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US12029141B1	Systems and methods for resolving a number of incident RF-range photons A photon-number-resolving detector comprises a detection element, an ohmmeter, and a hardware logic component. The detection element can be formed from a Weyl or Dirac semimetal. Electrons of the detection element are characterized by a surface state that exhibits a Dirac cone and a bulk superconducting state that exhibits a bandgap. When photons having energies less than the bandgap of the bulk superconducting state impinges on the detection element, the photons can be absorbed by electrons of the detection element that are characterized by the surface state. The ohmmeter outputs resistance data indicative of an electrical resistance of the detection element while the photons impinge on the detection element. The hardware logic component can determine, based upon the resistance data, a number of the photons that are absorbed by the surface state electrons of the detection element.
US12029138B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes an array region defined on a substrate, a ring of dummy pattern surrounding the array region, and a gap between the array region and the ring of dummy pattern. Preferably, the ring of dummy pattern further includes a ring of magnetic tunneling junction (MTJ) pattern surrounding the array region and a ring of metal interconnect pattern overlapping the ring of MTJ and surrounding the array region.
US12029136B2	Magnetic memory device including magnetoresistance effect element According to one embodiment, a magnetic memory device includes a magnetoresistance effect element including first and second magnetic layers each having a fixed magnetization direction, a third magnetic layer provided between the first and second magnetic layers, and having a variable magnetization direction, a first nonmagnetic layer between the first and third magnetic layers, and a second nonmagnetic layer between the second and third magnetic layers, and a switching element connected in series to the magnetoresistance effect element, changing from an electrically nonconductive state to an electrically conductive state when a voltage applied between two terminals is higher than or equal to a threshold voltage.
US12029133B2	Ion beam etching with sidewall cleaning Patterned magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) stacks are formed by performing a main etch through a plurality of MRAM layers disposed on a substrate, where the main etch includes using ion beam etching (IBE). After the main etch, gapfill dielectric material is deposited in spaces between the patterned MRAM stacks, and the gapfill dielectric material is selectively etched or otherwise formed to an etch depth that is above a depth of an underlayer. After the gapfill dielectric material is formed, at least some of the gapfill dielectric material and any electrically conductive materials deposited on sidewalls of the patterned MRAM stacks are removed by performing an IBE trim etch.
US12029128B2	Concrete composite The present invention relates to a concrete composite comprising concrete and a thermoelectric material, wherein the thermoelectric material comprises a complex sulphide mineral, wherein the composite comprises at least 20 wt % concrete.
US12029121B2	Method for producing Heusler-based phase thermoelectric material using an amorphous phase precursor and device using Heusler-based phase thermoelectric material produced by the method Disclosed is a method for producing a Heusler-based phase thermoelectric material using an amorphous phase precursor. More specifically disclosed is a method for producing a powder or bulk thermoelectric material having a microstructure including a Heusler-based phase with a thermoelectric effect by crystallization of an amorphous phase precursor prepared by a non-equilibrium processes. Also disclosed is a device using a Heusler-based phase thermoelectric material produced by the method. The method largely avoids the efficiency problems of conventional methods, including low productivity in scaling up caused by long annealing time, high annealing temperature, and contamination during nanopowder production, achieving improved process efficiency. In addition, the method enables efficient production of a thermoelectric material having a nano-sized microstructure that is difficult to produce by a conventional method.
US12029117B2	Organic electroluminescent device and a solid composition for use therein Organic electroluminescent device comprising an anode, a cathode, at least one emission layer and an organic semiconducting layer; wherein the organic semiconducting layer is arranged between the at least one emission layer and the cathode; wherein the organic semiconducting layer comprises; a) a first organic compound comprising a first C10 to C42 arene structural moiety and/or a first C2 to C42 heteroarene structural moiety, wherein i) the dipole moment of the first organic compound, computed by the TURBOMOLE V6.5 program package using hybrid functional B3LYP and Gaussian 6-31G* basis set, is from 0 to 2.5 Debye; and ii) the LUMO energy level of the first organic compound in the absolute scale taking vacuum energy level as zero, computed by the TURBOMOLE V6.5 program package using hybrid functional B3LYP and Gaussian 6-31G* basis set, is in the range from −1.7 eV to −2.1 eV; and b) a second organic compound comprising a second C10 to C42 arene structural moiety and/or a second C2 to C42 heteroarene structural moiety and in addition at least one polar group selected from phosphine oxide and phosphine sulfide, wherein in) the dipole moment of the second organic compound, computed by the TURBOMOLE V6.5 program package using hybrid functional B3LYP and Gaussian 6-31G* basis set, is from 1.5 to 10 Debye; and iv) the LUMO energy level of the second organic compound in the absolute scale taking vacuum energy level as zero is less than 0.25 eV higher or lower than the LUMO energy level of the first organic compound; wherein it is provided that the first organic compound and the second organic compound are different from each other.
US12029116B2	Composition of matter for use in organic light-emitting diodes The present disclosure relates to compounds of Formula (I) as useful materials for OLED's. At least two of Z1, Z2, Z3, Z4 and Z5 are CN, cyanoaryl, or heteroaryl having at least one nitrogen atom as a ring-constituting atom; and at least two of R1, R2, R3 and R4 are diarylamino, indolyl or carbazolyl.
US12029115B2	Organic light-emitting device Provided is an organic light emitting device including a first electrode; a second electrode opposite to the first electrode; and a first organic material layer and a second organic material layer provided between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the first organic material layer includes a compound of Chemical Formula 1: wherein: at least one of Xa to Xc is N, and the rest are CR; and Ar2 to Ar4 are each independently a substituted or unsubstituted aryl or heterocyclic group, and the second organic material layer includes a compound of wherein: HAr is a substituted or unsubstituted heterocyclic group including at least one or more Ns; L1 and L2 are each independently a direct bond or a substituted or unsubstituted arylene or divalent heterocyclic group; and Ar1 is a direct bond, —O—, or a substituted or unsubstituted arylene or divalent heterocyclic group.
US12029114B2	Light-emitting element, display device, electronic device, and lighting device A light-emitting element containing a light-emitting material and having high light emission efficiency is provided. The light-emitting element includes a host material and a guest material. The host material includes at least a first molecule and a second molecule having the same molecular structure. The guest material has a function of exhibiting fluorescence or converting triplet excitation energy into light emission. The first molecule and the second molecule each include a first skeleton, a second skeleton, and a third skeleton, and the first skeleton and the second skeleton are bonded to each other through the third skeleton. The first skeleton includes at least one of a π-electron rich heteroaromatic skeleton and an aromatic amine skeleton and the second skeleton includes a π-electron deficient heteroaromatic skeleton. The first molecule and the second molecule have a function of forming an excited complex.
US12029111B2	Oxygen heterocyclic compound, application thereof and electronic device using the same The present disclosure provides an oxygen heterocyclic compound, an application thereof, and an electronic device using the same. The oxygen heterocyclic compound has a structural formula as represented by following formula 1: The oxygen heterocyclic compound comprises an aromatic amine portion and an oxygen heterocyclic portion. The aromatic amine portion effectively promotes the hole injection and transport performance. The oxygen heterocyclic portion is conducive to the formation of molten evaporation materials.
US12029109B2	Light emitting diode and amine compound for the same A light emitting diode of an embodiment includes a first electrode, a second electrode, and at least one functional layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and including an amine compound represented by Formula 1, thereby showing high emission efficiency properties and improved life characteristics.
US12029108B2	Organic electroluminescent materials and devices A compound having the formula Ir(LA)n(LB)3-n is disclosed wherein LA is an aza-DBF ligand and LB is an alkyl-substituted phenylpyridine ligand, wherein the compound has a structure according to Formula I: wherein each of A1 to A8 comprise carbon or nitrogen; wherein at least one of A1 to A8 is nitrogen; wherein ring B is bonded to ring A through a C—C bond; wherein the iridium is bonded to ring A through a Ir—C bond; wherein X is O, S, or Se; wherein R′ and R″ each independently represent mono-, di-substitution, or no substitution; wherein any adjacent substitutions in R′, R″, R1, R2, R3, R4, R5, and R6 are optionally linked together to form a ring; wherein R1, R2, R′, and R″ are each independently selected from a variety of substituents; wherein R3, R4, R5, and R6 are each independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, deuterium, alkyl, cycloalkyl, and combinations thereof; wherein n is an integer from 1 to 3; and wherein total number of carbons in at least one of the pairs R3 and R4, and R5 and R6 is at least four.
US12029107B2	n-type semiconductor element, method for producing n-type semiconductor element, wireless communication device, and product tag An object of the present invention is to provide a n-type semiconductor element having improved n-type semiconductor characteristics and excellent stability with a convenient process, where the n-type semiconductor element includes: a substrate; a source electrode, a drain electrode, and a gate electrode; a semiconductor layer in contact with the source electrode and the drain electrode; a gate insulating layer for insulating the semiconductor layer from the gate electrode; and a second insulating layer positioned on the opposite side of the semiconductor layer from the gate insulating layer and in contact with the semiconductor layer, where the semiconductor layer contains nanocarbon, and the second insulating layer contains (a) a compound with an ionization potential in vacuum of 7.0 eV or less, and (b) a polymer.
US12029104B2	Display device and method for manufacturing the same A display device includes a base layer including first and second portions, and a third portion between the first and second portions and configured to be bent, folded, or rolled, a light emitting element layer on one surface of the base layer at the first portion, and including light emitting elements, a circuit board on the one surface of the base layer at the third portion, and electrically connected to the light emitting elements, protective patterns spaced apart from each other on another surface of the base layer, including a resin, and also including first protective patterns spaced apart from each other on the other surface of the base layer at the first portion, and at least one second protective pattern on the other surface of the base layer at the second portion, and at least one of a heat dissipation layer or a cushion layer below the protective patterns.
US12029103B2	Flexible display apparatus A flexible display apparatus is provided. The flexible display apparatus includes a unitary flexible display panel having a display area, a peripheral area, and a bendable area connecting the display area and the peripheral area, wherein the bendable area includes one or more wire-free portions configured to absorb impact applied on the bendable area; a support sandwiched between the display area and the peripheral area, wherein the support has a first side, a second side facing the first side, and a third side connecting the first side and the second side, the display area is on the first side, the peripheral area is on the second side, and the unitary flexible display panel is bend about the third side; and a driving circuit in the peripheral area and connecting to a plurality of signal lines extending through the bendable area into the display area.
US12029099B2	System and method for manufacturing optical display element A system for manufacturing an optical display element by laminating an optical film on one surface of a rectangular organic light emitting display panel, the system including: a panel supply unit to which an organic light emitting display panel is supplied; a panel conveying unit which conveys the supplied organic light emitting display panel; an optical film supply unit which supplies an optical film by unwinding the optical film from a raw optical film roll; a laminating unit which laminates the optical film on one surface of the organic light emitting display panel; and a turning unit which rotates the organic light emitting display panel by 90° before the optical film is laminated on one surface of the organic light emitting display panel when a width-directional edge of the supplied organic light emitting display panel does not correspond to a width of the raw optical film roll.
US12029098B2	Display panel and display device A display panel and a display device are disclosed. The display panel includes a light-emitting functional layer and a color filter layer, and the light-emitting functional layer includes a plurality of pixel light-emitting units disposed at intervals. In a first display area, the color filter layer includes a first light-filtering layer and a first transparent planarization layer, the first light-filtering layer includes at least two first light-filtering units corresponding to the pixel light-emitting units by one to one, and the first transparent planarization layer fills gaps among the first light-filtering units adjacent to each other.
US12029093B2	OLED display panel with diverse manufacturing method thereof An organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display panel and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. The OLED display panel includes an optical filter layer and a light-emitting layer stacked and disposed along a first direction. The optical filter layer includes a substrate, a first capping layer, and a color filter are sequentially stacked along the first direction. The light-emitting layer includes a second capping layer, a first electrode, a light-emitting functional layer, a hole transport layer, and a second electrode are sequentially stacked along the first direction. Thus, the light loss inside the OLED display panel can be reduced, and the light extraction efficiency can be improved.
US12029092B2	Display apparatus including gap in light emitting layer Discussed is a display apparatus including a substrate having a plurality of subpixels, an insulating layer provided on the substrate, a first electrode provided on the insulating layer, a light emitting layer provided on the insulating layer and the first electrode, and a second electrode provided on the light emitting layer. The substrate can include a left portion including one edge, a right portion including another edge, and a central portion interposed between the left portion and the right portion. Further, a first fence and a second fence are provided on the insulating layer between adjacent subpixels, a gap is inside the light emitting layer between adjacent subpixels, a trench is provided in the insulating layer between the first fence and the second fence, and the gap overlaps the trench.
US12029090B2	Display panel and manufacturing method thereof, display screen and display device A display panel includes a substrate; multiple first electrode signal lines formed on the substrate; and multiple isolation columns located on a side of the multiple first electrode signal lines facing away from the substrate. The display panel includes multiple pixel regions and multiple partition regions, each of the multiple pixel regions is internally provided with a respective one of the multiple isolation columns, each of the multiple isolation columns is internally provided with multiple pixel openings, and each of the multiple pixel openings is internally provided with a first electrode and a light-emitting function layer located on a side of the first electrode facing away from the substrate, the first electrode is electrically connected to a corresponding one of the multiple first electrode signal lines, and the multiple partition regions are used for partitioning a second electrode between two adjacent pixel regions.
US12029086B2	Display substrate, manufacturing method thereof, and display device A display substrate, a manufacturing method and a display device. In the display substrate, a first power source line includes a transmission portion and a first inlet portion coupled to the transmission portion, the transmission portion is arranged between a display region and the first inlet portion and extends in a first direction, and at least a part of the first inlet portion extends in a second direction. A second power source line includes a peripheral portion and two second inlet portions, the peripheral portion surrounds the display region and is provided with an opening, and two ends of the peripheral portion at the opening are coupled to the two second inlet portions respectively. The first inlet portion is arranged between the two second inlet portions, a first spacing region and a second spacing region are arranged between each second inlet portion and the first inlet portion, the first spacing region has a first distance in the first direction, the second spacing region has a second distance in the first direction, the first spacing region overlaps the encapsulation adhesive region at a first overlapping region, the second spacing region does not overlap the encapsulation adhesive region, and the first distance is greater than the second distance.
US12029081B2	Organic light-emitting display apparatus including a contact area exposing a conductive layer overlapping a spacer An organic light-emitting display apparatus includes: a substrate; a plurality of organic light-emitting diodes on the substrate; a spacer arranged between the plurality of organic light-emitting diodes and protruding away from an upper surface of the substrate; a conductive layer overlapping the spacer; and a contact area exposing the conductive layer on one side of the spacer, wherein a common layer of the plurality of organic light-emitting diodes and the conductive layer are connected to each other through the contact area.
US12029078B2	Display device including pad electrode and method of manufacturing the same A display device according to an embodiment of the present invention may include a substrate including a display area and a pad area located on one side of the display area, a pad electrode disposed in the pad area on the substrate, a protective insulating layer disposed on the substrate and the pad electrode to expose at least a part of a top surface of the pad electrode, an inorganic encapsulation layer disposed on the protective insulating layer, and a conductive layer disposed in the pad area between an end of the inorganic encapsulation layer adjacent to the pad electrode and the protective insulating layer.
US12029077B2	OLED panel with trench overhang structures Embodiments described herein generally relate to sub-pixel circuits that may be utilized in a display such as an organic light-emitting diode (OLED) display. The device includes substrate, pixel-defining layer (PDL) structures disposed over the section of the substrate, inorganic or metal overhang structures disposed on an upper surface of the PDL structures, and a plurality of sub-pixels. The PDL structures include a trench disposed in the top surface of the PDL structure. Each sub-pixel includes an anode, an OLED material disposed over and in contact with the anode, and a cathode disposed over the OLED material. The inorganic or metal overhang structures have an overhang extension that extends laterally over the trench. An encapsulation layer is disposed over the cathode and extends under at least a portion of the inorganic or metal overhang structures and along a top surface of the PDL structures.
US12029073B2	Display substrate and display apparatus Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a display substrate and a display apparatus. The display substrate comprises: multiple repetition units, where at least one repetition unit includes multiple subpixels including first subpixels and second subpixels. In the first subpixel, an orthographic projection of an anode adapter portion on a base substrate does not overlap an orthographic projection of a drive active layer on the base substrate, and an orthographic projection of a main body portion on the base substrate does not overlap the orthographic projection of the anode adapter portion on the base substrate. In the second subpixel, an orthographic projection of an anode adapter portion on the base substrate overlaps an orthographic projection of a drive active layer on the base substrate, and an orthographic projection of a main body portion on the base substrate overlaps the orthographic projection of the anode adapter portion on the base substrate.
US12029071B2	Metal plate design for electronic display panels A method of assembling a display panel includes laminating a back plate to a display layer to form an untrimmed display panel, the back plate including a metal layer that includes a trimming path defined by one or more line segments having reduced metal content compared to other portions of the metal layer. The method further includes trimming the untrimmed display panel along the one or more line segments to define one or more edges of the display panel. For one or more locations along each of the one or more edges defined by the line segments, the metal layer is flush with the corresponding edge of the display panel.
US12029070B2	Organic light emitting display device Provided is an organic light emitting display device. The organic light emitting display device includes a display area including a plurality of pixels and a non-display area enclosing the display area, the organic light emitting display device comprises an organic light emitting display panel including a plastic base member, a back plate which is disposed below the organic light emitting display panel and includes a polymer material, a support substrate which is disposed below the back plate and includes a hole formed so as to correspond to a part of the display area, and a microphone module below the support substrate. The microphone module includes a diaphragm which is disposed to overlap at least a part of the hole, a core which is disposed below the diaphragm and is formed of a magnet, and a coil which encloses around the core.
US12029069B2	Display module and fabrication method thereof, and display device A display module and a fabrication method thereof, and a display device, and relates to the field of display technologies, to synchronously implement a display function and a surface tactile reproduction function. The display module includes: a base substrate, a plurality of piezoelectric structures positioned on a first side of the base substrate, and at least one isolation portion positioned on the first side of the base substrate and configured to separate any two adjacent piezoelectric structures. A pixel hole is arranged in at least one of three positions, i.e., a position of the piezoelectric structure, a position of the isolation portion, and a position between the piezoelectric structure and the isolation portion. The display module also includes a plurality of pixel structures, and each of the plurality of pixel structures is positioned in one of the pixel holes.
US12029065B2	Display device and manufacturing method thereof and driving substrate A display device, a manufacturing method thereof and a driving substrate are provided. The display device includes: a base substrate, an active area and an edge area; the active area includes a plurality of sub-pixels on the base substrate; each sub-pixel includes: a first reflecting electrode, a light-emitting element a second electrode layer, an insulating layer, a pixel circuit, and a storing capacitor. The edge area includes a plurality of second reflecting electrodes and a light shielding layer.
US12029062B2	Display panel and display device A display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a display area and a non-display area surrounding the display area; a first substrate and a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a plurality of supporting pillars disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and located in the display area; and an adhesive layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate and located in the non-display area. The second substrate includes a plurality of film layers, the plurality of film layers include a polarizer and at least one first layer, and a thickness of a portion of the at least one first layer located in the display area is greater than a thickness of a portion of the at least one first layer located in the non-display area.
US12029052B2	Solar cell module, electronic device, and power supply module A solar cell module includes a first substrate and a plurality of photoelectric conversion elements disposed on the first substrate. Each of the plurality of photoelectric conversion elements includes a first electrode, an electron transport layer, a perovskite layer, a hole transport layer, and a second electrode. In at least two of the photoelectric conversion elements adjacent to each other, the hole transport layers are extended continuous layers; and the first electrodes, the electron transport layers, and the perovskite layers in the at least two of the photoelectric conversion elements adjacent to each other are separated by the hole transport layer. The hole transport layer includes, as hole transport material, a polymer having a weight average molecular weight of 2,000 or more or a compound having a molecular weight of 2,000 or more.
US12029049B2	Memory structures and methods for forming the same A memory device includes a substrate, an electrical channel layer, a first electrode, a resistive switching layer, a second electrode, and a conductive structure. The electrical channel layer is disposed on the substrate. The first electrode is disposed on the substrate and extends into the electrical channel layer. The resistive switching layer is disposed between the first electrode and the electrical channel layer. The second electrode is disposed on the electrical channel layer. The conductive structure connects the electrical channel layer and the second electrode.
US12029044B2	Semiconductor structure and method for forming the same A semiconductor structure includes a substrate having a memory device region and a logic device region, a first dielectric layer on the substrate, a plurality of memory stack structures on the first dielectric layer on the memory device region, an insulating layer conformally covering the memory stack structures and the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer on the insulating layer and completely filling the spaces between the memory stack structures, and a first interconnecting structure formed in the second dielectric layer on the logic device region. A top surface of the first interconnecting structure is flush with a top surface of the second dielectric layer and higher than top surfaces of the memory stack structures.
US12029037B2	Three-dimensional memory device with discrete charge storage elements and methods for forming the same A three-dimensional memory device includes an alternating stack of insulating layers and electrically conductive layers, and memory stack structures extending through the alternating stack. Each of the memory stack structures includes a vertical semiconductor channel, a tunneling dielectric layer, a vertical stack of discrete silicon nitride memory elements located at levels of the electrically conductive layers, and a vertical stack of discrete silicon oxide blocking dielectric structures laterally surrounding the vertical stack of discrete silicon nitride memory elements. Each of the silicon oxide blocking dielectric structures includes a silicon oxynitride surface region, and an atomic concentration of nitrogen atoms within the silicon oxynitride surface region decreases with a lateral distance from an interface between the silicon oxynitride surface region and a respective one of the silicon nitride memory elements.
US12029034B2	Semiconductor storage device and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor storage device includes a stacked body, a first columnar portion, a second columnar portion, and second insulating layers. The stacked body includes a plurality of conductive layers and a plurality of first insulating layers alternately stacked in a first direction. The first columnar portion being in a first region, and the second columnar portion being in a second region. The first columnar penetrates the stacked body in the first direction and includes a semiconductor layer. The second columnar portion penetrates the stacked body in the first direction and includes an insulating layer thereon. The second insulating layers are between the second columnar portion and either the conductive layers or the first insulating layers. The insulating layer on the second columnar portion. The second insulating layers are between the insulating layer on the second columnar portion and one of the conductive layers or the first insulating layers.
US12029032B2	Integrated assemblies and methods of forming integrated assemblies Some embodiments include an integrated assembly with a semiconductor channel material having a boundary region where a more-heavily-doped region interfaces with a less-heavily-doped region. The more-heavily-doped region and the less-heavily-doped region have the same majority carriers. The integrated assembly includes a gating structure adjacent the semiconductor channel material and having a gating region and an interconnecting region of a common and continuous material. The gating region has a length extending along a segment of the more-heavily-doped region, a segment of the less-heavily-doped region, and the boundary region. The interconnecting region extends laterally outward from the gating region on a side opposite the semiconductor channel region, and is narrower than the length of the gating region. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US12029031B2	Memory system According to one embodiment, a memory system includes a semiconductor memory and a controller. The semiconductor memory includes blocks each containing memory cells. The controller is configured to instruct the semiconductor memory to execute a first operation and a second operation. In the first operation and the second operation, the semiconductor memory selects at least one of the blocks, and applies at least one voltage to all memory cells contained in said selected blocks. A number of blocks to which said voltage is applied per unit time in the second operation is larger than that in the first operation.
US12029029B2	Semiconductor memory devices A semiconductor memory device includes a semiconductor substrate a gate structure extending in a vertical direction on the semiconductor device, a plurality of charge trap layers spaced apart from each other in the vertical direction and each having a horizontal cross-section with a first ring shape surrounding the gate structure, a plurality of semiconductor patterns spaced apart from each other in the vertical direction and each having a horizontal cross-section with a second ring shape surrounding the plurality of charge trap layers, a source region and a source line at one end of each of the plurality of semiconductor patterns in a horizontal direction, and a drain region and a drain line at an other end of each of the plurality of semiconductor patterns in the horizontal direction. The gate structure may include a gate insulation layer and a gate electrode layer.
US12029027B2	Capacitor and memory device A capacitor and a DRAM device, the capacitor including a lower electrode; a dielectric layer structure on the lower electrode, the dielectric layer structure including a first zirconium oxide layer, a hafnium oxide layer, and a second zirconium oxide layer sequentially stacked; and an upper electrode on the dielectric layer structure, wherein the hafnium oxide layer has a tetragonal crystal phase or an orthorhombic crystal phase.
US12029024B2	Semiconductor memory devices and methods of fabricating the same A semiconductor memory device includes an active pattern on a substrate, the active pattern including a source/drain pattern in an upper portion thereof, a gate electrode on the active pattern and extended in a first direction, the gate electrode and the source/drain pattern adjacent to each other in a second direction that crosses the first direction, and a shared contact coupled to the source/drain pattern and the gate electrode to electrically connect the source/drain pattern and the gate electrode. The shared contact includes active and gate contacts, which are electrically connected to the source/drain pattern and the gate electrode, respectively. The gate contact includes a body portion coupled to the gate electrode and a protruding portion, which protrudes from the body portion in the second direction and extends into and buried in the active contact.
US12029021B2	Static random-access memory (SRAM) bit cell with channel depopulation Embodiments disclosed herein include transistor devices with depopulated channels. In an embodiment, the transistor device comprises a source region, a drain region, and a vertical stack of semiconductor channels between the source region and the drain region. In an embodiment, the vertical stack of semiconductor channels comprises first semiconductor channels, and a second semiconductor channel over the first semiconductor channels. In an embodiment, first concentrations of a dopant in the first semiconductor channels are less than a second concentration of the dopant in the second semiconductor channel.
US12029016B2	Chassis cooling resource Example implementations relate to a chassis cooling resource. In some examples, a chassis cooling resource includes a controller, comprising instructions to detect a failure corresponding to a first cooling system of a first chassis coupled to a server rack, and alter settings of a second cooling system of a second chassis coupled the server rack to provide additional cooling resources to the first cooling system in response to the detected failure.
US12029014B2	Wearable electronic device including heat radiation structure A wearable electronic device according to various embodiments of the disclosure includes: a housing including a first housing part in which a processor is received and a second housing part in which a display is received, and a hinge connecting the first housing part and the second housing part and having a hole provided in an area in communication with an outside of the wearable electronic device. At least part of heat generated from the processor is radiated to the outside through the hinge having the hole formed therein.
US12029013B2	Cooling plate with coaxial fluid port A cooling plate for cooling high power density electronics has an internal cavity and an opening for fluid exchange with the cavity. A mounting structure is positioned within the opening. A coaxial port is attached to the mounting structure, the coaxial port having a center conduit and a ring conduit surrounding the central conduit such that rotational axis of the center conduit coincides with rotational axis of the ring conduit. A single coaxial port can serve to deliver cooling liquid to the cooling plate and return warmed fluid from the cooling plate. The coaxial port center conduit connected with a fluid distribution panel. Fluid distribution is regulated by the panel before it exits the port through the ring conduit.
US12029011B2	Heat dissipating system A heat dissipating device includes a power distribution assembly and two convergence delivery assemblies. The power distribution assembly includes a first cooling reservoir, a second cooling reservoir, multiple cooling pumps disposed on the first cooling reservoir, and a serial pipeline and a cooling head corresponding to each of the cooling pumps respectively. The two convergence delivery assemblies separately communicate with first cooling reservoir and the second cooling reservoir, and are separately arranged on two sides of the power distribution assembly. The serial pipeline is connected with the cooling head to communicate between the first cooling reservoir and the second cooling reservoir.
US12029010B2	Water block having hollow fins A water block for cooling a heat-generating component has a body defining an internal fluid conduit for circulating fluid within the water block. The body defines a fluid inlet and a fluid outlet for feeding fluid into and discharging fluid from the internal fluid conduit respectively. The body includes: an external thermal transfer surface configured to be in contact with the heat-generating component; an opposite external surface on an opposite side of the body from the external thermal transfer surface; and at least one hollow fin extending from the opposite external surface, the at least one hollow fin defining at least one external fin passage, each of the at least one hollow fin defining an internal fin recess that forms part of the internal fluid conduit of the water block.
US12029007B2	Cooling system and cooling device A cooling system and a cooling device are provided. The cooling device includes a container, a heat dissipation module, and a cooling module. The cooling module includes a cover plate and a heat dissipation fin assembly. The cover plate covers an opening of the container. The cover plate includes a cooling channel. The cooling channel is arranged in the cover plate and includes an inlet and an outlet. The inlet and the outlet are respectively located at two sides of the cover plate. One side of the heat dissipation fin assembly is in contact with a surface of the cover plate, and an other side of the heat dissipation fin assembly is located in the container. Through the above structure, a usage amount of heat transfer fluid injected into the container of the cooling device is lower than that of a conventional immersion cooling device.
US12029006B2	System and method for repurposing waste heat in computing devices Methods and systems for thermally managing data processing systems are disclosed. Data processing systems may provide computer implemented services to users thereof and/or other devices. The data processing systems may include various hardware components that perform computations used to provide the computer implemented services and may generate heat as a byproduct. To dissipate the heat generated by the hardware components, airflows proximate to the hardware components may be used to extract the heat. Once extracted, the heated airflows may be exhausted from the data processing systems. To facilitate use of the exhausted airflows, the airflows may be selectively directed in accordance with user preferences.
US12029004B2	Data processing systems including optical communication modules A system includes a housing and a first circuit board positioned inside the housing. The housing has a top panel, a bottom panel, a left side panel, a right side panel, a front panel, and a rear panel. The front panel is at an angle relative to the bottom panel in which the angle is in a range from 30 to 150°. The first circuit board has a length, a width, and a thickness, in which the length is at least twice the thickness, the width is at least twice the thickness, and the first circuit board has a first surface defined by the length and the width. The first surface of the first circuit board is at a first angle relative to the bottom panel in which the first angle is in a range from 30 to 150°. The first surface of the first circuit board is substantially parallel to the front panel or at a second angle relative to the front panel in which the second angle is less than 60°. The system includes a first data processing module and a first optical interconnect module both electrically coupled to the first circuit board. The optical interconnect module is configured to receive first optical signals from a first optical link, convert the first optical signals to first electrical signals, and transmit the first electrical signals to the first data processing module.
US12029003B2	Disaggregated fault tolerant backplane An apparatus and a method of use are disclosed herein. The apparatus comprises a disaggregated fault tolerant backplane having a front side and a back side with at least two daughter card slots configured on the front side and configured to receive slot fanout signals over the backplane. The apparatus further comprises at least two switch boards (SBs) configured to provide electrical power to the at least two daughter card slots and at least one main fanout board (MFB) configured to send and receive SB control signals to and from the at least two SBs. The at least one MFB connects to the backplane through at least one MFB connector configured on the back side of the backplane. In one embodiment, the MFB receives control signals from the daughter card slots and sends slot fanout signals to the daughter card slots.
US12029002B2	Electronic device An electronic device, including: a device body, provided with a first accommodating space, a second accommodating space, and a first opening; a functional module; and an ejection mechanism, including a connecting rod, a slider, and a driving part. A guide rail is disposed on the slider, and the guide rail includes a first limiting section, an extending section, a second limiting section, and a retracting section which are connected in sequence. In a case that the slider is located at a second position, at least a portion of the functional module is located outside the first accommodating space, and a second end of the connecting rod is matched with the first limiting section. In a case that the slider is located at a first position, the functional module is located inside the first accommodating space, and the second end of the connecting rod is matched with the second limiting section.
US12028999B2	Electronic device including display Disclosed is an electronic device including: a foldable display panel, a glass disposed in a first direction facing a front surface of the display panel, a protection layer disposed in the first direction of the glass, a first printing layer disposed between the glass and the protection layer, and a second printing layer disposed in a second direction opposite a first direction, the first printing layer being spaced apart from an edge of the glass in a third direction facing an active area of the display panel, and one end of the second printing layer corresponds to an edge of the display panel.
US12028998B2	Housing for an electrical device having a cover and electrical device having a housing The disclosure relates to a housing of an electrical device for converting electrical power, including a main body and a cover. The cover closes the main body to define a self-contained interior space, wherein electrical and electronic components of the electrical device are arranged in the interior space of the housing. The cover is connected to the main body via a detchable securing structure, which may be arranged in the geometrical center of the cover. An electrical device has a housing of this type.
US12028993B2	Electronic device Provided is an electronic device capable of enhancing salt damage resistance. An electronic device includes a circuit board 3 on which an electronic component 2 is mounted, a housing 4 that houses the circuit board 3, a connector 5 that is mounted on the circuit board 3 and is exposed to an outside of the housing via a first opening portion 4a of the housing 4, a cover member 6 that constitutes a part of a case 131 of an external device 103 to hold the housing 4, and has a second opening portion 66a to which the connector 5 is fitted, and a seal member 8 that is interposed between the connector 5 and the cover member 6, and liquid-tightly seals the case 131 of the external device 103. The housing 4 has a first wall portion 18 extending toward the cover member 6 so as to cover a part of the connector 5 at a distance, and the cover member 6 has a second barrier portion 68 extending toward the housing 4 so as to cover a part of the connector 5 at a distance.
US12028992B2	Pump unit comprising a connector with pressure compensation element A pump assembly includes an electric motor with a printed circuit board with a controller, a pump driven by the electric motor, a housing surrounding the printed circuit board, and a connector which is fastened on an outside of the housing by a flange, which covers an opening of the housing, and which includes contacts directly electrically contacting the printed circuit board. The contacts pass through the opening of the housing. The connector includes a main housing in which the contacts extend and which adjoins the flange. The connector includes a pressure compensator which is in the main housing.
US12028989B2	Method for manufacturing wiring board, and wiring board Provided is a method for manufacturing a wiring board that forms a wiring layer having favorable adhesion without a resin resist pattern. A method prepares a substrate with seed-layer including: a underlayer on the surface of an insulating substrate; and a seed layer on the surface of the underlayer, the seed layer having a predetermined pattern and containing metal; presses a solid electrolyte membrane against the seed layer and the underlayer, and applies voltage between an anode and the underlayer to reduce metal ions in the membrane and form a metal layer on the surface of the seed layer; and removes an exposed region without the seed layer and the metal layer of the underlayer to form a wiring layer including the underlayer, the seed layer and the metal layer on the surface of the substrate.
US12028988B2	Printed wiring board A printed wiring board includes an insulating layer, a conductor layer formed on the insulating layer and including one or more conductor circuits, an insulating adhesive layer covering a surface of the conductor layer and a part or parts of the insulating layer exposed from the conductor layer, and a resin insulating layer formed on the insulating layer and the conductor layer such that the insulating adhesive layer is sandwiched between the conductor layer and the resin insulating layer. The insulating adhesive layer includes a first portion covering an upper surface of the one or more conductor circuits and a second portion covering a side surface of the one or more conductor circuits and a thickness of the first portion is greater than a thickness of the second portion.
US12028987B2	Method for soldering an electronic component to a circuit board by jetting liquefied solder into a through hole A method for soldering an electronic component to a circuit board involves jetting liquefied solder. A laser beam melts a solid solder ball to produce a liquefied solder ball before the ball is jetted. The liquefied solder ball is jetted towards a through hole in the circuit board such that a portion of the liquefied solder ball flows into an annular gap between a pin and sides of the through hole. The pin is attached to the electronic component and passes through the through hole. As the liquefied solder ball is jetted towards the through hole, the laser beam is directed at the ball so as to keep it liquefied. How much of the solder ball remains outside the through hole after liquefied solder has flowed into the annular gap is determined. The filling degree of the annular gap is determined based on how much solder remains outside the hole.
US12028986B2	Mounting method and mounting structure formed by the same A method for mounting an electronic component on a resin base material, the method including: (1) preparing the resin base material having a wiring pattern formed of a conductive paste; (2) supplying a solder paste which contains solder particles and a thermosetting resin in a state before curing to a predetermined portion of the resin base material; (3) placing the electronic component on the solder paste; and (4) heating the resin base material to heat the solder paste to a temperature in a range from 105° C. to 130° C., inclusive to melt the solder particles, and starting a curing exothermic reaction of the thermosetting resin, wherein a melting temperature of the solder particles is in a range from 90° C. to 130° C., inclusive, and a peak temperature of the curing exothermic reaction of the thermosetting resin is in a range from 135° C. to 165° C., inclusive.
US12028984B2	Double-sided circuit non-oxide-based ceramic substrate and method for manufacturing same The object of the invention is to provide a double-sided circuit non-oxide-based ceramic substrate excellent in radiation property and low in cost, and a method for manufacturing the same. A double-sided circuit non-oxide-based ceramic substrate related to the present invention includes a high heat-conductive non-oxide-based ceramic substrate that includes a through hole, a holding layer that is formed on a wall surface of the through hole, and an electro-conductive metal section that is held inside the through hole by the holding layer and does not include an active metal. The double-sided circuit non-oxide-based ceramic substrate related to the present invention preferably includes electrodes (thin film electrodes) that shield end surfaces of the holding layer and end surfaces of the electro-conductive metal section which are exposed to front and back surfaces of the ceramic substrate.
US12028983B2	Support pin for supporting a substrate in a placement area of a placement machine and placement machine The invention relates to a support pin (10) for supporting a substrate (80) in a placement area of a placement machine (100) and a placement machine (100) with at least one placement head (101), a magazine (104) with a plurality of such support pins (10) and a placement board (103).
US12028982B2	Fabric-mounted components Fabric may include one or more conductive strands. An insertion tool may insert an electrical component into the fabric during formation of the fabric. The electrical component may include an electrical device mounted to a substrate and encapsulated by a protective structure. An interconnect structure such as a metal via or printed circuit layers may pass through an opening in the protective structure and may be used to couple a conductive strand to a contact pad on the substrate. The protective structure may be transparent or may include an opening so that light can be detected by or emitted from an optical device on the substrate. The protective structure may be formed using a molding tool that provides the protective structure with grooves or may be molded around a hollow conductive structure to create grooves. An electrical component mounted to the fabric may be embedded within printed circuit layers.
US12028978B2	Resilient micro lattice electrical interconnection assembly An elongate, three dimensional, conductive, micro lattice truss structure has parallel layers of resilient strands so that the truss structure maintains structural integrity during end-to-end compression which shortens its uncompressed length. The resiliency of the micro lattice truss structure enables the truss structure to return to substantially its uncompressed length when the compression is removed. The truss structure is adapted to provide a resilient electrical connection between two opposing conductive areas on parallel spaced-apart printed circuit boards when the distal ends of the truss structure engage and are compressed between the two areas.
US12028973B2	Printed circuit board A printed circuit board includes a first insulating layer, a metal layer disposed on one surface of the first insulating layer, a first circuit layer disposed inside the first insulating layer and having one surface exposed to the one surface of the first insulating layer so as to be in contact with one surface of the metal layer, a second circuit layer in contact with the other surface of the metal layer, and a second insulating layer disposed on the one surface of the first insulating layer to cover the metal layer and the second circuit layer. The first and second circuit layers respectively include a metal different from the metal layer.
US12028971B2	Semiconductor apparatus There is provided a semiconductor apparatus including a first high-speed communication controller and a second high-speed communication controller that perform high-speed communication; a first high-speed communication terminal group that includes a first high-speed communication terminal for inputting a first signal; a second high-speed communication terminal group that includes a second high-speed communication terminal for inputting a second signal; and a terminal mounting surface, in which the terminal mounting surface includes a first side and a second side, a shortest distance from the first high-speed communication terminal group to the first side is shorter than a shortest distance from the second high-speed communication terminal group to the first side, and a shortest distance from the second high-speed communication terminal group to the second side is shorter than a shortest distance from the first high-speed communication terminal group to the second side.
US12028967B2	Method of manufacturing wiring substrate A wiring substrate includes a first insulating layer with a first opening, a second insulating layer with a second opening, a high-frequency wiring layer, a first wiring layer, a second wiring layer, and a plurality of conductive pillars. The high-frequency wiring layer including a high-frequency trace is sandwiched between the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer. The first opening and the second opening expose two sides of the high-frequency trace respectively. The high-frequency trace has a smooth surface which is not covered by the first insulating layer and the second insulating layer and has the roughness ranging between 0.1 and 2 μm. The first insulating layer and the second insulating layer are all located between the first wiring layer and the second wiring layer. The conductive pillars are disposed in the second insulating layer and connected to the high-frequency trace.
US12028964B2	Shielded printed wiring board, method for manufacturing shielded printed wiring board, and connecting member A shielded printed wiring board includes a substrate film including a base film and printed circuits including a ground circuit formed on the base film; an electromagnetic wave shielding film including a shielding layer and an insulating layer; and a reinforcing member including a conductive adhesive layer and a metal reinforcing plate, wherein the ground circuit of the substrate film is sufficiently electrically connected to the metal reinforcing plate of the reinforcing member. The shielded printed wiring board of the present invention includes a substrate film including a base film and printed circuits including a ground circuit formed on the base film; an electromagnetic wave shielding film including a shielding layer and an insulating layer; a connecting member including a metal foil and a conductive filler fixed to the metal foil with an adhesive resin; and a reinforcing member including a conductive adhesive layer and a metal reinforcing plate, wherein the electromagnetic wave shielding film is arranged on the substrate film in such a manner that the insulating layer of the electromagnetic wave shielding film is located on the shielding layer of the electromagnetic wave shielding film, the connecting member is arranged on the electromagnetic wave shielding film in such a manner that the conductive filler of the connecting member penetrates the insulating layer of the electromagnetic wave shielding film and that the conductive filler of the connecting member is in contact with the shielding layer of the electromagnetic wave shielding film, the reinforcing member is arranged on the electromagnetic wave shielding film and the connecting member in such a manner that the conductive adhesive layer of the reinforcing member is in contact with the insulating layer of the electromagnetic wave shielding film and the metal foil of the connecting member, and the ground circuit of the substrate film is electrically connected to the metal reinforcing plate of the reinforcing member.
US12028963B2	Printed circuit board module, printed circuit board element, heatsink, heat-conducting element and method of producing a thermally conductive layer Printed circuit board module (30) having a printed circuit board (50) and a heatsink (40), and, provided between the printed circuit board (50) and the heatsink (40), a two-dimensional heat-conducting element (10) comprising a ceramic carrier (12) coated with a phase change material (14, 16). In the printed circuit board (50) or the heatsink (40), a through-bore (59) may be provided to accommodate a screw (80) and one end of the screw (86) may mesh into a receiving hole (49) which preferably has a mating thread and is formed in the heatsink (40) or the printed circuit board (50), wherein a screw head (84) of the screw (80) especially has a sprung washer element (90) beneath it.
US12028960B2	System and method for alfvenic reconnecting plasmoid plasma acceleration According to various embodiments, a system for using magnetic reconnection to accelerate plasma is disclosed. The system includes a pair of electrodes including two concentric rings separated by an electrode gap and held at different electrostatic potential by applying a voltage to generate an inter-electrode electric field. The system further includes a plurality of magnetic coils configured to produce magnetic field lines that connect the pair of electrodes. The system additionally includes a gas injector configured to inject gas into the electrode gap, the injected gas being partially ionized by the inter-electrode electric field to generate a poloidal current that flows along open magnetic field lines across the electrode gap. A total Lorentz force causes oppositely directed magnetic field lines to be expanded around a region of the gas injector to further create an azimuthal current in the form of an axially elongated current sheet that is unstable such that the axially elongated current sheet reconnects and breaks into plasmoids.
US12028956B2	Large scale metal forming In certain embodiments described herein, a heated line forming system includes a heating coil system configured to produce a heated line on a surface of a metal part. The heated line forming system also includes an air knife cooling system configured to maintain a dry area for the heated line, and to direct a coolant (e.g., cooling water, liquified gases such as liquid argon, solidified gases such as carbon dioxide snow, and so forth) around the heated line via a spray mechanism such that the coolant does not flow or splash into the heated line on the metal part. In certain embodiments, the heated line forming system includes multiple induction coils arranged along a line and spaced a short distance apart, but which, when operated simultaneously together, form a heated line on a surface of a metal part.
US12028953B2	Central reporting for life safety equipment An emergency lighting system that includes a storage device, an emergency lighting device, an area control device and an external device. The emergency lighting device includes a light, a first controller having a first electronic processor configured to perform a self-diagnostic test, and a first input/output (I/O) device configured to transmit data associated with the self-diagnostic test. The area control device includes a second I/O device configured to receive data associated with the first self-diagnostic test form the first I/O device and transmit the data associated with the self-diagnostic test to the storage device.
US12028949B2	LED array driver with channel to channel and channel to ground external pin short detection A LED driver chip includes driver circuits, each being coupled to a different pin and including a fault-detection circuit. Each fault-detection circuit includes a force circuit forcing current to a force node, and a sense circuit including a current sensor coupled to the force node, and a comparator comparing a voltage at the force node to a reference voltage to generate a comparison output. Control circuitry, in a pin-to-pin short detection mode, activates the force circuit of a first of the driver circuits and activates the sense circuit of a second of the driver circuits, in a pin-to-ground short detection mode, activates the force and the sense circuit of the same driver circuits. The comparison output of the comparator of the activated sense circuit, if is higher or if lower of the reference voltage, indicates if short between pin or to ground, respectively, is present.
US12028944B2	Method for controlling bleeder connected to phase-cut dimmer and circuit connected to phase-cut dimmer The invention discloses a method for controlling a bleeder connected to a phase-cut dimmer and a circuit connected to a phase-cut dimmer. The method includes detecting an input voltage of the bleeder to obtain a detection voltage, and comparing the detection voltage and a preset reference voltage, wherein during a first time period, the detection voltage is less than the preset reference voltage, a start point of the first time period is a first moment, and an end point of the first time period is a second moment; delaying a first preset duration on the basis of the second moment to turn off the bleeder; and advancing a second preset duration on the basis of the first moment to turn on the bleeder.
US12028941B2	Integrated access system, configuration method, and baseband unit Example configuration methods and apparatus are described. In one example method, a first baseband unit (BBU) updates a first line rate, and sends a data frame to the second BBU at an updated first line rate after each update. The first BBU receives a data frame that is sent by the second BBU at an updated second line rate after each time the second BBU updates a second line rate. When the first line rate is equal to the second line rate, the first BBU sends networking relationship information of the first BBU to the second BBU at the first line rate, and receives networking relationship information of the second BBU that is sent by the second BBU at the second line rate. The first BBU establishes a bidirectional upper-layer communication channel with the second BBU based on a communication address of the second BBU allocated by the first BBU.
US12028938B2	Data processing and communication methods, memory, communication terminal, apparatus, and device A data processing method, a communication method, a memory, a communication terminal, a communication apparatus, and a communication device are disclosed. The data processing method may include: obtaining uplink data of a communication terminal and controlling the communication terminal to turn off a communication module thereof configured to receive or transmit a first network signal which is an M-th generation mobile communication network signal (S101); and transmitting the uplink data to a communication device externally connected to the communication terminal, and transmitting downlink data received by the communication device to the communication terminal (S102), where the communication device is configured to receive or transmit a second network signal which is an N-th generation mobile communication network signal, where N>M, and N and M are both positive integers.
US12028935B2	System and method for wireless device detection, recognition and visit profiling Described are various embodiments of a system and method in which device-identifying data can be used to uniquely recognize and optionally track and report on device activity at one or more hotspot and/or Wi-Fi locations by way of the creation and management of a device and/or visit profile uniquely associated with such devices and stored in a network accessible knowledge base.
US12028933B1	Automated subscriber identification module (SIM) activation Described herein are techniques, devices, and systems for receiving, by a mobile device and from a subscriber identity module (SIM), an input associated with an unstructured supplementary service data (USSD) code. The input can be provided by the SIM based on application data stored in the SIM. The SIM can receive the application data via an over-the-air (OTA) platform. The mobile device can transmit, to a service provider core network, a request associated with the USSD code. The mobile device can receive a subscription value based on the USSD code. The subscription value can be a mobile station international subscriber directory number (MSISDN) or an internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem (IMS) public user identity (IMPU).
US12028930B2	Optimization for roaming geolocated home network gateway selection The current disclosure relates to a system and method for optimizing network access for a roaming device. In particular, the method includes receiving a request for network access from a client device. The method then determines if the device is roaming. If the device is roaming, the method then includes selecting one or more gateways for the roaming device and transmitting the selected gateways to the roaming device. Such gateways may be selected based upon device location within the roaming network to reduce latency or improve other performance metrics.
US12028928B2	Semantic sensing system A semantic sensing system includes a processor, a memory, a plurality of wireless communication enabled devices and at least one sensing element, the memory storing a plurality of mapped endpoints wherein the processor is configured to apply semantic drift or entropy to determine affirmative and non-affirmative circumstances based on inputs from the at least one sensing element to cause the system to perform semantic augmentation towards a first endpoint supervisor in relation with the affirmative and non-affirmative determinations.
US12028924B2	Method and apparatus for controlling multi-connectivity in wireless communication system A method for managing links, performed by a first communication node in a communication system, includes: obtaining, through an interface, communication status information including communication quality information for each link between the first communication node and at least one other communication node of the communication system; obtaining communication environment information including movement information and location information of each of the at least one other communication node; and obtaining a link probability computational model outputting a first link probability according to input of the communication status information by iteratively performing a machine learning operation based on the communication status information and the communication environment information, wherein the first link probability is used by the first communication node to control multi-connectivity with the at least one other communication node.
US12028921B2	Radio link control bearer configuration A base station distributed unit (BS-DU) sends, to a base station central unit (BS-CU), a radio link control (RLC) bearer configuration associated with a small data transmission (SDT) procedure of a wireless device. The BS-DU receives, from the BS-CU, a context release command message, for the wireless device. The context release command message comprises a radio resource control (RRC) release message and an indication to store the RLC bearer configuration. The BS-DU transmits, to the wireless device, the RRC release message. Based on the indication to store the RLC bearer configuration, the BS-DU keeps the RLC bearer configuration.
US12028920B2	Method and apparatus for backhaul status reporting in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to backhaul status reporting in wireless communications. According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a method performed by a network node in a wireless communication system comprises: monitoring backhaul links for multiple cell groups; receiving information indicating at least one cell group of which a backhaul status is to be reported among the multiple cell groups; and transmitting a message for reporting the backhaul status of the at least one cell group based on the information.
US12028918B2	SMS processing method in internet of things, mobility management network element, and terminal device The present disclosure relates to example SMS processing methods in an Internet of Things, mobility management network elements, and terminal devices, to provide an SMS service for an Internet of Things terminal device. One example method includes receiving, by a mobility management network element in a packet switched (PS) domain, a non-combined registration request from a terminal device, where the non-combined registration request carries SMS only indication information. When determining that the mobility management network element in the PS domain cannot transfer an SMS for the terminal device through the PS domain, the mobility management network element in the PS domain sends a location update request to a mobility management network element in a circuit switched (CS) domain The location update request is used to implement registration of the terminal device with the CS domain.
US12028916B2	Dual-connectivity establishment method and device Embodiments of the present invention provide a dual-connectivity (DC) establishment method and device. The first DC architecture includes a Master Node (MN) and a Secondary Node (SN), wherein the SN includes a Central Unit (CU) and a Distributed Unit (DU); and, the CU includes a Control Plane functional entity (CP) and a User Plane functional entity (UP). The method includes steps of: receiving, by an SN-CP, a first SN setup request message transmitted by an MN; transmitting a first resource setup request message to an SN-UP according to the first SN setup request message, and receiving a first resource setup response message transmitted by the SN-UP; and, transmitting, by the SN-CP, a first bearer setup request message to an SN-DU, and receiving a first bearer setup response message transmitted by the SN-DU.
US12028911B2	Communication method, related apparatus, and device A communication method for exposing a user plane event includes allowing an NF entity to subscribe to the user plane event by sending a request to a UPF entity through an SMF entity. The SMF entity forwards requests and responses sent between the NF entity and the UPF entity. Because the SMF entity transparently transmits requests and response messages between the NF entity and the UPF entity, the impact on the performance of the SMF entity is minimized.
US12028910B2	Non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing computer-readable instructions for terminal device and communication device A first terminal device may send address information which is an IP address of the first terminal device to the first communication device by using a communication network, and send a public key of the first terminal device to the first communication device by using the communication network. The first terminal device may receive a first authentication request in which the first public key is used from the first communication device by using the communication network. The first authentication request may be sent with the address information as a destination. The terminal device may send a first authentication response to the first communication device by using the communication network and send connection information to the first communication device by using the communication network. The connection information may be used by the first communication device to establish a first wireless connection between the first communication device and an external device.
US12028909B2	Communicating between a terminal and a wireless network node A method of communicating between a terminal and a wireless network node comprising, at the terminal: checking validity of a timing advance; and if the timing advance is valid, causing sending of an uplink connection request within a preconfigured uplink resource.
US12028907B2	Rach-based Tx beam refinement procedure In accordance with some example embodiments, an apparatus may comprise at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus to transmit at least one parameter configuration of a random access channel procedure to a user equipment; receive at least one physical uplink shared channel part of a first random access channel message using at least one transmitter beam configuration; upon detection of at least one preamble part of the first random access channel message, decode the physical uplink shared channel part of the first random access channel message and perform at least one channel quality measurement on at least one demodulation reference signal sequence transmitted on a number of selected transmitter beam configurations.
US12028898B2	UE, radio network node and methods performed therein for handling communication Embodiments herein relate e.g. to a method performed by a user equipment, UE, (10) for handling communication in a wireless communication network. The UEa radio network 5 adjusts a value of the CW based on a determined response, from node (12), of an uplink, UL, control channel transmission.
US12028896B2	Methods and system for establishing multiple starting points for sidelink transmissions Wireless communications systems and methods related to multiple starting points for new radio sidelink transmission over unlicensed band are provided. In some aspects, a UE may perform a channel access procedure to access a first physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) transmission resource of an unlicensed new radio spectrum. In some aspects, the first PSSCH transmission resource may be reserved by a control message and may include a plurality of transmission starting points. Further, the first UE may transmit first data to a second UE via the first PSSCH transmission resource starting at a later transmission starting point than one or more prior transmission starting points of the plurality of transmission starting points when the performing the channel access procedure fails at each of the one or more prior transmission starting points.
US12028893B2	Communication node for scheduling and interference control in wireless communication network, and operation method therefor An operation method of a base station in an IFD scheme may comprise receiving position information of each of a plurality of downlink (DL) terminals and a plurality of uplink (UL) terminals; determining a guard zone corresponding to each of the plurality of DL terminals based on the position information of each of the plurality of DL terminals; determining whether at least one UL terminal is located in the guard zone based on the position information of each of the plurality of UL terminals; determining a scheduling priority of each of the plurality of DL terminals according to whether at least one UL terminal is located in the guard zone; generating DL control information including frequency-time resource allocation information and interference control information based on the determined scheduling priority; and transmitting data signals and the DL control information to the plurality of DL terminals.
US12028892B2	Flying device, control device, communication control method, and control method A flying device that flies by being controlled from an external location, the flying device including a determination unit that determines a communication quality on a first wireless communication channel used for transmitting data to a control device that controls the flying device within a prescribed range from a flight position at which the flying device is flying; and a transmission control unit that controls a type of data to be transmitted to the control device on the basis of the communication quality determined by the determination unit.
US12028891B2	Method and device for allocating transmission power in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure 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. The present disclosure provides a method and a device for allocating transmission power in a wireless communication system.
US12028889B2	Communication method and communication apparatus to improve flexibility of unicast communication A communication method includes: a first communication apparatus obtains first configuration information and sends the first configuration information to a second communication apparatus, where the first configuration information includes configuration information of a first sidelink radio bearer which is used to carry a first unicast service between the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus, and the first sidelink is a radio link between the first communication apparatus and the second communication apparatus.
US12028885B2	Wireless communication method and apparatus The method includes: receiving, by a second transmit end, policy information sent by a first transmit end, where the second transmit end belongs to a second BSS, the first transmit end is a transmit end that is in a first basis service set and that transmits data by using a first link, and the policy information is used to indicate a condition that the second transmit end needs to satisfy to transmit data by using a second link, or used to indicate whether the second transmit end is allowed to transmit data by using a second link; and determining, by the second transmit end based on the policy information, whether to transmit data by using the second link. According to the wireless communication method, a spatial reuse transmission policy can be adjusted dynamically based on an actual situation of a current network. This improves a system throughput.
US12028884B2	PSCCH control channel design for NR V2X sidelink communication and PSCCH DMRS physical structures A method for allocating channel resources for transmitting data by user equipment (UE), includes receiving a resource allocation specification for a PSCCH transmission on PSSCH resources. The resource allocation specifies a PSCCH decoding unit of N symbols by M PRBs. The decoding unit is larger than a resource element group (REG) associated with the PSSCH resources. The method includes causing transmission, by a transceiver, of the PSCCH transmission in using the decoding unit specified by the resource allocation specification.
US12028879B2	Communication method, communications device, and computer program storage medium A communication method includes: a network device sends first configuration information to a terminal device, where the first configuration information includes configuration information of a non-anchor carrier; and when an anchor carrier is in a standalone deployment mode, the non-anchor carrier uses an in-band deployment mode or a guard-band deployment mode; or when an anchor carrier is in an in-band deployment mode or a guard-band deployment mode, the non-anchor carrier uses a standalone deployment mode.
US12028876B2	Acknowledgement signaling for multi-PUSCH and multi-PDSCH scheduling Systems and methods disclosed herein relate to acknowledgement signaling sent by a user equipment (UE) in response to downlink control information (DCI) received from a base station that schedules the use of multiple physical uplink control channels (multi-PUSCH) or multiple physical downlink control channels (multi-PDSCH). Acknowledgement signaling may inform the base station that DCI scheduling the multi-PUSCH/multi-PDSCH was received (or not), so that the base station may reclaim those scheduled resources in the case that the UE remains unaware of them. Methods for performing this signaling include, e.g., the use of HARQ-ACK codebooks (whether in a semi-static or dynamic manner), and aperiodic sounding reference signals (A-SRS). Embodiments involving such DCI received across multiple component carriers of different serving cells of the UE are contemplated. Acknowledgment signaling according to multi-PUSCH/multi-PDSCH subgroups, monitoring windows, acknowledgment signaling enablement/disablement, and the use of DCI to trigger acknowledgment signaling are also discussed.
US12028873B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving control and data channels in wireless communication system Method of terminal, terminal, method of base station, and base station in wireless communication system are provided. Method of a terminal in the wireless communication system includes receiving, from a base station via radio resource control (RRC) signaling, information for a rate matching resource, identifying resources that are unavailable for physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) reception based on the rate matching resource, monitoring a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) candidate except for at least one PDCCH candidate that overlaps with the identified resources, and receiving, from the base station, downlink control information (DCI) based on the monitoring of the PDCCH candidate.
US12028871B2	Monitoring occasions in non-consecutive slots Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from a base station, a broadcast message associated with initial access. The UE may monitor, for an additional message from the base station, a set of monitoring occasions that are non-consecutive across slots, based at least in part on the broadcast message. In some aspects, the set of monitoring occasions are non-consecutive across slots based at least in part on a stored rule that uses a subcarrier spacing. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12028868B2	Determination of physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) assignment in power saving mode A user equipment (UE), a base station, and a method for receiving physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs). The UE includes a receiver and a processor and is configured to receive a configuration for one or more search space sets (SSS) for reception of PDCCHs. The UE is configured to determine a PDCCH reception occasion according to the configuration of the one or more search space sets. The PDCCH reception occasion is prior to an ON duration of a discontinuous reception (DRX) cycle after a second DRX cycle. The UE is also configured to determine an indication to either receive the PDCCHs when the PDCCH reception occasion does not overlap with an extended Active Time of the second DRX cycle or to suspend reception of the PDCCHs when the PDCCH reception occasion overlaps with the extended Active Time of the second DRX cycle.
US12028862B2	Multi-QoS-level uplink grant and LCG control process Certain embodiments may relate to communication systems, and, for example, some embodiments may relate to multi-QoS level uplink grants. According to a first embodiment, a method may include transmitting, by a first network entity, one or more grants of one or more uplink resources to a second network entity. The one or more grants of one or more uplink resources includes one or more physical resource allocation parameters containing one or more logical channel groups. The method may further include receiving, by the first network entity, data from the second network entity allocated according to the one or more logical channel groups.
US12028859B2	UE configured for PUSCH repetition based on TPMI index and SRI A user equipment (UE) configured for physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) repetition in an fifth-generation (5G) new radio (NR) network decodes a downlink control information (DCI) format that includes a scheduling grant for a PUSCH transmission. For a codebook-based PUSCH transmission, the DCI format indicates at least a first and a second transmit precoder matrix indicator (TPMI) index for PUSCH repetition. The UE may apply a precoder matrix determined from the first TPMI index to encode a PUSCH for a first PUSCH transmission occasion of the PUSCH repetition and may apply a precoder matrix determined from the second TPMI index to encode the PUSCH for a second PUSCH transmission occasion. For a non-codebook-based PUSCH transmission, the DCI format indicates at least a first and a second sounding reference signal (SRS) resource indicator (SRI) for PUSCH repetition. The UE may apply the first SRI to encode the PUSCH for the first PUSCH transmission occasion and may apply the second SRI to encode the PUSCH for the second PUSCH transmission occasion.
US12028851B2	Signaling method for multiplexing different amendment devices in an enhanced wireless local area network A method is described for communicating in a network. The method includes setting a type bit in a frame to indicate whether the frame is scheduling an uplink transmission for only a first set of stations in the wireless network or the first set of stations and a second set of stations in the wireless network and transmitting the frame to (1) all stations in the first set of stations when the type bit indicates that the trigger frame is scheduling the uplink transmission for the first set of stations and (2) all stations in the second set of stations when the type bit indicates that the trigger frame is scheduling the uplink transmission for the first set of stations and the second set of stations.
US12028849B2	User equipment and system performing transmission and reception operations The present disclosure relates to a mobile terminal, a system and respective methods. The user equipment receives a SI configuration for an SI message, the configuration indicating a periodicity at which the SI message is being broadcasted, determines that receiving the SI message, to be broadcasted in one of plural first time windows that are reoccurring at the indicated periodicity, is unsuccessful, and transmits a SI request for the SI message after determining the unsuccessful receipt of the SI message. The SI request includes an indication of the at least one SI message to be broadcasted. Then, the user equipment receives the at least one SI message within at least one second time window occurs after the one of the plural first time windows and before the next of the first time window that is reoccurring at the indicated periodicity, and determines that receiving the SI message is successful.
US12028842B2	Data transmission method and communications apparatus This application provides a data transmission method and a communications apparatus. The method includes: generating, by an access point, a physical protocol data unit PPDU, where a data part of the PPDU is carried on at least one resource unit RU; sending, by the access point, the PPDU to at least one station by using a channel bandwidth, where the channel bandwidth includes M basic bandwidths, the basic bandwidth is 2.16 GHz, M is an integer greater than or equal to 1, and the M basic bandwidths are divided into the at least one RU; and parsing, by the station, the data part that is of the PPDU and that is carried on the at least one RU. In embodiments of this application, it can implement an OFDMA technology in a high-frequency scenario, and improve channel utilization and transmission efficiency.
US12028841B2	Communication apparatus and communication method for multi-band operation Provided is a multi-band communication apparatus including a transmitter and a receiver. The transmitter transmits, in a wireless network and to multi-band communication devices, frames on a frequency band that include actions related to the frequency band and to at least one other frequency band in which the multi-band communication apparatus transmits. The receiver receives, in the wireless network, from the multi-band communication devices, frames on the frequency band that include actions related to the frequency band and to the at least one other frequency band in which the multi-band communication apparatus receives.
US12028834B2	Resource configuration and selection for device-to-device links Methods, systems, and devices for resource configuration and selection for device-to-device links in mobile communication technology are described. An exemplary method for wireless communication includes receiving, by a wireless device from a network node, a configuration for multiple resource pools that are associated with a carrier set, selecting, based on the configuration, a resource from the multiple resource pools, and performing, using the resource, a device-to-device link communication. Another exemplary method for wireless communication includes receiving, by a wireless device from a network node, a configuration for multiple resource pools that are associated with a carrier set, receiving, from the network node, a dedicated resource, and performing, using the dedicated resource, a device-to-device link communication.
US12028833B2	Communications method and apparatus A communications method and apparatus are provided. The method includes: receiving first configuration information, where the first configuration information is used to configure a first bandwidth part (BWP); and sending sidelink data on a resource included in a first transmission resource pool, where a frequency range of the first transmission resource pool is included in a frequency range of the first BWP and a frequency range of a second BWP, and the second BWP is an activated uplink BWP. The communications method and apparatus in this application can implement terminal device communication on the first BWP and the second BWP, and reduce a time of switching between the first BWP and the second BWP, thereby improving efficiency of the communication on the first BWP and the second BWP.
US12028830B2	Terminal device, wireless communication device, wireless communication method, and computer program [Object] To provide a wireless communication device which enables paging to be effectively performed with respect to a terminal device that is a target of paging in a system in which another terminal device acts like a cell.[Solution] Provided is a terminal device including: an acquisition unit configured to acquire a paging message from a base station; and a control unit configured to execute paging with respect to one or more other terminal devices that perform wireless communication with the base station via the terminal device on the basis of the paging message acquired by the acquisition unit.
US12028819B2	Generation of synchronization signal for sidelink communication According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, provided is a method by which a first device performs SL communication. The method may comprise the steps of: generating S-SSB including symbols for S-PSS, symbols for S-SSS, and symbols for PSBCH; and transmitting the S-SSB to a second device, wherein a total number of symbols for S-PSS is three, and the symbols for S-PSS include a first S-PSS symbol, a second S-PSS symbol, and a third S-PSS symbol.
US12028812B2	Method and system for controlling transmission power between a base station and a terminal apparatus A base station apparatus determines whether or not, with respect to a connected terminal apparatus, a condition regarding interference to an up-link signal transmitted from the terminal apparatus to the base station apparatus is satisfied; and executes transmission power control using a first method with respect to the terminal apparatus that has been determined to satisfy the condition.
US12028809B2	Signaling characteristic evaluation relaxation for user equipment power saving The present application relates to devices and components including apparatus, systems, and methods for relaxing signaling characteristic evaluation measurements in wireless communication systems.
US12028805B2	Wake up signal for base station Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit a wake up signal (WUS) to a base station in a WUS occasion that is configured for the WUS. The UE may transmit a communication to the base station after transmitting the WUS. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12028804B2	Network-supported power management for base stations Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. An access device in a network of access devices may determine that a wireless device is in a coverage area of one of the access devices based on a coverage pattern of the access devices and a sensor coupled with the access device. The access device may estimate a trajectory of the wireless device based on information obtained by the sensor. After estimating the trajectory of the wireless device, the access device may transmit an indication to one or more of the other access devices to enter (or remain in) an active state based on the trajectory of the wireless device and the coverage pattern. The indication may also include a set of beams for the other access device to activate.
US12028802B2	AP selection for signal transmission using multiple APs In a wireless local area network (LAN) system, a sharing access point (AP) may transmit a first selection frame to a first shared AP and transmit a second selection frame to a second shared AP on the basis of information relating to channels between a reception station (STA) and the first shared AP and between the reception STA and the second shared AP. The sharing AP may receive a first selection response frame from the first shared AP. The sharing AP may determine to use the first shared AP in multi-AP transmission on the basis of the first selection response frame.
US12028801B2	Communications device, vehicle, control method, and control program A communications device provided in a vehicle having a plurality of functions involving communication includes: a communications portion configured to use a communications standard designated for each of the functions; and a controlling portion configured to determine whether the communications standard is to be restricted from being used by the communications portion or not, in accordance with a state of the vehicle.
US12028800B2	Methods, systems, and computer readable media for determining time related parameter values for a communications network One method for determining time related parameter values for a communications network occurs at network function (NF) repository function (NRF) including at least one processor. The method includes receiving, from a first NF, a service request message. The method further includes determining, using network information and/or NF information, a time related parameter value associated with the service request message. The method further includes generating and sending, to the first NF, a service response message indicating the time related parameter value.
US12028796B2	GPS-assisted collaborative and signaling-aided WLAN DFS operation Disclosed are methods and systems for a WLAN device to select an operating dynamic frequency selection (DFS) channel that minimizes the probability of radar interference by using aiding information. The aiding information may be a crowd-sourced database of geo-tagged radar zones including one or more DFS channels used within the geo-tagged radar zones that are detected by a plurality of WLAN devices. The WLAN device may query the crowd-sourced database for a geo-tagged radar zone that is nearby to determine if a radar operates on an overlapping DFS channel so it may switch to a different channel. In one aspect, the aiding information may be periodic special action frames broadcast by a WLAN beaconing device over the operating channel of the WLAN device. The special action frames may carry information on one or more channels used by a near-by radar and recommended alternative channels to use by the WLAN device.
US12028793B2	Systems/methods of establishing a capability, and then using the capability, to perform a financial transaction by a smartphone Systems/Methods are disclosed of establishing a capability at a smartphone to be able to conduct a financial transaction and then using the established capability in performing the financial transaction by paying for a product. According to some embodiments, said establishing is performed responsive to sensing a physiological parameter and determining that the physiological parameter sensed satisfies a criterion. Then, an authorization to establish said capability is requested and, responsive to receiving the authorization, the capability to be able to conduct the financial transaction is established at the smartphone. The capability that has been established may then be used in performing the financial transaction responsive to the smartphone sensing proximity to an access point maintained by a vendor and responsive to the physiological parameter being sensed and satisfying the criterion.
US12028791B2	Method and apparatus for link configuration and routing of relay system An operation method of a first terminal may comprise: configuring a Uu access link with a base station, and receiving a first message from the base station, the first message including a relay RNTI for identifying the first terminal, a node address of the base station, and a RAP entity ID for identifying a RAP entity configured for the first terminal; configuring a relay link with a second terminal when communication with the base station is disconnected; requesting link switching by transmitting to the base station a second message via the second terminal, the second message including the relay RNTI, node address, and RAP entity ID; and receiving a response to the second message from the base station via the second terminal, and switching a link with the base station from the Uu access link to the relay link.
US12028786B2	Power efficient ultra-wideband (UWB) tag for indoor positioning A system provides ultra-wideband (UWB) positioning. The system exchanges ranging signals at a first rate between a UWB beacon and a UWB tag. The system then determines movement or location information of the UWB tag; and select, based on the movement or location information, a second rate for exchanging subsequent ranging signals between the UWB beacon and the UWB tag. The system then exchanges the subsequent ranging signals at the second rate between the UWB beacon and the UWB tag.
US12028771B2	Wireless communication method, terminal device and network device Embodiments of the present application provide a wireless communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The network device configures resources located on a plurality of target cells on a preset path, so that the terminal device can realize, based on the resources on the plurality of target cells, seamless handover among the plurality of target cells on the preset path. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, first information, the first information including resource allocations on a plurality of target cells, and the plurality of target cells being located on a first path to be passed through by the terminal device.
US12028764B2	User equipment (UE) capability and enablement flag for L1/L2 inter-cell mobility Aspects of the present disclosure provide apparatus, methods, processing systems, and computer readable mediums for enabling L1 (physical layer) and L2 (medium access control (MAC) layer) inter-cell mobility. An example method generally includes transmitting, to a network entity, a report indicating a capability of the UE to support one or more inter-cell mobility procedures based on at least one of physical (PHY) layer or medium access control (MAC) layer signaling, receiving PHY layer or MAC layer signaling related to an inter-cell mobility procedure, and initiating at least one of the inter-cell mobility procedures based on the received PHY layer or MAC layer signaling.
US12028763B1	Dynamic determination of optimal primary and secondary component carriers Methods and systems for selecting a primary component carrier for use in new radio (NR) carrier aggregation are described. A load of a first Dynamic Shared Spectrum (DSS) component carrier is monitored. When the load of the first DSS component carrier reaches a threshold value, an identification of one or more NR user equipment that are assigned to use the first DSS component carrier as a primary component carrier for carrier aggregation is made. The one or more NR user equipment are handed over from the first component carrier to a second component carrier for use as a primary component carrier for the one or more NR user equipment. Methods and systems for selecting a secondary component carrier for use in NR carrier aggregation are also described. A load of a first DSS component carrier is monitored, wherein the carrier is assigned as the secondary component carrier for one or more NR user equipment. A determination is made that the load of the first DSS component carrier has reached a threshold value. A second component carrier is re-assigned as the secondary component carrier for the one or more NR user equipment.
US12028761B2	Cell reselection method and user equipment A cell reselection method is a method that allows a user equipment to perform cell reselection of reselecting a cell to be used as a serving cell. The cell reselection method includes: transitioning from an RRC connected state to an RRC inactive state when a message is received from a network, the message including a configuration of a RAN notification area in which paging for the user equipment is performed; and after the transitioning to the RRC inactive state, selecting, among cells included in the RAN notification area, a redistribution target configured with a highest priority in the cell reselection, based on the RAN notification area configured according to the message and a redistribution parameter broadcast from the network.
US12028757B2	Systems and methods for network-implemented cell selection in a wireless network based on UE measurement reports A system described herein may provide a technique for ensuring that a User Equipment (“UE”) is provided an opportunity to scan for available cells in a wireless network in a manner that allows the UE to detect cells according to a particular radio frequency (“RF”) band. When receiving a measurement report from the UE that does not include cells implementing the particular RF band, a timer may be initiated during which subsequent measurement reports may be received from the UE. If a subsequent measurement from the UE includes a cell corresponding to the particular RF band, the UE may be instructed to connect to such a cell. Otherwise, the UE may be instructed to connect to another cell that does not implement the particular RF band.
US12028754B2	Method, apparatus and computer program product for management of mobile entities The invention relates to apparatuses, methods and computer program products for management of non-stationary mobile edge communication hosts. In accordance of an embodiment, the apparatus comprises means for wirelessly communicating with a non-stationary mobile edge computing element capable of providing mobile edge application services to wireless communication equipment; means for querying whether the non-stationary mobile edge computing element is available for mobile edge computing; and means for maintaining information of the availability of the non-stationary mobile edge computing element for mobile edge computing; and maintaining information on mobile edge application instances the available non-stationary mobile edge computing element is providing.
US12028752B2	Method and apparatus for data transmission in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as long term evolution (LTE). The method for operating a primary base station in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes transmitting, to a secondary base station, an addition request message, wherein the addition request message carries information of a secondary cell group (SCG) split bearer; and receiving, from the secondary base station, a response message of the addition request message.
US12028748B2	Optimized handling of high priority data sections in a communication system Aspects relate to provision of a control message, such as an extension data section, that includes an indication of the repeat of highest priority data sections. The control message may be generated in a distributed unit (DU) and conveyed to a radio unit (RU) via a fronthaul link. The control message may include either a flag or bits in a field of an extension data section allowing a RU to determine repeat of the highest priority data section based on reception of the flag or processing of the bit value in the field. Additionally, the indication of repetition of the highest priority section may be based on a section identifier transmitted by a DU, wherein an RU receiving the section identifier may determine repeat of the highest priority data section by tracking the received section identifier.
US12028746B2	Reducing network resource congestion from distributed sourced items In certain embodiments, a current amount of an item available from a network resource may be monitored. Based on the monitoring indicating that the current amount fails to satisfy a first threshold, one or more sources may be identified. The one or more sources may be within a threshold proximity of the network resource, and distances between the one or more sources and the network resource may be determined. One or more requests for the amounts of the item to be transferred from the one or more sources to the network resource within time frames may be generated. For example, the time frames may be based on the distances. The one or more requests may be transmitted to the one or more sources.
US12028745B2	Method and system for network slice usage service A method, a device, and a non-transitory storage medium are described in which a network slice usage service is provided. The network slice usage service may allow a network device to obtain a network slice usage value of a network slice. The network device may calculate a network slice load value based on the network slice usage value. The network device may also provide the network slice load value to other network devices of a core network.
US12028744B2	User equipment messaging techniques and applications A method of controlling a radio-frequency (RF) transaction region comprises: determining a value of a characteristic associated with an ability of roadside equipment, associated with an RF transaction, to obtain information from a user equipment (UE) in the RF transaction region; determining, based on the value of the characteristic, a value of a parameter affecting the ability of the roadside equipment to obtain the information from the UE in the RF transaction region; and conveying the value of the parameter to the UE to affect transmission of messages from the UE to the roadside equipment.
US12028737B2	Method and apparatus for reducing latency and collisions in a virtual reality/alternate reality system A method and apparatus for reducing latency in a virtual reality system including a plurality of devices comprises capturing and transmitting, by a first device, a first batch of data to a second device. The second device renders and encodes a second data based upon the first batch of data, and transmits the first encoded image to the first device. Based upon a determination of a likelihood of collision between a transmission of a second batch of data from the first device and the transmission of the second data, the first device adjusts a frequency of capturing and transmitting the second batch of data.
US12028735B2	Beam indication reuse Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for beam indication set reuse. A method for a wireless communication that may be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving signaling configuring the UE with a beam indication set. The method includes receiving an indication to apply the configured beam indication set to multiple bandwidth parts (BWPs) and/or multiple component carriers (CCs). The method includes applying the beam indication set to a BWP or CC based on the indication. The beam indication set may be for uplink or downlink communications. The beam indication set may be a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state set or spatial relation set. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US12028733B2	Long-term-sensing-based inter-operator coexistence techniques for unlicensed high frequency bands This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, related to long-term-sensing-based inter-operator coexistence techniques for unlicensed high bands providing a measurement framework and candidate measurements, along with channel selection, per beam channel deselection, and dynamic frequency selection. In one aspect, a network entity may determine that a non-coordinating node satisfies a communication presence threshold based on the at least one long term sensing measurement, and transmitting, to a user equipment (UE), an indication of a remedial action, or adjusting the communication channel based on the determination. In another aspect, a UE may obtain at least one long term sensing measurement, and transmit a long term sensing report including the at least one long term sensing measurement.
US12028728B2	Measurement method and apparatus Example measurement methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes obtaining a timer by a terminal device. The terminal device obtains two or more measurement configurations, where each of two or more measurement configurations includes a validity area and a measurement frequency corresponding to the validity area, and the validity area includes one or more cells. The terminal device measures, based on the measurement configuration, a measurement frequency corresponding to a validity area that matches a cell on which the terminal device camps, where the terminal device is in an idle state or in an inactive state, and the timer is not stopped and has not expired.
US12028727B2	Managing feedback information to enable reference signal received power prediction Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A communication device may receive control signaling indicating a configuration for reporting a set of beam angle measurement values between at least two beams relative to a respective beam of a set of beams and a phase difference measurement value between post-beamformed channel phases using the at least two beams of the set of beams. In some examples, the communication device may determine a set of reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement values associated with the at least two beams of the set of beams. The communication device may transmit a report including the set of beam angle measurement values and the phase difference measurement value based on receiving the control signaling indicating the configuration. For example, the communication device may report the RSRP measurement values associated with the at least two beams of the set of beams.
US12028725B2	Message relay apparatus and method A message relay apparatus and a message relay method that achieve high message reachability taking communication network situation into consideration are provided. A message relay apparatus 100 interposed between an application 20 and a device 30 includes a device communication state determination functional unit 131 that determines communication availability with the device 30, a network state estimation unit 133 that estimates a network state based on the communication availability, and a message processing unit 110 that determines forwarding availability of an application message based on the network state and buffers the application message when forwarding is not available.
US12028717B2	Electronic device for providing digital ID information and method thereof An electronic device and method are disclosed. The electronic device includes a secure element, a sensor module, a wireless communication module, a memory and processor. The processor implements the method, including receiving a signal from an external electronic device via the wireless communication module, determining identity information utilized for a service provided by an external electronic device, based on the received signal, authenticating a user using user authentication information received via the sensor module, based on successful authentication of the user, retrieving the identity information from a digital identification (ID) stored in the secure element, and transmitting the retrieved identify information to an authentication server, receiving an authentication confirmation for the identity information from the authentication server, and transmitting the authentication information to the external electronic device.
US12028714B1	Wireless signal validation using an independent wireless data link For validation of wireless signals, a wireless receiver receives a validation signal that includes information from a target signal. By using digital signature, message authentication code (MAC), and/or hashing, the validation signal is verified to be from a trusted source. By comparing the information from the verified validation signal with the target signal, the target signal is confirmed to be genuine or not a spoofing signal. In one approach, the validation signal is provided from a different transmission source than the target signal. In another approach, modulation estimation rather than known modulation is used as the information for the validation signal for comparison with the target signal despite not knowing the spread pattern of the coding. In yet another approach, a one-way function is used to generate a pseudorandom code to spread a first component of the a first signal below the noise floor. The input to the one-way function is a second component sent at a time later than the time.
US12028713B2	End-to-end encryption with distributed key management in a tracking device environment A tracking device can provide a hashed identifier to a mobile device, for instance within an advertisement packet. The mobile device can query each of a plurality of entities with the hashed identifier to identify an entity associated with the hash key used to generate the hashed identifier. In some embodiments, the mobile device can query a centralized key server, which in turn can query the plurality of entities to identify the entity associated with the hash key. The mobile device can then receive a public key from the identified entity, can determine a location of the mobile device, and can encrypt the location with the public key. The mobile device can then provide the hashed identifier and the encrypted location to the identified entity, which can provide the encrypted location to an owner of the tracking device for decryption using a private key corresponding to the public key.
US12028711B2	Controlling access to protected functionality of a host device using a wireless device A wearable device can establish a verified session with a host device (e.g., by establishing that the wearable device is present in the vicinity of the host device and is currently being worn). The existence of such a verified session can be used to control user access to sensitive information that may be stored in or otherwise accessible to a host device. For example, the host device and/or application programs executing thereon can be configured to restrict a user's ability to invoke program functionality that accesses sensitive information based on whether a verified session with a wearable device is currently in progress.
US12028707B2	Apparatus, system, method, and computer-readable medium for performing a message service and identity service in a 5G network A first apparatus includes a processor, a memory, and communication circuitry. The first apparatus is connected to a communications network via its communication circuitry. The first apparatus further includes computer-executable instructions stored in the memory of the first apparatus which, when executed by the processor of the first apparatus, cause the first apparatus to: receive voice content or other biometric content of a user; prepare a message including the voice or other biometric content; send the message to the communications network or a second apparatus through a control plane of the communications network in order to authenticate and authorize the first apparatus and the user; receive a response message from the communications network or the second apparatus, wherein the response message includes authentication and authorization results for the first apparatus and identification information that identifies the user.
US12028706B2	Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to not authorize use of a communication service when stored first biometric information on a contractee for the communication service fails to match second biometric information acquired from a user who is to use the communication service after signing a contract for the communication service.
US12028704B2	Method for the anonymized transmission of sensor data of a vehicle to a vehicle-external receiving unit, anonymizing system, motor vehicle, and vehicle-external receiving unit The present disclosure invention relates to a method for the anonymized transmission of sensor data of a vehicle to a vehicle-external receiving unit, to an anonymizing system, and to a receiving unit, the method including the following steps: determining the sensor data at a measurement location at a measurement time, determining a traffic density in an environment of the measurement location, determining an anonymized time and/or an anonymized location, calculating an anonymization probability of the vehicle, which results from the traffic density and the anonymized time and/or location, determining whether the anonymization probability meets a predetermined anonymization condition, and if the anonymization condition is met, transmitting the sensor data to the external receiving unit, the anonymized time being indicated as a measurement time indication and/or the anonymized location being indicated as a measurement location indication.
US12028703B2	Dynamic positional audio System and methods for providing dynamic positional audio are disclosed. Methods can comprise determining availability of one or more devices to output audio and determining a location of the one or more available devices. Audio information can be received and at least a portion of the audio information can be configured to generate assigned audio information based on the determined location of the available devices. The assigned audio information can be transmitted to the available devices.
US12028702B2	Binaural sound in visual entertainment media A method provides binaural sound to a listener while the listener watches a movie so sounds from the movie localize to a location of a character in the movie. Sound is convolved with head related transfer functions (HRTFs) of the listener, and the convolved sound is provided to the listener who wears a wearable electronic device.
US12028686B2	RF antenna and hearing device with RF antenna The present disclosure relates to a hearing aid with an RF antenna arranged within the hearing aid's housing, and a loudspeaker positioned in the ear canal of the user. The RF antenna is configured to receive and/or transmit electromagnetic RF signals within a first frequency range enclosing a first frequency of resonance of the RF antenna corresponding to a first wavelength. The hearing aid further comprises one or more electric leads electrically connected to lead one or more electric signals within a second frequency range not overlapping the first frequency range between the loudspeaker in the ear canal of the user and an electronic circuit in the housing, with the one or more electrical leads being decoupled, at a connector end of the one or more electrical leads, by means of one or more decoupling components.
US12028685B2	Hearing aid system for estimating acoustic transfer functions A hearing aid system comprises a hearing aid, and a portable auxiliary device’ adapted to establish a communication link between them. The hearing aid comprises a microphone providing an electric input signal, a signal processor, and an output unit. The auxiliary device comprises a microphone providing an auxiliary electric input signal, and a user control interface allowing a user to initiate a specific calibration mode of operation of the hearing aid system. The signal processor of the hearing aid is configured to receive corresponding time segments of said electric input signal and said auxiliary electric input signal to provide an estimate of an acoustic transfer function from said microphone of said auxiliary device to said microphone of said hearing aid. A method of operating a hearing aid system is further disclosed. The invention may e.g. be used in various applications related to own voice detection and estimation.
US12028679B2	Electrostatic clutch Provided is an electrostatic clutch. The electrostatic clutch includes: multiple arrays of HIN electrodes, a respective pass-through channel being formed between any two arrays of the multiple arrays of HIN electrodes; and multiple arrays of biased electrodes, each array of the multiple arrays of biased electrodes moving back and forth in the respective pass-through channel such that electrostatic force is generated between the multiple arrays of biased electrodes and the multiple arrays of HIN electrodes. Such configuration allows microphone performance over a wide range of atmospheric pressures which is likely expected by applications. This is achieved electrostatically in a purely passive way having advantages over other designs which require complex electronics and active control. Physically decoupling the membrane and sense structure simplifies design of the sense structure as only small AC perturbations of the rotor is considered with no DC changes in rotor position.
US12028678B2	Proximity microphone Embodiments include a microphone array comprising a first plurality of directional microphone elements arranged in a first cluster formed by directing a front face of said microphone elements towards a center of the first cluster, and a second plurality of directional microphone elements arranged in a second cluster formed by directing a front face of said elements away from a center of the second cluster, wherein the first cluster is disposed vertically above the second cluster. Also provided is a microphone comprising a first microphone array comprising a plurality of directional microphone elements arranged in close proximity to each other and configured to capture near-field sounds within a first range of frequencies, and a second microphone array disposed concentrically around the first microphone array, the second array comprising a plurality of omnidirectional microphone elements configured to capture near-field sounds within a second range of frequencies higher than the first range.
US12028676B2	Vibration apparatus A display apparatus includes: a display module including a display panel configured to display an image, a vibration plate on a rear surface of the display module, a connection member between the rear surface of the display module and the vibration plate, at least one vibration module on the vibration plate, and an enclosure between the display module and the vibration plate, the enclosure being spaced apart from the vibration module, the enclosure surrounding the vibration module.
US12028673B2	Driving circuit and wearable sound device thereof A driving circuit, configured to drive a venting device, includes a first node, a second node, and an amplifying circuit. The venting device, configured to be controlled to open a vent or seal the vent, includes a film structure, which includes a first flap and a second flap, and an actuator, which includes a first actuating portion disposed on the first flap and a second actuating portion disposed on the second flap. When the venting device is controlled to open the vent, the driving circuit generates a first voltage at the first node and generates a second voltage at the second node. When the venting device is controlled to seal the vent, the driving circuit generates a third voltage at both the first node and the second node. The first voltage is larger than the third voltage, and the third voltage is larger than the second voltage.
US12028671B2	Passive analog bypass for USB peripheral audio devices A Universal Serial Bus (USB) audio device kit includes a USB peripheral audio device and a passive USB-to-analog audio adapter. The USB peripheral audio device includes a USB interface configured to communicatively interface the USB audio peripheral device with a USB host device. The passive USB-to-analog audio adapter is configured to electrically interface the USB peripheral audio device with analog audio equipment via the USB interface.
US12028666B2	Sound system A bone conduction speaker is built into a seat of a vehicle and faces the skull of an occupant seated in the seat. An acoustic control ECU individually selects sound to be output from the bone conduction speaker for each of the occupants in the vehicle, according to attribute information of the occupant recorded in a portable terminal device carried by the occupant, and causes the selected sound to be individually output from the bone conduction speaker to each of the occupants.
US12028665B2	Terminal device A terminal device includes: a housing, where the housing is provided with an interface accommodation hole, a sound guide hole, and a sound guide channel, and the sound guide hole is located in a hole wall of the interface accommodation hole; an interface, where the interface is disposed in the housing, and at least a part of the interface is located in the interface accommodation hole; and an acoustic device, where the acoustic device is disposed in the housing, and the sound guide hole is communicated to the acoustic device through the sound guide channel.
US12028663B2	Data center interconnect Comprises aggregating data received by a first number of server ports of an edge switch. The server ports operate at a first data speed. The aggregated data is distributed into a plurality of virtual lanes with each virtual lane carrying a portion of the aggregated data at a second data speed less than the first data speed.
US12028662B2	Hot-swappable no cable touch switch enclosure A system for hot swapping a network switch without disconnecting the network switch connectors is provided. The system disaggregates the switch faceplate network cable connectors from the internal components of the network switch so that the internal switch components may be removed from the switch without disconnecting the switch network cables.
US12028659B2	Information handling system camera visual image color tuning based on sensed ambient light color An information handling system camera detects ambient light and applies ambient light brightness to determine whether to color correct a captured image with ambient color temperature or a color temperature associated with a display. For example, a first RGB ambient light sensor detects ambient light from the camera field of view. When the ambient light is below a predetermined brightness, the camera image sensor processor (ISP) applies color temperature of a second RGB ambient light sensor directed at a display to perform color correction. For instance, with camera that mounts on a display top side, the second RGB ambient light sensor is disposed at the bottom of the camera and directed at the display.
US12028658B2	Content creative intention preservation under various ambient color temperatures One embodiment provides a method comprising receiving an input content, and receiving ambient contextual data indicative of one or more ambient lighting conditions of an environment including a display device. The input content has corresponding metadata that at least partially represents a creative intent indicative of how the input content is intended to be viewed. The method further comprises adaptively correcting the input content based on the ambient contextual data to preserve the creative intent, and providing the corrected input content to the display device for presentation. The adaptively correcting comprises applying automatic white balancing to the input content to correct color tone of the input content.
US12028653B2	Inspection system for construction machine A remote control system 1 having a function as an inspection system includes a plurality of cameras 25, 60 which are located in a location environment of a construction machine 10, a captured image processing unit 50a configured to cause a display unit 45 to display captured images, and a camera selection unit 50b configured to select an inspection camera from the plurality of cameras 25, 60 at a time of inspection of the construction machine 10. The captured image processing unit 50a is configured to receive an image captured by the selected inspection camera to include an image of a portion to be inspected and cause the display unit 45 to display the captured image.
US12028652B2	Vehicle image control apparatus and method thereof A vehicle image control apparatus for an image of a vehicle camera equipped with no image signal processor (ISP) and a method thereof, includes a first image controller equipped with a first ISP that performs image processing, supplies power to a camera device provided in a vehicle and equipped with no ISP, and the camera device obtains a surrounding image of the vehicle and transmits the surrounding image to the first image controller. The first image controller selectively shares the surrounding image with a second image controller equipped with a second ISP that performs image processing. Accordingly, it is possible to implement an efficient vehicle image-related system such that a plurality of controllers share one or more cameras equipped with no ISP.
US12028651B1	Integrating two-dimensional video conference platforms into a three-dimensional virtual environment Disclosed herein are aspects for integrating a two-dimensional video conference into a three-dimensional virtual environment. An aspect begins by rendering the virtual environment, including a first avatar. The virtual environment is rendered on a first device, belonging to a first user, and from a perspective of a first virtual camera controlled by the first user. The first avatar represents the first user at a location of the first virtual camera. The aspect then provides operations for connecting the user in the 3D virtual environment with a video conferencing platform (VCP) server to connect to a video conference hosted by the VCP server. The aspect continues by transmitting and receiving video and audio data to and from the VCP server. The aspect concludes by rendering the received audio and video data into the 3D virtual environment.
US12028648B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing method therefor, and computer-readable storage medium An information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus executing an information processing method comprising: receiving a request of image data from an external terminal; specifying, based on the request, a vehicle that provides image capturing data to generate the image data; specifying a parameter concerning a communication path to be used by the specified vehicle to transmit the image capturing data to the information processing apparatus; and transmitting the specified parameter to the specified vehicle.
US12028645B2	Subject-based smart segmentation of video feed on a transmitting device A communication device provides subject-based segmentation and selective presentation of a video feed. A processor identifies a primary subject and a secondary subject within a captured video stream. The processor delineates the video stream into a primary segment and at least one secondary segment respectively encompassing the primary and secondary subjects. The processor identifies for each connected second device, a request type from among: (i) a first request type to only receive the primary segment; (ii) a second request type to receive the primary segment and secondary segment(s); and (iii) a third request type to receive secondary segments, but not the primary segment. The processor transmits, to each second device, specific segments of the video feed based on the request type associated with each respective second device. An accessibility setting enables a second device to selectively receive video segments of a sign language interpreter along with a main presenter.
US12028639B2	Photosensitive device including an integrator circuit per group of at least two photosensitive elements A photosensitive device includes a peripheral circuit semiconductor region, a photosensitive circuit semiconductor region including at least one group of at least two photosensitive elements configured to generate a photoelectric signal on a node called critical node. The device further includes an integrator circuit per group of photosensitive elements, each including: a differential circuit for each photosensitive element of the group, in the photosensitive circuit semiconductor region, an amplification circuit, in the peripheral circuit semiconductor region, and a feedback circuit for each photosensitive element of the group, comprising a capacitive element located in the photosensitive circuit semiconductor region coupled between the output node of the amplification circuit and the respective critical node.
US12028637B2	Image sensing system for converting an image signal to have a specific pattern An image sensing system includes a camera module and an application processor. The camera module includes: an image sensor including a pixel array, the pixel array including color filters having a first pattern, the image sensor being configured to sense light incident on the pixel array to generate a first pattern image signal having the first pattern; a first converter configured to convert the first pattern image signal into a second pattern image signal having a second pattern different from the first pattern; and a second converter configured to convert the second pattern image signal into a third pattern image signal having a third pattern different from the first pattern and the second pattern. The application processor is configured to perform image processing on the third pattern image signal.
US12028635B2	Solid-state imaging device, and imaging apparatus The speed of AD conversion is to be improved in a solid-state imaging device that performs time delay integration.A solid-state imaging device includes: a pair of photoelectric conversion elements; a pair of floating diffusion layers; and a transfer unit that switches the transfer destination of each of the pair of photoelectric conversion elements to one of the pair of floating diffusion layers, and transfers electric charges to the transfer destination. In the solid-state imaging device including the pair of photoelectric conversion elements, the pair of floating diffusion layers, and the transfer unit, the transfer unit switches the transfer destination of each of the pair of photoelectric conversion elements to one of the pair of floating diffusion layers, and transfers electric charges to the transfer destination.
US12028634B2	Image sensor An image sensor includes a first layer including a pixel array region having a plurality of pixels arranged in a plurality of row lines and a plurality of column lines; and a second layer including a row driver selecting at least a portion of the plurality of row lines, generating pixel control signals driving selected row lines, and outputting the pixel control signals to control signal lines, wherein the selected row lines share the control signal lines, at a branch point of the first layer, the selected row lines receive the pixel control signals from the control signal lines in common, and the pixel control signals simultaneously drive the selected row lines.
US12028631B2	Photoelectric conversion apparatus A photoelectric conversion apparatus in which a plurality of pixels are arranged is provided. Each of the plurality of pixels includes an avalanche photodiode arranged between a first potential supply line and a second potential supply line, a first transistor arranged so as to form a current path between the first potential supply line and the avalanche photodiode, and a holding circuit configured to, when avalanche breakdown of the avalanche photodiode has occurred, hold a second potential corresponding a first potential of an electrode of the avalanche photodiode connected to the first transistor. The second potential is supplied to a gate of the first transistor from the holding circuit.
US12028630B2	Signal processing apparatus, photoelectric conversion apparatus, image capturing system, and control method of signal processing apparatus In the control method of the signal processing apparatus of the present embodiment, the portion at which a predetermined number of pixel values exceeding a first threshold value is continuous is specified as floating data of continuous image data indicated by pixel values output from a plurality of continuous light-shielded pixels. Reference data indicating a reference of a specific color is output, which is obtained by using a rest of image data, which is the continuous image data from which the floating data is removed, and alternative image data having pixel values not exceeding the first threshold value, which is used in place of the floating data.
US12028627B2	Image sensor and method of operating the same with resetting of a dummy reset array and reading of a dummy read array An image sensor includes an active pixel array, at least one dummy reset array, a dummy read array, and an image processor. The image processor sequentially resets respective rows of pixels included in the at least one dummy reset array in a period in which pixels of the active pixel array do not perform a reset operation, and sequentially reads respective rows of pixels included in the dummy read array in a period in which the pixels of the active pixel array do not perform a read operation.
US12028625B2	Imaging device manufacturing apparatus, method for manufacturing imaging device, and imaging device There is provided an imaging device manufacturing apparatus, a method for manufacturing an imaging device, and an imaging device that are designed to be capable of increasing the quality of an image to be reconstructed by a lensless camera. The lensless camera includes a mask that has a plurality of lenses that transmit and condense incident light in part of a light shielding material, and modulates and transmits the incident light; an imaging element that images the incident light modulated by the mask as a pixel signal; and a signal processing unit that reconstructs the pixel signal as a final image by signal processing, the optical axis directions of the lenses to be disposed in the mask are adjusted so that only the incident light having passed through the mask is condensed and enters the imaging element. The present disclosure can be applied to lensless cameras.
US12028624B2	Systems and methods for increasing dynamic range of time-delay integration images A method for increasing dynamic range of a time-delay integration (TDI) image includes assigning a value N to a line-number setting and generating each line of the TDI image by (i) selecting N lines from N corresponding images of an image sequence, and (ii) integrating the N lines. The brightness of the TDI image is evaluated, after which the line-number setting is updated to a new value. In another method, the value of a TDI pixel is initialized to the value of a corresponding pixel in a first image of the image sequence. While the TDI pixel value is less than a ceiling, a contribution is added to the TDI pixel value, the contribution being based on the value of an additional corresponding pixel in an additional image of the image sequence. After adding, the resulting TDI pixel value may be scaled based on the number of contributions.
US12028621B2	Object detection system for a motor vehicle A vision system for a motor vehicle includes an optical image capture device configured to capture images of objects in its field of vision. A lighting device includes a plurality of lighting elements forming a lighting matrix configured to illuminate the field of vision of the optical device. A control device associated with the optical device and the lighting device is configured to determine the nature of each image of an object captured by the optical device. The control device is configured to locate the object, select the lighting elements of the lighting matrix capable of illuminating the object relative to the location of the object, and individually control at least one lighting characteristic of each selected lighting element so as to be able to determine the nature of the image of the object captured by the optical device.
US12028620B2	Image capture device that reduces gaps between captures After a command to stop recording a video is received, an image capture device may buffer footage in a buffer memory. The buffer memory may be used as a post-capture cache. The footage buffered in the buffer memory may be appended to the end of previously captured footage, appended to the beginning of subsequently captured footage, and/or used to bridge two separately captured footage.
US12028617B2	Display apparatus and processing method for display apparatus with camera Disclosed are a display apparatus and a processing method for the display apparatus with a camera. The display apparatus includes a camera, a sound collector and controller. The controller is configured for: starting shooting at least one image through the camera; in response to the at least one image not including a portrait of a user, starting obtaining a first test audio signal input from the user through the sound collector; in response to the first test audio signal, determining a target azimuth corresponding to the user; generating a rotation instruction for the camera according to the target azimuth of the user; sending the rotation instruction to the camera to adjust a shooting direction of the camera to the target azimuth.
US12028616B2	Display method and video recording method Provided are a display method and a video recording method for a user to perceive a position of an extraction range moving within an angle of view, wherein the display method includes an acquisition step of acquiring a reference video that is a motion picture, an extraction step of extracting an extraction video set to be smaller than an angle of view of the reference video within the angle of view from the reference video, a movement step of moving an extraction range of the extraction video over time, a first display step of displaying the extraction video on a display device, and a second display step of displaying a support video based on a positional relationship between the angle of view and the extraction range on the display device, in which the second display step is executed during execution of the first display step.
US12028608B2	Exchangeable lens and camera body An exchangeable lens includes: a mount unit at which a camera body is detachably engaged; a plurality of drive target members, conditions of which change as a drive force is applied thereto; an initialization unit that executes initialization processing for each of the plurality of drive target members; an initialization status transmission unit that transmits initialization statuses, each indicating a status of the initialization processing executed for one of the drive target members, to the camera body via a first transmission path over predetermined first cycles; and a drive condition transmission unit that transmits a drive condition of at least one drive target member among the plurality of drive target members to the camera body via a second transmission path different from the first transmission path over predetermined second cycles different from the predetermined first cycles.
US12028605B2	Method for image collection, computer storage medium, and vehicle A method for image collection, a computer storage medium, and a vehicle are provided. The method includes the following. An initial photographing direction of a mobile device associated with a vehicle is obtained, in response to determining that a predetermined condition is satisfied. An in-vehicle photography apparatus of the vehicle is adjusted to an initial orientation, to match a photographing direction at the initial orientation of the in-vehicle photography apparatus with the initial photographing direction of the mobile device. A drive signal configured to adjust the photographing direction of the in-vehicle photography apparatus is generated, based on a detecting signal of a sensor of the mobile device, such that the photographing direction of the in-vehicle photography apparatus synchronously varies with a pose of the mobile device. A surrounding image collected via the in-vehicle photography apparatus is transmitted to the mobile device, to display the surrounding image at the mobile device.
US12028596B2	Camera module and electronic device A camera module, including a module housing, a first bracket, and a camera, where the module housing has an inner housing chamber, the first bracket is at least partly disposed in the inner housing chamber, the camera is at least partly disposed in the inner housing chamber, the camera is hinged to the first bracket by a first hinge shaft, the camera is able to rotate around the first hinge shaft, the first bracket is hinged to the module housing by a second hinge shaft, the first bracket rotates around the second hinge shaft, and an axis of the first hinge shaft and an axis of the second hinge shaft intersect or lie on different planes. The present invention discloses an electronic device.
US12028593B2	Monitoring camera A monitoring camera includes a lens portion, a bottomed cylindrical-shaped housing in which an opening portion so as to dispose the lens portion is sealed by a dome cover, a heating element provided in the housing, a high temperature portion in which the heating element is disposed in the housing, a low temperature portion that is separated from the heating element and that has a temperature lower than that of the high temperature portion in the housing, and a humidity adjustment member disposed in the low temperature portion.
US12028588B2	Image sensor and thermal camera device, system and method The present disclosure is directed to devices and methods for synchronizing capturing of spectral images with the capturing of thermal images. A thermal imaging device of an aerial vehicle captures a sequence of thermal image of thermal images. Capturing of spectral images by a spectral imaging device of the aerial vehicle is synchronized with the capturing of the thermal images. Irradiance data indicative of a background temperature is sensed. A digital surface model of an area of interest is generated based on the sequence of spectral images. An emissivity of a target is estimated and a temperature of a pixel of the digital surface model of the target is estimated based on the sequence of thermal images, the irradiance data indicative of the background temperature and the estimated emissivity of the target.
US12028585B2	Manifest customization in adaptive bitrate streaming A method receives a manifest for video requested by a client device. The manifest including links for different versions of the video for the client device to use to request segments of the different versions of the video based on conditions detected by the client device. A placeholder in the manifest is selected based on a configuration specifying the placeholder as a trigger to insert alternate content into the manifest. The method then selects a metadata payload based on the configuration specifying the placeholder and a source of the metadata payload and dynamically inserts the metadata payload into the manifest at a position based on the placeholder. The metadata payload is added with an identifier from the configuration that identifies the metadata payload to the client device. The manifest is outputted with the metadata payload for use by the client device while playing the video.
US12028584B1	Monitoring adaptive streaming content with selectable alert sensitivity modes and playlist alerting functionality A system and method for monitoring adaptive streaming content with selectable alert sensitivity modes and playlist alerting functionality are provided. The method includes downloading manifest files and segments of adaptive streaming content using a computer server. Alerts are generated based on different sensitivity modes for rebuffering events and stream outages. The system provides for stream outage alerting functionality and allows users to choose between the most sensitive mode, normal sensitivity mode, and the least sensitive mode to receive appropriate alerts. The invention is applicable to various adaptive streaming protocols, such as HTTP Live Streaming (HLS), Dynamic Adaptive Streaming over HTTP (DASH), and Common Media Application Format (CMAF).
US12028582B2	Interactive programming guide Techniques of providing an interactive programming guide with a personalized lineup are disclosed. In some embodiments, a profile is accessed, and a personalized lineup is determined based on the profile. The personalized lineup may include a corresponding media content identification assigned to each one of a plurality of sequential time slots, where each media content identification identifies media content for the corresponding time slot. A first interactive programming guide may be caused to be displayed on a first media content device associated with the profile, where the first interactive programming guide includes the personalized lineup.
US12028578B2	Methods and apparatus to determine demographic classifications for census level impression counts and unique audience sizes Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture to determine demographic classifications for census level impression counts and unique audience sizes are disclosed. In an example, the apparatus includes media tag format circuitry to generate a reformatted media tag corresponding to an impression request. The example apparatus also includes model execution circuitry to execute a machine learning model based on the reformatted media tag to generate outputs, the outputs including at least a value representative of a probability of an occurrence of a demographic classification. The example apparatus further includes audience counting circuitry to assign an identification of ones of audience members in a group to the demographic classification based at least on the outputs.
US12028575B2	Rules-based delivery and presentation of non-programming media items at client device A media presentation and distribution system (MPDS) that handles rules-based presentation of non-programming media items, receives a user request (which includes user parameters) for delivery of programming media content at a first client device and transmits a media stream that includes the programming media content with a plurality of identifiers present with the programming media content. The MPDS further receives a request that includes one or more user preferences from the first client device, based on a detection of the plurality of identifiers. The MPDS further determines a set of non-programming media items for delivery to the first client device. The MPDS further controls presentation of a part of the media stream on a second client device that is paired with the first client device based on a movement of the second client device in a communication range of the second client device with the first client device.
US12028572B2	Cross-device interaction A method, system and computer program product for cross-device interaction, the method comprising: intercepting a triggering event by a mobile client application program; employing a low energy communication monitoring service adapted for searching at least one universally unique identifier advertised by a low energy communication advertisement service configured to enable retrieval of a content identifier associated with content received from a server and being displayed by a television client application program, retrieving using the at least one universally unique identifier the content identifier, and providing the content identifier to the mobile client application program; and, responsive to receiving notice on intercepting a user interaction event by a user interaction event listener, presenting by the mobile client application program an information item retrieved using the content identifier provided.
US12028571B2	Content-modification system with issue detection and responsive action feature In one aspect, a method is disclosed for use with a content-presentation device that is scheduled to perform a first content-modification operation that comprises modifying a modifiable content-segment received by the content-presentation device. The method includes determining that the content-presentation device is unable to perform the first content-modification operation as scheduled. The method also includes responsive to the determining, performing an action that facilitates the content-presentation device performing a second content-modification operation instead of performing the first content-modification operation, where performing the second content-modification operation involves modifying the modifiable content-segment in a different way as compared to the first content-modification operation.
US12028570B2	Control device, broadcast receiver, method for controlling broadcast receiver, and method for providing service A method for controlling a control device includes receiving, from a broadcast receiver, first information regarding a content which is currently provided through the broadcast receiver, and displaying a UI corresponding to the content which is currently provided through the broadcast receiver among a plurality of UIs based on the received first information. The plurality of UIs includes a plurality of UI items for controlling the broadcast receiver, respectively. A control command is transmitted to the broadcast receiver in response to a user input selecting an UI item among the plurality of UI items for controlling the broadcast receiver.
US12028566B2	System, method and computer-readable medium for categorizing live streaming data The present disclosure relates to a system, a method and a computer-readable medium for tagging live streaming data. The method includes generating a first intermediate tag for the live streaming program, generating a second intermediate tag for the live streaming program, and determining a final tag for the live streaming program according to the first intermediate tag and the second intermediate tag. The present disclosure can categorize contents in a more granular and precise way.
US12028561B2	Advanced creation of slightly-different-duration versions of a supplemental content segment, and selection and use of an appropriate-duration version, to facilitate dynamic content modification A method and system for aligning the duration of supplemental content with the duration of modifiable content in content modification operations. An example method includes determining a duration of a modifiable content segment in a media sequence being received by a content-presentation device. The example method then includes identifying a supplemental content segment to replace the modifiable content segment and selecting from a predefined set of multiple different-duration versions of the identified supplemental content segment, a particular instance of the identified supplemental content segment based on the particular instance of the identified supplemental content segment having a duration closest to the determined duration of the modifiable content segment. The method further includes causing the selected particular instance of the identified supplemental content segment to be transmitted to the content-presentation device to facilitate dynamic replacement of the supplemental content segment with the particular instance of the identified supplemental content segment.
US12028560B2	Content correction device, content delivery server, content correction method, and recording medium A content correction device, a content delivery server, a content correction method, and a recording medium for correcting a portion of content that requires complaint resolution without impairing quality or enjoyability. The content correction device includes: an acquisition unit acquiring complaint information; a specification unit acquiring the data of content that requires complaint resolution from a storage unit where the data of a plurality of delivered content is stored and specifying a relevant correction period in the time line of the content that requires complaint resolution, in which period the complaint to be resolved is included; and a corrected content generation unit acquiring from the storage unit the data of first content correcting the relevant correction period, generating, using at least a portion of the first content, second content that does not contain the complaint to be resolved, and storing the data of the second content in the storage unit.
US12028555B2	Signal reshaping for high dynamic range signals In a method to improve backwards compatibility when decoding high-dynamic range images coded in a wide color gamut (WCG) space which may not be compatible with legacy color spaces, hue and/or saturation values of images in an image database are computed for both a legacy color space (say, YCbCr-gamma) and a preferred WCG color space (say, IPT-PQ). Based on a cost function, a reshaped color space is computed so that the distance between the hue values in the legacy color space and rotated hue values in the preferred color space is minimized. HDR images are coded in the reshaped color space. Legacy devices can still decode standard dynamic range images assuming they are coded in the legacy color space, while updated devices can use color reshaping information to decode HDR images in the preferred color space at full dynamic range.
US12028550B2	Line graph transforms (LGT) using 8-bit and 10-bit cores A method, computer program, and computer system is provided for coding video data. Video data is received. One or more transform cores corresponding to a transform associated with the video data are identified. The one or more transform cores include one or more of a line graph transform (LGT) and a discrete sine transform (DST) The video data is decoded based on the identified transform core. The transform cores correspond to one or more from among an 8-bit transform core and a 10-bit transform core. The transform corresponds to one or more from among a 2-point transform, a 4-point transform, an 8-point transform, and a 16-point transform.
US12028547B2	Methods and apparatus of video coding for triangle prediction Methods are provided for video coding. The method includes: partitioning video pictures into a plurality of coding units (CUs), at least one of which is further partitioned into two prediction units (PUs) including at least one geometric shaped PU; obtaining a first merge list including a plurality of candidates, each including one or more motion vectors; and obtaining a uni-prediction merge list for the geometric shaped PU by selecting the one or more motion vectors directly from the first merge list.
US12028542B2	High dynamic range adaptation operations at a video decoder A method of decoding a bitstream comprising decoding the bitstream into color values and metadata items indicating information about adaptive post-processing operations performed by a decoder, performing high dynamic range (HDR) adaptation operations on the color values based on the metadata items, and performing fixed post-processing operations to reconstruct an HDR video from the color values, wherein the HDR adaptation operations convert color values into a format expected by the fixed post-processing operations.
US12028538B2	Image information decoding method, image decoding method, and device using same The present invention relates to an image information decoding method. The decoding method includes receiving a bit stream including a Network Abstraction Layer (NAL) unit that includes information related to encoded image, and parsing a NAL unit header of the NAL unit. The NAL unit header may not include 1 bit flag information that represents whether a picture is a non-reference picture or a reference picture in the entire bit stream during encoding.
US12028536B2	Image or video coding based on chroma quantization parameter offset information According to the disclosure of the present document, chroma quantization parameter offset-related information can be signaled through palette syntax coding, and index information for a chroma quantization parameter offset list can be efficiently parsed/signaled on the basis of information about the number of entries in the chroma quantization parameter offset list. Accordingly, bits that are required to be signaled in order to code a video/image can be reduced, and the coding efficiency can be enhanced.
US12028529B2	Method, apparatus and system for encoding and decoding a tree of blocks of video samples A system and method of decoding a transform block for a colour channel of an image frame from a video bitstream. The method comprises determining a chroma format of the image frame, the chroma format having chroma channels of the image frame being subsampled relative to a luma channel of the image frame; determining a coefficient group size of the transform block, the coefficient group size being a largest area of the transform block of up to 16 samples, the coefficient group size being determined based only on the transform block size and independent of both (i) a colour plane of the transform block and (ii) colour plane subsampling due to the determined chroma format; and decoding the transform block using coefficient groups of the determined size from the video bitstream.
US12028526B2	Image decoding method and device using residual information in image coding system An image decoding method includes receiving residual information including first size related information for a first residual coefficient and second size related information for a second residual coefficient, setting a Rice parameter of the first size related information and the second size related information as a specific value, deriving available binary values based on the Rice parameter, deriving binary values of the first size related information and the second size related information by decoding the first size related information and the second size related information, deriving values of the first size related information and the second size related information by comparing the binary values and the available binary values, deriving the first residual coefficient and the second residual coefficient based on the values, and reconstructing a current picture based on the first residual coefficient and the second residual coefficient.
US12028521B2	Encoder, method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium The present invention provides an encoder which comprises an input portion configured to be input an encoding target image acquired from an image capturing portion, wherein the encoder is arranged to divide the encoding target image into coding units, the coding units including an encoding block of a luma signal and an encoding block of a chroma signal; to acquire characteristics of chroma components of the encoding target image; and to further divide the encoding block of the luma signal and the encoding block of the chroma signal into encoding blocks of a same division structure or different division structures, in accordance with the acquired shooting condition.
US12028518B2	Encoding method and apparatus therefor, and decoding method and apparatus therefor Provided is a video decoding method of applying a deblocking filter to neighboring pixels adjacent to a boundary of a current block, the video decoding method including selecting a deblocking filter to be applied to the neighboring pixels from among a plurality of deblocking filters according to pixel values of the neighboring pixels and a size of the current block, and applying the selected deblocking filter to the neighboring pixels, wherein the plurality of deblocking filters include three or more deblocking filters having different ranges of neighboring pixels to which deblocking filtering is applied.
US12028513B2	Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method Provided is an encoder includes: circuitry; and memory coupled to the circuitry, in which in operation, the circuitry: generates a prediction image of a current block to be processed, using a first motion vector; and updates a history based motion vector predictor (HMVP) table using a first candidate having the first motion vector, the HMVP table storing, in a first in first out (FIFO) method, a plurality of second candidates each having a second motion vector used for a processed block, and in the updating of the HMVP table, the circuitry: determines whether a size of the current block is less than or equal to a threshold size; and skips the updating of the HMVP table when the size of the current block is determined to be less than or equal to the threshold size.
US12028512B2	Systems and methods for inter-frame prediction The present disclosure provides a method for inter-frame prediction of a coding unit in an image. The method may include obtaining a first MV candidate list corresponding to the coding unit and the first MV candidate list may be constructed based on a non-triangle prediction mode, such as a merge mode. The method may also include determining, based on the first MV candidate list, a second MV candidate list corresponding to the coding unit. The second MV candidate list may be a triangle candidate list used for inter-prediction using a triangle prediction mode. MVs in the second MV candidate list may be determined based on MVs in the first MV candidate list. The method may also include determining, based on the second MV candidate list, a target prediction unit of the current coding unit according to a triangle prediction mode.
US12028506B2	Model-based compensation of geometrical deformation of a stereo camera by evaluating a calibrated analytic deformation model of the stereo camera A method for numerically compensating imaging errors caused by a geometrical deformation of a stereo camera is provided. An inertial variable vector is provided that is determined by an accelerometer, which inertial variable vector is expressed in a stereo camera coordinate system with a known geometrical relationship between the stereo camera coordinate system and the world coordinate system, and which inertial variable vector relates to a physical force which at least partly causes the geometrical deformation of the stereo camera. A calibrated analytic deformation model of the stereo camera is evaluated with the inertial variable vector as input. Updated external camera parameters are determined. The updated external camera parameters and known internal camera parameters of the two cameras are used for stereophotogrammetric analysis of images acquired by the stereo camera.
US12028502B2	Three dimensional glasses free light field display using eye location Disclosed herein are systems, apparatus, methods, and articles of manufacture to present three dimensional images without glasses. An example apparatus includes a micro lens array and at least one processor. The at least one processor is to: determine a first position of a first pupil of a viewer; determine a second position of a second pupil of the viewer; align a first eye box with the first position of the first pupil; align a second eye box with the second position of the second pupil; render, for presentation on a display, at least one of a color plus depth image or a light field image based on the first position of the first pupil and the second position of the second pupil; and cause backlight to be steered through the micro lens array and alternatingly through the first eye box and the second eye box.
US12028501B2	Control apparatus, color adjustment method, and storage medium A control apparatus includes a controller. The controller obtains a job which is executed by a print apparatus and which is corresponded to document image data. The controller obtains read image data of a color sample corresponding to the document image data from a scanner. The controller determines whether correction of the scanner and/or the print apparatus is necessary based on the read image data. The controller corrects the scanner and/or the print apparatus based on a result of determination. The controller generates a color conversion parameter regarding a color conversion of the document image data based on a profile corresponding to the scanner and/or the print apparatus after correction, the document image data, and the read image data.
US12028500B2	Method of transforming a first color space into a second color space using an intermediate color space, a printing machine for implementing the method and a memory medium containing code for performing the method A method transforms color values of a first device-dependent color space into the color values of a second device-dependent color space so that the visual impression of the color represented in the two-color spaces is essentially identical. The transformation of the color values combines at least one absolute rendering intent and at least one relative rendering intent.
US12028499B2	Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and non-transitory recording medium An image processing apparatus includes circuitry to determine a type of a document read by a scanner, set a top-bottom determination method based on the type of the document, and determine a top-bottom orientation of a target image by the top-bottom determination method. The target image is obtained by reading the document with the scanner.
US12028498B2	Group management device and group management method A group management device includes a required information acquisition unit, a supplement instruction unit, a mounting information acquisition unit, and a group update unit. The required information acquisition unit acquires information showing required groups that are groups determined to require supplements of the consumables used in image forming devices that are managed per group. The supplement instruction unit performs a supplement instruction of the consumables for the required groups. The mounting information acquisition unit acquires mounting information showing the image forming device mounted with the consumable supplemented in response to the supplement instruction. The group update unit specifies a mounting group that is the group to which the image forming device mounted with the consumable belongs based on group correspondence information obtained by associating the image forming device and the group, and the mounting information, and updates the group correspondence information if the required group and the mounting group are different from each other.
US12028496B2	Multi-mode scanning camera system and method A multi-mode document scanning system includes a scanning bed configured to transport a plurality of documents through a scanning area. A scanning camera is configured to image the documents. At least one illumination bank includes a plurality of illumination elements of at least two different light wavelengths interspersed on at least one illumination bank. An illumination source switching assembly controls at last some elements of one wavelength. A selection process selects a wavelength appropriate to a document to be scanned, and instructs a processor operatively coupled to the illumination source switching assembly to illuminate elements of that wavelength. A multi-mode scanning method of document scanning is also described.
US12028493B2	Image forming apparatus including pivotable doors with a handle at an overlapping area An image forming apparatus includes an image forming unit configured to form an image on a sheet, a casing accommodating the image forming unit, a pair of doors which open from center, and a protrusion portion. The pair of doors which open from center include a first door, a second door, and a handle. The handle is disposed on an opposite surface of an exterior surface of the first door. The protrusion portion protrudes from an end of the second door toward the first door in a direction intersecting with the second pivot axis and extending an exterior surface of the second door when the pair of doors are closed. The handle covers a gap between the first door and the protrusion portion in a front-back direction of the image forming apparatus when the pair of doors are closed.
US12028491B2	Scanning preview method for a remote application when using scanner redirection for remote desktop services A scanning preview method for a remote desktop system that includes a client computing device that has running therein a remote desktop client application including a scanner redirection module, and a host server, the scanner redirection module including a scanner core that is configured to communicate with a physical scanner, includes the steps of: receiving from an application running on the host server, a request for a preview of a scanned image; in response to the request for the preview of the scanned image, transmitting to the scanner core a request to acquire the scanned image from the physical scanner; and upon receiving the scanned image from the scanner core, transmitting the scanned image to the application, and in response thereto, receiving from the application an image of a remote desktop that includes the scanned image.
US12028490B2	Server for providing a setting screen with previously used settings to a client apparatus for image transmission To solve a troublesome setting operation required in transmitting image data to a cloud storage, a setting screen is provided in which a setting made by a user in the past for image data that is similar to the image data to be transmitted is reflected, when the user makes a setting for transmitting the image data to be transmitted to the cloud storage.
US12028489B2	Scanning apparatus and image processing technique to easily identify a post to which image data is posted as a reply to a chat service A scanning apparatus includes a scanning unit configured to scan a document to generate image data, and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to a chat server, the image data generated by the scanning unit and identification information corresponding to a post selected as a post to which a reply is to be made. The image data transmitted by the transmission unit and the post corresponding to the identification information transmitted by the transmission unit are posted in association with each other to a talk room of a chat service provided by the chat server.
US12028488B2	Recording device and control method to perform maintenance, transport correction, or discharge correction based upon a captured image The recording device includes an upstream transport roller pair capable of transporting a medium, a recording head configured to record an image by discharging ink at a predetermined timing on the medium transported downstream in a D1 direction by a predetermined transport amount by the upstream transport roller pair while moving in a Y-axis direction intersecting the D1 direction, an image capturing unit configured to read the image recorded on the medium by the recording head, and a control unit, wherein the control unit has a function of performing maintenance for a discharge failure of the ink, a correction of the transport amount, and a correction of the discharge timing of the ink based on the reading result of the image read by the image capturing unit.
US12028487B2	System and methods for monitoring and testing real-time communications between web browsers and contact centers A system and method for monitoring, analyzing, and testing calls between computers of remotely working call center agents and callers in real-time. A real-time testing module implemented as a browser extension or a side-loaded application relays live call information and on-demand or periodic passive-test results to a test and dashboard server for analysis and triage. Additionally, the real-time testing module may actively test calling conditions between the agent's equipment and a distant caller by suspending the agents calls and tasks, intercepting and taking command of the agent's audio equipment, and placing a test call to a testing server. Thus, allowing actual data to be used in troubleshooting issues, rather than simulations or synthetic data. Dashboards with analytics and predictions are made available in both the browser application and an end point server for agents and operations/management personnel respectively.
US12028483B2	Communications network security for handling proxy voice calls Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for communications network security for handling proxy voice calls that employ a voicebot. According to one aspect disclosed herein, a call handling system can intercept, from a communications network, a call request that is directed to a called target device. The call handling system can determine that the call request was generated by a voicebot on behalf of a user equipment. The call handling system can suspend the call request from being routed to the called target device. The call handling system can generate a voicebot confirmation request that identifies the voicebot and the user equipment. The call handling system can provide the voicebot confirmation request to the called target. The call request can be suspended while the voicebot confirmation request is provided to the called target device.
US12028478B2	Systems and methods for phishing monitoring Disclosed are methods and systems for voice phishing monitoring. For instance, a method includes receiving voice data of an incoming call to a communication device from an application associated with a user account and executing on the device, identifying an entity and interaction allegedly associated with the incoming call from the voice data, determining first fraud indicator data based on a number of the incoming call and second fraud indicator data based on a correspondence of user account interaction data to the entity and/or interaction, and providing the voice data to a trained machine learning system to receive third fraud indicator data based on content and/or a voice characteristic identified from the voice data. The method may further include determining a status for the incoming call of fraudulent or confirmed based on the first, second, and third fraud indicator data, and generating a notification indicating the status for display.
US12028474B2	User interfaces associated with remote input devices In some embodiments, an electronic device displays user interfaces associated with games in response to detecting input devices having been connected to the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a reduced user interface in response to detecting that a cover has covered a portion of the display of the electronic device. In some embodiments, an electronic device displays a user interface via a display generation component of an input device. In some embodiments, an electronic device projects a user interface via a projection device of an input device. In some embodiments, an electronic device directs inputs from an input device to different user interfaces depending on the mode in which the input device is operating.
US12028469B2	Electronic device and information processing method The present disclosure provides an electronic device. The electronic device includes a flexible display screen and an image capturing element. A capturing area of the image capturing element corresponds to a first area of the flexible display screen for the image capturing element to obtain external light through the first area if the flexible display screen is in a first state. The capturing area of the image capturing element corresponds to a second area of the flexible display screen for the image capturing element to obtain external light through the second area if the flexible display screen is in a second state. The first state and the second state are different, and the first area and the second area are at least partially different.
US12028468B2	Middle frame, battery cover, and electronic device Embodiments of this application provide a middle frame, a battery cover, and an electronic device. The electronic device may include a mobile or fixed terminal with an edge frame or a housing, such as a mobile phone, a tablet computer, a notebook computer, an ultra-mobile personal computer (UMPC), a handheld computer, a walkie-talkie, a netbook, a POS machine, a personal digital assistant (PDA), an event data recorder, a wearable device, a virtual reality device, a wireless USB flash drive, a Bluetooth speaker/headset, or a vehicle-mounted device. Two types of materials: ceramics and plastic, are used to form a middle frame and a battery cover, thereby reducing a weight of the electronic device. This resolves a problem that is of a relatively large weight of an existing electronic device and that is caused when a pure ceramic middle frame and a pure ceramic battery cover are used in the electronic device.
US12028464B2	Electronic system for generating and tracking linked electronic digital certificates Systems, computer program products, and methods are described herein for the generating and tracking linked electronic digital certificates. The present invention may be configured to generate a first electronic digital certificate having first properties and being associated with a first artifact owned by a first group of users, store the first electronic digital certificate, and record first interests of the first group of users in the first electronic digital certificate. The present invention may be configured to receive a request from a second group of users to generate a second electronic digital certificate, where the request includes a subset of the first properties for generation in the second electronic digital certificate. The present invention may be configured to generate the second electronic digital certificate, record second interests of the second group of users in the second electronic digital certificate, and link the first interests and the second interests.
US12028459B2	Multi-access edge computing node with distributed ledger It is provided a multi-access edge computing node located within a cellular coverage area supported by a base station of a mobile network operator, the multi-access edge computing node comprising at least one memory to store a chained data block, where each data block is coded with data of a past transaction in respect of a good or service; and at least one stock processor configured with functions that: include a new data block, to record a current transaction in respect of a good or service, into the chained data block in response to a signature, generated from processing the data of the current transaction with the coded data of the past transactions stored in the chained data block, being validated by a group of external multi-access edge computing nodes, wherein the multi-access edge computing node and the group of external multi-access edge computing nodes are trusted, and communicate over a common channel.
US12028447B2	Brain-actuated control authenticated key exchange A method includes extracting, by a computing system, movement intentions of an individual from neural signals; mapping, by a secure element of the computing system, the movement intentions to a character string; and generating, by the computing system, a symmetric encryption key using the character string as an input to a key exchange protocol.
US12028446B2	Method and system for key agreement utilizing semigroups A method for key agreement between a first party and a second party over a public communications channel, the method including selecting, by the first party, from a semigroup, a first value “a”; multiplying the first value “a” by a second value “b” to create a third value “d”, the second value “b” being selected from the semigroup; sending the third value “d” to the second party; receiving, from the second party, a fourth value “e”, the fourth value comprising the second value “b” multiplied by a fifth value “c” selected by the second party from the semigroup; and creating a shared secret by multiplying the first value “a” with the fourth value “e”, wherein the shared secret matches the third value “d” multiplied by the fifth value “c”.
US12028445B2	Range constrained device configuration Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, and machine readable mediums for secure, low end-user effort computing device configuration. In some examples the IoT device is configured via a user's computing device over a short range wireless link of a first type. This short range wireless communication may use a connection establishment that does not require end-user input. For example, the end user will not have to enter, or confirm a PIN number or other authentication information such as usernames and/or passwords. This allows configuration to involve less user input. In some examples, to prevent man-in-the-middle attacks, the power of a transmitter in the IoT device that transmits the short range wireless link is reduced during a configuration procedure so that the range of the transmissions to and from the user's computing device are reduced to a short distance.
US12028444B2	Using NFC to configure ultra low power BLUETOOTH® devices An ultra low power network device is disclosed. The network device utilizes a Near Field Communications (NFC) tag to enable ultra low power communications with a configuration tool. The configuration tool writes information to the NFC tag that is accessible by the processing unit on the ultra low power network device. Additionally, the processing unit can write information into the NFC tag that is readable by the configuration tool. By exchanging messaged in this manner, the ultra low power network device and the configuration tool may create a shared encryption key. The ultra low power network device utilizes this shared encryption key when transmitting BLUETOOTH® packets. The configuration tool may then transmit the shared encryption key to either another BLUETOOTH® device or to a remote server. The ultra low power network device may also periodically refresh the shared encryption key.
US12028442B2	Accessing security hardware keys Technology related to accessing security hardware keys is disclosed. In one example, a method includes receiving an initial request to perform a first cryptographic operation using a key stored in security hardware circuitry. In response to servicing the initial request, a persistent attribute of the key can be used to query the security hardware circuitry to receive a volatile attribute of the key. The volatile attribute of the key can be stored external to the security hardware circuitry to enable subsequent requests to perform cryptographic operations on the security hardware circuitry without querying the security hardware circuitry for the volatile attribute of the key. A subsequent request referencing the key can be received. The subsequent request can be serviced by using the security hardware circuitry and identifying the key using the stored volatile attribute of the key without querying the security hardware circuitry for the volatile attribute of the key.
US12028433B2	Systems and method for dynamic hybrid content sequencing A global architecture (GLP), as disclosed herein, is based on the thin server architectural pattern; it delivers all its services in the form of web services and there are no user interface components executed on the GLP. Each web service exposed by the GLP is stateless, which allows the GLP to be highly scalable. The GLP is further decomposed into components. Each component is a microservice, making the overall architecture fully decoupled. Each microservice has fail-over nodes and can scale up on demand. This means the GLP has no single point of failure, making the platform both highly scalable and available. The GLP architecture provides the capability to build and deploy a microservice instance for each course-recipient-user combination. Because each student interacts with their own microservice, this makes the GLP scale up to the limit of cloud resources available—i.e. near infinity.
US12028432B2	System and method for managing push notifications on a user device The present invention relates to a system and method for managing push notifications on a user device. The push notifications may be sent only upon checking/identifying if the user device (associated smart extension) is within a predetermined vicinity of a home gateway network by checking whether respective MAC address entry of the user device is in ARP tables and is in active state, based on which push notifications may be triggered to the user device, wherein the MAC address may be computed and stored by the system. Alternatively, the system may determine if the user device is reachable or not by using IP address (such as ping protocol and other such methods). This facilitates a consistent, power saving along with better reliability of network-based calls or Push notifications, an enhanced user experience and other advantages by sending the push notifications only when the device is connected to home gateway network.
US12028430B2	Event notification method, server device, apparatus and computer storage medium An event notification method, an apparatus, a server device, and a computer storage medium are disclosed. The method includes: receiving an event subscription request; determining whether an amount of times that an event notification rule is satisfied is equal to K, and if yes, sending an event notification to at least one notified party in the plurality of notified parties; and after the initial notification is performed, determining whether the amount of times that the event notification rule is satisfied is equal to P, and if yes, sending an event notification to at least one notified party in the plurality of notified parties. The initial notification and the re-notification are performed at different times, and the at least one notified party notified in the initial notification is at least partially different from the at least one notified party notified in the re-notification.
US12028423B2	Owner controlled and incentivised smartphone platform based on microservices A wireless User Equipment (UE) hosts a microservice. In the wireless UE, a user interface presents user options to a user and receives user instructions from the user. Communication circuitry wirelessly transfers the user instructions to a microservice control system, and in response, wirelessly receives microservice instructions and a microservice application from the microservice control system. User circuitry in the wireless UE executes the microservice application in an operating system container per the microservice instructions and responsively generates microservice data for a microservice data system. The communication circuitry wirelessly transfers the microservice data to the microservice data system. This hosted microservices platform supports a variety of applications beyond smartphone owner usage. To that end, the smartphone owner may get financially compensated for those extra use cases according to a variety of factors. The owner will be in full control of selecting which functionality will run on his smartphone/UE.
US12028420B2	Systems and methods to automatically update status of projects within a collaboration environment Systems and methods to automatically update status of projects within a collaboration environment are described herein. Exemplary implementations may: manage environment state information maintaining a collaboration environment; determine status information for the individual projects; manage information defining project-level graphical user interfaces; update the individual project-level graphical user interfaces to reflect status information of the individual projects in the collaboration environment; and/or perform other operations.
US12028413B1	System for coalescing network request streams A system and method for coalescing network request streams assigns groups of requests to independent coalescing machines, each of which separately processes its assigned group according to processing rules. The use of independent coalescers allows the system to be scaled nearly infinitely with a shared nothing architecture and operates fully at machine in-process speeds.
US12028411B2	Systems and methods for hierarchical failover groups A logical grouping of subgroups of server clusters forms a failover super-cluster. A logical grouping of groups of servers provides high availability by, upon failure of an entire group (site), failing over an entire subgroup to a different subgroup. Yet within each subgroup local failovers continue to maintain application high availability during instances in which the site remains operational.
US12028407B2	System and method for updating interface elements based on real-time transfer protocol availability A server computer system, comprises a processor; a communications module coupled to the processor; and a memory coupled to the processor, the memory storing instructions that, when executed, configure the processor to obtain information associated with a request to transfer data to a data record; determine, based on an identifier associated with the data record, whether a real-time transfer protocol is available to complete the transfer; and send, via the communications module and to a client device associated with a recipient of the request to transfer the data to the data record, a signal updating one or more interface elements of an interface displayed on the client device based on whether the real-time transfer protocol is available to complete the transfer.
US12028394B2	Method and apparatus for providing cloud streaming service Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for providing a cloud streaming service. The method for providing a cloud streaming service includes segmenting the frame to be provided through cloud streaming into a first area and a second area, generating a first elementary stream by encoding the first area, generating a second elementary stream by encoding the second area, and merging the first elementary stream and the second elementary stream and transmitting a merged stream based on a request from a user.
US12028392B2	Conversational social network Systems and methods for setting up live online conversations between people, and selecting participants for such conversations in a manner that optimizes the enjoyment of the participants. Conversations are analyzed and attributes of participants and conversations are extracted from the audio of the conversations. A quality level of the conversations is determined from the audio, and subjective quality assessments may be received from participants. Participants and conversations are divided into classes and clusters, where the classes and clusters represent groups of entities which have certain attributes in common. Based on the attributes, classes, clusters, and quality levels, compatibilities are determined between arbitrary pairs of participants and for arbitrary groups of participants. Conversations are generated, and participants are selected for the conversations based on the determined compatibilities.
US12028391B2	System and method for controlling multi-party communication A system and method for controlling multi-party communication during video conferences communicatively connects with at least two participating terminals, each manned by one participant in the conference. A voice acquisition module acquires speech and video at each participating terminal. A recognition module acquires information as to an action state of a participant in the video and audio of what participant is saying, and determines whether the action of participant includes speaking movements and whether the audio includes what is being said by the participant. A control module can control the volume of other participating terminals and adjust the volumes of microphones of simultaneous speakers, to be louder, fainter, or muted, depending on assigned priority of each participant, for orderly control of conferences and as an overall recording.
US12028389B1	Focal awareness system for online collaboration The present disclosure is related to a focal awareness system that includes processors and memory storing instructions. The instructions may cause the processors to generate a graphical user interface (GUI) configured to present an online meeting window on a display during an online meeting, identify a location of a camera with respect to the display, and position the online meeting window on the display based on the location of the camera. instructions may also cause the processors to identify a position of a video window within the online meeting window, identify a respective location of each camera of a matrix of cameras with respect to the position of the video window, determine a closest camera having a shortest distance with respect to the position of the video window based on the respective location of each camera of the matrix of cameras, and activate the closest camera.
US12028388B2	Patient station for telemedicine A patient station for telemedicine enabling transmission of patient data to a remote doctor station, via a telecommunication network includes a processing unit with an operating system, a main display device, and at least one first sensor of a first type generating first patient data. The processing unit is configured to generate a first video signal or a first image from the first patient data and display the first video signal or the first image on the main display device in a first display window, capture at least one display area of the first display window to generate a captured video signal, generate an output video signal comprising the captured video signal, emulate a digital-camera peripheral, wherein the output video signal is provided as output from the emulated digital camera peripheral to the operating system as digital camera-type peripheral device output, and provide the output video signal to the doctor station via the telecommunication network.
US12028379B2	Virtual reality gamification-based security need simulation and configuration in any smart surrounding Aspects of the present invention disclose a method for configuring security settings of a defined area that includes internet of things (IoT) devices for contextual situations utilizing virtual reality (VR) and gamification. The method includes one or more processors identifying an IoT device within a defined area. The method further includes collecting data of the IoT device corresponding to the defined area. The method further includes generating a first VR interactive scene in a VR environment corresponding to physical attributes of the defined area, wherein the VR interactive scene is based on a set of conditions of a knowledge corpus corresponding to the collected data of the IoT device. The method further includes identifying a security threat in the VR environment. The method further includes configuring a security rule of the defined area that modifies functions of the IoT device based on the set of conditions.
US12028376B2	Systems and methods for creation, management, and storage of honeyrecords The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for creating, managing, and storing synthetic data that is designed to be placed within databases having real data to deceive, attract, detect and/or track unauthorized access thereof. The synthetic data can be stored as a honeyrecord in a database table that is interspersed with real data such that the honeyrecord is indistinguishable from real data or combined to form a honeytable having multiple honeyrecords therein. In some embodiments, the synthetic data can be used to create a user persona having one or more parameters to construct a profile or an identity honeyrecord of an individual. The parameters can include private information such as name, sex, passport number, social security number, bank account or credit card details, biometric details, passwords, and other information that is attractive to hackers and other data thieves. Creation of the honeyrecord can be performed without referencing any aspect of real data that is stored within the database, knowledge of the real data, or access to the database. Once created, the system can monitor the honeyrecords for release in online sources or for other forms of interaction, which can indicate that a breach took place.
US12028372B1	Identifying threat similarity using forensics clustering Systems, methods and products for identifying “similar” threats by clustering the threats based on corresponding forensics. A corpus of forensic data for a plurality of threat URLs is obtained by a threat protection system, the data including forensic elements corresponding to each threat URLs. For each pair of threat URLs, the corresponding forensic elements are examined to identify shared forensic elements. A similarity score is then generated for the pair of threat URLs based on the comparison of the corresponding forensic elements, including both malicious and non-malicious elements. Based on the similarity score generated for each pair of threat URLs, clusters of the threat URLs are identified, with each cluster including a subset of the plurality of threat URLs. Clusters of URLs similar to a selected URL may be identified by accessing the threat cluster information using a similar-threat search interface or through internal APIs of the threat protection system.
US12028371B2	Rogue device detection including MAC address spoofing detection Systems, methods, and related technologies including media access control (MAC) address spoofing detection are described. The MAC address spoofing detection and response may include accessing a first MAC address associated with a first communication on a first port of a first network device and accessing a second MAC address associated with a second communication on a second port of a second network device. Whether the first MAC address and the second MAC address match may be determined. Information associated with a third communication associated with the first MAC address on the first port of the first network device and information associated with a fourth communication associated with the second MAC address on the second port of the second network device may be accessed. An action may be performed associated with the second port of the second network device based on the second MAC address matching the first MAC address.
US12028369B2	Compression of user interaction data for machine learning-based detection of target category examples A processing system may identify a plurality of user interaction data associated with a target category of a plurality of users, identify a relevant subset of user interaction data, compress the plurality of user interaction data to the relevant subset of user interaction data, train a machine learning model with the relevant subset of user interaction data, obtain additional user interaction data associated with an additional user, identify a relevant subset of the additional user interaction data, apply the relevant subset of the additional user interaction data as an input to the machine learning model, obtain an output of the machine learning model quantifying a measure of which the relevant subset of the additional user interaction data is indicative of the target category, and perform at least one action responsive to the measure of which the relevant subset of the additional user interaction data is indicative of the target category.
US12028365B2	CAN bus protection systems and methods CAN bus signal format inference includes: extracting candidate signals from training CAN bus message traffic; defining one or more signals, each signal being a candidate signal that matches structural characteristics of a matching data type and each signal being assigned the matching data type; and generating an inferred CAN bus protocol with which the defined one or more signals conform. Signals are extracted from CAN bus message traffic using the inferred CAN bus protocol, an anomaly in an extracted signal is detected, and an alert is generated indicating the detected anomaly. In another aspect, a transport protocol (TP) signal is extracted and analyzed to determine a fraction of the TP signal that matches opcodes of a machine language instruction set, and an anomaly is detected based at least in part on the determined fraction exceeding an opcode anomaly threshold.
US12028362B1	Detecting anomalous storage service events using autoencoders Techniques for enabling the identification of anomalous events associated with an object storage service of a cloud provider network using a variational autoencoder model including a pre-trained embedding for selected features of events are described. A variational autoencoder, for example, encodes data into a latent space and reconstructs approximations of the data from an encoding in the latent space. In this context, for example, anomalous events of interest might represent unauthorized or abusive behavior associated with storage resources provided by an object storage service (or in association with other types of computing resources provided by other services of a cloud provider network). Legitimate (or benign) access patterns to an object storage service can be modeled by utilizing observed data plane events stored by an account activity monitoring service. Once trained, the model can be used to identify anomalous events.
US12028360B1	Techniques for multi-tenant vulnerability scanning utilizing sensitive data A method for scalable vulnerability detection is provided. The method includes selecting at least a workload of a plurality of workloads deployed in a first cloud environment for inspection, wherein the workload includes a first volume; generating in a remote cluster an inspection node, the inspection node including at least a first disk, wherein the remote cluster provisions inspection nodes in response to demand for inspection nodes; generating a persistent volume (PV) on which the at least a first disk is mounted, wherein the at least a first disk is generated from a snapshot of the first volume; and generating a persistent volume claim (PVC) of the PV for an inspector workload, wherein the inspector workload is configured to inspect the PV for an object, and wherein inspector workloads are provisioned in response to demand for inspector workloads.
US12028354B2	Predictive DNS cache to improve security and performance The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for predicting responses to DNS queries. The method includes receiving a DNS query comprising a subdomain portion and a root domain portion from a client device, determining whether to obtain target address information corresponding to the DNS from a predictive cache, in response to determining to obtain the target address information from the predictive cache, obtaining the target address information from the predictive cache, and providing the target address information to the client device.
US12028349B2	Protecting physical locations with continuous multi-factor authentication systems This disclosure relates to methods, systems, and non-transitory computer-readable storage media for integrating a multi-factor authentication system with a security system. The present technology can receive authentication data descriptive of a user associated with a user device. The present technology can also permit the user to access a secure physical location. The present technology can also limit capabilities of the user device while the user is within the secure physical location.
US12028347B2	System and method for enabling a user to obtain authenticated access to an application using a biometric combination lock A system and method for enabling a user to obtain authenticated access to an application using a biometric combination lock. The system is configured for registering a user by receiving a set of biometric expressions and a set of biometric samples of the user, corresponding to two or more biometric factors associated with each biometric expression. Further, the method includes steps of processing the set of biometric samples to compute a Secret-Key (S1) corresponding to the user, generating a Unique-Number (N1) using a random number generation algorithm, applying a Function (F1) to the Secret-Key (S1) and the Unique-Number (N1), to compute a Public-Key (P1).
US12028338B2	Systems and methods for secure SAAS redirection from native applications Systems and methods discussed for redirection of launch requests for local applications to corresponding remote applications, such as SaaS or network applications provided by an application server, and access of the corresponding remote application via an embedded browser of a client application. A client application executed by a client device may detect a request of a user to launch a local application of the client device. The client application may determine that the local application corresponds to a network application provided by an application server. The client application may intercept the request to launch the local application, responsive to the determination. An embedded browser of the client application may access the network application from the application server, responsive to interception of the request.
US12028330B2	Systems and methods for credentials distribution A method by a management server is described. The method includes receiving a credentials request from a requesting management node. The credentials request includes a public key of the requesting management node. The method also includes determining whether the management server has credentials encrypted for the requesting management node in a local cache. The credentials are encrypted using the public key of the requesting management node and cannot be decrypted by the management server. The method further includes sending the encrypted credentials to the requesting management node when the management server has the encrypted credentials. The requesting management node can decrypt the encrypted credentials using a private key.
US12028328B2	Providing database performance report in restricted environment Techniques for providing a database performance report in a restricted access environment are disclosed. In some embodiments, a computer system performs a method comprising: receiving, from a computing device of a user, a request to generate a database performance report for a first database that is hosted on a cloud computing platform, the request including a service key; obtaining administrative credentials from a second database using stateless authentication and the service key; obtaining one or more database performance metrics of the first database from the first database using the administrative credentials; and generating the database performance report based on the one or more database performance metrics.
US12028325B2	Account authentication excluding merchants based on merchant logos Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described herein for improving computer authentication processes through the exclusion of certain merchants that may cause confusion. Indications of a plurality of different merchants, including merchant logos may be received. The indications may be processed to identify at least one similarity between a first merchant and a second merchant. A request for access to an account associated with a user and transaction data corresponding to the account may be received. Based on the similarity between the first merchant and the second merchant, at least one transaction corresponding to the first merchant may be removed to generate processed transaction record. An authentication question may be generated and a candidate response to the authentication question may be received. Based on the candidate response, access to the account may be provided.
US12028322B2	Computer-implemented system and methods for off-chain exchange of transactions pertaining to a distributed ledger This specification describes a system and method that enables multiple blockchain users to exchange their transactions before diffusion over the blockchain network in order to blur the link between the IP address of the transaction generated by a user and the user's blockchain address in the transaction. The system and method provides a technical solution to exchange transactions directly off-chain. Participants in the method agree to make deposits and alter their transaction in such a way that a refund and compensation scheme put in place automatically relies on the confirmations in the blockchain of the transactions exchanged among participants thus providing increased security as well as anonymity. The method scales for an arbitrary number (n>2) of participants.
US12028321B1	Tunnelling with support for dynamic naming resolution Mesh agents for an overlay network may be provided such that each mesh agent may be hosted on network computers in the overlay network. In response to a network interface providing raw datagrams to a mesh agent in the overlay network further actions may be performed, including: determining a payload protocol based on the raw datagrams; determining payload datagrams included in the raw datagrams based on the payload protocol; determining a request from a client based on the payload datagrams and the payload protocol; or the like. In response to an infrastructure security computer determining validation information that validates the request further actions may be performed, including: modifying the payload datagrams based on the payload protocol and the validation information; modifying the raw datagrams to include the modified payload datagrams; forwarding the modified raw datagrams to a next mesh agent identified with the validation information; or the like.
US12028320B2	Mechanism to reduce serverless function startup latency A computer-implemented method for accessing user resources in a virtual private cloud (VPC) using a serverless function within a network architecture includes instantiating a first warm application container for hosting the serverless function. The first warm application container includes a runtime language library without function code of the serverless function. A virtual machine for hosting a Port Address Translation (PAT) gateway is instantiated. The PAT gateway includes a first interface to the VPC and a second interface to the first warm application container. In response to detecting a trigger event for triggering the serverless function, the function code of the serverless function is mounted within the first warm application container. During execution of the function code from the first warm application container, VPC-addressed network packets associated with the serverless function are routed to the VPC via the second interface and the first interface within the PAT gateway.
US12028319B1	Image-based firewall for synthetic media prevention A firewall system stores filtering criteria which include rules for blocking presentation of all or a portion of the media content based at least in part on an identity of an individual appearing in the media content. The firewall system receives the media content. The firewall system determines the identity of the individual appearing in the media content. Based at least in part on the identity of the individual appearing in the media content and the filtering criteria, the firewall system determines an action for securing the media content. The action may be allowing presentation of the media content, blocking presentation of the media content, or blocking presentation of a portion of the media content. The determined action is automatically implemented.
US12028318B2	Smart network switching systems and related methods A method of monitoring and controlling network traffic within an industrial control system including receiving one or more data packets at a smart network switching system operating software-defined networking, analyzing the one or more data packets at a protocol level within a control plane of the software-defined networking, based on the analysis, determining whether the one or more data packets are authorized data packets, and forwarding a data packet of the one or more data packets to a destination device within a data plane of the software-defined networking upon determining that the data packet is an authorized data packet. The method further includes providing information related to the analysis of the one or more data packets to an out-of-band monitoring and control system for display to a user, and receiving a response communication from the out-of-band monitoring and control system indicating whether the one or more data packets are authorized data packets.
US12028315B2	Methods, devices, and computer program products for authenticating peripheral device Methods, devices, and computer program products for authenticating a peripheral device are provided in embodiments of the present disclosure. In one method, a peripheral device sends, to an edge device, a first authentication request for at least the peripheral device to use resources of the edge device, the first authentication request comprising at least a first identifier associated with the peripheral device and location information of the peripheral device. Then, the peripheral device receives an authentication success or failure indication from the edge device. In this way, effective authentication of a peripheral device can be realized with a less complicated authentication process, so that the security of access of the peripheral device to a virtual desktop can be improved while ensuring good user experience.
US12028311B2	Methods and systems for efficient virtualization of inline transparent computer networking devices Network devices that are inserted inline into network links and process in-transit packets may significantly improve their packet-throughput performance by not assigning L3 IP addresses and L2 MAC addresses to their network interfaces and thereby process packets through a logical fast path that bypasses the slow path through the operating system kernel. When virtualizing such Bump-In-The-Wire (BITW) devices for deployment into clouds, the network interfaces must have L3 IP and L2 MAC addresses assigned to them. Thus, packets are processed through the slow path of a virtual BITW device, significantly reducing the performance. By adding new logic to the virtual BITW device and/or configuring proxies, addresses, subnets, and/or routing tables, a virtual BITW device can process packets through the fast path and potentially improve performance accordingly. For example, the virtual BITW device may be configured to enforce a virtual path (comprising the fast path) through the virtual BITW device.
US12028309B2	Intelligent messaging delivery The disclosed technology is directed towards delivering electronic messages from senders to recipients in an intelligent way, based on the determined likelihood of each recipient acting on a message. Message delivery can be delayed upon delayed message delivery criterion being satisfied, based on user profile data the user establishes for each messaging application. Predicted recipient user availably, predicted recipient user receptivity and/or the identity of the sender, for example, can be used as factors in determining delivery data representing the likelihood of a recipient acting on a message. Delivery of the message is to a recipient's device is delayed when the delivery data satisfies delayed delivery criterion. The delayed delivery time can be determined from the recipient user's predicted availably and/or receptivity data, and/or the identity of the sender. The sender is notified of a delayed message delivery, and can be presented with options as to other actions to take.
US12028308B2	Messaging system with archived data display Systems and computer-implement methods of displaying archived data are provided for determining that it is an anniversary of the archived data, the archived data including a message transmitted from a first client device to a second client device; causing display, on the first client device, of a graphical indicium and an avatar of a user associated with the first client device, the graphical indicium indicating an anniversary associated with the message transmitted from the first client device to the second client device; causing, display on the first client device of a notification of the anniversary; and causing the display of the graphical indicium and notification of the anniversary to be removed after a predefined time.
US12028305B2	Efficient forwarding of messages through brokers by topic Methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer-readable storage mediums are described for bridging brokers of messages from Internet of Things (IoT) devices. In an example system, a first message broker receives a message and an associated topic from an IoT device. A bridging coordinator accesses a topic-to-broker map that indicates, for a second broker, a list of topic filters for which the second message broker has at least one subscriber. The bridging coordinator determines whether the list of topics includes the associated topic. In response to a determination that the list of topic filters in the topic-to-broker map includes the associated topic, the bridging coordinator forward the message to the second message broker. In response to a determination that the list of topic filters does not include the associated topic, the bridging coordinator prevents forwarding of the message to the second message broker.
US12028304B2	System and method for restricting the reception of e-mails from a sender of bulk spam mail A method for restricting reception of e-mail messages from a sender of bulk spam mail includes identifying an unknown sender of received e-mail messages. A set of e-mail messages received from the identified sender is selected. A type of bulk spam mailing is determined based on the selected set of e-mail messages using one or more spam identification signatures. Restrictions on reception of e-mail messages from a sender distributing bulk spam of the determined type are generated.
US12028303B2	Techniques for configuring communication process flow actions A method for data processing that includes receiving an indication of a configuration for a first action of a communication process flow that controls electronic communications between a tenant of a multi-tenant system and a first set of users associated with the tenant. The method further includes associating, within a storage location associated with the tenant, a unique identifier with metadata that defines the configuration. The method further includes receiving a request to apply the configuration to a second action of a communication process flow that controls electronic communications between the tenant and a second set of users associated with the tenant. The request may indicate the unique identifier associated with the metadata. The method further includes retrieving the metadata from the storage location using the unique identifier indicated by the request. The method further includes applying the configuration to the second action using the retrieved metadata.
US12028301B2	Contextual generation and selection of customized media content Among other things, embodiments of the present disclosure improve the functionality of electronic messaging software and systems by generating and selecting customized media content items (such as images) with avatars of different users within electronic messages based on the context of communications between the users. For example, users of different mobile computing devices can exchange electronic communications with each other, and the system can analyze these communications to present options for media content items containing the users' avatars based on content in the communications, actions or events taken by or involving the users, or combinations thereof. The users may select such media content items for inclusion in their electronic communications.
US12028298B2	System for sharing mail for group collaboration Provided are an information interaction method and apparatus, and a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium. The information interaction method includes: receiving a mail sharing request sent by a sharer party based on a target mail; creating a sharing group including the sharer party and a sharee party and sharing the target mail with the sharee party according to the mail sharing request, to enable the sharer party and the sharee party to perform, based on the target mail, information interaction in the sharing group.
US12028295B2	Generating a chatbot utilizing a data source A method, computer system, and a computer program product for chatbot generating is provided. The present invention may include determining one or more entities based on at least one column header of a dataset. The present invention may include determining one or more actions based on an associated row, the associated row corresponding to the at least one column header. The present invention may include generating a conversation environment, wherein the conversation environment comprises pairing the one or more entities with the one or more supplied intents of a chatbot workspace and pairing the one or more actions with one or more supplied utterances of the chatbot workspace.
US12028292B2	Reference signal transmission techniques Techniques are described to perform transmission of a reference signal such as a sounding reference signal (SRS). An example wireless communication method includes performing, by a network device, a first transmission that indicates a plurality of partial frequency factor values to a communication device, wherein each partial frequency factor value indicates a number used to determine a reduced number of resource blocks by the communication device to transmit a reference signal; and performing a second transmission, after the first transmission and to the communication device, of one or more bits that indicate a partial frequency factor value from the plurality of partial frequency factor values.
US12028288B2	Preconfigured uplink resource control signaling enhancements Method, apparatuses, and computer program product for overhead reduction are provided. One method may include receiving an allocation of a preconfigured uplink resource and a preconfigured uplink resource radio network temporary identifier associated with the preconfigured uplink resource. The method may also include receiving an assignment of a control channel search space associated with the preconfigured uplink resource. The method may further include monitoring, according to a specified occasion cycle, the control channel search space for a message. In addition, the message may be received according to a specific receive pattern.
US12028286B2	Methods and apparatuses for downlink tracking reference signal configuration A method, wireless device and network node are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method for a wireless device includes receiving a configuration of a reference signal resource set from the network node, the reference signal resource set being a set of single-symbol and single antenna port reference signal resources in at least one slot; and based on at least one parameter of the received configuration, determining whether the UE can assume a same antenna port for all reference signal resources of the reference signal resource set.
US12028285B2	Reference signals ports extension for large antenna arrays A method and network node for beamforming a physical downlink shared channel and broadcasting a reference signal, the network node having N antenna elements and M reference signal ports, N being greater than M. A method includes assigning the M reference signal ports to M antenna elements of the N antenna elements. A reference signal is transmitted using the M antenna elements, the M antenna elements used to form a first beam sufficiently broad to broadcast the reference signal over a geographical area sized to support a plurality of wireless devices (WDs). A precoding matrix indicator is received from a first WD of the plurality of WDs, using the N antenna elements, signals received at the N antenna elements being weighted to form a second beam sufficiently narrow to enable spatial selection of the first WD of the plurality of WDs by the network node.
US12028283B2	Base station, terminal and communication method A base station capable of appropriately transmitting a reference signal in an unlicensed band and a reception quality report measured using said reference signal. A control unit (102) of a base station (100) changes: the reference signal transmission timing which was set before carrier sensing on the basis of a time resource set according to carrier sensing results; and/or the report timing of the quality information measured in a terminal 200 using the reference signal. A transmission unit (108) and a receiving unit (109) communicate the reference signal or quality information on the basis of the changed timing.
US12028279B2	Base station apparatus, terminal apparatus, transmission method, and reception method Disclosed is a base station apparatus in which a configuration section (102) configures, within a data assignable region for a terminal apparatus (200), a first search space and a second search space each being a candidate to which control information is assigned, each of the first search space and the second search space including a plurality of control channel elements, and a signal assignment section (105) assigns control information to each of the first search space and the second search space. In addition, the configuration section (102) allocates numbers to a plurality of first control channel elements included in the first search space in an ascending order, and allocates numbers larger than or identical with the numbers allocated to the first control channel elements to a plurality of second control channel elements included in the second search space.
US12028278B2	Method of reducing latency in communication of data packets A method of reducing latency in communication of data packets comprising the steps of: receiving a data packet from a first device; determining whether the addition of the data packet results in the current number of data packets stored in all data queues exceeds a global threshold limit, where if the addition of the data packet results in the number of data packets stored not exceeding the global threshold limit then (i) allocate the data packet to a queueing group based on a predetermined factor; (ii) determine whether the addition of the data packets results in the number of data packets stored in the data queues of the allocated queueing group exceeds a local threshold limit. However, if the addition of the data packet results in the number of data packets stored not exceeding the local threshold limit then allocate the data packet to a data queue in the allocated queueing group based on the predetermined factor. The data packets stored in each data queue of a queueing group thereafter being processed as normal. But, if the addition of the data packet results in either the global threshold limit or the local threshold limit being exceeded, the first data packet from the longest data queue in an identified queueing group is dropped, the identified queueing group being a queuing group pointed to by a pointer in the case of the global threshold limit being exceeded and the identified queueing group by the allocated queueing group in the case of the local threshold limit being exceeded.
US12028276B2	Transport control word architecture for virtual port mirroring Aspects include includes receiving, at an input/output (I/O) processor, a transport control word (TCW) that includes an instruction to perform virtual port mirroring. The I/O processor identifies a first port to be mirrored and a virtual port to perform the mirroring. The virtual port is a first memory location in a memory. In response to outbound data being sent to the first port for transmission to a first target device and to the instruction specifying outbound port mirroring, the I/O processor stores a copy of the outbound data in the first memory location. In response to inbound data being received at the first port and to the instruction specifying inbound port mirroring, a copy of the inbound data is stored at the first memory location.
US12028273B2	Computing systems, networks, and notifications Systems and methods electronically produce a local estimate of less-than-critical resources based on a client-side version of digital rules and coarse values received from an online service provider. Although using the client-side version of digital rules and the coarse values may not include all the parameters and values needed to provide a fully accurate estimate of the resource, the ability to locally estimate resources without having to make network calls to the online service provider, such as when there are unfavorable conditions or latency of the network, imminent overloading of the online service provider or other operating conditions or demands on the online service provider preventing it from producing a timely more accurate estimate, provides a faster and more efficient way of obtaining a potentially useful estimate of resources.
US12028272B2	Pre-allocation of cloud resources through anticipation Providing users with smooth and reliable applications in a cloud based setting is a desirable goal. An approach to pre-allocating cloud computing resources may be provided to improve user experience. A user device may monitor an environment for individual user behaviors with visual and/or audio sensors. Based on data from the visual and/or audio sensors individual behaviors may be identified. Individual behaviors may be identified and associated with a cloud computing resource request. Computing resources in the cloud may be reserved or pre-allocated based on the cloud computing resource request. The pre-allocated computing resources can improve user experience through reduced wait time and improve initial cloud-based application response.
US12028270B1	Systems and methods for providing fifth-generation network function on demand resource distribution A device may receive load data identifying loads of network functions provided by a cloud computing environment, resource data associated with resources of the cloud computing environment, and resource distribution data associated with the resources. The device may perform data analytics on the load data, the resource data, and the resource distribution data to identify, from the network functions, a network function being impacted and to determine that the network function requires resource modification. The device may calculate, based on the data analytics and based on determining that the network function requires resource modification, parameters for the resource modification and may perform one or more actions based on the parameters for the resource modification.
US12028263B2	Telemetry and buffer-capacity based circuits for load-balanced fine-grained adaptive routing in high-performance system interconnect A switch is provided for routing packets in an interconnection network. The switch includes egress ports to transmit packets, and ingress ports to receive packets. The switch also includes a buffer capacity circuit configured to obtain local buffer capacity for buffers configured to buffer packets transmitted via the switch. The switch also includes a telemetry circuit configured to receive telemetry flow control units from next switches coupled to the switch. Each telemetry flow control unit corresponds to buffer capacity at a respective next switch. The switch also includes a network capacity circuit configured to compute network capacity for transmitting packets to a destination based on the telemetry flow control units and the local buffer capacity. The switch also includes a routing circuit configured to receive packets via the ingress ports, and route the packets to the destination, via the egress ports, with bandwidth proportional to the network capacity.
US12028262B2	Selective fidelity rates for network traffic replication by a digital twin device A computer executed process can be configured to identify a network traffic flow of a source network device. The process can select a traffic fidelity rate from a plurality of traffic fidelity rates for sending information regarding the network traffic flow to a digital twin device corresponding to the source network device. The process can transmit the information regarding the network traffic flow to the digital twin device according to the traffic fidelity rate. The digital twin device can be configured to replicate at least one operation of the source network device with respect to the network traffic flow.
US12028259B2	Infrastructure equipment, wireless communications networks and methods A method of operating an infrastructure equipment forming part of a wireless communications network comprises establishing a radio bearer in accordance with a radio resource connection procedure for transmitting data via a wireless access interface to the wireless communications network, the radio bearer including one or more quality of service flows. Each of the quality of service flows is associated with a communications service provided to the communications device and each of the quality of service flows is defined by parameters for communicating the data for the communications service. The parameters include a relative priority indicator providing an indication of a relative priority level for transmitting from the communications device the data with respect to other quality of service flows.
US12028258B2	Traffic transfer system, traffic transfer method, data collection device, traffic transfer device, and program A data collection apparatus in a traffic transfer system collects and transfers low-bit-rate traffic data from an IoT device, and transfers high-bit-rate traffic data in an identified area. A traffic transfer apparatus performs determination as to whether or not a service-supported event occurs, by inputting the low-bit-rate traffic data into a learner and, when occurrence is determined, acquires and transfers the high-bit-rate traffic data in the identified area. The traffic transfer apparatus causes the learner to relearn a result of analysis of the transferred high-bit-rate traffic data and the low-bit-rate traffic data used in the determination.
US12028256B2	Method and apparatus for controlling traffic in packet-based network This application discloses a method for controlling traffic in a packet-based network. In the method, after receiving a control packet from a transmit end, an intermediate node between the transmit end and the receive end sends a control packet at the head of a first control queue based on a first duration, wherein the first duration is obtained based on a committed burst size (CBS) and a first committed information rate (CIR), and the intermediate node is configured to send a packet of a first transmit end to a first receive end in the packet-based network. After sending the control packet in the control queue, the intermediate node sends a first data packet set at the head of a data queue based on the sent control packet, wherein the first data packet set comprises C data packets, and C is an integer greater than or equal to 1.
US12028255B2	Virtual channel setting method and apparatus for data flow This application provides a virtual channel setting method and the method includes: a' receiving device receives a first data packet of a first data flow from a sending device, where the first data packet includes an identifier of a first virtual channel corresponding to the first data flow; the receiving device selects a second virtual channel for the first data flow from a first virtual channel group corresponding to the first data flow, where the second virtual channel is different from the first virtual channel; and the receiving device sends an acknowledgement packet to the sending device, where the acknowledgement packet includes an identifier of the second virtual channel, and the second virtual channel is used by the sending device to update a virtual channel corresponding to the first data flow.
US12028254B2	Systems for and methods of flow table management A switch includes memory including a flow table. The flow table includes a flow key database and a flow policy database for flows in a network associated with the switch. The switch includes a security processor including an exact match engine. The exact match engine manages the flow table in the memory. The exact match engine includes a learn cache configured to store key entries for storage in the flow key database.
US12028249B2	Resource aware forwarding in the network with abstract destination address and semantic addressing A method performed by a network node for routing data packets is disclosed. The method includes receiving a data packet that includes an abstract destination address in a shipping specification of the data packet. The abstract destination address indicates one or more network resource requirements of a destination. The method also includes determining whether a server satisfies the one or more network resource requirements of the destination specified by the abstract destination address. The method also includes forwarding the data packet to the server according to the determination.
US12028242B2	Interlocking border gateway protocol and multi-chassis link aggregation group processes for network devices Embodiments of the present disclosure include techniques for interlocking border gateway protocol and multi-chassis link aggregation group processes for network devices. A first process for configuring a link aggregation group with a second network device is performed. Whether an option to use a media access control (MAC) address shared with the second network device is active is determined. Upon determining that the option to use the MAC address shared with the second network device is active, a second process for configuring the first network device to transmit inter-subnet connectivity information using the shared MAC address is performed.
US12028236B2	Consensus driven service promotion Processing logic may monitor testing of a candidate service with one or more services to determine if one or more criteria are satisfied. The one or more criteria may be defined in a smart contract on a blockchain. In response to the one or more criteria being satisfied, processing logic may initiate a transaction of the blockchain which causes each of the one or more services to validate the one or more criteria. In response to the one or more services validating that the one or more criteria are satisfied, processing logic may promote the candidate service.
US12028234B2	Conversion device, conversion method, and conversion program A conversion device analyzes an input packet and acquires header information included in the packet. Furthermore, the conversion device classifies packets into one of a plurality of groups on the basis of the acquired header information and set grouping conditions. Subsequently, the conversion device generates packets for analysis on the basis of the processing corresponding to the classified groups.
US12028233B2	Automated formation and optimization of a group of nodes for distributed data routing over computer networks A method for autonomously routing data with reduced latencies over the Internet includes sending one or more ping messages from a first node to one or more genesis nodes on the Internet, receiving one of the ping messages from the first node by a first genesis node, sending a reply message to invite the first node to join a pulse group if the first node is selected based on predetermined criteria, automatically measuring one-way latencies between a plurality of nodes in the pulse group, wherein the pulse group includes the first genesis node, a first node, and a second node, automatically removing a node from the pulse group if fluctuations of one-way latencies associated with the node exceed a pre-determined threshold, and automatically determining a lower-latency data routing path from the first node to the second node based on the one-way latencies measured in the pulse group.
US12028232B2	Systems and methods for timing a signal Systems and methods are provided for timing signals, measuring latency, and/or timestamping. Some of the systems described herein can measure latency in a network device, and can include a signal generator, a sampler, a pulse detector, a timer, and a connector. The signal generator can define a signal profile. The sampler can sample the signal profile at a frequency of at least 4 GHz to generate a plurality of bits, each bit corresponding to a value of the signal profile during the sampling. The pulse detector can detect a change in the signal profile by detecting at least one change in the plurality of bits. The timer can time the change in value in the plurality of bits to provide at least one detection time measurement. The connector can electronically link the signal generator and the sampler to the network device to provide an external network path for transmitting a signal from the signal generator to the sampler via the network device.
US12028231B2	Performance measurement in a packet-switched communication network It is disclosed a method for performing a performance measurement on a packet flow transmitted through a packet-switched communication network. In the packet flow, first blocks of packets having a first packet feature and second blocks of packets having a second packet feature are provided by periodically switching a packet feature in the packet flow, so that the first blocks of packets alternate in time with the second blocks of packets. Two or more measurement points on the path of the packet flow provide performance parameters relating to the first and second blocks of packets, and alternately provide their values to a network controller, which the controller uses to perform the performance measurement. The periodic switching of the packet feature and the alternate provision of the performance parameter values are in response to remote commands received from the controller.
US12028229B2	Proactive microservice anomaly and outage management based on supervised machine learning Various aspects relate to a distributed software application. A distributed software application is a software application that is distributed among multiple microservices. The different microservices are different processes that communicate with each other not as a monolithic software application by directly invoking each other's APIs within a single executable process, but using a different communication mechanism, e.g., by using a message passing functionality such as a message bus, a message queue, or a service mesh. In addition to internally communicating with each other and consuming each other's functionality, the microservices may also consume functionality provided by reuse services external to the software application. Such reuse services may be used by multiple software applications and can include, e.g., a logging service, a database service, and/or a storage service, and the like.
US12028219B2	Real-time intelligent system mapping Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for system mapping based on processing of custom network packets. A token processor may deploy a network agent to a system of record (SOR). The network agent may scan the SOR and extract SOR metadata through a set of API calls. The network agent may aggregate the SOR data and generate a token according to parameters established by the token processor. The token processor may process the token through a neural network to generate a set of output vectors for the SOR. A system mapping engine may determine relationships between network SORs based on the output vectors and generate an integrated visual representation of enterprise systems. The output vectors may be adjusted based on new tokens received from the SOR and the visual representation may be updated in real time.
US12028214B1	Discovering computing entities communicating with a network communication protocol One embodiment provides a method for discovering an entity communicating using a network communication protocol. A scanning system of a system transmits, at a plurality of communication ports, a message using the network communication protocol to elicit a response from an entity accessing one of the communication ports. The transmitting includes emulating a portion of the network communication protocol. The scanning system receives a response to the message from the entity accessing one of the communication ports. The scanning system determines the entity is an entity of interest by determining that the response is provided using the network communication protocol and is responsive to the message. Responsive to determining that the entity is an entity of interest, the entity is added to a group of entities of interest.
US12028212B1	Enterprise server image (ESI) meta tagging A system prevents incorrect deployment of computer code in remote enterprise servers. The system includes a source code repository for housing computer code received from developers and housing software that maintains the code and develops version control information (VCI) for same. The system includes a continuous integration/continuous deployment (CICD) pipeline orchestrator and arranges deployment of the computer code by determining servers to which the code will be deployed. A metatag affixing engine and database creates metatag information corresponding to the computer code and stores the metatag information. The metatag information qualifies the code for deployment at the servers, as follows. A code management system schedules deployment. Prior to deployment, each of the servers reads the metatag implemented on the code and compares the metatag on the code to determine whether the metatag matches the metatag stored at the database. When the metatags matches at the server, the computer code is deployed.
US12028211B2	Device-specific pre-configuration of cloud endpoints The pre-configuring of a set of cloud endpoints to connect to a device in response to receiving a request that cloud endpoints be pre-configured for connection to the device. The request is used to identify the set of cloud endpoints that is to be so pre-configured. Then, a pre-configuration instruction is formulated that is structured to be interpretable by each cloud endpoint to establish device-specific connection configuration that is specific to the device. Furthermore, the pre-configuration is structured to assist the respective cloud endpoint to establish a connection with the device upon request of the device. The pre-configuration instruction is then sent to each cloud endpoint in the set of cloud endpoints, causing the pre-configuration to occur. Thus, subsequent connection to the device is more efficient.
US12028205B2	Systems and methods for routing data in distributed environments Described in detail herein are systems and methods for routing data in a distributed environment. A controller can maintain an inactive state. A terminal can receive a request associated with a physical object. The terminal can be communicatively coupled to a cloud computing system. The terminal can attempt to transmit the request to the cloud computing system. A router communicatively coupled to the controller and cloud computing system can attempt to initiate communication between the terminal and the cloud computing system in response to the terminal attempt to transmit the request to the cloud computing system. The router can route the request to the controller in response to failing to initiate communication between the terminal and the cloud computing system after specified amount of time. The controller can switch from an inactive state to an active state in response to receiving the request.
US12028204B2	Network event detection and automated remediation A method of identification and remediation of a mass event in a managed network. The method includes receiving a first report of an event occurring at a first endpoint of the managed network. In response, a first action is performed. The first action being initiated based on a repeating event trigger not being triggered. The method includes receiving a second report of the event occurring at a second endpoint. In response, the method includes determining whether a threshold that triggers the repeating event trigger is exceeded. The threshold being indicative of a mass event in the managed network. Responsive to the threshold being exceeded, the method includes triggering the repeating event trigger and performing a second automated resolution action in the managed network. The second action being different from the first action. Responsive to the threshold not being exceeded, the method includes performing the first action at the second endpoint.
US12028202B2	Out of band frequency conversion using demodulation A system that includes a downstream device that receives an analog out-of-band signal received in a downstream frequency spectrum of the downstream device including control channel data for a consumer premise equipment. At the downstream device converting the analog out-of-band signal to a digital signal including the control channel data. At the downstream device converting the digital control channel data out-of-band signal to an analog signal including the control channel data at an out-of-band signal for the consumer premise equipment, where the converted analog out-of-band signal for the consumer premise equipment is at a frequency included in an upstream frequency spectrum of the downstream device.
US12028200B2	Optical transceiver and frame synchronization method of monitoring control signal An optical transceiver includes an optical transmitter transmit an optical signal; an optical receiver to extract a monitoring control signal from an optical signal, the monitoring control signal including first and second frames having the respective headers, and being separated in time; and a processing part to generate a bit stream from the monitoring control signal; generate a first byte stream from the bit stream; extract monitoring control data from a byte stream subsequent to the first byte stream, if the first byte stream is equal to the first header; generate a second byte stream from the bit stream if the first byte stream is different from the first header, the second byte stream having the same length as the second header; and extract the monitoring control data from a byte stream subsequent to the second byte stream if the second byte stream is equal to the second header.
US12028199B2	Sequence-based signal processing method and apparatus This application provides a sequence-based signal processing method and apparatus. An example signal processing method includes: determining a sequence {xn} including N elements, where N is equal to 18 and the sequence {xn} satisfies a preset condition; generating a first signal based on the sequence {xn}; and sending the first signal.
US12028195B2	Method, transmitter, structure, transceiver and access point for provision of multi-carrier on-off keying signal A method of transmitting an On-Off Keying, OOK, signal includes an ON waveform and an OFF waveform forming a pattern representing transmitted information. The method includes obtaining a basic baseband waveform; scrambling the basic baseband waveform by applying a first binary randomised sequence where one of the binary values cause transformation to a complex conjugate, modulating the information to be transmitted by applying the scrambled basic baseband waveform for the ON waveform and applying no waveform for the OFF waveform; and transmitting the modulated information.
US12028187B2	Machine learning-based channel estimation Example embodiments of the present disclosure relate to machine learning-based channel estimation. According to an example embodiment, a first device determines a signal quality that is expected in transmission of a reference signal from a second device to the first device and receives the reference signal from the second device. The first device selects, based on the expected signal quality, a channel estimation model from a plurality of channel estimation models that have been trained for a plurality of candidate signal qualities for the reference signal. The first device determines, using the selected channel estimation model and based on the received reference signal, channel state information of a communication channel from the first device to the second device. According to this solution, a channel estimation model is dynamically selected for use, depending on a real-time signal quality expected to be gained in transmission of a certain RS.
US12028183B2	System for cyber boundary wall using SDN-based zero wall pad and operation method thereof The present invention relates to a system for a cyber boundary wall using a software defined networks (SDN)-based zero wall pad and an operation method thereof, the system comprising: a wall pad in which an operating system (OS) has been removed and which provides a user interface for controlling Internet of Things of a corresponding household; a household switch that is connected to the Internet of Things and a smart metering network, performs a router function of the wall pad, and controls the Internet of Things on the basis of control information for the Internet of Things, to be input via the wall pad; a server that receives, via the household switch, data about the Internet of Things of the corresponding household, generates a virtual screen corresponding to the user interface, on the basis of the data about the Internet of Things of the corresponding household, and then provides the generated virtual screen to the wall pad; and a virtual private network (VPN) server that interworks with the household switch and the server.
US12028178B2	Conferencing session facilitation systems and methods using virtual assistant systems and artificial intelligence algorithms Conferencing system and methods for facilitating conferencing sessions in an environment using virtual assistant systems and artificial intelligence algorithms are disclosed. Virtual assistant systems may be integrated into devices of the conferencing system in order to enable higher quality experiences with the virtual assistant by providing improved audio and visual feedback. The conferencing system can provide improved control, configuration, and interaction with the devices of the conferencing system through use of artificial intelligence algorithm that processes voice commands and characteristics of the environment and conferencing sessions, which can result in better system performance and increased user satisfaction.
US12028166B2	Feedback triggered Tx/Rx for a UE based on multiple ACK/NACK This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for ACK/NACK-triggered communications with a UE based on multiple ACK/NACK bits in HARQ feedback from a UE. The UE may receive a configuration for a resource, monitor for one or more PDSCH transmissions, and transmit an uplink transmission including HARQ feedback carrying multiple NACK or ACK bits for the one or more PDSCH transmissions. The UE may transmit or receive communication in the resource based on a trigger in the HARQ feedback for transmission or reception of the communication in the resource.
US12028165B2	HARQ-ACK codebook determination method and apparatus, terminal, and storage medium Provided are an HARQ-ACK codebook determination method and apparatus, a terminal and a storage medium. The method includes: dividing candidate PDSCHs in at least one slot into groups according to candidate PDSCH types and end times of the candidate PDSCHs, and forming pieces of HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the divided candidate PDSCHs; and concatenating the pieces of HARQ-ACK information corresponding to the candidate PDSCHs to obtain an HARQ-ACK codebook.
US12028164B2	Electronic device for transmitting EIR packet in Bluetooth network environment, and method related thereto An electronic device comprises: a wireless communication circuitry configured to support a Bluetooth protocol, wherein the wireless communication circuitry can be configured to: transmit an IAC-based ID packet for a communication connection with an external electronic device, receive, from the external electronic device, an FHS packet corresponding to the ID packet, identify whether an EIR field included in the FHS packet indicates the transmission of an EIR packet, identify whether a reserved field included in the FHS packet indicates the retransmission of the EIR packet based on the EIR field indicating the transmission of the EIR packet, receive the EIR packet from the external electronic device, and transmit, to the external electronic device, an ACK signal for the reception of the EIR packet in response to the reception of the EIR packet.
US12028156B2	Time synchronization method, time synchronization sending end and receiving end, and system A time synchronization method, a time synchronization sender, a time synchronization receiver and a time synchronization system are provided. The method includes: determining whether at least one parameter causing recalculation of a best master clock (BMC) algorithm changes; in a case where it is determined that the parameter changes, sending a 1588 standard-based Announce message; and in a case where it is determined that the parameter does not change, sending a keep-alive message of the Announce message. In the present disclosure, by distinguishing keep-alive messages from protocol messages, the problem that a CPU system is busy due to the processing of Announce messages is solved, thereby realizing the optimization of the 1588 protocol, and reducing the impact on the CPU.
US12028149B2	System and method for range extension of wireless networks A wireless network includes a client device and an access point (AP). The client device generates a data packet having a physical layer protocol data unit frame format. The client device transmits the data packet to the AP such that a plurality of long training fields (LTFs) of the data packet is transmitted at higher power as compared to a data field of the data packet, and a preamble portion of the data packet is transmitted at higher power as compared to the plurality of LTFs. Further, the data field includes various resource units (RUs) and one such RU is utilized for data transmission between the client device and the AP. The transmission of the data packet from the client device to the AP in the aforementioned manner results in the range extension of the wireless network.
US12028148B2	Recovery mechanism for secondary cell Aspects of the present disclosure relate to wireless communications, and more particularly, to cell recovery techniques. One example method generally includes receiving, on a first cell, an indication that one or more channel measurements are to be reported for a second cell for which beam failure is detected; transmitting a first message triggering reporting of at least one preferred beam for communicating on the second cell, the first cell being different from the second cell, wherein the first message is transmitted in response to the indication that the one or more channel measurements are to be reported; receiving a report indicating the at least one preferred beam; and configuring a transmission configuration state in accordance with the at least one preferred beam for communicating on the second cell.
US12028146B2	Grouping of beams by user equipment The present disclosure provides systems, methods, and apparatuses for grouping beams that are directionally associated with one another and associating respective properties associated with groups of beams. In one aspect, a UE or component thereof may be configured to select a first beam group of one or more beam groups to include a first beam of a set of beams, with the first beam group including a first subset of beams of the set of beams that is directionally associated with a first direction of the first beam. The UE or component thereof may be further configured to associate a respective set of properties with each of the one or more beam groups. The UE or component thereof be configured to communicate via the first beam of the first beam group of the one or more beam groups.
US12028141B2	Initial access enhancements for network deployments Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive an indication of at least one of: one or more anchor cells associated with a target cell, or one or more target cells, including the target cell, associated with an anchor cell included in the one or more anchor cells. The UE may transmit, to the anchor cell, an indication of the target cell and an indication of a target beam index associated with the target cell as part of an initial access procedure with the anchor cell. The UE may establish a connection with the target cell based at least in part on performing the initial access procedure with the anchor cell. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12028137B2	Systems and methods to extract beamforming parameters at a radio unit (RU) of a radio access network (RAN) Embodiments herein describe a radio unit (RU) of a radio access network (RAN), that extracts payload data and beamforming parameters from matrices received from a base station based on format parameters of the matrices and format parameters of channel state information resource signal resource elements (CSI-RS REs). The matrices include a payload matrix and first and second bit mask matrices. Locations of CSI-RS REs are determined based on the bit mask matrices. The payload matrix is separated into CSI-RS RE and non-CSI-RS RE payload matrices based on the locations of the CSI-RS REs. CSI-RS REs and the non-CSI-RS REs beamforming weight matrices are recovered from the bit mask matrices based on known features of the CSI-RS REs and the bit mask matrices. Digital downlink beamforming is performed based on the recovered payload matrices and beamforming weight matrices.
US12028131B2	Apparatuses and methods for sequential transmit precoding The present disclosure relates to radio network communication. In one of its aspects, the present disclosure relates to a method, performed by a first APU, for sequential transmit precoding in a radio stripe system. The system comprises at least two APUs connected 5 in series from a CPU and serves at least two UEs. According to the method, channel estimates for channels to the served UEs are obtained and based on these, a precoding filter is determined. The precoding filter is going to be applied to signals that are to be transmitted from the first APU to the UEs. Thereafter, based on the determined precoding filter and the obtained channel estimates, effective precoded channels for the 0 signals to the UEs are determined. These represent the effective channel created after the precoding filter being applied to each channel for the UEs. The effective precoded channels are transmitted to at least one subsequent second APU.
US12028129B2	Methods and apparatus for multi-user equipment (UE) cooperation An enhanced User Equipment (UE) is formed by multiple UEs in a wireless communication network to assist one of the multiple UEs with communications, and involves UE cooperation between the multiple UEs. A capability, or at least one capability, of the enhanced UE is an enhanced capability relative to a capability of the UE that the enhanced UE is to assist. Information that is indicative of the (at least one) capability of the enhanced UE is obtained by a network device, and the network device communicates with the enhanced UE after obtaining the information. From a UE side, information indicative of a capability, or at least one capability, associated with the enhanced UE is transmitted, and the UE communicates with the network device after transmitting the information.
US12028126B1	Segmented echo cancellation filter for use in full-duplex communication systems Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for a segmented ECF that includes multiple filter components to replicate an echo pulse response. The different filter components are used to replicate different portions of the echo pulse response. Each filter components can include filter coefficients of different sizes based on the portions of the echo pulse response that is replicated by the filter component. For example, a filter component that replicates a portion of the echo pulse response that includes a large reflection can include large filter coefficients suitable to replicate the larger reflection. In contrast, a filter component that replicates a portion of the echo pulse response that includes smaller reflections can include smaller filter coefficients that are suitable to replicate the smaller reflection. The output of each of the filter components is combined to replicate the full echo pulse response.
US12028123B2	Monitoring leakage in aeronautical band of high split HFC A method for monitoring leakage in an aeronautical band of a high split HFC by a detection and validation of OUDP bursts includes: providing an apparatus for use in a patrol vehicle, the apparatus including a leak signal receiver coupled to a processor; measuring a duration of detected bursts to provide a plurality of burst durations; collecting a histogram of the burst durations during a measuring session to provide a duration histogram; and determining a presence of a leak based on a comparison of the duration histogram with expected durations of OUDP bursts. Systems for monitoring leakage in an aeronautical band of a high split HFC by a detection and validation OUDP bursts, and other methods for monitoring leakage in an aeronautical band of a high split HFC by a detection and validation OUDP bursts are also described.
US12028122B2	Methods for timing offset signaling for cross-link interference (CLI) measurement An approach is described for a source device associated with a source cell, where the source device includes radio front end circuitry and processor circuitry coupled to the radio front end circuitry. The processor circuitry is configured to transmit configuration information to a user equipment (UE); transmit a request for a transmission or receiving time offset (TO) to the UE; receive the transmission or receiving TO from the EE. The processor circuitry is further configured to transmit the configuration information and the transmission or receiving TO to a second source device associated with a second source cell for a CLI reference signal measurement, wherein the EE is associated with the source cell, and the configuration information comprises an SRS instruction for the EE to enable an uplink (EE) CSI acquisition or tracking.
US12028118B2	Antenna calibration apparatus and antenna calibration method This application provides an antenna calibration apparatus and an antenna calibration method. The antenna calibration apparatus includes: l antennas; l antenna filters, where first ends of the l antenna filters are respectively connected to the l antennas; l radio frequency links, respectively connected to second ends of the l antenna filters; and a calibration circuit, connected to each of the second ends of the l antenna filters, and configured to: send or receive a first calibration signal through a position between each antenna filter in the l antenna filters and a radio frequency link connected to the second end of each antenna filter; and calibrate each antenna based on the first calibration signal.
US12028114B2	Method and system for performing signal analysis using a correlative receiver An apparatus includes a tunable optical carrier source configured to generate a tunable optical carrier and a fixed wavelength optical carrier source configured to generate a fixed wavelength optical carrier. The apparatus also includes first and second optical modulators configured to modulate the tunable optical carrier and the fixed wavelength optical carrier based on first and second of multiple input signals. The apparatus further includes a delay element configured to delay the modulated tunable optical carrier, first and second optical detectors coupled to the delay element, and third and fourth optical modulators coupled to the first and second optical detectors. In addition, the apparatus includes a wavelength division demultiplexer optically coupled to the third and fourth optical modulators, a plurality of optical 90-degree hybrid elements optically coupled to the wavelength division demultiplexer, and a plurality of optical detectors optically coupled to corresponding ones of the optical 90-degree hybrid elements.
US12028113B2	Polarization modulation method of photonic pulses for generating quantum cryptographic keys, and related polarization modulator A polarization modulation method of photonic pulses, in particular for generating quantum cryptographic keys, ensures an optimum stability of the outgoing polarization states, and comprises the steps of: generating a plurality of photonic pulses with an unspecified polarization state obtained by the overlapping of both the horizontal and vertical polarization modes thereof, and routing them in a first polarization-maintaining fiber; splitting said horizontal and vertical polarization modes and routing them in respective terminals of a second polarization-maintaining fiber forming a ring, whereby they travel such ring clockwise and counter-clockwise respectively, or vice versa; inducing a respective phase modulation (oe, ol) of both said polarization modes, in one point of said ring which is spaced from said terminals by optical paths having different length along said ring, thereby a polarization-maintaining fiber delay line is determined; and recombining said polarization modes in one single photonic pulse beam, and routing the resulting beam through said first polarization-maintaining fiber, by obtaining, at the output thereof, a polarization state of the pulses depending upon the difference between said phase modulations (oe, ol).
US12028112B2	Network communications systems and methods Methods, systems, and devices for network communications to reduce optical beat interference (OBI) in upstream communications are described. For example, a fiber node may provide a seed source to injection lock upstream laser diodes. Therefore, upstream communications from each injection locked laser diode may primarily include the wavelength associated with each seed source. The seed sources may be unique to each end device and configured to minimize OBI. That is, the upstream laser diodes may be generic, but the collected seed source may enable upstream communications at varying wavelengths. The end device may provide upstream communications by externally modulating a signal generated by the injection locked laser diode.
US12028111B1	Wireless transceiver This disclosure provides a first wireless transceiver for a wireless telecommunications network, and a method of operating the first wireless transceiver, such that a combination of a phase-modulated signal and a local oscillator signal cause a detectable change of a probe signal from which a phase state of the phase-modulated signal can be detected.
US12028110B2	Distributed fiber optic sensor placement A procedure to solve the DFOS placement problem that uses a genetic algorithm to achieve a global optimization of sensor placement. First, our procedure according to aspects of the present disclosure defines a fitness function that counts the number of DFOS sensors used. Second, the procedure uses a valid DFOS placement assignment to model an individual in the genetic algorithm. Each individual consists of N genes, where N is the number of nodes in the given network infrastructure, e.g., N=\|V\|. Each gene has two genomes: (1) a list of 0s and/or 1s, in which is represent the network nodes that are equipped with DFOS sensors, and 0s represent the nodes that are not equipped with DFOS sensors; (2) a list of sensing fiber routes. An individual that has smallest number of is in their genes will be considered as the strongest individual. Thirdly, the procedure randomly generates a population of individuals. After a certain number of generations of population, the strongest individual in the last generation will be the global optima for the DFOS placement assignment.
US12028109B2	Adaptive equalizer, equalization method, and optical communication system A tap-coefficient control circuit sets the tap coefficient converged by the second tap coefficient updater as an initial value of the tap coefficient in the first digital filter which is to be updated by the first tap coefficient updater, arranges the tap coefficients converged by the second tap coefficient updater in descending order of contribution degree to the convergence operation of tap coefficient update in the first tap coefficient updater, judges the tap coefficient not less than upper specified number to be valid and the tap coefficient less than the specified number to be invalid, and sets the tap coefficient of the first digital filter corresponding to the tap coefficient judged to be invalid to zero not to be used in a calculation of the first tap coefficient updater until a next judgment result is made.
US12028107B2	High speed bidirectional optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR)-based testing of device under test In some examples, high speed bidirectional OTDR-based testing may include transmitting data from a first end of a device under test (DUT) towards an optical time-domain reflectometer (OTDR) that is operatively connected to a second opposite end of the DUT. Further data that is transmitted by the OTDR may be received from the second opposite end of the DUT towards the first end of the DUT. Based on an amplitude of the further data, a direction of receiving of the further data may be adjusted towards a first receiver or towards a second receiver.
US12028106B2	Communication device and method, and unmanned aerial vehicle employing the same The present disclosure provides a communication device which is suitable for use in an unmanned aerial vehicle operating in an unmanned aerial vehicle collaboration system including multiple unmanned aerial vehicles and enables both a data communication with another unmanned aerial vehicle and a measurement of a distance to another unmanned aerial vehicle. According to an aspect of an exemplary embodiment, a communication device of an unmanned aerial vehicle includes: an ultra-wideband (UWB) communication circuit configured to perform a UWB communication with other unmanned aerial vehicle; and a UWB communication manager configured to send transmit data to the other unmanned aerial vehicle and receive data sent by the other unmanned aerial vehicle through the UWB communication circuit, and transmit or receive shared data to be shared by unmanned aerial vehicles in a form of being appended to a distance measurement frame.
US12028103B1	Physiological signal acquisition system and method with improved noise and common mode rejection performance and signal quality The present invention relates to the acquisition, processing, and monitoring of signals, and particularly to the acquisition, processing, and monitoring of electrophysiological signals. More particularly, the present invention relates to the acquisition, processing, and monitoring electroencephalography (EEG) signals representing cortical/brain activity. Further, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus for acquiring such signals in the presence of electrical interference and noise. More particularly, the present invention relates to systems and methods for filtering out and rejecting electrical interference and noise while maintaining or improving the quality of the underlying physiological signal and preventing perturbation or introduction of artifacts into the physiological signal.
US12028102B2	Signal level indicators and antenna assemblies including the same Exemplary embodiments are disclosed of signal level indicators and antenna assemblies including the same. In an exemplary embodiment, an antenna assembly includes an antenna configured to be operable for receiving signals, a signal level indicator for indicating a strength of signals received by the antenna, and an amplifier coupled for communication with the antenna, the signal level indicator, and a signal output. The amplifier is configured to be operable for amplifying signals received by the antenna.
US12028098B2	Radio-frequency power amplifier with amplitude modulation to phase modulation (AMPM) compensation An electronic device may include wireless circuitry with a processor, a transceiver, an antenna, and a front-end module coupled between the transceiver and the antenna. The front-end module may include one or more power amplifiers for amplifying a signal for transmission through the antenna. A power amplifier may include a phase distortion compensation circuit. The phase distortion compensation circuit may include one or more n-type metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitors configured to receive a bias voltage. The bias voltage may be set to provide the proper amount of phase distortion compensation.
US12028097B2	Radio communication device and distortion compensation method A radio communication device includes: a plurality of antenna elements; a phase shifter that applies weights for each of the antenna elements respectively to first-band data and second-band data of different frequency bands to form beams corresponding to the first-band data and the second-band data; a power amplifier that is arranged for each of the antenna elements; and a processor configured to compensate for non-linear distortion. The processor executes a process including calculating, using a first distortion compensation coefficient, a distortion compensation signal that compensates for in-band non-linear distortion of the first-band data and the second-band data, and calculating, using a second distortion compensation coefficient, an out-of-band compensation signal that compensates for out-of-band non-linear distortion of the first-band data and the second-band data, and the power amplifier amplifies a signal obtained by synthesizing the distortion compensation signal and the out-of-band compensation signal.
US12028095B2	Machine-learning based analysis and response to electromagnetic waveforms A method includes determining, based at least in part on parameters of a software-defined radio (SDR), waveform data descriptive of an electromagnetic waveform. The method also includes generating feature data based on the waveform data and based on one or more symbols decoded from the electromagnetic waveform. The method further includes providing the feature data as input to a first machine-learning model and initiating a response action based on an output of the first machine-learning model.
US12028092B2	Frequency delta-sigma modulation signal output circuit and sensor module A frequency delta-sigma modulation signal output circuit includes: a phase modulation circuit configured to generate n delay signals obtained by delaying a measurement target signal, n being an integer of 2 or more, and generate a phase modulation signal by randomly selecting one of the n delay signals in synchronization with the measurement target signal; and a frequency ratio digital conversion circuit configured to generate a frequency delta-sigma modulation signal using a reference signal and the phase modulation signal.
US12028087B2	Dynamic analog-to-digital converter capability Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described for one or more aspects of dynamically configuring an analog-to-digital converter (ADC). A user equipment (UE) may determine a set of supported ADC resolution sizes including one or more dynamically configurable bit quantities. The UE may transmit a capability message including an indication of the set of ADC resolution sizes to a base station. The UE may indicate, to the base station, a power consumption factor or a table of signal-to-quantization noise ratios (SQNR) per bit quantity supported by the UE's ADC. In some cases, the base station may enable, based on the set of ADC resolution sizes, clipping of a power amplifier and one or more associated precoding parameters, and may indicate the precoding parameters to the UE. The UE may select an ADC resolution size for processing received messages.
US12028086B2	Self calibrating digital-to-analog converter A self-calibrating digital-to-analog converter (DAC) is disclosed. The self-calibrating DAC includes a DAC including a least significant bit (LSB) side resistor network and a most significant bit (MSB) side resistor network. At least the MSB side resistor network includes a plurality of trimmable resistors. A resistance to frequency converter coupled with an output of the DAC is included to generate a frequency fL based on a value of the LSB side resistor network or the MSB side resistor network. A monitor is included to generate a counter value by comparing fL with a high frequency clock having a constant frequency fH. A memory is included to store at least two counter values generating by comparing fL and fH once when the LSB side resistor network is connected while the MSB side resistor network is floating and once when the LSB side resistor network is floating while only one of the resistors in the MSB side resistor network is connected and all other resistors in the MSB side resistor network are floating. A comparator is included to compare the at least two counter values. A trimming controller is included to generate a trimming signal to trim one of the plurality of trimmable resistors based on an output of the comparator.
US12028085B2	Digital-to-analog converter with digitally controlled trim In described examples, a digital-to-analog converter includes an output, multiple most significant bit (MSB) connector resistors each having a resistance R−ΔR, multiple least significant bit (LSB) connector resistors each having a resistance R, and multiple binary arm resistors each having a resistance 2R. The MSB connector resistors are coupled in a series beginning with the output and ending with a first one of the LSB connector resistors, and the LSB connector resistors are coupled in a series beginning with the first LSB connector resistor. A terminal of one of the binary arm resistors is coupled to an ending of the LSB connector resistor series, and a terminal of each of different remaining ones of the binary arm resistors is coupled between a different pair of the MSB and/or LSB connector resistors.
US12028084B2	Hybrid-cycle quantum-clock frequency regulation An atomic clock employs hybrid long/short quantum clock frequency regulation wherein each of a series of regulation cycles includes a relatively long (four Ramsey-cycle) combination error signal (CES) cycle and plural relatively short (two Ramsey-cycle) single error signal (SES) cycles. The CES cycles provide for better long-term stability than can be provided using only SES cycles. However, including the SES cycles between CES cycles improves short term stability with negligible diminishment of long-term stability.
US12028081B2	Fractional-N frequency synthesizer based on a charge-sharing locking technique The present disclosure relates to a phase-locked loop (PLL) based on a charge-sharing locking technique, capable of both fractional-N and integer-N operation. The PLL comprises a voltage pre-setting stage; an oscillator: a shared capacitive load; and a switching network configured for selectively connecting the voltage pre-setting stage to the shared capacitive load during a voltage pre-setting stage for applying an expectant voltage to the capacitive load. The switching network is being further configured for selectively connecting the capacitive load to the oscillator during a charge-sharing locking stage for correcting a phase error in response to a difference between the expected voltage of the capacitor and the voltage of the oscillator. Frequency-tracking and waveform-learning stages are also provided for maintaining PVT (process, voltage, temperature) robustness and for suppressing fractional-N spur, respectively.
US12028078B2	Load dependent discharge for voltage controlled oscillator-based charge pump regulator A pulse generator circuit includes a charge pump having a charge pump output. A voltage divider is coupled to the charge pump output. The voltage divider has a voltage divider output. An error amplifier has a first error amplifier input and a second error amplifier input. The first error amplifier input is coupled to the voltage divider output. A dependent current source circuit has a first input coupled to the charge pump output, a second input coupled to the voltage divider output, and a third input coupled to the second error amplifier input. The dependent current source is configured to cause a current to flow from the charge pump output that is proportional to a difference between a first voltage at the voltage divider output and a second voltage at the second error amplifier input.
US12028077B1	Phase detector circuit for multi-level signaling A phase detector circuit for use with a multi-level signaling communication protocol on a serial communication link is disclosed. The phase detector circuit employs multiple phase and logic circuits to detect data state changes between adjacent ones of voltage levels corresponding to different data states in the communication protocol, and generates early/late signals using the detected data state changes. The phase detector circuit statistically filters data state transitions between non-adjacent voltage levels to improve phase locking and reduce recovered clock jitter.
US12028073B2	Driver controlling slew rate and switching of a switching output stage Drive circuits and methods control a switching output stage. The drive circuit includes a control drive circuit coupled to a control node of a low side power transistor and a switching node of a switching output stage. The control drive circuit includes a slew rate control circuit to control the adjusted drive current on the control node of the low side power transistor responsive to the slew rate of the output voltage to cause the low side power transistor to provide a constant slew rate for the output voltage over a range of values for the output current. A reverse detector circuit is coupled to the switching node and to a control node of a high side power transistor in the switching output stage. The reverse detector circuit controls activation of the high side power transistor in response to the output voltage on the switching node reaching a switching threshold.
US12028071B2	High-speed wide-band low-power level shifter for high-speed applications Embodiments of level shifters are disclosed. In an embodiment, a level shifter includes a transistor connected between an input terminal of the level shifter and an output terminal of the level shifter, a first resistor connected between a first terminal of the transistor and one of the input terminal of the level shifter and the output terminal of the level shifter, a capacitor connected between the input terminal of the level shifter and the output terminal of the level shifter, a current source connected between the output terminal of the level shifter and a fixed voltage, and a resistor divider connected between the first resistor and the output terminal of the level shifter.
US12028066B2	Slew-rate compensated transistor turnoff system In a transistor turnoff system, a transistor control circuit is configured to adjust a control voltage at a transistor control output responsive to a comparison signal at a control input. The control voltage has a slew rate. A comparator has a comparator output and first and second comparator inputs. The first comparator input is coupled to the transistor control output. The comparator is configured to: provide the comparison signal at the comparator output based on a reference voltage at the second comparator input; and deactivate the transistor control circuit by changing a state of the comparison signal responsive to the control voltage falling below the reference voltage. A slew-rate compensator is configured to increase the reference voltage by a compensation voltage that compensates for a time delay of the comparator or the transistor control circuit. The compensation voltage is proportional to the slew rate.
US12028065B2	Push-pull buffer circuit A buffer circuit includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a third transistor. The first transistor includes a first current terminal, a second current terminal, and a control terminal. The first current terminal is coupled to a load terminal. The control terminal is coupled to a preamplifier input terminal. The second transistor includes a first current terminal and a second current terminal. The first current terminal of the second transistor is coupled to the second current terminal of the first transistor. The third transistor includes a first current terminal, a second current terminal, and a control terminal. The first current terminal of the third transistor is coupled to the load terminal. The second current terminal of the third transistor is coupled to a ground terminal. The control terminal of the third transistor is coupled to second current terminal of the second transistor.
US12028064B2	High-speed dynamic-impedance digital CMOS gate drivers for wide band-gap power devices One aspect disclosed features an apparatus comprising: an input buffer configured to receive an input voltage pulse as an input, and to output, responsive to a leading edge of the input voltage pulse, a logic high voltage pulse at a first output of the input buffer and a logic low voltage pulse at a second output of the input buffer; an array of L active pull-up devices electrically coupled between a positive supply rail and an output node, each active pull-up device driven by the logic high voltage pulse as modulated by a corresponding bit of a series of N first L-bit binary words; and an array of L active pull-down devices electrically coupled between a negative supply rail and the output node, each active pull-down device driven by the logic low voltage pulse as modulated by a corresponding bit of a series of M second L-bit binary words.
US12028063B2	Input device control wheel A control wheel includes a casing, a wheel ring, a first magnetic element, a pivotal shaft and a second magnetic element. The casing includes an accommodation structure and a concave structure. The accommodation structure includes a base. The wheel ring is disposed within the accommodation structure. The wheel ring is exposed outside through the accommodation structure and the concave structure. The pivotal shaft is disposed within the wheel ring and connected with the base of the accommodation structure. The wheel ring is rotatable relative to the pivotal shaft. The first magnetic element is disposed within the wheel ring. The second magnetic element is disposed within the base of the accommodation structure. The first magnetic element of the wheel ring and the second magnetic element are magnetically attracted by each other. Consequently, a rotating speed of the wheel ring is decreased.
US12028062B2	Touch or proximity sensing system and method A system for sensing touch or proximity include: a first number of input terminals configured to couple one or more capacitive sensors, a second number of transferring units configured to transfer charges from the one or more capacitive sensors through the first number of input terminals in transferring phases of cycles of the one or more capacitive sensor, wherein at least one of the first and second numbers is equal to or greater than two, and a first switching unit, coupled between the first number of input terminals and the second number of transferring units, configured to selectively electrically couple any one of the first number of input terminals to any one of the second number of transferring units in the transferring phases.
US12028058B2	Self-biasing shunt switch with bootstrapping A shunt switch. In some embodiments, the shunt switch includes a transistor stack including a first transistor and a capacitor. The transistor stack may have a first end terminal and a second end terminal, the first transistor being connected to the first end terminal, the first end terminal being connected to a switching terminal of the shunt switch. The capacitor may have a first terminal connected to the second end terminal of the transistor stack, and a second terminal connected to a low-impedance node.
US12028057B2	Receivers for high density and low latency chip-to-chip links A system includes a receiver. The receiver includes an input stage having an input and an output, and a first resistor coupled between the output of the input stage and the input of the input stage. The receiver also includes an output stage having an input and an output, wherein the input of the output stage is coupled to the output of the input stage, and a feedback path coupled between the output of the output stage and the input of the input stage, the feedback path including a second resistor.
US12028053B2	Structure including resistor network for back biasing FET stack A structure includes a field effect transistor (FET) stack including a plurality of transistors over a buried insulator layer. A polysilicon isolation region is in a substrate below the FET stack and the buried insulator layer. A resistor network is in the polysilicon isolation region, the resistor network having a different resistivity than the polysilicon isolation region. The resistor network may include a resistive wire having a first width and a resistive pad within the resistive wire under each FET in the FET stack. Each resistive pad has a second width larger than the first width of the resistive wire. A length of the resistive wire is different aside each resistive pad to adjust a threshold voltage of an adjacent FET in the FET stack to a predetermined value to compensate for non-linear voltage distribution between an input and an output of the FET stack.
US12028052B2	Composite filter device A composite filter device includes a transmission filter and a reception filter first and second acoustic wave filters, respectively. The first acoustic wave filter has a first pass band and the second acoustic wave filter has a second pass band higher than the first pass band. One end of the first acoustic wave filter and one end of the second acoustic wave filter are connected in common by a common terminal. The second acoustic wave filter is a ladder filter including parallel arm resonators defined by acoustic wave resonators. The inequalities of fq
US12028049B2	Transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonator filters with sub-resonators having different mark and pitch Radio frequency filters are disclosed. A filter includes a first transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonator (XBAR) having a first sub-resonator and a second sub-resonator connected in parallel. A pitch of the first sub-resonator is not equal to a pitch of the second sub-resonator and/or a mark of the first sub-resonator is not equal to a mark of the second sub-resonator.
US12028048B2	Resonance apparatus for processing electrical loss using conductive material and method for manufacturing the same A resonance apparatus that processes an electrical loss using a conductive material and a method of manufacturing the resonance apparatus are provided. The resonance apparatus includes a lower electrode formed at a predetermined distance from a substrate, and a piezoelectric layer formed on the lower electrode. The resonance apparatus further includes an upper electrode formed on the piezoelectric layer, and a conductive layer formed on the upper electrode or the lower electrode.
US12028047B2	Tunable and switchable SAW-BAW RF resonators An adaptive RF acoustic resonator contains tunable and switchable hybrid surface-bulk acoustic waves (SAW-BAW). The surface and bulk acoustic waves couple for the spectral sensing and configurable filtering. The acoustic resonator includes a piezoelectric or ferroelectric layer, such as a SLAIN layer, which is patterned into interdigital transducers, and an intermediate layer of AlGaN—GaN, which is built on a SiC substrate. The device is protected under a plastic packaging cap. An external tuning voltage applies on the acoustic resonator to generate the tunable frequency and bandwidth of the bulk and surface acoustic waves. An RF switch generates an electric field to suppress a residual polarization during acoustic resonator switching. The bulk acoustic wave excited in the piezoelectric or ferroelectric layer couples with the surface acoustic wave propagating in the intermediate layer. The Sc concentration in the ferroelectric layer exceeds 28%. The transducers are capped with Bragg reflectors made of multiple Al and W layers.
US12028045B2	Bulk acoustic resonator filter A bulk acoustic resonator filter includes: a series bulk acoustic resonator electrically connected, in series, between first and second ports through which a radio frequency (RF) signal passes; a second shunt bulk acoustic resonator, electrically shunt connected between the series bulk acoustic resonator and a ground and having a resonance frequency lower than that of the series bulk acoustic resonator; and a first shunt bulk acoustic resonator electrically connected to the second shunt bulk acoustic resonator in series and having a resonance frequency higher than that of the second shunt bulk acoustic resonator. One or both of the series bulk acoustic resonator and the first shunt bulk acoustic resonator includes a first electrode disposed above a substrate; a piezoelectric layer disposed on the first electrode; a second electrode disposed on the piezoelectric layer; and a trench formed in an upper surface or above the second electrode and recessed downwardly.
US12028041B2	Gradient raised frames n film bulk acoustic resonators Gradient raised frames in film bulk acoustic resonators. In some embodiments, a film bulk acoustic resonator device can include a substrate, first and second metal layers implemented over the substrate, a piezoelectric layer between the first and second metal layers, and a gradient raised frame implemented relative to one of the first and second metal layers and configured to improve reflection of lateral mode waves and to reduce conversion of main mode waves into lateral mode waves.
US12028039B2	Forming XBAR devices with excess piezoelectric material removed A method of forming a filter device has a bonding layer formed on a substrate having at least a location for a first cavity and a location for a second cavity on a single die. A piezoelectric plate is bonded to the bonding layer and spans the first and the second cavity. Excess portions of piezoelectric plate are removed that extend a certain length past the perimeter of the first cavity and of the second cavity. Excess portions may be piezoelectric material that extends in the length and width direction past the perimeter of a cavity by more than between 2 and 25 percent of the cavity perimeter. An interdigital transducer (IDT) is on a front surface of the piezoelectric plate and having interleaved fingers over the first cavity.
US12028031B2	Gallium nitride operational amplifier The present invention is gallium nitride based operational amplifier because reliability and performance of the gallium nitride is better than the silicon counterpart in radiation environment. The operational amplifier includes four stages, first stage is dual input balanced output differential amplifier, second stage is dual input unbalanced differential amplifier, third stage is buffer stage to couple second and fourth stage, and fourth stage is cascaded common source amplifier with degeneration. A capacitor coupled between second and third stage is to enhance the stability of operational amplifier.
US12028027B2	Matching circuit with switchable load lines, load line switching method and power amplifier The present invention discloses a matching circuit with switchable load lines, a load line switching method and a power amplifier. The matching circuit matches the output impedance of the power amplifier, which amplifies an input signal and outputs an amplified signal. The matching circuit comprises a filter circuit and a switch group for load line selection, the output end of the filter circuit is connected to the switch group. The switch group comprises at least two independent switches, each switch independently constitutes a signal line, and each switch is configured with an external control signal to control on/off. The matching circuit provided by the invention adopts a switch group composed of at least two independent switches, and each independent switch forms a signal line to connect loads, so that multiple loads can be connected at the same time.
US12028022B2	Hybrid power amplifier with GaN-on-Si and GaN-on-SiC circuits A power amplifier, such as a radio-frequency (RF) Doherty power amplifier, for amplifying an input signal to an output signal is disclosed. The power amplifier includes a peaking amplifier circuit, where the peaking amplifier circuit is formed in gallium nitride materials on a silicon substrate. The power amplifier further includes a main amplifier circuit, where the main amplifier circuit is formed in gallium nitride materials on a silicon carbide substrate.
US12028019B2	Remote site survey for photovoltaic system site Remotely surveying a photovoltaic system site includes receiving a photograph uploaded by a user device; analyzing the photograph using a trained machine learning model; receiving a confidence score from the trained machine learning model; determining if the photograph includes predetermined information, the predetermined information being used to perform a remote photovoltaic (PV) system site survey remotely; and in response to a determination that the photograph does not include the predetermined information, provide specific instructions regarding the missing information, wherein the specific instructions include guidance on how to retake the photograph to capture the predetermined information.
US12028017B2	Solar power generation apparatus A reflection unit 31 to 34 has an outer reflection panel 311 to 314 and an inner reflection panel 321 to 324. The outer reflection panel 311 to 314 is disposed around power generation units 22 to 24. The inner reflection panel 321 to 324 is disposed substantively parallel to the outer reflection panel 311 to 314 between the outer reflection panel 311 to 314 and the power generation units 22 to 24. The reflection units 31 to 34 reflects solar light injected into gaps 361 to 364 between the outer reflection panels 311 to 314 and the inner reflection panels 321 to 324 to transmit the solar light into the power generation units 22 to 24.
US12028015B2	Beam and use thereof and solar tracking bracket A beam includes a flat plate and an elliptical curved plate, each of both ends of the flat plate are respectively fixedly connected to a corresponding end of the elliptical curved plate to form a ring shape, and a plane where the flat plate is located is perpendicular to a long axis of an ellipse where the elliptical curved plate is located. Also provided is the use of the beam in a solar tracking bracket that includes the beam; a post; and a bearing seat comprising a bearing ring, a Z-shaped support plate and a bottom plate connected sequentially. The Z-shaped support plate has a Z-shaped cross section, the beam is installed inside the bearing ring, the flat plate of the beam faces a solar module, and the bottom plate is connected to the post. The beam of the present invention improves the resistance moment of the lateral cross section and saves costs, and when applied to the solar tracking bracket, the beam can slow down the hot spot effect of the bifacial solar module and prolong the service life of the same.
US12028014B2	Stowing of solar power devices A method may include obtaining a normal set point of a solar panel and a wind velocity measurement corresponding to wind that affects the solar panel. The method may include determining an allowable range of tilt angles according to a first lookup table that describes a relationship between the wind velocity measurement and the allowable range of tilt angles. The method may include identifying whether the normal set point of the solar panel is outside of the allowable range of tilt angles, and responsive to identifying that the normal set point of the solar panel is outside of the allowable range of tilt angles, determining a temporary stow set point. The method may include rotating the solar panel to the temporary stow set point.
US12028012B2	Method of operating a stepper motor in a dental tool machine A method of operating a stepper motor for use in a dental tool machine for removing material from a dental blank, the method including: a step of adapting torque reserves of the stepper motor at operating points to net load moments respectively. The method includes a first step of predicting, through simulation, the net load moments beforehand; a second step of predicting, through simulation, the supply current to be supplied to the stepper motor for setting up the torque reserves that correspond to the predicted net load moments respectively; and a step of driving the stepper motor based on the predicted supply current.
US12028011B2	Method and device for detection of condition of brushless motors and generators A method and device for determining the position of a rotor in a brushless motor is provided. The method generally includes: injecting electrical signals into a stator of the brushless motor; measuring scattering parameters reflected back from the stator, wherein the scattering parameters are influenced by the near-field dynamics impaired by the motor; and comparing the measured scattering parameters to a predetermined data set of scattering parameters for known rotor positions to determine the position of the rotor. The method and device is also suitable for determining a condition of a motor or a generator.
US12028010B2	Compensation technique for parallel motor drives A system for controlling one or more loads. The system comprises a plurality of power converters, wherein each power converter is configured to be arranged in a parallel configuration with one or more additional power converters so as to control the one or more loads, and a central controller configured to output a common reference based on local current or voltage values received from each power converter; and transmit the common reference to each of the power converters. Each power converter comprises an inverter configured to control the one or more loads based on voltage switching signals, a module configured to provide the voltage switching signals to the inverter according to a modulation scheme.
US12028009B2	Protection system for aircraft electric propulsion motor and motor controller A method for protecting an electric propulsion system in response to occurrence of a fault. The method includes the step of activating short circuits in power switches of inverters in a motor controller to redirect current regenerated by a motor which is electrically coupled to the motor controller and mechanically coupled to a propeller. The method further includes feathering the propeller while the motor is regenerating current. The protection logic is designed to address different types of faults, including faults in the high-voltage direct-current bus, faults in the motor controller, and faults in the motor.
US12028007B2	Method for driving electric motors using a pulse-width-modulated signal A method for driving electric motors using a pulse-width-modulated signal, wherein the pulse-width-modulated signal is a square-wave pulse consisting of successive pulses whose impulse duration is adjustable, as a result of which it is possible to change a duty cycle, which is the ratio of the impulse duration and the period of the square-wave pulse, wherein the reciprocal of the period of the square-wave pulse is the PWM frequency at which the impulses follow one another, wherein, during operation of the electric motor, the PWM frequency within a frequency band, without the duty cycle changing, is changed repeatedly and in accordance with a predefined scheme or randomly.
US12028006B2	Power module and motor drive system using the same An embodiment is power module including a plurality of first switching elements of a first type semiconductor on a first substrate, a plurality of second switching elements of a second type semiconductor and a third switching element of the first type semiconductor or the second type semiconductor on a second substrate, wherein the first substrate has a different thermal conductivity than the second substrate, and a connection spacer configured to electrically connect the first substrate and the second substrate.
US12028003B2	Torque estimation method, torque estimation device, and torque estimation program A torque estimation method according to the present disclosure estimates a value of shaft torque of a rotary motion transmitting mechanism. The torque estimation method includes: a step of specifying a maximum value of a torsion angle between an input shaft and an output shaft from the time when a measurement value of the torsion angle is zero to the time when the value of the shaft torque is estimated; and a step of specifying the maximum value of the torsion angle. In the step of specifying the maximum value of the torsion angle, the maximum value of the torsion angle is specified based on a difference between the measurement value of the torsion angle subjected to low-pass filter processing at a first cutoff frequency and the measurement value of the torsion angle subjected to low-pass filter processing at a second cutoff frequency.
US12027999B2	Omnidirectional wind energy harvester In accordance with an embodiment, an omnidirectional energy harvester device includes: a harvesting member including an electrode pad having a first electrode disposed on an upper surface of the electrode pad, and a friction pad spaced apart from the electrode pad and having a second electrode disposed on an upper surface of the friction pad; and a vortex-induced vibration column fixedly coupled to the harvesting member at a lower surface of the vortex-induced vibration column. The vortex-induced vibration column is configured to generate vibration by an external force at an upper portion of the vortex-induced vibration column, wherein the first electrode disposed on the electrode pad and the second electrode disposed on the friction pad are electrically connected.
US12027995B2	Power converter A power converter includes a rectangular casing that houses a semiconductor module, and bosses extending outward from three of four side walls of the casing excluding a rear side wall. The bosses include a first boss provided on a first side wall facing frontward, a second boss provided on a second side wall facing in a width direction of the mobile object orthogonal to an up-down direction and a front-rear direction, and a third boss provided on a third side wall opposite to the second side wall. The third boss is smaller in cross-sectional area than the second boss.
US12027989B2	AC-DC converter circuit There is provided an AC-DC converter circuit (100) for high power charging of an electrical battery. The circuit comprises an input rectifier comprising a first node and a second node. The input rectifier (110) is configured to receive an AC voltage at the first node (112) and provide a rectified voltage at the second node (114). The circuit further comprises a first transistor (120), comprising a first gate node (122), a first source node (124), and a first drain node (126). The first drain node is connected to the second node of the input rectifier. The first gate node is connected to a ground node (170). The circuit further comprises a second transistor (130), comprising a second gate node (132), a second source node (134), and a second drain node (136). The second drain node is connected to the first source node. The second transistor materially corresponds to the first transistor. The circuit further comprises a duty cycle control unit (140) connected to the second gate node for providing the second transistor with a switching waveform. The circuit further comprises an output rectifier (150) connected to the second source node or the first source node. The circuit further comprises an output electronic filter (160) connected to the second source node or an output node (151) of the output rectifier. An AC-DC converter device, a method for charging an electrical battery, and a regenerative braking system is also provided.
US12027988B2	Power conversion apparatus, refrigeration cycle apparatus, and air conditioner A power conversion apparatus includes: a reactor; a rectifier circuit that includes a first leg including switching elements connected in series and a second leg connected in parallel with the first leg, including switching elements connected in series; and a smoothing capacitor that smooths an output voltage of the rectifier circuit. The power conversion apparatus also includes an inverter that converts a direct-current voltage smoothed by the smoothing capacitor into a drive voltage for a motor and applies the drive voltage to the motor; a voltage detection unit that detects the direct-current voltage; and a control unit that controls operation of the rectifier circuit and the inverter. The control unit controls operations of the switching elements on the basis of an induced voltage induced in the motor and a detected value of the direct-current voltage.
US12027985B2	Power conversion system with N power converters A power conversion system includes N power converters. Each power converter includes an input terminal, a first output terminal and a second output terminal. Each of the N power converters receives a DC power through the input terminal. The first output terminal of a first power converter and the second output terminal of an N-th power converter are connected in parallel to form an N-th total output terminal. The first output terminal of an i-th power converter and the second output terminal of an (i−1)-th power converter are connected in parallel to form an (i−1)-th total output terminal. The two input terminals of the load are connected with two total output terminals of N total output terminals. A (2k−1)-th power converter is connected with a first power source. A 2k-th power converter is connected with a second power source. The redundancy of the power conversion system can be achieved.
US12027982B2	Hybrid multi-level power converter with inter-stage inductor The present document relates to a power converter comprising an inductor, a first stage, and a second stage. The first stage may be coupled between an input of the power converter and the inductor, and the first stage may comprise a first flying capacitor. The second stage may be coupled between the inductor and an output of the power converter, and the second stage may comprise a second flying capacitor. A second terminal of the first flying capacitor may be connected to a first terminal of the inductor, and a first terminal of the second flying capacitor may be connected to a second terminal of the inductor.
US12027981B2	Ripple suppression in multi-phase buck converters Methods and systems for ripple suppression in multi-phase buck converters may comprise a buck converter for providing an output voltage with controlled ripple current. The buck converter may include one or more main buck converter stages and one or more suppression buck converter stages coupled with the one or more main buck converter stages. The one or more suppression buck converter stages may provide suppression currents to reduce ripple currents generated in the one or main buck converter stages.
US12027976B2	DC-DC converter with selectable working mode A DC-DC converter circuit with selectable working modes is disclosed. Compared with the traditional chip that works in one mode, the DC-DC converter with selectable working modes adds only a mode selection circuit, so that the chip can work in voltage control mode or current control mode. On the one hand, the applications of the chip are more extensive, and on the other hand, when the applications are different, the cost of developing a DC-DC converter with selectable working mode is greatly reduced compared with the traditional DC-DC converter.
US12027974B2	Control circuit and switching converter A control circuit for a switching converter, can include: a ripple signal generation circuit configured to generate a ripple signal with a same frequency and phase as an inductor current of the switching converter, where the ripple signal changes between zero and a preset value; a superimposing circuit configured to superimpose the ripple signal on a feedback signal representing an output voltage of the switching converter, in order to generate a loop control signal; and a switching control signal generation circuit configured to generate switching control signals according to the loop control signal and a reference signal, in order to control a switching state of a power stage circuit in the switching converter.
US12027973B2	Multi-phase voltage regulator and temperature monitoring method thereof The present invention relates to a multi-phase voltage regulator and a temperature monitoring method thereof. The method includes the following steps of: step 1a: providing a multi-phase voltage regulator including a controller and a plurality of power stages, wherein the controller transmits a corresponding control signal to each of the plurality of power stages, each of the plurality of power stages including a temperature sampling unit, outputs of the temperature sampling units connected to the controller and in parallel with each other; Step 1b: performing time-sharing signal exchange with the temperature sampling unit of the power stages; and Step 1c: when the controller exchanges signals with the temperature sampling unit of a certain power stage, the temperature sampling unit transmits an output signal representing the temperature thereof to the controller via the output.
US12027972B2	Power supply control semiconductor device and power supply device A power supply control semiconductor device that generates and outputs a drive pulse to turn on and off a switch, which is configured to intermittently supply a current to a primary winding of a voltage conversion transformer, in response to input of a voltage proportional to the current flowing through the primary winding of the voltage conversion transformer and an output voltage detection signal from a secondary side of the voltage conversion transformer is provided. The power supply control semiconductor device is in a no-lead resin-sealed package. The package includes external terminals including a first terminal as an input terminal, a second terminal provided next to the first terminal, and third terminals that have a lower breakdown voltage relative to the first terminal and are different from the second terminal. An interval between the first terminal and the second terminal is wider than each interval between the third terminals.
US12027971B2	Display apparatus with switched mode power supply to adjust frequency of control signal Disclosed is a display apparatus including: a display; a transformer configured to boost an input alternating current (AC) first voltage and output a second voltage; a switch configured to allow an electric current to flow or stop in the transformer based on a control signal; a power factor correction (PFC) converter configured to correct a power factor of the output second voltage, and output a direct current (DC) third voltage to the display; and a controller configured to modulate a frequency of the control signal so that the second voltage has a target level, and increase or decrease the frequency of the control signal within a specified range to synchronize with an AC period of the first voltage.
US12027970B2	Safety mechanisms, wake up and shutdown methods in distributed power installations A distributed power system including multiple DC power sources and multiple power modules. The power modules include inputs coupled respectively to the DC power sources and outputs coupled in series to form a serial string. An inverter is coupled to the serial string. The inverter converts power input from the serial string to output power. A signaling mechanism between the inverter and the power module is adapted for controlling operation of the power modules.
US12027965B2	Switch control apparatus and method Methods and apparatuses for controlling a switch are provided. The method comprises: generating second control data, which is for controlling the switches, in a second cycle; determining whether a first control signal based on first control data, which has been generated in a first cycle, is being output to the charging system; and storing the second control data in a first register if it is determined that the first control signal is being output to the charging system.
US12027961B2	Power supply device and display device including the same A DC-DC converter includes a first converter outputting a first power voltage in a first driving method of generating an inductor current by alternately turning on transistors in a normal mode and outputting the first power voltage in a second driving method of generating the inductor current with the number of turn-on times less than that of the first driving method in a power saving mode, a second converter outputting a second power voltage in a third driving method of generating the inductor current with the number of turn-on times less than that of the second driving method in the power saving mode and determining differently magnitudes of the second power voltage in the power saving mode and the second power voltage in the normal mode, and a mode selector supplying a mode control signal to the converters to drive the converters according to one of the modes.
US12027960B2	Systems and methods for resistance adjustment related to switch-mode power converters Controller and method for a power converter. For example, a controller for a power converter includes: a feedback detector configured to receive a feedback voltage, sample the feedback voltage, and generate a sampled voltage based at least in part on the feedback voltage, the sampled voltage being associated with one or more fluctuations in magnitude; a resistor selector configured to receive the sampled voltage and generate one or more control signals based at least in part on the one or more fluctuations associated with the sampled voltage; a variable resistor network configured to receive the one or more control signals, determine a network resistance based at least in part on the one or more control signals, and output a compensation voltage based at least in part on the network resistance; and a voltage generator connected to the variable resistor network and configured to receive the compensation voltage.
US12027955B2	Generator rotor assembly A generator rotor assembly (42) comprises a cylindrical ring structure (46) defining a central hollow portion and arranged to rotate around a rotational axis. The cylindrical ring structure (46) comprises a plurality of permanent magnet packages (48) arranged coaxially around the rotational axis, the permanent magnet packages (48) comprising a plurality of coaxially stacked ring-shaped segmented layers (80), a plurality of tie rod holes (86) and a plurality of tie rods (54). The coaxially stacked ring-shaped segmented layers (80) comprise a plurality of contiguous segment sheets (82) arranged around the rotational axis to form the ring-shaped layer, the stacked layers (80) being staggered such that segment breaks between two contiguous segment sheets (82) in one of the layers are angularly offset with respect to segment breaks between two contiguous segment sheets (82) in an adjacent layer. The tie rod holes (86) extend axially through the layers of the permanent magnet packages (48), wherein the plurality of tie rod holes (86) of adjacent permanent magnet packages (48) are complementary in size and position, such that a plurality of tie rod bores is defined. The tie rods (54) extend through respective ones of the plurality of tie rod bores.
US12027952B2	Superconducting power generation device and power generation method The present disclosure provides a superconducting power generation device and a power generation method. The device includes a superconductor, a conductive coil, a permanent magnet and a cooling medium. When ambient temperature is lower than its superconducting critical temperature, the superconductor, made of the second-type superconducting material, is capable of generating a magnetic levitation force to an outer permanent magnet and levitate it. When an external force is applied to the permanent magnet, its position changes compared to the conductive coil, which affects the magnetic flux passing through the coil and induces the generation of electromotive force in the coil, thereby converting mechanical energy to electric energy. By using the device provided by the present disclosure, the conversion from the mechanical energy to the electric energy in an ultra-low temperature environment can be achieved, and thus, problems about energy sources on low-temperature celestial bodies in extrasolar systems are solved.
US12027950B2	Counter-rotating differential electric motor assembly An improved counter-rotating (CR) differential electric motor assembly is utilized to power an aircraft vehicle or fan for moving a gas and includes two oppositely rotating propellers that may be mounted to horizontal flight and vertical lift-off aircraft or a fan housing in spaces similar in size to mounting spaces for traditional motors having only one propeller and includes a hollow central shaft and slip ring assembly that is mounted either within, slight above, or total above oppositely rotating components and around the hollow central shaft.
US12027941B2	Bearing assembly capable of preventing lubricant from being thrown out and bearing wire plate thereof Disclosed is a bearing assembly capable of preventing a lubricant from being thrown out. A bearing and a wire plate are fixedly mounted via a fixed portion and an inner ring which can prevent the lubricant from being thrown out during use, and the lubricant can be directly added to the bearing in use. The present disclosure is mounted on a motor via a first raised ring and a second raised ring, and the first raised ring and the second raised ring can prevent dust from entering the bearing. The present disclosure has simple structure and reasonable design. A wire frame for a bearing is provided. The bearing is mounted in a bearing mounting portion. With the inner ring, the sealability between the bearing and the wire plate is better, so as to prevent the lubricant in the bearing from being thrown out during the rotation of the bearing.
US12027939B2	Voice coil motor A voice coil motor includes a base, a lens housing, a voice coil, a magnet, a first elastic sheet, a second elastic sheet and a yoke member. The lens housing has a first margin wall, and a first protrusion and a second protrusion extend from the first margin wall. The height of the second protrusion is lower than the height of the first protrusion. The yoke member has a first wall, a connection wall, a second wall, and a side wall. The first wall, the connection wall, and the second wall together form a stepped structure. The first wall is disposed on the first protrusion, and the second wall is disposed on the second protrusion. The lens housing has a deflectable angle relative to a horizontal reference line. When the lens housing deflects to a maximum value of the deflectable angle, the second protrusion abuts against the second wall.
US12027933B2	Motor A motor includes a rotor, a stator, and a bus bar unit disposed on one side in an axial direction of the stator. The stator includes conductor connection bodies and a segment coil. Each connection body includes first and second ends in the axial direction. The bus bar unit includes a neutral point bus bar connected to the first end and phase bus bars connected to the second end. The neutral point bus bar extends along a circumferential direction. The phase bus bar includes a main body extending along the circumferential direction and at least partially overlapping the neutral point bus bar and a connection portion extending from the main body to one side in the axial direction. The first end passes through one side in the axial direction of the neutral point bus bar and is connected to the connection portion.
US12027925B2	Method of assembling a high-temperature electromagnetic machine A method of making an electromagnetic coil for use in a high-temperature electromagnetic machine includes pre-coating magnet wire with a high-temperature insulation precursor to produce pre-coated magnet wire, winding, while applying in-situ a glass-ceramic slurry, the pre-coated magnet wire into a predetermined coil shape to produce a wet-wound green coil, and thermally processing the wet-wound green coil to produce a processed coil. In some instances, a second layer of a high-temperature insulation may be applied to the processed coil to produce a further insulated processed coil, and then thermally processing the further insulated processed coil to produce a further processed electromagnetic coil.
US12027924B2	Method for producing a stator arrangement A method is provided for producing a stator arrangement that has a stator core and a winding arrangement. The stator core has stator slots. The winding arrangement has winding elements with a conductor and an insulation layer. Each winding element has two interconnected winding element legs with two winding element end portions on each winding element leg. The method includes positioning the winding elements on the stator core so that the winding element legs extend through one of the stator slots with winding element end portions protruding on a first side of the stator core. The method then includes using a first laser arrangement to remove the insulation layer from regions of the winding element end portions. The method then includes pressing the first and second winding element end portions against one another and using a second laser arrangement to carry out welding.
US12027923B2	Electric motor driving device The present disclosure relates to a device for driving a motor, including a lower case having an accommodating space formed therein and an open upper side; an upper case closing an open surface of the lower case to form an inner space; a central case disposed in the lower case to partition an inner space formed by the lower case and the upper case; a first board disposed on the lower case and comprising a first connector; a second board disposed on the central case and comprising a second connector; and a connection board disposed in the inner space and comprising a first connection connector electrically connected to the first connector and a second connection connector electrically connected to the second connector to transmit electric signals between the board.
US12027918B2	Rotor and electric motor A rotor core of a rotor includes a salient pole portion; air gap portions that extend from the permanent magnet to an outer peripheral surface of the rotor core; notch grooves formed such that the outer peripheral surface of the rotor core is notched; and a bridge portion that is formed between the outer peripheral surface and the air gap portions. The notch grooves are disposed such that the bridge portion is sandwiched between the notch grooves and the air gap portion, and, a notch minimum outside diameter portion in which a distance from the rotation center of the rotor core is the minimum is formed on a plane perpendicular to a rotation axis. The notch minimum outside diameter portion is located at a position closer to a center side of the salient pole portion than the air gap portions in the circumferential direction of the rotor.
US12027916B2	Direct drive outer rotor brushless DC motor drive wheel The presently disclosed invention provides an outer rotor brushless direct current motor that includes a tire integrated as part of the outer rotor, and is thus configured as a direct drive wheel, such as may be used on a mobile robot. The drive wheel includes a cylindrical outer rotor having a plurality of poles positioned on an inner surface, a stationary stator spaced inwardly from the rotor and defining a magnetic clearance gap between the plurality of poles of the rotor and a plurality of electromagnets positioned on an outer circumference of the stator, and a stationary central shaft. The stator is mounted to the central shaft and the rotor is configured for rotation about the stator.
US12027914B2	Method and system for operation of UPS modules connected in parallel A method for operation of UPS modules connected in parallel is provided. The method includes: in a case that a UPS system is constructed based on multiple UPS modules connected in parallel, sleeping, based on a system load rate, a predetermined number of UPS modules to control the UPS system to operate at a predetermined efficiency level; controlling UPS modules not being slept in the UPS system to enter into a main-inverter power supply mode or a main-bypass common mode to perform reactive power and harmonic compensation; and waking up the slept UPS modules when the system load rate drops by a predetermined value due to a sudden addition of a load. The UPS modules can be slept or waked up intelligently based on the system load rate in the dynamic online mode, ensuring that the UPS system operates around highest efficiency.
US12027912B2	Networked lighting control system with dedicated keepalive normal power emergency protocol An emergency luminaire includes an emergency luminaire light source to emit emergency illumination lighting. The emergency luminaire also includes an emergency luminaire power supply configured to be driven by an emergency power line. The emergency luminaire further includes emergency luminaire programming, wherein execution of the emergency luminaire programming configures the emergency luminaire to implement the following functions. The emergency luminaire tracks an active message gap time. In response to receiving a normal power active message from a respective member device of a plurality of member devices of a lighting control group before the tracked active message gap time exceeds an active message timeout, the emergency luminaire resets the active message gap time. In response to the tracked active message gap time exceeding the active message timeout, the emergency luminaire enters an emergency mode (EM) active state by controlling the emergency luminaire light source to emit the emergency illumination lighting.
US12027907B2	Computer case with inductive wireless charging pad The computer case wireless charging apparatus enables charging wirelessly-chargeable external devices using a laptop battery, and includes a computer housing having a notebook computer, a notebook computer battery and USB ports; and a charging pad device connected to the computer housing. The charging pad device includes a charging pad housing enclosing an inductive charging coil. A small PCB is operably connected to the inductive charging coil, the notebook computer battery and the USB ports of the notebook computer. An optional soft outer protective sleeve may retain the computer housing. Portions of the apparatus may be made of materials including plastic, polylactic acid (PLA), silicon and combinations thereof. The inductive charging coil may be made of copper. The charging pad housing includes at least one charging surface for charging wirelessly-chargeable devices. The notebook computer housing may include a charging area constructed and arranged for receiving and retaining the charging pad housing.
US12027900B1	Vehicle battery systems including DC-DC converters A battery system for a vehicle includes multiple battery cells each configured to store charge for powering an electric vehicle, a high voltage bus electrically coupled with the multiple battery cells to provide power to an electric motor, and multiple cell monitoring modules each coupled with a corresponding one of the multiple battery cells, each cell monitoring module including a controller configured to monitor operation parameters of the corresponding one of the multiple battery cells. The system includes multiple DC-DC converters in a converter housing, each DC-DC converter electrically coupled with a corresponding one of the multiple battery cells outside of the converter housing, and a low voltage bus electrically connected between the multiple DC-DC converters in the converter housing and at least one vehicle electrical component outside of the converter housing. The low voltage bus is configured to provide low voltage power to at least one vehicle electrical component.
US12027899B2	Circuit for managing wireless power transmitting devices An example integrated circuit includes: (i) a processing subsystem configured to control operation of the integrated circuit, (ii) a waveform generator, operatively coupled to the processing subsystem, configured to generate radio frequency (RF) power transmission signals using an input current, (iii) a first digital interface that couples the integrated circuit with a plurality of power amplifiers that are external to the integrated circuit, and (iv) a second digital interface, distinct from the first digital interface, that couples the integrated circuit with a wireless communication component that is external to the integrated circuit. The processing subsystem is configured to: receive, via the second digital interface, an indication that a receiver is within transmission range of a transmitting device controlled by the circuit, and in response to receiving the indication: provide, via the first digital interface, the RF power transmission signals to at least one of the plurality of power amplifiers.
US12027898B2	Battery pack having battery cell drainage prevention circuitry The present disclosure is directed to a battery pack and a power tool system including a power tool, a battery pack and a battery pack charger. The battery pack includes circuitry to prevent electricity drainage from a plurality of battery cells when the battery pack is only partially mated to the power tool or the battery pack charger.
US12027896B2	Charging cable port detection and current enforcement A charging cable configured to obtain power from different power supply devices for delivery to a chargeable electronic device, and to techniques and equipment to enable the charging cable to identify current limitation of the connected power supply device and to enforce that current limit via the charging cable. The charging cable has a logic circuit coupled to signal pins to detect a signal indicating a power limitation of the power supply device. The logic circuit controls a current limiter connected in the power delivery bus of the charging cable to limit current flowing through the charging cable.
US12027895B2	Reduced standby current in a multi-battery wearable device Disclosed are embodiments to provide a multi-battery energy storage device. One embodiment comprises a first battery and a second battery, with a first circuit branch coupling a positive side of the first battery to a positive side of the second battery, a second circuit branch coupling a positive side of the first battery to a negative side of the second battery, a third circuit branch coupling the negative side of the first battery to the negative side of the second battery, and multiple switchable devices configured to control flow of current through corresponding branches. Other embodiments comprise other configurations and operations.
US12027893B2	Power supply device A power supply device includes: a first high-voltage line for exchanging the electric power externally; a second high-voltage line for applying current flowing in a direction opposite to the first high-voltage line; a plurality of batteries; a plurality of SUs, the SUs being provided corresponding to the respective batteries, switching a connection state of the batteries to the first high-voltage line, and being disposed in a circle; and an SCU that controls the SUs. The SU can switch between a first state in which the battery corresponding to the SU is connected in series to the first high-voltage line and a second state in which the battery is not connected to the first high-voltage line. The SCU controls the SUs to switch to the first state or the second state in accordance with a voltage of the electric power to be charged and discharged.
US12027890B2	Modulating supply voltage generated by voltage regulator for transmission of data and power An apparatus for generating an output voltage including a microcontroller unit (MCU) configured to selectively generate a data modulating signal; and a voltage regulator configured to generate an output voltage modulated based on the data modulating signal. Another aspect relates to a method of generating an output voltage comprising selectively generating a data modulating signal; and bucking and boosting an output voltage based on the data modulating signal. An additional aspect relates to an apparatus for generating an output voltage comprising means to selectively generate a data modulating signal, and means for bucking and boosting an output voltage based on the data modulating signal.
US12027889B2	Operating state judgment apparatus and wireless power transfer system The processing part is configured to calculate an elapsed time from an inspection date or installation date of a power transmission apparatus installed at a location of occurrence of an abnormality to a date of occurrence of an abnormality based on the inspection information and information on occurrence of an abnormality relating to the location of occurrence of an abnormality and date of occurrence of the abnormality where the power transfer efficiency from the power transmission apparatus to the power reception apparatus received from the mobile object through the communication part becomes less than a predetermined value, and is configured to judge an operating state of the power reception apparatus based on the elapsed time.
US12027888B2	Transmitting apparatus, receiving apparatus, power supply device and wireless charging method Provided are a transmitting apparatus, a receiving apparatus, a power supply device, and a wireless charging method. The transmitting apparatus includes: a wireless transmitting circuit configured to transmit a wireless charging signal; and a communication control circuit configured to receive a first feedback signal from the receiving apparatus, and to transmit a second feedback signal to the power supply device based on the first feedback signal. The first feedback signal is a feedback signal corresponding to an output current of a wireless receiving circuit, and the second feedback signal is used to trigger the power supply device to adjust at least one of an output voltage and an output current of the power supply device.
US12027885B2	Power transmitting device and power transmitting method A power transmitting device performs power transmission to a power receiving device. The power receiving device is provided in a space that a person can enter or exit. The power transmitting device includes a power transmitting unit, a processing circuitry, and a reception unit. The power transmitting unit is configured to perform power transmission to the power receiving device through contactless power supply. The processing circuitry is configured to switch a power transmission mode of the power transmitting unit between a normal-output mode and a limit mode in which a transmitted power is more limited than in the normal-output mode. The reception unit is configured to receive a limit instruction for the power transmission given by the person. The processing circuitry is configured to set the power transmission mode to the limit mode when the reception unit receives the limit instruction.
US12027875B2	Coil-based electromagnetic wave resonance transfer device for improving energy efficiency The present invention relates to a coil-based electromagnetic wave resonance transfer device for improving energy efficiency, which comprises: a housing; an electronic circuit board which is installed in the housing and senses an external signal generated outside the housing, to generate an electric wave signal having a specific waveform, of which a frequency is adjusted by using a multi-frequency modulation method; and a coil member which is installed in the housing and generates a resonant magnetic field through the electric wave signal output from the electronic circuit board to output an electromagnetic resonance wave to the outside of the housing.
US12027872B2	System and method for controlling operation of consumption appliances A method is disclosed for controlling the operating of a consumption appliance by way of a selector switch controlled by an energy saving device connected to a management center. The consumption appliance is kept in its default power mode, until receiving, by the energy saving device, an authentic secured control message sent by the management center. This message includes a command onto the mode in which the consumption appliance has to be switched. A counter is initialized with an initialization value before to be triggered. The consumption appliance is switched in the mode indicated by the command, either until the counter has reached a threshold value, or until receiving another authentic control message. If the counter has reached the threshold value, then the consumption appliance is switched in its default power mode. If another authentic secured control message has been received, then returning to the step of initializing the counter.
US12027869B2	Optimized photovoltaic conversion configuration Different systems to achieve solar power conversion are provided in at least three different general aspects, with circuitry that can be used to harvest maximum power from a solar source (1) or strings of panels (11) for DC or AC use, perhaps for transfer to a power grid (10) three aspects can exist perhaps independently and relate to: 1) electrical power conversion in a multimodal manner, 2) alternating between differing processes such as by an alternative mode photovoltaic power converter functionality control (27), and 3) systems that can achieve efficiencies in conversion that are extraordinarily high compared to traditional through substantially power isomorphic photovoltaic DC-DC power conversion capability that can achieve 99.2% efficiency or even only wire transmission losses. Switchmode impedance conversion circuits may have pairs of photovoltaic power series switch elements (24) and pairs photovoltaic power shunt switch elements (25).
US12027867B2	Coordinated converter reactively altering disabling photovoltaic electrical energy power system Renewable electrical energy is provided with aspects and circuitry that can harvest maximum power from an alternative electrical energy source (1) such as a string of solar panels (11) for a power grid (10). Aspects include: i) controlling electrical power creation from photovoltaic DC-AC inverter (5), ii) operating photovoltaic DC-AC inverter (5) at maximal efficiency even when MPP would not be, iii) protecting DC-AC inverter (5) so input can vary over a range of insolation and temperature, and iv) providing dynamically reactive capability to react and assure operation, to permit differing components, to achieve code compliant dynamically reactive photovoltaic power control circuitry (41). With previously explained converters, inverter control circuitry (38) or photovoltaic power converter functionality control circuitry (8) configured as inverter sweet spot converter control circuitry (46) can achieve extraordinary efficiencies with substantially power isomorphic photovoltaic capability at 99.2% efficiency or even only wire transmission losses.
US12027860B2	Source-network-load-storage coordination dispatching method in background of coupling of renewable energy sources A source-network-load-storage coordination dispatching method in a background of a coupling of renewable energy sources, including: taking an expectation of a minimum grid operating cost in a dispatching cycle as an objective function; generating an approximate value function of an output of a set for generating electricity from renewable energy sources and a user load, and constructing a source-network-load-storage coordination dispatching model with combination of the objective function; obtaining forecast data of the output of a set for generating electricity from renewable energy sources and the user load, and inputting the forecast data into the dispatching model for solving; performing iterative updating on the approximate value function, importing the approximate value function after the iterative updating into the dispatching model for iterative solving, and terminating an iterative process until a solving result satisfies a preset convergence condition; and using a solving result of a last iteration as a dispatching strategy.
US12027858B2	Distributed control for demand flexibility in thermostatically controlled loads A computer implemented method for controlling a load aggregator for a grid includes receiving a predicted power demand over a horizon of time steps associated with one of at least two buildings, aggregating the predicted power demand at each time step to obtain an aggregate power demand, applying a learnable convolutional filter on the aggregate power demand to obtain a target load, computing a difference between the predicted power demand of the one building with the target load to obtain a power shift associated with the one building over the horizon of time steps, apportioning the power shift according to a learnable weighted vector to obtain an apportioned power shift, optimizing the learnable weighted vector and the learnable convolutional filter via an evolutionary strategy based update to obtain an optimized apportioned power shift, and transmitting the optimized apportioned power shift to a building level controller associated with the one building.
US12027856B2	Control systems and methods for minimizing power loss associated with fuel cell systems Embodiments of the present disclosure provide control systems and methods to reduce wastage of energy associated with fuel cell systems. The method includes transmitting DC power from a plurality of fuel cells of a set of power modules to a centralized DC bus through a first set of DC-DC converters. The method includes operating a second set of DC-DC converters to provide an output DC power by boosting a voltage level of the DC power from the centralized DC bus and further operating a first set of DC-AC inverters to convert the DC power from the second set of DC-DC converters to AC power. The method includes transmitting the AC power from the first set of DC-AC inverters to a grid. The AC power is transmitted to the grid at substantially unity power factor due to combined effect of switching modulation and MPPT of the first set of DC-AC inverters.
US12027855B2	Systems and methods for monitoring and controlling outlet power A power outlet control device includes at least one electrical outlet and a processing circuit comprising a processor and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations. The operations include monitoring external power supplied to the power outlet control device, detecting one or more powerline events based on the external power supplied to the power outlet control device, and automatically controlling an amount of power supplied to the at least one electrical outlet based on the one or more powerline events.
US12027853B2	Third party energy management A system of modules which control and measure energy usage at a building which are in communication with a software program executing on a remote server controlled by a third party. The third party said usage via the software program which communicates with the modules to modify energy usage and demand for energy and is responsible or liable for energy usage charges the building where the third party does not actually use the energy.
US12027852B2	Deep learning-based optimal power flow solution with applications to operating electrical power systems DeepOPF-V, a deep neural network (DNN)-based voltage-constrained approach for solving an alternating-current optimal power flow (AC-OPF) problem, is used to determine an operating point of an AC electrical power system. DeepOPE-V advantageously uses two DNNs to separately determine voltage magnitudes and voltage phase angles of buses in the system without cross-over operations between the two DNNs. A computation complexity is reduced when compared to using a single DNN for generating both the magnitudes and phase angles, allowing high computation efficiency achieved by DeepOPE-V. Remaining variables of the system are computed based on the determined magnitudes and phase angles. A solution for the operating condition is predicted. A fast post-processing (PP) method is developed to improve the feasibility of the predicted solution. The PP method uses linear adjustment to adjust the predicted solution to improve the solution feasibility while enabling fast execution of the PP method.
US12027849B2	Distributed power system using direct current power sources A distributed power system including multiple (DC) batteries each DC battery with positive and negative poles. Multiple power converters are coupled respectively to the DC batteries. Each power converter includes a first terminal, a second terminal, a third terminal and a fourth terminal. The first terminal is adapted for coupling to the positive pole. The second terminal is adapted for coupling to the negative pole. The power converter includes: (i) a control loop adapted for setting the voltage between or current through the first and second terminals, and (ii) a power conversion portion adapted to selectively either: convert power from said first and second terminals to said third and fourth terminals to discharge the battery connected thereto, or to convert power from the third and fourth terminals to the first and second terminals to charge the battery connected thereto. Each of the power converters is adapted for serial connection to at least one other power converter by connecting respectively the third and fourth terminals, thereby forming a serial string. A power controller is adapted for coupling to the serial string. The power controller includes a control part adapted to maintain current through or voltage across the serial string at a predetermined value.
US12027848B2	Modular electrical energy storage with fault protection An apparatus includes a power converter, one or more power source terminal configured to connect to a power source, and one or more load terminal. The apparatus further includes two or more energy storage terminals configured to connect to two or more electrical energy storage devices. Two or more protection circuits, included in the apparatus, one for each of the protection circuits, is electrically connected between the respective energy storage terminal and the power converter. The two or more protection circuits are configured to disconnect the respective terminal from the power converter following a failure of the respective one of the electrical energy storage devices.
US12027846B2	Electrostatic protection structure and electrostatic protection circuit Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an electrostatic protection structure and an electrostatic protection circuit. The electrostatic protection structure includes: a SCR structure and a trigger structure; the SCR structure includes: a well region of a second conductivity type and a first well of a first conductivity type region, a first-doped region of the first conductivity type, and a first-doped region of the second conductivity type; the trigger structure includes: a first-doped region of the second conductivity type, a second well region of the first conductivity type, a second-doped region of two conductivity types, a third-doped region of the second conductivity type, a fourth-doped region of the second conductivity type, and a first gate electrode. The electrostatic protection structure weakens the positive feedback of the parasitic transistor in the SCR device, improves the anti-latch capability of the device, realizes stronger protection capability, and enhances the reliability of the circuit.
US12027844B2	Control of parallel paths during recovery of a power flow control system from a transmission line fault A power flow control system and method relate to power flow control for faults on power transmission lines. An inverter has power switching devices and a capacitor. A power-safe circuit holds the power switching devices inactive during an initial fault current of the power transmission line, until a power supply for operating the inverter reaches a threshold.
US12027841B2	Circuit breaker distribution system configured to provide selective coordination A circuit breaker distribution system is configured to provide selective coordination. The system comprises a solid-state switch disposed as a main or upstream breaker and a switch with an over current protection disposed as a branch or downstream breaker. The solid-state switch comprises a microcontroller to: allow repeated pulses of current through to the branch or downstream breaker in an event of an overload or short circuit, choose a maximum current limit for the solid-state switch as a “chop level” such that the chop level is chosen higher than a rated current of the solid-state circuit breaker but low enough that the solid-state switch is not damaged from repeated pulses over a period of time needed to switch OFF the branch or downstream breaker, and add a pulse interval which is optimized to a system voltage waveform in that chopped pulses tend to be longer and more effective for de-latching the branch or downstream breaker when they occur in vicinity of a zero crossing of the system voltage waveform and chopped pulses are shorter and less effective near peaks of the system voltage waveform.
US12027839B2	Device for electrically connecting cables comprising a plate with electrically insulated ducts surrounding busbars A device for electrically connecting cables where a change of direction occurs. The device includes at least two busbars as well as a plate having independent internal ducts in which the busbars are located, each duct being electrically insulated from the other ducts, the busbars ensuring electrical conduction from one open end of a duct to the other end. The cables are fastened at these open ends and thus do not undergo any deformation, the change of direction taking place inside the plate with the aid of the busbars.
US12027837B2	Pathway isolation fitting for a fiber trough system A fitting for a fiber trough. The fitting includes a bottom cable support surface and a pair of opposite side walls extending from the bottom cable support surface that define a channel. The fitting is mounted to a fiber trough so that the channel is positioned within another channel defined by the fiber trough, isolating a cable routing path defined by the fitting channel from a cable routing path defined by the trough channel.
US12027835B2	Telecommunications enclosure including containment structures for O-rings A telecommunications enclosure is disclosed. In one example, the telecommunications enclosure includes an upper dome and a lower base. An O-ring seal can be compressed between a sealing surface of the upper dome and/or a sealing surface of the lower base to provide sealing thereinbetween.
US12027833B2	Snap adapter for tool component A snap adapter for a wire stripping tool has a hollow body with a tool end, a component end, and a button. The tool end is sized for insertion into the tool body and the component end is sized for receiving a component meant to strip a cable of a specified diameter. The button comprises a pin feature for attaching the received component. Inserting the component into the snap adapter forces the pin away from the snap adapter hollow body to allow for full insertion of the component into the tool body. A spring disposed between the hollow body and button pushes the pin feature upwards through the hollow body to hold the component inside the snap adapter once the component is fully inserted. Removing the component requires pushing down the button to extract the pin feature, which allows the component to be slideably removed from the tool body.
US12027830B2	Switchgear system having chain driven circuit breaker and associated methods A switchgear system may include a switchgear frame, a truck and circuit breaker mounted thereon. A drive mechanism is mounted on the switchgear frame and configured to rack the circuit breaker into a) a first connected position where the primary and secondary circuits are electrically connected, b) a second test position where the primary circuit is electrically disconnected and secondary circuit connected, and c) a third disconnected position where the primary and secondary circuits are electrically disconnected, wherein said drive mechanism comprises a drive chain and shuttle configured to engage the truck and rack and fix the circuit breaker into the first connected position.
US12027827B2	Spark plug A spark plug includes a metallic shell which holds a center electrode in an insulated condition, and a ground electrode is held in a penetration hole of the metallic shell. The penetration hole includes a circular counterbore portion, and a penetrating portion extending from the counterbore portion to an inner circumferential surface of the metallic shell. The ground electrode includes a fixing portion which is fixed to the counterbore portion, and an extension portion extending from the fixing portion. The extension portion has a flat surface which faces a forward end surface of the center electrode in the axial direction. The penetrating portion restricts the extension portion such that the flat surface of the extension portion faces toward a rear end side in the axial direction.
US12027825B1	Spark plug and method for producing a spark plug Spark plug for igniting a combustible fuel in an internal combustion engine, wherein the spark plug has an igniter arranged at an end of the spark plug facing the combustion chamber, when the spark plug is mounted in the internal combustion engine. The spark plug includes a wall and a sealing area. The wall at least partially surrounds the igniter. The sealing area is used for sealing the combustion chamber against the environment. The wall has the sealing area located at an end of the wall, which end faces the combustion chamber when the spark plug is mounted in the internal combustion engine.
US12027824B2	Linear VCSEL arrays The present disclosure describes various linear VCSEL arrays, as well as VCSEL array chips incorporating such linear VCSEL arrays, and modules, host devices and other apparatus into which one or more of the linear VCSEL arrays are integrated. Implementations can include, for example, varying the aperture size of the VCSELs, tapering the shape of the transmission line, and/or changing the density of the VCSELs.
US12027819B2	Vertical cavity surface emitting laser device with integrated tunnel junction VCSELs have a substrate, first and second electrical contacts (ECs), and an optical resonator (OR), having first and second distributed Bragg reflectors (DBRs) and an active layer between the DBRs. The first DBR is between the substrate and the active layer. One of the DBRs has: first and second parts, having different conductivity types, and each with a pair of layers with different refractive indices. A tunnel junction (TJ) is between the parts. The ECs are for electrically pumping the OR such that the TJ is reversely biased during operation of the VCSEL. Either the first DBR includes the parts, having a relative thickness of the second part to a total thickness of the first and second parts between 0.1-0.8, or the second DBR has the parts, the second part being on the TJ facing away from the active layer, and the relative thickness being between 0.15-0.6.
US12027816B2	Method of manufacturing laser light source A method of manufacturing a laser light source includes: providing a submount, the submount having a principal surface on which a laser diode chip is to be fixed, and comprising a pair of lens supports each including an end surface, the end surfaces located at opposite sides with respect to an emission end surface of the laser diode chip; providing a lens having a bonding surface; performing adjustment such that end surfaces of the pair of lens supports of the submount are parallel to a reference plane; performing adjustment such that the bonding surface of the lens is parallel to the reference plane; and while maintaining the end surfaces of the pair of lens supports and the bonding surface of the lens so as to be parallel to the reference plane, bonding the end surfaces with the bonding surface of the lens using an inorganic bonding member.
US12027814B2	Laser device, light source, and measurement apparatus, and method for using a laser device Provided is a laser device in which: a laser medium doped with ytterbium emits light upon absorption of excitation light; the light emitted by the laser medium is amplified to obtain output light; and the output light is outputted in the form of a plurality of pulses. In the laser device, a spatial filter is disposed in the optical path of the light emitted by the laser medium or is disposed in the optical path of the output light outputted from an optical resonator, the spatial filter being configured to filter out a portion of the light or of the output light around the optical axis.
US12027812B2	Laser system providing a shaped intensity profile of an output beam within an unstable optical resonator layout and method thereof The present invention relates to a laser system and a method of generating a defined spatial mode-shaped laser beam using an unstable laser resonator layout. The laser system for mode shaping of a laser beam within an unstable optical resonator layout comprising an active medium, characterized in that, the active media comprises a pumped area, wherein the gain distribution is generated by an optical pump beam's spatially intensity profile.In a preferred embodiment, the system may further comprise an end-pumped layout to deliver the spatially shaped optical pump beam to the active medium; and/or an active element and/or a passive element for modifying the resonator losses; and/or means of output coupling of a laser beam from said unstable resonator layout.The system according to the present invention is suitable to deliver a top-hat beam profile.
US12027809B2	Vehicle inverter sealing arrangement A vehicle inverter terminal sealing arrangement comprising a electrical terminal of said inverter sealed into an inverter and having a distal portion of said terminal protruding external to said inverter, wherein said terminal is sealed into said inverter by means of a resilient peripheral seal, said peripheral seal surrounding a portion said terminal, and said seal being wedged between said terminal and at least one portion of said inverter.
US12027807B2	Adjustable funnel or guide for a terminal applicator A cable guiding device of a terminal applicator comprises a movable funnel portion defining a tapered opening sized to receive an end of a cable to be terminated, a funnel stop limiting motion of the movable funnel portion in a first direction, and a first elastic element biasing the movable funnel portion in the first direction.
US12027806B2	Predictive brush control for separately excited electric motors A device and a method for predictive brush control in separately excited electric motors.
US12027805B2	Power plug and control circuit with indicator light A power plug includes a shell, input insertion plates, output power lines, a push button on the shell, and a trip assembly inside the shell for controlling electrical coupling between the input insertion plates and output power lines. The trip assembly includes a light emitting element, electrical coupling terminals, and a drive member mechanically coupled to the push button and configured to, in response to a pressing of the push button, control electrical coupling of the electrical coupling terminals, which in turn controls the electrical coupling between the input insertion plates and output power lines. The drive member includes a reflective portion that reflects a part of the light from the light emitting element to the push button as an indicator light. The dual function drive member that accomplishes both mechanical coupling and light transmission reduces the number of components. A device with an electrical control circuit is also disclosed.
US12027804B2	System and method for detecting the position of a cover of an electrical connector A trailer tow connector including: at least one set of terminals for coupling to corresponding terminals of a trailer connector; a cover having a closed position for covering the terminals and an open position for providing access to the terminals for connecting corresponding terminals of the trailer connector thereto; a magnet coupled to the cover; and a magnetic field sensor, the magnetic field sensor being configured to provide a first output when the cover is in the closed position and a second output different from the first output when the cover is in an open position.
US12027803B2	Keyed input/output connector A cage includes a cage housing forming an inner area with internal walls that define an upper port and a lower port. Each of the ports include a cap that forms a keyway. The cap in an upper bay can extend from the upper bay in a direction that is opposite a direction the cap in the lower port extends. The cage may include a plurality of spring fingers therein which engage with a conductive bezel. The cage provides EMI shielding for the plug connector.
US12027802B2	Connector A connector includes a connector body and a terminal attached to the connector body, the connector being fitted with a counterpart connector, the connector body includes a recess being fitted with a counterpart connector body of the counterpart connector and side walls extending in a longitudinal direction of the connector body, the side walls defining both sides of the recess. The terminal includes a plurality of terminals disposed along each of the side walls, and the plurality of terminals disposed along each of the side walls include one high frequency terminal and ground terminals disposed on both sides of the high frequency terminal. In plan view, a straight line connecting high frequency terminals disposed along both the side walls is inclined with respect to a center line of the connector body in a width direction, and a shield plate of the counterpart connector extends along the center line.
US12027798B2	Angle connector An angle connector, including an angle holder, a cable, and multiple contacts, is provided. The angle holder includes a first receiving portion, a second receiving portion, and a first bending portion connected therebetween. Each of the first receiving portion and the second receiving portion has multiple receiving grooves. The cable includes multiple core wires. Each of the contacts includes a first connecting portion, a second connecting portion, and a second bending portion connected therebetween. The first connecting portions for electrically connecting to another electrical connector are embedded in the receiving grooves of the first receiving portion. The second connecting portions electrically connected to the core wires are embedded in the receiving grooves of the second receiving portion.
US12027796B2	Sealing and insulating arrangement for a device used for driving a compressor and device for driving a compressor A sealing-and-insulating arrangement for guiding electrical connections through a housing. The sealing-and-insulating arrangement exhibits a connection arrangement with at least one electrically conductive connecting element and a retaining element, as well as a support element with a mounting element with a connection pass-through that is enclosed by a wall. Here, the connecting element is arranged in such a way that it is enclosed by the retaining element and has both a form and fluid-tight connection to the retaining element via a form element and that the connecting element projects beyond the retaining element with a first and a second section. The connecting element is arranged such that its first section projects through the connection pass-through and into the mounting element.
US12027792B2	Connector including a contact, an electrical wire, and a sleeve member that accommodates parts of the contact and electrical wire A connector comprises a housing, a holder, a contact, an electrical wire and a sleeve member. The housing is formed with a contact accommodating portion. The contact accommodating portion is formed with a first receiving portion. The holder is formed with a second receiving portion. The contact is provided with a first press-fit portion. The sleeve member is provided with a first abutment portion, a second abutment portion and a second press-fit portion. The first abutment portion abuts against the first receiving portion. The second abutment portion abuts against the second receiving portion. One of the first press-fit portion and the second press-fit portion is press-fit into a remaining one of the first press-fit portion and the second press-fit portion in a direction perpendicular to the front-rear direction and thereby a relative movement of the sleeve member with respect to the contact along the front-rear direction is regulated.
US12027786B2	Modular antenna and antenna assembly An antenna assembly for receiving television signals on both very high frequency (VHF) bands and ultra high frequency (UHF) bands, the antenna assembly including: a main section including an elongated boom, at least one active element coupled to the boom, and at least one passive element coupled to the boom; a VHF section including a VHF boom configured to be coupled to a first longitudinal end of the boom and at least one active element coupled to the VHF boom; and a UHF section including a UHF boom configured to be coupled to a second longitudinal end of the boom opposite the first longitudinal end and a plurality of passive elements coupled to the UHF boom.
US12027784B2	Antenna device An antenna device includes a printed circuit board including a circuit configured to determine a position based on a navigation signal, and a dipole antenna element mounted on the printed circuit board and configured to receive the navigation signal. Further, the antenna device includes an L-shaped parasitic antenna element, wherein the dipole antenna element and a long-side element of the L-shaped parasitic antenna element are placed parallel to each other but at a position not in line with each other, and an end of a short-side element of the L-shaped antenna element is placed in close proximity to an end of the dipole antenna element.
US12027778B2	Liquid crystal antenna unit, liquid crystal phased array antenna and phase calibration method The present disclosure provides a liquid crystal antenna unit, including: a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite to the first substrate; a liquid crystal layer disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate; an antenna unit disposed on a side of the first substrate facing away from the liquid crystal layer; and an antenna control unit disposed corresponding to the antenna unit and configured to control ON/OFF of the antenna unit. The present disclosure further provides a liquid crystal phased array antenna and a phase calibration method.
US12027774B2	Antenna structure and electronic device comprising same The present disclosure relates to a 5th generation (5G) or pre-5G communication system for supporting higher data transmission rates than a 4th generation (4G) communication system such as long-term evolution (LTE). An antenna module in a wireless communication system includes: a printed circuit board (PCB); a radio frequency integrated circuit (RFIC); and a plurality of antenna elements for emitting a radio frequency (RF) signal, wherein the plurality of antenna elements may be disposed in a first area of a first surface of the PCB, and the RFIC may be disposed in a second area, different from the first area, of the first surface of the PCB.
US12027768B2	Antenna and electronic device comprising same According to various embodiments, an electronic device may comprise: a housing; an antenna structure disposed in an inner space of the housing, the antenna structure including a substrate having a first surface and a second surface oriented toward a direction opposite to the first surface, and at least one first antenna element disposed in a space between the first surface and the second surface and having a beam pattern formed toward a conductive part; an electric wave absorbing member disposed between the conductive part and the at least one first antenna element so as to be disposed in a path in which the beam pattern is formed; and a first wireless communication circuit disposed in the inner space of the housing and configured to transmit or receive a wireless signal of a first frequency band through the at least one first antenna element.
US12027767B1	Antenna movable between deployed and partially stowed positions and associated methods An antenna may include rigid antenna ribs, a flexible antenna reflector layer, and a flexible support member extending behind the flexible antenna reflector layer between adjacent antenna ribs and having first and second sets of openings therein. A drawstring may extend through the first set of openings between adjacent ribs and a rear support cord is behind the flexible support member between adjacent ribs. Tie cords may extend between the flexible antenna reflector layer and the rear support cord and pass through respective ones of the second set of openings. A biasing member may maintain tension in the drawstring as adjacent antenna ribs move between first and second positions so that the flexible support member defines a pleated support body for the flexible antenna reflector layer.
US12027766B2	5G millimeter-wave novel dual-polarized horn antenna Some embodiments of the present disclosure discloses a 5G millimeter-wave novel dual-polarized horn antenna. The antenna includes an upper plate, a lower plate, a front plate, a rear plate and a cover plate, the cover plate is disposed on a rear end of the antenna, the front plate and the rear plate are disposed between the upper and lower plate, an excitation cavity structure is defined in the upper plate, the lower plate, the front plate, the rear plate and the cover plate, an excitation cavity with a rectangular cross section is formed in the cavity structure, the cross section of the excitation cavity is gradually reduced from right to left and then kept unchangeable, the left end of the excitation cavity is sealed through the cover plate, the upper plate, the lower plate, the front plate and the rear plate in the excitation cavity all include a curve ridge.
US12027763B1	Shielding systems for a platform experiencing unplanned electromagnetic energy radiation The embodiments are directed to protecting objects having sensitive electronics from electromagnetic energy radiation. An object with the sensitive electronics has a film applied to the object's outer surface. The film conforms to the object's outer surface contours. The film has a substrate foundation, an array in intimate adjacent contact with the substrate foundation. The array has a plurality of radio frequency (RF) witness films overlain on the substrate foundation. Each RF witness film in the plurality of RF witness films is equally-spaced from adjacent RF witness films.
US12027759B2	Jewel with wireless communication device A jewel includes a main body and at least one wireless communication device accommodated within a cavity formed in the main body. The at least one communication device is arranged slanting with respect to a bottom wall of the cavity, partly accommodated in an undercut region of the cavity and spaced from the bottom wall and from walls at opposed ends of the cavity, whereby propagation of the signal in the space between the at least one communication device and the walls of the cavity is allowed.
US12027756B2	Antenna system for vehicles A communication system and method for vehicles, particularly trains, are described with the vehicle having antenna sets. Each antenna set includes a plurality of antennas mounted onto a convex-shaped vehicle roof in which an axis of one antenna set is approximately perpendicular to an axis of another antenna set and in which the antenna sets are mounted below roof level of the convex-shaped vehicle roof A switching device is operable to switch between a first antenna configuration and a second antenna configuration based on a difference in measured signal power received at the antenna sets. The first antenna configuration is associated with a first stationary communication system of the plurality of stationary communication systems and a second antenna configuration is associated with a second stationary communication system of the plurality of stationary communication systems.
US12027753B2	Electronic package and antenna structure thereof An electronic package is provided, in which a ground layer is arranged on one side of an insulator, and a first antenna portion and a second antenna portion embedded in the insulator are vertically disposed on the ground layer, where a gap is formed between the first antenna portion and the second antenna portion, such that the first antenna portion and the second antenna portion are electrically matched with each other, and the ground layer is electrically connected to the second antenna portion but free from being electrically connected to the first antenna portion.
US12027750B2	Inside pipe mounting apparatus and methods A mounting device includes a central shaft extending along an axis from a first end to a second end. A first collar and a second collar are mounted to the central shaft. A first portion of a linkage is attached to the first collar, and a second portion of the linkage is attached to the second collar. The linkage has an inflection point located between the first portion and the second portion. A foot pad is attached to the linkage proximate the inflection point. The first collar is movable from a first position to a second position, and when the first collar is in the first position, the foot pad is at a first radial distance from the axis. When the first collar is in the second position, the foot pad is at a second radial distance from the axis. The first radial distance different than the second radial distance.
US12027747B2	Antenna assembly An antenna assembly including flexible antenna elements connected to a non-flexible antenna element which connects to a counterpoise where the non-flexible antenna element is between the counterpoise and the flexible antenna elements. The flexible antenna elements are a plurality of peripheral flexible antenna elements and a central flexible antenna element. The plurality of peripheral flexible antenna elements are separated from and surrounding the central flexible antenna element. The non-flexible antenna element is a biconical antenna, formed from two tapered shapes connected at a central feed point such that a constant electrical impedance as the currents radiate outward from the central feed point. A total length of the flexible antenna elements connected to the non-flexible antenna element is ≤43.0 cm, and the flexible antenna elements connected to the non-flexible antenna element has a realized gain of at least 2 dB over at least a frequency range of 200-7000 MHz.
US12027746B2	Mitigating wind damage to wind exposed devices Disclosed are devices, system, and method for mitigating wind damage to satellite antennas and for reducing the amount of ballast required to secure the satellite antennas. The device, system, and method include a mast on which an antenna may be affixed, a pivot gear capable of rotating between two or more positions, and a tension force or retention force on the pivot gear. A load force applied to the antenna creates a risk of damage proportional to the load force. The antenna system is capable of transitioning from a first orientation into a second orientation when the load force exceeds tension force or retention force, or the sum thereof, such that the antenna system experiences a reduced load force and therefore a reduced risk of damage. The device, system, and method also reduce the amount of ballast required to secure a non-penetrating antenna installation against tipping or sliding.
US12027745B2	Hybrid coupler and method for manufacturing hybrid couplers A hybrid coupler is disclosed. The hybrid coupler comprises a printed circuit board having a first metallization layer and a second metallization layer arranged below the first metallization layer. The first metallization layer comprises at least two input ports and at least two output ports. The hybrid coupler further comprises a plurality of couplers coupled adjacent to each other on the first metallization layer. Each coupler of the plurality of couplers comprises transmission traces electrically coupled with the transmission traces of an adjacent coupler and the transmission traces of the plurality of couplers extend between the input ports and the output ports of the first metallization layer. The hybrid coupler furthermore comprises a defective ground structure having a pre-defined shape defined in the second metallization layer below each coupling junction formed between the transmission traces of the plurality of couplers.
US12027738B2	Fuel cell with annular structure The invention relates to a fuel cell comprising a plurality of modules mounted in series with one another so as to form a peripheral structure, each module comprising two end members and a stack of electrochemical cells mounted between two end members, each end member including a mounting face in contact with one of the ends of a stack and an interface face in contact with another interface face of another end member, the mounting face and the interface face being angularly spaced apart by an angle (α) which is between 0.5° and 60°.
US12027737B2	Fuel cells incorporating silica fibers Embodiments of the invention include fuel cells incorporating sheets and/or powders of silica fibers and methods for producing such devices. The silica fibers may be formed via electrospinning of a sol gel produced with a silicon alkoxide reagent, such as tetraethyl ortho silicate, alcohol solvent, and an acid catalyst.
US12027736B2	Membrane-electrode assembly capable of improving reverse voltage durability of fuel cell, method for manufacturing same, and fuel cell including same Disclosed is a membrane-electrode assembly which can prevent the corrosion of a carbon-based carrier caused by reducing and/or stopping the supply of hydrogen gas, as well as platinum loss caused by such corrosion, without degrading the performance of a fuel cell, and thus can improve the reverse voltage durability of the fuel cell. Also disclosed are a method for manufacturing the membrane-electrode assembly, and a fuel cell including the membrane-electrode assembly. The membrane-electrode assembly according to the present invention includes: an electrolyte membrane having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface; an anode on the first surface; an OER catalyst layer on the first surface; and a cathode on the second surface, wherein the OER catalyst layer includes a catalyst for an oxygen-generating reaction, and at least a portion of the OER catalyst layer is disposed on the same layer as the anode.
US12027735B2	Fuel cell system A fuel cell system 1 includes a fuel cell FC having a plurality of fuel battery cells, a control unit Cnt configured to control power generation of the fuel cell FC, a power storage apparatus S, and a DCDC converter Cnv. The control unit Cnt makes the voltage of the fuel cell FC higher than the voltage of the power storage apparatus S when the power generation by the fuel cell FC is stopped and makes the power generated in the fuel cell FC when the power generation by the fuel cell FC is stopped chargeable to the power storage apparatus S through a first path having diodes D1, D3, D5.
US12027733B2	Fuel cell system including ATO injector and method of operating the same A fuel cell system includes a fuel cell stack, an anode tail gas oxidizer (ATO), an ATO injector configured to mix a first portion of an anode exhaust from the fuel cell stack with a cathode exhaust from the fuel cell stack and to provide a mixture of the first portion of the anode exhaust and the cathode exhaust into the ATO, an anode exhaust conduit which is configured to provide the first portion of the anode exhaust into the ATO injector, and cathode exhaust conduit which is configured to provide at least a portion of the cathode exhaust from the fuel cell stack into the ATO injector. The ATO injector includes injector tubes or injection apertures.
US12027727B2	Carrier structure, cell contacting system and manufacturing method A carrier structure for electrically insulating a first electrically conductive part and a second electrically conductive part includes a base body formed of an electrically insulating material and an electrically insulating spacer embedded in the base body in at least part of a separation region between the first electrically conductive part and the second electrically conductive part. The base body has a first holding structure holding the first electrically conductive part and a second holding structure holding the second electrically conductive part. The electrically insulating spacer has an intumescent material and/or a high temperature-resistant filler.
US12027726B2	Secondary battery manufacturing method and secondary battery A secondary battery manufacturing method according to an example embodiment of the present disclosure includes an electromagnetic welding step of joining together a first metallic component and a second metallic component included in the secondary battery by electromagnetic welding, and a laser welding step of applying laser light to weld an unjoined part of the first metallic component and the second metallic component, the unjoined part being not joined by the electromagnetic welding step.
US12027722B2	Housing, battery, and electronic apparatus A housing is disclosed, including an accommodating cavity, where a surface of the housing is provided with a groove, a thickness of an area provided with the groove in the housing is less than a thickness of an area provided with no groove in the housing, the housing further includes a protective layer, and the protective layer is disposed on the surface of the housing and covers an opening end of the groove. The groove helps discharge a pressure from the housing, and the protective layer can prevent the housing from being accidentally broken. This application further provides a battery to which the housing is applied, and an electronic apparatus to which the battery is applied.
US12027720B2	Battery pack cover having uneven surface structure and battery pack comprising same A battery pack cover has irregularities formed on an upper surface portion thereof. The battery pack cover effectively prevents stress from being concentrated on a specific area, enables rigidity enhancement without adding a separate bracket, and is easily assembled when applied to packaging.
US12027719B2	Battery module The present application provides a battery module, which includes a plurality of batteries, an end plate and an output electrode connecting sheet. The plurality of batteries are arranged in a longitudinal direction. The end plate has: a main body portion, located on one side of the plurality of batteries in the longitudinal direction; and an extension portion, formed on the main body portion and extending in the longitudinal direction away from the batteries. The output electrode connecting sheet has: a first connecting portion, connected to a corresponding battery; and a second connecting portion, connected to one end of the first connecting portion and fixed to the extension portion of the end plate.
US12027718B2	Battery module case for electric vehicle The present invention provides a battery module case for an electric vehicle, wherein an electric vehicle battery provided to be utilized in an electric vehicle is accommodated inside the battery module case to improve assemblability. The battery module case for an electric vehicle is characterized by comprising: a case part which is formed by extrusion-molding an aluminum material, has a cavity formed in an inner profile corresponding to the outer profile of the battery for an electric vehicle, and is open in at least one end in the longitudinal direction, wherein a press-fit protrusion is formed along the edge of the open end; and at least one cover part which is formed by die-casting an aluminum material and provided so as to be coupled to the open end of the case part, and in which an extension portion is integrally formed to extend and protrude toward the case part from the edge thereof, at a position corresponding to the press-fit protrusion, so as to be press-fit on the edge of the press-fit protrusion, and both-side contacting grooves surrounding and closely contacting both sides of the press-fit protrusion are recessed in an end section of the extension portion.
US12027712B2	Flexible battery and method for forming pattern of flexible battery A flexible battery is provided. A flexible battery according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: an electrode assembly; an exterior material for sealing the electrode assembly together with an electrolyte; and a plurality of patterns having ridge portions and groove portions repeatedly formed along the lengthwise direction, wherein the maximum bending curvature at which the battery can be bent through the plurality of patterns is adjusted through the gap (L) between two neighboring patterns and the depth (d) of the patterns.
US12027710B2	Active material and all-solid secondary battery An active material is represented by a chemical formula Li3+aV2−xMx(PO4)3 (−0.35≤a≤0.7, 0
US12027707B2	Electric energy storage device The present invention relates to an electric energy storage device, in particular a battery, at least comprising: —an anode comprising a divalent metal selected from magnesium, calcium, beryllium and zinc or a combination thereof or an alloy comprising at least one of these metals; —a cathode comprising elemental sulphur, or a sulphur-containing organosilane compound, or a mixture of sulphur-containing organosilane compounds, or a mixture of sulphur and sulphur-containing organosilane compounds grafted on the surface of the cathode; and—an electrolyte placed between the anode and the cathode; wherein the cathode comprises a current collector surface that has been at least partly modified by grafting the sulphur-containing organosilane compound or a mixture of sulphur-containing organosilane compounds thereon.
US12027705B2	Dispersion method of slurry for aluminum battery A dispersion method of slurry for aluminum battery includes at least the following. A first dispersion liquid with active powder and a second dispersion liquid with conductive powder are provided separately, wherein the second dispersion liquid is different from the first dispersion liquid. The first dispersion liquid and the second dispersion liquid are mixed and dispersed by one or more of three-roll rolling, ball milling, centrifugal stirring, and planetary stirring to make a slurry.
US12027704B2	Sulfur-carbon composite and lithium secondary battery comprising same A sulfur-carbon composite and a lithium secondary battery including the same are discussed. More specifically, a network-shaped coating layer including a conductive polymer is formed on a surface of the sulfur-carbon composite, and thus the conductivity of the sulfur-carbon composite is enhanced and also, lithium ions move freely, and accordingly, when applied to lithium secondary batteries, the sulfur-carbon composite can enhance the performance of batteries.
US12027701B2	Active material and fluoride ion battery A main object of the present disclosure is to provide an active material of which capacity properties are excellent. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing an active material to be used for a fluoride ion battery, the active material comprising: a composition represented by M1Nx in which M1 is at least one kind of Cu, Ti, V, Cr, Fe, Mn, Co, Ni, Zn, Nb, In, Sn, Ta, W, and Bi, and x satisfies 0.05≤x≤3; or a composition represented by M2LnyNz in which M2 is at least one kind of Cu, Ti, V, Cr, Fe, Mn, Co, Ni, Zn, Nb, In, Sn, Ta, W, and Bi, Ln is at least one kind of Sc, Y, and lanthanoid, y satisfies 0.1≤y≤3, and z satisfies 0.15≤z≤6.
US12027699B2	Active electrode material The present invention provides an active electrode material comprising a mixture of (a) at least one niobium oxide and (b) at least one mixed niobium oxide; wherein the mixed niobium oxide has the composition M1aM21-aM3bNb12-bO33-c-dQd, wherein: M1 and M2 are different; M1 is selected from Mg, Ca, Sr, Y, La, Ce, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Nb, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, B, Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, P, Sb, Bi and mixtures thereof; M2 is Mo or W; M3 is selected from Mg, Ca, Sr, Y, La, Ce, Ti, Zr, Hf, V, Ta, Cr, Mo, W, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, B, Al, Ga, In, Si, Ge, Sn, Pb, P, Sb, Bi, and mixtures thereof; Q is selected from F, Cl, Br, I, N, S, Se, and mixtures thereof; 0≤a<0.5; 0≤b≤2; −0.5≤c≤1.65; 0≤d≤1.65; one or more of a, b, c and d does not equal zero; and when a, b, and d equal zero, c is greater than zero. Such materials are of interest as active electrode materials in lithium-ion or sodium-ion batteries.
US12027696B2	Ternary positive electrode material coated with nitride/graphitized carbon nanosheets and preparation method thereof The invention discloses a ternary positive electrode material coated with nitride/graphitized carbon nanosheets and preparation method thereof. The ternary positive electrode material coated with nitride/graphitized carbon nanosheets includes a ternary positive electrode material matrix and a coating layer; the coating layer is composed of nitride and graphitized carbon; and the graphitized carbon is formed in situ in the coating process of the nitride. Compared with a physical mixing method, the in-situ generated carbon layer is connected to the material matrix more tightly, and the formed conductive network is denser. So that the rate performance of the material is improved to the maximum extent. The preparation method is simple and easy to realize industrial production. And the obtained ternary positive electrode material coated with nitride/graphitized carbon nanosheets has excellent rate performance and cycling stability.
US12027694B2	Nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery A nonaqueous electrolyte secondary battery according to an embodiment includes a spirally wound electrode body in which a positive electrode and a negative electrode are spirally wound with a separator interposed therebetween. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector, a first negative electrode mixture layer disposed on a first surface of the negative electrode current collector, and a second negative electrode mixture layer disposed on a second surface of the negative electrode current collector. The first surface and the second surface face outward and inward of the electrode body, respectively. At least the first negative electrode mixture layer includes a Si active material. The content of the Si active material in terms of Si in the second negative electrode mixture layer is lower than the content of the Si active material in terms of Si in the first negative electrode mixture layer.
US12027692B2	Methods of forming electrochemical cells with a combination formation charge rate Methods of forming electrochemical cells are described. In some implementations, the method can include providing an electrochemical cell having an electrode with at least about 20% to about 99% by weight of silicon. The method can include providing a formation charge current at a first rate and at a second rate to the electrochemical cell. The first rate can be in a range from about C/100 to about C/10 and the second rate can be greater than about C/10.
US12027690B2	Pulse plating of lithium material in electrochemical devices The present invention is directed to battery system and operation thereof. In an embodiment, lithium material is plated onto the anode region of a lithium secondary battery cell by a pulsed current. The pulse current may have both positive and negative polarity. One of the polarities causes lithium material to plate onto the anode region, and the opposite polarity causes lithium dendrites to be removed. There are other embodiments as well.
US12027689B2	Method for producing electrode A main object of the present disclosure is to provide a method for producing an electrode of which uncoated part can stretch while inhibiting breakage. The present disclosure achieves the object by providing a method for producing an electrode, the method including: a preparing step of preparing a precursor sheet including a metal foil, and a coated part and an uncoated part, arranged on the metal foil; a coated part pressing step of pressing the coated part in a thickness direction; and an uncoated part pressing step of pressing the uncoated part in the thickness direction, before or after the coated part pressing step; wherein the coated part contains an electrode material including at least an active material; the uncoated part does not contain the electrode material, and is arranged in an edge of the coated part; and in the uncoated part pressing step, the uncoated part is roll-pressed by a pair of an elastic roll including a shaft body and an elastic body covering the shaft body, while the uncoated part is pushed against the thickness direction.
US12027688B2	Method of manufacturing negative electrode for lithium secondary batteries A method of manufacturing a negative electrode for lithium secondary batteries. With the method, a negative electrode for lithium secondary batteries having excellent cycle performance may be manufactured by performing a process of compressing the negative electrode after pre-lithiation of the negative electrode so that the porosity of the negative electrode after the pre-lithiation is maintained within a certain range.
US12027685B2	Channel for cooling at least one battery cell and method for forming a channel A channel for cooling at least one battery cell is set out. The channel includes a first housing frame and a second housing frame. The first housing frame is connected to the second housing frame and a partially fluid-tight region is formed between the first housing frame 133 and the second housing frame by the shape and material properties of the first housing frame and the second housing frame. The partially fluid-tight region forms the channel and the channel is arranged to allow a coolant to flow through the channel.
US12027680B2	Method, apparatus, system for detecting battery thermal runaway, and battery management unit This application provides a method, an apparatus, a system for detecting battery thermal runaway, and a battery management unit. The method includes: obtaining an output signal of an air pressure sensor located in a battery pack, and obtaining parameter information of the battery pack; determining state information of the air pressure sensor based on the output signal of the air pressure sensor; and generating an alarm signal indicating occurrence of thermal runaway in the battery pack based on the state information of the air pressure sensor and the parameter information of the battery pack. In this application, the thermal runaway detection for the battery pack may be implemented by considering parameter information of both the air pressure sensor and the battery pack, improving the reliability of the thermal runaway detection for the battery pack, reducing the probability of false positives and false negatives, and improving driving safety.

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