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US12035643B2	Electronic component manufacturing method The disclosure concerns an electronic component manufacturing method including a first step of etching at least one first layer followed, with no exposure to oxygen, by a second step of passivating the first layer.
US12035642B2	Qubit network non-volatile identification A technique relates to a superconducting chip. Resonant units have resonant frequencies, and the resonant units are configured as superconducting resonators. Josephson junctions are in the resonant units, and one or more of the Josephson junctions have a shorted tunnel barrier.
US12035641B2	Josephson junction device fabricated by direct write ion implantation A Josephson Junction qubit device is provided. The device includes a substrate of silicon material. The device includes first and second electrodes of superconducting metal. The device may include a nanowire created by direct ion implantation on to the silicon material to connect the first and second electrodes. The device may include first and second superconducting regions created by direct ion implantation on to the silicon material, the first superconducting region connecting the first electrode and the second superconducting region connecting the second electrode, with a silicon channel formed by a gap between the first and second superconducting regions.
US12035635B2	Magnetoresistance effect element A magnetoresistance effect element includes: a first ferromagnetic layer; a second ferromagnetic layer; and a non-magnetic layer provided between the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer, wherein at least one of the first ferromagnetic layer and the second ferromagnetic layer includes a first layer and a second layer in order from the side closer to the non-magnetic layer, the first layer contains a crystallized Co-based Heusler alloy, at least a part of the second layer is crystallized, the second layer contains a ferromagnetic element, boron element and an additive element, and the additive element is any element selected from a group consisting of Ti, V, Cr, Cu, Zn, Zr, Mo, Ru, Pd, Ta, W, Ir, Pt, and Au.
US12035632B2	Flexible and low cost piezoelectric composites with high d33 values The disclosure concerns filled a polymer composite comprising a piezoelectric filler and a polymer resin. The composite may exhibit a piezoelectric coefficient d33 of greater than 30 pC/N when measured according to the Berlincourt Method using a d33 piezometer and a density of less than 5 g/cc according to the Archimedes method.
US12035629B2	Thermoelectric conversion material, thermoelectric conversion element, thermoelectric conversion module, and optical sensor A thermoelectric conversion material is represented by a composition formula Ag2S(1-x)Sex, where x has a value of greater than 0.01 and smaller than 0.6.
US12035628B2	Thermoelectric transducer and thermoelectric transducer module A thermoelectric transducer includes a substrate, a thermoelectric film on the substrate, a first electrode on the substrate, and a second electrode on the substrate, the second electrode being different from the first electrode in work function. The first electrode and the second electrode are in contact with the same side of the thermoelectric film. The outer edge of the thermoelectric film is located inner than the outer edge of the substrate.
US12035627B2	Power generation apparatus A power generation apparatus according to an embodiment of the present invention comprises: a cooling unit, a thermoelectric module comprising a thermoelectric element disposed on one surface of the cooling unit, and a heat sink disposed on the thermoelectric element; a guide plate disposed opposite the thermoelectric module; and a branch unit disposed on another surface perpendicular to the one surface of the cooling unit. The heat sink includes multiple heat dissipation fins which are spaced apart from each other. The ratio of the shortest horizontal distance between the heat sink and the guide plate to the shortest horizontal distance between the branch unit and the guide plate is 0.0625 to 0.25.
US12035622B2	Triazine compound and organic semiconductng layer comprising the same The present invention relates to a compound represented by the general formula (I): (formula I) an organic semiconducting layer comprising the compound, an organic electronic device comprising the organic semiconducting layer and a device comprising the organic electronic device.
US12035611B2	Display panel and electronic device The present application provides a display panel and an electronic device. A support plate of the display panel includes a support member stacked in multiple layers. An area of a first support member corresponding to the first bending area is hollowed out. A calendered direction of the first support member is perpendicular to a bending axis of the second bending area. An area of a second support member corresponding to the second bending area is hollowed out. A calendered direction of the second support member is perpendicular to a bending axis of the first bending area to alleviate the fracture risk of the metal support.
US12035604B2	Display panel and display apparatus including the same A display panel including a first area and a second area includes a substrate, a first pixel electrode disposed in the first area, and an opposite electrode disposed on the first pixel electrode. The opposite electrode includes a first layer including a first material and a second layer including an alloy including the first material.
US12035589B2	Display substrate, and display device The present disclosure discloses a display substrate and a display device. The display substrate comprises: a display area, a binding area, and a fan-out area located between the display area and the binding area, the fan-out area comprises a touch control lead wire, a data lead wire, and at least one shielded wire located between the touch control lead wire and the data lead wire, and the at least one shielded wire is grounded or connected to a fixed potential.
US12035586B2	Display panel comprising a post spacer, manufacturing method and display device The present disclosure provides a display panel, a manufacturing method thereof, and a display device. The display panel includes: a base substrate including a through hole penetrating through the base substrate, an encapsulation region of the base substrate including an edge surrounding the through hole; and a post spacer arranged between the edge of the encapsulation region surrounding the through hole and the through hole. The post spacer includes a first portion made of metal and a post body made of an insulating material, a distance between the first portion and the base substrate is greater than a distance between the post body and the base substrate, and an area of an orthogonal projection of the first portion onto the base substrate is greater than an area of an orthogonal projection of the post body onto the base substrate.
US12035583B2	Display device including conductive layer overlapping with pad portion A display device includes: a substrate including a display area, and a peripheral area around the display area; a pad portion at the peripheral area, and including a first pad and a second pad adjacent to each other; a fan-out wire portion including a first fan-out wire below the first pad and connected to the first pad through a first contact hole to extend to the display area, and a second fan-out wire below the second pad and connected to the second pad through a second contact hole to extend to the display area; and a conductive layer between an upper portion of the fan-out wire portion and a lower portion of the pad portion, and at least partially corresponding to an overlapping area of the fan-out wire portion and the pad portion. The second fan-out wire at least partially overlaps with the first pad.
US12035581B2	Display panel, method for manufacturing display panel, and display device A display panel, a method for manufacturing the display panel and a display device are provided. The display panel includes a base, a functional film layer, and a plurality of first light-emitting elements. The functional film layer includes a power source signal line layer, a data line layer and a compensation functional layer, the power source signal line layer includes a power source signal line pattern arranged at each subpixel region, the data line layer includes a data line pattern arranged at each subpixel region, and the compensation functional layer includes a compensation functional pattern arranged at at least one subpixel region. The first light-emitting element includes a first anode, a first light-emitting pattern and a first cathode sequentially laminated.
US12035580B2	Semiconductor apparatus, display apparatus, and electronic equipment A semiconductor apparatus including a layered structure is disclosed. In one example, a first substrate with a light-emitting element and a second substrate with a light-blocking member on a periphery are layered with each other. The layered structure includes a first resin including a photocurable resin that seals a part between the first substrate and the second substrate in a pixel region. A second resin seals a part between the first substrate and the second substrate in a light-blocking region at a periphery. A protrusion structure is arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate in a boundary region between the pixel region and the light-blocking region, and includes a transparent or semitransparent material that transmits light.
US12035569B2	Hydrophobic and hydrophilic dual bank structures in organic light emitting display device An organic light-emitting display device comprises a substrate; a plurality of sub-pixels arranged in a first horizontal line and a second horizontal line on the substrate; at least one thin film transistor and a first electrode of an organic light-emitting diode connected to the thin film transistor, the at least one thin film transistor and the organic light-emitting diode being disposed in each of the plurality of sub-pixels; a first bank layer is disposed on the first electrode and exposing the first electrode; and a second bank layer disposed on the first bank layer and exposing the first bank layer and the first electrode, wherein the second bank layer is consecutively arranged in the first horizontal line and the second horizontal line and including a first bending portion at a boundary between the first horizontal line and the second horizontal line.
US12035567B2	Display device having anti-reflection layer A display device includes a substrate having a light emission area, a light emitting element layer including a light emitting element on the light emission area, and an sensing layer on the light emitting element layer and including a sensing electrode having a first opening overlapping the light emission area, a first refraction layer directly on the sensing electrode and having a second opening overlapping the light emission area, and a second refraction layer on the light emitting element layer and the first refraction layer, a first optical refractive index of the first refraction layer being less than a second optical refraction index of the second refraction layer.
US12035565B2	Light emitting device, image forming device, photoelectric conversion device, electronic apparatus, illumination device, moving body, and method of manufacturing light emitting device A light emitting device in which light emitting elements are arranged on a surface of a substrate is provided. Each of the light emitting elements comprises a light emitting layer, a reflective layer arranged between the light emitting layer and the surface, a first electrode arranged between the reflective layer and the light emitting layer, an optical distance adjustment layer arranged between the reflective layer and the first electrode, an insulating layer covering a peripheral portion of the first electrode and arranged, between two light emitting elements adjacent to each other, between the optical distance adjustment layer and the light emitting layer, and a conductive plug extending from the insulating layer to pass through the optical distance adjustment layer and reach a height of an upper surface of the reflective layer while being in electrical contact with the first electrode.
US12035562B2	Display panel and display device including display panel A display panel includes a substrate having an opening area, and a display area at least partially surrounding the opening area. Display elements are arranged in the display area. The display elements includes a pixel electrode, an opposite electrode, and an intermediate layer interposed therebetween. A multilayer film includes a first insulating layer between the substrate and the pixel electrode and a second insulating layer, of a different material, on the first insulating layer. A thin film encapsulation layer covers the display elements and includes at least one organic encapsulation layer and at least one inorganic encapsulation layer. The multilayer film includes a first groove disposed between the opening area and the display area. The first groove has an undercut structure in which a lower width of the first groove is greater than an upper width of the first groove.
US12035556B2	Display device and method for manufacturing the same There is provided a display device including a cover plate and a display panel; the cover plate includes a middle plane part, a first edge curved surface part, a second edge covered surface part and a corner curved surface part; the display panel includes a middle part, an edge part and a corner part; the middle part is arranged corresponding to the middle plane part; the edge part includes a first edge part and a second edge part; the first edge part and the first edge curved surface part are arranged correspondingly, and the second edge part and the second edge curved surface part are arranged correspondingly; the corner part and the corner curved surface part are correspondingly arranged; the middle part is in a display area; at least a portion of the edge part and the corner part adjacent to the middle part is in the display area.
US12035553B2	Light-emitting device and electronic apparatus comprising light-emitting device A light-emitting device includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an interlayer between the first electrode and the second electrode, the interlayer including an emission layer. The first electrode may be doped with a metal oxide having a work function of less than about −5.05 electron volts (eV), and a layer including a halide of a lanthanide may be between the first electrode and the emission layer. An electronic apparatus including the light-emitting device is also provided.
US12035552B2	Organic electroluminescence device and amine compound for organic electroluminescence device An organic electroluminescence device (OLED) of an embodiment includes a first electrode, a hole transport region on the first electrode, an emission layer on the hole transport region, and an electron transport region on the emission layer. The hole transport region may include an amine compound represented by Formula 1, and the OLED may thereby exhibit high luminous efficiency:
US12035538B2	Method of forming memory device with physical vapor deposition system A method of forming a memory device includes forming a dielectric structure over a wafer. A bottom electrode via is formed in the dielectric structure. A plasma deposition process is performed to deposit a bottom electrode layer over the bottom electrode via and performing the plasma deposition process includes off-axis rotating a magnet over the wafer to control plasma of the plasma deposition process. A memory material layer and a top electrode layer are formed over the bottom electrode layer. The bottom electrode layer, the memory material layer, and the top electrode layer are patterned to respectively form a bottom electrode, a memory layer, and a top electrode.
US12035537B2	Interface film to mitigate size effect of memory device In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a method of forming an integrated chip. The method includes forming a lower electrode layer over a substrate, and an un-patterned amorphous initiation layer over the lower electrode layer. An intermediate ferroelectric material layer is formed have a substantially uniform amorphous phase on the un-patterned amorphous initiation layer. An anneal process is performed to change the intermediate ferroelectric material layer to a ferroelectric material layer having a substantially uniform orthorhombic crystalline phase. An upper electrode layer is formed over the ferroelectric material layer. One or more patterning processes are performed on the upper electrode layer, the ferroelectric material layer, the un-patterned amorphous initiation layer, and the lower electrode layer to form a ferroelectric memory device. An upper ILD layer is formed over the ferroelectric memory device, and an upper interconnect is formed to contact the ferroelectric memory device.
US12035536B2	Integrated assemblies and methods of forming integrated assemblies Some embodiments include an integrated assembly having first and second pillars of semiconductor material. The first pillar includes a first source/drain region, and the second pillar includes a second source/drain region. First and second bottom electrodes are coupled with the first and second source/drain regions, respectively. The first and second source/drain regions are spaced from one another by an intervening region. First and second leaker-device-structures extend into the intervening region from the first and second bottom electrodes, respectively. Top-electrode-material extends into the intervening region and contacts the first and second leaker-device-structures. Ferroelectric-insulative-material is between the top-electrode-material and the bottom electrodes. Some embodiments include methods of forming integrated assemblies.
US12035528B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes gate electrodes stacked along a direction perpendicular to an upper surface of a substrate, the gate electrodes extending to different lengths in a first direction, and each gate electrode including subgate electrodes spaced apart from each other in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction, and gate connection portions connecting subgate electrodes of a same gate electrode of the gate electrodes to each other, channels extending through the gate electrodes perpendicularly to the upper surface of the substrate, and dummy channels extending through the gate electrodes perpendicularly to the upper surface of the substrate, the dummy channels including first dummy channels arranged in rows and columns, and second dummy channels arranged between the first dummy channels in a region including the gate connection portions.
US12035526B2	Vertical semiconductor device and method for fabricating the same A method for fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a source structure over a lower structure with interconnections; forming a first contact plug that penetrates the source structure to be coupled to the interconnections, and a first sacrificial pad that penetrates the source structure and is spaced apart from the first contact plug; forming an upper structure that covers the first sacrificial pad, the first contact plug, and the source structure; forming a second contact plug that penetrates the upper structure and contacts the first contact plug, forming a second sacrificial pad that penetrates the upper structure to contact the first sacrificial pad and is spaced apart from the second contact plug; and replacing the first sacrificial pad and the second sacrificial pad with a dielectric supporter.
US12035521B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a stack structure including interlayer insulating layers and gate electrodes alternately and repeatedly stacked on the substrate in a first direction perpendicular, a channel structure that penetrates the stack structure, a contact plug disposed on the channel structure, and a bit line on the contact plug. The channel structure includes a core pattern, a pad structure on the core pattern, and a channel layer on a side surface of the core pattern and a side surface of the pad structure. The pad structure includes a pad pattern, a first pad layer, and a second pad layer, the first pad layer that is between the channel layer and the pad pattern, and the second pad layer including a first portion between the channel layer and the first pad layer, and a second portion between the first pad layer and the core pattern.
US12035520B2	Three dimensional memory device containing dummy word lines and p-n junction at joint region and method of making the same A three-dimensional memory device includes a first alternating stack of first insulating layers and first electrically conductive layers located over a semiconductor material layer, an inter-tier dielectric layer, and a second alternating stack of second insulating layers and second electrically conductive layers located over the inter-tier dielectric layer. A memory opening vertically extends through the second alternating stack, the inter-tier dielectric layer, and the first alternating stack. A memory opening fill structure is located in the memory opening, and includes a first vertical semiconductor channel, a second vertical semiconductor channel, and an inter-tier doped region located between the first and the second semiconductor channel, and providing a first p-n junction with the first vertical semiconductor channel and providing a second p-n junction with the second vertical semiconductor channel.
US12035519B2	Semiconductor memory device and method for forming the same The present invention discloses a semiconductor memory device and a forming method thereof. The semiconductor memory device includes a substrate, a plurality of bit lines, a strip-shaped isolation structure, a conductive residue, a plurality of columnar isolation structures and a plurality of conductive plugs. The bit lines are located on the substrate and extend along the first direction. The strip-shaped isolation structure is located at the ends of the bit lines and extends along the second direction, and the strip-shaped isolation structure includes a seam. In particular, the conductive residue is disposed in the seam. The columnar isolation structures are separated from each other and disposed between the bit lines. The conductive plugs are separated from each other and disposed between the bit lines, in which the conductive plugs and the conductive residue include the same conductive material.
US12035515B2	UHD HDR IP client device A robust, reliable, and efficient UHD HDR Internet Protocol IP client device, such as a set top box, receives content, for example, from a cable service provider so that the content can be displayed to a compatible display device with improved visual effect. The content is 4K or higher content that requires UHD/HDR for a satisfactory user experience. The UHD provides for an improved resolution of the content while HDR provides for a more intense or greater contrast range of the content when displayed on a compatible display device.
US12035511B2	Chassis structure, server, and method of dissipating heat from server The invention provides a chassis structure, a server, and a method of dissipating heat from server. The chassis structure comprises chassis body, two fan components, two tray components, and a power supply. The chassis body defines a receiving space bounded by two spaced partitions, the two partitions divide the receiving space into a middle cavity and two side cavities. The fan components are at one end of each side cavity and are connected to the chassis body. The two tray components carry slots for inserting hard disks. The power supply is arranged in the middle cavity and supplies power to the hard disks inserted in the slots, the power supply also has a fan, the power supply positioned at one end of the middle cavity.
US12035507B2	Technologies for dynamic cooling in a multi-chip package with programmable impingement valves Technologies for dynamic cooling include a computing device having a multi-chip package including multiple dies and a cold plate coupled to the multi-chip package. Micro nozzle valves are coupled to fluid passage zones of the cold plate positioned adjacent to the dies, and are configured to control fluid flow into the fluid passage zones. The computing device reads a predetermined die junction temperature for each die, determines a current die junction temperature for each die, compares the predetermined die junction temperature to the current die junction temperature for each die, and determines a fluid flow rate for each die based on that comparison. The computing device controls the micro nozzle valves adjacent to each die based on the respective fluid flow rate. The dies may include processor cores, field-programmable gate arrays, memory devices, or other computer chips. Other embodiments are described and claimed.
US12035505B2	System and method for compute system cooling fan control A micro control unit (“MCU”) controls operation of a cooling fan in a compute device. The MCU is responsive to determining that a fan speed of the cooling fan is above a predetermined speed threshold to periodically determine power consumption of the cooling fan. In response to a periodic determination of power consumption exceeding a predetermined power consumption limit, the MCU reduces the fan speed of the cooling fan by a predetermined increment and continues periodically determine power consumption of the cooling fan. Upon determining that the power consumption does not exceed the predetermined power consumption limit, the MCU discontinues any prior reduction of the fan speed.
US12035499B2	Stability appliance for securing circuit boards in harsh environments A stability device comprising a carrier having a first socket and a second socket;a first circuit board inserted into the first socket; a second circuit board inserted into the second socket, wherein an inside surface of the second circuit board is facing an inside surface of the first circuit board; a center structure positioned between the inside surface of the first circuit board and the inside surface of the second circuit board, wherein the center structure is fixed to the carrier via a stability bar fixed to the carrier; a spring loaded outer structure at least partially surrounding an outside surface of the first circuit board and an outside surface of the second circuit board and to fix the center structure between the inside surface of the first circuit board and the inside surface of the second circuit board, wherein the center structure and outer structure dissipate heat.
US12035495B1	Board physical placement verification in a server chassis A computer system includes a chassis comprising location indicating elements, such as springs, magnets, standoffs, or other types of location indicating elements physically attached to the chassis in a configuration that indicates locations in the chassis. Also, the computer system includes multiple printed circuit boards comprising pads configured to interface with the location indicating elements, wherein combinations of sensed or not sensed location indicating elements at the pads of the printed circuit boards provide a physically verified placement location for the printed circuit boards.
US12035492B2	Preloaded flexible latch assembly A latch mechanism includes a mounting bracket, a stop connected to the mounting bracket, a first spring connected to the mounting bracket and in contact with the stop to preload the first spring, and a latch. The latch includes a second spring rotatably connected to the mounting bracket, and a body connected to the second spring. The body includes a pad at one end of the body, and a first pawl at a second end of the body opposite of the pad.
US12035491B2	Electronic device including flexible display An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a flexible display including a first area disposed to be visible to the outside and a second area extending from the first area and disposed to be accommodated inside the electronic device in a first state and to be at least partially visible to the outside in a second state, a bendable member disposed on the rear surface of the flexible display and configured to support the flexible display in the first state and the second state, a case configured to support at least a portion of the flexible display, a sliding frame slidably coupled to the case and including a slide plate having a plurality of first guide slits formed therein and a sliding bar extending from the slide plate and coming into contact with the bendable member in the second state, and a plurality of driving bodies configured to enable sliding movement of the flexible display while switching from the first state to the second state.
US12035490B2	Switched-mode light-emitting diode (LED) display unit satisfying fire-fighting smoke exhaust ventilation requirements A switched-mode light-emitting diode (LED) display unit satisfying fire-fighting smoke exhaust and ventilation requirements includes an LED display unit, a mounting member, an opening-closing actuator and a pressing member. The LED display unit is mounted on the mounting member and the mounting member is mounted on a display panel by an opening-closing actuator and pressed against the display panel by a pressing member. The switched-mode LED display unit provides the pressing member that works to release the pressed mounting member after obtaining a triggering command and the opening-closing actuator that turns on the LED display unit subsequently, thereby meeting the fire smoke exhaust ventilation requirement of the internal surface or the external surface of a building.
US12035487B2	Light-emitting device A light-emitting device can be folded in such a manner that a flexible light-emitting panel is supported by a plurality of housings which are provided spaced from each other and the light-emitting panel is bent so that surfaces of adjacent housings are in contact with each other. Furthermore, in the light-emitting device, in which part or the whole of the housings have magnetism, the two adjacent housings can be fixed to each other by a magnetic force when the light-emitting device is used in a folded state.
US12035486B1	Electronic display assembly with fabric panel communications box A display assembly includes a communications box and one or more electronic display subassemblies attached to a mounting structure. The communications box is located above the one or more electronic display subassemblies and has a front panel and a rear panel, at least one of which comprises fabric for ambient air to travel through to cool electronic equipment located within.
US12035484B2	Wiring circuit board A wiring circuit board includes a metal support layer, a base insulating layer disposed on one side in a thickness direction of the metal support layer, and a conductive layer disposed on one side in the thickness direction of the base insulating layer, and including a first terminal and a ground lead residual portion electrically connected to the first terminal. The base insulating layer has a through hole penetrating in the thickness direction. The ground lead residual portion has an opening continuous so as to surround the through hole.
US12035475B2	Semiconductor package with stress reduction design and method for forming the same A semiconductor package and a method of forming the same are provided. The semiconductor package includes a package substrate, a semiconductor device, an underfill element, and a groove. The semiconductor device is bonded to the surface of the package substrate through multiple electrical connectors. The underfill element is formed between the semiconductor device and the surface of the package substrate to surround and protect the electrical connectors. The underfill element includes a fillet portion that extends laterally beyond the periphery of the semiconductor device and is formed along the periphery of the semiconductor device. The groove is formed in the fillet portion and spaced apart from the periphery of the semiconductor device.
US12035471B2	Circuit structure A circuit structure including a pad assembly, a bonding pad assembly, and a bonding assembly is provided. The pad assembly includes a first pad, a second pad, and a third pad which are separated from one another. The bonding pad assembly is located on one side of the pad assembly and includes a first bonding pad. The bonding assembly includes a first bonding wire, a second bonding wire, and a plurality of bonding members. The first bonding wire is connected to the first bonding pad and the first pad. The second bonding wire is connected to the first bonding pad and the third pad. The bonding members are connected among the first pad, the second pad, and the third pad. The circuit structure provided here may have an improved wire bonding efficiency and an increased distribution density of bonding points, and the number of bonding wires may be reduced.
US12035469B2	Pure copper plate, copper/ceramic bonded body, and insulated circuit board A pure copper sheet has a composition including 99.96 mass % or more of Cu, 9.0 mass ppm or more and less than 100.0 mass ppm of a total content of Ag, Sn, and Fe, and inevitable impurities as a balance, in which an average crystal grain size of crystal grains on a rolled surface is 10 μm or more, the pure copper sheet has crystals in which crystal planes parallel to the rolled surface are a {022} plane, a {002} plane, a {113} plane, a {111} plane, and a {133} plane, and diffraction peak intensities of the individual crystal planes that are obtained by X-ray diffraction measurement by a 2θ/θ method on the rolled surface satisfy I {022}/(I {022}+I {002}+I {113}+I {111}+I {133})≤0.15, I {002}/I {111}≥10.0, and I {002}/I {113}≥15.0.
US12035468B2	Bonded body, insulated circuit board with heat sink, and heat sink A bonded body includes an aluminum member made of an aluminum alloy and a copper member made of copper or a copper alloy, in which the aluminum member is made of an Al—Mn-based alloy containing Mn, an Mn concentration C0 of the entire aluminum member is in a range of 0.4 mass % or more and 1.5 mass % or less, and, when an Mn concentration in a region excluding a precipitate in the aluminum member is defined as an Mn solid solution concentration C1 and a value obtained by subtracting the Mn solid solution concentration C1 from the Mn concentration C0 of the entire aluminum member is defined as an Mn precipitate concentration C2, a ratio C1/C2 of the Mn solid solution concentration C1 to the Mn precipitate concentration C2 is in a range of 0.1 or more and 2.7 or less.
US12035466B2	Systems and methods for manufacturing thin substrate Printed circuit boards (PCB) used to mechanically and electrically connect electrical components within an electronic device. Thin printed circuit boards (PCB) may be desirable to manufacturers and users of electronic devices. Accordingly, a process for manufacturing a printed circuit board may involve manufacturing a thin bilayer dielectric. The process may involve applying a first non-conductive layer to a metal substrate, and curing the first non-conductive layer to a C-stage resin layer that is fully cross-linked layer in a clean environment. In turn, a B-stage layer that is partially cured may be applied to the C-stage resin layer. Using a hot press, one or more metal traces may be pressed onto the B-stage layer. The B-stage resin layer may be fully cross-linked and integrated with the C-stage resin layer after lamination of the one or more metal traces and the B-stage resin layer.
US12035463B2	Display panel, display device and terminal apparatus Disclosed are a display panel, a display device, and a terminal apparatus. The display panel comprises a display substrate having a backlight surface and a main flexible circuit board. The main flexible circuit board comprises a connection section, a fixed section and a test section. The connection section is arranged on the backlight surface, and has an outer peripheral surface comprising a first side and a second side opposite to each other. The fixed section is attached and fixed onto the backlight surface, and having one end connected to the first side and another end extending towards an end of the first side away from the second side. The test section has one end connected to the first side, and another end comprising a connection port.
US12035458B2	Quadrupole accelerator and a method for manufacturing quadrupole accelerator A quadrupole accelerator includes a center member, a first side member, and a second side member. The center member includes a center outer frame part, a first electrode and a second electrode. The first side member includes a first side outer frame part, a first wall part and a third electrode. The second side member includes a second side outer frame part which extends from the second side outer frame part toward an outside, a second wall part and a fourth electrode. The center member is formed seamlessly. The first side member is formed seamlessly. The second side member is formed seamlessly. The first side outer frame is fixed to a first side of the center outer frame part by a first fixing member. The second side outer frame is fixed to a second side of the center outer frame part by a second fixing member.
US12035457B2	Systems, devices, and methods for deformation reduction and resistance in metallic bodies Metallic bodies are provided having a lithium layer and a metallic substrate. The metallic bodies can exhibit increased resistance to radiation-induced deformations such as blistering. Methods are provided for transitioning the metallic bodies into more blister resistant configurations, as our methods for diminishing or eliminating blisters previously formed. Systems for utilizing the metallic bodies and methods are also disclosed.
US12035454B2	Plasma engine using ion extraction A plasma engine includes a plasma source having a gas input for receiving a first molecular gas species and that generates ions at an output from the received first molecular gas species. An ion extractor positioned proximate to the output of the plasma source extracts ions from the plasma source with an electric field. A housing includes a region that receives ions extracted from the ion extractor, wherein at least some of the extracted ions react with a second molecular gas species present in the housing to generate thrust.
US12035453B1	Multi-directional short-wave methods and systems A Short-Wave Radiation (SWR) system comprising: (i) a light assembly, comprising at least one light source and being configured to: (a) illuminate a front side of an ionization target with first illumination; and (b) illuminate a back side of the ionization target with second illumination; (ii) a controller, configured to control the light assembly for illuminating the ionization target from the front side of the ionization target using the first illumination and at least partly concurrently illuminating the ionization target from the back side of the ionization target using the second illumination; and (iii) an optical assembly configured to collect SWR emitted from the front side of the ionization target and to direct the collected SWR toward a designated beam direction of the SWR system, wherein the SWR emitted from the front side results from a target illumination scheme that comprises at least the first illumination and the second illumination.
US12035449B2	Keypad overlay with electrostatic discharge dissipation A plastic keypad with data entry elements and at least one display element is protected from electrostatic discharge by an assembly having an overlay substrate on which an electrically-conductive arrangement is disposed. The overlay substrate has a top side and a back side with a precisely-positioned vias formed through the substrate. A top surface of the top side is a layer of a conductive polymer. The back side is printed with at least one layer of color ink that depict a plurality of alpha-numerical and pictorial elements of the keypad. The electrically-conductive arrangement is disposed on the overlay substrate to collect electrostatic charges on the top side, transfer the electrostatic charges to the back side through the plurality of vias and drain the transferred electrostatic charges to a ground.
US12035442B2	Shoe light device capable of flashing in different modes and driving method thereof The invention relates to the technical field of shoe lights; in particular, to a shoe light device capable of flashing in different modes and a driving method thereof. A motion sensor, an integrated chip and a light-emitting device are integrated on a shoe, and the motion sensor and the light-emitting device are electrically connected to the integrated chip. The integrated chip is configured to control the light-emitting device to emit light in a preset constant-sequence output mode when the duration of reception of pulse signals generated by the motion sensor reaches a preset threshold, so that trigger control over the light-emitting device is realized. The shoe light device capable of flashing in different modes has the advantages of high integrity of elements, simple structure, simple production process, and various integrated cyclic output modes for flashing of the light-emitting device.
US12035438B2	Driving device, light emitting device, and driving method A driving device that includes a temperature monitoring circuit, a headroom voltage monitoring circuit, a power supply voltage monitoring circuit, and a control unit. The temperature monitoring circuit detects a temperature of a drive circuit that drives a light emitting element in a test light emission period of the light emitting element. The headroom voltage monitoring circuit detects a headroom voltage of the drive circuit in the test light emission period. The power supply voltage monitoring circuit detects a power supply voltage supplied to the light emitting element in the test light emission period. The control unit adjusts the power supply voltage in the test light emission period according to an input/output potential difference of the light emitting element varying depending on the temperature of drive circuit so as to obtain a headroom voltage necessary and sufficient for causing a prescribed drive current to flow through the light emitting element.
US12035434B1	Driver circuit and method for operating a light emitting unit A driver circuit for providing a driver current for operating a light emitting unit at a brightness level corresponding to a value of a brightness code. The driver circuit includes a digital-to-analog converter, DAC, stage configured to generate an intermediate signal in dependence of the value of the brightness code. Furthermore, the driver circuit includes a gain stage configured to amplify the intermediate signal in dependence of the value of the brightness code to provide the driver current.
US12035433B2	Distributed photobiomodulation therapy system and method A phototherapy system includes a channel driver, a first microcontroller and a pad comprising a string of light-emitting diodes (LEDs). The pad also comprises a second microcontroller that autonomously controls the string of LEDs such that the LEDs are controlled even if communication between the first microcontroller and the pad is interrupted.
US12035432B2	Light-emitting apparatus including light-emitting diode A lighting device including a first light emitter including a plurality of light sources each being configured to emit light with a different color temperature, a second light emitter including at least one light emitting structure to emit light having a different color range than that emitted from the first light emitter, a controller to adjust characteristics of light emitted from the first and second light emitters, a user interface member configured to receive input of a user and connected to the controller, and a storage medium connected to the controller, in which each of the light sources includes a light-emitting diode chip and a wavelength conversion member to convert a wavelength range of light emitted from the light-emitting diode chip, and the controller is further configured to control the first and second light emitters according to a spectrum of light stored in the storage medium.
US12035426B1	System, method and apparatus for application of infrared radiation An infrared energy supply system is disclosed including an infrared (IR) energy emitter device including a heat dissipating housing including an internal cavity that houses an IR bulb, an interior reflection unit and a cooling fan, an outer reflection unit coupled to the heat dissipating housing that includes a curved reflection component extending outwardly from the heat dissipating housing and side reflection components that extend outward from the heat dissipating on opposite sides of the curved reflection component, and a guide rail disposed on both sides of the outer reflection unit. The infrared energy supply system further includes a control unit coupled to the infrared energy emitter device via a coupling device. In some instances, the internal cavity houses multiple IR bulbs where emitted IR rays reflect off of the interior reflection unit and the curved reflection component to culminate at a first focal point and a second focal point.
US12035422B2	Proxy nodes for expanding the functionality of nodes in a wirelessly connected environment Disclosed herein are a number of example embodiments where a proxy node is used in a wireless network to expand the functionality of one or more wireless nodes on the network. The proxy node can include a circuit whose function is made available to an associated wireless node in the wireless network via proxy. The wireless nodes and one or more such proxy nodes can be arranged in a wirelessly connected environment to support a variety of remote management operations, including location tracking, status monitoring, and remote control. In an example embodiment, the wireless nodes can be deployed in a retail store and provide remote management and control over any combination of product display assemblies, locks, power strips, display shelves, display hooks, and other node types.
US12035418B2	Methods and apparatus for support of reduced capability devices in wireless communication A method and apparatus for a wireless device of reduced capabilities to access a wireless communication network targeted to operate with wireless device having higher capabilities is disclosed. The device may receive from a base station of the wireless communication network an indication of whether the type of devices that includes the wireless device of reduced capabilities is allowed to access the wireless communication network. The device may transmit to the base station signaling associated with connecting to the base station if the base station indicates that the type of devices with reduced capabilities is allowed to access the wireless communication network. The signaling allows the device to connect to the base station. The device may transmit capability information of the device to the base station. The device may configure its features based on the capability information to communicate with the base station.
US12035416B2	ESIM card change method and related device An embedded subscriber identification module (eSIM) card change method and a related device are disclosed. The method includes receiving, by an entitlement server, a first card change request sent by a terminal device, where the first card change request includes a user account, a password, a user number, and embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) identification. The method further includes verifying a user identity of the terminal device based on the user account and the password. If the verification succeeds, a second card change request is sent to an operator business support system (BSS). The second card change request includes the user number and the eUICC identification, and the second card change request is used to indicate to the BSS to complete the eSIM card change and to indicate to an eSIM server to generate an eSIM profile and associate the eSIM profile with the eUICC identification.
US12035411B2	Methods, network function nodes and computer readable media for event subscription management The present disclosure provides methods for event subscription management in a network comprising a set of NF nodes, and corresponding NF nodes. The method comprises receiving a subscription request of an event for a user from an event subscriber, in response to receipt of the subscription request, transmitting, to a second network function node, a query request for querying whether the event for the user has been subscribed; and if a response to the query request from the second network function node indicates that the event for the user has been subscribed, transmitting, to the second network function node, an updating request for updating a subscriber list of the event for the user by the second network function node to include the event subscriber into the subscriber list. The present disclosure further discloses a corresponding method which comprises receiving a query request from a first network function node for querying whether an event for a user has been subscribed, in response to reception of the query request, checking whether an indicator indicating the event for the user has been subscribed has been set, and transmitting a check result to the first network function node. The present disclosure further provides corresponding computer readable medium.
US12035409B2	Terminal device, MME, communication control method for terminal device, and communication control method for MME A transmission and/or reception unit is included and configured to transmit an ATTACH REQUEST message including identification information for requesting communication of a NAS message including user data to an MME in a core network, configured to receive an ATTACH ACCEPT message including identification information indicating acceptance of the communication of the NAS message from the MME, and configured to transmit the NAS message to the MME after receiving the ATTACH ACCEPT message. This provides establishment of a PDN connection for performing machine type communication in which a small data packet is transmitted at a low frequency, and a communication control method.
US12035408B2	Control of roaming in a wireless network using a variable mobility threshold A network management system (NMS) is configured to control roaming in a wireless network using a variable mobility threshold. For a first wireless device associated with a current location, the NMS obtains at least one performance metric of a first wireless signal received by the first wireless device at the current location from a first AP of a plurality of APs, compares the at least one parameter of the first wireless signal to at least one performance metric of a second wireless signal received by at least one other wireless device at the current location from a second AP of the plurality of APs, and triggers a roaming operation of the first wireless device from the first AP to the second AP if the comparison satisfies a mobility threshold that varies based on the at least one performance metric of the first wireless signal.
US12035407B2	System and method for simultaneous UL cancellation and UL CI monitoring An example method for wireless communication includes: receiving, by a wireless station, an uplink transmission from a wireless device of a set of two or more wireless devices; determining, by the wireless station, a need for a higher priority uplink transmission; determining, by the wireless station, a minimum cancellation processing time for the set of two or more wireless devices; and transmitting an uplink cancellation request to the set of two or more wireless devices based on the minimum cancellation processing time.
US12035406B2	Method and device for beam determination for DRX, UE and network device A method and device for beam determination for Discontinuous reception (DRX), User Equipment (UE) and a network device are provided. The method includes that: the UE measures a plurality of Channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) resources in a given slot in a DRX on duration; and the UE determines, based on measurement quantities, at least one of a transmitting beam for a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH) or a transmitting beam for a Physical Uplink Control Channel (PUCCH).
US12035405B2	Methods and systems for low power reconnection Disclosed herein are related to resuming a wireless communication between a first device and a second device. In one aspect, the first deice enters a wake up mode from a sleep mode. In one aspect, the first device obtains, in response to entering the wake up mode, stored information indicating a wireless channel previously used to communicate with a second device, to monitor for a beacon frame from the second device. In one aspect, the first device receives the beacon frame from the second device, according to the stored information. In one aspect, the first device transmits to the second device, an association frame in response to receiving the beacon frame.
US12035404B2	Beam management for cells in wireless communications Wireless communications and beam failure recovery are described. A wireless device may send one or more messages associated with a beam failure recovery for a cell. The one or more message may comprise an indication that the wireless device has not selected a candidate beam for the cell. The wireless device may receive a response and determine that a beam failure recovery procedure has successfully completed.
US12035400B2	Method for applying MSD and apparatus thereof A disclosure of this specification provides a device configured to operate in a wireless system. The device may comprise: a transceiver configured with an Evolved Universal Terrestrial Radio Access (E-UTRA)-New Radio (NR) Dual Connectivity (EN-DC). The EN-DC may be configured to use three bands. The device may comprise: a processor operably connectable to the transceiver. The processer may be configured to: control the transceiver to receive a downlink signal and control the transceiver to transmit an uplink signal via at least two bands among the three bands. A value of Maximum Sensitivity Degradation (MSD) may be applied to a reference sensitivity for receiving the downlink signal.
US12035399B2	Apparatus and method for dual connectivity and carrier aggregation in new radio (NR) The disclosure is directed to a system and method of operating a user equipment (UE) to make the new radio (NR) carrier aggregation more effective. The system and method can include at least: receiving a release message confirming release of the UE from a base station, the release message including Long Term Evolution radio access technology (RAT) frequencies and New Radio (NR) RAT frequencies; measuring during an IDLE state, the LTE RAT frequencies and the NR RAT frequencies; transmitting a resume request message to the base station, the resume request message including an indication of a measurement report available from the UE, the measurement report including frequency measurements for the LTE RAT frequencies and the NR RAT frequencies; and after a security setup with the base station, transmitting a resume complete message to the base station, the resume complete message including the measurement report with the LTE RAT frequency measurements and NR RAT frequency measurements.
US12035395B2	SUL configuration method and communication apparatus In an embodiment a method includes, after establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection to an access network device on a first supplementary uplink SUL, receiving configuration information of a second (SUL) from the access network device and initiating random access on the second SUL, wherein a frequency of the second SUL is different from a frequency of the first SUL.
US12035382B2	Data transmission method and communications device The present invention provides a data transmission method and a communications device. The communications device includes: a transceiver, configured to send a transmission frame to a second communications device, so that the second communications device acquires data information in the transmission frame, where the transmission frame includes a first part and a second part, the transceiver sends the first part of the transmission frame by using a first quantity of subcarriers, the transceiver sends the second part of the transmission frame by using a second quantity of subcarriers, and the first quantity is not equal to the second quantity; and the transceiver, further configured to perform a next time of information transmission with the second communications device. A throughput can be effectively increased.
US12035378B2	Method and device in nodes used for wireless communication The present application provides a method and a device in a node used for wireless communications. A node receives first information and second information, the second information being used to determine a first timing offset value; determines a first timing compensation value, and transmits a first signal; herein, a time interval length between a start time for transmission of the first signal and a reference time is equal to a target timing compensation value, where the start time for the first signal transmission is earlier than the reference time, the reference time being a boundary time for a reference time-domain resource unit, the first information is used to determine a time-domain position of the reference time-domain resource unit; the first timing compensation value and the first timing offset value are jointly used to determine the target timing compensation value. The present application can improve the random access performance.
US12035371B2	Methods, base station and terminal device for two-step random access procedure Methods, a base station, and a terminal device for two-step random access procedure are disclosed. The base station transmits a signalling message indicating a waveform of a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) without including a waveform of a preamble which is to be used for message A in two-step random access procedure, through an air interface. The base station receives the message A using the waveform of the PUSCH through the air interface in two-step random access procedure.
US12035370B2	Method and apparatus for random access in multicarrier wireless communications Methods and apparatus for random access in multicarrier wireless communications are disclosed. Methods and apparatus are provided for physical random access channel (PRACH) resource signaling, PRACH resource handling, preamble and PRACH resource selection, random access response (RAR) reception, preamble retransmission, and transmission and reception of subsequent messages. A method for maintaining an allowed multicarrier uplink (UL) random access channel (RACH) configuration set by adding an UL carrier to the allowed RACH configuration set provided that a triggering event occurs and performing a random access (RA) procedure using the allowed RACH configuration set. A method for sending data in multicarrier wireless communications by determining a set of available UL carriers and selecting an UL carrier from the set of available UL carriers.
US12035369B2	Method and apparatus for initial access based on a channel access priority class in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus for initial access based on a Channel Access Priority Class in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device receives, from a network, a specific Channel Access Priority Class (CAPC). A wireless device performs LBT procedure based on the specific CAPC. A wireless device attempts an uplink access to the RAN node after the LBT procedure, wherein the specific CAPC is included in a paging.
US12035363B2	Apparatus and method for multefire industry release (MFIR) Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for a user equipment (UE) device that includes one or more processors configured to determine, based on a DL signal in an LTE-TDD radio frame, that an eNB has assessed, based on a Cat-2 listen before talk (LBT) procedure, that a radio frame is valid; and in response to determining that the radio frame is valid, transmitting a UL burst within a predetermined period of time after a DL burst in the radio frame.
US12035358B2	Method, terminal device, base station for power control in random access procedure A method, a terminal device, and a base station for power control in random access procedure. The method implemented at a terminal device includes: obtaining at least one power control parameter to be used for a request message for a random access; and transmitting, to a base station, the request message for the random access. A power of the request message for the random access is controlled based on the at least one power control parameter. The request message comprises: a random access channel (RACH) preamble and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The power control may be achieved in a RACH procedure different with 4-step RACH procedure, such as in a 2-step RACH procedure.
US12035354B2	Method for processing data, communication device and storage medium A method for processing data, includes: transmitting a priority of a Uu logic channel for Uu data, in which, the priority of the Uu logic channel for the Uu data and a priority of sidelink data are jointly configured to, in response to a transmission conflict between the Uu data and the sidelink data, select data with a higher priority from the Uu data and the sidelink data for preferential transmission; and there are at least two priorities for the sidelink data.
US12035352B2	Spectrum usage notifications and protected use in a shared wireless network According to one configuration, a wireless network is shared amongst a hierarchal tier of users. The wireless network environment includes one or more allocation management resources (such as so-called spectrum access systems). Each of one or more wireless network service providers operating respective wireless equipment such as one or more wireless base stations relies on a respective allocation management resource to allocate wireless channels for use. If desired, a respective wireless network service provider operating respective equipment can select an appropriate channel notification mode suitable to provide notification of incumbent use and/or reassignment of wireless bandwidth to the wireless base stations. In such an instance, in the event of re-assignment due to incumbent use, the allocation management resources communicate amongst each other regarding the incumbent use/reassignment and provide protected use of newly assigned wireless bandwidth to the first wireless network service provider.
US12035351B2	Data processing method and device using transmission priorities Embodiments of the present invention disclose a data processing method and a device, and relate to the field of communication technologies, so as to resolve a problem that UE cannot transmit a plurality of pieces of data simultaneously, resulting in collision between the plurality of pieces of data. A specific solution is determining first transmission priorities of at least two pieces of data, where time-domain resources used for transmitting the at least two pieces of data overlap; and determining a target processing manner based on the first transmission priorities, where the target processing manner is used to process the at least two pieces of data. The embodiments of the present invention are applied to a process in which the UE determines the target processing manner for processing the at least two pieces of data in a sidelink transmission process.
US12035350B2	Service differentiation at an access point device Adaptive pairing of an access point (AP) slice with other computing resource slices is disclosed. Pairing of an AP slice can comprise pairing to a radio access network (RAN) slice and/or to a network core component (core) slice. The pairing can be based on end point device information, AP environment information, user preference information, and state information for a RAN and/or CN slice. Coordinating or synchronization of AP, RAN, and/or core slices can enable streamlining of migration of a device from an AP component to a RAN component. Moreover, AP slice coordination can enable efficient use of network computing resources tailored to needs of devices connecting to an AP device. A determined pairing, e.g., AP-core, AP-RAN-core, RAN-core, etc., can be modified before provisioning or after provisioning in response to changes in device demands and/or AP state/environment.
US12035348B2	Channel quality reporting method, apparatus, and system Embodiments provide for a channel quality reporting method, an apparatus, and a system. A terminal device determines a first index corresponding to the channel quality, and sends the first index and indication information to a network device. The first index occupies a first field, the first index is an index in an index set corresponding to a case in which a repetition number of a physical downlink control channel and/or a physical downlink data channel is a first repetition number, and the indication information indicates that the first field is occupied by an index corresponding to the first repetition number.
US12035345B2	Data channel mapping type and DM-RS configuration to enable L1 CLI measurement and reporting Embodiments of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for data channel mapping type and demodulation reference signal (DM-RS) configuration to enable a physical layer (L1) crosslink interference (CLI) measurement and reporting. Some embodiments are direct to a method of operating a base station (BS), where the method can include generating, by the BS, a demodulation reference signal (DM-RS), determining, by the BS, a position of the DM-RS in a first transmission slot, transmitting, by the BS, the DM-RS to a UE based on the determined position in the first transmission slot, processing, by the BS, a crosslink interference (CLI) measurement fed back based on the DM-RS, wherein the CLI measurement fed back is in a channel state information (CSI) report, and performing, by the BS, a CLI mitigation based on the CLI measurement.
US12035340B2	User terminal A user terminal according to the present invention includes: a receiving section that receives a plurality of pieces of downlink control information (DCI) each of which includes a certain field value indicating a same slot for an uplink control channel used for transmission of transmission confirmation information to a plurality of downlink shared channels; and a control section that controls derivation of an index of a control channel element (CCE) used for determination of a resource for the uplink control channel. With this, it is possible to appropriately determine a resource for the uplink control channel.
US12035339B2	Methods for power-efficient transfer of small data in radio resource control connected lite mode Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station during a connection establishment procedure, a UE message indicating support for a plurality of connected modes, where the plurality of connected modes includes a first connected mode. The UE may receive, based at least in part on the UE message, a configuration message from the base station configuring resources for the UE to use while operating in the first connected mode. The UE may perform a grantless communication with the base station while operating in the first connected mode and using the configured resources.
US12035338B2	Communication in a wireless network using restricted bandwidths A base station is configured to transmit at least one signal in a first bandwidth portion of a cell, the at least one signal having a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) and a physical broadcast channel (PBCH). The PBCH including a master information block (MIB), the MIB having an indication of time and frequency resources in relation to the at least one signal to acquire additional system information, the first bandwidth portion having a bandwidth less than a full bandwidth of the cell. The base station is further configured to transmit in time and frequency resources associated with the indication of the time and frequency resources and additional system information. The additional system information indicates a second bandwidth portion of the cell, the acquired additional system information being acquired within the second bandwidth portion.
US12035336B2	Wireless communication system, and wireless communication method In a wireless communication system in which a plurality of wireless stations perform transmission on a shared frequency band, the wireless stations each include means for notifying a wireless station control apparatus of capability and environment information that includes information about capability of a local wireless station and information about a surrounding environment, and the wireless station control apparatus includes control means for selecting, based on capability and environment information collected from the wireless station, a frequency band to be used for the wireless station capable of using a plurality of frequency bands in accordance with a predetermined control index and setting the selected frequency band. Based on an area coverage rate of the wireless station as the control index, a frequency band with which an area coverage rate of the wireless station having an area coverage rate of less than or equal to a predetermined threshold is improved is selected.
US12035333B2	Distributed unit, radio terminal, and methods therefor In response to receiving a signaling message requesting a broadcast of specific system information from a central unit (1) of a base station, a distributed unit (2) of the base station changes an active downlink (DL) Bandwidth Part (BWP) of a plurality of radio terminals from a first DL BWP that is not configured with a search space (SS) for receiving the specific system information to a second DL BWP that is configured with an SS for receiving the specific system information. In addition, the distributed unit (2) broadcasts the specific system information on the second DL BWP.
US12035328B2	Resource indication method, and device A resource indication method in a communication system includes: determining a first time-frequency resource of a first antenna panel configured to send downlink data to a first terminal; determining a second time-frequency resource of a second antenna panel configured to send downlink data to a second terminal; generating preemption indication information indicating the second time-frequency resource in response to determining that the first antenna panel is the same as the second antenna panel and the first time-frequency resource overlaps with the second time-frequency resource; and sending the preemption indication information to the first terminal, such that the first terminal determines, based on the preemption indication information, an overlapped resource between the first time-frequency resource and the second time-frequency resource, and determines not to receive the downlink data on the overlapped resource.
US12035325B2	Feedback information sending method and apparatus and feedback information receiving method and apparatus This application provides a feedback information sending method and apparatus and a feedback information receiving method and apparatus. A communications device to which the foregoing methods are applied sends or receives feedback information by using different feedback processes. When a network device does not determine whether a previous piece of feedback information is successfully received, the network device indicates a terminal device to send feedback information of a next piece of downlink data by using a new feedback process, and can schedule the next piece of downlink data without waiting for completion of processing of the previous piece of feedback information, thereby reducing a transmission delay.
US12035324B2	Data sending method, data sending apparatus, and terminal device utilizing a configured grant resource This application provides a data sending method, a data sending apparatus, and a terminal device, to improve utilization of a configured grant resource. The method includes: A terminal device receives a configuration message from a network device. The configuration message is used to indicate a configured grant, and the configuration message includes information about a timer corresponding to the configured grant. The terminal device determines that the configured grant is used for a HARQ process, and starts the timer for the HARQ process. To-be-sent data in the HARQ process is data on a first logical channel. During running of the timer, when there is to-be-newly-transmitted data on a second logical channel, the timer stops running, or a running state of the timer is ignored. The data on the second logical channel is sent by using the configured grant.
US12035323B2	PDCCH monitoring method, apparatus, electronic device and computer readable storage medium The present application relates to the field of wireless communication technologies, and in particular, to a PDCCH monitoring method, apparatus, electronic device and computer readable storage medium. The PDCCH monitoring method includes: determining PDCCH monitoring configuration on a target active downlink bandwidth part (BWP), after a current active downlink BWP is switched to the target active downlink BWP; performing a monitoring process on the PDCCH based on the PDCCH monitoring configuration on the target active downlink BWP. The present application achieves effective monitoring of the PDCCH on the switched active downlink BWP, saves power consumption of the UE, and ensures timely transmission of data.
US12035321B2	Method and device for PDCCH monitoring Disclosed are a method and device for PDCCH monitoring capable of reducing power consumption of a terminal device while ensuring satisfaction of the latency requirement of data transmission. The method includes: a terminal device monitoring a PDCCH according to first configuration information, the first configuration information indicating a first PDCCH search space used to monitor the PDCCH; and if the terminal device monitors downlink control information (DCI) at a first monitoring time point in the first PDCCH search space, the terminal device performing additional monitoring of the PDCCH after the first monitoring time point.
US12035320B2	Signal transmission method and apparatus, signal reception method and apparatus and communication system A signal transmission method and apparatus, a signal reception method and apparatus and a communication system. The signal transmission apparatus is provided in a network device and includes: a transmitting unit configured to transmit indication information indicating that one information block of at least one information block transmitted by the network device within a time interval is transmitted at one candidate resource in at least two candidate resources within the time interval. The transmission resources of the information blocks are indicated by the indication information, hence, even though the default correspondence between the information block indices and the transmission resources is to be changed, the transmission resources to which the information blocks correspond may be determined, and the terminal equipment is facilitated in downlink synchronization.
US12035313B2	Signaling and utilization of resource allocation information Provided are a radio transmission apparatus and a radio transmission method whereby the increase of number of signaling bits can be suppressed and further the flexibility of frequency scheduling can be improved. A notified RBG calculating unit (203) that adds a predetermined offset value of “1” or “−1” to one of the start RBG number and the end RBG number of allocated RBG number information (b′i) output by a scheduling unit (201), thereby calculating notified RBG number information (bi). An RBG total number setting unit (204) calculates the total number of RBGs, which is to be notified, by adding “1” to the total number of allocated RBGs. A notified information generating unit (205) applies the notified RBG number information (bi) and the notified total number of RBGs (Nrb′) to a predetermined formula, thereby generating and transmitting, to terminals, notified information (r).
US12035310B2	Resource configuration for sidelink communication The disclosed techniques enable resource configuration for sidelink communications. An example method includes receiving, by a first network element, a sidelink resource request transmitted from a communication node. The method also includes communicating, via an interface between the first network element and a second network element, information about resource configuration for the communication node. The method further includes transmitting, by the first network element, a response to the sidelink resource request.
US12035309B2	Dynamic cell range extension in a time division duplexing air interface A base station device dynamically adjusts the configuration of a special slot when operating in a time division duplexing (TDD) mode. The base station can initially communicate with a user equipment (UE) using a first frequency in a time division duplexing (TDD) mode. Using, for example, a timing advance procedure, the base station can determine when the UE requires an expanded cell range (e.g., if the UE is at the cell range edge). In response, the base station adjusts a configuration of a special slot for the UE. The adjustment to the special slot can comprise an addition of a gap symbol, a prioritizing of uplink transmissions over downlink transmissions, or a reserving of one or more downlink symbols during scheduling.
US12035307B2	Multiplexing multi-bit feedback and single-bit feedback on an uplink shared channel Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. Some wireless communications systems may support configurations for grouping feedback information within a codebook. A user equipment (UE) may support one or more types of feedback. In some cases, the UE may generate subsets of feedback information within the codebook based on each type of feedback, which may increase overhead. To reduce overhead, the UE may receive signaling that indicates a configuration for grouping feedback information within a codebook. The UE may receive downlink messages that may be associated with a same set of uplink resources for transmitting a feedback message. The UE may generate a codebook to include one or more groups of feedback information in accordance with the configuration and based on the downlink messages. The UE may transmit the feedback message based on the codebook and via the set of uplink resources.
US12035305B2	Method for operating terminal and base station in wireless communication system supporting unlicensed band, and device for supporting same Disclosed are a method for operating a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system supporting an unlicensed band, and a device for supporting same. More specifically, one embodiment of the present disclosure discloses a method comprising receiving first control information including information about at least one sub transmission band of a full transmission band, receiving second control information including information about at least one interlace from among a plurality of interlaces, and transmitting an uplink signal in a resource determined on the basis of the first control information and the second control information, and a device for supporting same.
US12035304B2	Methods for network assisted beamforming for sidelink unicast communication An apparatus configured to be employed in a gNodeB associated with a new radio (NR) system is disclosed. The apparatus comprises one or more processors configured to configure one or more sidelink sounding reference signals (SRS), for one or more user equipments (UEs) associated with the gNodeB, to be utilized by the one or more UEs for transmission or reception, or both, over sidelink. The one or more processors is further configured to generate one or more sidelink SRS configuration signals to be provided, respectively, to the one or more UEs, wherein each sidelink SRS configuration signal comprises sidelink SRS configuration information on the one or more sidelink SRS configured for a respective UE. The apparatus further comprises a radio frequency (RF) interface, configured to provide, to a radio frequency (RF) circuitry, the one or more sidelink SRS configuration signals, for subsequent transmission to the one or more UEs, respectively.
US12035300B2	Control information sending method and receiving method, terminal, and network side device The present application provides a control information sending method and receiving method, a terminal, and a network side device. The method comprises: receiving sidelink feedback control information (SFCI) sent by at least one second terminal; and sending uplink control information over first uplink resources according to the received SFCI.
US12035299B2	Scheduling communication for multiple subscriber identity modules over a single communication link Aspects of the disclosure relate to scheduling communication between a user equipment (UE) and a base station when connections using multiple subscriptions of the UE is established via a communication link. In an aspect, the UE may establish a first connection with a base station via a communication link using a first subscription, and may establish a second connection with the base station via the communication link using a second subscription. Further, the UE may receive, from the base station, scheduling information for data communication, the scheduling information including one of an uplink scheduling grant and a downlink scheduling assignment, and may receive a subscription indicator indicating at least one of the first subscription or the second subscription to be used for the data communication over the communication link based on the scheduling information.
US12035298B2	Method and device for use in wireless communication nodes related to sidelink The present disclosure provides a method and device for use in wireless communication nodes. A first node receives first information; receives a first signaling; transmits X first-type radio signals, X being a positive integer greater than 1; and transmits second information, the second information comprising Y first-type information bit(s), Y being a positive integer; the first information is used to determine the second information; only the Y first-type information bit(s) comprised in the second information is(are) used to indicate whether at least one of the X first-type radio signals is correctly received; a target receiver of any of the X first-type radio signals is different from a target receiver of the second information. The method in the present disclosure effectively avoids the frequent reporting of the UE under the working mode of the base station controlling resource allocation, thus reducing the signaling overhead and retransmission delay of Uu Interface.
US12035297B2	Coexistence interference avoidance between two different radios operating in the same band Systems and methods for adaptive frequency hopping for reducing or avoiding electromagnetic interference between two radios operating in the same radio frequency (RF) band are provided. In one aspect, a host device, which includes first and second wireless radios and a hardware processor, can use adaptive frequency hopping among a plurality of RF channels to reduce interference. The device can control the first wireless radio to establish a first wireless connection with a terminal device via a first subset of channels, determine a set of performance statistics for the channels, and replace at least one of the first subset of the channels with a new channel within the plurality of channels based on the statistics. For example, a channel can be replaced if a packet error rate (PER) exceeds a threshold.
US12035294B2	Communication method and apparatus A first terminal receives first sidelink (SL) carrier configuration information from a second terminal, the first SL carrier configuration information includes first bandwidth part (BWP) configuration information, and the first BWP configuration information includes one or more first resource pools; the first terminal performs unicast connection communication with the second terminal based on the first BWP configuration information.
US12035293B2	Method for transmitting and receiving signals in wireless communication system, and device for supporting same Various embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for transmitting and receiving data and a device for supporting same. As a more specific example, various embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a method for transmitting and receiving data on the basis of block interleaving, and a device for supporting same.
US12035291B2	Device provided with a plurality of types of wireless communication functions A device includes: a first wireless communication interface; a second wireless communication interface; a storage; and a controller. The controller is configured to perform: storing in the storage a center communication frequency of a second communication channel used for second wireless communications; determining a search target distribution, the search target distribution being a range defined by minimum and maximum communication frequencies among a plurality of communication frequencies, the plurality of communication frequencies being at least a part of a plurality of center communication frequencies stored in the storage and being separated from each other by less than a first frequency bandwidth occupied by each of a plurality of first channels; and determining a first communication channel from among at least one first channel satisfying a condition requiring that both minimum and frequencies of each of the at least one first channel be included in the search target distribution.
US12035287B2	Method and apparatus to allocate radio resources for transmitting a message part in an enhanced RACH A method and apparatus for allocating resources to a wireless transmit receive unit (WTRU) includes the WTRU transmitting a signature sequence to a Node B, receiving an acknowledge signal from the Node B, and determining a default resource index. The resource index is associated with enhanced dedicated channel (E-DCH) parameters.
US12035286B2	Gradient accumulation for federated learning A UE may identify, in each round other than an initial round, a first plurality of local model update elements of a present round. The first plurality of local model update elements of the present round may be associated with an updated local machine learning model. The UE may transmit to a base station, in each round other than the initial round, over a multiple access channel via analog signaling, a second plurality of local model update elements of the present round based on a third plurality of local model update elements of the present round. The third plurality of local model update elements of the present round may correspond to a sum of the first plurality of local model update elements of the present round and a local model update error of a previous round immediately before the present round. The analog signaling may be associated with OTA aggregation.
US12035284B2	Carrier configuration section type and analog beamforming extension Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a radio unit (RU) may receive, from a distributed unit (DU), a control plane message associated with a section type that is dedicated for information that applies to all resource blocks and spatial layers in a group of carriers or band sectors, wherein the control plane message includes information that applies to all resource blocks and spatial layers in an indicated group of carriers or band sectors. The RU may perform beamforming for one or more communications with a user equipment (UE) based at least in part on the information included in the control plane message. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12035278B2	Wireless communication method and apparatus A wireless communication method and apparatus are provided. One example method includes: receiving first PEI by a first terminal device, where the first PEI corresponds to at least one PO, and the first PEI is associated with first information, where the first information is used to indicate that a paging message in the at least one PO is a RAN-initiated paging message or a CN-initiated paging message.
US12035273B2	Positioning method and apparatus for communication device, and computer device and storage medium A method for positioning a communication device includes: receiving measurement information between a node to be positioned and a set of reference nodes of at least one type, the measurement information including an initial pseudorange and initial orientation angle measurement information between the node to be positioned and a reference node, and the set of reference nodes including at least one reference node; and substituting the measurement information into a preset parametric formula to obtain positioning information of the node to be positioned, the parametric formula being used for indicating a possibility that the positioning information is a value of a preset variable, and the positioning information including position information, clock deviation information and orientation angle information of the node to be positioned.
US12035270B2	Terminal, radio communication system, and communication method A terminal (10) includes an Initiator functional unit (13) for acquiring information to be used for estimating position information of the terminal by performing frame exchange with a neighboring Responder terminal, a Responder functional unit (14) for providing the information to be used for estimating the position information of the Initiator terminal by performing the frame exchange with a neighboring Initiator terminal, and a control unit (12) for controlling the Initiator functional unit (13) and the Responder functional unit (14). The control unit (12) estimates the position information of the terminal (10) based on the information acquired by controlling the terminal (10) to function as the Initiator terminal using the Initiator functional unit (13) and by controlling the terminal (10) to exchange frames with the neighboring Responder terminal, and then controls the terminal (10) to function as the Responder terminal using the Responder functional unit (14) and the position information.
US12035268B2	Method for obtaining timing advance and apparatus The application provides a method for obtaining a timing advance (TA) and an apparatus. A terminal device receives first time information broadcast by a first cell, and second time information broadcast by a neighbor cell. The terminal device obtains a TA from the terminal device to the neighbor cell based on the following information: a time point indicated by the first time information, a TA from the terminal device to the first cell, a time difference between receiving of the first time information and receiving of the second time information, and a time point indicated by the second time information..
US12035265B2	Base station, communication system, communication method, and program A base station that includes a memory for storing computer readable code and a processor operatively coupled to the memory is described herein. The processor is configured to acquire other base station delay information, which is information associated with communication delays predicted for communications between the other base stations and a terminal apparatus. The processor is further configured to notify the terminal apparatus of the acquired other station delay information. The terminal apparatus acquires the other station delay information from the base station.
US12035260B2	Wireless communication method, network device, and terminal device Provided are a wireless communication method, a network device, and a terminal device. The network device may indicate a Quasi-Co-Located (QCL) parameter in different indication manners according to whether a Synchronization Signal Block (SSB) is associated with System Information Block 1 (SIB1), which is favorable for ensuring that the terminal device correctly receives QCL indication information. The method includes that: a network device determines SIB1 association indication information of a first SSB, the SIB1 association indication information being configured to indicate whether the first SSB is associated with SIB1; the network device determines whether the first SSB bears indication information of a QCL parameter and/or an indication manner for the QCL parameter in the first SSB based on whether the first SSB is associated with SIB1; and the network device sends the first SSB.
US12035256B2	Power control in over the air aggregation for federated learning A parameter server located at a base station may coordinate federated learning among multiple user equipment (UEs) using over-the-air (OTA) aggregation with power control to mitigate aggregation distortion due to amplitude misalignment. The parameter server may select a first group of UEs for a first OTA aggregation session of a federated learning round based on a common received power property of each UE in the first group of UEs. The parameter server may transmit a global model to the first group of UEs. Each UE in the first group may train the global model based on a local dataset and transmit values associated with the trained local model. The parameter server may receive, on resource elements for the first group of UEs, a first aggregate amplitude modulated analog signal representing a combined response from the first group of UEs.
US12035250B2	Methods, systems, and devices for adjusting an antenna array of a communication device to provide coarse power adjustment Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, obtaining a reference signal, power information regarding the reference signal, and maximum power threshold for the communication device from a base station over a communication network. Further embodiments can include measuring a power of reference signal obtained from the base station resulting in a measure power, and determining a path loss between the base station and the communication device based on the measured power. Additional embodiments can include adjusting the antenna array to generate a coarse power adjustment for the communication device based on the path loss and the maximum power threshold, and providing a transmission signal to the base station according to the coarse power adjustment over the communication network. Other embodiments are disclosed.
US12035244B2	Power save protocol for low power device exploiting wakeup signal receiver A method performed by a wireless device for wirelessly transmitting a wake-up signal. The method includes wirelessly transmitting a legacy physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) to protect a wake-up receiver PPDU, wherein the legacy PPDU includes a preamble and a legacy frame, wherein the legacy frame includes a power management field that indicates that the wireless device is transitioning to a doze state to cause other wireless devices to refrain from transmitting to the wireless device and wirelessly transmitting a wake-up receiver PPDU after transmitting the legacy PPDU.
US12035235B2	Method and apparatus for network management of assistance information signaling A network node (12, 17) dynamically configures and controls assistance information transmissions by wireless communications devices (14) in a wireless communications system (10). The assistance information facilitates performance of power saving adaptations for the wireless communications device (14). The network node (12, 17) configures what information to indicate in assistance information messages, how the message is sent by wireless communications devices (14), and/or when the message should be signaled. The wireless communications devices (14) transmit assistance information messages in accordance with configuration parameters signaled by the network node (12, 17).
US12035232B2	Discovery and initial access for reduced-capability devices in 5G/6G A user device, such as a vehicle, may find a suitable base station for communication according to a hailing message. A low-complexity hailing procedure, suitable for adding to 5G and 6G standards, is presented. The hailing message may be a brief code indicating that it is a hailing message, and therefore solicits a reply. The hailing message may further include the identification or location of the user device, and/or an indication of which type of entity is being sought, such as a base station. The base stations that receive the hailing message can reply after a calculated delay time, such as a longer delay time if the received amplitude is weak, so that the user device can select whichever base station has the best received signal. Alternatively, the user device can select the base station with the largest received amplitude of the reply message.
US12035231B2	Virtualization management method and apparatus A virtualization management method is disclosed. The method includes: A virtual network function manager (VNFM) receives a first instantiation request message of a virtual network function (VNF) sent by a service orchestrator (SO) or a network functions virtualization orchestrator (NFVO), where the first instantiation request message includes a VNF identifier and virtualised infrastructure manager (VIM) information, and the VIM information includes a VIM type and a supported template language. The VNFM obtains a VNF package based on the VNF identifier. When determining that the supported template language of the VIM information is a first template language, the VNFM obtains first VNF sub-information that is consistent with the first template language from template information, where the first VNF sub-information is used to deploy the VNF. The template information is included in a virtual network function descriptor (VNFD) of the VNF package. The VNFM sends the first VNF sub-information to a multi-cloud platform, so that the multi-cloud platform deploys the VNF on a corresponding VIM.
US12035229B2	Slice-aware PLMN selection Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for slice-aware network selection. Particular aspects provide for a method for wireless communication performed by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes obtaining, for one or more networks, network slicing information indicating one or more slice identifiers supported in the one or more networks, deriving a list of one or more preferred networks based, at least in part, on the network slicing information, and selecting a network to register with from the list of one or more preferred networks.
US12035227B2	Electronic device managing UE capability and method for operating the same According to various embodiments, an electronic device may comprise: at least one antenna, a plurality of radio frequency (RF) devices configured to perform generation of a transmission RF signal input to the at least one antenna and/or conversion of a reception RF signal output from the at least one antenna, and at least one processor. The at least one processor may be configured to: detect an error in at least one RF device among the plurality of RF devices, identify at least one RF path associated with the at least one RF device with the error and at least one frequency associated with the at least one RF path, adjust a user equipment (UE) capability supported by the electronic device, by modifying and/or deleting an information element associated with the at least one frequency among at least one information element of the UE capability, based on the at least one RF path, and report the adjusted UE capability to a network.
US12035220B2	Integration of communication network in time sensitive networking system An apparatus is provided for use by a network agent element or function to conduct link layer information related processing. The apparatus is caused to receive first link layer related information from a neighboring network element or function, forward second link layer related information to a communication network control element or function, receive third link layer related information from a communication network control element or function, and forward fourth link layer related information to a neighboring network element or function. The second and fourth link layer related information are generated using first and third link layer related information, respectively. The second and third link layer related information is received and forwarded via a wireless connection path of a wireless communication network. The apparatus is connected to or part of the/or communication element or function, a communication network control element or function and a communication network data element or function.
US12035219B2	Unicast packet addressing and communication Mechanisms for performing unicast packet addressing and communication, e.g., in a C-V2X sidelink communication scenario, are provided. In one aspect, a method for wireless communication performed by a first wireless communication device includes receiving a source identifier associated with a second wireless communication device, and determining, based on the source identifier associated with the second wireless communication device and a deterministic function, a destination identifier. The destination identifier is different from the source identifier. The method further includes generating a packet comprising the destination identifier, where the destination identifier indicates a unicast packet, and transmitting the unicast packet to the second wireless communication device.
US12035215B2	Communication device, non-transitory computer readable storage medium, and system There is provided a communication device comprising: a BLE communication section configured to perform BLE communication with another communication device different from the communication device, the BLE communication being wireless communication conforming to BLE communication standards; a UWB communication section configured to perform UWB communication with the another communication device, the UWB communication being wireless communication conforming to UWB communication standards; and a control section configured to control the BLE communication of the BLE communication section and the UWB communication of the UWB communication section, wherein the control section performs control to start the UWB communication based on a response signal transmitted by one of the BLE communication section and the another communication device as a response to a request signal transmitted by other one of the BLE communication section and the another communication device during the BLE communication.
US12035211B2	Communication method and apparatus, computer-readable medium, and electronic device A communication method of an edge computing platform in which an application function is deployed is provided. The edge computing platform is connected to a network exposure function-lite. The network exposure function-lite is connected to a network exposure function-central deployed in a core network. In the communication method, a capability invocation request is received from the application function. When the capability invocation request corresponds to a request to acquire wireless network information, a subscription request for the wireless network information is transmitted to an access network side based on the capability invocation request. The wireless network information fed back by the access network side is received in response to the subscription request. Further, the application function is notified of the wireless network information.
US12035210B1	Damage and intrusion detection system The system detects damage and tampering of electronic devices, including tablets. A damage detector secured to the tablet provides a detection circuit. The system detects damage to the device/tablet by determining if the detection circuit is broken or otherwise interrupted. A broken or interrupted detection circuit indicates that the electronic device has been damaged or otherwise tampered with. A damage reader is installed within a base that accepts the device. The damage reader checks if the detection circuit is complete and determines if all of the RFID tags associated with a tablet can be read. If the damage reader fails to detect any of the damage detectors, the system indicates that the device/tablet is damaged.
US12035209B2	Method for wireless event-driven everything-to-everything (X2X) payload delivery A computer-based system to improve data transfer rates between stationary or moving remote devices having sensors and a server. A sensor data ingestion device is provided at the remote devices, having instructions therein which, when executed, receive and process data to place it in a form suitable for rapid download by a remote server. A memory buffer and a queue unit including computational circuitry configured to generate a queue status associated with triggering event data which is stored in the memory buffer. Instructions in the sensor data ingestion device may provide for a queue modification procedure, or the server may present a queue modification menu including one or more instances of a priority level choice. A queue controller may be provided. Streaming messages are downloaded by the server using a persistent WebSocket connection. Files configured to file chunks at the sensor data ingestion device, and the file chunks are downloaded by a server using a webhook. The file chunks are reconfigured at the server into time layered files associated with triggering event data. Time layered files may include a plurality of files having LiDAR point cloud data, video data readable topics, or GPS position data therein.
US12035208B2	System and method for active data collection mode control for reducing crowd-sourcing signal data collection required for fingerprint database maintenance An active data collection mode control system to reduce crowd sourcing signal data collection required for fingerprint database (FPDB) maintenance is provided. The system includes a mobile device that supports a survey mode, a localization mode, and a crowd-sourcing mode, and a server that receives data from the mobile device, generates and updates an FPDB, and controls a data collection mode.
US12035206B2	Fabric, connections and functional structures for wearable electronic garments and applications for the same A wearable electronic fabric comprises a woven fabric formed from a plurality of interlaced threads. The plurality of interlaced threads comprise a plurality of warp threads interlaced with a plurality of weft threads. The woven fabric has a top face and a bottom face. A plurality of conductive threads is included among the plurality of interlaced threads at predetermined intervals and interlacing angles to provide a pattern of connection locations. The connection locations are located at regular intervals on at least one of the top face and the bottom face of the woven fabric.
US12035194B2	Automatically switching communication pathways between connected devices Systems and methods for switching communication pathways between a mobile device and connected “Internet of Things” (IOT) device are described to improve scalability and communication between devices. An application on the mobile device may determine whether local or virtual local endpoints are available to route communications without using a remote IoT server endpoint. Communications and updates from multiple co-located, but not necessarily user-related connected devices may be aggregated, and sent to a remote IoT server to reduce the peak load scalability requirement of the server.
US12035192B2	Method and apparatus for configuring fallback for each bearer when DAPS handover fails in next-generation mobile communication system The 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 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 disclosure relates to a method and an apparatus for performing fallback when handover fails in a case where efficient handover without interruption of transmission or reception of data during handover is performed.
US12035191B2	Apparatuses and methods for facilitating communication services via connectionless technology Aspects of the disclosure include transmitting first payload data to a first communication device via a first link, subsequent to the transmitting of the first payload data, obtaining a first indication that a handover is being negotiated between the first communication device and a second communication device, based on the first indication, placing, at a processing system, the first link in an inactive state, based on the first indication, storing second payload data in a buffer, and responsive to obtaining a second indication that the second communication device has accepted the handover: activating, at the processing system, a second link between the processing system and the second communication device, obtaining the second payload data from the buffer, and transmitting, based on the activating of the second link, the second payload data obtained from the buffer to the second communication device via the second link. Other aspects are disclosed.
US12035188B2	Information transmission method and apparatus Embodiments of this application provide an information transmission method, an apparatus, and a system. A first network device sends, to a terminal device, conditional handover configuration information that includes information about candidate cells and a handover trigger condition; after receiving the conditional handover configuration information and performing a conditional handover, the terminal device sends, to a second network device, a first failure cause value corresponding to a candidate target cell and/or a second failure cause value corresponding to a to-be-determined cell during the conditional handover; and the second network device receives the first failure cause value and/or the second failure cause value from the terminal device, and sends the first failure cause value and/or the second failure cause value to the first network device.
US12035187B2	Delayed handover execution in wireless networks based on a trigger condition A wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) may receive, from a serving cell based on the measurement report, a conditional reconfiguration message that includes a trigger condition and configuration information for handover to a target cell based on the trigger condition. The conditional reconfiguration message may be stored and the WTRU monitors trigger quantities of the serving cell and the target cell for the trigger condition being met. When the trigger condition is met within a validity period, then the WTRU applies the received configuration information and starts the handover to the target cell.
US12035186B2	Fast handover for an optical multi-cell communication system A optical wireless communication system, method and apparatus for use in the optical wireless communication system, that enable communication of data, e.g. LiFi, and wherein fast handover can be achieved by having neighboring access points (AP1, AP2) announce themselves using very short frames, that get picked up by user devices (EP1) that detect the identity of a neighbor access point (AP2) and then communicate this to the current access point (AP1) to share information on the user device (EP1) with its neighbor access point (AP2), so that the neighbor access point (AP2) can be pre-configured to allocate resources and/or synchronize.
US12035185B2	Methods and network devices for mobility management of unmanned aerial vehicles The present disclosure relates to the area of mobility management In wireless communication systems, and in particular to methods for managing mobility of a wireless communication device (10) based on a discovery signal transmitted by the wireless communication device (10). According to a first aspect of embodiments it is provided a method, for use in a wireless communication device (10), for supporting mobility. The method comprises determining (S1) whether to transmit a discovery signal configured for use by one or more of the radio network nodes (30, 40) in a wireless communication network (1) for mobility and upon the determining being positive, transmitting (S4) the discovery signal, wherein the discovery signal comprises an identifier of the wireless communication device (10) and an indication that the discovery signal is for use in mobility management.
US12035183B2	Method and apparatus for a fast access considering service assistant information in a wireless communication system A method and apparatus for a fast access considering service assistant information in a wireless communication system is provided. A wireless device selects a new cell. The wireless device performs a Random Access (RA) procedure to the new cell. The wireless device performs a cell reselection procedure based on a mobility information. The RA procedure includes (1) selecting a special RA preamble for service assistance information related to an intended slice, (2) transmitting, to the new cell, a RA message including the service assistance information; and (3) receiving, from the new cell, a response message including the mobility information.
US12035182B2	Cell reselection during gateway and satellite switch A user equipment may be configured to perform cell reselection during a gateway or satellite switch. In some aspects, the user equipment may select a current cell of a satellite device in a radio access network (RAN) and receive, from the satellite device, cell reselection information for identifying a destination cell for selection in response to a link modification. Further, the user equipment may select, via a cell reselection process, the destination cell based on the cell reselection information.
US12035178B2	Method and apparatus for triggering reselection for relay Provided are a method for performing wireless communication by a first device, and an apparatus for supporting same. The method may comprise: establishing a radio resource control (RRC) connection with a first base station; establishing a PC5 connection with a second device; receiving an RRC reconfiguration message for handover from the first base station; establishing an RRC connection with a second base station based on the RRC reconfiguration message; and based on (i) the first device which is a relay device relaying communication between the second device and the first base station, and (ii) the first device establishing the RRC connection with the second base station, transmitting information regarding relay reselection to the second device.
US12035175B2	Use of wait period to obtain on-demand system information for wireless networks According to an example implementation, a method may include transmitting, by a user device to a base station in a wireless network, a system information request for on-demand system information during a random access procedure, where the system information request is a request for one or more parameters that enable the user device to communicate in the wireless network, receiving, by the user device from the base station, an indication of a wait period in which the user device waits before obtaining the on-demand system information, waiting, by the user device, a time duration during the wait period, and monitoring, by the user device after expiration of the wait period, a system information window in which a system information message having the on-demand system information is broadcasted by the base station.
US12035173B2	Application adaptation with exposure of network capacity According to an aspect, there is provided a method performed by a communication network for negotiating a data transfer between an application service and a user equipment, UE, via the communication network. The method comprises: receiving (620), from the application service or a backend controller associated with the application service, a request for network capacity available for data transfer, wherein the request includes an indication of an amount of data to be transferred and one or more trajectories of the UE; determining (630) network capacity along the one or more trajectories based on load information associated with a radio access network, RAN, of the communication network; and sending (640), to the application service or the backend controller associated with the application service, a response including information related the determined network capacity.
US12035170B2	Managing congestion in a satellite communications network In one implementation, congestion in a satellite communications network is managed based on current resource usage information received for a primary satellite servicing a terminal that is requesting to initiate a communications session. The current resource usage information is received within a communications session setup procedure that identifies a type of the communications session being requested by the terminal. Resources for serving the communications session are determined based on the type of the communications session being requested by the terminal. Thereafter, a determination is made as to whether sufficient resources are available at the primary satellite for servicing the communications session. In response to determining that sufficient resources are not available at the primary satellite for servicing the communications session, a congestion mitigation strategy is determined for servicing the communications session and sent to the primary satellite for implementation.
US12035167B2	Method and apparatus for exchanging traffic characteristics information in WI-FI systems Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for requesting traffic characteristics in a wireless network. The apparatuses include a wireless station (STA) device comprising a transceiver and a processor operably coupled to the transceiver. The transceiver is configured to transmit and receive signals. The processor is configured to generate a traffic profile request element that comprises an indication of a request for an access point (AP) to provide, to the STA, traffic characteristics, as observed at the AP, of downlink (DL) traffic between the AP and the STA. The transceiver is further configured to transmit to the AP the traffic profile request element. The requested traffic characteristics are used to determine target wake time (TWT) parameters for a TWT operation between the AP and the STA.
US12035165B2	Two-level mobility reference signal configuration According to an aspect, one or more network nodes of a wireless communication system sends, to a wireless device operating in the wireless communication system, mobility reference signal (MRS) configuration information, the MRS configuration information specifying one or more parameters for each of a plurality of MRS configurations. The network node subsequently sends, to the wireless device, an activation command indicating that at least a first one of the MRS configurations is to be used by the wireless device, the activation command including an index identifying the first one of the MRS configurations from among the plurality of MRS configurations. The wireless device receives the MRS configuration information and the activation command. The wireless device searches for at least one MRS specified by the first one of the MRS, responsive to the activation command and performs at least one measurement on the at least one MRS.
US12035162B2	Switching reference signals for beam or link failure detection Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may determine to switch from monitoring for a first reference signal to monitoring for a second reference signal, and monitor for the second reference signal. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12035160B1	Processing channel state information (CSI) to determine characteristics of a space between wireless access points A computing system includes a storage device and processing circuitry having access to the storage device. The processing circuitry is configured to receive a sequence of channel state information (CSI) samples, and calculate, based on the sequence of CSI samples, frequency domain information including a set of frequency domain values for each frequency band of a plurality of frequency bands. The processing circuitry is further configured to select a set of frequency bands of the plurality of frequency bands; and calculate, based on the set of frequency domain values for each frequency band of the set of frequency bands, a set of similarity values. Additionally, the processing circuitry is configured to determine, based on the set of similarity values, information indicative of one or more characteristics of a space between a first computing device and a second computing device, and perform an action based on the information.
US12035159B2	Measurement gap design for NE-DC mode The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for determining a starting point of a measurement gap. For example, the present disclosure is directed to a user equipment (UE) that includes a memory and processor circuitry coupled to the memory. The processor circuitry may be configured to receive an indication of a measurement gap timing advance. The processor circuitry may be further configured to, based on the indication of the measurement gap timing advance, determine a starting point of a measurement gap in a dual connectivity mode that provides dual connectivity with a new radio (NR) and an evolved universal mobile telecommunications system terrestrial radio access (EUTRA). The NR may serve as a master Radio Access Network (RAN) and the EUTRA may serve as a secondary RAN. The processor circuitry may also be configured to perform a signal quality measurement during the measurement gap, wherein the signal quality measurement is performed on a target cell of the NR or EUTRA.
US12035156B2	Communication method and apparatus for plurality of administrative domains Disclosed are a communication method and apparatus for a plurality of administrative domains, where the plurality of administrative domains include a composite network service (NS) administrative domain and a nested network service (NS) administrative domain, and the composite NS administrative domain and the nested NS administrative domain respectively include a composite network functions virtualization orchestrator (NFVO) and a nested NFVO. According to the communication method and apparatus for a plurality of administrative domains, the composite NFVO sends a subscription request message for analysis and prediction information of a nested NS instance to the nested NFVO, and performs a corresponding management operation based on received analysis and prediction information.
US12035155B2	Communications and measurement systems for characterizing radio propagation channels Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media for characterizing radio propagation channels. One method includes receiving, at a first modem, a first unit of communication over a radio frequency (RF) communication path from a second modem, wherein the first modem and the second modem process information for RF communications. The first modem identifies fields in the first unit of communication, the fields used to analyze the RF communication path. The first modem extracts data from the fields. The first modem accesses a channel model for approximating a channel representative of the RF communication path from the first modem to the second modem, wherein the channel model includes machine learning models. The first modem trains the channel model using the extracted data. The first modem applies the trained channel model to simulate a set of channel effects associated with the communication path.
US12035154B2	Methods and systems of using a plurality of remote subscriber identification module profiles The present invention discloses methods and systems for providing UICC/eUICC related response information to information requests at a cellular router. The method includes receiving an information request from a wireless communication module, and determining whether a response to the information request is cached. When the response information is not cached, forwarding the information request to a massive SIM apparatus (MSA). MSA will then respond to the information request. A response based on the MSA's response will then be sent to the wireless communication module for the information request. When the response information is cached, retrieve the response information and send it to the wireless communication module.
US12035147B2	Anomalous access point detection Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums that detect evil twin and other anomalous access points in an IT infrastructure by detecting access points that are not in their expected locations based upon an analysis of access point reports from one or more computing devices.
US12035146B1	Systems and methods for wireless coexistence of OFDM technologies A cross-scheduling resource allocation method for NOMA-based DSS is provided for a first wireless technology carrier and a different second wireless technology carrier co-existing on a same network communication channel. The method includes providing a resource subframe the first carrier within the channel at a specified bandwidth and duration, synchronizing the second wireless carrier to the specified duration within the specified bandwidth, allocating first PRBs within a first portion of the specified bandwidth for the first technology user traffic and second PRBs within a second non-overlapping portion of the specified bandwidth for the second technology user traffic, programming a frequency gap between the first PRBs and the second PRBs, obtaining channel information regarding the target communication channel, and dynamically adjusting the programmed frequency gap based on the obtained channel information.
US12035138B2	Method and network system for defeating media-coordinated attacks on emergency call networks A method for defeating media-coordinated attacks on emergency call networks can include receiving, by a first ESRP element, a session initiation request with a session description Protocol (SDP) body wherein the session initiation request deviates from a preconfigured media threshold k from a caller. The sending of an alert notification to a second ESRP element and/or other ESRP elements is provided in response to a logging of the session initiation request which deviates from a preconfigured media threshold k in a set of requests. If there is a transcoding impact in the routing element that will handle the call, alert notifications which have been received using the subscribed/notify mechanism for a potential media-coordinated attacks form other ESRP elements in the network can be gathered and analyzed for processing to defeat a malicious attack on the network.
US12035136B1	Bio-behavior system and method Aspects of the disclosure provide techniques for using bio-behavior based information for providing and restricting access to a secure website or computer network and its assets to a user entity. The bio-behavior system and method 100 uses processes to learn models that relate heterogeneous data that connects the analog, physical space with the online/cyber world. The process is a nonparametric, probabilistic mixture model. The system 100 is capable of detecting behavioral patterns in mixed data composed of inputs of varying complexity. This includes the low-level, mainly unprocessed data generated by a user entity device's intrinsic sensors that monitor the internal state of the phone as well as extrinsic sensors that capture the state of the surrounding environment.
US12035135B2	Handling of slices subject to network slice specific authentication and authorization procedure Method and apparatus for blocking session management procedures for a network slice during an NSSAA procedure. The apparatus receives a network slice-specific authentication command for a network slice that is currently allowed. The apparatus determines that the network slice is being authenticated based on the received network slice-specific authentication command. The apparatus blocks session management procedures associated with the network slice based on the determination that the network slice is being authenticated.
US12035132B2	Communication device and computer programs for communication device establishing a wireless connection with an external device in a state in which another wireless connection has been established with another external device A communication device (e.g., a printer) may establish a wireless connection in accordance with a device provisioning protocol (DPP) between the communication device and an external device (e.g., access point) in a state in which a wireless connection has already been established between the communication device and another external device (e.g., access point). The communication device may disconnect its wireless interface from a first external device prior to connecting to a second external device.
US12035128B2	Signal processing device and signal processing method Provided is a signal processing device including: a reverberation sound signal generation unit that generates a reverberation sound signal according to a sound source position of a virtual sound source and a distance to a reference point; and a drive signal generation unit that generates a drive signal for a speaker array by a wavefront synthesis filter, in which the drive signal generation unit generates the drive signal on the basis of a signal obtained by performing wavefront synthesis filtering processing on a signal obtained by convolving the reverberation sound signal with a signal of the virtual sound source and/or a signal obtained by performing wavefront synthesis filtering processing on the reverberation sound signal to make the reverberation sound signal into a virtual sound source.
US12035127B2	Spatial audio capture, transmission and reproduction An apparatus configured to: obtain at least one spatial audio signal that defines an audio scene forming at least in part an immersive media content; obtain metadata associated with the at least one spatial audio signal; obtain at least one augmentation control parameter associated with the at least one spatial audio signal; obtain at least one augmentation audio signal; render an output audio signal that is based, at least partially, on the at least one spatial audio signal, the metadata associated with the at least one spatial audio signal, the at least one augmentation control parameter, and the at least one augmentation audio signal; and obtain an indication that at least part of the at least one spatial audio signal has been omitted from the output audio signal based, at least partially, on at least part of the at least one augmentation audio signal included in the output audio signal.
US12035125B2	Processing of audio data An apparatus, method and computer program are disclosed. The apparatus may include circuitry configured for determining, relative to one or more real audio sources in an environment, a relative position of a virtual object in the environment. The circuitry may be configured for determining, based on the relative position, an occluded region of the environment in which audio signals from the one or more real audio sources would be occluded by the virtual object. The circuitry may be configured for outputting, to a user in the environment, audio data, the outputting circuitry configured to operate in a first mode and in a second mode. The circuitry may be configured for switching the outputting means circuitry between the first mode and the second mode based on a location of the user relative to the occluded region.
US12035120B2	Diaphragm and loudspeaker Provided in the present disclosure is a diaphragm, comprising a diaphragm body, wherein the diaphragm body comprises a fixing portion at an outer side, a bendable ring portion provided protruding from an inner ring side of the fixing portion and elastically bendable, and an inner side portion at an inner ring side of the bendable ring portion, the diaphragm body is made of a waterproof and breathable material having waterproof and breathable micropores. According to the present disclosure, the diaphragm body is made of waterproof and breathable material having waterproof and breathable micropores so that the diaphragm body has micropores, and the sizes of the micropores are between the size of water molecules and the size of air molecules, such that air molecules can smoothly pass through the diaphragm, while the water molecules can be effectively prevented from passing therethrough.
US12035119B2	Base speaker system for use with turntable that eliminates feedback, resonance, and other audio-disruptive noise A base speaker system for use with a turntable that eliminates feedback playback while playing vinyl records is described. The base speaker system for use with the turntable prevents feedback, resonance, or other audio-disruptive noise that typically occurs when a turntable is placed near to a speaker system. Moreover, the base speaker system may be a standalone model that receives a turntable thereon or may be configured as a cabinet assembly for a built-in setup.
US12035116B2	Electronic device including speaker and microphone A wearable electronic device is provided. The wearable electronic device includes a speaker and a microphone, and more particularly, to a wearable electronic device worn on the user's ear. Various embodiments of the disclosure may provide a wearable electronic device including a first speaker configured to radiate a sound in a first frequency range, a second speaker configured to radiate a sound in a second frequency range higher than the first frequency range, a microphone, and a housing configured to accommodate the first speaker, the second speaker, and the microphone therein. The housing may include a sound path configured to serve as a path through which sounds radiated from the first speaker and the second speaker move, and a recess configured to communicate the sound path with the outside of the housing.
US12035115B2	Speaker distortion correction device In a speaker distortion correction device, an input signal passes through a nonlinear-portion correction filter and is input into a linear inverse filter. An output signal from the linear inverse filter is output into a speaker through an amplifier. For the nonlinear-portion correction filter, transfer characteristics (filter coefficients) are set that eliminate distortion due to nonlinear characteristics of the speaker. With a difference, as an error, between vibration of the speaker without distortion relative to an input signal and vibration of a vibration system of the speaker measured by a vibration measurement unit, an adaptive-algorithm execution unit performs an adaptive operation that adaptively updates filter coefficients of the linear inverse filter. When the amplitude of vibration of the vibration system of the speaker measured by the vibration measurement unit deviates from a range that normal relative to an input voltage input into the speaker, a control unit stops the adaptive operation of the adaptive-algorithm execution unit.
US12035114B2	Apparatus, method and computer program for analyzing audio environments Examples of the disclosure relate to an apparatus comprising means for: using a radiofrequency beam having a wavelength below approximately 10 mm to interrogate one or more acoustic reporters in an audio environment; analysing one or more sound signals reported by the one or more acoustic reporters to determine positions of one or more sound sources providing the one or more sound signals; and using the positions of the one or more sound sources to determine one or more sound propagation paths within the audio environment.
US12035112B2	Earphone ear-oriented debugging method, apparatus and system, and wireless earphone Disclosed are an earphone ear-oriented debugging method, apparatus and system, and a wireless earphone. The method comprises: confirming an in-ear state signal indicating that a first earphone and a second earphone are in an in-ear state; sending a plurality of first ear-oriented debugging waves to the second earphone according to the in-ear state signal, wherein the plurality of first ear-oriented debugging waves respectively correspond to a plurality of frequency points for wireless communication in a one-to-one correspondence; receiving a first earphone configuration instruction sent from the second earphone, wherein the first earphone configuration instruction is generated by the second earphone according to the first ear-oriented debugging waves; and configuring a configuration parameter of an antenna matching element of the first earphone according to the first earphone configuration instruction, to optimize a communication state.
US12035107B2	Ear-worn electronic device employing user-initiated acoustic environment adaptation An ear-worn electronic device comprises a microphone configured to sense sound in an acoustic environment, an acoustic transducer, and a non-volatile memory configured to store a plurality of parameter value sets, each of the parameter value sets associated with a different acoustic environment. A control input is configured to receive a control input signal produced by at least one of a user-actuatable control of the ear-worn electronic device and an external electronic device communicatively coupled to the ear-worn electronic device in response to a user action. A processor is configured to classify the acoustic environment using the sensed sound and determine a listening intent preference of the user. The processor is configured to apply, in response to the control input signal, one of the parameter value sets appropriate for the classification and the listening intent preference of the user.
US12035104B2	Barrier layer on a piezoelectric-device pad Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an integrated circuit (IC) chip in which a pad barrier layer caps a pad of a piezoelectric device. The pad barrier layer is configured to block hydrogen ions and/or other errant materials from diffusing to the piezoelectric layer. Absent the pad barrier layer, hydrogen ions from hydrogen-ion containing processes performed after forming the pad may diffuse to the piezoelectric layer along a via extending from the pad to the piezoelectric device. By blocking diffusion of hydrogen ions and/or other errant materials to the piezoelectric device, the pad barrier layer may prevent delamination and breakdown of the piezoelectric layer. Hence, the pad barrier layer may prevent failure of the piezoelectric device.
US12035095B2	Headphone adapter Disclosed is a headphone adapter (100, 204) having: first element (102) having first part (104) and second part (106) attached to first part, wherein recess (108) is defined between first part and second part; second element (110) having first end (112), second end (114) opposite to first end, and at least one third part (116) extending between first end and second end, wherein second element is rotatably attached to first element at first end; and third element (118) having fourth part (120) and attachment parts (122, 124) extending from fourth part, wherein fourth part is rotatably attached to second element at second end, and wherein headphone adapter, in use, enables attachment of a headphone device (216, 302) to a head-mounted device (208, 306) such that headband (206, 304) of head-mounted device passes through the recess defined in first element, and headband (214) of headphone device is attached to third element.
US12035083B1	Systems and methods for coherent optical backhauling An integrated transceiver is provided for a coherent optical communication network. The integrated transceiver includes a first optical transceiver portion configured to receive and transmit coherent optical signals from and to the coherent optical communication network, respectively. The integrated transceiver further includes a second optical transceiver portion configured to receive and transmit non-coherent optical signals respectively from and to a non-coherent optical communication network. The integrated transceiver further includes an integrated media access control (MAC) processor disposed between the first and second optical transceiver portions. The integrated MAC processor is configured to (i) exchange cooperative scheduling information from the first optical transceiver portion to the second optical transceiver portion, and (ii) enable the first optical transceiver portion to schedule data traffic between the coherent and non-coherent optical communication networks using scheduling information obtained from a control plane of the second optical transceiver portion.
US12035082B2	Process margin relaxation Process margin relaxation is provided in relation to a compensated-for process via a first optical device, fabricated to satisfy an operational specification when a compensated-for process is within a first tolerance range; a second optical device, fabricated to satisfy the operational specification when the compensated-for process is within second tolerance range, different than the first tolerance range; a first optical switch connected to an input and configured to output an optical signal received from the input to one of the first optical device and the second optical device; and a second optical switch configured to combine outputs from the first optical device and the second optical device.
US12035077B2	Surveillance system with fixed camera and temporary cameras A surveillance system including a fixed camera and one or more temporary cameras and a control means coupled to the fixed camera and the one or more temporary cameras is disclosed. The control means is configured to extend coverage of the fixed camera using the one or more temporary cameras coupled to the fixed camera. Each of the one or more temporary cameras includes one or more sensors and is configured to be deployed and adjusted based on sensor data obtained from the one or more sensors of the one or more temporary cameras and from one or more fixed camera sensors co-located with the fixed camera.
US12035075B1	Embodied interface for face-to-face communication between humans and artificial intelligence agents A method for providing embodied interface for face-to-face communication between humans and artificial intelligence agents is disclosed. An example method includes generating, based on an avatar model, a data stream including an image of a face of the avatar model, audio data of a speech of the avatar model, and a rotation instruction; and transmitting the data stream to a three-dimensional video call system including a stand, an axle extended from the stand, a plurality of display devices attached to the axle, and a controller. The display devices display portions of the image of the face and play back the audio data. The actuator rotates the axle according to the rotation instruction. The controller analyzes an ambient video signal and an ambient acoustic signal to obtain environmental features and transmits the environmental features to the avatar model. The environmental features include an emotional state and facial expression of the user.
US12035072B2	Bilateral communication in a login-free environment A method, medium, and apparatus for allowing evaluation of property, such as damaged property, remotely and efficiently. A mobile computing device may be used to conduct bilateral communication between a client and an agent for evaluating property. Systems and methods may be used to efficiently automate intake of communications and intelligently load-balance resources for handling calls.
US12035069B1	Portable chroma key compositing and lighting adjustment system A system and, related method, is disclosed for enabling Chroma key compositing using a smart device, wherein an image/video of a subject situated in front of a portable monochromatic background is captured, and simultaneously layered upon a different desired background replacement that will replace only the monochromatic background captured. The portable monochromatic background structure can be an inflatable structure affixed with a plurality of lighting modules configured to ensure a uniform light distribution across the monochromatic background and separately ensure a uniform light distribution on the subject during the image/video capture. Moreover, a software application on a smart device can act as a system platform that enables for automatic light adjustment of the lighting modules on a portable monochromatic background to correct any light imperfections that impede color neutrality on the background, which would otherwise result in the inability to create broadcast quality background replacement content with a smart device using the monochromatic lighting platform disclosed herein.
US12035068B2	Providing video content for pre-boot and post-boot environments of computer platforms A process includes, responsive to a computer platform being in a pre-operating system mode of operation, a first controller receiving serial data from a first external communication connector of the computer platform and the first controller providing a video output based on the serial data; and routing the video output of the first controller to a display device connector. The process includes, determining whether a video driver of the computer platform is communicating with a second controller via a second external communication connector of the computer platform. The video driver is associated with an operating system mode of operation of the computer platform. The process includes, in response to determining that the video driver is communicating with the second controller, routing a video output of the second controller to the display device connector in place of the video output of the first controller.
US12035066B2	Image providing system and method for controlling same An image providing system capable of quickly providing a plurality of different cropped images is disclosed. The image providing system acquires position information about a position of a user designated by the user. The image providing system determines a range of an image that was captured by an image capturing unit, the range corresponding to the position information as a cropping range, before the image capturing unit starts a series of image capturing in which the image capturing unit captures a plurality of images. After the series of image capturing is started, the system applies cropping that cuts out a part of a captured image based on the cropping range. During the series of image capturing, the system provides a cropped image to which the cropping has been applied in a way in which a user can obtain the cropped image.
US12035064B2	PWM synchronisation Disclosed is a method of synchronising an image sensor with a PWM driver operable to drive an arrangement associated with the image sensor, wherein at least one synchronisation signal produced by the image sensor is used to reset the PWM driver and the at least one synchronisation signal is delayed before being used to reset the PWM driver such that the switching on or off of the at least one synchronisation signal occurs at a defined time in relation to a sensitive period of the image sensor's operation.
US12035062B2	Semiconductor device and equipment A semiconductor device in which a plurality of substrates including a first substrate and a second substrate are stacked, wherein the first substrate includes a pixel unit in which a plurality of pixels are arranged, the second substrate includes a control circuit configured to control the semiconductor device, and the first substrate further includes a detection circuit configured to detect a connection state of a connection portion between the first substrate and the second substrate.
US12035061B2	Imaging device and electronic device An imaging device having a memory function is provided. Alternatively, an imaging device suitable for taking images of a moving object is provided. The imaging device includes a first to third layers; the second layer is provided between the first and the third layer; the first layer includes a photoelectric conversion device; the second layer includes a first and a second circuit; the third layer includes a third and a fourth circuit; the first circuit and the photoelectric conversion device have a function of generating imaging data; the third circuit has a function of reading the imaging data; the second circuit has a function of storing the imaging data read by the third circuit; the fourth circuit has a function of reading the imaging data stored in the second circuit; and the first circuit and the second circuit include a transistor including a metal oxide in a channel formation region.
US12035058B2	Electronic equipment To suppress image quality degradation due to artifacts. Electronic equipment includes a display unit, an imaging unit disposed on a side opposite to a display surface of the display unit, and a signal processing unit. The imaging unit includes a plurality of on-chip lenses and a plurality of pixels, in which the on-chip lens includes a first on-chip lens, the plurality of pixels includes a first pixel, the first pixel is disposed to overlap the first on-chip lens, and the first pixel includes a plurality of photoelectric conversion units. The signal processing unit processes signals output from the plurality of pixels.
US12035044B2	Methods and apparatus for re-stabilizing video in post-processing Methods and apparatus for post-processing in-camera stabilized video. Embodiments of the present disclosure reconstruct and re-stabilize an in-camera stabilized video to provide for improved stabilization (e.g., a wider crop, etc.) In-camera sensor data may be stored and used to re-calculate orientation metadata in post-production. In-camera stabilization provides several benefits (e.g., the ability to share stabilized videos from the camera without additional post-processing as well as reduced file sizes of the shared videos). Camera-aware post-processing can reuse portions of the in-camera stabilized videos while providing additional benefits (e.g., the ability to regenerate the original captured videos in post-production and re-stabilize the videos). Camera-aware post-processing can also improve orientation metadata and remove sensor error. The disclosed techniques also enable assisted optical flow-based stabilization using the refined metadata.
US12035042B2	Communication control device and imaging apparatus A communication control device for communicating data with an external device, the communication control device includes: a communication interface that connects with the external device according to a predetermined communication standard; a controller that controls a plurality of host functions in which the communication control device performs each operation as a host for the external device in data communication via the communication interface; and a user interface that sets an on/off state for each of the host functions, based on a user operation, wherein among the plurality of host functions, according to a host function in the on state, the controller controls the user interface to restrict a host function for changing setting thereof based on the user operation.
US12035040B2	Collation device and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program A collation device includes a light source unit; a camera unit that receives light emitted from the light source unit and reflected in a collation area of an object to acquire a photographed image of the collation area; and a processor configured to, by executing a program: detect a positional relationship between the light source unit and the camera unit by using the photographed image, and notify of a collation result between the photographed image and a registered image prepared in advance by using the positional relationship.
US12035037B2	Image capturing apparatus, control method thereof, and storage medium An image capturing apparatus capable of being operated by an operation device that is external, the apparatus comprising: an image capturing unit configured to output a first image by capturing an object; and a control unit configured to control, when the first image that is outputted from the image capturing unit is being displayed on a first display unit, in a case where there has been an operation on the operation device to display a second image that is different from the first image on a second display unit of the operation device, whether or not to display the second image on the first display unit.
US12035034B2	Method, apparatus, device and storage medium for image shooting According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a method, apparatus, device and storage medium for image shooting are provided. The method comprises initiating a first camera and a second camera different from the first camera for image shooting. The method further comprises presenting a shooting page in a graphical user interface displayed by a display device. The shooting page comprises a first shooting window for presenting a first scene captured by the first camera and a second shooting window for presenting a second scene captured by the second camera. The method further comprises presenting a composite image on the shooting page in the graphical user interface in response to an indication of shooting completion. The composite image is generated based on a first image taken by the first camera and a second image taken by the second camera. In this way, flexible and interesting image shooting experience is provided.
US12035024B2	Camera module having driving part A camera module according to an embodiment may include a first circuit board on which the image sensor is disposed; a base disposed on the first circuit board; a lens assembly disposed within the base; and a third circuit board disposed on one side of the base, on which a coil part constituting the lens assembly and a driving device for controlling driving of the coil part are disposed, wherein the driving device comprises: a coil driver configured to apply a current to the coil, and a Hall sensor configured to sense a position of the lens assembly.
US12035022B2	Information input device allowing tilt operation of multi-directional input The present disclosure provides an information input device in a miniaturized size allowing both rotation operation and tilt operation. In the information input device, viewed from the direction orthogonal to the rotation axis of a rotation operation member, the rotation operation member includes a second sloping surface extending from the end of a first sloping surface nearer a rotation detection unit and approaching the rotation axis of the rotation operation member as the second sloping surface extends from the rotation detection unit in the rotation axis direction.
US12035020B2	Split rendering of extended reality data over 5G networks An example device for processing extended reality (XR) data includes a processors configured to: parse entry point data of an XR scene to extract information about one or more required virtual objects for the XR scene, the required virtual objects including a number of dynamic virtual objects equal to or greater than one, each of the dynamic virtual objects including at least one dynamic media component for which media data is to be retrieved; initialize a number of streaming sessions equal to or greater than the number of dynamic virtual objects using the entry point data; configure quality of service (QoS) and charging information for the streaming sessions; retrieve media data for the dynamic virtual objects via the streaming sessions; and send the retrieved media data to a rendering unit to render the XR scene to include the retrieved media data at corresponding locations within the XR scene.
US12035019B2	Video session with advertisement content A system and method for inserting secondary content, e.g., advertisement content, graphics, images, etc., in a video environment. When a request is received from a client device for playing a video asset, a plurality of video tiles of the video asset are selected to be assembled as a video frame for delivery to the client device. A portion of the video tiles are identified that can be replaced with a corresponding set of advertisement content tiles, e.g., based on gaze vector information and/or a tile metadata specification containing advertisement insertion availability timing information with respect to each of the tiles of the video frame. After replacing the portion of the identified video tiles, the corresponding set of advertisement content tiles and remaining video tiles are assembled into the video frame including the advertisement content tiles at select locations, which is transmitted to the client device.
US12035018B2	Data processor and transport of user control data to audio decoders and renderers Audio data processor, having: a receiver interface for receiving encoded audio data and metadata related to the encoded audio data; a metadata parser for parsing the metadata to determine an audio data manipulation possibility; an interaction interface for receiving an interaction input and for generating, from the interaction input, interaction control data related to the audio data manipulation possibility; and a data stream generator for obtaining the interaction control data and the encoded audio data and the metadata and for generating an output data stream, the output data stream having the encoded audio data, at least a portion of the metadata, and the interaction control data.
US12035017B2	System and method for selection and transmission of personalized content tracks Systems and methods for a computer-based process that determines content display preferences of nearby detected devices, and transmits content tracks to those devices according to their individual preferences. For example, language preferences are determined from nearby devices, and content is played with corresponding language tracks sent to each device. In this manner, different tracks of content may be sent to different devices according to each device's preferences, so that individualized or personalized versions of content may be played for each different device. Thus, for instance, content may be played with different language tracks, where each track is selected to conform to the preferences of each different device. Accordingly, content may be played with different users or viewers experiencing the content in their preferred language. Embodiments of the disclosure also contemplate any other settings and preferences besides language.
US12035012B2	Method of adaptive browsing for digital content Providing adaptive visual browsing of digital content may be accomplished by presenting a scrolling ticker on a display for browsing of digital content available for viewing by a user of a processing system, the ticker having a plurality of items, each item including an image representing at least one of a content title and a content service provider; receiving a user input selection from a remote control device operated by the user, the user input selection selecting one of the ticker items to indicate the user's interest in the selected item; and changing at least one of the items in the ticker to another item in response to the user input selection, wherein the other item has metatags similar to or related to metatags of the selected item.
US12035010B2	Video distribution system, video distribution method, information processing device, video distribution program, and video viewing program for displaying avatar objects An information processing device displays a video view of a video including a first avatar object reflecting movement of a distributing user that distributes a video on a display, receives an input operation, displays a game view of a game including a second avatar object reflecting the input operation and the movement of the distributing user on the display, and transmitting video data for distributing a video of the game to another information processing device to a server that distributes the video.
US12035009B2	Multimedia playback controlling system Systems and methods of controlling playback of multimedia data from inline frames presented on a web page in a browser are provided. In one exemplary embodiment, a method is performed by a multimedia controller operationally coupled to a browser application executed on a computing device. Further, the browser application has a set of inline frames presented on a web page in a browser for display. Each inline frame has a web application configured to enable playback of multimedia data by the computing device. The method comprises receiving, from a first web application of a first inline frame, via the browser application, an indication that includes a request to playback multimedia data associated with the first web application and corresponding multimedia control information. In addition, the method includes controlling the playback of the multimedia data of the first web application based on that multimedia control information.
US12035008B2	Systems and methods for providing media recommendations Systems and methods are described for presenting identifiers for media assets recommended to users identified using facial recognition. Each of a first and a second user in a vicinity of user equipment is identified, and a first recommended media asset and a second media asset are determined based on respective user profiles of the first user and the second user. A first identifier selectable to access the first recommended media asset and a second identifier selectable to access the second recommended media asset are generated for display, and a recommended media asset associated with a selected identifier is generated for display.
US12035002B2	Apparatus and methods for determining the demographics of users Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed for determining the demographics of users. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of execute or instantiate the instructions to extract a first media data pair from first media presentation data from a media provider, identify a second media data pair in second media presentation data based on a comparison of the first media data pair and the second media presentation data, the second media data pair generated in response to a meter accessing streaming data associated with a second media presentation device accessing the streaming media, identify a panelist associated with the second media data pair, and, in response to identifying the panelist, cause a server to associate the second media data pair and demographic data associated with the panelist included in a report by transmitting the report to the server.
US12035001B2	Negative signal probability determination and content item selection One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods are provided. In an example, a sequence of actions performed using a first interface on a first client device may be identified. A first negative signal probability may be determined based upon the sequence of actions. The first negative signal probability may correspond to a probability of receiving a negative signal associated with a first content item from the first client device responsive to presenting the first content item via the first interface on the first client device. The first interface on the first client device may be controlled based upon the first negative signal probability.
US12035000B1	Selectively revealing garment, and system and control method thereof A selectively revealing garment includes an exposure module and a controller which controls the exposure module to selectively reveal portions of a user's anatomy in response to a received control signal, by control of one or more polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) films provided in the garment, or by control of fastening systems integrated into the garment.
US12034997B2	Display device for displaying various types of contents A display device includes a display configured to output a broadcast content or a content for an interior decoration function, a memory storing a first layout for surrounding the broadcast content and a second layout for surrounding the content for the interior decoration function, and a processor operatively connected to the display and the memory, wherein the processor removes the first layout, enlarges the broadcast content, and outputs the enlarged broadcast content through the display based on a first user input, and enlarges portions of the content for the interior decoration function and of the second layout and outputs the enlarged portions of the content for the interior decoration function and of the second layout through the display based on a second user input.
US12034995B2	Method and apparatus for controlling pop-up window, and medium and electronic device A method and device for controlling a pop-up window, a computer-readable medium, and an electronic device are provided. According to the method, a target sub-video in a first target hotspot is played when entering a hot video playing page, a pop-up window is controlled to pop up on reception of a pop-up window display instruction. The pop-up window display instruction is generated in response to a click instruction received in a more hotspot prompt area on the hot video playing page. The pop-up window includes video prompt screens corresponding to multiple candidate hotspots, the video prompt screens are displayed in a horizontally scrolled manner in the pop-up window, and the first target hotspot is included in the candidate hotspots, a video prompt screen corresponding to the first target hotspot is partially displayed at a boundary of the pop-up window.
US12034991B2	Flagging portions of a content stream that match indexed content A system and method for identifying unauthorized uploaded content that has been uploaded before a stream has been ingested is disclosed herein. The stream is compared against the indexed uploaded content repeatedly as the stream is received. The matching process is done once per a time period until a match meeting a minimum match duration threshold is identified. The match is then determined to be unauthorized, and a claim is issued against the unauthorized uploaded content. The time period can be based on a utility based analysis that factors the computational costs of repeated matching versus the diminishing value of the stream as time progresses.
US12034985B2	Method and apparatus for ATSC transmission station with satellite fronthaul Systems and processes are provided for a micro ATSC transmitter including a satellite signal decoder configured to decode a satellite broadcast signal to generate a received audio video program, a data decoder configured to decoding a data signal from an ATSC broadcaster, a video processor configured to generate an altered audio video program in response to the received audio video program and the data signal, an ATSC encoder configured to encode the altered audio video program to generate an ATSC broadcast signal, and an ATSC transmitter configured to transmit the ATSC broadcast signal.
US12034979B2	Point cloud data transmission device, point cloud data transmission method, point cloud data reception device and point cloud data reception method A point cloud data transmission method according to embodiments can comprise the steps of: acquiring point cloud data; encoding geometry information included in the point cloud data; encoding attribute information included in the point cloud data; and transmitting the encoded geometry information and the encoded attribute information.
US12034977B2	Video encoding/decoding method and device, and recording medium for storing bitstream An image decoding is performed by steps including: determining whether or not to perform filtering on a boundary of a current block; determining a filtering strength on the boundary of the current block, and a number of samples used in filtering; and performing filtering on the boundary of the current block on the basis of the filtering strength and the number of samples used in filtering, where the number of samples used in filtering is determined on the basis of a size of the current block.
US12034975B2	Conditional signaling of syntax elements in a picture header A video processing method includes performing a conversion between a video including one or more pictures and a bitstream of the video. The bitstream conforms to a format rule specifying that one or more syntax elements indicative of coding information are selectively included in a picture parameter set of the bitstream responsive to whether it is indicated that each picture referring to the picture parameter set includes a single slice.
US12034973B2	Apparatus and a method for performing a file encapsulation and decapsulation process for a coded video bitstream Described embodiments include methods and techniques for creating media container files. An exemplary method comprises steps wherein, instead of estimating the size of a media segment header based on the segment duration, identified media data boxes are used. In the method, an identified media data element is written in a container file. Included into the identified data element, an identifier is used as a reference for the identified media data of the segment by other elements. The identifier can be a first movie fragment sequence number, or a first track fragment decode time.
US12034966B2	Motion vector difference for block with geometric partition A method of video processing includes determining, for a conversion between a current video block of a video and a bitstream of the video, that the current video block is coded with a geometric partitioning mode. The method further includes deriving at least one refined motion vector (MV) for the current video block by adding at least one motion vector difference (MVD) of multiple MVDs signaled or derived for the current video block to a MV derived from a merge candidate associated with the current video block. The MV being associated with an offset distance and/or an offset direction. The method further includes performing the conversion based on the refined MV.
US12034965B2	Multiple history based non-adjacent MVPs for wavefront processing of video coding An example device for coding video data includes a memory configured to store video data; and one or more processing units implemented in circuitry and configured to: store motion information for a first coding tree unit (CTU) line of a picture in a first history motion vector predictor (MVP) buffer of the memory; reset a second history MVP buffer of the memory; and after resetting the second history MVP buffer, store motion information for a second CTU line of the picture in the second history MVP buffer, the second CTU line being different than the first CTU line. Separate threads of a video coding process executed by the one or more processors may process respective CTU lines, in some examples.
US12034962B2	Image decoding device, image encoding device, and method for decoding coded image At least one of a vector candidate derivation unit and a merge candidate derivation unit derives a motion vector of each of multiple sub-blocks contained in a decoding target block by referring to motion vectors at multiple control points including two points at an interval which is longer than one side of the target block, and a prediction image generation unit refers to the motion vector of each sub-block to generate a prediction image.
US12034960B2	Method for generating prediction block in AMVP mode A method of decoding an image in a merge mode, the method including deriving, by a motion compensation predictor, motion information using effective spatial and temporal merge candidates of a current prediction unit; generating, by the motion compensation predictor, a prediction block of the current prediction unit using the motion information; entropy decoding, by an entropy decoder, a bitstream to generate a quantized coefficient sequence, inversely scanning, by an inverse quantizer/inverse transformer, the quantized coefficient sequence to generate a quantized block, inversely quantizing, by the inverse quantizer/inverse transformer, the quantized block to generate a transformed block using a quantization parameter, and inversely transforming, by the inverse quantizer/inverse transformer, the transformed block to generate a residual block; and generating, by an adder, a reconstructed block using the prediction block and the residual block, wherein a motion vector of the temporal merge candidate is a motion vector of a temporal merge candidate block within a temporal merge candidate picture, and the quantization parameter is derived using an average of two effective quantization parameters among a left quantization parameter, an upper quantization parameter and a previous quantization parameter of a current coding unit, wherein when the quantized block is larger than a predetermined size, the quantized block is generated with plurality of subblocks, and a scan pattern of inversely scanning for the plurality of subblocks is the same as a scan pattern of inversely scanning for quantized coefficients of each subblock, and wherein the bitstream includes information indicating a position of a last non-zero quantized coefficient in a transform unit.
US12034958B2	Video coding method, video decoding method, video coding apparatus and video decoding apparatus A moving picture coding method includes: making a determination as to whether or not to code all blocks in a current picture in the skip mode; setting, based on a result of the determination, a first flag indicating whether or not a temporally neighboring block is to be referenced, a value of a parameter for determining a total number of merging candidates, and a second flag for each block included in the current picture, the second flag indicating whether or not the block is to be coded in the skip mode; calculating, as a merging candidate, a neighboring block usable for merging; and coding an index which indicates a merging candidate to be used for coding of the current block and attaching the coded index to a bitstream.
US12034953B2	Video coding and decoding A signalling affine mode in an encoded video stream; in particular determining an inter prediction mode used for a portion of a bitstream and signalling affine motion mode in dependence on said inter prediction mode used in said portion of said bitstream. Related encoding and decoding methods and devices are also disclosed.
US12034951B2	Video decoding apparatus An image decoding apparatus is implemented that can suppress a decrease in coding efficiency in a case that a high compression rate is achieved. The image decoding apparatus includes a parameter decoder, and the parameter decoder decodes a skip flag indicating whether a skip mode is applied, and in a case that the skip flag does not indicate the skip mode, decodes a merge flag indicating whether a merge mode is applied, and in a case that the merge flag does not indicate the merge mode, decodes an MMVD flag indicating whether an MMVD mode is applied.
US12034946B2	Signaling for addition or removal of layers in video coding In one embodiment, a method determines an encoded plurality of layers for a scalable video stream for a video where each of the plurality of layers includes a respective layer parameter setting. An additional layer for the plurality of layers is determined where the additional layer enhances a base layer in the plurality of layers and the respective layer parameter settings for the encoded plurality of layers do not take into account the additional layer. The method then determines an additional layer parameter setting for the additional layer. The additional layer parameter setting specifies a relationship between the additional layer and at least a portion of the plurality of layers where the additional layer parameter setting is used to decode the additional layer and the at least a portion of the plurality of layers.
US12034941B2	Methods and apparatus for video encoding and decoding binary sets using adaptive tree selection Methods and apparatus are provided for encoding and decoding binary sets using adaptive tree selection. In one exemplary encoding method embodiment, picture data is encoded for a block in a picture; in which one of a plurality of trees structures is selected to code a binary set of data for indicating coefficient significance for the block. In another exemplary encoding method embodiment, picture data is encoded for a block in a picture, in which one or more trees are used to encode a binary set of data for indicating coefficient significance for the block, the one or more trees each having a plurality of nodes, at least one of the nodes of the one or more trees being modified responsive to at least one parameter.
US12034935B2	Reception apparatus, reception method, and image processing system The present disclosure relates to a reception apparatus, a reception method, and an image processing system that can suppress a reduction in resolution of an image that a surgery operator wants to see at a high resolution while responding to an increase in the number of connections of medical equipment that supply images. In the previous stage of a transmission path such as PCIe, images are acquired from a plurality of pieces of medical equipment, a compression method is selected for each type of image, and the image is compressed and output to the transmission path. Therefore, among YCbCr signals, e.g., of a CT image or an X image, an image that does not require CbCr signals is compressed as the Y signal only, and an image that requires a high-resolution image such as an operative field image is transmitted without being compressed. Therefore, it is possible to suppress compression of the band of a transmission path such as PCIe. The present disclosure can be applied to an intra-hospital image processing system.
US12034930B2	Method and apparatus for encoding/decoding image using quantization parameter, and recording medium storing bitstream There is provided an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image decoding method comprises decoding size information of a quantization group from a bitstream, acquiring a delta quantization parameter of a current block on the basis of the size information of the quantization group, and deriving a quantization parameter for the current block on the basis of the delta quantization parameter.
US12034926B2	Flexible tile partitions An encoder (400), a decoder (450), and methods (230, 30) for partitioning a picture from a sequence of video pictures into a layout having a plurality of flexible tiles or segments is disclosed. Each tile or segment (T) comprises a single rectangular or square region. The encoder generates (22) a partition structure and encodes (28) the tiles according to the partition structure. The encoder also generates a bitstream (12) comprising a plurality of coded picture segments and information indicating the partition structure used to partition the picture into the plurality of flexible tiles or segments, and sends (29) the bitstream to the decoder. Upon receipt, the decoder uses the coded picture segments and information in the bitstream to decode (38) the plurality of coded picture segments.
US12034924B2	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.
US12034920B2	Communication control system and communication control method The present disclosure provides a communication control system and a communication control method capable of appropriately modifying an image compression algorithm when transmitting an I/O signal and an image signal through the same transmission line. In a communication control system that transmits image frame data and I/O data through the same transmission line from a first communication device to a second communication device, a transmission history of image frame data and I/O data and a reception history of ACK for the image frame data and ACK for the I/O data are managed. ACK receiving time and bandwidth utilization are calculated for each of the image frame data and the I/O data from the transmission history and the reception history.
US12034916B2	Neural network-based video compression with spatial-temporal adaptation A mechanism for processing video data is disclosed. A determination is made to apply an end-to-end neural network-based video codec to a current video unit of a video. The end-to-end neural network-based video codec comprises a spatial-temporal adaptive compression (STAC) component including a frame extrapolative compression (FEC) branch and an image compression branch. A conversion is performed between the current video unit and a bitstream of the video via the end-to-end neural network-based video codec.
US12034915B2	Method and apparatus for image encoding and image decoding using prediction based on block type Disclosed herein are a method and apparatus for image encoding and decoding using prediction based on a block shape. Whether a prediction mode is available for a target block is determined. The determination is performed based on the shape of the target block. When the prediction mode is determined to be unavailable for the target block, signaling related to the prediction mode may be omitted, and determination of an additional prediction mode is performed. When the prediction mode is determined to be available for the target block, information indicating whether the prediction mode is to be used for the target block is signaled.
US12034913B2	Methods and apparatuses for video coding with triangle prediction Methods and apparatuses 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.
US12034901B2	Information processing apparatus, information processing system, information processing method, and non-transitory recording medium An information processing apparatus includes circuitry to derive, referring to a dictionary in which a target color having brightness and gloss is associated with a combination of amounts of color materials including one or more process color materials and a color material having brightness and gloss, amounts of the one or more process color materials and another amount of another color material, such that an amount corresponding to at least a part of the one or more process color materials corresponding to the target color in the dictionary is replaced with the another amount of the another color material. The combination of the amounts of color materials is for reproducing the target color included in an image formed by an image forming apparatus. The circuitry further updates the dictionary with the amounts of the one or more process color materials and the another amount of the another color material.
US12034900B2	Image processing system, image processing method, and non-transitory computer readable medium for generating a colorized image An image processing system according to the present disclosure includes: an image acquisition unit configured to acquire a monochrome image of a subject including a target part; a hint acquisition unit configured to acquire a category of the target part and a first color hint indicating a color of the target part; a hint conversion unit configured to convert the first color hint into a second color hint indicating the color of the target part based on the acquired category; and a colorization generation unit configured to generate a colorized image corresponding to the monochrome image from the monochrome image and the second color hint of the target part by using a prediction model trained by machine learning.
US12034892B2	Display control device, information apparatus, and non-transitory recording medium storing display control program causing a display unit to display a selected higher layer setting item, display a selected next layer setting item below the selected higher layer setting item, and not display un-selected setting items A display control device includes a processor and a memory coupled to or integrated with the processor and controls display of an operation screen of an information apparatus, in a case in which a selected setting item is arbitrarily selected from plural setting items displayed in a list form in the operation screen, the processor hides a setting item other than the selected setting item, displays the selected setting item on an upper side of a display region in which the plural setting items were displayed in a list form, and additionally displays a relevant setting item related to the selected setting item below the selected setting item.
US12034888B2	Systems, methods and apparatus for converting between wireless protocols Various embodiments of systems, devices, and methods are described for wireless communication. In one example a first wireless signal is received in a first radio frequency spectrum using a first antenna exterior to a building. The first wireless signal is associated with a first wireless protocol. The first wireless signal is converted into a first intermediate signal associated with a coaxial protocol. The first intermediate signal is transmitted to an interior of the building using a coaxial cable. The first intermediate signal is converted into a second signal associated with a second wireless protocol. The second signal is then transmitted in a second radio frequency spectrum using a second antenna interior to the building. The second signal is transmitted using the second wireless protocol.
US12034887B1	Systems and methods for synchronizing agent staffing and customer call volume in contact centers A method for synchronizing agent staffing and customer call volume within a contact center estimates the number of agents to staff the contact center during a future time and uses historical data to estimate the number of customer calls anticipated during the future time. The method performs a first comparison of the number of agents with the anticipated customer calls volume for the future time and then determines at least one preferred contact-center callback window. The method communicates with the customer to request at least one preferred customer-selected callback time and performs a second comparison to provide the customer with a suggested callback time that is selected to synchronize the customer call volume with the number of agents, the preferred contact-center callback window, and the preferred customer-selected callback time to improve the customer's experience and efficiency of the contact center.
US12034884B2	Time tolerant prompt detection The location of voice prompts within a call waveform is usually conducted by match filtering a snippet of the prompt (approx. 800 ms) to the call waveform. In an enhanced process that can accommodate transmission errors when detecting voice prompts on lower quality transmission lines, a snippet of a voice prompt may be divided into sniplets, typically 100 ms long. The sniplets can be individually detected. If a sufficient number of sniplets are detected within allowed time tolerances, then this subset of detected sniplets can indicate the presence of the snippet, and thus the associated voice prompt.
US12034878B2	Mobile terminal The present invention relates to a mobile terminal structure comprising: a body; a display deformed along the outer surface of the body by means of an external force; and a frame part which supports the display and which is modified into a shape of encompassing the outer surface of the body, wherein the frame part comprises: a rear plate which is coupled to one surface of the display and which can be modified together with the display so as to correspond to the outer surface of the body; and link parts which are respectively provided to both sides of the rear plate and which include a plurality of link members arranged in parallel to each other, and the display can be wound or unwound together with the rear plate along the outer surface of the body by means of the rotation between the connected link members of the link parts.
US12034877B2	Outer shell member for communication equipment Provided is an outer shell member for communication equipment, capable of enhancing metallic luster design while suppressing the generation of radio wave shielding that affects communication. A metallic tone print sheet 51 is arranged at least on a portion of an outer shell member for communication equipment including a mobile device 1 with a communication device and a protective case mounted thereon. The metallic tone print sheet 51 includes, when viewed from the front, a metallic portion equipped with a metallic reflective layer and a transmission portion not equipped with a metallic reflective layer. The metallic reflective layer is provided with a metallic concave reflective surface that is curved in a cross-section in the thickness direction of the metallic tone print sheet. The transmission portion has a radio wave permeability that transmits radio waves to the communication device.
US12034870B2	Method for securely diversifying a generic application stored in a secure processor of a terminal Provided is a method for securely diversifying a generic application stored in a secure processor of a terminal, said method comprising: Generating at the request of a manager application hosted in an application processor of said terminal, at the level of a distant server, a server challenge; Sending said server challenge to said application; Generating a first message at said application, said first message being function of said server challenge, an application challenge and an unique identifier of said application; Sending said first message to a Root-Of-Trust service hosted in a secure processor of said terminal, said Root-of-Trust service generating an attestation of said first message, said attestation guaranteeing that said first message has not been modified and originates from said secure processor; and Transmitting said attestation of said first message to said distant server in an enablement request message.
US12034868B2	Systems and methods for generating secure, encrypted communications across distributed computer networks for authorizing use of cryptography-based digital repositories in order to perform blockchain operations in decentralized applications Methods and systems for the use of multi-party computation (“MPC”) key systems that involve the use of multiple parties, each of which hold respective private data that may be used to evaluate a computation without ever revealing any of the private data held by each party to perform blockchain operations. Using the MPC key systems, the methods and systems generate secure, encrypted communications across distributed computer networks for authorizing use of cryptography-based digital repositories in order to perform blockchain operations in decentralized applications.
US12034859B2	Verification of data fields of blockchain transactions A computer-implemented method of generating a secondary transaction identifier of a target transaction which enables a querying user to determine whether the target transaction comprises a candidate data field. The method comprises identifying a set of data fields of the target transaction, each data field comprising respective data of the transaction; and generating a transaction hash tree. Each data field is hashed to generate a respective one of a plurality of leaf hashes of the transaction hash tree. The root hash of the transaction hash tree comprises the secondary transaction identifier.
US12034857B2	Verification of lawful interception data A permissioned blockchain is used in a lawful interception, LI, context. Participants include a law enforcement agency, LEA, function, a LI mediation and delivery function, MF/DF, and an intercepting network function. A smart contract registered in the blockchain includes conditions associated with intercept related information, IRI, and/or communication content, CC, transactions. Registration is made in the blockchain of IRI and/or CC transactions performed by the participants during LI of a communication between two entities in a telecommunication network. The registered IRI and/or CC transactions are propagated among the participants and the smart contract is executed to verify whether or not the registered IRI and/or CC transactions are compliant with the smart contract. The participants are then informed about whether or not the registered IRI and/or CC transactions are compliant with the smart contract.
US12034854B2	Providing single sign-on (SSO) in disjoint networks with non-overlapping authentication protocols A method of enabling single sign-on (SSO) access to an application executing in an enterprise, wherein authorized, secure access to specific enterprise applications are facilitated via an enterprise-based connector. In response to successful authentication of an end user via a first authentication method, a credential associated with the successful authentication is encrypted to generate an encrypted user token. The encrypted user token is then forwarded for storage in a database accessible by the enterprise-based connector. Following a redirect (e.g., from a login server instance) that returns the end user to the enterprise-based connector, the encrypted user token is fetched and decrypted to recover the credential. The credential so recovered is then used to attempt to authenticate the user to an application via a second authentication method distinct from the first authentication method. Typically, the first authentication method is an HTML form-based authentication initiated from a client browser, and the second authentication method is one of: NTLM, and Kerberos.
US12034853B2	Methods and systems for a digital trust architecture In some aspects, methods and systems for a digital trust architecture are provided. In some aspects, the architecture includes a user account provisioning process. The provisioning process may make use of in person verifications of some personal information to ensure authenticity of the user information. Once the authenticity of user information is established, an account may be created. The user account may include a user email account, with integrated access to digital certificates linked to the user account. Account creation may also automatically publish the new user's public key in a publicly accessible directory, enabling encrypted email information to be easily sent to the new user.
US12034850B2	Encryption device, decryption device, encryption method, decryption method, and computer program products An encryption device includes one or more hardware processors functioning as the following units. A unit acquires, as a public key, n-variable indeterminate equations X having coefficients with a predetermined degree of a univariate polynomial ring Fp[t] on a finite field Fp. A unit embeds a plaintext m into coefficients of n-variable plaintext polynomial factors m having coefficients with a predetermined degree of the Fp[t]. A unit generates an n-variable plaintext polynomial M by multiplying the n-variable plaintext polynomial factors mi whose number is one or more. A unit randomly generates n-variable polynomials sk (k=1, 2), n-variable polynomials rk, and noise polynomial ek, each having coefficients with a predetermined degree of the Fp[t]. A unit generates a ciphertext ck by executing an operation including at least one of adding, subtracting, and multiplying the sk, the rk, the ek, and the X to, from, or by the M.
US12034849B1	Factoring large integers A method for decoding an encrypted electromagnetic signal W encoded by a first computer with public key N_0=r×s, where N_0, r and s are integers. There is the step of obtaining the electromagnetic signal W from a telecommunications network, or a data network or an Internet or a first non-transient memory. There is the step of storing the electromagnetic signal W in a second non-transient memory. There is the step of decoding with a second computer in communication with the second non-transient memory the electromagnetic signal W in the second non-transient memory by factoring the public key N_0 in at most a time O(log^6 N_0). A non-transitory readable storage medium which includes a computer program stored on the storage medium for decoding an encrypted electromagnetic signal W.
US12034848B2	Device-relationship based communication A device implementing a system for device-relationship based communication includes at least one processor configured to establish, by a first device associated with a first user, a secure communication channel with a second device associated with a second user via a direct wireless connection. The at least one processor is configured to transmit, over the secure communication channel, first device-identifying information to the second device, and receive, over the secure communication channel, second device-identifying information from the second device. The at least one processor is configured to establish a particular type of relationship with the second device, store the second device-identifying information in association with an indication of the particular type of relationship established with the second device, and transmit, to the second device and over the secure communication channel, the indication of the particular type of relationship established with the second device.
US12034845B2	Smart card and associated methods for initiating virtual sessions at kiosk device A smart card may include a memory configured to store a user connection lease and user interface (UI) cache for a user and a private/public key pair of the smart card, with the user connection lease being bound to the private/public key pair of the smart card. The smart card may further include a processor coupled to the memory and configured to establish a communications link with a kiosk device to be shared by a plurality of different users, initiate a virtual session for the user at the kiosk device based upon the user connection lease and the private key responsive to establishing the communications link (with the smart card defining an endpoint for the virtual session authorization), and cause the kiosk device to launch the virtual session based upon the user UI cache.
US12034843B2	Private key creation using location data Methods and a system of generating a master seed using location-based data. The system includes a pseudo-random number generator configured to generate a random number and a global positioning system module configured to determine a location of the system. The system also includes an encryption module configured to generate a signing request message. The signing request message includes the random number and the location. The system further includes a communication device configured to transmit the signing request message to a location authority for authorization. The communication device further configured to receive a signature from the location authority upon authorization of the signing request message. The system is further configured to generate a master seed based on the signature.
US12034840B2	Computer implemented system and method for sharing a common secret preliminary class A method of sharing a first common secret among a plurality of nodes for enabling secure communication for blockchain transactions. The method comprises determining, for at least one first node a plurality of second common secrets, wherein each second common secret is common to the first node and a respective second node, is determined at the first node based on a first private key of the first node and a first public key of the second node and is determined at the second node based on the first private key of the second node and the first public key of the first node. The method further comprises exchanging encrypted shares of the first common secret among the plurality of nodes to enable each of the plurality of nodes to reach a threshold number of shares of the first common secret to access the first common secret.
US12034839B2	Multi-party session key agreement method A multi-party session key agreement method includes: a test session for exchanging a short-term key between parties of 3 to n peers; and an original session for exchanging a long-term key between the parties who have exchanged the short-term key. Peer (n) that has conducted the test session and the original session has cluster (n) that manages the keys as a result of conducting the sessions, and cluster (n) agrees with a result of the session conducted in peer (n) by communicating with cluster (n+1) of another peer (n+1).
US12034836B1	Systems and methods for hardware security module communication management Systems, apparatuses, methods, and computer program products are disclosed for hardware security module communication management. An example method includes deriving, by a first HSM, a first cryptographic key based on an initial key and a first set of seed bits. The method also includes receiving a message comprising a second cryptographic key from a key exchange management device, wherein the second cryptographic key is associated with a second HSM. The method also includes deriving, a third cryptographic key based on the first cryptographic key and the second cryptographic key, wherein deriving the third cryptographic key establishes secure communication between the first HSM and the second HSM based on the second HSM having also derived the third cryptographic key. The method also includes performing, a first cryptographic data protection action using the third cryptographic key.
US12034835B2	Managing encryption keys for content Disclosed are systems and methods for encryption key management. Content items, or portions thereof, can be assigned to a plurality of partitions. Each of the plurality of partitions can correspond to a timeframe of encryption key rotation. Cache control can be applied to manifests and/or content based on the timeframe of encryption key rotation.
US12034829B2	Transmission device, reception device, and base station A transmission device included in one base station in a radio communication system including communication areas adjacent to each other in which the base station communicates with a plurality of wireless terminals includes: a modulation unit that generates a data symbol sequence; a synchronization signal generating unit that generates a first symbol sequence constituted by two or more continuous repetitions of reference sequence symbols being a reference, generates a second symbol sequence by performing frequency shifting on the first symbol sequence by using a phase rotation sequence so that the reference sequence symbols become orthogonal for each of the wireless terminals, and generates a synchronization signal; and a synchronization signal adding unit that generates a transmission signal by adding the synchronization signal to the data symbol sequence.
US12034828B2	System, device and a method for providing an improved WiFi™ audio system According to one aspect there is provided an audio system 10 comprising a transmission unit 100 and a plurality of speaker units 110-1, 110-2, 10-N, wherein the transmission unit 100 comprises a controller 101 and a wireless communication interface 103 arranged for communication according to an IEEE 802.11 standard (WiFi™), wherein the controller 101 is configured to: receive an audio data package to be played back; and to transmit the audio data package to be played back over the wireless communication interface 103 utilizing the same protocol for the transmission of the audio data package and for synchronizing the playback of the audio data, and wherein each of plurality of the speaker units 110-1, 110-2, 10-N comprises a controller 111, a PCM 111-1, a speaker element 114 and a wireless communication interface 113 arranged for communication according to an IEEE 802.11 standard (WiFi™), wherein the controller 111 is configured to: receive the at least one data package to be played back through the wireless communication interface 113 and to cause audio represented by the received audio data package to be played back through the speaker element 114 by feeding the audio data to the PCM 111-1 being connected to the speaker element 114.
US12034823B2	Interactive service platform and operating method thereof An operating method of an interactive service platform including the steps of: communicating with a plurality of user end devices via an application software; receiving physiological measurement information of user from the user end devices via the application software; analyzing the physiological measurement information to identify a physical and mental state/lifestyle of an associated subscriber; and automatically responding content information associated with at least one associated subscriber according to requests from the user end devices.
US12034820B2	Fusing and degradation method and apparatus for micro-service, device, and medium Provided are a fusing and degradation method and apparatus for a micro-service, a device, a medium, and a program product, which relate to the field of the Internet, in particular to the field of fusing and degradation. The specific implementation is as follows: instantiating, by a monitoring probe woven into a micro-service traffic process, a fuse component according to an obtained fusing and degradation rule, and weaving, by the monitoring probe, the fuse component into the traffic process, where the fuse component is used for performing fusing and degradation on a traffic request processed in the traffic process. The fusing and degradation technology during the running of a micro-service is achieved through a probe so that the micro-service developer can fuse and degrade a micro-service application that is running without hard coding, thereby improving the efficiency and stability of the micro-service fusing and degradation.
US12034816B2	Digital footprint visual navigation Methods, computer-readable media, software, and apparatuses may assist the user in understanding their unique digital footprint and the connections from the data within the footprint to the user's connections online and in the physical world. The determined information may be visually displayed to the user along with recommendations regarding digital safety.
US12034815B2	Personalizing user experience in a gaming network The present disclosure describes methods and system for personalizing user experience in a gaming network. In particular, the user experience is personalized based on how users are characterized based on their interactions with the gaming network. By using the characterizations, the users are assigned labels that publicly identify the user experience, interest, and proficiency with various video games. Communities are then established based on users having the same labels. Lastly, user generated content can be characterized and promoted based on the characterizations to the appropriate communities.
US12034813B2	Policy-based connection provisioning using domain name system (DNS) requests Techniques for policy-based connection provisioning using Domain Name System (DNS) requests are described herein. The techniques may include receiving policy data associated with one or more headend nodes that manage connections to computing resources. Additionally, the techniques may include receiving a DNS request from a client device to establish a connection between the client device and a first headend node of the one or more headend nodes. The DNS request may include an attribute associated with the client device. A provisioning service may determine that the connection should be established between the client device and the first headend node based at least in part on evaluating the attribute with respect to the policy data. Additionally, the techniques may include sending an internet protocol (IP) address, which is associated with the first headend node, to the client device to facilitate establishment of the connection.
US12034812B2	Global internet of things (IoT) connectivity fabric The systems and methods relate to an internet of things (IoT) system that includes a global IoT connectivity fabric to facilitate communications between a plurality of applications that provide services to one or more IoT devices. The global IoT connectivity fabric may include a plurality of global IoT connectivity fabric nodes that establish communication channels between the applications and the IoT devices. The global IoT connectivity fabric may implement a channel architecture where the IoT devices declare one or more channels for sending and/or receiving communications. The applications may subscribe to the one or more channels declared by the IoT devices and may communicate with the IoT devices through the one or more channels.
US12034811B2	Method and system to transmit and receive data packets through at least one end-to-end connection A method and system for transmitting and receiving data packets between two network nodes via one or more end-to-end connections. An interface is provided for selecting one or more possible end-to-end connection(s) or established end-to-end connection(s). The method and system may further comprise receiving a policy, wherein one or more selected end-to-end connections are established based, at least in part, on the policy. The policy may also restrict or promote selection of certain established end-to-end connection(s) via the interface provided. The selected and established end-to-end connection(s) are used for transmitting and receiving data packets.
US12034810B2	Ceiling fan for establishing a system for local control of a space A ceiling fan for a space is provided. The ceiling fan can include a first communication interface configured to provide communications between the ceiling fan and a plurality of peripheral devices over a local network. The ceiling fan can further include a second communication interface configured to provide communications between the ceiling fan and an external network. The ceiling fan can further include one or more control devices configured to provide one or more control signals to control operation of one or more of the peripheral devices.
US12034802B2	Cluster system with fail-safe fallback mechanism A fail-safe system for a cluster application is disclosed. The system includes a first subsystem comprising a graphic processing unit (GPU) that executes a high-level operating system renders a first set of parameter data, and a second subsystem that executes a real-time operating system and renders a second set of parameter data. The system also includes a controller area network connected to a parameter data source input and to the first subsystem and the second subsystem. The system further includes a quality of service (QoS) switch executing a QoS monitor module that decides to display the first set of parameter data being rendered by the first subsystem or the second set of parameter data being rendered by the second subsystem depending on an availability and load of the first subsystem as determined by a lag and a stability threshold. The system further includes a display connected to the QoS switch.
US12034800B2	Systems and methods for automated, controllerless and stateless network connection selection based on distributed server information The invention is that of systems and methods for controllerless and distributed network connections to servers on a network by remote clients seeking their services. The invention comprises a central database where servers within a server group identified by a group name may post unique identifiers (UIDs) for retrieval and reposting by group clients configured with the group name, which may query the central database for server connection information such as uptime, downtime, and congestion in order to select a server for a preferential connection based on an overall posture as determined by the group client. In some embodiments, one server of the group is a “dummy server” that may aggregate and selectively transmit server information from other servers in the group, or other devices, and post it to the central database. The methods described herein eliminate a separate controller and thereby a single point of failure (SPOF).
US12034798B2	Adapting connections of a layered network A computer-implemented method for adapting connections between nodes of a layered network. The layered network comprises a plurality of nodes arranged in an ordered set of layers. The ordered set of layers comprises, in order, a core layer comprising a set of core nodes, a second layer comprising a set of second nodes, and one or more outer layers each comprising a respective set of outer nodes. Each core node is connected to at least one other core node. The method is performed by an adapting node, the adapting node being a node of the layered network that is connected to one or more second nodes and multiple core nodes. The method comprises, based on one or more network properties of the layered network, disabling a respective connection between the adapting node and at least one but not all of the multiple core nodes.
US12034796B2	Systems and methods for notifying users of changes to files in cloud-based file-storage systems A method to provide a service to facilitate notifications of changes to a plurality of files located in a plurality of folders in a cloud-based storage system includes exposing an application programming interface (API) to obtain subscription data for a plurality of users of a plurality of client devices, receiving, via the API, subscription data from a first client device of the plurality of client devices, the subscription data associated with a user account of a first user of the plurality of users and identifying a folder subscribed by the first user to receive notifications of changes to one or more files located in the folder; storing, in a data store, the subscription data associated with the user account of the first user, the subscription data comprising an identifier of the folder to be monitored for changes to the one or more files for the user account of the first user of the first client device, and providing, to the first client device, updates pertaining to the changes to the one or more files to cause the first user to be notified about the changes to the one or more files, wherein the updates are provided in accordance with the subscription data associated with the user account of the first user, and wherein the changes comprise changes made to the one or more file by users other than the first user.
US12034792B2	Management of adaptive streaming of an item of digital content over a mobile network with selection of a maximum authorized encoding rate on the basis of a data bucket A method for managing adaptive streaming of an item of digital content within a multimedia stream reading terminal connected to a mobile communication network is disclosed. The item of digital content is associated with a description file for the item and includes a list of time segments of the item of content that are each associated with multiple encoding rates of the item of content. A maximum data volume to be consumed within the mobile communication network, as a data bucket, is allocated to the multimedia stream reading terminal. When the adaptive streaming of the item is launched, the method determines a data volume that would be consumed by the multimedia stream reading terminal as a result of streaming the time segments and selects a maximum encoding rate of the item authorized for the streaming on the basis of the consumed data volume associated therewith and of the data bucket.
US12034791B2	Adaptive content streaming based on bandwidth Systems and methods for adaptive content streaming based on bandwidth are disclosed. According to one example method, content is requested for delivery. An indication of complexity of a plurality of media content items associated with the content is received. Based on the indication of complexity and an available bandwidth at the user device, at least one of the plurality media content items is selected and retrieved from the media server.
US12034787B2	Hybrid streaming A method and system for hybrid streaming of media content such as video for a computer-based game. In some implementations, a background media content stream includes a background video rendered on a server. The background media content stream is received at a client device. The client device renders one or more three-dimensional objects and forms a composite media stream by combining the background media content stream and the one or more three-dimensional objects. The composite media stream can be output to a display or other external system.
US12034785B2	System and method enabling interactions in virtual environments with virtual presence A system enabling interactions in virtual environments comprises one or more cloud server computers comprising at least one processor and memory storing data and instructions implementing a virtual environment platform comprising at least one virtual environment; at least one camera obtaining live data feed from a user of a client device; and a client device communicatively connected to the one or more cloud server computers and at least one camera. The system generates a user graphical representation from the live data feed that is inserted into a selected virtual environment and is therein updated, enabling real-time multi-user collaboration and interactions in the virtual environment. Suitable system architectures and methods thereof are also herein disclosed.
US12034783B2	Instant conferencing system A method including receiving, at a platform and from a first user using a first user device, selection of a uniform resource indicator (URI) unique to a second user using a second user device. The method also includes generating, automatically by the platform in response to receiving the URI, a conference session unique to the first user and the second user. The method also includes transmitting, automatically by the platform, a message to the second user, the message indicating that the conference session is initiated. The method also includes receiving, by the platform, an indication from the second user device that the second user joins the conference session. The method also includes joining, automatically by the platform, the first user device and the second user device in the conference session.
US12034782B2	System for enabling workspace sharing In some implementations, a system may receive a request to initiate a collaborative session between a user device and a dealership device of a dealership. The system may transmit, to the user device and based on receiving the request, a user set of user interface (UI) data indicating a first UI to be presented on a display of the user device. The system may transmit, to the dealership device and based on receiving, a dealership set of UI data indicating a second UI to be presented on a display of the dealership device. The first UI may include a collaborative workspace shared by the user device and the dealership device, and the collaborative workspace may include a connection by the user device with a website associated with the dealership. The second UI may include the collaborative workspace and a dealership workspace dedicated to the dealership device.
US12034778B2	Voice call setup in a telecommunication system A user equipment (UE) can determine when to send an initial request for a voice communication to an Internet Protocol (IP) Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) core of a telecommunication network. For instance, the UE can identify when a call setup instruction should be sent to the IMS to cause a communication channel to be established. The UE can determine whether the UE will experience a change to another radio frequency band or radio technology based on test data, and delay sending the call setup instruction for a time period during which the test data can be analyzed.
US12034775B2	Method and apparatus for digital forensic corresponding to internet of things The present application relates to a method and apparatus for digital forensic corresponding to an IoT (Internet of Things) terminal, the method including: performing, by an electronic device, an analysis of an Internet of Things (IoT) terminal to which digital forensics is to be performed; selecting an injection method of injecting, by the electronic device, a certificate into the IoT terminal; injecting, by the electronic device, a certificate into at least one of the IoT terminal, the electronic device, and a portable device communicating with the IoT terminal using the selected injection method; and verifying, by the electronic device, data stored in a cloud server communicating with the IoT terminal based on the injected certificate, and can also be applied to other embodiment.
US12034769B2	Systems and methods for scalable zero trust security processing Various approaches for providing scalable network access processing. In some cases, approaches discussed relate to systems and methods for providing scalable zero trust network access control.
US12034767B2	Artificial intelligence adversary red team An AI adversary red team configured to pentest email and/or network defenses implemented by a cyber threat defense system used to protect an organization and all its entities. AI model(s) trained with machine learning on contextual knowledge of the organization and configured to identify data points from the contextual knowledge including language-based data, email/network connectivity and behavior pattern data, and historic knowledgebase data. The trained AI models cooperate with an AI classifier in producing specific organization-based classifiers for the AI classifier. A phishing email generator generates automated phishing emails to pentest the defense systems, where the phishing email generator cooperates with the AI models to customize the automated phishing emails based on the identified data points of the organization and its entities. The customized phishing emails are then used to initiate one or more specific attacks on one or more specific users associated with the organization and its entities.
US12034766B2	Method and system for providing edge service, and computing device A method for providing an edge service includes a first security agent that performs data stream transmission with a plurality of endpoint computing devices through an edge link, and each endpoint computing device obtains, using the first security agent, an edge service provided by an edge server. The first security agent determines, based on a data stream transmitted between each endpoint computing device and the first security agent, an abnormal endpoint computing device in the plurality of endpoint computing devices. The first security agent generates link abnormality information, and the link abnormality information includes an address of the abnormal endpoint computing device. The first security agent sends the link abnormality information to the security controller. The security controller receives the link abnormality information, and generates edge link information including an address of a second security agent based on the link abnormality information.
US12034760B2	Method and system for tracking fraudulent activity A method and system for tracking potentially fraudulent activities associated with one or more web sites is disclosed. The system includes a fraud tracking server connected to a fraud tracking database. The fraud tracking server includes a communications module to facilitate the exchange of data between the server and multiple client devices. The fraud tracking server receives data from one or more client devices that identifies a potential spoof site. The fraud tracking server also includes control logic to generate a spoof site tracking record in the fraud tracking database. The spoof site tracking record includes the data identifying the potential spoof site. After the spoof site tracking record has been created, the fraud tracking server notifies an administrator of the potential spoof site by communicating the data received and stored in the fraud tracking database to an administrator.
US12034759B2	Automatic creation and updating of event group summaries A disclosed computer-implemented method includes receiving and indexing the raw data. Indexing includes dividing the raw data into time stamped searchable events that include information relating to computer or network security. Store the indexed data in an indexed data store and extract values from a field in the indexed data using a schema. Search the extracted field values for the security information. Determine a group of security events using the security information. Each security event includes a field value specified by a criteria. Present a graphical interface (GI) including a summary of the group of security events, other summaries of security events, and a remove element (associated with the summary). Receive input corresponding to an interaction of the remove element. Interacting with the remove element causes the summary to be removed from the GI. Update the GI to remove the summary from the GI.
US12034755B2	Computationally assessing and remediating security threats Computer software that assesses risks for security threat events by that performing the following operations: (i) receiving information pertaining to a managed asset; (ii) identifying, based, at least in part, on the received information: a threat to the managed asset and, one or more corresponding security controls for mitigating the threat, the security controls having associated control criteria; (iii) utilizing a risk assessment engine to calculate a risk value for the threat based, at least in part, on the received information; (iv) calculating a certainty factor for the threat based, at least in part, on a measure of belief associated with the control criteria; and (v) performing a computer-based remediation action based, at least in part, on the risk value and the certainty factor.
US12034753B2	Systems and methods for context aware cybersecurity A system that detects malicious traffic flows in a network includes a computer system including a processor in communication with at least one memory device. The processor is programmed to store a plurality of context information about the network including a plurality of devices. The processor is also programmed to determine a network configuration of the network at a specific point in time. The processor is further programmed to generate one or more security policies for one or more devices of the plurality of devices in the network based on the network configuration and the plurality of context information. In addition, the processor is programmed to deploy the one or more security policies to the one or more devices in the network, wherein the one or more devices are configured to execute an algorithm to monitor communications on the network in view of a corresponding security policy of the one or more security policies.
US12034747B2	Unsupervised learning to simplify distributed systems management Data associated with performances of microservices functioning in a distributed computing environment is clustered by executing an unsupervised machine learning algorithm. A representative data is selected from a cluster, selecting performed for a plurality of the clusters. Based on time series data of the representative data associated with the plurality of the clusters, causal extraction is performed. Based on the causal extraction and the plurality of the clusters, a causal graph is constructed. The causal graph is embedded into vector space. Based on the embedded vector space, an artificial neural network model can be trained for managing the distributed computing environment.
US12034744B2	Dynamic power user throttling method for managing SLA guarantees A method and system disclosed dynamically throttling a rate or volume in time of a power user for avoiding throughput penalties imposed by SaaS vendors on a user group due to excessive Application Programming Interface (API) events from users in the group, monitoring API event rate for requests from the group, collectively, and from individual users of the user group to a SaaS vendor is disclosed. Also, identifying a power user as submitting API events in excess of a limit, and on behalf of the user, throttling the power user's rate of API events submissions, based on a configurable policy specific to the SaaS vendor managed by a proxy, to reduce the user's impact on the API event rate of the group at least when the group's API rate, overall, exceeds or approaches a SaaS imposed trigger of a throughput penalty on the group, thereby avoiding triggering of the throughput penalty by the SaaS.
US12034743B2	Quantification of adversary tactics, techniques, and procedures using threat attribute groupings and correlation The present disclosure provides a method and a system for generating a decision tree that tests security event files. The method comprises receiving attack data comprising a plurality of attack execution operations and determining threat attribute data based on the attack data. The method also comprises generating a decision tree using the threat attribute data. The decision tree includes at least one first node and a plurality of second nodes connected to the at least one first node. A first nodal data may be generated and assigned to each second node based on one or more threat attributes associated with the threat attribute data. In response to receiving a security event file, the method executes one or more security tests, using the decision tree, for the security event file.
US12034740B1	Distributed denial of service mitigation in a container based framework In response to a process being triggered, at least in part by receipt of information regarding communication directed to a first application by a second application, a threat level is computed based at least in part on the information. As a result of the threat level being of a first severity, the second application is migrated to a destination zone that allows for improved communications with the first application. As a result of the threat level being of a second severity, migration of the second application to the destination zone is delayed. As a result of the threat level being of a third severity, a mitigation action is performed.
US12034738B2	Securing border gateway protocol route propagation and updating Embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods, and computer storage media directed to propagating and authenticating border gateway protocol route advertisements. A trusted authority device stores and distributes routing information for various autonomous systems. The trusted authority device also issues and maintains digital certificates that are each assigned to one of the autonomous systems. The digital certificate can be utilized by autonomous systems to verify the authenticity of routing information advertised by another autonomous system. Each autonomous system can employ a routing device that can generate a route advertisement based on routing information received from the trusted authority device. The route advertisement can include a digital signature, a digital certificate, and a time-to-live value, among other things, each of which can be utilized by routing devices of other autonomous systems to determine the authenticity and validity of received routing information.
US12034737B2	Determining eligibility for multiple client media streaming Methods, systems and devices to authorize access to a simultaneous media streams are described. After a first media stream is initiated with a first client device, an authorization service receives a request to establish the simultaneous second media stream with a second client device. The service determines whether the second client device is at a geographic location where simultaneous streaming is allowed, and grants or denies access to the second simultaneous stream accordingly.
US12034735B2	Method for verifying security technology deployment efficacy across a computer network A method includes: accessing objects, generated by a set of sources, representing attributes of assets, affiliated with a computer network, including a set of endpoint devices and a first application; partitioning the objects into object groups including a first object group representing the first application; aggregating objects in the first object group into a first user container representing the first application during the first time interval; and, in response to selection of the first application at an operator portal: generating a visualization representing a subset of endpoint devices, in the set of endpoint devices, on which the first application is installed during the first time interval based on a set of attributes, exhibited by the first application during the first time interval, contained in the first application container; and rendering the visualization at the operator interface.
US12034734B2	Systems and methods for identifying synthetic identities associated with network communications Systems and methods are provided for use in identifying synthetic identities. One example method includes receiving a request from a relying party for an identity asserted by a user to the relying party, where the request includes identity data indicative of the identity, feature data associated with the user asserting the identity, and a device ID for a communication device of the user. The method also includes calculating a fraud profile score, based on the identity data and a data structure of known fraud profiles, and aggregating the fraud profile score and at least one of a device behavior score, a user profile score, and/or an exposure behavior score into a metric indicative of a likelihood that the identity asserted by the user is a synthetic identity. The method then includes transmitting the metric to the relying party.
US12034733B2	Authorization in communication networks According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method comprising, receiving, by an intermediary network function, a subscription request from a network function consumer requesting data of a network function producer, wherein the subscription request comprises a client credential assertion of the network function consumer and an access token, authorizing and authenticating, by the intermediary network function, the network function consumer upon successful validation of the access token and the client credential assertion validation and transmitting, by the intermediary network function, an access token request to an authorization server to get another access token, wherein said another access token is to be used to validate the network function consumer to access services of the network function producer, and the access token request comprises the client credential assertion of the network function consumer requesting data of the network function producer.
US12034732B2	System, method, and computer program for automatically classifying user accounts in a computer network using keys from an identity management system The present disclosure describes a system, method, and computer program for automatically classifying user accounts within an entity's computer network, using machine-based-learning modeling and keys from an identity management system. A system uses supervised machine learning to create a statistical model that maps individual keys or sets of keys to a probability of being associated with a first type of user account (e.g., a service account). To classify an unclassified user account, the system identifies identity management keys associated with the unclassified user account. The system creates an N-dimensional vector from the keys (where N=the number of keys), and uses the vector and the statistical model to calculate a probability that the unclassified user account is the first type of user account. In response to the probability exceeding a first threshold, the system classifies the unclassified user account as the first type of user account.
US12034730B1	Systems and methods for detecting sanctioned applications used in an organization A computing system for detecting shadow applications operating in devices used by an organization, the system including a memory and a processor configured to monitor incoming email messages received by email accounts of the organization, identify, from the incoming email messages, a first list of software services used by identities of the organization, collect from identity provider services a second list of software services used by identities of the organization via the identity provider services, identify a list of unsanctioned applications that appear in the first list and do not appear in the second list of software services, and update a database based on the list of unsanctioned applications.
US12034728B2	Dynamic access control in service mesh with service broker One example method includes performing dynamic access control in a computing network. A computing environment is configured such that an application can access a service without specifying secrets. The secrets needed to access the service are obtained and stored in a credential store. The secrets can be obtained using the service mesh in a manner that isolates the application from the secrets.
US12034726B1	Logging access types based on inserting tenant control headers into requests A proxy server receives a first request from a first user to access a resource hosted by a cloud-based server. The proxy server inserts a first tenant control header into the first request specifying a tenant identifier. The tenant identifier indicates a tenant permitted to access the resource. The proxy server then transmits the first request with the inserted first tenant control header to the cloud-based server. In response to receiving a first response indicating a rejection of the first request with the inserted first tenant control header, the proxy server transmits the first request again to the cloud-based server but without the first tenant control header. The proxy server then logs the first request as an access request using a non-permitted tenant identifier.
US12034725B2	Data management system A system for sharing data between tenants served by a software instance. In the system, a first tenant can ensure that data is transferred to a trusted connection by virtue of a trusted established between the first tenant and a second tenant, and a trusted connection between the second tenant and a third tenant. The system allows the identity of the third tenant to be kept secret from the first tenant, thus maintaining the privacy of the third tenants. In addition, the system allows for the first tenant to force control over the tenants with which the second tenant is allowed to share the first portion of the data, and the second tenant can provide an additional layer of this control.
US12034723B2	Controlled environment secure media streaming system A Controlled Environment Secure Media Streaming System manages the delivery of content to Secured Devices. Cloud Services provide content to Integration Hub. The Integration Hub interfaces with various cloud services providers and prepares content for consumption by a resident of a secured facility. Integration Hub utilizes Content Filter to inspect content received from cloud service providers for suitability for use in a secured environment. Once content is retrieved, filtered, formatted, and packaged by Integration Hub, the content is stored in Data Warehouse. Secured Devices request content from the Distribution Hub, the Distribution Hub retrieves the content from the Data Warehouse, and then Distribution Hub manages the transfer of content to the Secured Devices. In some embodiments, Distribution Hub utilizes Content Filter to determine whether or not a particular Secured Device can access particular content.
US12034722B2	Factor health assessment and selection for login at an identity provider Users of an identity provider system may be authorized to use a variety of different types of factors from a variety of different factor providers. The identity provider system monitors and analyzes the “health” of the different possible factors available to a user, e.g., their availability relative to error rate. Using the results of the analysis, the identity provider can assess which factors are the most appropriate for a given user seeking authentication and can improve the user experience for the user by emphasizing those most appropriate factors to the user.
US12034719B2	Context-based risk assessment for an identity verification system An identity verification system receives context signals from an authenticating computing device in response to a target user requesting access to a secure asset. The identity verification system identifies candidate locations for the operational context assigned to historical context signals labeled as being measured at a known location and compares the context signal to each historical signal to determine a location of the operational context corresponding to the received context signal. The identity verification system determines a match probability for the target user based on a risk score assigned to the location of the operational received context signal and grants the requesting target user access to the secured asset in response to determining that the match probability is greater than the operational security threshold.
US12034717B2	Systems and methods for firmware password management One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for managing a firmware password of a User Equipment (UE) are provided. In an example, the UE determines that a first firmware password variable is indicative of a firmware password of a firmware of the UE. The UE transmits the first firmware password variable to a first computer for storage in a first dataset. The UE generates a password. The UE sets a second firmware password variable, in a second dataset stored on the UE, to the password. The UE transmits the second firmware password variable including the password to the first computer for storage in the first dataset. The UE sets the firmware password of the firmware of the UE to the second firmware password variable including the password.
US12034716B2	Exclusive self-escrow method and apparatus A method and apparatus provides for securely unlocking a locked program domain by a third party wishing to gain extraordinary access to the program domain by a third party. The third party and the program domain are mutually authenticated using exclusive self-escrow of credentials that are generated, revealed, or stored within the program domain. Multiple third parties that are required for unlocking the program domain may also be authenticated prior to unlocking the program domain. The method and apparatus provides extraordinary access without the use of backdoors or having the program domain provide credentials to third parties.
US12034715B2	System and method for cloud-based analytics A system and method in accordance with example embodiments may include systems and methods for a cloud-based analytics platform. The cloud-based analytics platform may allow the manual and automatic uploading to and/or downloading from a cloud server. The platform may include single sign-on (SSO) capabilities such that a user may have one set of credentials to access data from the cloud-based analytics and/or data stored locally. The platform may include data validation and processing in order to provide real-time feedback on uploads based on file type, file size, access rights, extracted data, and transformed data.
US12034713B2	Secure authentication for accessing remote resources Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer program products, for secure authentication for accessing remote resources are disclosed. In some implementations, a user is authenticated for a first time on an interface using a first communications channel; the user is authenticated a second time on the interface using a second communications channel; access privileges are determined based on authenticating the user for the second time; and a random Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is generated based on the access privileges, where the random URL is single-use and indirectly associated with a requested resource.
US12034711B2	Securing attestation using a zero-knowledge data management network The techniques herein are directed generally to a “zero-knowledge” data management network. Users are able to share verifiable proof of data and/or identity information, and businesses are able to request, consume, and act on the data—all without a data storage server or those businesses ever seeing or having access to the raw sensitive information (where server-stored data is viewable only by the intended recipients, which may even be selected after storage). In one embodiment, source data is encrypted with a source encryption key (e.g., source public key), with a rekeying key being an encrypting combination of a source decryption key (e.g., source private key) and a recipient's public key. Without being able to decrypt the data, the storage server can use the rekeying key to re-encrypt the source data with the recipient's public key, to then be decrypted only by the corresponding recipient using its private key, accordingly.
US12034710B2	Efficient SSL/TLS proxy Systems, devices, and methods are disclosed for selectively decrypting SSL/TLS communications. Contents of the decrypted communications that may result in some action; for example, to terminate the communications, or to log and store the plaintext packets of the communications for subsequent content inspection and analysis. A SSL/TLS proxy may examine the information contained in the TLS handshake protocol and/or examine other information associated with the connection. Based on the examination, a proxy may determine whether or not to decrypt the encrypted communications. The proxy may take additional actions based on content inspection.
US12034709B1	Centralized secure distribution of messages and device updates Embodiments relate to systems for the distribution of payload in a secure manner. A server may receive a query from a device that includes a subscriber identifier. The server may determine, from confidential information stored, an association between the subscriber identifier and a public key of the device. The server may retrieve the public key of the device. The server may generate a data payload as a response to the query. The server may encrypt the data payload by a symmetric key that is generated randomly. The server may encrypt the symmetric key by the public key of the device. The server may transmit the data payload and the symmetric key that are encrypted to the device for the device to use a private key corresponding to the public key to decrypt the symmetric key and use the symmetric key to decrypt the data payload.
US12034708B2	Method and reproduction unit for reproducing protected messages A method for sending registered secure messages via a messaging system to a receiver device that is to be tested includes: supplying first secure and still serialized messages from message packages for processing in a reproduction unit; in the first messages, reducing the data volume of the serialized messages; deserializing the reduced first messages and creating second secure messages by adding a second counter value in each case or, where applicable, by replacing a first counter value with the second counter value, and creating and adding a second authenticator in each case by using the second counter value, the encryption information, and the key, and by using the communication description or the information obtained by applying a data interpretation algorithm; and serializing the second secure messages and sending corresponding message packages to the receiver device to be tested.
US12034707B2	Randomizing server-side addresses Techniques for using Network Address Translation (NAT), Mobile Internet Protocol (MIP), and/or other techniques in conjunction with Domain Name System (DNS) to anonymize server-side addresses in data communications. Rather than having DNS provide a client device with an IP address of an endpoint device, such as a server, the DNS instead returns a random IP address that is mapped to the client device and the endpoint device. In this way, IP addresses of servers are obfuscated by a random IP address that cannot be used to identify the endpoint device or service. The client device may then communicate data packets to the server using the random IP address as the destination address, and a gateway that works in conjunction with DNS can convert the random IP address to the actual IP address of the server using NAT and forward the data packet onto the server.
US12034706B2	Method and system for private identity verification Methods, systems, and techniques for private identity verification involve obtaining a cryptographically secure commitment that is generated using a first user identifier and a private user identifier associated with the first user identifier; receiving, from an identity verification system, initial zero knowledge proof messages comprising the commitment; sending, to the identity verification system, a set of cryptographically secure known identifier commitments generated using a set of private user identifiers; receiving, from the identity verification system: (i) a zero knowledge proof response generated using the zero knowledge proof challenge; and (ii) proof that the private user identifier used in the initial zero knowledge proof messages comprises part of the set of private user identifiers; and verifying that the private user identifier used in the initial zero knowledge proof messages comprises part of the set of private user identifiers.
US12034700B2	Methods for revalidating FQDN rulesets in a firewall A method comprises: in response to detecting a new expression in a policy rule, updating a global version number to a new value; identifying a particular IP address that corresponds to an FQDN matching on the new expression; storing an entry comprising the particular IP address, the new expression, and an entry version number in a first data structure, the entry version number being assigned the new value; in response to detecting a new connection to a destination IP address: finding a matching entry in the first data structure corresponding to the destination IP address; determining whether the global version number matches the entry version number for the matching entry; and in response to determining that the global version number does not match the entry version number for the matching entry, sending update information to a slowpath process that associates an updated configuration information for the matching entry.
US12034699B1	File sharing over secure connections Systems and methods for file sharing over secure connections. An example method comprises: receiving a client request identifying a file sharing host and a file residing on the file sharing host; establishing a secure client connection; responsive to identifying a management connection with the file sharing host, transmitting an identifier and a parameter of the secure client connection via the management connection; receiving a host request to establish a secure host connection, the host request comprising the identifier of the secure client connection; establishing the secure host connection using the parameter of the secure client connection identified by the received identifier; forwarding, over the secure host connection, a first data packet received over the secure client connection, the first data packet comprising at least part of the client request; and forwarding, over the secure client connection, a second data packet received over the secure host connection, the second data packet comprising at least part of the file identified by the client request.
US12034694B2	Performance improvement of IPsec traffic using SA-groups and mixed-mode SAs Some embodiments provide a method of load balancing data message flows across multiple secure connections. The method receives a data message having source and destination addresses formatted according to a first protocol. Based on the source and destination addresses, the method selects one of the multiple secure connections for the data message. Each of the secure connections handles a first set of connections formatted according to the first protocol and a second set of connections formatted according to a second protocol that is an alternative to the first protocol. The method securely encapsulates the data message and forwards the encapsulated data message onto a network. The encapsulation includes an identifier for the selected secure connection.
US12034693B2	Systems and methods for displaying unseen labels in a clustering in-box environment Systems and methods for displaying electronic messages are disclosed. In one aspect, a method is performed at a computing device. The method includes: (1) receiving a plurality of electronic messages; (2) assigning a first subset of the messages to a predefined group category based on a set of content-based clustering rules and content in respective bodies of the messages; (3) concurrently displaying a second subset of the messages and a cluster graphic corresponding to the predefined group category, where the cluster graphic includes a label that describes the predefined group category; (4) while concurrently displaying the second subset of electronic messages and the cluster graphic, receiving user selection of the cluster graphic; and (5) in response, displaying a plurality of messages in the predefined group category, including displaying at least one message from the first subset of messages.
US12034692B2	Automatic notification of data changes A method provides an automatic notification manner of data changes. After collecting information related to a target user (202) such as a dataset, a data dashboard, or a data report, the analysis preference of the user can be determined based on the collected information (204). Then, upon the dataset is updated, a variety of critical data changes in the dataset may be detected as an alert (206), and a notification related to the alert may be provided to the user via various manners (208). The method does not require the user to manually configure or create an alert rule for data changes, which makes data-driven alerting much easier for the user, thereby improving the user experience.
US12034691B2	System and method for facilitating social networking among users A system and method for facilitating social networking among users is disclosed. The method includes a user data and one or more preferences from each of a plurality electronic devices associated with a plurality of users and receiving a request from a registered user associated with a registered plurality of users to find a potential interested user. The method further includes identifying one or more potential interested users at real-time based on a location of the user, the received user data, the received one or more preferences and the received request and generating one or more AR icons at real-time. Further, the method includes superimposing the generated one or more AR icons on one or more images and one or more videos at real-time and outputting the one or more images and one or more videos to the user upon superimposing the one or more AR icons.
US12034687B2	Providing post-capture media overlays for post-capture processing in a messaging system The subject technology receives metadata corresponding to a respective media overlay, the metadata including information indicating that the respective media overlay is configured to be applied as an image processing operation during post-processing of image data during a post-capture stage. The subject technology selects the respective media overlay in response to the information indicating that the respective media overlay is configured to be applied as an image processing operation during post-processing of image data. The subject technology, based at least in part on a category indicator associated with the respective media overlay, populates a group of media overlays with at least the respective media overlay. The subject technology sends, to a client electronic device, second metadata including at least information related to the group of media overlays.
US12034680B2	User presence indication data management A method and a system include receiving a first message from a first device associated with a first user, the first message being associated with a group conversation between plural users including the first user and a second user, the group conversation comprising a main conversation view and first experience page; determining the first message was transmitted from the first experience page; detecting the first user being active within the first experience page and the second user being active within the main conversation view; and causing display of the first message, a name of the first user, and a page source graphical element indicating the first experience page on a second device associated with the second user.
US12034674B2	Resource allocation method and apparatus for V2X service, and storage medium, terminal and base station Disclosed are a resource allocation method and apparatus for a V2X service, and a storage medium, a terminal and a base station. The method comprises: acquiring resource allocation auxiliary information of a secondary link with a resource allocation requirement; and transmitting secondary link information, wherein the secondary link information comprises the resource allocation auxiliary information, and the resource allocation auxiliary information is associated with a destination identifier of the secondary link.
US12034662B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting information Provided are method and apparatus for transmitting information. The method for transmitting information includes: determining an intersection between pieces of transmission information included in N first-type information elements; and in the case where the intersection is non-empty, determining first information. The first information includes at least one of: a difference set between pieces of transmission information included in any two first-type information elements of the N first-type information elements, Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) feedback bits of the N first-type information elements, a mapping relationship between a bit field value corresponding to a bit indication field in downlink control information (DCI) and a parameter value indicated by the bit indication field in the DCI, the number of bits of each of the pieces of transmission information or a resource mapping manner of first-type information element. N is a positive integer greater than or equal to 2.
US12034659B2	Operating method of terminal and base station in wireless communication system for supporting narrowband internet of things, and device for supporting same Disclosed are an operating method of a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system for supporting narrowband internet of things (NB-IoT), and a device for supporting same. According to one embodiment applicable to the present invention, a base station can transmit, to a terminal, a narrowband reference signal (NRS) during a time slot determined on the basis of the position of a paging opportunity (PO) set for the terminal and, in response to the signal, the terminal can assume/determine a time slot in which the NRS is transmitted on the basis of the position of the PO.
US12034658B2	Method, device, and storage medium for configuring starting symbol position of uplink data channel Provided are a method, device and storage medium for configuring a starting symbol position of an uplink data channel. The method includes: determining a configuration value of a first type parameter set, where the first type parameter set is a set of uplink data parameters; determining a configuration range of a starting symbol position of an uplink data channel according to the configuration value of the first type parameter set; and selecting a starting symbol position of the uplink data channel from the configuration range of the starting symbol position of the uplink data channel, and notifying a receiving end of the selected starting symbol position of the uplink data channel.
US12034657B2	Downlink control information for reduced-complexity device The implementations disclosed provide apparatus, systems, and methods for downlink control information (DCI) enhancement for a reduced-complexity new radio (NR) wireless device. The wireless device includes one or more processors configured to transmit a type of the wireless device to a base station communicatively coupled to the wireless device. A format of the DCI is received from the base station. The DCI includes multiple bit strings indicating a schedule of a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) or a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH). The format specifies a respective number of bits for each bit string. The format is defined by the base station based on the type of the wireless device. The DCI is received from the base station using a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH). The multiple bit strings are extracted from the DCI based on the format of the DCI.
US12034656B1	Method and system for a repeater network that utilizes distributed transceivers with array processing A device that comprises a plurality of distributed transceivers, a central processor and a network management engine may be configured to function as relay device, relaying an input signal from a source device to at least one other device. The relaying may include configuring one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers to particular mode of relay operation and receiving the input signal from the source device via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers. The relaying may also include transmitting at least one relay signal corresponding to the input data stream to the at least one other device, via at least one of the configured one or more of the plurality of distributed transceivers. The transceivers are configured based on at least one of measured power of the input signal or a distance between the device and the other device.
US12034652B2	Virtual network routers for cloud native software-defined network architectures In general, techniques are described for a creating a virtual network router within a software defined network (SDN) architecture. A network controller for the SDN architecture system may include processing circuitry that is configured to execute a configuration node and a control node. The configuration node may process a request by which to create a virtual network router (VNR), where the virtual network router may cause the network controller to interconnect a first virtual network (VN) and a second VN. The VNR may represent a logical abstraction of one or more policies that cause import and/or export of routing information between the first VN and the second VN. The control node configures the first VN and the second VN according to the one or more policies to enable the import and/or the export of routing information between the first VN and the second VN via the VNR.
US12034649B2	Routing traffics having primary and secondary destinations in communication networks Embodiments include apparatuses, methods, and systems of routing network containing a set of sources, a primary destination, a set of secondary destinations, and one or more routing elements. A routing element includes an input port, a set of output ports including a primary output port and a set of secondary output ports, and a control unit. The control unit is arranged to select a secondary output port to deliver a received message when the intended destination of the message is a secondary destination and the secondary output port is in a functional state. Otherwise, the control unit is arranged to select the primary output port to deliver the received message to the primary destination when the intended destination is the secondary destination and the secondary output port that reaches the secondary destination is in a nonfunctional state. Other embodiments may also be described and claimed.
US12034647B2	Data plane techniques for substrate managed containers Techniques discussed herein include providing a cloud computing environment in which applications are deployed by a deployment orchestrator using virtual-machine-based virtualization with a static pool of computing nodes (e.g., substrate nodes, overlay nodes) and container-based virtualization with a dynamic pool of computing nodes (e.g., nodes managed by a container orchestration platform). Components of a data plane may be used to deploy containers to micro-virtual machines. A container runtime interface (CRI) may receive a deployment request from the deployment orchestrator. A container networking interface of the data plane may configure network connections and allocate an IP address for the container. A container runtime of the data pane may generate and configure the container with the IP address and run the container within a micro-virtual machine that is compatible with the container orchestration platform.
US12034643B2	Communication device for receiving data from transmission terminal using connectionless protocol A communication device receives, using a connectionless protocol, data transmitted by a transmission terminal. The communication device determines, in accordance with a receivable size of the communication device, a data transmission request in order to receive the data from the transmission terminal.
US12034642B2	Dynamic network slicing management in a mesh network The present disclosure describes solutions for dynamic network slicing including provisions to create, modify, and/or delete network slices in a de-centralized communication network including a plurality of central/regional/edge/far-edge locations across hybrid and multi-cloud environment referred to as edge server or edge location for providing service to the users. Network slicing enables multiple isolated and independent virtual (logical) networks to exist together. A plurality of virtual networks, i.e., slices, may be created using resources of the same physical network infrastructure.
US12034640B2	Data processing method and system A data processing method is provided, including: sending, by an operation node, an alarm signal to a control node when a monitor detects that processing performance of data from a first data transmission pipe is lower than a first threshold (S102), where the alarm signal is used to indicate that the processing performance of the data from the first data transmission pipe is low; and when receiving the alarm signal, reducing, by the control node, a data amount that is from the first data transmission pipe and that is allocated to the operation node (S103). The solution can reduce fluctuation in processing performance of the data processing system during traffic control.
US12034639B2	Systems and methods for efficient and scalable routing for containerized services A system described herein may identify that a first container and a second container of a virtualized environment are instantiated at a particular node that is associated with a particular address (e.g., an Internet Protocol (“IP”) address). The system may identify a logical association between the first and second containers, such as a logical and/or hierarchical association specified by a custom resource definition. The system may generate a first Domain Name System (“DNS”) record (e.g., an “A” record) associating the first container with the address of the particular node, and may a second DNS record (e.g., a “CNAME” record) associating the second container with the first container. The system may provide the first and second DNS records to a DNS server, which may provide the address of the particular node when receiving a DNS request specifying the second container.
US12034637B1	Network devices for stateful transmission of network traffic Systems and methods are provided to use a signed connection identifier to route packets of network traffic. Each network host can include a network device that independently routes the packets of network traffic without sharing state information with other network devices. A network device can receive a packet of network traffic and determine if the packet of network traffic includes a signed connection identifier. If the packet does not include a signed connection identifier, the network device can perform a load balancing operation to select a network host for the packet and generate a signed connection identifier for the packet identifying the selected network host. If the packet does include a signed connection identifier, the network device can encapsulate the packet and route the packet to a particular network host based on the signed connection identifier.
US12034635B2	Using and processing per slice segment identifiers in a network employing segment routing The same prefix segment identifier (SID) may be configured and/or used for either (A) more than one prefix within an interior gateway protocol (IGP) domain, or (B) one prefix with more than one path computation algorithm within the IGP domain by: (a) receiving, by a node in the IGP domain, an IGP advertisement including both (1) a prefix SID and a segment routing global block (SRGB) slice identifier; (b) determining whether or not the SRGB slice identified by the SRGB slice identifier is provisioned on the node; and (c) responsive to a determination that the SRGB slice identified by the SRGB slice identifier is not provisioned on the node, not processing the prefix SID included in the received IGP advertisement, and otherwise responsive to a determination that the SRGB slice identified by the SRGB slice identifier is provisioned on the node, (1) processing the prefix SID and SRGB slice to generate a unique, per SRGB slice, MPLS label for the prefix, and (2) updating a label forwarding information base (LFIB) for the node using the unique, per SRGB slice, label for the prefix and the prefix.
US12034633B2	System and method for facilitating tracer packets in a data-driven intelligent network A data-driven intelligent networking system that can facilitate tracing of data flow packets is provided. The system add tracer packets to data flow packets arriving at an ingress point of the network. As the tracer packets progress through network in-band with the data flow packets, the system can copy, at each switch, trace data into pre-defined fields in the tracer packets. When the data flow packets arrive at an egress point of the network the system can separate the trace data from the data flow packet for analysis. Based on the analysis of the trace data, the system can adopt one or more policies to mitigate the impact of congestion on time-sensitive applications.
US12034632B2	Fault protection method, node, and storage medium This application discloses a fault protection method, including: A first node determines that a first cross-domain node is faulty. The first node is a head node of a segment routing best effort SR-BE service tunnel, the SR-BE tunnel is a cross-domain tunnel that passes through a first IGP domain and a second IGP domain, the SR-BE tunnel passes through the first cross-domain node, and the first cross-domain node is a node that crosses the first IGP domain and the second IGP domain. The first node switches a service transmission path from the SR-BE tunnel to a backup tunnel. The backup tunnel does not pass through the first cross-domain node, and the backup tunnel is a tunnel with a strict explicit path.
US12034622B2	System, method, utility, and governance for distributed data routing over the internet A method is disclosed for distributed routing data with latencies using relay nodes. The method includes automatically measuring one-way latencies between a plurality of nodes comprising a first node, a second node, and a relay node, producing a first signal associated with a proof of uptime for the relay node, producing a second signal associated with a proof of bandwidth for the relay node, after the proof of uptime and the proof of bandwidth of the relay node are validated, automatically identifying a relayed data routing path from the first node to the second node via the relay node based on the one-way latencies between the plurality of nodes, in response to a command to transfer data from the first node to the second node, and transferring data from the first node to the second node along the relayed data routing path.
US12034621B2	Communication method, and communication apparatus and system A communication method, a communication apparatus, and system are disclosed. The method includes a data analytics network element (NWDAF) sends a first request to a storage function network element. The first request includes delay information and/or indication information. The indication information indicates that the NWDAF supports analyzing data within a specified delay. The first request is used to store the delay information and/or the indication information into the storage function network element. The data analytics network element receives a first response from the storage function network element. The first response indicates, to the data analytics network element, that the delay information and/or the indication information are/is successfully stored.
US12034611B2	NF service consumer restart detection using direct signaling between NFs Systems and methods for detecting, e.g., that a Network Function (NF) service consumer in a core network of a cellular communications system has restarted are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a NF service consumer in a core network of a cellular communications system comprises sending, to a NF service producer, a message comprising information related to a unit of the NF service consumer.
US12034609B2	Methods and apparatuses for instantiation of NS or VNF Methods and apparatuses for instantiation of network service (NS) or virtualized network function (VNF) are disclosed. A virtualized network function manager (VNFM) receives, from a first network management entity, a first request for instantiating or changing a VNF instance. The first request comprises scaling information for at least one scalable VNF deployment unit (VDU) included in the VNF instance. The VNFM instantiates or changes the VNF instance based on the scaling information.
US12034602B2	Management of computing devices via reference to linked employee records Methods, systems, devices, and tangible non-transitory computer readable media for checking computing device inactivity are provided. The disclosed technology can access, based on a device policy, organizational data associated with activity of a user's computing device. Based on the device policy and the organizational data, a valid inactivity time period including continuous organization approved time periods of valid inactivity beginning at a most recent time the computing device was active and ending a predetermined amount of time after the most recent time can be determined. Based on the device policy and the organizational data, a determination of whether inactivity criteria associated with inactivity of the computing device are satisfied is made. Satisfying the inactivity criteria can include the computing device being inactive after the valid inactivity time period. Furthermore, indications associated with the computing device's inactivity can be generated if the inactivity criteria are satisfied.
US12034601B2	System, method, and apparatus to support mixed network communications on a vehicle An example system includes a mobile system having an Ethernet based network and a controller area network (CAN) based network; a CAN control device disposed onboard the mobile system, connected to the CAN based network, and structured to control operation of a component of the mobile system; an Ethernet control device disposed onboard the mobile system, connected to the Ethernet based network, and structured to electrically communicate with the CAN control device; an Ethernet switch disposed onboard the mobile system and having a plurality of physical ports connected to the Ethernet based network; a CAN gateway disposed onboard the mobile system and connected to the CAN based network and the Ethernet switch; and a network convergence circuit defined at least in part by the Ethernet switch and/or the CAN gateway, and structured to facilitate electronic communications between the Ethernet control device and the CAN control device.
US12034596B2	Template based edge cloud core deployment The techniques described herein relate to methods that include: obtaining criteria for a mobile network deployment; selecting a server configuration template for a server configuration based upon the criteria; generating the server configuration for the mobile network deployment based upon the server configuration template; validating the server configuration to ensure the criteria are met by the mobile network deployment of the server configuration; deploying the server configuration as the mobile network deployment; obtaining key performance indicators from the mobile network deployment; updating the mobile network deployment in response to obtaining the key performance indicators; and updating the server configuration template in response to obtaining the key performance indicators.
US12034593B1	Systems and methods for advanced core network controls A system for managing a core network is provided. The system includes a first computing device including at least one processor in communication with at least one memory device. The first computing device is in communication with a core network. The at least one memory device stores a plurality of instructions, which when executed by the at least one processor cause the at least one processor to store a plurality of historical data associated with the core network, receive current state data from the core network, compare the plurality of historical data with the current state data to determine at least one future state of the core network, and adjust the operation of the core network based on the at least one future state.
US12034592B2	Software-defined device tracking in network fabrics Techniques for leveraging a software defined tracking architecture to track endpoint connected to a network fabric are described. An orchestrator of a network fabric receives port information indicating a port of a fabric edge device to which an endpoint is connected. The orchestrator transmits the port information to a network node in the network fabric enabling data-plane traffic inspection. Using the port information, the network node detects traffic having a destination address corresponding to the endpoint. The network node transmits an indication that traffic was received by the network node having the destination address corresponding to the endpoint. Finally, onboarding of the endpoint into the network fabric is triggered at the fabric edge device.
US12034590B2	Simplified operation and architecture of a central office point of delivery within a broadband access network of a telecommunications network A method for operation of a central office point of delivery within a broadband access network of a telecommunications network and/or for flexibly providing, within the central office point of delivery, user-related traffic to at least one central functional entity providing at least one specific functionality within the central office point of delivery or for the central office point of delivery includes: in a first step, the user-related traffic is routed to a specific service edge node, wherein the specific service edge node is selected or determined, by at least one repository node, based on the at least one specific network termination node and/or the specific line termination node; and in a second step, the user-related traffic is provided to the at least one central functional entity.
US12034585B2	Modulation scheme conversion device and gateway A modulation scheme conversion device includes: a backscattering tag to which a tag signal is provided; and a tag signal forming unit for forming a tag signal. The modulation scheme conversion device multiplies a radio signal, which has been modulated in a first modulation scheme, and a tag signal, and reconfigures the multiplied signal by using a second modulation scheme, so as to backscatter the reconfigured signal, wherein the reconfiguration is performed in a physical (PHY) layer.
US12034583B2	Base station, terminal apparatus, communication method and recording medium A method and device for selecting a beam used in communication in an environment in which massive-MIMO beamforming is performed, to include a base station including: a communication unit configured to form multiple beams and perform communication with a terminal apparatus; and a control unit configured to transmit, to the terminal apparatus, first identification information of a group that is used in communication with the terminal apparatus among the first identification information allocated to groups each of which includes multiple beams to be formed.
US12034581B2	Method and apparatus for downlink OFDMA having DFT-precoding applied thereto The disclosure relates to a 5G or 6G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond a 4G communication system, such as LTE. A method by a base station in a communication system according to an embodiment may include: determining the number of DFT-precoding chunks on which DFT precoding is performed; determining a power backoff value of a power amplifier (PA) of the base station; transmitting information indicating the number of DFT-precoding chunks to a terminal; transmitting downlink control information (DCI) including a resource allocation field, configured based on the number of DFT-precoding chunks, to the terminal; and transmitting data to the terminal according to the resource allocation field included in the DCI.
US12034573B1	Method and device for digital compensation of dynamic distortion in high-speed transmitters A transmitter includes a shift register, a lookup table, and a digital to analog converter. The shift register is configured to receive an input signal and to output delayed copies of the input signal. The lookup table is configured to store compensation values estimated based on the input signal and the delayed copies of the input signal. The digital to analog converter is configured to output a transmit signal based on the input signal and the compensation values. The compensation values are designed to mitigate distortion of the transmit signal from conversion of the input signal to a digital signal.
US12034572B2	Decision feedback equalization embedded in slicer An apparatus and method for providing a decision feedback equalizer are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a method and apparatus for reduction of inter-symbol interference (ISI) caused by communication channel impairments is disclosed. In some embodiments, a decision feedback equalizer includes a plurality of delay latches connected in series, a slicer circuit configured to receive an input signal from a communication channel and delayed feedback signals from the plurality of delay latches and determine a logical state of the received input signal, wherein the slicer circuit further comprises a dynamic threshold voltage calibration circuit configured to regulate a current flow between output nodes of the slicer circuit and ground based on the received delayed feedback signal and impulse response coefficients of the communication channel.
US12034571B2	Modulation and demodulation for enhanced noise margins in 5G and 6G Message faults are expected to become a major problem for next-generation 5G/6G networks, due to signal fading, high backgrounds, and high density of users. Disclosed are methods to modulate and demodulate messages to optimize noise margins, greatly enhancing reliability at negligible cost, according to some embodiments. A transmitter can modulate a message using amplitude-phase modulation, yet a receiver can conveniently receive and process the signals according to separate in-phase (I) and quad-phase (Q) branches, that is, according to QAM. The receiver can then convert the I and Q values to the original waveform amplitude and phase mathematically, and then demodulate those values using predetermined amplitude and phase levels as provided by a proximate demodulation reference. By converting the as-received QAM values to the as-transmitted amplitude-phase values, the receiver can thereby avoid many noise vulnerabilities inherent in QAM-modulated messages, and thereby obtain the full noise margins provided by amplitude-phase modulation.
US12034549B2	Method, apparatus, and system for transmitting HARQ-ACK codebook in wireless communication system The present invention relates to a wireless communication system and, more particularly, to a method comprising the steps of: receiving a PDCCH for multi-slot scheduling; determining a PDSCH candidate for each slot on the basis of information in the PDCCH; and transmitting a semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook on the basis of the determined PDSCH candidate of each slot, and to an apparatus therefor.
US12034548B2	Communication apparatus and retransmission control method Provided is a terminal device that is capable of improving the characteristics of a response signal having poor transmission characteristics when ARQ is utilized in communication using an uplink unit band and a plurality of downlink unit bands associated with the uplink unit band. At the time of channel selection, a control unit selects a resource used in sending a response signal from among specific PUCCH resources notified in advance from a base station and PUCCH resources mapped to a CCE, and controls the transmission of the response signal. A response signal generating unit supports implicit signaling with respect to any given response signal, and at the same time as supporting LTE fallback from 2CC, uses a mapping method that, between bits, smooths the number of PUCCH resources that can determine ACK/NACK simply by determining the PUCCH resource regarding which the response signal had notified.
US12034546B2	Downlink data transmission method, terminal device, and storage medium Disclosed is a downlink data transmission method, including determining, by a terminal device, a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state corresponding to downlink data transmission based on downlink control information (DCI); and determining a redundancy version (RV) value corresponding to the downlink data transmission based on the DCI. The TCI state and the RV value are used for the terminal device to receive downlink data. Embodiments of the present disclosure also provide a terminal device and a storage medium.
US12034545B2	Physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource allocation and hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgement (ACK) codebook determination enhancements in case of multiple downlink control information (DCI) in a slot A device, system, method, machine readable medium. The method includes: decoding a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) from a Node B, the PDCCH scheduling a physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH); determining at least one of a control resource set (CORESET) index or a starting control channel element (CCE) index of the PDCCH; decoding the PDSCH; determining, based the at least one of the CORESET index or the CCE index, a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resource to carry hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) acknowledgment (ACK) (HARQ-ACK) feedback corresponding to the PDSCH to the Node B; and causing transmission of the HARQ-ACK feedback based on the PUCCH resource.
US12034535B2	Transmitting device for performing an encoding process on an information bit sequence using a coding scheme selected from a coding scheme set One coding method of a plurality of coding methods including at least a first coding method and a second coding method is selected, an information sequence is encoded by using the selected coding method, and an encoded sequence obtained by performing predetermined processing on the information sequence is modulated and transmitted. The first coding method is a coding method having a first coding rate, for generating a first encoded sequence by performing puncturing processing on a generated first codeword by using a first parity check matrix. The second coding method is a coding method having a second coding rate, for generating a second encoded sequence by performing puncturing processing on a generated second codeword by using a second parity check matrix that is different from the first parity check matrix, the second coding rate after the puncturing process being different from the first coding rate.
US12034532B2	Methods, apparatus and systems for transmitting data based on polar code Wireless transmission of data may be based on Polar code. The wireless communication may include selecting a coding scheme between a first coding scheme and a second coding scheme. The first coding scheme is based on a first Polar code, while the second coding scheme is based on the first Polar code and a second Polar code. An information packet is encoded based on the coding scheme and transmitted.
US12034529B2	Automatic electronic message filtering method and apparatus Disclosed are systems and methods for improving interactions with and between computers in electronic messaging and/or providing systems supported by or configured with personal computing devices, servers and/or platforms. The disclosed systems and methods provide systems and methods for generating electronic message filters and for using electronic message filters comprising item category filtering criteria and having an automatically-determined expiration. The discloses systems and methods filter electronic messages using the item category filtering criteria while an electronic message filter remains active as determined using the automatically-determined expiration information.
US12034526B2	Optical add-drop network element An add-drop network element (100) for an optical communications network. The add-drop network element comprises an optical amplifier (102) having an input port and an output port. The add-drop network element comprises also comprises an optical coupler (104) and an optical splitter (106). The optical coupler (104) comprises an add input port, a through input port and an output port, the output port of the optical coupler (104) being connected to the input port of the optical amplifier. The optical splitter (106) comprising a drop output port, a through output port and an input port, the input port of the optical splitter (106) being connected to the output port of the optical amplifier.
US12034525B2	Method for identifying new audiences for content of a content provider A method is disclosed for providing, for display to a content provider, a user interface comprising an option to view new audiences to be added to a plurality of users currently designated to receive content of the content provider, receiving a user selection of the option, and causing display of information identifying the new audiences, the information identifying the new audiences comprises, for each new audience, an audience identifier, an indication of an estimated number of user actions related to the content of the content provider, and an option to request that a corresponding audience be added to the plurality of users currently designated to receive the content of the content provider.
US12034524B2	Emergency alert message detection on electronic device based on audio-video information An electronic device and method for emergency alert message detection based on audio-video information is disclosed. The electronic device receives first media content received over a first broadcast channel. The electronic device renders second media content, which is different from the first media content. The electronic device further detects, from the received first media content, a set of objects associated with a geo-location corresponding to the electronic device. The set of objects corresponds to an emergency at the geo-location. The electronic device further detects an emergency alert audio in the received first media content. The electronic device further extracts an emergency alert message received over a second broadcast channel associated with the geo-location based on the detected set of objects and the emergency alert audio in the received first media content. The electronic device further renders an emergency alert signal associated with the emergency alert message.
US12034522B2	Systems and methods for handover of mobile devices, radio cells and space vehicles for mobile satellite wireless access Access, mobility management and regulatory services are supported for satellite access to a Fifth Generation (5G) core network (5GCN). Signaling including data and voice for radio cells supported by a satellite is transported between UEs and a core network via an earth station. When the satellite is transferred to a new earth station, the signaling can be transferred to the new earth station and possibly to a new base station. The UEs may remain with their current radio cells with a regenerative satellite or be assisted to remain with their current radio cells with a transparent satellite. The signaling transfer between the earth stations may occur at a Level 1 or Level 2. A modified handover procedure may be used with a regenerative satellite with split architecture when there is a change of base station.
US12034520B2	Techniques for sequential uplink transmissions-based positioning for nonterrestrial networks Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling identifying a configuration of a set of uplink slots for the UE to transmit uplink reference signals to a satellite. The UE may transmit, to the satellite, a set of uplink reference signals on the set of uplink slots according to the configuration. The set of uplink reference signals may include sounding reference signals (SRSs), positioning references signals (PRSs), or both. In some implementations, the UE may transmit the set of uplink reference signals in accordance with one or more timing advance values, where the timing advance values are indicated to the satellite by the UE, pre-configured by the satellite, or both. The UE may then, from a network node, an indication of a position of the UE based on the set of uplink reference signals.
US12034519B2	Method and system for wireless satellite communication via low earth orbit (LEO) satellites A wireless satellite communication system for an aircraft comprises at least one router in the aircraft for communication with at least one terrestrial remote server through at least one external network comprising a plurality of low earth orbit, LEO, satellites. The router is arranged to establish connection with the remote server via the LEO satellites over at least two separate communication links, and the at least one terrestrial remote server at least comprises an aggregation server. The router is configured for receiving and transmitting wireless data to and from the aggregation server, using aggregated communication over the at least two separate communication links, the communication thereby at the end points appearing as a single link.
US12034514B2	Apparatus and method for configuring transmission resource of beam failure recovery request, apparatus and method for responding beam failure recovery request and communications system An apparatus and method for configuring a transmission resource of a beam failure recovery request, apparatus and method for responding a beam failure recovery request, and a communications system. The apparatus for configuring a transmission resource of a beam failure recovery request includes a configuring unit configured to transmit configuration information to user equipment, the configuration information being used to configure a transmission resource of a beam failure recovery request related to coordination network equipment. The apparatus for responding a beam failure recovery request includes a responding unit configured to transmit response information related to a beam failure recovery request of coordination network equipment to user equipment. A case where beam failure occurs in the coordination network equipment may be dealt with efficiently, and normal communications between the network equipment and the user equipment may be ensured.
US12034512B2	Methods and apparatus for determining beam directions after inactive period A method comprises, when a communications device transitions from an inactive state to an active state, determining one or more antenna radiation beam directions for one or more antenna arrays of the communications device in dependence on movement information associated with the communications device and information from when the communications device was last in an active state.
US12034511B2	Prioritization in beam failure recovery procedures Beam failure recovery (BFR) procedures are described for wireless communications. At least one transmission for BFR may overlap with a scheduled transmission. A wireless device may prioritize the at least one transmission for BFR, for example, over the scheduled transmission and may transmit the at least one transmission for BFR.
US12034509B2	Transmitting frequency varying beam weights from a lower-layer split central unit to a radio unit A method of operating a lower-layer split central unit, LLS-CU, includes allocating a plurality of downlink signals to a plurality of physical resource blocks, PRBs, of a physical downlink channel, generating a data-associated control information, DACI, message including a section description associated with the plurality of downlink signals, the DACI message including an indication of a plurality of sets of beamforming weights to be applied by a radio unit, RU, when transmitting the plurality of downlink signals to the UE, transmitting the DACI message to the RU, and transmitting the plurality of downlink signals to the RU for transmission to the UE.
US12034507B2	Method and device for channel state indication on unlicensed spectrum A method and device for channel state indication on an unlicensed spectrum. A base station sends channel state indication information through a first antenna panel. The channel state indication information is configured to indicate channel state detection results of k antenna panels of the base station on at least one BWU of an unlicensed spectrum, where k is positive integer.
US12034505B2	Dynamic transmit antenna modes of operation in multi-transmit carrier scenarios A communication device, computer program product, and method proactively implement a successful transmit antenna configuration to address antenna outages for multiple transmit carrier scenarios. A carrier of the communication device determines a first transmit carrier, of at least two transmit carriers of a multiple transmit carrier mode, that is identified as having priority among the at least two transmit carriers. The controller identifies one or more transmit antenna configurations in the transmit antenna configuration data that support the first transmit carrier. The carrier determining, for each transmit antenna configuration, an aggregate antenna outage metric that indicates the transmit performance for a corresponding transmit antenna configuration. The controller configures an antenna switching network and RF frontend of a communication subsystem of the communication device with a first transmit antenna configuration that has a better aggregate antenna outage metric than other antenna configurations.
US12034504B2	PIM downlink subspace acquisition method A method and radio in a network node for passive intermodulation (PIM) downlink subspace acquisition. According to one aspect, a method includes determining a downlink projection matrix that is formed using the downlink beamforming weights and determining a first downlink interference covariance matrix estimate for a current downlink orthogonal frequency division multiplexed, OFDM, symbol based at least in part on multiplying the downlink projection matrix by a scaling factor that is dependent on the passive intermodulation, PIM, power generated in one or more uplink channels.
US12034502B2	Method and apparatus used for communicating a beam change indication based on an actual beam index value and logical beam index value validation Method, apparatus, and computer program product for a user equipment to receive a downlink control information message from an access point in a wireless communications network and to echo a new beam index in the PUCCH feedback resource in response to the message indicating a PUCCH feedback resource and containing a beam change information or in response to the message indicating a downlink grant containing a beam change indication MAC control element but so CSI-feedback is scheduled for the PUCCH feedback resource. If a scheduling request resource is indicated by the message or the MAC control element, the user equipment is triggered to transit a scheduling request on that indicated scheduling request resource. If a scheduling request resource is not indicated by the message or the MAC control element, the user equipment is triggered to perform a scheduling request procedure on a periodic scheduling request resource.
US12034499B2	Mechanisms for reduction of overlap during zone casting with alternative main transmitters and time alignment for overlayed radio transmissions Radio broadcasting equipment and functionality enable a radio broadcaster to reduce the size of an interference overlap resulting from main transmitter and booster signal transmitter overlap during zone casting by using an alternate main transmitter with an antenna pattern that differs from the main transmitter antenna pattern during zone casts. Radio broadcasting equipment is also provided that provides a mechanism to ensure that the handoffs occur in the gaps between songs, advertisements, or other content of both the main and the zone casting signals.
US12034498B2	Wireless power-receiving device with near field communication function A wireless power-receiving device with near field communication function includes a communication antenna on a flat surface for near field communication, an interface circuit connected to the antenna and allowing a signal in the near field communication to pass, a wireless communication IC that is connected to the interface circuit and processes the signal, a receiving coil on the flat surface, a resonant capacitor included, with the receiving coil, in a receiving resonant circuit, and a rectifying/smoothing circuit connected to the receiving resonant circuit. The receiving resonant circuit resonates at a frequency for the near field communication, a resonance current flowing through the receiving resonant circuit causes a current to flow through the coil, a main flux is generated near the coil, and a magnetic path of the main flux is isolated from a magnetic path of a magnetic flux for the near field communication interlinking with the antenna.
US12034496B1	Active module for high-speed cable assembly A cable assembly includes cables extending between a first end configured to be coupled to a first communication component and a second end configured to be coupled to a second communication component. Each cable defines a data channel including a first portion extending to the first end and a second portion extending to the second end. The cable assembly includes an in-line active module coupled to the cables at an intermediate location between the first end and the second end. The in-line active module includes a repeater device restoring signals transmitting along the channels at the intermediate location.
US12034495B2	System, device, method and program that predict communication quality An object of the present disclosure is to enable prediction of communication quality in accordance with wireless communication under frequency conditions as combinations of frequencies and frequency bandwidths.The present disclosure provides a system including: an environment information generation unit configured to generate environment information of a terminal that performs wireless communication; a communication prediction model storage unit configured to store a plurality of communication prediction models obtained by learning relationships between the environment information and communication quality of wireless communication under frequency channel conditions; a communication prediction model generation unit configured to select one or more communication prediction models from among the plurality of communication prediction models and use the selected communication prediction models to generate a communication prediction model; and a communication prediction unit configured to input the environment information generated by the environment information generation unit to the communication prediction model generated by the communication prediction model generation unit and predict current or future communication quality of the terminal.
US12034490B2	Reconfigurable quantum key distribution (QKD) hardware A reconfigurable QKD transceiver capable of transmitting and/or receiving qubits using a single optical hardware platform. This reconfigurable QKD transceiver enables various link scenarios specially for LEO-ground network, where the satellites have limited engagement time with a ground station. The reconfigurable QKD transceiver may reduce the optics SWaP by 50 percent and may allow for new mission scenarios that were otherwise not feasible with a transmitter only architecture or receiver only architecture.
US12034489B2	Subsea communication network and communication methodology The present invention relates to a subsea communication network and a method of communicating between nodes in the subsea communication network. In particular, but not exclusively, the present invention relates to a subsea communication network arranged in a side A and side B topology in which the network is connected so as to provide an increased communications availability relative to conventional subsea umbilical layouts.
US12034488B2	Optical communication device An optical communication device 1 is provided with: a plurality of light-receiving elements 11 each configured to receive light and output a light detection signal; a plurality of optical fibers 13 provided to correspond to the plurality of light-receiving elements 11, respectively, the plurality of optical fibers each being configured to guide the light to the corresponding light-receiving element 11; a plurality of amplifiers 18 provided to correspond to the plurality of light-receiving elements 11, respectively, the plurality of amplifiers each being configured to generate optical communication information by performing signal processing on the light detection signal; a light intensity information collection unit 25 configured to collect intensity of the light received by each of the plurality of optical fibers 13 as light intensity information; an optical fiber identification unit 27 configured to identify the optical fiber 13 that is receiving relatively strong light out of the plurality of optical fibers 13, based on the light intensity information La to Le collected by the light intensity information collection unit 25; and a switch controller 29 configured to control to turn on the amplifier 18, the amplifier 18 being provided to correspond to the optical fiber 13 identified by the optical fiber identification unit 27.
US12034483B2	Optical cable for transmission of audio and video signals Systems and methods for optical transmission of one-or-more out-of-band signals associated with audio-video signal communication are described. In one aspect, an optical receiver receives a first out-of-band electrical signal and a second out-of-band electrical signal from a video sink. The first out-of-band electrical signal may correspond to an audio-video stream previously received or concurrently being received from a video source optical transmitter at the optical receiver. The second out-of-band electrical signal may also correspond to the audio-video stream. The optical receiver may combine the first out-of-band electrical signal and the second out-of-band electrical signal into a transmit electrical signal. In one aspect, the optical receiver converts the transmit electrical signal into an optical signal, and transmits the optical signal to an optical transmitter via an optical communication channel.
US12034481B2	Optically enabled RF phased-arrays for data transmission A system includes, in part, a first optical modulator adapted to modulate a first optical signal with a first data to generate a first modulated optical signal, a second optical modulator adapted to modulate a second optical signal with a first clock signal to generate a second modulated optical signal, an optical multiplexer adapted to multiplex the first and second optical signals to generate a multiplexed optical signal, and an optical fiber adapted to carry the multiplexed optical signal. The second optical signal has a second wavelength that is different from the first wavelength.
US12034478B2	Feedforward motion compensation for FSOC terminals The technology relates to free-space optical communication systems that correct for errors in tracking and pointing accuracy to maintain connection integrity. Such systems can both proactively and reactively correct for errors in tracking performance and pointing accuracy of terminals within the system. An aspect includes receiving information indicative of at least one external disturbance associated with a communication device. A determination is made for a proactive estimation indicative of a first error associated with an effect of the at least one external disturbance at a current timestep. A determination is made for a reactive estimation indicative of a second error associated with the effect of the at least one external disturbance at a previous timestep. A final control signal is determined based on the proactive estimation and the reactive estimation. A controller is able to actuate an optical assembly of the communication device based on the determined final control signal.
US12034474B2	Electronic device and method for controlling communication in electronic device supporting heterogeneous communication technologies sharing a frequency band According to various embodiments, an electronic device may comprise an ultra-wideband (UWB) communication circuit, a Wi-Fi communication circuit and a processor controlling the UWB communication circuit and the Wi-Fi communication circuit. The processor may be configured to identify an operation channel of the UWB communication circuit, identify a communication band of the Wi-Fi communication circuit, overlapping the operation channel of the UWB communication circuit, and when the communication band overlapping the operation channel is activated, determine whether to simultaneously perform Wi-Fi communication through the activated communication band and UWB communication through the operation channel. Other various embodiments are possible as well.
US12034473B2	Independent sequence processing to facilitate security between nodes in wireless networks A network includes a first wireless node that communicates over a wireless network connection. The first wireless node includes a first encryption engine that processes a first initialization data set and a current transmit sequence associated with a current communication to generate a next transmit sequence that is employed to communicate with a second wireless node that derives a next received sequence that corresponds to the next transmit sequence to process a subsequent communication.
US12034470B2	Radio apparatus An apparatus is disclosed, comprising means for providing two or more amplifiers for amplifying signals in two or more respective frequency bands, receiving a composite signal comprising first and second predistorted input signals in first and second frequency bands and filtering the composite signal to provide (i) the first predistorted signal for input to a first amplifier of the two or more amplifiers for producing an amplified first output signal and (ii) the second predistorted signal for input to a second amplifier of the two or more amplifiers for producing an amplified second output signal. The apparatus may also comprise means for routing, at non-overlapping times, the first and second output signals to a common feedback path and for linearizing received first and second input signals based on the respective first and second output signals received on the common feedback path.
US12034463B2	Systems and methods for lossless compression of tabular numeric data Systems and methods for lossless compression of tabular numeric data are provided. The system can include one or more data compression servers executing data compression system code to compress the tabular numeric data, a storage database to store the compressed tabular numeric data, and one or more data decompression servers to decompress the tabular numeric data for use. The one or more data compression servers, the storage database, and the one or more data decompression servers can communicate via a communication network. The system can receive the uncompressed tabular numeric data from one or more data generation systems, processes the uncompressed tabular numeric data with the data compression system code, and generate a compressed table of numeric information, which can be stored in the database, or later decompressed by the one or more data decompression servers.
US12034461B2	Compression and decompression of delay profile In a first method, a wireless device estimates a delay profile of a channel impulse response, CIR, for a channel between a network node and the wireless device, compresses the delay profile using a compression function, and transmits the compressed delay profile. The compression function includes a first function and a quantizer. The first function is configured to receive input data and reduce a dimension of the input data. In a second method, a network node receives a compressed delay profile of CIR for a channel between a network node and a wireless device, decompresses the compressed delay profile using a decompression function, and estimates a position of the wireless device based on at least the decompressed delay profile. The decompression function includes a first function which is configured to receive input data and provide output data in a higher dimensional space than the input data.
US12034458B1	Throughput efficient Reed-Solomon forward error correction decoding A Reed-Solomon decoder circuit includes: a syndrome calculator circuit to compute syndrome values for a first codeword and a second codeword sequentially supplied to the syndrome calculator circuit, where last symbols of the first codeword overlap with first symbols of the second codeword during an overlap clock cycle between: a first plurality of non-overlap clock cycles during which the first codeword is supplied to the syndrome calculator circuit; and a second plurality of non-overlap clock cycles during which the second codeword is supplied to the syndrome calculator circuit; an error locator and error evaluator polynomial calculator circuit; an error location and error value calculator circuit; an error counter; and an error corrector circuit to correct the errors in the first codeword and the second codeword based on error counts and the error magnitudes computed by an error evaluator circuit.
US12034456B2	Forward error correction coding using a tree structure A transmitter generates an encoded vector by encoding a data vector, the encoded vector representing payload information and parity information. The encoding is mathematically equivalent to calculating three or more forward error correction (FEC) codewords from the data vector and then calculating the encoded vector from the codewords, at least one codeword being calculated from at least one recursion of a mathematical operation, and at least one codeword comprising more than 6 terms. The transmitter transmits a signal representing the encoded vector over a communication channel. A receiver determines a vector estimate from the signal and recovers the data vector from the vector estimate by sequentially decoding the codewords, wherein at least one codeword that is decoded earlier in the decoding enhances an estimate of at least one codeword that is decoded later in the decoding.
US12034454B2	Verifying data integrity in a receiver A method for verifying data integrity in a receiver in a wireless communication network is disclosed. The method includes receiving a data message, wherein the data message includes a group of data elements and a checksum, computing a complete syndrome vector based on partial syndrome vectors, wherein the partial syndrome vectors are computed, in parallel, by multiplying part of a parity-check matrix with corresponding part of the received data message, determining that all vector elements of the complete syndrome vector are zero, and verifying that the received data message is correct when all the vector elements of the complete syndrome vector are zero, and incorrect otherwise. Corresponding computer program product, apparatus, and receiver are also disclosed.
US12034452B2	Digital-to-analog converter, transmitter, base station, mobile device and method for a digital-to-analog converter A Digital-to-Analog Converter (DAC) is provided. The DAC includes a code converter circuit configured to sequentially receive first digital control codes for controlling N digital-to-analog converter cells. N is an integer greater than one. The code converter circuit is further configured to convert the first digital control codes to second digital control codes. Additionally, the DAC includes a bit-shifter circuit configured to receive shift codes for the second digital control codes. The shift codes are obtained using dynamic element matching and indicate a respective circular shift by ri bit positions for the i-th second digital control code, wherein ri is an integer smaller than N−1. The bit-shifter circuit is further configured to generate third digital control codes by circularly shifting the second digital codes based on the shift codes. In addition, the DAC includes a cell activation circuit configured to selectively activate one or more of the N digital-to-analog converter cells based on the third digital control codes.
US12034445B2	Clock and periodic computing machines A new computational machine is invented, called a clock machine, that is a novel alternative to computing machines (digital computers) based on logic gates. In an embodiment, computation is performed with one or more clock machines that use time, and can perform any Boolean function. In an embodiment, a cryptographic cipher is implemented with random clock machines, constructed from a non-deterministic process, wherein the compiled set of instructions (i.e., the implementation of the cryptographic procedure) is distinct on each device or chip that executes the cryptographic cipher. In an embodiment, by using a different set of clock machines to execute two different instances of the same cryptographic procedure, each execution of a procedure looks different to malware that may try to infect and subvert the cryptographic procedure. This cryptographic process helps hinder timing attacks. In an embodiment, a detailed implementation of the Midori cipher with random clock machines is described.
US12034443B2	Memory device A device includes a memory cell array configured to store data; and a signal propagation circuit configured to propagate a signal between the memory cell array and a host. The signal propagation circuit includes a first inverted signal output circuit, a second inverted signal output circuit including an input terminal connected to i) an output terminal of the first inverted signal output circuit and ii) an output terminal of the second inverted signal output circuit, a third inverted signal output circuit including an input terminal connected to i) the output terminal of the first inverted signal output circuit and ii) the output terminal of the second inverted signal output circuit, and a fourth inverted signal output circuit including an input terminal connected to i) an output terminal of the third inverted signal output circuit and ii) an output terminal of the fourth inverted signal output circuit.
US12034438B2	Signal detection circuit A signal detection circuit includes: a voltage dividing circuit having at least a first pair of voltage dividing capacitors connected in series for dividing an input voltage and configured to output a divided voltage, and a detection circuit configured to detect the divided voltage. The first pair of voltage dividing capacitors are included in one semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes: (i) a semiconductor substrate, (ii) a first conductor layer, (iii) a first dielectric layer, (iv) a second conductor layer, (v) a second dielectric layer, (vi) a third conductor layer, and (vii) a short-circuit portion configured to short-circuit the first conductor layer and the semiconductor substrate.
US12034435B2	Method of tuning light color temperature for LED lighting device and application thereof A color temperature switching scheme for an LED lighting device is disclosed. The color temperature switching scheme comprises a plurality of different color temperature performances correspondingly generated by a plurality of different paired combinations of a first electric power allocated to a first LED load emitting a light with a first color temperature and a second electric power allocated to a second LED load emitting a light with a second color temperature such that a mingled color temperature between the first color temperature and the second color temperature can be generated thru a light diffuser. For tuning the mingled color temperature of the LED lighting device a reverse yet complementary power adjustment process for distributing a total electric power T between the first LED circuit and the second LED circuit is required such that a total light intensity remains unchanged while the mingled color temperature is being adjusted.
US12034434B2	High quality factor integrated acoustic resonant metamaterials with large frequency tuning range for reconfigurable radio-frequency front-ends Piezoelectric acoustic metamaterial resonators include a piezoelectric substrate having a top surface and a bottom surface and a plurality of magnetostrictive members disposed on the top surface of the piezoelectric substrate and extending along a length of the piezoelectric substrate and spaced across a width of the piezoelectric substrate.
US12034430B2	Vibrator device A vibrator device includes a package including a base that is a semiconductor substrate and a lid that is a semiconductor substrate and has a housing section, a vibrator element and a passive element housed in the housing section and placed at the base, an oscillation circuit placed at the base and electrically coupled to the vibrator element, and a mounting terminal placed at the package and electrically coupled to the passive element, and at least one of the base and the lid is coupled to fixed potential.
US12034426B2	Multilayer filter A multilayer filter includes first and second ground electrodes and first and second LC resonators. The first LC resonator includes a first line electrode, a first capacitor electrode, a first via conductor, and a second via conductor. The second via conductor extends from the first line electrode to a first capacitor electrode side and connects the first line electrode and the first ground electrode. The second LC resonator includes a second line electrode, a second capacitor electrode, a third via conductor, and a fourth via conductor. The fourth via conductor extends from the second line electrode to a second capacitor electrode side and connects the second line electrode and the second ground electrode.
US12034424B2	Method for the reconfiguration of a vortex density in a rare earth manganate, a non-volatile impedance switch and use thereof A method for reconfiguration of a vortex density in a rare earth manganate, to a non-volatile impedance switch having reconfigurable impedance, and to the use thereof as micro-inductance is disclosed. A unique voltage-time profile is applied between a first and a second electrically conductive contact attached to the rare earth manganate, such that the rare earth manganate passes through an ordering temperature in a region of an electric field forming between the two electrically conductive contacts during a cooling process during and after application of the voltage pulse or the voltage ramp, and the vortex density is thus influenced and adjusted locally in the region of the electric field forming between the two electrically conductive contacts.
US12034423B2	XBAR frontside etch process using polysilicon sacrificial layer An acoustic resonator is fabricated by etching a recess in a silicon thermal oxide (TOX) upper layer of a silicon substrate and filling the recess with sacrificial polysilicon. A surface of the silicon TOX layer and the sacrificial polysilicon-filled recess are planarized. A back surface of a single-crystal piezoelectric plate is bonded to the planarized surface of the silicon TOX layer. Openings are formed through the piezoelectric plate and an interdigital transducer (IDT) is formed on a front surface of the piezoelectric plate such that interleaved fingers of the IDT are disposed over the sacrificial polysilicon-filled recess. The sacrificial polysilicon is removed from the recess to form a cavity such that a portion of the piezoelectric plate forms a diaphragm spanning the cavity and the interleaved fingers of the IDT are disposed on the diaphragm.
US12034422B1	Enhanced electronic sensors A micro-structured device that can improve sensitivity and signal-to-noise for electronic sensor materials is embedded in electrically resistive materials. The technology includes a three-dimensional embedded electrode structure and fabrication methods for making the device for electronic sensing in bulk resistive materials. Embedded electrode structures address issues in conventional sensors by allowing independent control of sensitive material thickness, area, electric field intensity, and field direction.
US12034416B2	Head unit and liquid discharge apparatus There are provided a substrate on which a first integrated circuit, a first transistor, and a first inductor element are disposed, and which has a first side and a second side facing each other; a heat sink having a fifth side and a sixth side along the first side; the first integrated circuit, the first transistor, and the first inductor element are positioned in order of the first integrated circuit, the first transistor, and the first inductor element from the first side toward the second side, and the heat sink is fixed to the substrate such that a shortest distance between the fifth side and the first side is shorter than a shortest distance between the sixth side and the first side, and a shortest distance between the first integrated circuit and the fifth side is longer than a shortest distance between the first transistor and the sixth side.
US12034410B2	Overvoltage protection for power amplifier with soft shutdown Various methods and circuital arrangements for protection of a power amplifier from over voltage are presented. According to one aspect, a protection circuit coupled to a varying supply voltage of the power amplifier controls a biasing current to the power amplifier to limit a power dissipation through the power amplifier. An overvoltage protection circuit detects a level of the varying supply voltage and decreases the biasing current as a linear function of an increasing supply voltage once the supply voltage reaches a programmable voltage level. A slope of the linear function can be made programmable. Programmability of the voltage level and the slope can be used to control biasing currents to a plurality of power amplifiers operating at different times and having different requirements in terms of voltage limits and thermal breakdown. According to another aspect a voltage to current converter for use in the overvoltage protection circuit is presented.
US12034408B2	Wideband Doherty power amplifier The present invention provides a wideband Doherty power amplifier comprising: a main power amplification device; an auxiliary power amplification device arranged in parallel with the main power amplification device; and a coupled phase compensation network configured for compensating a phase shift between the main power amplification device and the auxiliary power amplification device. The phase compensation network comprising a first transmission line section; a second transmission line section extending substantially collinearly with the first transmission line section; and two pairs of end-connected coupled transmission lines connected in parallel between the first transmission line section and the second transmission line section. The provided Doherty power amplifier demonstrated operation at 6 dB back-off between 1.3-2.3 GHz with efficiency in excess of 41%, which can be used in modern and future wireless communication systems which require power amplifiers operating over a wide frequency range.
US12034407B2	Up/down frequency converter with millimeter-wave low-phase-noise local oscillator An electronic device for converting a frequency with a local oscillator (LO) for generating an LO signal is provided. The electronic device may include an intermediate frequency (IF) port configured to input or output a signal in a first frequency band, a radio frequency (RF) port configured to input or output a signal in a second frequency band, a passive mixer configured to convert the signal in the first frequency band into the signal in the second frequency band or convert the signal in the second frequency band into the signal in the first frequency band, an LO configured to generate an LO signal in one of a plurality of frequency bands and provide the LO signal to the passive mixer, and a bi-directional amplifier including a gain equalizer configured to control gain flatness of a signal input to or output from the IF port.
US12034405B2	Circuit device and oscillator A circuit device includes an oscillation circuit which is electrically coupled to a first node to electrically be coupled to one end of a resonator and a second node to electrically be coupled to another end of the resonator, and is configured to oscillate the resonator to generate an oscillation signal, and a waveform shaping circuit which is coupled to the first node, to which the oscillation signal is input from the first node, and which is configured to output a clock signal obtained by performing waveform shaping on the oscillation signal, and a duty adjustment circuit configured to supply the first node with a bias voltage which is variably adjusted based on adjustment data to thereby adjust a duty ratio of the clock signal.
US12034403B1	Ventilation-type solar photovoltaic self-heat-preservation outer wall system and construction method thereof The invention provides a ventilation-type solar photovoltaic self-heat-preservation outer wall system and a construction method thereof, and relates to the technical field of constructional engineering. According to the solution, the ventilation-type solar photovoltaic self-heat-preservation outer wall system comprises an inner-layer heat preservation structure and an outer-layer photovoltaic assembly, a ventilation gap is formed between the inner-layer heat preservation structure and the outer-layer photovoltaic assembly, a flow guide component is arranged in the ventilation gap, the outer-layer photovoltaic assembly is provided with a ventilation opening, and the ventilation opening is communicated with the ventilation gap. The achieved effects are good heat preservation and heat insulation performances, good ventilation and heat dissipation effects, easy mounting and dismounting, and economical and applicable performances.
US12034402B2	External electrical contact for solar roof tiles One embodiment can provide a photovoltaic roof tile module. The photovoltaic roof tile module can include a front cover, a back cover assembly, photovoltaic structures positioned between the front cover and back cover assembly, and an internal circuit component electrically coupled to the photovoltaic structures. The internal circuit component is positioned between the front cover and the back cover assembly. The back cover assembly can include at least one through hole and a metallic plug inserted inside the through hole. A first surface of the metallic plug can electrically couple to the internal circuit component, and a second opposite surface of the metallic plug can be exposed to surroundings external to the photovoltaic roof tile module, thereby facilitating electrical coupling between the photovoltaic roof tile module and another photovoltaic roof tile module.
US12034395B2	Apparatus and methods for reduced voltage starting of motors with bumpless force transition A reduced voltage starter for electric motors comprises a controller, and a plurality of semiconductor switches to selectively connect a power source to a motor. The controller is configured to apply a first voltage ramp to provide a controllable fraction of the full line voltage to the motor, while maintaining a current flow to be within a programmable current limit during motor startup. The controller is further configured to implement a bumpless force transition, by applying a second voltage ramp when the speed of the motor is below the rated motor speed, and force transition criteria correlated with overheating of the semiconductor switches and/or a connected load are met.
US12034393B2	Parasitic pulse cancelation circuit A motor control system includes a direct current (DC) motor and a ripple count circuit. The DC motor includes a rotor induced to rotate in response to a drive current generated by a supply voltage. The rotation of the rotor generates a mechanical force that drives a component. The ripple count circuit includes an active filter circuit and a parasitic pulse cancellation circuit. The active filter circuit is configured to filter the drive current and to generate a pulsed signal containing at least one parasitic pulse. The parasitic pulse cancelation circuit is in signal communication with the ripple count circuit to receive the pulsed signal and to output a ripple count signal based on the pulsed signal. The ripple count signal excludes the at least one parasitic pulse.
US12034384B2	Electricity generating module and electricity generating method Provided is an electricity generating module. The electricity generating module comprises: a cylinder; a piston that reciprocates inside the cylinder; and a power generating fiber of which one end is fixed to the piston and the other end is fixed to the cylinder, and of which the length varies according to the reciprocating of the piston, wherein, as the length of the power generating fiber varies, a potential value of the power generating fiber varies, and electricity is generated by using the varied potential value of the power generating fiber.
US12034380B2	Inverter circuit based on a heric topology, inverter, and photovoltaic power system This application discloses an inverter circuit for an inverter such as a photovoltaic inverter. Also disclosed are inverters and photovoltaic power systems including such inverter circuits. The inverter circuit is based on a HERIC topology, and in the inverter circuit a third capacitor and a fourth capacitor are bridge-connected between a bus and a first longitudinal bridge and between the bus and a second longitudinal bridge respectively. In this way, when the inverter circuit goes from a starting phase to a freewheeling phase, the third capacitor and the fourth capacitor can stabilize a voltage fluctuation caused by different turn-off speeds of the switching transistors in the HERIC topology, to prevent resonance caused by the voltage fluctuations.
US12034374B2	Method of switching operational modes of a power converter A method of switching operational modes of a power converter includes starting up a primary controller applied to the power converter to make the power converter operate in a normal mode; a secondary controller applied to the power converter detecting an output voltage of a secondary side of the power converter and the primary controller detecting an operational frequency of the power converter; if the operational frequency of the power converter is lower than a predetermined frequency and satisfies a first frequency condition, the primary controller controlling the power converter to enter a sleep mode; and when the power converter enters the sleep mode and the output voltage is lower than a trigger voltage, the secondary controller making the primary controller to control the power converter turned on.
US12034373B2	Electronic devices and methods of controlling power in electronic devices An electronic device includes a system on chip (SoC) and a power management integrated circuit (PMIC). The SoC includes a plurality of power domains and a dynamic voltage and frequency scaling (DVFS) controller which performs DVFS on the power domains The PMIC includes direct current (DC)-DC converters and a control logic which controls the plurality of DC-DC converters, and each of the DC-DC converters provides a corresponding output voltage to a respective one of the power domains. The control logic designates a target DC-DC converter which provides a target output voltage having a target level as a global DC-DC converter and provides the target output voltage to a power domain corresponding the global DC-DC converter and to at least one first power domain consuming the target output voltage, from among the plurality of power domains, by sharing the target output voltage provided by the global DC-DC converter.
US12034372B2	Reconfigurable multi-phase power converter A reconfigurable multi-phase power converter is disclosed. An apparatus comprises a first primary power converter configured to generate a first regulated supply voltage to a first regulated supply voltage node and a second primary power converter configured to generate a second regulated supply voltage to a second regulated supply voltage node. The apparatus further includes N secondary power converters, wherein N is an integer value of one or more, and a multiplexer circuit configured to select the at least one of the N secondary power converters to provide an output current to one of the first or second regulated supply voltage nodes.
US12034371B1	Voltage regulators with clock generators for multi-phase converters A multiphase switching voltage regulator is disclosed. The regulator includes a first clock generator circuit configured to receive a reference clock, and to generate M first clocks, where the M first clocks are phase separated by 360°/M, a plurality of phase extrapolator circuits, where the plurality of phase extrapolator circuits includes N phase extrapolator circuits, and a phase selector multiplexer configured to provide one of the M first clocks to each of the phase extrapolator circuits, where the N phase extrapolator circuits are configured to generate N output clocks, where the N output clocks are phase separated by 360°/N.
US12034369B2	Power supply circuit, load circuit, electronic circuit, method for supplying power and method for operating an electronic circuit A power supply circuit includes: an output terminal for supplying power for a semiconductor device at the terminal; a control circuit configured to control a power level of the supplied power based on a control signal; and an input for receiving one or more timing signals, wherein the power supply circuit is configured to derive an indication for a scheduled change of a load current of the supplied power using the one or more timing signals. The power supply circuit is configured to adapt the control signal based on the indication for the scheduled change of the load current.
US12034366B2	Startup control method and system A startup control method for a DC/DC converter is used for starting the DC/DC converter with energy transferred from a low-voltage side to a high-voltage side, and includes: acquiring a voltage spike measurement value of a power switch at the low-voltage side; determining a duty cycle or a frequency of a driving signal according to the voltage spike measurement value and a preset voltage; and outputting the driving signal to a power switch at the high-voltage side, thereby charging a clamping capacitor of the power switch at the low-voltage side. The startup control method for a DC/DC converter of the disclosure can improve a reverse charging power of the converter to the maximum extent and reduce the time needed for charging a bus capacitor during a reverse startup process while ensuring voltage stress on the power switch not to exceed a limit.
US12034364B2	Switching regulator provided with a fault protector A switching regulator control circuit is used in a switching regulator that converts an input voltage into an output voltage by the switching of a switching device, and generates a switching signal for controlling the ON/OFF operation of the switching device. The switching regulator control circuit has a fault detector and a fault protector. The fault detector detects, based on the duty ratio of the switching signal or a variable correlated to it and included in a control signal used to generate the switching signal, a fault state where the duty ratio falls outside the normal modulation range. The fault protector stops the switching of the switching device when the fault detector detects a fault state.
US12034362B2	Electronic device and method for controlling an electric energy converter comprising a piezoelectric element, related electronic system for electric energy conversion An electronic control device for controlling a converter that comprises a piezoelectric element and a plurality of switches which are commanded to alternate phases, respectively at substantially constant voltage, and substantially constant charge, across the terminals of said piezoelectric element, the control device comprising: a measurement module for measuring a period of a resonance cycle of the piezoelectric element; an event detection module for detecting a characteristic event belonging to a current resonance cycle; a command module for commanding the switching of the switches; a computation module for computing at least three subsequent switching time instants during at least one subsequent resonance cycle, which is posterior to the current resonance cycle, each subsequent switching time instant being computed based on a respective characteristic event; and the command module being configured to command the switching of the respective switch at each of the subsequent time instants computed.
US12034361B2	Controller for a DC-DC converter A controller for a DC-DC converter that includes an inductor. The DC-DC converter has three phases of operation: a first phase, in which an input voltage charges the inductor; a second phase, in which the inductor discharges to a load; and a third phase, in which the inductor is disconnected from the load and in which the input voltage does not charge the inductor. The controller is configured to set a control-factor based on the input voltage of the DC-DC converter, and set the duration of the third phase based on the control-factor and the sum of the duration of the first phase and the second phase.
US12034354B2	Spring retention system for dc motor A spring retention system for securing a motor in a desired position. The spring retention system includes a captive feature, which includes a plurality of recesses formed as a motor support spring having a circular opening, which are engaged with a motor bearing housing. The spring retention system reduces motor displacement in multiple directions when the motor is exposed to vibrations, which reduces the cantilever bending on the motor shaft and the motor housing, also improving motor pinion run out. The spring retention system also includes a formed opening feature, which allows for the spring retention system to fit with motor bearings having different sizes. The spring retention system also includes a plurality of spring leg retention features formed as part of the motor support spring, which support the motor bearing housing on an axis, and the module housing supports the motor support spring.
US12034349B2	Transfer apparatus and transfer method A transfer apparatus includes a first linear transfer part which moves a slider in a first direction by using a first fixed linear module fixed on a first base; a module moving part which moves a module holding member holding a movable linear module in a second direction different from the first direction, to position the movable linear module at a first coupling position to couple with the first fixed linear module and cause the slider to transfer between the movable and first fixed linear modules; a linear scale having a scale extending in the second direction and a sensor which detects the scale; and a controller which acquires first module position information indicating a position of the movable linear module relative to the first fixed linear module in the second direction and controls movement of the module holding member based on the first module position information.
US12034348B2	Electromagnetic device with two conductive coils, first and second yokes, stabilizing magnets and actuating magnets An electromagnetic device includes a conductive coil, a main magnet pivoting about an axis XX′, a first and second yoke, a first and second stabilizer magnet, as well as a first and second actuator magnet arranged to slide along the axis YY′ that is perpendicular to the pivot axis XX′, in such a way as to force the main magnet to adopt an equilibrium position, the stabilizer magnets are arranged such that this sliding is accompanied by a movement of the stabilizer magnets so as to position one of the stabilizer magnets in a given position in order to limit the leaks which could occur at one of the two yokes.
US12034347B2	Motor, and busbar for the motor The present invention may provide a motor including a shaft, a rotor coupled to the shaft, a stator disposed to correspond to the rotor, and a busbar disposed above the stator, wherein the stator includes a stator core and coils, the busbar includes a busbar body and a plurality of terminals disposed on the busbar body, the terminals include terminal bodies, first protrusions extending from end portions of the terminal bodies and connected to end portions of the coils, and second protrusions branched off from the first protrusions and connected to power terminals, and the plurality of second protrusions are disposed at the same position in radial and vertical directions of the busbar and disposed at equal intervals in a circumferential direction of the busbar.
US12034345B2	Device for positioning and clamping wire ends for electric machines To enhance process reliability when processing wire ends during the course of a production of a machine element of an electric machine, a positioning and clamping device configured to position and clamp one or several wire ends for further processing during the course of the production of the machine element of the electric machine, comprises a capturing device for capturing and positioning the at least one wire end, wherein the capturing device has at least one oblique guide for the relative positioning of the at least one wire end. Furthermore, a corresponding clamping and positioning method is described.
US12034344B2	Inverter unit and motor unit An inverter unit, provided in a motor unit that rotates an axle of a vehicle, includes an inverter, and an inverter case that houses the inverter therein. The inverter case includes an inverter case body that opens to one side in a predetermined direction, and a plate-shaped cover that closes an opening of the inverter case body. The cover has a raised portion raised in the predetermined direction. The raised portion has a hollow curved shape protruding in the predetermined direction.
US12034343B2	Temperature sensor and electric motor An object is to more surely prevent a temperature sensor inserted into a gap between coils, from slipping out of the gap. A temperature sensor includes: a sensor element including a thermosensitive body, paired electric wires electrically connected to the thermosensitive body, and a covering body having elasticity and covering the thermosensitive body; and a housing including an abutting portion and a supporting portion extending in a direction intersecting with the abutting portion, and the housing holding the sensor element. The covering body protrudes from the abutting portion at a position separated by a predetermined distance from the supporting portion. The paired electric wires are drawn out from the housing in a direction intersecting with the covering body.
US12034338B2	Rotary electrical machine with a rotor configuration which reduces the torque ripples The invention pertains primarily to a rotary electric machine, in particular for a motor vehicle, including: —a stator comprising a body provided with teeth delimiting slots and a winding that is housed in the slots of the stator body; —a rotor (12) comprising a body (21) and poles (22) that are formed by permanent magnets (23), characterized in that —two successive polar angles, each corresponding to a circumferential extent of a pole (22), or —two successive dual polar angles (A0-A4), each corresponding to a circumferential extent of two adjacent poles (22), —exhibit an angular difference in relation to one another that is dependent on an angular offset parameter (6) related to a stator pitch.
US12034336B2	Cooling system for an electric machine having a wound field rotor A wound field rotor includes a shaft having an outer surface, an inner surface defining a flow path, and an opening defining a passage extending from the flow path through the outer surface. A plurality of laminations is mounted to the outer surface. The plurality of laminations includes an inner annular surface disposed on the shaft and an outer annular surface defining a plurality of rotor teeth. A plurality of field windings is disposed about corresponding ones of the plurality of rotor teeth. A first portion of the plurality of rotor laminations includes a first passage portion that extends from the inner annular surface radially outwardly and is fluidically connected to the passage, and a second portion of the plurality or rotor laminations adjacent the first portion includes a second passage portion that includes a first end that registers with the first passage portion and a second end.
US12034334B2	Redundancy resolver device and electric power steering device A resolver device with redundancy, wherein winding groups of different systems are arranged at different positions in a circumferential direction of a stator core. The winding groups of each system include: an excitation winding group consisting of a plurality of excitation windings, each of which is connected to a corresponding one of plural excitation circuits; and a first output winding group; and a second output winding group. Each of the stator teeth has a corresponding one of the excitation windings wound therearound. When two of the excitation windings belonging to different systems, arranged side by side in the circumferential direction of the stator core, are defined as a first end excitation winding and a second end excitation winding, respectively, the first end excitation winding and the second end excitation winding are supplied with excitation signals which generate magnetic fluxes in the same (not opposite) radial directions of the stator core.
US12034329B2	Device to be charged, and charging and discharging control method A device to be charged and a charging and discharging control method are disclosed. The device to be charged includes: a first battery unit and a second battery unit connected in series; a charging circuit electrically connected to the first battery unit and the second battery unit; a first switch and a second switch electrically connected to the charging circuit, the first battery unit, and the second battery unit; and a control module electrically connected to the charging circuit, the first switch, and the second switch to control the first switch and the second switch according to a received control instruction, to enable the charging circuit to charge the first battery unit and the second battery unit, or enable the charging circuit to charge the second battery unit, wherein a charge rate of the first battery unit is lower than a charge rate of the second battery unit.
US12034326B2	Power supply unit for aerosol inhaler A power supply unit for an aerosol inhaler includes: a power supply able to discharge power to a load for generating an aerosol from an aerosol source; a connector able to be electrically connected to an external power supply; and a control device. The power supply unit further includes: a conductor which electrically connects the connector and the control device; a capacitor provided between the connector and the control device so as to be connected in parallel with the control device; a first circuit board on which the connector is provided; a second circuit board which is apart from the first circuit board and on which the capacitor and the control device are provided; and a conductive member which electrically connects the first circuit board and the second circuit board.
US12034324B2	Flexible electrified vehicle power transfer An electrified vehicle may include a plurality of electric drive units, a plurality of battery packs, a plurality of charge ports and a plurality of controllable switches. The switches may be controlled to flexibly configure power transfer into and out of the vehicle through one or more charge ports affecting one or more battery packs in parallel or individually passively or actively through inverter integrated converter charge transfer.
US12034323B2	Battery control unit and battery system A battery control unit includes a switching unit and a control unit. The switching unit is provided for each of a plurality of batteries connected to in series to each other, and switches a connection state in which the corresponding battery is discharged and a non-connection state in which the corresponding battery is not discharged. The control unit switches the battery to the non-connection state in order from the battery whose remaining dischargeable capacity reaches a predetermined value. Further, the control unit switches all the batteries to the connection state after the remaining dischargeable capacity of all the batteries reaches the predetermined value, and then switch the battery to the non-connection state in order from the battery determined to reach a discharge termination state.
US12034316B2	Power transmitting apparatus, control method for power transmitting apparatus, and storage medium A power transmitting apparatus (100) performs foreign object detection processing based on data obtained by transmitting power to a plurality of power receiving apparatuses (204, 205) using a plurality of power transmission units.
US12034311B2	Techniques for delivering pulsed wireless power A transmitter assembly is useful in optimizing the delivery of wireless power to a plurality of receivers. Each receiver measures its own battery need for power and transmits that measurement as a request to the transmitter. The transmitter is configured to normalize and compare battery need requests. The transmitter then allocates pulses of wireless power among the requesting receivers according to their battery need.
US12034310B2	Ultra-low power beamforming wireless power transfer system Wireless power transfer (WPT) efficiency is enhanced using an ultra-low power (ULP) distributed beamforming technique. A phase and frequency offset correction technique is used for beam-forming optimization, a backscattering communication technique is used to reduce power over-head, and a new rectifier and MPT method is used for high efficiency RF-to-DC conversion.
US12034309B2	Conductor temperature detector Various implementations described herein are directed to a method for detecting, by a device, an increase in temperature at certain parts of an electrical system, and taking appropriate responsive action. The method may include measuring temperatures at certain locations within the system and estimating temperatures at other locations based on the measurements. Some embodiments disclosed herein include an integrated cable combining electrical conduction and heat-detection capabilities, or an integrated cable or connector combining electrical conduction with a thermal fuse.
US12034308B2	Power generation system This application provides a power generation system. The power generation system may include an integration system and a power transformation system. The integration system may include a plurality of inverters and a plurality of first switches. The plurality of inverters are connected in series to the plurality of first switches in a one-to-one correspondence. Each inverter converts a direct current from a direct current power supply into an alternating current, and outputs the alternating current to a corresponding first switch. Alternating currents of the plurality of first switches from corresponding inverters are combined and output to the power generation system, and the plurality of inverters and the power transformation system are isolated from each other. The power transformation system adjusts a voltage value of the combined alternating current and outputs the voltage value to a power grid.
US12034306B1	Hybrid turbine and multiple-spool electric power system for aircraft A hybrid power system for an aircraft. The hybrid power system comprises a high-voltage DC (HVDC) bus and a generator-motor system configured to (1) selectively receive electric power from the HVDC bus to assist in providing propulsion and (2) provide electric power to the HVDC bus during regulated power extraction. An LPS generator/motor is coupled with an LPS shaft of an engine. An HPS generator/motor is coupled with an HPS shaft of the engine. A first AC/DC converter is connected to the LPS generator/motor and the HVDC bus. A second AC/DC converter is connected to the HPS generator/motor, the first AC/DC converter, and the HVDC bus. An electric motor is connected to the HVDC bus and configured to provide propulsion and/or electric power. Further, AC and DC distribution systems are connected to the HVDC bus. A control system is configured to selectively control connections to the HVDC bus.
US12034301B2	Multi-way power controller and related methods A power converter including a three-input direct current converter capable of performing maximum power point tracking on three power inputs, a step down converter capable of voltage step down of the three power inputs, a bus capacitor and a balance circuit utilizing switches and transformers utilized to balance voltages of the bus capacitor, a three-level inverter capable of creating alternating current voltages for the alternating current grid, an output filter electrically coupled to the three-level inverter, a contactor capable of disconnecting the bus capacitor and the balance circuit from the alternating current grid, and a parameter sensor and a field programmable gate array controller electrically coupled to the power converter, capable of controlling a plurality of power switches based on at least one sensed parameters.
US12034294B2	System, server and method for monitoring utility systems The disclosure describes a system for monitoring and mitigating damage to electrical utility structures and the surrounding environment. In some embodiments, the system includes fire boxes, arc sensors, angle switches, and disconnect switches configured to generate alert signals when a hazard is detected. In some embodiments, the system includes cameras configured to detect a hazard such as a fire or moving object. In some embodiments, the system includes light transmitters and light receivers positioned at a predetermined location away from power lines to detect objects that interrupt a line of site. In some embodiments, the system can electrically isolate a power line before a detected hazard impacts a power line.
US12034292B2	Adjustable speed drive with integrated solid-state circuit breaker and method of operation thereof A power conversion circuit having a solid-state circuit breaker integrated therein is disclosed. With a disconnect switch between a utility source and the power conversion apparatus described for meeting UL489, the power conversion circuit includes an input connectable to an AC source, a rectifier circuit connected to the input to convert an AC power input to a DC power, and a DC link coupled to the rectifier circuit to receive the DC power therefrom. The rectifier circuit comprises a plurality of phase legs each including thereon an upper switching unit and a lower switching unit, wherein at least one of the upper and lower switching units on each phase leg comprises a bi-directional switching unit that selectively controls current and withstands voltage in both directions, so as to provide a circuit breaking capability that selectively interrupts current flow through the rectifier circuit, while maintaining original power conversion functionalities.
US12034285B2	Hot melt block, cable manufacturing method, and cable A hot melt block 20 that is assembled at a portion where an insulating sheath 16 of a cable 10 in which a plurality of electric wires 11 and 12 are collectively surrounded by the insulating sheath 16 is removed and the electric wires 11 and 12 are drawn out, and that is melted through heating. The hot melt block 20 includes: an insertion portion 21 that can be inserted between the electric wires 11 and 12 surrounded by the sheath 16; and a spacer 24 that is fixed to the insertion portion 21, and is disposed between the electric wires 11 and 12 at the portion where the electric wires are drawn out.
US12034278B2	Spark plug, spark plug electrode, and method of manufacturing the same A spark plug electrode with one or more electrode tip(s) formed on one or more electrode base(s) using an additive manufacturing process, such as a powder bed fusion technique, such that each electrode tip overhangs an edge of a corresponding electrode base. The spark plug electrode may be a center electrode, a ground electrode, or an annular ground electrode and can be provided according to a number of different configurations. Each electrode tip includes a precious metal-based material, such as an iridium- or platinum-based alloy, and a plurality of laser deposition layers, and each electrode tip can be secured to an electrode base with a weldless joint. An additive manufacturing process is also provided.
US12034277B2	Semiconductor layer structure with a thin blocking layer A semiconductor layer structure may include a substrate, a blocking layer disposed over the substrate, and one or more epitaxial layers disposed over the blocking layer. The blocking layer may have a thickness of between 50 nanometers (nm) and 4000 nm. The blocking layer may be configured to suppress defects from the substrate propagating to the one or more epitaxial layers. The one or more epitaxial layers may include a quantum-well layer that includes a quantum-well intermixing region formed using a high temperature treatment.
US12034276B2	Quantum cascade laser with high efficiency operation and related systems and methods A QCL may include a substrate, and a sequence of semiconductor epitaxial layers adjacent the substrate and defining an active region, an injector region adjacent the active region, and a waveguide optically coupled to the active region. The active region may include stages, each stage having an upper laser level and a lower laser level defining respective first and second wave functions. The upper laser level may have an upper laser level average coordinate, and the lower laser level may have a lower laser level average coordinate. The upper laser level average coordinate and the lower laser level average coordinate may have spacing of less than 10 nm. Wave functions for all active region energy levels located below the lower laser level may have greater than 10% overlap with the injector region.
US12034275B2	Energy efficient laser arrangement A laser arrangement includes a laser array including a plurality of Vertical Cavity Surface Emitting lasers and an optical structure including a diffuser arranged to change a distribution of the laser light. The optical structure is configured to transform the laser light to transformed laser light such that an overlap of the emission cones of at least a group of the plurality of lasers is increased in field-of-view in comparison to perfectly collimated laser light diffused to a flat-top intensity profile in the field-of-view. The optical structure is arranged to redirect the laser light emitted at angles of the emission cone to the field-of-view so as to increase the overlap of the emitted laser light in the field-of-view. The optical structure is also configured to provide a slope angle α of an intensity profile along a direction of the field-of-view that is smaller than a divergence angle of the laser.
US12034274B2	Light emitting element A light emitting element according to the present disclosure includes a first light reflecting layer 41, a laminated structure 20, and a second light reflecting layer 42 laminated to each other. The laminated structure 20 includes a first compound semiconductor layer 21, a light emitting layer 23, and a second compound semiconductor layer 22 laminated to each other from a side of the first light reflecting layer. Light from the laminated structure 20 is emitted to an outside via the first light reflecting layer 41 or the second light reflecting layer 42. The first light reflecting layer 41 has a structure in which at least two types of thin films 41A and 41B are alternately laminated to each other in plural numbers. A film thickness modulating layer 80 is provided between the laminated structure 20 and the first light reflecting layer 41.
US12034272B2	Vertical cavity surface emitting laser device with integrated photodiode A vertical cavity surface emitting laser includes four contacts and an optical resonator (having two Bragg reflectors, a photodiode, and an active layer between the Bragg reflectors). The second Bragg reflector has three parts. The first part has a pair of layers with different refractive indices and a second conductivity type. The second part has a pair of layers with different refractive indices and a first conductivity type. The third part has a pair of layers with different refractive indices and the second conductivity type. A light absorption structure of the photodiode is between the second and third parts. The first and second electrical contacts provide a current to pump the resonator. The light absorption structure is outside the current path. The third and fourth electrical contacts contact the photodiode. The second and third electrical contact respectively contact the first and second parts and are separated by a semiconductor layer.
US12034263B2	Preformed solder-in-pin system A method for inserting preformed solder members into connector pins for use with electrical connectors. The method generally includes a connector pin having an open cavity at one end, into which a preformed solder member can be first inserted and then pressed, rather than melted, in place, such that voids and air spaces within the cavity are substantially eliminated. The method allows for inserting solder members in high quantities, where the preformed solder members are placed in a fixture and the fixture is placed on a shaker table, so that solder members can be inserted into large numbers of connector pins that are pre-installed in connector grommets, largely simultaneously.
US12034260B2	Connection body, method for manufacturing connection body, and connection method A connection body, a method for manufacturing a connection body, and a connection method which can secure conduction reliability by trapping conductive particles even when the bump size is minimized. In a connection body in which a first component having a first electrode and a second component having a second electrode are connected to each other via a filler-containing film having a filler-aligned layer in which independent fillers are aligned in a binder resin layer, the maximum effective connection portion area where the first electrode and the second electrode face each other is 4,000 μm2 or less and a ratio of the effective connection portion area to a particle area on the connection portion projection plane is 3 or more.
US12034256B2	Systems, devices, and methods for connectors A circuitry is disclosed having one or more circuits and a connector portion coupled that is to the one or more circuits. The connector portion includes a plurality of pins, at least some of the pins having assigned functionality, and wherein at least one first pin is to activate a mechanism to bring the one or more circuits into an electrically safe state. The circuitry is configured, in case the connector portion is coupled with a first connector in a first orientation, to allow the one or more circuits to operate properly via the connector portion. The circuitry is also configured so that in a case where the connector portion is coupled with a second connector in a second orientation different from the first orientation, the at least one first pin of the plurality of pins receives a reference potential that triggers activation of a safety mechanism.
US12034251B2	Communication system having connector assembly A connector assembly includes a connector module having a connector body with side edges and end edges. The connector body has contact channels holding contacts. The connector assembly includes a mounting frame having side walls and an end wall opposite a window between the side walls. The window is open to and provides access to a passage that receives the connector module. The mounting frame includes a connector module support structure for supporting the connector module in the passage that defines a confined space oversized relative to the connector body of the connector module to allow a limited amount of floating movement in the confined space in a lateral direction that is perpendicular to the mating direction.
US12034250B2	Connector assembly with housing panel positioning and plug connector thereof A connector assembly with housing panel positioning and plug connector thereof is disclosed. The connector assembly includes a fixing block and a socket connector positioned on two opposite sides of a housing panel, and a plug connector installed in the fixing block and electrically connected to the socket connector. Through the action of rotation and pushing, the plug connector is combined with the positioning column of the fixing block on the housing panel, and the plug head of the plug connector is electrically connected to the socket connector.
US12034246B2	Electrical connector, electrical connector assembly and electrical equipment An electrical connector includes a support bracket and a connection terminal. The connection terminal includes a terminal body mounted on the support bracket and in sliding electrical contact with a bus bar extending in a first plane, and a terminal connection portion protruding from a bottom of the terminal body in a first direction parallel to the first plane and electrically connected to a circuit board.
US12034242B2	Embedded terminal module and connector and manufacturing and assembling method thereof A method of manufacturing and assembling an embedded terminal module, comprising the steps of: (A) placing a terminal component in a mold; (B) a mating component partially over the terminal component to form a mating terminal component; (C) assembling at least two mating terminal component in a mirror-aligned manner to a mating socket to form the embedded terminal module.
US12034240B2	Electrical connection terminal and electrical connection assembly An electrical connection terminal and an electrical connection assembly are disclosed. The electrical connection terminal has a base, and a plurality of tabs connected to the base. The plurality of tabs are separated from each other, and each of the plurality of tabs is adapted to mate with a mating terminal in a plug-in manner. In the present invention, the electrical connection terminal adopts a plurality of parallel tabs, so the length of the electrical connection terminal and the current flow path through the electrical connection terminal are reduced. Therefore, the electrical connection terminal of the present invention has low body resistance, less heating and is more suitable for high current applications.
US12034237B2	Fixing device, fixing method, cable assembly and structural body A fixing device is used to fix a cable to a substrate. The cable has a first conductor and a second conductor. The substrate has a first substrate fixing portion and a second substrate fixing portion which corresponding to the first conductor and the second conductor, respectively. The fixing device has a first electrode portion, a second electrode portion and a coupling portion which connects the first electrode portion and the second electrode portion to each other. The first electrode portion has a first connection portion to be connected to the first conductor and a first fixing portion to be connected to the first substrate fixing portion. The second electrode portion has a second connection portion to be connected to the second conductor and a second fixing portion to be connected to the second substrate fixing portion.
US12034235B2	Antenna dynamically matched with electromechanical resonators A RF transmitting device and method for transmitting digital information wherein the device is connected to or connectable with an antenna, the RF transmitting device having an RF source or transmitter, an electronic switch, a plurality electromechanical resonators each connected to the electronic switch. The electronic switch connects a selected one or selected ones of the electromechanical resonators between the RF source or transmitter and the antenna. Alternatively, the electronic switch connects a selected one or selected ones of the electromechanical resonators between different portions of the antenna. The electronic switch is controlled by a digital control unit for causing the electronic switch to couple RF energy produced by the RF source or transmitter to the antenna via the selected one or selected ones of the plurality of electromechanical resonators.
US12034232B2	Antenna module, communication module, and communication device An antenna module includes a dielectric substrate, a radiation electrode, a ground electrode, and a current-interrupting element. The radiation electrode is disposed in a layer of the dielectric substrate, and the ground electrode is disposed in another layer of the dielectric substrate. The current-interrupting element is electrically connected to the ground electrode. The current-interrupting element is configured to interrupt a current flowing through the ground electrode. The current-interrupting element has a first edge portion electrically connected to the ground electrode and a second edge portion left open and includes a planar electrode parallel to the ground electrode. The dimension of the current-interrupting element in the direction from the first edge portion to the second edge portion is about λ/4, where λ is the wavelength of a radio-frequency signal radiated from the radiation electrode.
US12034229B2	Electronic device Disclosed is an electronic device that includes a plurality of first sensing electrodes arranged in a first direction, a plurality of second sensing electrodes arranged in a second direction crossing the first direction, and an antenna pattern including a first sub-antenna pattern surrounded by one of the plurality of first sensing electrodes and a second sub-antenna pattern electrically connected to the first sub-antenna pattern and disposed between the one of the plurality of first sensing electrodes and one of the plurality of second sensing electrodes.
US12034227B2	Multi-band multi-beam lensed antennas suitable for use in cellular and other communications systems Multi-band phased array antennas include a backplane, a vertical array of low-band radiating elements that form a first antenna beam, first and second vertical arrays of high-band radiating elements that form respective second and third antenna beams and a vertical array of RF lenses. The first, second and third antenna beams point in different directions. A respective one of the second radiating elements and a respective one of the third radiating elements are positioned between the backplane and each RF lens, and at least some of the first radiating elements are positioned between the RF lenses.
US12034225B2	Antenna and electronic device including the same An example electronic device may include: a side member including a first conductive portion disposed through a first non-conductive portion and a second non-conductive portion and a second conductive portion disposed through the second non-conductive portion and a third non-conductive portion; a substrate disposed in the internal space of the housing and including a ground; at least one wireless communication circuit disposed on the substrate; a first switching circuit disposed in a first electrical path connecting the wireless communication circuit and a first point of the first conductive portion; a second switching circuit disposed in a second electrical path connecting the wireless communication circuit and a second point of the second conductive portion; a third switching circuit disposed in a third electrical path connecting the wireless communication circuit and a third point of the second conductive portion between the second point and the third non-conductive portion; and at least one processor configured to control at least one switching circuit among the first, second, and third switching circuits, wherein the second switching circuit is electrically connected to another—first point between the first point and the second non-conductive portion through another—first electrical path.
US12034219B2	Transparent antenna stack and assembly An optically transparent antenna stack includes at least two stacked optically transparent antennas. Each antenna includes an electrically conductive metal mesh including a plurality of interconnected electrically conductive metal traces defining a plurality of enclosed open areas. The metal mesh of each antenna and each lead has a percent open area greater than about 50%. The at least two stacked optically transparent antennas includes a first antenna configured to operate over a first, but not a second, frequency band and a second antenna configured to operate over the second, but not the first, frequency band. The optically transparent antenna stack has an optical transmission of at least about 50% for at least one wavelength in a wavelength range from about 450 nm to about 600 nm.
US12034215B1	Microwave slotted-array antenna A slotted waveguide array (SWA) antenna is provided for emitting electromagnetic radiation. The antenna includes a base, a pair of brackets, a pair of spars, a plurality of waveguides, and a radome. The base provides longitudinal and lateral support for the antenna on a platform. The brackets are disposed at longitudinally opposite ends on the base. The spars connect the brackets and are disposed at laterally opposite ends of the base. The waveguides are disposed in stagger array. Each waveguide has a pair of broad walls and a pair of side walls that share longitudinal edges. The broad wall is wider than the side wall. The broad wall includes elliptical slots penetrating each waveguide. The stagger array arranges first and second waveguides share respective first and second longitudinal edges. The radome covers the waveguides and connects to the pair of spars.
US12034212B2	Dual-polarization antenna module and electronic device comprising said antenna module An electronic device and antenna system for generation of millimeter-wave frequency radiation. The antenna system has first conductive structure, a second conductive structure, and an antenna comprising a first antenna element configured to excite a first electric field having a first polarization, and a second antenna element configured to excite a second electric field having a second polarization. The first antenna element and the second antenna element extend in an antenna plane. An anisotropic dielectric volume is partially enclosed by the antenna, the first conductive structure, and the second conductive structure. A first surface of the dielectric volume is open to the exterior of the antenna system. The dielectric volume allows the first and second electric fields to propagate, within the dielectric volume, from the antenna at least partially towards the first conductive structure, and to radiate from the first surface to the exterior.
US12034211B2	Array antenna An array antenna is formed from delay lines, and includes radiating elements which are individually connected to line patterns of the delay lines. Such an array antenna structure can be implemented by printed circuit technology and can be used to establish radio links for data communication between a mobile carrier, such as an aircraft, and a geostationary satellite.
US12034209B2	Axial mode helical antenna with improved/simplified parallel open wire impedance matching technique A low-profile axial mode helical type antenna that employs hollow copper tubing for the radiating element, a singular semi hollow dielectric support structure, low pitch angle and an improved/simplified parallel open wire impedance matching technique. This antenna has a wide radiating pattern as well as high forward gain and circular polarization. It is designed to work in the field of live entertainment including reception and transmission of wireless microphones, in-ear monitors, communications and cue control systems. It operates from 470-663 MHz.
US12034197B2	RF transmission line comprising at least one band-shaped line segment coupled to at least two coplanar waveguide segments in an extending direction An electronic device includes a first body and a second body rotatably connected relative to each other through a pivot shaft having a metal portion, the first body including a first motherboard, the second body including a second motherboard; and a radio-frequency transmission line including at least one band-shaped line segment and at least two coplanar waveguide segments, the band-shaped line segment being coupled to the coplanar waveguide segments, in which one band-shaped line segment is located between two coplanar waveguide segments in an extending direction of the radio-frequency transmission line, the one band-shaped line segment is coupled to the pivot shaft to retain stationary relative to the pivot shaft, and the coplanar waveguide segments are spaced apart from the metal portion. The radio-frequency transmission line has a first end coupled to the first motherboard, and a second end coupled to the second motherboard.
US12034196B2	Hybrid circulator A hybrid circulator includes an isolator and an orthomode transducer coupled to the isolator. The hybrid circulator achieves high performance in the microwave and millimeter-wave (MMW) frequency range.
US12034193B2	Fluorinated copolymer and compositions and articles including the same The copolymer includes divalent units represented by formula —[CF2—CF2]—, at least one divalent unit represented by formula (I): and at least one divalent unit independently represented by formula (II): A is —N(RFa)2 or a is non-aromatic, 5- to 8-membered, perfluorinated ring comprising one or two nitrogen atoms in the ring and optionally comprising at least one oxygen atom in the ring, each RFa is independently linear or branched perfluoroalkyl having 1 to 8 carbon atoms and optionally interrupted by at least one catenated O or N atom, each Y is independently —H or —F, with the proviso that one Y may be —CF3, h is 0, 1, or 2, each i is independently 2 to 8, and j is 0, 1, or 2. A catalyst ink and polymer electrolyte membrane including the copolymer are also provided.
US12034189B2	Fuel cell system glow plug and method of forming same A method of sealing a glow plug of a fuel cell system, the glow plug including a housing and a heating element extending from a first end of the housing. The method includes inserting the heating element into a sealing element having an annular base and a tubular collar extending from the base and forming a fluid-tight connection between the glow plug and the fuel cell system by attaching the collar to the heating element and by attaching the base to the first end of the housing.
US12034188B2	Graphitized carbon substrate and gas diffusion layer employing same A carbon substrate for a gas diffusion layer of a fuel cell, the carbon substrate being a porous carbon substrate having a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface, the carbon substrate includes a plurality of carbon fibers arranged irregularly to form a non-woven type and a carbide of an organic polymer located between the carbon fibers to bind the carbon fibers to each other, the carbide has a graphite structure, and the carbon substrate has a Bragg diffraction angle 2θ of less than 26.435° and a interplanar distance d(002) of less than 3.372 Å, a gas diffusion layer employing the same, an electrode for a fuel cell, a membrane electrode assembly for a fuel cell, and a fuel cell. When the gas diffusion layer is manufactured using the carbon substrate according to the present disclosure, cell voltage characteristics of the fuel cell may be greatly improved.
US12034182B2	Busbar for energy storage device A laminated busbar for interconnecting electrical storage devices, comprising an insulating layer and at least one conductive band arranged on the insulating layer, the at least one conductive band comprising a succession of repeating conductor patterns, each conductor pattern defining a cluster having a first terminal and a second terminal for connection to an energy storage device. The laminated busbar also comprises a first terminator coupled to the first terminal and a second terminator coupled to the second terminal, the first and second terminators configured to connect to terminals of the energy storage device.
US12034179B2	Separator for zinc secondary battery The present disclosure provides a separator for a zinc secondary battery that can inhibit short circuiting in a zinc secondary battery. The separator for a zinc secondary battery of the disclosure has a porous substrate layer and a titanium oxide-containing porous layer laminated onto the porous substrate layer, wherein the titanium oxide-containing porous layer comprises a titanium oxide represented by TixOy, where 0
US12034177B2	Battery pack comprising extinguishment unit A battery pack includes at least two battery modules arranged in one direction; and a fire extinguisher having a linear temperature sensor partially extending linearly along the at least two battery modules and configured to sense whether at least one of the at least two battery modules has a temperature over a predetermined temperature, a fire extinguishing tank configured to accommodate a fire extinguishing agent therein, a pipe connected to the fire extinguishing tank to supply the fire extinguishing agent from the fire extinguishing tank to each of the at least two battery modules, and a valve opened to supply the fire extinguishing agent from the fire extinguishing tank to the battery module over the predetermined temperature.
US12034171B2	Energy storage device assemblies In some examples, a method for forming an energy storage device assembly, e.g., for an implantable medical device, may comprise partially enclosing electrodes of an energy storage device within a foil pack, wherein the foil pack includes an unsealed portion and a sealed portion when partially enclosing the electrodes of the energy storage device. The method may further comprise forming a first heat seal at the unsealed portion of the foil pack, and subsequently forming a second heat seal that is redundant with the first heat seal of the foil pack.
US12034167B2	Carbon nanotube dispersion liquid, slurry for secondary battery electrode, method of producing slurry for secondary battery electrode, electrode for secondary battery, and secondary battery Disclosed is a carbon nanotube dispersion liquid containing carbon nanotubes, a binder, and a dispersion medium. The binder includes a polymer (A) containing an aromatic vinyl monomer unit and a linear alkylene structural unit having a carbon number of at least 4. The proportion of the binder in the carbon nanotube dispersion liquid is 30 mass % or less, and the viscosity change rate of the carbon nanotube dispersion liquid as measured under predetermined conditions before and after leaving the carbon nanotube dispersion liquid for 1 week is 50% or more and 300% or less.
US12034165B2	Negative electrode active material, negative electrode including negative electrode active material, and secondary battery including negative electrode A negative electrode active material including silicon-based active material particles each including a core including SiOx, wherein 0≤x≤2, and a coating layer present on the core. Also, a negative electrode active material in which the coating layer is any one of a carbon coating layer or a polymer coating layer, and the coating layer includes a fluorinated material including at least one of an alkali metal or an alkaline earth metal.
US12034163B2	High power, extended temperature range-capable, highly abuse overcharge and discharge tolerant rechargeable battery cell and pack Provided are electrochemical secondary cells that exhibit excellent abuse tolerance, deep discharge and overcharge conditions including at extreme temperatures and remain robust and possess excellent performance. Cells as provided herein include: a cathode a polycrystalline cathode electrochemically active material including the formula Li1+xMO2+y, wherein −0.9≤x≤0.3, −0.3≤y≤0.3, and wherein M includes Ni at 80 atomic percent or higher relative to total M, an anode including an anode electrochemically active material defined by an electrochemical redox potential of 400 mV or greater vs Li/Li+.
US12034159B2	Non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, method of manufacturing same, and non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery system Provided are a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery excellent in reliability and productivity, a method for manufacturing the same, and a system including the non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery.A non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery of the present invention includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, a separator, and a non-aqueous electrolyte. The positive electrode includes a positive electrode mixture layer in which a lithium-containing composite oxide is used as a positive electrode active material. In a charged state, the negative electrode includes an aluminum foil or an aluminum alloy foil and a Li—Al alloy formed by reaction with Li ions deintercaleted from the positive electrode. The Li—Al alloy has a Li content of 7 to 29 atomic % with respect to 100 atomic % of a total of Li and Al at the end of charge.
US12034158B2	Lithium battery structure A lithium battery structure is provided. The lithium battery structure includes a first metal layer including aluminum foil or stainless steel foil, a second metal layer including copper foil, nickel foil or stainless steel foil, a separator, a first electrode layer, a second electrode layer, and a first functional layer including a first composition. The separator is disposed between the first metal layer and the second metal layer. The first electrode layer is disposed between the first metal layer and the separator. The second electrode layer is disposed between the second metal layer and the separator. The first functional layer is disposed between the first metal layer and the first electrode layer. The first composition includes 20-80 parts by weight of flake conductive material, 1-30 parts by weight of spherical conductive material, 10-50 parts by weight of thermoplastic elastomer and 1-25 parts by weight of nitrogen-containing hyperbranched polymer.
US12034156B2	Sulfur-carbon composite, preparation method therefor, and lithium secondary battery comprising same A sulfur-carbon composite including a porous carbon material; and sulfur coated on at least a portion of an inside and a surface of the porous carbon material, wherein a pore volume of the sulfur-carbon composite is 0.04 to 0.400 cm3/g and a specific surface area of the sulfur-carbon composite is 4.0 to 30 m2/g, and a method for preparing the same.
US12034151B2	Polyimide bead materials and methods of manufacture thereof Nanoporous carbon-based scaffolds or structures, and specifically carbon aerogels and their manufacture and use thereof are provided. Embodiments include a silicon-doped anode material for a lithium-ion battery, where the anode material includes beads of a polyimide-derived carbon aerogel. The carbon aerogel may further include silicon particles and accommodates expansion of the silicon particles during lithiation. The anode material provides optimal properties for use within the lithium-ion battery.
US12034146B2	Electrode for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery including the same An electrode for a lithium secondary battery includes an electrode current collector, an electrode active material layer formed on at least one surface of the electrode current collector and including electrode active material particles, and a lithium salt-containing coating formed on at least portions of surfaces of the electrode active material particles or at least a portion of the surface of the electrode active material layer. The electrode for a lithium secondary battery may have a predetermined surface roughness.
US12034144B2	Solid-state synthesis for the fabrication of a layered anode material A method for forming a prelithiated, layered anode material includes contacting an ionic compound and a lithium precursor in an environment having a temperature ranging from about 200° C. to about 900° C. The ionic compound is a three-dimensional layered material represented by MX2, where M is one of calcium (Ca) and magnesium (Mg) and X is one of silicon (Si), germanium (Ge), and boron (B). The lithium precursor is selected from the group consisting of: LiH, LiC, LiOH, LiCl, and combinations thereof. The contacting of the ionic compound and the lithium precursor in the environment causes removal of cations from the ionic compound to create openings in interlayer spaces or voids in the three-dimensional layered material thereby defining a two-dimensional layered material and also causes introduction of lithium ions from the lithium precursor into the interlayer spaces or voids to form the prelithiated, layered anode material.
US12034142B2	Method of producing negative electrode plate for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery (A) A first layer is formed by applying a first negative electrode slurry to the surface of a negative electrode substrate. (B) A second layer is formed by applying a second negative electrode slurry to the surface of the first layer. The first negative electrode slurry includes a first negative electrode composite material. The second negative electrode slurry includes a second negative electrode composite material. Each of the first negative electrode composite material and the second negative electrode composite material includes a negative electrode active material and a cellulose-based binder. The negative electrode active material includes a first graphite powder and a second graphite powder. The first negative electrode composite material includes the cellulose-based binder at a first mass fraction. The second negative electrode composite material includes the cellulose-based binder at a second mass fraction.
US12034141B2	Heat-insulating sheet for battery pack, and battery pack A heat-insulating sheet for a battery pack is interposed between battery cells of the battery pack in which the battery cells are connected in series or in parallel. The heat-insulating sheet for the battery pack contains a first particle made from a silica nanoparticle and a second particle made from a metal oxide. A content of the first particle is 60 mass % or more and 95 mass % or less relative to a total mass of the first particle and the second particle.
US12034139B2	Heat dissipating structure and battery provided with the same In a heat, dissipating structure, a plurality of heat dissipating members for a heat source are connected. Each heat dissipating member has a heat conduction sheet that extends while winding in a spiral shape for conducting the heat from the heat source; a cushion member which is provided on an annular rear side of the heat conduction sheet and can be more easily deformed corresponding to the outer surface shape of the heat source than the heat conduction sheet; an adhesive layer that fixes the heat conduction sheet and the cushion member and is more easily deformed than the heat conduction sheet; and a through passage penetrating in the direction in which the heat conduction sheet extends while being wound. The heat dissipating members are connected by connection members in a state of being aligned perpendicular to the direction in which the heat conduction sheet extends while being wound.
US12034128B2	Battery pack A battery pack includes: a battery cell having a cell tab extending outwardly; a protection circuit module electrically connected to the cell tab to prevent over-charging and over-discharging of the battery cell; and a module case accommodating the protection circuit module and mounted on the battery cell, wherein the module case includes a first region, a second region positioned on the first region, and a third region extending from the first region through the second region, and the protection circuit module is accommodated in a cavity provided between the first region and the second region.
US12034126B2	Hybrid solid-state cell with a 3D porous cathode structure An electrochemical cell is provided, which includes a cathode comprising a three dimensional (3D) porous cathode structure, an anode, an electrolyte separator, comprised of a ceramic material, located between the cathode and the anode, and a cathode current collector, wherein the cathode is located between the cathode current collector and the electrolyte separator. The 3D porous cathode structure includes ionically conducting electrolyte strands extending through the cathode from the cathode current collector to the electrolyte separator, pores extending through the cathode from the cathode current collector to the electrolyte separator, and an electronically conducting network extending on sidewall surfaces of the pores from the cathode current collector to the electrolyte separator.
US12034125B2	Electrode and secondary battery including the same To improve the adhesion between an electrode material mixture and a solid electrolyte, and thereby suppress electrodeposition of lithium. This electrode includes a planar electrode current collector including a metal porous body, an electrode material mixture layer that fills pores of the metal porous body, and a solid electrolyte layer that fills pores of the metal porous body. The electrode material mixture layer is formed on one side of the electrode current collector, and the solid electrolyte layer is formed on the other side of the electrode current collector. The electrode material mixture layer and the solid electrolyte layer are stacked in a planar shape in the pores of the metal porous body.
US12034124B2	Solid state battery comprising a concavoconvex shape A solid state battery having a laminated structure with one or more positive electrode layers and one or more negative electrode layers alternately stacked with a solid electrolyte layer interposed therebetween; a positive end surface electrode electrically connected to the one or more positive electrode layers; and a negative end surface electrode electrically connected to the one or more negative electrode layers, wherein (1) at least one positive electrode layer has a concavoconvex shape in a plan view thereof at an end on a side thereof that is electrically connected to the positive end surface electrode, and/or (2) at least one negative electrode layer has a concavoconvex shape in a plan view thereof at an end on a side thereof that is electrically connected to the negative end surface electrode.
US12034123B2	Solid-state battery A solid-state battery that includes: at least one battery building block including: a positive electrode layer having a positive electrode active material layer; a negative electrode layer having a negative electrode active material layer; and a solid electrolyte layer interposed between the positive electrode layer and the negative electrode layer. The positive electrode layer has a first buffer portion at or adjacent to at least one end of the positive electrode layer, the first buffer portion having a density lower than a density of the positive active material layer in portions other than the at least one end thereof, and the negative electrode layer has a second buffer portion at or adjacent to at least one end of the negative electrode layer, the second buffer portion having a density lower than a density of the negative active material layer in portions other than the at least one end thereof.
US12034122B2	Electrolytic solution for lithium-ion secondary battery and lithium-ion secondary battery A lithium-ion secondary battery includes a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and an electrolytic solution that includes an alkoxy compound represented by CmX2m+1—O—(CX2)n—OH. Each X represents hydrogen (H) or a halogen, m is an integer of 1 or greater, n is an integer of 1 or greater, and (m+n) is 4 or greater.
US12034118B2	Rechargeable energy-storage device including partially-hydrolyzed structural hydrogel A rechargeable energy-storage device includes an anode; a cathode; a structural hydrogel disposed between the anode and the cathode, the structural hydrogel having hydrophilic segments and hydrophobic segments; and a porous carbon material disposed between the anode and the cathode. The hydrophilic segments and hydrophobic segments are uniformly distributed within the structural hydrogel.
US12034116B2	Glass solid electrolyte layer, methods of making glass solid electrolyte layer and electrodes and battery cells thereof Battery component structures and manufacturing methods for solid-state battery cells include a unitary Li ion conducting sulfide glass solid electrolyte structure that serves as the basic building block around which a solid-state battery cell can be fabricated. The unitary glass structure approach can leverage precision controlled high throughput processes from the semiconductor industry that have been inventively modified as disclosed herein for processing a sulfide glass solid electrolyte substrate into a unitary Li ion conducting glass structure, for example, by using etching and lithographic photoresist formulations and methods. The glass substrate may be precision engineered to effectuate a dense glass portion and a porous glass portion that can be characterized as sublayers having predetermined thicknesses. The porous glass sublayer includes a plurality of discrete substantially vertical closed-end holes or trenches that are precision engineered into one or both major substrate surfaces using microfabrication processes.
US12034113B2	LiZnCl4 derivatives in the group of Pmn21 as Li super-ionic conductor, solid electrolyte, and coating layer for Li metal battery and Li-ion battery Solid-state lithium ion electrolytes of lithium zinc chloride derivative compounds having a crystal morphology in the Pmn21 space group are provided as materials for conducting lithium ions. An activation energy of the lithium aluminum chloride derivative compounds is from 0.15 to 0.40 eV and conductivities are from 0.01 to 15 mS/cm at 300 K. Compounds of specific formulae are provided and methods to alter the materials with inclusion of aliovalent ions shown. Lithium batteries containing the composite lithium ion electrolytes and electrodes containing the lithium aluminum chloride derivative compounds are also provided.
US12034112B2	Metal element-containing sulfide-type solid electrolyte and method for producing same A metal element-containing sulfide solid electrolyte may have an effect of suppressing hydrogen sulfide generation and may express excellent working environments. Such a metal element-containing sulfide solid electrolyte may contain a lithium element, a sulfur element, a phosphorus element, a halogen element, and at least one metal element selected from metal elements of Groups 2 to 12 and Period 4 or higher of the Periodic Table, in which the molar ratio of the lithium element to the phosphorus element (Li/P) is 2.4 or more and 12 or less, and the molar ratio of the sulfur element to the phosphorus element (S/P) is 3.7 or more and 12 or less.
US12034108B2	Secondary battery, battery pack, electric vehicle, electric power storage system, electric power tool, and electronic apparatus A secondary battery includes a wound electrode body having a positive electrode, a negative electrode, and a separator. The positive electrode and the negative electrode are stacked on each other with the separator interposed therebetween and are wound about a winding axis. The wound electrode body has a section perpendicular to the winding axis. The section has an elongated shape that includes a flat part and a pair of curved parts. The curved parts oppose each other with the flat part interposed therebetween. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector and a negative electrode active material layer provided on the negative electrode current collector. A ratio of a second distance to a first distance is less than 1.

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