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| US12101225B2 |
Soft configuration and data exchange for in-home devices
A method of configuring a client device at a customer premises is provided. An electronic message is received from a vendor of a client device with customer premise equipment (CPE) at the customer premises or a portable communication device. The electronic message provides configuration information for the client device. The configuration information includes a password and an access name of a service for use in configuring the client device via communications with a remote configuration server. The service is made available at the customer premises via the CPE or the communication device so that the client device automatically pairs to the service and is authenticated with the password to the configuration server via Internet connectivity capability of the CPE or portable communication device so that the client device may be configured. The client device has firmware preprogramed to automatically and securely access the service, when detected, at the customer premises. |
| US12101224B2 |
Device lifetime-aware creation of customizable surrogate-based models
According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for adaptive surrogate modeling is provided. The embodiment may include capturing a plurality of system information for a smart Internet of Things (IoT) device. The embodiment may also include calculating a lifespan value of the smart IoT device based on the plurality of captured system information. The embodiment may further include, in response to the calculated lifespan value being below a threshold and a surrogate model fitting one or more parameters of the smart IoT device not existing, creating the surrogate model for the smart IoT device. The embodiment may also include deploying the created surrogate model to the smart IoT device through an update transmission. |
| US12101220B2 |
Methods and systems for troubleshooting network device
Embodiments of a device and method are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method of network device troubleshooting involves at a cloud server, assigning a troubleshooting task for troubleshooting a network device deployed at a customer site to an operator, at the cloud server, receiving data regarding an issue in the network device that is gathered by the operator at the customer site, and, at the cloud server, recommending a remedy action for the issue in the network device to the operator based on the data regarding the issue in the network device. |
| US12101219B2 |
Selective disaggregation advertisement for routing in multi-plane topologies
Techniques for identifying nodes in a data center fabric that are affected by a failure in the fabric, and selectively sending disaggregation advertisements to the nodes affected by the failure. The techniques include a process where a component monitors the network fabric to identify communication paths between leaf nodes, and determines what leaf nodes would be affected by a failure in those communication paths. The component may detect a failure in the network and determine which communication paths, and thus which leaf nodes, are affected by the failure and send disaggregation advertisements to the affected leaf nodes. In some examples, ingress leaf nodes send data through the fabric that indicate egress nodes for the communication paths. Intermediate nodes along may receive the data from the leaf nodes to identify communication paths, and the notify only affected nodes upon detecting a failure in the network. |
| US12101215B2 |
Power and spectral efficiency based on adding odd order modulations
Aspects are provided which allow for a network entity such as a base station to configure odd modulation orders to be applied to downlink or uplink transmissions via signaling between the network entity and the UE. Initially, the network entity transmits a configuration to the UE indicating network support for communications using odd order modulation. Afterwards, the UE transmits, and the network entity receives, data in a signal using the odd order modulation. As a result, improved SPEF, PAPR reduction, and phase noise mitigation associated with odd order modulations may be realized through application of odd order modulations to data transmissions or receptions based on network support being configured for such odd order modulations. |
| US12101213B2 |
Terminal apparatus, base station apparatus, and communication method
An apparatus includes a coder configured to generate a first coded bit sequence by error correction coding of a bit sequence of uplink control information, a rate matcher configured to generate a second coded bit sequence by applying a prescribed amount Cs of cyclic shift to the first coded bit sequence for an s-th uplink channel instance of S uplink channel instances, and a transmitter configured to transmit the second coded bit sequence by using the s-th uplink channel instance. The prescribed amount Cs is determined based on at least some or all of a prescribed amount Cs−1 for an (s−1)-th uplink channel instance, the number of OFDM symbols included in the (s−1)-th uplink channel instance, and the number Nblockbit of coded bits mapped per OFDM symbol. |
| US12101212B2 |
Cellular radio employing multiple power amplifiers for legacy communications
Cellular radios employing multiple power amplifiers for legacy communications are disclosed herein. In certain embodiments, a mobile phone includes a first antenna, a second antenna, and an RFFE including a first transmit path operable to transmit a first RF signal on the first antenna using a first communication standard in a first mode, and a second transmit path operable to transmit a second RF signal on the second antenna using the first communication standard in the first mode. Furthermore, in a second mode the RFFE is implemented to reuse the first transmit path and the second transmit path to synchronously transmit a third RF signal on the first antenna and the second antenna using a second communication standard. |
| US12101206B2 |
Signaling for additional training of neural networks for multiple channel conditions
A method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving, from a base station, a configuration to train a neural network for multiple different signal to noise ratios (SNRs) of a channel estimate for a wireless communication channel. The method also includes determining a current SNR of the channel estimate is above a first threshold value. The method further includes training the neural network based on the channel estimate, to obtain a first trained neural network. The method still further includes perturbing the channel estimate to obtain a perturbed channel estimate, and training the neural network based on the perturbed channel estimate, to obtain a second trained neural network. The method includes reporting, to the base station, parameters of the first trained neural network along with the channel estimate, and parameters of the second trained neural network. |
| US12101199B1 |
Conference system for use of multiple devices
A conference system is described that associates a first device and a second device to the same user, compares a first input from the first device and a second input from the second device, and modifies a setting of a conference session. The first input and the second input may be a video input or an audio input. The modification may include, for example, noise removal, determination of the user's AV feed device, or removing a background image. |
| US12101197B1 |
Temporarily suspending spatial constraints
Various implementations present a representation of a communication session involving multiple devices in different presentation modes based on spatial transforms between a physical environment and the representation of the communication session. For example, a representation of a communication session is presented based on the position of a first device within a first physical environment and a second spatial transform between the first physical environment and the representation of the communication session, in accordance with a determination to switch the first presentation mode to a second presentation mode. Then the representation of the communication session is presented based on the position of the first device within the first physical environment and the first spatial transform in accordance with a determination to switch the second presentation mode back to the first presentation mode. |
| US12101193B2 |
Methods and devices for downlink feedback indication processing
A method for downlink feedback indication processing perfumed by a user equipment includes: receiving (210) from a base station a downlink feedback indication (DFI) signal, where the DFI signal comprises an ACK/NACK indication associated with a first HARQ process defined for a transmission to the base station of an uplink data packet using time slot aggregation. A user equipment is also provided. |
| US12101190B2 |
Transmission priority determination method and apparatus, and computer readable storage medium
Provided are a method and apparatus for determining a transmission priority and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes that a transmitter determines a priority of a Hybrid Automatic Repeat reQuest (HARQ) process and that the transmitter transmits at least one of a traffic channel or a control channel according to the priority of the HARQ process. |
| US12101189B2 |
Method and device for scheduling uplink control channel in next generation wireless network
Provided is a method for scheduling an uplink control channel (PUCCH) in a next generation/5G wireless access network. The method of a terminal for scheduling a PUCCH may include: receiving, from a base station, timing relationship setting information between a downlink data channel (PDSCH) and a PUCCH; and scheduling the PUCCH on the basis of the timing relationship setting information. |
| US12101187B2 |
System and method for beam failure recovery request
Systems, devices, and techniques for beamforming in wireless communication systems are described. A described technique performed by a user equipment (UE) includes monitoring a downlink reference signal from a base station; transmitting, via a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) associated with a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) process number, a beam failure recovery request (BFRQ) in response to a change in a quality of the downlink reference signal, wherein the BFRQ comprises new beam information; receiving, by the UE, a downlink control information (DCI) message to trigger a PUSCH transmission corresponding to the HARQ process number; and transmitting, by the UE after at least a predetermined number of symbols from a last symbol of a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) reception containing the DCI message, information via a PUCCH in accordance with the new beam information. The UE can apply the new beam information to uplink and downlink channels. |
| US12101185B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting PPDU in duplicate (DUP) mode in a wireless communication system
A method performed by a transmitter in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises: identifying that a first parameter used for indicating a first puncturing pattern is set to be not present in a first frame based on predetermined condition; determining whether to operate in duplicate (DUP) mode; and in case that the transmitter determines to operate in the DUP mode, transmitting a second frame in the DUP mode, wherein data in a payload portion of the second frame is duplicated in frequency in the DUP mode. |
| US12101184B2 |
Method and system for reducing data stored in capture buffer
A method is provided for decompressing wide word data compressed in parallel. The method includes creating an instance of memory structure for a wide word in the wide word data, where the instance of memory structure is an inverse of a compression dictionary for the wide word; retrieving multiple compressed codes iteratively from a gap-free compressed output stream of the wide word data using the instance of memory structure, where each compressed code includes at least one character code and a reverse-pointer, and where at least one compressed code includes a multi-symbol string having a multiple character codes; forming an intermediate decompressed output stream by iteratively following the reverse-pointers for the multiple compressed codes, respectively; and forming decompressed output stream by reversing an order of the character codes in the multi-symbol string of the at least one compressed code. |
| US12101179B2 |
Methods for fast secondary cell activation and deactivation
A method is performed by user equipment (UE) for communicating on a secondary cell (SCell) with fast activation or deactivation. The method includes receiving, from a serving cell, a medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) including a plurality of bits, wherein individual bits of the plurality of bits each indicate whether respective secondary cells (SCells) of a fifth generation (5G) wireless cellular network are activated or deactivated. The method includes based on a numerology of the serving cell, determining an activation delay time for one or more activated SCells indicated by the plurality of bits of the MAC CE. The method includes communicating using the one or more activated SCells based on the determined activation delay time. |
| US12101177B2 |
Terminal and radio communication method
A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes: a receiving section that receives information related to a channel state information reference signal (CSI-RS) of a terminal according to an old release; and a control section that performs control of applying rate match or puncture to a specific channel or signal regarding a resource of the CSI-RS of the terminal according to the old release. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, even when there are terminals according to different releases, each of the terminals can appropriately perform communication. |
| US12101175B2 |
Wireless communication device and method
A wireless communication method for optimizing uplink transmission from a communication partner to a wireless communication device includes the following steps: after receiving an uplink performance estimation, determining uplink adjustment information including resource unit allocation and a target received signal strength indicator according to the uplink performance estimation; generating a target channel quality indicator (CQI) according to previous uplink sounding information and the uplink adjustment information, wherein the previous uplink sounding information indicates the characteristics of the uplink transmission; determining uplink transmission setting including a modulation and coding scheme and dual carrier modulation according to the target CQI and the type of an error correction technique and transmitting a control signal to a communication partner according to the uplink transmission setting; and updating the uplink performance estimation according to a reception signal from the communication partner, wherein the characteristic of the reception signal is affected by the uplink transmission setting. |
| US12101172B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing time source for autonomous driving
A method and an apparatus for providing a time source for autonomous driving are provided, which may be applied to autonomous driving of a vehicle in the field of artificial intelligence. The method includes: providing a first time source for a first subsystem of an autonomous driving system by using a first crystal oscillator, and providing a second time source for a second subsystem of the autonomous driving system based on a received satellite time signal. According to embodiments of the present disclosure, a stable and reliable global time source reference can be provided for the autonomous driving system, to ensure secure operation of the autonomous driving system, and meet a requirement of the system for coordinated universal time. |
| US12101171B2 |
Wideband transceiver
A wideband transceiver for a gateway is presented. The wideband transceiver may interface with the gateway's processors over an interface that carries data encapsulated in baseband frames. The wideband transceiver may comprise a modulator and a high power amplifier and may improve a transmitted signal quality and may utilize a wideband for wireless communications, for example, for a satellite communication system. |
| US12101168B2 |
Terrestrial based high speed data communications mesh network
A network for providing high speed data communications may include multiple terrestrial transmission stations that are located within overlapping communications range and a mobile receiver station. The terrestrial transmission stations provide a continuous and uninterrupted high speed data communications link with the mobile receiver station employing a wireless radio access network protocol. |
| US12101164B2 |
Repeater system and method for high-performance communication
A repeater system includes a first repeater device that receives a first beam of radio frequency (RF) signal from a first network node and a second repeater device that receives a second beam of RF signal from the first network node. The first repeater device controls the second repeater device to provide the first beam of RF signal and the second beam of RF signal to a second network node and select a plurality of signal parameters at the first repeater device and the second repeater device for the first beam of RF signal and the second beam of RF signal respectively, based on a plurality of measurements. The first repeater device further controls the second repeater device to establish an additional link with the second repeater device to create an additional dimension in a MIMO channel between the first network node and the second network node. |
| US12101163B2 |
Radio frequency signal boosters serving as outdoor infrastructure in high frequency cellular networks
Radio frequency signal boosters serving as outdoor cellular infrastructure are provided. In certain embodiments, a signal booster system for a high frequency cellular network includes a parabolic base station antenna configured to receive a downlink signal of a frequency band higher than 20 gigahertz and to transmit an amplified uplink signal of the frequency band, booster circuitry configured to amplify an uplink signal to generate the amplified uplink signal and to amplify the downlink signal to generate an amplified downlink signal, and a mobile station antenna configured to receive the uplink signal and to transmit the amplified downlink signal. |
| US12101159B2 |
System and apparatus for geospatial cognitive networking
A method for providing a self-reliant secondary network of communication nodes using resources associated with a primary network defining sector beams using corresponding resources including respective SSBs includes performing a beam search with respect to the sector beams, performing beam detection to detect neighboring beams among the sector beams, and performing geospatial beam selection to define a selected set of SSBs of respective ones of the sector beams as being geospatial white space unlikely to interfere with the primary network when utilized by the communication nodes in the secondary network. The method may further include performing power control with respect to the selected set of SSBs, and applying medium access control protocols to enable the secondary network to use the selected set of SSBs of the primary network. |
| US12101154B2 |
Transmission method and device, and computer readable storage medium
Disclosed are a transmission method and device, and a computer readable storage medium. The transmission method includes steps described below. A transmission mode of a first communication node is determined; at least one of a codebook or a transmission power ratio is determined according to the transmission mode; and a transmission is sent according to at least one of the codebook or the transmission power ratio. |
| US12101152B2 |
Channel construction for unsounded MIMO channel
According to certain embodiments, a method for use in a network node for constructing an unsounded channel in a wireless network wherein the network node comprises more antennas than a wireless device and the wireless device comprises more than one receive antenna comprises: receiving channel state information (CSI) feedback and a sounded reference signal from the wireless device; estimating a sounded channel from the sounded reference signal; deriving a partial downlink channel based on the sounded reference signal; constructing an unsounded channel as a function of the CSI feedback and the partial downlink channel; concatenating the sounded channel and unsounded channel into a full channel; and transmitting a wireless signal to the wireless device using the full channel for beamforming or link adaptation. |
| US12101149B2 |
Frequency domain scheduling with time domain beamforming
Embodiments described herein relate to methods and apparatuses for providing communication between a base station and at least one wireless device using a first beam. A method in a base station comprises receiving an indication of two or more beams, wherein the two or more beams meet a quality criterion associated with the at least one wireless device; obtaining a combined beam vector, w, based on a weighted sum of two or more beam vectors, bk, associated with the two or more beams; and communicating with the at least one wireless device using the first beam, wherein the first beam is generated using the combined beam vector. |
| US12101147B2 |
Heterogenous beamforming capability with mixed beamforming architecture
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may transmit control signaling indicating a set of beamforming configurations associated with a set of antenna panels at the UE. The UE may select one or more antenna elements of at least one antenna panel of the set of antenna panels based on a beamforming configuration associated with the at least one antenna panel. The UE may generate a set of beam weights for a wireless communication based on the beamforming configuration and the one or more antenna elements, and may use the generated set of beam weights to transmit the wireless communication. In some examples, the UE may include, in the control signaling, indications of a set of beamforming properties, a number of beam weights, a resource differential, or a combination thereof, associated with each beamforming configuration. |
| US12101145B2 |
Localization and auto-calibration in a wireless network
Methods, systems and devices for wireless communication, which include localization and auto-calibration, are described. One example method includes receiving, at a wireless device, signal transmissions from one or more network devices, and generating, by processing the signal transmissions, a feedback signal for antenna calibration of the one or more network devices. In some embodiments, the antenna calibration is used for performing device localization and feature map generation that is subsequently used for scheduling transmissions in a wireless network. |
| US12101144B2 |
Exploration of inactive ranks or inactive precoders
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a signal. The UE may measure the signal to explore one or more inactive ranks or inactive precoders. The UE may transmit, based at least in part on the measuring, a report that includes channel state information for at least one of the one or more inactive ranks or inactive precoders. Numerous other aspects are described. |
| US12101143B2 |
Selecting a demapping technique based on QR decomposition
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a receiving device may receive a wireless signal represented as a receive matrix. The wireless signal carries one or more information symbols modified through a wireless channel that is represented as a channel matrix. The receiving device may perform QR decomposition on the channel matrix to generate an upper triangular channel matrix. The receiving device may determine a selected demapping technique using the upper triangular channel matrix. The receiving device may perform the selected demapping technique on the receive matrix and the channel matrix. Numerous other aspects are described. |
| US12101142B2 |
Method, device and computer readable medium of communication
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and computer readable storage media of communication. A network device transmits, to a terminal device, channel state information reference signals associated with first number of ports at the network device; receives, from the terminal device, compressed channel state information generated based on capability of the terminal device; and recoveries, from the compressed channel state information, channel state information associated with second number of ports at the network device, the second number of ports being not less than the first number of ports. The terminal device receives, from the network device, the channel state information reference signals associated with the first number of ports at the network device; determines channel state information based on the channel state information reference signals; compresses the channel state information based on capability of the terminal device; and transmits the compressed channel state information to the network device for recovery of the channel state information associated with the second number of ports. As such, CSI can be acquired more accurately with reduced complexity and overhead. |
| US12101130B2 |
Very low frequency signals for underwater communications
A method, apparatus, system, and computer program product for processing low frequency signals. A communications system comprising a low frequency receiver, a denoiser, and a signal extractor. The low frequency receiver receives low frequency signals in which a communications signal is expected. The denoiser is in communication with the low frequency receiver. The denoiser denoises the low frequency signals received from the low frequency receiver. The denoising results in a generation of denoised signals. The signal extractor in communication with the denoiser. The signal extractor extracts the communications signal from the denoised signal. |
| US12101122B2 |
Hybrid integration of microLED interconnects with ICs
For optical communications between semiconductor ICs, optical transceiver assembly subsystems may be integrated with a processor. The optical transceiver assembly subsystems may be monolithically integrated with processor ICs or they may be provided in separate optical transceiver ICs coupled to or attached to the processor ICs. |
| US12101117B2 |
Port identification method, apparatus, and system
This application provides a port identification method, apparatus, and system, and belongs to the field of optical communications technologies. According to this application, a connection relationship between the ONT and the optical splitter and a connection relationship between the ONT and the port of the optical splitter can be accurately identified. |
| US12101116B2 |
System for correcting phase noise and/or drift occurring in optical fibers
A system for correcting phase noise and/or drift includes an optical signal module, at least one optical transport module, at least one sampling module, an analysis circuit, and a measurement instrument. The optical signal module is capable of outputting a modulated optical signal. The at least one optical signal transport module includes a beam splitter capable of separating at least backward travelling waves based on polarization. The at least one optical signal transport module further includes a partially reflecting reflector capable of creating a backward travelling wave, the partially reflecting reflector being located after the polarization rotator. The at least one sampling module is configured to receive and sample the backward travelling wave created by the partially reflecting reflector and forwarded to the at least one sampling module by the beam splitter, thereby obtaining an electric correction signal. The analysis circuit is configured to correct measurement data obtained by the measurement instrument based on the electric correction signal. |
| US12101113B2 |
Radio frequency module, control method, and electronic device
A radio frequency (RF) module includes a RF transceiver module, a first antenna, a second antenna, a first duplexer, and a second duplexer. The RF transceiver module is configured for RF signal reception and transmission. The first antenna is configured to transmit a first transmit (Tx) signal and receive a first primary receive (PRx) signal. A first end of the first duplexer is coupled with the RF transceiver module, and a second end of the first duplexer is coupled with the first antenna. The second antenna is configured to transmit a second Tx signal and receive a second PRx signal. A first end of the second duplexer is coupled with the RF transceiver module, and a second end of the second duplexer is coupled with the second antenna. A control method, an electronic device, and a storage medium are further disclosed by the present disclosure. |
| US12101109B2 |
Intelligent thermal and power management in a wireless communications device in a wireless communications system (WCS)
Intelligent thermal and power management in a wireless communications device in a wireless communications system (WCS) is disclosed. In a non-limiting example, the wireless communications device can be a base station (e.g., eNB) in the WCS. The wireless communications device includes a number of sensor circuits each configured to perform a sensory measurement (e.g., temperature measurement) in a specific circuit or at a specific location of the wireless communications device. A control circuit is provided in the wireless communications device support intelligent thermal and power management in the wireless communications device. Specifically, the control circuit determines that the sensory measurement is above an abnormal threshold(s) and performs one or more corrective actions accordingly to reduce the sensory measurement to a desirable threshold. By employing intelligent thermal and power management in the wireless communications device, it is possible to improve performance and reduce size of the wireless communications device. |
| US12101108B2 |
Mobile devices with merged frequency range one and intermediate frequency signal path
Mobile devices with a merged Frequency Range 1 (FR1) and intermediate frequency (IF) path for frequency range 2 (FR2) are disclosed. In certain embodiments, a mobile device includes a transceiver including a shared transmit channel that generates an FR1 transmit signal and an IF transmit signal. The mobile device further includes a first antenna and an FR1 front end system coupled to the transceiver and operable to transmit the FR1 transmit signal on the first antenna. The mobile device further includes a second antenna and an FR2 front end system coupled to the transceiver and operable to upconvert the IF transmit signal to generate an FR2 transmit signal, and to transmit the FR2 transmit signal on the second antenna. |
| US12101107B2 |
Signaling of coding tree unit block partitioning in neural network model compression
A method of neural network decoding includes receiving a first syntax element in a model parameter set from a bitstream of a compressed neural network representation (NNR) of a neural network. The first syntax element indicates whether a coding tree unit (CTU) block partitioning is enabled for a tensor in an NNR aggregate unit. The method also includes reconstructing the tensor in the NNR aggregate unit based on the first syntax element. |
| US12101106B2 |
Compression of data that exhibits mixed compressibility
Systems and methods for compression of data that exhibits mixed compressibility, such as floating-point data, are provided. As one example, aspects of the present disclosure can be used to compress floating-point data that represents the values of parameters of a machine-learned model. Therefore, aspects of the present disclosure can be used to compress machine-learned models (e.g., for reducing storage requirements associated with the model, reducing the bandwidth expended to transmit the model, etc.). |
| US12101104B2 |
Self-calibration circuit for delta-sigma modulators, corresponding device and method
A delta-sigma modulator includes a quantizer, a signal propagation path including a plurality of cascaded integrators coupled between the input node and the quantizer, and a feedback network including a plurality of digital-to-analog converters. In a calibration mode of operation, a first digital-to-analog converter of the plurality of digital-to-analog converters of the feedback network receives a signal including a periodic alternated digital sequence, the first digital-to-analog converter being coupled to a first integrator of the plurality of cascaded integrators, integrators of the plurality of cascaded integrators other than the first integrator operate in a gain mode of operation, the delta-sigma modulator generates a digital test signal at an output of the quantizer based on the signal including the periodic alternated digital sequence, and calibration circuitry generates a calibration signal based on the digital test signal and a reference digital word. |
| US12101103B2 |
Information processing device and information processing method
An information processing device coupled to a first switch among a plurality of switches and included in a plurality of information processing devices includes: a memory; and a processor coupled to the memory and configured to: store, in the memory, communication destination information based on a plurality of bit strings related to communication destinations of collective communication; and communicate with an information processing device connected to a second switch among the plurality of switches on a basis of the communication destination information. Some information processing devices that include the information processing device among the plurality of information processing devices participate in the collective communication, and the plurality of bit strings is selected from a bit string set related to the communication destinations of the plurality of information processing devices on a basis of the number of the some information processing devices. |
| US12101099B2 |
Differential charge sampling circuit with integrated faraday shield
A sampling capacitor structure, which includes a Faraday Shield that can be switched between various nodes. In a switched capacitor circuit, this sampling capacitor structure allows for differential charging of the sampling capacitor while minimizing the effects of any parasitic stray capacitor. Furthermore, with appropriate switching of the Faraday Shield, once the differential charge sampling circuit samples the differential signal, this sampled differential charge can then be transferred to a downstream single-ended circuit, such as an integrator, without any loss of signal. |
| US12101089B2 |
Enhanced rising and falling transitions for level shifting low-voltage input signals
A level-shifter is provided with a first transistor and a second transistor. The first transistor functions to discharge an internal node responsive to an assertion of an inverted input signal to a first power supply voltage. A second transistor functions to discharge an inverted level-shifter output signal responsive to an assertion of an input signal to the first power supply voltage. An inverter inverts the inverted level-shifter output signal to form a level-shifter output signal that is asserted to a second power supply voltage responsive to the assertion of the input signal. |
| US12101087B2 |
Bistable physical unclonable function circuit based on subthreshold leakage current deviation
A bistable physical unclonable function circuit based on subthreshold leakage current deviation comprises a time sequence control circuit, a decoder, 16 bias voltage converters and a PUF array, wherein the time sequence control circuit is used for generating a precharge signal and an enable signal, the decoder is used for converting an external stimulus signal into 16 decoded signals under the control of the precharge signal and the enable signal, the kth bias voltage converter is used for converting the kth decoded signal into a kth word line signal which is input to the PUF array, the PUF array is used for generating 16 response signals under the control of the precharge signal and the 16 word line signals, and comprises four PMOS transistors, four NMOS transistors, two two-input NAND gates and sixteen PUF units, and each PUF unit comprises two NMOS transistors. |
| US12101081B2 |
Surface acoustic wave resonator device and method of manufacturing the same, filter
A surface acoustic wave resonator device, its manufacturing method, and a filter are disclosed. The device includes a piezoelectric substrate, and an interdigital transducer on a side of the substrate, having an interdigital electrode region, and including a first interdigital electrode and a first interdigital electrode lead-out part connected to each other, and a second interdigital electrode and a second interdigital electrode lead-out part connected to each other. The first and second interdigital electrodes are located in the interdigital electrode region, extending along a first direction and alternately arranged in a second direction. The first and second interdigital electrode lead-out parts are located on opposite sides of the interdigital electrode region. A first conductive structure and a second conductive structure overlap with end portions of the interdigital electrodes and are electrically connected to the corresponding interdigital electrodes, respectively. |
| US12101079B2 |
Method of producing a bonded body of piezoelectric material substrate
A silicon film is provided on a supporting substrate composed of silicon by physical vapor deposition. The silicon film is subjected to heat treatment at a temperature of 400° C. or higher and 600° C. or lower to generate an intermediate layer. The piezoelectric material substrate is bonded to the supporting substrate through a bonding layer of silicon oxide and the intermediate layer. A method of providing an acoustic wave element with a bonded body is also provided. |
| US12101077B2 |
Bulk acoustic wave device with raised frame structure
Aspects of this disclosure relate to a bulk acoustic wave device with a multi-layer raised frame. The bulk acoustic wave device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a piezoelectric layer positioned between the first electrode and the second electrode, and a multi-layer raised frame structure configured to cause lateral energy leakage from a main acoustically active region of the bulk acoustic wave device to be reduced. The multi-layer raised frame structure includes a first raised frame layer embedded in the piezoelectric layer and a second raised frame layer. The first raised frame layer has a lower acoustic impedance than the piezoelectric layer. |
| US12101072B2 |
Glitch reduction in phase shifters
Methods and devices to reduce glitches in phase shifters implementing high isolation switches are disclosed. Such glitches occur at the output of the phase shifters when transitioning from one phase shift to another. The disclosed method implements delays in various steps of the phase shifter transitions. Exemplary embodiments implementing single-pole multi-throw are provided and exemplary performance of the disclosed methods are also presented. The described methods are also applicable to multi-step attenuators. |
| US12101070B2 |
Method and system for processing audio signal
A method for processing an audio signal includes setting target loudness; receiving metadata of an audio signal from a server; and adjusting the loudness of the audio signal by using the received metadata, so that the loudness of the audio signal corresponds to the set target loudness. |
| US12101068B2 |
Push-pull output driver and operational amplifier using same
A voltage driver circuit for an output stage of an operational amplifier, or other circuits, includes a level shifter and an output driver including a source follower and a common source amplifier in a push-pull configuration. The level shifter generates a node voltage as a function of an input voltage on the input node. The output driver including a first transistor having a control terminal receiving the node voltage, and connected between a supply voltage and an output node, and a second transistor having a control terminal receiving the input voltage from the input node, and connected between the output node and a reference voltage, wherein the first and second transistors have a common conductivity type. |
| US12101066B2 |
Compact architecture for multipath low noise amplifier
Methods and devices used in mobile receiver front end to support multiple paths and multiple frequency bands are described. The presented devices and methods provide benefits of scalability, frequency band agility, as well as size reduction by using one low noise amplifier per simultaneous outputs. Based on the disclosed teachings, variable gain amplification of multiband signals is also presented. |
| US12101065B2 |
Dual voltage switched branch LNA architecture
Methods and circuital arrangements for turning OFF branches of a multi-branch cascode amplifier are presented. First and second switching arrangements coupled to a branch allow turning OFF the branch while protecting transistors of the branch from a supply voltage that may be greater than a tolerable voltage of the transistors. The first switching arrangement includes a transistor-based switch that is in series connection with the transistors of the branch. The first switching arrangement drops the supply voltage during the OFF state of the branch and provides a conduction path for a current through the branch during the ON state of the branch. A resistor and a shunting switch are coupled to a gate of the transistor-based switch to reduce parasitic coupling effects of the transistor-based switch upon an RF signal coupled to the branch during the ON state and OFF state of the branch. |
| US12101064B2 |
Vacuum tube amplifier module and assembly method thereof
The present exemplary embodiments proposes a vacuum tube amplifier module which removes a noise caused by external shock or vibration, including a vacuum tube amplifier which includes an amplifier in a vacuum tube to increase an energy of an input signal to output the energy as an output signal, an assembly unit which fixes at least one side of the vacuum tube amplifier so as to primarily remove the noise, and a magnet which is assembled in the assembly unit to levitate the amplifier so as to secondarily remove the noise to make the noise a predetermined reference value or lower. |
| US12101063B2 |
Distributed power management apparatus
A distributed power management apparatus is provided. The distributed power management apparatus includes an envelope tracking (ET) integrated circuit (ETIC) and a distributed ETIC separated from the ETIC. The ETIC is configured to generate a number of ET voltages for a number of power amplifier circuits and the distributed ETIC is configured to generate a distributed ET voltage(s) for a distributed power amplifier circuit(s). In a non-limiting example, the number of power amplifier circuits and the distributed power amplifier circuit(s) can be disposed on opposite sides (e.g., top and bottom) of a wireless device. As such, in embodiments disclosed herein, the ETIC is provided closer to the power amplifier circuits and the distributed ETIC is provided closer to the distributed power amplifier circuit(s). By providing the ETIC and the distributed ETIC closer to the respective power amplifier circuits, it is possible to reduce trace inductance and unwanted signal distortion. |
| US12101062B1 |
Temperature-reporting oscillator
In an integrated circuit device having a microelectromechanical-system (MEMS) resonator and a temperature transducer, a clock signal is generated by sensing resonant mechanical motion of the MEMS resonator and a temperature signal indicative of temperature of the MEMS resonator is generated via the temperature transducer. The clock signal and the temperature signal are output from the integrated circuit device concurrently. |
| US12101058B2 |
Solar and wind energy network
A system, method, and solar photovoltaic (PV) network for solar PV variability reduction with reduced time delays and battery storage optimization are described. The system includes a Moving Regression (MR) filter; a State of Charge (SoC) feedback control; and a Battery Energy Storage System (BESS). The MR filter, SoC feedback control and BESS are configured to provide smoothing of solar PV variabilities. The MR filter is a non-parametric smoother that utilizes a machine learning concept of linear regression to smooth out solar PV variations at every time step. |
| US12101052B2 |
Electric vehicle control system, control method, and computer-readable storage medium
An electric vehicle control system and a control method, an electric vehicle power-on method, an electric vehicle power-off method, and an electric vehicle charging method are disclosed in this application. The control system includes a domain control unit controlling an electric vehicle, a current sampling unit sampling the current of a power battery and a motor of the electric vehicle and sending sampling signals to the domain control unit, and electrical device, driven by the power battery, sampling the current flowing through it and sending the sampling signals to the domain control unit. The domain control unit, according to the sampling signals sent by the electrical device and the current sampling unit, manages the power battery and controls a motor driver module and the electrical device. The structure of the control system and the control policy are simplified and the power-on and power-off time is shortened. |
| US12101051B2 |
Controlling brushless motor commutation
The present invention relates to a method of commutation control of a brushless DC (BLDC) motor. The method uses a controller to control the BLDC motor using a modified six-step commutation. The method adds six intermediate steps that overlap the six-step commutation. Each of the six steps overlap with preceding and following steps, resulting in six additional intermediate steps in which all three phases are active. By doubling the number of steps, current and torque will vary less over time compared with current solutions without increasing the size or changing the design of the motor. |
| US12101045B2 |
Systems and methods for identifying a magnetic mover
A system is described in which a magnetic mover includes at least one mover identification device. The system also includes a stator defining a work surface and including an actuation coil assembly and at least one stator identification device operable to interact with the at least one mover identification device. One or more sensors are used to sense a position of the first magnetic mover. One or more stator driving circuits are used to drive the actuation coil assembly to thereby move the first magnetic mover over the work surface. The first magnetic mover includes one or more magnetic components positioned such that interaction of one or more magnetic fields emitted by the one or more magnetic components with one or more magnetic fields generated by the actuation coil assembly when driven by the one or more stator driving circuits enables movement of the first magnetic mover in at least two degrees of freedom. |
| US12101043B2 |
Neural network and torque feedback-based control of vehicle electric traction motor
A system in a vehicle includes a controller to implement a neural network to provide current commands based on inputs. The inputs include a torque input. The system also includes a current controller to provide a three-phase voltage through an inverter based on the current commands from the controller. An electric traction motor provides drive power to a transmission of the vehicle based on injection of the three-phase voltage. The current commands resulting from implementation of the neural network are corrected based on estimated torque resulting from the injection of the three-phase voltage to the electric traction motor. |
| US12101042B2 |
System and method for controlling electric motors to function as a virtual electronic locking differential
A system includes a reference speed module and a motor control module. The reference speed module is configured to determine a reference speed range based on a speed of a left wheel of a pair of front or rear wheels of a vehicle and a speed of a right wheel of the pair of front or rear wheels. The right wheel is disconnected from the left wheel. The motor control module is configured to control at least one of a first electric motor and a second electric motor based on the reference speed range. The first electric motor is connected to the left wheel. The second electric motor is connected to the right wheel. |
| US12101041B2 |
Self-powered sensor nodes for structural health monitoring
A self-powered sensor node includes a printed wiring board connected to a patch. The printed wiring board includes a microcontroller, a transceiver, an antenna, and a power management module connected to supply electric power to the microcontroller. The patch comprises a metamaterial substrate and a piezoelectric element adhered to the metamaterial substrate. The piezoelectric element is connected to the power management module and to the microcontroller. The power management module is configured to store electric power received from the piezoelectric element. The microcontroller is configured to selectively convert electrical signals received from the piezoelectric element into sensor data and then command the transceiver to transmit the sensor data via the antenna. The metamaterial substrate has an auxetic kirigami honeycomb structure. |
| US12101038B2 |
Uninterruptible power supply having short circuit load capability
An inverter is provided. The inverter includes a DC bus having positive and negative rails and an inverter arm coupled between the positive and negative rails of the DC bus. The inverter arm includes first and second silicon carbide transistor having a current-conducting terminals connected to a central node of the inverter arm. The inverter further includes at least one silicon transistor having a third current-conducting terminal connected to the central node of the inverter arm. The inverter further includes a gate driver circuit configured to switch the first silicon carbide transistor and the second silicon carbide transistor to convert DC from said DC bus into AC, and to switch said at least one silicon transistor, when the inverter arm is subjected to a load-side short circuit current, to freewheel the load-side short circuit current. |
| US12101035B2 |
System with multiple power controllers to reduce harmonics
A power controller system comprises multiple power controllers that receive a periodic waveform input and that apply power to multiple loads. A switch-on time and a switch-off time is for each of the power controllers within a cycle of the periodic waveform input. The power controllers generate output waveforms to be applied to the loads that are partial segments of the cycle of the periodic waveform input. Each of the power controllers includes a switchable power component that can be switched on and switched off at any time and that can conduct current in both forward and reverse directions. |
| US12101034B2 |
Power converter apparatus converting input power having a predetermined voltage into output power having a predetermined output voltage over wide range with higher efficiency
A power conversion device is equipped with at least one leg circuit containing two switching elements connected in series, respectively, a transformer having a primary winding and a secondary winding, a capacitor connected between the leg circuit and one end of the primary winding, a switch circuit, and a rectifier circuit. The switch circuit selectively connects one of a plurality of winding sections of the secondary winding that are different from each other to the rectifier circuit. |
| US12101033B2 |
Asymmetrical half-bridge flyback and control method
This application provides a switching conversion circuit, including: a power module, supplying power to a switching conversion module and an integrated circuit (IC) controller; and the switching conversion module is an asymmetrical half-bridge flyback structure and includes at least a first switching transistor, a second switching transistor, a first capacitor, and a transformer. The transformer includes a first secondary-side winding and a second secondary-side winding, and the first secondary-side winding of the transformer is coupled to a load. The IC controller turns on the first switching transistor or the second switching transistor based on a value of a first voltage, so that the switching conversion module enters an operating state to supply power to the load; and turns off the first switching transistor and the second switching transistor based on a value of a second voltage, so that the switching conversion module stops supplying power to the load. |
| US12101025B2 |
Switched-mode power supply, power supply circuit thereof, and power supply method
A switched-mode power supply includes a first switch transistor. A drain of the first switch transistor receives an input voltage on a direct current input bus of the switched-mode power supply, and a source is connected to a reference ground. The power supply circuit includes a junction field-effect transistor (JFET), where a drain of the JFET receives the input voltage, a gate is connected to the reference ground, and a source outputs a supply voltage or a supply current. During each switch cycle, the first switch transistor is controlled to be turned off or a drain voltage is controlled to be greater than or equal to a first threshold voltage when the first switch transistor is turned on, such that the supply voltage or the supply current satisfies a drive voltage of the first switch transistor and an operating voltage of a to-be-powered circuit of the switched-mode power supply. |
| US12101023B2 |
Low power PFC converter
A power converter can include an input PFC stage that receives a rectified input voltage coupled to a flyback stage including a center-tapped primary winding magnetically coupled to a secondary winding and a main switch coupled in series with the primary winding. The output of the PFC stage can be coupled to the center tap of the primary winding, and an output of the power converter can be coupled to the secondary winding of the flyback stage. The converter can further include control circuitry coupled to the main switch and an auxiliary switch in the PFC stage that operates the main switch to regulate an output voltage of the power converter, selectively enables the auxiliary switch responsive to a low line voltage condition at the input of the power converter, and operates the enabled auxiliary switch synchronously with the main switch. |
| US12101020B2 |
Multi-mode power system and power conversion circuit thereof
A multi-mode power system includes a battery module, a first conversion circuit, and a second conversion circuit. The battery module includes a battery path switch and a battery group. The first conversion circuit includes switches and a first capacitor, wherein the switches include the battery path switch. The multi-mode power system operates in one of plural operation mode combinations, wherein when the first conversion circuit operates in a first outgoing mode or a first bypass mode, the second conversion circuit operates in a second incoming mode, a second outgoing mode, or a second bypass mode; when the first conversion circuit operates in a first incoming mode, the second conversion circuit operates in the second incoming mode or the second bypass mode. |
| US12101019B2 |
Electronic device and method of operating the same
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display including a display driver integrated circuit (IC), a power supply device configured to supply driving power to the display, a processor operatively connected to the display driver IC and the power supply device, and a memory operatively connected to the processor. The memory may store instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to control the power supply device to supply different driving power depending on a display mode of the display. |
| US12101017B2 |
Coolant fluid sprayer assembly for electric motor
Various disclosed embodiments include illustrative sprayer assemblies, electric motor assemblies, and vehicles with cooling assemblies for stator windings of electric motors. An illustrative sprayer assembly includes a first spray device assembly configured to receive a fluid and further configured to spray the fluid therefrom. A second spray device assembly is configured to receive the fluid and is further configured to spray the fluid therefrom. A connecting tube is fluidly couplable to the first spray device assembly and the second spray device assembly and is configured to provide the fluid from the first spray device assembly to the second spray device assembly. |
| US12101016B2 |
Electric motor unit
An electric motor unit includes: a case; a stator accommodated in the case; a rotor that is rotatably held inside the stator; a rotation shaft that is provided in the rotor and is rotatably supported by the case; a cooling device configured to inject a cooling liquid toward the stator; a gas passage that has a respiratory membrane that allows air to pass through and penetrates from an inner wall surface to an outer wall surface of the case; and a predetermined electrical component arranged between an injection port of the cooling device and an inner wall surface side opening of the gas passage. The gas passage is opened at the inner wall surface of a wall portion on one side of the case in an axial direction. |
| US12101015B2 |
High-speed motor and assembling method thereof
The present disclosure discloses a high-speed motor and an assembling method. The high-speed motor includes an air duct housing, a rotor subassembly, a stator subassembly, a bearing sleeve subassembly, and a fan blade. A mounting ring coaxial with the air duct housing is arranged at the middle right part in the air duct housing; several air guide plates are uniformly distributed between an outer wall of the mounting ring and an inner wall of the air duct housing; a bearing sleeve mounting cavity, a bearing mounting cavity, and a stator mounting cavity being respectively arranged at a left part, a middle part and a right part in the mounting ring; the rotor subassembly is coaxial with the mounting ring and is mounted in the mounting ring in a horizontal direction. The present disclosure has the advantages of reducing the resonance, lowering the noise, and the like. |
| US12101011B2 |
Electromagnetic actuator
An electromagnetic actuator including a first object comprising at least one magnet; and a second object comprising at least one magnet. The first object and the second object are movable relative to each other. The first object is an oscillator and the second object is a stator, or the first object is a stator and the second object is an oscillator. The first object is essentially arranged inside the second object. The actuator comprises at least one first actuator side where magnets of the first object and the second object are arranged opposite each other and act upon each other. On the at least one actuator side an uneven number of poles of the one object are arranged opposite an even number of poles of the other object. |
| US12101007B2 |
Flywheel systems and flywheel bearing modules
A flywheel system includes a fixture providing a base and a stator, rotor having a cavity to receive the stator, a generator/motor module having a plurality of permanent magnets mechanically coupled to the rotor and an active magnetic bearing module. The active magnetic bearing module includes a plurality of magnetizable elements mechanically coupled to or integrated in the rotor, and a plurality of electromagnets mechanically coupled to a shaft and configured to magnetically couple with the plurality of first magnetizable elements to actively stabilize the rotor relative to the fixture. The windings of the generator/motor module are arranged around the rotation axis of the rotor at a first distance from the rotation axis of the rotor, the electromagnets of the active magnetic bearing module are arranged around the rotation axis of the rotor at a second distance, and the first distance is greater than or equal to the second distance. |
| US12101006B2 |
Motor, and method for manufacturing stator provided in motor
According to an embodiment, provided is a motor which comprises: a shaft; a rotor coupled to the shaft; a stator disposed corresponding to the rotor; and a housing disposed on the outside of the stator. The stator includes: a stator core; an insulator coupled to the stator core; a plurality of projections extending from the lower end of the insulator; and a protruding portion disposed below the insulator and fixed to the housing. The plurality of projections are spaced apart from each other in the circumferential direction, and at least a portion of the protruding portion is disposed in the spaces formed between the plurality of projections. |
| US12101002B2 |
Motor
An embodiment may provide a motor including a shaft, a rotor coupled to the shaft, and a stator disposed between the shaft and the rotor, wherein the rotor includes a yoke coupled to the shaft and a driving magnet and a sensing magnet which are coupled to the yoke, the sensing magnet includes a first sensing magnet and a second sensing magnet, a first pole and a second pole are alternately disposed on a first circumference of the first sensing magnet, and the second sensing magnet is disposed on a second circumference having a radius different from a radius of the first circumference and includes a first pole and a second pole of which a length in a circumferential direction is different from a length of the first pole of the second sensing magnet in the circumferential direction. |
| US12100999B2 |
Permanent-magnet fault-tolerant in-wheel motor based on active sensorless strategy and drive and design methods thereof
The present disclosure provides a permanent-magnet fault-tolerant in-wheel motor based on an active sensorless strategy and drive and design methods thereof. The present disclosure proposes the permanent-magnet fault-tolerant in-wheel motor drive system based on an active sensorless strategy by considering sensorless operation performance in advance in a motor design stage. The present disclosure adopts fractional-slot concentrated windings, and ingeniously arranges alternating poles, a multi-layer magnetic barrier, and auxiliary permanent magnets, thus improving a sensorless operation accuracy of the motor while ensuring fault tolerance of the motor. The present disclosure proposes a frequency-band-adaptive secondary harmonic suppression strategy at a control layer to suppress an influence of a secondary salient harmonic on position observation and improve dynamic response performance of a system. |
| US12100998B2 |
Motor
A motor 1 includes a stator having an annular shape; and a rotor including a rotor magnet surrounding the stator, wherein an outer diameter of the rotor is in a range from 80 mm to 100 mm, the stator includes a yoke having an annular shape, a plurality of magnetic pole portions, a plurality of coupling portions connecting the yoke and the plurality of magnetic pole portions to each other, and a plurality of coils each wound around each of the plurality of coupling portions, the rotor magnet is continuously formed of a resin in an annular shape, the number of magnet poles of the rotor magnet is 14×N (pieces) (where N is a positive integer), the number of the plurality of magnetic pole portions is 12×N (pieces), and each of the plurality of magnetic pole portions extends in a circumferential direction. |
| US12100997B2 |
Motor, fan, and air conditioner
A motor includes a rotor and a stator. In a plane orthogonal to an axis direction of the rotor, the motor satisfies W2 |
| US12100994B2 |
BLDC motor
A brushless direct current (BLDC) motor includes a rotor having a cylindrical permanent magnet to which a shaft is centrally coupled, and supported to rotate on the shaft. An annular stator surrounds the rotor and includes a plurality of teeth and a wound coil to generate an electromagnetic field. The permanent magnet includes a stress reducing portion, which is provided at opposite end portions thereof, and which has a shape having a mass or a volume which is smaller than a mass or a volume per unit length in an axial direction of a portion of the permanent magnet other than the opposite end portions, to reduce centrifugal stress caused by spinning of the rotor. |
| US12100993B1 |
Outer rotor brushless motor
A motor includes a rotor configured to rotate integrally with a shaft; a stator placed radially outward of the shaft and radially inward of the rotor; and a tubular bushing that is fixed to one end side of the stator and through which the shaft is inserted. The stator includes: a stator core having a tube portion through which the shaft is inserted, and a plurality of tooth portions protruding radially outward from the tube portion; a plurality of coils formed by winding a winding around each of the plurality of tooth portions; and an insulating layer formed by applying an insulating coating to the tooth portions around which the winding is wound. The bushing includes: a fixed portion to be fixed to an inner peripheral surface of the tube portion; and a guide portion that extends axially outward of an end surface of the stator core from the fixed portion and with which a crossover wire (Wc) connecting between the plurality of coils comes into contact. |
| US12100990B2 |
Backup power transfer meter
The disclosure is directed to a novel utility meter with an integrated backup power transfer system. In some embodiments, the system is capable of sensing and switching between multiple power sources. In some embodiments, the system is configured to supply power from multiple backup power sources in parallel. In some embodiments, the system is configured to record and/or transmit data usage and operational profiles, such as voltage and current from one or more power sources. In some embodiments, the system is configured to eliminate the need to install separate junction boxes or panels to meet the wire requirements of various municipalities. |
| US12100987B2 |
Wireless charging transmitter system and method for controlling same
A system includes at least two transmit coils. The system further comprises at least two transmit circuit units, a detection circuit, a communication module and a controller. The detection circuit is electrically connected to each of the transmit circuit units. The detection circuit and the communication module are both configured to acquire the coupling relationship between each of the transmit coils and a receive coil. The controller is electrically connected to the detection circuit, each of the transmit circuit units, and the communication module. The controller is configured to control, based on the acquired coupling relationship, the current output by each of the transmit circuit unit. The controller controls each of the transmit circuit units to supply a suitable current amplitude and a current phase to each of the transmit coils to achieve control of superimposed magnetic fields generated by currents on the transmit coils. |
| US12100986B2 |
Charging system
A charging system includes a power transfer device and a rapid charging battery. The power transfer device includes a first power transfer unit being compatible with a first charging standard specifying that the rapid charging battery is to be charged at a predetermined current value. The rapid charging battery includes a first charging unit being compatible with the first charging standard, and a second power transfer unit being compatible with a second charging standard specifying that power is to be transferred at a predetermined current value that is lower than the predetermined current value specified by the first charging standard. |
| US12100984B2 |
Aerosol-generating system with charging device and aerosol-generating device with end contacts
An electrically operable aerosol-generating system includes: a charging device including a primary power source and a housing to retain the power source; and an aerosol-generating device including a secondary power source and having proximal and distal ends and a body extending therebetween, the charging device having a docking arrangement including a docking space between a first end and an opposing second end spaced therefrom, the first and second ends being walls of the housing, electrical contacts on at least one of the proximal or distal ends of the device to engage with corresponding electrical contacts on at least one of the first and second ends of the docking arrangement, and the electrical contacts include a positive and a negative electrical contact, at least one of which being an annular electrical contact, arranged concentrically on the at least one of the proximal or distal ends. |
| US12100982B2 |
Wireless power transfer system for listening devices
A wireless power transfer system is provided for mobile charging of one or more listening devices having wireless power receiving antennas couplable to a wireless power transfer antenna. The system includes a case configured for attachment to a mobile electronic device having a wireless power transfer antenna. The case includes a hollow for each of the listening devices, with each hollow being shaped and located to hold a respective listening device in a coupling position with the wireless power transfer antenna of the mobile electronic device when the case is mounted to the mobile electronic device. An attachment may be used to mount the case to the mobile electronic device. |
| US12100977B2 |
Eyewear bidirectional communication using time gating power transfer
Eyewear that is configured to be wirelessly charged and also wirelessly communicate with a case charger having a battery using time gating power transfer. In one example, wireless charging and bidirectional communication of the eyewear can be performed using a unidirectional communication protocol, such as the Qi baseline power profile (BPP) which is only suited for unidirectional communication. The eyewear has a processor configured to send data to the wireless power charger that instructs the wireless power charger to stop wireless charging for a time period that is correlated to a state of charge (SOC) of the wireless power charger battery. The wireless power charger resumes charging of the eyewear battery after the time period, and the eyewear determines the SOC of the wireless power charger battery to be a percentage that correlates to the time period. |
| US12100973B2 |
Wireless power transmitter for high fidelity communications and high power transfer
Wireless power transfer systems, disclosed, include one or more circuits to facilitate high power transfer at high frequencies. Such wireless power transfer systems include a damping circuit, configured to dampen a wireless power signal such that communications fidelity is upheld at high power. The damping circuit includes at least a damping transistor that is configured to receive, from the transmitter controller, a damping signal for switching the transistor to control damping during transmission of the wireless data signals. Utilizing such systems enables wireless power transfer at high frequency, such as 13.56 MHz, at voltages over 1 Watt, while maintaining fidelity of in-band communications associated with the higher power wireless power signal. |
| US12100971B2 |
Systems and methods for determining a keep-out zone of a wireless power transmitter
A method includes selecting a power level from among available power levels at which to amplify a radio frequency (RF) signal using a power amplifier. The method includes providing the amplified RF signal to antennas. The antennas are caused to, upon receiving the amplified RF signal, radiate RF energy within a transmission field. The method includes determining predicted specific absorption rate (SAR) values of the transmission field and determining, based on the predicted SAR values, a keep out zone within the transmission field. The keep out zone is an area at which the predicted SAR values are greater than or equal to a predetermined SAR threshold of the transmission field. The method includes receiving, from sensors, an indication that an object is within the keep out zone. The method includes in response to receiving the indication, causing the antennas to cease radiating the RF energy. |
| US12100969B2 |
Systems and methods for low power excitation in high power wireless power systems
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for low power excitation of wireless power transmitters configured to transmit high power. The exemplary systems and methods include disabling a power factor correction circuit of the transmitter, and adjusting one or more variable impedance components of the impedance network to obtain a minimum attainable impedance. The variable impedance components can be configured to operate between the minimum attainable impedance and a maximum attainable impedance. The systems and methods can include adjusting a phase shift angle associated with one or more transistors of the inverter and driving the transmitter such that the transmitter resonator coil generates a magnetic flux density less than or equal to a field safety threshold. |
| US12100965B2 |
Universal charger
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless charger are described. A charging device may include a base configured to receive a ring-shaped wearable device in multiple radial orientations relative to the base. The charging device may also include a magnetic component configured to magnetically attract a magnetic component of the ring-shaped wearable device to orient the wearable device in a single radial orientation relative to the base. The charging device may include an inductive charging component that may wireless charge the wearable device via an inductive charging component of the wearable device based on the inductive charging components being within a threshold distance. |
| US12100964B2 |
Wind turbine hybrid microgrid system and controller therefor
A system and a method for controlling a hybrid microgrid system (HMS) is disclosed. The HMS includes a WTG, an RSC, a GSC, a DC-link connecting the RSC and the GSC, a PV system that outputs a DC current to the DC-link, a rechargeable battery, a bidirectional BBC connected between the DC-link and the rechargeable battery, and a controller. The method for controlling the HMS includes: preparing a definition set including a characteristic element ci and equations defining desired value ci*, a fractional order sliding mode surface ζi, and a control law element uicnt; monitoring ci(t) and the HMS status; calculating the equations based on monitored information; and controlling the HMS based on the uicnt(t) calculated and in accordance with a global sliding mode control with fractional order terms. The ζi comprises a fractional time integral and fractional time derivative of ei(t), where ei(t)=ci(t)−ci*(t). The uicnt(t) satisfies ζ i ( t ) d ζ i ( t ) dt < 0 , when ζi(t)≠0. |
| US12100961B2 |
Naturally load balanced redundant power conversion system
A plurality of generators redundantly supply power to AC motors via a main DC bus system having a pair of buses, each of which is connected to each generator by an active front end (AFE) inverter containing an insulated-gate bipolar transistor. Isolated DC/AC inverters are connected to the pair of main buses in pairs, respectively. Each pair of the isolated DC/AC inverters is connected to one of the AC motors with a filter of capacitors and inductors between each inverter and the motor. The AFE inverters and isolated DC/AC inverters galvanically isolate the main buses and enable load sharing among the generators. |
| US12100956B1 |
Active power filtering-based harmonic suppression method, system and device using VOC inverter
A harmonic suppression method, system and device using active power filtering based on a Virtual Oscillator Control (VOC) inverter are provided. The method includes the following steps: firstly, the basic structure and control of VOC and its parameter design are given; then the parameters of VOC are designed; then the active filtering harmonic suppression strategy based on VOC is proposed; finally, the suppression strategy is applied in the grid-connected inverter system and its effectiveness is verified by simulation. |
| US12100953B2 |
Method, system and storage medium for suppressing sub/super-synchronous oscillation for direct-drive wind turbine based on energy compensation
The disclosure relates to a method, system and storage medium for suppressing sub/super-synchronous oscillation for direct-drive wind turbine based on energy compensation. The method comprises: real-time collecting the bus voltage and the node injection current, obtaining the transient energy of direct-drive wind turbine; collecting the dynamic angle of PLL when the variation rate of the transient energy is positive, calculating the compensation energy and the increments of fundamental-frequency voltage of several supplementary energy branches based on the bus voltage and the node injection current and the dynamic angle of PLL; with the compensation energy of supplementary branches reaching the maximum and the increment of fundamental-frequency voltage being the minimum as the objective, and with the frequency-domain characteristic and fundamental-frequency voltage characteristic of control links being satisfied as the constraints, determining the compensation coefficients of supplementary energy branches, and then enabling the supplementary energy branches. |
| US12100952B2 |
Method and system for monitoring a site based on use of an electrical appliance at the site
A site monitoring method uses an electrical socket device to collect current data of an electrical appliance that is electrically connected to the electrical socket device. Based on the current data, a management server can derive a user behavior in connection with using the electrical appliance, and send out a warning message when the user behavior thus derived is abnormal. |
| US12100948B2 |
Circuit for a power device and graphical user interface
An apparatus for a system power device utilized in an interconnected power system. The interconnected power system may include multiple system power devices connected to various inter connections of groups of direct currents (DC) from power sources which also may be connected in various series, parallel, series parallel and parallel series combinations for example. The apparatus may include a processor connected to a memory and a communication interface operatively attached to the processor. The communication interface may be adapted to connect to a mobile computing system of a user in close proximity to the system power devices. A graphical user interface (GUI) of the mobile computing system may allow various operational and re-configuration options for the interconnected power system which may include installation, maintenance and monitoring schedules in the interconnected power system when the user of the GUI is in close proximity to the system power devices. |
| US12100946B2 |
Electrostatic protection circuit and chip
An electrostatic protection circuit includes: a monitoring unit, a discharge unit, and a controllable voltage dividing unit, where the monitoring unit is connected to at least one probe pad, a discharge unit and a controllable voltage dividing unit, and the monitoring unit is configured to generate a first trigger signal in response to that an electrostatic pulse is present on any probe pad; the discharge unit connected between the at least one probe pad and the ground pad, and configured to form, under control of the first trigger signal, at least one path for discharging electrostatic charges to the ground pad; and the controllable voltage dividing unit is connected to the discharge unit and is configured to share a part of voltage of the first trigger signal for the discharge unit. |
| US12100943B2 |
Current protection to prevent overcurrent in electrical grids and motors
An apparatus can include an inverter to provide an output N-phase alternating-current to an external component. When N equals two, a phase of the N phases can include an upper gate and a lower gate. The apparatus can also include a current detector configured to detect a phase current magnitude of the output alternating current. The apparatus can also include a controller coupled to the current detector and to the inverter. The controller can generate a gate command for controlling a gate of the inverter. The controller can also determine a value for a current threshold less than a shutoff current threshold for the external component. The controller can provide a protection command to turn off the upper gate of a corresponding phase of the inverter responsive to detecting that the phase current magnitude is greater than the current threshold. |
| US12100935B2 |
Radiation emitter
A method of fabricating at least one radiation emitter including fabricating a layer stack that includes a first reflector, an active region, an oxidizable layer, and a second reflector; and locally removing the layer stack, and thereby forming at least one mesa. The mesa includes the first reflector, the active region, the oxidizable layer and the second reflector. Before or after locally removing the layer stack and forming the mesa the following steps are carried out: vertically etching at least three blind holes inside the layer stack, wherein the blind holes vertically extend to and expose the oxidizable layer; and oxidizing the oxidizable layer via the sidewalls of the blind holes in lateral direction. An oxidation front radially moves outwards from each hole. The etching is terminated before the entire oxidizable layer is oxidized, thereby forming at least one unoxidized aperture that is limited by at least three oxidation fronts. |
| US12100934B2 |
High power, narrow linewidth semiconductor laser system and method of fabrication
A laser system for generating a narrow linewidth semiconductor light beam includes a substrate, a gain chip affixed on the substrate and configured to amplify light beam, and an optical feedback photonic chip affixed on the substrate, optically coupled to the gain chip, and configured to output light beam, which has a narrow linewidth around a resonant frequency of the optical feedback photonic chip, to the gain chip. |
| US12100932B2 |
Enhanced eye-safe laser based lighting
A laser-based light source (10), comprising: at least one first arrangement (100), for generating light (500), comprising: a laser device (200) for generating laser light (510) of a predetermined laser wavelength and emitting this laser light as a laser beam; and a light-conversion device (210) for converting at least part of the laser light into converted light (520); a second arrangement (110)), for generating at least a first signal (300) and a second signal (310), representative for a different part of the spectrum of said light, from direct measurements on a portion of said light (500); and a controller (120) for receiving the first signal and the second signal, for determining a safe-to-operate parameter, based on the first signal and the second signal, and for controlling the operation of the laser-device based on a comparison between the safe-to-operate parameter and at least one predefined threshold. |
| US12100931B2 |
Beam projector module for performing eye-safety function using temperature, and control method thereof
An embodiment provides a beam projector module that includes: a light source configured to output light; a substrate configured to support the light source; an optical device configured to reduce the light in terms of intensity output to a predetermined space; a frame configured to space the optical device apart from the light source by a predetermined distance, the frame forming a closed space with the substrate and the optical device; a temperature sensor configured to measure a temperature of the frame; and a processor configured to control an output of the light source. The processor is configured to operate the light source in an eye-safety mode when a temperature drop rate of the frame exceeds a reference value. |
| US12100927B2 |
Light-emitting device, and electronic device and inspection method using same
A light emitting device includes a light source that emits a primary light having a light energy density exceeding 0.5W/mm2, and a first phosphor that absorbs the primary light to convert the primary light into a first wavelength-converted light having a wavelength longer than that of the primary light. The first phosphor includes a compound serving as a host, the compound being a simple oxide including one kind of metal element or a composite oxide including a plurality of different kinds of the simple oxide as an end member. When an energy conversion value at a peak wavelength of the primary light is E1 electron volts and an energy conversion value at a fluorescence peak wavelength of the first wavelength-converted light is E2 electron volts, a bandgap energy of a crystal of the simple oxide is larger than a sum of the E1 electron volts and the E2 electron volts. |
| US12100924B2 |
Crimp and method for producing a crimp
A crimp includes a crimp barrel having a first side wall and a second side wall. The first side wall has a self-locking wing and the second side wall has a self-locking hooked pocket. The self-locking wing is adapted to lock with the self-locking hooked pocket. |
| US12100922B2 |
Electrical connector with a cover structure as well as a mating connector and a connector assembly
An electrical connector comprises a first terminal assembly having a longitudinally extending first plate-shaped fixing portion, a longitudinally extending first terminal portion, and a substantially laterally extending first connection portion to connect the first plate-shaped fixing portion and the first terminal portion. A second terminal assembly includes a longitudinally extending second plate-shaped fixing portion, a longitudinally extending second terminal portion, and a substantially laterally extending second connection portion to connect the second plate-shaped fixing portion and the second terminal portion. A first conductive block electrically is connected to an inner side of the first plate-shaped fixing portion of the first terminal assembly facing the second plate-shaped fixing portion of the second terminal assembly. A second conductive block is electrically connected to an inner side of the second plate-shaped fixing portion of the second terminal assembly facing the first plate-shaped fixing portion of the first terminal assembly. |
| US12100921B2 |
Electrical module for connecting to a mounting rail and contacting element for same
The invention relates to an electrical module (50) for connecting to a mounting rail, comprising a contacting element (10) which is rotatably mounted about an axis of rotation (I) such that it can move between an open position in which an insertion and removal of the contacting element (10) from the mounting rail profile (60) is enabled, and a contacting position in which connection contacts contact lines of a bus bar, wherein the contacting element (10) has a main body (15) rotatably accommodated in a carrier element (30) of the electrical module (50) and a contact holder body (20) holding the connection contacts, which is arranged on the main body (15) and rotates with same, and wherein the contact holder body (20) is mounted such that it can be adjusted along the axis of rotation (I) relative to the main body (15) between a blocking position in which a rotation of the contacting element (10) is blocked, and a release position in which a rotation of the contacting element (10) is enabled. |
| US12100919B2 |
Rechargeable USB electrical outlet with integrated lighting with connectivity
An electrical outlet device and system for providing light and power during the night or during a power failure. The device and system includes rechargeable energy storage devices that can be utilized to provide power to the outlet(s) and the light sources. The device and system can have two sections, a main and a removable section both having their own energy storage devices and light sources. The removeable section may connected with a computing device that can interface with a wireless module to transmit/receive data packets wirelessly. |
| US12100915B2 |
Shielded electrical connector for automotive applications and method of assembling thereof
A method of assembling a connector for automotive applications, comprising the steps of: providing a cable having at least one inner conductor; connecting an elongated inner signal contact of the connector to a stripped end of the at least one inner conductor; surrounding the elongated inner signal contact by an insulating element; placing a first shielding part of the connector around a first portion of the insulating element from a first radial direction; placing a second shielding part of the connector around a second portion of the insulating element from a second radial direction generally opposite to the first radial direction; and joining the first and second shielding parts to form a shielding contact of the connector surrounding the insulating element. |
| US12100912B2 |
Connector with shielded terminals
A number of connectors and related methods that allow for high data rate transmissions are described. An example connector includes a housing and a wafer. The water includes signal conductors, a ground conductors, a flexible shield, and a rigid shield. The flexible shield includes terminal end portions, cantilever spring end portions, and a flexible shield body between the terminal end portions and the cantilever spring end portions. The flexible shield body covers a first portion of the ground conductors, and the rigid shield covers a second portion of the ground conductors. |
| US12100908B2 |
Cable connector systems
A cable connector system can include a board connector that attaches to a die package, a cable connector that attaches to the board connector, and a 1RU panel I/O connector attached to the cable connector. |
| US12100906B2 |
Reversible circuit board for single and dual manifold solenoid valve assembly
A fluid valve manifold has an electrical conduit for receiving a circuit board assembly that actuates a plurality of valve units. The circuit board assembly is reversibly and rotatably mountable to a first position or second position in the electrical conduit such that a respective set of first electrical connectors at a first end or a second set of electrical connectors at a second end opposite that of the first end may be in position to receive electrical signals through the respective connectors. When in one position, the circuit board assembly is able to serve a single solenoid valve unit. When in a rotated second position, the circuit board is able to serve a double solenoid valve unit. |
| US12100905B2 |
Multiple coaxial cable connector
Proposed is a multiple coaxial cable connector. The multiple coaxial cable connector includes: multiple coaxial cables, each of the coaxial cables having a cable connector with a pogo pin end making contact with a printed circuit board; a cable guide housing having multiple cable through-holes, each of the cable through-holes allowing a part of each of the coaxial cables including the cable connector to be inserted and guided therein; a cable locker fitted over the coaxial cables and thus coupling the cable guide housing and the coaxial cables to each other; a housing cover covering the lateral surface of the cable guide housing; a reference plate having multiple through-holes, each of the multiple through-holes allowing the cable connector of each of the multiple coaxial cables to be inserted thereinto; and a housing screw coupling the cable guide housing to a coupling hole formed in the printed circuit board. |
| US12100902B2 |
Radiator for terahertz electromagnetic radiation
A radiator for terahertz electromagnetic radiation. The radiator includes one or more radiator units. Each radiator unit includes an oscillator operable to generate second harmonic power, and a patch antenna operably coupled with the oscillator for radiating terahertz electromagnetic radiation based on the generated second harmonic power. |
| US12100900B2 |
Integrated 5G and GNSS compact antenna system
An integrated compact radio antenna system for receiving and transmitting 5G signals and receiving GNSS signals is described. The system comprises a high-precision GNSS antenna and a MIMO 5G multi-element antenna system. All the antennas within the proposed compact system are integrated with a shielded housing that enables electronic components of GNSS receiver and 5G modem to be arranged inside. The proposed integrated system has the following advantages: 1) compactness, 2) high efficiency of MIMO 5G antenna system, 3) a high degree of decoupling between 5G antennas, 4) a high degree of decoupling between 5G and GNSS antennas. |
| US12100899B2 |
Electronic device comprising plurality of antennas
An electronic device including a plurality of antennas is provided. The electronic device includes a housing, a first antenna disposed in the housing, a second antenna disposed in the housing, and spaced apart from the first antenna, a printed circuit board disposed in the housing and a wireless communication circuit disposed on the PCB, and transmitting or receiving a RF signal of a frequency band through the first antenna and the second antenna, the first antenna includes a first dielectric substrate including a first surface and a second surface facing away from the first surface, a first conductive pattern disposed on the first surface, and operating as an antenna radiator for transmitting or receiving an RF signal of a first frequency band and a second conductive pattern disposed on the second surface, and operating as an antenna radiator for transmitting or receiving an RF signal of the first frequency band. |
| US12100896B2 |
Horn antenna and lens for horn antenna
A lens for a horn antenna and a horn antenna including the lens. The lens includes a generally flared plate assembly extending generally along an axis from a first side to a second side opposite the first side. The generally flared plate assembly defines a plurality of non-linear channels that are operable to manipulate an electromagnetic wave received at the first side to provide a manipulated electromagnetic wave at the second side. |
| US12100892B2 |
Multi-band transparent coplanar slot antenna using conductive windshield coating
An optically transparent coplanar microwave slot antenna formed between a first glass layer and a second glass layer is provided including a metal oxide layer, a first slot element and a second slot element formed in a dipole arrangement within the metal oxide layer wherein the first slot element is formed by a first triangular slot, a first trapezoidal slot, and a first rectangular slot and the second slot element is formed by a second triangular slot, a second trapezoidal slot, and a second rectangular slot, and a waveguide feedline for carrying microwave signals to the first slot element and the second slot element. |
| US12100891B2 |
Antenna module and display device including the same
An antenna module according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a plurality of first sensing electrode rows, a plurality of second sensing electrode columns spaced apart from the first sensing electrode rows, an insulating interlayer formed between the first sensing electrode rows and the second sensing electrode columns, and an antenna unit inserted in at least one second sensing electrode column of the second sensing electrode columns to be electrically and physically separated from the second sensing electrode columns. The antenna unit does not overlap the first sensing electrode rows in a planar view. |
| US12100890B2 |
Liquid crystal antenna and manufacturing method therefor
Provided are a liquid crystal antenna and a manufacturing method thereof. The liquid crystal antenna includes a first substrate, a second substrate and a third substrate that are stacked. The first substrate and the second substrate constitute a first box-shaped structure. A first space is disposed between the first substrate and the second substrate. The first space is filled with a liquid crystal layer. The second substrate and the third substrate constitute a second box-shaped structure. A second conductive pattern layer is disposed on a side of the second substrate. A third conductive pattern layer is disposed on a single side of the third substrate. A second space is disposed between the second substrate and the third substrate. |
| US12100880B2 |
High-frequency module including a laminated filter having alternating conductive and dielectric layers and a through hole extending through the filter for coupling to a transmission line
A high-frequency module including a transmission line for a high-frequency signal and a waveguide conversion structure, capable of reducing the size thereof, and a method for manufacturing such a high-frequency module are provided. A high-frequency module includes a core material in which a first dielectric layer is provided between a first conductive layer and a second conductive layer, a laminated filter in which a plurality of core materials and dielectric layers are alternately laminated, and a through hole pierces therethrough from a lowermost conductive layer provided so as to be in contact with the lowermost dielectric layer to the uppermost first conductive layer, a first surface dielectric layer provided above the laminated filter, and a first surface conductive layer provided above the first surface dielectric layer, the first surface conductive layer including a transmission line for a high-frequency signal and a ground GND. |
| US12100873B2 |
Power supply system of fuel cell using user authentication and method thereof
A power supply system of a fuel cell using user authentication includes: a tagging device that receives user information of a user terminal; an identity authentication unit, which compares the user information inputted through the tagging device with previously stored authentication information and outputs a use authority signal when the user information matches the authentication information; a power module complete that produces electric power by a chemical reaction between hydrogen and oxygen; a battery that receives and is charged with electric power produced by the power module complete; an output terminal that is connected to the battery to output electric power stored in the battery; and an integrated body control unit that controls electric power to be outputted through the output terminal when the identity authentication unit outputs the use authority signal. |
| US12100872B2 |
Fuel cells configured to deliver bi-polar high voltage DC power
A fuel-cell system for powering an electrical load, the system having first and second fuel cells, each having a positive node and a negative node. The positive node of the second fuel cell is electrically coupled to the negative node of the first fuel cell, and the positive node of the first fuel cell and the negative node of the second fuel cell are electrically coupled to the electrical load. Each fuel cell is electrically coupled to the electrical load without a power converter. |
| US12100869B2 |
Fuel cell sub-assembly and method of making it
A sub-assembly for an electrochemical stack, such as a PEM fuel cell stack, has a bipolar plate with sealing material extending from its upper face, around the edge of the bipolar plate, and onto its lower face. The bipolar plate is preferably a combination of an anode plate and a cathode plate defining an internal coolant flow field and bonded together by sealing material which also provides a seal around the coolant flow field. All of the sealing material in the sub-assembly may be one contiguous mass. To make the sub-assembly, anode and cathode plates are loaded into a mold. Liquid sealing material is injected into the mold and fills a gap between the edge of the plates, and portions of the outer faces of the plates, and the mold. In a stack, sub-assemblies are separated by MEAs which at least partially overlap the sealing material on their faces. |
| US12100867B2 |
End cover assembly, secondary battery, battery module, appratus, liquid-injection method and device
The present application provides an end cover assembly, a secondary battery, a battery module, a device, a liquid-injection method and a device thereof. The end cover assembly for the secondary battery includes: an end cover, provided with a through hole for injecting electrolyte, and including a connecting portion; a sealing assembly, configured to seal the through hole; a locking-fixing member, configured to be movable relative to the connecting portion in a radial direction of the through hole, so as to realize switching between a locked state and an unlocked state of the locking-fixing member and the connecting portion. In the locked state, the locking-fixing member presses against the sealing assembly to restrict the end cover to be separated from the sealing assembly; in the unlocked state, the end cover and the sealing assembly are separable to allow electrolyte to be injected from the through hole. |
| US12100866B2 |
Battery cell, battery, electrical apparatus, method and device for manufacturing battery cell
Provided are a battery cell, a battery, an electrical apparatus, and a method and device for manufacturing a battery cell. The battery cell includes a case, an end cover, an electrode assembly and a solder, the case has an accommodating cavity and an opening at one end; the end cover is connected to the case; the electrode assembly is provided in the accommodating cavity, the electrode assembly has a first tab, and the first tab faces the opening; the solder is provided between the end cover and the first tab and connects the end cover and the first tab; an insulating member is also provided between the end cover and the first tab, an insulating cavity is provided on the insulating member, a feed port is provided on one side of the insulating cavity, and the feed port faces the solder. |
| US12100865B2 |
Terminal for secondary battery and secondary battery provided with the terminal
The technique disclosed herein provides a terminal that enables welding with an external member to be realized without requiring surface treatment of a metallic portion having been pressure-welded during ultrasonic welding. The terminal disclosed herein is a terminal constituting any of positive and negative electrodes of a secondary battery and includes a plate-like metallic first member and a metallic second member which is ultrasonically welded to one plate surface of the first member. A recessed portion is formed on a surface on an opposite side to the surface, to which the second member is welded, of the first member, and ultrasonic welding between the first member and the second member is realized in the recessed portion. |
| US12100863B2 |
ICB assembly, battery module comprising the same and method for fabricating the battery module
Provided are an interconnect board (ICB) assembly suitable for a battery module of horizontal stack structure including unidirectional battery cells stacked with cell leads facing each other, a battery module comprising the same and a method for fabricating the battery module. The ICB assembly according to the present disclosure includes an ICB frame in which cell leads of unidirectional battery cells are received such that the unidirectional battery cells having the cell leads at one end are placed facing each other with the cell leads facing each other, and busbars assembled in the ICB frame and electrically connected to the cell leads. |
| US12100862B1 |
Electrically conductive apparatus
An electrically conductive member can include a first opening and a second opening. The first opening of the electrically conductive member can engage a first member of a cell carrier to at least partially align the electrically conductive member with the cell carrier. The second opening of the electrically conductive member can engage with a second member of the cell carrier for coupling the electrically conductive member with the cell carrier. |
| US12100859B2 |
Reduced shutdown temperature membrane including HDPE particles and shutdown reducing additive and polymer composition for making the same
A polymer composition for producing gel extruded articles is described. The polymer composition contains polyethylene particles combined with a plasticizer and one or more shutdown reducing additives. The shutdown reducing additives decrease the shutdown temperature of polymer articles made from the polymer composition. In one embodiment, the polymer composition is used to form a porous membrane for use of a battery separator. |
| US12100857B2 |
Battery degassing unit and battery housing
A battery degassing unit for a battery housing has a base body that has a gas passage opening and is to be connected fluid-tightly to a pressure compensation opening of the battery housing. A first filter covers the gas passage opening at an inner side of the base body. The first filter is a separation grid with first grid openings. A second filter is a separation grid arranged between first filter and inner side of the base body and has second grid openings. The base body has fastening regions for fastening the battery degassing unit to the battery housing. One of the first and second filters completely engages across the gas passage opening. One of the first and second filters is a corrugated filter so that a length extension in a stretched state in at least one direction is at least 1.3 times as large as in a corrugated state. |
| US12100855B2 |
Hermetically closed battery degas venting unit for a battery enclosure/pack/housing
Disclosed is a hermetically closed battery degas venting unit for venting a battery enclosure/pack/housing having rechargeable vehicle batteries. The unit having a housing base equipped with a non-porous rupturable venting film closing over and sealing off the pressure venting opening. The non-porous venting film configured to deflect towards a spike in response to overpressure and to tear or rupture to release overpressure in the battery enclosure/pack/housing. |
| US12100854B2 |
Device for releasably contacting two battery cells
A device is described for making independent contact with two battery cells, having a basic body comprising a through-opening (6). To enable not only an easier, modular assembly process, but also a quick replacement of individual battery cells, it is suggested that the basic body (1) comprises two receiving bodies (2,3) positioned opposite to the through-opening (6) for circumferential taking hold of one end portion each of the battery cells inserted in the receiving bodies (2,3) in a joining direction, wherein a contact spring (7) is inserted in a guide corridor (9) of the first receiving body (2) which leads into the through-opening (6) for bonded connection of the contact spring (7) with the battery cell inserted in the second receiving body (3), and that the contact spring (7) forms contact tongues (8) for releasable connection of the battery cell inserted in the first receiving body (2). |
| US12100847B2 |
Cylindrical battery cell, and battery pack and vehicle comprising same
A cylindrical battery cell includes an electrode assembly including a first electrode tab and a second electrode tab, a battery can in which the electrode assembly is received, the battery can being electrically connected to the second electrode tab, a top cap to cover a top opening of the battery can, the top cap being electrically connected to the first electrode tab and electrically insulated from the battery can, and a terminal extension member coupled to a top of the battery can and electrically insulated from the top cap. |
| US12100845B2 |
Polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cells using zeolite-templated carbon (ZTC) as electrocatalyst
A polymer electrolyte membrane (PEM) fuel cell assembly, and a method for making the assembly, are provided. An exemplary method includes forming a functionalized zeolite templated carbon (ZTC), including forming a CaX zeolite, depositing carbon in the CaX zeolite using a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) process to form a carbon/zeolite composite, treating the carbon/zeolite composite with a solution including hydrofluoric acid to form a ZTC, and treating the ZTC to add catalyst sites, forming the functionalized ZTC. The method further includes incorporating the functionalized ZTC into electrodes, forming a membrane electrode assembly (MEA), and forming the PEM fuel cell assembly. |
| US12100842B2 |
Electrode plate, battery cell, and electrochemical device
An electrode plate includes a first electrode tab, a second electrode tab, and an active material layer. The composite current collector includes a first metal layer, a second metal layer, and an insulation layer therebetween. The first electrode tab is on an edge of the first metal layer and extends beyond the insulation layer. The second electrode tab is on an edge of the second metal layer and extends beyond the insulation layer. The active material layer is disposed on the first metal layer and the second metal layer, and covers a portion of the first electrode tab on the first metal layer and a portion of the second electrode tab one the second metal layer. A battery cell and an electrochemical device including the electrode plate are also disclosed. |
| US12100841B2 |
Positive electrode slurry composition, and positive electrode sheet prepared thereof, secondary battery, battery module, battery pack and power consumption apparatus
A positive electrode slurry composition, and a positive electrode sheet prepared thereof, a secondary battery, a battery module, a battery pack and a power consumption apparatus are described. The positive electrode slurry composition includes a positive electrode active material, a pre-lithiation material, and a binder, where the binder is shown in Formula (II) where R1, R2, x, y, and z have meanings defined in the specification, a volume average particle size is D10≥0.3 μm, a volume average particle size D50 is 0.5-10 μm. The positive electrode slurry composition includes the binder in Formula (II) and the positive electrode active material with a specific particle size range, which is not easy to agglomerate and has high stability, and is conducive to improving machinability of the positive electrode sheet, and the binder in Formula (II) is conducive to improving bonding strength between the positive electrode active material and the pre-lithiation material. |
| US12100835B2 |
Zinc-selenium battery compatible with both organic and aqueous electrolytes
A novel conversion-type rechargeable battery is constructed, the battery using selenium as the cathode material. Preferably, the selenium is coated over the surface of the pores in a mesoporous ion collector such as carbon. A salt of zinc having an organic ion with polar function group is used with the battery, allowing the solvent of the battery to be either organic or aqueous. |
| US12100831B2 |
Lithium secondary battery
Disclosed is a lithium secondary battery, and in particular, to a lithium secondary battery capable of obtaining higher energy density and longer lifetime compared to existing lithium secondary batteries by specifying conditions of a positive electrode and an electrolyte liquid and additionally surface modifying a carbon material through heat treatment or including a separator including a molybdenum disulfide coating layer. |
| US12100824B2 |
Battery module with thermal management system
A battery module for a vehicle, in particular for an aircraft, comprises a housing, a cell stack accommodated in the housing, an internal channel system for heat transfer fluid disposed in the housing, a fluid inlet connector and a fluid outlet connector connected to the internal channel system and adapted to being connected to an external thermal management system, wherein the fluid inlet connector and the fluid outlet connector are self-sealing connectors molded into the housing, preferably self-sealing and dripless connectors. |
| US12100823B2 |
Cooling system
A cooling system of an embodiment includes a container, a housing, and a duct. The container includes an inflow passage extending in a first direction, an outflow passage positioned in a second direction, the outflow passage extending in the first direction, an inflow port through which cooling air from an air conditioning device flows in, and an outflow port through which the cooling air flows out. The housing includes shelf portions arranged between the inflow passage and the outflow passage, the shelf portions containing heat-generating modules. The housing includes intermediary passages extending between the inflow passage and the outflow passage across the shelf portions. The duct connects the inflow port and an outlet port of the air conditioning device. The duct includes a sloping face facing the cooling air and sloping in the second direction as the sloping face approaches the inflow port. |
| US12100800B2 |
Solid state electrolytes
A product includes a solid state electrolyte particle coated with a coating consisting essentially of metal oxide. A method includes depositing a coating on a solid state electrolyte particle by atomic layer deposition. A method includes fabricating a product using a plurality of solid state electrolyte particles coated with a coating consisting essentially of metal oxide. |
| US12100797B2 |
Secondary battery and method for manufacturing the same
Disclosed are a secondary battery and a method for manufacturing the same. According to an embodiment of the present invention, there is provided a secondary battery, including: an exterior material which includes a pouch film and a sealing portion formed at an outer side of the pouch film; and an electrode assembly which includes a plurality of electrode bodies laminated with a separator interposed therebetween and are packaged by the exterior material, wherein a pair of forming portions are formed within the pouch film to house the electrode assembly, and a predetermined interval is formed between the pair of forming portions. |
| US12100794B2 |
Display device and method of manufacturing the same
A display device may include a substrate, and a display element layer disposed on the substrate and including a light emitting element that emits light in a display direction. The display element layer may include a first contact electrode electrically connected to the light emitting element, a second contact electrode electrically connected to the light emitting element, and a bank pattern having a shape extending in the display direction. At least one of the first contact electrode, the second contact electrode, and the bank pattern may include a transparent conductive polymer. |
| US12100793B2 |
Light-emitting device, manufacturing method thereof and display module using the same
A light-emitting device includes a carrier, a light-emitting element and a connection structure. The carrier includes a first electrical conduction portion. The light-emitting element includes a first light-emitting layer capable of emitting first light and a first contact electrode formed under the light-emitting layer. The first contact electrode is corresponded to the first electrical conduction portion. The connection structure includes a first electrical connection portion and a protective portion surrounding the first contact electrode and the first electrical connection portion. The first electrical connection portion includes an upper portion, a lower portion and a neck portion arranged between the upper portion and the lower portion. An edge of the upper portion is protruded beyond the neck portion, and an edge of the lower portion is protruded beyond the upper portion. |
| US12100786B2 |
Light emitting device with high near-field contrast ratio
A light emitting device includes an LED having a light emitting top surface and sidewalls. A phosphor structure is attached to the light emitting surface of the LED. The phosphor structure has a light emitting top surface facing away from the LED light emitting surface, and sidewalls. A light reflective material is arranged to cover the sidewalls of the LED and the phosphor structure. A light absorptive region is defined in the light reflective material around a perimeter of the light emitting surface of the phosphor structure. The light absorptive region may be spaced apart from the perimeter of the phosphor structure by a gap. The light absorptive region may be formed by ultraviolet laser illumination of the light reflecting material. |
| US12100784B2 |
Display device and manufacturing method thereof
A pixel includes a first bank pattern and a second bank pattern disposed on a base layer; a first electrode and a second electrode disposed on the first bank pattern and the second bank pattern, and spaced apart from each other; a light emitting element disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and including a first end electrically connected to the first electrode, and a second end electrically connected to the second electrode; and at least one insulating layer overlapping the light emitting element and at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode. The at least one insulating layer includes at least one of a first opening adjacent to the first end of the light emitting element and a second opening adjacent to the second end of the light emitting element. |
| US12100783B2 |
Optoelectronic semiconductor body having a layer stack, arrangement of a plurality of optoelectronic semiconductor bodies having a layer stack, and method for producing said optoelectronic semiconductor body
An optoelectronic semiconductor body is provided with a layer stack with an active region which is configured to emit electromagnetic radiation and which includes a main extension plane, wherein the layer stack comprises side walls which extend transversely to the main extension plane of the active region, and the side walls are covered at least in places with a cover layer which is formed with at least one semiconductor material. In addition, an arrangement of a plurality of optoelectronic semiconductor bodies and a method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor body are provided. |
| US12100781B2 |
Micro-LED structure and micro-LED chip including same
A micro-LED chip includes multiple micro-LEDs. At least one micro-LED of the multiple micro-LEDs includes: a first type conductive layer; a second type conductive layer stacked on the first type conductive layer; and a light emitting layer formed between the first type conductive layer and the second type conductive layer. The light emitting layer is continuously formed on the whole micro-LED chip, and the multiple micro-LEDs sharing the light emitting layer. The micro-LED chip further includes: a top spacer formed on a top surface of the light emitting layer; a bottom spacer formed on a bottom surface of the light emitting layer; and an isolation structure formed between adjacent micro-LEDs. |
| US12100779B2 |
Optoelectronic device with reduced optical loss
A heterostructure with reduced optical losses is disclosed. The heterostructure includes a set of n-type layers; an active region that generates radiation at a peak emitted wavelength; and a set of p-type layers located adjacent to the active region. A reflective structure can be located adjacent to the set of p-type layers. A thickness of the set of p-type layers can be configured to promote constructive interference of the reflected radiation with radiation emitted by the active region in a direction toward the set of n-type layers. |
| US12100778B2 |
Thermal management device with integrated thermoelectric generator and heat sync
A thermal management device for a photovoltaic panel includes a phase change material layer attached to a back side of the photovoltaic panel. The thermal management device includes a Seebeck thermoelectric generator having a first surface attached to the phase change material layer. The thermal management further device includes a heat sink attached to a second surface of the Seebeck thermoelectric generator. The heat sink is configured with a sinuous coil, a water inlet port and a water outlet port connected to the sinuous coil, and a plurality of heat fins. The thermal management further device includes a casing box configured to enclose its various components, and a glass cover attached to the casing box and configured to cover a top surface of the photovoltaic panel. |
| US12100777B2 |
Integrated thermal management device with PV panel
A thermal management device for a photovoltaic panel includes a phase change material layer attached to a back side of the photovoltaic panel. The thermal management device includes a Seebeck thermoelectric generator having a first surface attached to the phase change material layer. The thermal management further device includes a heat sink attached to a second surface of the Seebeck thermoelectric generator. The heat sink is configured with a sinuous coil, a water inlet port and a water outlet port connected to the sinuous coil, and a plurality of heat fins. The thermal management further device includes a casing box configured to enclose its various components, and a glass cover attached to the casing box and configured to cover a top surface of the photovoltaic panel. |
| US12100776B2 |
Photovoltaic module and method for producing the same
Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to a photovoltaic module and a method for producing the photovoltaic module. The photovoltaic module includes a photovoltaic laminate and a junction box. The photovoltaic laminate includes a plurality of solar cells, at least one solder strip, a rear plate and a wiring member. The at least one solder strip is electrically connected with the wiring member. The junction box includes a bonding pad. The wiring member passes through an opening defined on the rear plate and abuts the bonding pad, and the wiring member is connected with the bonding pad by laser welding. A plurality of weld seams are formed in a welding region. Each weld seam extends from the wiring member towards interior of the bonding pad, and an extension depth of each weld seam in the bonding pad is not greater than 80% of a thickness of the bonding pad. |
| US12100775B2 |
Photovoltaic module with light-scattering encapsulant providing shingle-mimicking appearance
A method of making a photovoltaic module includes the step of obtaining a frontsheet having a glass layer, a light scattering encapsulant layer, and a polymer layer. The light scattering encapsulant layer includes a first region, a plurality of first portions extending from the first region, and at least one area located between the first portions. The first portions of the light scattering encapsulant layer has a first light scattering value and a second portion defined by the area has a second light scattering value different from the first light scattering value. The method includes the steps of obtaining at least one solar cell, an encapsulant, and a backsheet, and laminating the frontsheet, the encapsulant, the at least one solar cell, and the backsheet. |
| US12100771B1 |
Solar cell, method for preparing solar cell, and photovoltaic module
The solar cell includes a substrate, a tunneling layer disposed on a first surface, and a first doped conductive layer disposed on a surface of the tunneling layer. The solar cell further includes a second doped conductive layer disposed on a surface of the first doped conductive layer, where the second doped conductive layer includes: multiple first portions and multiple second portions arranged alternately in a direction perpendicular to a predetermined direction and perpendicular to a thickness direction of the second doped conductive layer, each of the multiple first portions and the multiple second portions extends along the predetermined direction, a doping element concentration of the first doped conductive layer is lower than a doping element concentration of each of the multiple first portions, and the doping element concentration of each of the multiple first portions is lower than a doping element concentration of each of the multiple second portions. |
| US12100768B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device with small variations in transistor characteristics is provided. The semiconductor device includes an oxide; a first conductor and a second conductor provided apart from each other over the oxide; an insulator in a region between the first conductor and the second conductor over the oxide; and a conductor over the insulator. A side surface of the oxide, a top surface of the first conductor, a side surface of the first conductor, a top surface of the second conductor, and a side surface of the second conductor include regions in contact with a nitride containing silicon. |
| US12100766B2 |
Integrated short channel omega gate FinFET and long channel FinFET
An integrated short channel omega gate FinFET and long channel FinFET semiconductor device includes a first fin and second fin on a buried oxide (BOX) layer. The BOX layer includes a fin well outside and substantially adjoining a footprint of a respective fin. A first gate dielectric layer is upon the second fin and a second gate dielectric layer is upon the first dielectric layer. The BOX layer further includes an undercut below the first fin that exposes a portion of a bottom surface of the first fin. An omega-gate is around the first fin. A tri-gate is upon the second gate dielectric layer over the second fin. |
| US12100764B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor layer that has a main surface, a trench gate structure that includes a trench formed in the main surface and having a first sidewall at one side, a second sidewall at the other side and a bottom wall in a cross-sectional view, an insulation layer formed on an inner wall of the trench, and a gate electrode embedded in the trench with the insulation layer between the trench and the gate electrode and having an upper end portion positioned at a bottom-wall side with respect to the main surface, a plurality of first-conductivity-type drift regions that are respectively formed in a region at the first sidewall side of the trench and in a region at the second sidewall side of the trench such as to face each other with the trench interposed therebetween in a surface layer portion of the main surface and that are positioned in a region at the main surface side with respect to the bottom wall, and a plurality of first-conductivity-type source/drain regions that are formed in surface layer portions of the plurality of drift regions, respectively. |
| US12100763B2 |
Semiconductor device having cell section with gate structures partly covered with protective film
A semiconductor device includes a cell section having a plurality of gate structures, and an outer peripheral section surrounding the cell section. The cell section includes a semiconductor substrate, the plurality of gate structures, a first electrode and a second electrode. The cell section and the outer peripheral section includes a protective film made of a material having a thermal conductivity lower than that of the first electrode. The protective film extends from the outer peripheral section to an outer edge portion of the cell section adjacent to the outer peripheral section and covers a portion of the first electrode adjacent to the outer peripheral section. |
| US12100762B2 |
Wrap-around source/drain method of making contacts for backside metals
An apparatus including a circuit structure including a first side including a device layer including a plurality of devices and an opposite second side; an electrically conductive contact coupled to one of the plurality of devices on the first side; and an electrically conductive interconnect disposed on the second side of the structure and coupled to the conductive contact. A method including forming a transistor device including a channel between a source and a drain and a gate electrode on the channel defining a first side of the device; forming an electrically conductive contact to one of the source and the drain from the first side; and forming an interconnect on a second side of the device, wherein the interconnect is coupled to the contact. |
| US12100761B2 |
Wrap-around source/drain method of making contacts for backside metals
An apparatus including a circuit structure including a first side including a device layer including a plurality of devices and an opposite second side; an electrically conductive contact coupled to one of the plurality of devices on the first side; and an electrically conductive interconnect disposed on the second side of the structure and coupled to the conductive contact. A method including forming a transistor device including a channel between a source and a drain and a gate electrode on the channel defining a first side of the device; forming an electrically conductive contact to one of the source and the drain from the first side; and forming an interconnect on a second side of the device, wherein the interconnect is coupled to the contact. |
| US12100760B2 |
Semiconductor device and semiconductor system including semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes an oxide semiconductor film having a corundum structure or containing as a major component gallium oxide or a mixed crystal of gallium oxide, and the semiconductor device is a normally-off semiconductor device with a threshold voltage that is 3V or more. |
| US12100758B2 |
High electron mobility transistor and method of fabricating the same
A high electron mobility transistor includes a first III-V compound layer. A second III-V compound layer is disposed on the first III-V compound layer, wherein the composition of the first III-V compound layer and the second III-V compound layer are different from each other. A source electrode and a drain electrode are disposed on the second III-V compound layer. A gate electrode is disposed on the second III-V compound layer between the source electrode and the drain electrode. An insulating layer is disposed between the drain electrode and the gate electrode and covering the second III-V compound layer. Numerous electrodes are disposed on the insulating layer and contact the insulating layer, wherein the electrodes are positioned between the gate electrode and the drain electrode and a distribution of the electrodes decreases along a direction toward the gate electrode. |
| US12100742B2 |
Semiconductor device and junction edge region thereof
A semiconductor device and a junction edge region thereof. The junction edge region comprises a semiconductor substrate and an epitaxial layer above said substrate, the semiconductor substrate and the epitaxial layer being in a laminated structure and of the same conductor type; several floating regions spaced apart are provided between the semiconductor substrate and the epitaxial layer, a transition region is provided on the surface of the epitaxial layer adjacent to an active region portion, and the semiconductor substrate is additionally provided with a first semiconductor region. |
| US12100739B2 |
Method for producing silicon carbide semiconductor device and silicon carbide semiconductor device
A method for producing a silicon carbide semiconductor device includes preparing a silicon carbide substrate, forming an insulating film on one main surface of the silicon carbide substrate, forming a contact hole in the insulating film and exposing the one main surface of the silicon carbide substrate at a bottom surface of the contact hole, forming an Si film on the bottom surface of the contact hole, forming an Ni film on the Si film, performing a first heat treatment at a first temperature at which Ni and Si react, after the forming of the Ni film, removing an unreacted portion of the Ni film that does not react with the Si film by wet etching after the first heat treatment, and performing a second heat treatment at a second temperature higher than the first temperature after the removing of the unreacted portion. |
| US12100738B2 |
Semiconductor device with implant and method of manufacturing same
A FinFET is provided including a channel region containing a constituent element and excess atoms, the constituent element belonging to a group of the periodic table of elements, wherein said excess atoms are nitrogen, or belong to said group of the periodic table of elements, and a concentration of said excess atoms in the channel region is in the range between about 1019 cm−3 and about 1020 cm−3. |
| US12100737B2 |
Nanowire stack GAA device with selectable numbers of channel strips
The current disclosure describes techniques for individually selecting the number of channel strips for a device. The channel strips are selected by defining a three-dimensional active region that include a surface active area and a depth/height. Semiconductor strips in the active region are selected as channel strips. Semiconductor strips contained in the active region will be configured to be channel strips. Semiconductor strips not included in the active region are not selected as channel strips and are separated from source/drain structures by an auxiliary buffer layer. |
| US12100736B2 |
Semiconductor device having channel layers spaced apart in vertical direction
A semiconductor device includes a first active region on a substrate, channel layers disposed on the first active region to be spaced apart from each other in a vertical direction, a first gate structure disposed on the first active region and surrounding each channel layer, and a first source/drain region on the first active region on at least one side of the first gate structure. The channel layers include first to third channel layers. The first gate structure includes a first gate electrode and a first gate dielectric layer. The first gate dielectric layer includes first to third portions surrounding the first to third channel layers, respectively. The second portion has a thickness greater than a thickness of the first portion, and the third portion has a thickness greater than the thickness of the second portion. |
| US12100735B2 |
Semiconductor devices
A semiconductor device includes fin patterns on a substrate, at least one gate electrode intersecting the fin patterns, source/drain regions on upper surfaces of the fin patterns, and at least one blocking layer on a sidewall of a first fin pattern of the fin patterns, the at least one blocking layer extending above an upper surface of the first fin pattern of the fin patterns, wherein a first source/drain region of the source/drain regions that is on the upper surface of the first fin pattern has an asymmetric shape and is in direct contact with the at least one blocking layer. |
| US12100734B2 |
Low leakage FET
FET designs that exhibit low leakage in the presence of the edge transistor phenomenon. Embodiments includes nFET designs in which the work function ΦMF of the gate structure overlying the edge transistors of the nFET is increased by forming extra P+ implant regions within at least a portion of the gate structure, thereby increasing the Vt of the edge transistors to a level that may exceed the Vt of the central conduction channel of the nFET. In some embodiments, the gate structure of the nFET is modified to increase or “flare” the effective channel length of the edge transistors relative to the length of the central conduction channel of the FET. Other methods of changing the work function ΦMF of the gate structure overlying the edge transistors are also disclosed. The methods may be adapted to fabricating pFETs by reversing or substituting material types. |
| US12100733B2 |
Semiconductor device with leakage current guide path and method for fabricating the same
The present application discloses a semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a substrate; a bottom conductive region positioned in the substrate; a first gate structure positioned on the substrate; a first drain region positioned in the substrate and adjacent to one sidewall of the first gate structure; and a first extended conductive region positioned in the substrate, under the first drain region, contacting a bottom surface of the first drain region, and distant from the bottom conductive region. A top surface of the first drain region and a top surface of the substrate are substantially coplanar. The bottom conductive region and the first extended conductive region include the same electrical type. The first drain region and the first extended conductive region include different electrical types. |
| US12100731B2 |
Crystalline bottom electrode for perovskite capacitors and methods of fabrication
A capacitor device, such as a metal insulator metal (MIM) capacitor includes a seed layer including tantalum, a first electrode on the seed layer, where the first electrode includes at least one of ruthenium or iridium and an insulator layer on the seed layer, where the insulator layer includes oxygen and one or more of Sr, Ba or Ti. In an exemplary embodiment, the insulator layer is a crystallized layer having a substantially smooth surface. A crystallized insulator layer having a substantially smooth surface facilitates low electrical leakage in the MIM capacitor. The capacitor device further includes a second electrode layer on the insulator layer, where the second electrode layer includes a second metal or a second metal alloy. |
| US12100730B2 |
Metal-insulator-metal capacitors with thick intermediate electrode layers and methods of forming the same
Integrated circuit (IC) devices include a metal-insulator-metal (MIM) capacitor having a top electrode plate, a bottom electrode plate, and a plurality of intermediate electrode plates between the top electrode plate and the bottom electrode plate. A plurality of dielectric layers may separate each of the electrode plates of the MIM capacitor from adjacent plates of the MIM capacitor. Each of the intermediate electrode plates may have a thickness that is greater than a thickness of the top electrode plate and the bottom electrode plate. By providing multiple intermediate electrode plates between the top and bottom electrode plates of the MIM capacitor, and allocating the greatest plate thicknesses to the intermediate plates, the capacitance density may be increased in a given area of the IC device, which may provide increased performance for the IC device. |
| US12100727B2 |
Method for manufacturing a substrate for a front-facing image sensor
A method of manufacturing a substrate for a front-facing image sensor, comprises:—providing a donor substrate comprising a semiconductor layer to be transferred,—providing a semiconductor carrier substrate,—bonding the donor substrate to the carrier substrate, an electrically insulating layer being at the bonding interface,—transferring the semiconductor layer to the carrier substrate,—implanting gaseous ions in the carrier substrate via the transferred semiconductor layer and the electrically insulating layer, and—after the implantation, epitaxially growing an additional semiconductor layer on the transferred semiconductor layer. |
| US12100726B2 |
High performance image sensor
The present disclosure, in some embodiments, relates to an image sensor integrated chip. The image sensor integrated chip includes a semiconductor substrate. One or more isolation structures are arranged within one or more trenches in the semiconductor substrate. The one or more trenches are disposed along opposing sides of a photo diode region within the semiconductor substrate. The semiconductor substrate includes an undulating exterior having rounded corners arranged laterally between neighboring ones of a plurality of flat surfaces. The rounded corners and the plurality of flat surfaces forming a plurality of triangular shaped protrusions arranged between the one or more isolation structures, as viewed along a cross-sectional view. |
| US12100725B2 |
Germanium based focal plane array for the short infrared spectral regime
Light detecting structures comprising a Si base having a pyramidal shape with a wide incoming light-facing pyramid bottom and a narrower pyramid top and a Ge photodiode formed on the Si pyramid top, wherein the Ge photodiode is operable to detect light in the short wavelength infrared range, and methods for forming such structures. A light detecting structure as above may be repeated spatially and fabricated in the form of a focal plane array of Ge photodetectors on silicon. |
| US12100723B2 |
Image sensor structure with a light guide layer and a nanowell layer
An image sensor structure including an image stack disposed over a device stack. The image stack includes a plurality of light detectors. A first optical filter stack is disposed over the image stack. The first optical filter stack includes a light guide layer. Light pipe cavities are disposed in the light guide layer. Each light pipe cavity is associated with a light detector. Each light pipe cavity has an aspect ratio that is greater than about 2.5 to about 1. A nanowell layer is disposed over the first optical filter stack. Nanowells are disposed in the nanowell layer. Each nanowell is associated with a light detector. |
| US12100722B2 |
Imaging device with improved short-wavelength sensitivity
There is provided an imaging device including a first semiconductor layer formed on a semiconductor substrate, a second semiconductor layer formed on the first semiconductor layer and having an opposite conductivity type to the first semiconductor layer, a pixel separation portion that demarcates a pixel region including the first semiconductor layer and the second semiconductor layer, a first electrode connected to the first semiconductor layer from one surface side of the semiconductor substrate, and a metal layer connected to the second semiconductor layer from a light irradiation surface side which is the other surface of the semiconductor substrate and buried in the pixel separation portion in at least a part of the semiconductor substrate in a thickness direction. |
| US12100721B2 |
Solid-state image pickup device and electronic apparatus having a divided pixel separation wall
The present disclosure relates to a solid-state image pickup device and an electronic apparatus that are capable of preventing leakage of charges between adjacent pixels. A plurality of pixels perform photoelectric conversion on light incident from a back surface via different on-chip lenses for each pixel. A pixel separation wall is formed between pixels adjacent to each other, and includes a front-side trench formed from a front surface and a backside trench formed from the back surface. A wiring layer is provided on the front surface. The present disclosure is applicable to, for example, a backside illuminated CMOS image sensor. |
| US12100719B2 |
Reliable semiconductor packages
A semiconductor package and method for forming thereof are disclosed. The package includes a package substrate having a die region with a die attached thereto. An encapsulant is disposed to cover encapsulation region of the package substrate. A protective cover is disposed over the die and attached to the encapsulant by a cover adhesive. The protective cover is supported by a lower portion of step shaped inner encapsulant sidewalls. |
| US12100713B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a pixel, a scanning line, a signal line, and a drive circuit configured to be supplied with a first power supply voltage signal of a positive value and a second power supply voltage signal of a negative value. The drive circuit includes: a gate driver configured to supply a scanning signal to the scanning line; a signal line selection circuit configured to supply a pixel signal to the signal line; and a display control circuit. The display control circuit is configured to, at first time in a power-off sequence, supply the first power supply voltage signal to the scanning line, supply a GND potential to the common electrode, and supply an adjustment potential of a positive value to the signal line. The display control circuit is configured to supply the GND potential to the scanning line at second time after the first time. |
| US12100705B2 |
Deep trench via for three-dimensional integrated circuit
Described herein are apparatuses, methods, and systems associated with a deep trench via in a three-dimensional (3D) integrated circuit (IC). The 3D IC may include a logic layer having an array of logic transistors. The 3D IC may further include one or more front-side interconnects on a front side of the 3D IC and one or more back-side interconnects on a back side of the 3D IC. The deep trench may be in the logic layer to conductively couple a front-side interconnect to a back-side interconnect. The deep trench via may be formed in a diffusion region or gate region of a dummy transistor in the logic layer. Other embodiments may be described and claimed. |
| US12100694B2 |
Light emitting device and display apparatus having the same
A light emitting device including an insulation unit, a light emitting region including first, second, and third LED stacks each including first and second conductivity type semiconductor layers, a first pillar electrically connected to the first conductivity type semiconductor layers of the first, second, and third LED stacks, and a second pillar, a third pillar, and a fourth pillar electrically connected to the second conductivity type semiconductor layers of the first, second, and third LED stacks, respectively, an intermediate first connector and a lower first connector respectively electrically connecting the first conductivity type semiconductor layers of the second LED stack and the third LED stack to the first pillar, in which the insulation unit have four corners, and the first, second, third, and fourth pillars are disposed near the four corners covering a side surface of the insulation unit, respectively. |
| US12100693B2 |
RGB LED package with BSY emitter
LED packages are disclosed capable of emitting a range of colors including white light, while still emitting that can have a high color rendering index (CRI). The LED packages can have a simplified reflective cup arrangement and improved lead frame design. The LED packages according to the present invention comprise one or more LED WITH PHOSPHORs for high CRI lighting applications, along with multiple narrowband emitters (e.g. RGB LEDs), but do not have a dam or partition to segregate the LED WITH PHOSPHOR from the multiple emitters. This results in a LED package that is less complex and easier to manufacture, while still providing the desired flexibility in LED package emissions. |
| US12100687B2 |
Integrated circuit product and chip floorplan arrangement thereof
An integrated circuit product includes a first chip to a twelfth chip. The first to fourth chips are respectively arranged in a first quadrant, a fourth quadrant, a third quadrant, and a second quadrant of the integrated circuit product, and the first chip is adjacent to the second chip and the fourth chip. The fifth to eighth chips are respectively arranged in the first quadrant, the fourth quadrant, the third quadrant, and the second quadrant of the integrated circuit product, and any two of the fifth to eighth chips are not adjacent to each other. The ninth to twelfth chips are respectively arranged in the first quadrant, the fourth quadrant, the third quadrant, and the second quadrant of the integrated circuit product, and any two of the ninth to twelfth chips are not adjacent to each other. |
| US12100684B2 |
Bonded structures
A bonded structure can include a first element having a first conductive interface feature and a second element having a second conductive interface feature. An integrated device can be coupled to or formed with the first element or the second element. The first conductive interface feature can be directly bonded to the second conductive interface feature to define an interface structure. The interface structure can be disposed about the integrated device in an at least partially annular profile to connect the first and second elements. |
| US12100680B2 |
Semiconductor structure and method for preparing same
A semiconductor structure includes: a first base having a first face, a second base having a second face and a welded structure. The first base is provided with an electrical connection column protruding from the first face. A conductive column is provided in the second base, and a first groove and a second groove are further provided at the second face. The first groove is located above the conductive column, and the second groove exposes at least part of a side surface of the conductive column. The protruding portion of the electrical connection column is located in the second groove, and part of a side surface of the electrical connection column and part of the side surface of the conductive column overlap in staggered way in a direction perpendicular to the first face or the second surface. At least part of the welded structure is filled in the first groove. |
| US12100677B2 |
Semiconductor structure and method for forming semiconductor structure, stacked structure, and wafer stacking method
A semiconductor structure, a method for forming a semiconductor structure, a stacked structure, and a wafer stacking method are provided. The semiconductor structure includes: a semiconductor substrate; a first dielectric layer on a surface of a semiconductor substrate; a top metal layer, in which the top metal layer is located in the first dielectric layer, and the top metal layer penetrates through the first dielectric layer; and a buffer layer located between the top metal layer and the first dielectric layer. |
| US12100675B2 |
Transmission line structures for three-dimensional integrated circuit and the methods thereof
An exemplary device includes a dielectric layer and a transmission line structure disposed in the dielectric layer. The transmission line structure includes a first metal line disposed between a second metal line and a third metal line. Dielectric islands are disposed in a first region and a second region of the dielectric layer. The first region of the dielectric layer is between the first metal line and the second metal line. The second region of the dielectric layer is between the first metal line and the third metal line. A dielectric constant of the dielectric islands is greater than a dielectric constant of the dielectric layer. The dielectric islands may be doped sections of the dielectric layer. In some embodiments, the dielectric islands in the first region are aligned with the dielectric islands in the second region along a direction perpendicular to a lengthwise direction of the first metal line. |
| US12100672B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacture
A device includes an interconnect device attached to a redistribution structure, wherein the interconnect device includes conductive routing connected to conductive connectors disposed on a first side of the interconnect device, a molding material at least laterally surrounding the interconnect device, a metallization pattern over the molding material and the first side of the interconnect device, wherein the metallization pattern is electrically connected to the conductive connectors, first external connectors connected to the metallization pattern, and semiconductor devices connected to the first external connectors. |
| US12100668B2 |
Semiconductor package
A semiconductor package includes a first semiconductor chip; an encapsulant covering at least a portion of the first semiconductor chip; insulating layers provided on the encapsulant, each of the insulating layers being transparent or translucent; and wiring layers provided on the encapsulant, the wiring layers being partially covered by the insulating layers, wherein an outermost insulating layer of the insulating layers comprises a first region and a second region, a color of the first region is different from a color of the second region, the second region surrounds the first region, and at least one marking pattern comprising at least one step portion is provided in the first region of the outermost insulating layer. |
| US12100666B2 |
Method for forming chip package structure
A method for forming a chip package structure is provided. The method includes forming a conductive pad over a carrier substrate, forming a substrate layer over the carrier substrate, wherein the conductive pad is embedded in the substrate layer, forming a conductive pillar electrically connected to the conductive pad, disposing a chip in the substrate layer, and forming a molding layer surrounding the chip. |
| US12100665B2 |
Semiconductor package structure and manufacturing method thereof
The present invention provides a semiconductor package structure including a first stacked structure and a second stacked structure, which is stacked on the first stacked structure. The first stacked structure includes a first dielectric layer, a first power chip, a first conductive connecting element, a first conductive pillar and a first patterned conductive layer. The second stacked structure includes a second dielectric layer, a second power chip, a second conductive connecting element, a second conductive pillar, a second patterned conductive layer, and a third patterned conductive layer. The first power chip and the second power chip are stacked to provide a smaller volume semiconductor package structure, that the first power chip and the second power chip may be directly electrically connected through the circuit structure and may eliminate the related disadvantages of the lead frame. In addition, a manufacturing method of a semiconductor package structure is also disclosed. |
| US12100658B2 |
Method to produce a 3D multilayer semiconductor device and structure
A method of making a 3D multilayer semiconductor device, the method comprising: providing a first substrate comprising a first level, said first level comprising a first single crystal silicon layer; providing a second substrate comprising a second level, said second level comprising a second single crystal silicon layer; performing an epitaxial growth of a SiGe layer on top of said second single crystal silicon layer; performing an epitaxial growth of a third single crystal silicon layer on top of said SiGe layer; forming a plurality of second transistors each comprising a single crystal channel; forming a plurality of metal layers interconnecting said plurality of second transistors; and then performing a bonding of said second level onto said first level, wherein performing said bonding comprises making oxide-to-oxide bond zones, and performing removal of a majority of said second single crystal silicon layer. |
| US12100655B2 |
Integrated circuits having signal lines formed with double patterning
An integrated circuit includes an array of metal conducting lines in a metal layer overlying an insulation layer supported by a substrate, a first metal segment lineup having multiple metal segments in the metal layer between a first metal conducting line and a second metal conducting line in the array of metal conducting lines, and an electric circuit having a first input and a second input. The first input is connected to the first metal conducting line and the second input is connected to the second metal conducting line, and a first length of the first metal conducting line is equal to a second length of the second metal conducting line. |
| US12100654B2 |
Storage device, semiconductor structure and method for forming same
A method for forming a semiconductor structure includes: providing a substrate, the substrate including an array area and a metal interconnection area located at the periphery of the array area; and forming a metal interconnection structure in the metal interconnection area, in which the metal interconnection structure includes a plurality of stacked metal wiring layers and a plurality of connecting pillars connected between each of the metal wiring layers, each of the metal wiring layer includes a plurality of metal strips distributed at intervals, the metal strips of two adjacent metal wiring layers are staggered, and two adjacent metal strips located in a same layer are respectively connected with one same metal strip directly below them through the connecting pillars. |
| US12100653B2 |
Resistance tunable fuse structure formed by embedded thin metal layers
Fabrication method for forming a resistance tunable fuse stack structure includes forming on a substrate layer a first fuse conductive layer, directly on, and contacting a top surface of, the substrate layer, followed by forming a first inter-layer dielectric (ILD) layer, directly on, and contacting a top surface of, the first fuse conductive layer, a second fuse conductive layer, directly on, and contacting a top surface of, the first ILD layer, followed by forming a second ILD layer, directly on, and contacting a top surface of, the second fuse conductive layer. First and second fuse contacts are formed in the fuse stack structure vertically extending through the layers and contacting at least one of the first and second fuse conductive layers. Selection of various attributes of the fuse stack structure tunes a resistance of a fuse formed between the first and second fuse contacts. |
| US12100633B2 |
Electronic package comprising wire inside an electronic component
An electronic package is provided, in which an electronic component with a conductive layer on an outer surface thereof is embedded in an encapsulant, where at least one electrode pad is disposed on an active surface of the electronic component, and at least one wire electrically connected to the electrode pad is arranged inside the electronic component, so that the conductive layer is electrically connected to the wire, such that the electrode pad, the wire and the conductive layer are used as a power transmission structure which serves as a current path to reduce DC resistance and improve an impedance issue associated with the supply of power. |
| US12100632B2 |
Glass core substrate and manufacturing method thereof
A glass core substrate includes a first glass layer, a second glass layer, a first bonding layer, and a conductive connector. The second glass layer is disposed on the first glass layer. The first bonding layer bonds the first glass layer and the second glass layer. The conductive connector passes through the first glass layer, the first bonding layer, and the second glass layer. The conductive connector is configured to provide a vertical conductive path to the glass core substrate. A manufacturing method of the glass core substrate is also provided. |
| US12100629B2 |
Methods of forming transistors and methods of forming devices comprising transistors
A method of forming a semiconductor structure comprises forming an array of vertical thin film transistors. Forming the array of vertical thin film transistors comprises forming a source region, forming a channel material comprising an oxide semiconductor material over the source region, exposing the channel material to a dry etchant comprising hydrogen bromide to pattern the channel material into channel regions of adjacent vertical thin film transistor structures, forming a gate dielectric material on sidewalls of the channel regions, forming a gate electrode material adjacent to the gate dielectric material, and forming a drain region over the channel regions. Related methods of forming semiconductor structures and an array of memory cells are also disclosed. |
| US12100627B2 |
Method and structure for metal gates
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device having metal gates and the semiconductor device are disclosed. The method comprises providing a first sacrificial gate associated with a first conductive type transistor and a second sacrificial gate associated with a second conductive type transistor disposed over the substrate, wherein the first conductive type and the second conductive type are complementary; replacing the first sacrificial gate with a first metal gate structure; forming a patterned dielectric layer and/or a patterned photoresist layer to cover the first metal gate structure; and replacing the second sacrificial gate with a second metal gate structure. The method can improve gate height uniformity during twice metal gate chemical mechanical polish processes. |
| US12100626B2 |
Source/drain epitaxial structures for semiconductor devices
The present disclosure describes a method of forming a semiconductor device having epitaxial structures with optimized dimensions. The method includes forming first and second fin structures on a substrate, forming a spacer layer on the first and second fin structures, forming a first spacer structure adjacent to the first fin structure, and forming a first epitaxial structure adjacent to the first spacer structure. The first and second fin structures are separated by an isolation layer. The first spacer structure has a first height above the isolation layer. The method further includes forming a second spacer structure adjacent to the second fin structure and forming a second epitaxial structure adjacent to the second spacer structure. The second spacer structure has a second height above the isolation layer greater than the first height. The second epitaxial structure includes a type of dopant different from the first epitaxial structure. |
| US12100619B2 |
Semiconductor wafer dicing process
A semiconductor wafer dicing process is disclosed for dicing a wafer into individual dies, each die comprising one integrated circuit. The process comprises: disposing a coating upon the wafer; removing at least a portion of the coating to expose regions of the wafer, along which the wafer is to be diced, to form a workpiece; disposing the workpiece upon a platen within a processing chamber; plasma treating the workpiece with a set of plasma treatment conditions to etch a portion of the exposed regions of the wafer to form a wafer groove which extends laterally beneath the coating to form an undercut; and plasma etching the workpiece with a set of plasma etch conditions, which are different to the plasma treatment conditions, to etch through the wafer and dice the wafer along the wafer groove. |
| US12100617B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor memory device
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor memory device is provided in the present invention, including steps of providing a substrate, forming word lines extending in a first direction in said substrate, forming bit lines extending in a second direction over said word lines, forming partition structures between said bit lines and right above said word lines, forming storage node contacts in spaces defined by said bit lines and said partition structures, wherein a portion of said storage node contact protruding from top surfaces of said bit lines and said partition structures is contact pad, forming a silicon nitride liner on said contact pads, said bit lines and said partition structures, and forming a silicon oxide layer on said silicon nitride liner. |
| US12100614B2 |
Apparatus for controlling lift pin movement
Embodiments of the present disclosure generally relate to lift pins and to apparatus for controlling lift pin movement. In an embodiment, an apparatus for positioning a substrate in a chamber is provided. The apparatus includes a chamber component, a lift pin having a top surface for supporting the substrate and a lift pin shaft and a stopper. The apparatus further includes a compressible element positioned between the chamber component and the stopper, the compressible element further positioned around the lift pin shaft, the lift pin being moveable relative to a substrate transfer plane by movement of a substrate support in contact with the compressible element. |
| US12100607B2 |
Magnetic collet
Provided is a magnetic collet. The magnetic collet includes adsorption rubber including a plurality of individual holes passing therethrough from a contact surface, which is one surface of the adsorption rubber, coming into contact with a semiconductor chip to the other surface thereof, and a metal plate including a common hole which passes therethrough from one surface of the metal plate to the other surface thereof and provides a common passage connected to the individual holes and stacked on the adsorption rubber. |
| US12100605B2 |
Gas purge device and gas purging method
A gas purge device includes a first nozzle and a gas gate. The first nozzle is coupled to a front-opening unified pod (FOUP) through a first port of the FOUP. The gas gate is coupled to the first nozzle via a first pipe. The gas gate includes a first mass flow controller (MFC), a second MFC, and a first switch unit. The first MFC is configured to control a first flow of a first gas. The second MFC is configured to control a second flow of a second gas. The first switch unit is coupled to the first MFC and the second MFC, and is configured to provide the first gas to the first nozzle through the first pipe or receive the second gas from the first nozzle through the first pipe according to a process configuration. |
| US12100603B2 |
Multi-zone azimuthal heater
A heater assembly includes a substrate, a plurality of resistive heating elements disposed along a perimeter of the substrate, and a common ground electrical lead connected to at least some of the plurality of resistive heating elements and having a portion extending along the perimeter of the substrate. The plurality of resistive heating elements are independently controllable to provide azimuthal temperature control of the heater assembly. |
| US12100598B2 |
Methods for planarizing a substrate using a combined wet etch and chemical mechanical polishing (CMP) process
The present disclosure combines chemical mechanical polishing (CMP), wet etch and deposition processes to provide improved processes and methods for planarizing an uneven surface of a material layer deposited over a plurality of structures formed on a substrate. A CMP process is initially used to smooth the uneven surface and provide complete local planarization of the material layer above the plurality of structures. After achieving complete local planarization, a wet etch process is used to etch the material layer until a uniform recess is formed between the plurality of structures and the material layer is provided with a uniform thickness across the substrate. In some embodiments, an additional material layer may be deposited and a second CMP process may be used to planarize the additional material layer to provide the substrate with a globally planarized surface. |
| US12100586B2 |
Substrate cleaning method and apparatus
A method for cleaning a substrate with pattern structures comprises the following steps: using gas-liquid atomization to clean a substrate surface (601); using TEBO megasonic to clean the substrate surface (602); and drying the substrate (603). The TEBO megasonic cleaning is used to remove small size particles on the substrate and the gas-liquid atomization cleaning is used to remove large size particles on the substrate. The method enables achieving an effect of cleaning the substrate without or with less device damage. A substrate cleaning apparatus is also provided. |
| US12100584B2 |
Methods and systems for multi-pass encoded frequency pushing
A time-of-flight mass spectrometer (TOF MS) comprises a mass analyzer, an ion pushing device, a filtering device, a multi-pass reflector, a detector, and a decoder. The ion pushing device is arranged to push ions into the mass analyzer. The filtering device is arranged to filter a portion of the ions based on a mass range of the ions. The multi-pass reflector is arranged to selectively reflect the ions for further passes through the mass analyzer. The detector is arranged to receive the ions. The decoder is arranged to reconstruct a mass spectrum for the entire mass range of the ions. |
| US12100575B2 |
Plasma processing devices having multi-port valve assemblies
A plasma processing device may include a plasma processing chamber, a plasma electrode assembly, a wafer stage, a plasma producing gas inlet, a plurality of vacuum ports, at least one vacuum pump, and a multi-port valve assembly. The multi-port valve assembly may comprise a movable seal plate positioned in the plasma processing chamber. The movable seal plate may comprise a transverse port sealing surface that is shaped and sized to completely overlap the plurality of vacuum ports in a closed state, to partially overlap the plurality of vacuum ports in a partially open state, and to avoid substantial overlap of the plurality of vacuum ports in an open state. The multi-port valve assembly may comprise a transverse actuator coupled to the movable seal plate and a sealing actuator coupled to the movable seal plate. |
| US12100573B2 |
X-ray tube device
According to one embodiment, an X-ray tube device includes a cathode which emits electrons, an anode target which generates X-rays when the electrons emitted from the cathode collide therewith, a first tube portion, a second tube portion which forms a flow path of a coolant together with the first tube portion, and a protective film. The protective film covers an inner surface of the first tube portion, and is formed of hard gold. |
| US12100568B2 |
Electromagnetic relay
An electromagnetic relay includes a housing, a first fixed terminal, a movable contact piece, and a drive device. The first fixed terminal includes a first main member and a first layer member. The first main member protrudes from inside the housing to outside the housing. The first layer member is provided separately from the first main member. The first layer member is laminated on the first main member. The first layer member protrudes from inside the housing to outside the housing. The first layer member has a shape branched from the first main member. The movable contact piece is disposed in the housing and faces the first fixed terminal. The drive device moves the movable contact piece in a contact direction and an opening direction. |
| US12100556B2 |
Capacitor and method for manufacturing same
A second busbar is provided that has a second electrode terminal and a second connection terminal. A first busbar is provided that has a first electrode terminal, a lateral side coupler, an overhang, and a first connection terminal. The first electrode terminal and/or the second electrode terminal has a protruding piece for connection (connecting protrusion). This protruding piece is elastically depressible in response to contact with an electrode surface of a capacitor element unit inserted from an opposite side of the lateral side coupler across a space between the first and second electrode terminals. |
| US12100547B2 |
Power storage device, power storage device electrode, and a method for manufacturing said power storage device and power storage device electrode
A power storage device includes: an electrode assembly, including a positive electrode, a separator, and a negative electrode; and an electrolyte solution. The negative electrode includes a negative electrode current collector, and a negative electrode active material layer formed on a surface of the negative electrode current collector. The negative electrode is doped with lithium. The power storage device includes first through-holes penetrating the negative electrode current collector in a thickness direction thereof. On at least one side of the negative electrode current collector, the power storage device includes second through-holes penetrating the negative electrode active material layer in a thickness direction thereof. An aperture ratio of the first through-holes on the negative electrode current collector, or an aperture ratio of the second through-holes on the negative electrode active material layer is 0.001% or higher and 1% or lower. |
| US12100546B2 |
Method for producing a magnetic core for an electromagnetic actuator
A method for producing a magnetic core for an electromagnetic actuator of an electromagnetic valve train includes punching a core blank from a soft magnetic metal sheet and reshaping the core blank. The core blank has a base segment with an opening and a plurality of wall segments that extend outwardly from an outer edge of the base segment. The plurality of wall segments is bent in a direction substantially perpendicular to the base segment during the reshaping. |
| US12100537B2 |
Device for protection from overvoltages
An overvoltage protection device having a printed circuit board, a varistor having a metal-oxide varistor body that has a face and a conductive metal layer deposited on the face where the varistor is connected to a first electrical connection terminal by a first connection track of the printed circuit board and a disconnection tab is disclosed. The disconnection tab being fastened directly to the metal layer by a thermofusible link and exerting a traction force on the metal layer so that the disconnection tab moves away from the metal layer and disconnects the electrical connection between the first terminal and the varistor in response to melting of the thermofusible link is also disclosed. |
| US12100530B2 |
Silver paste
The present invention provides a silver paste, containing at least a silver powder, a binder resin, and an organic solvent, in which a content of the silver powder based on the silver paste is 80.00 to 97.00% by mass, D10 is 1.00 to 3.00 μm and D50 is 3.00 to 7.00 μm, where D10 and D50 respectively represent a 10% value and a 50% value of a volume-based cumulative fraction obtained by laser diffraction particle size distribution measurement of the silver powder, the silver powder has a specific surface area of 0.10 to 0.30 m2/g, the silver powder has a copper content of 10 to 5000 ppm by mass, a content of the binder resin based on the silver powder is 0.430 to 0.750% by mass, and the silver paste has a dry film density of 7.50 g/cm3 or more. |
| US12100528B2 |
Method for preparing at least one generator with a high radium-228 content
A method for preparing one or more generators with a high radium-228 content from an aqueous solution comprising thorium-232 and radium-228. The generator(s) can be used, in particular, for producing thorium-228, from which radium-224, then lead-212 and bismuth-212 can be obtained. The method and the generator(s) that it can be used to prepare are therefore applicable, in particular, in the manufacture of radiopharmaceuticals made from lead-212 or bismuth-212, which can be used in nuclear medicine and, in particular, in targeted alpha radiotherapy for the treatment of cancers. |
| US12100525B2 |
Nuclear materials apparatus and implementing the same
An apparatus for supporting spent nuclear fuel including a plurality of wall plates arranged in an intersecting manner to define a basket apparatus extending along a longitudinal axis. The basket apparatus may include a plurality of fuel cells and a plurality of flux traps between adjacent fuel cells. A plurality of reinforcement members may be positioned in the flux traps and may extend between opposing ones of the wall plates that form the flux traps. Each of the wall plates may be a slotted wall plate. The slotted wall plates may be interlocked with one another to form the basket apparatus. Each of the slotted wall plates may include an upper edge, a lower edge, and a plurality of plate slots formed in each of the upper and lower edges. The plate slots of the slotted wall plates may receive intersecting slotted wall plates. |
| US12100521B2 |
Nuclear reactor flow control devices and associated reactors, components, and methods
A flow control device configured to be positioned in a reactor core. The flow control device including a central shaft and at least one blade extending helically from the central shaft. A nuclear reactor and related systems and methods are also disclosed. |
| US12100519B2 |
Peer-to-peer secure and scalable network architecture
The various implementations described herein include methods and systems for configuring, managing, and/or using a health utility network. A system includes a health utility platform configured to execute collaboration services and distributed ledger services. The system also includes a health network including a private network interconnect configured to provide access, routing and service discovery. The health network is communicatively coupled to the health utility platform. The system also includes landing zones communicatively coupled to the health utility platform via the health network. Each landing zone is configured to run applications for a participant. The applications are configured to consume data and/or provide services on the health network. The collaboration services and the distributed ledger services are configured to provide context or facilitate data exchanges between different landing zones. |
| US12100517B2 |
Generalized biomarker model
A model-assisted system for identifying candidates for a cohort based on a biomarker may include at least one processor. The processor may be programmed to access a database from which information associated with a population of individuals can be derived; provide, to a generalized biomarker model, a first biomarker associated with a cohort, the generalized biomarker model being trained based on one or more second biomarkers using the information, wherein the first biomarker is different from the one or more second biomarkers; receive, from the generalized biomarker model, a first output indicating a first group of the population of individuals exceeding a first likelihood threshold of having been tested for the first biomarker; and determine, based on the first output, whether an individual from among the first group of the population of individuals is a candidate for the cohort. |
| US12100516B2 |
Microfluidic coronary circulatory model
Systems, methods and apparatus are included that are configured to model microvascular obstruction (MVO) in patients. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, a multi-scale model is configured to mimic myocardial microcirculation of coronary vessels. The model includes collaterals configured to provide alternative pathways possibly bypassing the MVO, and configured to model coronary artery compliance for spatially resolved fluid transport through the coronary vessels. The model is configured to simulate the MVO by increasing flow resistance in at least one of the modelled coronary vessels, or by blocking the at least one of the modelled coronary vessels completely. The model is also configured to mimic behavior of fluid transport in the coronary vessels during diagnostics or treatment, to design and optimize therapy protocols for the MVO. |
| US12100515B2 |
Altering a targeted brain therapeutic based on a brain circuit model
Techniques that facilitate altering a targeted brain therapeutic are provided. In one example, a system determines parameter data associated with a circuit model of a biological brain. The system also simulates the circuit model based on the parameter data to generate treatment data associated with the biological brain. |
| US12100512B2 |
Medical image project management platform
The present invention discloses a medical image project management platform comprising a project management module and a radiomic feature extracting module. The project management module comprises a multi-module management interface and a labeling unit. An image is input by the multi-module management interface and received by the labeling unit. A first labeled image and a second labeled image are produced thereafter. The radiomic feature extracting module comprises an analysis unit and a feature extracting module. The analysis unit analyzes the first labeled image and gives the first labeled image a first labeling unit. The analysis unit analyzes the second labeled image and gives the second labeled image a second labeling unit. The radiomic feature extracting unit receives the first and the second labeling units and proceeds radiomic computation to output a radiomic feature. |
| US12100510B2 |
System and method for enrollment into patient service programs
Systems and methods for providing an intelligent network to onboard patients to specialty medications are described herein. |
| US12100508B2 |
Method for predicting maximal oxygen uptake in wearable devices
A method for predicting maximal oxygen uptake (VO2Max) in wearable devices with memory restriction using an ensemble of machine learning algorithms is described. The method is related to the fields of well-being, healthcare and artificial intelligence, and includes a technique that predicts maximal oxygen uptake (VO2Max) in running sessions at different paces using wearable devices with memory restriction. The proposed method requires less than 5 KB of memory to run on a wearable device. Specifically, based on user's profile data (age, gender, height and weight), a set of heart rate (HR) and speed readings of a running session, the method is able to estimate VO2Max. |
| US12100504B2 |
Machine learning system for asymmetrical matching of care givers and care receivers
A system for selection of a medical provider (MP) by a requesting patient based on preferences for the MP includes a first model modeling the preferences of a plurality of patients for select MPs and trained on a first training data set. A second model is provided for modeling the preferences of a plurality of MPs for select patients and trained on a second training data set. A controller controls the first and second models to select at least a portion of available MPs in an available MP data set for input of the associated representative information to the first and second model MP inputs. A patient rank calculator accumulates the output patient determined preferences for MPs associated with the selected at least a portion of the available MPs and generates a MP ranking for each of the selected at least a portion of the available MPs. An MP rank calculator accumulates the output MP determined preferences for the requesting patient for each of the selected at least a portion of the available MPs and generates a patient ranking for each of the selected at least a portion of the available MPs. A plurality of weighting blocks are associated with at least one of the patient rank calculator and the MP rank calculator and with a determined preference of a rank calculator. A control input to each of the plurality of weighting blocks controls a weighting value applied by the plurality of weighting blocks to each of the associated determined preferences. A modifier modifies the patient ranking output of the patient rank calculator with the output of the MP rank calculator to provide as an output in response to the query from the requesting patient a resultant ranking list for each of the selected at least a portion of the available MPs. |
| US12100500B2 |
Method and arrangement for processing a signal
A CADx system for analysing medical images and determining if the images are acceptable for analysis, by determining if the images contain out-of-distribution input data is described. The CADx system comprises: an input circuit for receiving at least one medical image; a gatekeeper circuit for determining if the at least one received medical image contains out-of-distribution input data and so does not meet the requirements of the CADx system for acceptable images; and an output circuit to produce an output that is either a determination that the at least one received medical image contains out-of-distribution data and is not suitable for analysis by the CADx system, or a determination that the medical image is acceptable. |
| US12100495B2 |
Follow-up form management method applied to health management system
A follow-up form management method applied to a health management system includes: in response to an operation instruction for opening a scale making tool interface, displaying the scale making tool interface, the scale making tool interface including a field display area and an editing area; in response to an operation instruction for making a follow-up form, making the follow-up form in the editing area; in response to an operation instruction for opening a follow-up creating interface, displaying the follow-up creating interface, the follow-up creating interface including an options menu, and the options menu including options corresponding to the generated follow-up form; and in response to an operation instruction for creating a follow-up task, creating a follow-up task, the follow-up form included in the follow-up task being a follow-up form corresponding to an option selected from the options menu under the operation instruction for creating the follow-up task. |
| US12100492B2 |
Nasal and oral respiration sensor
An apparatus having a support structure, including two nasal flow passages aligned with one another and with respect to a nasal respiratory flow direction, and an oral flow passage disposed transverse to the two nasal flow passages, along an oral respiratory flow direction, the nasal flow passages and oral flow passages having thermistors to monitor a patient's respiration, and the apparatus having a thermistor for monitoring ambient conditions and an accelerometer for monitoring movement of the apparatus. The apparatus also detecting and distinguishing between oral and individual nasal air flows, and integration of the apparatus and monitored data with a network. |
| US12100489B2 |
System and method for managing medical information with enhanced personal information protection
A system and method for managing medical information with enhanced personal information protection are disclosed. The system and method may generate a distributed key including a user key, an agent key, and a backup key, and manage medical data of a user, using a user agent assigned to each user and the distributed key, to prevent personal information of the user from being directly accessed from outside. |
| US12100484B2 |
Methods and compositions for analyte quantification
Disclosed are methods, libraries, and samples for quantifying a target analyte in a laboratory sample including the target analyte. The methods typically include the step of estimating the amount of the target analyte in the laboratory sample from mass spectrometric data including signal intensities for the target analyte and one or more internal standards, where the mass spectrometric data are an output of a mass spectrometric analysis of a target sample produced from the laboratory sample and a predetermined amount of the one or more internal standards. The present disclosure also provides a method for analyte quantification. The method comprises adding one or more calibrators to a sample comprising one or more analytes; applying mass spectrometry (MS) to the sample; and using a trained machine learning model to determine an absolute concentration of the one or more analytes. |
| US12100481B2 |
System and method of efficient coding and decoding of contact matrices
A system and method relate to encoding and decoding a contact matrix data structure. A system includes a processor and a computer-readable storage device storing a contact matrix data structure. The contact matrix data structure includes a header containing an interval of a contact matrix, a list of interval multipliers, a tile size, a list of chromosomes with a corresponding identifier and length, a list of sample identifiers, zero or more names of methods of normalization performed on the contact matrix tiles; zero or more bin payload having an interval multiplier; at least one parameter set; and at least one matrix payloads. |
| US12100475B2 |
Apparatus, memory controller, memory device, memory system, and method for clock switching and low power consumption
In an apparatus, a memory controller, a memory device, and a method for switching frequencies of clock signals to reduce power consumption, when the memory device performs an internal operation according to a command of the memory controller, a frequency of a clock signal of the memory controller is changed. The memory controller switches the frequency of the clock signal to a low frequency according to assertion of a status signal that indicates a busy operation status of the memory device according to the command, and switches the frequency of the clock signal to a high frequency according to de-assertion of the status signal that indicates a ready operation status of the memory device. |
| US12100473B2 |
Computer memory arrays employing memory banks and integrated serializer/de-serializer circuits for supporting serialization/de-serialization of read/write data in burst read/write modes, and related methods
Computer memory arrays employing memory banks and integrated serializer/de-serializer circuits for supporting serialization/de-serialization of read/write data in burst read/write modes, and related methods are disclosed. The memory array can include a serialization circuit configured to convert parallel data streams of read data received from separately switched memory banks into a single, serialized, read data stream in a burst read mode. The memory array can also include a de-serialization circuit configured to convert a received, serialized write data stream on an input bus for a write operation into separate, parallel write data streams to be written simultaneously to the memory banks in a burst write mode. |
| US12100472B2 |
Integrated circuit and memory device including sampling circuit
An integrated circuit includes a sampling control circuit configured to generate a sampling enable signal by dividing a sampling period into a plurality of sub-sections according to an active counting signal generated by counting a number of inputs of an active signal during the sampling period, and comparing the active counting signal with a random signal for each sub-section; and a sampling circuit configured to sample and store an input address according to the sampling enable signal. |
| US12100471B2 |
Command and address interface regions, and associated devices and systems
Memory devices are disclosed. A memory device may include a command and address (CA) interface region including a first CA input circuit configured to generate a first CA output AND a second CA input circuit configured to generate a second CA output. The first CA input circuit and the second CA input circuit are arranged in a mirror relationship. The CA interface region further includes a swap circuit configured to select one of the first CA output and the second CA output for a first internal CA signal and select the other of the first CA output and the second CA output for a second internal CA signal. Memory systems and systems are also disclosed. |
| US12100470B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor storage device includes a memory string including memory transistors and a control circuit. The control circuit is configured to in response to a first command, perform a first read operation, and in response to a second command received during the first read operation, perform a second read operation. During the first read operation, a voltage of a first selected word line is decreased from a read pass voltage to a first read voltage and then increased to the read pass voltage. During the second read operation, a voltage of a second word line is set to a second read voltage and then increased to the read pass voltage. Voltages of word lines neither selected during the first nor second read operation are maintained between the first and second read operations. |
| US12100465B2 |
Error correction circuit using multi-clock and semiconductor device including the same
Various example embodiments of the inventive concepts provide an error correction circuit and a semiconductor device. The error correction circuit includes clock-sync distributor circuitry configured to output a plurality of distributor output data based on distributor reception data received using a first clock signal, each of the plurality of distributor output data output based on the first clock signal or a second clock signal, the second clock signal having a higher frequency than a frequency of the first clock signal, a node processor configured to generate a plurality of output data by performing error correction decoding using the plurality of distributor output data, output a first subset of the plurality of output data based on the first clock signal, and output a second subset of the plurality of output data based on the second clock signal, and clock-sync combiner circuitry configured to output, based on the first clock signal, the plurality of output data received from the node processor. |
| US12100457B2 |
Voltage supply circuits, three-dimensional memory devices, peripheral circuit, and methods for adjusting voltage supply circuit
A voltage supply circuit includes a temperature compensation circuit and a voltage regulation circuit. The temperature compensation circuit includes a comparator circuit comparing a device temperature value with a reference value to output a comparison result, and a compensation controller circuit receiving the comparison result, a compensation value control signal, and a compensation enable signal, and outputting a voltage control signal according to the comparison result. The voltage regulation circuit receives the voltage control signal and provides a voltage output according to the control signal. |
| US12100455B2 |
Weight calibration check for integrated circuit devices having analog inference capability
An integrated circuit device having a mechanism to check calibration of memory cells configured to perform operations of multiplication and accumulation. The integrated circuit device programs, in a first mode, threshold voltages of first memory cells in a memory cell array to store weight data, and programs, in a second mode, threshold voltages of second memory cells in the memory cell array to store a first result of applying an operation of multiplication and accumulation to a sample input and the weight data. During a calibration check, the integrated circuit device performs the operation using the first memory cells to obtain a second result, and compares the first result, retrieved from the second memory cells, and the second result to determine whether calibration of output current characteristics of the first memory cells programmed in the first mode is corrupted. |
| US12100448B2 |
Storage device and data writing method
A storage device may be used in a neural network. The storage device includes a memristor unit, a current-controlled circuit, and a write circuit. The memristor unit has a structure of one-transistor and one-resistive random access memory (1T1R). The current-controlled circuit is configured to limit a current passing through the memristor unit to a target current, where the target current is determined based on target conductance of the memristor unit and a gate voltage of the transistor, and the target conductance is used to indicate target data to be written into the memristor unit. The write circuit is configured to load a write voltage to the memristor unit in cooperation with the current-controlled circuit, to write the target data to the memristor unit. |
| US12100447B2 |
Self-selecting memory array with horizontal access lines
Methods, systems, and devices for self-selecting memory with horizontal access lines are described. A memory array may include first and second access lines extending in different directions. For example, a first access line may extend in a first direction, and a second access line may extend in a second direction. At each intersection, a plurality of memory cells may exist, and each plurality of memory cells may be in contact with a self-selecting material. Further, a dielectric material may be positioned between a first plurality of memory cells and a second plurality of memory cells in at least one direction. each cell group (e.g., a first and second plurality of memory cells) may be in contact with one of the first access lines and second access lines, respectively. |
| US12100445B2 |
Integrated circuit and method
An interface circuit includes an integrator circuit and a buffer circuit. The integrator circuit is configured to be electrically coupled to a column of memory cells, receive a signal corresponding to a sum of currents flowing through the memory cells of the column, and integrate the signal over time to generate an intermediate voltage. The buffer circuit is electrically coupled to an output of the integrator circuit to receive the intermediate voltage, and is configured to be electrically coupled to a row of further memory cells, generate an analog voltage corresponding to the intermediate voltage, and output the analog voltage to the further memory cells of the row. |
| US12100442B2 |
Flash memory device configured to be bonded to external semiconductor chip and computing device including flash memory device coupled to neural processor chip
Flash memory device includes: first pads to be bonded to external semiconductor chip, to receive at least one of command, address and control signals; second pads to be bonded to external semiconductor chip; memory cell array including memory cells; a row decoder block connected to memory cell array through word lines, to select one of word lines based on address provided to row decoder block; a buffer block to store command and address and provide address to row decoder block; a page buffer block connected to memory cell array through bit lines, connected to second pads through data lines without passing through buffer block, and configured to exchange data signals with external semiconductor chip through data lines and second pads; and a control logic block configured to receive command from buffer block, to receive control signals from external semiconductor chip, and to control row decoder block and page buffer block. |
| US12100438B2 |
Methods, devices and systems for an improved management of a non-volatile memory
A method including obtaining temperature values of at least one region of the non-volatile memory, each temperature value obtained at a given time instant, for each obtained temperature value at each given time instant, calculating the value of an operating function representative of an operating condition of the non-volatile memory, the value such operating function being time-dependent according to the temperature time-variation of such at least one region of the non-volatile memory, summing subsequent computed values of said operating function to obtain an accumulated value being representative of an elapsed fraction of a time limit associated with the at least one region of the non-volatile memory, comparing the accumulated value with a threshold value, and, based on said comparison, performing a management operation on the cells of the at least one region of the non-volatile memory when the accumulated value has a magnitude equal or greater than the threshold value. |
| US12100434B2 |
Fluorine-containing ether compound, lubricant for magnetic recording medium, and magnetic recording medium
A fluorine-containing ether compound represented by a formula (1) shown below. R1—(O(CH2)a)b-[A]-[B]—O—CH2—R2—CH2—R3 (1) (In the formula (1), R1 is an alkyl group which may have a substituent, or an organic group having at least one double bond or triple bond. Further, a represents an integer of 2 to 4, and b is 0 or 1. [A] is represented by a formula (2): —(OCH2CH(OH)CH2)c— (wherein c is 1 or 2). [B] is represented by a formula (3): —(O(CH2)eCH(OH)CH2)d— (wherein d is 0 or 1, and e represents an integer of 2 to 4). However, the sum of c in the formula (2) and d in the formula (3) is 2. R2 is a perfluoropolyether chain. R3 is represented by a formula (4): —(OCH2CH(OH)CH2)2—O—CH2(CH2)fOH (wherein f represents an integer of 2 to 5). |
| US12100432B1 |
Energy-assisted magnetic recording data storage device with averaged measurement mitigation of energy component protrusion
Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, comprising one or more disks; an actuator mechanism configured to position one or more heads proximate to a corresponding disk surface of a corresponding disk of the one or more disks; and one or more processing devices. The one or more processing devices are configured to: determine a plurality of readings of an energy sensor output from an energy sensor disposed on the selected head during a rotation of the corresponding disk; determine an average of the readings of the energy sensor output; and use the average of the readings of the energy sensor output as a control parameter for controlling a fly height of the selected head. |
| US12100431B1 |
Data storage device with symmetric split burst servo pattern
Various illustrative aspects are directed to a data storage device, method, and one or more processing devices that are configured to: determine a first burst value based on a first set of bursts within a servo pattern, the first set of bursts comprising two bursts having a first length in a longitudinal direction of a track containing the servo pattern and at least one burst having a second length in the longitudinal direction of the track and different than the first length; determine a second burst value based on a second set of bursts within the servo pattern, the second set of bursts comprising at least two bursts having the second length; generate a position error signal (PES) based on the determined first burst value and the determined second burst value; and control a position of at least one head among the one or more heads based on the PES. |
| US12100429B2 |
Methods and systems for controlling thermal performance and vibration performance of hard disk drives
A computer-implemented method is provided for cooling hard disk drives (HDDs). The method may include determining a threshold fan speed for one or more fans that provide cooling for HDDs based upon a target HDD vibration performance. The method may also include controlling the one or more fans, by a controller, to alternately run at a first fan speed for a first period and at the threshold fan speed for a second period, when the one or more fans reach the threshold fan speed. The first fan speed is higher than the threshold fan speed. |
| US12100427B2 |
Scene-creation using high-resolution video perspective manipulation and editing techniques
A video editing program is taught by machine learning to conform a video sequence to a known style. For example, some famous filmmakers (e.g., Steven Spielberg, Michael Bay) have signature cinematic “takes” that appear in their acclaimed works. Such takes may involve use of subject tracking, placements and movements of people or objects in the scene, and lighting intensities or shadows in the scene. The editing program may be trained to recognize video sequences that can be modified to conform to one or more of such signature styles and to offer the modification to the user at the user's option. |
| US12100426B2 |
Video content creation tool and method
A content-creation tool includes a processor and a memory. The processor is configured to receive a first video clip and a second video clip, a respective first and second metadata-item thereof being set to a respective first and second metadata-value. The memory stores video-editing software that includes a timeline interface and instructions that, when executed by the processor, control the processor to: add the first video clip to the timeline interface as a first timeline-track that retains the first metadata-value; add the second video clip to the timeline interface as a second timeline-track that retains the second metadata-value; and generate a frame sequence that includes a plurality of video frames. Each video frame is a frame of, or a frame derived from, one of (i) the first timeline-track, (ii) the second timeline-track, and (iii) a composited time-line-track composited from at least one of the first and second timeline-tracks. |
| US12100424B2 |
Information processing method, information processing apparatus, program, and information processing system
An information processing apparatus executes a process of: reproducing a moving image in which an object is captured when the object is changed from a first state to a second state, when the object is returned to the first state from the second state. |
| US12100423B2 |
Magnetic disk device and head control method
According to one embodiment, a magnetic disk device comprises a feedforward control unit, which includes a plant model processing unit including a plurality of submodel processing units. Each of the submodel processing units generates a submodel output value that is an output value for an input value to be input, and the feedforward control unit generates the output value based on a plurality of the submodel output values. |
| US12100419B2 |
Method and system for improving estimation of sound source localization by using indoor position data from wireless system
A method, an electronic device or customer-premise equipment, and a computer readable medium are disclosed for estimating a sound source. The method includes detecting, on an electronic device, voice data from a space; calculating, on the electronic device, an estimated voice source location from the detected voice data; detecting, on the electronic device, wireless location data from a positioning system within the space; calculating, on the electronic device, a probability of a user within one or more regions from the calculated estimated voice source location and the detected wireless location data, the one or more regions being regions of a plurality of regions within the space; and steering, from the electronic device, a microphone array for voice detection toward the one or more regions having the probability of the user within the one or more regions. |
| US12100414B2 |
Matching mouth shape and movement in digital video to alternative audio
A method for matching mouth shape and movement in digital video to alternative audio includes deriving a sequence of facial poses including mouth shapes for an actor from a source digital video. Each pose in the sequence of facial poses corresponds to a middle position of each audio sample. The method further includes generating an animated face mesh based on the sequence of facial poses and the source digital video, transferring tracked expressions from the animated face mesh or the target video to the source video, and generating a rough output video that includes transfers of the tracked expressions. The method further includes generating a finished video at least in part by refining the rough video using a parametric autoencoder trained on mouth shapes in the animated face mesh or the target video. One or more computers may perform the operations of the method. |
| US12100412B2 |
Transformer with Gaussian weighted self-attention for speech enhancement
A method and system for providing Gaussian weighted self-attention for speech enhancement are herein provided. According to one embodiment, the method includes receiving an input noise signal, generating a score matrix based on the received input noise signal, and applying a Gaussian weighted function to the generated score matrix. |
| US12100408B2 |
Audio coding with tonal component screening in bandwidth extension
An audio coding method includes obtaining a current frame of an audio signal, where the current frame includes a high frequency band signal; coding the high frequency band signal to obtain a coding parameter of the current frame, where coding includes tonal component screening, the coding parameter indicates information about a target tonal component of the high frequency band signal, the target tonal component is obtained after tonal component screening, and information about a tonal component includes location information, quantity information, and amplitude information or energy information of the tonal component; and performing bitstream multiplexing on the coding parameter to obtain a coded bitstream. |
| US12100405B2 |
Intelligent data delivery
Methods and systems for managing and transmitting content are disclosed. A sample method can comprise determining signal-to-noise ratio information relating to one or more data blocks and determining a threshold signal-to-noise ratio. At least one of the one or more data blocks can be requested based upon respective signal-to-noise ratio information and the threshold signal-to-noise ratio. |
| US12100397B1 |
Systems and methods for screenless computerized social-media access
Systems and methods for screenless computerized social-media access may include (1) producing, via an audio speaker that is communicatively coupled to a computing device, a computer-generated verbal description of a social-media post provided via a social-media application, (2) detecting, via a microphone that is communicatively coupled to the computing device, an audible response to the social-media post from a user of the computing device, and (3) digitally responding to the social-media post in accordance with the detected audible response. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US12100396B2 |
Indicator for voice-based communications
Systems, methods, and devices for outputting indications regarding voice-based interactions are described. A first speech-controlled device detects spoken audio corresponding to recipient information. The first device captures the audio and sends audio data corresponding to the captured audio to a server. The server determines a second speech-controlled device of the recipient and sends a signal to the recipient's second speech-controlled device representing a message is forthcoming. The recipient's second speech-controlled device outputs and indication representing a message is forthcoming. |
| US12100393B1 |
Apparatus and method of generating directed graph using raw data
An apparatus and method of generating directed graph using raw data are disclosed. The apparatus includes at least a processor and a memory communicatively connected to the at least a processor, wherein the memory contains instructions configuring the at least a processor to receive raw data from one or more data sources, determine a plurality of execution elements from the raw data, determine a data extrapolation of the plurality of execution elements, wherein determining the data extrapolation further includes determining at least an operation datum for the plurality of execution elements and generate a directed graph as a function of the data extrapolation, wherein the directed graph comprises an ordered series of the plurality of execution elements connected using the at least an operation datum. |
| US12100390B2 |
Speech evaluation system, speech evaluation method, and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program
A speech detection unit detects a speech in communication based on output values of microphones of a plurality of wearable terminals, and identifies a wearable terminal corresponding to the detected speech. A speech period detection unit detects for each speech a start timing of the speech and an end timing thereof. An evaluation-value calculation unit calculates, for each speech detected by the speech detection unit, an evaluation value for the speech based on an output value of an acceleration sensor of a wearable terminal other than the wearable terminal corresponding to the speech in an evaluation period from a first timing, which is at or later than the start timing of the speech and earlier than the end timing of the speech, to a second timing, which is later than the end timing of the speech. |
| US12100384B2 |
Dynamic adjustment of content descriptions for visual components
In some implementations, a mobile application may receive at least one string included in at least one content description associated with at least one visual component of a screen generated by a mobile application. The mobile application may apply a function to the at least one string, wherein the function performs a targeted replacement of characters included in the at least one string based on at least one optimization associated with a text-to-speech algorithm. Accordingly, the mobile application may receive output from the function that includes at least one modified string based on the at least one string and generate an audio signal, based on the at least one modified string, using the text-to-speech algorithm. |
| US12100383B1 |
Voice customization for synthetic speech generation
Voice customization is an application of voice synthesis that involves synthesizing speech having certain voice characteristics, and/or modifying the voice characteristics of human speech. Certain techniques for voice customization may be used in conjunction with compressing speech for storage and/or transmission. For example, speech may be received at a first device and transformed into a latent representation and/or compressed for storage and/or transmission to a second device. The system may use normalizing flows to transform the source audio to a latent representation having a desired variable distribution, and to transform the latent representation back into audio data. A flow model may conditioned using first speech attributes when transforming the source audio, and an inverse flow model may use second speech attributes when transforming the latent representation back into audio data. The first and/or second speech attributes may be modified to alter voice characteristics of the transmitted speech. |
| US12100380B2 |
Audio cancellation system and method
A system comprising a feedback device comprising one or more elements operable to generate an output in response to an input from a processing device, a microphone operable to capture one or more audio inputs, an input detection unit operable to detect one or more inputs to the feedback device from the processing device, and a response generation unit operable to generate a response to the detected input in dependence upon the input and at least a distance between an element associated with the corresponding output and the microphone. |
| US12100379B2 |
Acoustic processing apparatus and acoustic processing method
Provided is an acoustic processing apparatus that includes an attachment unit, a sensor that detects deformation of the attachment unit attached to an ear portion of a user, and a control unit that switches a mode for noise cancelling in accordance with a detection result of the deformation of the attachment unit. |
| US12100375B2 |
Apparatus and methods for generating music
A guitar pedalboard for creating a loop includes a touch screen display for displaying a plurality of tracks of a loop. The touch screen display can be used to adjust a parameter of each track, and the loop. A plurality of footswitches corresponding to the plurality of tracks can be used to independently record and play each track of the loop. |
| US12100373B2 |
Snare drum strainer structure
A strainer is provided for a snare drum having a bottom drumhead. The strainer includes a mounting bracket configured to be mounted to a side of a drum shell near the bottom drumhead. A slider is received in an opening in the mounting bracket for vertical movement with respect to the mounting bracket. The slider has an adjustment/tension knob including a threaded bolt. The mounting bracket has a portion configured to clamp on a portion of the slider. A key bolt structure is configured to releasably cause clamping of the mounting bracket against the slider. A post has a portion received in an internal opening of the slider threadedly engaged with the bolt. A snare carrier is fixed to the post. The snare carrier is configured to receive and carry an end of a snare wire assembly. |
| US12100372B2 |
Commodity sales data processing device and method
A commodity sales data processing device in an embodiment includes a display unit configured to display information, first determining means for determining whether the number of characters of information that should be displayed in one row exceeds the number of characters that can be displayed in one row of the display unit, and display control means for, if the first determining means determines that the number of characters of the information that should be displayed in one row exceeds the number of characters that can be displayed in one row of the display unit, simultaneously displaying first information that can be displayed in one row of the display unit and a mark indicating that second information that should be further displayed in the same row is present and, after displaying the first information for a predetermined time, displaying the second information instead of the first information and the mark. |
| US12100371B2 |
Image apparatus and operating method thereof
An image apparatus includes a pixel array, an optical modulator, a controller, and a memory device storing information of a frame memory and information of a view map. The optical modulator modulates the light emitted from the pixel array to different viewing angles. The controller generates images of a scene with different lighting profiles corresponding to different viewing angles according to the information of the frame memory and the information of the view map. |
| US12100369B2 |
Method for rendering color images
A system for rendering color images on an electro-optic display when the electro-optic display has a color gamut with a limited palette of primary colors, and/or the gamut is poorly structured (i.e., not a spheroid or obloid). The system uses an iterative process to identify the best color for a given pixel from a palette that is modified to diffuse the color error over the entire electro-optic display. The system additionally accounts for variations in color that are caused by cross-talk between nearby pixels. |
| US12100367B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: pixel electrodes including a first pixel electrode and a second pixel electrode adjacent to the first pixel electrode in a first direction; switching elements including a first switching element coupled to the first pixel electrode and a second switching element coupled to the second pixel electrode; gate lines including a first gate line coupled to the first switching element and a second gate line coupled to the second switching element; a gate driver supplying a gate signal to the gate lines; and drive electrodes including a first drive electrode and a second drive electrode adjacent to the first drive electrode in the first direction. The first drive electrode overlaps the first and second pixel electrodes, and the second gate line. The second drive electrode overlaps the first gate line. The gate driver supplies the gate signal to the first and second gate lines simultaneously. |
| US12100361B1 |
Backlight control for display devices
A display device includes a display panel, a backlight device, a drive circuit, and a backlight control circuit. The backlight device includes a plurality of light sources configured to illuminate the display panel. The drive circuit is configured to update the display panel based on an input image. The backlight control circuit is configured to apply a filter to a target part of the input image to generate a filtered image part. The target part of the input image is displayed in a corresponding region of the display panel illuminated by a target light source of the plurality of light sources. The backlight control circuit is further configured to control a luminance level of the target light source based on a maximum pixel luminance level of the filtered image part and a local average picture level (APL) of the filtered image part. |
| US12100360B2 |
Backlight module and display device
The present disclosure provides a backlight module and a display device. The backlight module includes a light source structure and an optical film. The light source structure includes a substrate, plural light-emitting units and a package structure. The light-emitting units are disposed on the substrate. The package structure covers the light-emitting units, and the package structure has plural convex portions. The optical film is disposed on the light source structure, and the optical film is in contact with the convex portions of the package structure. |
| US12100357B2 |
Shift register, gate drive circuit and driving method therefor
A shift register, a gate drive circuit and a driving method therefor. The shift register includes a display pre-charge reset subcircuit, a sensing pre-charge reset subcircuit, a pull-down control subcircuit, an output subcircuit, a sensing cascade subcircuit and a black frame insertion cascade subcircuit. The display pre-charge reset subcircuit is configured to provide a signal of a first power supply end for a pull-up node under control of a first signal input end and provide a signal of a second power supply end to the pull-up node under control of a reset signal end; the sensing pre-charge reset subcircuit is configured to provide a signal of a first clock signal end to the pull-up node under control of the sensing cascade node and the first clock signal end, and provide a signal of the second power supply end to the pull-up node under control of a total reset end. |
| US12100356B2 |
Shift register, gate drive circuit, display panel, and electronic device
This application provides a shift register, a gate drive circuit, a display panel, and an electronic device. The shift register includes a node control module, electrically connected to a first level signal receiving end, a second level signal receiving end, a first node, and a second node; an input module, electrically connected to a first clock signal end, a trigger signal input end, and the second node; an output module, electrically connected to the first level signal receiving end, the second level signal receiving end, the first node, a third node, and a drive signal output end; a first voltage stabilizing module, electrically connected to the first node, a fourth node, and the second level signal receiving end; and a second voltage stabilizing module, electrically connected to the second node, the third node, the fourth node, and a second clock signal end. |
| US12100347B2 |
Display device and driving method of the display device
A display device includes a display panel including a plurality of sensing lines and a plurality of pixels each connected to a corresponding sensing line among the plurality of sensing lines, a sensor that senses characteristic information of the plurality of pixels through the plurality of sensing lines and converts the characteristic information into sensing data having a digital format, and a compensator that converts first data received from outside of the display device into second data based on the sensing data, wherein the sensor senses characteristic information of pixels arranged in a partial area of the display panel during a transition period of a sensing period and processes sensed characteristic information as dummy data. |
| US12100342B2 |
Display panel and display having cascaded shift registers
A display panel includes a driving circuit including N stages of cascaded shift registers, and each shift register includes: a first control part and a second control part; the second control part is configured to at least receive the signal of the second node, the signal of the third node, and a frequency control signal to generate an output signal; one shift register of the cascaded shift registers connected to a display unit in the first region is configured to receive the first frequency control signal, and one shift register of the cascaded shift registers connected to a display unit in the second region is configured to receive the second frequency control signal; a data refresh frequency of the display unit in the first region is F1, and a data refresh frequency in the second region is F2, F1 |
| US12100341B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: a plurality of pixel blocks each including a plurality of pixels; a scan driver supplying a scan signal to the scan lines and to supply a control signal to the control lines; a data driver supplying an image data voltage or a low grayscale data voltage to the data lines; and a power supply supplying a reference voltage to the pixels, wherein the pixels are configured to receive the image data voltage during a first scan period of a frame, and to receive the low grayscale data voltage during a second scan period of the frame, and the reference voltage supplied to a first pixel row of at least one of the pixel blocks in the first scan period is different from the reference voltage supplied to a last pixel row of at least one of the pixel blocks in the first scan period. |
| US12100339B1 |
Method of scanning display panel and related display driver
A method of scanning a display panel having a plurality of rows of pixels includes steps of: generating a first accumulated number; calculating a first scan number according to the first accumulated number; scanning a present row of pixels having the first scan number among the plurality of rows of pixels; accumulating the first accumulated number to generate a second accumulated number; calculating a second scan number according to the second accumulated number; and scanning a next row of pixels having the second scan number among the plurality of rows of pixels after scanning the present row of pixels. Wherein, the plurality of rows of pixels are scanned in a scan order different from a numbering order of the plurality of rows of pixels. |
| US12100336B2 |
Dynamic sleep for a display panel
Technology for a display controller is described. The display controller can detect a frame update when the display controller is in a dynamic sleep state. The display controller can wake up from the dynamic sleep state and enter a selective update state at a programmed vertical blanking interrupt (VBI) that precedes an actual VBI. The display controller can perform a scan-out with a display panel during the selective update state. The display controller can return to the dynamic sleep state in a same time frame after the scan-out is completed. The display controller can exclude timing logic to send a VBI at every time frame to the display panel to maintain time synchronization between the display controller and the display panel. |
| US12100335B2 |
Power efficient display architecture
This disclosure provides systems, devices, apparatus, and methods, including computer programs encoded on storage media, for a power efficient display architecture. A display processor may obtain an indication that UC is to be displayed at a first resolution or a second resolution, where the first resolution is higher than the second resolution. The display processor may drive a first display via a first controller of a first DPU based on the indication. The display processor may drive a second display via a controller of a second DPU if the UC is to be displayed at the first resolution, or drive the second display via a second controller of the first DPU if the UC is to be displayed at the second resolution. |
| US12100331B2 |
Display module, electronic device and method of compensating for color shift of display panel
Disclosed is a method of compensating for a color shift of a display panel, a display module, and an electronic device, in which the method includes: in the case where a color shift occurs in a white screen of the display panel, determining a position where the color shift occurs; changing a timing of sub-pixels lighting the white screen in the position to a timing of red, green and blue pixels; adjusting brightness of the red pixel, brightness of the green pixel and brightness of the blue pixel to compensate for the color shift in the position. The present disclosure solves the technical problem that a color shift repairing technology in the related art can only solve unevenness of brightness within a certain range, resulting in poor repairing effect of the display panel. |
| US12100329B2 |
Display device
A display device is provided. The display device includes a first pixel including a first light emission area, a second pixel adjacent to the first pixel in a column direction, and including a second light emission area, a transistor area overlapped with each of the first pixel and the second pixel, and coupled to the first light emission area and the second light emission area, and a light-transmissive area adjacent to the transistor area in a row direction crossing the column direction. |
| US12100326B2 |
Flexible display device, rollable display apparatus including flexible display device, and method for controlling flexible display device
Discussed are a flexible display device, a rollable display apparatus including the flexible display device, and a method for controlling the flexible display device. According to embodiments, a sensing operation is performed based on whether a display panel included in the flexible display device moves and based on an exposed area of the display panel. Accordingly, an inaccurate sensed value due to a physical change of the display panel are not considered, such that accurate sensing and deterioration compensation for deterioration of the display panel can be achieved. Further, an image quality of each of the flexible display device, and the rollable display apparatus including the flexible display device can be improved. |
| US12100325B2 |
Display panel and display device
The present invention discloses a display panel and a display device. The display panel includes a gate driver circuit and a plurality of driving wires. By disposing gate driver circuits with different distribution density in non-bending frame regions and adjusting corresponding driving wires wired from an output end of the gate driver circuit to a bending displaying region, normal driving of the bending displaying region can be achieved and simultaneously damages to the gate driver circuit during folding can be mitigated or obviated. |
| US12100324B2 |
Head-up display with display apparatus
A head-up display having a display apparatus comprising a picture generating unit comprising a display element for displaying an image and a driver for the display element, an optical unit for projecting the image onto a projection surface, and an image control unit for controlling the display element via the driver. The picture generating unit further comprises an image brightness monitoring device, which has an image signal input connected to an image signal output of the image control unit and has a signal output connected to a signal input of the display element. |
| US12100323B1 |
Managing concurrent use of front and back portions of an adaptive rollable display device based on imaging user(s)
An electronic device, method, and computer program product manage concurrent use of different portions of an adaptive rollable display device enabling the electronic device to differently support two local users. A first image is received from a first image capturing device of the electronic device. The first image capturing device is disposed in one of a front side and a back side of a device housing of the electronic device and has an associated field of view extending from a respective side of the device housing. First user content is generated based at least in part on the first image and presented on a corresponding one of a front display and back display(s) corresponding to the first user. Second user content is generated based at least in part on the first image and presented on another one of the front display and the back display(s) corresponding to a second user. |
| US12100322B2 |
Stretchable display panel and control method, and display device
A stretchable display panel, a control method of the stretchable display panel, and a display device are provided. The stretchable display panel includes a stretchable substrate and a plurality of display units. The stretchable substrate contains a plurality of hollows, and a display unit is disposed corresponding to a hollow. The plurality of display units include a first display unit and a second display unit. In a stretched state, both the first display unit and the second display unit are disposed on a side of the stretchable substrate facing a light-exiting surface. In a first contracted state or a second contracted state, one of the first display unit and the second display unit is disposed on the side of the stretchable substrate facing the light-exiting surface, and the other one is disposed on a side of the stretchable substrate away from the light-exiting surface. |
| US12100319B2 |
Rotating display apparatus using semiconductor light-emitting device
The present disclosure is applicable to a display apparatus-related technical field, and relates to, for example, a rotating display apparatus using a light-emitting diode (LED) which is a semiconductor light-emitting device. According to the present disclosure, a rotating display apparatus using a light-emitting device, comprises: a fixed part including a motor; a rotary part located on the fixed part and rotated by the motor; and a light source module which is coupled to the rotary part, and which includes at least one panel that is radially arranged or at least one panel that is arranged along the cylindrical surface, and a first light-emitting device array having individual pixels that are arranged on each panel in the longitudinal direction, wherein sub-pixels forming the individual pixel of the first light-emitting device array can be arranged along a direction orthogonal to the longitudinal direction. |
| US12100318B2 |
Systems and methods for simulating an electrical vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft
In an aspect of the present disclosure is a system for simulating an electrical vertical takeoff and landing (eVTOL) aircraft, including a fuselage comprising one or more pilot inputs, each of the pilot inputs configured to detect pilot datum; a concave screen facing the fuselage; a plurality of projectors directed at the concave screen; a computing device communicatively connected to the plurality of projectors, the computing device configured to: receive the pilot datum detected by the pilot inputs; generate a simulated eVTOL flight maneuver as a function of the pilot datum; and command the plurality of projectors to display one or more images based on the simulated flight maneuver. |
| US12100317B2 |
System and method to objectively assess adoption to electronic medical record systems
Embodiments are disclosed herein for providing objective electronic medical record (EMR) system adoption analysis. In one embodiment subjective and objective inputs are received by a user via a user computing device. The subjective input includes at least one of knowledge of an EMR system, attitude towards the EMR system, or practice with the EMR system. The objective input includes demographic data related to the user of the EMR system. A score is then calculated for the objective and subjective input. Calculating the score includes weighting the objective and the subjective input to determine one or more of a knowledge score, an attitude score, or a practice score. It is determined that at least the attitude score is below a predetermined threshold. In response, an intervention module associated with attitude score is automatically transmitted to the user. |
| US12100315B2 |
Peer-inspired student performance prediction in interactive online question pools with graph neural network
A method for predicting student performance in interactive question pools, comprising: a data processing and feature extraction module for: extracting from historical score data records statistical student features reflecting the students' past performances on the questions; and statistical question features indicating a question popularity of each question and the average students' scores on each question; and extracting from the pointing device movement data records a plurality of interactive edge features representing the characteristics of the students' problem-solving behaviors; a network construction module for: performing an Edge2Node transformation to transform the interactive edge features into one or more interaction nodes; and constructing a heterogeneous student-interaction-question (SIQ) network; and a prediction module for processing the SIQ network using a residual relational graph neural network to predict a student's score on unattempt questions. |
| US12100310B2 |
Interactive reading assistant
A method includes obtaining a speech proficiency value indicator indicative of a speech proficiency value associated with a user of the electronic device. The method further includes in response to determining that the speech proficiency value satisfies a threshold proficiency value: displaying training text via the display device; obtaining, from the audio sensor, speech data associated with the training text, wherein the speech data is characterized by the speech proficiency value; determining, using a speech classifier, one or more speech characterization vectors for the speech data based on linguistic features within the speech data; and adjusting one or more operational values of the speech classifier based on the one or more speech characterization vectors and the speech proficiency value. |
| US12100308B2 |
Graphical user interface with visual representations of measures as rhythm wheels for visual, auditory, and kinesthetic learning
It is difficult to learn musical rhythm. Accordingly, a rhythm game is disclosed that translates the rhythm of each measure in a musical composition into a rhythm wheel that is visually represented in a graphical user interface. The rhythm wheel may be logically divided into one or more sections by a number of boundaries that is equal to the number of notes in the respective measure. Each boundary represents a note in the respective measure. The visual representation of the rhythm wheel may comprise a visual boundary for each boundary in the rhythm wheel. Each visual boundary may integrate a tolerance in the timing at which the respective note is to be performed. During gameplay, an indicator, representing tempo, may rotate around the visual representation, and a user may attempt to time an input to the indicator's traversal of each visual boundary. |
| US12100307B2 |
Aircraft door camera system for wing monitoring
A camera with a field of view toward an external environment of an aircraft is disposed within an aircraft door such that a leading edge of a wing of the aircraft is within the field of view of the camera. A display device is disposed within an interior of the aircraft. A processor is operatively coupled to the camera and to the display device. The processor analyzes image data captured by the camera to predict a likelihood of foreign object collision with the leading edge of the wing, or detect damage or deformation to the leading edge. |
| US12100306B2 |
Efficient computer-storage of obstacle data for rendering in a map view
Examples are disclosed that relate to efficient computer-storage and computer-rendering of obstacle data in the computer-generated map view. In one example, one or more vector tiles collectively representing a geographic region are received. Each of the one or more vector tiles represents a sub-region of the geographic region. Obstacle data for one or more obstacles in the geographic region is received. The obstacle data defines a location of each of the one or more obstacles in relation to a local origin of the vector tile representing the sub-region where the obstacle is geographically located. A map view is rendered for visual presentation via a display. The map view includes the geographic region represented by the one or more vector tiles and indicating the one or more obstacles. |
| US12100303B2 |
System and method for multi-mode connectivity for group vehicle activity and for over-the-air updates via time synchronized device-to-device side-link communications
A system for multi-mode connectivity for group vehicle activity and for over-the-air updates via time synchronized device-to-device side-link communications is provided. The system includes a remote communication device configured to transmit data, vehicles to receive the data, and a computerized controller. The controller includes programming to analyze hardware of the vehicles to identify alpha vehicles including excellent wireless capabilities, monitor signal strength between the vehicles and the remote communication device to identify vehicles including relatively strong communication strength, and determine a portion of the plurality of vehicles including highly functioning vehicles including the capabilities and communication strength. The controller generates a series of data transfers to first transfer the data from the remote communication device a highly functioning vehicle and subsequently transfer the data from the highly functioning vehicle to a second of the vehicles and transfers the data. The highly functioning vehicle retransmits the data to the second vehicle. |
| US12100302B2 |
Automated valet parking management system and automated valet parking management method
An automated valet parking (AVP) management system manages an AVP service delivered in a predetermined area. A pick-up or drop-off point is away from a parking facility in which a vehicle is parked. When it is not possible to deliver the AVP service to a user in accordance with a user request, notification information is delivered to the user. The notification information includes at least one of: a congestion situation on a route from a current position of the vehicle to a specified pick-up or drop-off point; a congestion situation at the specified pick-up or drop-off point; a waiting time for the user to get on or off the vehicle at the specified pick-up or drop-off point; a recommended time of day of use at the specified pick-up or drop-off point; and a substitute pick-up or drop-off point being a substitute for the specified pick-up or drop-off point. |
| US12100301B2 |
Cooperative V2X sensor sharing
A system for sharing sensor data between a vehicle and a plurality of remote system generally includes a vehicle communication system, a three-dimensional (3D) sensor, and a controller. The controller is programmed to generate an initial 3D point cloud using the 3D sensor, generate an occupancy grid map based on the initial 3D point cloud, and select a producer remote system to provide data for a cell of the occupancy grid map classified as a first blindspot. The controller is further programmed to send a data request to the producer remote system using the vehicle communication system, receive data from the producer remote system including information about the cell of the occupancy grid map classified as the first blindspot, generate a merged 3D point cloud by merging the data received from the producer remote system with the initial 3D point cloud, and identify objects using the merged 3D point cloud. |
| US12100299B2 |
Predictive threat warning system
Systems and techniques are provided for vehicle safety technologies. An example method can include determining, based on sensor data captured by an autonomous vehicle, a first position of a different vehicle and a second position of one or more objects; determining, based on the first position of the different vehicle and the second position of the one or more objects, a risk of a collision between the different vehicle and the one or more objects; and based on a determination that the risk of the collision exceeds a threshold, outputting an alert representing a warning of the collision between the different vehicle and the one or more objects, the alert being directed to at least one of the different vehicle and the one or more objects. |
| US12100297B1 |
Designing a smart system to evaporate rainwater in low-lying areas of streets that do not have a rain drainage system
A smart water evaporation system can include a central control unit configured to be in communication with a plurality of thermal rods, a plurality of retractable barriers, and at least one sensor; wherein the central control unit is configured to: retrieve at least one signal from the at least one sensor when the at least one sensor detects an upper limit water level and a lower limit water level; activate the plurality of retractable barriers and the plurality of thermal rods in response to the detected upper limit water level from the at least one sensor being greater than or equal to a preset upper limit water level; and deactivate the plurality of retractable barriers and the plurality of thermal rods in response to the detected lower limit water level from the at least one sensor being less than or equal to a preset lower limit water level. |
| US12100296B2 |
Traffic signal assembly with heating element
A traffic light assembly and method for controlling a set of heating elements for the traffic light assembly. A traffic signal with a lens and a visor, the visor having an inner surface and extending from the lens. A sensor mounted to the traffic signal and in direct communication with an environment surrounding the traffic light assembly. A control module located within the traffic signal, the control module comprising a controller for implementing a primary loop that continuously checks environmental conditions via the sensor to determine if a predetermined condition is met. |
| US12100293B2 |
Electronic device and control method
An electronic device includes a functional assembly configured to switch a state of the electronic device from a first state to a second state if a predefined criteria is met. The first state indicates that the electronic device is allowed to change its posture, while the second state indicates that the electronic device needs to maintain a current posture. |
| US12100288B2 |
Calibration techniques in haptic systems
A system providing various improved calibration techniques for haptic feedback is described. An acoustic field is defined by one or more control points in a space within which the acoustic field may exist. Each control point is assigned an amplitude value equating to a desired amplitude of the acoustic field at the control point. Because complete control of space is not possible, controlling the acoustic field at given points yields erroneous local maxima in the acoustic field levels at other related positions. In relation to mid-air haptic feedback, these can interfere in interactions with the space by creating secondary effects and ghost phenomena that can be felt outside the interaction area. The level and nature of the secondary maxima in the acoustic field is determined by how the space is controlled. By arranging the transducer elements in different ways, unwanted effects on the acoustic field can be limited and controlled. |
| US12100286B2 |
Platform for hygiene behavioral monitoring and modification
A hygienic behavior monitoring system configured to use sensors to detect instances of hygienic behaviors. The hygienic behavior monitoring system includes a presentation unit that presents one or more media items and a processing unit that indexes behavioral instances. An analytic unit calculates instances of one or more hygienic events based at least in part on a fusion of sensor signals including instances of the actions of a sanitary device with instances of detected human presence. |
| US12100283B2 |
System and method for personal protective equipment
A method for use with a personal protective equipment (PPE) article includes determining, via at least one sensor, a first parameter indicative of a concentration of at least one substance in an ambient environment of the PPE article. The method further includes determining, via a processor, a second parameter indicative of a second order derivative of the first parameter with respect to time. The method further includes retrieving, via the processor, a first threshold value indicative of a protection threshold provided by the PPE article for the at least one substance. The method further includes comparing, via the processor, the second parameter with the first threshold value. The method further includes generating, via the processor, an alert signal based on the comparison of the second parameter with the first threshold value. The method further includes providing, via a user interface, an alert to a user of the PPE article. |
| US12100274B2 |
Generating watch lists for retail stores based on unstructured data and system-based inferences
Described herein are systems and methods for generating a watch list of users who pose specific security threats to a store. The method can include retrieving, by a computer system from a data store, case files that document activity that poses a security threat by a user at the store, predicting, based on applying prediction models to the case files, future activity associated with the case files, determining threat scores for the case files based on the predicted future activity, ranking the case files into a candidate list from highest to lowest threat score, generating a watch list for the store that includes a subset of the ranked case files based on which case files pose a greatest current threat to the store, generating summary videos for each case file in the watch list, and transmitting the watch list and summary videos to a user device. |
| US12100271B2 |
Verification of items placed in physical shopping cart
In some implementations, a method performed by data processing apparatuses includes receiving, by an item verification engine, a scan notification indicating that a mobile computing device has scanned an item. In response to receiving the scan notification, the item verification engine provides an instruction for a cart computing system to activate item sensors on a shopping cart. The item verification engine receives sensor data collected by the item sensors as a result of the item having been placed in the shopping cart. The item verification engine receives item verification data for verifying the scanned item from the mobile computing device, performs a verification of the item based on the sensor data and the item verification data, and provides verification results for presentation by the mobile computing device. |
| US12100270B2 |
Apparatus, system, and method for bulk currency note deposits
A Self-Service Terminal (SST) that provides valuable media deposit features is enhanced with an apparatus fastened to an outside surface of the SST. The apparatus is adapted to receive an externally provided valuable media cassette and connect/interface a port of the cassette to an unload infeed port. A transaction interface is enhanced to identify the cassette as a source device for obtaining valuable media during a deposit transaction. The SST feeds the valuable media from the externally connected cassette through media validation and transport modules of the SST into cassettes of a safe and the SST returns rejected media for the deposit transaction back through the modules to return rejected media to the externally interfaced cassette. |
| US12100269B2 |
Method for administering a package of shuffled playing cards
Administrating a package of shuffled playing cards to prevent fraudulent card exchanges. The administrating system is configured to calculate places and a number of packages of shuffled playing cards at places of the backyard, the places of playing tables, places of carriers and the disposition place using information obtained by the loading step and unloading step and the administrating system calculates by every ID codes bases 1) places of packages registered by the registering step for registering to a data base of administrating system and a number of packages place by place from information obtained from the loading step and the unloading step. The administrating system is configured to recognize whether there is a lost package by comparing the information of all ID codes registered in registering steps with the ID codes at places of packages obtained at the calculating step from the loading step and the unloading step. |
| US12100268B2 |
Systems and methods for using volatility stabilizing sub-event triggers for a primary game and/or secondary game of chance including randomized independent expanding reels with dynamically changing graphical elements
A system and method for operating a game of chance. A gaming system includes one or more game displays, a user interface, at least one processor running executable instructions related to a game of chance and memory in communication with said at least one processor. The game of chance including a two-part game wherein at least one part of the two-part games includes a video reel game and includes the generation of random sub-events wherein two or more of said random sub-events are required to trigger another game part including a bonus game, a secondary game, a free game round, a “hold and spin” round, or other game event. The plurality of sub-events required to trigger another game part serve to reduce the frequency of significant player “cold streaks” during game play. The game of chance including randomized independent expanding reels with dynamically changing graphical elements. |
| US12100267B2 |
Quarantined wallet access for a mobile wallet
A quarantine wallet associated with a user account that support funds to be quarantined for a defined period. A user account server determines that a respective win amount satisfies one or more funds quarantine criteria and removes at least a portion of the win amount satisfying the one or more funds quarantine criteria from access by one or more wallets associated with a user account. The user account server stores the removed portion of the win amount as a quarantined fund amount in a quarantine wallet associated with the user account. The user account server sets a release time for the quarantined funds amount in the quarantine wallet and performs a transfer of the quarantined funds amount to the one or more wallets based on satisfying the release time. |
| US12100265B2 |
Collusion detection
Various embodiments that may generally relate to collusion are described. Collusion detection may be used to prevent players in a wagering environment from violating the integrity of a game. Player actions may be tracked to develop a wagering profile that is specific to various game situations. A player acting in a manner that would be against their interest and against their defined profile may be considered a colluding action. Information about collusion actions may be presented for evaluation and/or anti-collusion actions may be automatically taken in response to such collusion actions being determined. |
| US12100258B2 |
Digital downloading jukebox with enhanced communication features
Systems and/or methods for use in connection with digital downloading jukeboxes are provided. Such systems and/or methods may be used to provide enhanced communications capabilities, e.g., to registered users of jukeboxes. In certain exemplary embodiments, users may become registered users directly at a jukebox. Registered users also may, in certain exemplary embodiments, receive coupons for free plays, import playlists from hardware devices and/or software applications, receive special pricing when playing certain instances of media, play playlists in whole or in part, create and/or manage playlists directly at a jukebox, establish and manage connections with other registered users, etc. Still further, in certain exemplary embodiments, one or more channels may be predefined and/or set up for a jukebox. |
| US12100256B1 |
Systems and methods for retrofit housing using an in-safe cassette port
A housing facilitates a service operation for a transaction device. The housing is communicatively coupled to a housing control computing system. The housing includes a user interface comprising a first input/output (I/O) device that is communicatively coupled to the housing control computing system. The housing includes a transfer cassette interface structured to receive a transfer cassette that is structured to retrievably store banknotes. The transfer cassette interface is coupled to a sensor structured to detect when the cassette is docked and detect an identification of the cassette. The housing also includes a transaction device interface that is structured to couple to a first cassette port and, responsive to the transfer cassette interface receiving the cassette, operably couple the cassette to a transaction device transport apparatus. The transaction device transport apparatus is structured to facilitate transporting banknotes to and from the cassette and a first storage cassette. |
| US12100255B1 |
Pulse enabled secure door access system and method of use
A pulse secure doorbell system uses temperature and biometric readings from a person to determine their identity and their health status in order to allow entry through a door. A person presses their finger against a scanner that takes their print and their pulse. A camera measures the face. A thermometer measures their temperature. These metrics combine to provide a complete profile of the person prior to entry. |
| US12100253B2 |
Method for smart lock unlocking, related apparatus, and storage medium
A method for smart lock unlocking and related apparatuses are provided. The method includes the following. A server receives a first request message transmitted by a first terminal. The server determines an identity (ID) of the first terminal according to the first request message. The server determines a first smart lock bound to the first terminal according to the ID of the first terminal, where a correspondence between multiple terminals and multiple smart locks is stored in the server. The server transmits a first verification parameter to the first terminal and the first smart lock, where the first verification parameter is used for the first terminal to verify an ID of the first smart lock and for the first smart lock to verify the ID of the first terminal when unlocking. |
| US12100252B2 |
Passage propriety assessment device, passage management system, passage propriety assessment method, and computer program
A passage propriety assessment device, provided with: a assessment unit that authorizes a person to pass through a first entrance/exit when a first facial image of the person at the first entrance/exit satisfies an individual authorization criterion, which is a criterion for assessing by facial recognition that the person is a pass-authorized person; and a setting unit that, when it is assessed that a person who has been authorized to pass through the first entrance/exit is impersonating a pass-authorized person, sets the individual authorization criterion for a pass-authorized person for a second entrance/exit located after the first entrance/exit so as to be higher than the individual authorization criterion for the first entrance/exit. When a second facial image of a person at the second entrance/exit does not satisfy the individual authorization criterion that was set higher, the assessment unit restricts the person from passing through the second entrance/exit. |
| US12100248B2 |
Method and system for providing secure access to device operations and stored data to consumer applications
In one or more embodiments, method, system and computer program product for providing secure access to device data and/or device operations by an application are disclosed. The method for providing secure access to one or more devices by an application includes receiving application information for the application; receiving device information for the one or more devices to which the application is requesting access; receiving rules for allowing the application to access the one or more devices, wherein the access to the one or more devices includes device data, one or more device operations or a combination thereof; and allowing the application to access the device based on the rules. |
| US12100243B2 |
Predicting display fit and ophthalmic fit measurements using a simulator
A system and method of detecting display fit measurements and/or ophthalmic measurements for a head mounted wearable computing device including a display device is provided. The system and method may include capturing image data including a face of a user to be fitted for the head mounted wearable computing device. A three-dimensional head pose and gaze measurements may be extracted and a three-dimensional model may be developed from the captured image data. The system may detect display fit measurements and/or ophthalmic fit measurements from the three-dimensional model, and may provide one or more head mounted wearable computing devices that meet the display fit and/or ophthalmic fit requirements. |
| US12100242B2 |
Scene-based automatic white balance
Scene-based automatic white balance correction may be performed by obtaining an input image. A histogram may be computed from an image thumbnail. The scene-based automatic white balance correction may include classifying a scene. The scene-based automatic white balance correction may include learning a first filter and a second filter. The first filter and the second filter may be learned from one or several different instances of the raw image thumbnail, the augmented image thumbnail, the scene classification, or any combination thereof. The scene-based automatic white balance correction may include applying the filter to the histogram to determine white balance correction coefficients and obtain a processed image. |
| US12100239B2 |
Display component, display screen, and electronic device
A plurality of thin film transistors (TFTs) and a plurality of photo detectors (PDs) are disposed inside a display component. The plurality of PDs convert detected light into electrical signals. The plurality of PDs and the plurality of TFTs are disposed on two opposite inner side surfaces of a same layer of the display component. Projections of the plurality of PDs and the plurality of TFTs on a first plane are alternately distributed, and the first plane is a plane on which the layer at which the plurality of PDs and the plurality of TFT layers are disposed is located. Fingerprint recognition accuracy can be improved by configuring a display screen including the display component provided in the embodiments of this application. In addition, PDs of different quantities are flexibly arranged, to ensure that a large region of the display screen can be used for fingerprint recognition. |
| US12100237B2 |
Image processing device, and non-transitory computer-readable medium for improvement of accurace of a subject captured in an image acquired by an imaging device, and skeleton model estimation based on hidden body part estimation
An image processing device for improving accuracy of discrimination of hidden portions of a subject captured in an image is disclosed. In this regard the image processing device receives image data of an image in which a person is captured. Based on the received image data, the image processing device estimates a hidden body part of the person that is not captured in the image due to obstruction by another body part of the person. Such estimation is performed by detecting first feature points included in a left limb of the person and second feature points included in a right limb of the person, and estimating at least one of the first feature points and the second feature points are to be included in a hidden body part that is obstructed by another body part of the person or a non-hidden body part. |
| US12100235B2 |
Systems and methods for deep learning based approach for content extraction
Disclosed are systems and methods for extracting content based on image analysis. A method may include receiving content including at least an image depicting a coupon; converting the received content into a larger image including the image depicting the coupon; determining, utilizing one or more neural networks, the image depicting the coupon within the larger image, wherein determining the image depicting the coupon comprises: segmenting a foreground bounding box including the image depicting the coupon from background image portions of the image; cropping the larger image based on the bounding box, wherein the cropped image consists of the image depicting the coupon; determining text included in the cropped image; and extracting information included in the coupon based on the determined text. |
| US12100229B2 |
Object scanning for subsequent object detection
Various implementations disclosed herein include devices, systems, and methods that facilitate the creation of a 3D model for object detection based on a scan of the object. Some implementations provide a user interface that a user interacts with to facilitate a scan of an object to create 3D model of the object for later object detection. The user interface may include an indicator that provides visual or audible feedback to the user indicating the direction that the capturing device is facing relative to the object being scanned. The direction of the capture device may be identified using sensors on the device (e.g., inertial measurement unit (IMU), gyroscope, etc.) or other techniques (e.g., visual inertial odometry (VIO)) and based on the user positioning the device so that the object is in view. |
| US12100226B2 |
Electronic device for controlling driving vehicle and operation method of the electronic device
An electronic device configured to control a host vehicle includes: an image sensor configured to photograph a surrounding environment of the host vehicle; and a processor configured to perform an image processing operation based on a first image captured by the image sensor, and control the host vehicle based on the processing result, wherein the processor determines whether to use a high speed performance of the image processing operation based on a speed of the host vehicle, and the electronic device is configured such that when the high speed performance is not used, the processor performs the image processing operation by using a first image processing module, and when the high speed performance is used, the processor performs the image processing operation by using a second image processing module having less data throughput than the first image processing module. |
| US12100225B2 |
Vehicular vision system
A vehicular vision system includes an electronic control unit (ECU) configured to connect via a plurality of coaxial cables of a vehicle with a plurality of vehicular cameras of the vehicle. Electrical power for the cameras is carried from the ECU to the respective cameras via respective coaxial cables. The cameras include respective serializers operable to serialize image data captured by the cameras. The cameras include a forward-viewing camera and a rear backup camera. Responsive at least in part to processing at the ECU of de-serialized image data derived from image data captured by the forward-viewing camera, an object present forward of the vehicle is detected. Video images derived at least in part from processing at the ECU of de-serialized image data derived from image data captured by the rear backup camera are displayed at a video display device of the vehicle during a rear backup maneuver of the vehicle. |
| US12100221B2 |
Methods and electronic devices for detecting objects in surroundings of a self-driving car
A method and electronic device for detecting an object are disclosed. The method includes generating a cluster of points representative of the surroundings of the SDC, generating by a first Neural Network (NN) a first feature vector based on the cluster indicative of a local context of the given object in the surroundings of the SDC, generating by a second NN second feature vectors for respective points from the cluster based on a portion of the point cloud, where a given second feature vector is indicative of the local and global context of the given object, generating by the first NN a third feature vector for the given object based on the second feature vectors representative of the given object, and generating by a third NN a bounding box around the given object using the third feature vector. |
| US12100219B2 |
Generating images or timelines based on user-configured thresholds for number of people and staying time in target area
A system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is a system for displaying a video captured by a camera connected to a network. The system is configured to set, in response to instructions from a user, a first threshold regarding the number of people staying in a target area and a second threshold regarding a period of time during which the people stay in the target area, measure the number of people staying in the target area and a period of time during which the people stay in the target area, generate a thumbnail showing a video when the number of people staying in the target area for a period of time equal to or longer than the second threshold is equal to or greater than the first threshold, and display the thumbnail generated. |
| US12100214B2 |
Video-based public safety incident prediction system and method therefor
A method and system for improving prediction of an incident affecting public safety is described. At a machine learning analytics system, the method includes obtaining a real-time video for a location of a public safety emergency call and predicting a public safety incident therefrom. At a learning processor, the method includes: receiving information related to the public safety emergency call; identifying a public safety incident type based thereon; receiving the prediction of the public safety incident; using a first public safety incident machine learning model based on the identified public safety incident type and comparing the public safety incident prediction with the information related to the public safety emergency call and identifying an incident prediction mismatch therefrom. The learning processor identifies an artifact in the real-time video that is a contributing factor for the incident prediction mismatch; and implements a model improvement action associated with the artifact. |
| US12100213B2 |
Alert generation based on event detection in a video feed
Methods, systems and computer program products, for processing a stream of image frames captured by a camera system. A hardcoded alert image frame is generated in response to detecting an event. The hardcoded alert image frame includes motion deltas and/or color changes with respect to an event image frame. A stream of encoded image frames is generated, in which stream the hardcoded alert image frame is inserted in display order after the encoded event image frame. |
| US12100205B2 |
Technologies for leveraging machine learning for customized installation of access control hardware
A method of customized installation of access control hardware according to one embodiment includes capturing, by a camera of a mobile device, at least one image of an installation location for the access control hardware, generating a set of customized installation instructions for the access control hardware at the installation location based on the at least one image, and displaying the customized installation instructions on a graphical user interface of the mobile device. |
| US12100204B2 |
Apparatus and method for image-guided agriculture
A method for image-guided agriculture includes receiving images; processing the images to generate reflectance maps respectively corresponding to spectral bands; synthesizing the reflectance maps to generate a multispectral image including vegetation index information of a target area; receiving crop information in regions of the target area; and assessing crop conditions for the regions based on the identified crop information and the vegetation index information. |
| US12100203B2 |
Above-horizon target tracking
Disclosed herein is a system that comprises an imaging sensor coupled to a robot. The system also comprises an imaging module configured to capture images of a scene within a field of view of the imaging sensor, which is coupled to the robot. The system further comprises an image-processing module configured to process the captured images to identify an object above a horizon in the scene within the field of view of the imaging sensor. The system additionally comprises a tracking module configured to track a trajectory of the object based on the captured images to determine positions of the object relative to the robot. |
| US12100199B2 |
Apparatus, program, and method for anomaly detection and classification
A computing apparatus to classify anomalies in images, by unsupervised anomaly detection on an input dataset of the images to detect anomaly portions from said images to generate, for an image in the dataset, a corresponding mask image transmitting a detected anomaly portion in the image and blocking anomaly-free portions; train a classifier ANN, including, in a first epoch process processing a masked version of the input dataset with the classifier ANN, the masked version including the image of the input dataset masked by the corresponding mask image, and training the classifier ANN to classify anomaly portions into one of plural classes by minimising a cross entropy loss function using generated labels as ground truths; extracting, from the classifier ANN, a latent feature representation of the image of the masked version in the input dataset; and in a second epoch process generating a set of pseudo labels corresponding to the masked version of the input dataset by applying an unsupervised clustering algorithm to the latent feature representations to cluster the latent feature representations into one of plural clusters each with a different associated pseudo label, to obtain a pseudo label corresponding to the image in the input dataset; training the classifier ANN to minimise a loss function between a class into which the image of the input dataset is classified by the classifier ANN using the pseudo label for said image as ground truth The training epoch may be repeatedly executed until satisfaction of a training condition, and to output, for the image in the input dataset, an identification of the detected anomaly portion with a corresponding class into which the anomaly portion is classified by the classifier ANN. |
| US12100197B2 |
Method and device for training a machine learning system
A method for training a machine learning system. The method includes generating an augmented dataset including input images for training the machine learning system, which is for classification and/or semantic segmentation of input images, using a first machine learning system, which is embodied as a decoder of an autoencoder, and a second machine learning system, which is embodied as an encoder of the autoencoder. Latent variables are ascertained from the input images using the encoder. The input images are classified as a function of ascertained feature characteristics of their image data. An augmented input image of the augmented dataset is ascertained from at least one of the input images as a function of average values of the ascertained latent variables in at least two of the classes. The image classes are selected so that the input images classified therein agree in their characteristics in a predefinable set of other features. |
| US12100191B2 |
System, method and computer-accessible medium for quantification of blur in digital images
The present disclosure discusses systems and methods to detect blur in digital images. The solution can be incorporated into the quality control systems of pathology and other slide scanners or can be a stand-alone solution. The solution can identify scanned images that include blur and cause the scanner to automatically rescan the blurry image. The solution can also identify regions of the scanned image that include blur. The solution can generate blur maps for each of the scanned images that identify regions of the scanned image that include blur. |
| US12100190B2 |
Perception system for autonomous vehicles
Image processing techniques are described to obtain an image from a camera located on a vehicle while the vehicle is being driven, cropping a portion of the obtained image corresponding to a region of interest, detecting an object in the cropped portion, adding a bounding box around the detected object, determining position(s) of reference point(s) on the bounding box, and determining a location of the detected object in a spatial region where the vehicle is being driven based on the determined one or more positions of the second set of one or more reference points on the bounding box. |
| US12100189B2 |
Three-dimensional object detection
An image can be input to a deep neural network to determine a point in the image based on a center of a Gaussian heatmap corresponding to an object included in the image. The deep neural network can determine an object descriptor corresponding to the object and include the object descriptor in an object vector attached to the point. The deep neural network can determine object parameters including a three-dimensional location of the object in global coordinates and predicted pixel offsets of the object. The object parameters can be included in the object vector, and the deep neural network can predict a future location of the object in global coordinates based on the point and the object vector. |
| US12100188B2 |
Template mark detection method and template position correction method based on single camera
Provided are template mark detection method and template position correction method based on single camera, including: performing image collection on mark on template by single camera, and obtaining binary image after preprocessing; performing corner detection of jagged edges on binary image to obtain corner set of jagged edges; performing edge detection and line detection sequentially on binary image to obtain set of edge line segments from coarse detection; traversing such set, and judging and retaining collinear line segments, to obtain set of collinear line segments from coarse detection; traversing corner set of jagged edges, for point-line collinearity judgment with line segments in set of collinear line segments from coarse detection, to obtain set of point-line from fine detection; and performing linear fitting on set of point-line from fine detection, and calculating an inclination angle of each straight line through an arctan function, thus completing detection of mark. |
| US12100187B2 |
Method and system for estimating interaction information between person and product on basis of image, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
An interaction information estimation method is provided. The method includes the steps of: determining, on the basis of a relationship between a product region and a first person detected in a plurality of video frames, whether contact is made between the first person and a product included in the product region, thereby estimating information on an interaction between the first person and the product on the basis of a result of the determination; and validating the estimated information on the interaction. |
| US12100186B2 |
Leaf node compression with compressibility prediction
Aspects presented herein relate to methods and devices for graphics processing including an apparatus, e.g., a GPU or CPU. The apparatus may allocate each of a plurality of primitives in a scene into one of a plurality of bounding boxes, each of the plurality of bounding boxes corresponding to a plurality of nodes including internal nodes and leaf nodes. The apparatus may also identify whether each of the plurality of nodes is one of the internal nodes or one of the leaf nodes. Further, the apparatus may estimate a compressibility of each of the plurality of nodes if the node is one of the leaf nodes, the compressibility of the node corresponding to whether the node is compressible. The apparatus may also compress data corresponding to each of the plurality of nodes if the node is estimated to be compressible. |
| US12100183B2 |
Point cloud attribute transfer algorithm
A system comprises an encoder configured to compress attribute information and/or spatial for a point cloud and/or a decoder configured to decompress compressed attribute and/or spatial information for the point cloud. A point cloud attribute transfer algorithm may be used to determine distortion between an original point cloud and a reconstructed point cloud. Additionally, the point cloud attribute transfer algorithm may be used to select attribute values for a reconstructed point cloud such that distortion between an original point cloud and a reconstructed version of the original point cloud is minimized. |
| US12100178B2 |
Image processing device, and non-transitory computer-readable medium
An image processing device includes a reception interface and a processor. The reception interface receives image data corresponding to an image in which a subject is captured. The processor detects, based on the image data, a left shoulder feature point, a right shoulder feature point, and a face feature point of the person. The processor acquires a first value corresponding to a distance between the left shoulder feature point and the face feature point. The processor acquires a second value corresponding to a distance between the right shoulder feature point and the face feature point. The processor estimates presence or absence of a body twist of the person based on a ratio between the first value and the second value. |
| US12100172B2 |
Method and apparatus for depth estimation relative to a mobile terminal
The method, apparatus and computer program product estimate the depth to objects within a scene that is captured by first and second cameras of a mobile terminal. A method includes determining, based upon an image including an eye of a user captured by a first camera of a mobile terminal and an image of a scene captured by a second camera of the mobile terminal, two or more angles of a geometric shape defined by the eye, the mobile terminal and an object of the scene. Based upon the image captured by the first camera, the method also determines a first distance from the first camera to the eye. The method further estimates the depth to the object in the scene relative to the mobile terminal based upon the first distance and one or more angles of the geometric shape defined by the eye, the mobile terminal and the object. |
| US12100170B2 |
Multi-layer image registration
Systems/techniques that facilitate multi-layer image registration are provided. In various embodiments, a system can access a first image and a second image. In various aspects, the system can generate, via execution of a machine learning model on the first image and the second image, a plurality of registration fields and a plurality of weight matrices that respectively correspond to the plurality of registration fields. In various instances, the system can register the first image with the second image based on the plurality of registration fields and the plurality of weight matrices. |
| US12100169B2 |
Sparse optical flow estimation
Systems and techniques are described herein for performing optical flow estimation between one or more frames. For example, a process can include determining a subset of pixels of at least one of a first frame and a second frame, and generating a mask indicating the subset of pixels. The process can include determining, based on the mask, one or more features associated with the subset of pixels of at least the first frame and the second frame. The process can include determining optical flow vectors between the subset of pixels of the first frame and corresponding pixels of a second frame. The process can include generating an optical flow map for the second frame using the optical flow vectors. |
| US12100168B2 |
Trajectory calculation device, trajectory calculating method, and trajectory calculating program
In the athletic competition involving jumping such as figure skating, it is desired to measure jumping height and flight distance by calculating a trajectory of a moving object as a target from moving images captured by a monocular camera. Provided is a device, a method and a program to calculate the trajectory of the moving object jumping in three dimensions from information of a plurality of image frames captured by the monocular camera by detecting a specific point of the moving object, calculating an amount of change with respect to three-dimensional positions of the specific point in the consecutive image frames, and calculating the trajectory of the specific point from a positional relation between straight lines having the positions of the specific point and a curved line capable of expressing a parabolic motion passing through a take-off point and a landing point. |
| US12100167B2 |
Estimating a trajectory path of an object
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for estimating a trajectory path of an object. An apparatus includes an object module that identifies a target object based on data captured from a first sensor. An apparatus includes a location module that identifies the target location for the target object based on data captured from a second sensor. An apparatus includes a path module that determines an objective path for the target object relative to the target location. An apparatus includes a surface module that identifies a surface of a striking object that is configured to cause the target object to move along a trajectory path towards a target location. A path module estimates the trajectory path of the target object towards the target location and relative to the objective path prior to the striking object contacting the target object. |
| US12100159B2 |
System and method for object analysis
In variants, the method can include: determining a timeseries of measurements of a geographic region; determining a set of object representations from the timeseries of measurements; and determining a timeseries of object versions based on relationships between the object representations. |
| US12100157B2 |
Systems and methods for image processing
A method may include obtaining an original image. The method may also include determining a plurality of decomposition coefficients of the original image by decomposing the original image. The method may also include determining at least one enhancement coefficient by performing enhancement to at least one of the plurality of decomposition coefficients using a coefficient enhancement model. The method may also include generating an enhanced image corresponding to the original image based on the at least one enhancement coefficient. |
| US12100156B2 |
Garment segmentation
Methods and systems are disclosed for performing operations comprising: receiving a monocular image that includes a depiction of a user wearing a garment; generating a segmentation of the garment worn by the user in the monocular image; accessing a video feed comprising a plurality of monocular images received prior to the monocular image; smoothing, using the video feed, the segmentation of the garment worn by the user to provide a smoothed segmentation of the garment worn by the user; and applying one or more visual effects to the monocular image based on the smoothed segmentation of the garment worn by the user. |
| US12100151B2 |
Droplet imaging pipeline
Methods, systems, and apparatus for an imaging-based MicroOrganoSphere drug assay. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining image data of a well plate comprising a plurality of MicroOrganoSpheres; in response to applying a machine learning model configured to identify instances of at least some of the plurality of MicroOrganoSpheres in the image data, obtaining (i) indications indicative of each instance of the MicroOrganoSpheres and (ii) attributes of each instance of the MicroOrganoSpheres; and normalizing, based on the indications and the attributes, a well-to-well variation in the well plate. |
| US12100150B2 |
Droplet imaging pipeline
Methods, systems, and apparatus for an imaging-based MicroOrganoSphere drug assay. In one aspect, a method includes obtaining image data of a well plate comprising a plurality of MicroOrganoSpheres; in response to applying a machine learning model configured to identify instances of at least some of the plurality of MicroOrganoSpheres in the image data, obtaining (i) indications indicative of each instance of the MicroOrganoSpheres and (ii) attributes of each instance of the MicroOrganoSpheres; and normalizing, based on the indications and the attributes, a well-to-well variation in the well plate. |
| US12100149B2 |
Determining likely response to combination therapies for cardiovascular disease non-invasively
Provided herein are methods and systems for making patient-specific therapy recommendations of a combination of any two or more therapies selected from a lipid-lowering therapy, an anti-inflammatory therapy for patients with known or suspected cardiovascular disease, such as atherosclerosis. |
| US12100147B2 |
Method for fitting image
Embodiments of the disclosure provide an image fitting method. The method includes: providing a chip plate and a plurality of photographing assemblies, where the chip plate is used to place a chip tray, and the photographing assemblies are used to capture images of the chip plate; acquiring a chip plate image captured by each photographing assembly, where the chip plate image is an image of the chip plate with a partial area and the chip tray placed on the chip plate; acquiring a chip tray image included in each chip plate image, where the chip tray image is an image of the chip tray with a partial area; and fitting the plurality of chip tray images to acquire a chip image, where the chip image is an image of an entire chip tray. |
| US12100146B2 |
Assessing risk of breast cancer recurrence
The subject disclosure presents systems and computer-implemented methods for assessing a risk of cancer recurrence in a patient based on a holistic integration of large amounts of prognostic information for said patient into a single comparative prognostic dataset. A risk classification system may be trained using the large amounts of information from a cohort of training slides from several patients, along with survival data for said patients. For example, a machine-learning-based binary classifier in the risk classification system may be trained using a set of granular image features computed from a plurality of slides corresponding to several cancer patients whose survival information is known and input into the system. The trained classifier may be used to classify image features from one or more test patients into a low-risk or high-risk group. |
| US12100142B2 |
System and method of evaluating fluid and air flow
Systems and methods of fluid or air passageway cross-sectional area determination in an anatomy are disclosed. In some examples, the methods may include generating a model of a structure based on a plurality of images of the structure, the structure comprising at least one fluid or air flow path. In some examples, the methods may also include identifying an obstruction element in the model of the structure, the obstruction element affecting the at least one fluid or air flow path in the model. In some examples, the methods may also include determining a region of the at least one fluid or air flow path for flow analysis. |
| US12100141B2 |
Three-dimensional delineation of tumor boundaries via supervised machine learning algorithms and augmented reality
Techniques that facilitate three-dimensional (3D) delineation of tumor boundaries via one or more supervised machine learning algorithms are provided. An example embodiment includes a computer-implemented method that includes: extracting, by a computing system operatively coupled to a processor, one or more feature vectors from a time-series evolution of fluorescence distribution observed at a section of bodily tissue of interest, wherein the one or more feature vectors represent a physical model describing on-tissue dye dynamics of the section of bodily tissue; and generating, by the computing system, a classification attribute for the section of bodily tissue represented by the one or more feature vectors, wherein a pre-trained classifier designates the section of bodily tissue as a biopsy or a non-biopsy candidate through execution of the one or more supervised machine learning algorithms. |
| US12100139B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and computer-readable storage medium for determining a radiation field of radiation from a radiation image
An image processing apparatus for determining a radiation field of radiation from a radiation image comprises: a prediction unit that predicts, based on prior information, a degree that each position of the radiation image becomes a predetermined portion of the radiation field and generating a prediction result representing a distribution of the predicted degrees; an analysis unit that analyzes the radiation image to determines the degree that each position of the radiation image becomes the predetermined portion of the radiation field and generating an analysis result representing the distribution of the predicted degrees; and a recognition unit that decides the predetermined portion of the radiation field based on a combining result obtained by combining the prediction result and the analysis result. |
| US12100138B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, medical information processing apparatus, medical information processing method, radiation imaging system, and computer-readable storage medium
An image processing apparatus comprises a first obtaining unit that obtains examination information, a readout unit that reads out learning result data selected based on the examination information from a storage unit storing at least one piece of learning result data that has been obtained by machine learning in advance, a second obtaining unit that obtains a medical image obtained based on the examination information obtained by the first obtaining unit, and a processing unit that processes the medical image obtained by the second obtaining unit using learning result data read out by the readout unit. |
| US12100137B2 |
System for analysis of microscopic data using graphs
Disclosed is a system for analysis of microscopic image data acquired from biological cells. The system includes a data processing system which is configured to read the image data and determine a plurality of vertices, wherein each of the vertices represents a location of an entity of interest within a region of interest of the image data. The data processing system generates a plurality of graphs, wherein for each of the graphs, the generation of the respective graph includes generating a plurality of edges, wherein each of the edges has two of the plurality of vertices associated therewith. For each of the graphs one or more vertex sets are identified, each of which consisting of one or more of the plurality of vertices. The data processing system further determines, for each of the graphs, a number of the identified vertex sets. |
| US12100132B2 |
Laser anneal pattern suppression
A location of grid lines in an image of a laser-annealed semiconductor wafer is determined. An area covered by the grid lines can be filled using a new gray value. The new gray value can be based on a second gray scale value of a neighborhood around the area. The neighborhood is outside of the area covered by the grid lines. |
| US12100128B2 |
Computer analysis of remotely detected images for image identification
In an approach to improve detecting and identifying objects through orbital synthetic aperture radar satellites, embodiments arrange an array of elements in a predetermined configuration, and process, by a threshold and signature analysis, detected peaks in processed image data. Further, embodiments generate a list of objects detections based on the processed peaks, and identify an object based on amplitude, polarization ratio, and polarization phase difference. Additionally, embodiments, classify the identified object based on the generated list of objects, and output, by a user interface, a list of probable object detections with position coordinates and identifications based on the classified identified objects, wherein the list of probable objects are above or within a predetermine threshold of confidence. |
| US12100126B2 |
Display of images
The following provides a system and method to display images on a display screen (e.g. via a display panel or by projection) and the processing of image data therefor. In one aspect, the system implements a luminance retargeting method for altering the perceived contrast and/or colours of an image to match their appearance under different luminance levels. In another aspect, the system may provide a method for transforming an image locally within a sub-area of an image to adjust image contrast for display by a display device. In yet another aspect, the system may provide a method for transforming an image of a first luminance to adjust a perceived colour hue thereof for display by a display device according to a second luminance. In yet another aspect, the system may provide a method for transforming an image having a first luminance to adjust a colour saturation thereof for display by a display device having a second luminance. |
| US12100124B2 |
Methods and systems for generating end-to-end de-smoking model
The disclosure herein relates to methods and systems for generating an end-to-end de-smoking model for removing smoke present in a video. Conventional data-driven based de-smoking approaches are limited mainly due to lack of suitable training data. Further, the conventional data-driven based de-smoking approaches are not end-to-end for removing the smoke present in the video. The de-smoking model of the present disclosure is trained end-to-end with the use of synthesized smoky video frames that are obtained by source aware smoke synthesis approach. The end-to-end de-smoking model localize and remove the smoke present in the video, using dynamic properties of the smoke. Hence the end-to-end de-smoking model simultaneously identifies the regions affected with the smoke and performs the de-smoking with minimal artifacts. localized smoke removal and color restoration of a real-time video. |
| US12100113B2 |
Performing occlusion-aware global 3D pose and shape estimation of articulated objects
In order to determine accurate three-dimensional (3D) models for objects within a video, the objects are first identified and tracked within the video, and a pose and shape are estimated for these tracked objects. A translation and global orientation are removed from the tracked objects to determine local motion for the objects, and motion infilling is performed to fill in any missing portions for the object within the video. A global trajectory is then determined for the objects within the video, and the infilled motion and global trajectory are then used to determine infilled global motion for the object within the video. This enables the accurate depiction of each object as a 3D pose sequence for that model that accounts for occlusions and global factors within the video. |
| US12100110B2 |
AR system for providing interactive experiences in smart spaces
Interactive experiences are generated using an augmented reality (AR) system that leverages the native input and output capabilities of AR devices to generate immersive and interactive experiences in smart spaces that combine visually-represented programming logic, AR content, and IoT devices. The system connects IoT devices with each other in a native AR environment, provides virtual content and logic gates, scripts sequences and loops of actions, solves visibility issues for IoT devices that are far apart, and designs logic gates and flow circuits that best support user intentions when generating interactive experiences in smart spaces. The interactive experience is produced by generating a program of behaviors of selected IoT devices using logic gates and control circuits connected to the IoT devices in a visual programming interface of the AR device. Once completed, the program of behaviors is executed by a runtime module to control the IoT devices during the interactive experience. |
| US12100106B2 |
Stereoscopic rendering of virtual 3D objects
In one implementation, a method involves tessellating a surface of a 3D object by identifying vertices having 3D positions. The method transforms the 3D positions into positions for a first sphere-based projection for a left eye viewpoint and positions for a second sphere-based projection for a right eye viewpoint. Transforming the 3D positions of the vertices involves transforming the vertices based on a user orientation (i.e., camera position) and differences left and right eye viewpoints (e.g., based on interaxial distance and convergence angle). The method further renders a stereoscopic 360° rendering of the 3D object based on the first sphere-based projection for the left eye viewpoint and the second sphere-based projection for the right eye viewpoint. For example, an equirectangular representation of the first sphere-based projection can be combined with an equirectangular representation of the second sphere-based projection to provide a file defining a stereoscopic 360° image. |
| US12100103B2 |
Converting barycentric planes to attribute planes
Methods, systems and apparatuses provide for graphics processor technology that generates attribute plane coefficients based on barycentric coefficients, wherein the attribute plane coefficients are generated on a per polygon basis, and interpolates one or more pixel attributes based on the attribute plane coefficients. In one example, the technology excludes the barycentric coefficients from one or more per pixel operations. |
| US12100101B2 |
Generating 2D mapping using 3D data
In an aspect for generating a 2-dimensional (2D) building mapping, a computer-implemented method may include one or more processors configured for receiving scanning data in a first file format corresponding to 3-dimensional (3D) aerial Light Detection and Ranging (LiDaR) images. Further, the method may include transforming the first file format to a second file format and transmitting the scanning data to a building semantic segmentation component. Further, the computer-implemented method may include generating semantic segmentation data corresponding to building structures defined by point clusters; generating instance segmentation data corresponding to top surfaces of the building structures; generating building boundary data for each one of the point clusters based on one or more of the semantic segmentation data and the instance segmentation data; and processing the building boundary data to generate a 2D building mapping comprising refined boundary lines for each of the point clusters. |
| US12100099B2 |
Method, electronic device, and computer program product for generating three-dimensional scene
A method, an electronic device, and a computer program product for generating a three-dimensional scene are provided in embodiments of the present disclosure. The method may include obtaining source image features from a plurality of two-dimensional source images associated with the three-dimensional scene to be generated. The method may further include obtaining editing features from an editing instruction input by a user for the three-dimensional scene, each of the editing features respectively forming a feature pair with each of the source image features. Furthermore, the method may include updating the source image features by maximizing a correlation coefficient of each of the feature pairs, and generating the three-dimensional scene based at least on the updated source image features. Embodiments of the present disclosure can realize arbitrary editing of a three-dimensional scene, thus enhancing the experience of human-computer interaction. |
| US12100097B2 |
Image rendering method and apparatus
An image rendering method for rendering a pixel at a viewpoint including: for a first element of a virtual scene, having a predetermined surface at a position within that scene, providing the position and a direction based on the viewpoint to a machine learning system previously trained to predict a factor that, when combined with a distribution function that characterises an interaction of light with the predetermined surface, generates a pixel value corresponding to the first element of the virtual scene as illuminated at the position, combining the predicted factor from the machine learning system with the distribution function to generate the pixel value corresponding to the illuminated first element of the virtual scene at the position, and incorporating the pixel value into a rendered image for display. |
| US12100088B2 |
Recognition of intent of artificial intelligence characters
Systems and methods for recognition of intent of a character are provided. The character is an Artificial Intelligence (AI) character generated by an AI character model for interacting with users in the virtual environment or is controlled by a human user. An example method includes monitoring interactions between a plurality of characters in a virtual environment; recognizing, based on environmental parameters associated with the interactions, an intent of a character selected from the plurality of characters: selecting a plurality of possible behaviors for the character based on the intent; and triggering a behavior selected from the plurality of possible behaviors based on predetermined criteria. |
| US12100087B2 |
System and method for generating an avatar that expresses a state of a user
A user may create an avatar and/or animated sequence illustrating a particular object or living being performing a certain activity, using images of portions of the object or living being extracted from a still image or set of still images of the object or living being. |
| US12100085B2 |
Information processing system, information processing method and non-transitory computer readable medium storing program
An information processing system includes an information processing device, a stream user terminal and viewing user terminal. The information processing device comprises processing circuitry configured to stream a video, including a character object of a stream user, to the viewing user terminal by transmitting information on the video to the viewing user terminal; aggregate resulting information including information on an action by a viewing user to the video during streaming of the video; determine a specific motion to be applied to the character object based on the resulting information; and transmit specific information on the specific motion to the stream user terminal. After the streaming of the video is ended, a resulting screen is displayed on the stream user terminal, the resulting screen including a character image with the specific motion applied to the character object, and the character image is generated based on the specific information. |
| US12100080B2 |
Virtual reticle for augmented reality systems
Systems and methods for displaying a virtual reticle in an augmented or virtual reality environment by a wearable device are described. The environment can include real or virtual objects that may be interacted with by the user through a variety of poses, such as, e.g., head pose, eye pose or gaze, or body pose. The user may select objects by pointing the virtual reticle toward a target object by changing pose or gaze. The wearable device can recognize that an orientation of a user's head or eyes is outside of a range of acceptable or comfortable head or eye poses and accelerate the movement of the reticle away from a default position and toward a position in the direction of the user's head or eye movement, which can reduce the amount of movement by the user to align the reticle and target. |
| US12100079B2 |
System and computer program product for presentation of combined product image with product accompaniment image
Provided is a combined image presentation system and computer program product that are able to combine and present an image for helping a user purchase a product matching a use scene. The combined image presentation system includes a scene processed image generator that generates a scene processed image by performing processing on a scene image stored in a scene storage unit, a main image generator that generates a main image representing a state in which a product is decorated with or displayed on a product accompaniment by combining an product image and a product accompaniment image selected by a user, an image combination unit that generates a combined image by combining the scene image or scene processed image as the background of the main image, and a combined image presentation unit that presents the combined image generated by the image combination unit to the user. |
| US12100077B2 |
Visual database system for multidimensional data representation
A visual database system can represent multidimensional data. For example, a computing system can receive, by a visual database system, a multidimensional data point having a plurality of features. The computing system can generate a visual representation of the multidimensional data point by mapping the plurality of features of the multidimensional data point to a plurality of visual attributes using a mapping table associated with the visual database system. The computing system can store, by the visual database system, the visual representation of the multidimensional data point in a visual format. The computing system can output the visual representation to a graphical user interface of a client device for subsequent processing. |
| US12100076B2 |
Preserving document design using font synthesis
Automatic font synthesis for modifying a local font to have an appearance that is visually similar to a source font is described. A font modification system receives an electronic document including the source font together with an indication of a font descriptor for the source font. The font descriptor includes information describing various font attributes for the source font, which define a visual appearance of the source font. Using the source font descriptor, the font modification system identifies a local font that is visually similar in appearance to the source font by comparing local font descriptors to the source font descriptor. A visually similar font is then synthesized by modifying glyph outlines of the local font to achieve the visual appearance defined by the source font descriptor. The synthesized font is then used to replace the source font and output in the electronic document at the computing device. |
| US12100075B2 |
Image reconstruction by modeling image formation as one or more neural networks
Systems and methods for image reconstruction based on modeling image formation as one or more neural networks. In accordance with one aspect, one or more neural networks are configured based on physics of image formation (202). The one or more neural networks are optimized using acquired test image data (204). An output image may then be reconstructed by applying current image data as input to the one or more optimized neural networks (208). |
| US12100074B2 |
View synthesis robust to unconstrained image data
Provided are systems and methods for synthesizing novel views of complex scenes (e.g., outdoor scenes). In some implementations, the systems and methods can include or use machine-learned models that are capable of learning from unstructured and/or unconstrained collections of imagery such as, for example, “in the wild” photographs. In particular, example implementations of the present disclosure can learn a volumetric scene density and radiance represented by a machine-learned model such as one or more multilayer perceptrons (MLPs). |
| US12100060B2 |
Flexible API framework
Embodiments provide approaches to selectively integrate with various providers based on reliability factors, user preferences, and/or other criteria. For example, a user in a location where an on-demand provider is available may attempt to utilize services provided by the on-demand provider in a different location where the on-demand provider has limited or no services available, but where one or more other on-demand providers may be available. The user may attempt to access services provided by the on-demand provider using an application provided by the on-demand provider. However, in the situation where the user is in the location where services provided by the on-demand provider are not available, the user would have to secure other means of accessing those services. In such a situation the user may be able to utilize the application to request services with at least one partner on-demand provider. This can include, for example, enabling the user to use the application to access such services, and thus maintain a familiar front-end user experience, while on the backend a flexible application program interface (API) framework is utilized to enable requests to partner on-demand providers who can satisfy requests on behalf of the on-demand provider. |
| US12100055B2 |
Determining an event
A system allows for a user to notify an insurance provider or other third-party with a button press. The button can notify of an emergency situation. An event determiner may analyze information of events surrounding the button click. This information may include the time of day, location, identifying information for the insured, recent locations of the button, information from similar button presses and information from previous insurance claims. Based on this information, the event determiner may provide a high percentage estimate of an abnormal condition: home break-in, car accident, flat tire, etc. The system may automatically take action, depending on the event, such as contacting the police, sending a tow truck, or starting an insurance claim. |
| US12100053B2 |
Systems and methods for generating mobility insurance products using ride-sharing telematics data
A personalized insurance (“PI”) computing device for determining an optimal insurance product for a driver operating a vehicle for a transportation network company (“TNC”) during a period of increased demand includes at least one processor in communication with at least one memory. The processor is configured to: (i) receive, from a TNC, data indicating increased demand for transportation services, (ii) retrieve driver data that includes the driver history, (iii) generate an optimal pricing model for the driver based upon the increased demand and the driver data, (iv) execute the model to determine an optimal insurance product having characteristics reflecting at least one risk factor associated with the increased demand for transportation services and a risk profile determined from analyzing the driver data, and (v) transmit an offer to the driver to provide transportation services at an increased earnings rate and with the determined optimal insurance product. |
| US12100052B2 |
Method for obtaining product or service information
The present disclosure describes novel systems and methods for a customer to receive information and/or purchase a product or service while interacting with multiple vendors through a single contact/agency. The customer is able to communicate with the agency through a variety of communication modes. The agency adapts the customer's input as necessary to meet the requirements of the vendors and the agency returns information to the customer so that the customer can conveniently interact with the multiple vendors. The systems and methods allow for the customer to stop and restart the process at various points using any of the communication modes. The agency has the ability to present the customer with prospecting, sales, service, upgrades, cross-sells, and other pre- and post-purchase services at the single point-of-contact agency. |
| US12100051B2 |
Hail data evaluation computer system
According to some embodiments, a hail history storage device may store information periodically received from a remote third-party weather reporting service. A hail history score request associated with a geographic location and a date range may be received from a remote requester device. Responsive to the received hail history score request, a computer processor of a hail history server may automatically access information in the hail history storage device based on the geographic location and date range. Moreover, the computer processor may automatically evaluate accessed information to calculate a hail history score value. The computer processor may then transmit, to the remote requester device, historical hail evaluation data including the calculated hail history score value. |
| US12100050B1 |
Electronic sensor management
Systems and techniques are provided for providing notification indicative of a breach of a dynamic operational parameter threshold. The dynamic operational parameter threshold is set based upon habits of inhabitants of an environment, which are observed via controlled sensors of the environment. |
| US12100049B2 |
Filtered POS processing of services
A system and method are presented that utilizes a primary server having shadow data and benefit bucket data to provide adjudication and payment processing of insurance payment requests without requiring interaction with an insurance server and normal adjudication processes. The primary server can handle adjudication and payment processing for a plurality of insurance providers. An alternate payment method can be identified with a member identifier, allowing both insurance payment adjudication and member payment through the alternate payment method. The primary server can provide benefit processing for retail discounts, and store value benefits for authenticated purchase transactions. A variety of discounts, stored value benefits, insurance benefits, and alternate payment mechanisms can be incorporated into a single transaction and handled in real-time during the transaction. |
| US12100046B1 |
Blockchain instrument for transferable equity
Systems and methods for offering and purchasing tokenized securities on a blockchain platform meeting current and future federal, state, and offering and holding entity rules and regulations. Tokenized securities purchased during or after the tokenized securities offering are tradable on a secondary market. The server computer of the tokenized securities provides an automated transfer capability for tokenized securities holders. |
| US12100034B2 |
Methods and systems for providing a vehicle recommendation
A computer-implemented method for determining a reward associated with one or more transactions of a user may comprise obtaining travel data of the user via a device associated with the user, wherein the travel data includes travel dates of the user; obtaining, via one or more processors, exchange rate data based on the travel data of the user; determining, via the one or more processors, a value of the reward associated with the one or more transactions of the user during the travel dates based on the exchange rate data; transmitting, to the user, a notification indicative of the reward associated with the one or more transactions; and causing the reward associated with the one or more transactions to be directed to a financial account associated with the user. |
| US12100030B2 |
Method and apparatus for presenting information
Disclosed in embodiments of the present application are an information presentation method and device. One specific embodiment of a system comprises: receiving a collocation request for performing clothing collocation on target clothing, the collocation request comprising a target clothing image; performing feature extraction on the target clothing image to obtain a feature vector of the target clothing image; and selecting, from a preset clothing information set on the basis of the feature vector of the target clothing image, a clothing image having a feature vector matching the feature vector of the target clothing image to form at least one group of clothing collocation images together with the target clothing image, wherein the clothing information set comprises clothing images and feature vectors of the clothing images. The embodiment improves clothing collocation effects. |
| US12100028B2 |
Text-driven AI-assisted short-form video creation in an ecommerce environment
Disclosed embodiments describe text-driven AI-assisted short-form video creation. Text from a website is extracted to generate extracted text. Possible summary sentences are formed from the extracted text. The forming is based on natural language processing. The summary sentences are ranked according to an engagement metric. Summary sentences from the possible summary sentences are picked based on a threshold engagement metric value. A list of video scenes is generated based on the summary sentences. Each video scene is associated with a summary sentence. A media asset from a media asset library is chosen for each video scene within the list of video scenes. The choosing is accomplished by machine learning. The list of video scenes, including the media asset that was chosen for each video scene, is compiled into a short-form video. Media is extracted from the website included into the short-form video. The compiling includes a dynamically generated image. |
| US12100027B2 |
Dynamic promotional layout management and distribution rules
Systems, methods and computer readable products are provided for enabling dynamic loading of one or more digital image branding functions associated with one or more distribution rules. A distribution rule is used to target a group of end users that are selected from a dataset mapping a plurality of end-users according to one or more distribution rules. Instructions are forwarded to present an indication the digital image branding function to each member of the end users group. |
| US12100025B2 |
Platform for management of user data
A system, method, device, and platform for monetizing user data. One or more data elements associated with user data of a user are received from one of a number of sources. One or more tokens are created based on the user data. The user data is stored in a secure location. The user data is vended to one of a number of parties utilizing the one or more tokens. The user data is accessible from the secure location utilizing an indicator included in the one or more tokens. The user is compensated for vending the user data. |
| US12100024B2 |
Identification system for pets and method/apparatus of identifying pets using image analysis
A pet is identified by capturing or receiving an image containing the pet, isolating the pet in the image, and identifying the pet. Isolating the pet may include image enhancement, such as outlining the pet (e.g., a fur outline) or removing a background of the image. The identification may include comparison of various pet characteristics to a database of characteristics associated with known pets. The characteristics may be type of animal characteristics, breed characteristics, and specific pet characteristics and/or the pet's name. Pets and their characteristics may be may be added to the database using similar criteria forming a profile for each pet that may be used for other purposes. More than one pet may be linked to an owner such as through a mobile device ID and more than one owner or individual may be linked to a pet. |
| US12100020B2 |
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for ascertaining a demand of promotions
A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided herein for ascertaining a demand of promotions. An example method comprises receiving, from one or more consumers, at least one consumer request for at least one of one or more requested promotions or one or more requested providers, generating an aggregated list of the at least one of the one or more requested promotions or the one or more requested providers, ranking the aggregated list of the at least one consumer request, and causing one or more ranked lists to be distributed to at least one sales resource. |
| US12100016B2 |
Methods and apparatus to generate audience metrics using third-party privacy-protected cloud environments
An example system disclosed herein includes programmable circuitry to identify donor adjustment factors and recipient adjustment factors used for correction of media impressions logged by a database proprietor, the donor adjustment factors including first donor adjustment factors associated with a first geographic region and second donor adjustment factors associated with a second geographic region, determine a first reduced donor factor set corresponding to ones of the first donor adjustment factors that satisfy a threshold, determine a second reduced donor factor set corresponding to ones of the second donor adjustment factors that satisfy the threshold, and generate imputation factors based on an aggregation of retained ones of the donor adjustment factors, the retained ones of the donor adjustment factors selected based on the first reduced donor factor set and the second reduced donor factor set, the imputation factors to reduce error in the correction. |
| US12100015B2 |
System and method for expediting dual-commerce fulfillments of online ordered deliverables by designated expedited-service area pickups of at least one networked supermarket available in sequenced limited-time periods and by delivery to specific locations
A system and method for expediting fulfillments of online ordered dual-commerce available deliverables of networked supermarket deliverable providers (NSDPs), by a customer of a NSDP expedited service area (ESA) providing sequenced deliverable pickup fulfillments within specified limited-time periods, and/or by delivery fulfillments made to specific locations, as selected in a website or mobile application user interface associated with a NSDP accessible via a personal wireless communication (PWC) device or handheld PWC device. Designated ESAs and/or designated workstations or bays adjacent robotic deliverable fulfillment secure enclosures, located within, adjacent, or nearby, respective NSDPs provide deliverable pickup fulfillments more quickly to scheduled ESA-visit customers than NSDPs provide to non-ESA customers. A GUI may present categorized browsing of deliverables of a NSDP available for online ordering, purchasing and either or both dual-commerce fulfillments, an itinerary or schedule including one or more ESA-visit time-window(s), a map and/or navigational instructions and/or contextual-prompts facilitating ESA fulfillments. |
| US12100010B2 |
Transaction exchange platform defining conditions for the processing of transaction objects
Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions according to review and approval workflows. The transaction exchange platform may receive transactions from origination sources, which may be added to the SDP as transaction objects. Microservices on the transaction exchange platform may interact with the transaction objects based on configured workflows associated with the transactions. Processing on the transaction exchange platform may facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions. Some aspects may provide for pausing the processing of transactions during a workflow. Other aspects may provide for a messaging microservice that permits communications between the transaction exchange platform and external third-parties. |
| US12100009B2 |
Transaction exchange platform with a watchdog microservice to handle stalled transactions
Aspects described herein may relate to a transaction exchange platform using a streaming data platform (SDP) and microservices to process transactions according to review and approval workflows. The transaction exchange platform may receive transactions from origination sources, which may be added to the SDP as transaction objects. Microservices on the transaction exchange platform may interact with the transaction objects based on configured workflows associated with the transactions. Processing on the transaction exchange platform may facilitate clearing and settlement of transactions. Some aspects may provide for pausing the processing of transactions during a workflow. Other aspects may provide for a messaging microservice that permits communications between the transaction exchange platform and external third-parties. |
| US12100006B2 |
Previous source input return
A control device connected to a media device can autonomously return the active source input of the media device to a previously selected active source input. Any client device within a network may be able to switch the active source input of the media device to the source input associated with the device so as to deliver media content to the media device. Tor return to the previous active source input generally requires user intervention. However, the control device can store the previous active source input of the media device and then, when the media content is terminated or the client device disconnects from the media device, transmit a source input command that causes the media device to cycle through the plurality of source inputs associated with the media device until the active source input is the previous source input without requiring any user intervention. |
| US12100004B2 |
Payer-controlled payment processing
An apparatus comprising an authorization server, merchant device and payer device, including a virtual private network (VPN) communicatively coupled with the merchant device processor and the payer device processor, wherein the VPN tunnels through a communication network, the payer device is configured to receive a first encrypted message from the merchant using at least one of: the VPN, an image-capturing interface, or a near-field communication interface, depending on the type of the transaction initiated by the payer. In response to receiving a purchase request from the payer using the payer device: the merchant device sends on the VPN to the payer device, the first encrypted message comprising the security key and transaction information referencing the purchase request. An implementation can conduct a secure transaction using a VPN connection between the payer device and the merchant device, improving electronic transaction security, preventing replay attacks and data capture by an adversary. |
| US12100001B2 |
Cosigning using tokenized reputation scores
Techniques are described, as implemented by computing devices, to control access to transactions through use of cosigning based on tokenized reputation scores. This is performed by leveraging a blockchain such that tokenized reputation scores are generated based on amounts of cryptographic reputation tokens associated with blockchain account addresses associated with applicant and co-signer service provider accounts. Transactional functionality is made available to an applicant service provider account having an insufficient tokenized reputation score by using a co-signer service provider account having a sufficient tokenized reputation score to at least partially back an obligation of the applicant service provider for a transaction. |
| US12099989B2 |
On-board unit able to work in concert with in-vehicle head unit, vehicle system including same, and method of updating same
An on board unit (OBU) updatable by working in concert with an in-vehicle head unit. A controller area network (CAN) circuit part transmits and receives data to and from the head unit on basis of CAN communication. An electronic toll collection system (ETCS) circuit part executes update target data received from the head unit and updates a control program as a result of the execution of the update target data. |
| US12099988B2 |
Hold condition in a resource transfer system
Systems and techniques are provided for a resource transfer system. An instruction to transfer a first quantity of a resource from a first resource pool to a second resource pool may be received. A hold may be placed on a second quantity of the resource in the first resource pool. The held second quantity of the first resource may not be transferred from the first resource pool until the hold is released. Responsive to receiving a message that fulfills a condition on the hold and an instruction to execute the transfer, the hold may be released. A register that is in the first resource pool and is associated with the resource may decremented by the first quantity, and a register that is in the second resource pool and is associated with the resource may be incremented by the first quantity. |
| US12099987B2 |
Hybrid tokenization for push payments
A method of performing a funds transfer includes receiving a request for a cryptogram and generating an authentication code. The authentication code is divided into a first code portion and a second code portion. The first code portion is transmitted to a user device. The second code portion is transmitted to a transaction originator. A request for transaction data is received, including both code portions. The authentication code is verified based on the two code portions. A cryptogram is generated and transmitted to the transaction originator. |
| US12099986B2 |
Systems and methods for providing embedded banking services
Systems and methods for providing embedded banking services are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for providing embedded banking services on an electronic device may include (1) a computer program executed by an electronic device comprising a computer processor generating a request to enable embedded banking services for a financial institution on the electronic device; (2) the computer program communicating the request to a host for the electronic device; (3) the computer program receiving a secure token and an encryption key from one of the host of the electronic device and the financial institution; (4) the computer program storing the secure token and encryption key in secure storage of the electronic device; and (5) the computer program enabling embedded banking services on the electronic device. |
| US12099981B2 |
Computing device and method to perform a data transfer using a document
There is provided a computing device and method to perform a data transfer using a document. Data to define at least one parameter of a data transfer is defined from data in the document. The document may have text characters or images of text characters (or both) for the data. A GUI may display the document and receive input to identify the data and define the at least one parameter. The document image may be processed to determine the text characters such as by OCR. The document may be a photo (image) captured by a camera on or coupled to the computing device. A GUI may be defined to provide workflow to define the data transfer signal such as a message. Functionality to capture text characters from documents, particularly images, may be added to applications such as via a plug in or otherwise. |
| US12099978B2 |
Dynamic multi-path transfers
Systems and methods for determining and executing complex multi-route transfers of digital assets are described. A multi-route transfer of a source asset for a destination asset may be determined by analyzing a graph representing a plurality of assets and exchanges to determine a plurality of unique transfer paths. A transfer path may reflect a direct transfer in which the source asset is swapped for the destination asset, or it may reflect a series of intermediate transfers in which the source asset is swapped for intermediate asset(s) that are swapped for the destination asset. Dynamic programming can be used to select the transfer paths to include in the multi-route transfer, how to distribute swaps across those transfer paths, and how to distribute swaps for each transfer of a transfer path—thereby optimizing for the total amount of the destination asset received while accounting for transaction fees. |
| US12099977B2 |
Vehicle repair support system and vehicle repair support method
A vehicle repair support system for supporting repair of a failed vehicle includes a storage device configured to store IDs of a plurality of donor vehicles registered in advance and parts mounted on the donor vehicles in association with each other, a support management device configured to specify a repair part needed to repair the failed vehicle based on defect information for the failed vehicle, and extract the donor vehicles on which the repair part is mounted from among the donor vehicles based on information stored in the storage device, and a request notification device configured to notify an owner of the donor vehicle extracted by the support management device of a request to provide the repair part. |
| US12099976B2 |
Group eligibility criteria builder
A system, method implemented on a computer system, and computer program product for generating an expression. A graphical representation of the expression comprising criteria blocks and logical operator blocks is displayed on a user interface. Each of the criteria blocks includes criteria information defining a criteria, an edit block control element, and a delete block control element. A user interface to receive changes to the criteria information for a selected criteria block is displayed in response to selecting the edit block control element for the selected criteria block. The selected criteria block is deleted from the expression in response to selecting the delete block control element for the selected criteria block. A building block may be used to define criteria for criteria blocks in several expressions. Criteria for expressions defined using a building block are changed automatically in response to changes to the building block. |
| US12099973B2 |
Computer system and method to efficiently extend a workflow in software
A computer-implemented system and method of extending a workflow. The system translates the workflow into a programming data structure, builds a model structure based on the programming data structure, collects extension instructions related to changing the workflow and orders the extension instructions according to dependencies among the extension instructions, and generates an extended workflow based on applying the extension instructions to the original workflow. In this manner, the system reduces the amount of manual effort in extending the workflow. |
| US12099970B2 |
Validating secure modifications to information handling systems
Various embodiments provide methods for validating hardware modifications of an IHS (Information Handling System) by confirming that a hardware modification corresponds to a hardware component supplied for installation in the IHS by a trusted entity. During factory provisioning of an IHS, an inventory certificate that specifies the factory installed IHS hardware is uploaded to the IHS and is also stored for ongoing support of the IHS. Upon a hardware component being supplied for installation in the IHS by a trusted entity, the inventory of the stored inventory certificate is updated to identify the supplied component and the updated certificate is transmitted to the IHS. An inventory of detected hardware components of the IHS is compared against the inventory from the updated inventory certificate in order to validate the detected hardware of the IHS includes the component, supplied by the trusted entity, that is identified in the updated inventory certificate. |
| US12099967B2 |
Method and system for detection of hidden patterns for apparel strategies
In retail, absence of customer intended product and availability of customer unintended product in a store leads to lost sales opportunity and over inventory problems. In apparel retailing, underlying characteristics that is common across many apparels such as common size, common brand, common color, and common pattern, etc., indicates intention of population buying those apparels. The approach for detection of underlying pattern that is present across many apparels is challenging. Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a method and system for estimating lost sales opportunities and over inventory due to apparel pattern in a store or online by detecting hidden apparel patterns. It also provides apparel pattern strategies related with assortment, advertisement, and manufacturing by leveraging the estimated lost sales opportunity and over inventory. |
| US12099961B2 |
Package delivery management systems and methods
A system and method for tracking and managing package delivery within a distribution network. Many events happen during the processing, moving, and delivery of a package. Systems and methods herein identify whether all expected events occur, whether scan locations are correct, whether delivery times are met, and other requirements. Problems or potential problems can be identified and corrected. |
| US12099959B2 |
Mobile application camera activation and de-activation based on physical object location
A system and a method are disclosed for selectively activating access by an application to a camera. In an embodiment, a physical object provider receives a request, from an application installed on a mobile device of a user, for a physical object to be delivered to an address corresponding to the user, wherein access by the application to a camera of the mobile device is de-activated. Responsive to receiving the request, the physical object is caused to be delivered to the address. The physical object provider receives a notification that the physical object has been delivered to the address, and transmits an instruction to the application to activate access by the application to the camera. The physical object provider receives, from the application, an image captured by the camera, and publishes the image to an additional user. |
| US12099957B2 |
System and method of providing a supply chain digital hub
A system and method are disclosed including a digital hub and a cloud database. The digital hub encodes, as a virtual supply chain network, the structure, one or more objectives, and one or more states of a supply chain network and contextualizes data received from one or more supply chain entities and one or more external data sources with the virtual supply chain network. The digital hub further employs machine learning to extract insights from the contextualized data and monitors external data sources for an event that may impact the one or more objectives of the supply chain network. Responsive to identifying an event that may impact the one or more objectives, the digital hub automatically adjusts one or more of robotic warehouse systems, robotic inventory systems, automated guided vehicles, mobile racking units, automated robotic production machinery, and robotic devices. |
| US12099954B2 |
System and method for generating and managing predefined journey scenarios for a business transition event
Concept 2: A Plurality of Predefined Journey ScenariosA method, computer program product, and computing system for defining a plurality of journey scenarios; presenting the plurality of journey scenarios to a user for review; enabling the user to select a specific journey scenario from the plurality of journey scenarios for a business process transition event; gathering transition information from the user concerning the business process transition event; and processing the specific journey scenario and the transition information to generate a bespoke journey concerning the business process transition event. |
| US12099953B2 |
Support device deployment
A method providing a support device to assist personnel includes receiving data values from various devices associated with a task being performed by personnel, wherein the various devices include at least one Internet of Things (IoT) device and at least one wearable device. The method also includes comparing the received data values to historical data values associated with a pre-established knowledge corpus and identifying the task being performed by the personnel. In response to determining the received values exceed the historical values by a predetermined threshold for the task being performed by the personnel, the method includes determining whether the personnel require assistance with performing the task. In response to determining the personnel requires assistance with performing the task, the method includes instructing a support device to perform an action to assist the personnel with performing the task. |
| US12099944B2 |
Agenda intelligence system
Agenda intelligence software determines completions of agenda items of a multi-participant communication using a transcription generated in real-time during the multi-participant communication and generates an agenda for a next multi-participant communication including incomplete agenda items. A software platform may in some cases include the agenda intelligence software, a transcription engine which generates the real-time transcription of the multi-participant communication, and a communication system which implements the multi-participant communication. The agenda generated for the next multi-participant communication may further include agenda items not previously identified for the multi-participant communication and determined using the real-time transcription of same. |
| US12099940B1 |
Behavior analysis using distributed representations of event data
The features relate to artificial intelligence directed detection of user behavior based on complex analysis of user event data including language modeling to generate distributed representations of user behavior. Further features are described for reducing the amount of data needed to represent relationships between events such as transaction events received from card readers or point of sale systems. Machine learning features for dynamically determining an optimal set of attributes to use as the language model as well as for comparing current event data to historical event data are also included. |
| US12099938B2 |
Contextual skills discovery
Recommending one or more relevant skills to a user that are appropriate for the user's current context is provided. A machine learning contextual skills model is trained on data associated with skills that are invoked by the particular user and by various users and context data that defines characteristics of the context of the users, the users' computing devices, and the users' environments in association with the invoked skills. Responsive to a trigger event associated with the user and a computing device, current context data and user data is collected and passed to the contextual skills system. The contextual skills model is applied to the collected data and generates a ranked list of skills. One or more top-ranking skills are selected and provided to the user as one or more skill recommendations that are determined to be relevant to the user and relevant to the user's current context. |
| US12099934B2 |
Framework for interactive exploration, evaluation, and improvement of AI-generated solutions
User-driven exploration functionality, referred to herein as a Scratchpad, is a post-learning extension for machine learning systems. For example, in ESP, consisting of the Predictor (a surrogate model of the domain) and Prescriptor (a solution generator model), the Scratchpad allows the user to modify the suggestions of the Prescriptor, and evaluate each such modification interactively with the Predictor. Thus, the Scratchpad makes it possible for the human expert and the AI to work together in designing better solutions. This interactive exploration also allows the user to conclude that the solutions derived in this process are the best found, making the process trustworthy and transparent to the user. |
| US12099923B1 |
Determining application performance correlations across isolated network environments
Applications may execute using resources from multiple environments or ecosystems, such as may include virtual resources from a virtual resource environment hosted on physical resources of a cloud provider environment. An event manager in the cloud provider environment can obtain virtualization performance data from the virtual resource environment, as well as performance data from within the cloud provider environment. This data can be fed to an inference engine that can correlate information from the separate environments, and these correlations can be used to generate recommendations for performance adjustments in either the physical or virtual resource environment. |
| US12099914B2 |
Analysis device, method, and program for analyzing neural network structure
It is possible to analyze what type of input/output mapping is mainly performed in the entire hidden layer of a neural network. A relationship analysis unit 30 calculates strength of a relationship of each combination of a dimension of the input data and a unit of the neural network and calculates strength of a relationship of each combination of the unit and a dimension of the output data. A role analysis unit 32 calculates a relationship between a prescribed number of types of roles and the unit and a relationship between the prescribed number of types of roles, the dimension of the input data, and the dimension of the output data on the basis of the strength of the relationship of each combination of the dimension of the input data and the unit of the neural network and the strength of the relationship of each combination of the unit and the dimension of the output data. |
| US12099913B2 |
Method for neural-network-lightening using repetition-reduction block and apparatus for the same
Disclosed herein are a neural-network-lightening method using a repetition-reduction block and an apparatus for the same. The neural-network-lightening method includes stacking (accumulating) an output layer (value) of either one or both of a layer constituting a neural network and a repetition-reduction block in a Condensed Decoding Connection (CDC), and lightening the neural network by reducing a feature map, generated to correspond to data stacked in the CDC, based on a preset reduction layer. |
| US12099912B2 |
Neural processor
A neural processor. In some embodiments, the processor includes a first tile, a second tile, a memory, and a bus. The bus may be connected to the memory, the first tile, and the second tile. The first tile may include: a first weight register, a second weight register, an activations buffer, a first multiplier, and a second multiplier. The activations buffer may be configured to include: a first queue connected to the first multiplier and a second queue connected to the second multiplier. The first queue may include a first register and a second register adjacent to the first register, the first register being an output register of the first queue. The first tile may be configured: in a first state: to multiply, in the first multiplier, a first weight by an activation from the output register of the first queue, and in a second state: to multiply, in the first multiplier, the first weight by an activation from the second register of the first queue. |
| US12099907B2 |
Automated geospatial data analysis
Geospatial data is gathered for generation of a geodatacube encompassing data from multiple geospatial data sets for efficient processing and optimization. A method for gathering, storing and processing geospatial data includes identifying a plurality of geospatial data sets for intake, each defining a geospatial data parameter. For each geospatial data set, a plurality of subregions is defined such that each subregion corresponds to a portion of the geographic entity having the same value for the data parameter defined by the respective geospatial data set. In other words, subdividing the geographic entity along demarcations defined by variances in the data parameter(s) defined by the geospatial data set. A number of geospatial data sets for intake are arranged into layers, where each layer defines the data parameter for the respective subregions of the geographic entity. A partition defining polygons common to all layers represents a union of the subregions. |
| US12099906B2 |
Parallel development and deployment for machine learning models
Example systems and methods of developing a learning model are presented. In one example, a sample data set to train a first learning algorithm is accessed. A number of states for each input of the sample data set is determined. A subset of the inputs is selected, and the sample data set is partitioned into a number of partitions equal to a combined number of states of the selected inputs. A second learning algorithm is created for each of the partitions, wherein each second learning algorithm receives the unselected inputs. Each of the second learning algorithms is assigned to a processor and trained using the samples of the partition corresponding to that algorithm. Decision logic is generated to direct each of a plurality of operational data units as input to one of the second learning algorithms based on states of the selected inputs of the operational data unit. |
| US12099905B2 |
Systems and methods for model-based image analysis
A system for categorizing images is provided. The system is programmed to store a first training set of images. Each image of the first training set of images is associated with an image category of a plurality of image categories. The system is further programmed to analyze each image of the first training set of images to determine one or more features associated with each of the plurality of image categories and receive a second training set of images. The second training set of images includes one or more errors. The system is also programmed to analyze each image of the second training set of images to determine one or more features associated with an error category and generate a model to identify each of the image categories based on the analysis such that the model includes the error category in the plurality of image categories. |
| US12099904B2 |
Uniform artificial intelligence model conversion
Aspects of the invention include converting an artificial intelligence (AI) model generated in a first framework to a uniform exchange formatted model by engaging a master table to retrieve instructions for converting from the AI model to the uniform exchange formatted model in accordance with the first framework. The uniform exchange formatted model in compiled by engaging the master table to retrieve instructions for compiling the uniform exchange formatted model in accordance with the first framework. Data is received as an input to the compiled uniform exchange formatted model and an output is generated by engaging the master table to retrieve instructions for generating the output in accordance with the first framework. |
| US12099899B2 |
Increasing grain size of polycrystalline superconducting materials for superconducting circuits
A method of increasing grain size of polycrystalline superconducting materials for superconducting circuits, includes forming an initial superconducting epitaxial layer lattice matched to a substrate formed of a substrate material, the initial superconducting epitaxial layer formed of a compound including the substrate material and a first metal; and forming a second layer of the first metal on the initial superconducting epitaxial layer and heating the layers to increase a thickness of the initial superconducting epitaxial layer formed of the compound. |
| US12099890B2 |
Interrogation device and/or system having alignment feature(s) for wireless transponder tagged specimen containers and/or carriers
An interrogation device and/or system includes a body and an antenna, the body has an aperture or elongated receiver with an opening and an internal perimeter or inner wall sized and/or shaped to receive a portion of a container therein, either with or without a cap of the container. The container may, for example, be used to store biological specimens a cryogenic temperatures. One or more alignment features of the body align wireless transponders (e.g., RFID transponders) of tagged specimen containers and/or carriers with the antenna to enhance interrogation. Alignment may be along a longitudinal or Z-axis, and/or alignment in an XY plane, perpendicular to the Z-axis. Shielding may reduce or even eliminate cross-talk with neighboring wireless tagged specimen containers and/or carriers. |
| US12099878B2 |
Orchestration of computations using a remote repository
Methods, systems, and computer-readable media for orchestration of computations using a remote repository are disclosed. A representation of one or more inputs to a computation is stored in a repository. The computation is assigned to one or more hosts of a plurality of hosts. A representation of program code executable to perform the computation is stored in the repository. A local copy of the one or more inputs is stored on the one or more hosts. The computation is initiated on the one or more hosts using the program code and the local copy of the one or more inputs. The computation is initiated for a plurality of keys. The computation succeeds for one or more keys after the computation has failed for one or more other keys. A representation of one or more outputs of the computation is stored in the repository. |
| US12099877B2 |
Systems and methods for determining target allocation parameters for initiating targeted communications in complex computing networks
This disclosure is directed to systems and methods for determining target allocation parameters for initiating targeted communications in complex computing networks, which may be associated with the allocation of allocatables in execution events over a period of time. The systems and methods may include receiving a desired allocation; determining a first available allocation at a first time; generating allocation information for a second period comprising the first time; determining a second available allocation at a second time; determining a remaining available allocation, based on the allocation information and the second available allocation; and determining one or more target allocation parameters for initiating a targeted communication to a computing device after the second time. |
| US12099871B2 |
System and method for batch and scheduler migration in an application environment migration
A method of batch and scheduler migration assesses a batch job, scans it's scheduling mechanism and components, ascertains a quantum change for migrating the batch job to a target batch service and forecasts an assessment statistic that provides at least one functional readiness and a timeline to complete the migration of the batch job. The method generates a transformed batch job structure by breaking the batch job according to the target batch service while retaining the scheduling mechanism. Further, it updates containerized batch service components of the target batch service as per the forecasted assessment statistic and the transformed batch job structure, and migrates the batch job to the target batch service by re-platforming the updated containerized batch service components. |
| US12099863B2 |
Isolating virtual machine workloads within pods in a cluster environment
Aspects include providing isolation between a plurality of containers in a pod that are each executing on a different virtual machine (VM) on a host computer. Providing the isolation includes converting a data packet into a serial format for communicating with the host computer. The converted data packet is sent to a router executing on the host computer. The router determines a destination container in the plurality of containers based at least in part on content of the converted data packet and routes the converted data packet to the destination container. |
| US12099862B2 |
Hypervisor-assisted secured memory sharing among host and guest operating system
Example methods are provided to identify unused memory regions in pages that are allocated for storing executable code. One or more of the unused memory regions are usable as a secure location to store confidential information shared between a hypervisor on the host and a guest (such as a guest virtual computing instance) that runs on the host. The one or more unused memory regions may also be used to store executable code (such as valid executable code of antivirus software or other security program) that has been prevented/delayed in its execution by malicious code that has occupied the pages, thereby providing the executable code with sufficient memory resources to enable the executable code to at least partially complete execution. |
| US12099860B1 |
Systems and methods for an enhanced support session using an artificial intelligence-based conversational assistant
In some implementations, a support system may receive, from a user device, a support request to setup a support session. The support system may establish the support session based on the support request by enabling support communications associated with the support session to be exchanged between a terminal device associated with the support system and the user device. The support system may determine an intent associated with the support session by using artificial intelligence processing to process one or more utterances received from the user device. The support system may provide, to the terminal device, a delegation message that includes an option to enable the support communications associated with the support session to be exchanged between the user device and an assisting device associated with the support system. The assisting device may execute an automated support agent. The support system may provide one or more support messages generated by the automated support agent to the user device based on a selection of the option included in the delegation message. |
| US12099857B2 |
Dynamic card display method and apparatus
Embodiments of this application provide a dynamic card display method and an apparatus. The method may be applied to electronic devices such as a mobile phone and a tablet computer. In the method provided in embodiments of this application, a mobile phone may divide a card into two partitions: a left partition and a right partition. When there are a plurality of ongoing tasks in an application corresponding to the card, the two partitions may separately display different tasks, and sizes of the left and right partitions are adjusted according to a preset rule, to display more information. |
| US12099856B2 |
Robust application preloading with accurate user experience
A user device includes a display screen and one or more processors. The one or more processors are configured to preload one or more user applications in a background mode, in which User Interface (UI) displays associated with preloaded user applications are invisible on the display screen, to detect a launch of a UI display that is associated with a given preloaded user application, to assess whether the UI display is a preload-initiated UI display that is invoked due to preloading of the given user application, or whether the UI display is a user-initiated UI display that is invoked due to an action by the user, to handle the UI display using a first handling scheme if the UI display is assessed to be a preload-initiated UI display, and, if the UI display is assessed to be a user-initiated UI display, to handle the UI display using a second handling scheme, different from the first handling scheme. |
| US12099854B2 |
Techniques for detecting completion of preloading of user applications
A user device (24) includes an audio output device (58) and one or more processors (44). The one or more processors are configured to run an Operating System (OS-48), including running an OS component for coordinating outputting of audio generated by user applications (26) to the audio output device, to preload a user application, and, while the user application is in a preload state, to inhibit the audio generated by the preloaded user application using the OS component. |
| US12099852B2 |
Location-based computer configuration
Shared hoteling workspaces and computer equipment are preconfigured based on location. A location associated with a mobile device is monitored. As the mobile device moves toward a workspace, computer peripheral equipment assigned to the workspace are identified and a best known configuration is retrieved. As the mobile device continues moving toward the workspace, the mobile device installs the best known configuration. Location-based policies and configuration events are defined and executed to ensure the best known configuration is timely installed. When the mobile device arrives at the workspace, the mobile device has been automatically configured to the computer peripheral equipment at the workspace. The mobile device is thus preconfigured, perhaps just in time, for immediate productivity and optimum user experience. Moreover, when the location of the mobile device no longer matches the workspace, the best known configuration may be automatically deleted to conserve memory. |
| US12099849B2 |
BIOS configurations via provisioning devices
An example computing device includes a non-volatile memory to store Basic Input/Output Systems (BIOS) data of the computing device, an audio codec, and a controller. The controller is to: receive a command from a provisioning device at the audio codec; and transfer a copy of the BIOS data between the controller and the memory based on the command. |
| US12099846B2 |
Shared unit instruction execution
A data processing apparatus comprises receiver circuitry for receiving instructions from each of a plurality of requester devices. Processing circuitry executes the instructions associated with each of a subset of the requester devices at a time and arbitration circuitry determines the subset of the requester devices and causes the instructions associated with each of the subset of the requester devices to be executed next. In response to the receiver circuitry receiving an instruction of a predetermined type from one of the requester devices outside the subset of requester devices, the arbitration circuitry causes the instruction of the predetermined type to be executed next. |
| US12099843B2 |
Streaming address generation
A digital signal processor having at least one streaming address generator, each with dedicated hardware, for generating addresses for writing multi-dimensional streaming data that comprises a plurality of elements. Each at least one streaming address generator is configured to generate a plurality of offsets to address the streaming data, and each of the plurality of offsets corresponds to a respective one of the plurality of elements. The address of each of the plurality of elements is the respective one of the plurality of offsets combined with a base address. |
| US12099842B2 |
Arithmetic processing device and arithmetic processing method
An arithmetic processing device includes an instruction storage configured to store an arithmetic instruction and a data cache configured to cache a calculation result of the arithmetic instruction. A plurality of floating-point registers arranged on a side of the instruction storage is configured to store a register value used for executing the arithmetic instruction transferred from the instruction storage, and a plurality of floating point calculation circuits arranged on a side of the data cache is configured to perform a floating-point operation based on the arithmetic instruction, wherein a number of cycles is one when the register value is transferred from the instruction storage to one or more floating-point registers, among the plurality of floating point registers, arranged in positions closest in distance to the instruction storage. |
| US12099840B1 |
Throughput increase for tensor operations
A technique for performing a tensor operation includes inputting concatenated data words of a first input tensor and concatenated data words of a second input tensor into a compute channel having a plurality of compute stages coupled in series. The concatenated data words of the first input tensor and the second input tensor represented in a first datatype can be converted into data elements represented in a second datatype using a first subset of the compute stages. A binary operation can be performed on each data element represented in the second datatype from the first input tensor with a corresponding data element represented in the second datatype from the second input tensor to generate output data elements of an output tensor represented in the second datatype using a second subset of the compute stages. The output data elements of the output tensor can then be outputted from the compute channel. |
| US12099838B2 |
Instruction and logic for sum of square differences
In an embodiment, a processor includes: a fetch circuit to fetch instructions, the instructions including a sum of squared differences (SSD) instruction; a decode circuit to decode the SSD instruction; and an execution circuit to, during an execution of the decoded SSD instruction, generate an SSD output vector based on a plurality of input vectors, the SSD output vector including a plurality of squared differences values. Other embodiments are described and claimed. |
| US12099835B1 |
Semantic analysis of source code using stubs for external references
A system receives source code for analysis. The system identifies external references to reference code in source code. The reference code is not included in the source code received for analysis. The system generates code stubs corresponding to the external references. Each code stub describes a semantic context for the corresponding external reference. The system provides the set of source code and the one or more code stubs for analysis of the code, for example, using a code analysis tool. |
| US12099832B2 |
Internet of things (IoT) capability platform
A method for the Internet of Things refers to objects to exchange information over the Internet. An IoT system refers to one or more IoT objects that exchange information and, through those exchanges, produces information that meets an objective or purpose, including the actuation of mechanical systems. An IoT system that refers to a single IoT object may also be referred to as an IoT device. The capability of an IoT systems refers to the information produced by the system to achieve its objective or purpose. The present embodiments may be implemented by computer software on a networked digital computer or a dedicated microprocessor, connected to a digital network. The embodiments create descriptions of IoT systems and provides a means of searching over these descriptions for those satisfying search criteria and a means of composing two or more descriptions to form a description of the composition of IoT systems. |
| US12099828B2 |
Method for ascertaining a drive clearance after a software update for a set of controllers of a vehicle, computer-readable medium, system, and vehicle
A method ascertains a drive clearance after a software update for a set of controllers of a vehicle. The method includes determining a first deviation between the first target state and the first actual state of the software updated. If the first deviation indicates, then a second deviation between the second target state of the set of second target states and the second actual state of the set of second actual states for a first controller is determined. The first controller is linked to a class from a specified controller classification, and one or more properties of controllers are linked to each class of the specified controller classes. If a second deviation indicates, and if a property of the ascertained class of the first controller indicates that the first controller can be downgraded, then the first controller is downgraded after the software update. |
| US12099827B2 |
Information processing system, information processing apparatus, and storage medium
An information processing system that provides an application to be executed on an image processing apparatus, the information processing system includes one or more controllers configured to provide, as a first combination application, combination information regarding a reproduction application that reproduces a description file defining an operation procedure, and a first description file, provide, as a second combination application, combination information regarding the reproduction application and a second description file, and output a license code associated with the first combination application and the second combination application. |
| US12099825B2 |
System and method for performing over-the-air update
A system for performing over-the-air (OTA) update is disclosed. The system may comprise a first communication interface, an electronic control subsystem of a vehicle, and a gateway. The gateway may be coupled to the electronic control subsystem by way of the first communication interface, receive trigger event information, and detect a trigger condition based on the trigger event information. The gateway may initiate, based on the detection of the trigger condition, a handshake with the electronic control subsystem, verify a set of parameters, and validate a version of a software or a firmware of at least one component of the electronic control subsystem. Based on the verification, the gateway may provide an update file to the electronic control subsystem by way of the first communication interface. The update file is configured to update the software or the firmware for the at least one component. |
| US12099824B2 |
Electric device and method for controlling same
A device includes a memory and a processor. The processor is configured to download a plurality of installation files for different application programs provided on a website at a predetermined download timing, store the plurality of installation files in the memory, recommend, to a user, a function added by installing an application program based on the plurality of installation files stored in the first storage unit at a predetermined recommendation timing that is a different timing from the download timing, and install a respective application program using a respective installation file selected from among the plurality of installation files stored in the first storage unit in response to an instruction from the user based on the recommendation. |
| US12099816B2 |
Multi-factor modelling for natural language processing
Techniques are disclosed for systems including techniques for multi-factor modelling for training and utilizing chatbot systems for natural language processing. In an embodiment, a method includes receiving a set of utterance data corresponding to a natural language-based query, determining one or more intents for the chatbot corresponds to a possible context for the natural language-based query and associated with a skill for the chatbot, generating one or more intent classification datasets, each intent classification dataset associated with a probability that the natural language query corresponds to an intent of the one or more intents, generating one or more transformed datasets each corresponding to a skill of one or more skills, determining a first skill of the one or more skills based on the one or more transformed datasets and processing, based on the determined first skill, the set of utterance data to resolve the natural language-based query. |
| US12099811B2 |
Computer implemented method for the automated analysis or use of data applied to a query answer system with a shared syntax applied to the query, factual statements and reasoning
There is provided a computer implemented method for the automated analysis or use of data, to answer questions, comprising the steps of: (a) storing in a non-transitory storage medium a structured, machine-readable representation of data that conforms to a machine-readable language, in which the machine-readable language uses a shared syntax across factual statements, queries and reasoning, and uses nesting of nodes and passages, as an unambiguous syntax; where the data relates to parts of documents stored in a document store; (b) automatically processing the structured, machine-readable representation of data to answer questions, in which a user's query is automatically translated into the machine-readable language and a system responds to the user's query by utilising the machine-readable language translation of the query. |
| US12099809B2 |
Concept disambiguation for natural language processing
Techniques for concept disambiguation for natural language processing are described herein. An aspect includes receiving a message from a user. Another aspect includes identifying an ambiguous concept in the message. Another aspect includes determining a plurality of concept candidates corresponding to the ambiguous concept. Another aspect includes determining, for each of the plurality of concept candidates, a respective similarity score based on user-specific concept metrics corresponding to the user. Another aspect includes ranking the plurality of concept candidates based on the respective similarity scores. Another aspect includes determining that the ambiguous concept corresponds to a top-ranked concept candidate of the ranked plurality of concept candidates. |
| US12099798B2 |
Method and apparatus for transforming document of each of plurality of file formats
According to an exemplary embodiment of the present disclosure, a method for transforming a document with each of a plurality of file formats, performed by a computing device includes receiving a request for transforming a document with each of a plurality file formats into application model data having a structure or format which is available for an application for loading and storing the document; generating intermediate hierarchical data between the document with each of the plurality of file formats and the application model data, using the document with each of the plurality of file formats, in response to the received request; and transforming intermediate hierarchical data generated corresponding to each of the plurality of file formats into application model data corresponding to each of the plurality of file formats. |
| US12099794B2 |
Document architecture with fragment-driven role based access controls
A document production system may construct a document from fragments based on a theme associated with the document. The theme may contain section(s), each section having an access control list (ACL) associated therewith. The ACL may specify role-based user group(s) and permission(s) for the role-based user group(s). The system may evaluate rules applicable to the document. At least one rule may pertain to the ACL(s). The evaluation may include, at least in part, utilizing user login information received over a network from a client device. In constructing the document, the system may assemble the document in accordance with the rules and utilizing the fragments and meta information that describes the document. The system may render the document thus assembled utilizing the ACL, generate a view of the document, and communicate the view of the document over the network to the client device for presentation on the client device. |
| US12099791B1 |
Method, product, and system for rapid sequence classification through a coverage model
An approach is disclosed herein for test sequence processing that is applicable to machine learning model generated test sequences as disclosed herein. The test sequence processing includes classification, grouping, and filtering. The classification is generated based on the execution of the test sequences. The grouping is performed based on information captured during the classification of the test sequences. The filtering is performed on a group by group basis to remove redundant test sequences. |
| US12099790B1 |
High-speed communication between integrated circuits of an emulation system
An emulation system can include a first integrated circuit (IC) including first circuitry and a first transceiver. The first circuitry is configured to emulate a first partition of a circuit design. The first circuitry is clocked by an emulation clock and the first transceiver is clocked by a transceiver clock asynchronous with the emulation clock. The transceiver clock has a higher frequency than the emulation clock. The emulation system can include a second IC configured to emulate a second partition of the circuit design. The second IC includes a second transceiver. The first transceiver is configured to generate multiplexed emulation data by multiplexing a plurality of nets that cross from the first partition to the second partition of the circuit design. The first transceiver is configured to send the multiplexed emulation data over a serial communication channel to the second transceiver. The multiplexed emulation data includes a clock signal of the first transceiver embedded therein. |
| US12099786B1 |
Using hierarchical finite element shape functions in material point method-based geotechnical analysis and simulation
In one embodiment, material points are received that cover at least a portion of an element of a background mesh that describes a continuum of soil, rock and/or groundwater. MPM-based geotechnical analysis and simulation is conducted at least in part by performing a numerical integration over the material points to produce a system matrix and right-hand side vector. The numerical integration applies hierarchical shape functions to the material points. The MPM-based geotechnical analysis and simulation also may subtract out contributions of any lower-order polynomials from higher-order polynomials of the hierarchical shape functions when interpolating one or more state variables for the material points to the background mesh. The MPM-based geotechnical analysis and simulation also may subtract out contributions any lower-order polynomials from higher-order polynomials of the hierarchical shape functions when calculating one or more boundary conditions for the material points. |
| US12099782B2 |
System and methodology for performance verification of multi-agent autonomous robotic systems
A computerized method of performing safety and functional verification of algorithms, for control of autonomous vehicles, comprises: iteratively performing an adjustment, the adjustment comprising at least one of the following: (i) updating the value of parameter(s) indicative of noise and/or delay in simulated sensor(s), associated with a computerized simulation framework corresponding to simulated autonomous vehicle(s) and to operational environment(s), by increasing noise and/or delay; and (ii) updating the value of parameter(s) indicative of noise and/or delay in a response of the simulated autonomous vehicle(s) to command(s), by increasing the noise and/or delay. This is done until obtaining from the computerized simulation framework an increased-severity computerized simulation framework. The increased-severity computerized simulation framework meets a criterion that can be utilized for statistical safety verification and/or statistical functional performance verification of the algorithm(s). |
| US12099780B2 |
Method and manufacturing method of multi-linkage planetary gear speed changing mechanism, and multi-linkage planetary gear speed changing mechanism
The invention relates to a design method and a manufacturing method of a multi-linkage planetary gear speed changing mechanism and a gear speed changing mechanism, a planetary gear set is designed in a specific calculation mode in combination with different processing and assembling modes, by positioning and assembling the planetary gear set, the limitation of assembly condition of the multi-linkage planetary gear speed changing mechanism is broken through, and the assembled and manufactured multi-linkage planetary gear speed changing mechanism can obtain different speed ratios according to different transmission requirements, so that an application of the multi-linkage planetary gear speed changing mechanism is expanded. |
| US12099779B2 |
Automatic extraction of assets data from engineering data sources
Systems and methods for controlling industrial process automation and control systems can automatically, through the use of machine learning (ML) models and algorithms, extract plant assets from engineering diagrams and other plant engineering data sources. The systems and methods can establish asset relationships to create a plant asset registry and build an asset hierarchy from the plant assets. The systems and methods can generate an ontological knowledge base from the plant asset hierarchy, and provide an HMI for controlling the industrial process based on the plant asset hierarchy and the ontological knowledge base. |
| US12099773B2 |
Accessing functions of external devices using reality interfaces
In an exemplary process for accessing a function of an external device through a computer-generated reality interface, one or more external devices are detected. Image data of a physical environment captured by an image sensor is obtained. The process determines whether the image data includes a representation of a first external device of the one or more detected external devices. In accordance with determining that the image data includes a representation of the first external device, the process causes a display to concurrently display a representation of the physical environment according to the image data, and an affordance corresponding to a function of the first external device, wherein detecting user activation of the displayed affordance causes the first external device to perform an action corresponding to the function. |
| US12099772B2 |
Cross device interactions
The present disclosure generally relates to engaging in cross device interactions. The method includes at a first device with a first display, while a second device having a second display is placed over a first region of the first display, detecting, via input devices of the first device, a first input. In response to detecting the first input and in accordance with a determination that the first input occurred while focus was directed to the second device, the method includes causing a response to the first input to be displayed on the second display. In response to detecting the first input and in accordance with a determination that the first input occurred while focus was directed to the first device, the method includes displaying, on the first display, a response to the first input without causing a response to the first input to be displayed on the second display. |
| US12099768B2 |
Communication apparatus
In a case where the setting information does not include a frequency band information corresponding to the first frequency band and does not include a frequency band information corresponding to the second frequency band or in a case where the setting information includes the frequency band information corresponding to the first frequency band and the frequency band information corresponding to the second frequency band, the communication apparatus wirelessly connects with the external apparatus using the first frequency band with priority than the second frequency. |
| US12099767B2 |
Image forming apparatus to accept input operations from operation terminal
An image forming apparatus, having a mobile input function and a remote input function, includes a network interface, an operation panel including a touch panel, and a controller. After starting to provide one of the input functions, the controller sends display data to an operation terminal via the network interface, thereby causing the operation terminal to display an operation screen for operating the image forming apparatus from the operation terminal. While the mobile input function is being provided, the controller does not display a local operation screen on the touch panel. While the remote input function is being provided, the controller displays the local operation screen on the touch panel, and updates, in response to receiving operation data from the operation terminal via the network interface, display contents on the local operation screen, based on an operation indicated by the received operation data. |
| US12099765B1 |
Method and system for intelligent optimization of document conversion engine selection
The present exemplary embodiment discloses a method and system for utilizing machine learning and artificial intelligence to selecting an optimal conversion driver to convert a document into a printable form. The methods include receiving at least one user print request and at least one user submitted file associated with the user request, optimizing the conversion of a file by executing, by at least one computer processor, determining that format conversion is necessary for the file, identifying least one of a plurality of file conversion drivers as optimal for converting the file, causing the optimal file conversion driver to convert the file into a printer readable format, and printing the converted file. The conversion drivers may be selected from remote or local conversion engines. The machine learning employs artificial intelligence to select the optimal conversion path by analyzing the properties of the document submitted for conversion. |
| US12099762B2 |
Image forming apparatus configured to communicate through different wireless modes
An image forming apparatus receives a first trigger frame including information about OFDMA conforming to the IEEE 802.11 standard from an external access point external to the image forming apparatus while a first mode is enabled, performs communication processing in the first mode through OFDMA conforming to the IEEE 802.11 standard based on information about the first trigger frame, and transmits, in a case where the a mode is enabled, a second trigger frame including information about OFDMA conforming to IEEE 802.11 standard. |
| US12099761B2 |
Image forming apparatus, method, and system for firmware upgrade
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide an image forming apparatus, a method and a system for firmware upgrade. The method includes when a server has a firmware upgrade package, downloading the firmware upgrade package from the server; and transmitting the firmware upgrade package to a second image forming apparatus. The firmware upgrade package is configured to upgrade firmware of the first image forming apparatus and the second image forming apparatus. |
| US12099757B2 |
Server acquires identification information from a current device of devices and sends user list including one or more identifiers corresponding to all users to the current device
An information processing apparatus includes a user list providing unit configured to receive device identification information from a current device connected via a network and to send, to the current device, a user list including one or more user identifiers that are stored in a storage unit in association with the received device identification information; and a program list providing unit configured to receive a user identifier that is selected at the current device from the user identifiers in the user list and to send, to the current device, a program list including sets of program information stored in the storage unit in association with the received user identifier. |
| US12099753B2 |
Mapping table updating method, memory storage device and memory control circuit unit
A mapping table updating method, a memory storage device and a memory control circuit unit are disclosed. The method includes: receiving, a plurality of operation commands from a host system; performing a first table updating operation according to a first operation command and a third operation command among the operation commands to read and update a first sub-mapping table and a third sub-mapping table from a rewritable non-volatile memory module; and after the first table updating operation is finished, performing a second table updating operation according to a second operation command among the operation commands to read and update a second sub-mapping table from the rewritable non-volatile memory module. |
| US12099752B2 |
Error prediction based on correlation using event records
A method includes receiving an error message including first information associated with a first reported error and a time at which the first reported error was detected. First stored event records associated with second reported errors are identified. The first stored event records include second information describing previously reported errors that occurred within a predetermined time prior to the time at which the first reported error was detected. The method determines, based on the first information and the second information, whether a correlation exists among one or more of the previously reported errors and the first reported error. In response to determining that the correlation exists, generating an error correlation report predicting occurrence of a third error. |
| US12099751B2 |
Memory system, memory controller and operating method of the memory system operating as read boost mode
A memory system, a memory controller, and an operating method of the memory system are provided. The memory system may include a memory device including a first type memory block and a second type memory block and a memory controller configured to determine, when receiving a command to set a read boost mode for the target logical address, whether the data corresponding to the target logical address can be copied from the first type memory block to the second type memory block, and copy the data corresponding to the target logical address from the first type memory block to the second type memory block. |
| US12099750B2 |
Management of host file-system defragmentation in a data storage device
A data storage device having a flash translation layer configured to handle file-system defragmentation in a manner that avoids, reduces, and/or optimizes physical data movement in flash memory. In an example embodiment, the memory controller maintains in a volatile memory thereof a lookaside table that supplants pertinent portions of the logical-to-physical table. Entries of the lookaside table are configured to track source and destination addresses of the host defragmentation requests and are logically linked to the corresponding entries of the logical-to-physical table such that end-to-end data protection including the use of logical-address tags to the user data can be supported by logical means and without physical data rearrangement in the flash memory. In some embodiments, physical data rearrangement corresponding to the file-system defragmentation is performed in the flash memory in response to certain trigger events, which can improve the input/output performance of the data-storage device. |
| US12099749B2 |
Data read/write method and apparatus, and exchange chip and storage medium
Disclosed are a data read/write method and apparatus, and an exchange chip and a storage medium. The method comprises: when the current clock cycle arrives, a kernel acquiring a read/write instruction that needs to be executed in the current clock cycle; the kernel acquiring a target storage area associated with the read/write instruction, wherein the target storage area is an unoccupied storage area in at least two storage areas in a random access memory (RAM); and the kernel performing, according to the read/write instruction, data reading and writing on the target storage area in the current clock cycle. |
| US12099746B2 |
Interrupt signaling for a memory device
Methods, systems, and devices for interrupt signaling for a memory device are described. A memory device may transmit an interrupt signal to a host device to alter a sequence of operations that would otherwise be executed by the host device. The memory device may transmit the interrupt signal in response to detecting an error condition at the memory device, a performance degradation at the memory device, or another trigger event. In some examples, the memory device may include a dedicated interrupt pin for transmitting interrupt signals. Alternatively, the memory device may transmit interrupt signals via a pin also sued to transmit error detection codes. For example, the memory device may transmit an interrupt signal before or after an error detection code or may invert the error detection code to indicate the interrupt, in which case the inverted error detection code may act as an interrupt signal. |
| US12099742B2 |
Utilizing programming page size granularity to optimize data segment storage in a storage system
A data segment to be stored at one or more storage devices is formed, wherein the data segment is to be stored at the one or more storage devices using a first programming mode having a first page size. A determination that a fragment of data of the data segment is less than the first page size is made. The fragment of data is stored at the one or more storage devices using a second programming mode having a second page size that is less than the first page size and the remaining data of the data segment is stored at the one or more storage device using the first programming mode. |
| US12099741B2 |
Lightweight copying of data using metadata references
A system and method comprising: receiving a request to write data stored at a first range of a first volume to a second range of a second volume, where first metadata for the first range of the first volume is associated with a range of physical addresses where the data is stored in the storage system; and responsive to receiving the request: creating second metadata for the second range of the second volume, wherein the second metadata is associated with the range of physical addresses where the data is stored in the storage system; and associating the second volume with the second metadata. |
| US12099737B2 |
Temperature controlled zone creation and allocation
Respective temperature values for a plurality of dies of a memory device is obtained. Each respective temperature value is indicative of a temperature at a corresponding die of the plurality of dies of the memory device. The plurality of dies based on the respective temperature values, each die of the plurality of dies is ordered. A zone creation command directed to the memory device is received from a host. The zone creation command on the memory device on a die of the ordered plurality of dies is performed based on a temperature threshold. |
| US12099736B2 |
Scalable architecture enabling large memory system for in-memory computations
A memory system provides deduplication of user data in the physical memory space of the system for user data that is duplicated in the virtual memory space of a host system. A transaction manager (TM) uses a transaction table to maintain data coherency and data concurrency for the virtual memory space. A write data engine manager (WDEM) uses an outstanding bucket number and command queues to maintain data coherency and data concurrency for the physical memory space. The WDEM receives data write requests from the TM and sends a corresponding write command to a selected command queue. A write data engine responds to a write command in a command queue by storing the data in an overflow memory region if the data is not duplicated in the virtual memory space, or by incrementing a reference counter for the data if the data is duplicated in the virtual memory space. |
| US12099735B2 |
Memory system
A memory system includes a memory controller configured to write data in a first mode to a first block of a first area of a non-volatile memory. The first mode is a write mode for writing data with a first number of bits per memory cell. The memory controller is further configured to execute copy processing on the data written in the first mode to the first block, by writing system data written in the first block to a second block of the first area in the first mode and writing user data written in the first block to a third block of a second area of the non-volatile memory in the second mode. The second mode is a write mode for writing data with a second number of bits larger than the first number of bits per memory cell. |
| US12099729B2 |
Verify failbit count circuit, memory device, memory system and method
The present disclosure relates to a verify failbit count circuit, comprising: a highest bit counter configured to compare a verify standard signal with a verify failbit signal to generate a first comparison result, and output a first enable signal based on the first comparison result; a lowest bit counter configured to, in response to a first enable signal indicating to enable the lowest bit counter, compare the verify failbit signal with a first reference signal to generate a second comparison result, and output a second enable signal based on the second comparison result; and a first intermediate bit counter configured to, in response a the second enable signal indicating to enable the first intermediate bit counter, compare the verify failbit signal with a second reference signal to generate a third comparison result. |
| US12099725B2 |
Code rate as function of logical saturation
A method includes determining a logical saturation of a memory device in a memory sub-system and adjusting a code rate of the memory device based on the logical saturation, wherein the code rate represents a ratio of user data to a combination of the user data and error correction data. |
| US12099724B2 |
Computer architecture with disaggregated memory and high-bandwidth communication interconnects
Conventional high performance computer connections are electron-based systems, which require the memory packages to be as close as mechanically possible to the computation engine. Low power and high bandwidth communication, e.g. photonic, links can drastically change the architecture of high-performance computers by eliminating the bottlenecks in communication. A computer system comprises: a plurality of memory aggregation devices configured to retrieve data from and store data in a plurality of random access memory modules forming a unified contiguous memory address space disaggregated from a central processing unit; a plurality of computational devices configured for simultaneously launching a plurality of data signals including memory read and/or write requests for the data to the plurality of memory aggregation devices; and a plurality of communication links coupling each of the plurality of memory aggregation devices to each of the plurality of computational devices for transferring the data therebetween. |
| US12099719B2 |
Cluster management in large-scale storage systems
Techniques are provided for implementing a distributed hierarchical cluster management system. A system comprises a data storage system and a cluster management system. The data storage system comprises a cluster of storage nodes that is partitioned into a plurality of subclusters of storage nodes. The cluster management system is deployed on at least some of the storage nodes of the data storage system, and comprises a global management system and a plurality of local management subsystems. Each local management subsystem is configured to manage a respective subcluster of the plurality of subclusters of storage nodes, and communicate with the global management system to provide subcluster status information to the global management system regarding a current state and configuration of the respective subcluster of storage nodes. The global management system is configured to manage the cluster of storage nodes using the subcluster status information provided by the local management subsystems. |
| US12099716B2 |
Method and display device for presenting parameters of a food machine, and food machine
A method for presenting parameters of a food machine, a food processing machine, or a food packaging machine, by a display device, where a memory stores a first recipe that includes multiple parameters that each have an assigned first parameter value and stores a second recipe that includes multiple parameters that each have an assigned second parameter value; where in an ascertainment step, a parameter is ascertained that is contained in the first recipe and in the second recipe and that has an assigned first parameter value of the first recipe and an assigned second parameter value of the second recipe, which differ from each other; and in a first display step, the display device is used to display the first parameter value and the second parameter value for the ascertained parameter at the same time. |