a system can be configured to allow remote control devices to quietly obtain status information related to various audio/video playback devices. For example, a streaming device (e.g., a user device, phone, etc.) can establish a streaming connection to a playback device. The playback device can be configured to only accept a single streaming connection (i.e., master connection). A remote control device (e.g., a user device, phone, etc.) can quietly connect (i.e., control connection) to the playback device without interrupting the master connection to obtain status information related to the playback device and or the media being streamed to the playback device. The remote control device can provide commands through the control connection to adjust the playback of the streamed media at the playback device.
US12034987B2
The server system transmits, from a virtualized third-party application to a client device, an instruction to open a media resource from a content distribution network, the media resource comprising a plurality of video segments, each video segment of the plurality of video segments having video segment data and metadata. The server system receives, from the client device, first metadata for a first video segment of the plurality of video segments, without receiving first video segment data for the first video segment. The server system generates a recreated representation of the first video segment using the first metadata. The virtualized third-party application generates a transformed version of the recreated representation of the first video segment. The server system transmits, to the client device, an instruction to play the first video segment, wherein the instruction is based on the transformed version of the recreated representation of the first video segment.
US12034986B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide network live-broadcasting methods and devices. The method can include: obtaining live-broadcasting data from a server side; obtaining service data from the server side; determining whether the obtained live-broadcasting data contains key information, wherein the key information is inserted by a live-broadcasting side in the live-broadcasting data when predetermined content corresponding to the service data is included in the live-broadcasting data; and outputting, in response to receiving the key information, the service data on a playing interface of the live-broadcasting data, so that the service data is output synchronously with the predetermined content.
US12034978B2
In a method, a filter shape is determined from a plurality of filter shapes of a sample offset filter to be applied to a reconstructed sample of a current component in a current picture. A coded video bitstream is generated based on samples of the current picture and the determined filter shape of the sample offset filter. The coded video bitstream includes coded information that indicates the filter shape. A top most sample of the first reconstructed samples in the plurality of filter shapes is located within a first predetermined number of top rows above a center reconstructed sample of the first component that is co-located with the reconstructed sample of the current component. A bottom most sample of the first reconstructed samples in the plurality of filter shapes is located within a second predetermined number of bottom rows below the center reconstructed sample of the first component.
US12034977B2
An image decoding is performed by steps including: determining whether or not to perform filtering on a boundary of a current block; determining a filtering strength on the boundary of the current block, and a number of samples used in filtering; and performing filtering on the boundary of the current block on the basis of the filtering strength and the number of samples used in filtering, where the number of samples used in filtering is determined on the basis of a size of the current block.
US12034975B2
A video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video including one or more pictures and a bitstream of the video. The bitstream conforms to a format rule specifying that one or more syntax elements indicative of coding information are selectively included in a picture parameter set of the bitstream responsive to whether it is indicated that each picture referring to the picture parameter set includes a single slice.
US12034973B2
Described embodiments include methods and techniques for creating media container files. An exemplary method comprises steps wherein, instead of estimating the size of a media segment header based on the segment duration, identified media data boxes are used. In the method, an identified media data element is written in a container file. Included into the identified data element, an identifier is used as a reference for the identified media data of the segment by other elements. The identifier can be a first movie fragment sequence number, or a first track fragment decode time.
US12034972B2
An encoding device evaluates a plurality of processing and/or post-processing algorithms and/or methods to be applied to a video stream, and signals a selected method, algorithm, class or category of methods/algorithms either in an encoded bitstream or as side information related to the encoded bitstream. A decoding device or post-processor utilizes the signaled algorithm or selects an algorithm/method based on the signaled method or algorithm. The selection is based, for example, on availability of the algorithm/method at the decoder/post-processor and/or cost of implementation. The video stream may comprise, for example, downsampled multiplexed stereoscopic images and the selected algorithm may include any of upconversion and/or error correction techniques that contribute to a restoration of the downsampled images.
US12034969B2
An image encoding device encodes a block-based target image. The image encoding device comprises, in a transform skip mode in which orthogonal transform processing of the target image is skipped, a motion compensation predictor configured to generate a prediction image corresponding to the target image by performing motion compensation prediction using a plurality of reference images, an evaluator configured to evaluate a degree of similarity between the plurality of reference images on a pixel-by-pixel basis, a subtractor configured to calculate prediction residuals each indicating a difference between the target image and the prediction image on a pixel-by-pixel basis, a rearranger configured to rearrange the prediction residuals based on a result of evaluation by the evaluator and an encoder configured to encode the prediction residuals rearranged by the rearranger.
US12034966B2
A method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current video block of a video and a bitstream of the video, that the current video block is coded with a geometric partitioning mode. The method further includes deriving at least one refined motion vector (MV) for the current video block by adding at least one motion vector difference (MVD) of multiple MVDs signaled or derived for the current video block to a MV derived from a merge candidate associated with the current video block. The MV being associated with an offset distance and/or an offset direction. The method further includes performing the conversion based on the refined MV.
US12034965B2
An example device for coding video data includes a memory configured to store video data; and one or more processing units implemented in circuitry and configured to: store motion information for a first coding tree unit (CTU) line of a picture in a first history motion vector predictor (MVP) buffer of the memory; reset a second history MVP buffer of the memory; and after resetting the second history MVP buffer, store motion information for a second CTU line of the picture in the second history MVP buffer, the second CTU line being different than the first CTU line. Separate threads of a video coding process executed by the one or more processors may process respective CTU lines, in some examples.
US12034964B2
One example method of video processing includes implementing, by a processor, a decoder-side motion vector derivation (DMVD) scheme for motion vector refinement during a conversion between a current video block and a bitstream representation of the current video block by deriving parameters based on a deriving rule. The conversion may include compressing the current video block into the bitstream representation or uncompressing the bitstream representation into pixel values of the current video block.
US12034961B2
An image decoding method according to the present document comprises: decoding a current block on the basis of image information, wherein an MVP candidate list for the current block is derived on the basis of an inter prediction mode, which is derived on the basis of image information, and peripheral blocks of the current block; and deriving motion information of the current block on the basis of the MVP candidate list, wherein the peripheral blocks include a left bottom corner peripheral block, a left peripheral block, a right top corner peripheral block, a top peripheral block, and a left top corner peripheral block of the current block, the motion information includes an L0 motion vector for L0 prediction and/or an L1 motion vector for L1 prediction, the L0 motion vector is derived on the basis of an L0 motion vector predictor and an L0 motion vector difference, and the L1 motion vector is derived on the basis of an L1 motion vector predictor and an L1 motion vector difference.
US12034960B2
A method of decoding an image in a merge mode, the method including deriving, by a motion compensation predictor, motion information using effective spatial and temporal merge candidates of a current prediction unit; generating, by the motion compensation predictor, a prediction block of the current prediction unit using the motion information; entropy decoding, by an entropy decoder, a bitstream to generate a quantized coefficient sequence, inversely scanning, by an inverse quantizer/inverse transformer, the quantized coefficient sequence to generate a quantized block, inversely quantizing, by the inverse quantizer/inverse transformer, the quantized block to generate a transformed block using a quantization parameter, and inversely transforming, by the inverse quantizer/inverse transformer, the transformed block to generate a residual block; and generating, by an adder, a reconstructed block using the prediction block and the residual block, wherein a motion vector of the temporal merge candidate is a motion vector of a temporal merge candidate block within a temporal merge candidate picture, and the quantization parameter is derived using an average of two effective quantization parameters among a left quantization parameter, an upper quantization parameter and a previous quantization parameter of a current coding unit, wherein when the quantized block is larger than a predetermined size, the quantized block is generated with plurality of subblocks, and a scan pattern of inversely scanning for the plurality of subblocks is the same as a scan pattern of inversely scanning for quantized coefficients of each subblock, and wherein the bitstream includes information indicating a position of a last non-zero quantized coefficient in a transform unit.
US12034949B2
A video decoding apparatus includes a first buffer storing input data received from an entropy decoder, a first motion compensation processor extracting motion compensation reference data based on the input data, and store the motion compensation reference data in a pixel cache, a second buffer, and a controller. The input data comprises one of first data including motion information and second data including intra prediction information. The controller controls the second buffer to store the motion compensation reference data stored in the pixel cache when the input data is the first data, and controls the second buffer to store the second data stored in the first buffer when the input data is the second data.
US12034939B2
An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present document comprises the steps of: acquiring a flag indicating whether a picture header (PH) network abstraction layer (NAL) unit exists; acquiring a PH on the basis of the flag; and decoding a current picture related to the PH on the basis of the PH.
US12034930B2
There is provided an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image decoding method comprises decoding size information of a quantization group from a bitstream, acquiring a delta quantization parameter of a current block on the basis of the size information of the quantization group, and deriving a quantization parameter for the current block on the basis of the delta quantization parameter.
US12034927B2
An image is divided into rectangular regions each including at least one block row, and the image is divided into rectangular slices or slices to be processed in raster order. In a case where the image is divided into the rectangular slices, based on first information for specifying a rectangular region to be processed first and second information for specifying a rectangular region to be processed last, the rectangular regions in the rectangular slice is specified. Based on the number of blocks in a vertical direction in each of the specified rectangular regions, the number of pieces of information for specifying a start position of coded data of the block row in the rectangular slice is specified. A bitstream in which at least the pieces of information, the first and second information, and the coded data are multiplexed is generated.
US12034923B2
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus may reconstruct a current picture based on at least one of intra prediction and inter prediction, specify a block boundary to which a deblocking filter is applied in the reconstructed current picture, and apply a deblocking filter to a block boundary based on a filter type pre-defined in an encoding apparatus.
US12034917B2
A video decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document is characterized by including: a step for deriving reference subblocks in a reference picture on the basis of the motion vector of an adjacent block on the left side of the current block; a step for deriving a subblock-based temporal merge candidate for the current block on the basis of motion information about the reference subblocks; a step for forming an affine merge candidate list for the current block, the affine merge candidate list including the subblock-based temporal merge candidate; a step for deriving motion information about subblocks of the current block on the basis of the affine merge candidate list; a step for deriving prediction samples for the current block on the basis of the motion information about the subblocks; and a step for generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of the prediction samples.
US12034910B2
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for signaling an ACT or LMCS tool based on a color space and a method of transmitting a bitstream are provided. An image decoding may include determining a color space of a current image, determining whether to enable a predetermined decoding tool based on the color space, and decoding the current image depending on whether to enable the predetermined decoding tool.
US12034906B2
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for generating three-dimensional (3D) images of a scene. According to an aspect, a method includes capturing a real-time image and a first still image of a scene. Further, the method includes displaying the real-time image of the scene on a display. The method also includes determining one or more properties of the captured images. The method also includes calculating an offset in a real-time display of the scene to indicate a target camera positional offset with respect to the first still image. Further, the method includes determining that a capture device is in a position of the target camera positional offset. The method also includes capturing a second still image. Further, the method includes correcting the captured first and second still images. The method also includes generating the three-dimensional image based on the corrected first and second still images.
US12034905B2
The present invention provides a device comprising circuitry configured to obtain a plurality of initial two-dimensional, 2D, images which together represent an initial three-dimensional, 3D, image, wherein each initial 2D image is associated with one of a plurality of focal planes. The device is further configured to generate one or more blurred versions of each of the initial 2D images on one or more of the focal planes other than its associated focal plane; generate a high passed version of each of the initial 2D images on its associated focal plane; and generate a plurality of final 2D images by generating for each focal plane a final 2D image based on the high passed version of the initial 2D image associated with that focal plane and one or more blurred versions generated on that focal plane from one or more of the other initial 2D images.
US12034903B1
Object color management using raster image processors and object detection and semantic segmentation
A raster image processor and a convolutional neural network or other artificial intelligence module operate in parallel. Image data for printing is passed to the raster image processor and the convolutional neural network. The raster image processor translates computer vector files and/or rasterizes bitmaps having higher or lower resolution than the output device to a raster image that includes a matrix of dots a printer can process. The raster image processor generates layers for process inks. The convolutional neural network generates a mask layer, based on the image, that is used by the raster image processor to generate an additional layer for spot colors, object colors, or specialty ink. The mask layer transmitted to the raster image processor generates a spot color layer. The layers generated by the raster image processor and the additional layer for the spot colors and/or specialty inks are combined into a print data file.
US12034895B2
An image forming apparatus including: an apparatus frame; an exterior cover configured to cover the apparatus frame; a wireless communication module including an antenna for wireless communication and a board on which the antenna is mounted, and disposed between the apparatus frame and the exterior cover; and a fixing unit configured to fix the wireless communication module to the exterior cover, and including a screw screwed into a screw hole disposed on the exterior cover via a hole disposed on the board; wherein the board has four sides including a first side near the antenna and a second side extending along the first side and distant from the antenna, and the hole is disposed at a position close to the second side.
US12034889B2
Providing a voice call includes: receiving, from a user equipment (UE), a request to initiate a voice call traffic session; requesting setup of a voice call data pipe; based on at least a setup of the voice call data pipe not completing prior to a timer event, transmitting voice packets over a signaling data pipe; and based on at least the voice call data pipe setup completing, ceasing to transmit voice packets over the signaling data pipe and transmitting voice packets over the voice call data pipe. Placing a voice call includes: requesting, by the UE, to initiate the voice call traffic session; based on at least a first trigger event, transmitting voice packets over the signaling data pipe; and based on at least a second trigger event, ceasing to transmit voice packets over the signaling data pipe and transmitting voice packets over the voice call data pipe.
US12034886B1
Methods and systems for routing multimedia traffic are described. A method may include receiving a communication originating from a user, transposing an alias transport network over one or more existing networks to route the communication, and routing the communication based on mapping rules.
US12034880B2
An audio playing method, an audio playing apparatus, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes the following. When a first Bluetooth earphone receives a first audio packet transmitted by a terminal, packet locking is performed on the terminal. When the first Bluetooth earphone and a second Bluetooth earphone complete synchronization of information for an initial audio packet, packet unlocking is performed on the terminal. The first Bluetooth earphone and the second Bluetooth earphone play synchronously a target audio from the initial audio packet according to multiple audio packets received.
US12034875B2
Methods and devices are provided for establishing secure communication between the devices without relying on local time information. According to the methods, a client device, which is going to establish the secure communication to a server device, is provided by the server device with a proof of its integrity. The proof of integrity of the server device is issued by a trusted third party (TTP) to which both devices have a trust relation.
US12034873B2
An apparatus operating as a certificate authority (CA) is described. The apparatus can perform operations including receiving, from a plurality of requesting devices, a request to join a group. The request can include identification information for the group and attestation evidence for the plurality of requesting devices. Responsive to receiving the request, the apparatus can provide a group certificate for the group to the plurality of requesting devices.
US12034872B1
Techniques for providing specialized certificate authorities are described. A method of providing specialized certificate authorities may include receiving a request to generate a private certificate at a specialized certificate authority, the specialized certificate authority configured to generate only one type of digital certificate using a user-specified template, generating a certificate based on the customer-specified template, and returning the certificate.
US12034871B2
In a method for enabling a message receive end to quickly confirm a certificate status, a defined field of a certificate includes classification information of the certificate, and a defined field of a certificate revocation list includes classification information of a revoked certificate, so that the receive end can quickly narrow a searching or matching range in massive records of the certificate revocation list based on the classification information carried in the certificate of a transmit end.
US12034866B2
A method includes receiving a message and a digital signature associated with a signing party and the message, verifying authenticity of the digital signature using elliptic curve cryptography (ECC), and authenticating use of the message based, at least in part, on the confirmed authenticity of the digital signature. The verifying includes one or more computations involving computing modular inverses. Computing modular inverses includes identifying first and second integer of a modular inverse operation, performing a first iterative process that, at each iteration: (i) initializes a third integer with a pre-defined number of most significant bits of the first integer and a fourth integer with the pre-defined number of most significant bits of the second integer and (ii) computes a quotient and a remainder, determining a resultant inverse value using the quotient; and confirming the authenticity of the digital signature based, at least in part, on the resultant inverse value.
US12034861B2
A method for distributing event data for smart contracts executed on a blockchain to subscribing systems includes: collecting, by a processor of a blockchain node in a blockchain network, a set of event data emitted by a smart contract executed on a blockchain associated with the blockchain network; identifying, by the processor of the blockchain node, communication data for one or more subscriber computing systems; and after a predetermined period of time, transmitting, by a transmitter of the blockchain node, the collected event data to each of the one or more subscriber computing systems using the communication data.
US12034859B2
A computer-implemented method of generating a secondary transaction identifier of a target transaction which enables a querying user to determine whether the target transaction comprises a candidate data field. The method comprises identifying a set of data fields of the target transaction, each data field comprising respective data of the transaction; and generating a transaction hash tree. Each data field is hashed to generate a respective one of a plurality of leaf hashes of the transaction hash tree. The root hash of the transaction hash tree comprises the secondary transaction identifier.
US12034858B2
A request to load an application into memory for execution is received. The application is stored in one or more blocks in a blockchain. The application is validated by running a blockchain hash. In response to validating the application by running the blockchain hash, the application is loaded from the blockchain into a memory. The application is then executed in the memory. This provides a secure method of loading an application into memory.
US12034857B2
A permissioned blockchain is used in a lawful interception, LI, context. Participants include a law enforcement agency, LEA, function, a LI mediation and delivery function, MF/DF, and an intercepting network function. A smart contract registered in the blockchain includes conditions associated with intercept related information, IRI, and/or communication content, CC, transactions. Registration is made in the blockchain of IRI and/or CC transactions performed by the participants during LI of a communication between two entities in a telecommunication network. The registered IRI and/or CC transactions are propagated among the participants and the smart contract is executed to verify whether or not the registered IRI and/or CC transactions are compliant with the smart contract. The participants are then informed about whether or not the registered IRI and/or CC transactions are compliant with the smart contract.
US12034849B1
A method for decoding an encrypted electromagnetic signal W encoded by a first computer with public key N_0=r×s, where N_0, r and s are integers. There is the step of obtaining the electromagnetic signal W from a telecommunications network, or a data network or an Internet or a first non-transient memory. There is the step of storing the electromagnetic signal W in a second non-transient memory. There is the step of decoding with a second computer in communication with the second non-transient memory the electromagnetic signal W in the second non-transient memory by factoring the public key N_0 in at most a time O(log^6 N_0). A non-transitory readable storage medium which includes a computer program stored on the storage medium for decoding an encrypted electromagnetic signal W.
US12034845B2
A smart card may include a memory configured to store a user connection lease and user interface (UI) cache for a user and a private/public key pair of the smart card, with the user connection lease being bound to the private/public key pair of the smart card. The smart card may further include a processor coupled to the memory and configured to establish a communications link with a kiosk device to be shared by a plurality of different users, initiate a virtual session for the user at the kiosk device based upon the user connection lease and the private key responsive to establishing the communications link (with the smart card defining an endpoint for the virtual session authorization), and cause the kiosk device to launch the virtual session based upon the user UI cache.
US12034841B2
Embodiments are disclosed for a quantum key distribution enabled intra-datacenter network. An example system includes a first vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL), a second VCSEL and a network interface controller. The first VCSEL is configured to emit a first optical signal associated with data. The second VCSEL is configured to emit a second optical signal associated with quantum key distribution (QKD). Furthermore, the network interface controller is configured to manage transmission of the first optical signal associated with the first VCSEL and the second optical signal associated with the second VCSEL via an optical communication channel coupled to a network interface module.
US12034838B2
Public-key cryptography allows putting into practice concepts of digital signatures and public-key key exchange; methods used on a daily basis in digital systems. A method generates a protected secret value k′ used as a first operand in a cryptographic group operation involving a base group element G of order n and including: generating random positive integers k1 and k2, that are strictly smaller than the order of the group element G due to a cryptographically secure random number generator, such that the generated random positive integers k1 and k2 do not share any divisor with the order n other than 1; generating the protected secret value k′ based on the generating random positive integers such as k′=k1*k2, the protected secret value k′ being used as a second operand in the group operation.
US12034836B1
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for hardware security module communication management. An example method includes deriving, by a first HSM, a first cryptographic key based on an initial key and a first set of seed bits. The method also includes receiving a message comprising a second cryptographic key from a key exchange management device, wherein the second cryptographic key is associated with a second HSM. The method also includes deriving, a third cryptographic key based on the first cryptographic key and the second cryptographic key, wherein deriving the third cryptographic key establishes secure communication between the first HSM and the second HSM based on the second HSM having also derived the third cryptographic key. The method also includes performing, a first cryptographic data protection action using the third cryptographic key.
US12034835B2
Disclosed are systems and methods for encryption key management. Content items, or portions thereof, can be assigned to a plurality of partitions. Each of the plurality of partitions can correspond to a timeframe of encryption key rotation. Cache control can be applied to manifests and/or content based on the timeframe of encryption key rotation.
US12034833B2
The present embodiments relate to systems and methods for using a blockchain to record information related to the lifecycle of a vehicle associated with a Vehicle Identification Number (VIN). For example, the VIN lifecycle process may be used to develop safety-feature based insurance models. The systems and methods may include calculating a safety rating for a safety feature based upon data accessed at a blockchain. The safety rating may be used to generate a product associated with a new vehicle type, such as an insurance product covering the new vehicle type. The systems and methods described herein may allow for using a blockchain which gives the option for private information, and permissioned participants in the blockchain. In particular, the systems and methods may allow for a distributed consensus amongst businesses, consumers, and authorities, as to the validity of information and transactions stored on the blockchain.
US12034815B2
The present disclosure describes methods and system for personalizing user experience in a gaming network. In particular, the user experience is personalized based on how users are characterized based on their interactions with the gaming network. By using the characterizations, the users are assigned labels that publicly identify the user experience, interest, and proficiency with various video games. Communities are then established based on users having the same labels. Lastly, user generated content can be characterized and promoted based on the characterizations to the appropriate communities.
US12034814B2
A system for embedding users' preferences and behaviors based on interactions with an array of devices.
US12034793B2
In general, techniques are described for retrieving operational command response text from network devices. A collector network device comprising an interface and a processor may be configured to perform the techniques. The interface may receive, via a messaging bus between the network management system and a webserver, a first command to request management data stored by a managed network device, and send, in response to the first command, a second command to direct the managed network device to output the management data. The interface may also receive, from the managed network device, the management data. The processor may generate, from the management data, a plurality of partial responses that each includes a portion of the management data, where the interface may next send, via the messaging bus and to the webserver, each of the plurality of partial responses as a separate message.
US12034789B2
This disclosure generally relates to media streaming technologies and more specifically to methods and apparatuses for extensible parameterization signaling for requests of media in dynamic adaptive streaming. The various example implementations disclosed herein allow for a mechanism for a media server to signal to streaming clients which requests to the media server may be parameterized how are they parameterized. The specificity for the parameterization may be defined by a service provider and is thus made extensible.
US12034787B2
A method and system for hybrid streaming of media content such as video for a computer-based game. In some implementations, a background media content stream includes a background video rendered on a server. The background media content stream is received at a client device. The client device renders one or more three-dimensional objects and forms a composite media stream by combining the background media content stream and the one or more three-dimensional objects. The composite media stream can be output to a display or other external system.
US12034785B2
A system enabling interactions in virtual environments comprises one or more cloud server computers comprising at least one processor and memory storing data and instructions implementing a virtual environment platform comprising at least one virtual environment; at least one camera obtaining live data feed from a user of a client device; and a client device communicatively connected to the one or more cloud server computers and at least one camera. The system generates a user graphical representation from the live data feed that is inserted into a selected virtual environment and is therein updated, enabling real-time multi-user collaboration and interactions in the virtual environment. Suitable system architectures and methods thereof are also herein disclosed.
US12034782B2
In some implementations, a system may receive a request to initiate a collaborative session between a user device and a dealership device of a dealership. The system may transmit, to the user device and based on receiving the request, a user set of user interface (UI) data indicating a first UI to be presented on a display of the user device. The system may transmit, to the dealership device and based on receiving, a dealership set of UI data indicating a second UI to be presented on a display of the dealership device. The first UI may include a collaborative workspace shared by the user device and the dealership device, and the collaborative workspace may include a connection by the user device with a website associated with the dealership. The second UI may include the collaborative workspace and a dealership workspace dedicated to the dealership device.
US12034778B2
A user equipment (UE) can determine when to send an initial request for a voice communication to an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) core of a telecommunication network. For instance, the UE can identify when a call setup instruction should be sent to the IMS to cause a communication channel to be established. The UE can determine whether the UE will experience a change to another radio frequency band or radio technology based on test data, and delay sending the call setup instruction for a time period during which the test data can be analyzed.
US12034775B2
The present application relates to a method and apparatus for digital forensic corresponding to an IoT (Internet of Things) terminal, the method including: performing, by an electronic device, an analysis of an Internet of Things (IoT) terminal to which digital forensics is to be performed; selecting an injection method of injecting, by the electronic device, a certificate into the IoT terminal; injecting, by the electronic device, a certificate into at least one of the IoT terminal, the electronic device, and a portable device communicating with the IoT terminal using the selected injection method; and verifying, by the electronic device, data stored in a cloud server communicating with the IoT terminal based on the injected certificate, and can also be applied to other embodiment.
US12034763B2
This invention provides systems and methods for data processing by means of an ongoing background process on an end-user's computer. As a user receives and generates data, files are analyzed. A container file is opened into the volatile memory and its contents (including data and metadata) are extracted, without requiring an index to be created. The extracted components are analyzed based on predefined characteristics.
US12034759B2
A disclosed computer-implemented method includes receiving and indexing the raw data. Indexing includes dividing the raw data into time stamped searchable events that include information relating to computer or network security. Store the indexed data in an indexed data store and extract values from a field in the indexed data using a schema. Search the extracted field values for the security information. Determine a group of security events using the security information. Each security event includes a field value specified by a criteria. Present a graphical interface (GI) including a summary of the group of security events, other summaries of security events, and a remove element (associated with the summary). Receive input corresponding to an interaction of the remove element. Interacting with the remove element causes the summary to be removed from the GI. Update the GI to remove the summary from the GI.
US12034756B2
Methods, systems, and computer-readable storage media for receiving data representative of two or more AAGs, providing an identifier for each element of each of the two or more AAGs, each identifier being unique within a respective AAG, at least one identifier being non-unique between the two or more AAGs, determining an attribute value for each element of each of the two or more AAGs, storing attribute value to element mappings in an attribute dictionary, providing a differenced AAG based on the attribute value to element mappings in the attribute dictionary, determining a set of remedial actions at least partially based on the differenced AAG, and executing one or more remedial actions in the set of remedial actions to reduce a cyber security risk to the enterprise network.
US12034755B2
Computer software that assesses risks for security threat events by that performing the following operations: (i) receiving information pertaining to a managed asset; (ii) identifying, based, at least in part, on the received information: a threat to the managed asset and, one or more corresponding security controls for mitigating the threat, the security controls having associated control criteria; (iii) utilizing a risk assessment engine to calculate a risk value for the threat based, at least in part, on the received information; (iv) calculating a certainty factor for the threat based, at least in part, on a measure of belief associated with the control criteria; and (v) performing a computer-based remediation action based, at least in part, on the risk value and the certainty factor.
US12034748B2
Provided herein are exemplary embodiments including a secure intelligent networked architecture for real-time precision care plan remote support including a secure intelligent data receiving agent having a specialized hardware processor and a memory, the secure intelligent data receiving agent configured to automatically receive a digital data element over a network from a Bluetooth® equipped peripheral device, the digital data element representing an output in response to a predetermined plan, the secure intelligent data receiving agent caching the digital data element within a non-relational database for short term storage and the secure intelligent data receiving agent configured to process the digital data element using a serverless compute functionality and configured with logic for anomaly detection.
US12034747B2
Data associated with performances of microservices functioning in a distributed computing environment is clustered by executing an unsupervised machine learning algorithm. A representative data is selected from a cluster, selecting performed for a plurality of the clusters. Based on time series data of the representative data associated with the plurality of the clusters, causal extraction is performed. Based on the causal extraction and the plurality of the clusters, a causal graph is constructed. The causal graph is embedded into vector space. Based on the embedded vector space, an artificial neural network model can be trained for managing the distributed computing environment.
US12034739B2
Provided are systems and methods for verifying an identity of a user based on a data mesh created from various sources of truth. In one example, a method may include establishing, via a host platform, a first and a authenticated communication channel between a host server of a user account and a host server of a second user account, retrieving, via the first and second authenticated communication channels, PII of the user from the first and second user accounts and combining the PII into a meshed data set, determining a difference between the PII within the meshed data set, and verify an identity of the user based on the determined difference between the PII within the meshed data set and transmitting the verification to a computer system.
US12034719B2
An identity verification system receives context signals from an authenticating computing device in response to a target user requesting access to a secure asset. The identity verification system identifies candidate locations for the operational context assigned to historical context signals labeled as being measured at a known location and compares the context signal to each historical signal to determine a location of the operational context corresponding to the received context signal. The identity verification system determines a match probability for the target user based on a risk score assigned to the location of the operational received context signal and grants the requesting target user access to the secured asset in response to determining that the match probability is greater than the operational security threshold.
US12034706B2
Methods, systems, and techniques for private identity verification involve obtaining a cryptographically secure commitment that is generated using a first user identifier and a private user identifier associated with the first user identifier; receiving, from an identity verification system, initial zero knowledge proof messages comprising the commitment; sending, to the identity verification system, a set of cryptographically secure known identifier commitments generated using a set of private user identifiers; receiving, from the identity verification system: (i) a zero knowledge proof response generated using the zero knowledge proof challenge; and (ii) proof that the private user identifier used in the initial zero knowledge proof messages comprises part of the set of private user identifiers; and verifying that the private user identifier used in the initial zero knowledge proof messages comprises part of the set of private user identifiers.
US12034705B2
System and methods are provided to facilitate the exchange of user data between two parties, but limit the exchange of user data to users that are known to both parties. According to an embodiment, encrypted first user data is transmitted from a first device to a second device. The second device then transmits intersection data to the first device, where the intersection data is based on the encrypted first user data and second user data. The intersection data may be decrypted by the first device and the first device may determine, based on the decrypted intersection data, that one or more users are common to the both the first device and the second device. The first and second devices may then exchange data pertaining to the common users.
US12034701B2
A method for protecting a client domain, for example against a computing attack, implemented in a client node of the client domain. The method includes: discovering at least one other client node of the client domain, called a discovered node; detecting a conflict between at least two management rules for the traffic associated with the client domain; and resolving the detected conflict, including: if one of the rules was installed by a the discovered node, modifying the rule or a state associated with the discovered node; and otherwise, obtaining, from a the discovered node, an item of information for identifying at least one node of the client domain that installed one of the rules; and detecting and/or resolving the conflict using information obtained during the discovery of the at least one other node of the client domain.
US12034697B2
An apparatus having an agent that includes a processor and a memory coupled with the processor and communicates with at least one of a fault, configuration, accounting, performance, security module. The processor effectuates operations including determining that a service is operating properly. The processor further effectuates operations including if the service is operating properly and the service is disabled, enabling the service. The processor further effectuates operations including if the service is not operating properly, generating an alarm and if the service is enabled, disabling the service.
US12034695B2
A first access point of a wireless network minimizes Media Access Control (MAC) address collisions in the wireless network. The first access point receives an association request from a first wireless device. The association request identifies a first MAC address of the first wireless device. The first access point determines whether a second wireless device is associated with the wireless network using the first MAC address. Responsive to a determination that the second wireless device is associated with a second access point of the wireless network, the first access point obtains a virtual MAC address for the first wireless device. The first access point translates between the first MAC address and the virtual MAC address for network traffic of the first wireless device.
US12034689B2
Embodiments of the invention include systems and methods for transmitting messages related to certain information while maintaining the confidentiality of that information. A potential recipient may register one or more devices for receipt of such messages while specifying rules regarding when different messages may be delivered to the various devices. To keep sensitive information confidential, the messages may include only a link to such sensitive information, but exclude the sensitive information itself. An authorized recipient may then use the link to access the sensitive information via a password-protected Web site.
US12034687B2
The subject technology receives metadata corresponding to a respective media overlay, the metadata including information indicating that the respective media overlay is configured to be applied as an image processing operation during post-processing of image data during a post-capture stage. The subject technology selects the respective media overlay in response to the information indicating that the respective media overlay is configured to be applied as an image processing operation during post-processing of image data. The subject technology, based at least in part on a category indicator associated with the respective media overlay, populates a group of media overlays with at least the respective media overlay. The subject technology sends, to a client electronic device, second metadata including at least information related to the group of media overlays.
US12034682B2
The disclosed systems and methods join a user to a primary communication channel that is associated with an automated human interface module. The automated human interface module includes a plurality of nodes. A message including a text communication is posted by the user and sent to a decision module associated with a plurality of classifiers. The decision module is configured to identify a node that best matches the text communication in accordance with the plurality of classifiers. Each respective classifier produces a respective classifier result thereby producing a plurality of classifier results. Each respective classifier result identifies a respective node of the plurality of nodes best matching the text communication. The plurality of classifier results is collectively considered, and the node best matching the text communication is identified and the text communication is sent to the identified node.
US12034678B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to enhanced dynamic training response output generation control systems with enhanced dynamic training response output determinations. A computing platform may receive, from the user device and in response to an initial dynamic training interface, a training request input. The computing platform may send, to an NLU engine, the training request input and commands directing the NLU engine to perform natural language understanding and processing on the training request input to determine a natural language result output. Using the natural language result output, the computing platform may determine third party data sources that correspond to the natural language result output, and may request source data from the third party data sources. Using the source data and the natural language result output, the computing platform may generate a dynamic training response output, and may direct the user device to cause display of the dynamic training response output.
US12034672B2
A method for determining a contention window size (CWS) is applied to a network device and includes determining hybrid automatic repeat request-acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information corresponding to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) transmitted on a reference time unit on a first unlicensed carrier; and determining a first CWS according to the HARQ-ACK information, wherein the first CWS is used for performing channel detection on the first unlicensed carrier.
US12034669B2
A transceiver device includes a controller arranged to identify a first set of control information within the data packet, and to re-map the data packet such that the first set of control information is mapped on bits known to be more robust. The transceiver device further includes a transmitter arranged to transmit the re-mapped data packet. The first set of control information holds information which enables for identification to combine soft bits from repeated transmissions at a receiver of the packet. The bits known to be more robust have more distinct value distribution in signal space of a used modulation and coding scheme than other bits. The transceiver device is arranged to transmit a data packet. A corresponding method, computer program, access point and station are also disclosed.
US12034659B2
Disclosed are an operating method of a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system for supporting narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT), and a device for supporting same. According to one embodiment applicable to the present invention, a base station can transmit, to a terminal, a narrowband reference signal (NRS) during a time slot determined on the basis of the position of a paging opportunity (PO) set for the terminal and, in response to the signal, the terminal can assume/determine a time slot in which the NRS is transmitted on the basis of the position of the PO.
US12034656B1
A device that comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, a central processor and a network management engine may be configured to function as relay device, relaying an input signal from a source device to at least one other device. The relaying may include configuring one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers to particular mode of relay operation and receiving the input signal from the source device via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers. The relaying may also include transmitting at least one relay signal corresponding to the input data stream to the at least one other device, via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers. The transceivers are configured based on at least one of measured power of the input signal or a distance between the device and the other device.
US12034651B2
An asynchronous switching system and method for processing data streams, the system and method utilizing one or more buffers for cleaning up an output of a dirty switch.
US12034650B1
The efficient storage of transformation information in a switch is provided. A respective port of the switch can include a memory device capable of storing transformation information. During operation, the switch can apply a selection mechanism to the transformation information learned at the switch for identifying a target port. The switch can then store the information in the memory device of the target port. Upon receiving a packet, the ingress port can apply the selection mechanism to the header information of the packet for determining a location of a first piece of transformation information associated with the packet. The ingress port can obtain the first piece of transformation information by looking up the header information in the location and storing it in a local memory device. The ingress port can then transform the packet based on the first piece of transformation information for determining an egress port for the packet.
US12034630B2
Embodiments disclosed include a method and apparatus for global traffic control and optimization for software-defined networks. In an embodiment, data traffic is optimized by distributing predefined metrics (data traffic information) to all controllers in the network. The predefined metrics are specific to local network switches and controllers, but are distributed to all peers at configurable intervals. “Local” as used herein implies one POP and its associated switch and controller. The method of distribution of local POP metrics is strictly in band using a packet as defined by the protocol used by the data network.
US12034628B2
An object of the present disclosure is to enable efficient route assignment that guarantees a communication quality for each path between end terminals even if a state of a communication network varies. The present disclosure is a network controller apparatus connected to a communication network that performs data communication between end terminals by using a plurality of paths. The network controller apparatus stores log information about a communication state for each path collected from the communication network, determines whether there is a path with a deteriorated communication quality on the basis of the log information, if there is a deteriorated path, determines whether there is a path in which a communication quality between end terminals utilizing the deteriorated path can be guaranteed, from among other paths available to the end terminals utilizing the deteriorated path, and if the communication quality cannot be guaranteed, calculates a new route in which the communication quality between the end terminals utilizing the deteriorated path can be guaranteed, and switches the deteriorated path to a path on the new route.
US12034627B2
A method includes: obtaining a service intent, where the service intent is used to indicate to perform a first network operation on the target network; obtaining a mirror simulation network corresponding to the target network; determining verification content, where the verification content is used to perform simulation verification on a running state of the mirror simulation network; performing the first network operation on the mirror simulation network based on the service intent; and performing, after the first network operation is performed on the mirror simulation network, simulation verification on the mirror simulation network based on the verification content, to obtain a first verification result, where the first verification result is used to evaluate impact of the first network operation on the target network.
US12034620B2
Various example embodiments for supporting forward error correction (FEC) in a communication system are presented. Various example embodiments for supporting FEC in a communication system may include selection of a FEC setting (e.g., an amount of puncturing and/or shortening of a FEC code, a FEC code, or the like) for a communication channel from a transmitter to a receiver based on channel characteristic information of the communication channel from the transmitter to the receiver (e.g., transfer function information, channel loss information, noise characteristic information, error information (e.g., bit error rate, error modeling, or the like), or the like). Various example embodiments for supporting FEC in a communication system, based on selection of a FEC setting for a communication channel based on channel characteristic information of the communication channel, may be applied within various types of communication systems, including various types of wired and/or wireless communication systems.
US12034618B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for optimizing network connections of media devices using IPv6 and DNS tests to detect network issues related to IPv6 addressing and improper DNS server assignments. Upon detection of such network issues, network connections may preemptively adjust IPv6 and DNS configuration parameters to optimize connections for the media devices.
US12034611B2
Systems and methods for detecting, e.g., that a Network Function (NF) service consumer in a core network of a cellular communications system has restarted are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a NF service consumer in a core network of a cellular communications system comprises sending, to a NF service producer, a message comprising information related to a unit of the NF service consumer.
US12034610B2
There are provided measures for network objectives management. Such measures for enabling network objectives management in radio access networks exemplarily comprise maintaining a plurality of key performance indicator entries, each key performance indicator entry comprising at least an optimization direction of a respective key performance indicator and prioritized target values for said respective key performance indicator, and providing said prioritized target values for a selected key performance indicator expected to be achieved by a cognitive function to said cognitive function.
US12034599B2
Systems, devices, media, and methods are presented for assigning configuration parameters to unknown devices by comparing characteristics of unknown devices to characteristics of known devices. Characteristics of an unknown device are compared to characteristics of known devices to identify a similar device having known configuration parameters. The unknown devise is then assigned the configuration parameters of the identified similar device.
US12034595B2
Techniques are disclosed for implementing a dynamically reconfigurable network lattice within a distributed computing system. A computing device may determine a combined configuration that includes a union of at least a subset of cloud infrastructure component topologies. The computing device may then provide instructions for implementing a physical layer characterized by the combined configuration. The computing device may then determine a subset configuration corresponding to a cloud infrastructure component topology of the subset of cloud infrastructure component topologies. The computing device may then deploy the subset configuration to the physical layer of the distributed computing system.
US12034589B2
Various embodiments herein described are directed to methods, apparatuses and computer program products configured for improving alert generation and management in network computer systems. In some embodiments, a client device may generate one or more responder alert data objects for an incident data object based at least in part on global alert policy data object(s) and inline alert policy data object(s). Additional example embodiments provide various example global alert policy creation user interfaces, global alert policy edit user interfaces, inline alert policy creation user interfaces, and/or inline alert policy edit user interfaces that facilitate various user inputs and software operations in an incident alert and management platform.
US12034583B2
A method and device for selecting a beam used in communication in an environment in which massive-MIMO beamforming is performed, to include a base station including: a communication unit configured to form multiple beams and perform communication with a terminal apparatus; and a control unit configured to transmit, to the terminal apparatus, first identification information of a group that is used in communication with the terminal apparatus among the first identification information allocated to groups each of which includes multiple beams to be formed.
US12034582B2
There is set forth herein, in one embodiment, receiving, by a transceiver of a UE device an aggregate signal stream, the aggregate signal stream including an aggregate of base station downlink signal streams from a plurality of base stations; processing the aggregate signal stream and detecting, from the processing of the aggregate signal stream, a set of base stations in communication range of the UE device, wherein the set of base stations include a current serving base station and a scanning base station; determining, from the processing of the aggregate signal stream, a Doppler shifted center frequency of a downlink scanning signal stream received from the scanning base station; and enhancing, in dependence on the Doppler shifted center frequency, the downlink scanning signal stream associated to the scanning base station.
US12034574B1
A feed-forward equalizer (FFE) and a voltage-mode signal transmitter using the same are provided. The FFE includes an output, a plurality of tap drivers, and a control circuit. Each tap driver includes a cell driver. The control circuit includes a FFE control loop and an impedance control loop. The FFE control loop includes a first replica circuit corresponding to a part of the cell drivers. The FFE control loop generates at least one first reference voltage according to the first replica circuit. The impedance control loop includes a second replica circuit corresponding to the cell drivers in the tap drivers. The impedance control loop generates at least one second reference voltage according to the first reference voltage and the second replica circuit. The tap drivers are controlled by the first and second reference voltages to adjust respective output impedance thereof.
US12034572B2
An apparatus and method for providing a decision feedback equalizer are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method and apparatus for reduction of inter-symbol interference (ISI) caused by communication channel impairments is disclosed. In some embodiments, a decision feedback equalizer includes a plurality of delay latches connected in series, a slicer circuit configured to receive an input signal from a communication channel and delayed feedback signals from the plurality of delay latches and determine a logical state of the received input signal, wherein the slicer circuit further comprises a dynamic threshold voltage calibration circuit configured to regulate a current flow between output nodes of the slicer circuit and ground based on the received delayed feedback signal and impulse response coefficients of the communication channel.
US12034565B2
A vehicle control system is communicably connected with an electronic controller and a control circuit. The control circuit is controlled by the electronic controller as a control target. The vehicle control system communicates with the electronic controller using a control communication frame and communicates with the control circuit using a circuit communication frame. The control communication frame and the circuit communication frame have different formats from one another. The vehicle control system includes at least one of a first sequence circuit converting the control communication frame into the circuit communication frame or a second sequence circuit converting the circuit communication frame into the control communication frame.
US12034561B2
Disclosed are a processing method, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes the following operations: obtaining preset information; detecting whether the preset information meets a preset rule; when the preset information meets the preset rule, performing a corresponding device control operation according to a preset strategy, so as to transfer or migrate or duplicate or backup relevant data and/or control functions of the first control center, which can make the use of the first control center and other devices controlled by the first control center more intelligent, convenient and fast.
US12034560B2
Techniques and system configurations for generating and implementing recipes and scripts to enable the orchestration of actions, activities, and configurations within smart devices and device networks (including the Internet of Things “IoT” network topologies) are described herein. In an example, a method for smart device orchestration and configuration includes: obtaining an orchestration recipe that defines a sequence of actions to be performed among multiple types of smart devices; activating the orchestration recipe for use upon multiple smart devices associated with a user, based on at least one condition to perform the sequence of actions; associating the orchestration recipe with respective configurations of the multiple smart devices associated with the user; and initiating the orchestration recipe, to cause the sequence of actions to be performed with the multiple smart devices, including via cloud-based device services that control the multiple smart devices associated with the user.
US12034559B2
A method for fetching a content from a web server to a client device is disclosed, using tunnel devices serving as intermediate devices. The tunnel device is selected based on an attribute, such as IP Geolocation. A tunnel bank server stores a list of available tunnels that may be used, associated with values of various attribute types. The tunnel devices initiate communication with the tunnel bank server, and stays connected to it, for allowing a communication session initiated by the tunnel bank server. Upon receiving a request from a client to a content and for specific attribute types and values, a tunnel is selected by the tunnel bank server, and is used as a tunnel for retrieving the required content from the web server, using standard protocol such as SOCKS, WebSocket or HTTP Proxy. The client only communicates with a super proxy server that manages the content fetching scheme.
US12034557B2
A comprehensive system for capturing multicast messaging traffic volume and performance metrics across a global inventory of hosts. A single instance of the data capturing and extraction tool may be configured to be implemented across an enterprise's entire inventory of multicast messaging-configured hosts. The data capturing and extraction tool dynamically extracts multicast group addresses and corresponding metrics during the scanning of the captured traffic volume and performance data, thus eliminating the need for manual input of specified multicast group addresses. As a result, presentation of metrics on a per multicast group address basis is made possible for all multicast group addresses extracted during the scanning process. In addition, an efficient means for polling the hosts for traffic volume and performance data is realized by only polling those non-primary and workstation hosts that are currently transmitting or receiving multicast messages.
US12034555B1
Systems and methods for facilitating a watch party are provided. In one example, a method includes: initiating a watch party session for a host user using, presenting content selected by the host user on a first user device during the watch party session, initiating a chat session concurrent with the watch party session, receiving a participation request by a guest user sent from a second user device for participating in the chat session; in response to the participation request, authenticating the guest user; presenting the content selected by the host user on the second user device; synchronizing the presentation of the content on the first user device with the presentation of the second user device; and facilitating communication between the host user and the guest user during the chat session.
US12034552B2
Media, methods, and systems are provided for scheduling a scheduled event within a synchronous multimedia collaboration session within a group-based communication system. A selected start time and a selected time duration may be received such that one or more users are added to the synchronous multimedia collaboration session within a channel of the group-based communication system at or near the selected start time. Upon expiration of the selected time duration, the one or more users may be automatically removed from the synchronous multimedia collaboration session to prevent the scheduled event from extending beyond an allocated time.
US12034548B2
Provided is a terminal device that is capable of improving the characteristics of a response signal having poor transmission characteristics when ARQ is utilized in communication using an uplink unit band and a plurality of downlink unit bands associated with the uplink unit band. At the time of channel selection, a control unit selects a resource used in sending a response signal from among specific PUCCH resources notified in advance from a base station and PUCCH resources mapped to a CCE, and controls the transmission of the response signal. A response signal generating unit supports implicit signaling with respect to any given response signal, and at the same time as supporting LTE fallback from 2CC, uses a mapping method that, between bits, smooths the number of PUCCH resources that can determine ACK/NACK simply by determining the PUCCH resource regarding which the response signal had notified.
US12034546B2
Disclosed is a downlink data transmission method, including determining, by a terminal device, a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state corresponding to downlink data transmission based on downlink control information (DCI); and determining a redundancy version (RV) value corresponding to the downlink data transmission based on the DCI. The TCI state and the RV value are used for the terminal device to receive downlink data. Embodiments of the present disclosure also provide a terminal device and a storage medium.
US12034542B2
A reliable wireless communication system needs good wireless signal detection and interference management. Traditional thinking for interference management mostly relies on interference cancellation or receiver design. In such a design, an interference issue occurs when a receiver is incapable of handling it. Various interference management embodiments are presented in the disclosure. Using HARQ retransmission incorporated with parameter changes, interference management may be improved through interference source control for more effective signal detection and interference management. Additionally, early termination parameters for decoding operation may be learned and implemented separately or jointly with HARQ retransmission. Furthermore, estimated interference power may be improved using machine-learning algorithm based on decoding statistics of the decoder. Biasing for the estimated interference power may be implemented separately or jointly with early termination parameter learning and/or HARQ retransmission request with parameter changes to improve signal detection and interference management.
US12034541B2
A method and apparatus for dynamic configuration of a maximum number of sidelink retransmissions for a data unit in a wireless communication system is provided. A first wireless device in sidelink receives, from a network, information related to a first retransmission number for a first logical channel and a second retransmission number for a second logical channel. The first wireless device determines a retransmission number of a data unit among the first retransmission number and the second retransmission number, and performs sidelink transmission of the data unit to a second wireless device based on the retransmission number of the data unit.
US12034538B2
According to an embodiment, a method performed by a first wireless device in a wireless communication system includes: reserving a set of resources comprising at least a first resource for an initial transmission and a second resource for a retransmission; creating a data unit based on the first resource and the second resource; performing the initial transmission of the data unit to a second wireless device by using the first resource; determining whether to reserve a resource for the retransmission of the data unit based on at least one of a congestion level and/or a priority of the data unit; removing the second resource and reserving a third resource as the resource for the retransmission of the data unit; and performing the retransmission of the data unit by using the third resource to the second wireless device.
US12034537B2
The disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining an IoT technology with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate beyond a 4G system, and a system therefor. The disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety related services, and the like) based on 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies. The disclosure provides a method for improving the coverage of an uplink channel for uplink transmission.
US12034535B2
One coding method of a plurality of coding methods including at least a first coding method and a second coding method is selected, an information sequence is encoded by using the selected coding method, and an encoded sequence obtained by performing predetermined processing on the information sequence is modulated and transmitted. The first coding method is a coding method having a first coding rate, for generating a first encoded sequence by performing puncturing processing on a generated first codeword by using a first parity check matrix. The second coding method is a coding method having a second coding rate, for generating a second encoded sequence by performing puncturing processing on a generated second codeword by using a second parity check matrix that is different from the first parity check matrix, the second coding rate after the puncturing process being different from the first coding rate.
US12034531B2
Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for use in a wireless network for dynamic indication of soft resource availability. Some embodiments are directed to an apparatus in an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node. The apparatus includes processor circuitry and radio front circuitry. The radio front end circuitry can be configured to receive, from a second IAB node, a slot format indicator (SFI). The SFI can include a slot format entry including a soft symbol indicating availability of a soft resource. The processor circuitry can be configured to use the slot format entry to communicate with a third IAB node, different from the second IAB node, using the soft resource as indicated by the soft symbol.
US12034526B2
An add-drop network element (100) for an optical communications network. The add-drop network element comprises an optical amplifier (102) having an input port and an output port. The add-drop network element comprises also comprises an optical coupler (104) and an optical splitter (106). The optical coupler (104) comprises an add input port, a through input port and an output port, the output port of the optical coupler (104) being connected to the input port of the optical amplifier. The optical splitter (106) comprising a drop output port, a through output port and an input port, the input port of the optical splitter (106) being connected to the output port of the optical amplifier.
US12034524B2
An electronic device and method for emergency alert message detection based on audio-video information is disclosed. The electronic device receives first media content received over a first broadcast channel. The electronic device renders second media content, which is different from the first media content. The electronic device further detects, from the received first media content, a set of objects associated with a geo-location corresponding to the electronic device. The set of objects corresponds to an emergency at the geo-location. The electronic device further detects an emergency alert audio in the received first media content. The electronic device further extracts an emergency alert message received over a second broadcast channel associated with the geo-location based on the detected set of objects and the emergency alert audio in the received first media content. The electronic device further renders an emergency alert signal associated with the emergency alert message.
US12034518B2
A method of communicating with satellites in a low-earth orbit (LEO) constellation includes determining, by a controller of a mobile communicator mounted on a mobile platform, one or more conditions corresponding to a plurality of spatial channels associated with multiple satellites in the LEO constellation. The method also includes allocating, based on the one or more conditions, each subset of a plurality of subsets of antenna resources of a phased array antenna to a respective different satellite included in the multiple satellites in the LEO constellation, where the antenna resources of the phased array antenna are communicatively connected to plurality of transceivers via a bus. The method also includes commanding the plurality of transceivers to establish simultaneous communicative connections to the different satellites via the allocated subsets of antenna resources.
US12034513B2
A method performed by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system includes transmitting a UE capability information message to a base station, the UE capability information message including information for indicating that a multi-beam operation for multi-transmission and reception point (TRP) is supported and information for indicating that a simultaneous reception for different beams is supported, receiving a first control signal for first data on a first physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) associated with a first TRP, the first control signal transmitted by using a primary beam, and receiving second control signal for second data on a second PDCCH associated with a second TRP, the second control signal transmitted by using a secondary beam. The first data and the second data are received in same time resources.
US12034512B2
A method comprises, when a communications device transitions from an inactive state to an active state, determining one or more antenna radiation beam directions for one or more antenna arrays of the communications device in dependence on movement information associated with the communications device and information from when the communications device was last in an active state.
US12034509B2
A method of operating a lower-layer split central unit, LLS-CU, includes allocating a plurality of downlink signals to a plurality of physical resource blocks, PRBs, of a physical downlink channel, generating a data-associated control information, DACI, message including a section description associated with the plurality of downlink signals, the DACI message including an indication of a plurality of sets of beamforming weights to be applied by a radio unit, RU, when transmitting the plurality of downlink signals to the UE, transmitting the DACI message to the RU, and transmitting the plurality of downlink signals to the RU for transmission to the UE.
US12034507B2
A method and device for channel state indication on an unlicensed spectrum. A base station sends channel state indication information through a first antenna panel. The channel state indication information is configured to indicate channel state detection results of k antenna panels of the base station on at least one BWU of an unlicensed spectrum, where k is positive integer.
US12034506B2
A method of configuring a dual polarized antenna array for communication between a wireless device (120) and a wireless access network (100), the antenna array comprising antenna elements with respective polarizations, where each antenna element is associated with a respective beamforming weight, the method comprising configuring the antenna array for transmission by a first set of beamforming weights wTX1, wherein the first set of beamforming weights is arranged to provide a transmit antenna port connected to antenna elements of a first polarization and of a second polarization, wherein the transmit antenna port is associated with an antenna power pattern; transmitting a first signal via the transmit antenna port on a downlink, DL, from the antenna array to the wireless device; configuring the antenna array for reception by a second wRX1 and a third wRX2 set of beamforming weights, wherein the second set of beamforming weights wRX1 is arranged to provide a first receive antenna port connected to antenna elements of the first and of the second polarization, wherein the third set of beamforming weights wRX2 is arranged to provide a second receive antenna port connected to antenna elements of the first and of the second polarization, where each of the receive antenna ports is associated with the antenna power pattern, and where the receive antenna ports have different polarizations; and receiving a second signal on an uplink, UL, from the wireless device (120) to the antenna array, via the first receive antenna port and the second receive antenna port.
US12034495B2
An object of the present disclosure is to enable prediction of communication quality in accordance with wireless communication under frequency conditions as combinations of frequencies and frequency bandwidths. The present disclosure provides a system including: an environment information generation unit configured to generate environment information of a terminal that performs wireless communication; a communication prediction model storage unit configured to store a plurality of communication prediction models obtained by learning relationships between the environment information and communication quality of wireless communication under frequency channel conditions; a communication prediction model generation unit configured to select one or more communication prediction models from among the plurality of communication prediction models and use the selected communication prediction models to generate a communication prediction model; and a communication prediction unit configured to input the environment information generated by the environment information generation unit to the communication prediction model generated by the communication prediction model generation unit and predict current or future communication quality of the terminal.
US12034491B2
Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention implement electronic frequency-comb detector systems. One embodiment includes an electronic frequency-comb detector, where the electronic frequency-comb detector includes: a frequency-comb generator configured to generate a frequency comb reference signal, and a heterodyne mixer. In addition, the heterodyne mixer is configured to use the frequency comb reference signal to downconvert received millimeter wave (mm-wave) and terahertz (THZ) frequency tones into an intermediate frequency (IF) signal. In a further embodiment, the electronic frequency-comb detector includes an IF amplifier, where the IF amplifier is configured to feed a spectrum analyzer configured to detect a signature of a material under test (MUT).
US12034485B1
A method, system, and apparatus for a coherent optical breakout; wherein the optical breakout has a laser; wherein the coherent optical breakout has a set of optical connections; wherein the set has at least two optical connections; wherein the coherent optical breakout enables coherent optical communication of X Gbs across each of the set of optical connections.
US12034476B2
A test apparatus has at least one optical source, a high-speed photodetector, a microcontroller or processor, and electrical circuitry to power and drive the at least one optical source, photodetector, and microcontroller or processor and for measuring the frequency response of a multimode optical fiber under test. The test apparatus can utilize an optical pulse waveform with a light adapter to measure of the channel under test. It can also uses a correction method to de-embed a chromatic bandwidth of the source from the encircled flux modal chromatic bandwidth. The correction method can use correction functions obtained for different type of VCSELs to estimate the optical channel bandwith when used with VCSEL transceivers.
US12034474B2
According to various embodiments, an electronic device may comprise an ultra-wideband (UWB) communication circuit, a Wi-Fi communication circuit and a processor controlling the UWB communication circuit and the Wi-Fi communication circuit. The processor may be configured to identify an operation channel of the UWB communication circuit, identify a communication band of the Wi-Fi communication circuit, overlapping the operation channel of the UWB communication circuit, and when the communication band overlapping the operation channel is activated, determine whether to simultaneously perform Wi-Fi communication through the activated communication band and UWB communication through the operation channel. Other various embodiments are possible as well.
US12034472B2
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. In some systems, a user equipment (UE) and a base station may support beamforming communication techniques and may communicate using one or more beams. The UE may support a bandwidth part (BWP) hopping pattern and may perform a beam failure detection (BFD) procedure across the supported BWPs. While performing the BFD procedure, the UE may declare beam failure and may determine whether to switch to an anchor BWP to initiate a beam failure recover (BFR) procedure or to remain on an active BWP to initiate the BFR procedure. In some implementations, the UE may determine whether to switch to the anchor BWP or to remain on the active BWP to initiate the BFR procedure based on an indication from the base station.
US12034469B2
Systems and methods for variable stride counting for timed-triggers in a radio frequency front end (RFFE) bus modify how a master clock controls counters in slaves. In particular, instead of having the master clock change a counter at a slave device on a one-to-one clock tick-to-counter change, exemplary aspects of the present disclosure contemplate allowing a bus ownership master (BOM) to select a stride size wherein each clock tick causes the counter to change by the size of the stride. Clock ticks are then sent less frequently over the clock line of the RFFE bus. In this fashion, fewer clock ticks are required to change the counter to the trigger event.
US12034468B2
An antenna wireless device includes: antenna elements; feed ports respectively corresponding to the antenna elements; one or more detection ports each corresponding to some or all of the plurality of antenna elements; transceiver circuits respectively connected to feed ports; and one or more reference transceiver circuits each connected to a corresponding one or more of the one or more detection ports. For each antenna element, the transceiver circuit processes a first signal to generate a second signal, the second signal fed to the feed port is output to the reference transceiver circuit through the detection port, the reference transceiver circuit processes the second signal to generate a third signal, and detects an amplitude and phase deviation based on the first signal and the third signal, and the transceiver circuit adjusts a phase and an amplitude of a transmission signal based on the amplitude and phase deviation.
US12034463B2
Systems and methods for lossless compression of tabular numeric data are provided. The system can include one or more data compression servers executing data compression system code to compress the tabular numeric data, a storage database to store the compressed tabular numeric data, and one or more data decompression servers to decompress the tabular numeric data for use. The one or more data compression servers, the storage database, and the one or more data decompression servers can communicate via a communication network. The system can receive the uncompressed tabular numeric data from one or more data generation systems, processes the uncompressed tabular numeric data with the data compression system code, and generate a compressed table of numeric information, which can be stored in the database, or later decompressed by the one or more data decompression servers.
US12034461B2
In a first method, a wireless device estimates a delay profile of a channel impulse response, CIR, for a channel between a network node and the wireless device, compresses the delay profile using a compression function, and transmits the compressed delay profile. The compression function includes a first function and a quantizer. The first function is configured to receive input data and reduce a dimension of the input data. In a second method, a network node receives a compressed delay profile of CIR for a channel between a network node and a wireless device, decompresses the compressed delay profile using a decompression function, and estimates a position of the wireless device based on at least the decompressed delay profile. The decompression function includes a first function which is configured to receive input data and provide output data in a higher dimensional space than the input data.
US12034454B2
A method for verifying data integrity in a receiver in a wireless communication network is disclosed. The method includes receiving a data message, wherein the data message includes a group of data elements and a checksum, computing a complete syndrome vector based on partial syndrome vectors, wherein the partial syndrome vectors are computed, in parallel, by multiplying part of a parity-check matrix with corresponding part of the received data message, determining that all vector elements of the complete syndrome vector are zero, and verifying that the received data message is correct when all the vector elements of the complete syndrome vector are zero, and incorrect otherwise. Corresponding computer program product, apparatus, and receiver are also disclosed.
US12034447B2
Methods and systems are described for obtaining a sequence of data decisions and an error signal generated by one or more samplers operating on a received input signal according to a sampling clock, applying the sequence of data decisions and the error signal to each logic branch of a set of logic branches, and responsively selecting a logic branch from the set of logic branches, the logic branch selected responsive to (i) a detection of a transitional data pattern in the sequence of data decisions and (ii) the error signal, the selected logic branch generating an output current, and providing the output current to a local oscillator controller, the output current sourcing and sinking current to a capacitor through a resistive element to adjust an input voltage of a proportional control circuit relative to a voltage on the capacitor connected to the resistive element.
US12034446B2
A tile of an FPGA fuses memory and arithmetic circuits. Connections directly between multiple instances of the tile are also available, allowing multiple tiles to be treated as larger memories or arithmetic circuits. By using these connections, referred to as cascade inputs and outputs, the input and output bandwidth of the arithmetic circuit is further increased. The arithmetic unit accesses inputs from a combination of: the switch fabric, the memory circuit, a second memory circuit of the tile, and a cascade input. In some example embodiments, the routing of the connections on the tile is based on post-fabrication configuration. In one configuration, all connections are used by the memory circuit, allowing for higher bandwidth in writing or reading the memory. In another configuration, all connections are used by the arithmetic circuit.
US12034445B2
A new computational machine is invented, called a clock machine, that is a novel alternative to computing machines (digital computers) based on logic gates. In an embodiment, computation is performed with one or more clock machines that use time, and can perform any Boolean function. In an embodiment, a cryptographic cipher is implemented with random clock machines, constructed from a non-deterministic process, wherein the compiled set of instructions (i.e., the implementation of the cryptographic procedure) is distinct on each device or chip that executes the cryptographic cipher. In an embodiment, by using a different set of clock machines to execute two different instances of the same cryptographic procedure, each execution of a procedure looks different to malware that may try to infect and subvert the cryptographic procedure. This cryptographic process helps hinder timing attacks. In an embodiment, a detailed implementation of the Midori cipher with random clock machines is described.
US12034444B2
A semiconductor product being convertible or converted from a customizable configuration into a selectable or selected one of a plurality of different customized configurations, wherein the semiconductor product comprises a customizing unit configured for customizing the semiconductor product into one of the customized configurations selected by a received customizing data structure specifying a selected application of the semiconductor product, and a plurality of functional blocks each configured for providing an assigned functionality and all being deactivated when the semiconductor product is not in one of the customized configurations, wherein the customizing unit is configured for activating only a subgroup of the functional blocks based on the received customizing data structure.
US12034443B2
A device includes a memory cell array configured to store data; and a signal propagation circuit configured to propagate a signal between the memory cell array and a host. The signal propagation circuit includes a first inverted signal output circuit, a second inverted signal output circuit including an input terminal connected to i) an output terminal of the first inverted signal output circuit and ii) an output terminal of the second inverted signal output circuit, a third inverted signal output circuit including an input terminal connected to i) the output terminal of the first inverted signal output circuit and ii) the output terminal of the second inverted signal output circuit, and a fourth inverted signal output circuit including an input terminal connected to i) an output terminal of the third inverted signal output circuit and ii) an output terminal of the fourth inverted signal output circuit.
US12034437B2
A signal transmission device that transmits a driving signal for a power transistor from a primary circuit system to a secondary circuit system while isolating between the primary and secondary circuit systems includes: a first fault detection circuit configured to detect a fault in the primary circuit system; a second fault detection circuit configured to detect a fault in the secondary circuit system; a first signal transmission path configured to transmit the result of detection by the second fault detection circuit from the secondary circuit system to the primary circuit system while isolating between the primary and secondary circuit systems; and a self-test circuit configured to perform a self-test on each of the first fault detection circuit, the second fault detection circuit, and the first signal transmission path.
US12034435B2
A color temperature switching scheme for an LED lighting device is disclosed. The color temperature switching scheme comprises a plurality of different color temperature performances correspondingly generated by a plurality of different paired combinations of a first electric power allocated to a first LED load emitting a light with a first color temperature and a second electric power allocated to a second LED load emitting a light with a second color temperature such that a mingled color temperature between the first color temperature and the second color temperature can be generated thru a light diffuser. For tuning the mingled color temperature of the LED lighting device a reverse yet complementary power adjustment process for distributing a total electric power T between the first LED circuit and the second LED circuit is required such that a total light intensity remains unchanged while the mingled color temperature is being adjusted.
US12034423B2
An acoustic resonator is fabricated by etching a recess in a silicon thermal oxide (TOX) upper layer of a silicon substrate and filling the recess with sacrificial polysilicon. A surface of the silicon TOX layer and the sacrificial polysilicon-filled recess are planarized. A back surface of a single-crystal piezoelectric plate is bonded to the planarized surface of the silicon TOX layer. Openings are formed through the piezoelectric plate and an interdigital transducer (IDT) is formed on a front surface of the piezoelectric plate such that interleaved fingers of the IDT are disposed over the sacrificial polysilicon-filled recess. The sacrificial polysilicon is removed from the recess to form a cavity such that a portion of the piezoelectric plate forms a diaphragm spanning the cavity and the interleaved fingers of the IDT are disposed on the diaphragm.
US12034420B2
A switching amplifier includes a first portion of a power stage; a second portion of a power stage; a pulse-width modulation (PWM) control loop coupled to control inputs of the first portion of the power stage; and a linear amplifier coupled to control inputs of the second portion of the power stage. The PWM control loop controls a first switch and a second switch of the first portion of the power stage. Between current terminals of the first switch and the second switch is a first signal output of the switching amplifier. The linear amplifier controls a third switch and a fourth switch of the second portion of the power stage. Between current terminals of the third switch and the fourth switch is a second signal output of the switching amplifier.
US12034419B2
RF transistor amplifiers include an RF transistor amplifier die having a semiconductor layer structure, a coupling element on an upper surface of the semiconductor layer structure, and an interconnect structure on an upper surface of the coupling element so that the RF transistor amplifier die and the interconnect structure are in a stacked arrangement. The coupling element includes a first shielded transmission line structure.
US12034415B2
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor circuit includes: an amplifier including an input terminal; an output circuit including a first node connected to the amplifier, and first and second output terminals, the output circuit performing a first output mode using one of the first and second output terminals or a second output mode using the first and second output terminals; and a bypass circuit between the input terminal and the first node. The output circuit includes a first switch between a second node and the first output terminal, a second switch between a third node and the second output terminal, a third switch between the second and third nodes, a first passive circuit connected to the second node, a second passive circuit connected to the third node, and a third passive circuit between the second and third nodes.
US12034411B2
A method of operating an amplifier circuit having a transformer arranged so as to establish a magnetically coupled feedback loop between and output of an amplifier and an input of the amplifier. The method includes providing a DC bias current to the amplifier, and further includes increasing the DC bias current to improve a linearity of the amplifier circuit wherein a transfer gain of the amplifier circuit remains constant when the DC bias current is increased. A loop gain of the magnetically coupled feedback loop is set by selecting a coupling factor and turn-ratio of the transformer.
US12034408B2
The present invention provides a wideband Doherty power amplifier comprising: a main power amplification device; an auxiliary power amplification device arranged in parallel with the main power amplification device; and a coupled phase compensation network configured for compensating a phase shift between the main power amplification device and the auxiliary power amplification device. The phase compensation network comprising a first transmission line section; a second transmission line section extending substantially collinearly with the first transmission line section; and two pairs of end-connected coupled transmission lines connected in parallel between the first transmission line section and the second transmission line section. The provided Doherty power amplifier demonstrated operation at 6 dB back-off between 1.3-2.3 GHz with efficiency in excess of 41%, which can be used in modern and future wireless communication systems which require power amplifiers operating over a wide frequency range.
US12034401B2
This invention relates to an innovative lap joint plate with solar panel, which includes at least a lap joint plate and a solar chip set as main components combined together. Said lap joint plate is provided with at least one flat portion and a plurality of protruding portions, said flat portion is arranged between adjacent two protruding portions, the height of said protruding portions are all higher than said flat portion. Said solar chip set is arranged above said flat portion. The present invention can effectively prevent the solar chip set from being damaged by the bending and twisting of the lap joint plate by using the flexible solar chip set. Alternatively, a glass plate can be added to the outermost layer (and the bottom layer) of the solar chip set, the hardness of the glass plate is used to support and protect the solar chip set, so that the solar chip set can be prevented from being damaged by the deformation and stretching of the lap joint plate.
US12034400B2
A livestock management system for detecting, tracking, and responding to livestock location and physical parameters, and for determining livestock behavior and physical conditions correlated thereto. The system generally includes a plurality of tags and sensors attached to and implanted in a plurality of livestock, one or more local sensors, a management platform, and a remote computer system. Each tag receives, processes and maintains data regarding the location, activity and physical parameters of a livestock to which it is attached and locally determines the behavior and physical conditions of the livestock. The tags communicate with other nearby tags and sensors locally via dynamic mesh networks and with the management platform and remote computer system via longer range wireless networks. The management platform processes the tag data and produces herd-related data. The remote computer uses the tag data to generate and update livestock behavior and condition models for download to the tags.
US12034399B2
A skylight includes a frame that is configured to be mounted to a structure, the frame defining a central opening and a solar power unit that is coupled with the frame.
US12034394B2
A motor driver using a correcting mechanism on a sensed motor position is provided. A rotor position detector circuit senses a position of a rotor of a motor to output a commutation signal. A back electromotive force detector circuit detects a back electromotive force signal of the motor. An actual phase difference calculator circuit calculates a phase difference between the back electromotive force signal and the commutation signal as an actual phase difference. An error phase angle calculator circuit calculates a difference between the actual phase difference and a reference phase difference as an error phase angle. A motor driving circuit corrects the commutation signal according to the error phase angle. The motor driving circuit determines the position of the rotor of the motor to drive the motor according to the corrected commutation signal.
US12034391B2
A motor-driving apparatus for driving a motor having a plurality of windings respectively corresponding to a plurality of phases is provided. The motor-driving apparatus includes a first inverter having a plurality of first switching devices and connected to first ends of the plurality of windings and a second inverter having a plurality of second switching devices and connected to second ends of the plurality of windings. A third switching device is configured to selectively connect and disconnect points at which a number of turns of each of the windings is divided in a preset ratio. A controller is configured to adjust an on/off state of the first to third switching devices based on required output of the motor.
US12034390B2
A winding switching device switches parallel and series connections of windings of a rotating electric machine, and includes a plurality of electrodes that are connected to the windings and a power source, a movable portion in contact with the plurality of electrodes and includes a plurality of conductor portions, and an actuator that drives the movable portion. According to a contact state between the plurality of electrodes and the plurality of conductor portions, the windings are connected in parallel at a first position of the movable portion, and are connected in series at a second position of the movable portion. The electrodes include a first electrode connected to a first phase winding of the rotating electric machine in the plurality of windings, and a second electrode connected to a second phase winding. The first electrode and the second electrode are adjacent to each other, and form a neutral point.
US12034383B2
Disclosed herein are triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs). Such TENGs comprise at least one tribolectric (TE) layer comprising two surfaces relative movement between which generates a TE charge, and a circuit. The circuit comprises a switch, a sensor, and a load. The switch has an open condition in which the TE charge accumulates (the accumulated TE charge), and a closed condition in which the accumulated TE charge discharges between the two surfaces across the load, the sensor determining a time constant (τ) of discharge of the accumulated TE charge across the load.
US12034381B2
A converter includes a bidirectional DC-AC converter circuit, an input capacitor connected to an AC input of the bidirectional DC-AC converter, a bus capacitor connected to a DC output of the bidirectional DC-AC converter circuit, a switch connected between a positive terminal of the input capacitor and an AC power supply, a pre-charger having an input connected to the AC power supply and an output connected to the DC output of the bidirectional DC-AC converter circuit, and a controller configured to convert the voltage across the bus capacitor into an inverting voltage and apply the inverting voltage to the input capacitor before turning on the switch.
US12034380B2
This application discloses an inverter circuit for an inverter such as a photovoltaic inverter. Also disclosed are inverters and photovoltaic power systems including such inverter circuits. The inverter circuit is based on a HERIC topology, and in the inverter circuit a third capacitor and a fourth capacitor are bridge-connected between a bus and a first longitudinal bridge and between the bus and a second longitudinal bridge respectively. In this way, when the inverter circuit goes from a starting phase to a freewheeling phase, the third capacitor and the fourth capacitor can stabilize a voltage fluctuation caused by different turn-off speeds of the switching transistors in the HERIC topology, to prevent resonance caused by the voltage fluctuations.
US12034371B1
A multiphase switching voltage regulator is disclosed. The regulator includes a first clock generator circuit configured to receive a reference clock, and to generate M first clocks, where the M first clocks are phase separated by 360°/M, a plurality of phase extrapolator circuits, where the plurality of phase extrapolator circuits includes N phase extrapolator circuits, and a phase selector multiplexer configured to provide one of the M first clocks to each of the phase extrapolator circuits, where the N phase extrapolator circuits are configured to generate N output clocks, where the N output clocks are phase separated by 360°/N.
US12034359B2
A rotary electric machine includes a stator extending along an axis and having teeth arranged about the axis. The teeth are circumferentially spaced apart by slots. Conductors extend around the teeth and through the slots. The conductors are electrically connected to one another to form phases. Cooling devices are provided in the slots. Each cooling device is fluidly connected to an inlet tube for supplying cooling fluid to the cooling device and an outlet tube for removing cooling fluid from the cooling device. A manifold includes a first cooling channel fluidly connected to each inlet tube and a second cooling channel fluidly connected to each outlet tube such that all the cooling devices in the machine are fluidly connected in parallel.
US12034354B2
A spring retention system for securing a motor in a desired position. The spring retention system includes a captive feature, which includes a plurality of recesses formed as a motor support spring having a circular opening, which are engaged with a motor bearing housing. The spring retention system reduces motor displacement in multiple directions when the motor is exposed to vibrations, which reduces the cantilever bending on the motor shaft and the motor housing, also improving motor pinion run out. The spring retention system also includes a formed opening feature, which allows for the spring retention system to fit with motor bearings having different sizes. The spring retention system also includes a plurality of spring leg retention features formed as part of the motor support spring, which support the motor bearing housing on an axis, and the module housing supports the motor support spring.
US12034349B2
A transfer apparatus includes a first linear transfer part which moves a slider in a first direction by using a first fixed linear module fixed on a first base; a module moving part which moves a module holding member holding a movable linear module in a second direction different from the first direction, to position the movable linear module at a first coupling position to couple with the first fixed linear module and cause the slider to transfer between the movable and first fixed linear modules; a linear scale having a scale extending in the second direction and a sensor which detects the scale; and a controller which acquires first module position information indicating a position of the movable linear module relative to the first fixed linear module in the second direction and controls movement of the module holding member based on the first module position information.
US12034348B2
An electromagnetic device includes a conductive coil, a main magnet pivoting about an axis XX′, a first and second yoke, a first and second stabilizer magnet, as well as a first and second actuator magnet arranged to slide along the axis YY′ that is perpendicular to the pivot axis XX′, in such a way as to force the main magnet to adopt an equilibrium position, the stabilizer magnets are arranged such that this sliding is accompanied by a movement of the stabilizer magnets so as to position one of the stabilizer magnets in a given position in order to limit the leaks which could occur at one of the two yokes.
US12034347B2
The present invention may provide a motor including a shaft, a rotor coupled to the shaft, a stator disposed to correspond to the rotor, and a busbar disposed above the stator, wherein the stator includes a stator core and coils, the busbar includes a busbar body and a plurality of terminals disposed on the busbar body, the terminals include terminal bodies, first protrusions extending from end portions of the terminal bodies and connected to end portions of the coils, and second protrusions branched off from the first protrusions and connected to power terminals, and the plurality of second protrusions are disposed at the same position in radial and vertical directions of the busbar and disposed at equal intervals in a circumferential direction of the busbar.
US12034346B2
A brushless DC motor (1) comprises a rotor comprising magnetic elements twining poles of the electric motor (1) and a control magnet comprising a number of pole pairs equal to three times that of the electric motor (1), a stator having electromagnetic excitation coils, at least one first and one second Hall-effect sensor (17, 17′) configured to detect predetermined angular positions of the rotor, and a control unit configured to apply a predetermined sequence of excitation signals to the coils, wherein the Hall-effect sensors are spaced apart by an angle greater than or equal to 10°, the first Hall-effect sensor (17) is used to determine the switching times of the excitation signals and the second Hall-effect sensor (17′) is used, in combination with the first Hall-effect sensor (17), to determine the direction of rotation of the rotor when the motor starts up, or vice versa.
US12034345B2
To enhance process reliability when processing wire ends during the course of a production of a machine element of an electric machine, a positioning and clamping device configured to position and clamp one or several wire ends for further processing during the course of the production of the machine element of the electric machine, comprises a capturing device for capturing and positioning the at least one wire end, wherein the capturing device has at least one oblique guide for the relative positioning of the at least one wire end. Furthermore, a corresponding clamping and positioning method is described.
US12034344B2
An inverter unit, provided in a motor unit that rotates an axle of a vehicle, includes an inverter, and an inverter case that houses the inverter therein. The inverter case includes an inverter case body that opens to one side in a predetermined direction, and a plate-shaped cover that closes an opening of the inverter case body. The cover has a raised portion raised in the predetermined direction. The raised portion has a hollow curved shape protruding in the predetermined direction.
US12034342B2
The disclosure relates to an electric machine and an assembling method for an electric machine. The electric machine includes: a shaft assembly including a first shaft, a second shaft coaxially disposed within an inner circumference of the first shaft, and a bearing disposed between the first shaft and the second shaft; a first revolving body coaxially connected to the first shaft, wherein the first revolving body includes an annular first adapter bracket, and a tubular structural portion extending in an axial direction is disposed at an inner circumference of the first adapter bracket; a second revolving body coaxially connected to the second shaft and disposed around an outer circumference of the first revolving body; and a guiding assembly disposed between the tubular structural portion and the first shaft to restrict a movement of the first revolving body relative to the first shaft in a circumferential direction and a radial direction.
US12034339B2
A rotor assembly for an electric machine includes a rotor core that is fabricated from a plurality of laminations stacked along a rotational axis of the electric machine. The rotor core has a plurality of arcuately arranged, axially extending magnet-receiving slots. The rotor core includes a plurality of magnets received in respective ones of the magnet-receiving slots. Each of the laminations includes opposed deflectable magnet-retaining prongs that extend into a corresponding one of the magnet-receiving slots. The magnet-retaining prongs are deflected by and engage the magnets to exert a reactive force against the magnets and hold them in place. Each of the laminations also includes respective support posts axially adjacent the magnet-retaining prongs. The support posts extend alongside and thereby limit the deflection of the magnet-retaining prongs when engaged with the corresponding one of the magnets.
US12034338B2
The invention pertains primarily to a rotary electric machine, in particular for a motor vehicle, including: —a stator comprising a body provided with teeth delimiting slots and a winding that is housed in the slots of the stator body; —a rotor (12) comprising a body (21) and poles (22) that are formed by permanent magnets (23), characterized in that —two successive polar angles, each corresponding to a circumferential extent of a pole (22), or —two successive dual polar angles (A0-A4), each corresponding to a circumferential extent of two adjacent poles (22), —exhibit an angular difference in relation to one another that is dependent on an angular offset parameter (6) related to a stator pitch.
US12034336B2
A wound field rotor includes a shaft having an outer surface, an inner surface defining a flow path, and an opening defining a passage extending from the flow path through the outer surface. A plurality of laminations is mounted to the outer surface. The plurality of laminations includes an inner annular surface disposed on the shaft and an outer annular surface defining a plurality of rotor teeth. A plurality of field windings is disposed about corresponding ones of the plurality of rotor teeth. A first portion of the plurality of rotor laminations includes a first passage portion that extends from the inner annular surface radially outwardly and is fluidically connected to the passage, and a second portion of the plurality or rotor laminations adjacent the first portion includes a second passage portion that includes a first end that registers with the first passage portion and a second end.
US12034332B2
In the power source switching control system, a circuit breaker includes a controller and an on/off apparatus. The controller controls, based on a signal of a monitor, the on/off apparatus to adjust an on/off state of a power source connected to the circuit breaker, that is, adjust, from an on state to an off state based on a switch-off signal of the monitor, a working power source that is currently working, and adjust a backup power source from an off state to an on state based on a switch-on signal of the monitor, to implement a process of power source switching between the working power source and the backup power source.
US12034331B2
An example method for charging a barcode reader that can be implemented by a charging cradle includes: detecting that the barcode reader is coupled to a first interface of the charging cradle for the barcode reader; detecting that a spare battery of the barcode reader is coupled to a second interface of the charging cradle; receiving, via a connection between the charging cradle and a port of a host power source, an indication of a magnitude of an input current that the host power source is capable of delivering to the charging cradle over the connection; comparing the magnitude of the input current to a threshold magnitude; responsive to the comparing, determining a charging order in which to charge the barcode reader and the spare battery using the input current from the host power source; and charging the barcode reader and the spare battery in accordance with the charging order.
US12034317B2
A method for detecting a foreign object disposed in a charging area of a wireless power transmitter, the method including transmitting, by a wireless power receiver to the wireless power transmitter, a foreign object detection status packet including a mode bit field indicating whether the foreign object detection status packet includes a reference peak frequency of the wireless power receiver; and receiving, by the wireless power receiver from the wireless power transmitter, a response indicating the foreign object is present or not present in the charging area, wherein a data packet is used for information exchange between the wireless power transmitter and the wireless power receiver, wherein the reference peak frequency is pre-assigned to the wireless power receiver, wherein the response is determined based on a comparison of a measured peak frequency of a power signal transmitted by the wireless power transmitter and an adaptable threshold frequency adapted based on the reference peak frequency included in the foreign object detection status packet from the wireless power receiver, wherein the data packet includes a header field, a message field, and a checksum field, wherein the header field identifies the type of the data packet, and wherein the checksum field identifies whether an error has occurred in the data packet.
US12034311B2
A transmitter assembly is useful in optimizing the delivery of wireless power to a plurality of receivers. Each receiver measures its own battery need for power and transmits that measurement as a request to the transmitter. The transmitter is configured to normalize and compare battery need requests. The transmitter then allocates pulses of wireless power among the requesting receivers according to their battery need.
US12034310B2
Wireless power transfer (WPT) efficiency is enhanced using an ultra-low power (ULP) distributed beamforming technique. A phase and frequency offset correction technique is used for beam-forming optimization, a backscattering communication technique is used to reduce power over-head, and a new rectifier and MPT method is used for high efficiency RF-to-DC conversion.
US12034309B2
Various implementations described herein are directed to a method for detecting, by a device, an increase in temperature at certain parts of an electrical system, and taking appropriate responsive action. The method may include measuring temperatures at certain locations within the system and estimating temperatures at other locations based on the measurements. Some embodiments disclosed herein include an integrated cable combining electrical conduction and heat-detection capabilities, or an integrated cable or connector combining electrical conduction with a thermal fuse.
US12034307B2
The present invention relates to an MPC-based hierarchical coordinated control method and device for a wind-hydrogen coupling system. The method comprises the following steps: (1) dividing the wind-hydrogen coupling system into upper-layer grid-connected control and lower-layer electrolytic cell control; (2) controlling grid-connected power to track a wind power prediction curve by adopting an MPC control algorithm for upper-layer grid-connected control, and obtaining an electrolytic cell power control quantity for the lower-layer electrolytic cell control at the same time; (3) dividing operation states of electrolytic cell monomers into four operation states of rated power operation, fluctuating power operation, overload power operation and shutdown; and (4) determining the operation states of various electrolytic cell monomers by adopting a time-power double-line rotation control strategy based on the electrolytic cell power control quantity, thus making the electrolytic cell monomers operate in one of the four operating states in turn.
US12034304B2
The present disclosure is directed to energy storage and supply management system. The system may include one or more of a control unit, which is in communication with the power grid, and an energy storage unit that stores power for use at a later time. The system may be used with traditional utility provided power as well as locally generated solar, wind, and any other types of power generation technology. In some embodiments, the energy storage unit and the control unit are housed in the same chassis. In other embodiments, the energy storage unit and the control unit are separate. In another embodiment, the energy storage unit is integrated into the chassis of an appliance itself.
US12034300B2
Cloud based energy systems and methods for managing the cloud based energy systems are disclosed. A cloud based energy system (may be referred to simply as “energy cloud”) in accordance with embodiments of the present disclosure may be configured to share its energy resources and data to various energy-producing, energy-consuming, and/or energy-storage devices connected to the energy cloud. Such a configuration may enable ubiquitous, on-demand access to a shared pool of configurable energy resources, providing users with various capabilities to store and to retrieve energy as needed.
US12034290B2
A method for reducing arc flash energy on an electrical system to safe limits, the method including installing an over current relay on a secondary side (480 Volt) of a transformer on the electrical system; wherein the transformer having a primary side and the secondary side; pre-setting a time delay with instanteous settings of the over current relay to a predetermined value; and wherein the predetermined value is configured to be operable for coordinating at least one or more upstream relays and at least one or more downstream breakers. Since the fast overcurrent protection is permanently installed, it is always functional, do not require human interventions and eliminates exposure to human errors.
US12034289B1
A universal conduit support receiver device and system. In one embodiment, a cable support to align a plurality of cables in a horizontal orientation or vertical orientation includes a pair of opposing retaining arms, a pair of raised platform neck, and a cable support chassis. The result is a hybrid pull-through receiver for enhancing the organizational and interchangeable routing of cables and wires.
US12034274B2
A light emitting element according to the present disclosure includes a first light reflecting layer 41, a laminated structure 20, and a second light reflecting layer 42 laminated to each other. The laminated structure 20 includes a first compound semiconductor layer 21, a light emitting layer 23, and a second compound semiconductor layer 22 laminated to each other from a side of the first light reflecting layer. Light from the laminated structure 20 is emitted to an outside via the first light reflecting layer 41 or the second light reflecting layer 42. The first light reflecting layer 41 has a structure in which at least two types of thin films 41A and 41B are alternately laminated to each other in plural numbers. A film thickness modulating layer 80 is provided between the laminated structure 20 and the first light reflecting layer 41.
US12034271B2
An optoelectronic semiconductor device may include a first array of first optoelectronic components and a second array of second optoelectronic components arranged in a substrate. The first optoelectronic components may each include a first resonator mirror and a second resonator mirror where the first resonator mirror has a first main surface and an active area suitable for generating radiation. Each resonator mirror is arranged one above the other along a first direction where radiation emitted by the optoelectronic component is emitted via the first main surface. The first optoelectronic components are suitable for emitting electromagnetic radiation. The second optoelectronic components may each include an active area suitable for generating radiation and are suitable for absorbing electromagnetic radiation.
US12034265B2
A terminal block includes an insulating casing defining a recess receiving a conductive bar and a retaining spring. The conductive bar includes a base portion, a support leg attached to the base portion and a cooperating leg attached to the base portion. In a mounted position of the conductive bar and the retaining spring within the recess, the support leg engages with a support part of the retaining spring, and the cooperating leg is positioned to engage with a conductor inserted into a plug of the terminal block.
US12034262B2
It is suggested to provide a device (1) for connecting a cable to an electrical connector (15). The device (1) comprises a welding nest (16) and a connector advancing mechanism for feeding the electrical connector (15) to the welding nest (16). Preferably the welding nest is an ultrasonic welding nest. The connector advancing mechanism comprises a separation unit (2), a feeding mechanism (3) and a transfer mechanism (4). The separation unit (2) is a separation unit for separating at least one connector (15) from a strip (21) to which the connector (15) is attached. The at least one connector (15) is preferably separated from the strip (21) with a cutting die (17). The feeding mechanism (3) is a feeding mechanism for feeding the connector (15) to the separation unit (2). The transfer mechanism (4) is a transfer mechanism for transferring the connector (15) from the separation unit (2) to the welding nest (16). Along a direction of transport (T) of a connector (15) the feeding mechanism (3) is disposed before the separation unit (2) and the separation unit (2) is disposed before the transfer mechanism (4). The transfer mechanism (4) includes a pusher with one or two or more feed fingers (5) for pushing a first connector (15) in the direction of transport (T).
US12034253B2
A connector 10 includes a plurality of terminals 20 formed by a metal plate and extending in parallel to each other and a housing 40 made of resin for covering the plurality of terminals 20, and is mounted on a case 101 of a device 100. The terminal 20A, 20B, 20C includes a first extending portion 21A, 21B, 21C extending in a first direction Z and a second extending portion 22A, 22B, 22C extending from a part of the first extending portion 21A, 21B, 21C on a side opposite to the case 101 and to be connected to a wire 30. Plate thickness directions of a plurality of the first extending portions 21A, 21B and 21C coincide with each other. A plurality of the second extending portions 22A, 22B and 22C extend in a plane direction intersecting the first direction Z and orthogonal to the plate thickness directions.
US12034252B2
A connector in the present disclosure is a connector to be connected to a cable and including an inner conductor, an outer conductor and a housing. The outer conductor includes a tubular connecting tube portion and a covering portion. The connecting tube portion accommodates the inner conductor while being electrically insulated from the inner conductor. The covering portion is arranged on an outer periphery of the connecting tube portion. The covering portion includes a fitting hole. An accommodating portion of the housing accommodates the outer conductor together with the inner conductor. An inner wall of the accommodating portion is formed with a terminal locking portion to be fit into the fitting hole. The covering portion includes a locked portion to be locked to the terminal locking portion. The locked portion projects toward the inner wall provided with the terminal locking portion on an opening edge of the fitting hole.
US12034248B2
A wire end connector and a connector assembly are provided. The wire end connector comprises a wire end housing and an unlocking member. The wire end housing comprises a wire end accommodating part and a retaining notch. The unlocking member comprises two opposite unlocking arms an activation piece and a buckling connecting piece. The two unlocking arms being movably disposed in the wire end housing, one end of the buckling connecting piece is connected to the two unlocking arms and disposed in the retaining notch, another end of the buckling connecting piece is connected to the activation piece.
US12034246B2
An electrical connector includes a support bracket and a connection terminal. The connection terminal includes a terminal body mounted on the support bracket and in sliding electrical contact with a bus bar extending in a first plane, and a terminal connection portion protruding from a bottom of the terminal body in a first direction parallel to the first plane and electrically connected to a circuit board.
US12034244B2
A battery connector lockout device is configured to lockout a battery connector including a connector head connected to a wire. The device includes an enclosure body having a first base wall and a second base wall opposite one another that are selectively movable in relative to one another between an open and closed positions. A cavity is defined by the enclosure body and dimensioned to receive the connector head and a wire access opening extends through the enclosure body into the cavity. A peg projects into the cavity from the enclosure body. A locking mechanism is configured to be selectively locked to hold the first base wall and the second base wall in the closed position thereby retaining the connector head in the cavity (that is, locking out the battery connector in the lockout device so that the connector head cannot be used).
US12034240B2
An electrical connection terminal and an electrical connection assembly are disclosed. The electrical connection terminal has a base, and a plurality of tabs connected to the base. The plurality of tabs are separated from each other, and each of the plurality of tabs is adapted to mate with a mating terminal in a plug-in manner. In the present invention, the electrical connection terminal adopts a plurality of parallel tabs, so the length of the electrical connection terminal and the current flow path through the electrical connection terminal are reduced. Therefore, the electrical connection terminal of the present invention has low body resistance, less heating and is more suitable for high current applications.
US12034235B2
A RF transmitting device and method for transmitting digital information wherein the device is connected to or connectable with an antenna, the RF transmitting device having an RF source or transmitter, an electronic switch, a plurality electromechanical resonators each connected to the electronic switch. The electronic switch connects a selected one or selected ones of the electromechanical resonators between the RF source or transmitter and the antenna. Alternatively, the electronic switch connects a selected one or selected ones of the electromechanical resonators between different portions of the antenna. The electronic switch is controlled by a digital control unit for causing the electronic switch to couple RF energy produced by the RF source or transmitter to the antenna via the selected one or selected ones of the plurality of electromechanical resonators.
US12034233B2
A method includes determining an operating frequency of an antenna at a component of the antenna. The method includes determining, at the component of the antenna, a filter node of a plurality of filter nodes to activate to tune the antenna to the operating frequency. The method includes transmitting power to the filter node, wherein the power is transmitted via a first optical fiber. The method also includes sending a signal from the component to a light source. The activation of the light source sends an optical signal to the filter node. The filter node adjusts a characteristic of a radiating element coupled to the filter node using the power responsive to the optical signal. Adjustment of the characteristic facilitates tuning the antenna to the operating frequency.
US12034216B2
An antenna assembly for an electronic device includes an array of millimeter-wave (mmWave) antenna elements situated within a carrier pivotably mounted upon a base coupled to a substrate. An actuator can pivot the carrier relative to the base to change a field of view of the array of mmWave antenna elements.
US12034211B2
An array antenna is formed from delay lines, and includes radiating elements which are individually connected to line patterns of the delay lines. Such an array antenna structure can be implemented by printed circuit technology and can be used to establish radio links for data communication between a mobile carrier, such as an aircraft, and a geostationary satellite.
US12034193B2
The copolymer includes divalent units represented by formula —[CF2—CF2]—, at least one divalent unit represented by formula (I): and at least one divalent unit independently represented by formula (II): A is —N(RFa)2 or a is non-aromatic, 5- to 8-membered, perfluorinated ring comprising one or two nitrogen atoms in the ring and optionally comprising at least one oxygen atom in the ring, each RFa is independently linear or branched perfluoroalkyl having 1 to 8 carbon atoms and optionally interrupted by at least one catenated O or N atom, each Y is independently —H or —F, with the proviso that one Y may be —CF3, h is 0, 1, or 2, each i is independently 2 to 8, and j is 0, 1, or 2. A catalyst ink and polymer electrolyte membrane including the copolymer are also provided.
US12034191B2
Proposed is a fuel cell power control system. A fuel cell generates electric power. A load unit is electrically connected to the fuel cell. A DC/DC converter is disposed between the fuel cell and the load unit to convert the electric power between a low side of the DC/DC converter electrically connected to the fuel cell and a high side of the DC/DC converter electrically connected to the load unit. A battery is electrically connected to the high side of the DC/DC converter to be parallel to the load unit. A controller monitors a voltage of the load unit, the battery, or the high side of the DC/DC converter, and controls the electric power input to the load unit or output from the load unit in accordance with the monitored voltage.
US12034185B2
A metal-air battery module includes a unit assembly having a plurality of battery units coupled using first couplers. Each battery unit has a metal-air battery cell held by a sheet. In the unit assembly, two of the metal-air battery cells adjacent to each other are arranged in such a manner that a negative-electrode terminal and an air-electrode terminal face each other, and the facing terminals are connected together to form a pair of connected terminals. In the pair of connected terminals, the negative-electrode terminal and the air-electrode terminal are connected through welding or other methods.
US12034183B2
A battery module includes a plurality of battery cells, a base frame configured to support the plurality of battery cells, a cover frame coupled to the base frame to cover the plurality of battery cells, and a bus bar unit coupled to the cover frame in a tiltable manner so as to be pivotable between a first location fixed to the cover frame and a second location fixed to the base frame, where the first location is oriented at a predetermined angle relative to the second location.
US12034177B2
A battery pack includes at least two battery modules arranged in one direction; and a fire extinguisher having a linear temperature sensor partially extending linearly along the at least two battery modules and configured to sense whether at least one of the at least two battery modules has a temperature over a predetermined temperature, a fire extinguishing tank configured to accommodate a fire extinguishing agent therein, a pipe connected to the fire extinguishing tank to supply the fire extinguishing agent from the fire extinguishing tank to each of the at least two battery modules, and a valve opened to supply the fire extinguishing agent from the fire extinguishing tank to the battery module over the predetermined temperature.
US12034176B2
This application provides a battery, an apparatus, and a manufacturing method and an apparatus of batteries, and relates to the field of energy storage technologies. The battery includes two battery cells and two discharge channels. The two battery cells each include a pressure relief mechanism, and the pressure relief mechanism is configured to be actuated when internal pressure or temperature in the battery cell reaches a threshold, to release the internal pressure. The two discharge channels are configured to collect emissions respectively from the corresponding battery cell when the pressure relief mechanism is actuated.
US12034167B2
Disclosed is a carbon nanotube dispersion liquid containing carbon nanotubes, a binder, and a dispersion medium. The binder includes a polymer (A) containing an aromatic vinyl monomer unit and a linear alkylene structural unit having a carbon number of at least 4. The proportion of the binder in the carbon nanotube dispersion liquid is 30 mass % or less, and the viscosity change rate of the carbon nanotube dispersion liquid as measured under predetermined conditions before and after leaving the carbon nanotube dispersion liquid for 1 week is 50% or more and 300% or less.
US12034161B2
Provided is a lithium secondary battery which includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator interposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode, and an electrolyte, wherein the positive electrode includes, as a positive electrode active material, a lithium composite transition metal oxide powder having a layered structure and a nickel content accounting for 50 atm % to 75 atm % of total transition metals, and wherein the lithium composite transition metal oxide powder undergoes a 3% or less change in lithium-oxygen (Li—O) interlayer spacing (i.e., LiO6 slab thickness) in a state-of-charge (SOC) range of 58% to 86%.
US12034159B2
Provided are a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery excellent in reliability and productivity, a method for manufacturing the same, and a system including the non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery. A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery of the present invention includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode mixture layer in which a lithium-containing composite oxide is used as a positive electrode active material. In a charged state, the negative electrode includes an aluminum foil or an aluminum alloy foil and a Li—Al alloy formed by reaction with Li ions deintercaleted from the positive electrode. The Li—Al alloy has a Li content of 7 to 29 atomic % with respect to 100 atomic % of a total of Li and Al at the end of charge.
US12034156B2
A sulfur-carbon composite including a porous carbon material; and sulfur coated on at least a portion of an inside and a surface of the porous carbon material, wherein a pore volume of the sulfur-carbon composite is 0.04 to 0.400 cm3/g and a specific surface area of the sulfur-carbon composite is 4.0 to 30 m2/g, and a method for preparing the same.
US12034144B2
A method for forming a prelithiated, layered anode material includes contacting an ionic compound and a lithium precursor in an environment having a temperature ranging from about 200° C. to about 900° C. The ionic compound is a three-dimensional layered material represented by MX2, where M is one of calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) and X is one of silicon (Si), germanium (Ge), and boron (B). The lithium precursor is selected from the group consisting of: LiH, LiC, LiOH, LiCl, and combinations thereof. The contacting of the ionic compound and the lithium precursor in the environment causes removal of cations from the ionic compound to create openings in interlayer spaces or voids in the three-dimensional layered material thereby defining a two-dimensional layered material and also causes introduction of lithium ions from the lithium precursor into the interlayer spaces or voids to form the prelithiated, layered anode material.
US12034143B2
An electrode disclosed here includes a surface part of an electrode active material layer has a plurality of first grooves extending in a width direction of the electrode current collector and at least one second groove extending in a longitudinal direction of an electrode current collector. The first groove is formed to be continuous from one end to another end. Here, a region in which the first groove and the second groove are formed is uniformly divided into three layers, which are an upper layer, an intermediate layer and a lower layer, in a thickness direction from the surface of the electrode active material layer to the electrode current collector, and when electrode densities (g/cm3) of the upper layer, the intermediate layer and the lower layer of the groove are d1, d2, and d3, respectively, a relationship of 0.8<(d1/d3)<1.1 is satisfied.
US12034142B2
(A) A first layer is formed by applying a first negative electrode slurry to the surface of a negative electrode substrate. (B) A second layer is formed by applying a second negative electrode slurry to the surface of the first layer. The first negative electrode slurry includes a first negative electrode composite material. The second negative electrode slurry includes a second negative electrode composite material. Each of the first negative electrode composite material and the second negative electrode composite material includes a negative electrode active material and a cellulose-based binder. The negative electrode active material includes a first graphite powder and a second graphite powder. The first negative electrode composite material includes the cellulose-based binder at a first mass fraction. The second negative electrode composite material includes the cellulose-based binder at a second mass fraction.
US12034141B2
A heat-insulating sheet for a battery pack is interposed between battery cells of the battery pack in which the battery cells are connected in series or in parallel. The heat-insulating sheet for the battery pack contains a first particle made from a silica nanoparticle and a second particle made from a metal oxide. A content of the first particle is 60 mass % or more and 95 mass % or less relative to a total mass of the first particle and the second particle.
US12034139B2
In a heat, dissipating structure, a plurality of heat dissipating members for a heat source are connected. Each heat dissipating member has a heat conduction sheet that extends while winding in a spiral shape for conducting the heat from the heat source; a cushion member which is provided on an annular rear side of the heat conduction sheet and can be more easily deformed corresponding to the outer surface shape of the heat source than the heat conduction sheet; an adhesive layer that fixes the heat conduction sheet and the cushion member and is more easily deformed than the heat conduction sheet; and a through passage penetrating in the direction in which the heat conduction sheet extends while being wound. The heat dissipating members are connected by connection members in a state of being aligned perpendicular to the direction in which the heat conduction sheet extends while being wound.
US12034138B2
A battery module improves performance of secondary batteries through effective thermal control. The battery module includes at least one secondary battery, a module case having an empty space formed therein to accommodate the at least one secondary battery in the inner space and at least one heat pressure exchange member disposed to face the secondary battery in the inner space of the module case. The at least one heat pressure exchange member is configured to absorb and retain heat when a pressure applied from the secondary battery is equal to or less than a reference value and release the retained heat when the pressure applied from the secondary battery is higher than the reference value.
US12034122B2
A lithium-ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution that includes an alkoxy compound represented by CmX2m+1—O—(CX2)n—OH. Each X represents hydrogen (H) or a halogen, m is an integer of 1 or greater, n is an integer of 1 or greater, and (m+n) is 4 or greater.
US12034114B2
Provided are a method of manufacturing a solid electrolyte sheet including: a step of performing preforming on inorganic solid electrolyte particles containing solid particles plastically deformable at 250° C. or lower; and a step of performing shearing processing on one surface of the obtained preformed body, in which a solid electrolyte layer consisting of the inorganic solid electrolyte particles is formed, and a method of manufacturing a negative electrode sheet for an all-solid state secondary battery and an all-solid state secondary battery, which include the method of manufacturing a solid electrolyte sheet.
US12034111B2
The present invention pertains to an ionically conductive composition comprising at least one ionic conductive solid inorganic substance and at least one copolymer of vinylidene fluoride, to a process for its manufacture and to the use thereof for manufacturing components for solid state batteries.
US12034110B2
The present disclosure provides laminating equipment, method and a laminated structure, and relates to the technical field of jelly roll manufacturing. The laminating equipment includes a transferring mechanism and a carrying mechanism. The transferring mechanism is configured to transfer a composite bi-cell belt downward, wherein the composite bi-cell belt has thereon a plurality of composite bi-cell units, and two adjacent composite bi-cell units are connected to each other through a bending section. The carrying mechanism has a laminating plane, and the plurality of the composite bi-cell units are laminated one by one on the laminating plane, thereby forming a laminated structure.
US12034108B2
A secondary battery includes a wound electrode body having a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator. The positive electrode and the negative electrode are stacked on each other with the separator interposed therebetween and are wound about a winding axis. The wound electrode body has a section perpendicular to the winding axis. The section has an elongated shape that includes a flat part and a pair of curved parts. The curved parts oppose each other with the flat part interposed therebetween. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer provided on the negative electrode current collector. A ratio of a second distance to a first distance is less than 1.
US12034106B2
The present disclosure provides a flexible display panel, which includes a substrate, a plurality of hollow regions, a plurality of display units, a plurality of wire structures, and a plurality of spacers. The substrate is defined as a plurality of island regions and a plurality of bridge regions. Each of the hollow regions is surrounded by four adjacent of the island regions and four adjacent of the bridge regions. The display units are respectively disposed on the island regions of the substrate. The wire structures are respectively disposed on the bridge regions and electrically connected to the display units. Each of the wire structures includes at least one wire layer including at least one wire disposed on the substrate. The spacers are disposed on and in contact with the substrate, and respectively surround the hollow regions, and separated from the wire structures to control etching sizing.
US12034103B2
A light emitting diode structure includes a substrate, a chip on a top surface of the substrate, transparent cup walls on the top surface of the substrate and surround the chip, a wavelength conversion layer covering the chip between the transparent cup walls, and a reflective layer on the wavelength conversion layer. The reflective layer includes a curved bottom surface protruding toward the chip and directly contacting a top surface of the wavelength conversion layer. An edge of the reflective layer directly contacts the transparent cup walls and the wavelength conversion layer. The wavelength conversion layer fills a space defined by the substrate, the transparent cup walls and the reflective layer such that a bottom surface, a side surface, and the top surface of the wavelength conversion layer directly contacts the substrate, the transparent cup walls, and the reflective layer, respectively.
US12034102B2
An LED light source includes a board, a holder, an LED, a fastener, a lens, a supporter, and an adhesive. The board has a first surface. The holder is arranged on or above the first surface. The LED is arranged on or above the first surface. The fastener fastens the LED to the first surface. The lens has an exterior shape larger than the LED as viewed in a plan view, and is arranged on or above an LED upper surface to refract LED light so as to direct the light outward. The supporter is arranged on an exterior with respect to the LED as viewed in a plan view on a lens surface facing the first surface. The supporter is held by the holder for positioning of the lens at a predetermined position on the first surface. The adhesive bonds the supporter and the board together.
US12034094B2
Double-sided tunneling silicon-oxide passivated back-contact solar cell and its preparation method including silicon wafer with front surface and back surface. On the back surface of silicon wafer, first semiconductor layer and second semiconductor layer are provided, while on the front surface of silicon wafer, passivation layer is provided. The first semiconductor layer includes first tunneling silicon-oxide layer and first doped polycrystalline silicon layer. The passivation layer includes second tunneling silicon-oxide layer and second doped polycrystalline silicon layer. The thickness of first doped polycrystalline silicon layer is 3-8 times that of second doped polycrystalline silicon layer. The back surface of silicon wafer is provided with first phosphorus-doped diffusion region, and the front surface of silicon wafer, which is textured surface, is provided with second phosphorus-doped diffusion region. The ratio of the depth of first phosphorus-doped diffusion region to the depth of second phosphorus-doped diffusion region ranges from 1-6:1.
US12034080B2
To suppress a change in electrical characteristics in a transistor including an oxide semiconductor film. The transistor includes a first gate electrode, a first insulating film, an oxide semiconductor film, a source electrode, a drain electrode, a second insulating film, a second gate electrode, and a third insulating film. The oxide semiconductor film includes a first oxide semiconductor film on the first gate electrode side, and a second oxide semiconductor film over the first oxide semiconductor film. The first oxide semiconductor film and the second oxide semiconductor film include In, M, and Zn (M is Al, Ga, Y, or Sn). In a region of the second oxide semiconductor film, the number of atoms of In is smaller than that in the first oxide semiconductor film. The second gate electrode includes at least one metal element included in the oxide semiconductor film.
US12034072B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of unit cell transistors on a common semiconductor structure, the unit cell transistors electrically connected in parallel, and each unit cell transistor including a respective gate finger. Respective threshold voltages of first and second of the unit cell transistors differ by at least 0.1 volts and/or threshold voltages of first and second segments of a third of the unit cell transistors differ by at least 0.1 volts.
US12034067B2
A GaN-HEMT device with a sandwich structure and a method for preparing the same are provided. The GaN-HEMT device includes an epitaxial layer and electrodes, wherein the epitaxial layer includes a GaN channel layer (2) and an AlyGa1-y barrier layer (1), and is arranged from top to bottom; the electrodes include a gate electrode (6), a source electrode (7), a drain electrode (5) and a field plate electrode (10), wherein the field plate electrode (10) and the gate electrode (6) are respectively fabricated on an upper surface and a lower surface of the epitaxial layer, and the field plate electrode (10) extends to a region beyond the epitaxial layer and is connected with the gate electrode (6) to form the sandwich structure, and the source electrode (7) and the drain electrode (5) are respectively located at two ends of the epitaxial layer.
US12034066B2
A power semiconductor device includes: a drift region; a plurality of IGBT cells each having a plurality of trenches extending into the drift region along a vertical direction and laterally confining at least one active mesa which includes an upper section of the drift region; and an electrically floating barrier region of an opposite conductivity type as the drift region and spatially confined, in and against the vertical direction, by the drift region. A total volume of all active mesas is divided into first and second shares, the first share not laterally overlapping with the barrier region and the second share laterally overlapping with the barrier region. The first share carries the load current at least within a range of 0% to 100% of a nominal load current. The second share carries the load current if the load current exceeds at least 0.5% of the nominal load current.
US12034062B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a first stacked nanostructure and a second stacked nanostructure formed over a substrate, and a dummy fin structure between the first stacked nanostructure and the second stacked nanostructure. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate structure formed over the first stacked nanostructure and the second stacked nanostructure, and a conductive layer formed over the gate structure. The semiconductor device structure includes a capping layer formed over the dummy fin structure, and each of the gate structure and the conductive layer is divided into two portions by the capping layer.
US12034058B2
The present disclosure describes a device that is protected from the effects of an oxide on the metal gate layers of ferroelectric field effect transistors. In some embodiments, the device includes a substrate with fins thereon; an interfacial layer on the fins; a crystallized ferroelectric layer on the interfacial layer; and a metal gate layer on the ferroelectric layer.
US12034056B2
A semiconductor device includes a plurality of semiconductor layers vertically separated from one another. The semiconductor device includes a gate structure that comprises a lower portion and an upper portion. The lower portion wraps around each of the plurality of semiconductor layers. The semiconductor device includes a gate spacer that extends along a sidewall of the upper portion of the gate structure and comprises a first layer and a second layer. The first layer is in contact with a first portion of the sidewall and the second layer is in contact with a second portion of the sidewall.
US12034052B2
A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The semiconductor device includes a semiconductor channel layer, a gate structure, complex regions, a source terminal and a drain terminal. The gate structure is disposed on the semiconductor channel layer. The source terminal and the drain terminal are disposed on the semiconductor channel layer. The complex regions ae respectively disposed between the source terminal and the semiconductor channel layer and between the drain terminal and the semiconductor channel layer.
US12034045B2
A semiconductor device structure is provided. The semiconductor device structure includes a substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a first nanostructure over the substrate. The semiconductor device structure includes a gate stack over the substrate and surrounding the first nanostructure. The gate stack is partially embedded in the first nanostructure. The semiconductor device structure includes a first source/drain layer surrounding the first nanostructure and adjacent to the gate stack. The semiconductor device structure includes a contact structure surrounding the first source/drain layer. A first portion of the contact structure is between the first source/drain layer and the substrate.
US12034042B2
A semiconductor device includes first and second active patterns on a substrate, the first and second active patterns adjacent to each other in a first direction with a first trench between the first and second active patterns, third and fourth active patterns on the substrate, the third and fourth active patterns adjacent to each other in the first direction with a second trench between the third and fourth active patterns. The semiconductor device includes a first device isolation layer in the first trench, and a second device isolation layer in the second trench. A width of the second trench in the first direction is greater than a width of the first trench in the first direction. The second device isolation layer includes a first protrusion and a second protrusion which protrude from a top surface of the second device isolation layer.
US12034041B2
A semiconductor device includes active regions on a substrate, a gate structure intersecting the active regions, a source/drain region on the active regions and at a side surface of the gate structure, a gate spacer between the gate structure and the source/drain region, the gate spacer contacting the side surface of the gate structure, a lower source/drain contact plug connected to the source/drain region, a gate isolation layer on the gate spacer, an upper end of the gate isolation layer being at a higher level than an upper surface of the gate structure and an upper surface of the lower source/drain contact plug, a capping layer covering the gate structure, the lower source/drain contact plug, and the gate isolation layer, and an upper source/drain contact plug connected to the lower source/drain contact plug and extending through the capping layer.
US12034040B2
A method for forming a drift region of a superjunction transistor and a superjunction transistor device are disclosed. The method includes forming first regions of a first doping type and second regions of a second type in a semiconductor body such that the first and second regions are arranged alternatingly in the body. The first and second regions are formed by: forming trenches in at least one semiconductor layer; implanting first type dopant atoms and second type dopant atoms into opposing sidewalls of the trenches; filling the trenches with a semiconductor material; and diffusing the dopant atoms in a thermal process so that the first type dopant atoms form the first regions and the second type dopant atoms form the second regions. Each trench has a first width, the trenches are separated by mesa regions each having a second width, and the first width is greater than the second width.
US12034035B2
A semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and a multi-layer stack positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode, the multi-layer stack including at least one anti-ferroelectric layer and at least one high-k dielectric layer.
US12034033B2
A semiconductor device package comprises a semiconductor switching device having a body, including a first side, and an opposing second side coupled to a substrate. A gate terminal is defined on the semiconductor switching device body first side, the gate terminal having a first side, and an opposing second side facing the semiconductor switching device body. A first gate resistor is disposed on the gate terminal first side, and coupled electrically in series with the gate terminal.
US12034032B2
A micro light emitting diode (LED) device and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. A micro LED device includes a light emitting layer that is provided on a support substrate, a bonding layer, and a driver layer. The light emitting layer includes a stacked structure including a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer; first and second electrodes provided on a first side and a second side of the stacked structure; and a plurality of light emitting regions. The bonding layer is positioned between the support substrate and the light emitting layer. The drive layer includes a drive element electrically connected to the light emitting layer and is positioned on the light emitting layer to apply power to the plurality of light emitting regions of the light emitting layer.
US12034025B2
An imaging device may include single-photon avalanche diodes (SPADs). To mitigate crosstalk, isolation structures may be formed around each SPAD. The isolation structures may include front side deep trench isolation structures that extend partially or fully through a semiconductor substrate for the SPADs. The isolation structures may include a metal filler such as tungsten that absorbs photons. The isolation structures may include a p-type doped semiconductor liner to mitigate dark current. The isolation structures may include a buffer layer such as silicon dioxide that is interposed between the metal filler and the p-type doped semiconductor liner. The isolation structures may have a tapered portion or may be formed in two steps such that the isolation structures have different portions with different properties. An additional filler such as polysilicon or borophosphosilicate glass may be included in some of the isolation structures in addition to the metal filler.
US12034024B2
There is provided a solid-state imaging device that is capable of suppression of color mixing caused by a pixel for near-infrared light and securement of a saturation charge amount of a pixel for visible light where the pixels are formed in a same substrate. The solid-state imaging device includes: a substrate; first to third photoelectric conversion units; infrared absorbing filters; first to third color filters; a first element isolation unit between the first and second photoelectric conversion units; and a second element isolation unit disposed between the second and third photoelectric conversion units, in which a cross-sectional area of the first element isolation unit along a direction in which the first and second photoelectric conversion units are aligned is larger than a cross-sectional area of the second element isolation unit along a direction in which the second and third photoelectric conversion units are aligned.
US12034003B2
A semiconductor device includes: a metal thin film disposed on a semiconductor substrate; and first and second contact structures disposed on the metal thin film, wherein the first and second contact structures are laterally spaced from each other by a dummy layer that comprises at least one polishing resistance material.
US12033998B2
An integrated circuit includes a gated circuit configured to operate on at least a first or a second voltage, a header circuit coupled to the gated circuit, a first and second power rail on a back-side of a wafer, and a third power rail on a front-side of the wafer. The header circuit is configured to supply the first voltage to the gated circuit by the first power rail. The first power rail includes a first portion, a second portion and a third portion, the third portion being between the first portion and the second portion. The second power rail is configured to supply the second voltage to the gated circuit, and is between the first portion and the second portion. The third power rail includes a first set of conductors. Each of the first set of conductors being configured to supply a third voltage to the header circuit.
US12033992B2
A package includes a first die, a second die, a bridge structure, a first redistribution structure, and an encapsulant. The first die and the second die are disposed side by side. The bridge structure is disposed over the first die and the second die. The bridge structure includes a plurality of routing patterns and a plurality of connectors disposed on the plurality of routing patterns. The first redistribution structure is sandwiched between the first die and the bridge structure and is sandwiched between the second die and the bridge structure. The plurality of connectors of the bridge structure is in physical contact with the first redistribution structure. The encapsulant encapsulates the bridge structure. The plurality of routing patterns and the plurality of connectors of the bridge structure are completely spaced apart from the encapsulant.
US12033991B2
A package-on-package (PoP) semiconductor package includes an upper package and a lower package. The lower package includes a first semiconductor device in a first area, a second semiconductor device in a second area, and a command-and-address vertical interconnection, a data input-output vertical interconnection, and a memory management vertical interconnection adjacent to the first area.
US12033985B2
A display unit includes a substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposed to each other, a plurality of light emitting devices provided on the first surface of the substrate, a mounting member provided in a selective region of the second surface of the substrate, a base that is provided to be opposed to the substrate and has an opening through which the mounting member is inserted with a gap therebetween, and a rigid member that is provided in the gap and is in contact with the base and the mounting member.
US12033984B2
A semiconductor device including a semiconductor unit that has a first arm part, which includes: first and second semiconductor chips having first and second control electrodes on their front surfaces, a first circuit pattern where the first and second semiconductor chips are disposed, a second circuit pattern to which the first and second control electrodes are connected, and a first control wire electrically connecting the first and second control electrodes and the second circuit pattern sequentially in a direction; and a second arm part, which includes third and fourth semiconductor chips having third and fourth control electrodes on their front surfaces, a third circuit pattern where the third and fourth semiconductor chips are disposed, a fourth circuit pattern to which the third and fourth control electrodes are connected, and a second control wire electrically connecting the third and fourth control electrodes and the fourth circuit pattern sequentially in the direction.
US12033981B2
A semiconductor device comprises a first chip layer, having a first chip layer front-side and a first chip layer back-side, a qubit chip layer, having a qubit chip layer front-side and a qubit chip layer back-side, the qubit chip layer front-side operatively coupled to the first chip layer front-side with a set of bump-bonds, a set of through-silicon vias (TSVs) connected to at least one of: the first chip layer back-side or the qubit chip layer back-side and a cap wafer metal bonded to at least one of: the qubit chip layer back-side or the first chip layer back-side.
US12033980B2
Systems and methods are described for improved heat dissipation of the stacked semiconductor dies by including metallic thermal pads between the dies in the stack. In one embodiment, the thermal pads may be in direct contact with the semiconductor dies. Heat dissipation of the semiconductor die stack can be improved by a relatively high thermal conductivity of the thermal pads that directly contact the adjacent silicon dies in the stack without the intervening layers of the low thermal conductivity materials (e.g., passivation materials). In some embodiments, the manufacturing yield of the stack can be improved by having generally coplanar top surfaces of the thermal pads and under-bump metallization (UBM) structures.
US12033964B2
Methods of semiconductor processing may include contacting a substrate with a first slurry and a first platen. The substrate may include silicon oxide defining one or more features, a liner extending across the silicon oxide and within the one or more features, and a copper-containing layer deposited on the liner and extending within the one or more features. The first slurry and the first platen may remove a first portion of the copper-containing layer. The methods may include contacting the substrate with a second slurry and a second platen, which may remove at least a portion of the liner. The methods may include contacting the substrate with a third slurry and a third platen, which may remove a second portion of the copper-containing layer. The methods may include contacting the substrate with a fourth slurry and a fourth platen, which may remove at least a portion of the silicon oxide.
US12033954B2
Signal isolation for module with ball grid array. In some embodiments, a packaged module can include a packaging substrate having an underside, and an arrangement of conductive features implemented on the underside of the packaging substrate to allow the packaged module to be capable of being mounted on a circuit board. The arrangement of conductive features can include a signal feature implemented at a first region and configured for passing of a signal, and one or more shielding features placed at a selected location relative to the signal feature to provide an enhanced isolation between the signal feature and a second region of the underside of the packaging substrate.
US12033953B2
A substrate may be included in an electronic device. The substrate may include a first layer that may include a dielectric material. The first layer may define a substrate surface. The substrate may include a second layer optionally including the dielectric material. The second layer may be coupled to the first layer. A wiring trace may be located in the substrate. A recess may extend through the substrate surface, the first layer, and may extend through the second layer. A substrate interconnect may be located within the recess. The substrate interconnect may be at least partially located below the substrate surface. The substrate interconnect may be in electrical communication with the wiring trace.
US12033948B2
A semiconductor package includes a package substrate with a first vent hole, a first semiconductor chip mounted the package substrate, an interposer including supporters on a bottom surface of the interposer and a second vent hole, wherein the supporters contact a top surface of the first semiconductor chip, and the interposer is electrically connected to the package substrate through connection terminals. The semiconductor package further include a second semiconductor chip mounted on the interposer, and a molding layer disposed on the package substrate to cover the first semiconductor chip, the interposer, and the second semiconductor chip.
US12033944B2
In a method for fabricating a semiconductor device, an initial stack of sacrificial word line layers and insulating layers is formed over a substrate of the semiconductor device. The sacrificial word line layers and the insulating layers are disposed over the substrate alternately. A first staircase is formed in a first staircase region of a connection region of the initial stack. A second staircase is formed in a second staircase region of the connection region of the initial stack. The connection region of the initial stack includes a separation region between the first and second staircases, and the connection region is positioned between array regions of the initial stack at opposing sides of the initial stack.
US12033943B2
Techniques are employed to mitigate the anchoring effects of cavity sidewall adhesion on an embedded conductive interconnect structure, and to allow a lower annealing temperature to be used to join opposing conductive interconnect structures. A vertical gap may be disposed between the conductive material of an embedded interconnect structure and the sidewall of the cavity to laterally unpin the conductive structure and allow uniaxial expansion of the conductive material. Additionally or alternatively, one or more vertical gaps may be disposed within the bonding layer, near the embedded interconnect structure to laterally unpin the conductive structure and allow uniaxial expansion of the conductive material.
US12033929B2
Package-on-package systems for packaging semiconductor devices. In one embodiment, a package-on-package system comprises a first semiconductor package device and a second semiconductor package device. The first package device includes a base substrate including a first side having a die-attach region and a peripheral region, a first semiconductor die attached to the base substrate at the die-attach region, wherein the first semiconductor die has a front side facing the first side of the base substrate and a backside spaced apart from the first side of the base substrate by a first distance, and a high density interconnect array in the perimeter region of the base substrate outside of the die-attach region. The interconnect array has a plurality of interconnects that extend from the first side of the base substrate by a second distance greater than the first distance. The second semiconductor device package is electrically coupled corresponding individual interconnects.
US12033927B2
A method for manufacturing a wiring substrate includes forming multiple conductor pads on an insulating layer such that the conductor pads include multiple first conductor pads and multiple second conductor pads, forming multiple protruding parts on surfaces of the first conductor pads of the conductor pads, respectively, forming a resin layer such that the resin layer covers the insulating layer and the conductor pads, exposing, from the resin layer, end portions of the protruding parts on the opposite side with respect to the insulating layer, forming, in the resin layer, multiple openings such that the openings expose surfaces of the second conductor pads of the conductor pads, respectively; and forming a coating film on the surfaces of the second conductor pads exposed in the openings.
US12033926B2
A semiconductor chip is mounted on a leadframe. A first portion of an insulating package for the semiconductor chip is formed from laser direct structuring (LDS) material molded onto the semiconductor chip. A conductive formation (provided by laser-drilling the LDS material and plating) extends between the outer surface of the first portion of insulating package and the semiconductor chip. An electrically conductive clip is applied onto the outer surface of the first portion of the insulating package, with the electrically conductive clip electrically coupled to the conductive formation and the leadframe. A second portion of the insulating package is made from package molding material (epoxy compound) molded onto the electrically conductive clip and applied onto the outer surface of the first portion of the insulating package.
US12033923B2
A semiconductor package structure is provided. The semiconductor package structure includes a lead frame and passive component. The lead frame includes a paddle and a plurality of leads. The lead frame includes a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface. The passive component includes an external connector. A pattern of the external connector is corresponding to a pattern of the plurality of leads of the lead frame.
US12033913B2
A chip package structure is provided. The chip package structure includes a wiring substrate. The chip package structure includes a first chip structure over the wiring substrate. The chip package structure includes a heat-spreading lid over the wiring substrate and covering the first chip structure. The heat-spreading lid includes a ring structure and a top plate. The ring structure surrounds the first chip structure. The top plate covers the ring structure and the first chip structure. The first chip structure has a first sidewall and a second sidewall opposite to the first sidewall, a first distance between the first sidewall and the ring structure is less than a second distance between the second sidewall and the ring structure, the top plate has a first opening, the first opening has a first inner wall and a second inner wall facing each other.
US12033909B2
A die package is provided. The die package may include a laminated carrier including at least one recess, a first die having a frontside, a backside, a frontside metallization on the frontside and a backside metallization on the backside, wherein the first die is arranged in the at least one recess, a first encapsulating material partially encapsulating the first die, by covering at least the frontside metallization or the backside metallization, and an adhesion promoter material between the metallization covered by the first encapsulation material and the first encapsulation material and in direct physical contact with the first encapsulation material and the metallization covered by the first encapsulation material.
US12033906B2
A semiconductor package includes a substrate, a first semiconductor device disposed over the substrate in an offset position toward an edge of the substrate, and a ring structure disposed over the substrate and surrounding the first semiconductor device. The ring structure includes an overhang portion cantilevered over the edge of the substrate.
US12033905B2
A device (2) is provided on an upper surface of the device substrate (1). A sealing frame (16) made of a non-electrolytic plating reactive catalyst metal is provided on the upper surface of the device substrate (1) and surrounds the device (2). An upper surface of the device substrate (1) and a lower surface of the cap substrate (10) are joined in a hollow state through the sealing frame (16). A plurality of electrodes (8, 11, 12) are connected to the device (2) and extended out of the device substrate (1) and the cap substrate (10). A metal film (20) is provided on an outer surface of the sealing frame (16) and not provided on the device substrate (1) and the cap substrate (10).
US12033903B1
A semiconductor package component (such as a die or interposer) can include a body having a top surface and a bottom surface. The component can further include an interface array arranged along the top surface or the bottom surface. The interface array can include a first set of microbumps arranged in a first row. The interface array can further include a second set of microbumps arranged in a second row adjacent the first row. The interface array can also include a probe pad extending into both the first row and the second row.
US12033902B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor wafer is disclosed. The method includes exposing the semiconductor wafer to one or more dopant species to form one or more first implant layers on the semiconductor wafer, testing one or more geometric parameter values of the formed one or more first implant layers, after testing the one or more geometric parameter values, conditionally exposing the semiconductor wafer to one or more dopant species to form one or more additional implant layers on the semiconductor wafer, after forming the one or more additional implant layers, conditionally forming one or more additional circuit layers on the semiconductor wafer to form a plurality of functional electronic circuits on the semiconductor wafer, and conditionally testing the semiconductor wafer with a wafer acceptance test (WAT) operation.
US12033892B2
A method of forming fully aligned vias in a semiconductor device, the method including forming a first level interconnect line embedded in a first interlevel dielectric (ILD), selectively depositing a dielectric on the first interlevel dielectric, laterally etching the selectively deposited dielectric, depositing a dielectric cap layer and a second level interlevel dielectric on top of the first interlevel dielectric, and forming a via opening.
US12033890B2
A representative method includes forming a photo-sensitive material over a substrate, and forming a cap layer over the photo-sensitive material, and patterning the cap layer. Using the patterned cap layer, a first portion of the photo-sensitive material is selectively exposed to a pre-selected light wavelength to change at least one material property of the first portion of the photo-sensitive material, while preventing a second portion of the photo-sensitive material from being exposed to the pre-selected light wavelength. One, but not both of the following steps is then conducted: removing the first portion of the photo-sensitive material and forming in its place a conductive element at least partially surrounded by the second portion of the photo-sensitive material, or removing the second portion of the photo-sensitive material and forming from the first portion of the photo-sensitive material a conductive element electrically connecting two or more portions of a circuit.
US12033885B2
A reactor system may comprise a reaction chamber enclosed by a chamber sidewall, and a susceptor disposed in the reaction chamber between a reaction space and a lower chamber space comprised in the reaction chamber. The susceptor may comprise a pin hole disposed through the susceptor such that the pin hole is in fluid communication with the reaction space and the lower chamber space, and such that the reaction space is in fluid communication with the lower chamber space. A lift pin may be disposed in the pin hole. The lift pin may comprise a pin body comprising a pin channel, defined by a pin channel surface, disposed in the pin body such that the reaction space is in fluid communication with the lower chamber space when the lift pin is disposed in the pin hole.
US12033881B2
Semiconductor substrate support assemblies may include an electrostatic chuck body having a substrate support surface. The electrostatic chuck body may define a plurality of protrusions extending from the substrate support surface. The assemblies may include an electrode embedded within the electrostatic chuck body. The electrode may define apertures through the electrode in line with the plurality of protrusions extending from the substrate support surface.
US12033875B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include an apparatus for measuring chucking force and methods of using such apparatuses. In an embodiment, the apparatus for measuring a chucking force comprises a substrate having a chucking surface, where the chucking surface is the surface that is supported by a chuck. In an embodiment, the apparatus further comprises a plurality of sensors over the chucking surface, where the plurality of sensors are thin film sensors with a thickness that is less than a thickness of the substrate. In an embodiment, the apparatus further comprises a wireless communication module electrically coupled to each of the plurality of sensors.
US12033874B2
An apparatus for heating a substrate within a thermal processing chamber is disclosed. The apparatus includes a chamber body, a gas inlet, a gas outlet, an upper window, a lower window, a substrate support, and an upper heating device. The upper heating device is a laser heating device and includes one or more laser assemblies. The laser assemblies include light sources, a cooling plate, optical fibers, and irradiation windows.
US12033869B2
In a first aspect of a present inventive subject matter, a method of etching includes etching an object at a temperature that is higher than 200° C. with atomized droplets of an etching liquid.
US12033851B1
Device scaling has increased the device density of integrated circuits (ICs) and reduced the cost of circuits. Today development of new device structures, use of new materials and implementation of complex process steps are implemented to continue scaling of the semiconductor devices. The added manufacturing steps and complexity have increased cost of ICs directly impacting the implementation of IoT devices that need low cost and high yields to be successful. LEFT-ISD-LTSEE is a device that reduces the cost while improving device performance. LEFT-ISD-LTSEE is suitable for sub 28 nm sizes where random threshold variation due to impact of discrete dopants in and around the channel is reduced by elimination of implants and drives. Also, by having a flat field profile at and around the gate, by use of low temperature epitaxy as source/drain extension, the short channel effects, and the impact of line edge variations of the gate are reduced.
US12033847B2
To perform both buff cleaning of a substrate surface and cleaning of an edge part of the substrate, a cleaning module includes: a rotary table configured to support a circular substrate and have a diameter smaller than a diameter of the substrate; a buff cleaning portion configured to buff clean a front side of the substrate while contacting the front side of the substrate supported by the rotary table; a buff cleaning portion movement mechanism configured to move the buff cleaning portion with respect to the substrate; a buff cleaning portion control mechanism configured to control an operation of the buff cleaning portion movement mechanism; and an edge cleaning portion configured to clean an edge part of the substrate while contacting the edge part of the substrate supported by the rotary table.
US12033843B2
Provided herein is an ion source containing a plurality of components, at least one of which is partially coated with a layer of silicon. The ion source reduces reactivity between the sample and the carrier gas, reduces or eliminates tailing in ion chromatograms, and/or improves mass spectral fidelity. Also provided are methods of using the ion source in a mass spectrometer or gas chromatograph-mass spectrometer.
US12033833B2
There is provided a radio frequency power filter circuit used in a plasma processing apparatus that includes an electrode and a feeding body connected to a center of a rear surface of the electrode and generates plasma by applying radio frequency power, the filter circuit including a series resonance circuit provided in a wiring line between a conductive member provided in the plasma processing apparatus and a power supply configured to supply DC power or power having a frequency of less than 400 kHz to the conductive member, and including a coil connected in series to the wiring line and a capacitor connected between the wiring line and a ground. A central axis of the coil and a central axis of the feeding body coincide with each other.
US12033830B2
Systems and methods of enhancing imaging resolution by reducing crosstalk between detection elements of a secondary charged-particle detector in a multi-beam apparatus are disclosed. The multi-beam apparatus may comprise an electro-optical system for projecting a plurality of secondary charged-particle beams from a sample onto a charged-particle detector. The electro-optical system may include a first pre-limit aperture plate comprising a first aperture configured to block peripheral charged-particles of the plurality of secondary charged-particle beams, and a beam-limit aperture array comprising a second aperture configured to trim the plurality of secondary charged-particle beams. The charged-particle detector may include a plurality of detection elements, wherein a detection element of the plurality of detection elements is associated with a corresponding trimmed beam of the plurality of secondary charged-particle beams.
US12033817B2
The invention concerns a double-motion circuit breaker comprising primary and secondary movable contacts slidingly mounted within primary and secondary holders, wherein the primary movable contact comprises a tulip and a contact cylinder attached thereto, and the secondary movable contact comprises a pin for engaging the tulip but no counter-contact for engaging the contact cylinder. The circuit breaker also has a non-linear linkage mechanism with a pin and slot mechanism, and a fixed dielectric shield provided on the secondary holder. During disconnection, the linkage mechanism is preferably arranged to move the pin more than the tulip, proportionally to their maximum stroke, so as to quickly bring the pin tip within the fixed dielectric shield, whereafter the tulip moves more than the pin. This circuit breaker is cheaper, lighter and can be disconnected more quickly.
US12033808B2
An electrolytic capacitor that includes a stack having multiple capacitor elements stacked in a thickness direction perpendicular to a length direction, wherein a first end of a first cathode is first closest to a second external electrode among all of ends of the cathodes of the multiple capacitor elements, a second end of a second cathode is second closest to the second external electrode, and an end of the second external electrode is closer to a first external electrode than the second end of the second cathode.
US12033801B2
A broadband multilayer ceramic capacitor may include a first external terminal and a second external terminal. A bottom portion of the first external terminal may be spaced apart from a bottom portion of the second external terminal by a bottom external terminal spacing distance. A first active electrode layer may include a first active electrode connected with the first external terminal and a second active electrode connected with the second external terminal and co-planar with the first electrode. A second active electrode layer may include a third active electrode connected to the first external terminal and a fourth active electrode connected to the second external terminal and co-planar with the fourth electrode. The first active electrode may overlap the fourth active electrode in the longitudinal direction. A ratio of a length of the capacitor to the bottom external terminal spacing distance may be greater than about 4.
US12033796B2
An on-chip supercapacitor constituted by a silicon substrate and a porous carbon layer positioned thereon, the carbon layer including pseudocapacitive materials. The invention also relates to the method for producing the supercapacitor and the porous material.
US12033793B2
A method of manufacturing a magnetic member comprises preparing a base member, which have a front surface and a back surface, and wherein an anchor coat layer is formed on the front surface, and forming a composite magnetic layer on the anchor coat layer.
US12033787B2
Disclosed is a system for recharging a selected power source wirelessly, such as through a power transmission. The power source may be positioned within a subject and be charged wirelessly through the subject, such as tissue of the subject. A thermal transfer system is provided to transfer or transport thermal energy from a first position to a second position, such as away from the subject.
US12033784B2
A coil component includes a support substrate, a coil portion disposed on the support substrate, and a body in which the support substrate and the coil portion are disposed. The coil portion includes a coil pattern portion, a lower pattern portion connected to the coil pattern portion and disposed on one surface of the support substrate, a dummy pattern portion disposed to overlap the lower pattern portion on another surface of the support substrate opposite to the one surface, and a through-via penetrating through the support substrate and connecting the lower pattern portion and the dummy pattern portion to each other. The lower pattern portion and the dummy pattern portion are externally exposed through one surface of the body. The through-via has one surface externally exposed through the one surface of the body.
US12033781B2
The invention concerns a core for an inductive element with at least a first side part, a middle part and a second side part, wherein the middle part has a central portion, a first edge portion arranged parallel to the central portion, and a second edge portion arranged parallel to the central portion, wherein the central portion is arranged between the first and second edge portions, wherein at least one plastic component is provided which is provided at least between the central portion and the first edge portion and/or at least between the central portion and the second edge portion, in order to adjust a stray capacitance of the inductive element and influence a secondary magnetic flux of the inductive element.
US12033777B2
Disclosed are an amorphous nanocrystalline soft magnetic material, a preparation method therefor and an application thereof, an amorphous ribbon material, an amorphous nanocrystalline ribbon material, and an amorphous nanocrystalline magnetic sheet. The soft magnetic material comprises an amorphous matrix phase, a nanocrystalline phase distributed in the amorphous matrix phase, and fine crystalline particles distributed in the amorphous matrix phase and the nanocrystalline phase. The amorphous matrix phase comprises Fe, Si, and B, the fine crystalline particles comprise metal carbides, and the soft magnetic material comprises Fe, Si, B, P, and Cu.
US12033776B2
This non-oriented electrical steel sheet includes a base steel sheet (10); and an insulation coating (20) formed on a surface of the base steel sheet (10), in which the insulation coating (20) contains a metal phosphate and an organic resin, an arithmetic mean of a center line average roughness Ra75 of the insulation coating (20) in a rolling direction of the base steel sheet (10) and a center line average roughness Ra75 of the insulation coating (20) in a direction perpendicular to the rolling direction is 0.20 to 0.50 μm, and the amount of nitrogen in the insulation coating (20) is 0.05 to 5.00 mass %.
US12033773B2
A component having an active volume, the active volume not being centrally positioned along a height of the component, and/or not being centrally positioned along a width of the component. Use of the component is also disclosed. Further aspects relate to a use of the component and to a component. The component can be an NTC thermistor or a PTC thermistor or a temperature measurement element. Use of the component for monitoring a temperature of a battery or in a vehicle is also disclosed.
US12033763B2
A “liquid sandwich” vacuum vessel for magnetic confinement fusion of plasma includes two rigid structural “bread” members that form a double-walled vessel and a non-structural “cheese” material disposed between the walls. The inner member is semi-conductive and encloses a volume of fusing plasma, while the outer member may contact a neutron shield (e.g. a molten salt blanket) and is corrosion-resistant. The non-structural material is solid at room temperature, but is molten during fusion, and is preferably lead. The structural members may be steel or silicon carbide, or similar structural material. During a disruption of fusion, excess electrical energy that escapes from the plasma into the vessel will primarily shear the liquid material rather than the structural members, allowing the “bread” to be thin.
US12033738B2
Embodiments of tissue monitoring in combination with negative pressure wound therapy systems and methods are disclosed. In some embodiments, a monitoring and therapy system comprises collecting video images of a tissue site and amplifying said video images via Eulerian Video Magnification. Depending upon the changes detected via Eulerian Video magnification, negative pressure wound therapy may be delivered to the tissue site, stopped, or altered in some manner.
US12033737B2
Streamed communication of updated control information to a medical device via an intermediate device
A system includes one or more processors and one or more processor-readable storage media storing instructions which, when executed by the one or more processors, cause performance of: associating a medical device with an intermediate device, obtaining, from the medical device via the intermediate device, measurement data correlative to a condition of a user, determining updated control information for the medical device based at least in part on the measurement data, and streaming the updated control information to the medical device via the intermediate device.
US12033733B2
Dispensing devices and systems for oral transmucosal administration of small volume drug dosage forms to the oral mucosa are provided. The dispensing device may be a single dose applicator (SDA), or an electromechanical device comprising a means for patient identification such as a wrist worn RFID tag and annular bidirectional antenna together with a lock-out feature.
US12033725B2
Provided is an engineered antimicrobial peptide. Also provided is a composition comprising an engineered antimicrobial peptide. Provided is a method of treating a subject in need thereof, comprising administering a therapeutically effective amount of a composition comprising an engineered antimicrobial peptide. Also provided is a method of producing an engineered antimicrobial peptide.
US12033724B2
Various methods are provided for determining progeny plant genotypes from a pooled sample. The methods include genotyping marker alleles in two or more progeny plants, each resulting from a different parental cross. The methods utilize in-silico deconvolution implementing Hidden Markov Modeling to determine a probability of each possible genotype for one or more marker loci in at least one progeny plant from the genetic signal generated from the pooled samples. The present methods provide for increased efficiency in genotyping progeny plants.
US12033723B2
The invention involves a method for identifying a target protein. The invention involves receiving a request to identify a target protein based on a ligand; identifying, using the ligand, a first protein, where the ligand binds with the first protein to form a ligand-protein complex; generating, a first binding site profile for the first protein, where the first binding site profile describes molecular properties of the first protein; obtaining, from a controlled server, structure data describing molecular properties of surfaces for a multitude of proteins, where the multitude of proteins comprises the target protein; identifying, using the first binding site profile and the structure data, the target protein; and presenting the target protein to a user.
US12033722B2
A computer-implemented method for inferring genetic ancestry from low-coverage genomic data may include (i) generating a reference matrix representing a genetic reference panel in terms of dosages for given reference samples at given loci, (ii) decomposing the reference matrix via non-negative matrix factorization into an ancestral genotype matrix and an ancestral attribution matrix, (iii) resampling the reference matrix, (iv) deriving an ancestral alternate reads matrix that, when multiplied with the ancestral attribution matrix, approximates the resampled reference matrix, (v) deriving an ancestral attribution vector that, when multiplied with the ancestral alternate reads matrix, approximates a vector representing the test sample, and (vi) determining the genetic ancestry of the subject based on the ancestral attribution vector. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed.
US12033720B2
Apparatuses and methods for setting a duty cycler adjuster for improving clock duty cycle are disclosed. The duty cycle adjuster may be adjusted by different amounts, at least one smaller than another. Determining when to use the smaller adjustment may be based on duty cycle results. A duty cycle monitor may have an offset. A duty cycle code for the duty cycle adjuster may be set to an intermediate value of a duty cycle monitor offset. The duty cycle monitor offset may be determined by identifying duty cycle codes for an upper and for a lower boundary of the duty cycle monitor offset.
US12033713B2
A neural processing unit (NPU) for testing a component during runtime is provided. The NPU may include a plurality of functional components including a first functional component and a second functional component. At least one of the plurality of functional components may be driven for calculation of an artificial neural network. Another one of the plurality of functional components may be selected as a component under test (CUT). A scan test may be performed on the at least one functional component selected as the CUT. A tester for detecting a defect of an NPU is also provided. The tester may include a component tester configured to communicate with at least one functional component of the NPU, select the at least one functional component as a CUT, and perform a scan test for the selected CUT.
US12033708B2
A memory system includes a plurality of memory cells, and the memory cells are multiple-level cells. The memory system performs program operations to program the memory cells. After each program operation, at least one threshold voltage test is performed to determine if threshold voltages of the memory cells are greater than the verification voltage. When the threshold voltage of a first memory cell is determined to be greater than a first verification voltage, the first memory cell will be inhibited from being programmed during the next program operation. When the threshold voltage of a second memory cell is determined to newly become greater than a second verification voltage, where the second verification voltage is greater than the first verification voltage, the second memory cell will be programmed again during the next program operation.
US12033700B2
According to one embodiment, a controller permits a host to write data to a host memory. The controller acquires from the host memory first write data having a first size, and instructs the nonvolatile memory to perform a first-step write operation for writing the first write data to a plurality of memory cells connected to a first word line. The first write data is written to the host memory by the host after the host is permitted to write data to the host memory. When the second-step write operation for the first word line becomes executable, the controller acquires the first write data again from the host memory and instructs the nonvolatile memory to perform a second-step write operation.
US12033697B2
A memory device includes a current source and a memory array. The current source is configured to provide a current to a first node. The memory array is coupled to the current source at the first node. The memory array includes memory cells. First terminals of the memory cells are coupled to the first node. Each of the memory cells has a first resistance in response to having a first data value, and has a second resistance in response to having a second data value. The second data value is N times the first data value. The second resistance is approximately one-Nth of the first resistance, for N being a positive integer larger than one. A method of operating a memory device is also disclosed herein.
US12033694B2
A semiconductor device that restores degraded data is provided. The semiconductor device includes a first circuit, a storage portion, and an arithmetic portion. The first circuit includes a current source and a first switch. The storage portion includes a first transistor and a first capacitor. The arithmetic portion includes a second transistor. A first terminal of the first transistor is electrically connected to a control terminal of the first switch, a first terminal of the first switch is electrically connected to an output terminal of the current source, and a second terminal of the first switch is electrically connected to a first terminal of the second transistor. When data retained in the arithmetic portion is restored, the first transistor is turned on, and the data retained in the storage portion is supplied to the control terminal of the first switch through the first transistor. The first switch is brought into an on state or an off state in accordance with the data and supplies current from the current source to the arithmetic portion through the second transistor to supply electric charge to a retention portion of the arithmetic portion.
US12033692B2
A neural network device with synapses having memory cells each having a floating gate and a first gate over first and second portions of a channel region disposed between source and drain regions, and a second gate over the floating gate or the source region. First lines each electrically connect the first gates in one of the memory cell rows, second lines each electrically connect the second gates in one of the memory cell rows, third lines each electrically connect the source regions in one of the memory cell columns, and fourth lines each electrically connect the drain regions in one of the memory cell columns. The synapses receive a first plurality of inputs as electrical voltages on the first or second lines, and provide a first plurality of outputs as electrical currents on the third or fourth lines.
US12033676B2
According to one embodiment, a magnetic head includes first and second magnetic poles, and a stacked body provided between the first and second magnetic poles. The stacked body includes a first magnetic layer, a second magnetic layer provided between the second magnetic pole and the first magnetic layer, a third magnetic layer provided between the second magnetic pole and the second magnetic layer, a fourth magnetic layer provided between the second magnetic pole and the third magnetic layer, a first non-magnetic layer provided between the first magnetic layer and the first magnetic pole, a second non-magnetic layer provided between the second and first magnetic layers, a third non-magnetic layer provided between the third and second magnetic layers, a fourth non-magnetic layer provided between the fourth magnetic layer and the third magnetic layer, and a fifth non-magnetic layer provided between the second magnetic pole and the fourth magnetic layer.
US12033668B2
Systems and methods for media aggregation are disclosed herein. The system includes a media system that can transform media items into one aggregated media item. A synchronization component synchronizes media items with respect to time. The synchronized media items can be analyzed and transformed into an aggregated media item for storage and/or display. In one implementation, the aggregated media item is capable of being displayed in multiple ways to create an enhanced and customizable viewing and/or listening experience.
US12033666B2
A method for generating a slow motion video. The method includes segmenting, by an electronic device, objects in the video. Further, the method includes determining, by the electronic device, an interaction between the segmented objects. Further, the method includes clustering, by the electronic device, the segmented objects in the video to generate object clusters based on the interaction. Further, the method includes determining, by the electronic device, a degree of slow motion effect to be applied to each of the object clusters in the video based on a significance score of each of the object clusters. Further, the method includes generating, by the electronic device, the slow motion video by applying the degree of slow motion effect to that has been determined to corresponding the object clusters.
US12033663B2
A circuit includes a set of input nodes configured to be coupled to respective ones of the windings of a spindle motor in a hard disk drive to sense the voltages applied to the windings. A set of output nodes is configured to provide output signals indicative of direction of flow of the currents through the windings. Level shifters are coupled to respective input nodes in the set of input nodes and have level-shifted output nodes configured to provide down-shifted replicas of the voltages at the respective input nodes in the set of input nodes. Flip-flops have inputs coupled to respective ones of the level-shifted output nodes of the level shifters and outputs configured to provide the output signals coupled to respective output nodes.
US12033635B2
Provided are an image display apparatus and a method of controlling the same. The image display apparatus enabling voice recognition includes: a first voice inputter which receives a user-side audio signal; an audio outputter which outputs an audio signal processed by the image display apparatus; a first voice recognizer which recognizes the user-side audio signal received through the first voice inputter; and a controller which decreases a volume of the audio signal output through the audio outputter to a predetermined level if a voice recognition start command is received.
US12033634B1
Technologies are disclosed for disambiguating contact information using relationship data using a virtual assistant. A user interacts with a virtual assistant to obtain and utilize contact information. For example, a virtual assistant may allow users to perform an action that utilizes contact information (e.g., make a call to a contact). The virtual assistant utilizes a contact service to identify candidate contacts that are related to the requesting user. The contact service identifies candidate contacts based on relationship data between the requesting user and the stored contacts. For example, the relationship data may indicate that the requesting user is on the same project or team as another contact, that the requesting user has the same role as another contact, that the requesting user is a manager of another contact, as well as other attributes. In some examples, the contact service limits the number of candidate contacts provided to requesting user.
US12033616B2
A method for training a speech recognition model, a device and a storage medium, which relate to the field of computer technologies, and particularly to the fields of speech recognition technologies, deep learning technologies, or the like, are disclosed. The method for training a speech recognition model includes: obtaining a fusion probability of each of at least one candidate text corresponding to a speech based on an acoustic decoding model and a language model; selecting a preset number of one or more candidate texts based on the fusion probability of each of the at least one candidate text, and determining a predicted text based on the preset number of one or more candidate texts; and obtaining a loss function based on the predicted text and a standard text corresponding to the speech, and training the speech recognition model based on the loss function.
US12033593B2
An electrophoretic display device, including an electrophoretic display panel and a display driving module, is provided. The display driving module is coupled to the electrophoretic display panel and is used for driving the electrophoretic display panel. The display driving module generates multiple first grayscale images according to multiple color pixel values of multiple color pixels corresponding to multiple colors of a color image. The display driving module captures multiple grayscale values of multiple locations of multiple first sub-pixels of the first grayscale images according to multiple locations of multiple mask sub-pixels corresponding to the colors in a mask image to generate multiple second grayscale images. The display driving module synthesizes the second grayscale images to generate a synthesized image. The display driving module drives the electrophoretic display panel according to the synthesized image.
US12033590B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a display device, comprising: a display panel including a light emitting element, a driving transistor configured to provide a driving current to the light emitting element, and a plurality of switching transistors configured to control an operation of the driving transistor; a gate driving circuit configured to supply a plurality of scan signals to the display panel; a data driving circuit configured to supply a plurality of data voltages to the display panel; and a timing controller configured to control the gate driving circuit and the data driving circuit, wherein a bias voltage is supplied to the driving transistor in a first period in which the data voltage is supplied to the display panel at a low speed mode which the display panel is driven at a low speed driving frequency.
US12033587B2
A display driving apparatus includes a source driving circuit supplying a first source signal to a first display area to display a first image and supply a second source signal to a second display area to sense characteristics of a pixels of the second display area when a display panel operates in a hybrid mode, the second display area being in a turn-off state during the hybrid mode, a gate driving circuit supplying a gate pulse to first gate lines of the first display area and supply the gate pulse to target gate lines of the second display area, a timing controller transferring first image data for the first image and sensing data for sensing to the source driving circuit and compensate for second image data for a second image which is to be displayed after the first image, based on a target compensation value obtained from a sensing result.
US12033577B2
In a display device, a pixel circuit includes a light-emitting element, a drive transistor, a write control transistor provided between a data line and a first conductive terminal of the drive transistor and having a control terminal connected to a scanning line, a threshold compensation transistor provided between the drive transistor's control terminal and second conductive terminal and having a control terminal connected to the scanning line, and an initialization transistor having a first conductive terminal connected to the control terminal of the drive transistor, a second conductive terminal to which an initialization voltage is applied, and a control terminal connected to the control line. A scanning line driver circuit selectively performs operations of selecting the scanning lines in a predetermined order and in a reverse order and, for each scanning signal line, selects the control line that corresponds to the scanning line one horizontal period before the selection of the scanning line. This renders it possible to initialize voltages at the control terminals of the drive transistors and thereby readily display a screen upside down.
US12033575B2
In a pixel circuit of a display device in which display luminance is controlled by a holding voltage of the capacitor Cst, a gate terminal of a drive transistor M1 is connected to a source terminal of the drive transistor M1 via a capacitance selection transistor M3 and the holding capacitor Cst and is also connected to the source terminal via only an auxiliary writing capacitor Cwa. During a data writing period Tw, the capacitance selection transistor M3 is turned off, and data voltage is provided from a data signal line Dj to the auxiliary writing capacitor Cwa via a writing control transistor M2. Thereafter, the writing control transistor M2 is turned off, the capacitance selection transistor M3 is turned on, so that charges are redistributed between the auxiliary writing capacitor Cwa and the holding capacitor Cst, whereby a driving holding voltage is determined.
US12033567B2
A display device includes pixels which are connected to first scan lines, second scan lines, third scan lines, emission control lines, and data lines; a scan driver which supplies a bias scan signal to each of the third scan lines at a first frequency and supplies a scan signal to each of the first scan line and the second scan line at a second frequency which corresponds to an image refresh rate of each of the pixels; an emission driver which supplies an emission control signal to each of the emission control lines at the first frequency; a data driver which supplies a data signal to each of the data lines at the second frequency; and a timing controller which controls driving of the scan driver, the emission driver, and the data driver.
US12033561B2
A display panel and a display device are disclosed in the present application. The display panel includes a driving chip set, a pad set, and a cell test circuit, which can determine a binding state between each pin and a corresponding pad according to timing and states of binding detection signals output in correspondence with a first binding detection line and a second binding detection line, improving detection accuracy of the binding state; compared with relying on a microscope to check the binding state of each pin one by one, detection efficiency of the binding state is improved.
US12033556B1
A method is performed at an electronic device with one or more processors, a non-transitory memory, and a see-through display. The method includes determining first and second light superposition values that are associated with ambient light from a physical environment. The first light superposition value quantifies the ambient light incident on a first region of the see-through display. The second light superposition value quantifies the ambient light incident on a second region of the see-through display. The method includes modifying a first pixel value of image data, via a color correction function, in order to generate a corresponding first pixel value of display data. The color correction function is based on a combination of the first and second light superposition values. The method includes displaying the corresponding first pixel value of the display data on the see-through display.
US12033553B2
A display panel integrated with a gate driving circuit in a display area is provided. In the display panel, gate driving signal lines and data lines are not arranged side by side between any same adjacent two columns of sub-pixels. This avoids possibility of arranging the data lines and the gate driving signal lines side by side between any same adjacent two columns of sub-pixels, prevents the data lines from being easily disturbed by a parasitic capacitance generated between the data lines and the gate driving signal lines, and also avoids abnormal images on the display panel.
US12033551B2
Disclosed is integrated circuit panel which detects fault of a driving circuit. The integrated circuit panel includes: a driving circuit array including first and second driving circuits; a data driver configured to output first and second input data signals through first and second data lines, respectively; a switch driver configured to output a switching signal through a switch line; and an error detection driver configured to receive first and second output data signals through first and second test lines, respectively, wherein, in response to the switching signal, the first and second driving circuits are configured to output the first and second output data signals, which are based on the first and second input data signal, through the first and second test lines, respectively, and the error detection driver is configured to detect a fault of the first or second driving circuit based on the first or second output data signal.
US12033547B2
A method of operating a distributed light source and a distributed light source are disclosed. The distributed light source comprising a plurality of light sources to display an image, the method comprising the steps of: transmitting the image to be displayed to the plurality of light sources, the image being described in an image coordinate system; providing to each of the light sources information indicative of a position of the light source in the image; determining, by each of the light sources, an illumination set point for the light source, based on the position information and the transmitted image, and controlling the plurality of light sources to generate an illumination in accordance with the respective plurality of illumination set points, thereby displaying the image.
US12033533B2
Systems and methods in accordance with embodiments of the invention utilize technology to facilitate student question creation. Interactive platforms such as mobile phones or tablets can allow questions to be written, saved, and communicated electronically. In one embodiment, a method for collaboratively generating a question includes generating question data in response to input of a question and answer choices on a first device, sending the question data to a repository, sending the question data from the repository to a second device, displaying the question and answer choices on the second device, generating revised question data in response to input that changes the question, sending the revised question data to the repository, sending the revised question data to a third device, displaying the question and answer choices on the third device, receiving input of the selection of answer choices on the third device, and providing feedback whether the selection is correct.
US12033525B2
Disclosed are methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable media for providing contextual building height information to one or more operators of an aircraft. For instance, the method may include obtaining aircraft flight information including a current position and a current altitude of the aircraft; and retrieving, from a database, building information for one or more buildings located in a flight path area, the flight path area including the current position of the aircraft. The method may further include assigning one or more visual characteristics to each of the one or more buildings located in the flight path area based at least in part on the building information and the current altitude of the aircraft; and displaying, to the one or more operators of the aircraft, the one or more buildings located in the flight path area with the assigned one or more visual characteristics.
US12033523B2
Systems and methods for providing surveillance services for an unmanned vehicle are described herein. One embodiment of a method includes receiving surveilled data from a surveillance monitor regarding the unmanned aerial vehicle and at least one other aircraft, receiving trajectory data from at least one trajectory data source, and comparing the surveilled data with the trajectory data to determine whether the unmanned aerial vehicle is on path to collide with a third party aerial vehicle. In some embodiments, in response to determining that the unmanned aerial vehicle is on path to collide with the third party aerial vehicle, the method includes determining an alternate route for the unmanned aerial vehicle; and communicating at least a portion of the alternate route to the unmanned aerial vehicle.
US12033522B2
The disclosure herein describes use of an air corridor model to enable aerial vehicles to travel an air corridor while maintaining safe separation distance from other vehicles. A trained air corridor model associated with an air corridor is received by an aerial vehicle, wherein the trained air corridor model is configured to maintain safe separation distance between vehicles in the air corridor. The current position of the aerial vehicle in the air corridor is identified and positions of other agents in the air corridor are received. A next position of the aerial vehicle is determined based on the trained air corridor model, the current position, and the agent positions. The aerial vehicle is controlled to travel from the current position to the determined next position, whereby the aerial vehicle and other agents are enabled to efficiently use the airspace of the air corridor while maintaining safe distances between each other.
US12033512B2
A server includes a communicator and a server controller is configured to determine a personal mobility group for cluster driving based on position information and destination information of a plurality of personal mobilities received from the communicator. The server controller determines a master personal mobility among the personal mobility group, and operates the communicator to transmit a control command for determining at least one slave personal mobility following the first master personal mobility to the personal mobility group.
US12033502B2
An example operation may include one or more of identifying transports operating on a roadway, determining a degree of transport traffic based on the identified transports, when the degree of transport traffic has exceeded a traffic level, assigning one or more of the identified transports as a roadway manager, controlling movement of the roadway manager, and generating a roadway indicator on the roadway manager to direct the identified transports.
US12033498B2
One or more traffic-data sets including traffic probes, which include one or more identifiable items of information obtained from one or more traffic probe devices, are obtained. A traffic flow prediction to be validated is selected. The selected traffic flow prediction is associated with a road segment and a time period. A list of traffic probes to be used in validating the traffic flow prediction is generated. The list of traffic probes includes information obtained from traffic probe devices that travelled an entire length of the road segment during the time period. Travel times of the traffic probe devices that travelled an entire length of the road segment during the time period are ordered, and outliers are removed from the list of traffic probes. A validated traffic-flow prediction is generated based on traffic probes remaining in the list of traffic probes, and the validated traffic-flow prediction is transmitted to an end-user processing device.
US12033492B2
Methods and systems including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for receiving, for a multi-tenant dwelling unit (MDU), a map of the MDU, where the map includes locations corresponding to multiple sensors at the MDU and defines multiple sub-areas of the MDU, receiving sensor data from one or more sensors of the plurality of sensors, where the sensor data is indicative of a fire event at the MDU, determining, from the sensor data, one or more sub-areas of the multiple sub-areas included in the fire event, generating, based on the sensor data, a targeted fire event response for the one or more sub-areas of the multiple sub-areas of the MDU, and providing, to the one or more sub-areas of the multiple sub-areas, the targeted fire event response.
US12033490B2
The present technology relates to an information processing device, an information processing method, and a program capable of allowing a user viewing a video of a remote location to be aware of presence of a person who is outside of an angle of field of a video in more appropriate form. An information processing device according to the present technology includes a processing unit, wherein, when, between a first space where a first imaging device and a first display device are installed and a second space where a second imaging device and a second display device are installed, a captured image captured by the imaging device in one of the spaces is displayed by the display device in the other space in real time, the processing unit performs processing to notify first users in the first space that second users are outside of an angle of field of the second imaging device when the second users who are at positions outside of the angle of field of the second imaging device is detected. The present technology can be applied to, for example, a video communication system.
US12033489B1
Systems and methods of the present disclosure include a vehicle water detection system that includes a housing configured to be disposed within a vehicle. The vehicle water detection system also includes a water-activated battery disposed within the housing and configured to produce an electrical voltage upon contact with water. The vehicle water detection system further includes an electronic circuitry disposed within the housing and configured to detect a water event occurring in the vehicle based at least in part on the electrical voltage.
US12033481B2
A system for monitoring shopping baskets (e.g., baskets on human-propelled carts, motorized carts, or hand-carried baskets) can include a computer vision unit that can image a surveillance region (e.g., an exit to a store), determine whether a basket is empty or loaded with merchandise, and assess a potential for theft of the merchandise. The computer vision unit can include a camera and an image processor programmed to execute a computer vision algorithm to identify shopping baskets and determine a load status of the basket. The computer vision algorithm can comprise a neural network. The system can identify an at least partially loaded shopping basket that is exiting the store, without indicia of having paid for the merchandise, and execute an anti-theft action, e.g., actuating an alarm, notifying store personnel, activating a store surveillance system, activating an anti-theft device associated with the basket (e.g., a locking shopping cart wheel), etc.
US12033477B2
Enhanced evaluation of pre-owned electronic devices related services are described. Example evaluation devices (e.g. kiosks etc.) and techniques for enhanced evaluation are described. An example evaluation device includes an evaluation area in which a previously-owned electronic device (e.g. smartphone etc.) is arranged with its camera configured to capture images of the evaluation area. An example apparatus includes a previously-owned electronic device arranged with its camera configured to capture images of another previously-owned electronic device within an evaluation area. Other example implementations include detecting microdefects and/or micro-differences for identifying a device; based on an evaluation of a device, providing any of a repair quote, an insurance or warranty quote, an insurance or warranty claim, a certification, or a promise to purchase; processing evaluation session attributes based on the selected context; and providing a point-of-sale integration component configured to intercept data from a coupon reader.
US12033470B2
A gaming system implements a method of gaming. The gaming system includes one or more gaming devices configured to enable a player to place a wager for play of a wagering game, and each gaming device includes a player tracking/marketing module (PTM). A plurality of avatars are selectable by a player, and after receiving one or more inputs from the player relating to the avatars selected and credit allocation for each selected avatar, one is designated as the active avatar for game play. The system receives, via a credit input mechanism, a credit wager to initiate play of a wagering game, and in response to a user input triggering game play via the gaming device, the PTM records credit wagered for game play against the active avatar. Moreover, in response to a winning outcome occurring in a game outcome for the triggered game play, the PTM records any award for the game outcome against one or more avatars in accordance with allocation criteria.
US12033453B2
In order to drop a coin into an opening formed in a transport path for sorting coins, a coin handling apparatus includes: a transport path having a transport surface in which the opening for dropping a coin is formed; a conveyor configured to transport a coin on the transport surface along the transport path; a gate including a plurality of members configured to move between a closed position for closing the opening such that a coin transported by the conveyor is not dropped into the opening, and an opened position for opening the opening such that the coin is dropped into the opening; and a drive motor configured to drive the plurality of members to control the gate to move between the closed position and the opened position.
US12033451B2
One or more analytes are detected non-invasively, and an access level is determined based on the one or more analytes. The one or more analytes indicate at least one of an identity and/or a current status of an individual seeking access, and the access level is based on the identity and/or status of the individual. Access to a location, a device, one or more device functionalities, a vehicle, one or more vehicle functionalities, and the like can be granted based on the access level.
US12033443B2
An abnormality cause determining device that is applied to a vehicle including an electromagnetic actuator includes a storage device and an execution device. The storage device is configured to store map data which is data for defining a map. The map includes a current variable which is a variable indicating a current flowing actually in the electromagnetic actuator as an input variable and includes a cause variable which is a variable indicating a cause of an abnormality of an onboard unit including the electromagnetic actuator as an output variable. The execution device is configured to perform an acquisition process of acquiring a value of the input variable based on a detection value from a sensor which is mounted in the vehicle and a calculation process of calculating a value of the output variable by inputting the value of the input variable to the map.
US12033440B2
Methods and systems of enabling a non-interfering mode in a telematics device are provided. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a co-presence policy from a telematics server, receiving asset data from the asset, determining a presence of a second device on the asset communications bus based on the co-presence policy, and activating a non-interfering mode of operation based on determining the presence of the second device and on the co-presence policy. The method may be used to prevent interference between a telematics device and a diagnostic tool connected to the same vehicle communications bus. Advantageously, tasks such as reading diagnostic trouble codes and firmware updates are not disrupted.
US12033436B2
An apparatus for 3D human pose estimation using dynamic multi-headed convolutional attention mechanism is presented. The apparatus contains two dynamic multi-headed convolutional attention mechanism with spatial attention and another with temporal attention that leverages the spatial attention mechanism to extract frame-wise inter-joint dependencies by analyzing sections of limbs that are related. The temporal attention mechanism extracts global inter-frame relationships by analyzing correlations between the temporal profile of joints. The temporal profile mechanism leads to a more diverse temporal attention map while achieving substantial parameter reduction.
