US12157469B2
A braking system for a vehicle. Based on an electric power level of electric power generated during regenerative braking of the vehicle, an electric power system of the vehicle is controlled to supply electric power to an electric machine, which electric machine is connected to an air blower arranged in an air conduit.
US12157462B2
A system for controlling a subject vehicle includes a front detection unit to detect a driving situation of a target vehicle located in front of the subject vehicle; a determination unit to detect reversing of the target vehicle or predict a collision between the target vehicle and the subject vehicle through the front detection unit; and a control unit to, when the reversing of the target vehicle is detected or the collision between target vehicle and the subject vehicle is predicted through the determination unit, generate a warning signal of the subject vehicle or control driving of the subject vehicle so that the subject vehicle avoids the collision with the target vehicle.
US12157460B2
A system and method are provided for object detection for a work machine. In an embodiment, data may be received from at least one sensor associated with the work machine and corresponding to a field of view extending from the main frame. Objects are classified in respective locations in the field of view, and at least one segmentation mask is generated corresponding to contours for at least one portion of, or attachment to, the work machine as determined to be in the field of view, wherein each of the at least one segmentation mask defines a respective masked zone in the field of view. One or more of the classified objects may then be determined as separate from the portion/attachment, wherein the at least one segmentation mask is applied to the portion/attachment independently of the one or more separate objects in the field of view. The at least one segmentation mask may be dynamic in nature to account for detected movements of, e.g., attachments to the work machine.
US12157453B2
A method for determining a rotational frequency of a wheel, in particular of a motor vehicle, uses a rate of rotation sensor that has a rotary sensor assigned to the wheel and a sensor element assigned to the rotary sensor. The rotary sensor has pulse generators that are arranged in a manner distributed over its circumference and spaced evenly from one another and whose edges are recorded by the sensor element so as to determine the rotational frequency of the rotary sensor. There is provision to use an optimal filter in order to compensate a modulation caused by an eccentricity, and to adapt modulation parameters of the optimal filter through a sequential least-squares method. A time-equidistant frequency signal is subjected to short-term averaging, for example using a PT1 filter, and the modulation is modelled as sinusoidal interference and compensated.
US12157448B2
An object of the present invention is to provide an emergency braking device for an automobile that is capable of preventing a safety-related accident by applying a braking force even when a brake pipe or the like is ruptured. To this end, the emergency braking device for an automobile of the present invention is an emergency braking device for an automobile that is added to an automobile that is braked by a pressure of main brake fluid transferred through a brake pipe when a brake pedal is stepped on and that is instantaneously and automatically switched to an emergency braking device when braking is not performed due to the rupture of the existing (main) brake pipe, or the like. The emergency braking device for an automobile includes a valve unit, an emergency pipe; a pressing part; and a pressure source.
US12157439B2
A wiper blade (10), in particular for a motor vehicle, is proposed with a wiping strip (16) mounted between a first spring bar portion (34) and a second spring bar portion (36) by a fastening portion (24) and having a substantially triangular lip portion (18). According to the invention, between the fastening portion (24) and the lip portion (18), a cavity portion (22) is provided, on which dampening means (52) are provided, in particular fastened thereto or formed in one piece therewith.
US12157438B2
A wiper blade apparatus with at least one spring strip having at least one wiper strip unit, which comprises at least one wiper lip and at least one wiper base body, which bounds at least one recess to a receptacle of the at least one spring strip and at least one damping cavity that is separate from the recess, and having at least one wind deflector unit, which at least partially overlaps with the wiper base body of the wiper strip unit and which comprises at least two guide bars, which extends to both sides of the wiper base body. It is proposed that the wiper strip unit comprise at least one resilient support elements arranged on the wiper base body and supported between the wiper base body and at least one of the guide bars.
US12157435B2
A storage tunnel assembly for the bed of a pickup truck or other vehicle. The storage tunnel assembly generally includes a deployable vertical wall separated from a bulkhead of the bed and disposed across a width of the bed and a deployable cover separated from a floor of the bed between the vertical wall and the bulkhead and disposed across the width of the bed. The vertical wall, the cover, the bulkhead, and the floor define a storage space within a space defined by the bed. The vertical wall and the cover may be fixed components, separate components, and/or hinged components in various assemblies. One or both side walls of the bed define a storage tunnel access opening coincident with the storage space defined by the vertical wall, the cover, the bulkhead, and the floor and may include a door adapted to selectively open and close the associated storage tunnel access opening.
US12157431B2
A system for securing a restraint system includes a retractor enclosing a spool, a sensor coupled to the spool, and a motor coupled to the spool and configured to rotate the spool about a spool rotation axis. The system also includes webbing configured to be wound and unwound from around the spool. An automatic locking retractor mode is enabled and disabled to selectively and automatically lock the retractor to prevent rotation of the spool when a predetermined length of the webbing is unwound from the spool.
US12157407B2
An apparatus for rotating a headrest of a vehicle seat includes a headrest that is rotated forward to support a seat occupant's head upon reclining of a seatback. A seat occupant's head is comfortably supported by the headrest and a comfortable relaxation posture is implemented.
US12157404B2
A child safety seat and a side impact protection device. The side impact protection device comprises a fixed seat assembled on the backrest and a side impact protection block pivotally coupled to the fixed seat via a pivot shaft. The side impact protection block has at least an extended position and a retracted position during a pivoting process around an axis of the pivot shaft in respect to the fixed seat, one of the fixed seat and the side impact protection block has a locking structure, and the other one of the fixed seat and the side impact protection block has a cooperative locking structure being cooperating with the locking structure, the locking structure is automatically locked with the cooperative locking structure when the side impact protection block is pivoted to the extended position around the axis. The side impact protection device is simple in structure and easy in operation.
US12157394B2
A controller disclosed in the specification is implemented in an electrified vehicle in which a motor generator used to drive a wheel is connected to a battery via a DC-DC converter. The controller is configured to be able to execute a process of acquiring a target value of output voltage of the DC-DC converter, a process of acquiring a measured value of the output voltage of the DC-DC converter, a process of acquiring a direction of reactor current flowing through a reactor of the DC-DC converter, and a process of executing feedback control over an operation of the DC-DC converter in accordance with a deviation of the measured value from the target value of the output voltage. The process of executing feedback control may include a process of determining a feedback gain that varies with the direction of the reactor current.
US12157392B2
A battery control system includes an acquisition unit configured to acquire a state quantity of the battery, a first estimation unit configured to perform an estimation process of estimating a full charging capacity of the battery based on the state quantity of the battery acquired by the acquisition unit by controlling charging or discharging of the battery, a first transmission unit configured to transmit a transmission request for requesting transmission of an estimation result of the full charging capacity of the battery to a management device when the estimation process is not able to be performed by the first estimation unit, and a first reception unit configured to receive an estimation result of the full charging capacity of the battery from the management device when the estimation process is not able to be performed by the first estimation unit.
US12157386B2
A control system is configured to control a power adjustment resource including an energy storage device configured to electrically connect to a power network, and a temperature control device configured to perform temperature control of the energy storage device. The control system includes: a first control device configured to control charging and discharging of the energy storage device; a second control device configured to control the temperature control device; and a third control device. The second control device is configured to select either external power or stored power and drives the temperature control device using the selected power. The third control device is configured to determine whether to permit power supply from the power network to the power adjustment resource based on supply and demand information of the power network, and switch between permission and prohibition of the power supply.
US12157385B2
A charging state analysis method of an electric vehicle based on electrical characteristic sequence analysis is provided. The method includes following steps: step S1, obtaining voltage sampling data and current sampling data of the electric vehicle during charging; step S2, setting a time interval, so as to divide the voltage sample data and the current sampling data obtained in step S1 into multiple data sets; step S3, calculating an electrical characteristic vector of each time interval; step S4. adding the calculation results of Step S3 to a temperature sensing value T, and generate an electrical characteristic sequence of whole charging cycle; step S5, inputting the electrical characteristic sequence of the electric vehicle into a trained TRNN in sequence to obtain corresponding results; if the result is 1, it is normal; if the result is 0, it is abnormal.
US12157383B1
A charging apparatus and method for charging an electric vehicle are disclosed. The apparatus includes a housing, a lid, a plurality of cables, and a power switch. The apparatus may further include one or more wheels, lights, and speakers, which are operated in accordance with the functionality of the apparatus. The apparatus can be connected to a 240 V AC wall outlet and output 600 V DC for high-power charging of an electric vehicle such as an aircraft.
US12157382B2
Provided is a charging system for an electric vehicle, the charging system including: provides an electric vehicle charging system capable of simultaneously satisfying unidirectional charging and bidirectional charging with protocol standards that allow a communication interface with AC slow charging equipment and DC fast charging equipment.
US12157380B2
Provided is a charging connector for a vehicle including a main body provided with a charging part, a female terminal part installed inside the charging part so as to be electrically connected to an external changer, and a female housing configured to accommodate the female terminal part. The female terminal part includes a plurality of female terminals configured to electrically connect the external charger to a battery of the vehicle and a protection cap disposed outside one side of each of the female terminals to protect the female terminals. Therefore, damage of the female terminals are minimized to provide more improved electrical stability and reliability.
US12157373B2
To provide a battery heater failure diagnostic device for a vehicle capable of diagnosing failure of a battery heater with a high degree of accuracy, a battery output sensor capable of detecting a battery output value that is a current value or a voltage value of a battery is provided. When a specified failure diagnosis condition is satisfied, a first control for stopping actuation of a battery heater and at least one non-heater device and a second control for actuating the battery heater while maintaining a stop of the actuation of the at least one non-heater device after execution of the first control are executed. The failure of the battery heater is diagnosed based on battery output values detected by the battery output sensor during execution of the first control and during execution of the second control.
US12157365B2
A method and system for operating a transmission that includes a power take off is described. The transmission selectively delivers mechanical power to the power take off from one of two electric traction motors via selective engagement of either a first or a second power take off clutch based on drive mode. The transmission also allows for powershifting between a first and second operating gear.
US12157364B2
A driving apparatus includes: a first power source; a fluid transmission device; a first output shaft for receiving a power transmitted from the fluid transmission device through a first power transmission path and outputting the power to drive wheels of a vehicle; a rotary electric machine connected to the first output shaft and/or the drive wheels, through a second power transmission path; and a control device. When the vehicle is stopped or running at an extremely low speed, with a rotary-electric-machine driving mode being established, the control device is configured, upon determination that a drive request amount is larger than a threshold amount value, to place a direct clutch of the fluid transmission device into an engaged state and to place the first power transmission path into a power transmittable state so as to cause the power of the first power source to be outputted to the first output shaft.
US12157360B2
An electric work vehicle includes a battery, a motor positioned under the battery and drivable on electric power supplied by the battery, a travel device drivable by the motor, an inverter positioned under the battery and forward of the motor to convert direct-current electric power from the battery into alternating-current electric power and supply the alternating-current electric power to the motor, and a transmission positioned backward of the battery to transmit a driving force of the motor to the travel device, wherein the motor and the inverter are arranged in a front-back direction of a machine body.
US12157352B2
Provided is a weather strip for a vehicle according to the present disclosure. The weather strip includes: a fixing part fixed to a vehicle body or an opening/closing part of a vehicle; a sealing part formed on one side of the fixing part and formed in a hollow cross section therein to seal between the vehicle body and the opening/closing part; a sensor installation part positioned to be spaced apart from an inner surface of the sealing part in the sealing part and accommodating an anti-pinch sensor therein; and at least one sensor operation part protruding from the inner surface of the sealing part toward the sensor installation part by a predetermined length in the inner surface of the sealing part to pressurize the sensor installation part when the sealing part is deformed by an external force.
US12157349B2
A heat exchanger for a refrigerant circuit of an air conditioning system, with a heat exchanger block with a first fluid channel for the flow of refrigerant and with a second fluid channel for the flow of a fluid. The first fluid channel and the second fluid channel are in thermal contact for the exchange of heat. The heat exchanger also includes a third fluid channel having a refrigerant inlet and a refrigerant outlet for the flow of the refrigerant. The first fluid channel is in direct thermal contact with the third fluid channel for the exchange of heat between the refrigerant in the first fluid channel and the refrigerant in the third fluid channel.
US12157346B2
An environmental control system for thermally conditioning air within an enclosed space comprising: a refrigerant circuit having a compressor, an indoor heat exchanger, an expansion device, and an outdoor heat exchanger. The system further comprises an intake flowpath for directing an intake flow of fresh air to the enclosed space, wherein a heat-transfer section of the indoor heat exchanger is located within the intake flowpath to thermally condition the intake flow of fresh air before entering the enclosed space. The system further comprises an exhaust flowpath for directing an exhaust flow of thermally conditioned air to an external environment. A recovery heat exchanger is configured to transfer thermal energy between the exhaust flow and the intake flow at a location within the intake flowpath that is upstream of the heat-transfer section of the indoor heat exchanger.
US12157345B2
An integrated thermal management circuit for a vehicle is introduced, which includes a refrigerant line on which a refrigerant flows into the compressor; a battery cooling line making a cooling water circulate between a battery and a battery radiator or between the battery and the battery chiller; an electric cooling line making the cooling water circulate between an electronic driving unit and an electric radiator or between the electronic driving unit and the electric chiller; and a chiller control valve provided at an upstream point of the electric chiller and the battery chiller on the chiller line, and making the refrigerant discharged from the external heat exchanger flow into the electric chiller or the battery chiller.
US12157341B2
This invention pertains to sway bar systems, and a method of controlling their operation. Specifically, the present invention relates to provide a way of adjusting the response characteristics of a sway bar system by changing the structure of the typical sway bar links and regulating the modified structure by utilizing an electronically adjustable sway bar link. Said electronically adjustable sway bar link comprises a twin tube cylinder filled with mixed incompressible fluid and pressurized gas and forms a determined volume in order to host pressurized gas higher than fluid flow regulation functions, permitting a directional control valve to always remain fully submerged in incompressible fluid and to modify the fluid path between each tube of said twin tube cylinder, allowing closed or opened fluid flow operation, determined by a controlling device receiving an electronic input and piloting said directional control valve.
US12157337B2
A wheel end high-temperature warning system for a vehicle having a wheel-end assembly mounted to an axle is described. The system may include a first temperature sensor including a sensor head configured for mounting within a spindle section of the wheel end assembly, the sensor head in a heat exchange relationship with a bearings of the wheel-end assembly. The system may further include a transmitter disposed on the axle to which the wheel-end assembly is mounted, the transmitter being configured to receive a first sensor signal from the first temperature sensor indicative of a wheel-end temperature and transmit the signal to a receiver. A vehicle data acquisition module may be coupled to the receiver, the data acquisition system being programmed to receive the first sensor signal and process the signal to determine a measured temperature of the spindle.
US12157334B2
A caster wheel bracket, a caster and a movable container are disclosed. The movable container includes a frame and a caster. The caster includes a caster wheel bracket and a caster wheel. The caster wheel bracket includes a support plate. A first restricting portion is disposed on an upper surface of the support plate. The first restricting portion is detachably fitted to corresponding two of the transverse rods. A second restricting portion is disposed on one end of the support plate. The second restricting portion is detachably fitted to a corresponding one of the longitudinal rods. A mounting portion is connected to a lower surface of the support plate for mounting a caster wheel. The caster can be mounted and dismounted quickly and the position of the caster can be adjusted according to the actual needs.
US12157333B2
A wheel hub (10) comprises a main body (12) and a drive axle arrangement (14) extending through the main body (12). The main body (12) is rotatable about the drive axle arrangement (14). The wheel hub (10) further includes a transmission assembly comprising first and second transmission arrangements (44, 46). The first transmission arrangement (44) is provided on the drive axle arrangement (14), and the second transmission arrangement (46) is provided on the main body (12). The first transmission arrangement (44) is cooperable with the second transmission arrangement (46) to transmit a driving force from the drive axle arrangement (14) to the main body (12). The drive axle arrangement (14) comprises an axle portion (34) and a sprocket carrier (42). The axle portion (34) extends through the main body (12), and the sprocket carrier (42) is configured to carry at least one sprocket.
US12157320B2
There is provided a liquid supply device including: first and second valves; a head; a suction mechanism; and a controller. The controller is configured to: execute a valve-opening operation of opening the first and second valves, in response to a suction instruction; execute a valve-closing operation of closing the first valve depending on output of a first signal, and closing the second valve depending on output of a second signal, the first signal indicating that an amount of a first liquid in a first tank is a first threshold value or more, the second signal indicating that an amount of a second liquid in a second tank is a second threshold value or more; and execute a suction operation of driving the suction mechanism for a predetermined time period.
US12157318B2
An estimation system provides consumable use estimations, such as for ink or toner, in printing operations. The estimation system uses a classification-based consumable use process to estimate the consumable use. A print job is assigned a classification category according to an arbitrary job category selected for the print job and a job property defined for the print job using job settings. An estimate is provided using the classification category and the distribution of the consumable use for print jobs in the category. The estimate is adjusted by a consumable use adjustment factor that reflects the amount of ink or toner disposed of during container replacement or wasted during printing operations.
US12157314B2
A liquid ejecting head includes: multiple head chips; a first board that is a rigid board coupled to multiple flexible boards mounted on the respective head chips; and a second board that is disposed opposite the head chips with the first board therebetween and that is a rigid board provided with a connector. The first board has a first and second board-to-board connectors; the second board has a third and fourth board-to-board connectors. The first board-to-board connector mates with the third board-to-board connector so that the first board-to-board connector is coupled to the third board-to-board connector. The second board-to-board connector mates with the fourth board-to-board connector so that the second board-to-board connector is coupled to the fourth board-to-board connector. The connector is electrically coupled to both the third and fourth board-to-board connectors.
US12157312B2
A liquid discharge apparatus includes a liquid discharge portion configured to discharge a liquid from a nozzle provided in a nozzle surface and move in a X-axis direction, and a detection portion configured to detect a liquid droplet adhering to the nozzle surface, including an irradiating portion configured to radiate irradiation light along the nozzle surface in an irradiating direction intersecting the scanning direction, and a light receiving portion configured to receive the irradiation light radiated from the irradiating portion, in which in the liquid droplet detection of detecting the liquid droplet, the liquid discharge portion moves in the X-axis direction on a −Z direction side of the detection portion in a state where the irradiating portion is caused to radiate the irradiation light.
US12157311B2
An information processing apparatus is used to determine a waveform of a drive pulse applied to a drive element provided in a liquid discharge head for discharging a liquid, by using results obtained by evaluating a first discharge characteristic and a second discharge characteristic of the liquid discharge head. The information processing apparatus includes a first reception unit that receives an input of first information for designating a voltage based on the evaluation result of the first discharge characteristic as a voltage of the drive pulse used to evaluate the second discharge characteristic, and a second reception unit that receives an input of second information for designating a voltage freely designated by a user, as the voltage of the drive pulse used to evaluate the second discharge characteristic.
US12157305B2
A method of inkjet printer operation indicates a need for a remedial printhead operation by predicting a number of inoperative inkjets and locations for the inoperative inkjets in at least one printhead in the inkjet printer at a predetermined time. The prediction is made using Markov chain Monte Carlo models that correspond to different ranges of area coverage density for inkjet areas of a printhead.
US12157301B2
A printing apparatus, having a conveyer, a first conveyer path, a printer, a cutter assembly, and a controller, is provided. The cutter assembly cuts the printing medium into a first part located frontward and a second part located rearward in a first conveying direction. The controller controls the printer to print an image in the second part on one side of the printing medium, controls the conveyer to move the printing medium from the first conveyer path to a second conveyer path through a first switchback action and inverts the printing medium by conveying in a second conveying direction, controls the printer to print an image in the second part on the other side of the printing medium, and controls the cutter assembly to cut the printing medium into a first printing medium having the first part and a second printing medium having the second part.
US12157290B2
The invention relates to a decorative panel, in particular a floor panel, ceiling panel or wall panel, and to a method for manufacturing such decorative panel. The panel according to the present invention comprises includes at least one foamed layer comprising including an upper side and a lower side, and at least one decorative solid layer either directly or indirectly, affixed on said upper side of the foamed layer, wherein both the foamed layer and the decorative solid layer are wood based materials. The invention also relates to a floor covering consisting of a plurality of such panels.
US12157288B2
A laminated glazing includes two transparent substrates which are separated by a lamination interlayer, and intended for fitting out buildings or vehicles. One of the transparent substrates is coated with a functional coating capable of acting on solar radiation and/or infrared radiation, and a low emissivity (so-called “low E”) coating is provided on one of the faces of the second substrate.
US12157279B2
Method of making a shaped article (5) comprising at least two parts (10, 15) wherein the first part comprises at least one projection (20) and the second part comprises at least one recess (22) by preparing said first part and said second part in a moulding process and joining the prepared first and second part together by engaging the at least one projection with the at least one recess to form said shaped article.
US12157272B2
A system for depowdering additively manufactured parts includes a deflection plate, a hammer device mounted to a first side of the deflection plate, and a mounting plate operatively connected to a second side of the deflection plate relative to the hammer device, the mounting plate being configured for rotation relative to the deflection plate.
US12157263B2
A device for controlling a production system for planar or strand-shaped bodies comprises a measurement region and a conveying apparatus configured to convey the body through the measurement region. A transmission apparatus is configured to irradiate the body with measurement radiation in the measurement region. A detection apparatus is configured to detect the measurement radiation reflected by the body. An evaluation apparatus is configured to use the measurement radiation detected by the detection apparatus to determine at least one of: (1) a refractive index of the body; and (2) an absorption of the measurement radiation by the body. A control apparatus is configured to control at least one production parameter of a production system based on the at least one of: (1) the refractive index of the body; and (2) the absorption of the measurement radiation by the body.
US12157248B2
The present subject matter relates to a log dog, a kit thereof, a set bar assembly, and a log bed with the log dog and set bar assembly. The log dog includes a rod with a groove, and a head block with a cylindrical cavity for receiving the groove and with a bore extending through the sidewall. A pin extends through the bore to the cylindrical cavity for rotatable engagement with the groove to releasably hold the head block to the rod. The set bar assembly includes a pair of mounting brackets with a holder having lower and upper sections. A support bar is secured between the mounting brackets and a pivot arm extends from the support bar. The set bar assembly includes a stop bar received in the holder, wherein moving the stop bar between the lower and upper sections of the holder lowers and raises the pivot arm.
US12157244B2
A perforating apparatus and method includes a longitudinal cylinder axis about which a cylinder rotates. At least one shaped anvil bead is disposed on the cylinder. The cylinder including an anvil block and an anvil bead form a cavity. The cavity may be used to control the debris produced during the perforating process. A blade is disposed on a support to cooperate in contacting relationship with the anvil bead. A web is perforated as the web passes between the rotating cylinder and the support and the blade operatively engages with the anvil bead. The debris may be controlled by being drawn into the cavity prior to the point where the blade engages the anvil and, subsequently, being expelled after the point where the blade engages the anvil bead.
US12157239B2
A folding knife is provided with a power storage device that can be charged and recharged by a charge component that wirelessly receives power from a remote source. In some embodiments, the folding knife can have a device that consumes energy such as a light, a camera, a microphone, an audio speaker, etc. The power storage device and the charge component can be positioned in a scale of the handle where the substantially planar shapes of the scale, the power storage device, and the charge component are oriented in a common direction. In some embodiments, the cavities, recesses, and channels in the first scale that house these components and linking wires are strategically positioned to leave a reinforcing area that provides strength and stiffness to the handle. Various features are also described herein that improve safety of the charging system.
US12157223B2
An end-effector for a programmable motion device is disclosed for use with a vacuum source. The end-effector includes an end-effector attachment portion for attaching the end-effector to the programmable motion device, the end-effector attachment portion including a vacuum channel coupled to the vacuum source, a contact portion of the end-effector for contacting an object to be acquired by the contact portion of the end-effector, a flexible intermediate section including a contact end of the flexible intermediate portion proximate the contact portion of the end-effector, the flexible intermediate section of the end-effector being intermediate the end-effector attachment portion and the contact portion of the end-effector, the flexible intermediate section including a bellows portion that extends radially outwardly of the vacuum channel, and a bellows insert that extends into the flexible intermediate section.
US12157222B2
Various examples are provided related to end effectors for use in, e.g., automation of sewing robots. In one example, among others, a compliant perimeter end effector includes a mounting bracket having a contact mounting flange, a plurality of compliant material contact elements coupled about a perimeter of the contact mounting flange. The mounting bracket can couple to a manipulator including, e.g., an industrial robot or other manipulation assembly. The compliant material contact elements can include a contact interface that can engage with a piece of material. The compliant material contact elements can precisely transfer material on a workspace with surface irregularities while equally distributing force to the material.
US12157217B2
A potting boat adapted to receive a printed circuit board is described. The boning boat includes a base plate and a plurality of sidewalls projecting from the base plate, a plurality of cooling fins, a recessed portion, and an arm. The plurality of cooling fins are formed on one of the sidewalls. The cooling fins extend laterally outward from the one of the sidewalls. The recessed portion is in a first sidewall of the plurality of sidewalls, and extends laterally inward. The arm has a first end fixed to the sidewall and an opposite, second end not connected with the first sidewall. The arm at least partially overlays the recessed portion to define a void within which electrical wires connected to the printed circuit board are retained proximate the first sidewall.
US12157185B2
Methods and systems for crystallizing a thin film provide an optics system configured to produce a laser spot beam directed towards the thin film and truncate the laser spot beam before the laser spot beam comes into contact with the thin film. The truncated laser spot beam is continually translated in a first direction while irradiating an amorphous silicon area of the thin film to generate a molten zone in the irradiated amorphous silicon area, where the thin film cools and solidifies to form crystal grains.
US12157183B2
The present disclosure relates to methods and systems for monitoring a welding process for welding at least one glass workpiece to another workpiece, e.g., also made of glass, wherein a weld seam is formed in the workpieces in a process zone that is exposed to a pulsed processing beam, e.g., to a pulsed laser beam, such as an ultra-short-pulse laser beam, wherein the radiation emitted by the process zone is detected in a time-resolved manner.
US12157178B2
A method of making a fluid injector for a gas turbine engine includes depositing material onto a piece of tube stock. The method includes machining the deposited material into a fluid injector component. Depositing can include laser cladding the material onto the piece of tube stock. The method can include placing or flowing braze into a braze joint location between the deposited material and another fluid injector component and forming the braze into a braze joint in the braze joint location.
US12157176B2
A power tool, such as a cast saw is disclosed. The cast saw is equipped with at least one thermocouple and and/or at least one infrared detector that measure the temperature of the cutting blade on the cast saw or the area in the cast immediately surrounding the cutting blade. The cast saw is also equipped with at least one LED that can alert a user of the cast saw when blade or the area in the cast immediately surrounding the blade is approaching or has reached a temperature that may burn a patient. Also disclosed is a shroud for the cutting blade of the cast saw. The shroud not only surrounds at least part of the blade but also houses the thermocouple or infrared detector and the LEDs(s). A method of operating the cast saw to cut a cast off of a patient is also disclosed.
US12157170B2
A bonding method in which applied is a prescribed conductive bonding material, which contains a molded article of a metal powder. The metal powder is one or more selected from the group consisting of a gold powder, a silver powder, a platinum powder, and a palladium powder, and has a purity of 99.9% by mass or more, and an average particle size of 0.005 μm to 1.0 μm, and the conductive bonding material has a compressive deformation rate M, represented by the following expression, of 5% or more and 30% or less when compressed with a compression pressure of 5 MPa. [Expression 1] M={(h1−h2)/h1}×100, wherein h1 represents an average thickness of the conductive bonding material before compression, and h2 represents an average thickness of the conductive bonding material after the compression.
US12157166B2
A method for holding a part blank inside a holding assembly. The holding assembly includes a first holding portion. The first holding portion includes an inner cavity containing a fluid. The part blank and the first holding portion are at least partially manufactured by additive manufacturing. The holding method includes a heating of the holding assembly and the part blank to deform the first holding portion by fluid expansion in the inner cavity and to reduce a gap between the part blank and the holding assembly by expansion of the first holding portion in relation to the part blank.
US12157163B2
The present invention relates to a coating composition comprising a solid component comprising a clay and mica, wherein the clay comprises from about 50 to about 90% by weight of kaolinite and from about 5 to about 35% by weight of montmorillonite and the coating composition comprises, based on the solid component, from about 5 to about 50 parts by weight of clay. Furthermore, a process for coating a casting mold and the use of the coating composition for coating a casting mold are disclosed.
US12157162B2
The additive composition of the present invention is one blended in a sand composition which is subjected to foaming to mold a sand mold, and includes (A) an alkylsulfonate metal salt having an alkyl group with 9 to 22 carbon atoms. The additive composition may further include at least one component selected from a group consisting of (B) an alkylsulfate metal salt, (C) a polyoxyalkylene alkyl ether sulfate metal salt, and (D) an alkylbenzene sulfonate metal salt.
US12157161B2
To manufacture a holding flange intended to be inserted into a groove of an outer ring of a rolling bearing, from a metal plate having a plate thickness measured between a front face and an opposite rear face of the metal plate, a method is performed in at least two steps. By penetration of a first tool, along a reference axis perpendicular to the plate and in a direction of penetration from the front face over an intermediate depth less than the plate thickness, the material initially located inside a front geometric envelope is pushed back into a volume axially located between the intermediate depth and the rear face of the holding flange and delimited by a blank geometric envelope. Next, by penetration of a second tool along the reference axis and in the direction of penetration, the plate is perforated to form a final bore having a rear geometric envelope located, in projection on a plane perpendicular to the reference axis, radially inside the front geometric envelope and outside the blank geometric envelope.
US12157160B2
A can lid comprising: a main body comprising a laminate metal sheet, the laminate metal sheet comprising a metal sheet and a first resin film on a major surface of the metal sheet, the major surface having a score line delimiting an opening piece, the first resin film comprising a first resin layer comprising a dimer acid-copolymerized polyester resin and being amorphous; and a tab attached to the main body and adapted to cause a cleavage along the score line.
US12157157B2
A pressing which a ram repeats an up-and-down motion for press working machine that performs a continuous operation in by a press die held by a die holding portion of a bolster and a die holding portion of the ram includes: a die positioning portion that positions the press die in a first direction being a moving direction of the ram; a position adjustment mechanism having a servomotor as a drive source and optionally changing a position where the press die is positioned by the die positioning portion; and a drive control unit driving, when position change data is given during the continuous operation, the servomotor such that the position where the press die is positioned by the die positioning portion is changed to a position corresponding to the position change data when reaction force of the press working not applied to the die positioning portion during continuous operation.
US12157153B2
A method for the manufacture of insoluble lead anodes, with low segregation of the constituent elements of the anodic alloy for the electrowinning of metals, free of buckling, used in electrolytic processes, which comprises: Obtaining a continuous plate (4) of lead or lead alloy 10 to 30 mm thick by 900 to 1,100 mm wide by means of a continuous casting process; Cut the continuous plate (4) according to a determined length obtaining a pre-plate (6) that will give the length of one or more plates of the anode (8); Roll the lead or lead alloy pre-plate (6) using a cold rolling mill (7) to a thickness of 6 to 12 mm, keeping the cold rolling temperature of the pre-plate under 60° C., obtaining the anode plate(s) (8); Remove the anode plate (8) from the rolling mill (7); Weld (12) a copper bar (10) to the upper end of the anode plate (11).
US12157148B2
The present disclosure relates to systems, non-transitory computer-readable media, and methods for analyzing and sorting batteries according to battery classifications. In particular, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed systems scan a target battery with a plurality of sensors and analyze signals of the plurality of sensors utilizing a classifier model to determine a battery classification for the target battery. Also, in some embodiments, the disclosed systems indicate the predicted battery classification to a battery sorting mechanism for sorting the target battery. Additional mechanisms and related methods for automated classification and sorting of batteries are disclosed.
US12157147B2
When a granular object is determined to have to be sorted out two or more times in two or more of sort-out necessity/unnecessity determination results determined by a determination portion, a sort-out signal setting portion of an optical sorting apparatus sets a sort-out actuation signal that contains information for actuating an ejector when the granular object advancing in the air passes through a sorting region based on a combination of the sort-out necessity/unnecessity determination results from a predetermined signal setting table.
US12157138B2
A fluid sprayer includes a spray gun that is configured to output a spray of fluid for application on a substrate. A trigger of the spray gun is operatively connected to a controller to control actuation of a pump that drives the spray fluid to the spray gun. A solenoid is connected to a spray valve of the spray gun to actuate the spray valve open to cause spraying by the fluid sprayer.
US12157136B2
Applicant discloses a two part polymer mix for use in the aircraft industry that is applied with pneumatic mix and spray gun. A two part cartridge is used in the mix and spray gun so the mix is applied immediately upon mixing, but the two components are kept separated unless the gun is applying the mix. The mix cures to form a clear sealant that allows for inspection of cracks and corrosion beneath the sealant. It cures quickly so that the coated part may be further processed, for example in the assembly line during aircraft build.
US12157132B2
A spray head for the cooling lubrication of a lower die and/or an upper die of a forming machine is disclosed. The spray head is able to be introduced between two working strokes into a working chamber between the lower die and the upper die. The spray head has at least two individually controllable nozzles for the cooling lubrication of different places of a die surface of the lower die and/or the upper die. The spray head also has a thermal imaging camera for recording a thermal image of the lower die and/or the upper die. A forming machine has a cooling device comprising an aforementioned spray head.
US12157131B2
A container closure can include a collar, an actuator, and a biasing element. The collar can be configured to couple to a container. The collar can have a container facing surface and a second surface opposite the container facing surface. The actuator can be movable relative to the collar from a first position to a second position. The actuator can be in fluid communication with a cavity defined by the container such that the actuator dispenses material out of the container as the actuator moves from the first position to the second position. The biasing element can have a first portion coupled to the actuator and a second portion coupled to the second surface of the collar, the biasing element configured to bias the actuator toward the first position.
US12157130B2
A packaging assembly for a cosmetic product has a receptacle which can contain the product, and an insert which supports a dispensing member and is removably mounted on the receptacle in order to allow, when it is mounted on the receptacle, product to be dispensed by the dispensing member. The insert is configured to cooperate with the receptacle so that, when the receptacle is moved to be mounted on and/or removed from the insert, the insert successively moves via a first position in which the force necessary for the movement reaches a first local maximum, and a second position in which the force reaches a second local maximum.
US12157121B2
The present invention relates to the structure of an analysis plate applied to a high-speed polymerase chain reaction (PCR), and to a PCR analysis plate used for implementing an analysis of a real-time PCR, a real-time nested PCR and a post-PCR lateral flow hybridization reaction. The present invention is provided with: a check valve for enabling the maintaining of positive pressure when an elastic film expands into a convex form by having a solution pushed therein by the positive pressure; a lateral flow analysis module for analyzing a post-PCR follow-up PCR or lateral flow; and a shut-off valve enabling the controlling of the movement of the solution after each reaction ends. A high-speed PCR analysis plate may be provided whereby, by pressing, by means of a temperature-controllable heating block, the elastic film, which is in a convex form by the solution, of a PCR unit, a PCR solution may undergo rapid temperature circulation with minimum heat resistance, and a PCR dried material and a nucleic acid solution may be homogenized and mixed.
US12157120B2
Methods are provided for emulating disease in a microfluidic system with a releasable interfacial film component that allows communication between non-gel aqueous solutions to emulate natural physiological conditions. The systems and methods emulate cellular communication in a disease state in a more accurate aqueous environment and provide data on the interaction between the cells that can be used to develop a treatment for a subject in need. The systems and methods also can be used to assess the effect of a particular treatment, such as a drug therapy, radiation therapy, or a combination thereof, for example. The systems and methods can show how a particular therapy is affected by any of several known factors including, but not limited to, the sex of the subject, the age of the subject, hereditary factors or other genetic predispositions, as well as perhaps other physiological states of the subject, or a combination thereof.
US12157117B2
A pipette dispenser vision system and method are disclosed. For example, a pipette dispenser vision system is provided for tracking pipettes with respect to dispensing liquid into target fluid wells, vessels, and/or reservoirs. The presently disclosed pipette dispenser vision system may include, for example, a computing device, a red/green/blue (RGB) imaging device, an infrared (IR) imaging device, an IR illumination source, and an IR sensor; all arranged with respect to, for example, a single-channel and/or a multi-channel pipette for dispensing liquid into a dispensing platform. Further, a method of using the presently disclosed pipette dispenser vision system is provided. For example, the method processes image data from the RGB imaging device and/or the IR imaging device to monitor/verify certain operations of the pipetting process and/or dispensing platform.
US12157109B2
Methods for making a supported chromium catalyst are disclosed, and can comprise contacting a silica-coated alumina containing at least 30 wt. % silica with a chromium-containing compound in a liquid, drying, and calcining in an oxidizing atmosphere at a peak temperature of at least 650° C. to form the supported chromium catalyst. The supported chromium catalyst can contain from 0.01 to 20 wt. % chromium, and typically can have a pore volume from 0.5 to 2 mL/g and a BET surface area from 275 to 550 m2/g. The supported chromium catalyst subsequently can be used to polymerize olefins to produce, for example, ethylene-based homopolymers and copolymers having high molecular weights and broad molecular weight distributions.
US12157106B2
A natural zeolite block for improving water quality that is capable of being built in rivers, streams, and reservoirs having point and non-point pollutant sources to purify the water polluted by pollutants, to remove the eutrophication in the water to prevent the occurrence of green and red tides, and to consistently purify heavy metals and all kinds of harmful substances flowing into the water and to a method for manufacturing the same.
US12157105B2
The present invention relates to a neutralizing absorbent for decontaminating a leaked chemical substance, a method of preparing the same, and a neutralizer filled with the same. The neutralizing absorbent for decontaminating a leaked chemical substance according to the present invention includes an inorganic adsorbent, which is commonly usable in neutralizing absorption of acidic, basic, and/or organic chemical substances, at 40 to 60 wt %, a thickener at 20 to 30 wt %, a surfactant at 20 to 30 wt %, and a color change indicator, and is formulated in a solid state.
US12157104B2
A reactor system including a plurality of catalytic modules connected end-to-end, forming a passage for reactants to pass through individually heated catalytic heating elements, thereby producing products. Each catalytic module has an insulating housing containing a catalytic heating element and configured to pass reactants over the catalytic heating element. A conductor in the module applies electricity to the catalytic heating element, which operates as a combined catalytic material and heating element.
US12157102B2
A system includes a synthesizer unit having a fluid input to receive fluids and a communication input to receive commands to synthesize data-encoded DNA sequences and cleave the DNA. A first flexible chemistry reaction chamber module may be fluidically coupled to the synthesizer unit to receive the data-encoded DNA sequences and amplify the sequences. A deposition unit may be fluidically coupled to the first flexible chemistry reaction chamber module to receive the amplified DNA sequences and encapsulate the amplified DNA sequences into one or more wells in a storage plate for storage and retrieval to and from a plate storage unit. Retrieved DNA may be processed and read by further units.
US12157094B2
New carbon nanomaterials, preferably titanium carbide-derived carbon (CDC) nanoparticles, were embedded into a polyamide film to give CDC/polyamide mixed matrix membranes by the interfacial polymerization reaction of an aliphatic diamine, e.g., piperazine, and an activated aromatic dicarboxylate, e.g., isophthaloyl chloride, supported on a sulfone-containing polymer, e.g., polysulfone (PSF), layer, which is preferably previously prepared by dry/wet phase inversion. The inventive membranes can separate CO2 (or other gases) from mixtures of CO2 and further gases, esp. CH4, based upon the generally selective nanocomposite layer(s) of CDC/polyamide.
US12157092B1
A method for creating a seawater desalination reverse osmosis membrane that excels in both water flux and boron removal. The method utilizes the abundant and reactive amino groups of carbon nitride in an interfacial polymerization reaction to enhance the membrane's structure. The unique pore and interlayer structure of carbon nitride is employed to modify the membrane's hydrophilicity, roughness, and interlayer structure, thereby boosting its water flux and boron removal capabilities. Additionally, the carbon nitride solution demonstrates exceptional dispersion properties. Its hydrophilic amino groups react with the organic phase monomer trimesoyl chloride during polymerization, ensuring an even distribution in the polyamide layer without any agglomeration. The evenly dispersed m-phenylenediamine and carbon nitride solution, along with sodium hydroxide in the aqueous phase, quicken the acylation reaction rate. This not only ensures more uniform participation of carbon nitride in the reaction but also further enhances the membrane's water flux and boron removal efficiency.
US12157091B2
Disclosed herein are apparatuses and methods for semi-permeable membrane cleaning. In particular, a pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) process redirects raw solution and fluid streams in such a way as to cause periodic changes of the process from PRO to reverse osmosis (RO) for lifting and detaching fouling. Further disclosed is applying, at least periodically, a pulsed-flow regime in the fluid stream, thereby causing increased shearing force for enhanced evacuation of the foulant. Additionally, a backward wash may be provided by injection, for a predetermined injection time, of additional solution selected in such way that net driving pressure becomes RO opposite to normal PRO operation, thereby providing a backward flow from a first side of the membrane to a second side of the membrane, so as to lift and evacuate foulant.
US12157083B2
A particulate collector includes a housing having an air intake port and an exhaust port and a flow channel, in the housing, connecting the two ports, a fan rotatable about an R-axis to generate airflow in the flow channel, a spray unit that sprays first liquid into a first portion in the flow channel, a first filter located between the first portion and the exhaust port and supported rotatably about the R-axis, a power source that rotates the first filter, a first collection port for collecting a first particulate covered with liquid contained in the first liquid from the flow channel through a second portion in the first filter, and a second collection port for collecting a second particulate covered with liquid contained in the first liquid from the flow channel through a third portion in the first filter. The second portion is located between the first and third portions.
US12157082B2
The present disclosure relates to a removable filter system for removably coupling a filter unit to an air supply unit provided in a boiler. The filter unit is detachably coupled to the air supply unit, so that after removing the contaminated filter unit coupled to the air supply unit, a new filter unit can be coupled to the air supply unit or the existing filter unit can be reused after removing contaminants remaining in the filter.
US12157078B2
A depth filter with excellent filtration accuracy and pressure resistance performance even for fluids containing high density and high viscosity powder fine particles. A depth filter having a base material layer, a filtration layer, and a skin layer, in that order, wherein: the substrate layer and the skin layer are layers made by a nonwoven fabric being wound and thermally fused; the filtration layer is a laminate in which at least a nonwoven fabric and a net are laminated, being wound twice or more; and the nonwoven fabric contained in the filtration layer contains a mixed-fiber nonwoven fabric containing two or more types of fibers with mutually different average fiber diameters.
US12157077B2
A filtration medium for a filter, having high dust collection efficiency, low pressure loss, a long service life and sufficient processing strength into a filter. A combined fiber nonwoven fabric includes first fibers having a mean fiber diameter of less than 200 nanometers, and second fibers having a mean fiber diameter in the range of 200 to 5000 nanometers, in which basis weight of the combined fiber nonwoven fabric is in the range of 2.1 to 15.0 g/m2.
US12157070B2
In a separation instrument configured to separate a gaseous substance from a solution contained in a container, the separation instrument includes: a first end; a second end; and a side surface provided between the first end and the second end, wherein a plurality of gas introduction grooves configured to swirl a gas and introduce the gas into the container are formed on the side surface between the first end and the second end, and a discharge hole configured to discharge the gaseous substance separated from the solution together with the gas is formed between a center portion of the second end and a center portion of the first end.
US12157068B2
A brick (2) for the plug connection in a plug connection system in a space spanned by a longitudinal direction (4), a transverse direction (6) transverse to the longitudinal direction (4) and a height direction (8) transverse to the longitudinal direction (4) and transverse to the transverse direction (6), including: a first brick part (10) having an interior space (14) which is bounded by a wall (16) in the longitudinal direction (4) and the transverse direction (6) on both sides and in the height direction (8) on the top side (17), the first brick part (10) having a first plug connection element (18) on the top side (17). a second brick part (12) having an interior space (26) which is bounded by a wall (28) in the longitudinal direction (4).
US12157064B1
A physical-virtual gaming platform comprising a game board overlay including logical locations for the placement of game pieces, where the overlay is placed in relationship to the combination of a game board and game pieces. The combination of the game board and game pieces include electronic means that are in communication with a computing device. The computing device processes the information provided by the electronic means to determine the logical location of a game piece with respect to the game overlay and then provides a sensory output to gamers based at least upon the determined locations. The game overlay can be active and in communication with the computing device such that the overlay is operated to alter one or more logical locations thereby changing game play in response to determined game piece movements. The platform includes visualization and audio devices for providing customized visual and audio experiences.
US12157023B2
A cartridge replacement aid and a fire suppression system for incorporating the same are provided. The cartridge replacement aid helps to ensure that a disposable cartridge is removed and replaced after actuation. The cartridge replacement aid includes an aperture configured to allow a cartridge to pass through the cartridge replacement aid and connect to a valve, and a protrusion configured to perpendicularly extend from the cartridge replacement aid. The protrusion of the cartridge replacement aid, in certain instances, is configured to break when the fire suppression system is actuated. The protrusion of the cartridge replacement aid, in certain instances, is configured to prevent the cam of the fire suppression system from being reset without removing the cartridge replacement aid.
US12157011B2
In one aspect, a method for measuring cell metabolism through photobiomodulation comprising steps of receiving a broadband near-infrared spectroscopy (bbNIRS) image including one or more responding signals to light stimulation regarding a specific cell; extracting two or more turning points on one of the responding signals; extracting two or more threshold points on one of the responding signals; generating a first line by curve fitting to approximate the turning points on the responding signal and determining a slop of the first line; generating a second line by curve fitting to approximate the threshold points on the responding signal and determining a slop of the second line; and comparing the input images, the first line and the second line to determine a rate of cell metabolism of the specific cell.
US12157008B2
Systems and methods are provided for delivering neurostimulation therapies to patients for treating chronic heart failure. A neural fulcrum zone is identified and ongoing neurostimulation therapy is delivered within the neural fulcrum zone. The implanted stimulation device includes a physiological sensor for monitoring the patient's response to the neurostimulation therapy on an ambulatory basis over extended periods of time and a control system for adjusting stimulation parameters to maintain stimulation in the neural fulcrum zone based on detected changes in the physiological response to stimulation.
US12157007B2
Modulation of neural activity of a ganglion, by applying a signal to a sympathetic nerve adjacent to the ganglion, results in preferential reduction of sympathetic signals to an effector, thereby providing ways of treating and preventing conditions associated with exacerbated sympatho-excitation.
US12157004B2
An electrical stimulation system includes a sheath that includes conductive points that are operative to facilitate electrical stimulation to a bodily portion of a user. Drive-sense circuits (DSCs) generate electrical stimulation signals based on reference signals and provide those electrical stimulation signals via electrodes to the conductive points of the sheath. The electrical stimulation signal is coupled into respective locations of the bodily portion of the user that are in proximity to or in contact with the conductive points of the sheath. In addition, the DSCs sense, via the conductive points of the sheath and via the electrodes, changes of the electrical stimulation signals based on coupling of them into the respective locations of the bodily portion of the user. The DSCs provide digital signals that are representative of the changes of the electrical stimulation signals to one or more processing modules that includes and/or is coupled to memory.
US12156998B2
A device for delivery of medicament is presented that has an elongated housing, a container mounted within the housing and adapted to contain liquid medicament, a stopper slidably arranged within said container, and a delivery mechanism comprising a resilient member, a plunger assembly having one end connected to the stopper and a second end being operably connected to the resilient member, a rotatable latch for releasably retaining the plunger assembly in a first position where the resilient member has an accumulated energy, where rotation of the latch releases the plunger assembly such that the accumulated energy is transferred to the plunger assembly for driving the stopper within the container whereby the medicament within said container is delivered to an injection site. After delivery of the medicament a rotator having a hard stop feature aligns with a rib on the protective shield to prevent retraction of the protective shield.
US12156995B2
A syringe exostructure includes a main body which removably receives a syringe having a syringe barrel and a syringe plunger. A drive plunger is reciprocatably mounted on the main body, and a plunger bar is slidably received in an axial channel on the drive plunger. The plunger bar is configured to removably couple to the syringe plunger when the syringe is introduced into the main body. A drive pawl assembly is fixed to an upper surface of the drive plunger and transfers motion of the drive plunger to the plunger bar as the drive plunger is advanced. The locking pawl engages the plunger bar and allows the plunger bar to be advanced by the drive plunger but prevents the plunger bar from being retracted as the drive plunger is retracted.
US12156994B2
The disclosure relates to a drug delivery device including a plunger disposed within a case and an audible indicator that comprises a resilient element. The plunger is slidable from a proximal position to a distal position within the case and the resilient element is in a first configuration when the plunger is in the proximal position, such that the resilient element is deflected radially outwards to a second configuration during movement of the plunger from the proximal position towards the distal position. The resilient element moves from the second configuration towards the first configuration when the plunger moves towards or reaches the distal position, thereby generating an audible and tactile signal.
US12156990B2
A system and method is provided for detecting fluid low-volume and occlusion in a device using force sensing resistor (FSR) sensor. One or more force sensing resistors are positioned in communication with a fluid channel at one or more of a pump intake and pump outlet to detect pressure in the fluid channel. The pressure is detected through communication with the force sensing resistor and indicates an irregular system condition including but not limited to, fluid low-volume level and occlusion. Also provided are a fluid flow sensor (e.g., FSR or MEMS sensor) disposed relative to an embedded fluid channel in the base of a wearable medicine delivery pump.
US12156988B2
Infusion devices, systems, and related operating methods are provided. A method of detecting an anomalous condition with respect to a fluid path involves providing energy to an actuation arrangement to produce actuation, wherein the actuation arrangement is coupled to a plunger configured to deliver fluid via the fluid path, monitoring an orientation of the actuation arrangement using a sensing arrangement, and detecting an anomalous condition based on the orientation of the actuation arrangement.
US12156987B2
A pump for delivering a fluid includes a pump housing that defines at least one reservoir having a circumferentially open first end, a circumferentially closed second end and a chamber to receive the fluid. The pump includes a plunger assembly having at least one plunger arm and a cannula fluidly coupled to the plunger arm to dispense the fluid from the pump. The plunger arm is receivable within the first end of the reservoir, and the at least one plunger arm defining an internal conduit to receive the fluid from the at least one fluid reservoir. The internal conduit is fluidly coupled to the cannula. The plunger assembly is movable in a first direction relative to the pump housing to advance the plunger arm within the fluid reservoir to dispense the fluid from the fluid reservoir out of the pump via the cannula.
US12156980B2
The present disclosure, in its various aspects, is directed generally to medical devices, and more specifically to catheter accessory devices and related systems and methods. In an embodiment, an instrument accessory device may include a body with an instrument lumen through which an instrument may extend through. An expandable member may be disposed about the distal end of the body. An elongate delivery member may be attached to the body and in communication with the expandable member at a distal end of the delivery member. The delivery member may be configured to slide the instrument lumen of the body and the expandable member along the length of the instrument when extended therethrough. Other embodiments are addressed within.
US12156979B2
Various embodiments of the present disclosure can include a deflectable catheter shaft. The deflectable catheter shaft can include a tubular elongated body including a wall, an inner surface of which circumferentially surrounds and defines a central lumen extending a length of the tubular elongated body, the tubular elongated body extending along a longitudinal axis and comprising a body distal end and a body proximal end. The deflectable catheter shaft can include a pullwire, wherein the pullwire includes a pullwire proximal end and a pullwire distal end, and wherein the pullwire extends along the tubular elongated body. The deflectable catheter shaft can include an anchor feature coupled to the pullwire distal end, wherein the anchor feature is embedded in the wall of the body distal end.
US12156970B2
The breathing assistance apparatus of the present invention includes a manifold that is provided with or retrofittable to gases supply and humidifying devices. The manifold allows gases from an oxygen concentrator to be combined with the flow through a gases supply and humidifying device, most usually air. The combined output of oxygen and other breathing gases (air) is then humidified. The breathing assistance apparatus and manifold of the present invention provides a safe method to add oxygen to the input air stream of a gases supply and humidifying device and reduces the amount of accumulation of oxygen within the gases supply device, reducing fire risk should sparking occur within the device.
US12156966B2
Methods and systems for delivering formulations to users using modular device having atomizer and wick assembly are disclosed. A formulation delivery system that includes a mouthpiece with a first attaching structure at one end and a removable cartridge with a second attaching structure that connects to the mouthpiece. The removable cartridge houses an atomizer at its first end and features a wick assembly with a removable cap and a wick made from an absorbent material. The wick, which transports fluid to the atomizer, is connected at one end to the removable cap and at the other end abuts the atomizer. The system also includes a channel within the removable cartridge; this channel extends to the cartridge's first end and houses the wick, while the removable cap is located outside the channel. Additionally, the system incorporates electronics that maintain a removable electrical connection with the cartridge.
US12156955B2
The present invention relates to a self-assembling polypeptide, such as a silk polypeptide including a spider silk polypeptide, for use as tissue adhesive. The present invention also relates to the use of a self-assembling polypeptide such as a silk polypeptide as tissue adhesive. Further, the invention is directed to the use of a self-assembling polypeptide such as a silk polypeptide to glue one or more cosmetic compounds on skin, mucosa, and/or hair. Furthermore, the invention is directed to a self-assembling polypeptide such as a silk polypeptide for use in gluing one or more pharmaceutical compounds on tissue, skin, mucosa, and/or hair.
US12156953B2
An apparatus includes at least one storage tank configured to store a disinfectant/sanitization solution, at least one pump connected to the at least one storage tank to distribute the disinfectant/sanitization solution via a piping system, at least one valve in communication with the piping system to open and close to control flow of the disinfectant/sanitization solution, at least one device to control the flow of the disinfectant/sanitization solution for a particular period of time to at least one misting nozzle, and the at least one misting nozzle in communication with the piping system and the at least one valve to mist a particular area with the disinfectant/sanitization solution.
US12156947B2
A melt processed viral nanoparticle construct for delivery of virus or virus-like particles to a site of interest includes a degradable polymer matrix and a plurality of virus or virus-like particles encapsulated within the degradable polymer matrix. The nanoparticle construct upon administration to the site of interest providing a sustained release of the virus or virus-like particles and/or nanoparticles upon degradation of the polymer matrix.
US12156927B2
Pharmaceutical, odontological, cosmetic and dermatological compositions comprising addition salts of trichloroacetic acid, one or more hydroxyacids and optionally glutamic acid or glutamic acid bioisosteres and phytic acid are useful for the peeling of the gingival collar, skin peeling, for resurfacing, treating skin hyper pigmentation, control sebum production, acne, pore size reduction and reducing the appearance of scars without causing undesirable side effects and contrast in coloration of the treated skin, for stimulation of the fibroblasts, transdermal biorevitalization, stimulation of the production of new collagen, for aesthetic improvement, for skin lightening, skin beautifying, skin firming and skin rejuvenation.
US12156921B2
Theranostic agents incorporating a chelating moiety that can chelate a radioactive metal isotope and a PSMA-targeting moiety are disclosed herein. The theranostic agents, which can be used to treat and/or detect cancers associated with increased PSMA expression, have the formula: and include complexes, anions or salts thereof. R1 includes a chelating moiety; a is 0 or 1; n is an integer from 12 to 21; and R2 includes a prostate specific membrane antigen (PSMA)-targeting moiety. Optionally, the chelating moiety is chelated to a metal atom, where the metal atom is a positron or single photon emitting metal isotope, or an alpha, beta, or Auger emitting metal isotope.
US12156915B2
New compositions are provided containing artemisinin dimers with high activity as anti-protozoal agents, including anti-malarial and anti-leishmanial properties, and methods for the treatment of protozoal infections, including malaria or leishmaniasis.
US12156909B2
The invention relates to vaccine compositions comprising peptides encoded by an open reading frame (ORF) encoded by at least part of the genome of a ssRNA virus in the opposite sense to positive sense RNA capable of translation, and the use of such compositions for the treatment and prevention of viral infection.
US12156905B2
The present invention relates to peptides, proteins, nucleic acids and cells for use in immunotherapeutic methods. In particular, the present invention relates to the immunotherapy of cancer. The present invention furthermore relates to tumor-associated T-cell peptide epitopes, alone or in combination with other tumor-associated peptides that can for example serve as active pharmaceutical ingredients of vaccine compositions that stimulate anti-tumor immune responses, or to stimulate T cells ex vivo and transfer into patients. Peptides bound to molecules of the major histocompatibility complex (MHC), or peptides as such, can also be targets of antibodies, soluble T-cell receptors, and other binding molecules.
US12156897B2
Disclosed are methods and compositions for the treatment of autism spectrum disorder, related disorders and symptoms of such disorders, comprising co-administration of an oxytocin peptide and magnesium ions. Co-administration of an oxytocin peptide and magnesium ions results in a synergistic or enhanced effect on reducing social and communication deficits in a patient suffering from an autism spectrum disorder.
US12156896B2
Nutrient compositions comprising botanical extracts and methods of their use for treating, inter alia, autism or apraxia and/or ameliorating one or more symptoms thereof are disclosed. The use of such compositions for enhancing cognitive function and/or one or more aspects thereof, or for treating stroke or seizures and/or ameliorating one or more symptoms thereof are also disclosed.
US12156882B2
The present invention pertains to the field of nutrition and medicine, and relates to a drug combination for anti-aging and its use. Specifically, the present invention relates to a drug combination comprising: 0.5 to 30 parts by weight of NR or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt, 0.5 to 30 parts by weight of NMN, and 0.01 to 35 parts by weight of mineral. The drug combination of the present invention has good anti-oxidative or anti-aging effects, and has excellent stability.
US12156870B2
The present disclosure provides scaffolds and antibody-drug conjugates (ADCs) comprising a stimulator of interferon genes (STING). The present disclosure also provides uses of the ADCs in treatment, e.g., treatment of cancer.
US12156864B2
The present invention relates to cyclobenzaprine analogs and amitriptyline analogs, including deuterated forms useful for treatment or prevention of symptoms associated with post-traumatic stress disorder.
US12156861B2
A pharmaceutical composition contains chlorogenic acid and coumaroyl quinic acid. The combined use of chlorogenic acid and coumaroyl quinic acid at a certain ratio can generate a synergistic enhancing effect to effectively inhibit the growth of human kidney cancer cell strain A479, rat kidney cell strain RuCa, and rat transplanted tumor RuCa, providing a novel choice for clinical treatment of kidney cancer and having good market application prospects.
US12156857B2
An object of the present invention is to provide a novel composition for promoting ketone body production. The present invention provides a composition for use in promoting ketone body production, comprising one or more amino acid(s) selected from the group consisting of citrulline, leucine, cysteine, taurine, glutamine, and aspartic acid. The composition according to the present invention may further comprise either or both of a medium-chain fatty acid and a medium-chain fatty acid ester.
US12156856B2
Pharmaceutical compositions of (E)-2,4,6-trimethoxy styryl-3-[(carboxymethyl)amino]-4-methoxybenzylsulphone and pharmaceutically acceptable salts thereof are described as well as methods of their use, and a dose regimen of (E)-2,4,6-trimethoxystyryl-3-[(carboxymethyl)amino]-4-methoxybenzylsulphone, sodium salt to reduce the incidence of urothelial toxicity.
US12156855B2
The present invention provides a ready to use stable aqueous dosage form of norepinephrine comprising an aqueous solution of norepinephrine or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt, one or more sulfite antioxidants and an ion chelator. The present invention also provides an infusion container filled with an aqueous solution of norepinephrine or its pharmaceutically acceptable salt, wherein the said solution is stable for a prolonged period of time and can be terminally sterilized by autoclaving.
US12156850B2
A particulate plug for removing a preservative from a solution, suspension, or emulsion comprising a drug is presented. The plug comprises microparticles of a homopolymer comprising a hydrophilic repeating unit or of a copolymer comprising at least one hydrophilic repeating unit and at least one hydrophobic repeating unit. The microparticles are irregular-shaped rigid aggregates and are sized and packed to yield a hydraulic permeability greater than 0.01 Da. The homopolymers have absorbed portions of a preservative to be removed and/or a drug for delivery in solution, as can the copolymer.
US12156848B2
Various apparatus and methods for providing emergency washing including means for discouraging tampering of the various valves.
US12156845B2
An exoskeleton system includes a body interface and connects to a power supply. The body interface and the power supply include a quick lock connection mechanism arranged to adjust to the height and width of a user. The body interface includes a connection frame that defines at least two anchoring slots at different heights for connecting to corresponding anchors extending from the power supply. The power supply includes a removable locking element for securing the anchors to the anchoring slots at a selected height position. The power supply may have transmission arms driven by a drive system, and an assistive system for connection to a user. The transmission arms may be slidably connected to the drive system and have a locking part to secure the power supply in a plurality of predetermined width positions.
US12156843B2
A volute shell-type massage structure and a volute shell-type massager are disclosed. The volute shell-type massage structure includes a wand-type massage body; a volute shell massage body having a volute shell nose and a volute shell body; the volute shell nose is connected to the volute shell body to form a wrapping angle sector S, the volute shell nose in a wrapping angle sector S1 is continuously connected with the volute shell body, and the volute shell nose in a wrapping angle sector S2 is separated from the volute shell body; and the volute shell nose is connected to the wand-type massage body to form a connecting angle b1. When the volute shell body receives acting force from an outer surface of a hole-shaped part to be massaged, the volute shell nose can exert retraction force on the volute shell body, such that strong uninterrupted massage stimulation effects are achieved.
US12156841B2
An exoskeleton robot for hand and wrist kinetic rehabilitation provides passive, active-assisted, and active resistance rehabilitation for fingers and wrist joints independently. It relieves pain during exercises and stimulates the mechanoreceptors for all hand and wrist joints. The device provides levels of differentiation for finger rehabilitation through independent motion control mechanisms for all ten phalanges of the fingers and the wrist with a full range of motion, which helps in focusing the work on each joint selectively. It is portable, operates using an electric power source only, easy to wear, fits different hand sizes, and most of its parts made of lightweight plastic.
US12156838B2
The present invention provides an assembly having a collapsible wheelchair and an anti-rollback assembly to brake rotational movement of the wheelchair when a user is unseated, while simultaneously maintaining the ability of the wheelchair to collapse into a storage configuration. The anti-rollback assembly may include a brake bar pivotable between a lock state and an unlock state, a biasing member engaging the brake bar to exert a biasing force to move the brake bar into the lock state, and an actuator configured to engage a seat surface of the wheelchair to move the brake bar into the unlock state when the individual occupies the seat surface.
US12156835B1
A chamber has an elongated rectangular flexible panel with a first longitudinal side and a second longitudinal side, a first lateral panel having a substantially triangular shape and rounded corners, and a second lateral panel having a triangular rectangular shape and rounded corners. The first lateral panel is sealingly engaged to the first longitudinal side of the elongated rectangular flexible panel. The second lateral panel sealingly engaged to the second longitudinal side of the elongated rectangular flexible panel. The elongated rectangular flexible panel, first lateral panel, and second lateral panel form the chamber having a substantially triangular prism shape.
US12156831B2
A therapeutic device such as an eye mask or compress for delivery of moist heat therapy to a body part such as an eye of a human or animal subject. Example devices are configured to be worn with one or more eye coverage portions positioned over the subject's eye(s). The eye coverage portions have a front side configured for placement against the treated body part, and a back side opposite the front side. The eye coverage portions include recesses or retracted sections configured to be positioned over the wearer's cornea area. The shell of the eye coverage portions may further incorporate antimicrobial properties.
US12156823B2
A branch vessel stent including a stent body and a first developing member, where the first developing member includes a first developing portion and a second developing portion. A length of the first developing portion and a length of the second developing portion in an axial direction of the stent body are both not less than 0.5 mm. A distance between the intersections of the first developing portion and the second developing portion on a plane perpendicular to the axial direction of the stent body gradually increases from a position where the distance is the minimum distance to an end that is away from a first end of the first developing portion or the second developing portion. The minimum distance between the intersections of the first developing portion and the second developing portion on a plane perpendicular to the axial direction of the stent body is less than 2 mm.
US12156822B2
An acetabular liner having a closed first end, an open second end, and a liner wall having a distal peripheral edge. The acetabular liner wall can include an interior surface, an exterior surface configured to be received within an acetabular shell, a first cutout through the liner wall, a second cutout parallel to the first cutout and through the liner wall, and a third cutout in the interior surface partially through the liner wall, the third cutout extending between the first and second cutouts, and at least one movable tab extending from the peripheral edge inwardly towards an axial center of the liner and having sidewalls defined by one of the sets of cutouts, the tab comprising at least one projection on an exterior surface of the tab configured to removably secure to a portion of an acetabular shell.
US12156815B2
An apparatus and modeling method of the present invention includes the successive steps of generating cartographic data representative of points belonging to a glenoid surface; distinguishing from among the cartographic data a first group of cartographic data corresponding to a first part of the glenoid surface, the first surface part being situated farthest down in the vertical direction in relation to the scapula; calculating from the first group of cartographic data a first ellipsoid portion that coincides substantially with the first surface part; and obtaining a theoretical glenoid surface from the first ellipsoid portion. By virtue of the theoretical glenoid surface obtained by this method, it is possible to assist the surgeon in optimizing the position of implantation of a glenoid component and to produce a glenoid component “made to measure” for the scapula that is to be fitted with a prosthesis.
US12156805B2
An apparatus for delivering an implant to an eye using hydraulic fluid flow or pressure. An implant may be stored, advanced, and delivered to an eye using hydraulic fluid stored in a sterile container through a hollow advancement plunger. The plunger may rigidly advance the implant to a sealed position in a first phase, and then the implant may be advanced into the eye via hydraulic pressure or fluid flow in a second phase.
US12156799B2
The present invention relates to treating or preventing stenosis at an anastomosis site. In one embodiment, the present invention is a stent is curved along the longitudinal axis for placement in and adjacent to the graft orifice. In a further embodiment, the stent is drug coated to allow delivery of antivasculoproliferative drugs directly to the vicinity of the graft orifice. In a further embodiment, the stent is expandable by use of an external wire. In another embodiment, the present invention is a kit comprising the specially configured stent together with a sleeve comprising a biocompatible matrix material and a pharmaceutical agent, wherein the sleeve is applied to the external surface of the vessel or graft, resulting in extravascular delivery of a pharmaceutical agent. Methods for treating or preventing stenosis at an anastomosis site by applying the extravascular sleeve and the intravascular stent are also provided.
US12156793B2
Absorbent articles comprising pleats and methods for forming pleated absorbent articles are disclosed. In one embodiment, an absorbent article extending in a longitudinal direction and a lateral direction may comprise a bodyside liner, an outer cover, an absorbent core disposed between the bodyside liner and the outer cover, and a pleat extending in the longitudinal direction and having a lower pleat portion and an upper pleat portion, the pleat having a pleat height, wherein the lower pleat portion has a greater stiffness than the upper pleat portion.
US12156792B2
An example fluid collection assembly includes a fluid impermeable barrier having a proximal surface and a distal surface opposite the proximal surface. The proximal surface defines an opening. The fluid collection assembly also includes at least one inflation device. The inflation device includes a bladder. The bladder may be adjacent to the distal surface of the fluid impermeable barrier or between a conduit disposed in the chamber and the distal surface. The bladder is configured to switch between a first state and at least a second state. A volume of the bladder is greater when the bladder is the second state than when the bladder is in the first state. Switching the bladder between the first and second states changes a curvature of the at least a portion of the fluid collection assembly.
US12156787B2
A dressing for managing an incision and surrounding tissue where edema and swelling may be present post-operation. The dressing may maximize coverage of area in articulating joints, such as a knee or elbow, while allowing for substantial range of motion. In some embodiments, the dressing may comprise an adhesive border configured to be adhered to skin around an articulating joint, a skin-interfacing fabric for minimizing skin irritation, a foam body for manifolding negative pressure and absorbing exudate and other body fluids, and a thin polymer film cap for sealing the assembly so negative pressure can be maintained throughout the dressing.
US12156786B2
A medical drape for use with a reduced pressure system for providing reduced pressure to a tissue site is described. In some embodiments, the drape may include a flexible film, and an adhesive layer coupled to the flexible film. The adhesive layer may include a first adhesive disposed on a first portion of the flexible film in a first pattern. The first adhesive can be configured to secure the flexible film proximate to the tissue site. The adhesive layer generally includes a second adhesive disposed on a second portion of the flexible film in a second pattern. The second adhesive can be configured to seal the flexible film proximate to the tissue site. The first pattern and the second pattern are preferably registered so that the first portion and the second portion are offset to cover substantially different portions of the flexible film.
US12156785B2
An apparatus for determining surface topography of a patient's teeth comprises a probe sized to be at least partially inserted into an intraoral cavity of the patient, a light source to output light; and a light focusing assembly. The light focusing assembly comprises a first lens, a second lens and a focus changing assembly comprising one or more additional lenses that shares an optical axis with the first lens and the second lens and being configured to focus the light to a plurality of external focal planes to illuminate the patient's teeth, wherein the focus changing assembly has a movement gain factor, and wherein as a result of the movement gain factor a change in separation between lenses of the focus changing assembly by a first distance results in a change in a focus setting by a second distance that is 2-10 times greater than the first distance. The apparatus further comprises a detector configured to measure one or more characteristics of incident light returning from the illuminated patient's teeth and a processor coupled to the detector and configured to generate data representative of a topography of the patient's teeth based on the one or more measured characteristics of the incident light returning from the illuminated patient's teeth.
US12156782B1
Exemplary embodiments of an orientable dental device are discussed within the dental device includes a ball element that is positionable within a cup within a socket that is fixedly attached to a patient. The ball element includes a post that is orientable over a desired range (laterally and transversely and combination thereof) that allows for the incorporation of an artificial tooth (or teeth) to present a natural appearance.
US12156775B2
A tool for forming a dental restoration includes a mold body configured to provide a customized fit with at least one tooth of a patient. In some examples, the mold body defines an aperture configured to align with a portion of a surface of a tooth. The aperture is sufficiently large to allow placement and flow of restorative material over the desired portion of the surface of the tooth to be restored. The mold body is configured to combine with the at least one tooth of the patient to define a mold cavity encompassing at least a portion of desired tooth structure of the tooth to be restored.
US12156774B1
A dry mouth hydrating device includes a generally U-shaped tray having a base and two parallel arms extending from the base; a cavity defined within the tray providing a reservoir for the placement of a liquid; a first aperture defined in the base of the tray, in communication with the cavity; and tubing provided between the first aperture and the cavity for allowing the liquid to flow out of the cavity at a desired rate. The tray is adapted to surround the upper teeth of the wearer and to be retained within the oral cavity along the dental arch between the lips and gums. Once positioned on the upper teeth of the wearer, liquid can drip from the cavity over the tongue of a user wearing the device for treating or preventing xerostomia. A second, resealable aperture may be defined in communication with the cavity to allow the cavity to be refilled.
US12156767B2
An ultrasound diagnostic apparatus wirelessly connected to a displayer includes: an image data generator that generates ultrasound image data based on a reception signal received from an ultrasound probe that transmits and receives ultrasound waves to and from a subject; and a hardware processor that wirelessly transmits the generated ultrasound image data to the displayer to display the ultrasound image data on the displayer, acquires refresh rate information of the ultrasound image data displayed on the displayer from the displayer, determines whether or not the refresh rate information is equal to or less than a first threshold value, and causes a notifier to notify of notification information indicating that display of the ultrasound image data on the displayer is poor due to deterioration of the wireless communication state when the refresh rate information is equal to or less than the first threshold value.
US12156766B2
A transducer array for ultrasound applications includes a plurality of transducer elements that are provided with self-aligned connections to a flexible cable. The array is easy to manufacture and suited for wearable, wireless, and other small ultrasound devices. A simple and efficient method of producing a robust transducer array involves at least partially separating the transducer elements after their connection to their respective conductors.
US12156764B2
An ultrasound transducer may include: a plurality of capacitive ultrasound transducer elements; and a base having a largest dimension sized and shaped to be disposed with an external ear canal, wherein the plurality of capacitive ultrasound transducers is mounted on the base. Each capacitive ultrasound transducer element and the ultrasound transducer are specifically constructed to achieve select desired performance characteristics. The ultrasound transducer may have an angular beam spread through a gaseous medium of greater than 15 degrees and an attenuation loss through the gaseous medium of greater than 10 dB measured at a distance 12.5 mm to 25 mm along a primary transmission axis of the ultrasound transducer. The ultrasound transducer may be particularly useful for characterizing fluid behind an ear drum to diagnose otitis media.
US12156756B2
The present invention relates to matching a field of view for mobile 3D imaging, for example mobile C-arm 3D imaging In order to provide image data that is improved for comparing purposes, for example when using a mobile X-ray imaging system, first location information of a first reconstruction volume based on a first sequence of X-ray images of a region of interest of a subject acquired along a first trajectory in a first position of an X-ray imaging device is received. Further, a planned second trajectory for acquiring a second sequence of X-ray images in a second position of the X-ray imaging device is received and a resulting second reconstruction volume for the second sequence of X-ray images is calculated. Then, second location information for the second reconstruction volume is determined. Further, a degree of comparability for the first reconstruction volume and the second reconstruction volume is determined based on the first location information and the second location information. An adapted second trajectory is calculated that results in an increased degree of comparability of the first reconstruction volume and the second reconstruction volume. The adapted second trajectory is provided for acquiring the second sequence of X-ray images in the second position of the X-ray imaging device.
US12156750B2
A system and method of deploying a portable monitoring device. The method comprises inferring a rate of motion associated with the portable monitoring device; initiating, at a display screen of the portable monitoring device when the rate of motion is above a predetermined threshold, an image capture request; determining, responsive to the image capture request, a violation; and reporting the violation to a remote server communicatively coupled to the portable monitoring device.
US12156739B2
Methods and systems are provided for evaluating injection sites on a body of a patient. The methods/systems may instruct a patient to place one or more capacitance sensors in contact with a potential injection site on the body of the patient. The methods/systems may also comprise using a processing circuit to receive data indicative of a capacitance of body tissue at the potential injection site, as measured by the one or more capacitance sensors. The methods/systems may also comprise generating, using the processing circuit, an indication of a level of pain that would be expected to be experienced by the patient from a potential injection at the potential injection site based on the received capacitance.
US12156733B2
A tissue profile wellness monitor measures a physiological parameter, generates a tissue profile, defines limits and indicates when the tissue profile exceeds the defined limits. The physiological parameter is responsive to multiple wavelengths of optical radiation after attenuation by constituents of pulsatile blood flowing within a tissue site. The tissue profile is responsive to the physiological parameter. The limits are defined for at least a portion of the tissue profile.
US12156726B2
A method of analyzing a multidimensional image tensor containing a plurality of images comprises: performing imaging scans of a subject imaging data; generating the multidimensional image tensor from the imaging data; determining a spatial basis tensor containing basis images based on the multidimensional image tensor; determining a temporal basis tensor containing basis functions for a temporal dimension based on the multidimensional image tensor; determining a core tensor that relates the spatial basis tensor to the temporal basis tensor; pre-multiplying the core tensor and the temporal basis tensor to produce a modified temporal basis tensor; storing the spatial basis tensor and the modified temporal basis tensor; and generating an image by multiplying at least (i) at least a portion of the spatial basis tensor and (ii) at least a portion of the modified temporal basis tensor.
US12156725B2
Systems and methods relating to a smart elastic fabric tape are disclosed. For example, a method may include interrogating a sensing mesh using an electrical impedance tomography (EIT) device, wherein the sensing mesh is affixed onto skin nearby a musculoskeletal (MSK) region of interest, wherein the sensing mesh comprises a nanocomposite thin film disposed on elastic fabric tape, and wherein the sensing mesh forms a geometrical pattern on the skin; generating, in real-time, EIT conductivity maps from interrogating the sensing mesh; and generating, in real time, strain distribution and strain directionality data of the MSK region of interest based on the EIT conductivity maps.
US12156719B2
An apparatus for estimating a core body temperature of an object is provided. According to one embodiment, the apparatus includes a plurality of sensors configured to obtain data from an object and a processor configured to obtain a surface temperature, a heat flux, a skin blood flow rate, and a blood flow velocity by using the data obtained from the plurality of sensors, obtain a skin thermal conductivity based on the skin blood flow rate, and estimate a core body temperature of the object based on the surface temperature, the heat flux, the skin thermal conductivity, and the blood flow velocity of the object.
US12156717B2
The present disclosure provides computer-implemented methods, systems, and devices for improved skin temperature monitoring. Accurate estimates of skin and ambient temperature are generated based on determinations and comparisons of skin and internal device temperature sensor measurements contained on or within example devices. The estimates of skin and ambient temperature measurements facilitate monitoring skin and core temperature changes, detecting physiological events of a wearer of example devices, and determining when skin temperature changes are environmentally or physiologically induced.
US12156715B2
Systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE) can be diagnosed by affixing a plurality of light sources and a plurality of light detectors against the subject's body near a joint, and sequentially transmitting light from each of the plurality of light sources into the subject's body. Signals are acquired from each of the plurality of light detectors. The rise time of the acquired signals that occurs in response to an inflation of a pressure cuff is determined, and an indication of whether the joint is affected by SLE is made based on the determined rise time. In some embodiments, a plateau time of the acquired signals is also acquired, and the indication of whether the joint is affected by SLE is made based on the determined rise time and the determined plateau time.
US12156713B2
The exemplified system and method facilitate an objective, non-invasive measurement of myelin quality and integrity in living brains based on isolation of myelin-specific magnetic relaxation constants in k-space. The system uses magnetic resonance (MR) signals to select signatures specific to, or associated with, myelin and its structure and to then encode the selected signatures into an image or model to which the quantitative myelin health information can be co-registered with 2D, 3D visualization, and tractography of the myelin-signal isolated MR information. The system also sets a model for digital hierarchical learning of biomedical signals in MR, and beyond, based on experimental data in which it executes the herein described signal isolation operations.
US12156711B2
A system includes an input control, an instrument, a memory storing instructions, and one or more processors coupled to the memory. A first axis of a first coordinate frame is defined along a length of the input control and is associated with an orientation of the input control. A second axis of a second coordinate frame is defined along a length of the instrument and is associated with an orientation of the instrument. When executing the instructions, the one or more processors perform steps including, while in a following state, receiving a first command corresponding to a rotation of the input control about the first axis, in response to the first command, generating a second command to rotate the instrument around the second axis without rotating the instrument around any axis orthogonal to the second axis, and controlling movement of the instrument according to the second command.
US12156699B2
The invention relates to a therapy planning device for planning a therapy to be applied to tissue of a subject (2). A tissue parameter distribution, which has been generated based on a magnetic resonance fingerprint scan of the tissue, and a therapy goal distribution, which defines a distribution of at least one parameter being indicative of a desired effect of the therapy, are provided. A machine learning module (13), which has been trained to output at least one therapy application parameter defining the application of the therapy based on an input tissue parameter distribution and an input therapy goal distribution, is used for planning the therapy by determining the at least one therapy application parameter based on the provided tissue parameter distribution and the provided therapy goal distribution. This allows for a consideration of the actual quantitative tissue parameter distribution of the patient, thereby improving planning quality.
US12156695B2
A model eye is disposed on a reference light path of reference light in a reference optical system so as to reflect or scatter the reference light at a model retina in order to form an interference optical system used to obtain interference light from the reference light of the reference optical system and signal light illuminated onto an examined eye in a signal optical system.
US12156693B2
A device for dividing a fibrous structure comprising an expandable member positioned near the distal end of a catheter and in fluid communication with the lumen of the catheter so that the expandable member can be biased between an inflated state and a deflated state to tension the fibrous structure, and electrosurgical elements situated on or proximate to an outer surface of the expandable member and configured to deliver electrical and thermal energy to the tensioned fibrous structure in a manner that results in division of the tensioned fibrous structure. A method for dividing a fibrous structure comprising positioning proximate the fibrous structure an expandable member having electrosurgical elements, expanding the expandable member outwards to tension the fibrous structure across the electrosurgical elements, and activating the electrosurgical elements to deliver energy to the tensioned fibrous structure to divide the tensioned fibrous structure.
US12156692B2
Methods and devices described herein facilitate improved treatment of body organs.
US12156686B2
A medical balloon device includes an outer member extending along an axis. An inflatable member has a proximal end extending from a first end of the outer member and a distal end. An inner member is positioned within the outer member and the inflatable member such that a first end of the inner member is coupled to the distal end of the inflatable member. A support member is movably disposed within the inner member and includes a first end configured to removably engage the first end of the inner member. Translation of the support member along the axis causes the inflatable member to move between a first position in which the inflatable member has a first length and a first profile and a second position in which the inflatable member has a second reduced length and a second reduced profile. Methods of use are disclosed.
US12156676B2
A device, including an insertion tool including an insertion guide that is flexible in a direction lying in at least a plane lying on a longitudinal axis thereof, the insertion guide having a slit and/or a gap extending in the longitudinal direction, the plane extending through the slit and/or gap, wherein the guide configured to maintain a pre-curved electrode assembly in a substantially straight configuration while preventing the electrode assembly from twisting in response to stresses induced by bias forces which urge the assembly to return to its pre-curved configuration, when the insertion guide is flexed in the plane.
US12156670B2
Catheter-delivered endovascular medical devices are described. The devices may include a pull wire attached to a deployable dual basket system. The deployable dual basket system may include a proximal basket and a distal basket that are connected by basket connector tether memory metal strips that rotate/twist relative to the longitudinal axes of the basket and form flex points of the system. The proximal basket and the distal basket may be comprised of a plurality of cells and the proximal basket may taper at its proximal end and the distal basket may be tapered at its distal end. Methods of using and making the devices are also described.
US12156668B2
A medical device may include an elongated body, a balloon positioned at a distal portion of the elongated body, and one or more pressure-wave emitters positioned along a central longitudinal axis of the elongated body within the balloon. The one or more pressure-wave emitters may be configured to propagate pressure waves radially outward through the fluid to fragment a calcified lesion at the target treatment site. The at least one of the one or more pressure-wave emitters may comprise an electronic emitter including a first electrode and a second electrode. The first electrode and the second electrode may be arranged to define a spark gap between the first electrode and the second electrode, and the second electrode may comprise a portion of a hypotube.
US12156664B2
Resection guides include a body a plurality of alignment pin through-holes and a plurality of guide through-holes so that the pattern of guide through-holes is operable for receiving a drill for use in resecting the at least a portion of the anatomical structure of the patient. Sweeping reamers include a body having a plurality of alignment pin through-holes and an elongated opening, and a reamer extendable through the elongated opening of the body. Decoupled resection guides include a first body having a plurality of alignment pin through-holes and a second body having a plurality of fixation pin through-holes and at least one guide aperture operable for guiding a cutting tool for use in resecting a portion of the second anatomical structure of the patient. Methods employing the same are disclosed and operable in, for example, total ankle replacement.
US12156658B2
A surgical instrument includes a first member defining an axis and having a scraping surface configured to scrape tissue. A second member includes a cutting surface that is rotatable relative to the first member. The second member has a maximum length defined by opposite end surfaces of the second member. The end surfaces are each disposed within the first member. A third member includes an outer surface defining at least a portion of a passageway configured for disposal of the scraped tissue. The third member is fixed with the first member. The cutting surface is rotatable relative to the third member to transfer the scraped tissue along the axis. Systems and methods are disclosed.
US12156651B2
A surgical stapling device (10) includes a drive assembly (70) and a tool assembly (16). The tool assembly (16) has a pair of jaws (29,31) supporting a cartridge assembly (32) and an anvil (30). The drive assembly (70) has a clamping member (74) that is movable through the tool assembly (16) to eject staples from the cartridge assembly (32) into the anvil (30) and to dissect tissue. The clamp member (74) includes an extension (84) that engages one of the jaws (29,31) to urge the distal end of the engaged jaw (29) in relation to the other jaw (31) to urge the tool assembly (16) towards an insertion position to minimize the diameter of the tool assembly (16) at a distal end of the tool assembly (16).
US12156650B2
The present invention is directed to a length adaptive surgical suture comprising a monofilament or a braid of a plurality of filaments, the suture having an original length when implanted and a second length that is different from the original length within a first twenty-four (24) hour period of time after implantation to accommodate tissue swelling. The present invention is also directed to configurations and combinations that enable length adaptive results.
US12156630B2
Dust separation devices are disclosed to enable separating and collecting dust particles. The devices include a vacuum port and a cyclone chamber that are connected by a tube between the vacuum port and an upper end of the cyclone chamber. On the cyclone chamber there is an input port for connecting to a hose for ingesting the dust particles. The devices also include a dust receptacle having a top upper surface and a port cover on a port formed in the upper surface for emptying the receptacle of collected dust particles and a lower portion of the dust receptacle that is integrally formed into the upper surface of the dust receptacle.
US12156625B2
The invention refers to an electronic device (10; 10a; 10b) comprising two or more battery packs (18a, 18b), an electric motor (16) which is operated by electric energy from at least one of the battery packs (18a; 18b) at a time, and an electronic control unit (20) for controlling operation of the electric motor (16). It is suggested that the electronic control unit (20) is adapted for switching operation of the electric motor (16) cyclically and consecutively from at least one battery pack (18a; 18b) to at least one other battery pack (18b; 18a). Switching form one operation cycle to the next operation cycle may be effected depending on the current temperature (T) of the at least one battery pack (18a, 18b), on an electric current (1) drawn from the at least one battery pack (18a, 18b) during the current operation cycle, or on a duration (t) of continuous operation of the at least one battery pack (18a, 18b) during the current operation cycle.
US12156621B2
A method for cleaning the mop of a cleaning robot includes: obtaining mop usage information after the cleaning robot carries the mop to clean the floor, and selecting a target mop cleaning mode to clean the mop according to the mop usage information.
US12156614B2
A cooking device includes: a container having a top opening and a receiving space in which food put into the container through the opening is received; a lid which is detachably coupled to the container so as to open and close the opening, and has a first vent channel communicating with the receiving space; an enclosure which is provided to at least partially enclose the container and the lid, and has a second vent channel communicating with the first vent channel; a vacuum pump connected to the second vent channel; and a foreign matter trapping unit which is provided between the first and second vent channels to prevent foreign matter, introduced into the first vent channel in the process of venting gas in the receiving space by the vacuum pump, from being introduced into the second vent channel.
US12156611B2
A beverage maker and a method for operating a beverage maker are provided, wherein the. beverage maker includes a discharge channel having a sensor configured to detect a cleaning agent in water and a control unit configured to receive measured values from the sensor and to take the received measured values as a basis for regulating a water intake from the water source. The method includes regulating water intake from the water source based upon the measured values from the sensor in the dis-charge channel to ensure that only an amount of water necessary for re-moving remaining cleaning agent from the beverage maker is utilized for flushing.
US12156600B1
A foldable wig stand includes: a head part configured to support a wig while being inserted into the inside of the wig; and a leg part supporting the head part and including a first leg frame and a second leg frame. Both side ends of the head part are hinged to both upper sides of the first leg frame and are rotatable in a first direction. The first leg frame and the second leg frame are hinged to each other at upper and lower central intersection portions, and are configured to be rotatable in a second direction different from the first direction.
US12156593B2
Various embodiments of a television mount concealer assembly and a method of operating the television mount concealer assembly are described. In one example, the television mount concealer assembly can include a television mount and an adjustable concealer assembly for placement behind a wall-mounted television. The adjustable concealer assembly comprising a front panel, a rear panel, a first flexible sidewall, and a second flexible sidewall. The rear panel can be configured to be placed adjacent to a wall in which a television is mounted, and the front panel can be adjusted between a first position and a second position in order to expand and contract the adjustable concealer assembly.
US12156583B1
A hinge having dual axes includes two hinge members each having a hinge leaf and one or more knuckles, a pivot pin received in a longitudinally extending bore in each knuckle, each pivot pin also received in one of two apertures in one or more connector plates that interconnect the hinge members, and one or more springs biasing the hinge members toward a closed position, so that the knuckles are rotatably disposed adjacent to each other, each hinge member independently rotatable about one of two pivot axes, and only a single seam is presented between the two knuckles as the hinge members move between open and closed configurations. In one embodiment a connector incorporating the connecting plates covers and hides the springs from view.
US12156574B2
In this molded surface fastener, plural engaging elements having a stem portion and an engaging head portion formed integrally on the stem portion are standing on the base portion, at least one pawl portion having a pawl width dimension narrower than a width dimension at a boundary between the stem portion and the engaging head portion is protruded on an outer peripheral edge part of the engaging head portion, and a back surface of pawl of the pawl portion is formed at different angles with respect to a back surface of head portion of the engaging head portion. Such a molded surface fastener of the present invention has a substantial engaging force with respect to a female surface fastener and can make a texture of its surface comfortable.
US12156573B2
A fastening system for an object (e.g., a wearable such as footwear) is disclosed that includes a buckle assembly and a strap for adjusting tension. The buckle assembly includes a base and a slider engaged with the base. The strap includes an array of teeth to engage with a pawl formed on the base. The fastening system is configurable between an engaged condition and a released condition based on the positioning of the slider relative to the base.
US12156572B1
A strap may have a strip of material. A flexible magnet and other layers may be embedded between outer layers of the strip. The outer layers may be formed from leather or other natural materials, fabric, polymer, or other materials. The strap may have a snap mechanism that removably couples the strap to the item. The strip may have left and right portions that are coupled together using sliders and the snap mechanism. The sliders may be fixedly attached to respective end portions of left and right portions of the strip. A first of the sliders may have a slot that allows the first slider to slide along the right strip portion and a second of the sliders may have a slot that allows the second slider to slide along the left strip portion so that the length of the strap may be adjusted.
US12156561B2
A helmet for protecting a head of a wearer, such as a hockey, lacrosse, football or other sports player. The helmet includes an outer shell and an inner padding disposed between the outer shell and the wearer's head when the helmet is worn. The inner padding includes a plurality of shock absorbers and an interconnector interconnecting the shock absorbers, each shock absorber being deformable in response to a rotational impact on the helmet such that an outer part of the shock absorber moves relative to an inner part of the shock absorber in a direction tangential to an angular movement of the outer shell due to the rotational impact.
US12156542B2
The invention relates to a personal ultrasonic atomizer device (10), which includes a cartridge (12) having a reservoir (26) for holding a liquid to be atomized, which is interchangeable prior to complete discharging of the reservoir (26) and includes an anti-tamper and anti-counterfeiting safeguard, a sonication chamber (14), placed in fluid communication with the reservoir (26), and for cavitating a liquid placed in contact with a piezoelectric oscillation piece (112); such that vape (V) and/or mist is generated without combustion and/or heating of the liquid, where the personal ultrasonic atomizer device (10) includes a liquid retention material (76) for allowing use of the personal ultrasonic atomizer device (10) in any orientation, and where the personal ultrasonic atomizer device (10) is controllable by an external electronic device.
US12156540B2
An aerosol generating system comprises an aerosol generating substrate, an inductor for generating a primary electromagnetic field, a primary susceptor configured to be inductively heated by the primary electromagnetic field and to solely heat the aerosol generating substrate, and a secondary susceptor configured to solely generate a secondary electromagnetic field. The secondary electromagnetic field is generated under the influence of the primary electromagnetic field and acts in opposition to the primary electromagnetic field.
US12156538B2
An aerosol provision device is configured to receive a plurality of aerosolizable materials. The aerosol provision device is configured to recognize an identity and a position of the aerosolizable materials received in the device and transmit data indicating the identity and the position of the aerosolizable materials received in the device to a communication system.
US12156535B2
An aerosol generating article includes a substantially cylindrical cup containing a plant-based aerosol generating material and at least one inductively heatable susceptor element (26). The cup includes an open end and a bottom wall. The cup has a self-supporting moulded form and includes a flange at the open end and a closure attached to the flange. The closure and/or bottom wall is porous or includes one or more openings.
US12156529B2
A liquid condiment includes a seasoning liquid, a solid ingredient including one or more dried vegetables that are immersed and swollen in the seasoning liquid, and one or more selected from the group consisting of vinegar, a fruit juice, a flavoring oil, a flavor, and a spice extract. The liquid condiment includes 0 to 30% by mass of the swollen vegetables having a size of 0.5 mm or more and less than 3 mm, 0 to 60% by mass of the swollen vegetables having a size of 3 mm or more and less than 8 mm, and 0 to 30% by mass of the swollen vegetables having a size of 8 mm or more and less than 20 mm. The total amount of the swollen vegetables having a size of 0.5 mm or more and less than 20 mm is 5 to 60% by mass.
US12156514B2
The present disclosure relates to a computer-controlled system for non-invasively identifying the location of the air cell of an egg and determining a preferred extraction point relative to the position of the air cell of the egg, the system having an egg manipulator to hold and orient one or more eggs in a defined position; a candling unit with one or more light sources and one or more detectors; a system configured to run an algorithm for determining the location of the air cell and the preferred extraction point; and a system for positioning the egg relative to an extractor or an egg opener or vice versa from their initial position to the preferred extraction point.
US12156510B2
The disclosed technology includes a collar that can output a first corrective action having a first correction magnitude, detect feedback information, and determine a second correction magnitude based at least in part on the feedback information. The collar can output a second corrective action responsive to determining that the collar is within a predetermined distance from an adverse device. The collar can receive map data and automatically determine a first geographical area in which it is permissible for a collar to be located and/or a second geographical area in which it is impermissible for the collar to be located, the collar being related to the system.
US12156509B2
A no choke, control harness may include a main harness strap comprising a first end, a second end opposite the first end, and a midpoint. The main harness strap may define a lateral orientation and may be configured for draping across the withers of a quadruped. The harness may also include a first and second leg loops extending respective ends of the main harness strap in respective first and second lateral direction. The leg loops may be configured for positioning around respective forelegs of the quadruped. Each leg loop may be formed from a strap having a first end and a second end opposite the first end sharing a top surface and a bottom surface wherein the top surface of the first end is connected to the bottom surface of the second end. The harness may also include a leash attachment.
US12156506B2
An assembly includes an inflatable harness having a first loop of webbing, a second loop of webbing, and a panel connecting the first loop of webbing to the second loop of webbing. The assembly includes an inflatable tether extending from the first loop of webbing, the inflatable tether in fluid communication with the inflatable harness. The assembly includes a latch plate fixed to the inflatable tether, the latch plate defining a fluid passage in fluid communication with the inflatable tether to provide inflation medium to the inflatable harness.
US12156501B2
A lettuce cultivar, designated ADEMPACK, is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds, plants, and plant parts of lettuce cultivar ADEMPACK and to methods for producing a lettuce plant by crossing the cultivar ADEMPACK with itself or another lettuce cultivar. The invention further relates to methods for producing a lettuce plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic lettuce plants and plant parts produced by those methods. This invention also relates to lettuce cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar ADEMPACK, to methods for producing other lettuce cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from lettuce cultivar ADEMPACK and to the lettuce plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid lettuce seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar ADEMPACK with another lettuce cultivar.
US12156499B2
A device and method that support and animate a plant disposed in an inner plant pot having an underside including a pivoting magnet plate atop a waterproof interface relative to an outer plant pot lower housing. A follower magnet is mounted using a cam follower positioned below the waterproof interface for magnetic attraction with the pivoting magnet plate above. An electronic processor control module instantiates movement of the inner plant pot relative to the outer plant pot assembly via a single motor actuator, and a plurality of sensors in communication with the electronic processor control module collect data by the plurality of sensors upon the user touching the plant, among other inputs for interactive features, responses, gameplay, and the like.
US12156498B2
A light source includes a controller configured to turn on or off a plurality of light sources depending on a light period. The controller can be configured to turn on the light sources during each of a plurality of light periods such that the light sources emit a light having a spectrum with a plurality of peaks toward the plant. At least one light period can include a first period and a second period and the first period preceding or following the second period. The controller can adjust the spectrum of the light between the first period and the second period and/or during different light periods.
US12156494B2
A system and method for an autonomous lawn mower comprising a mower body having at least one motor arranged to drive a cutting blade and to propel the mower body on an operating surface via a wheel arrangement, wherein the mower body includes a navigation system arranged to assist a controller to control the operation of the mower body within a predefined operating area, wherein the mower body further includes a signal detecting module arranged to detect a signal representative of a navigational marker.
US12156490B2
A distributor device for solids-containing liquids includes a distribution chamber with an inlet opening which leads to a chamber interior space of the distribution chamber, wherein the distribution chamber has a first end wall with several connection ports and a first side wall arranged laterally to the end wall. The distributor device also includes a connecting part connecting the rotor and the blade drive shaft, which connecting part is detachably connected to the rotor and/or to the blade drive shaft, wherein a movement of the rotor is guided by the connecting part relative to the first perforated blade disk. The distribution chamber has at least one closable opening which is located in the first side wall, wherein the opening is designed at least so large that the rotor is removable from the distribution chamber through the opening.
US12161057B2
A method for forming a semiconductor memory structure include forming a pillar structure. The pillar structure includes a first conductive layer, a second conductive layer and a data storage material layer between the first and second conducive layers. A sidewall of the first conductive layer, a sidewall of the data storage layer and a sidewall of the second conductive layer are exposed. An oxygen-containing plasma treatment is performed on the pillar structure to form hydrophilic surfaces of the sidewall of the first conductive layer, the sidewall of the data storage layer and the sidewall of the second conductive layer. An encapsulation layer is formed over the pillar structure and the dielectric layer. The encapsulation layer is in contact with the hydrophilic surfaces of the sidewall of the first conductive layer, the sidewall of the data storage layer and the sidewall of the second conductive layer.
US12161045B2
A pyrromethene-boron complex that can be used as a red light fluorescent material with improved emission efficiency and color purity is provided. A pyrromethene-boron complex represented by the following general formula (1) and satisfying at least one of (A) and (B) is provided: wherein, in the formula, X and R1 to R9 are selected from predetermined groups, at least one of four pairs of R1 and R2, R2 and R3, R4 and R5, and R5 and R6 has a ring structure represented by any one of the following general formulas (2A) to (2D): wherein, in the formulas, R101, R102 and R201 to R204 have the same meaning as R1 to R7 in the general formula (1), Ar is a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic hydrocarbon ring, or a substituted or unsubstituted aromatic heterocycle, R101 and R102 may form a ring, and * indicates a connection with the pyrromethene skeleton.
US12161040B2
A display panel is provided. A display panel has a light-emitting layer including a first light-emitting pixel and a second light-emitting pixel. A first pixel opening is provided in the first light-emitting pixel. A passivation layer and the second light-emitting pixel are disposed in an overlapped manner. In addition, a height from a bottom surface of a color resist in a first light-emitting pixel region to a substrate is different from a height from a bottom surface of a color resist in a second light-emitting pixel region to the substrate, so that a light output rate and a performance in the display panel are effectively enhanced.
US12161037B2
A display panel disposes a first display area and a second display area. The display panel includes a plurality of OLED pixel units disposed in the first display area, and a plurality of Micro LED pixel units disposed in the second display area. By replacing the OLED pixel units corresponding to the under-screen camera or used to display a fixed picture with the Micro LED pixel units, the image quality of an under-screen camera can be improved, and the burning screen problem caused by displaying the same picture for a long time can be solved.
US12161033B2
A display device includes a display panel including an edge extending along a first direction, a main circuit board adjacent to the edge of the display panel, and a connection circuit board which connects the main circuit board to the display panel at the edge thereof. The connection circuit board includes a plurality of board side pads which are arranged along the first direction and at which the connection circuit board is connected to the main circuit board. Each of the plurality of board side pads includes a first pad, and a second pad adjacent to the first pad along the first direction. The second pad includes a plurality of signal pads which are arranged along a second direction which crosses the first direction and are each aligned with the first pad along the first direction.
US12161032B2
The present application discloses a display panel in which a second data line in a display area is located between a first data line and a third data line, and a spacing between the first data line and the second data line is less than a spacing between the third data line and the second data line. A second pad is located between a first pad and a third pad in a direction perpendicular to the display area pointing to a binding area, the first pad is electrically connected to the first data line, the second pad is electrically connected to the third data line, and the third pad is electrically connected to the second data line.
US12161024B2
A display apparatus for improving a reflective color sense includes a thin film transistor disposed over a substrate, a planarization layer disposed over the thin film transistor, a pixel electrode disposed over the planarization layer and electrically connected to the thin film transistor through a contact hole provided in the planarization layer, a pixel definition layer covering an edge of the pixel electrode to expose a center portion of the pixel electrode, and a bank arranged apart from the pixel defining layer and disposed over an area of a portion of the pixel electrode exposed by the pixel definition layer, the bank overlapping the contact hole when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the substrate.
US12161022B2
A display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes a substrate, a cathode suppression layer, a cathode, and a polarizer. The cathode suppression layer includes a first cathode suppression portion located in a first light-transmitting area. The cathode is located in a first light-emitting area and the first light-transmitting area, and covers at least part of the first cathode suppression portion. The polarizer includes a first light-transmitting portion located in the first light-transmitting area. A projection of the first light-transmitting portion projected on the substrate is located within a boundary of a projection of the first cathode suppression portion projected on the substrate.
US12161011B2
A method of providing a display device includes preparing a display panel including a first area, a bending area extending from the first area, and a second area extending from the bending area, attaching an impact absorbing layer to the display panel, removing a first removal portion of a first release film which overlaps the second area, among portions of the first release film disposed on the impact absorbing layer, and providing a cover tape on a first portion of the impact absorbing layer from which the first removal portion is removed.
US12161007B2
An object is to provide a light-emitting element which uses a plurality of kinds of light-emitting dopants and has high emission efficiency. In one embodiment of the present invention, a light-emitting device, a light-emitting module, a light-emitting display device, an electronic device, and a lighting device each having reduced power consumption by using the above light-emitting element are provided. Attention is paid to Förster mechanism, which is one of mechanisms of intermolecular energy transfer. Efficient energy transfer by Förster mechanism is achieved by making an emission wavelength of a molecule which donates energy overlap with a local maximum peak on the longest wavelength side of a graph obtained by multiplying an absorption spectrum of a molecule which receives energy by a wavelength raised to the fourth power.
US12161006B2
A display device having a high display quality is provided. A display device that can perform desired display without image data conversion is provided. The display device includes a first pixel. The first pixel includes a first light-emitting element, a color conversion layer, and a first memory circuit. The first light-emitting element exhibits blue light. The color conversion layer has a function of converting light emitted by the first light-emitting element into light having a longer wavelength. A first image signal and a first correction signal are supplied to the first pixel. The first memory circuit has a function of retaining the first correction signal and a function of adding the first correction signal to the first image signal. The first pixel has a function of displaying an image using the first image signal and the first correction signal.
US12161004B2
Embodiments of an electroluminescent device are described. The electroluminescent device includes a substrate, a first electrode disposed on the substrate, a first transport layer disposed on the first electrode, an emission layer having luminescent nanostructures disposed on the first transport layer, a second transport layer having an organic layer, and a second electrode disposed on the second transport layer. A first portion of the organic layer is disposed on the emission layer and a second portion of the organic layer is disposed on the first transport layer.
US12161003B2
Discussed is an organic light emitting display device including an anode, a first emission part on the anode, and including a first hole transfer layer, a first emission layer, and a first electron transfer layer, a second emission part on the first emission part, and including a second hole transfer layer, a second emission layer, and a second electron transfer layer, and a cathode on the second emission part. At least one among the first emission part and the second emission part can include an emission control layer having an absolute value of a HOMO energy level which is larger than an absolute value of a HOMO energy level of the first hole transfer layer or the second hole transfer layer. A hole mobility of the emission control layer is 1.0×10−1 cm2/Vs to 1.0×10−2 cm2/Vs lower than a hole mobility of the first hole transfer layer or the second hole transfer layer.
US12160995B2
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a memory device including a semiconductor substrate, a first electrode disposed over the semiconductor substrate, a ferroelectric layer disposed between the first electrode and the semiconductor substrate, and a first stressor layer separating the first electrode from the ferroelectric layer. The first stressor layer has a coefficient of thermal expansion greater than that of the ferroelectric layer.
US12160992B2
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a cell region and a connection region, a first stack structure with a plurality of first gate layers and a plurality of first interlayer insulating layers, and a second stack structure with a plurality of second gate layers and a plurality of second interlayer insulating layers. Each of the first gate layers includes a central portion in the cell region of the substrate and an end portion in the connection region of the substrate. Each of the second gate layers includes a central portion in the cell region of the substrate and an end portion in the connection region of the substrate. A thickness difference between the end and central portions of each first gate layer is different from a thickness difference between the end and central portions of each second gate layer.
US12160987B2
Embodiments provide a method for fabricating a memory and a memory. This method includes: providing a substrate, the substrate being internally provided with a plurality of active areas, and each of the plurality of active areas including a first contact region and a second contact region; forming a plurality of bit lines on the substrate, each of the plurality of bit lines being connected to at least one of the first contact regions; forming an isolation layer on each of the plurality of bit lines, the isolation layer covering each of the plurality of bit lines and the substrate, the isolation layer being further provided with a plurality of filling holes corresponding to the plurality of second contact regions one to one; etching the isolation layer and the substrate along the plurality of filling holes, to fill in the plurality of second contact regions.
US12160978B2
A liquid immersion cooling apparatus includes a box, a cover and a refrigeration device. The cover and the box form a closed space. The closed space includes a liquid storage space configured to accommodate a first coolant and at least one heat generating device and a gas storage space. The refrigeration device is located in the gas storage space. The refrigeration device includes a coiled tube, a liquid-cooled heat exchanger, and a cooling chip. The liquid-cooled heat exchanger is connected to the coiled tube to form a first circulation channel. The first circulation channel is configured to accommodate a second coolant. The cooling chip includes a hot end and a cold end, the cold end is thermally coupled to the liquid-cooled heat exchanger.
US12160966B2
A display apparatus and a control method thereof are provided. The display apparatus includes a display, a motor, a sensor, and a processor configured to receive a signal including information on acceleration of the display apparatus from the sensor while the display is rotated by the motor, identify the size of the acceleration of the display apparatus based on the information on the acceleration, and based on identifying that the display collided with an object based on the size of the acceleration of the display apparatus, control the motor to stop the rotation of the display.
US12160959B2
A bonded body includes a ceramic substrate and a copper plate, in which the copper plate is bonded to the ceramic substrate via a bonding layer, the copper plate includes a surface perpendicular to a direction in which the ceramic substrate and the copper plate are bonded, and a number percentage of copper crystal grains having major diameters greater than 400 μm in three 5 mm×5 mm regions included in the surface is not less than 0% and not more than 5%. The bonding temperature is favorably not more than 800° C. The number percentage of the copper crystal grains having major diameters greater than 400 μm is favorably not more than 1%.
US12160956B2
Inspection robots with independent, swappable, drive modules are described. An example inspection robot may have a center body with a plurality of power interfaces, a plurality of communication interfaces, and a plurality of cooling interfaces. The example inspection robot may have a plurality of drive modules, where each drive module is structured to be coupled to a power interface, a communication interface, and a cooling interface.
US12160953B2
A circuit board structure includes a carrier, a thin film redistribution layer disposed on the carrier, solder balls electrically connected to the thin film redistribution layer and the carrier, and a surface treatment layer. The thin film redistribution layer includes a first dielectric layer, pads, a first metal layer, a second dielectric layer, a second metal layer, and a third dielectric layer. A top surface of the first dielectric layer is higher than an upper surface of each pad. The first metal layer is disposed on a first surface of the first dielectric layer. The second dielectric layer has second openings exposing part of the first metal layer. The second metal layer extends into the second openings and is electrically connected to the first metal layer. The third dielectric layer has third openings exposing part of the second metal layer. The surface treatment layer is disposed on the upper surfaces.
US12160951B2
A flexible printed circuit board whose end part side is connected to a print element substrate capable of ejecting ink using a print element, so as to be capable of transmitting a signal from a control part of a printing apparatus to the print element substrate via wiring and to be capable of transmitting a signal from the print element substrate to the control part via the wiring, wherein a side part side of high-potential wiring includes at least one of a regulation part that regulates penetration of ink and a wiring part that is configured with low-potential ground wiring and low-potential liquid signal line whose signal value transmitted by the control part or operation based on a signal is monitored.
US12160940B2
A micro light emitting diode (LED) die can include a matrix of micro LEDs with a variety of forward voltages. A method of reducing a number of undriven or under driven uLEDs can include providing, by a power supply, an alternating current voltage (VLED) with a minimum voltage (VMIN) and a maximum voltage (VMAX), VMIN being sufficient to drive a plurality of micro light emitting diodes (uLEDs) of a uLED die using a plurality of uLED drivers, identifying, by a controller coupled to the uLED drivers, a uLED of the plurality of uLEDs with a forward voltage (Vf) greater than VMIN, and altering, by the controller, a time of a rising edge of a pulse width modulation (PWM)-on time of the uLED such that Vf of the uLED is less than VLED for the PWM-on time.
US12160938B2
A lamp including a light source including at least one string of light emitting diodes (LEDs) within a tube body; end caps having contacts on each end of the tube body; driver electronics within the tube body including a filament detector portion provided by a passive resistance capacitor (RC) circuit that simulates the filament load of a fluorescent lamp when installed into a ballast containing fixture; and a power level selector switch in communication with the driver electronics for selecting the power level for powering the light source.
US12160928B2
A method for determining support information includes: transmitting, by a first SIM in the multiple SIMS, information on n first network slices supported by the first SIM to a network-side device, during a process of establishing a connection by the first SIM with the network-side device, n≥1; receiving, by the first SIM, first support information of the network-side device for the n first network slices, from the network-side device; and transmitting, by the first SIM, the first support information to a second SIM in the multiple SIMs.
US12160922B2
The present application provides an intersecting procedure processing method, an intersecting procedure processing device, an apparatus and a storage medium. The method, applied to a master node, includes: receiving a secondary node procedure message sent by a secondary node; and determining a service processing procedure according to a scenario of a master node service, a scenario of the secondary node procedure and a preset priority of service scenarios, a handover scenario of the secondary node procedure is determined by the secondary node procedure message.
US12160919B2
Embodiments of this application provide a data service handover method and an apparatus. The method includes: a terminal device detects failure of a secondary cell group; and the terminal device starts a timer, and if a network device has not handed over to a master base station within a timing duration of the timer a data service transmitted by the secondary cell group, when the timer expires, the terminal device notifies the network device to hand over the data service to the master base station.
US12160913B2
Methods and apparatuses are described herein for multi-subscriber identification module (SIM) connected mode operation. In one embodiment, a wireless communications device may receive, from an access stratum interface, a request access to the receiver chain during a receiving opportunity. The wireless communications device may determine that the receiver chain is available during the receiving opportunity. The wireless communications device may send a response indicating access is granted to cause the access stratum interface to receive a downlink transmission during the receiving opportunity. The wireless communications device may receive, from the access stratum interface, a second request for a transmitter chain during a transmitting opportunity. The wireless communications device may determine that the transmitter chain is available during the transmitting opportunity. The wireless communications device may send a second response indicating access is granted to enable the access stratum interface to transmit an uplink transmission during the transmitting opportunity.
US12160911B2
A method of multi-hop relay chain formation in a wireless communication network includes discovering, via a remote electronic device, one or more other electronic devices in communication range of the remote electronic device; selecting one of the discovered electronic devices as an relay electronic device for communicating in the multi-hop relay chain; after selecting the relay electronic device, transmitting, via the remote electronic device, a request to establish a PC5 link; and establishing the PC5 link with the remote electronic device to join or form the multi-hop relay chain within the wireless communication network.
US12160908B2
This disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-readable media, for priority access on a shared wireless channel. A priority station (STA), an access point (AP), or a network operator may activate a priority access service. The priority access service provides priority access to authorize priority STAs by allowing them to use more aggressive contention parameters for contention-based access of the wireless channel as compared to other STAs. In some implementations, non-priority STAs may be configured with weakened contention parameters to increase or ensure the likelihood that a priority STA will win contention for access to the wireless channel.
US12160906B2
The disclosure provides methods and devices for confirming the resource configuration of uplink signal transmission. The method includes receiving, from a base station (BS), a synchronization signal and physical broadcasting channel (PBCH) block (SSB); receiving, from the BS, information configuring a physical random access channel (PRACH) occasion; and transmitting, to the BS, an uplink signal on a resource set associated with the SSB.
US12160905B2
A method and a device for sending a random access message in a wireless communication network includes: sending a first random access message based on a first retransmission configuration in a two-step random access process, in which the first random access message includes a physical random access channel (PRACH) and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and sending specified content based on a second retransmission configuration in response to meeting a condition of sending the specified content, in which the specified content is content of the first random access message in the PUSCH; the first retransmission configuration being different from the second retransmission configuration.
US12160902B2
A communication method and system for converging a fifth generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a fourth generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of things (IoT) are provided. The communication method and system may be applied to 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 for performing a random access procedure in a wireless communication system is provided.
US12160900B2
The present disclosure provides a method and an apparatus for information transmission, the method including: transmitting a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) or a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) over an uplink narrow band to a wireless communication node, wherein the uplink narrow band is selected from a set of narrow bands based on a coverage level of each narrow band in the set of narrow bands; and receiving a downlink control channel or a Physical Downlink Shared Channel (PDSCH) over a downlink narrow band corresponding to the uplink narrow band or an anchor carrier, wherein the set of narrow bands is configured by the wireless communication node.
US12160899B2
A system and method for random access configurations are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method performed by a wireless communication device, includes: obtaining measurement results by performing measurements on a plurality of signals transmitted by a wireless communication node; determining, based on at least one parameter for communication with a communication node: a plurality of random access channel (RACH) groups, and an association between at least one RACH group of the plurality of RACH groups and the measurement results, wherein the at least one parameter indicates a number of preambles in the at least one RACH group; determining a matching RACH group from the plurality of RACH groups based on the measurement results; and sending a message using at least one resource of the matching RACH group to the communication node.
US12160896B2
A UE may obtain an indication of a first subset of PRACH resources in a set of PRACH resources, the first subset of PRACH resources having a set of channel metrics that is greater than or equal to a first threshold value, select a first PRACH resource from the first subset of PRACH resources based on a first set of channel metrics of the first PRACH resource or a first RO associated with the first PRACH resource, and transmit a RACH message to a network node in the first RO. The UE may evaluate the multiple qualifying SSBs/CSI-RSs and select one SSB/CSI-RS among the qualifying SSBs/CSI-RSs based on a scheduling opportunity of the associated ROs and a power usage on the UE side.
US12160888B2
The present application provides a wireless communication method and apparatus, and a communication device. Said method comprises: a terminal device receiving first indication information sent by a network device, the first indication information indicating first channel access parameters, the first channel access parameters being used to transmit a first uplink channel, the first indication information being information carried in a first DCI, the first DCI being used to determine the transmission of the first uplink channel and a second uplink channel; the terminal device determining that at least part of the first channel access parameters is used to transmit the second uplink channel; or the terminal device determining that second channel access parameters are used to transmit the second uplink channel; or the terminal device determining not to transmit the second uplink channel. In the implementations of the present application, the terminal device may determine that at least some channel access parameters in the first uplink channel or the second channel access parameters transmit the second uplink channel, or determine not to transmit the second uplink channel, thereby ensuring fair sharing of resources on a shared channel.
US12160883B2
A mobile communication system capable of easily notifying the interference-related information and avoiding interference in a situation in which a macro cell and local nodes are deployed to coexist. In the system, a macro cell (eNB) notifies, via user equipments (UEs) present in a coverage, HeNBs present in the coverage of the interference-related information related to the interference to a physical resource to be used, for example, a high interference indication (HII) and an overload indicator (OI).
US12160882B2
Methods, systems, and devices are described for providing network access services to mobile users via multi-user network access terminals over a multi-beam satellite system. Quality-of-service (QoS) is controlled for the mobile devices at a per-user level according to user-specific traffic policies. Mobile users may be provisioned on the satellite system according to a set of traffic policies based on their service level agreement (SLA). System resources of the satellite may be allocated to mobile users based on the demand of each mobile user and the set of traffic polices associated with each mobile user, regardless of which multi-user network access terminal is used to access the system. Dynamic multiplexing of traffic from fixed terminals and mobile users on the same satellite beam can take advantage of statistical multiplexing of large numbers of users and on different usage patterns between fixed terminals and mobile users.
US12160867B2
Provided are a transport block (TB) scheduling method and device, a storage medium and an electronic device. The method includes: in the case that one DCI schedules multiple TBs, the sizes of the multiple TBs are indicated through a resource assignment field, an MCS field, offset value indicator information and NDI information of the DCI, wherein the NDI information is used for determining whether the multiple TBs are newly transmitted or retransmitted; or the sizes of the multiple TBs are indicated through the resource assignment field, the MCS field, and the offset value indicator information of the DCI; and the DCI is transmitted over a PDCCH.
US12160857B2
Aspects herein relate to wireless devices, circuits, and methods for indicating, by a wireless device, to a wireless station, an ability to support semi-persistent (SP) measurement gap (MG) configuration; receiving, from the wireless station, a SP MG configuration; receiving, from the wireless station, a message to activate the SP MG configuration; performing, in response to receiving the message to activate the SP MG configuration, a target carrier frequency measurement, wherein the target carrier frequency measurement is performed in accordance with the activated SP MG configuration; receiving from the wireless station, a message to deactivate the SP MG configuration; and discontinuing, in response to receiving the message to deactivate the SP MG configuration, the performance of the target carrier frequency measurement. In other aspects, the wireless device may indicate, to the wireless station, an ability to support aperiodic (AP) MG configuration, which does not require explicit deactivation by the wireless station.
US12160845B2
A vehicle-enabled user equipment (VUE) and related techniques are disclosed. In one aspect, the VUE issues a periodic broadcast, or signals a response to a requesting source, identifying its location management capability (LMC). The UE forms a link with a recipient VUE of the broadcast to perform joint localization of the pedestrian UE (PUE). Joint localization by VUE and another VUE may be performed by VUEs and PUEs in the region exchanging ranging signals and ego measurements. The VUE determines a location jointly of the PUE. The location can be determined upon a request, periodically, or in response to a triggered event.
US12160841B2
Methods and devices related to determining a propagation time of wireless transmissions between wireless communication devices are provided. A propagation time of wireless transmissions between a first wireless communication device and a second wireless communication device is determined. The determining is based on a roundtrip time of a wireless transmission exchange between the first wireless communication device and the second wireless communication device, a reply time of the wireless transmission exchange, and on the first time interval and the second time interval. The first time interval is a time interval between a first transmit event at the first wireless communication device and a second transmit event at the first wireless communication device. The second time interval is a time interval between a first receive event at the second wireless communication device and a second receive event at the second wireless communication device.
US12160840B2
In some examples, a source device categorizes a plurality of messages for transmission to a recipient device, the plurality of messages comprising vehicle-related information. Based on the categorizing, the source device identifies selected messages of the plurality of messages to be aggregated. The source device aggregates the selected messages into a single transmission from the source device to the recipient device.
US12160839B2
The embodiments are a method and a system for synchronizing data. The method includes: sending, by any remote control in at least two remote controls, a configuration message to an unmanned aerial vehicle, the configuration message carrying current configuration information of the any remote control; broadcasting, by the unmanned aerial vehicle, the received configuration message; and synchronously updating, by the at least two remote controls, current configuration information of the at least two remote controls according to the received broadcast configuration message. Therefore, in a scenario in which a plurality of remote controls interact with an unmanned aerial vehicle, information synchronization among the plurality of remote controls may be implemented in a simple communication manner without adding a hardware module.
US12160834B2
A communication device includes transmitting means for transmitting a signal in one or more frequency bands of a frequency channel including a plurality of frequency bands, identifying means for identifying occupancy of the plurality of frequency bands, and control means for controlling transmission power for transmitting the signal from the transmitting means, on the basis of an identification result obtained by the identifying means.
US12160833B2
A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives configuration information on uplink transmission of one of a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) and a sounding reference signal (SRS), the configuration information not including spatial relation information and information on a reference signal for pathloss reference; and a control section that uses a reference signal in an active transmission control indication (TCI) state having a lowest ID with respect to a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) for pathloss calculation for the uplink transmission.
US12160829B2
A method includes obtaining a sleep-wake schedule associated with Wi-Fi communication of a Wi-Fi station (STA). The method also includes obtaining UWB-related information associated with ultra-wide band (UWB)-communication of a ranging capable device (RDEV). The method also includes determining a UWB ranging timeline based on a comparison of the sleep-wake schedule and the UWB-related information. The method also includes instructing the RDEV to use the UWB ranging timeline in a UWB ranging event.
US12160823B2
A method for transmitting a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) and a device using the same are provided. The device receives a trigger frame for requesting a transmission of a high efficiency (HE) trigger-based (TB) PPDU and transmits the HE TB PPDU. A duration of the HE TB PPDU is calculated based on a duration of the trigger frame.
US12160822B2
Provided in the present disclosure is an electronic device used for a network control terminal and a method used for the electronic device, and an electronic device used for a network node and a method used for the electronic device. The electronic device used for the network control terminal comprises: a processing circuit, configured to configure, for a relay link between the network node and one or more other network nodes, a SL-DRX for the network node and/or the one or more other network nodes and perform relay transmission between the network node and the one or more other network nodes on the basis of the configuration of the SL-DRX.
US12160816B2
Systems and methods for admitting new nodes into an existing network, for example a MoCA network. As a non-limiting example, various aspects of the present disclosure provide systems and methods for adding a new node to an existing network without requiring on-site manual configuration, for example utilizing communication between the new node and a network coordinator of the existing network prior to admission of the new node to the existing network.
US12160814B2
A method for authenticating an electronic device which receives an edge computing service from an authentication server of a mobile communication system, includes performing first authentication of the electronic device by an authentication and key agreement with the electronic device, when the first authentication is successful, providing first authentication information to the electronic device and performing second authentication for the edge computing service of the electronic device, and when the second authentication is successful, providing the electronic device with second authentication information which includes an access token for authentication of the edge computing service.
US12160808B2
A system, method and storage medium for operating a stealth mode of an emergency vehicle includes receiving input data including at least one of an input from an operator or one or more program input parameters; determining a data operation mode based on the received input data, wherein the data operation mode is one of a normal mode and one or more stealth modes; and generating a control signal based on the determined operation mode. When the data operation mode is one of the one or more stealth modes, the control signal is adapted to control a first device to suspend a transmission of at least one data group among candidate suspended data to at least one second device in communication with the first device.
US12160804B2
A vehicle broadcasts a lane change intent message indicating parameters of a maneuver to be performed by the vehicle operating as a main traffic participant vehicle, the maneuver requiring use of a road resource. Response messages are received from recipient vehicles indicating approval or disapproval of performance of the maneuver. Responsive to one of the recipient vehicles returning a response message indicating conflict with use of the road resource required for performance of the maneuver, a conflict resolution procedure is performed between the main traffic participant vehicle and the conflicted recipient vehicle, the conflict resolution procedure using a pre-agreed identical conflict resolution algorithm executed on each of the main traffic participant vehicle and the conflicted recipient vehicle to each make a same distributed decision whether to proceed with the maneuver.
US12160800B2
A device, system and method for managing talkgroups is provided. A computing device determines that a communication device is communicating with a talkgroup via a first communication network, the talkgroup dominated by other communication devices communicating on one or more second communication networks different from the first communication network. The computing device determines a level of activity of the communication device in the talkgroup via the first communication network. When the level of activity meets a threshold condition, the computing device: requests a confirmation from the communication device to cease communication with the talkgroup; and when the confirmation is received, drops the communication device from the talkgroup.
US12160798B2
A resource indication method and device, and a communication apparatus are provided. The method comprises: a distributed unit (DU) receiving first indication information sent by a centralized unit (CU), the first indication information indicating a location of a radio resource for multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) data.
US12160789B2
Distributed antenna systems provide location information for client devices communicating with remote antenna units. The location information can be used to determine the location of the client devices relative to the remote antenna unit(s) with which the client devices are communicating. A location processing unit (LPU) includes a control system configured to receive uplink radio frequency (RF) signals communicated by client devices and determines the signal strengths of the uplink RF signals. The control system also determines which antenna unit is receiving uplink RF signals from the device having the greatest signal strength.
US12160788B2
A position estimation method for estimating a position of a mobile terminal includes: an acquisition step of acquiring distance values and radio wave intensity values between communication devices provided in a vehicle and the mobile terminal by communicating the communication devices with the mobile terminal; a communication availability determination step of determining that a corresponding communication device is communicable when the distance value is not more than a first value and the intensity value is not less than a second value; an area determination step of, based on a result of the communication availability determination step and communication maps mapping communicable ranges of the communication devices, determining an area where the mobile terminal exists by superimposing the communication maps; and an estimation step of estimating the position of the mobile terminal based on a result of the area determination step.
US12160783B2
Provided is a method for a user equipment. The method includes starting performing a handover (HO) with a target Primary Secondary Cell (PSCell) in response to receiving an HO command instructing the HO with the target PSCell, wherein the HO with the target PSCell comprises target PSCell addition/change, and performing the target PSCell addition/change in response to receiving a trigger message from a target Primary Cell (PCell) or sending a trigger message to the target PCell, wherein the trigger message is a message transmitted between the UE and the target PCell during the HO with the target PSCell.
US12160780B2
A UE in a wireless network determines whether it has been configured with carrier(s) to be used for secondary serving cell carriers in the wireless network. The UE performs, using a selected one of the carrier(s) as a selected secondary serving cell carrier, a request for a cell on the selected secondary serving cell carrier to become a secondary serving cell for the user equipment. The UE receives a response from the cell that the request to have the cell become the secondary serving cell for the user equipment was successful. The request is received on the carrier at a cell in the wireless network to have the cell become the secondary cell for the user equipment. The cell indicates to the UE that the request to have the cell become a secondary cell for the user equipment was successful.
US12160779B2
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for a media device operating on a first network that can detect and switch media service to a second network to maintain access of a desired service quality. The media device can cause a presentation of the recommended second network, and receive a selection (e.g., user input) of the second network before the switch. The recommendation can be user-initiated or occur while accessing service without user initiation. The recommendation of the second network can be based on: a signal quality of the second network and/or the capabilities of the device providing the second network; a correlation of characteristics that indicate that stored credentials of a first network can be reused in another network; a security level of the first network; and/or platform capabilities of the media device.
US12160776B2
A base station transmits a rate recommendation to a first user equipment (UE) device. The rate recommendation is to be used for a Voice over Long-Term Evolution (VoLTE) call between the first UE device and a second UE device. In some instances, the first UE device and the second UE device negotiate the rate to be used for the VoLTE call, based on the rate recommended by the base station. If the negotiated rate is supported by the base station and/or matches a supported codec rate, the UE devices implement the rate and provide rate feedback to the base station.
US12160775B2
Provided are apparatuses and methods for identifying network slices in a transport network. In an embodiment, the apparatus is configured to receive a slice creation request to create a network slice. The slice creation request includes a global identifier corresponding to the network slice. The apparatus is further configured to search a transport slice mapping database for the global identifier. The apparatus is further configured to generate a transport slice identifier corresponding to the network slice. The apparatus is further configured to add a mapping entry to the transport slice mapping database mapping the global identifier to the transport slice identifier. The apparatus is further configured to add another mapping entry to a transport slice path mapping database mapping the transport slice identifier to a network path assigned to the network slice. The apparatus is further configured to publish the mapping entries to a performance monitoring system.
US12160767B2
Various arrangements for performing cellular network slice assignment are detailed herein. A cellular network can be used to provide cellular network service to user equipment (UE) using a first slice of the cellular network. The cellular network can receive from the UE a request to transition to a different slice of the cellular network that provides a quality of service (QoS) parameter that is greater than the QoS on an original slice. The cellular network can determine that the UE is eligible to be moved to the different slice based on a location of the UE. Based on receiving the request to transition and the location of the UE, the UE can be reassigned to the different slice of the cellular network.
US12160750B2
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
US12160740B2
It is an object to provide a core network device that can satisfy security requirements required for respective network slices. A core network device (10) according to the present disclosure includes a storage unit (11) configured to store a security parameter associated with a network slice allowing a communication terminal. The core network device (10) further includes a communication unit (12) configured to transmit identification information on the network slice, and identification information on the security parameter to the communication terminal.
US12160737B2
In general, techniques are described by which to perform secure fine time measurement for wireless communication protocols. An initiating station comprising wireless communication circuitry may be configured to perform the techniques. The wireless communication circuitry may be configured to receive, in accordance with a wireless networking protocol for communicating between the initiating station and a responding station, a first fine time measurement specifying a first time. The wireless communication circuitry may also be configured to receive, in accordance with the wireless networking protocol and for the corresponding first time, a first message integrity code. The wireless communication circuitry may next be configured to authenticate, based on the first message integrity code, the responding station to establish that the fine time measurement is from a trusted responding station.
US12160736B2
A communication device may obtain second security information in a case where a first instruction for establishing a second wireless connection with a second parent station is accepted under a state where a first wireless connection with a first parent station is established, and determine whether a second security level indicated by the second security information is lower than a first security level indicated by first security information in a memory. The communication device may execute at least one process of a notification process or an acceptance process in a case where it is determined that the second security level is lower than the first security level and establish the second wireless connection with the second parent station without executing the at least one process in a case where it is determined that the second security level is not lower than the first security level.
US12160733B2
A power saving method for lower-power devices is disclosed. Unencrypted IoT packets are received from low-power sensors. An identity of a mobile device is registered and public keys are exchanged between an MQTT agent and the mobile device. An advanced encryption standard (AES) key is generated according to public and private keys of the MQTT agent and a public key of the mobile device and received IoT packets are encrypted using the AES key. The encrypted IoT packets are transmitted to an MQTT broker. The MQTT broker forward the encrypted IoT packets to the mobile device. The mobile device exchanges the AES key with the electronic device according to its own public key through the secure shell (SSH) mechanism. The mobile device decrypts the IoT packets through the AES key.
US12160730B2
Presented herein are techniques to facilitate wireless wide area (WWA) virtualized Radio Access Network (vRAN) (e.g., 5G) to wireless local area (WLA) RAN (e.g., Wi-Fi) steering or WLA RAN to WWA vRAN steering for one or more UE. In one example, a method may include obtaining first performance metrics associated with links of a WWA vRAN (e.g., fronthaul, midhaul, and backhaul links); obtaining second performance metrics associated with links WLA RAN (e.g., backhaul links); and in response to determining that one of the WWA vRAN is experiencing degraded performance based on the first performance metrics or the WLA RAN the second performance metrics, activating a steering event that causes, at least in part, an indication to be communicated to a UE to cause the UE to connect to the WWA vRAN or the WLA RAN that is not experiencing degraded performance.
US12160727B2
A sound management system for a multimedia display apparatus includes: a first audio device built in a display apparatus to provide first audio, a second audio device separated from the display apparatus to provide second audio, a portable device separated from both the display and the second audio device, optionally being moved to the first or second position to receive and analyze either a first sound field at a first position or a second sound field at a second positions respectively formed by the first audio and the second audio, and a controller used to notify the first and/or second audio devices to adjust the first and/or second audio according to the analysis to synthesize either a first adjusted sound field at the first position or a second adjusted sound field at the second position with sound characteristics similar to that of a target sound audio.
US12160723B2
The present invention provides a coaxial speaker including a frame, a magnetic circuit system, a first vibration system and a second vibration system. The magnetic circuit system includes a magnetic bowl having a side wall, a top wall, a first magnet assembly and a second magnet assembly. The first vibration system includes a first diaphragm and a first voice coil assembly. The second vibration system includes a second diaphragm and a second voice coil assembly, and the second voice coil assembly is at least partially inserted into the second magnetic gap. The coaxial speaker is arranged with strong performance, simple structure and low cost.
US12160713B2
A system and method for performing sound quality testing of audio equipment in a conference room, the method comprising: determining, at a time t1, in a conference room with a set of audio video equipment, the set of audio equipment comprising one or more loudspeakers, one or more microphones, and audio signal processing equipment that includes at least an acoustic echo cancellation function, an initial audio performance level (IAPL) with the acoustic echo cancellation function turned off, and storing the same; determining, at a second time t2, following the first point in time t1, a current audio performance level (CAPL) with the acoustic echo cancellation function turned off, and storing the same; comparing the CAPL to the IAPL; and determining if the audio equipment in the conference room passes or fails the sound quality test based on the comparison of the CAPL to the IAPL.
US12160711B2
A component of a bone conduction device, including a housing and a piezoelectric bender located in the housing, wherein the component is configured to limit bending of the piezoelectric bender relative to that which would otherwise be the case in the absence of the limits via application of a stopping force at a centralized location of an assembly of which the bender is a part.
US12160709B2
An exemplary system includes a memory storing instructions and one or more processors communicatively coupled to the memory and configured to execute the instructions to perform a process comprising: accessing fitting data representative of fitting parameters set by a fitting application to fit a hearing device to a user; determining user behavior data indicative of a hearing intention of the user in an auditory scene where the user is located; determining auditory scene data representative of information about the auditory scene; and implementing, based on the fitting data, the user behavior data, and the auditory scene data, a sound processing delay scheme for use by the hearing device.
US12160701B2
A dual structure thermoplastic elastomer (TPE) eartip having a wax guard, which is an eartip mounted on one side of an earphone and inserted into an external auditory meatus of a wearer to stably fix the position of the earphone including a core portion formed in a hollow cylindrical structure corresponding to an outer circumferential surface of one end of the earphone and configured with a TPE material having a first hardness value; a wax guard portion formed in a plate-type structure integrally formed with an upper end of the core portion and having a plurality of through-holes formed therein and configured with the same material having the same hardness value as the core portion; and a flange portion formed in a structure continuously forming a curved structure sideward and downward in a radial shape after extending a predetermined height upward from the upper end of the core portion.
US12160695B1
A magnetic modular audio device includes a plurality of magnetic modular audio units. A speaker is provided on a front side of the audio unit, and a diaphragm is provided on a back side thereof. A top surface of the audio unit is provided with a connection contact and a bottom surface of the audio unit is provided with an elastic contact pin corresponding to the connection contact. A plurality of the audio units can be stacked with each other with the connection contact(s) of one of two adjacent layers of the audio unit(s) in contact with the elastic contact pin(s) of the other layer of the audio unit(s) to form a circuit and signal connection between the audio units. The plurality of audio units can be easily combined and can each produce sound simultaneously.
US12160691B2
Technologies pertaining to accounting for pulse history effects are described herein. In connection with accounting for pulse history effects, an amount of time between a first current pulse and a second current pulse that are to be transmitted to a pulsed laser is determined. Based upon such an amount of time, a determination is made as to whether a porch pulse is to be prepended to the second current pulse. When the porch pulse is to be prepended to the second current pulse, an amplitude and duration of the porch pulse are computed based upon the amount of time. The porch pulse is transmitted to the pulsed laser immediately followed by the second current pulse, wherein the porch pulse pre-charges the pulsed laser for emitting a pulse of light based upon the second current pulse.
US12160672B2
A head-mounted display device includes a main body, a first sensor and a second sensor. The first sensor is disposed on a first setting area of the main body. The second sensor is disposed on a second setting area of the main body. The first setting area and the second setting area respectively have a first central point and a second central point, where the first central point and the second central point are disposed on a horizontal axis. There is a first angle between a connection line of the first central point and the first sensor with the horizontal axis, and there is a second angle between a connection line of the second central point and the second sensor with the horizontal axis, where the first angle is different from the second angle.
US12160669B2
Disclosed are an image capture scene recognition control method and apparatus and an image capture device. The method comprises the following steps: obtaining a preview image of a current image capture scene collected by an image capture device; extracting a brightness component of the preview image, and obtaining brightness component information of the preview image; obtaining a distribution estimation of the brightness component information and a desired ideal brightness distribution; determining the relative entropy between the distribution estimation of the brightness component information and the desired ideal brightness distribution; according to the relative entropy, determining whether the current image capture scene is a shaded image capture scene; when determined that the current image capture scene is a shaded image capture scene, controlling the image capture device such that the light source of the image capture device compensates the light source in the shaded image capture scene.
US12160656B2
An image capturing apparatus includes an operation member that receives an operation from a user, an image capturing unit including a first function of performing still image capturing when a first operation on the operation member is received, a second function of starting moving image recording when a second operation on the operation member is received, and a third function of automatically starting moving image recording, and a control unit configured to, when the first operation is received via the operation member while the third function is performed, perform control to stop the moving image recording by the third function and perform the still image capturing by the first function, and when the first operation is received via the operation member while the second function is performed, perform control to stop the moving image recording by the second function and not perform the still image capturing by the first function.
US12160650B2
The present disclosure relates to a sensor package, a method of manufacturing the same, and an imaging device that can achieve downsizing and height reduction and suppress occurrence of a flare. A sensor package includes: a solid-state imaging element that generates a pixel signal by photoelectric conversion in accordance with a light amount of incident light; a circuit board electrically connected to the solid-state imaging element; a sensor package substrate that is arranged on an incident light side of the solid-state imaging element and brings the solid-state imaging element into a sealed state; and a lens formed on a lower surface of the sensor package substrate, the lower surface being located on a side of the solid-state imaging element. The present disclosure can be applied to, for example, the imaging device or the like.
US12160642B2
Technologies for presenting an advertisement on a media consumption device includes receiving a request to seek past a commercial included in media content played on the media consumption device, determining an advertisement based on the commercial, and presenting the advertisement to a user of the media consumption device during performance of the requested seek function. The advertisement may be, for example, an extracted frame or image of the commercial and may include a logo or phrase associated with a product or service advertised in the commercial. Similar technologies related to a media content distribution system are also disclosed.
US12160640B2
Systems and methods for dynamically skipping a presentation of a portion of frames to catch up to live based on a user selection is disclosed herein. For example, a streaming application generates a content item for live streaming where the content item comprises a plurality of frames. In response to determining that playing of the content item lags behind the live streaming of the content item, the streaming application presents a selectable option for a user input where the option comprises (a) catch up to live in a particular time period. In response to receiving the user input via a corresponding option to (a) catch up to live in the particular time period, the streaming application skips a presentation of a portion of the plurality of frames, such that the playing of the content item catches up to live in the particular time period.
US12160637B2
User information can be determined based on a user input received from a user, a user profile about the user, and a profile of a user community including the user. Metadata associated with a media content can indicate a first portion of the media content to be of a first content category, and a second portion of the media content to be of a second content category different from the first content category. The media content can include an audio stream and a video stream, and the first content category or the second content category can be determined based on the audio stream or the video stream of the media content. Based on the metadata and the user information, a first action can be performed for playing the first portion of the media content and a second action can be performed for playing the second portion of the media content.
US12160627B2
A method for playing multimedia content between devices includes a first device that receives first playback information from a second device, where the first playback information corresponds to first multimedia content played by the second device, and the first device and the second device are located in the same wireless network. The first device displays a first playback control card corresponding to the first multimedia content, where the first playback control card includes a first control and a second control, and the second control controls playback of the first multimedia content. In response to a first user input performed on the first control, the first device obtains the first multimedia content from a server based on the first playback information, and takes over the playing of the first multimedia content based on the first playback information.
US12160617B2
According to embodiments of the present document, information for performing in-loop filtering by crossing virtual boundaries can be efficiently signaled. In one embodiment, the value of a virtual boundary-related flag signaled through a picture header can be determined on the basis of the value of a virtual boundary-related flag signaled through an SPS.
US12160612B2
An image decoding method according to the present document may comprise: a step of deriving transform coefficients for a current block by performing inverse quantization on the basis of residual information; and a step of deriving modified transform coefficients by applying LFNST to the transform coefficients, wherein the step of deriving the transform coefficients comprises a step of parsing position information of a last non-zero transform coefficient, an LFNST index related to application of the LFNST is parsed after parsing a position of the last non-zero transform coefficient, and the transform coefficients are derived after parsing the LFNST index.
US12160608B2
An information processing apparatus, information processing method, reproduction processing apparatus, and reproduction processing method, capable of providing a viewing experience that meets the viewer's requests. An encoding unit encodes point cloud data in such a way as to have a phased hierarchical structure corresponding to a level of detail (LoD) indicating a level of quality to generate a bitstream being constituted of a data region including one or more geometry slices. A metadata generation unit generates partial slice-specific information being used for specifying a correspondence of the LoD to a partial slice used as a partial region corresponding to the LoD in the geometry slice. A file creation unit creates a file including the partial slice-specific information.
US12160606B2
An apparatus for block-wise decoding a picture from a data stream and/or encoding a picture into a data stream, the apparatus supporting at least one intra-prediction mode according to which the intra-prediction signal for a block of a predetermined size of the picture is determined by applying a first template of samples which neighbours the current block onto a neural network. The apparatus may be configured, for a current block differing from the predetermined size, to: resample a second template of samples neighboring the current block, so as to conform with the first template so as to obtain a resampled template; apply the resampled template of samples onto the neural network so as to obtain a preliminary intra-prediction signal; and resample the preliminary intra-prediction signal so as to conform with the current block so as to obtain the intra-prediction signal for the current block.
US12160600B2
An image decoder has circuitry coupled to a memory. The circuitry splits a current image block into a plurality of partitions. The circuitry predicts a first motion vector from a set of uni-prediction motion vector candidates for a first partition of the plurality of partitions, and decodes the first partition using the first motion vector.
US12160594B2
This application provides a method and apparatus for processing non-sequential point cloud media, a device, and a storage medium. The method includes: processing non-sequential point cloud data of a static object using a Geometry-based Point Cloud Compression (GPCC) coding scheme to obtain a GPCC bitstream; encapsulating the GPCC bitstream to generate an item of at least one GPCC region; encapsulating the item of the at least one GPCC region to generate at least one piece of non-sequential point cloud media of the static object; transmitting media presentation description (MPD) signaling of the at least one piece of non-sequential point cloud media; receiving a first request message transmitted by a video playback device; and transmitting first non-sequential point cloud media, the item of the GPCC region being used to represent a GPCC component of a three-dimensional (3D) spatial region corresponding to the GPCC region, and the non-sequential point cloud media including: an identifier of the static object, so that a user can purposefully request non-sequential point cloud media of a same static object a plurality of times, thereby improving the user experience.
US12160591B2
A method, apparatus and a non-transitory computer readable medium are provided for receiving an input picture divided into a plurality of coding units (CUs) and comprising a virtual boundaries between a dirty area and a clean area of the input picture, each CU located within either the clean area or the dirty area. The virtual boundary is treated as a picture boundary for coding units within the clean area and as a non-boundary for coding units within the dirty area. For a current CU, a history-based motion vector prediction (HMVP) table can be prepared that identifies other CUs as HMVP candidates for inter prediction, the HMVP candidates being adjacent the current CU. The HMVP candidate CUs are limited to CUs previously coded in the clean area. The current CU can be intra coded based at least upon the HMVP candidates from the HMVP table.
US12160585B2
Embodiments of this disclosure provide a data processing method and apparatus. The method includes: acquiring M candidate quantized state chains of a transform block in multimedia data; acquiring N syntax elements corresponding to a transform coefficient i in the transform block, and acquiring fixed probability models respectively corresponding to K syntax elements; performing context modeling for (N-K) syntax elements according to adjacent coding coefficients of the transform coefficient i, to obtain target probability models respectively corresponding to the (N-K) syntax elements; determining a coefficient rate distortion cost of the transform coefficient i according to the fixed probability models, the target probability models, and a quantization reconstruction value of the transform coefficient i; and determining path rate distortion costs respectively corresponding to the M candidate quantized state chains according to a coefficient rate distortion cost of each transform coefficient.
US12160582B2
Systems and methods are described for refining motion compensated predictions in block-based video coding. In an example embodiment, motion-compensated prediction is used to generate predicted sample values in a current block of samples. A precision difference value and a motion vector refinement for the current block are signaled in the bitstream. For each sample in the current block, a spatial gradient is calculated at the sample, and a scalar product is calculated between the spatial gradient and the motion vector refinement. The scalar product is scaled (e.g. bit-shifted) by an amount indicated by the precision difference value to generate a sample difference value, and the sample difference value is added to the predicted sample value to generate a refined sample value.
US12160577B2
Decoding and/or encoding video information included in a bitstream can involve a predicted quantization matrix associated with at least a portion of the video information and a syntax element indicating that at least one coefficient of the predicted quantization matrix is to be interpreted as a residual such that the decoding and/or encoding of at least a portion of the video information is based on a combination of the predicted quantization matrix and the residual, where the syntax element is obtained from the bitstream during decoding, or included in the bitstream during encoding.
US12160574B2
A video coder may be configured to determine a partitioning for a block of video data using geometric partitioning mode; construct two uni-prediction motion vector candidate lists for the block of video data, and code the block of video data using uni-prediction based on at least one of the two uni-prediction motion vector candidate lists to generate a decoded block of video data.
US12160573B2
Intra block copy with triangular partitions is described. One example method includes determining for a conversion between a block of a video and a bitstream representation of the block, that at least one of intra block copy (IBC) mode, intra mode, inter mode and palette mode is applied to multiple sub-regions of the block, wherein the block is split into two or multiple triangular or wedgelet sub-regions; and performing the conversion based on the determination.
US12160570B2
An image encoding/decoding method is disclosed. An image decoding method of the present invention may comprise deriving an intra-prediction mode of a current block by using an intra-prediction mode of a neighbor block adjacent to the current block, configuring a reference sample of the current block, and performing intra-prediction on the current block by using the intra-prediction mode and the reference sample, wherein when the intra-prediction mode of the neighbor block is unavailable, the intra-prediction mode of the neighbor block may be replaced with a planar mode.
US12160564B2
Prediction information of a current block in a current picture is decoded from a coded video bitstream, where the prediction information indicates that the current block is to be predicted based on an affine model. A plurality of affine motion parameters of the affine model is derived via affine bilateral matching in which the affine model is derived based on reference blocks in a first reference picture and a second reference picture of the current picture. The plurality of affine motion parameters is not included in the coded video bitstream. Control point motion vectors of the affine model are determined based on the derived plurality of affine motion parameters. The current block is reconstructed based on the derived affine model.
US12160563B2
Aspects of the disclosure provide a method and an apparatus for video coding. In some examples, the apparatus includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry determines, for a current block in a current picture, motion information including a first motion vector (MV) that has a x component and a y component. Each of the x and y components has a fractional MV precision that is 2−N of a sample size in the current block and has one of 2L+1 MV values with the fractional MV precision, N being 4 and indicating the fractional MV precision, and a magnitude of the first MV being represented by L bits. At least one sample of the current block is encoded based on the motion information.
US12160556B2
There is provided an information processing device, an information processing method, a program, and an information processing system capable of providing a user who views a free viewpoint moving image with better user experience. The information processing device of the present technology includes: a transmission unit that transmits a moving image; and a control unit that controls the transmission unit to transmit a free viewpoint moving image or a real camera viewpoint moving image on the basis of a result of determination on whether or not the free viewpoint moving image has been successfully generated, the free viewpoint moving image being a moving image generated by using a plurality of camera moving images generated by imaging a subject by using a plurality of cameras and viewed from an arbitrary position and direction, the real camera viewpoint moving image being a moving image generated from a camera moving image generated by imaging the subject by using a camera and viewed from a position and direction of the camera. The present technology is applicable to a real-time volumetric system that transmits a free viewpoint moving image in real time.
US12160554B2
A color image forming apparatus includes a controller implemented using one or more hardware processors, wherein the controller: detects a line area; detects a background area adjacent to the line area; detects first one or more ink colors of first one or more inks to be used in the line area; detects second one or more ink colors of second one or more inks to be used in the background area; compares the first one or more ink colors and the second one or more ink colors to identify a combination pattern of the first one or more ink colors and the second one or more ink colors; and determines whether to correct amounts of the first one or more inks and amounts of the second one or more inks, based on the identified combination pattern.
US12160553B2
A printing device is provided with a print head having a plurality of nozzles configured to eject ink droplets therefrom, a supplier configured to supply ink contained in a container to the print head, and a controller. The controller is configured to perform obtaining ink information having correlation with a height of a liquid surface of the ink contained in the container, obtaining subject image data representing an image to be printed, generating print data based on the subject image data, and causing the print head to eject ink droplets based on the print data. The generating includes adjusting the print data in accordance with the ink information.
US12160552B2
A computer-readable storage medium storing a program for causing a computer to execute a control method of an information processing apparatus includes acquiring first sheet information registered in a first sheet storage unit of a first image forming apparatus and second sheet information registered in a second sheet storage unit of a second image forming apparatus, and displaying, on a display unit in an identifiable manner, that the first sheet information acquired is sheet information registered in the first sheet storage unit and that the second sheet information acquired is sheet information registered in the second sheet storage unit.
US12160541B2
An anti-communications fraud apparatus includes: an analysis unit that analyzes a voiceprint of a communication voice of a calling party; a determination unit that acquires, from a database in which the voiceprint and a degree of fraud risk are stored in association with each other, the degree of fraud risk corresponding to the voiceprint of the calling party, and determines whether the degree of fraud risk exceeds a predetermined threshold; and a notification unit that notifies that the calling party is dangerous when the degree of fraud risk exceeds the threshold.
US12160540B1
An electronic device, method, and computer program product expedite authentication of a user by capturing a palmprint, without necessarily requiring a dedicated user action. The electronic device monitors for detection of an image via a palmprint scanner, positioned by a translation mechanism, in response to identifying a requirement to authenticate the user. The translation mechanism slides a blade assembly relative to the device housing between extended and retracted positions. The blade assembly includes a blade, a flexible display, and the palmprint scanner sized to cover at least a portion of a back side of the device housing for receiving the palmprint while the blade assembly is at least in the retracted position. The electronic device authenticates the user in response to identifying a palmprint in the image corresponding to an authorized user and presents visual content via the flexible display positioned on a front side of the display housing.
US12160536B2
A method includes: when it is determined that a user's gesture of moving an electronic device is a preset gesture, obtaining a capacitance measurement value sensed at a contact in a preset area of the touchscreen, where the preset area is located in a peripheral edge area of the touchscreen; and when the obtained capacitance measurement value meets a first preset condition, controlling display status switching of the touchscreen.
US12160535B2
A protective case for foldable mobile devices is described. The folding case comprises a first case and a second case, wherein the folding case further comprises a side cover which rotates by an elastic part as the foldable mobile device is folded or unfolded, and provides a full protection for the entire foldable mobile device including each corner of its hinge part. The folding case according to the present invention covers the hinge part smoothly without any unfavorable space or gap, and it provides the satisfaction with the use and the beauty of the overall appearance as the users would conceive that the two separated case parts and the hinge part operates as if those parts form one united case.
US12160534B2
Disclosed herein is a social media platform profile identification and social discovery feature. Disclosed social media networks enable introduction of users that may not otherwise know one another based on commonality between those users. Social media profiles are identified by digital objects instead of or in addition to more traditional indexing methods such as real names or screen names. Social discovery on a social network is performed via matching to similar behavior profiles in activity monitored by a block explorer. Machine learning models categorize behavior patterns observed by the block explorer into a machine recognized glossary. Social networks further recommend actions by users based on the monitored online behaviors of social connections.
US12160532B2
A method for creating and maintaining immutability, agreement and availability of data including the steps of building an alternating structure of blocks and timestamp attestations; determining an order of blocks; determining which of the blocks are on a main chain; and using a trusted replication service to replicate all of the blocks, timestamp attestations, sequence attestations, and leaves of the Merkle trees. A computer program product comprising a storage device storing instructions in a non-transitory manner, which instructions cause the computing device to create and maintain immutability, agreement and availability of data according to the foregoing method. A computing device comprising a processing unit, memory or other storage device coupled to the processing unit, the memory or other storage device storage instructions, which cause the computing device to create and maintain immutability, agreement and availability of data according to the foregoing method.
US12160526B2
An electronic apparatus including a memory, a communication interface, and a processor configured to store, in the memory, a first certificate including first certification information and a first electronic signature corresponding to the first certification information received from a first server based on an application data request, and store a second certificate including second certification information and a second electronic signature corresponding to the second certification information received from a second server. The processor obtains first hash data by decrypting the first electronic signature using a public key of the second server included in the second certification information, and second hash data by converting the first certification information. verifies the first server based on the first hash data and the second hash data, and controls, based on a the first server being verified, the communication interface to transmit a request signal for the application data to the first server.
US12160522B2
The present disclosure relates to a system and method for providing secure access to an asset, for example, in the form of a cryptographic key needed to perform cryptographic operations, such as signing transactions of digital assets. The system makes use of three interrelated data objects; a policy object that defines access control rules, one or more online vault objects that are linked to the policy object, and one or more assets that are linked to one of the vault objects. The policy object and the assets are all created in a cold storage environment, with their integrity being protected using a key-based cryptographic technique. The vault object is created in an online environment, wherein a cryptographic hash is used to generate a vault ID, with specific data fields within the vault object being used as inputs to the hash function.
US12160516B2
Systems and methods are disclosed for securely communicating sensitive data (e.g., interaction data) during a process for offline authentication. A data packet may be received by an access device from a user device in a one-way communication. The data packet may be converted to obtain interaction data comprising a digital certificate certified by the certificate authority and a digital signature value generated by the user device. A second public key associated with the user device may be obtained utilizing the digital certificate and the first public key associated with the certificate authority. The validity of the interaction data may be determined based at least in part on the digital signature value and the second public key associated with the user device. When the interaction data is determined to be valid, an identifier of the interaction data may be authorized and access may be provided based on this authorization.
US12160512B2
A testing method for verifying keys uses a dataset of integers, the dataset being previously split into subsets of the integers, each subset of the integers having a product data structure for a product of the integers in the subset. Each ordered pair of subsets in the dataset has a remainder data structure for factors of the integers in the subsets of the ordered pair. The method includes creating a subset including integers to be added to the dataset of integers, and generating a product data structure for the created subset, the product data structure based on computing a product of the integers in the created subset. The method also includes identifying distinct ordered pairs of subsets, each distinct ordered pair of subsets including a subset from the dataset and the created subset.
US12160508B2
A system and related methods that generate encryption keys using two inputs. The first input is random data measured or supplied at the time the encryption keys are created. The second input is predetermined data held by the server and device. Given knowledge of the predetermined data and the random data, the UxS will be able to regenerate its previous encryption keys and also to re-establish communication by the server and device.
US12160507B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for securely publishing and accessing a media's premium content. Methods include a media that comprises premium content encrypted with a first cryptographic key. The media also comprises data structures that include this key and the access entitlements. These data structures are encrypted using the key for each entity that can authorize user access to the media. Methods further include verifying user access to the media and then providing the decrypted premium content. Methods include decrypting the data structure using the authorizing entity's key and providing the first cryptographic key in the decrypted data structure to the client device, after verifying that the user has the appropriate access entitlements for the media. Methods include decrypting the premium content using the first cryptographic key and then displaying the media, including the decrypted premium content, on the client device.
US12160504B2
A plurality of public encryption keys are distributed to a plurality of participants in a federated learning system, and a first plurality of responses is received from the plurality of participants, where each respective response of the first plurality of responses was generated based on training data local to a respective participant of the plurality of participants and is encrypted using a respective public encryption key of the plurality of public encryption keys. A first aggregation vector is generated based on the first plurality of responses, and a first private encryption key is retrieved using the first aggregation vector. An aggregated model is then generated based on the first private encryption key and the first plurality of responses.
US12160501B2
A cryptographic system includes a block transfer engine and a crypto map unit. The block transfer engine is configured to receive a plurality of encrypted counter values and a plurality of packet attributes. The block transfer engine is further configured to determine a subset of encrypted counter values from the plurality of counter values that is to be used to encrypt a subset of incoming packets from a plurality of incoming packets. Encrypted counter values other than the subset of encrypted counter values are stored for later encryption use. The crypto map unit is configured to receive the plurality of incoming packets and the subset of encrypted counter values from the block transfer engine. The crypto map unit is further configured to encrypt the subset of incoming packets from the received plurality of incoming packets with the subset of encrypted counter values.
US12160497B2
A clock generator circuit may include a multiplex circuit and a phase-locked loop circuit. The multiplex circuit may generate a reference clock signal for the phase-locked loop circuit by selecting one of different clock signals. In response to a switch of the reference clock signal from one clock signal to another, the phase-locked loop circuit may disable phase-locking and enter into a frequency acquisition mode during which the frequency of the phase-locked loop circuit's output clock signal is adjusted based on the frequency of the newly selected reference clock signal. After a period of time has elapsed, the phase-locked loop circuit returns to phase-locking operation.
US12160496B2
A signal transmission device includes a first pulse transmitting circuit configured to generate a first transmission pulse signal in synchronization with one of a rising edge and a falling edge of a first reference clock signal, a first pulse receiving circuit configured to receive a first reception pulse signal and generate a second reference clock signal, a first insulation communication circuit configured to transmit the first transmission pulse signal as the first reception pulse signal while insulating between the first pulse transmitting circuit and the first pulse receiving circuit, and a drive clock signal generating circuit configured to generate a drive clock signal having a predetermined oscillation frequency and a predetermined duty or a predetermined pulse width in synchronization with the second reference clock signal.
US12160488B2
In an example, a proxy server includes a proxy callback interface supporting a plurality of webhook channels, each channel of the plurality of webhook channels being identified by a respective webhook channel address. The proxy callback interface receives a webhook call, the webhook call including a specific webhook channel address identifying a specific webhook channel, and payload callback data. The proxy server also includes a database interface to store a callback record that includes the payload callback data in a proxy server database. The proxy server also includes a query interface to receive a callback query, the callback query identifying the specific webhook channel address. The query interface further identifies a plurality of callback records, associated with the specific webhook channel address, that were stored within the proxy server database subsequent to receipt of a previously-received callback query, and returns the plurality of callback records, responsive to the callback query.
US12160476B2
Embodiments of this application provide a data sharing method and apparatus applied between vehicles, a medium, and an electronic device. The data sharing method applied between vehicles includes: obtaining communication quality of a data sharing link between a first vehicle and a second vehicle; selecting, according to the communication quality, a sensor data level that matches the communication quality, the sensor data level being determined by a first parameter in at least one of the following dimensions of sensor data: quality of the sensor data and quantity of the sensor data; and sharing, according to the selected sensor data level by using the data sharing link, sensor data corresponding to the sensor data level with the second vehicle.
US12160475B2
A response communication that includes one or more data packets is received at a broker associated with a storage node of a plurality of storage nodes via a virtual network associated with the plurality of storage nodes of a storage system. The one or more data packets are provided, via the virtual network associated with the storage nodes, to a tenant communication component associated with an intended destination. A connection between the broker and the tenant communication component associated with the intended destination is terminated. A new connection between the intended destination and the tenant communication component associated with the intended destination is established. The new connection is associated with a virtual network associated with a storage tenant. The one or more data packets are sent to the intended destination via the virtual network associated with the storage tenant.
US12160469B2
Systems and methods for a unified approach that is compatible with all blockchains, protocols, etc. The systems and methods use a bifurcated indexing system with a dynamically selected application service. The systems and methods bifurcate the indexing process into a storage layer and a compute layer.
US12160466B2
The present invention provides a FiWi network load balancing method and system based on edge computing. The method includes the following steps: establishing a path protection (PP) scheme; establishing a server protection (SP) scheme; and establishing a load balancing protection (LBP) scheme: when protection is provided for a user service, separately calculating and comparing network resource utilizations when the PP scheme and the SP scheme are performed for the service, and selecting a scheme with the lower network resource utilization to provide a service to the user service. The present invention can effectively restore a MEC service and reduce both a maximum MEC server load and consumption of protection bandwidth resources in a network, thereby implementing a balance between a resource load of a server and a traffic load of an optical fiber link.
US12160464B2
A system and method that supports an integrated user interface experience with third party hosted applications selected and installed by a user within a user-installed native application of a user communication device.
US12160454B2
Methods and apparatus for seamless transition between network conferences. In an embodiment, a method is provided for transitioning between network conferences. The method includes attending a first network conference using a first conference state and conferencing application, and displaying, on a display screen, Up-Next conference status comprising a meeting time for a second network conference and images of attendees that have joined the second network conference. The method also includes joining the second network conference using the first conference state and the conferencing application.
US12160453B2
Devices, methods, and non-transitory program storage devices are disclosed to enable the automatic establishment of a secure audio/video data streaming connection between electronic devices. For example, a first electronic device may enter into a first state of a peer device advertising protocol, and then, based on a determination that the first electronic device meets a first set of device state criteria (e.g., including at least an orientation state criterion), the first electronic device may enter into a second (e.g., enhanced) state of the peer device advertising protocol. In response to detecting a presence of a second electronic device in its proximity, the first electronic device may connect to the second electronic device via a secure peer-to-peer connection protocol and then send one or more images captured by a first image capture device of the first electronic device to the connected second electronic device via the secure wireless peer-to-peer connection protocol.
US12160452B2
Techniques are provided for client-driven Randomized and Changing Media Access Control (MAC) address (RCM) mechanisms. In one example, a wireless client is configured to wirelessly communicate with a wireless network. The wireless client obtains data relating to a level of security for one or more MAC addresses of the wireless client. Based on the data, the wireless client computes a score that represents the level of security for the one or more MAC addresses. Using the score, the wireless client determines when or how frequently to rotate the one or more MAC addresses. Based on determining when or how frequently to rotate the one or more MAC addresses, the wireless client rotates the one or more MAC addresses.
US12160449B2
Provided are systems and methods for analyzing actions performed by users in using a cloud service, and adjusting the configuration of a security management and control system based on the analysis. In various examples, the analysis can include generating a weighted directed graph that reflects a user's use of the cloud service, and/or reflects the tenant's overall use of the cloud service. When the security monitoring and control system generates security alerts, the actions that resulted in the alerts can be compared to the graph to determine whether the actions are in accordance with prior behavior of the users. When the actions do correspond to the graph, the system can recommend that the security control or security policy that triggered the alert be modified. In various examples, the graphs can also be used to determine whether any user's actions are anomalous as compared to earlier behavior.
US12160447B2
A method for preventing an email phishing attack is disclosed. The method involves calculating a victim risk score of a user, receiving an email addressed to the user containing at least one of an attachment and a URL, based on the victim risk score of the user, performing one of: forwarding the email to the user with the at least one of the attachment and the URL, forwarding the email to the user without the at least one of the attachment and the URL, holding the email and the at least one of the attachment and URL in quarantine and blocking the email from being forwarded to the user.
US12160441B2
Aspects of the disclosure relate to providing training and information based on simulated cybersecurity attack difficulty. A computing platform may retrieve data associated with a plurality of attack templates for simulating cybersecurity attacks. Subsequently, the computing platform may use one or more models to compute a predicted failure rate for each template of the plurality of attack templates in order to yield a plurality of predicted failure rates for an organization. Based on the plurality of predicted failure rates, the computing platform may use one or more of the plurality of attack templates to configure a simulated cybersecurity attack on the organization. Then, the computing platform may send, via the communication interface, to an administrator user device associated with the organization, information about the simulated cybersecurity attack and may execute the simulated cybersecurity attack.
US12160435B2
Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for dynamic node analysis for network security response. The present invention is configured to detect, using a node analysis engine, a change in a network security protocol associated with a first node within a distributed network; extract information associated with the change in the network security protocol associated with the first node; identify one or more adjacent nodes with a first degree of separation from the first node in response to detecting the change; determine a first set of changes to the network security protocols for the one or more adjacent nodes based on at least the information associated with the change in the network security protocol of the first node; and automatically implement the first set of changes to the network security protocols of the one or more adjacent nodes with the first degree of separation from the first node.
US12160434B2
The present invention concerns a method for processing system logs of a computer system. A system log generator (LG) transmits these system logs to a system log analyser (SIEM) after they have been encrypted by means of a symmetric encryption key and sends the symmetric encryption key in parallel with a homomorphic cryptosystem public key. The system log analyser carries out a transcryption of these logs then a processing thereof in the homomorphic domain. The result of the processing in the homomorphic domain is then transmitted to a security centre (SOC) or even directly to the system log generator to be decrypted there. The security centre can establish a security report or propose a countermeasure before sending it, in form encrypted by the symmetric key, to the system log generator.
US12160433B1
Systems and methods for device-to-account anomaly detection are disclosed. For example, device information associated with user account data is queried from a user registry and from an external system. The device information from both sources is hashed or otherwise formatted and compared to determine whether a dissimilarity is present. A difference value may be generated and utilized to determine whether an anomaly is present for device-to-account associations as between the user registry and the external system. Utilizing the difference value and/or historical difference values associated with the external system, one or more actions for correcting the anomaly may be selected and performed.
US12160426B2
Human system operator identity audit trail systems, methods and products for improving computer technology, including in the field of cloud security in the use of computer networks and legal compliance of computer systems and networks is disclosed. An audit trail of a human system operator's identity and time-stamp to network activities of a containerized application may be established. A human system operator may be prevented from escalating privilege and making unauthorized use of service accounts available to the containerized application in order to issue commands such as higher privilege queries and requests than the ones within the granted access of the human system operator. Granular black-box testing mechanisms may also be provided to assess functional changes across software versions using boundary-scan techniques.
US12160423B1
Methods for authenticating a user utilizing a smart speaker system are presented, the methods including: requesting a user authentication by issuing a voice command to a smart speaker; playing a sonic one-time password (OTP) on the smart speaker received from an authentication server in response to the requesting a user authentication; receiving the sonic OTP by a mobile device of the user; transmitting an OTP decoded from the sonic OTP to the authentication server; and authorizing the user by the authentication server to execute a secure transaction using the smart speaker system.
US12160418B1
Directly accessing and organizing data sets from a data warehouse including receiving, by a data analyzer, a request from a service provider client instructing the data analyzer to retrieve a data set from a service provider data warehouse, wherein the service provider client is a client of a service provider, wherein the service provider data warehouse stores data sets for the service provider, and wherein the service provider client accesses the data analyzer and the service provider data warehouse without providing credentials; retrieving, by the data analyzer, the data set directly from the service provider data warehouse using credentials provided by the service provider; organizing, by the data analyzer, the data set into a worksheet; and presenting, by the data analyzer to the service provider client, the worksheet comprising the data set.
US12160415B2
A system and method for exchanging data among partitions of a storage device is disclosed. For example, data stored in a first partition is exchanged with an application included in the first partition or with a second application included in a second partition. In one embodiment, the second application is associated with a global certificate while the first application is associated with a different platform certificate. A verification module included in the first partition receives a request for data and determines if the request for data is received from the first application. If the request for data is not received from the first application, the verification module determines whether the request is received from the second application and whether the global certificate is an authorized certificate. For example, the verification module determines whether the global certificate is included in a listing of authorized certificates.
US12160404B2
Methods, devices, systems, and computer-readable media with instructions for text communications with imbedded audio or audiovisual elements are described. One embodiment involves displaying a user interface for chat communication with a time-ordered display space for communications. Text communications and audiovisual communications are each presented in associated rows within the user interface. Various embodiments enable audio or video notes as well as audio or video streaming or multi-user calls within the user interface with individual communications or connections presented within the time-ordered display. In some embodiments, communications within the display are deleted based on ephemeral message triggers.
US12160395B2
A wireless communication system, apparatus, and methodology are described for enabling wireless communication station (STA) devices to generate a Physical Layer Protocol Data Unit (PPDU) that includes a resource unit (RU) having a size that is less than a spreading frequency block by using one or more predetermined pilot and/or data tone mapping plans to control how each pilot/data tone from the RU is distributed onto a disjoint set of pilot/data subcarriers forming a distributed RU included in the spreading frequency block, thereby accommodating transmission of wider bandwidth and multiple resource unit assignments in accordance with power spectrum density (PSD) limits provided for orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) modulated symbols supported by emerging 802.11 standards.
US12160391B2
Provided are an information feedback method and apparatus, an information receiving method and apparatus, a device, and a storage medium. The information feedback includes the following: a second node configures a report configuration and sends the report configuration to a first node; the first node receives the report configuration sent by the second node and determines channel state information according to the report configuration, where the channel state information includes a reference signal, and the reference signal satisfies a grouping criterion associated with the report configuration; the channel state information is fed back to the second node through a report instance; and the second node receives the channel state information fed back by the first node through the report instance.
US12160378B2
This application provides a spatial reuse method and apparatus based on multi-access point (AP) coordination, and a system. In the method, a first access point AP sends a radio frame including identification information to a second access point AP. The identification information is used to indicate the second access point AP to perform spatial reuse during uplink data transmission performed by at least one first station associated with the first access point. The second access point sends a downlink frame to at least one second station based on the identification information. Through coordination between access points APs, the first AP may configure a spatial reuse transmission opportunity for another specific AP to perform spatial reuse transmission, so that a transmission time in the spatial reuse transmission opportunity is fully used, thereby avoiding a conflict and improving transmission efficiency.
US12160372B2
A storage system switching between mediation models within a storage system, where the switching between mediation models includes: determining, among one or more of the plurality of storage systems, a change in availability of a mediator service, wherein one or more of the plurality of storage systems are configured to request mediation from the mediator service in response to a fault; and communicating, among the plurality of storage systems and responsive to determining the change in availability of the mediator service, a fault response model to be used as an alternate to the mediator service among one or more of the plurality of storage systems.
US12160366B2
A message indicating an auxiliary task associated with traffic transmitted via a virtual router between a pair of isolated networks is received at an offloading device. A stack multiplexer at the offloading device selects a protocol stack instance to process the message. A result of the auxiliary task is obtained by the multiplexer from the selected protocol stack instance and transmitted to the virtual router, where it is used to transmit a packet between the isolated networks.
US12160364B1
Systems, methods and computer-readable storage media are provided for determining critical flow characteristics and predicting the network resources to compute time-based p-routes that satisfy different SLAs. Critical flows within a set of nodes organized in a DODAG are monitored and assessed according to applicable SLAs and relevant networking KPIs to generate a forecast of the traffic flow and the overall SLAs for these critical flows. These overall SLAs, KPIs, and the generated forecast are used by a PCE associated with the network to compute p-routes through the set of nodes in the DODAG that satisfy the overall SLAs for the critical flows.
US12160361B2
This application provides a packet transmission method, apparatus, and device. For example, the method is performed by an ingress node. The ingress node obtains a second packet by using first node information carried in a first packet, where the first node information includes a first bit string indicating N next-hop devices of the ingress node and first reference information used for indexing second node information corresponding to a first intermediate node in the N next-hop devices, and the second packet includes a first identifier determined based on the first reference information. The ingress node sends the second packet to the first intermediate node. Because structures of the first bit string and the first reference information are used, a packet encoding manner is simple, so that packet transmission efficiency is improved.
US12160353B2
Methods, systems, and apparatus for network monitoring and analytics are disclosed. The methods, systems, and apparatus for network monitoring and analytics perform highly probable identification of related messages using one or more sparse hash function sets. Highly probable identification of related messages enables a network monitoring and analytics system to trace the trajectory of a message traversing the network and measure the delay for the message between observation points. The sparse hash function value, or identity, enables a network monitoring and analytics system to identify the transit path, transit time, entry point, exit point, and/or other information about individual packets and to identify bottlenecks, broken paths, lost data, and other network analytics by aggregating individual message data.
US12160336B2
A method, an apparatus and a computer program product for enhancing reception of signals in a wireless communication system. A signal containing a frame including a plurality of symbols is received on an uplink communication channel. An angular position of at least one symbol in the plurality of symbols in a constellation of symbols is detected. The plurality of symbols include equalized symbols. An angular difference corresponding a phase error between the detected angular position of the symbol and an expected reference angular position in the constellation of symbols corresponding to an expected reference symbol corresponding to the received frame is determined. Using the determined phase error, a phase of the symbol is compensated.
US12160333B2
Transmitting a first data stream to a first station and simultaneously transmitting a second data stream to a second station. A method includes modulating a first signal by the first data stream to form a second signal, modulating the second signal by the second data stream to form a third signal, and transmitting the third signal by conversion to a transmission frequency to form a radio frequency signal, amplifying the radio frequency signal and providing the amplified radio frequency signal to an antenna. The modulation of the first signal is performed by scrambling of the first signal and the modulation of the second signal is performed by binary amplitude shift keying of the second signal, or the modulation of the first signal is performed by binary amplitude shift keying of the first signal and the modulation of the second signal is performed by scrambling of the second signal.
US12160326B2
Dynamic controller area network (CAN) messaging is provided. A central gateway of a vehicle includes a processor and a storage, connected to a plurality of vehicle buses, each of the vehicle buses connected to one or more electronic control units (ECUs), The central gateway receives a message from a client of the ECUs, the message requesting a dynamic CAN signal. The message is forwarded over the plurality of vehicle buses to a server of the ECUs. A response from the server is received to the central gateway, the response specifying availability of the dynamic CAN signal. The response is forwarded to the client.
US12160323B2
A method for performing sidelink groupcast transmission by a transmission terminal includes the steps of: classifying reception terminals belonging to a subject group into two or more subgroups; allocating different groupcast feedback schemes to the two or more subgroups; performing groupcast transmission to the reception terminals; and receiving feedback information from terminals belonging to at least one subgroup among the two or more subgroups according to the different groupcast feedback schemes.
US12160311B2
According to one or more embodiments, a network node for communicating with at least one radio unit is provided. The network node including processing circuitry configured to: determine at least one code frame characteristic of a non-linear grid, map in-phase and quadrature, I/Q, data to non-linear grid having a plurality of regions that correspond to a plurality of code words where a plurality of bit sizes of the plurality of code words is a function of a radial distance from an origin of the non-linear grid, select a subset of the plurality of code words based at least in part on a target data rate for transmission, and cause transmission of the I/Q data based at least in part on the selected subset of the plurality of code words.
US12160309B1
A packet processor of a network device receives a packet and a local-domain timestamp generated for the packet at a network interface of the network device based on a local-domain clock maintained by the network device. The packet processor generates a domain-specific timestamp for the packet based on a domain-specific clock maintained by the network device, and determines a delay value using the local-domain clock. The delay value accounts for a time delay experienced by the packet between a time at which the local-domain timestamp was generated at the network interface and a time, according to the local-domain clock, at which the domain-specific timestamp is generated by the packet processor. The packet processor adjusts the domain-specific timestamp based on the delay value to generate an adjusted domain-specific timestamp for the packet, and performs at least one synchronization operation using the adjusted domain-specific timestamp.
US12160308B2
A fiber link detection method is implemented by a first network device of an optical communications network. The fiber link detection method includes obtaining a forward delay value indicating a forward delay of transmitting a first Precision Time Protocol (PTP) packet by a second interface of a second network device to a first interface of the first network device over a fiber link. A reverse delay value indicating a reverse delay of transmitting a second PTP packet by the first interface to the second interface over the fiber link is obtained, and a determination is made, based on the forward delay value, the reverse delay value, and a first threshold, that the fiber link comprises a third network device, where the first network device and the second network device support a PTP, and where the third network device does not support the PTP.
US12160305B2
Systems and methods for supporting more flexible coverage areas and spatial capacity assignments using satellite communications systems are disclosed. A hub-spoke, bent-pipe satellite communications system includes: terminals; gateways; a controller for specifying data for controlling satellite operations in accordance with a frame definition including timeslots for a frame and defining an allocation of capacity between forward and return traffic. The satellite communications system may employ a satellite with a feed array assembly and may use on-board beamforming or ground-based beamforming. Beam hopping within timeslots of the frame may be used to provide coverage to different cells in different time periods. The flexible coverage areas may be provided using changes in satellite position, antenna patterns, or beam resource allocations.
US12160301B2
A terminal receives beams from a plurality of cells that include a non-serving cell and are formed by the same base station. The terminal determines a beam failure or a candidate beam by identifying received signals of the beams from the plurality of cells that include the non-serving cell.
US12160295B2
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a channel state information (CSI) reference signal (CSI-RS) indication that indicates a set of resources corresponding to a CSI-RS that is scheduled to be transmitted to the UE. The UE may transmit, after receiving the CSI-RS indication, a UE identification message corresponding to a random access channel operation, wherein the UE identification message includes CSI feedback corresponding to the CSI-RS. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12160291B2
A communication system for point to multipoint communications by grouping client devices based on associated modes is provided. In one example implementation, point to multipoint communication improvements are achieved by grouping a plurality of client devices by their optimal modes for communication. For example, the communication system can determine, based on channel quality indicators (CQIs) that two client devices of a plurality of client devices are associated with an optimal first mode of a modal antenna. The system can group the two client devices into a first group, the first group associated with communication using the first mode of the modal antenna. The modal antenna can communicate with the first group using the first mode of a modal antenna during a single frame of communication.
US12160290B2
A method and network node for single user multiple input multiple output (SU-MEMO) codebook-based precoder selection and for rank adaptation are provided. According to one aspect, a method includes, for each one of a plurality of rank hypotheses: selecting a precoder matrix based on an uplink transmit covariance matrix; and estimating a respective information carrying capacity, ICC, for the rank hypothesis based at least in part on the selected precoder matrix. The method further includes selecting an uplink SU-MIMO precoding matrix based at least in part on the estimated ICC for each rank hypothesis.
US12160287B2
Solutions pertaining to allocating antennas of a user equipment (UE) between connections using different RATs are proposed. A UE has a first connection to a first network and a second connection to a second network, each connection employing a respective radio access technology (RAT). During operation, the UE may identify a precondition of reconfiguring the connections. For example, the UE may intend to change a multi-input-multi-output (MIMO) setting of the first connection in order to release some antennas that can be allocated to the second connection to relieve a communication bottleneck thereof. Prior to reconfiguring the connections, the UE may communicate its intent to the first network. The UE may not reconfigure the connections until a confirmation is received from the first network.
US12160280B2
A method and device for transmitting a message from a first node device to a second node device, the devices using powerline communications. The first node device is able to send and receive fragments of the message on at least one frequency band using powerline communications and over a radio channel. The first node device, prior to the transmission of the fragment: estimates, for at least one frequency band, the theoretical duration of transmission of the fragment on the frequency band, and for the radio channel, the theoretical duration of transmission of the fragment on the radio channel, obtains, from a database, the result of integration of the degree of occupation of the frequency band and of the result of integration of the degree of occupation of the radio channel, selects, from the results of integration, the frequency band or the radio channel and transmits the fragment.
US12160272B2
The proposed technology allows for 1+1 optical protection and may improve coherent module output optical power by 3 dB over similar transmitter (Tx) and receiver (Rx) implementation complexity, as well as allow for integration into existing datacenter formats.
US12160270B1
An apparatus embedded with one or more terahertz transceivers is described. The one or more terahertz transceivers based on at least one resonant tunnelling diodes is provided to facilitate wireless communication in the apparatus, where the apparatus is embedded with one or more planar antennas. The transceiver operates in terahertz and may be coupled to one or two different antennas, one for transmission and the other for reception.
US12160258B2
Techniques and apparatus for tuning a wireless data transmission system in an electronic device. One example method includes receiving a measured impedance value corresponding to a current user interaction state with respect to one or more antennas of a mobile device; determining a user interaction stability state of the mobile device based on the measured impedance value and a set of historical impedance values; classifying the current user interaction state based at least on the measured impedance value and a plurality of impedance values from the set of historical impedance values; and tuning the one or more antennas based on the classified current user interaction state and the determined user interaction stability state of the mobile device.
US12160257B2
Distributed radio frequency (RF) communication systems for automotive are disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, an RF communication system for an automobile includes an RF module located close to an antenna to satisfy a specified output power with small insertion loss. Additionally, the baseband processor is placed remotely from the RF module in a different area of the automobile to provide a lower temperature environment. Additionally, the RF module communicates with the baseband processor in a digital format eliminating the need for higher cost cabling (for instance, due to higher noise immunity arising from using digital signaling) and using digital transfer cabling, which can already be present in the automobile for other purposes. The RF module can include an RF front-end (RFFE) and a transceiver used for providing frequency conversion, for instance, between RF and baseband.
US12160241B2
A clock doubler circuit doubles the frequency of an input clock signal. The input clock signal is supplied to a duty cycle corrector (DCC) circuit, which generates a DCC output signal having a duty cycle corrected to fifty percent and has a frequency that equals the input frequency. A T/4 delay circuit receives the input clock signal and generates a T/4 delay output signal that has a delay of T/4 from the DCC output signal and has the same frequency as the input clock signal. T/4 is one quarter of a period of the input clock signal. An XOR gate combines the DCC output signal and the T/4 delay output signal to generate an output clock signal that is twice the frequency of the input clock signal. A duty cycle estimator generates correction factors used to generate the T/4 delay output signal and the DCC output signal.
US12160215B2
A method for manufacturing a piezoelectric resonator. The method includes: depositing a piezoelectric layer and forming a recess in a lateral area in such a way that a silicon functional layer is exposed inside the recess, forming a silicide layer on a surface of the silicon functional layer exposed inside the recess, forming a diffusion barrier layer on the silicide layer, depositing and structuring a first and second metallization layer in such a way that a supply line and two connection elements are formed, forming the oscillating structure by structuring the silicon functional layer, the silicon functional layer of the oscillating structure being able to be electrically contacted via the first connection element and forming a lower electrode of the resonator, the first metallization layer of the oscillating structure being able to be electrically contacted via the second connection element and forming an upper electrode of the resonator.
US12160212B2
A sensor offset voltage compensation circuit includes a programmable gain amplifier (PGA) having an input loop configured to receive the signal output by a sensor (e.g., a voltage generated a sensor resistive bridge of a pressure sensor) and an output loop configured to furnish an output signal having a voltage that is greater than the input voltage. An offset compensation voltage is applied to at least one of the input loop or the output loop of the PGA to at least substantially cancel the zero-quantity offset voltage of the sensor from the output voltage.
US12160196B2
Apparatus and associated methods relate to a Source Terminal Replication Compensation Circuit for simulating an accurate fraction of a load current. In an illustrative example, a Source Terminal Replication Compensation Circuit (STRCC) may be connected to a motor driving circuit. The STRCC, for example, may include a simulation transistor configured to have a simulated structure of a main transistor in a motor driving circuit. The STRCC may include, for example, a disturbance rejection module (DRM). The DRM may be connected to a source terminal of the sense transistor, and a source terminal of the main transistor. When the DRM is connected to a current sensing resistor, a sense current is generated as a predetermined fraction of a load current of the motor driving circuit, wherein the predetermined fraction is less than 1%. Various embodiments may advantageously reduce heat dissipations at the current sensor resistor.
US12160190B2
A rotating electrical machine control system includes a base current instruction setting part that sets a base current instruction based on target torque of a rotating electrical machine; a correction current instruction setting part that sets a correction current instruction with a frequency determined based on torque ripple; and a current control part that performs current feedback control to compute a voltage instruction which is an instruction value of a voltage to be applied to the rotating electrical machine. The current control part includes a first current control part whose control target is a component of the base current instruction; and a second current control part whose control target is a component of the correction current instruction. A gain of the second current control part is set to be low compared to a gain of the first current control part.
US12160185B2
A motion sensor device comprises: a reverse electrowetting-on-dielectric (REWOD) generator configured to generate alternating current (AC) based on motion; a motion sensor configured to measure motion data; and a wireless motion sensor read-out circuit coupled to the REWOD generator and the motion sensor, the wireless motion sensor read-out circuit configured to transmit the motion data and operate on the AC from the REWOD generator.
US12160184B2
A stacked structure formed of two active element (AE) layers includes: a first substrate; a second substrate; a first conductive surface and a second conductive surface totally formed on the first substrate and second substrate, respectively, and including an active region and a connecting region; a compression space between the first active region of the first conductive surface and the second substrate; an elastic layer including a plurality of elastic nodules spanning the compression space and contacting the second substrate, formed on the active region of the first conductive surface or on an exposed surface of the second substrate, the elastic nodules compressed in response to a voltage difference between the first and second conductive surfaces or to an external force; a conductive adhesive contacting the connecting region of the first and second conductive surfaces; and a conductive element coupled to the conductive adhesive, for electrically connecting the AE layers.
US12160176B2
A power converter, includes: a first line to which a first voltage is applied; a second line to which a second voltage lower than the first voltage is applied; a third line to which a third voltage lower than the second voltage is applied; a first bridge circuit that is provided between the first line and the second line, the first bridge circuit including a plurality of first switching elements; a second bridge circuit that is provided between the second line and the third line, the second bridge circuit including a plurality of second switching elements; and a voltage output circuit configured to generate a predetermined direct current (DC) voltage based on operations of the first and second bridge circuits.
US12160174B2
In an embodiment, a USB interface includes a transformer, a primary winding of the transformer, and a first switch in series between a first and a second node, a secondary winding of the transformer and a component in series between a third and a fourth node, the fourth node configured to be set a first reference potential, a second switch connected between the third node and a first terminal, the first terminal configured to provide an output voltage of the USB interface; wherein the component is configured to avoid a current circulation in the secondary winding when the first switch is closed and a control circuit configured to compare a first voltage of an interconnection node between the secondary winding and the component to a first threshold and compare the first voltage to a second threshold when the first voltage is, in absolute values, above the first threshold.
US12160164B2
A measurement apparatus includes a linear regulator, a switching regulator, an acquisition unit configured to acquire measurement data by sensing a signal as a measurement target, and a control unit configured to selectively drive the linear regulator or the switching regulator, wherein the control unit is configured to select and drive the linear regulator in a first period in which the measurement data is acquired by the acquisition unit, and select and drive the switching regulator in a second period that is different from the first period.
US12160163B2
The present invention relates to a method for obtaining switching angles (α1, . . . , αi), and to an associated conversion system. In the method, possible values (IM) are established for a modulation index, within a predetermined range of values (R) and divided into a plurality of segments (S1, . . . , Sj); a value is obtained for each of the switching angles (α1, . . . , αi) in each segment (S1, . . . , Sj) and for each of the possible values (IM); a switching curve (SC) is formed for each switching angle (α1, . . . , αi) over the entire range (R); and the height or amplitude and the slope of each switching curve (SC) at a possible value shared by two segments (S1, . . . , Sj) are considered constant.
US12160162B2
Heat sink for an electric motor, in particular for a wheel hub drive of a commercial vehicle, with a channel which connects a first connection of the heat sink and a second connection of the heat sink, wherein the channel winds around the heat sink in a spiral. With such a heat sink, a flow condition of coolant within the channel can be generated in which secondary vortices are formed, and the cooling capacity is significantly improved.
US12160157B2
A deflector is disclosed for deflecting air flow in a rotating electrical machine comprising a stator (8), stator windings (10) and a housing (12). The deflector comprises a sheet of material folded to form a deflecting portion (42) and a connecting portion (44). The deflecting portion (42) is arranged to deflect airflow from a gap (14) between the stator and the housing towards the stator windings (10). The connecting portion comprises one or more apertures (48; 52; 54; 56; 58) adjacent to the deflecting portion. The aperture helps to reduce or avoid the Coand{hacek over (a)} effect, and thereby improve the impingement of cooling air on the stator end windings.
US12160153B2
A curvilinear electromagnetic pump is configured to follow a curve, such as by coupling multiple linear pump segments together that are offset by an angle with respect to each other. The curvilinear electromagnetic pump can curve within two dimensions, or within three dimensions. The curvilinear electromagnetic pump allows for more efficient arrangement of components and systems within a nuclear reactor vessel and allows a significantly reduced reactor vessel height as compared to a linear pump arranged vertically. The curvilinear electromagnetic pump may follow the curvature of the reactor vessel wall and may be entirely disposed near the bottom of the reactor vessel.
US12160148B2
A motor stator for a motor is disclosed. The motor stator includes a stator body and a plurality of windings. The stator body includes a weld end, a crown end, and a plurality of slots arranged circumferentially and extending axially therethrough between the weld end and the crown end, the slots including a plurality of layers arranged in a radial direction with layers being organized in conductor pairs. Each winding includes a plurality of coils and a plurality of weld pairs. Each weld pair includes legs of two respective coils joined together to form an electrical connection between the two respective coils. The plurality of weld pairs includes one or more jumper weld pairs arranged to jump the respective winding between two respective conductor pairs.
US12160143B2
A high-voltage permanent magnet frequency conversion all-in-one machine according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a frequency converter configured to perform frequency conversion on a high-voltage alternating current, and output at least three alternating currents, a permanent magnet motor configured to receive the alternating currents subjected to the frequency conversion and output from the frequency converter, to drive the motor to operate, and a controller configured to control the frequency converter to perform the frequency conversion on the high-voltage alternating current, and control an operation state of the permanent magnet motor.
US12160139B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure are directed to a rotor assembly for use in a radial flux electric motor assembly having core magnets rotatable relative to end magnets such that the torque constant of the rotor assembly varies. The plurality of end magnets is positioned over the core magnets when the rotor assembly is at rest and the rotor assembly has a first torque constant at rest. The plurality of end magnets can rotate relative to the core magnets upon application of torque to the rotor assembly.
US12160138B2
The present inventions include a rotating electromagnetic machine such as a motor or generator wherein changes of flux direction adjacent the air gap are avoided. The disclosed improvements apply to permanent magnet alternators, induction motors and generators, doubly fed induction generators, and the like. Adaptation of coils to and fixation within the required slot geometries are disclosed. Excitation systems co-located within the primary rotor core and primary stator core are also disclosed. The use of rubber vulcanized to the rotor in conjunction with a stainless steel rotor sleeve is also disclosed.
US12160134B2
A power source combination circuit has a combination circuit and a controller. The combination circuit includes a first power source, a first field-effect transistor, a second power source, and a second field-effect transistor. The controller is configured to control the combination circuit to supply power to a load circuit, obtain a first input voltage, a second input voltage, and a third input voltage, and diagnose, based on the obtained voltages, whether the combination circuit is in a normal state or an abnormal state. The first input voltage is an input side voltage of the first field-effect transistor, the second input voltage is an input side voltage of the second field-effect transistor, and the third input voltage is a voltage at a power source input end of the load circuit.
US12160133B2
In one embodiment, an apparatus includes a power supply operable to output power to a load along with at least one other power supply, a sensing component for identifying a load level, and a control component for switching the power supply from a full power mode to a power saving mode based on the identified load level. The power supply shares current with the other power supply at a lower current and generally the same voltage as the other power supply while in the power saving mode.
US12160130B2
A power supply system for preventing battery packs connected in parallel from charging each other is provided. Each of a plurality of battery packs includes a plurality of batteries, a sensing resistor, a detector circuit, a discharging transistor, a charging transistor, and a controller circuit. The sensing resistor has a first end connected to a negative terminal of the battery packs and a second end connected to a negative electrode of the battery circuit. The detector circuit is connected to the first end and the second end of the sensing resistor. The discharging transistor has a first end connected to a positive terminal of the battery packs and a second end connected to a first end of the charging transistor. According to a current of the sensing resistor, the controller circuit controls the discharging transistor and the charging transistor to be turned on or off.
US12160128B2
A system includes a subsea power system. The subsea power system includes a bus. A plurality of energy storage units is coupled to the bus at a plurality of positions distributed throughout the subsea power system. The subsea power system also includes a controller. The controller includes a memory, a processor, and instructions stored on the memory and executable by the processor. The processor is configured to control the subsea power system to selectively discharge a first energy storage unit of the plurality of energy storage units over the bus to supply power to a first electrical actuator of a plurality of electrical actuators. The processor is also configured to control the subsea power system to selectively charge a second energy storage unit of the plurality of energy storage units over the bus via power from a power supply.
US12160122B2
Systems, methods and apparatus for wireless charging are disclosed. One method performed at a wireless charging device includes initiating transmission of a digital ping at a first power level a transmitting coil of the wireless charging device, increasing power level of the digital ping one or more times until current flowing to the transmitting coil has an amplitude that supports Amplitude Shift Key modulation of the digital ping, and determining a charging configuration for transferring power to a chargeable device when a response to the digital ping is received from the chargeable device.
US12160117B2
The present disclosure relates to a device comprising an inductive element and a first capacitive element series connected between a first node and a second node, a first MOS transistor connected between the first node and a third node configured to receive a reference potential, the second node being coupled directly or via a second MOS transistor to the third node, a second capacitive element connected between a fourth node and an interconnection node between the first capacitive element and the inductive element, a current generator configured to provide an AC current to the fourth node, and a switch connected between the fourth node and the third node.
US12160103B2
A driver device, a method for monitoring a driver device, and a power supply device are disclosed. The driver device includes a controller and a driver module. The driver module includes a voltage divider loop and a plurality of drivers. The voltage divider loop includes a pull-down resistor and one or more corresponding resistors connected to each of the plurality of drivers, where the pull-down resistor and the one or more corresponding resistors are coupled to a power supply via a first node, and the first node is coupled to the controller.
US12160090B2
Systems and methods for performing the dynamic anomaly localization of utility pole aerial/suspended/supported wires/cables by distributed fiber optic sensing. In sharp contrast to the prior art, our inventive systems and methods according to aspects of the present disclosure advantageously identify a “location region” on a utility pole supporting an affected wire/cable, thereby permitting the identification and reporting of service personnel that are uniquely responsible for responding to such anomalous condition(s).
US12160088B1
A spark plug includes: a cylindrical center electrode extending along an axial line; a metal shell that holds the center electrode in an insulated manner; and a ground electrode electrically connected to the metal shell. A spark gap is formed between a side surface of the center electrode and an end face of the ground electrode. The metal shell includes a tubular distal end portion inside which the spark gap is located. In a cross section perpendicular to the axial line and including a center of gravity of the end face, a distance between a center line of the ground electrode, the center line including the center of gravity, and a point of tangency of a tangent line to the side surface of the center electrode is greater than 0 and smaller than a distance between an edge of the end face and the center of gravity.
US12160086B2
A spark plug includes a metallic shell member having a tubular portion extending along an axial line of the metallic shell, a center electrode disposed inside the tubular portion and extending along the axial line, and a ground electrode which is inserted into an opening 5 provided in the tubular portion and forms a gap between the center electrode and a forward end portion of the round electrode in a direction in which the round electrode extends. A screw thread is provided on an outer circumferential surface of the tubular portion. The opening has a sloping portion which tapers from the outer circumferential surface of the tubular portion toward an inner circumferential surface side. An angle formed between the 10 sloping portion of the opening and a tangent line to the outer circumferential surface is 90 degrees or greater.
US12160085B2
A laser system according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a wavelength-variable first solid-state laser device configured to output a first pulse laser beam; a wavelength conversion system including a first nonlinear crystal configured to wavelength-convert the first pulse laser beam and a first rotation stage configured to change a first incident angle of the first pulse laser beam on the first nonlinear crystal; an excimer amplifier configured to amplify a pulse laser beam wavelength-converted by the wavelength conversion system; and a control unit configured to receive, from an external device, data of a target center wavelength of an excimer laser beam output from the excimer amplifier, control a wavelength of the first pulse laser beam in accordance with the instructed target center wavelength, and control the first incident angle on the first nonlinear crystal in accordance with an average value of the target center wavelength.
US12160084B2
Described examples include apparatus having a driving electrode on a substrate. The apparatus has a platform suspended above the driving electrode and conductively coupled to a platform electrode, where the platform is configured to move in a direction perpendicular to a surface of the substrate in response to a voltage difference applied between the driving electrode and the platform electrode. The apparatus also has a mirror post on the platform. The apparatus has a mirror coupled to the platform by the mirror post, where the mirror is rectangular.
US12160083B2
Embodiments of this application disclose a laser diode drive circuit and a LiDAR. The laser diode drive circuit includes a laser diode and a charging and discharging circuit. A cathode of the laser diode is grounded. The charging and discharging circuit is in a one-to-one correspondence with the laser diode, and includes an energy storage element, a first switch element, and a second switch element. The energy storage element is connected to an anode of the laser diode via the first switch element, and the energy storage element is grounded via the first switch element and the second switch element in sequence.
US12160069B2
A lever mechanism for sealing a telecommunications closure includes a plurality of hinge elements; a leveraging element extending upwardly from each hinge element; an arm section extending from the leveraging element; a biasing element downwardly extending from the arm section; and a handle coupled to the biasing element such that upon application of a compressive force to at least a portion of the handle, each hinge element, each leveraging element, each arm section, and each biasing element moves, allowing the lever mechanism to change from a non-actuated position to an actuated position. The lever mechanism is further configured to couple with a spring-activated element and environmentally seal the telecommunications closure.
US12160059B2
In a connector, first, second, third and fourth terminals are disposed to satisfy conditions (A) and (B): (A) (a1) a left-end of the first terminal is positioned to left of a left-end of the fourth terminal, and a distance between the left-end of the first terminal and the left-end of the fourth terminal in a left-right direction is shorter than a first distance, or (a2) the left-end of the first terminal coincides with the left-end of the fourth terminal in the left-right direction, (B) (b1) a right-end of the second terminal is positioned to left of a right-end of the third terminal, and a distance between the right-end of the second terminal and the right-end of the third terminal in the left-right direction is shorter than a second distance, or (b2) the right-end of the second terminal coincides with the right-end of the third terminal in the left-right direction.
US12160056B2
Electrical grounding assemblies for electrically grounding cables in cable closures. A grounding unit of the grounding assembly can serve as a common ground connection to multiple cables. The grounding unit includes mounting features that allow it to be easily mounted and unmounted from a slotted base plate positioned within the cable closure.
US12160047B2
An antenna assembly is provided. The antenna assembly includes a first flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) for multiple first antennas, a second flexible printed circuit board (FPCB) for multiple second antennas, a metal plate including multiple holes, a first adhesive material layer for bonding between the metal plate and the first FPCB, and a second adhesive material layer for bonding between the metal plate and the second FPCB, wherein the metal plate is disposed such that the multiple first antennas are located in the multiple holes, respectively and the multiple second antennas to be located in the multiple holes, respectively.
US12160038B2
An antenna array assembly comprises a ground plate, a linear array of patch radiator elements disposed in a spaced parallel relationship with a first face of the ground plate and a first and second elongate passive radiator each comprising a plurality of conductive parts electrically isolated from the ground plate. The first and second elongate passive radiators are disposed symmetrically on either side of the linear array and parallel to a centre line of the linear array, on the same side of the ground plate as the linear array. At least some of the conductive parts of a respective elongate passive radiator are disposed in an arrangement having parallel ridges and grooves, in which, in a cross section in a plane parallel to the first face of the ground plate, the ridges extend towards the linear array and the grooves extend away from the linear array.
US12160032B2
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a housing on which at least a part of an external device operating communication in a frequency band of 20 GHz or higher is mounted, support members comprising a first support member connected to an area of the housing so as to support wearing of the electronic device in an area of the user's head while surrounding at least a part of the horizontal circumference of the user's head, and a second member surrounding at least a part of the vertical circumference of the user's head, and an antenna module disposed in an area of the second support member. The antenna module comprises an antenna layer comprising multiple patch antenna elements, a wireless circuit layer laminated on the lower portion of the antenna layer, and a heat-radiating layer laminated on the lower portion of the wireless circuit layer.
US12160026B2
An electronic device is provided, including: a first substrate, a plurality of phase shifters, a second substrate, a plurality of patches, a common electrode layer, and a dielectric layer. The plurality of phase shifters are disposed on the first substrate. The second substrate is disposed opposite to the first substrate. The plurality of patches are disposed on the second substrate. The dielectric layer is disposed between the common electrode layer and the second substrate and on the plurality of patches. In addition, a thickness of the dielectric layer is greater than or equal to 5 μm and less than or equal to a thickness of the second substrate.
US12160024B2
A wiring module to be attached to a plurality of power storage elements each having an electrode terminal, the wiring module including: a bus bar to be connected to the electrode terminals; and a flexible substrate that is flexible, wherein the bus bar has an extension portion that extends toward the flexible substrate, the extension portion has a through hole, the flexible substrate side of the through hole is closed off by the flexible substrate, the flexible substrate has a first conductive path for detecting the temperature of an object, and the first conductive path is connected to a thermistor, and the thermistor is disposed in the through hole, the through hole is filled with a resin, and the thermistor is covered with the resin.
US12160021B2
Welding electrode arrangement and method for welding one interconnector of two adjacent electrochemical cells of a rechargeable battery. The two electrochemical cells are disposed to be separated by means of a housing partition. The interconnectors are disposed to face one another on two opposite sides of the housing partition. An opening is disposed in a region of the housing partition. The method comprises contacting the interconnectors with a welding electrode arrangement. The welding electrode arrangement has at least one pair of welding electrodes. One welding electrode of the at least one pair of welding electrodes contacts in each case one of the interconnectors by means of an insert part. The method further comprises welding the interconnectors in such a manner that the material of the interconnectors melts at least in regions and is connected in a materially bonded manner through the opening in the housing partition.
US12160020B2
A method for forming a connection between a first battery cell (1) and a second battery cell (2), wherein, in a first method step, an adhesive (3) comprising at least one first component (31) and at least one second component (32) is applied to the first battery cell (1), wherein a first proportion (41) of the at least one first component (31) and/or a second proportion (42) of the at least one second component (32) is changed during the application of the adhesive (3) over the first battery cell (1), wherein, in a second method step, the first battery cell (1) is connected to the second battery cell (2) in such a way that an inhomogeneous material bond is formed between the first battery cells (1) and the second battery cell (2).
US12160019B2
This battery module is provided with a plurality of battery cells each comprising an all-solid battery having laminated therein a positive electrode layer, a negative electrode layer, and a solid electrolyte layer. Each of the battery cells has a pair of electrode terminals protruding from opposing lateral faces of the battery cell. The plurality of battery cells are arranged so as to be parallel to the lamination planes of the positive electrode layer, the negative electrode layer, and the solid electrolyte layer and in such a manner as to have the respective electrode terminals of different battery cells arrayed in parallel to each other. The electrode terminal and the electrode terminal of battery cells adjacent in the array direction are electrically connected by a bus bar.
US12160010B2
A pouch-type battery cell includes an electrode assembly, a pouch having at least one electrode accommodation portion accommodating the electrode assembly therein and a sealing portion for sealing the electrode assembly, and electrode leads electrically connected to the electrode assembly and exposed externally of the pouch through the sealing portion, wherein the electrode accommodation portion includes a body portion of which a width is greater than a height thereof, and an extension portion extending from a central portion of the body portion in a width direction to one side and having a width narrower than the width of the body portion, the electrode leads are disposed outside the extension portion in the width direction, and an end of the electrode leads has a height lower than an outer portion of the pouch.
US12160006B2
An electrode unit (1, 1a, 1b), in particular for a redox flow cell (8), including at least one metallic substrate (2) and a coating (3) which is applied to the substrate (2), wherein the coating (3) includes at least one protective layer (4) which is formed from titanium-niobium nitride (TiNbN) and/or titanium-niobium carbide (TiNbC). A redox flow cell (8), in particular a redox flow battery, having at least one such electrode unit (1, 1a, 1b) is also provided.
US12160003B2
An electrode assembly includes a water-based positive electrode plate and a negative electrode plate, wherein the water-based positive electrode plate includes a positive electrode current collector and a positive electrode film layer located on at least one surface of the positive electrode current collector; and the negative electrode plate comprises a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode film layer located on at least one surface of the negative electrode current collector; at least part of surface of the water-based positive electrode plate is provided with a plurality of first micropores, and satisfies: 0.001%≤(S12×H12×D1)/(S11×C1×H11)≤1%, at least part of surface of the negative electrode plate is provided with a plurality of second micropores, and satisfies: 0<(S22×H22×D2)/(S21×C2×H21)≤2.5%.
US12160000B2
An electrochemical device, including a cathode; an anode; and an electrolyte. The anode has an anode mixture layer on an anode current collector, the anode mixture layer includes a carbon material as an anode active material, and at least a part of a surface of the anode mixture layer or a surface of the carbon material comprises a polymer compound having Si—C and Si—O bonds. The electrochemical device has improved cycle performance and storage performance.
US12159999B2
An amorphous silicon-carbon composite, a method for preparing the amorphous silicon-carbon composite using a pyrolysis method, a negative electrode for a lithium secondary battery, and a lithium secondary battery including the same.
US12159993B2
A method of producing metallic sodium powders. The method includes immersing one or more solid pieces of sodium metal in an organic liquid containing a hydrocarbon oil. The solid piece(s) of sodium metal immersed in the hydrocarbon oil is (are) then subjected to ultrasonic irradiation, wherein the solid piece of sodium metal is fragmented to form sodium powder, resulting in a dispersion of the sodium powder in the organic liquid. The dispersed sodium powder is then separated from the organic liquid, resulting in metallic sodium powder. A method of presodiation of an anode in an electrochemical cell. The method includes adding sodium metal powders to the surface of the anode either as a dry powder or as a suspension of the sodium particles in an organic liquid. An anode in an electrochemical cell containing metallic sodium particles. An electrochemical cell comprising a presodiated anode.
US12159991B2
In certain embodiments, a method includes forming a battery electrode on a substrate. Forming the battery electrode on the substrate includes depositing a first electrode active material layer on a first portion of a surface of the substrate and depositing, to form a current collector, a conductive material using a thin film deposition process on a surface of the first electrode active material layer. The conductive material is deposited over an edge of the first electrode active material layer and onto a second portion of the surface of the substrate, the second portion of the substrate being adjacent to the first portion of the substrate. The method includes removing the battery electrode from the substrate, the battery electrode including the first electrode active material layer and the current collector.
US12159981B2
A deformation detection apparatus includes a cell movement-control assembly to handle a linear motion and a rotational motion of a battery cell, a body that supports the cell movement-control assembly, a digital micrometer, and control circuitry. The control circuitry controls a displacement of the battery cell between a first position and a second position along a longitudinal axis through a scanning region of the digital micrometer and a plurality of rotational positions of the battery cell at a plurality of charge states and a plurality of discharge states. The control circuitry measures a plurality of outer diameter values of the battery cell for a plurality of linear positions and a plurality of rotational positions along the longitudinal axis of the battery cell and determines a change in a geometrical shape (deformation and/or strain) of the battery cell for the plurality of linear positions and the plurality of rotational positions.
US12159980B2
Provided is a battery grid pellet adhesion/cohesion strength tester that can accurately determine the push-out strength of a battery grid pellet by measuring the binding of the active material to the battery grid during the pasting and curing process. A programmable test stand and force gage are used with a selectable active material punching tool fixture and a set of selectable set of grid location pins. Active material from a lead-acid battery is forced out of the battery grid at a programmed feed rate with the force gage reporting precise force measurements for each battery grid pellets adhesion/cohesion strength. The inventive device can be utilized as a quality control measure following the battery pasting and curing process, which will ensure that consistent and uniform adhesion/cohesion has occurred during battery manufacture, thereby avoiding battery premature performance failure.
US12159976B2
A battery separator for a lead/acid battery is resistant to oxidation arising from the use of water or acid containing contaminants, for example chromium (Cr), manganese (Mn), titanium (Ti), copper (Cu), and the like. The separator is a microporous membrane including a rubber. The rubber is no more than about 12% by weight of the separator. The rubber may be rubber latex, tire crumb, and combinations thereof. The rubber may be impregnated into the microporous membrane. The microporous membrane may be a microporous sheet of polyolefin, polyvinyl chloride, phenol-formaldehyde resins, cross-linked rubber, or nonwoven fibers. A method for preventing the oxidation and/or extending battery life of the separator is also included.
US12159968B2
Embodiments of the present invention provide a lithium secondary battery including anode active material layers which have a multi-layered structure and include carbon-based active materials having different contents from each other, thereby improving mechanical stability and battery performance.
US12159957B2
A display device includes an electrode layer including a first electrode; and a second electrode; light emitting elements on the electrode layer; an insulating layer on the light emitting elements and including openings exposing at least one of ends of a part of the light emitting elements; and a contact electrode corresponding to each of the openings, the insulating layer includes a fixing pattern between the first electrode and the second electrode; a division pattern intersecting the fixing pattern; a connection pattern connecting a first end of the fixing pattern to a first end of the division pattern; and a base portion surrounding the fixing pattern, the division pattern, and the connection pattern, the base portion is connected to a second end of the fixing pattern and a second end of the division pattern and spaced apart from the connection pattern.
US12159946B2
A photoelectric conversion apparatus comprises a semiconductor layer including a plurality of photoelectric conversion portions and having a first surface and a second surface that is the surface opposite to the first surface, a wiring structure disposed on the second surface side of the semiconductor layer, and a metal compound film disposed on the first surface side of the semiconductor layer. The metal compound film contains hydrogen and carbon. The concentration of the hydrogen in the interface on the semiconductor layer side of the metal compound film is 1×1021 atoms/cm3 or more and 1×1022 atoms/cm3 or less. The concentration of the carbon in the interface on the semiconductor layer side of the metal compound film is 5×1020 atoms/cm3 or more and 1×1022 atoms/cm3 or less.
US12159945B2
A semiconductor-based capacitor can include a substrate including a semiconductor material, an oxide layer formed on a surface of the substrate, a conductive layer formed over at least a portion of the oxide layer, a plurality of distinct coplanar upper terminals, and at least one lower terminal formed. Each of the upper terminals and the at least one lower terminal can be exposed along the top and bottom surfaces of the substrate, respectively, for embedding the capacitor in a substrate such as a circuit board. The semiconductor-based capacitor can be sufficiently miniaturized to be embeddable within a circuit board while providing superior capacitance values. For example, a ratio of the length to the width of the substrate can be in a range from about 3:1 to about 1:3 and an area of the substrate can be less than about 3 mm2.
US12159942B2
A semiconductor device includes a channel layer, source/drain contacts, and first barrier liners. The channel layer includes an oxide semiconductor material. The source/drain contacts are disposed in electrical contact with the channel layer. The first barrier liners surround the source/drain contacts, respectively, and include a hydrogen barrier material so as to prevent hydrogen from diffusion through the first barrier liners to the channel layer.
US12159939B2
A semiconductor device includes an active pattern on a substrate, a plurality of source/drain patterns in a first direction on the active pattern, a first channel structure between a pair of source/drain patterns, a second channel structure between another pair of source/drain patterns, a first gate electrode extending in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and a second gate electrode intersecting the second channel structure and extending in the second direction. The first gate electrode includes a first portion between a bottom surface of the first channel structure and a top surface of the active pattern, and the second gate electrode includes a first portion between a bottom surface of the second channel structure and the top surface of the active pattern. A thickness of the first portion of the second gate electrode is greater than a thickness of the first portion of the first gate electrode.
US12159930B2
A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) includes a substrate, a P-type III-V composition layer, a gate electrode and a carbon containing layer. The P-type III-V composition layer is disposed on the substrate, and the gate electrode is disposed on the P-type III-V composition layer. The carbon containing layer is disposed under the P-type III-V composition layer to function like an out diffusion barrier for preventing from the dopant within the P-type III-V composition layer diffusing into the stacked layers underneath during the annealing process.
US12159925B2
In an embodiment, a device includes: a substrate; a first semiconductor region extending from the substrate, the first semiconductor region including silicon; a second semiconductor region on the first semiconductor region, the second semiconductor region including silicon germanium, edge portions of the second semiconductor region having a first germanium concentration, a center portion of the second semiconductor region having a second germanium concentration less than the first germanium concentration; a gate stack on the second semiconductor region; and source and drain regions in the second semiconductor region, the source and drain regions being adjacent the gate stack.
US12159920B2
A semiconductor structure and a fabrication method of the semiconductor structure are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a gate structure over the substrate, and a sidewall spacer structure located on a sidewall surface of the gate structure. The sidewall spacer structure includes a first sidewall spacer, a second sidewall spacer, and a cavity located between the first sidewall spacer and the second sidewall spacer. The first sidewall spacer is located on the sidewall surface of the gate structure. A top surface of the cavity is above a top surface of the gate structure, and a bottom surface of the cavity is coplanar with a bottom surface of the gate structure. The semiconductor structure also includes a source and drain plug located over the substrate on each side of the gate structure. The source and drain plug is located on a sidewall surface of the second sidewall spacer.
US12159918B2
In an embodiment, a Group III nitride-based transistor device, includes a first Group III nitride barrier layer arranged on a Group III nitride channel layer, the first Group III nitride barrier layer and the Group III nitride channel layer having differing bandgaps and forming a heterojunction capable of supporting a two-dimensional charge gas. A source, a gate and a drain are on an upper surface of the first Group III nitride barrier layer. A gate recess extends from the upper surface of the first Group III nitride barrier layer into the first Group III nitride barrier layer. A p-doped Group III nitride material arranged in the gate recess has a first extension extending on the upper surface of the first Group III nitride barrier layer towards the drain. The first extension has a length ld, and 0 nm≤ld≤200 nm.
US12159914B2
A trench power semiconductor device includes a substrate, an epitaxial layer, a drain, a first active device, a second active device, and isolation trench structures. The epitaxial layer and the drain are disposed on two surfaces of the substrate, respectively. The first active device is disposed in a first portion of the epitaxial layer and has a first source and a first gate. The second active device is disposed in a second portion of the epitaxial layer and has a second source and a second gate. The isolation trench structures are disposed between the first portion and the second portion of the epitaxial layer to electrically isolate the first active device and the second active device. Each of the isolation trench structures includes a polysilicon structure with a floating potential and an insulating layer. The insulating layer is between the polysilicon structure and the epitaxial layer.
US12159909B2
Strategic placement and patterning of electrodes, vias, and metal runners can significantly reduce strain in a power semiconductor die. By modifying the path defining electrodes, vias, and metal runners, as well as patterning the material layers thereof, strain can be better managed to increase reliability of a power semiconductor die.
US12159907B2
Provided is a α-Ga2O3 based semiconductor film which is a semiconductor film in a circular shape having a crystal having a corundum-type crystal structure composed of α-Ga2O3 or an α-Ga2O3 solid solution as a main phase. The maximum value θmax and the minimum value θmin for off-angles at the center point X and four outer circumferential points A, B, C, and D of a surface of the semiconductor film satisfy the relationship of θmax-θmin≤0.30°. The off-angle is defined as an inclination angle θ of a crystal axis oriented in the substantially normal direction of the semiconductor film with respect to the film surface normal of the semiconductor film.
US12159906B2
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device and a fabrication method thereof. The semiconductor device includes a substrate, a first nitride semiconductor layer, a second nitride semiconductor layer, and a carbonitride semiconductor layer. The first nitride semiconductor layer is over the substrate. The second nitride semiconductor layer is formed on the first nitride semiconductor layer and has a greater bandgap than that of the first nitride semiconductor layer. The carbonitride semiconductor layer is between the substrate and the first nitride semiconductor layer.
US12159903B2
A power semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor layer of silicon carbide (SiC); at least one trench recessed into the semiconductor layer from a surface of the semiconductor layer; a gate insulating layer disposed on an inner surface of the at least one trench; at least one gate electrode layer disposed on the gate insulating layer to bury the at least one trench; a drift region disposed in the semiconductor layer under the at least one gate electrode layer, including a protrusion in contact with a part of a bottom surface of the at least one trench, and having a first conductivity type; a well region disposed in the semiconductor layer to contact the drift region while surrounding side surfaces and bottom edges of the at least one trench, and having a second conductivity type; and a source region disposed in the well region and having the first conductivity type.
US12159900B2
A power transistor cell including a layer arrangement, which includes a front side and a rear side, the front side being situated opposite the rear side. A trench extends starting from, and perpendicular to, the front side along a first direction into the layer arrangement. The trench extends at least into a current-spreading layer, and expands along a second direction, which is situated perpendicularly to the first direction. Field shielding areas are situated at least partially in the current-spreading layer, wherein source areas and field shielding contacting areas are situated alternatingly along the second direction. One portion each of the body areas is situated between each source area and each field shielding contacting area. The field shielding contacting areas connect the field shielding areas to first metal areas on the front side. The field shielding contacting areas make contact at least partially with side faces of the trench.
US12159895B2
A display apparatus includes a circuit board including a driving circuit, and a pixel array including a plurality of pixels on the circuit board, each including a plurality of sub-pixels, and a light blocking partition between the plurality of sub-pixels. Each of the plurality of sub-pixels includes a lower light emitting diode (LED) cell configured to generate light of a first wavelength. A first sub-pixel includes a transparent resin structure on the first lower LED cell, a second sub-pixel includes an inter-cell insulating layer on the second lower LED cell and an upper LED cell having on the inter-cell insulating layer and configured to generate light of a second wavelength, and a third sub-pixel includes a wavelength conversion structure on the third lower LED cell and configured to convert light of the first wavelength into light of a third wavelength.
US12159891B2
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device, includes forming a trench in a semiconductor substrate having a first face and a second face by processing the first face of the semiconductor substrate, the trench including a first portion and a second portion located between the first portion and a plane including a first face, filling an insulator in the second portion such that a space remains in the first portion and the trench is closed, and forming a plurality of elements between the first face and the second face, wherein the space and the insulator form element isolation.
US12159869B2
Backside interconnect structures having reduced critical dimensions for semiconductor devices and methods of forming the same are disclosed. In an embodiment, a device includes a first transistor structure over a front-side of a substrate; a first backside interconnect structure over a backside of the substrate, the first backside interconnect structure including first conductive features having tapered sidewalls with widths that narrow in a direction away from the substrate; a power rail extending through the substrate, the power rail being electrically coupled to the first conductive features; and a first source/drain contact extending from the power rail to a first source/drain region of the first transistor structure.
US12159868B2
Semiconductor structures and methods for forming same are disclosed. In one form, a structure includes: a base, including a first device region and a second device region, where the first device region includes a channel region, and preset regions located on two sides of the channel region, and a well pick-up region surrounding the channel region and the preset regions; a first isolation structure, located in the base between the preset regions and the well pick-up region and between the well pick-up region and the adjacent second device region; a poly gate, covering the channel region; a first source/drain doping region, located in the preset regions on two sides of the poly gate; a metal gate, located on the base in the second device region; a support structure, located on the top of the first isolation structure; and an interlayer dielectric layer, covering side walls of the poly gate, the metal gate, and the support structure. The support structure can mitigate a problem of top surface dishing of the interlayer dielectric layer above the first isolation structure, to avoid contacting the first source/drain doping region and the well pick-up region in a planarization process of forming the interlayer dielectric layer and the metal gate, thereby improving the performance of the semiconductor structure.
US12159857B2
A semiconductor package includes a substrate that includes a bonding pad, a first semiconductor chip disposed on the substrate, a second semiconductor chip disposed on a top surface of the first semiconductor chip that is opposite to the substrate, a chip pad disposed on the top surface of the first semiconductor chip, and a bonding wire that connects the chip pad to the bonding pad. The bonding wire includes a first upward protrusion and a second upward protrusion that are convexly curved in a direction away from the substrate. The second semiconductor chip has a first side surface between the first upward protrusion and the second upward protrusion.
US12159856B2
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor device of an embodiment, comprises a step of mounting a first semiconductor element on a board and a step of accommodating a member in which a plate-shaped member and a first adhesive layer are stacked in a collet and pressure-bonding the heated first adhesive layer on the board on which the first semiconductor element is mounted. The collet has a member having the first Young's modulus and a second member having a second Young's modulus which is lower than the first Young's modulus on a surface that accommodates the member in which the plate-shaped member and the first adhesive layer are stacked.
US12159854B2
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor wafer or a single semiconductor chip or die, and a layer stack. The layer stack comprises a first layer comprising NiSi, and a second layer comprising NiV, wherein the second layer is arranged between the first layer and the semiconductor wafer or single semiconductor chip or die.
US12159842B2
A display device includes: a substrate including a first component area in which a first transmission portion is arranged, a second component area that surrounds the first component area and in which a second transmission portion is arranged, and a main display area surrounding at least a portion of the second component area; an insulating layer having a first transmission hole corresponding to the first transmission portion and a second transmission hole corresponding to the second transmission portion, the first transmission hole and the second transmission hole exposing an upper surface of the substrate; a plurality of display elements arranged on the insulating layer and corresponding to the first component area, the second component area, and the main display area; and an alignment pattern arranged on the substrate and overlapping the second transmission hole and configured to align a component with the second component area.
US12159841B2
A heterogeneous semiconductor structure, including a first integrated circuit and a second integrated circuit, the second integrated circuit being a photonic integrated circuit. The heterogeneous semiconductor structure may be fabricated by bonding a multi-layer source die, in a flip-chip manner, to the first integrated circuit, removing the substrate of the source die, and fabricating one or more components on the source die, using etch and/or deposition processes, to form the second integrated circuit. The second integrated circuit may include components fabricated from cubic phase gallium nitride compounds, and configured to operate at wavelengths shorter than 450 nm.
US12159840B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include multi-die packages with interconnects between the dies. In an embodiment, an electronic package comprises a package substrate, and a first die over the package substrate. In an embodiment, the first die comprises a first IO bump map, where bumps of the first IO bump map have a first pitch. In an embodiment, the electronic package further comprises a second die over the package substrate. In an embodiment, the second die comprises a second IO bump map, where bumps of the second IO bump map have a second pitch that is different than the first pitch. In an embodiment, the electronic package further comprises interconnects between the first IO bump map and the second IO bump map.
US12159835B2
Electronic package structures and systems are described in which a 3D interconnect structure is integrated into a package redistribution layer and/or chiplet for power and signal delivery to a die. Such structures may significantly improve input output (IO) density and routing quality for signals, while keeping power delivery feasible.
US12159815B2
A semiconductor package includes a leadframe having an electrically conductive paddle, electrically conductive perimeter package leads, a first electrically conductive clip electrically connected to a first set of the package leads, and a second electrically conductive clip electrically connected to a second set of the package leads. The semiconductor package includes a single semiconductor die. The die includes a front-side active layer having an integrated power structure of two or more transistors. The die includes a backside portion having a backside contact electrically coupled to at least one of the two or more transistors and to the paddle. One or more first front-side contacts of the die are electrically coupled to at least one of the transistors and to the first clip, and one or more second front-side contacts of the die are electrically coupled to at least one of the transistors and to the second clip.
US12159814B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method for forming a semiconductor package. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a first integrated circuit die having a first circuit design on a substrate, providing a second integrated circuit die having a second circuit design on the substrate, wherein the first and second integrated circuit dies are separated from each other by a scribe line. The method also includes forming a first interconnect structure on a first surface of the first integrated circuit die, forming a second interconnect structure on a first surface of the second integrated circuit die, extending a power rail from a second surface of the first integrated circuit die to a first side of a source/drain (S/D) feature, forming one or more power lines through an entire thickness of the first and second integrated circuit dies, respectively, forming a third interconnect structure on the second surface of the first integrated circuit die, and forming a fourth interconnect structure on the second surface of the second integrated circuit die.
US12159809B2
One aspect of this description relates to a testing apparatus including an advance process control monitor (APCM) in a first wafer, a plurality of pads disposed over and coupled to the APCM. The plurality of pads are in a second wafer. The testing apparatus includes a testing unit disposed between the first wafer and the second wafer. The testing unit is coupled to the APCM. The testing unit includes a metal structure within a dielectric. The testing apparatus includes a plurality of through silicon vias (TSVs) extending in a first direction from the first wafer, through the dielectric of the testing unit, to the second wafer.
US12159808B2
An integrated circuit (IC) includes semiconductor substrate with a metal stack including a lower, upper and a top metal layer that includes bond pads and a detection bond pad (DBP). A wirebond damage detector (WDD) includes the DBP over a first and second connected structure. The first and second connected structures both include spaced apart top segments of the upper metal layer coupled to spaced apart bottom segments of the lower metal layer. The DBP is coupled to one end of the first connected structure, and ≥1 metal trace is coupled to another end extending beyond the DBP to a first test pad. The second connected structure includes metal traces coupled to respective ends each extending beyond the DBP to a second test pad and to a third test pad.
US12159804B2
A structure is provided including a substrate and a tungsten-containing layer. The tungsten-containing layer includes a nucleation layer disposed on the substrate and a bulk layer is disposed over the nucleation layer. The nucleation layer includes tungsten and the bulk layer includes about 0.1% to about 20% atomic molybdenum. The tungsten-containing layer includes a film stress of about 350 MPa to about 450 MPa.
US12159797B2
Embodiments disclosed herein include a method for determining a temperature error of a pyrometer. In an embodiment, the method comprises measuring a first signal with a first sensor of the pyrometer and measuring a second signal with a second sensor of the pyrometer. In an embodiment, the method further comprises determining a reflectivity of a reflector plate from the first signal and the second signal, and determining the temperature error using the reflectivity.
US12159786B2
The present disclosure provides a method of manufacturing a semiconductor device. The method includes: depositing a first semiconductor layer on an inner surface of a trench of a substrate; depositing a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer on the inner surface of the trench of the substrate, in which a dopant concentration of the first semiconductor layer is less than a dopant concentration of the second semiconductor layer; and depositing a third semiconductor layer on the second semiconductor layer to fill the trench of the substrate, in which a dopant concentration of the third semiconductor layer is less than the dopant concentration of the second semiconductor layer.
US12159780B2
An electrostatic linear ion trap (ELIT) array includes a plurality of ion mirrors and a plurality of elongated charge detection cylinders each defining an axial passageway centrally therethrough, the ion mirrors and the charge detection cylinders arranged relative to one another such that each charge detection cylinder is positioned between a different respective pair of the ion mirrors with the respective axial passageways of each coaxial with one another, wherein the axial passageways of the ELITs are not coaxial with one another, means for selectively directing at least one ion into each of the plurality of ELITs, and means for controlling each of the ion mirrors in a manner which causes the at least one ion in at least two of the ELITs to become trapped therein and to simultaneously oscillate back and forth between the respective ion mirrors each time passing through the respective charge detection cylinder.
US12159776B2
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for a mass spectrometer having a multipole configured to pass an ion stream, and a detector configured to detect the properties of the abundance of ions represented by data points. The mass spectrometer also includes a processing system that is configured to obtain a plurality of paired data points (e.g., detector data points and RF amplitude data points), and identify, based on centroiding a portion of the plurality of paired data points, at least one characteristic of a peak and determine, based on the at least one characteristic of the peak, a preferred peak shape.
US12159771B2
There is provided a plasma processing apparatus comprising: a plasma processing chamber having an upper wall, a sidewall, and a lower wall and having therein a plasma processing space; and a magnetic shield disposed around an outer side of the sidewall and having an opening at an upper side thereof. On the assumption that an angle between a line that passes through a midpoint of an inner surface of the upper wall on the plasma processing space side and connects end points of the opening and the inner surface is θ[°] and a product μi×t of an initial relative permeability μi of a magnetic material forming the magnetic shield and a thickness t[m] of the magnetic shield is Pmc[m], the angle θ[°] satisfies a condition θ>764×Pmc−2+179×Pmc−1+21.3.
US12159763B2
A vacuum switch device has a housing body, a stationary electrical contact and a moving electrical contact, which is arranged within the housing body. With a movement of the moving contact towards the stationary contact, the contacts form an electrical contact. With a movement away the electrical contact is interrupted. A sliding bearing provides sliding support for the moving contact for its movement towards and away from the stationary contact. The sliding bearing has an electrically conductive material and at least partially electrically insulates the housing body. A spring element is supported on a spring support and presses the moving electrical contact in the direction of the stationary electrical contact. There is also provided a circuit with a main current path and a parallel auxiliary current path. The vacuum switch device is arranged in the auxiliary current path.
US12159762B2
A three-way switch associated with an entry point barrier may provide a security system with information regarding a position of the entry point barrier as it moves along a path of travel. As the entry point barrier moves, the three-way switch may come into proximity with an external object, and the three-way switch may indicate to the security system that a circuit associated with the three-way switch has been closed. The security system may determine that the entry point barrier is in a given position, and one or more security system policies associated with the given position may be activated.
US12159759B2
A photoelectric conversion element including: first support; first electrode; electron-transporting layer; photoelectric conversion layer; hole-transporting layer; and second electrode, the hole-transporting layer including polymer including recurring unit of General Formula (1) below and compound of General Formula (2): where Ar1 represents aromatic hydrocarbon, which may have substituent; Ar2 and Ar3 each independently represent bivalent group of monocyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, non-condensed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, or condensed polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon, which may have substituent; Ar4 represents bivalent group of benzene, thiophene, biphenyl, anthracene, or naphthalene, which may have substituent; R1 to R4 each independently represent hydrogen, alkyl, or aryl; and n represents integer that is 2 or more and allows the polymer of General Formula (1) to have weight average molecular weight of 2,000 or more; and where R5 to R9, which may be identical or different, represent hydrogen, halogen, alkyl, alkoxy, or aryl; and X represents a cation.
US12159756B1
An apparatus comprising an array of electrical conductors connected to circuitry that determines data indicative of objects at particular locations based on capacitance at junctions of conductors in the array. The apparatus comprises a first set of conductors arranged on a first substrate and a second set of conductors arranged on a second substrate to form an array. The first and second substrates are separated by an air gap within which the electrical conductors are positioned. Each conductor may be independently addressable, having a proximal end connected to readout electronics and a distal end that is not. The apparatus may be cut, at the ends distal to where the conductors connect to the circuitry, to fit a desired location, such as on a store shelf, while remaining operational.
US12159748B2
A method for improving corrosion resistance of a high abundance rare earth permanent magnet by high temperature oxidation is provided. By the oxidation at 700˜1000° C., a rare earth oxide film grows in-situ on the surface, which can greatly improve the corrosion resistance of the high abundance rare earth permanent magnet. The method makes full use of phase formation rule and diffusion kinetic behavior of high abundance rare earth elements La/Ce/Y, which is different from other rare earth elements Nd/Pr/Dy/Tb. The method grows the rare earth oxide film in situ with strong adhesion to the matrix, which can not only greatly improve the corrosion resistance of the magnet, but also improve the magnetic and mechanical properties. The method has advantages of green environmental protection, long service life and simple process, and can be popularized and applied in large quantities.
US12159745B2
A thin resonant induction wireless power transmission transfer coil assembly designed for low loss and ease of manufacturing includes one or more printed circuit boards having a first conductor pattern wound in a spiral on a first side and a second conductor pattern wound in a spiral on a second side thereof, where the second conductor pattern is aligned with the first conductor pattern whereby the second conductor pattern reinforces magnetic flux generated by the first conductor pattern. The first and second conductor patterns are placed relative to one another so as to provide flux transmission in a same direction. One or more of such printed circuit boards form a wireless power transmission coil assembly with a conductive winding layer, a ferrite flux diversion layer, conformal spacing layers, an eddy current shield layer and an assembly enclosure.
US12159727B2
Nuclear propulsion fission reactor structure has an active core region including fuel element structures, a reflector with rotatable neutron absorber structures (such as drum absorbers), and a core former conformal mating the outer surface of the fuel element structures to the reflector. Fuel element structures are arranged abutting nearest neighbor fuel element structures in a tri-pitch design. Cladding bodies defining coolant channels are inserted into and joined to lower and upper core plates to from a continuous structure that is a first portion of the containment structure. The body of the fuel element has a structure with a shape corresponding to a mathematically-based periodic solid, such as a triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) in a gyroid structure. The nuclear propulsion fission reactor structure can be incorporated into a nuclear thermal propulsion engine for propulsion applications, such as space propulsion.
US12159719B2
A medical image diagnosis apparatus for use in a therapeutic procedure to a subject includes processing circuitry. The processing circuitry is configured to determine a status of a current therapeutic procedure; determine at least one proposed preset of settings of the medical image diagnosis apparatus according to the status of the current therapeutic procedure; and perform a control in accordance with the at least one proposed preset.
US12159712B2
Aspects of the present disclosure are directed toward systems, methods an apparatuses for hand off of clinical data during a medical event. Certain embodiments of the present disclosure include a first medical device configured to, during a first part of a medical event, monitor a patient and store clinical information and a second medical device. A second medical device may display at least some of the clinical information, modify operation of the second medical device, or store the clinical information.
US12159705B2
At least one example embodiment relates to a computer-implemented method for determining an imaging parameter value for the control of a medical technology device during a capture of a first image dataset. In this context, the first image dataset is provided to be transferred from the medical technology device to a remotely arranged device. The method comprises at least one of receiving or determining a transfer parameter value. In this context, the transfer parameter value comprises an information item concerning which image information is relevant for the first image dataset which is to be transferred. The method further comprises determining the imaging parameter value based on the transfer parameter value. The method further comprises providing the imaging parameter value.
US12159704B2
Provided are a method and apparatus for providing a counseling service. A method of operating a counseling center server interworking with an instant messaging service includes activating a connection with a chatbot server linked to a channel in a chat room, calling a chatbot block corresponding to a specific task included in the chatbot server through the chat room, transmitting a message received from a terminal of a user connected to the chat room to the chatbot server as an input of the chatbot block, and transmitting an output of the chatbot block in response to the message received from the chatbot server to the terminal of the user.
US12159696B2
To specify, collect, and manage data that matches a usage purpose of a user with high efficiency among enormous medical data. In a case where prescribed medical data is data worthy of evaluation for a user who manipulates a user terminal, a communication unit receives an evaluation result. A database generation unit selectively reads the medical data the evaluation result of which has been received by the communication unit among the medical data accumulated in a medical information storage, and stores the medical data in the storage unit. This processing is repeated every time when an evaluation result is received to generate a database.
US12159689B2
A method of corrupting contents of a memory array includes asserting a signal at a reset node to thereby cause starving of current supply to the memory array, and selecting bit lines and complementary bit lines associated with desired columns of the memory array that contain memory cells to have their contents corrupted. For each desired column, a logic state of its bit line and complementary bit line are forced to a same logic state. Each word line associated with desired rows of the memory array that contains memory cells to have their contents corrupted is simultaneously asserted, and then simultaneously deasserted to thereby place each memory cell to have its contents corrupted into a metastable state during a single clock cycle.
US12159677B2
A memory device includes a memory cell array, a voltage generation circuit generating one or more voltages supplied to the memory cell array, an input/output circuit receiving an address indicating a region in the memory cell array, and a control circuit controlling operations of the memory cell array. The control circuit supplies a non-selection voltage of the voltages before a ready/busy signal changes from a ready state to a busy state.
US12159667B2
An example apparatus include an array of memory cells. The example apparatus includes a memory controller coupled to the array. The memory controller can include an internal reference resistor. The memory controller can be configured to monitor memory characteristics for the array and the memory controller. The memory controller can be configured to trim the internal reference resistor to result in a target resistance value based on the memory characteristics.
US12159665B2
A memory device includes memory cells in rows, word lines respectively coupled to the rows, and a control circuitry coupled to the memory cells via the word lines. The control circuitry is configured to apply a first program voltage to a first word line of the word lines. The first word line is coupled to a first row of the memory cells. The control circuitry is also configured to, after applying the first program voltage to the first word line, apply a second program voltage to a second word line of the word lines. The second word line is coupled to a second row of the memory cells. The control circuitry is also configured to, after applying the second program voltage to the second word line, apply a first pre-charge voltage to the first word line and a second pre-charge voltage to the second word line. The second pre-charge voltage is greater than the first pre-charge voltage.
US12159655B2
A base plate includes a plate body and a connection portion provided at the plate body. The connection portion includes a through hole gassing through the plate body in a thickness direction of the plate body, a plurality of protrusions provided along an edge of the through hole in a circumferential direction about a central axis of the through hole and inserted into an attachment hole provided in the arm, and an inner circumferential surface formed by the plurality of protrusions and the through hole. The inner circumferential surface includes a plurality of recesses formed between the plurality of protrusions.
US12159646B2
Methods and systems for a cough detection system are provided. The methods and systems include operations comprising: receiving an utterance comprising a cough from a user; determining one or more environmental factors, one or more health related factors, or both associated with the user; processing the utterance with a machine learning technique to generate an illness prediction, the machine learning technique being trained to establish a relationship between a plurality of training cough utterances and a plurality of illnesses corresponding to the plurality of training cough utterances; applying a weight to the illness prediction based on the one or more environmental factors, health related factors, or both associated with the user; and triggering an alert representing the illness prediction based on the weighted illness prediction.
US12159642B2
An apparatus and method are disclosed for processing an audio signal. The apparatus includes an input interface, a digital filterbank having an analysis part and a synthesis part, a first phase shifter, a spectral envelope adjuster, a second phase shifter, and an output interface. The first phase shifter and the second phase shifter reduce a complexity of the digital filterbank, which includes both analysis and synthesis filters that are complex-exponential modulated versions of a prototype filter.
US12159635B2
There is provided mechanisms for frame loss concealment. A method is performed by a receiving entity. The method comprises adding, in association with constructing a substitution frame for a lost frame, a noise component to the substitution frame. The noise component has a frequency characteristic corresponding to a low-resolution spectral representation of a signal in a previously received frame.
US12159627B2
The present disclosure provides methods and apparatus for optimizing a keyword spotting system. A set of utterance texts including a given keyword may be generated. A set of speech signals corresponding to the set of utterance texts may be synthesized. An acoustic model in the keyword spotting system may be optimized with at least a part of speech signals in the set of speech signals and utterance texts in the set of utterance texts corresponding to the at least a part of speech signals.
US12159621B2
A computing apparatus comprises one or more computer readable storage media, one or more processors operatively coupled with the one or more computer readable storage media, and program instructions stored on the one or more computer readable storage media. The program instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, direct the computing apparatus to at least generate an audio recording of speech, extract features from the audio recording indicative of vocal patterns in the speech, determine a register classification of the speech based at least on the features, and display an indication of the register classification in a user interface.
US12159619B2
According to an embodiment, an electronic device comprises: a memory and at least one processor operatively connected with the memory. The at least one processor is configured to: in response to a voice assistant application being executed, identify a pronunciation variant for which an amount of sound source data stored in the memory is less than a specified value among a plurality of pronunciation variants, identify a subject based on the identified pronunciation variant, obtain a question text corresponding to a word including the identified pronunciation variant among a plurality of words included in the subject, output a question speech corresponding to the question text, and receive an utterance after outputting the question speech.
US12159617B2
A method includes receiving training data that includes unspoken text utterances and un-transcribed non-synthetic speech utterances. Each unspoken text utterance is not paired with any corresponding spoken utterance of non-synthetic speech. Each un-transcribed non-synthetic speech utterance is not paired with a corresponding transcription. The method also includes generating a corresponding synthetic speech representation for each unspoken textual utterance of the received training data using a text-to-speech model. The method also includes pre-training an audio encoder on the synthetic speech representations generated for the unspoken textual utterances and the un-transcribed non-synthetic speech utterances to teach the audio encoder to jointly learn shared speech and text representations.
US12159612B2
The embodiments of the disclosure provide a method for adjusting a noise cancellation mode, an electronic device, and a computer readable storage medium. The method includes: estimating a noise perception indicator corresponding to an environmental noise; and adjusting a noise cancellation mode of an wearable audio device according to the noise perception indicator.
US12159601B2
A driver includes a first driving circuit and a second driving circuit. The second driving circuit includes a computation amplifier made up of a transistor with a breakdown voltage lower than a breakdown voltage of a transistor making up the first driving circuit, an output capacitor disposed between an output node of the computation amplifier and a signal supply line, and a first feedback capacitor disposed between an inverting input node of the computation amplifier and the signal supply line. The second driving circuit includes first to m-th voltage outputting capacitors including one end coupled to the inverting input node of the computation amplifier, and first to m-th voltage output circuits configured to output a voltage based on the gradation data to the other end of the first to m-th voltage outputting capacitors.
US12159599B2
A method of adjusting a display screen, an adjusting device for a display screen, a display device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes obtaining brightness information in an abnormal brightness area in response to detecting that the abnormal brightness area is in a current display screen, obtaining a corresponding transmittance cut-off wavelength sequence in an abnormal color area in the abnormal brightness area in response to determining that the abnormal color in the abnormal brightness area is blue, and eliminating the abnormal color area in the display screen by absorbing wavelength energy whose wavelength is less than a predetermined wavelength threshold in the transmittance cut-off wavelength sequence.
US12159597B2
A backlight control device adapted to control a plurality of backlight sources is provided. The backlight control device includes a timing control circuitry and a local-dimming control circuitry. The timing control circuitry is configured to generate a transmission packet according to a first customized content specification, where the transmission packet includes control information and brightness information. The timing control circuitry includes a differential circuit, where the differential circuit is configured to transmit the transmission packet according to a differential voltage level. The local-dimming control circuitry includes a receiving circuit electrically coupled to the differential circuit. The receiving circuit is configured to receive the transmission packet. The local-dimming control circuitry is configured to transmit a light source control signal according to the control information and the brightness information.
US12159594B2
A method for generating driving signal is provided. The method includes generating by a first circuit, a first driving signal for a first frame of image, the first driving signal comprising a plurality of first pulse width modulation signals; transmitting the plurality of first pulse width modulation signals to a modulation controller; detecting a vertical synchronization signal; determining whether a most recent first pulse width modulation signal is partially generated when the vertical synchronization signal is detected; and upon determination that the most recent first pulse width modulation signal is partially generated, determining whether to delay generating a second driving signal for a second frame of image.
US12159577B2
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an array substrate and related display panel and display device. The array substrate includes: a substrate; and a plurality of sub-pixels arranged on the substrate. At least one of the sub-pixels includes a pixel circuit, and each pixel circuit comprises a driving circuit, a voltage-stabilizing circuit, a driving reset circuit and a light-emitting reset circuit. The driving circuit is configured to provide a driving current to a light-emitting device. The voltage-stabilizing circuit is configured to make the control terminal of the driving circuit and the driving reset circuit. The driving reset circuit is configured to reset the control terminal of the driving circuit. The light-emitting reset circuit is configured to reset the light-emitting device. A driving reset voltage line is configured to provide a driving reset voltage. A light-emitting reset voltage line is configured to provide a light-emitting reset voltage.
US12159560B2
Apparatus and methods for managing HUD power in vehicle head up displays are disclosed. State indications are stored. Based on the state indications a determination is made as to whether a HUD power control condition is met. If a HUD power control condition is met a corresponding HUD power control action is determined. A set of HUD power control commands corresponding to the HUD power control action is sent to the HUD to control the HUD to take the power control action.
US12159552B2
The present invention relates to a non-biological skin model comprising a polymeric material reproducing skin surface topography that is coated with a lipid composition, wherein the polymeric material is a material having a surface free energy (γ) of between 14 and 60 mJ/m2, wherein the lipid composition comprises from 14% to 60% of triglycerides, from 2% to 40% of free fatty acids, from 4% to 30% of wax esters, from 3% to 20% of squalene, and from 1% to 10% of cholesterol, and wherein the surface concentration of the lipid composition on the polymeric material is between 500 μg/cm2 and 2500 μg/cm2. The present invention also relates to a method for preparing said non-biological skin model and to its use for evaluating cosmetic products performance or for evaluating the effect of pollution on skin surface properties.
US12159546B2
Systems, apparatuses and methods provide for technology that establishes an internet connection with an on-ground component, and receives a first instruction from the on-ground component over the internet connection. The technology further identifies the first instruction and modifies one or more parameters of the aircraft based on the first instruction.
US12159544B2
A departure sequencing system models airport operations and provides suggested gate pushback times for aircraft. In various embodiments, a departure sequencing system includes an airport state analyzer, a taxi-out predictor, and a pushback optimizer. The departure sequencing system may utilize stochastic models, and resolve aircraft conflicts using a business rules engine. Via use of the departure sequencing system, taxi times may be reduced, taxi fuel burn may be reduced, and airport throughput may be increased.
US12159542B2
A control device includes: a communication unit; and a control unit that transmits and receives information via the communication unit. When a flying object flies around a complex housing, the control unit transmits, to the flying object, information on a flight route in which a transported object of the flying object enters a blind spot from inside of the complex housing based on information on the complex housing.
US12159537B2
In some embodiments, a mobile computing device comprising one or more processors, a display, and a non-transitory computer-readable medium is provided. The computer-readable medium has logic stored thereon that, in response to execution by the one or more processors, causes the mobile computing device to perform actions comprising: determining, by the mobile computing device, a location associated with flight plan information; transmitting, by the mobile computing device, the location to a restriction management system; receiving, by the mobile computing device from the restriction management system, information for presenting a checklist including checklist items indicating statuses of flight restriction conditions associated with the location; generating, by the mobile computing device, an interface having a format based on whether all checklist items are passed, wherein the interface includes a map, a pin, and a checklist; and presenting, by the mobile computing device, the interface on the display.
US12159519B2
Merchandise security systems and methods are provided. In one example, a merchandise security system includes a plurality of security devices arranged in a wireless network, wherein the plurality of security devices are arranged in a planogram and each configured to protect one or more items from theft, each of the plurality of security devices configured to wirelessly communicate data with a remote device. The system also includes a plurality of electronic keys arranged in the wireless network and configured to wirelessly communicate data with the plurality of security devices and/or the remote device. Each of the plurality of electronic keys is configured to operate the plurality of security devices. The system also includes a gateway configured to receive the data from the plurality of security devices and electronic keys via wireless communication, wherein the gateway is configured to communicate the data to the remote computing device.
US12159515B2
Gaming systems and methods that, upon an occurrence of a designated triggering event, associated with a keno game, provide wild ball feature for one or more keno cards of the keno game.
US12159511B2
An electronic gaming machine includes a game controller configured to select a first plurality of card symbols to form a player hand for a player, wherein the first plurality of card symbols include a plurality of hole cards dealt only to the player and at least one community card. The game controller is also configured to select a second plurality of card symbols to form a jackpot hand, and determine whether at least one card symbol of the first plurality of card symbols matches at least one card symbol of the second plurality of card symbols. The game controller is also configured to adjust, based on the determining, a credit balance of the player by a value associated with a jackpot award based upon a number of hole cards in the player hand that match card symbols in the jackpot hand.
US12159499B1
A garage door is controlled to open using an audio/video (A/V) recording and communication device. The device detects a vehicle within an area about the garage door and receives, using a camera, image data representative of an object associated with the vehicle. The device also compares the image data representative of the object associated with the vehicle with previously stored image data and identifies the object based on the comparing of the image data representative of the object with the previously stored image data. The device also authenticates an electronic device within the vehicle that is associated with the object by wirelessly communicating with the electronic device and determines, based at least in part on the authenticating of the electronic device within the vehicle, that the vehicle is an authorized vehicle. The device also transmits an actuation command to the garage door to cause the garage door to open.
US12159497B2
An access control system includes a credential service operable to generate an encrypted programming credential. A mobile library on a mobile device operable to communicate with the credential service, the mobile library operable to receive the encrypted programming credential from the credential service and a credential module for an access control, the credential module operable to extract programming data from the encrypted programming credential, the programming data usable to program the access control.
US12159494B2
A handheld, interactive connector for an automotive diagnostic device configured for engagement with a diagnostic port on a includes a housing and a connector port coupled to the housing. The connector port is configured to be plug connectable to the diagnostic port to establish a communication pathway between the connector and the vehicle. The connector further includes a control unit configured to receive a user initiation signal from a user sensing device and generate a speaker command signal in response to receiving the user initiation signal. A speaker is coupled to the housing and is in operative communication with the control unit to receive the speaker command signal therefrom. The speaker is configured to emit an audible signal corresponding to the speaker command signal.
US12159493B2
A cloud computing system for digital twinning a telehandler or a boom lift and a controller. The telehandler or boom lift may include a sensor, a device, and an electronic control system. The cloud computing system is configured to receive multiple datasets, including from at least one of the sensor, the device, or the electronic control system of the telehandler. The cloud computing system is also configured to generate a virtual telehandler or boom lift based on the datasets. The virtual telehandler or boom lift includes a visual representation of the telehandler or boom lift and the datasets. The controller is also configured to operate a display of a user device to provide the visual representation of the telehandler and one or more of the datasets to a user.
US12159488B2
A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing computer-readable instructions which, when executed by a processor of a computing device, cause the computing device to carry out a method. The method comprises obtaining sensor data indicative of a parameter sensed by a sensor associated with an article of sports equipment; obtaining position data indicative of a spatial position of the sensor or of the article of sports equipment; jointly processing the sensor data and the position data to derive a hybrid metric; and outputting a signal conveying the hybrid metric on a network or storing the hybrid metric in a computer-readable memory. The sensor data and the position data may be time-aligned to a common time reference, so that the jointly processing is carried out on the time-aligned sensor data and position data. The hybrid metric measures properties that are not derivable from the sensor data alone or the position data alone.
US12159486B1
The present invention discloses a human-robot collaboration method based on a multi-scale graph convolutional neural network. The method includes the following steps: S1, data acquisition: acquiring a dataset of a human skeleton in human-robot collaboration scenes, and performing pre-processing to obtain pre-processed data; S2, model training: loading the pre-processed data, and obtaining a human behavior recognition network model by training a multi-scale graph convolutional neural network; S3, human behavior recognition: predicting human behaviors through a trained deep learning network model; and S4, human-robot interaction: sending predicted information to a robot system through a communication algorithm, and enabling a robot to make action plans based on the human behaviors. By the human-robot collaboration method based on a multi-scale graph convolutional neural network disclosed by the present invention, a robot can predict human behaviors and intents in real scenes and make correct interaction.
US12159474B2
In one aspect, a computerized method useful for dynamic location-based virtualized mail services includes the step of determining an identity of a user receiving a physical mail. The method includes the step of determining a location of the user. The method includes the step of determining a set of delivery locations within a specified distance of the user's current location. The method includes the step of communicating, via an electronic message, the delivery location to the user's mobile device.
US12159470B2
A method for updating response profiles of drivers, comprising receiving a plurality of images captured by one or more imaging sensors deployed to monitor one or more eyes of a driver of a vehicle, analyzing at least some of the plurality of images to identify one or more eye dynamics signal patterns preceding one or more abnormal driving events occurring in an environment of the vehicle, updating a response profile of the driver based on an association of one or more of the abnormal driving event and the one or more of the identified eye dynamics signal patterns and providing information based on the updated response profile of the driver. The provided information is configured to enable one or more control systems of the vehicle to predict an imminent abnormal driving event based on an eye dynamics signal of the driver.
US12159467B1
A system for measuring surface deflection of a road includes a first stereo line-scan camera pair on a sensor rig and for capturing a first set of 3D images of a road surface; a second stereo line-scan camera pair on the sensor rig and for capturing a second set of 3D images of the road surface; at least one digital electro-optical (EO) camera rigidly attached to the sensor rig; an inertial measurement unit (IMU) detecting inertial forces acting upon the sensor rig; and a processor compensating for acceleration and vibration effects upon the sensor rig; and calculating the surface deflection of the road based on the first and second sets of 3D images. The processor utilizes imagery from the EO camera and inertial measurements from the IMU to produce 2D mosaics and 3D reconstructions of the road surface from the first and second sets of 3D images.
US12159459B2
A method for extracting a fingerprint of a video includes calculating 2D discrete cosine transform (DCT) coefficients from each of the plurality of frames of the video, extracting, from the 2D DCT coefficients, a coefficient having a basis satisfying at least one of up-down symmetry or left-right symmetry, and calculating a fingerprint of the video based on the extracted coefficient.
US12159457B2
Techniques are described herein for using artificial intelligence to predict crop yields based on observational crop data. A method includes: obtaining a first digital image of at least one plant; segmenting the first digital image of the at least one plant to identify at least one seedpod in the first digital image; for each of the at least one seedpod in the first digital image: determining a color of the seedpod; determining a number of seeds in the seedpod; inferring, using one or more machine learning models, a moisture content of the seedpod based on the color of the seedpod; and estimating, based on the moisture content of the seedpod and the number of seeds in the seedpod, a weight of the seedpod; and predicting a crop yield based on the moisture content and the weight of each of the at least one seedpod.
US12159456B2
The disclosure herein relates to identification of agro-phenological zones. Further the disclosed method and system also shares techniques for updating of the identified/existing agro-phenological zones. In a diverse geographical domain (like India), in order to maximize the crop production (avoid crop failures) from the available resources and prevailing diverse climatic conditions it necessary to use the resources and technology to infer the best agriculture approach on an individual location. The invention enables identification of the agro-phenological zones based on satellite image, weather data, soil data and cloud free historical satellite data using several techniques that includes machine learning, time series analysis, heuristic time series analysis technique and clustering. Further the invention also discloses techniques to update the identified/existing agro-phenological zones using historic data of agro-phenological zones of satellite image.
US12159453B2
Existing cognitive robotic applications follow a practice of building specific applications for specific use cases. However, the knowledge of the world and the semantics are common for a robot for multiple tasks. In this disclosure, to enable usage of knowledge across multiple scenarios, a method and system for ontology guided indoor scene understanding for cognitive robotic tasks is described where in scenes are processed based on techniques filtered based on querying ontology with relevant objects in perceived scene to generate a semantically rich scene graph. Herein, an initially manually created ontology is updated and refined in online fashion using external knowledge-base, human robot interaction and perceived information. This knowledge helps in semantic navigation, aids in speech, and text based human robot interactions.
US12159452B2
Systems and methods for detecting and predicting text within images. An image is passed to a feature-extraction module. Each image typically contains at least one text object, and each text object contains at least one character. Based on the image, the feature-extraction module generates at least one feature map indicating text object(s) in the image. The feature map(s) is then passed to a decoder module. In son implementations, the decoder module applies a weighted mask to the feature map(s). Based on the feature map(s), the decoder module predicts a sequence of characters in the text object(s). In some embodiments, that prediction is based on previous known data. The decoder module is directed by a query that indicates at least one desired characteristic of the text object(s). An output module then refines the predicted content. At least one neural network may be used.
US12159449B2
An image recognition device includes an image acquisition unit, a composite image generating unit, and a pattern information generating unit. The image acquisition unit is configured to acquire a plurality of pieces of image data captured in accordance with a passage of time. The composite image generating unit is configured to generate composite image data in which the plurality of pieces of image data are arranged. The pattern information generating unit is configured to generate pattern information that is information on a change pattern of each of the pieces of image data in accordance with the passage of time by acquiring a CNN model that is a trained convolutional neural network model and inputting input data that is based on the composite image data to the acquired CNN model. The pattern information indicates whether flicker occurs in an image of the image data.
