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| US12096707B2 |
Cutting element
Cutting element made of cemented carbide for an agricultural soil cultivation tool for cutting into the earth, which includes a top side and a bottom side, a front side, a back side opposite of the front side, and at least one lateral surface. The top and bottom sides are connected via the front side, back side, and the at least one lateral surface. The front side includes a cutting region having multiple teeth, and at least one tooth is formed with a first flank and a second flank. To achieve an efficient cutting into the earth with a complete cut through the weeds or herbaceous plants present in the earth, a profile line of the first flank and a profile line of the second flank have different lengths. In this manner, weeds are completely severed and killed, whereby use of sprays for killing weeds is reduced to protect the environment. |
| US12102021B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of semiconductor device
A semiconductor device and a manufacturing method of the semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes: a semiconductor substrate; a bottom electrode metal layer and a top electrode metal layer located on the semiconductor substrate; a resistive layer located between the bottom electrode metal layer and the top electrode metal layer, where the transverse width of the resistive layer is greater than the transverse width of the bottom electrode metal layer and/or the top electrode metal layer, and the resistive layer has a variable resistance; an oxygen barrier layer located between the bottom electrode metal layer and the top electrode metal layer, where the oxygen barrier layer is located above the resistive layer; and an oxygen grasping layer located between the bottom electrode metal layer and the top electrode metal layer, where the transverse width of the oxygen grasping layer is less than the transverse width of the resistive layer. |
| US12102018B2 |
Memory stacks and methods of forming the same
Memory stacks and method of forming the same are provided. A memory stack includes a bottom electrode layer, a top electrode layer and a phase change layer between the bottom electrode layer and the top electrode layer. A width of the top electrode layer is greater than a width of the phase change layer. A first portion of the top electrode layer uncovered by the phase change layer is rougher than a second portion of the top electrode layer covered by the phase change layer. |
| US12102017B2 |
Kinetic inductance for couplers and compact qubits
A circuit can include a galvanic coupling of a coupler to a qubit by a segment of kinetic inductance material. The circuit can include a galvanic kinetic inductance coupler having multiple windings. The circuit can include a partially-galvanic coupler having multiple windings. The partially-galvanic coupler can include a magnetic coupling and a galvanic coupling. The circuit can include an asymmetric partially-galvanic coupler having a galvanic coupling and a first magnetic coupling to one qubit and a second magnetic coupling to a second qubit. The circuit can include a compact kinetic inductance qubit having a qubit body loop comprising a kinetic inductance material. A multilayer integrated circuit including a kinetic inductance layer can form a galvanic kinetic inductance coupling. A multilayer integrated circuit including a kinetic inductance layer can form at least a portion of a compact kinetic inductance qubit body loop. |
| US12102016B2 |
Amorphous superconducting alloys for superconducting circuits
Techniques facilitating formation of amorphous superconducting alloys for superconducting circuits are provided. A device can comprise one or more superconducting components that comprise an amorphous superconducting alloy comprising two or more elements. At least one element of the two or more elements is a superconducting element. |
| US12102013B2 |
Magnetic detection device
A magnetic detection device includes a first magnetic sensor, a second magnetic sensor, and a resin body. The first magnetic sensor includes a first sealing body and first terminals. The second magnetic sensor includes a second sealing body and second terminals. The resin body includes a resin-body main body, first wiring lines, and second wiring lines. Each of the first wiring lines includes a first overlapping portion overlapping with corresponding one of the first terminals. As viewed in a normal direction of each of the first terminals, the first overlapping portion is arranged at a position shifted from all of the second terminals and the second wiring lines. Each of the first wiring lines is welded to corresponding one of the first terminals at the first overlapping portion. |
| US12102011B2 |
Magnetic sensor comprising magnetoresistive elements and system for programming such magnetic sensor
A magnetic sensor including a plurality of magnetoresistive elements; each magnetoresistive element including a ferromagnetic layer having a magnetization that is orientable at or above a threshold temperature; the magnetic sensor further includes a plasmonic structure destined to be irradiated by electromagnetic radiation and including a spatially periodic plasmonic array of metallic structures. The period of the plasmonic array and the lateral dimension of the metallic structures are adjusted to obtain plasmon resonance of the plasmonic structure for a given wavelength of the electromagnetic radiation. The plasmonic array is arranged in the magnetic sensor such as to heat the first ferromagnetic layer at or above the threshold temperature, from the enhanced absorption of the electromagnetic radiation by plasmon resonance. The present disclosure further concerns a system including the sensor and an emitting device configured to emit electromagnetic radiation. |
| US12102010B2 |
Methods of forming films including scandium at low temperatures using chemical vapor deposition to provide piezoelectric resonator devices and/or high electron mobility transistor devices
A method of forming a film can include heating a CVD reactor chamber containing a substrate to a temperature range between about 750 degrees Centigrade and about 950 degrees Centigrade, providing a first precursor comprising Al to the CVD reactor chamber in the temperature range, providing a second precursor comprising Sc to the CVD reactor chamber in the temperature range, providing a third precursor comprising nitrogen to the CVD reactor chamber in the temperature range, and forming the film comprising ScAlN on the substrate. |
| US12102007B2 |
Thermoelectric conversion module
This thermoelectric conversion module is formed by electrically connecting, by a conductive member, one end of an n-type thermoelectric conversion element having a negative Seebeck coefficient and having a half-Heusler structure to one end of a p-type thermoelectric conversion element containing an oxide having a positive Seebeck coefficient at a temperature of 25° C. or higher. The conductive member is connected to the n-type thermoelectric conversion element and the p-type thermoelectric conversion element through a connection layer containing a conductive metal comprising silver, and the connection layer is characterized by further containing an oxide to reduce the bond resistance between the n-type thermoelectric conversion element and/or the p-type thermoelectric conversion element. |
| US12102006B2 |
Thermoelectric device
A thermoelectric element according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes a first substrate, a first buffer layer disposed on the first substrate, a first electrode disposed on the first buffer layer, a P-type thermoelectric leg and an N-type thermoelectric leg disposed on the first electrode, a second electrode disposed on the P-type thermoelectric leg and the N-type thermoelectric leg, a second buffer layer disposed on the second electrode, and a second substrate disposed on the second buffer layer, wherein at least one of the first buffer layer and the second buffer layer includes a silicone resin and an inorganic material, and the Young's modulus of at least one of the first buffer layer and the second buffer layer is 1 to 65 MPa. |
| US12102005B2 |
System and method for work function reduction and thermionic energy conversion
A thermionic energy converter, preferably including an anode and a cathode. An anode of a thermionic energy converter, preferably including an n-type semiconductor, one or more supplemental layers, and an electrical contact. A method for work function reduction and/or thermionic energy conversion, preferably including inputting thermal energy to a thermionic energy converter, illuminating an anode of the thermionic energy converter, thereby preferably reducing a work function of the anode, and extracting electrical power from the system. |
| US12102003B2 |
Organic electroluminescent devices and electronic apparatus
The present disclosure provides an organic electroluminescent device and an electronic apparatus. The organic electroluminescent device includes a cathode, an anode, and an organic layer. The organic layer includes an organic luminescent layer including a first compound and a second compound; the first compound is selected from compounds represented by a formula 1; and the second compound is selected from compounds represented by a formula 2. |
| US12101996B2 |
Organometallic compound, light-emitting device including the same, and electronic apparatus
An organometallic compound represented by Formula 1, a light-emitting device including the same, and an electronic apparatus including the light-emitting device are disclosed. In Formula 1, the substituents are as described in more detail in the specification. |
| US12101984B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: a display panel including a sensor area and a display area, where the display panel includes an upper surface and a lower surface opposite to the upper surface; and a discoloration sensor layer overlapping the sensor area, where discoloration sensor layer is disposed on one of the upper surface of the display panel and the lower surface of the display panel, and discolored when exposed to a target material. A first through portion is defined through the display panel from the upper surface to the lower surface of the display panel, and the discoloration sensor layer overlaps the first through portion. |
| US12101982B2 |
Pixel structure, driving method thereof, display panel, and display apparatus
A pixel structure, a driving method thereof, a display panel, and a display apparatus are provided. The pixel structure includes: a plurality of pixel rows and a plurality of pixel columns. Each pixel row includes: sub-pixels of four different colors. The plurality of pixel columns include: a plurality of first pixel columns and a plurality of second pixel columns arranged alternately. Each of the first pixel columns includes: sub-pixels of three of the four different colors. Each of the second pixel columns includes: sub-pixels of another color other than the three of the four different colors. |
| US12101981B2 |
Display substrate, method for manufacturing the same, and display device
A display substrate, a method for manufacturing the display substrate, and a display device. The display substrate includes a first sub-pixel and a second sub-pixel, the first sub-pixel includes a first data line pattern, and the second sub-pixel includes a second data line pattern, a second electrode of the sixth transistor in the first sub-pixel is electrically connected to the anode pattern through the third conductive connection portion and the fourth conductive connection portion; in the first sub-pixel, an orthographic projection of the anode pattern on the substrate at least partially overlaps an orthographic projection of the second data line pattern on the substrate, and the orthographic projection of the anode pattern on the substrate at least partially overlaps an orthographic projection of a data line pattern adjacent to the second data line pattern along the first direction on the substrate. |
| US12101980B2 |
Transparent display panel and transparent display device including the same
A transparent display panel and a transparent display device including the same are disclosed. In a transparent display panel, a VSS voltage line does not surround an outer periphery of a display region. Rather, upper and lower VSS voltage lines respectively disposed on upper and lower sides to the display region are electrically connected to each other via at least one VSS voltage connection line extending across the display region. Thus, left and right non-transparent and thick VSS voltage lines disposed on the left and right sides to the display region may be omitted. Thus, a transparent region of the transparent display panel and a bezel of a transparent display device may be increased or maximized or the bezel thereof may be made slim. |
| US12101979B2 |
Display substrate with an auxiliary cathode layer, method of manufacturing the same, and display device
The display substrate includes: a substrate, an auxiliary cathode layer, a first insulating layer, an anode layer, a second insulating layer, and a cathode layer that are sequentially stacked on the substrate in a direction away from the substrate; the anode layer includes a plurality of anode patterns spaced apart from each other, and an anode spacing area is formed between adjacent anode patterns; an orthographic projection of the auxiliary cathode layer on the substrate and an orthographic projection of the cathode layer on the substrate have an auxiliary overlapping area, and the auxiliary cathode layer is electrically connected to the cathode layer through a connection via hole in the auxiliary overlapping area; an orthographic projection of the connection via hole on the substrate is located inside the orthographic projection of the anode spacing area on the substrate. |
| US12101978B2 |
Display device with fan-out line and low-voltage power supply line in display area
A display device includes a data line, a vertical transmission line and a horizontal transmission line. The data line extends in a first direction and is arranged in a second direction on a display area divided into upper and lower display areas, and is connected to pixels. A vertical transmission line extends in the first direction on the display area. The vertical transmission line receives a ground power supply voltage from an upper side of the display area to transfer the ground power supply voltage to the pixels, and receives a data voltage from a lower side of the display area. A horizontal transmission line extends in the second direction on the display area and is arranged in the first direction. The horizontal transmission line is connected to the vertical transmission line and the data line on the lower display area to transfer the data voltage to the data line. |
| US12101971B2 |
Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
A display apparatus includes: a substrate including a main display area, a component area, and a peripheral area; a first insulating layer disposed over the substrate; a second insulating layer disposed over the first insulating layer and including an opening exposing at least a portion of the first insulating layer; an auxiliary subpixel disposed over the component area; an auxiliary pixel circuit disposed over the peripheral area and including an auxiliary thin film transistor and an auxiliary storage capacitor; and a transparent connection line connecting the auxiliary subpixel to the auxiliary pixel circuit and at least partially disposed over the component area. |
| US12101970B2 |
Light emitting display device having repair structure
A light emitting display device includes a light emitting element including a pixel electrode, a common electrode, and a light emitting layer interposed between the pixel electrode and the common electrode, and a pixel circuit electrically connected to the pixel electrode of the light emitting element, wherein the pixel electrode may include a first pixel electrode portion, a second pixel electrode portion spaced apart from the first pixel electrode portion, a circuit contact portion connected to the pixel circuit, a first electrode connection portion connected or disconnected between the first pixel electrode portion and the circuit contact portion, and a second electrode connection portion connected or disconnected between the second pixel electrode portion and the circuit contact portion. |
| US12101969B2 |
Display device and method of manufacturing the same
A display device includes: a substrate; an organic insulating layer on the substrate and having an opening; a first electrode on the organic insulating layer; an auxiliary electrode on the organic insulating layer and including a first portion overlapping the opening; a bank layer having a first bank opening overlapping the first electrode and a second bank opening overlapping the first portion; an intermediate layer on the first electrode and the auxiliary electrode, the intermediate layer including a hole exposing a portion of the auxiliary electrode; and a second electrode on the intermediate layer, overlapping the first electrode and the auxiliary electrode, and in contact with the auxiliary electrode through the hole in the intermediate layer. The hole in the intermediate layer only partially overlaps the opening in the organic insulating layer and is located within the second bank opening in a plan view. |
| US12101962B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display panel and a light control layer disposed on the display panel. The light control layer includes a base portion, a coloring agent having a maximum absorption wavelength in a wavelength range equal to or greater than about 580 nm and equal to or smaller than about 600 nm, and a desiccant. |
| US12101961B2 |
Display device having thin-film encapsulation layer located at a first dam and manufacturing method therefor
A display device may include a substrate including a display area and a transmission area located on an outer side of the display area, a display unit in the display area on the substrate, a thin-film encapsulation layer that covers the display unit, and a first dam between the thin-film encapsulation layer and the transmission area on the substrate, and an end portion of the thin-film encapsulation layer may be located on an inner side of the first dam. |
| US12101960B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus can include a substrate including a first area having a flat portion and a second area having a curved portion; a transistor on the substrate; a dam on a non-display area in the first and second areas; an encapsulation part on the transistor and including a first inorganic encapsulation layer, a second inorganic encapsulation layer and an organic encapsulation layer between the first inorganic encapsulation layer and second inorganic encapsulation layer; a first inorganic insulating layer on the encapsulation part in the first and second areas. Also, the display apparatus can include a first touch part on the first inorganic insulating layer in the first area and the second area, a second inorganic insulating layer on the first touch part in the first and second areas, and a second touch part on the second inorganic insulating layer in the first and second areas. |
| US12101958B2 |
Organic electronic device including encapsulation layer
An organic electronic device including a substrate, an organic electronic element formed on the substrate, and an encapsulation film encapsulating the organic electronic element. The organic electronic element includes a transparent electrode formed on the substrate, and a light emitting organic material layer formed on the transparent electrode. The light emitting organic material layer includes a hole transport layer, an emitting layer and an electron transport layer. The encapsulation film includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive layer. The pressure-sensitive adhesive layer includes a pressure-sensitive adhesive composition or a crosslinked product thereof. The pressure-sensitive adhesive composition includes a polymer derived from butylene, and has a Mooney viscosity (η*) of 5000 Pa·s to 107 Pa·s measured by a shear stress using a planar jig having a diameter of 8 mm at a strain of 5%, a frequency of 1 Hz and any one temperature point in the range of 30° C. to 150° C. |
| US12101956B2 |
Display device
Provided is a display device, comprising a display panel which comprises a first area and a second area located around the first area; and an under-panel sheet which is located under the display panel and overlaps the first area and the second area, wherein the under-panel sheet comprises a buffer member and a strength reinforcing member, wherein the strength reinforcing member is thinner than the buffer member, and a ratio of a thickness of the buffer member to a thickness of the strength reinforcing member is 3 to 6 times. |
| US12101955B2 |
Light emitting display device
A light emitting display device comprises a substrate, a circuit layer having a thin film transistor and an auxiliary power electrode disposed on the substrate, an insulating layer disposed on the circuit layer and including a first opening which exposes a portion of the auxiliary power electrode, a pixel electrode disposed on the insulating layer and connected to the thin film transistor, an auxiliary electrode contact area formed in the insulating layer, an auxiliary electrode formed on the insulating layer, a light emitting layer disposed on the pixel electrode and the auxiliary electrode, a common electrode disposed on the light emitting layer and electrically connected with the auxiliary power electrode through the auxiliary electrode contact area, a filler disposed in the auxiliary electrode contact area, and an encapsulation layer disposed on the common electrode and the filler, wherein the first opening of the insulating layer includes an undercut area between the auxiliary power electrode and the auxiliary electrode, and wherein the undercut area is filled with the filler. |
| US12101953B2 |
Quantum dot light-emitting diode and method for fabricating the same
The present application discloses a first aspect provides a quantum dot light-emitting diode, including: a cathode and an anode which are oppositely arranged; a quantum dot light-emitting layer arranged between the cathode and the anode; and a stacked layer arranged between the cathode and the quantum dot light-emitting layer. A stacked layer includes: a first metal oxide nanoparticle layer, and a mixed material layer arranged on a surface of the first metal oxide nanoparticle layer far away from the quantum dot light-emitting layer. The mixed material layer includes: first metal oxide nanoparticles, and a second metal oxide dispersed among gaps of the first metal oxide nanoparticles. First metal oxide nanoparticles in the first metal oxide nanoparticle layer serve as an electron transport material. A content of the second metal oxide in the mixed material layer gradually increases in a direction from the quantum dot light-emitting layer to the cathode. |
| US12101952B2 |
Light-emitting substrate and method for manufacturing the same, and light-emitting apparatus
A light-emitting substrate includes a base; a first material layer and a second material layer that are disposed on the base, and an etch stop layer between the first material layer and the second material layer. The first material layer is closer to the base than the second material layer. The second material layer includes a plurality of patterns, and each pattern and the first material layer have an overlapping region therebetween. The etch stop layer includes at least portions in respective overlapping regions. A portion of the etch stop layer located in each overlapping region is in contact with the first material layer and the second material layer. Energy level(s) of the portion of the etch stop layer located in each overlapping region are matched with energy levels of the first material layer and the second material layer at corresponding positions. |
| US12101949B2 |
Photoelectric conversion element, electronic device, and light-emitting device
A photoelectric conversion element includes: a first electrode; a second electrode; and a photoelectric conversion layer disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode and containing semiconducting carbon nanotubes and a first material that functions as a donor or an acceptor for the semiconducting carbon nanotubes. The semiconducting carbon nanotubes have light absorption characteristics including a first absorption peak at a first wavelength, a second absorption peak at a second wavelength shorter than the first wavelength, and a third absorption peak at a third wavelength shorter than the second wavelength. The first material is transparent to light in at least one wavelength range selected from the group consisting of a first wavelength range between the first wavelength and the second wavelength and a second wavelength range between the second wavelength and the third wavelength. |
| US12101945B2 |
Semiconductor device
[Problem] To provide a semiconductor device suitable for miniaturization. To provide a highly reliable semiconductor device. To provide a semiconductor device with improved operating speed.[Solving Means] A semiconductor device including a memory cell including first to cth (c is a natural number of 2 or more) sub memory cells, wherein: the jth sub memory cell includes a first transistor, a second transistor, and a capacitor; a first semiconductor layer included in the first transistor and a second semiconductor layer included in the second transistor include an oxide semiconductor; one of terminals of the capacitor is electrically connected to a gate electrode included in the second transistor; the gate electrode included in the second transistor is electrically connected to one of a source electrode and a drain electrode which are included in the first transistor; and when j≥2, the jth sub memory cell is arranged over the j−1th sub memory cell. |
| US12101944B2 |
Semiconductor memory devices
The embodiments herein relate to semiconductor memory devices and methods of forming the same. A semiconductor memory device is provided. The semiconductor memory device includes a memory cell having a first electrode, a second electrode, a switching layer, and a via structure. The second electrode is adjacent to a side of the first electrode and the switching layer overlays uppermost surfaces of the first and second electrodes. The via structure is over the uppermost surface of the second electrode. |
| US12101943B2 |
Semiconductor structure and fabrication method thereof
A semiconductor structure and the fabrication method thereof are provided. The semiconductor structure includes: a substrate including a first doped region and a second doped region; a first selection transistor and a second selection transistor located in the substrate; a conductive layer located between the first doped region and the second doped region; a resistive dielectric layer located on sidewalls of the conductive layer, where the conductive layer, the first doped region, and a portion of the resistive dielectric layer facing the first doped region constitute a first variable resistor, and the conductive layer, the second doped region, and a portion of the resistive dielectric layer facing the second doped region constitute a second variable resistor; and an isolation dielectric layer located between the conductive layer and the substrate. The semiconductor structure improves the storage density of resistive random access memory (RRAM). |
| US12101942B2 |
Semiconductor device including chalcogen compound and semiconductor apparatus including the same
A chalcogen compound layer exhibiting ovonic threshold switching characteristics, a switching device, a semiconductor device, and/or a semiconductor apparatus including the same are provided. The switching device and/or the semiconductor device may include two or more chalcogen compound layers having different energy band gaps. Alternatively, the switching device and/or semiconductor device may include a chalcogen compound layer having a concentration gradient of an element of boron (B), aluminum (Al), scandium (Sc), manganese (Mn), strontium (Sr), and/or indium (In) in a thickness direction thereof. The switching device and/or a semiconductor device may exhibit stable switching characteristics while having a low off-current value (leakage current value). |
| US12101938B2 |
Semiconductor memory devices and methods of manufacturing thereof
A semiconductor device includes a substrate having a first area and a second area. The semiconductor device in the first area includes a first memory layer and a first semiconductor channel coupled to a portion of the first memory layer. The semiconductor device in the first area further includes a first conductive structure and a second conductive structure coupled to end portions of the first semiconductor channel. The semiconductor device in the second area includes a third conductive structure and a second memory layer. The semiconductor device in the second area includes a second semiconductor channel that comprises: (i) a first vertical portion coupled to a portion of the second memory layer; and (ii) a lateral portion coupled to a top surface of the third conductive structure. The semiconductor device in the second area includes a fourth conductive structure coupled to an end portion of the second semiconductor channel. |
| US12101935B2 |
Semiconductor device and manufacturing method of semiconductor device
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes forming a stacked structure with first material layers and second material layers that are alternately stacked with each other, forming a first opening that passes through the stacked structure, forming second openings between the first material layers, forming first sacrificial layers in the second openings, forming first isolation layers that protrude into the first opening by oxidizing the first sacrificial layers, forming mold patterns on the first material layers between the protruding portions of the first isolation layers, forming third openings by etching portions of the first isolation layers that are exposed between the mold patterns, forming second sacrificial layers in the third openings, and forming second isolation layers that protrude farther toward the center of the first opening than the mold patterns by oxidizing the second sacrificial layers. |
| US12101930B2 |
Memory device having vertical structure
A memory device includes a cell wafer including a memory cell array; and a peripheral wafer including a row control circuit, a column control circuit and a peripheral circuit which control the memory cell array, and stacked on and bonded to the cell wafer in a first direction. The peripheral wafer includes a first substrate having a first surface and a second surface which face away from each other in the first direction; a first logic structure disposed on the first surface of the first substrate, and including the row control circuit and the column control circuit; and a second logic structure disposed on the second surface of the first substrate, and including the peripheral circuit. |
| US12101927B2 |
Semiconductor structure and method of forming the same, memory and method of forming the same
The present invention relates to a semiconductor structure and its forming method, and a memory and its forming method. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a vertical transistor on the substrate, and a bit line connected to the bottom of the vertical transistor and disposed between the bottom of the vertical transistor and the substrate. The vertical transistor in such a semiconductor structure has a relatively small plane dimension. |
| US12101926B2 |
Capacitor, memory device, and method
A device includes a substrate. A first nanostructure is over the substrate, and includes a semiconductor having a first resistance. A second nanostructure is over the substrate, is offset laterally from the first nanostructure, is at about the same height above the substrate as the first nanostructure, and includes a conductor having a second resistance lower than the first resistance. A first gate structure is over and wrapped around the first nanostructure, and a second gate structure is over and wrapped around the second nanostructure. |
| US12101921B2 |
SRAM speed and margin optimization via spacer tuning
An N-type metal oxide semiconductor (NMOS) transistor includes a first gate and a first spacer structure disposed on a first sidewall of the first gate in a first direction. The first spacer structure has a first thickness in the first direction and measured from an outermost point of an outer surface of the first spacer structure to the first sidewall. A P-type metal oxide semiconductor (PMOS) transistor includes a second gate and a second spacer structure disposed on a second sidewall of the second gate in the first direction and measured from an outermost point of an outer surface of the second spacer structure to the second sidewall. The second spacer structure has a second thickness that is greater than the first thickness. The NMOS transistor is a pass-gate of a static random access memory (SRAM) cell, and the PMOS transistor is a pull-up of the SRAM cell. |
| US12101920B2 |
Conductive polymeric layers for charge dissipation
A conductive polymeric layer on an electrostatic chuck. The conductive polymeric layer comprises a conductive polymer and a photosensitive polymer. The conductivity of the conductive polymer promotes charge dissipation by the conductive polymeric layer, while the photosensitivity of the photosensitive polymer allows the surface of the conductive polymeric layer to be photopatterned. The extent to which the conductive polymeric layer is conductive and photosensitive may be modulated by varying the relative amounts of the conductive polymer and the photosensitive polymer. |
| US12101919B2 |
Wearable display device
A wearable display device is disclosed and includes a main body, a heat dissipation processing module and an inflatable actuation module. The main body includes a front cover, a lateral cover, an inflatable airbag, a circuit board and a microprocessor. The heat dissipation processing module is configured to perform heat exchange with the microprocessor, and includes a first actuator, a heat pipe and a cooling chip. The inflatable actuation module includes a base, a ventilation channel, a second actuator and a valve component. When the second actuator and the valve component are driven, the valve component is opened and the second actuator is enabled, the gas is transported and inflates the inflatable airbag through the ventilation channel, so that the main body is stably fitted and positioned on the head of the wearer. |
| US12101913B2 |
Variable topography heat sink fins
Methods, systems, and devices for providing computer-implemented services are disclosed. To provide the computer-implemented services, hardware components that generate heat may be used. To manage the heat generated by the hardware components, a heat sink assembly may be used. The heat sink assembly may include features for adjusting its shape and/or size to accommodate other nearby components. By accommodating other components, the heat sink assembly may be used in spaces that would otherwise be unusable for thermal dissipation purposes due to the risk of mechanical interference between the heat sink assembly and the other components. |
| US12101910B1 |
Stably switched negative-pressure liquid cooling system and stably switched negative-pressure liquid cooling control method
A smoothly switching negative pressure liquid cooling system is provided in the present application, wherein a gas extraction pipeline of a gas circuit is used to extract gas to form a negative pressure environment, a gas supply pipeline is used to supply the gas to form a positive pressure environment. One of the three gas-liquid chambers is used for feeding the liquid and one of the three gas-liquid chambers is used for discharging the liquid to form a coolant circulation. The other chamber maintains a negative pressure environment. At the moment of switching a working state, the chamber that maintains the negative pressure environment forms a large pressure difference, so that the coolant enters the chamber quickly. Before the working state is switched, enough negative pressure has been formed to ensure the fluidity of the coolant at the moment of switching the working state. |
| US12101907B2 |
Intelligent pod-based cooling loop with dry cooler for mobile datacenter cooling systems
Systems and methods for cooling a mobile datacenter are disclosed. In at least one embodiment, a cooling loop is located on a mobile unit and includes at least one cold plate within a pod on a mobile unit and includes a dry cooler external to a pod on a mobile unit so as to enable coolant to be provided to a cold plate and to enable such coolant to be provided to a dry cooler for removal of heat from at least one computing device to an ambient environment. |
| US12101903B2 |
Display panel and mobile terminal
The present invention provides a display panel and a mobile terminal, including a panel layer including, but not limited to, a first portion, a second portion, and a curved third portion connected therebetween; a protective layer on the third portion; a first support layer on a side of the panel layer away from the protective layer and disposed opposite to the first portion; and a cover layer on the first portion and including an edge as an ink layer; the protective layer has a minimum thickness on a side close to the first portion and between a boundary of the first portion and an inner boundary of the ink layer. |
| US12101901B2 |
Electronic device including housing and method for manufacturing the housing
Various embodiments of the present disclosure relate to an electronic device including a housing and a method of manufacturing the housing. The electronic device includes a housing forming an exterior of the electronic device. The housing is constituted to include a non-conductive part including a non-conductive protrusion protruded from at least some area of the non-conductive part, a conductive deposition layer disposed on a top surface of the non-conductive part except on the non-conductive protrusion, and a decoration layer formed on the top of the conductive deposition layer. Accordingly, the housing is lightweight and can perform a function of an antenna radiator. Other various embodiments are possible. |
| US12101899B2 |
Electrical element with clearance-free fixation of a plate member
An electrical element includes a plate member, a first housing part having a plate insertion section adapted to guide an insertion of the plate member along an insertion direction into a mounting position of the plate member at the first housing part, and a second housing part having a locking element forming a locking with a counter locking element of the first housing part. The second housing part has a latching element engaging a counter latching element of the plate member. The latching element and the counter latching element form a latching in an engaged state. |
| US12101895B2 |
Motorized mechanism for control panel
Present invention refers to a motorized mechanism, for control panel which allows said control panel to move from a working position to a resting position, such that a fixed frame is found static and coupled to a household appliance such as a stove or an oven, while a mobile frame partially protrudes from said fixed frame to allow for a better view of said control panel. |
| US12101889B2 |
Tape guide and component supplying equipment
A tape guide includes a guide section configured to guide a carrier tape, a component exposing section configured to open a cover tape to expose an electronic component in a component storage section during conveyance of the carrier tape guided by the guide section, a tongue portion provided on the component exposing section and configured such that a distal end portion is movable between a first height position at which the distal end portion enters between a base tape and the cover tape and a second height position higher than the first height position, a pressing section placed above the tongue portion to apply a pressing force to the tongue portion to cause the tongue portion to move downward, and a stepped portion provided on a facing surface on which the tongue portion and the pressing section face each other. |
| US12101888B2 |
Flexible printed circuit board, wiring module, flexible printed circuit board including terminal, and power storage module
A flexible printed circuit board includes an electrically conductive line and a land that is connected to the electrically conductive line and to be connected to a terminal. The land includes soldering portions that have metal surfaces and to which the terminal is to be soldered. A dividing section is between the soldering portions and the dividing section has a non-metal surface and defines each of the soldering portions that are adjacent to each other. |
| US12101886B2 |
Electronic apparatus and substrate
Provided are an electronic apparatus and a substrate capable of reducing the size and the cost thereof regardless of whether or not a shielding function is needed. An electronic apparatus includes a substrate including a first substrate portion and a second substrate portion arranged in a position opposite the first substrate portion, and a capacitor component arranged between the first substrate portion and the second substrate portion and attached to at least one of the first substrate portion and the second substrate portion. The capacitor component includes a dielectric, a first electrode located on one side of the dielectric, and a second electrode located through the dielectric on a side opposite to the first electrode. The first substrate portion and the second substrate portion are electrically connected to each other through the first electrode. |
| US12101881B2 |
Circuit board assembly
A circuit board assembly is provided and includes a first circuit board, a second circuit board and a first connecting module. The first connecting module includes a first connecting wire, a first connector and a second connector. The first circuit board includes a first processor, and the second circuit board includes a second processor. One end of the first connector is connected to one end of the first connecting wire, and the other end of the first connector is connected to the first circuit board. One end of the second connector is connected to the other end of the first connecting wire, and the other end of the second connector is connected to the second circuit board. The first connector is adjacent to the first processor, and the second connector is adjacent to the second processor. |
| US12101876B2 |
Circuit module for mounting high frequency circuit carriers
A circuit module comprising a printed circuit board, PCB, arrangement, a connection module, CM, and a high frequency circuit carrier, HFCC, are provided. The HFCC is arranged on the PCB arrangement. The CM is mounted on the PCB arrangement. The CM comprises at least one connection pad and is configured to electrically connect a metallic structure on or in the printed circuit board to the connection pad of the CM. The HFCC comprises at least one connection pad. At least one bond wire is provided to electrically connect the at least one connection pad to the HFCC to the at least one connection pad of the CM. The CM has a height over the PCB so that the at least one connection pad of the HFCC and at least one connection pad of the CM are on a same level or have a height difference that is less than 2 mm, preferably less than 1 mm, most preferably less than 0.8 mm. |
| US12101872B2 |
Shield printed wiring board with ground member and ground member
A shielded printed wiring board with a ground member wherein even though a thermal load is applied, the connection stability between the electroconductive particles of a ground member and the shielding layer of a shielding film is hardly deteriorated is provided. A shielded printed wiring board with a ground member of the present invention is a shielded printed wiring board with a ground member, including: a substrate film formed by sequentially stacking a base film, a printed circuit including a ground circuit, and an insulating film; a shielding film including a shielding layer and a protective layer laminated on the shielding layer, the shielding film covering the substrate film such that the shielding layer is closer to the substrate film than the protective layer is; and a ground member arranged on the protective layer of the shielding film, the ground member including an external connection member having a first main surface and a second main surface opposite to the first main surface, and having electroconductivity, electroconductive particles disposed on the first main surface side, and an adhesive resin for fixing the electroconductive particles to the first main surface, wherein circularity of the cross sections of the electroconductive particles in the cross section of the ground member is 0.35 or more, and the electroconductive particles are penetrating the protective layer of the shielding film and connected to the shielding layer of the shielding film, and the external connection member of the ground member is electrically connectable to an external ground. |
| US12101870B2 |
High power ion beam generator systems and methods
Provided herein are high energy ion beam generator systems and methods that provide low cost, high performance, robust, consistent, uniform, low gas consumption and high current/high-moderate voltage generation of neutrons and protons. Such systems and methods find use for the commercial-scale generation of neutrons and protons for a wide variety of research, medical, security, and industrial processes. |
| US12101869B2 |
Particle accelerator and particle beam therapy apparatus
Disclosed a particle accelerator that accelerates a charged particle beam while circulating the charged particle beam as a circulating beam and outputs some of the circulating beam as an output beam, the particle accelerator including: a first deflection section and a second deflection sections each having a deflection electromagnet; a first straight section, a second straight section, and third straight section each not having the deflection electromagnet; and a control unit, wherein a preceding output deflector of the first straight section deflects some of the circulating beam toward an inner side of a circulating trajectory of the circulating beam to separate the some of the circulating beam as an output beam, wherein a succeeding output deflector of the third straight section deflects the output beam separated from the circulating beam by the preceding output deflector toward an outer side of the circulating trajectory of the circulating beam, and wherein the control unit controls at least the quadrupole electromagnet such that a phase advance of a betatron oscillation of the output beam is 270±45 degrees in a section from the preceding output deflector to the succeeding output deflector. |
| US12101868B2 |
Thermal plasma treatment method for sulfur hexafluoride degradation
The present disclosure discloses a thermal plasma treatment method for sulfur hexafluoride (SF6) degradation. In the thermal plasma treatment method for SF6 degradation, Ar is input into a thermal plasma generator as a carrier gas; annular electrodes are electrically connected to a direct current power supply to generate an arc plasma region in the presence of the carrier gas Ar; to-be-reacted SF6 and to-be-reacted H2 in a predetermined ratio are input into the arc plasma region to generate hydrogen radicals as well as fluorine radicals, and the hydrogen radicals and the fluorine radicals are bonded with each other to generate HF to inhibit the self-recovery reaction of SF6; and final products include HF and elemental S. |
| US12101866B2 |
Phase-gate hybrid coating crisp plate
A microwave-heating crisp plate includes a body defining a food-supporting surface and an outer surface opposite the food-supporting surface, and a coating applied over at least a portion of the outer surface. The coating includes a base polymer material defining a matrix, carbon nanotubes, and ferrite particles. The carbon nanotubes and the ferrite particles are dispersed throughout the matrix in a predetermined relative ratio and in a predetermined dispersal ratio with respect to the matrix. |
| US12101865B2 |
Combination microwave and hood system
A combined ventilation and microwave oven system includes an external enclosure with a top portion defining recirculation vent outlets, a cooling air outlet, and an outside vent outlet, side portions, and a bottom portion defining vent inlets. The vent inlets are in fluid communication with the recirculation vent outlets in a recirculation mode and the outside vent outlet in an outside vent mode. A cooling fan is disposed between the cooking cavity and the first side portion and is configured to direct air through the cooling air inlet and the cooling air outlet. A hood assembly is disposed within the external enclosure and includes at least one first hood fan disposed between the cooking cavity and the first side portion, and a second hood fan disposed between the cooking cavity and the second side portion to direct air through the vent inlets and through an interior of the external enclosure. |
| US12101859B2 |
Illumination light control based on orientation
A computing system includes an illumination light source configured to emit illumination light into an external environment and an orientation sensor configured to estimate an orientation of the illumination light source relative to the external environment. The computing system includes a logic subsystem and a storage subsystem holding instructions executable by the logic subsystem to define a light restriction zone within the external environment. Based at least in part on the orientation of the illumination light source, the illumination light source is dynamically controlled to direct the illumination light toward at least a portion of the external environment outside the light restriction zone, while mitigating emission of the illumination light into the light restriction zone. |
| US12101857B2 |
Light source driver circuit, optical measuring device comprising the light source driver circuit, device for checking value documents, and method for operating a light source load by means of the light source driver circuit
A light source driver circuit has a switching regulator including a voltage input, a voltage output, and a regulation input; a current source with a switching element and a voltage-controllable member arranged in series with the light source load. A pulse signal is applied to a control terminal of the switching element to connect, in a first switching state of the switching element, a control terminal of the voltage-controllable member to a voltage source and in a second switching state of the switching element not to connect the control terminal of the voltage-controllable member to the voltage source; and a regulation unit. An optical measuring instrument includes a light source driver circuit, a device checks value documents with the light source driver circuit, and a method is provided for operating a light source load with the light source driver circuit. |
| US12101851B2 |
Methods, network function nodes and computer readable media for contents communication management
The present disclosure provides methods and network function nodes for managing a communication of contents for a first UE. The method includes retrieving subscription data for the first UE from a third NF node, the subscription data indicating an identifier of a second UE which is a target of the contents for the first UE, transmitting the contents and the identifier of the second UE to a second NF node, receiving a message built with the contents from the second NF node, and transmitting the message to the second UE. The present disclosure further provides corresponding computer readable medium. |
| US12101850B2 |
Method and system for establishing multiple connections at a wireless communication device
The present invention discloses methods and systems for communicating at a cellular router between a first wireless communication module and a first subscriber identity module (SIM). The cellular router receives a first request from a first wireless communication module and encapsulates the first request in a first modified request. The cellular router then sends the first modified request to a first SIM card in a first communication apparatus and waits for a first modified reply. While waiting for the first modified reply the cellular router sends at least one halt message to the first wireless communication module after a first time threshold. After receiving the first modified reply, the cellular router decapsulates the first modified reply to retrieve a first reply and sends the first reply to the first wireless communication module where the first modified reply is a reply to the first modified request. |
| US12101849B2 |
Method and system for providing connected car service using mobile networks of different operators
A method of operating a vehicle terminal mounted on a connected car includes receiving, from a remote server, a vehicle state check request for changing a mobile network operator (MNO) which provides a communication network to be connected via a communication modem, checking a vehicle state according to the vehicle state check request and transmitting a vehicle state result determined based on the checked vehicle state to the remote server, receiving a request to change a subscriber profile of a first MNO set to the communication modem for a subscriber profile of a second MNO when the vehicle state result indicates that a subscriber profile update is possible, changing the communication modem with the subscriber profile of the second MNO, and accessing a communication network of the second MNO, and receiving a connected car service from the remote server via the communication network of the second MNO. |
| US12101847B1 |
System and method for controlling signaling during X2/Xn TNLA discovery process
A UE reports an ECGI of a target eNB/gNB missing an X2/Xn interface to a source eNB/gNB. The source eNB/gNB sends a configuration transfer message to a network element to get the X2/Xn interface TNLA of the target eNB/gNB. The source eNB/gNB initiates an initial backoff timer and an exponential backoff multiplier. The source eNB/gNB determines whether the TNLA discovery procedure time is equal to or greater than a current backoff time, the current backoff time being equal to a previous backoff period multiplied by the exponential backoff multiplier. The source eNB/gNB may resend the configuration transfer message to the network element when a previous TNLA discovery procedure time for the same ECGI is equal to or greater than the current backoff time, and not resend the configuration transfer message to the network element when the previous TNLA discovery procedure time is less than the current backoff time. |
| US12101845B2 |
Method for handling a radio resource control cell group configuration
This document describes techniques and apparatuses for handling radio resource control (RRC) cell group configuration. In implementations, a base station (120) receives a first radio resource control message that requests a connection procedure between a user equipment (110) and the base station (e.g., 325, 425, 1325), such as a radio resource control resume request or a radio resource setup request. In response to receiving the first radio resource control message, the base station (120) generates a second radio resource control message that includes a cell-group-configuration information element that excludes a reconfiguration-with-sync information element (e.g., 330, 430, 1330). The base station (120) then transmits the second radio resource control message to the user equipment (110) (e.g., 335, 435, 1345). Afterward, the base station (120) receives, from the user equipment (110), a third radio resource control message that indicates the connection procedure is complete (e.g., 340, 440, 1350). |
| US12101842B2 |
Discontinuous reception configuration method and device
The present disclosure provides a method and apparatus for discontinuous reception (DRX) configuration. The method is applicable to a base station. The base station configures a corresponding designated DRX parameter for a designated BWP. The base station configures at least one bandwidth part (BWP) for a terminal. The base station generates a DRX configuration information for indicating that the designated DRX parameter is to be used on the designated BWP. The base station sends the DRX configuration information to the terminal for the terminal to use the designated DRX parameter on the designated BWP based on the DRX configuration information. |
| US12101838B2 |
Communications method, apparatus, and system
A user plane network element management method, apparatus, and system are provided so that a session management network element can correctly address a data plane instance. The session management network element determines information about a target data plane instance, where the information about the target data plane instance includes a routing indicator, the routing indicator is used to determine an address of the target data plane instance, and the target data plane instance is associated with a wireless integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node. |
| US12101837B2 |
Failure recovery for multi-UE device
Methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed for implementing recovery from a communication failure. A method includes receiving, by a first user equipment, an indication that a second user equipment has experienced a failure, where the first user equipment and the second user equipment are part of a same device, and where the first user equipment is configured with a first primary reliability group and where the second user equipment is configured with a second primary reliability group; based upon the indication, the first user equipment transmitting to a network equipment a first signal to activate a secondary reliability group for the first user equipment; and receiving, by the first user equipment, a second signal to use the secondary reliability group, where the second signal is at least partially based upon the first signal transmitted from the first user equipment. |
| US12101836B2 |
Network solution for handling missed uplink grants
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A base station may transmit a first transport block including a first uplink grant which schedules a first set of uplink shared channel transmissions for the UE. The base station may monitor the channel to detect an energy value for a demodulation reference signal (DMRS) associated with the one or more uplink shared channel transmissions associated with the first uplink grant that is less than a threshold energy value. Based on the relatively low DMRS energy, the base station may modify a size of a second transport block relative to the first transport block, the second transport block including a second uplink grant that schedules a second set of one or more uplink shared channel transmissions for the UE. The base station may then signal the grant for the modified second transport block to the UE or to another device. |
| US12101831B2 |
Association establishment method and apparatus
An association establishment method and apparatus for carrying out the method are described. The association establishment method includes broadcasting, by an access point (AP), a trigger frame, wherein the trigger frame is used to trigger one or more unassociated stations STAs to perform uplink data transmission and indicate one or more available subchannels for random accessing of the unassociated STAs. The method further comprises receiving, by the AP, one or more association request messages sent on available subchannels acquired by the unassociated STAs. Thereafter, the AP broadcasts a multi-block acknowledgement M-BA frame, wherein the M-BA frame includes one or more pieces of association acknowledgement information and the association acknowledgement information is acknowledgement information of the association request message. |
| US12101828B2 |
Multicarrier signal transmission in wireless communications
Methods, systems, and apparatuses are described for wireless communications. Cells may be grouped into a plurality of cell groups. If a first signal is configured for transmission via a first cell of a first cell group in parallel with a transmission of a second signal via a second cell of a second cell group, a wireless device may drop, or adjust transmission power of, at least one of the first signal or the second signal. |
| US12101826B2 |
Method of performing random access (RA) procedure, and transmitting device, apparatus and storage medium therefor, and method and apparatus for transmitting MAC PDU of RA procedure
In the present disclosure, a UE transmits a random access preamble (RAP) on a physical random access channel (PRACH) and a control channel (CCCH) service data unit (SDU) on a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH); and receives a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (PDU) based on transmitting the RAP and the CCCH SDU. The MAC PDU includes a MAC subheader. The MAC subheader includes a first indicator field regarding whether the MAC subheader include an RAP identity (ID) or not. The MAC subheader further includes a second indicator field regarding whether the MAC subheader includes a backoff indicator field or not, based on the first indicator field set to a value indicating that the MAC subheader does not include an RAP ID. |
| US12101822B2 |
Random access method and device
A random access method and device. The method includes receiving, by user equipment, a radio resource control (RRC) connection reconfiguration message from a first network device, the RRC connection reconfiguration message indicating a primary serving cell of the second network device for a user equipment, an active uplink bandwidth part (BWP) in the primary serving cell, and an active downlink BWP in the primary serving cell, the RRC connection reconfiguration message includes an uplink BWP identifier indicating the active uplink BWP and a downlink BWP identifier indicating the active downlink BWP, the uplink BWP identifier corresponds to the active uplink BWP, the downlink BWP identifier corresponds to the active downlink BWP, and initiating, by the user equipment, a random access procedure to the second network device on the active uplink BWP and the active downlink BWP. |
| US12101821B2 |
Mobile-terminated early data transmission
A wireless device is configured for use in a wireless communication system. The wireless device is configured to transmit signaling indicating whether or not the wireless device is capable of receiving user data during a random access procedure. The signaling may for instance indicate whether or not the wireless device is capable of receiving user data over a user plane during a random access procedure, e.g., by indicating whether or not the wireless device supports early data for cellular internet of things, CIoT, Evolved Packet System, EPS, user plane (UP) optimization. Regardless, the wireless device may also receive user data during the random access procedure in accordance with said signaling. |
| US12101818B2 |
Random access method and apparatus
A random access method is provided including: a terminal side device obtains first uplink data from a first message buffer, wherein the first message buffer is a buffer specific to a first random access procedure, the first random access procedure is a procedure in which the terminal side device sends a first random access request, sends the first uplink data on a first uplink resource, and receives response information, and the response information is a first random access response to the first random access request or a response to the first uplink data. The terminal side device sends the first random access request to a network side device, and sends the first uplink data to the network side device on the first uplink resource. The terminal side device detects downlink control information, wherein the downlink control information indicates a resource of the response information. |
| US12101816B2 |
Sounding reference signal transmission in a wireless network
Wireless communications are described in which a wireless device may receive a message comprising a timing advance command (TAC) for a secondary cell group. The wireless device may transmit or drop one or more sounding reference signals via a secondary cell of the secondary cell group, after applying the TAC. |
| US12101815B2 |
Communication method and terminal device
Provided are a communication method and a terminal device. The communication method includes: sending, by a first terminal device, a first sidelink channel to a second terminal device over a first sidelink, wherein the first sidelink channel comprises first channel occupancy time (COT) sharing information, wherein the first sidelink channel further comprises a first physical sidelink control channel (PSCCH), the first PSCCH comprises first stage sidelink control information (SCI), and time domain resources on which the first COT sharing information and the first stage SCI are located are adjacent, and wherein the first COT sharing information is carried in a first physical sidelink shared channel (PSSCH) of the first sidelink channel |
| US12101808B2 |
Method and devices for performing uplink transmission in a shared downlink channel occupancy time
A method for performing uplink transmission by a user equipment within a downlink channel occupancy time shared by a base station. The method includes obtaining a first indication about an uplink transmission starting point allocated by the base station; obtaining a second indication about a channel sensing type to apply; obtaining a third indication about a channel sensing position selected by the base station amongst one or more candidate positions; applying channel sensing based on said second and third indications during a channel sensing duration; initiating uplink transmission after the channel sensing duration, if allowed, in advance to the allocated starting point by: a first time duration which compensate for the propagation time, and a second time duration which fills at least part of the time gap between the end of the channel sensing duration and the beginning of the first time duration. |
| US12101807B2 |
Channel access method and apparatus for transmission of a signal in unlicensed spectrum
Embodiments of the present invention provides a method and an apparatus for channel access for the transmission of a signal. The method includes: counting down, by a first device, an initial value N of a random backoff counter within a contention window; sensing, by the first device, a channel status; determining, by the first device, whether or not to perform transmission of the signal within a periodic window based on the sensed channel status; transmitting, by the first device, the signal after sensing the channel to be idle. Therefore, the channel access method and apparatus adapt to the data and control traffic load in the channel using LBT with random back-off with a contention window of variable size. |
| US12101801B2 |
Method performed by user equipment, and user equipment
The present invention provides a method performed by user equipment and user equipment. The method includes: receiving sidelink configuration information transmitted by a base station as first configuration information; receiving a sidelink reference signal received power (RSRP) threshold list SL-ThresPSSCH-RSRP-List transmitted by the base station; receiving sidelink control information (SCI) transmitted by other user equipment; and determining a threshold of reference signal received power (RSRP) according to configuration information of a sensing priority included in the first configuration information, namely second configuration information sensingPriority-r15, and/or priority indication information prioRX included in the SCI. |
| US12101800B2 |
Resource pool assignment
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for resource pool assignment. One method (800) includes receiving (802) information indicating that multiple resource pools are assigned to a bandwidth part. Each resource pool of the multiple resource pools corresponds to a different numerology, a different maximum physical sidelink shared channel duration, or a combination thereof. The method (800) includes assigning (804) the multiple resource pools to the bandwidth part. |
| US12101799B2 |
Wireless resource selection
Wireless resources may be determined for communications between wireless devices. A wireless device may select resources based on measuring one or more channels (e.g., associated with sidelink transmission, feedback transmission, etc.). Resource selection may comprise exclusion of certain resources being used for other communications and/or exclusion or selection of resources based on one or more priorities. |
| US12101797B2 |
Methods and systems for use of carrier aggregation capability
A method and system for use of carrier aggregation capability. In some embodiments, the method includes receiving, by a network, a declaration of capabilities, from a user equipment (UE), the declaration of capabilities including: a declaration of a first capability for a first component carrier (CC), and a declaration of a second capability for a second CC. The method may further include configuring, by the network, the UE with one or more CCs including the first CC and not including the second CC, the configuring including configuring the first CC with a configuration exceeding the first capability. |
| US12101794B2 |
Communication in a wireless network using restricted bandwidths
A base station is configured to transmit at least one signal in a first bandwidth portion of a cell, the at least one signal having a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS) and a physical broadcast channel (PBCH). The PBCH including a master information block (MIB), the MIB having an indication of time and frequency resources in relation to the at least one signal to acquire additional system information, the first bandwidth portion having a bandwidth less than a full bandwidth of the cell. The base station is further configured to transmit in time and frequency resources associated with the indication of the time and frequency resources and additional system information. The additional system information indicates a second bandwidth portion of the cell, the acquired additional system information being acquired within the second bandwidth portion. |
| US12101791B2 |
Device information in a context setup request
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for transmitting and/or receiving device information in a context setup request. One method (800) includes transmitting (802) a context setup request to a first device. The context setup request includes information corresponding to a second device. The method (800) includes receiving (804) a response to the context setup request. |
| US12101786B2 |
Carrier information transmission to wireless devices
Methods, apparatuses, and systems for wireless communications are described. A base station may send a message with configuration parameters to a wireless device, and the configuration parameters may be for at least two different types of carriers used for communications. |
| US12101784B2 |
Control information indicating method, communication node and computer readable storage medium
Provided are a control information indicating method, a communication node and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes: sending, by a first communication node, control information to a second communication node, where the control information is used for indicating the scheduling of one or more transport blocks, each transport block corresponds to a respective one of hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) processes when being scheduled, and each HARQ process has a corresponding HARQ process index and new data indication (NDI) information. |
| US12101779B2 |
Wireless communication method, terminal device, and network device
Implementations of the present application provided a wireless communication method, a terminal device, and a network device, for use in improving the flexibility of downlink control information (DCI). The method comprises: executing a transmitting operation of a first feedback sequence on a first uplink resource, wherein the first feedback sequence comprises feedback information corresponding to at least one first DCI; the feedback information corresponding to the first DCI reflects the reception condition of a data channel scheduled by the first DCI or the reception condition of the first DCI; the resource position of the first uplink resource is obtained by the approach other than the approach of obtaining from the first DCI. |
| US12101771B2 |
Terminal and radio communication method for suppressing deterioration of communication quality
A terminal according to one aspect of the present disclosure includes a receiving section that receives a plurality of pieces of first control information to indicate activation of TCI states respectively corresponding to transmission and reception points and second control information to designate a specific TCI state from activated TCI states, and a control section that determines, based on a value of a specific field included in the first control information, a transmission and reception point to which a TCI state to be activated corresponds. |
| US12101768B2 |
Method and device for dynamically adjusting a number of resources elements for uplink control information
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a User Equipment (UE) and a base station for wireless communication. A UE first receives a first signaling and a first downlink signaling, and transmits a first radio signal. Herein, the first signaling comprises scheduling information of the first radio signal, the scheduling information includes at least one of a time domain resource occupied, a frequency domain resource occupied, a MCS, a HARQ process number, a RV or a NDI; the first radio signal comprises M first type sub-signal(s) and a second type sub-signal, the M first type sub-signal(s) carries(carry) M first type bit block(s) respectively. The above method can dynamically adjust the number of REs occupied by uplink control information on an uplink physical layer data channel so as to control the transmission reliability of the uplink control information in a flexible manner. |
| US12101767B2 |
Block feedback with variable feedback timing for semi-persistent scheduling
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for block feedback of multiple semi-persistent scheduling (SPS) occasions. Block feedback may be provided based on variable feedback timing values that are associated with one or more SPS occasions. A user equipment (UE) may determine feedback for each of two or more SPS occasions, and transmit a block feedback that indicates the feedback. A separate feedback timing between a SPS occasion and uplink feedback resources may be provided for multiple SPS occasions, which are associated with a single uplink feedback resource. Alternatively, a minimum feedback timing value and a maximum feedback timing value may be configured for a particular uplink resource, and block feedback for multiple SPS occasions within the minimum and maximum feedback timing values may be reported in the uplink feedback resource. |
| US12101766B2 |
Control of DRX using layer-1 signaling
Techniques are provided for fast adaptation of DRX settings used by a UE via L1 signaling in order to reduce power consumption by the UE. Generally, the UE is configured for DRX by a higher layer protocol (e.g. RRC), and L1 signaling can be used to control or adapt the DRX by the UE. For example, the L1 signaling may be used to adjust or override 5 operation of an IAT. The downlink control information may be sent in an existing downlink control message or in a new downlink control message. The downlink control message may be a scheduling message scheduling a data transmission to or from the UE. |
| US12101765B2 |
Uplink scheduling techniques for enhanced feedback in wireless communications
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described for efficient allocation of feedback resources and transmission of feedback for low latency communications. A first user equipment (UE) may be allocated uplink resources for uplink transmissions having one or more gaps during which a second UE may transmit feedback information to initiate a retransmission within specified time limits to achieve desired quality of service (QoS) targets. The one or more gaps may be provided through a downlink control information message that indicates uplink resources to the first UE based on a first starting transmission symbol and a first length indicator, and a second starting transmission symbol and a second length indicator. The one or more gaps may be additionally or alternatively provided through one or more reserved symbols, and the first UE may skip uplink transmissions in one or more reserved symbols. |
| US12101761B2 |
Communications devices, methods of operating communications devices, infrastructure equipment and methods
A method of operating a communications device to transmit data to a wireless communications network comprises preparing to transmit uplink data as one or more transport blocks using a selected set of communications resources. The method includes detecting that the set of communications resources selected for transmitting the uplink data on the uplink resources will cause transmission of a transport block across a boundary between two of the time divided units or slots, and adapting the transmission of the detected transport block to avoid the boundary between the two time slots. |
| US12101760B2 |
Communication method and communication apparatus
A terminal device determines a resource of a physical uplink control channel. The physical uplink control channel carries a first encoded bit sequence and a second encoded bit sequence, the first encoded bit sequence is corresponding to first uplink control information, and the second encoded bit sequence is corresponding to second uplink control information. The resource for the physical uplink control channel includes N orthogonal frequency division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol sets. The first encoded bit sequence is carried in an OFDM symbol included in j OFDM symbol sets, the j OFDM symbol sets are a part of or all of of the N OFDM symbol sets, where j is a positive integer less than or equal to N. The terminal device sends, on the resource for the physical uplink control channel, a signal that is generated based on the first uplink control information and the second uplink control information. |
| US12101759B2 |
Methods and systems for establishing in-flight network traffic policies for personal electronic devices
Methods and systems establish a traffic policy for a personal electronic device based on one or more physical characteristics of the device. In some aspects, a database of traffic policies is maintained. The traffic policies are for accessing a network via a wireless communications link. A network access unit receives a request from a personal electronic device to access the network. The request is analyzed to determine a physical characteristic of the device. A traffic policy is established from the database for the device based, at least in part, on the determined physical characteristic of the device. Transmission of network traffic for the device is then scheduled based at least in part, on the established traffic policy. |
| US12101755B2 |
Multiple radio opportunistic scheduling
Scheduling communications using a plurality of wireless interfaces is provided. Signals are monitored that are received from a first antenna configured to send and/or receive first messages over a first message protocol. Using the signals, time slot information is updated that is indicative of which equally-sized consecutive future time slots the first antenna is predicted to transmit and/or receive the first messages. A transmission is scheduled of a second message over a second antenna configured to send and/or receive second messages over a second message protocol using the time slot information to avoid out-of-band emission (OOBE) interference. |
| US12101753B2 |
MU-MIMO scheduling
A multi-user multiple-input multiple-output (MU-MIMO) scheduling method is disclosed for scheduling transmission from a plurality of transmission instances to a plurality of receivers. The method comprises acquiring, for each pair of a transmission instance and a receiver, a communication quality metric and forming a first group of receivers from the plurality of receivers. The first group of receivers is formed by selecting a first receiver as a first group member and associating a first transmission instance to the first receiver and—when a plurality of communication quality metrics of the first transmission instance and not yet selected receivers fulfill a first criterion for sufficient communication quality—selecting a second receiver from the not yet selected receivers as a second group member and associating a second transmission instance to the second receiver. The communication quality metric of the first transmission instance and the second receiver fulfills the first criterion for sufficient communication quality and indicates a lower communication quality than the highest communication quality among the plurality of communication quality metrics that fulfill the first criterion for sufficient communication quality. The method also comprises forming at least a second group of receivers from the plurality of receivers by repeating the selection steps for receivers not included in the first group of receivers, and scheduling MU-MIMO transmission to the receivers of each group from the corresponding associated transmission instances. Corresponding apparatus, deployment server, and computer program product are also disclosed. |
| US12101749B2 |
Control channel monitoring capability determining methods, user equipment and network device
The present disclosure discloses control channel monitoring capability determining methods, a User Equipment (UE) and a network device, applicable to a communication system. One of the methods is applied in a UE and includes: receiving a resource configuration of a Physical Downlink Control Channel (PDCCH); and determining, based on the resource configuration of the PDCCH, a first target PDCCH monitoring capability corresponding to a first span combination and a second target PDCCH monitoring capability corresponding to a second span combination. The first span combination and the second span combination are applicable to a same time domain unit, and the first target PDCCH monitoring capability and the second target PDCCH monitoring capability are independent from each other. |
| US12101748B2 |
Method and device related to resources for transmission of bit block in nodes used for wireless communication
The present disclosure discloses a method and a device in a node for wireless communications. A first receiver receives a first signaling; a first transmitter transmits a first signal in a target radio resource pool, the first signal carries a first bit block; wherein the first bit block indicates a first state or a second state; the first signaling is used to determine at least one of a first radio resource pool or a second radio resource pool; the target radio resource pool is the first radio resource pool, the second radio resource pool or one of a first-type radio resource pool; when both the first radio resource pool and the second radio resource pool do not overlap with the first-type radio resource pool in time domain and the first bit block indicates the first state, the target radio resource pool is the first radio resource pool. |
| US12101747B2 |
Communication method and apparatus
This application discloses a communication method and an apparatus. A principle of the method is as follows: A spreading factor of a spreading block is adjusted based on available resource elements REs in a time-frequency resource block, then, the spreading block is generated by using the adjusted spreading factor, and finally, the generated spreading block is mapped to the available resource elements in the time-frequency resource block for sending. In this way, a requirement that “locations of spreading blocks of a plurality of users need to be aligned” can be satisfied, and no complex symbol is discarded, so that detection performance of the spreading blocks is ensured. |
| US12101746B2 |
Method and device for wireless communication on random access
The disclosure provides a method and a device for wireless communication. A first signaling is received, the first signaling including a first identifier and a second identifier; and a first signal is transmitted; wherein the first signaling is used for determining a first time-frequency resource set and a second time-frequency resource set, the first time-frequency resource set and the second time-frequency resource set are associated to the first identifier and the second identifier respectively, the first time-frequency resource set and the second time-frequency resource set are both used for random access. Through reasonably associating the second identifier to the second time-frequency resources in K1 cells, with the first node transmitting K2 candidate cells to facilitate random access, the disclosure improves the rate of successful access. |
| US12101744B2 |
Signaling of quasi-co-location information in wireless systems
Methods, systems, and devices for signaling quasi-co-location information in mobile communication technology are described. An exemplary method for wireless communication includes transmitting, from a first communication node and to a second communication node, a signal according to a beam set that comprises a first subset of B beams selected from a pool of beams, wherein B is positive integer. In an example, a beam of the beam set comprises one or more channel property assumptions, one or more reference signals (RSs), one or more RS sets, one or more spatial relation states, one or more quasi-co-location (QCL) states, one or more transmission configuration indicator (TCI) state, one or more spatial domain filters or one or more pre-coding filters. |
| US12101743B2 |
Phase tracking reference signal configurations for sidelink communications
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive signaling indicating a phase tracking reference signal (PTRS) configuration for sidelink communications. The indicated PTRS configuration may correspond to a sidelink resource pool associated with a plurality of UEs. The UE may transmit control signaling indicating to change the indicated PTRS configuration to a preferred PTRS configuration for the sidelink communications based on a condition. The UE may receive the sidelink communications based on the preferred PTRS configuration. |
| US12101742B2 |
Beam control for repetitions
Transmission repetitions may be used in wireless communications. Control channel repetition may be used for scheduling communications between a base station and a wireless device. Control information, sent via the control channel, may indicate a wireless resource for the scheduled communications. The wireless device may determine, using the control information, the wireless resource corresponding to a default resource pool, a resource pool used for at least one repetition of the control channel, and/or based on a resource pool indicated via the control channel. |
| US12101739B2 |
Paging method for WTRU with multiple USIMS
A method for use in wireless transmit/receive unit (WTRU) which assesses both a first network and a second network to receive radio frames from each of the first network and the second network is disclosed. The method comprise: obtaining a first paging occasion (PO) as the first network's current PO and a second PO as the second network's current PO; determining whether there is a PO collision between the first PO and the second PO, on condition that there is the PO collision, selecting a network from the first network and the second network, and sending a request to the selected network; receiving, from the selected network, a collision avoidance parameter corresponding to the request; calculating a third PO for the selected network using the collision avoidance parameter, and using the third PO as the selected network's current PO. |
| US12101737B2 |
Paging occasion and paging early indication configuration for different types of user equipments
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for paging occasion (PO) and paging early indication (PEI) configurations. In particular, the present disclosure provides techniques for configuring various paging parameters on different types of user equipments (UEs), including, such as, reduced capability (RedCap) UEs. For example, a network entity transmits signaling jointly configuring at least first and second types of UEs having different capabilities with a first set of paging parameters. The network entity transmits signaling that separately configures at least the first and second types of UEs with a second set of paging parameters. The network entity communicates with the first and the second types of UEs in accordance with the first and second set of paging parameters. |
| US12101735B1 |
Mobile ground equipment location monitoring systems and methods
A system that includes a plurality of IoT devices associated with ground equipment items, a plurality of gateways to receive data from the IoT devices, and an application that receives the data from the IoT devices, is used to manage mobile ground equipment within an airport and track flight data to match available, working equipment with turnarounds and/or flights based on flight data requirements, predicted turn time, gate position, required special needs equipment, and working/failed equipment. |
| US12101729B2 |
Edge communication networks with edge-located clocks and associated methods
A method for synchronizing a timing end application (TEA) in an edge communication network includes (a) receiving, at a first access device, a time stamp from a first TEA communicatively coupled to the first access device, (b) transmitting the time stamp from the first access device to a second access device via communication media of the edge communication network, (c) adjusting the time stamp to account for transit time of the time stamp from the first access device to the second access device, and (d) after adjusting the time stamp, transmitting the time stamp from the second access device to a second TEA communicatively coupled to the second access device. |
| US12101727B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting PDSCH in wireless communication system
Disclosed is a communication technique for merging, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a data transmission rate higher than that of a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure can be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car or connected car, healthcare, digital education, retail, security, and safety-related services, and the like) on the basis of 5G communication technology and IoT-related technology. The purpose of the present invention is to efficiently transmit downlink data in a slot in which a synchronization signal block is transmitted and, according to the present invention, a base station in a communication system checks whether a synchronization signal block and downlink data are transmitted in the same slot, determines a downlink data transmission method when the synchronization signal block and the downlink data are transmitted in the same slot, and transmits the downlink data and a demodulation reference signal for the downlink data to a terminal on the basis of the downlink data transmission method, and the downlink data transmission method can be determined on the basis of at least one of the transmission pattern of the synchronization signal block, the relationship between the synchronization signal block and a subcarrier interval applied to the downlink data, and the index of the slot in which the synchronization signal block is to be transmitted. |
| US12101726B2 |
Synchronization for multi-transmission reception point communications in non-terrestrial networks
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Some wireless communications systems may support non-terrestrial network (NTN) signaling between both terrestrial and non-terrestrial devices. A user equipment (UE) supporting such NTN signaling may receive a downlink message indicating a first configuration for a first transmission reception point corresponding to a first cell of the NTN, and a second configuration for a second transmission reception point corresponding to a second cell of the NTN. The UE may then perform one or more synchronization measurements to synchronize uplink communications with the first transmission reception point and the second transmission reception point and in order to perform multi-transmission reception point communications in the NTN. The UE may then transmit one or more uplink messages to the first transmission reception point, to the second transmission reception point, or both, in accordance with the one or more synchronization measurements. |
| US12101725B2 |
Transmission power control
Some aspects of this disclosure include apparatuses and methods for implementing transmission power control. Some aspects relate to an electronic device including a transceiver configured to communicate with a second electronic device and a processor communicatively coupled to the transceiver. The processor is configured to receive an identification information of the second electronic device and receive, from the second electronic device, at least one of a plurality of feedback signals. The plurality of feedback signals includes a first feedback signal generated based on a link quality query from the electronic device and a second feedback signal including an encoded channel status information embedded within an acknowledgment (ACK) frame from the second electronic device. Based on the received identification information and the at least one of the plurality of feedback signals, the processor is configured to adjust transmission power of a signal to be transmitted to the second electronic device. |
| US12101722B2 |
Random access message transmission method and apparatus, and storage medium
A method for transmitting a random access message, executed by a base station, includes: configuring a specified power difference range for a terminal; and receiving a first random access message sent by the terminal according to a first transmission power. The first transmission power include a first power of a Physical Random Access Channel (PRACH) of the first random access message and a second power of a Physical Uplink Shared Channel (PUSCH) of the first random access message, and a difference between the first power and the second power is within the specified power difference range. |
| US12101717B2 |
Wireless communications method and apparatus
A method includes: receiving, by a terminal device, indication information on a first serving cell; and performing, by the terminal device, first processing if the indication information indicates not to monitor a PDCCH, where the first processing includes at least one of the following: not monitoring a PDCCH on at least one second serving cell or not monitoring a PDCCH for the at least one second serving cell; or performing, by the terminal device, second processing if the indication information indicates to monitor a PDCCH, where the second processing includes at least one of the following: monitoring a PDCCH on at least one second serving cell or monitoring a PDCCH for the at least one second serving cell. |
| US12101706B2 |
Systems and methods for health monitoring and providing emergency support
Systems and methods for providing a health monitoring and emergency response service are provided. Each element in a plurality of data elements is obtained from a health monitoring device connected to a corresponding subject in a plural of subjects. An alert is triggered through analysis of the data element or manually triggered by the subject or a subject's circle of support. The subject or one or more members of the circle of support of the subject verifies or rejects the alert. The alert is sent to a remote monitoring alarm center and emergency responders are dispatched. |
| US12101704B2 |
System and method for automatic bluetooth pairing
A method and system for automatically connecting one customer device with another over a Bluetooth or similar connection. The automatic connection may be made by generating a unique identifier to store on a new customer device and a backend system associated with an existing customer device and connecting the new customer device with the existing customer device using the unique identifier. |
| US12101703B2 |
Apparatus, method and program for transmitting and receiving data to and from IOT device
Transmitting or receiving data between IoT device and external server on IP network, with a first server receiving signaling data including a message over a cellular network from the IoT device, the signaling data transmitted to a telephone number of the first server, a second server identifying a destination of the message or data corresponding to the message based on the signaling data, the signaling data includes a destination identifier being a numeral or a symbol with predetermined digits or digits less than the predetermined digits, different from the telephone number, and indirectly representing the destination of the external server on the IP network, the destination is specified with reference to a correspondence between destination identifiers includable in the signaling data and URLs of external servers, and the second server transmits the message or data corresponding to the message to the destination by an HTTP request over IP network. |
| US12101701B2 |
Multi-static sensing network for assisting vehicle-to-everything (V2X) communication
A method of wireless communication by a first user equipment (UE) includes requesting multi-static channel sensing estimates from a device to establish a communications link with a second UE, and receiving the multi-static channel sensing estimates from the device. The method further includes setting communication parameters based on the multi-static channel sensing estimates. The method still further includes communicating with the second UE over the communications link based on the communication parameters. |
| US12101700B2 |
Internet of vehicles message notification method and apparatus
This application provides an internet of vehicles message notification method, applied to a multi-access edge computing system including a first application instance, a second application instance and an internetworking service instance. The method includes: receiving, by the first application instance, a notification message; sending, by the first application instance, the notification message to the interworking service instance; sending, by the interworking service instance, the notification message to the second application instance that subscribes to the message; and sending, by the second application instance, the notification message to an in-vehicle application served by the second application instance. As a result, data can be exchanged and shared between vehicles of different vehicle manufacturers and between internet of vehicles application instances of different vehicle manufacturers. Therefore, a real internet of vehicles service is implemented. |
| US12101691B2 |
RF-sensing-based human identification using combined gait and shape recognition
In some implementations, a method may comprise obtaining channel state information (CSI) data corresponding to a set of RF signals received by one or more receiving devices, wherein: the set RF signals comprises two or more reflected RF signals successively received by the one or more receiving devices after being reflected from a person, and the two or more reflected RF signals are received by the one or more receiving devices over a period of time. The method may further comprise determining an identity of the person based at least in part on an observed gait of the person and an observed shape of the person, wherein the observed gait of the person and the observed shape of the person are determined based at least in part on the CSI data. The method may further comprise outputting an indication of the determined identity of the person. |
| US12101690B2 |
Determining position information
A mobile device is disclosed. The mobile device may receive one or more wireless local area network (WLAN) signals. The mobile device may determine Channel State Information (CSI) data from the one or more WLAN signals. The mobile device may determine one or more environmental characteristics associated with an environment of the mobile device based on the CSI data. The mobile device may send information indicative of the one or more environmental characteristics to a location server (LS), or determine a position of the mobile device based at least in part on the one or more environmental characteristics, or any combination thereof. |
| US12101687B2 |
Identifying and locating users on a mobile network
A system and method of locating “friends” having mobile devices connected to a network and associated with a user account is disclosed. The method includes sending a request to a mobile device, the mobile device determining its present geographic location and responding to the requestor with this information. This information may be in the form of a coordinate location such as a GPS location or it may be in the form of a name that the mobile device owner assigned to a particular area (e.g., “home”). Having this location information, a user is able to view the location of the friend that is associated with the mobile device. |
| US12101685B2 |
Coordinated ranging between access points in a network
Examples described herein provide coordinated ranging between APs in a network. Examples described herein may receive, by a computing device, neighbor adjacency information for a plurality of access points (APs) in a network, and based on the neighbor adjacency information, assign, by the computing device, subsets of the plurality of APs to non-overlapping zones. Examples described herein may initiate, by the computing device for each of the non-overlapping zones, ranging measurements between the subset of APs in the zone to generate a ranging result, wherein the ranging measurements between the subsets of APs in the non-overlapping zones are performed in parallel. Examples described herein may, based on the ranging results, resolve, by the computing device, locations of the plurality of APs. |
| US12101682B2 |
Geo-based information provision, search and access method and software system
Method and system consist of a mobile application installed on a mobile device with internet connection and a geographical positioning device; a remote hosting server configured with software and database; an onsite wireless communication hosting apparatus. The mobile application communicates with the remote hosting server and the onsite wireless communication apparatus. The remote hosting server and onsite wireless communication apparatus communicate and transfer data to one another, the remote hosting server communicates with third party databases via secured access and retrieves location related information requested by onsite users of the mobile device. Web users at anywhere may select a location displayed on a digital map over interface of a web application configured to the remote hosting server; access the same as onsite users; including data entered by location owners, received from third-party databases via secured connection, and uploaded from onsite wireless communication apparatus. |
| US12101673B2 |
Methods and apparatus for mobility in moving networks
A method and apparatus for receiving a broadcast configuration indicating when a change in a RAN function termination occurs is provided, for example, by a timer value. The broadcast configuration may be received from a satellite, blimp or other moving transmitter. A dedicated configuration may also be received from the serving cell. The dedicated configuration may include a preamble, a transient configuration and an indication of a layer 2 behavior. If a WTRU detects a change in RAN function termination, the WTRU may suspend any uplink data transmissions, apply the transient configuration and transmit the preamble to a target cell. The WTRU may synchronize with the target cell and apply the layer 2 behavior. |
| US12101671B2 |
Wireless communication node scanning and association
Systems, devices, and techniques are described for communication node scanning and association in a wireless communication network. An illustrative method includes receiving, via a first channel, identifying information that identify a plurality of communication nodes that are configured to communicate via at least a second channel. The illustrative method further includes initiating communication, via at least the second channel, with a communication node based, at least in part, on the identifying information. |
| US12101669B2 |
Information transmission method, apparatus, and system
The technology of this application relates to an information transmission method, an apparatus, and a system. The method includes user equipment receives first indication information sent by a first network device, where the first indication information includes a polarization method of a target cell, and the user equipment performs cell measurement on the target cell based on the polarization method of the target cell. According to the method, the user equipment can obtain the polarization method of the target cell before entering the target cell. In this way, when performing cell handover and reselection, the user equipment can enable, based on the polarization method of the target cell, only a port corresponding to the polarization method of the target cell, to receive a satellite signal, and perform cell measurement on the target cell, to complete cell handover and reselection procedures. |
| US12101657B2 |
Methods for activation/deactivation of measurement configurations via linkage
A method for performing measurements in a wireless device is provided. The method comprises: storing a plurality of received measurement configurations, which are linked to each other; applying a first measurement configuration from the plurality of measurement of configurations; and determining whether to apply a second measurement configuration from the plurality of measurement configurations based on the first measurement configuration. |
| US12101655B2 |
Systems, methods, and devices having databases for electronic spectrum management
Systems, methods, and apparatus are provided for automated identification of baseline data and changes in state in a wireless communications spectrum, by identifying sources of signal emission in the spectrum by automatically detecting signals, analyzing signals, comparing signal data to historical and reference data, creating corresponding signal profiles, and determining information about the baseline data and changes in state based upon the measured and analyzed data in near real time, which is stored on each apparatus or device and/or on a remote server computer that aggregates data from each apparatus or device. |
| US12101653B2 |
Wireless communication method, terminal device and network device
Disclosed in embodiments of the present disclosure are a wireless communication method, a terminal device and a network device. The method includes that the terminal device receives configuration information of a first resource from the network device and the terminal device determines the first resource on a first bandwidth part (BWP) according to the configuration information. The first resource includes a channel state information reference signal CSI-RS resource and/or a channel state information interference measurement CSI-IM resource. The first BWP is a BWP on an unlicensed carrier, and the first BWP includes at least two subbands in a frequency domain. |
| US12101650B2 |
Communication method and communication apparatus
Embodiments provide a method and an apparatus including: A first terminal apparatus determines at least one of a reception capability parameter or a transmission capability parameter based on a first parameter, where the reception capability parameter includes a quantity of channels that can be received in a first time interval, the transmission capability parameter includes a maximum quantity of transmitted bits, and the first parameter is configured by a network device, where the first parameter includes one or more of the following: a maximum interval between slots of initial transmission and last retransmission, a subcarrier spacing, and a sub-band size. |
| US12101645B2 |
Apparatus and method for group based reporting beam management
Some embodiments include an apparatus, method, and computer program product for using group based reporting for beam management in a 5G wireless communications system. A user equipment (UE) can determine based on a signal-to-interference-plus noise ratio (SINR) or reference signal received power (RSRP) measurement, a ranking of two or more beam combinations, and transmit the ranking to a 5G node B (gNB). The UE can receive from the gNB, a transmission configuration indicator (TCI) codepoint that identifies a combination of two or more beams, where the TCI codepoint is based at least on the ranking. The UE can receive simultaneous transmissions via the combination, and transmit a report to the gNB that identifies by the TCI codepoint, SINRs that corresponds to the combination. In some embodiments the UE can simultaneously transmit on a second combination identified by a sounding reference signal (SRS) resource indicator (SRI) codepoint. |
| US12101642B1 |
Systems and methods for updating preferred nodes lists for wireless devices in a wireless network
A system for updating a preferred nodes list for a wireless device in a wireless network includes a server in communication with a plurality of nodes each configured to deploy a radio air interface to provide wireless services to wireless devices. The server includes a processor configured to instruct, in response to a trigger, a first node to send a message to a wireless device connected to the first node. The message instructs the wireless device to contact the server for an updated preferred nodes list. The processor receives a request for the updated preferred nodes list from the wireless device and provides the updated preferred nodes list to the wireless device. The updated preferred nodes list enables the wireless device to change from connecting to the first node included in the preferred nodes list to connecting to a second node included in the updated preferred nodes list. |
| US12101641B2 |
Asymmetric dynamic spectrum sharing
Techniques for asymmetric dynamic spectrum sharing are discussed herein. A first portion of spectrum can share spectrum between Long Term Evolution (LTE) and New Radio (NR) radio access technologies (RATs). A second portion of spectrum can be allocated to a particular RAT without sharing. Thus, control signals associated with both RATs can be associated with the shared portion. However, for the portion not shared, control signals for the particular RAT (e.g., NR) can be used without the control signals from the other RAT (e.g., LTE), thereby increasing capacity in the portion not shared. |
| US12101634B2 |
Technologies for radio equipment cybersecurity and multiradio interface testing
The present disclosure is related to reconfigurable radio equipment and edge computing, and in particular, to technologies for cyber security and radio equipment supporting certain features ensuring protection from fraud, and testing interfaces related to reconfigurable radio equipment. Other embodiments may be described and/or claimed. |
| US12101632B2 |
Trusted roaming for federation-based networks
Techniques for trusted roaming between identity federation based networks. A first wireless access point (AP) receives a roaming request from a wireless station (STA), to roam from the first AP to a second AP. The first AP is associated with a first access network provider (ANP), the second AP is associated with a second ANP, and the first ANP is different from the second ANP. Authentication information relating to the STA is transmitted from the first ANP to the second ANP using a trusted connection. The trusted connection was previously established between the first ANP and the second ANP based on a query to an identity federation to which both the first and second ANP belong. The STA is de-associated from the first AP. The STA is re-associated at the second AP using the transmitted authentication information. |
| US12101631B1 |
Systems and methods for network device advanced privacy
A privacy proxy device for maintaining privacy on a communication network is provided. The privacy proxy device includes a transceiver, a processor, and a memory. The transceiver communicates with at least one user device and at least one device capable of recording over a communication medium of the communication network. The memory store computer-executable instructions, which, when executed by the processor, cause the privacy proxy device to store a plurality of privacy settings including one or more recording settings. The instructions further cause the privacy proxy device to receive a request to record from a recording device of the at least one device capable of recording. The instructions also cause the privacy proxy device to compare the request to record to the plurality of privacy settings. In addition, the instructions cause the privacy proxy device to generate and transmit a response to the request to record based on the comparison. |
| US12101625B2 |
Selective handover of cellular device based on network slicing
Systems and methods to utilize user device network slicing and cell support to manage handover of communications for user device. A request to handover management of a user device from a first cell to a second cell is received. One or more possible cells for the handover are then identified. If the user device is utilizing network slicing, then the second cell is selected from the one or more possible cells based on that cell also supporting network slicing. If the cell supports the same network slice as being utilized by the user device, then the handover of the user device to the second cell is initiated. |
| US12101624B2 |
Automatic loudspeaker room equalization based on sound field estimation with artificial intelligence models
One embodiment provides a computer-implemented method that includes acquiring, via at least one microphone, sound pressure data from a loudspeaker in a room. The sound pressure data is input into an artificial intelligence (AI) model. The AI model automatically estimates, without user interaction, at least one of energy average (EA) in a listening area or total sound power (TSP) produced by the loudspeaker. The AI model is trained prior to automatically estimating the at least one of the EA in the listening area or the TSP produced by the loudspeaker. |
| US12101619B2 |
Sound tracing method and device to improve sound propagation performance
There is provided a sound tracing method. The method includes: a setup processing step of setting ray information; a ray generation step of generating a sound ray; a traversal/intersection test step of generating hit triangle information; a propagation path validation (PPV) step of searching a sound path; a guide plane sort step of generating and sorting a guide plane; a Reverb Geometry Collect/Reverb Plane Sort (RGC/RPS) step of generating and sorting a reverb plane; and an impulse response calculation step of calculating an impulse response (IR) and storing the calculated IR in a valid path buffer. |
| US12101618B2 |
Quantization of spatial audio direction parameters
A method for spatial audio signal encoding comprising: obtaining a plurality of audio direction parameters, wherein each parameter comprises an elevation value and an azimuth value and wherein each parameter has an ordered position; deriving for each of the plurality of audio direction parameters a corresponding derived audio direction parameter (SP) comprising an elevation and an azimuth value, corresponding derived audio direction parameters (SP) being arranged in a manner determined by a spatial utilization defined by the elevation values and the azimuth values of the plurality of audio direction parameters; rotating each derived audio direction parameter (SP) by the azimuth value (φ0) of an audio direction parameter in the first position of the plurality of audio direction parameters and quantizing the rotation to determine for each a corresponding quantized rotated derived audio direction parameter; changing the ordered position of an audio direction parameter to a further position coinciding with a position of a rotated derived audio direction parameter when the azimuth value of the audio direction parameter is closest to the azimuth value of the further rotated derived audio direction parameter compared to the azimuth values of other rotated derived audio direction parameters, followed by determining for each of the plurality audio direction parameters a difference between each audio direction parameter and their corresponding quantized rotated derived audio direction parameter; and quantizing a difference for each of the plurality of audio direction parameters, wherein a difference quantization resolution for each of the plurality of audio direction parameters is defined based on a spatial extent of the audio direction parameters. |
| US12101616B2 |
Speaker
A speaker includes: a frame, a vibration system including a diaphragm, a voice coil, and a flexible circuit board, and a magnetic circuit system, wherein the flexible circuit board includes an outer fixing portion, an inner fixing portion, and an elastic connecting arm, the inner fixing portion includes a first fixing portion electrically connected with the elastic connecting arm, a second fixing portion bent and extended from the first fixing portion in a direction away from the diaphragm, and a third fixing portion bent and extended from an end of the second fixing portion away from the first fixing portion in a direction of the voice coil, the third fixing portion is provided with a pad which is electrically connected with a bottom surface of the voice coil. Compared with the related art, the speaker disclosed by the present disclosure has better acoustic performance. |
| US12101615B2 |
Loudspeaker diaphragm
A loudspeaker diaphragm (12) comprising a woven fibre body supports damping material (25), for example PVA polymer, on a rearward-facing surface (24). The woven fibre body may be formed of lengths (14) non-metallic fibre material (for example glass fibre) coating with a thin metal coating (32). The mass of the layer of damping material (25) may be less than the mass of the woven fibre body. An attractive sparkly looking loudspeaker diaphragm (12) may thus be provided which damps undesirable vibration whilst providing a flatter frequency-response curve (50). |
| US12101614B2 |
Bluetooth communication system capable of avoiding voice interruption, and related Bluetooth device set
A Bluetooth communication system is provided, which comprises a Bluetooth host device and a Bluetooth device set. The connections between the Bluetooth host device and the Bluetooth device set complies with the specification of Bluetooth Low Energy Audio technology. The Bluetooth device set comprises at least a first member device and a second member device. The first member device and the second member device may be configured in a first mode wherein uplink audio signal transmission is allowed, and the connections are carried out by isochronous streaming channels respectively. The first member device transmits captured voice data to the Bluetooth host device, while the second member device does not. When an event is triggered, the first member device can notify the second member device through direct wireless connection, so that the first member device and the second member device can carry out subsequent voice input handover procedures. |
| US12101611B2 |
Digital PDM microphone interface
A clocking technique for reducing the power of PDM microphones in dual microphone systems is disclosed. A clock for a conventional PDM microphone (PDMCLK) is provided by another source. PDM microphones send serial data (PDMDAT) on the rising (“Right”) or falling (“Left”) edge of the PDMCLK clock, depending on how the microphone is configured. In a dual PDM microphone configuration, the microphones alternate sending data on the rising edges (transitions to logic-1) and falling edges (transitions to logic-0) of PDMCLK. Typically, Complementary Metal-Oxide-Semiconductor (CMOS) logic is used to transmit or drive the clock signal to the microphones. CMOS drivers consume power primarily when they transition from a logic-0 to a logic-1 or from a logic-1 to a logic-0. Thus, a free-running clock signal will produce the highest CMOS power consumption. In a dual PDM microphone system, it is desirable to operate in a low power mode with a single microphone at times and to operate with the full functionality (and power consumption) of both microphones at other times. In a conventional system, both PDM microphones share both the PDMDAT and PDMCLK signal lines. Thus both microphones must be clocked even if only one is being used. This wastes power in both the PDMCLK output buffer (driving both loads even if one is not being used) as well as in the unused microphone (where all of the clock circuits are active and switching). A novel PDM microphone interface is disclosed that provides a three signal interface comprising a separate PDMCLK signal to each microphone while maintaining a single common PDMDAT line. |
| US12101608B2 |
Bluetooth audio broadcasting system and related multi-member Bluetooth device
A Bluetooth audio broadcasting system includes: an audio broadcasting device, a first Bluetooth member device, and a second Bluetooth member device. The audio broadcasting device broadcasts BLE audio packets and transmits a predetermined volume instruction to the first Bluetooth member device and the second Bluetooth member device before broadcasting the BLE audio packets. The first Bluetooth member device parses the BLE audio packets to acquire a predetermined audio data, controls a first audio playback circuit to playback the predetermined audio data, and configures an audio volume of the first audio playback circuit in advance according to the predetermined volume instruction. The second Bluetooth member device parses the BLE audio packets to acquire the predetermined audio data, controls a second audio playback circuit to playback the predetermined audio data, and configures an audio volume of the second audio playback circuit in advance according to the predetermined volume instruction. |
| US12101606B2 |
Methods and systems for assessing insertion position of hearing instrument
A method for fitting a hearing instrument comprises obtaining sensor data from a plurality of sensors belonging to a plurality of sensor types; applying a machine learned (ML) model to determine, based on the sensor data, an applicable fitting category of the hearing instrument from among a plurality of predefined fitting categories, wherein the plurality of predefined fitting categories includes a fitting category corresponding to a correct way of wearing the hearing instrument and a fitting category corresponding to an incorrect way of wearing the hearing instrument; and generating an indication based on the applicable fitting category of the hearing instrument. |
| US12101600B2 |
Vibration apparatus and apparatus and vehicular apparatus comprising the same
A vibration apparatus may include a vibration device and an adhesive member at a surface of the vibration device. A modulus of the vibration device may be equal to a modulus of the adhesive member or may be greater than the modulus of the adhesive member. |
| US12101599B1 |
Sound source localization using acoustic wave decomposition
Disclosed are techniques for an improved method for performing sound source localization (SSL) to determine a direction of arrival of an audible sound using a combination of timing information and amplitude information. For example, a device may decompose an observed sound field into directional components, then estimate a time-delay likelihood value and an energy-based likelihood value for each of the directional components. Using a combination of these likelihood values, the device can determine the direction of arrival corresponding to a maximum likelihood value. In some examples, the device may perform Acoustic Wave Decomposition processing to determine the directional components. In order to reduce a processing consumption associated with performing AWD processing, the device splits this process into two phases: a search phase that selects a subset of a device dictionary to reduce a complexity, and a decomposition phase that solves an optimization problem using the subset of the device dictionary. |
| US12101596B2 |
Speaker module and portable electronic device
Embodiments of this application provide a speaker module and a portable electronic device. The speaker module includes a first speaker module and a second speaker module. The first speaker module includes a first housing and a first speaker monomer accommodated in the first housing, and the first speaker monomer has a first diaphragm. The second speaker module includes a second housing and a second speaker monomer accommodated in the second housing, and the second speaker monomer has a second diaphragm. The first speaker module and the second speaker module are sequentially disposed in a vertical direction, and a vibration direction of the first diaphragm is opposite to a vibration direction of the second diaphragm, so that momentum variations (mv) Δ of the speaker module are offset against each other, thereby resolving a problem that a vibration feeling is strong when the speaker module works. |
| US12101594B2 |
Acoustic transducers, methods of designing acoustic transducers, and methods of forming acoustic transducers
A method of designing and forming at least one element of an acoustic transducer. The method includes receiving one or more required operating parameters of the at least one element of the acoustic transducer for an application, iteratively modeling and simulating performance of one or more materials to utilize within the at least one element of the acoustic transducer, iteratively modeling and simulating performance of one or more structures to utilize within the at least one element of the acoustic transducer, identifying at least one material and at least one structure that exhibit predicted performance that at least achieves the one or more required operating parameters of the at least one element of the acoustic transducer for the application, outputting a design of the at least one element of the acoustic transducer, and forming the at least one element of the acoustic transducer via one or more additive manufacturing processes. |
| US12101593B2 |
Bone conduction earphones
The present disclosure relates to a bone conduction earphone. The bone conduction earphone may include an ear hook assembly and a core module. The ear hook assembly may include an ear hook housing. The core module may be disposed on one end of the ear hook assembly. The core module may include a core housing and a core. An opening may be disposed on one end of the core housing to form a chamber structure for accommodating the core. An elastic modulus of the core housing may be greater than an elastic modulus of the ear hook housing. |
| US12101592B2 |
Bone conduction hearing aid for canines
A restraint device for assisting hearing in an animal includes a first strap configured to encircle a thorax area of the animal and a bone conduction device for producing vibration near a bone in the thorax area of the animal. The bone conduction device includes a bone conduction transducer configured to generate vibrations in a frequency range perceivable by the animal, a processor configured to control the generation of vibrations by said bone conduction transducer, and a microphone configured to pick up ambient sounds and convert the picked up ambient sounds to electrical signals. The processor controls the bone conduction transducer to generate vibrations in a frequency range corresponding to the picked up ambient sounds. |
| US12101591B2 |
Dynamic earbud profile
Embodiments disclosed herein include a headphone device which operates in various modes applying different gesture profiles based on various operational, playback, or environmental conditions. An example headphone device includes a first earbud and a second earbud communicatively coupled to each other. One or both of the earbuds include a touch-sensitive interface and a processor. The earbuds are configured to interpret a first set of gestures to the touch-sensitive interface as respective commands while operating in a first mode. Upon detecting a change in an operational condition, one or both earbuds transition to a second mode where the earbuds are configured to interpret a second set of gestures to the touch-sensitive interface as respective commands, different from the respective commands correlating to the first set of gestures to the touch-sensitive interface. |
| US12101584B2 |
Systems and methods for recording programs using a network recording device as supplemental storage
Systems and methods for recording programs using a user's equipment and a network recording device are provided. An interactive television application may determine whether the user's equipment has sufficient resources (e.g., tuners or space) to record a program selected for recording. If the interactive television application determines that the user's equipment does not have sufficient resources, the interactive television application may select, automatically or in response to a user instruction, the program for recording with a network recording device. In some embodiments, the user may have to pay for the use of the network recording device, or may be required to purchase a given tier level of service. The interactive television application may play back programs from the network recording device as VOD offerings, or may direct the network recording device to transfer recorded programs to the user's equipment when it has sufficient resources. |
| US12101583B2 |
Information generation device, information generation method and program
An information generation unit 30 acquires, from a polarization imaging unit 20, observation values in which polarization directions are at least three or more directions (m≥3). A noise amount calculation unit 35-1 calculates an amount of noise on the basis of an observation value in a first polarization direction. Similarly, noise amount calculation units 35-2 to 35-m calculate amounts of noise on the basis of observation values in second to m-th polarization directions. A polarization model estimation unit 36 estimates a polarization model by using the observation values for the respective polarization directions and the amounts of noise calculated by the noise amount calculation units 35-1 to 35-m. Thus, it is possible to calculate a polarization model that is robust against noise. |
| US12101578B2 |
Context-aware large scale surrounding view with RSU assist
In accordance with one embodiment of the present disclosure, a system for generating surrounding views includes a controller. The controller may be programmed to perform operations including receiving a status information from a remote source, receiving a surround view system (SVS) request having a set of requirements from a vehicle, identifying one or more remote sources based on the status information of the one or more remote sources and the set of requirements of the SVS request, and directing the one or more remote sources to stream SVS data to the vehicle. |
| US12101572B2 |
Image scan line timestamping
Techniques are disclosed for adding time data to scan lines of an image frame. In some examples, an image sensor may perform a rolling shutter image capture to produce the scan lines. Data captured by another sensor may be associated with at least a portion of a scan line based at least in part on the time data added to the scan line in some examples. Furthermore, techniques are disclosed for synchronizing data capture by multiple sensors. For example, a rolling shutter image capture performed by an image sensor may be synchronized with a data capture performed by another sensor. |
| US12101566B2 |
Information processing apparatus, information processing terminal, method, and model
Provided is an information processing apparatus including an acquisition unit that acquires a second image obtained by photographing a color sample by a second camera device and by developing, and an estimation unit that estimates a second 3D-LUT for reproducing, by the first camera device, a color of the color sample in the second image by inputting the second image to a model that has learned a first image obtained by photographing the color sample under a standard light source by a first camera device and by developing as input data and a first 3D lookup table (3D-LUT) used for developing the first image as correct answer data. As a result, the 3D-LUT can be generated more easily. |
| US12101565B2 |
Electronic device and method for obtaining an amount of light
In an electronic device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure, the electronic device may include a memory, a display which includes a pixel layer including a plurality of pixels and a shielding structure with a hole formed disposed below the pixel layer, a camera module disposed below the shielding structure, and a processor operatively coupled with the camera module and the memory, and the processor may obtain a light source image through the camera module, obtain a first data based on a first length value corresponding to a first region and a second length value corresponding to a second region in the obtained light source image, compare the first data with second data stored in the memory, obtain actual light amount data corresponding to the light source based on a result of the comparison, and improve the image based on the actual light amount data. |
| US12101564B2 |
Customized image reprocessing system using a machine learning model
The technical problem of automatically reprocessing an image captured by a camera in a manner that produces a personalized result is addressed by providing a customized image reprocessing system powered by machine learning techniques. The customized image reprocessing system is configured to automatically reprocess an image on a pixel level using a machine learning model that takes, as input, the image represented by pixel values, sensor data detected by the digital sensor of a camera at the time the image was captured, and, also, flash calibration parameters previously generated for that specific user. |
| US12101562B2 |
Image glare reduction
One embodiment provides a method, the method including: receiving, at an image glare reduction system, an indication to capture an image using a user device; determining, using the image glare reduction system, a function of the user device may cause glare in the image; and modifying, using the image glare reduction system and in response to the determining the function may cause glare, an attribute of the user device, wherein the modifying occurs during a shutter operation of the user device occurring during capture of the image. |
| US12101560B2 |
Golf digest creating system, mobile imaging unit, and digest creating device
A mobile imaging unit includes a 360-degree camera disposed on a golf cart, a motorized-zoom-lens-equipped camera on a motorized camera platform, a microphone, a GPS receiver, and a direction detector of a lens. The mobile imaging unit determines an imaging target area of the motorized-zoom-lens-equipped camera by using a current position and golf course map information, drives the motorized camera platform, and stores video data captured in a magnified state, with the video data being accompanied by time information and area identification information. A digest creating device selects, as video data to be subjected to image analysis and extraction of a highlight scene, either video data from the 360-degree camera or video data from the motorized-zoom-lens-equipped camera in accordance with the area identification information accompanying the stored video data. |
| US12101559B2 |
Wafer position status inspection apparatus
A wafer position status inspection apparatus includes a wafer transportation device, a robotic arm rotatably mounted on the wafer transportation device, an image capture device arranged on the robotic arm, a light flashing device arranged at one side of the image capture device, and a status inspection section in information connection with the image capture device. An image capturing direction of the image capture device is set consistent with a gripping direction of the robotic arm, and a light projecting direction of the light flashing device is consistent with the image capturing direction. The light flashing device projects light on a wafer to generate a light-reflecting contour, which is captured by the image capture device to form a wafer contour image based on which the status inspection section acquires a wafer deposition status to identify various wafer statuses including incline, overlap, absence, and warp. |
| US12101555B2 |
Imaging support device, imaging apparatus, imaging system, imaging support method, and program
An imaging support device includes a processor, and a memory that is connected to or incorporated in the processor, in which the processor is configured to derive information related to inclination of an imaging apparatus with respect to a revolution mechanism that enables the imaging apparatus to revolve about each of a first axis and a second axis intersecting with the first axis as a central axis, based on a time series change in revolution angle of the imaging apparatus, the inclination of the imaging apparatus being inclination in a rotation direction about a third axis intersecting with the first axis and the second axis as the central axis, and adjust a position of a captured image obtained by imaging performed by the imaging apparatus based on the information related to the inclination. |
| US12101551B2 |
Image capturing apparatus capable of determining state of user, method of controlling image capturing apparatus, and storage medium
An image capturing apparatus including a first image capturing section for capturing an image of an object, a second image capturing section for performing image capturing in a rear direction, and an operation section configured to receive an operation input by a user. In a case where no operation on the operation section is performed after an image of an object has been captured by the first image capturing section, whether or not a user has intention of capturing an image is determined based on an image captured by the second image capturing section. In a case where it is determined that the user does not have the intention of capturing an image, the first image capturing section is set o a first operation state rather than a second operation state larger in power consumption than the first operation state. |
| US12101546B2 |
Hot-pluggable GMSL camera system
A Hot-Pluggable GMSL Camera System wherein a MIPI camera sensor is connected to a corresponding serializer block with an I2C interface, the corresponding serializer is connected to a corresponding deserializer block by a GMSL cable of up to at least 15-30 meters through an electrical connector, the deserializer block is connected to the Host Processor. A signal of the status of electrical connection of the GMSL cable is generated and communicated to the Host Processor, wherein an unplugging of the activated GMSL cable would produce a signal communicated to the Host Processor, and a plugging-in, or connecting of the same cable or a replacement cable or more than one GMSL cable communicated to the Host Processor. The GMSL camera system detects intermittent connections that are regarded as a micro-unplugging and a micro-hot-plugging, and displaying a proprietary video frame in response to hot-unplugging. |
| US12101545B2 |
Mobile terminal and camera assembly
A mobile terminal and camera assembly are provided. The mobile terminal includes a housing and the camera assembly; a through hole is arranged in a frame of the housing; the camera assembly includes a camera, support for installing the camera, motor and push-and-pull rod; the motor is fixed to the housing and electrically coupled to a circuit board of the mobile terminal; the motor has a threaded rod, a first end of the push-and-pull rod has a threaded tube fitting with the threaded rod, the threaded tube is sleeved on the threaded rod, and a second end of the push-and-pull rod is coupled to the support; when the motor is actuated, the threaded rod rotates and drives the push-and-pull rod to advance or retreat along the threaded rod, which driving the support to move, thus the camera is extended out of or retracted into the housing through the through hole. |
| US12101543B2 |
Optical component driving mechanism
An optical component driving mechanism is provided. The optical component driving mechanism includes a fixed portion, a movable portion, and a driving assembly. The movable portion and the fixed portion are arranged along a main axis. The movable portion is movable relative to the fixed portion. The driving assembly is configured to drive the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion. The fixed portion includes a first guide component for guiding the movable portion to move relative to the fixed portion. |
| US12101541B2 |
Lens driving apparatus, and camera module and optical device comprising same
An embodiment comprises: a substrate; a housing disposed on the substrate; a bobbin disposed on the substrate; a first elastic member coupled to the housing and the bobbin; a second elastic member disposed between the first elastic member and the substrate; and a control unit for determining a movement distance of the bobbin in an optical axis direction in consideration of displacement of the bobbin due to a change in orientation of the housing. |
| US12101539B2 |
Information handling system camera shutter with secondary security by power removal
A portable information handling system camera module has a single shutter that slides in response to a single shutter mechanism to manage access for a field of view of both a visual camera and an infrared camera by sliding only between first and second positions, the first position aligning an opening of the shutter with a visual camera and a shield visual camera opening, the second position blocking the opening of the shutter and extending an end of the shutter over infrared camera. The shutter assembly routes power from a circuit board to the visual camera to provide secondary security for the visual camera by powering off the camera when the shutter is unlocked to move, such that manual unlocking of the shutter removes power from the visual camera even when the shutter is open. |
| US12101535B2 |
Video curation service method
A video curation service (VCS) method provides video content provided by an open streaming service (OSS) by adding video content information in conjunction with the OSS. The VCS method comprises: a step in which a subtitlist produces subtitle data with regard to predetermined video content provided from an OSS server, and uploads same onto a VCS server; and a step in which the VCS server operates a web or app page for viewing video content on a viewer terminal in accordance with a request of a viewer. |
| US12101534B2 |
Event-driven streaming media interactivity
Aspects described herein may provide systems, methods, and device for facilitating language learning using videos. Subtitles may be displayed in a first, target language or a second, native language during display of the video. On a pause event, both the target language subtitle and the native language subtitle may be displayed simultaneously to facilitate understanding. While paused, a user may select an option to be provided with additional contextual information indicating usage and context associated with one or more words of the target language subtitle. The user may navigate through previous and next subtitles with additional contextual information while the video is paused. Other aspects may allow users to create auto-continuous video loops of definable duration, and may allow users to generate video segments by searching an entire database of subtitle text, and may allow users create, save, share, and search video loops. |
| US12101533B2 |
Method and system for providing content via efficient database architecture for individualized time management
Embodiments relate to a method and a system for providing a content via efficient database architecture for individualized time management. According to the method and system, it is possible to perform a quick data processing simultaneously with an efficient database management through the database architecture even in a situation where the number of users and contents are greatly increased by mapping etc. between tables based on a base content associated with a quasi-free sub-contents when activation of quasi-free sub-contents is requested. |
| US12101530B2 |
Methods and apparatus to identify user presence to a meter
Methods, apparatus, systems and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify user presence to a meter. An example apparatus includes memory, instructions, and at least one hardware processor to execute the instructions to at least: obtain presence information from a configuration device, the configuration device separate from the apparatus, the presence information indicating that user is present at the apparatus; verify the presence information matches user information, the user information stored in a memory of the apparatus; cause a confirmation prompt to be displayed on the configuration device, the confirmation prompt to indicate the presence information was obtained by the apparatus; and store the presence information in memory. |
| US12101528B2 |
Client device switching to low latency content
Techniques for switching a client device to play low latency content are described. In accordance with various embodiments, the client device switching method is performed at a device (e.g., a client device) with a processor and a non-transitory memory. The client device detects a request for a user interface (UI) while playing a media content item from a buffer and sends to a server the request and status of playing the media content item from the buffer. The client device then receives from the server a switch point determined by the server based at least in part on the status and the requested UI. The client device further determines whether the buffer has sufficient UI frames rendered by the server at the switch point. Upon determining that the buffer has sufficient UI frames, the client device switches to playing the UI frames from the buffer at the switch point. |
| US12101527B2 |
Methods and systems for enabling communications between devices
Methods and systems for selecting and delivering content are provided. More particularly, content can be delivered to an output device from a user device through a device adaptor, such as an over-the-top (OTT) device. The OTT device or devices available to the user device are determined by a communication server. In particular, the OTT device or devices available to the user device are limited to those OTT devices associated with an output device in the user's room, or that the user is otherwise authorized to access. |
| US12101526B2 |
Reducing latency during service change and improving robustness in advanced television systems committee (ATSC) 3.0 system
Techniques are described for expanding and/or improving the Advanced Television Systems Committee (ATSC) 3.0 television protocol in robustly delivering the next generation broadcast television services. An ATSC 3.0 receiver backs off the live point of a broadcast by a short delay period such that channel change may be rendered perceptibly faster by pre-fetching segments identified in a SegmentTemplate MPD from broadband before the broadcast channel is fully tuned to. |
| US12101518B2 |
Method and system for re-uniting metadata with media-stream content at a media client, to facilitate action by the media client
In a communication system where a channel teed carrying a media stream is broadcast for delivery of the media stream to a media client, where the channel feed further includes metadata in-band and correlated with a content frame of the media stream, but where the metadata gets removed from the channel feed before the media stream reaches the media client, a computing system (i) extracts the metadata from the channel feed and (ii) transmits out-of-band to the media client the extracted metadata in correlation with reference fingerprint data representing the frame of the media stream, the correlation being useable by the media client as a basis to re-correlate the metadata with the frame of the media stream, so as to enable the media client to carry out an action, such as dynamic ad insertion, based on the correlation of the metadata with the frame of the media stream. |
| US12101517B1 |
Method and apparatus for providing information of multiple PPL products in synchronization with the media being played while proving the uniqueness of the original PPL product in a communication system
The present invention relates to a method and apparatus by which a communication system verifies uniqueness of an original PPL product and provides same in synchronization with media reproducing information on a plurality of PPL products. In particular, the present invention relates to a method and apparatus by which a communication system shares, on a blockchain network, an image containing digital tag information and a serial number photographed while content is produced, so as to verify uniqueness of an original PPL product, transmits, to a terminal of a user, information on a plurality of PPL products according to a playback time when a PPL product appears, in synchronization with the playback time of the content, and provides a purchase procedure. |
| US12101516B1 |
Voice content selection for video content
Techniques and apparatus for selecting audio content for a content entity in audio-visual content are described. An example technique involves identifying at least one content entity associated with a content item that is accessible to one or more users in a first language over a communication network. One or more attributes of the at least one content entity are determined. A plurality of audio content samples in a second language are obtained. Each audio content sample includes a different audio sample of a portion of speech of the content entity in the second language. A first audio content sample that satisfies a predetermined condition is determined, based on the plurality of audio content samples and the one or more attributes of the at least one content entity. An indication of the first audio content sample is provided. |
| US12101514B2 |
Methods and systems for interactive content delivery in connection with a live video stream
An illustrative interactive content provider system transmits a live video stream to an interactive content player device, and, during the transmitting of the live video stream, provides an executable data object to the interactive content player device. The executable data object includes an interactive content instance configured to be presented within a 3D virtual playing area that bounds at least one virtual object of the interactive content instance. The interactive content provider system directs the interactive content player device to execute the executable data object by overlaying the 3D virtual playing area of the interactive content instance onto a presentation of the live video stream. Corresponding methods and systems are disclosed for both the interactive content provider system and the interactive content player device. |
| US12101511B2 |
Subpicture layout and partial output with layers
There is included a method and apparatus comprising computer code configured to cause a processor or processors to perform obtaining video data, parsing a video parameter set (VPS) syntax of the video data, determining whether a value of a syntax element of the VPS syntax indicates a picture order count (POC) value of an access unit (AU) of the video data, and setting at least one of a plurality of pictures, slices, and tiles of the video data to the AU based on the value of the syntax element. |
| US12101505B2 |
Fast recolor for video based point cloud coding
Methods and apparatuses of encoding a video stream using video point cloud coding include obtaining a source point cloud; obtaining a geometry-reconstructed point cloud, wherein the geometry-reconstructed point cloud is reconstructed using lossy coding; obtaining a target point included in the geometry-reconstructed point cloud; performing at least one of a forward K-dimensional (KD)-tree search to determine a first plurality of points of the source point cloud which are nearest neighbors to the target point, and a backward KD-tree search to determine a second plurality of points of the source point cloud for which the target point is a nearest neighbor; determining an average color value based on at least one of a first average color value of the first plurality of points and a second average color value of the second plurality of points; selecting a color value for the target point based on the average color value; and generating an encoded video stream based on the selected color value. |
| US12101504B2 |
Reference line for directional intra prediction
Aspects of the disclosure include methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for video encoding/decoding. An apparatus includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information of a current block in a current picture that is a part of a coded video sequence. The prediction information indicates one of a plurality of intra prediction directions for the current block. The processing circuitry determines a subset of a plurality of reference lines based on (i) a reference line index of each of the subset of the plurality of reference lines and (ii) a tangent value of a prediction angle associated with the one of the plurality of intra prediction directions indicated in the prediction information. The processing circuitry performs an intra prediction of the current block based on the determined subset of the plurality of reference lines, and reconstructs the current block based on the intra prediction of the current block. |
| US12101491B2 |
Encoding method, decoding method, encoding apparatus, and decoding apparatus
An image encoding method including: a constraint information generating step of generating tile constraint information indicating whether or not there is a constraint in filtering on boundaries between adjacent tiles among a plurality of tiles obtained by dividing a picture, and storing the tile constraint information into a sequence parameter set; and a filter information generating step of generating, for each of the boundaries, one of a plurality of filter information items respectively indicating whether or not filtering is executed on the boundaries, and storing the plurality of filter information items into a plurality of picture parameter sets, wherein, in the filter information generating step, the plurality of filter information items which indicate identical content are generated when the tile constraint information indicates that there is the constraint in the filtering. |
| US12101487B2 |
Block level bi-prediction with weighted averaging
Video encoding and decoding techniques for bi-prediction with weighted averaging are disclosed. According to certain embodiments, a computer-implemented video signaling method includes signaling, by a processor to a video decoder, a bitstream including weight information used for prediction of a coding unit (CU). The weight information indicates: if weighted prediction is enabled for a bi-prediction mode of the CU, disabling weighted averaging for the bi-prediction mode. |
| US12101485B2 |
Image encoding/decoding method and device
Disclosed herein are a video encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The video decoding method according to the present disclosure includes: when a current picture is composed of a plurality of tiles and a current tile among the plurality of tiles is partitioned into a plurality of slices, decoding information on the number of slices in tile that indicates the number of the plurality of slices comprised in the current tile; decoding information on a slice height in tile that indicates a height of the plurality of slices comprised in the current tile; and determining the number of the plurality of slices comprised in the current tile and a height of the plurality of slices comprised in the current tile. |
| US12101484B2 |
Virtual boundary processing for adaptive loop filtering
A method for encoding or decoding an image. The method includes obtaining a coding tree block (CTB) having a vertical size (CtbSizeY) and a horizontal size (CtbSizex), the CTB comprising set of sample values associated with the image, the set of sample values comprising a current sample value having a location (x,y) within the CTB, where x is a horizontal value and y is a vertical value. The method also includes selecting a filter strength value for the current sample based on y and filtering the current sample using the selected filter strength value. Selecting a filter strength value for the current sample based on y comprises: i) determining whether the following first condition is true: (y==(CtbSizeY−5) OR y==(CtbSizeY−4)) AND var==1, where var is a variable that is set equal to 1 as a result of a determination that a second condition is satisfied; and ii) choosing a filter strength value of 10 as a result of determining that the first condition is true. |
| US12101483B2 |
Image encoding/decoding method and apparatus, and recording medium storing bitstream
An image decoding method is disclosed in the present specification. A method of decoding an image, the method may comprises determining whether to perform a context update for a first syntax element of a current block, updating, on the basis of the determination, a context for entropy decoding of the first syntax element and generating, on the basis of the updated context, a bin for the first syntax element, and wherein whether to perform the context update is determined on the basis of the number of pre-decoded predetermined syntax elements for the current block. |
| US12101482B2 |
Tile partitions with sub-tiles in video coding
An encoder, a decoder, and methods for partitioning a picture from a sequence of video pictures into a layout having a plurality of flexible tiles or segments is disclosed. Each tile or segment comprises a single rectangular or square region. The encoder generates a partition structure and encodes the tiles according to the partition structure. The encoder also generates a bitstream comprising a plurality of coded segments and information indicating the partition structure used to partition the picture into the plurality of flexible tiles or segments, and sends the bitstream to the decoder. Upon receipt, the decoder uses the coded segments and information in the bitstream to decode the plurality of coded segments. |
| US12101480B2 |
Image decoding method and apparatus therefor
A method by which a decoding apparatus decodes an image, according to the present disclosure, can signal slice-associated information on the basis of a flag related to whether there is sub-picture information and a flag related to whether a sub-picture includes a single slice. |
| US12101477B2 |
Video processing method and device using resolution of reference picture, and recording medium
Disclosed herein are a video processing method, apparatus and storage medium using the resolution of a reference picture. Filtering is performed based on resolutions of reference pictures of blocks forming a boundary. The resolutions of the reference pictures may define filtering. Depending on whether the resolutions of the reference pictures are different from each other, one or more filter selection parameters for filtering may be determined or updated. Further, based on whether the resolutions of the reference pictures are different from each other, the boundary strength of the filter may be determined. Because filtering is defined using the resolutions of reference pictures, performance of encoding and/or decoding may be improved. |
| US12101473B2 |
Multiple line intra prediction
A method of video decoding includes determining, for a current block of a picture, one of a plurality of reference lines. The method includes determining an intra prediction mode for the current block in accordance with the determined one of the plurality of reference lines. The method further includes performing intra prediction for the current block based on the determined intra prediction mode and one or more samples included in the determined one of the plurality of reference lines. The plurality of reference lines includes an adjacent reference line that is adjacent to the current block and at least one non-adjacent reference line that is not adjacent to the current block, and each of the at least one non-adjacent reference line is associated with a decreasing number of intra prediction modes with respect to a direction away from the current block. |
| US12101471B2 |
Dynamic image decoding device, dynamic image decoding method, dynamic image decoding program, dynamic image encoding device, dynamic image encoding method, and dynamic image encoding program
In order to provide efficient coding technology with a low load, a picture decoding device includes a spatial motion information candidate derivation unit configured to derive a spatial motion information candidate from motion information of a block neighboring a decoding target block in a space domain, a temporal motion information candidate derivation unit configured to derive a temporal motion information candidate from motion information of a block neighboring a decoding target block in a time domain, and a history-based motion information candidate derivation unit configured to derive a history-based motion information candidate from a memory for retaining motion information of a decoded block, wherein the temporal motion information candidate is compared with neither the spatial motion information candidate nor the history-based motion information candidate with respect to the motion information. |
| US12101470B2 |
Method and apparatus for image encoding/decoding
The present invention provides a method and apparatus for encoding/decoding an image to enhance inter prediction. According to the present invention, the method includes: determining a first reference picture and a second reference picture of a current block; determining both a first reference block in the first reference picture and a second reference block in the second reference picture; partitioning the current block into a plurality of sub blocks; and obtaining a prediction block of each of the sub blocks on the basis of reference candidate block index information of each of the sub blocks. |
| US12101467B2 |
Method and apparatus of combined intra-inter prediction using matrix-based intra prediction
A method performs combined inter-intra prediction of a current block in video coding. The combined intra-inter-prediction is used for providing a prediction block, and the weights for the intra- and inter-prediction blocks used to obtain the prediction block can be finely tuned The method includes: determining prediction information for a neighboring block adjacent to the current block, the prediction information comprising a prediction mode used for prediction of the neighboring block, determining whether matrix-based intra prediction (MIP) is to be used for the prediction of the current block; and predicting the current block as a weighted sum of an intra-predicted block and an inter-predicted block. The weights of the inter-predicted block and the intra-predicted block are determined based on the prediction information for the neighboring block and the determining whether MIP is to be used for the prediction of the current block. |
| US12101466B2 |
Image encoding device, image encoding method, and program, image decoding device, image decoding method, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
An encoding device, if it is determined that a transforming processing is applied to a block to be encoded, encodes the block using a first quantization parameter, if it is determined that the transforming processing is not applied to the block and the first quantization parameter is less than a reference value, encodes the block using the reference value as a quantization parameter, and, if it is determined that a pallet mode is applied to the block and the first quantization parameter is less than a reference value, encodes the block using the reference value as a quantization parameter for an escape value, wherein the reference value used if it is determined that the transforming processing is not applied to the block and the reference value used for the escape value are the same. |
| US12101464B2 |
Method and device for decoding image by using intra prediction mode candidate list in image coding system
A method for decoding an image by a decoding device according to the present document comprises the steps of: receiving prediction-related information of a current block; deriving an intra prediction type of the current block on the basis of the prediction-related information; forming an intra prediction mode candidate list of the current block on the basis of intra prediction modes of blocks neighboring the current block; deriving an intra prediction mode of the current block on the basis of the intra prediction mode candidate list; and deriving reference samples of the current block on the basis of the intra prediction type and the intra prediction mode, and deriving a prediction sample on the basis of the reference samples. |
| US12101463B2 |
Method and apparatus for intra prediction based on deriving prediction mode
The present embodiment, for an intra prediction method used by an intra prediction device, provides the method comprising: decoding, from a bitstream, mode information indicating use of a prediction derivation mode for a prediction mode block; deriving an intra prediction mode of each pixel group from intra prediction modes of pre-reconstructed reference pixels at a plurality of positions near the prediction mode block for each pixel group including one or more pixels in the prediction mode block; and intra-predicting the pixels in each pixel group using the intra prediction mode of each pixel group. |
| US12101462B2 |
Method and apparatus for restricted long-distance motion vector prediction
The present disclosure relates to encoding and decoding of video images. Motion vectors are used for prediction of an image for a current coding unit, which is within a current coding tree unit. The motion vectors are taken from a list of motion vector candidates. The list is generated for the current coding unit using a pattern of positions of allowed motion vectors, and in dependence on the positions of the pattern relative to the current coding unit, and on the position of the current coding unit within the current coding tree unit. From the pattern, a subset of positions is selected and positions are restricted to positions within the current coding tree unit, while other pattern positions not available or not stored in a buffer are excluded. Other excluded pattern positions may be substituted and/or adjusted to as to become available and/or are being stored in the buffer. |
| US12101460B2 |
Resolution test card for camera module
A resolution test card for camera module includes a central region and a plurality of corner regions surrounding the central region. Both the central region and each corner region includes color blocks arranged in an array without gap. Each color block includes at least two straight edges. Any adjacent two color blocks sharing one straight edge in both the central region and each corner region have different colors. Any of the at least two straight edges is inclined relative to a first direction and a second direction perpendicular to the first direction; the at least two straight edges includes a first straight edge and a second straight edge perpendicular to each other. |
| US12101453B2 |
Method and device for transmitting viewpoint switching capabilities in a VR360 application
A method and a device for transmitting viewpoint switching capabilities in a Virtual Reality 360 (VR360) application are provided. The method for transmitting viewpoint switching capabilities in a VR360 application includes determining a configuration for switching between viewpoints in the VR360 application; and signaling the configuration to the VR360 application. |
| US12101448B2 |
Document feeding apparatus, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus
A document feeding apparatus includes a document tray, a feed roller, a separation conveying unit, a first detecting unit and a control unit. The first detecting unit detects that the document is at the first detecting position when a protrusion amount of a flag member is a first amount and detects that no document is at the first detecting position when the protrusion amount is a second amount. The control unit executes an operation in a first mode in which a first detecting process is executed so as to detect the presence or absence of the document before starting to lower the feed roller and the presence or absence is determined, and in a second mode in which a second detecting process is executed so as to detect the presence or absence at the first detecting position after lowering said feed roller and the presence or absence is determined. |
| US12101447B2 |
Sheet feeding apparatus, image reading apparatus, and image forming apparatus
A sheet feeding apparatus includes a feeding member, a first supporting member including a first supporting surface, and a second supporting member including a second supporting surface. The second supporting member is configured to move between a first position above the first supporting member and a second position to which the second supporting member is retracted upward from the first position. In a state where the second supporting member is positioned at the first position, the feeding member is configured to feed a first sheet supported on the first supporting surface and a second sheet supported on the second supporting surface. In a state where the second supporting member is positioned at the second position, the feeding member is configured to feed the first sheet that is supported on the first supporting surface at a position below the second supporting member. |
| US12101440B1 |
Dynamic precision queue routing
Disclosed is a precision queuing (PQ) system that automatically and dynamically revises the values of precision queue step rules (PQSRs) with customizable thresholds based on current contact center conditions such as varying hours of operation and number of agents available. |
| US12101431B2 |
Policy controls for mobile device management systems
A method for wireless policy enforcement of an MDM device according to the detection of a preselected state is provided. In one embodiment, the method includes providing a software application for execution by the MDM device, such that the MDM device determines whether or not the preselected state is present. If the preselected state is present, the software application is further operable to notify an MDM server, which then pushes temporary policy controls to the MDM device. The temporary policy controls overwrite existing policy controls and remove non-whitelisted application tiles from the MDM device home screen. Non-whitelisted application tiles can be selected by the MDM administrator and can include texting functions, social media applications, and internet browsers. The preselected state can include the presence or absence of motion, a minimum speed, location, date and time, proximity to a signal source, internet connectivity, Bluetooth connectivity, and combinations of the foregoing. |
| US12101430B2 |
Method and system for character display in a user equipment
A method at a user equipment, the method including receiving a string of indicia identifying at the user equipment, the string further comprising an indicator bit; based on the indicator bit, performing one of: determining whether the user equipment supports one or more indicium of the string of indicia and skipping display of characters corresponding to non-supported indicia; or displaying all indicium within the string of indicia. In other embodiments, utilizing a language delineator to choose a string of indicia to display or providing a language delineator to a network element and using the complete string of indicia received from a network element based on the provided language delineator. |
| US12101429B2 |
Method for service decision distribution among multiple terminal devices and system
A method for service decision distribution includes obtaining, by a service distribution system, service data associated with a target service is triggered, where the service data includes service type information and user information, obtaining, by the service distribution system during a determining period of the target service, device capability information and device status information of a plurality of terminal devices associated with the user information, determining, by the service distribution system based on the service type information, the device capability information, and the device status information of the terminal devices, a target terminal device that is in the terminal devices and that is used to execute the target service or a target moment for executing the target service to implement service transfer among multiple terminal devices. |
| US12101427B2 |
Mobile terminal, electronic device comprising mobile terminal, and method for controlling electronic device
An embodiment relates to an electronic device including a mobile terminal and a case. The mobile terminal comprises: an interface unit for connecting a first audio device and a second audio device to the mobile terminal; a control unit; and a first display on which a first screen is displayed. The case includes a second display on which a second screen is displayed. The control unit matches the first display and the first audio device, matches the second display and the second audio device, and controls the first audio device and the second audio device such that a first sound corresponding to the first screen is output from the first audio device and a second sound corresponding to the second screen is output from the second audio device. |
| US12101426B1 |
Electronic devices having vertical image transport layers
An electronic device may have pixels that form an active area for a flexible display layer. An inactive area that is free of pixels may surround the active area. One or more edges of the flexible display layer may be bent around respective bend axes. The display layer may also have one or more unbent edges in which the inactive area and active area of the display have a planar shape. An image transport layer may have an input surface that receives the image and an output surface to which the image is transported. The image transport layer may be formed from a coherent fiber bundle or a layer of Anderson localization material. The coherent fiber bundle may have straight fibers that run parallel to each other in a vertical direction that is parallel to a surface normal of a central portion of the display layer. |
| US12101423B2 |
Rolling display arrangement for electronic device
A rolling display arrangement for an electronic device includes a display module, a shaft module, and at least one transmission module, the transmission module being configured to transfer rotational movement of the shaft module and the transmission module to linear movement of the display module. Such a rolling display arrangement allows the display module to slide linearly. |
| US12101421B1 |
Electronic-device protective shell
The present invention relates to an electronic-device protective shell including a shell body provided with an accommodating chamber and a camera hole in communication with the accommodating chamber. The accommodating chamber is used for accommodating an electronic device, and the camera hole is used for exposing a camera of the electronic device. A support member is disposed on an outer surface of the shell body, and the support member includes a bracket plate and a camera cover. The bracket plate is rotatably connected to the shell body, and the camera cover is slidable with respect to the bracket plate to cover or expose the camera hole. |
| US12101418B2 |
Cryptographic keys for authorization requests from a data storage device
Disclosed herein is a data storage device. A data port transmits data between a host computer system and the data storage device. A non-volatile storage medium stores encrypted user content data and a cryptography engine connected between the data port and the storage medium uses a cryptographic key to decrypt the encrypted user content data. The access controller generates a challenge for a manager device. The challenge comprises a blinded public key of an ephemeral unlock key pair that is blinded by an unlock blinding key. The challenge further comprises the unlock blinding key in encrypted form. The access controller further provides the challenge to the device to be authorized for sending the challenge to the manager device; receives a response to the challenge; decrypts the unlock blinding key and calculates a shared secret; and upon determining that the response indicates approval of registering the device, registers the device to be authorized as an authorized device. |
| US12101416B2 |
Accessing hosts in a computer network
A security function is provided by an intermediate device located between hosts and devices requesting for access to the hosts in a computerized network. The intermediate device receives a request for access to a host, and obtains at least one authenticator for use in the requested access to the host. The intermediate device then monitors for communications that use the at least one authenticator. |
| US12101412B2 |
Lightweight fault detection mechanism for streaming of cryptographic data objects
A plurality of objects that comprise an input to a cryptographic signing function. For each object in the plurality of objects, an output value yi of a hash function is calculated, where the value i is equal to an index value of the object, a compressed output value xi of a compression function is calculated, the output value yi from the computer readable memory, and the compressed output value xi is stored. For each object in the plurality of objects, an output value y′i of the hash function is calculated, where the value i is equal to the index value of the object, a compressed output value x′i of the compression function executed on the output value y′i is calculated, the output value x′i is determined to be equal to the output value xi, and the output value y′i is transmitted in an output data stream. |
| US12101408B2 |
Distribution of one-time passwords for multi-factor authentication via blockchain
A decentralized secure repository is used as a medium for distribution of a one-time password (OTP) from an authentication system to a user's client device. End-to-end encryption of the OTP is provided: the OTP is both stored encrypted at rest on the decentralized secure repository, and is also encrypted when it is transmitted over computer networks between different systems, thereby thwarting attempts at eavesdropping. The decentralized secure repository itself also has a number of properties that enhance security of the OTP, such as tamper-proofness and auditability. The decentralized secure repository may be implemented with techniques such as a blockchain protocol. |
| US12101406B2 |
Service management system, token issuing server, and method for token issuing server
According to one embodiment, a service management system includes a relay device to relay communications between a client and a server providing a service that comprises one or more microservices. The relay device generates an authentication token, authenticates the authentication token when included in a service request from the client, and issues a command to the server to execute a service requested by the client after the authentication token is successfully authenticated. A token issuing server is provided to communicate with the relay device and the client and includes a storage unit and a processor. The processor is configured to store an access key issued by the relay device in the storage unit, acquire the authentication token from the relay device by using the access key, and send the acquired authentication token to the client in response to a token request from the client. |
| US12101405B2 |
Generating a virtual reality environment
A method includes a computing device generating a virtual reality environment utilizing a group of object representations in accordance with interaction information for at least some of the object representations of the group of object representations. The method further includes the computing device outputting the virtual reality environment to a requesting entity for interactive consumption. The method further includes the computing device generating a consumption block to indicate performance aspects of the interactive consumption by the requesting entity. The method further includes the computing device causing affiliation of the consumption block with a non-fungible token (NFT) associated with the requesting entity on a blockchain of an object distributed ledger. |
| US12101400B2 |
Storing and determining a data element
A method comprises generating, based on a data element, M data element shares, wherein M is an integer greater than 1; providing each of M encryption keys to a first data processing unit; the first data processing unit encrypting each of the M data element shares with an encryption key, respectively, and thus generating M encrypted data element shares, wherein each of the encryption keys corresponds to a decryption key, respectively. |
| US12101389B2 |
Method and apparatus for synchronizing frequency in remote terminals
An apparatus for synchronizing frequency to a symbol timing, the apparatus including: a master oscillator to generate a master clock signal; an interpolator to accumulate a frequency error estimate between a symbol timing frequency and the master clock signal; and a frequency controller to transfer a portion of the frequency error estimate to the master oscillator to obtain a lock between the symbol timing and the master clock signal of the master oscillator in a manner that zeros-out the frequency error estimate. |
| US12101388B2 |
Universal binary specification model
A method for creating a normalized binary specification model may include receiving one or more existing binary information documents describing at least one of a binary communication protocol, a binary data storage format, or a binary data processing architecture; discerning relevant binary information items from within the one or more corresponding binary information documents; converting the relevant binary information items into normalized binary components; generating identifiers and assigning a respective identifier to each of the normalized binary components to produce identified normalized binary components; and creating a respective ordered list for each of the normalized binary components. |
| US12101383B1 |
Systems and methods for prioritizing digital social media posts within a social media interface
The disclosed systems and methods may include (1) identifying social media posts that have been posted to a social media platform by a creator account with fewer than a designated number of followers, (2) creating a social-engagement score for the creator account based on a measure of an amount of digital social engagement generated in response to the social media posts, (3) determining that the social-engagement score surpasses a threshold, (4) in response to (i) the creator account having fewer than the designated number of followers and (ii) the social-engagement score surpassing the threshold, designating the creator account as a prioritized creator account, and (5) presenting, in association with the creator account, a digital visual indicator indicating that the creator account is a prioritized creator account. Various other methods, systems, and computer-readable media are also disclosed. |
| US12101382B2 |
Receiving application-specific data in-flight (DIF) services along a communication path selected based on a DIF services policy associated with a VM
Embodiments provide data in-flight (DIF) services to software applications such as virtual machines (VMs) at an application level without requiring modification to established storage protocols. In exemplary embodiments, a storage controller transmits an advertisement of one or more data in-flight (DIF) services supported by a storage container of the storage controller. One or more DIF services communication path is created with attributes corresponding to the DIF services supported by the storage container. The storage controller receives, over the DIF services communication path, tagged data that can include data transmitted by a virtual machine (VM) for storage in the storage container. |
| US12101370B2 |
System and method for determining network transmission performance in real-time communication over internet
A system and method for determining the performance of a real-time communication application, such as a video codec and transmission of the coded data. The method factors in burst data packet loss in determining a performance measure. The method uses a Hidden Markov Model on a set of data packets of a unit of data to determine the performance measure in the form a probability that all the data packets within the set are received. The measure is used to fine tune the system settings. The method causes the real-time communication application to adjust parameters of the application for improved transmission of data packets. The adjustment of a parameter can be an increase or a decrease. |
| US12101369B2 |
Adapting an audio bit rate based on changing network conditions
A first device receives information indicating changed network conditions for a network supporting a call with a second device at a first audio bit rate, and provides, to the second device, a packet instructing use of a second audio bit rate. The first device starts a timer associated with receiving an indication that the second device is using the second audio bit rate, and receives, from the second device, a response packet at the first audio bit rate. The first device determines that the timer has expired, and provides, to the second device, additional packets instructing use of the second audio bit rate. The first device determines that a threshold quantity of additional packets have been provided to the second device, and re-negotiates the second audio bit rate with the second device. The first device continues the call with the second device at the second audio bit rate. |
| US12101367B2 |
Data transmission framing
A device includes a processor configured to generate a palindromic sequence associated with a unique identifier (ID) associated with the device, and provide the generated palindromic sequence to a transmitter, the palindromic sequence including forward order of bits, reverse order of bits and a spacer bit. The device further includes the transmitter configured to repeatedly transmit the generated palindromic. |
| US12101364B2 |
Methods and systems to share functional alias in mission critical video
A method for managing a Mission Critical Video (MCVideo) group call is provided. The method includes transmitting by at least one sender user equipment (UE) in the MCVideo group call, a MCVideo message to an MCVideo Server, receiving, by at least one receiver UE in the MCVideo group call, the MCVideo message from the MCVideo server, wherein at least one of a plurality of functional alias identification (ID) is encoded and included in the MCVideo message, and decoding, by the at least one receiver UE in the MCVideo group call, the at least one of the plurality of functional alias ID from the MCVideo message. |
| US12101362B2 |
Dynamic provisioning for multiparty conversations across service delivery networks on a single communication channel
A method for establishing at least three-way conversation between a primary party, secondary parties, and one or more brand agents within an SDN is provided. The method includes initiating a two-way communication channel between a first communication endpoint associated with the primary party and a second communication endpoint assigned to the one or more brand agents. The method then proceeds with receiving a selection of one or more secondary parties from a database. The method includes synthesizing a Uniform Resource Locator (URL) for a secondary party of the one or more secondary parties to join the two-way communication channel and providing the URL to a third communication endpoint associated with the secondary party. The method includes initiating, upon detecting that the secondary party clicked the URL, the at least three-way conversation between the primary party, the secondary party, and the one or more brand agents via the two-way communication channel. |
| US12101360B2 |
Virtual interaction session to facilitate augmented reality based communication between multiple users
Aspects of the present disclosure involve a system comprising a computer-readable storage medium storing at least one program, method, and user interface to facilitate augmented reality based communication between multiple users over a network. A first user of a first device is enabled to view a real-world environment that is visible to a second user via a second device by causing display, at the first device, of a live camera feed generated at the second device. The live camera feed comprises images of the real-world environment that is visible to the second user. Input data indicative of a selection by the first user of a virtual content item to apply to the real-world environment that is visible to the second user is received. The first device and second device present media objects overlaid on the real-world environment based on the input data. |
| US12101355B2 |
Secure VSAN cluster using device authentication and integrity measurements
A node for a VSAN includes a BMC, a processor, and a plurality of VSAN objects. The processor instantiates a Cluster Membership, Monitoring, and Directory Service (CMMDS) and a BMC Service Module (SM). The CMMDS implements a Security Policy and Data Model (SPDM) architecture. The CMMDS determines an inventory list of the VSAN objects and a SPDM authentication state for each of the objects, and provides the inventory list and the SPDM authentication states to the BMC SM. The BMC SM provides the inventory list and the SPDM authentication state to the BMC. The BMC determines that a first VSAN object is not authenticated based upon the SPDM authentication state of the first VSAN object, and directs the CMMDS to halt input/output (I/O) operations on the VSAN to the first VSAN object. |
| US12101349B2 |
Systems and methods for detecting changes in data access pattern of third-party applications
A method for evaluating security of third-party application is disclosed. The method includes: in an automated test environment: launching a test instance of a first application; and obtaining a data access signature of the first application based on identifying at least one application state of the first application and account data retrieved by the first application from a user account at a protected data resource in the at least one application state; receiving, from a client device associated with the user account, an indication of access permissions for the first application to access the user account for retrieving account data; detecting a change in the data access signature of the first application; and in response to detecting the change in the data access signature of the first application, notifying the user of the detected change. |
| US12101341B2 |
Quantum computing machine learning for security threats
Embodiments are disclosed for a method for a security model. The method includes identifying a security threat attack to a security domain by generating a Bloch sphere based on a system information and event management (STEM) of the security domain and a security threat attack framework. The attack is non-linear. Identifying the attack also includes generating a quantum state probabilities matrix (QSPM) based on the Bloch sphere. Further, identifying the attack includes training a security threat model to perform classifications based on the QSPM. Additionally, identifying the attack includes performing a classification of the security domain that identifies a first attack method using the security threat model. Identifying the attack further includes performing a second classification of the security domain that identifies a second attack method. The second attack method follows a non-linear path from the first attack method along the security threat attack framework. |
| US12101340B1 |
Security breach notification
Systems and methods are disclosed for security breach notification. In one implementation, an indication of a security breach is received, at a first device with respect to a user account. Based on the indication of the security breach, a processing device generates a security breach notification, the security breach notification including an instruction to initiate at an account repository one or more actions with respect to the user account. An attempt is made to transmit the security breach notification to the account repository via a first communication interface of the first device. In response to a determination that the security breach notification was not successfully transmitted to the account repository, the security breach notification is transmitted to a second device via a second communication interface of the first device. |
| US12101334B2 |
Augmented threat detection using an attack matrix and data lake queries
A threat management system stores an attack matrix characterizing tactics and techniques, and provides threat detection based on patterns of traversal of the attack matrix. Where the threat management system provides a data lake of security events and a query interface for using the data lake to investigate security issues, useful inferences may also be drawn by comparing query activity in the query interface with the patterns of traversal of the attack matrix, such as by using a malicious pattern of traversal to identify a concurrent chain of queries indicative of a threat, or by presenting separate threat scores to an analyst based on query activity and patterns of traversal. |
| US12101328B1 |
Systems and methods for providing access control to web services using mirrored, secluded web instances
Systems and methods are provided for providing access to data on a personalized basis. A service operating on a server is identified, where data at the service is associated with a first user and other users. Data associated with the first user is extracted. A network location is spawned for the first user. The extracted data is transferred to the spawned network location to make the extracted data available to the first user in a read-only fashion by accessing the spawned network location. Additional network locations are spawned for second and third users, respectively, wherein data associated with the second and third users is transferred such that they are available to the second and third users by accessing their respective additional network locations. |
| US12101324B2 |
Digital data access control and automated synthetization of capabilities
A computer system for controlling access to digital data and algorithms, including a multitude of local systems provided at a plurality of remote locations. At least a first subset of the multitude of local systems comprises at least one data acquisition device adapted to generate and provide raw digital data. At least a second subset of the multitude of local systems comprises at least one data processing unit having a memory with a memory capacity and a processor with a computing capacity to process raw digital data to generate processed digital data to be presented to one or more of a plurality of users of the system. The system also includes a filter system, wherein at least one filter is assigned at each local system, each filter having a filter setting for restricting and prohibiting data transfer between the assigned local system and other local systems. |
| US12101323B2 |
Systems and methods for protecting web conferences from intruders
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for providing network protection for web-based conferencing services. In one aspect, an exemplary system comprises, a device comprising a processor, an operating system (OS) operable in a user mode and a kernel mode, and a kernel driver for performing operations while the OS is in kernel mode, the kernel driver configured to: monitor file operations that involve objects belonging to a web conferencing service, receive a request from an application executing in a user mode, the request being for an operation to be executed in the kernel mode, when the operation involves at least one object belonging to the web conferencing service, request for an authorization from a protection service executing in the user mode, and allow the operation to be performed only when the authorization is received from the protection service. |
| US12101322B2 |
Smart whitelisting for DNS security
Techniques for smart whitelisting for Domain Name System (DNS) security are provided. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for smart whitelisting for DNS security in accordance with some embodiments includes receiving a set of network related event data, wherein the set of network related event data includes Domain Name System (DNS) related event data; receiving a set of network related threat data, wherein the set of network related threat data includes DNS related threat data; and generating a whitelist using the set of network related event data and the set of network related threat data, wherein the whitelist includes a subset of network domains included in the DNS related event data based on a data driven model of the DNS related event data and the DNS related threat data. |
| US12101321B2 |
Configuring instances with instance metadata stored in virtual security processors
Responsive to a start-up of an instance of a cloud-based computing environment, metadata that is stored in a virtual trusted platform module (vTPM) is accessed. The metadata represents configuration parameters for the instance, and the configuration parameters include a security credential. The instance is configured based on the metadata. The configuration includes configuring an access control of the instance with the security credential. |
| US12101316B2 |
Enhanced authentication techniques using virtual persona
Systems and methods enhanced authentication techniques using virtual persona. An example method includes receiving a request associated with authorization of a user. Information identifying a virtual persona associated with the user is accessed, the virtual persona comprising meshes. Confidence measures associated with the user's identity are determined based on the meshes. The request is responded to based on the confidence measures. |
| US12101315B2 |
Systems and methods for rapid password compromise evaluation
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for rapid password evaluation. A method may include: configuring a web application firewall (WAF) to monitor login credentials for one or more web applications; intercepting, using the WAF, a password input during a login attempt to a web application by an entity; calculating a hash value of the password input; transmitting the hash value to a dedicated server configured to: determine whether the hash value is in a database of hashes corresponding to weak passwords; and in response to determining that the hash value is in the database of hashes, transmit a message to the WAF indicating that the password input corresponds to a weak password; and generating for display, using the WAF, a web page prompting for a password reset for the web application. |
| US12101313B2 |
Multi-platform authentication
Apparatus and methods for automatically authenticating a user at a second website after authenticating the user at a first website is provided. The authentication system may include a validation engine running on a first website for validating user login credentials received at the first website. The authentication system may include a web beacon triggered by the second website in response to the validating that, when triggered, scans each website accessed by the user to determine if the website is a login page. The authentication system may also include a password generation application that determines if a URL accessed by the user is included in a permission ledger and, in response to a determination that the permission ledger includes the URL, executes steps to authenticate the password generation application and the user to the second website. |
| US12101312B2 |
Pre-authentication for fast interactive videoconference session access
A system for pre-authenticating a user runs a web-based browser or dedicated application associated with an entity with which the user holds at least one account; performs basic authentication; performs elevated authentication corresponding (i) to an elevated level of remote user access to the at least one account and (ii) access to a pre-authenticated teleconference session. |
| US12101311B2 |
Information processing device and login permission method
In a second information processing device, an account holding section holds account information of a user. A reception section receives a login request including account information of a user from a first information processing device. A login processing section 102b allows the user to log in in a case in which the account holding section holds the account information of the user. In a state in which the user is logging in, when the reception section receives a login request including account information of a user from the first information processing device, the login processing section allows the user to log in on a condition that the account holding section holds the account information of the user. |
| US12101309B2 |
Integrated content portal for accessing aggregated content
Described herein are techniques for providing one or more users with access to content obtained from a plurality of content providers. In some embodiments, such techniques may comprise maintaining a number of access credentials associated with a plurality of different content providers, obtaining access to a plurality of media content libraries, each of the plurality of media content libraries managed by a content provider of the plurality of different content providers, and providing the plurality of media content libraries to at least one user device as a single library of media content. Such techniques may further comprise receiving, from the user device, a selection of a media content from the single library of media content and providing, to the user device, access to the selected media content within a corresponding media content library of the plurality of media content libraries using an access credential. |
| US12101307B2 |
Systems and methods for stateless authentication and authorization using JWT access tokens
Systems and methods for secure stateless client-server communication. User credentials in a client authorization request are authenticated and used to generate a JSON web token (JWT). The JWT header and signature are encrypted and included in an HTTP-only cookie. The JWT payload is encrypted and sent to the client in a response body along with the HTTP-only cookie. Each subsequent client request includes the cookie and has the encrypted JWT payload in the request header. Upon receiving the request, the server decrypts the encrypted JWT payload from the header and decrypts the encrypted JWT header and signature from the cookie, then reconstructs the JWT from the JWT header, payload and signature. The server validates the JWT and, if valid, processes the request according to authorizations in the JWT payload. |
| US12101305B2 |
Co-existence of management applications and multiple user device management
Various examples for managing a client device having multiple enrolled user accounts thereon are described. A computing device is directed to store a mapping of a client device to a plurality of user accounts active. The computing device communicates remotely with a management application on the client device to identify an active one of the user accounts from an operating system of the client device. In response to receipt of information associated with a first one of the user accounts active on the client device, the computing device enrolls the first one of the user accounts with a management service in association with the client device. In response to receipt of information associated with a second one of the user accounts active on the client device, the computing device enrolls the second one of the user accounts with the management service in association with the client device. |
| US12101301B1 |
Zero-knowledge proofs for login
The present technology can allow a user to use the OpenID Connect protocol to login to an account that has an anonymous user account ID. More specifically, the present technology can programmatically combine information received from an OpenID provider during the OpenID Connect protocol with a random value to yield a unique anonymous user account ID. The present technology also makes use of the ability within the OpenID Connect protocol to embed a chosen nonce into the token signed by the OpenID provider. This allows for embedding hashes of cryptographic keys, like signature verification keys, into ID tokens received from the OpenID provider that authenticates the user. Subsequently, the user can sign messages that can be verified using the verification key bound to the ID token from the OpenID provider. |
| US12101296B2 |
Intelligent service layer for separating application from physical networks and extending service layer intelligence over IP across the internet, cloud, and edge networks
A method of separating identity IPs for identification of applications from the locator IPs for identifying the route is provided. A virtual service layer (VSL) protocol stack uses the IP addresses assigned by network administrators to the application endpoints to support the TCP/IP stack as the identity IP addresses that are not published to the underlay network for routing. On the other hand, the VSL stack uses the IP addresses assigned by the underlay network to the VSL enabled endpoints and VSL enabled routers as the locator IP addresses for routing packets. The VSL stack formats application flow packets with identity headers as identity packet and encapsulates identity packet with the locator header to route the packet. The separation of the identity and locator identifications are used to eliminate the network middleboxes and provide firewall, load balancing, connectivity, SD-WAN, and WAN-optimization, as a part of the communication protocol. |
| US12101293B2 |
System on chip firewall memory architecture
In described examples, a system on a chip (SoC) and method for sending messages in the SoC include determining locations of initiator-side firewall block and receiver-side firewall block memories using respective pointers to the firewall block memories stored in a single, contiguous memory. Addresses of the pointers within the single memory depend on respective unique firewall identifiers of the firewall blocks. An exclusive security configuration controller uses the pointers to configure the firewall blocks over a security bus which is electrically isolated from a system bus. The system bus is used to send messages from sending functional blocks to receiving functional blocks. The initiator-side firewall block adds a message identifier to messages. The message identifier depends on the initiator-side firewall block's configuration settings. The receiver-side firewall block controls permission for the receiving functional block to access the message, depending on the message identifier and the receiver-side firewall block's configuration settings. |
| US12101286B2 |
Method for providing location-based content-linking icon, system for the same, and computer-readable recording medium
A method and a system for providing a location-based content-linking icon based on a discussion content category, and a computer-readable recording medium are provided. The system includes a server having a database and a linking-icon library. When the server receives location data from a user device, a geographic range can be determined. After querying the database according to the geographic range, one or more location-based contents correlated with a geographic location within the geographic range can be obtained. Afterwards, the linking-icon library is queried for obtaining the location-based content-linking icon that is used to be marked at the geographic location on a graphical user interface according to the category of the one or more location-based contents. The location-based content-linking icon is dynamically updated when the category of the one or more location-based contents is changed. |
| US12101285B2 |
System architecture for message transportation management
A message transportation management system can be configured to receive a message directed to a plurality of target message recipients. The system can determine a plurality of levels of activity, each corresponding to one of the plurality of target message recipients. The system can receive a level of activity threshold associated with each of the plurality of target message recipients. The system can determine that the first subgroup of target message recipients qualifies as priority target message recipients. The system can transmit, via a priority transfer location, the message to the first subgroup of target message recipients and transmit, via a default transfer location different from the priority transfer location, the message to a second subgroup of target message recipients. |
| US12101284B2 |
Computerized system for analysis of vertices and edges of an electronic messaging system
A computerized system for analysis of vertices and edges of an electronic messaging system comprising: an analytical computer system configured to: receive an electronic message at the network perimeter and sent from a sender's electronic message system outside the perimeter wherein the electronic message is associated with a sender identity and a designated recipient wherein the recipient is within a network perimeter, designating the sender as a first node in a relationship network, designating the recipient as a second node in the relationship network, designating a historic communications pattern between the sender and the recipient as a third node, calculating a confidence value according to the first node, the second node and the third node. The system can create nodes and edges as part of a initial installation or can be connected to an existing system wherein historical data can be used to create nodes and calculate edges values. |
| US12101279B2 |
Dynamic goal-oriented dialogue with virtual agents
Systems and methods that offer significant improvements to current virtual agent (VA) conversational experiences are disclosed. The proposed systems and methods are configured to manage conversations in real-time with human customers while accommodating a dynamic goal. The VA includes a goal-driven module with a reinforcement learning-based dialogue manager. The VA is an interactive tool that utilizes both task-specific rewards and sentiment-based rewards to respond to a dynamic goal. The VA is capable of handling dynamic goals with a significantly high success rate. As the system is trained primarily with a user simulator, it can be readily extended for applications across other domains. |
| US12101276B2 |
Method and device for transmitting and receiving wireless signal in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to: a method comprising: a step for receiving a synchronization signal/public broadcast channel (SS/PBCH) block within a plurality of SS/PBCH block candidates located on an unlicensed band; and a step for obtaining time synchronization on the basis of the SS/PBCH block, wherein on the basis of subcarrier spacing (SCS) of the SS/PBCH block being set to 240 kHz, the plurality of SS/PBCH block candidates are located in both a first half section and a second half section of a time window set for transmission of the SS/PBCH block; and a device therefor. |
| US12101272B2 |
Methods and devices for determining channel resources for reference signals
A method for determining a resource for a reference signal includes: determining, according to positions of N channel resource units used by a physical channel, R channel resource units from the N channel resource units, where both R and N are integers and 0≤R |
| US12101270B2 |
Massive MIMO interference suppression receivers aided by network signaling
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a base station and method for communication in a communication network. The method comprising signaling a DMRS-configuration or SRS-configuration to at least one UE. The DMRS-configuration comprises signaling at least one antenna port number from multiple antenna port numbers, each antenna port number indicates location of occupied subcarriers and null subcarriers associated with a DMRS transmission of the at least one UE. The SRS-configuration comprises signaling of parameters associated with a time, a frequency and a code. The method also comprises receiving a data and DMRS signals, or SRS signals corresponding to the at least one UE. Further, grouping a subset of the signals corresponding to a subset of antennas to generate a plurality of signal groups. Next, performing first stage filtering at RU followed by second stage filtering at DU of the signals associated with each signal groups to obtain filtered signals. |
| US12101266B2 |
Reference signal transmitting and receiving method, base station, terminal, storage medium, and system
There is provided a method for transmitting a reference signal. The method for transmitting the reference signal includes: determining locations in time and frequency domains of a DRS, the DRS comprising at least one of a PSS, an SSS, a PBCH, a DMRS for PBCH, a CSI-RS for TRS, a CSI-RS for beam management, and a CSI-RS for acquiring channel state information; and transmitting the DRS at the determined locations in time and frequency domains of the DRS. |
| US12101265B2 |
Dual-connectivity single uplink schemes
A method and network node for dual connectivity for a wireless device are disclosed. According to one aspect, a method in a network node is provided for use in a dual connectivity mode to communicate with wireless devices (WDs), according to a first radio access technology (RAT), and to communicate with WDs according to a second RAT is provided. The method includes scheduling uplink and downlink signals to be transmitted and received by a first set of WDs such that the first set of WDs are operable to: receive downlink signals and transmit uplink (UL) signals using the first RAT only in even Transmission Time Intervals (TTIs) of the first RAT; and transmit uplink signals using the second RAT only in in UL TTIs of the second RAT that do not collide with even TTIs of the first RAT. |
| US12101263B2 |
Device and method for non-contiguous multiple resource unit in a wireless network
The present disclosure suggests to expand and improve the method of utilizing channel resources in the 802.11be standard by allowing the use of multiple and non-contiguous portions of a channel. Supporting multiple resource units (MRUs) and non-contiguous resource units (RUs) improves the channel utilization by making it more efficient due to enhancing the capability of leveraging the channel selectivity. To this end, a wireless network device for resource allocation is provided and configured to define a non-contiguous MRU in the bandwidth of the channel. The channel includes a plurality of RUs, and the non-contiguous MRU is defined based on non-punctured RUs after puncturing one or more of the RUs of the channel, and/or is defined by aggregating two or more non-adjacent RUs of the channel. |
| US12101261B1 |
Resource management
According to one aspect, a system for resource management may perform receiving a total resource request, a vector of two or more maximum available resources associated with two or more corresponding resource providers, and a number of resource providers and calculating an individual resource request for each of the two or more resource providers based on a classification number. Any resource provider having a maximum available resource less than or equal to the classification number may be assigned an individual resource request equal to their corresponding maximum available resource. |
| US12101260B1 |
Multi-destination traffic handling optimizations in a network device
When a measure of buffer space queued for garbage collection in a network device grows beyond a certain threshold, one or more actions are taken to decreasing an enqueue rate of certain classes of traffic, such as of multicast traffic, whose reception may have caused and/or be likely to exacerbate garbage-collection-related performance issues. When the amount of buffer space queued for garbage collection shrinks to an acceptable level, these one or more actions may be reversed. In an embodiment, to more optimally handle multi-destination traffic, queue admission control logic for high-priority multi-destination data units, such as mirrored traffic, may be performed for each destination of the data units prior to linking the data units to a replication queue. If a high-priority multi-destination data unit is admitted to any queue, the high-priority multi-destination data unit can no longer be dropped, and is linked to a replication queue for replication. |
| US12101251B2 |
Method and apparatus for switching length of bidirectional forwarding detection packet and storage medium
Provided are a method and an apparatus for switching a length of a Bidirectional Forwarding Detection (BFD) packet, and a storage medium. The method includes: in a case where a length of a current BFD packet needs to be switched to a preset length, sending a pre-switching packet independent of the current BFD packet to a second node, wherein a BFD session running in an asynchronous mode is established between a first node and the second node, and the pre-switching packet is used for notifying the second node that the length of the current BFD packet needs to be switched to the preset length; and in a case where an echo packet fed back by the second node in response to the pre-switching packet is received, performing an operation of switching the length of the current BFD packet. |
| US12101248B2 |
Method for monitoring a data stream associated with a process within a shared network
A method for controlling a flow of data associated with a process and routed in a shared data path, including a plurality of flows, of a communication network. The method is implemented in a device of the path and includes: receiving, from a supervision entity, information identifying the flow to be controlled; configuring at least one flow control parameter, the parameter relating to the process corresponding to the received information; and executing an operation of controlling the data flow on the basis of at least one configured parameter. |
| US12101245B2 |
System and method for multi-path mesh network communications
The disclosed invention provides system and method for multi-path mesh network communications. The network system utilizes multiple communication paths and linearly encoded and disassembled packets through mathematical coding techniques that respectively travel the communication paths. The system includes an encoder, a transmitter, a decoder and a receiver. The encoder receives data from an external source and linearly encodes and simultaneously disassembles the data to generate copackets. None of the individual copackets contain decodable information of the data. The transmitter is coupled to the multiple communication paths and respectively transmits the copackets through different communication paths. The receiver receives the copackets transmitted through the communication paths. The decoder decodes available copackets and reassembles the data from the available copackets if a number of the available copackets are no less than a mathematically calculated number. The reassembled data has the complete information of the data originally transmitted. |
| US12101241B1 |
Mechanism for intelligent and comprehensive monitoring system using peer-to-peer agents in a network
A system and method are provided which facilitate peer-to-peer collaborative network monitoring. The system deploys a network-monitoring agent on a device and discovers peer devices on a same local network absent of receiving a cloud-orchestrated instruction. Responsive to successful direct communication with a server, the device obtains a configuration file, which indicates network metrics to be monitored and a condition associated with a network metric. Responsive to unsuccessful direct communication, the device obtains the configuration file via a peer device. The device monitors the indicated network metrics. If the condition is met, the system performs a predetermined action. Responsive to successful direct communication, the device transmits data associated with the monitored metrics and the action. Responsive to unsuccessful direct communication, the device transmits the data via a peer device, thereby allowing the server to display, in connection with a network topology, aggregated network monitoring data for the network devices. |
| US12101236B2 |
System and method for determining subscriber experience in a computer network
A method for determining subscriber experience in a computer network including: defining a plurality of features influencing subscriber experience; initializing a weight for each of the features of the plurality of features; determining a feature value for at least one subscriber for each of the plurality of features; determining a subscriber score for the at least one subscriber based on the feature values and the weight of the feature; determining at least one subscriber with a subscriber score outside a predetermined threshold; and performing a subscriber response action for each subscriber with the subscriber score outside of the predetermined threshold. |
| US12101234B2 |
System and method for design of a network slice
A method includes generating, by a processor, a network slice bundle universally unique identifier (slice_bundle_UUID) for a network slice bundle; and generating, by the processor, a slice catalog slice_bundle_UUID, based on the slice_bundle_UUID, for use by a slice catalog; parsing and locating in the slice catalog, by the processor, one or more stored network service bundle references, based on a network service UUID (NS_UUID) referenced in the network slice bundle; and creating, by the processor, a relationship between one or more stored network services in the slice catalog and the network slice bundle. |
| US12101230B2 |
Smart failure prediction and seamless processing in messaging systems
In one aspect, an example methodology implementing the disclosed techniques includes, by a computing device, receiving a message for delivery to a message-oriented middleware (MOM) server and determining whether an anomaly is predicted in the MOM server. The method also includes, by the computing device, responsive to a determination that an anomaly is predicted in the MOM server, identifying an alternate MOM server for delivery of the message, and routing the message to the alternate MOM server. The method may also include, by the computing device, responsive to a determination that an anomaly is not predicted in the MOM server, delivering the message to the MOM server. |
| US12101227B2 |
Network policy validation
In an example, a validation system comprises processing circuitry having access to a storage device and is configured to obtain flow records indicative of packet flows among workloads deployed to a cluster of one or more computing devices configured with a network policy, wherein each flow record of the flow records indicates a corresponding packet flow was allowed or denied by the cluster; receive an updated network policy; determine whether a corresponding packet flow for a flow record of the flow records has a discrepancy with the updated network policy; and in response to determining the corresponding packet flow for the flow record of the flow records has a discrepancy with the updated network policy, output an indication of an error. |
| US12101223B2 |
Telecommunication networks
The present disclosure relates to a method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The system may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as spmart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. The method includes a method for configuring a base station in a telecommunication network. The base station includes a central unit (CU) and a distributed unit (DU). The CU is arranged to perform virtualized network functions (VNFs). The CU includes an artificial intelligence (AI) engine operable to learn from computational metrics and to adjust the configuration of various VNFs, wherein an F1 interface is used to exchange computational metrics between the CU and the DU. |
| US12101222B2 |
Architecture of a multi-cloud control plane-network adaptor
Techniques are described for creating a network-link between a first virtual network in a first cloud environment and a second virtual network in a second cloud environment. The first virtual network in the first cloud environment is created to enable a user associated with a customer tenancy in the second cloud environment to access one or more services provided in the first cloud environment. The network-link is created based on one or more link-enabling virtual networks being deployed in the first cloud environment and the second cloud environment. |
| US12101218B2 |
Transmit specific traffic along blocked link
Embodiments herein relate to transmitting specific traffic along a blocked link. A status of links between switches of a network is monitored. The status of the links is one of blocked and non-blocked. A blocked link is not used by a Spanning Tree Protocol (STP). At least one of the network switches is configured to transmit the specific traffic along the blocked link. |
| US12101217B2 |
Communication method, communications apparatus, and communications system
Embodiments of this application provide a communication method, a communications apparatus, and a communications system, to determine a physical resource block (PRB) grid when a center frequency of a synchronization signal (SS) is inconsistent with a center frequency of a carrier. The method includes: receiving, by a terminal, an SS from a network device; determining, by the terminal, a first PRB grid based on the SS; receiving, by the terminal, first indication information from the network device, where the first indication information is used to indicate a first frequency offset between the first PRB grid and a second PRB grid; and determining, by the terminal, the second PRB grid based on the first PRB grid and the first frequency offset. |
| US12101216B2 |
Data sending method and apparatus, data receiving method and apparatus, data transmission system, and storage medium
Provided are a data sending method and apparatus, a data receiving method and apparatus, a data transmission system, and a storage medium. The data sending method includes: a first data stream is acquired, where the first data stream includes multiple coded data symbols; an N-dimensional orthogonal transformation is performed on the first data stream to obtain an orthogonally transformed first data stream, where N≥2; a modulation processing is performed on the orthogonally transformed first data stream to obtain a first radio frequency signal; and the first radio frequency signal is sent. |
| US12101211B2 |
Method and device for classifying sensing frames in wireless LAN system
Proposed are a method and device for performing sensing in a wireless LAN system. Specifically, a transmission STA generates a frame. The transmission STA transmits the frame to a reception STA in a 60 GHz band. The frame includes an EDMGHeader-A field. A reserved bit of the EDMG-Header-A field includes a packet classification descriptor. The packet classification descriptor includes information indicating that the frame is a sensing frame used for sensing. |
| US12101210B2 |
Starting time alignment timer before receiving an initial timing advance command
A base station transmits a radio resource control (RRC) message indicating that a wireless device starts a time alignment timer of a timing advance group (TAG) in response to the RRC message. The base station starts the time alignment timer of the TAG before transmitting an initial medium access control (MAC) timing advance command (TAC) for the TAG and after transmitting the RRC message. |
| US12101209B2 |
Orthogonal frequency scheme for narrowband acoustic signaling
A transmitter is disclosed. The transmitter includes a clock configured to generate one or more output clock signals. The transmitter further includes at least one frequency divider configured to generate a plurality of divided frequencies based on the one or more output clock signals, and a modulator. The transmitter also includes at least one antenna or transducer configured to transmit modulated data. The transmitter includes a memory configured to store instructions, and at least one processor configured to execute instructions performing operations including mapping data to a decimal code value of a plurality of decimal code values, converting the decimal code value to a shrinking base system, and selecting a set of frequencies among the plurality of divided frequencies based on the code value corresponding to the shrinking base system for the decimal code value. The modulator may be configured to modulate the decimal code value using the set of frequencies. |
| US12101208B2 |
Method and apparatus for receiving FSK signals
Method of demodulation of M-CPFSK signal, includes receiving the M-CPFSK radio signal; moving it to zero frequency; sampling at no less than double a frequency of symbols; storing the samples with their amplitude and phase for at least L4 symbols; demodulating the sampled signal in three stages, wherein each stage includes iterating over symbol values within a block of symbols, of length is L1, L2 and then L3; in the first stage, N1 symbol sequences out of all possible symbol sequences are iterated over, at the second stage, N2 symbol sequences out of all possible symbol sequences are iterated over, and at the third stage, N3 symbol sequences out of all possible symbol sequences are iterated over, to obtain final symbol values; symbol values obtained at previous stage is used in a next stage to reduce a number of symbol sequences; and determining encoded bits based on final symbol values. |
| US12101204B2 |
Network segmentation for container orchestration platforms
In general, techniques are described for performing network segmentation for container orchestration platforms. A network controller comprising a memory and processing circuitry may be configured to perform the techniques. The memory may be configured to store a request, conforming to a container orchestration platform, to configure a new pod of a plurality of pods with a primary interface to communicate on a virtual network to segment a network formed by the plurality of pods. The processing circuitry may be configured to configure, responsive to the request, the new pod with the primary interface to enable communications via the virtual network. |
| US12101201B2 |
Communication, monitoring and control architecture and method
A communication network device facilitates communication between devices and/or applications in a network without requiring each device to register with every other device or application. The communication network device may generate and assign a unique identifier to each device or application upon registration and store a role of the device or application (e.g., sender or receiver or both) in addition to capability and compatibility information. The communication network device may then dynamically broker and manage communications from each of the devices or applications to other devices and applications in real-time. Using a communication network device, communications may be directed to devices or applications without requiring a sending device to know of the recipient's network address. Additionally, the communication network device allows for the direct targeting of communications to specific applications. Accordingly, in some arrangements, two applications running on the same device may receive different communications from another device or application. |
| US12101196B2 |
QoS policy of mission critical video service
A policy control function receives, from a mission critical video (MCVideo) application function, a DIAMETER AA-Request (AAR) command comprising an attribute value pair (AVP) comprising an MCVideo-identifier identifying an MCVideo service. The policy control function sends, to a network function, a Diameter command comprising one or more QoS policies of the MCVideo service. |
| US12101195B2 |
Methods for radio link failure prevention for URLLC
Various embodiments herein provide techniques for preventing radio link failure in ultra-reliable and low latency communication (URLLC). Other embodiments may be described and claimed. |
| US12101183B2 |
Enhanced negative acknowledgment control frame
Methods, systems, and devices for enhanced negative acknowledgment control (NAC) frame are described. A device may generate and communicate an enhanced NAC frame that includes additional error information to indicate to the device a cause for the error. The device may receive a data frame and determine an error condition associated with a set of layers of a protocol stack. The device may generate feedback indicating a cause for the determined error condition and transmit the feedback indicating the error cause. The feedback may be a NAC that includes a first quantity of bits configured for indicating an existence of an error and a second quantity of bits configured for indicating the error cause. A format of the NAC frame may include bits configured to identify multiple types of error causes associated with the different layers of the protocol stack. |
| US12101178B2 |
User terminal and radio communication method
A user terminal includes: a control section to which one mode of a plurality of modes associated with different operations of one or more transmission points is configured; and a receiving section that receives one or more downlink shared channels from the one or more transmission points according to the mode. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, it is possible to appropriately operate in response to operations of one or more transmission points. |
| US12101176B1 |
Amplitude-phase acceptance regions for 5G/6G message fault detection
A wireless receiver in 5G and 6G can localize message faults by defining an “acceptance region” surrounding each of the predetermined allowed modulation states of a modulation scheme. Then, upon receiving a message, the receiver can measure (or calculate from the I and Q branches) the received amplitude and phase of the waveform signal in each message element. If the received amplitude and phase are within one of the acceptance regions, the message element according to the allowed state in that acceptance region. If the received amplitude and phase are not within the acceptance region of any of the allowed states, that message element is faulted. In addition, the receiver can increment an amplitude fault tally and a phase fault tally according to which parameter—amplitude or phase—is outside the acceptance regions, thereby greatly simplifying recovery of the message without a retransmission. |
| US12101170B2 |
Doppler shift compensation method and device
The present application relates to a Doppler shift compensation method and device. The method includes: indicating by a network side, to a terminal side, Doppler compensation reference information preset for each beam cell in a satellite coverage area, so that a terminal accessing the beam cell can timely obtain a terminal side Doppler compensation value. |
| US12101167B2 |
Methods, base station and wireless device for handling of connections of wireless devices to airborne base stations
Disclosed is a method performed by an airborne base station (155) arranged at an aircraft (160) and providing radio coverage to a wireless device (150) residing in the aircraft (160). The method comprises obtaining altitude information indicating at least one of the present altitude of the aircraft (160) and an altitude rate of change of the aircraft (160), and handling a connection of the wireless device (150) to the airborne base station (155) based on the obtained altitude information. |
| US12101160B2 |
Blind two-dimensional-SIMO channel identification using helix transform and cross relation technique
A device, method, and non-transitory computer readable medium that for two-dimensional blind single-input multiple-output channel identification for image restoration. The method includes receiving, by a receiver having independent channels, a two-dimensional image data matrix then transforming the received two-dimensional image data matrix to a one-dimensional image vector. Channel parameters can then be estimated using the one-dimensional image vector. The method can then construct a restored image using the estimated channel parameters and the two-dimensional image data matrix. |
| US12101157B2 |
Beam correspondence indication and bitmap for beam reporting for wireless communications
A user equipment, UE, for communicating with a base station, BS, in a wireless communication system is described. The UE comprises one or more antenna arrays, each antenna array having a plurality of antenna elements. The UE signals to a BS, dependent on a property of the one or more antenna arrays, whether the UE supports full beam correspondence, partial beam correspondence or no beam correspondence. |
| US12101155B2 |
User equipment indication to suspend report occasions
A user equipment may be configured to perform UE indication to temporarily suspend report occasions. In some aspects, the user equipment may receive report configuration information from a base station, the report configuration information identifying a report parameter to provide in a channel state information (CSI) report, and determine a predicted value of the report parameter based on a plurality of historic measurements. Further, the user equipment may determine to suspend transmission of the report parameter based on the predicted value, and transmit a report suspension message to the base station, the report suspension message indicating that the UE has implemented a temporary suspension of reporting of the report parameter in the CSI report. |
| US12101151B2 |
Number of non-zero coefficients reporting for type II CSI codebook with frequency compression
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for channel state information (CSI) reporting with frequency compression. A method that can be performed by a user equipment (UE) includes receiving a CSI report configuration. The CSI report configuration configures the UE for reporting precoding matrix information including, for each layer, a plurality of selected beams L, a plurality of frequency domain compression bases F for the L beams, and a subset of linear combination coefficients associated with the frequency domain compression bases and beams. The UE can determine a number of coefficients to report for a higher rank based on a configured maximum number of coefficients to report for a lower rank. |
| US12101146B2 |
Antenna switching for improved in-device co-existence performance
A mobile communication device including a processor configured to: retrieve a first isolation metric from a lookup table between an antenna and a first further antenna; retrieve a second isolation metric from a lookup table between the antenna and the second further antenna; determine that the second isolation metric is greater than the first isolation metric; and switch transmitting the signal from the first further antenna to the second further antenna. |
| US12101141B2 |
Broadcast and multicast transmission in a distributed massive MIMO network
Systems and methods for broadcast/multicast transmission in a distributed cell-free massive Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) network are disclosed. In one embodiment, a method for broadcasting/multicasting data to User Equipments (UEs) comprises, at each Access Point (AP) of two or more APs, obtaining long-term Channel State Information (CSI) for a UE(s) and communicating the long-term CSI for the UE to a central processing system. The method further comprises, at the central processing system, receiving the long-term CSI for the UE from each AP, computing a precoding vector (w) for the UE(s) across the APs based on the long-term CSI, and communicating the precoding vector (w) to the APs. The method further comprises, at each AP, obtaining the precoding vector (w) from the central processing system, precoding data to be broadcast/multicast to the UE(s) based on the precoding vector (w), and broadcasting/multicasting the precoded data to the UE(s). |
| US12101140B2 |
Channel state information feedback in a wireless communication system
A wireless device (14) is configured for reporting channel state information, CSI, feedback (18) based on a CSI reference signal, CSI-RS, (16) received on a CSI-RS resource (11) of one or more CSI-RS ports. If the wireless device (14) is not configured with a parameter that indicates, for the CSI-RS resource (11), which sets of one or more CSI-RS port indices (17) are associated with which transmission ranks (15), the wireless device (14) is configured to assume, for the CSI-RS resource (11), that certain sets of one or more CSI-RS port indices (17) are associated with certain transmission ranks (15). |
| US12101139B2 |
Male device, electronic tag and near-field communication system
The invention relates to a male device comprising an elongate portion and an antenna. The elongate portion extends in one direction between a first end and a second end, and is intended for receiving at least one female device by threading from the first end. The near-field communication antenna is placed inside the elongate portion and comprises at least one conductive turn comprising two connection terminals at the second end, the two connection terminals being intended for being connected to a reading circuit, the conductive turn being positioned so as to produce at least one magnetic field generating a flux passing through the elongate portion perpendicularly to the direction when the antenna is traversed by a current produced by the reading circuit. |
| US12101135B2 |
Noise mitigation in single-ended links
An integrated circuit includes a first terminal for receiving a data signal, a second terminal for receiving an external reference voltage, a receiver, and a reference voltage generation circuit. The receiver is powered by a power supply voltage with respect to ground and has a first input coupled to the first terminal, a second input for receiving a shared reference voltage, and an output for providing a data input signal. The reference voltage generation circuit is coupled to the second terminal and receives the power supply voltage. The reference voltage generation circuit is operable to form the shared reference voltage by mixing noise from the power supply voltage and noise from the second terminal. |
| US12101132B2 |
Systems, methods, and devices for automatic signal detection based on power distribution by frequency over time within an electromagnetic spectrum
Systems, methods, and apparatus for automatic signal detection in a radio-frequency (RF) environment are disclosed. At least one node device is in a fixed nodal network. The at least one node device is operable to measure and learn the RF environment in a predetermined period based on statistical learning techniques, thereby creating learning data. The at least one node device is operable to create a spectrum map based on the learning data. The at least one node device is operable to calculate a power distribution by frequency of the RF environment in real time or near real time, including a first derivative and a second derivative of fast Fourier transform (FFT) data of the RF environment. The at least one node device is operable to identify at least one signal based on the first derivative and the second derivative of FFT data. |
| US12101131B2 |
Method for initialization seed generation for PN sequences in remote interference management
An approach is described for a method for a base station in a fifth generation (5G) wireless c01mnunication or a new radio (NR) system that includes the following steps. The method includes determining base initial seeds and a time parameter. The method further includes generating actual initial seeds based on the base initial seeds and the time parameter; generating a Pseudo-Noise (PN) sequence based on one of the actual initial seeds; and generating a remote interference management reference signal (RIM-RS) sequence based on the PN sequence. The method further includes transmitting the RIM-RS sequence to a remote base station. |
| US12101129B2 |
Communication systems having optical power supplies
A distributed data processing system includes a first data processing system and a second data processing system. The first data processing system includes a first housing, a first data processor, and a first optical module that is configured to convert output electrical signals from the first data processor to output optical signals that are provided to a first optical fiber cable. The second data processing system includes a second housing, a second data processor, and a second optical module that is configured to convert output electrical signals from the second data processor to output optical signals that are provided to a second optical fiber cable. An optical power supply includes at least one laser that is configured to provide a first light source to the first optical module through a first optical link and to provide a second light source to the second optical module through a second optical link. |
| US12101127B2 |
Binary iterative clock synchronization system based on polarization entanglement GHZ state and method thereof
The disclosure provides a binary iterative clock synchronization system based on polarization entanglement GHZ state comprising a first synchronization party, a second synchronization party and an emitting party; the first synchronization party is connected with the second synchronization party through a classical channel, the emitting party is connected with the first synchronization party through a quantum channel, and the emitting party is connected with the second synchronization party through a quantum channel and a classical channel; the emitting party realizes the preparation of three-photon polarization entangled GHZ states and measures one of the photon polarization states; the first synchronization party and the second synchronization party perform measurement on the polarization states of the other two photons, and the second synchronization party and the emitting party compare the measurement results to obtain the measurement sequence information between the first synchronization party and the second synchronization party. |
| US12101121B2 |
Mobile telecommunications network access point configuration and fiber routing configuration for customer premises equipment
Mobile telecommunications network access point configuration and fiber routing configuration for customer premises equipment is disclosed. A customer premises component (CPE) can comprise a customer premises mobile broadband to steerable fiber component (CPC) comprising a baseband control unit, a user-plane function component, and a fiber path selection component that can enable configuration of a cellular frontend facing a user equipment (UE) and configuration of a fiber backend facing other endpoint devices. The CPC can receive information pertinent to the configuring the frontend/backend from a network management component, a carrier network component, and internet component, etc. The CPC can automatically adapt configuration of the frontend/backend to selectively enable traffic to flow between the UE and another endpoint device. |
| US12101120B1 |
Systems and methods for chromatic dispersion pre-compensation
A method for chromatic dispersion pre-compensation in an optical communication network includes (1) distorting an original modulated signal according to an inverse of a transmission function of the optical communication network, to generate a compensated signal, (2) modulating a magnitude of an optical signal in response to a magnitude of the compensated signal, and (3) modulating a phase of the optical signal, after modulating the magnitude of the optical signal, in response to a phase of the compensated signal. |
| US12101119B2 |
Modulated retro reflector-based satellite network communication system and method
A modulated retro reflector-based satellite network communication system and method are provided. The system includes: a data acquisition layer configured to acquire data to be acquired, perform integrated analysis on the data to be acquired and send an integrated analysis result to a backbone network layer; the backbone network layer configured to receive a control instruction sent by a ground station, schedule first satellites based on the control instruction, and send the integrated analysis result to the ground station; and the ground station configured to generate the control instruction, send the control instruction to the backbone network layer, detect the first satellites and the second satellites, and receive the integrated analysis result. Through the system, the SWaP value of the satellite may be greatly reduced, thereby being suitable for communication networking of micro-satellites. |
| US12101114B2 |
Multi-band hyperbolic frequency modulation spread spectrum communication method based on cross sub-band division
The present invention discloses is a multi-band hyperbolic frequency modulation spread spectrum communication method based on cross sub-band division. In the present solution, multi-band division of different sub-band quantities is performed on an available bandwidth of an underwater acoustic system according to the parity of the serial number of the current spread spectrum period to achieve the aim of cross sub-band division. On this basis, a plurality of divided sub-bands are grouped in pairs; for each group, sub-band selection is performed according to different transmitted data by using a sub-band selection and activation method to realize multi-band parallel transmission. Meanwhile, in each spread spectrum period, an activated sub-band performs frequency modulation on a modulated signal by using rising and falling hyperbolic frequency modulation signals respectively. |
| US12101112B1 |
Oscillator for high-speed serial device
Transceiver circuitry for coupling a functional circuit to a transmission medium includes a transmit path for coupling between the functional circuit and the transmission medium, a receive path for coupling between the transmission medium and the functional circuit, and clock generation circuitry coupled to at least one of the transmit path and the receive path. The clock generation circuitry includes an oscillator having transconductance circuitry, a capacitance element coupled in parallel with the transconductance circuitry, a plurality of inductors coupled in parallel with the transconductance circuitry and the capacitance element, and with each other, and a current source coupled to the plurality of inductors. The capacitance element may be variable. An even number of inductors are arranged so that half of the inductors generate magnetic flux in a first direction, and half of the inductors generate magnetic flux in a second direction opposite to the first direction. |
| US12101098B2 |
Automated waveform validation
Systems, compute-implemented methods, and computer program products to facilitate automated waveform validation are provided. According to an embodiment, a system can comprise a processor that executes computer executable components stored in memory. The computer executable components comprise a waveform comparison component that compares a digital conversion of an analog signal to a reference signal. |
| US12101096B2 |
Differential voltage-to-delay converter with improved CMRR
A voltage-to-delay converter converts input signals into delay signals, and includes: a first stage for receiving the input signals and for generating intermediate output signals, wherein timing of the intermediate output signals corresponds to voltages of the input signals, and wherein the first stage has a voltage source for providing a rail-to-rail voltage; and a second stage for receiving the intermediate output signals and for generating rail-to-rail output signals, wherein timing of the rail-to-rail output signals corresponds to the timing of the intermediate output signals, and wherein voltage of the rail-to-rail output signals corresponds to the rail-to-rail voltage. A voltage-to-delay converter block is also described. A circuit for receiving differential input signals, generating corresponding output signals, and removing common mode signals from the output signals is also described. |
| US12101095B2 |
Fractional divider with duty cycle regulation and low subharmonic content
Systems, devices, and methods related to frequency divider circuitry are provided. An apparatus includes frequency divider circuitry including a first node to receive an input signal; fractional divider circuitry to generate, based on the input signal and a frequency-division ratio, a first signal having a first series of pulses with adjacent pulses triggered by opposite edges of the input signal, wherein the fractional divider circuitry includes first signal selection circuitry; balancer divider circuitry to generate, based on the input signal, a second signal having a second series of pulses aligned to the first series of pulses, wherein the balancer divider circuitry includes second signal selection circuitry triggered by opposite edges of the input signal than the first signal selection circuitry; and a second node to combine the first signal and the second signal. |
| US12101094B2 |
Fast frequency hopping of modulated signals
An apparatus is comprised of a processor, a fast-locking Phase-Locked Loop Waveform Generator (PLLWG), an amplifier circuit, and a voltage controlled oscillator (VCO). The processor generates data program signals to program the PLLWG and generates a trigger command signal instructing the PLLWG to generate an analog tuning signal. The PLLWG, coupled to the processor, generates the analog tuning signal based on the trigger command signal. The amplifier circuit, coupled to the PLLWG, receives the analog tuning signal, amplify the analog tuning signal, and generates a control voltage. The VCO, coupled to the amplifier circuit, receives the control voltage and amplifies the control voltage to generate an amplified Radio Frequency (RF) channel frequency signal. |
| US12101093B2 |
Electronic circuitry and control system
In one embodiment, electronic circuitry includes a reference circuit configured to generate a reference pulse signal synchronized with a clock signal on the basis of an input pulse signal, a delay circuit configured to delay the reference pulse signal and generate a delayed pulse signal, and an output circuit configured to output a pulse train including a plurality of pulses synchronized with the clock signal on the basis of the reference pulse signal and the delayed pulse signal, and the clock signal. |
| US12101090B2 |
Oscillator circuit
The disclosure concerns an oscillator circuit (10) for a signal transmitter, the oscillator circuit (10) comprising: a resonant circuit (12) comprising a resonant inductor (LR) and a resonant capacitor (CR) parallel to the resonant inductor (LR) or comprising a crystal device, a driving branch (14) comprising a pump capacitor (CP) connected to the resonant circuit (12), a feedback branch (20) connected to the resonant circuit (12), a phase shifting circuit (22) connected to the resonant circuit (12) via the feedback branch (20), a comparator circuit (24) connected to the feedback branch (20) via the phase shifting circuit (22) and a driver circuit (28) connected to an output of the comparator circuit (24) and operable to charge the pump capacitor (CP). |
| US12101088B2 |
Frequency-halving latch buffer circuit for deterministic field bus network data forwarding and application thereof
The present invention provides a frequency-halving latch circuit for deterministic field bus network data forwarding and application thereof. The frequency-halving latch circuit includes a data buffer equipped with two buffer units; a frequency-halving enable latch signal generation module for generating a first frequency-halving latch signal and a second frequency-halving latch signal with opposite levels, and selecting data buffer units of the data buffer based on the first frequency-halving latch signal, the second frequency-halving latch signal and a receiving enable signal; and a shift register including a first trigger and a second trigger which are initialized to opposite output states, the first trigger and the second trigger is connected to realize a shift operation, and data stored in the data buffer units is finally selected and read based on a low order in the shift register composed of the two triggers and a read enable signal. The frequency-halving latch circuit can be applied to a scenario of deterministic field bus network data forwarding as a same-frequency out-of-phase data cross-clock domain circuit, with high resource utilization rate and stability. |
| US12101085B1 |
Multichannel driver circuitry and operation
This application relates to methods and apparatus for multichannel drivers for driving transducers in different channels. A multichannel driver has a plurality of output stages configured such that two output nodes can be modulated between selected switching voltages with a controlled duty cycle to generate a differential output signal across a respective transducer, each output stage being operable with different switching voltages in different modes of operation. A first set of two or more of the output stages are arranged to receive a voltage output by a capacitive voltage generator to use as a switching voltage. A controller is configured to control the mode of operation and duty-cycle of each of the output stages based on a respective input signal and also based on operation of the other output stages of the first set. |
| US12101082B2 |
Elastic wave filter, branching filter, and communication device
A filter body has a series arm including a plurality of series resonators connected in series with one another and one or more parallel resonators in such a manner that the series arm and the parallel resonators are connected in a ladder form. The series arm has a bent part, and when viewed from an elastic wave propagation direction, a series resonator located closest to a first terminal from a circuit perspective among the plurality of series resonators and a parallel resonator located closest to the first terminal from a circuit perspective among the plurality of parallel resonators do not overlap a series resonator located closest to a second terminal from a circuit perspective among the plurality of series resonators and a parallel resonator located closest to the second terminal from a circuit perspective among the plurality of parallel resonators. |
| US12101080B2 |
Heterostructure and method of fabrication
The present invention relates to a heterostructure, in particular, a piezoelectric structure, comprising a cover layer, in particular, a layer of piezoelectric material, the material of the cover layer having a first coefficient of thermal expansion, assembled to a support substrate, the support substrate having a second coefficient of thermal expansion substantially different from the first coefficient of thermal expansion, at an interface wherein the cover layer comprises at least a recess extending from the interface into the cover layer, and its method of fabrication. |
| US12101078B2 |
Transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonators using multiple dielectric layer thicknesses to suppress spurious modes
Acoustic filters and methods of fabricating acoustic filters are disclosed. A filter includes a single-crystal piezoelectric plate having a front surface and a back surface attached to a substrate, and a plurality of acoustic resonators including a first shunt resonator, a second shunt resonator, and one or more series resonators. Each of the plurality of acoustic resonators includes an interdigital transducer (IDT) formed on the front surface of the piezoelectric plate, interleaved fingers of the IDT disposed on a respective diaphragm formed by a portion of the piezoelectric plate that spans a cavity in the substrate. A frequency setting dielectric layer is formed over the first and second shunt resonators but not over the one or more series resonators. The frequency setting dielectric layer has a thickness t1 on the first shunt resonator and a thickness t2 on the second shunt resonator, where t1 is not equal to t2. |
| US12101076B2 |
Aluminum nitride dopant scheme for bulk acoustic wave filters
Disclosed is an acoustic wave resonator comprising a substrate material formed of aluminum nitride (AlN) doped with one or more of beryllium (Be), strontium (Sr), and sodium (Na) to enhance performance of the acoustic wave resonator. |
| US12101075B2 |
Piezoelectric device and manufacturing method of the same
A piezoelectric device includes a conductive adhesive, a container, and an AT-cut crystal element. The AT-cut crystal element has at least one side surface intersecting with a Z′-axis of the crystallographic axis of the crystal constituted of three surfaces. When a dimension of a straight-line portion along the Z′-axis of a second side opposed to the first side is expressed as W1 and a dimension along the Z′-axis of the AT-cut crystal element is expressed as W0, W1/W0 is 0.91 or greater, and the straight-line portion has both sides constituting corner portions in approximately right angles with sides along an X-axis of the crystal of the AT-cut crystal element. The side of the first side is at a −X-side in an X-axis of the crystallographic axis of the crystal and a side of the second side is at a +X-side in the X-axis. |
| US12101073B2 |
Method for determining a cleanliness of a cleaning member
In a method for determining cleanliness of a cleaning member that contacts a substrate and with which scrub cleaning is performed, the method includes a first step of self-cleaning a cleaning member by releasing contaminants from the cleaning member into a cleaning liquid, and a second step of bringing a self-cleaning discharged liquid into contact with an electrode of a crystal oscillator, attaching the contaminants contained in the discharged liquid onto the electrode of the crystal oscillator, then measuring a frequency response of the crystal oscillator in which the contaminants are attached onto the electrode, and determining cleanliness of the cleaning member based on the measured frequency response. |
| US12101069B2 |
Low voltage variable gain amplifier with low phase sensitivity
Technologies are provided for variable gain amplifiers (VGAs). An example VGA includes a resistor ladder including resistor legs coupled to first and second resistors; first differential switches connected to the resistor ladder and second differential switches connected to output nodes, a transistor in each of the first differential switches being coupled to an first electrical line interconnecting the first resistors and a different transistor in each of the first differential switches being coupled to a second electrical line interconnecting the second resistors; third differential switches connected to the resistor ladder and fourth differential switches connected to the output nodes, a transistor in each of the third differential switches being coupled to the first electrical line and a different transistor in each of the fourth differential switches being coupled to the second electrical line; and a pair of transistors respectively connected to the first differential switches and the third differential switches. |
| US12101067B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device that functions as a relay station and is reduced in size is provided. The semiconductor device includes an operational amplifier, a first transistor and a first capacitor that are electrically connected to a first input side of the operational amplifier, and a first resistor and a second resistor that are electrically connected to a second input side. The second resistor is electrically connected to an output side of the operational amplifier, a gate of the first transistor is electrically connected to a first power supply, the first resistor is electrically connected to a second power supply, and at least a transistor included in the operational amplifier has a region overlapping with the first transistor. |
| US12101061B1 |
Harmonic oscillator realizing harmonic tuning based on harmonic current selection
A harmonic oscillator realizing harmonic tuning based on harmonic current selection is provided. The harmonic oscillator includes a first MOS transistor M1, a second MOS transistor M2, a first inductor L1, a second inductor L2, a third inductor L3, a fourth inductor L4, a fifth inductor L5, a first variable capacitor C1, a second capacitor C2, a first fixed capacitor C3, a second fixed capacitor C4 and a switched capacitor array SCA. By suppressing a second harmonic current and promoting a third harmonic current, the invention avoids the design complexity caused by synchronous tuning of two types of harmonic impedances. By suppressing a second harmonic current and promoting a third harmonic current, the design complexity caused by synchronous tuning of two types of harmonic impedances is avoided. |
| US12101060B2 |
Oscillator acceleration circuit, chip and electronic device
An oscillator acceleration circuit, configured to accelerate the start-up of an oscillator, wherein the oscillator has an input terminal and an output terminal. The oscillator acceleration circuit includes an inverting amplifier, a feedback resistor and an acceleration circuit; the inverting amplifier has an input terminal and an output terminal correspondingly coupled to the input terminal and the output terminal of the oscillator. The feedback resistor is coupled between the input terminal and the output terminal of the oscillator, and the acceleration circuit is coupled between the input terminal and the output terminal of the oscillator. The acceleration circuit is configured to provide a transfer function, wherein the transfer function is the same as the transfer function provided by a resistor and a capacitor connected in parallel; wherein the resistance of the resistor is less than zero. |
| US12101057B2 |
Solar power generation system
A solar power generation system includes a string, an inverter, and a plurality of shut-off devices. The string includes a plurality of solar cell module groups. The plurality of shut-off devices is configured to cut off the connection between the plurality of solar cell module groups in response to a control signal from the inverter. The plurality of solar cell module groups includes a first group, a second group connected to the first group, and a third group connected to the second group. The plurality of shut-off devices includes a first shut-off device. The first shut-off device includes a first open-close unit connected to an anode-side terminal of the second group and a second open-close unit connected to a cathode-side terminal of the second group. |
| US12101056B2 |
Switchable absorber element and photovoltaic cell
The invention relates to a switchable absorber element and a photovoltaic cell based thereon. A switchable absorber element according to the invention has an absorber layer. The absorber element furthermore has at least one front side reflection layer and at least one rear side reflection layer, wherein the absorber layer is arranged between front side reflection layer and rear side reflection layer, wherein the optical path length between front side reflection layer and rear side reflection layer is less than 400 nm at least for light impinging perpendicularly onto the cell. The absorber element according to the invention is characterized in that at least one of the reflection layers has a switchable reflectivity. |
| US12101053B2 |
Highly dense array of photovoltaic modules
A plurality of solar photovoltaic modules disposed in spaced-part relation to define a gap between adjacent modules in an array of spaced-apart rows and the modules mounted on respective supports spaced from a surface to define an air gap therebetween, with at least one connector attaching respective adjacent modules, for generation of electricity while resisting wind uplift. A method of arranging interconnected solar photovoltaic modules in spaced-relation is disclosed for electrical generation while resting wind uplift. |
| US12101050B2 |
Cooling control device
A cooling control device has an inverter control unit that executes switching control of an inverter for driving a rotary electric machine, and a cooling control unit. On condition that the switching control is stopped, if it is judged that a control temperature is below a threshold value thereof, the cooling control unit executes driving and control of a cooling device such as to lower a degree of cooling of a cooling target component below the degree of cooling when it is judged that the control temperature is above the threshold value. The cooling target component is composed of at least one of the rotary electric machine and the inverter. The control temperature is either a detected temperature value of the cooling target component or an estimated temperature value from a temperature estimation unit that estimates the temperature of the cooling target component. |
| US12101048B2 |
Motor control method and motor control device
A motor control method for controlling a motor by transmitting a PWM signal at a predetermined carrier frequency to a power converter configured to supply power to the motor and performing switching control on the power converter, the method including, in a characteristic coordinate having a rotation speed of the motor and a torque of the motor as axes, setting the carrier frequency to be a reference frequency when an operating point representing a current rotation speed and torque is included in a first region, selecting and setting the carrier frequency to be either the reference frequency or a low frequency lower than the reference frequency when the operating point is included in a second region, and setting the carrier frequency to be the low frequency when the operating point is included in a third region. |
| US12101044B2 |
Linear motor system
The control device in a linear motor system calculates a current command value for the stator based on a first speed integrated value obtained by integrating a speed deviation between a speed command for the mover and an actual speed of the mover, and performs first digital filter computation on the current command value. The control device calculates a current command value for the stator based on a second speed integrated value obtained by integrating a speed deviation between a speed command for the mover and the mover's actual speed, and performs second digital filter computation on the current command value. The current command calculating unit calculates a second speed integrated value based on the first speed integrated value used by the control device, and performs the second digital filter computation using a value of the first digital filter computation of the control device. |
| US12101036B2 |
Electric power converter
The disclosure herein relates to an electric power converter in which a power module accommodating a switching element for electric power conversion is in contact with a cooler, and provides a structure capable of effectively cooling the power module. An electric power converter includes coolers in contact with a power module. A stacked body of the power module and the coolers is accommodated in a case. The surface of the first cooler opposite to the power module is in contact with the case, and an output bus bar is connected to a midpoint terminal and is in contact with the case. The first cooler directly cools the power module by one surface, and absorbs heat from the power module transferred via the midpoint terminal and the output bus bar by another surface. |
| US12101032B2 |
Multi-phase voltage converter current balancing
A three-phase power supply circuit comprises three LLC resonant voltage converters and a transformer assembly comprising three primary coil assemblies and three secondary coil assemblies. Each primary coil assembly comprises a first primary winding having a first node electrically coupled with a respective first voltage output of the pair of voltage inputs of a respective LLC resonant voltage converter of the three LLC resonant voltage converters and a second node. Each primary coil assembly also comprises a second primary winding comprising a first node and a second node electrically coupled with a respective second voltage output of the pair of voltage inputs of the respective LLC resonant voltage converter. The second nodes of the first primary windings are electrically coupled together, and the first nodes of the second primary windings are electrically coupled together. |
| US12101029B2 |
Multi-converter power supply system
A multi-converter power supply system includes a plurality of cell converters, a common node to which an individual output terminal of each of the plurality of cell converters is connected, a current waveform signal generation circuit that generates a current waveform signal corresponding to a current waveform flowing through an individual inductor, and a first instrumentation amplifier that receives input of an individual output voltage signal obtained from the individual output terminal and the current waveform signal and that outputs a signal for comparison with a current common signal shared by a plurality of switching control circuits. The current waveform signal and the individual output voltage signal that are input to the first instrumentation amplifier are formed with reference to a potential of the common node. |
| US12101021B2 |
Integrated circuit and power supply circuit
An integrated circuit for a power supply circuit configured to generate an output voltage of a target level from an alternating current (AC) voltage. The power supply circuit includes a first capacitor and an inductor configured to receive a voltage according to the AC voltage, and a transistor configured to control an inductor current flowing through the inductor. The integrated circuit is configured to switch the transistor, and includes: an identification circuit configured to identify whether a voltage level of an effective value of the AC voltage is a first level or a second level, and a signal output circuit configured to output a driving signal to drive the transistor, and correct the driving signal to thereby correct the input current, in response to the voltage level of the effective value being the first level and the second level, respectively. |
| US12101009B2 |
Motor and compressor
A motor includes: a rotor, a stator; and a cylindrical insulator fixed to an end portion of the stator. The stator includes a plurality of teeth, a plurality of winding wires each including a winding portion wound around each of the plurality of teeth, a neutral wire provided on one end side of the winding portion, and a power wire provided on the other end side of the winding portion, and a neutral point at which a plurality of neutral wires are electrically connected via a connecting member. The insulator is provided with a drawing notch penetrating from an outer side to an inner side of the insulator. The plurality of neutral wires are routed along an outer peripheral surface of the insulator, pass through the drawing notch, and are drawn from the outer side to the inner side of the insulator, and the plurality of neutral wires drawn are fixed. |
| US12101005B2 |
Electrical shunt device
A shunt assembly for an open bearing including an annular shunt device having a plurality of through slots for passing lubricant and the annular shunt device being configured to engage a first bearing ring, a clamping ring seated against a second bearing ring within an inner diameter of the annular shunt device. The shunt assembly also includes a carbon fiber layer seated against a radially inner surface and an axially outer surface at least two surfaces of the clamping ring, the carbon fiber layer contacting the annular shunt device and a bracket partially enclosing the carbon fiber layer against the clamping ring, the bracket being configured to engage the second bearing ring, wherein the annular shunt device, the bracket, and the carbon fiber layer are configured to provide an electrically conductive pathway between the bearing rings. |
| US12101004B2 |
Electric rotating machine apparatus and electric power steering apparatus
The objective of the present disclosure is to obtain an electric rotating machine apparatus the heat-radiation performance of control circuit boards are secured, and communication between the control circuits and connection thereof with the sensor are realized with a small size and at a low price. A first terminal group and a second terminal group connect a first control circuit board on which a first control circuit for controlling a current in the winding of a first system is mounted, a second control circuit board that faces the first control circuit board with respect to the axis line of an output axle and on which a second control circuit for controlling a current in the winding of a second system is mounted, and a sensor circuit board that faces the axle end of the output axle and on which the sensor and a communication line are mounted. |
| US12101001B2 |
Energy conversion device
An energy conversion device includes a set of nozzles passing through the body of a shaft and configured to form an oil mist in the cavity under the effect of the rotation of the shaft in a range of rotational speeds, from a proportion of oil injected into the shaft, to cool a rotor module and a stator module, a duct secured to the shaft and comprising an inlet communicating with the internal volume so as to receive, under the effect of the rotation of the shaft, oil injected into the internal volume, the duct leading the other proportion of the oil as far as an outlet of the duct, a removal device for removing the oil leaving the duct to an oil reservoir without contributing to the oil mist. |
| US12100995B2 |
Rotor of an electrical machine
Described is a rotor (3) for an electrical machine (1) which comprises a rotor laminated core (6) divided into a plurality of sectors (B), in each of which there is arranged a permanent magnet assembly (4) which has two permanent magnets (13a, 13n) which are arranged in a V shape and which are positioned symmetrically with respect to a plane of symmetry (C) splitting the sector (B) into two half-sectors (D, D′). An outer contour (E) of the rotor laminated core (6) runs in each sector (B) symmetrically with respect to the plane of symmetry (C) and is formed in one half-sector (D, D′) by at least three different radii with just as many different centre points. The invention also relates to an electric machine (1) having such a rotor (3) and to a vehicle (17) having such an electric machine (1). |
| US12100992B2 |
Battery for an emergency lighting unit
An emergency lighting unit for supplying emergency lighting unit, comprising mains supply terminals, at least one first battery module comprising one or more cells in parallel, at least one second battery module comprising one or more cells and being connected in parallel to the at least one first battery module, a preferably common charging circuit for the first and second battery module and connected to the mains supply terminals, and an emergency driver circuit for supplying the emergency lighting unit off terminals of the emergency lighting unit, wherein the charging circuit is configured to charge and maintain the at least one second battery module to a charging voltage of maximum 50%, preferably maximum 30%, of a nominal charging voltage of the at least first battery module. |
| US12100989B2 |
Power strip with integrated automatic transfer switch
The present application relates to relates to a power strip in a server cabinet that can accommodate a plurality of devices and distribute power to the accommodated devices. The power strip includes an inlet connectable to the first power source for receiving the first power, one or more first outputs, one or more second outputs, and an automatic transfer switch integrated into the power strip. The automatic transfer switch is provided with a first input and a second input. The one or more second outputs are connected to the inlet for receiving and outputting the first power. The first input of the automatic transfer switch is connected to the inlet for receiving the first power. The second input of the automatic transfer switch is connectable to a second power source for receiving a second power. The automatic transfer switch automatically switches between the first input and the second input to connect one of the first input and the second inputs to the one or more first outputs of the power strip. |
| US12100981B2 |
Power tool system having receptacle for wireless communication adapter
A power tool includes a motor and a controller in a power tool housing. A battery pack interface is defined on and/or in the power tool housing. A receptacle is defined on and/or in the power tool housing to removably accommodate a wireless communication adapter such that the wireless communication adapter is disposed entirely within a shell of the power tool and no portion of the wireless communication adapter extends beyond an outer contour of the power tool housing. At least one communication terminal is disposed within the receptacle and is electrically connectable to the wireless communication adapter. The controller outputs to the at least one communication terminal a signal indicating a charge level of a battery pack attached to the battery pack interface, a number of hours of operation of the power tool, a power tool overheated alert, and/or a battery pack overloaded alert. |
| US12100980B2 |
Battery harvesting device and method
A battery harvesting device and methods are disclosed for powering a load with a plurality of standardised batteries of different battery chemistries, each of the standardised batteries having a battery output voltage lower than a nominal voltage. The harvester comprises a power bus for attachment to the load, at least one receptacle arranged into each of a plurality of clusters, each receptacle configured for receiving one of the standardised batteries, each cluster further comprising electronics comprising an input connected to the receptacle and an output connected to the power bus, and a DC-DC boost circuitry for raising a battery output voltage of a connected one of the standardised batteries, and a processor for controlling the electronics such that each of the outputs connected the power bus is maintained at the nominal voltage. |
| US12100978B2 |
Configurable network for enabling efficient charging and loading of two battery cells
A two-cell battery management system may include a switching network comprising a plurality of switches configured to electrically couple two battery cells to one another and a first load configured to receive electrical energy from the two battery cells and control circuitry configured to dynamically control the switching network among a plurality of switching configurations comprising a first switching configuration in which the first load is in parallel with both of the two battery cells, a second switching configuration in which the first load is in parallel with a first battery cell of the two battery cells and is electrically isolated from a second battery cell of the two battery cells, and a third switching configuration in which the first load is in parallel with the second battery cell and is electrically isolated from the first battery cell. |
| US12100967B1 |
System and method for delivering electric power
A system for transferring electric power is provided. A power supply conductor conducts a power supply current that generates a first resultant magnetic field. An electric motor has a power input terminal connected to the power supply conductor and a movable output component. A generator has a movable input component connected to the movable output component such that the movable output component causes movement of the movable input component. The generator converts the movement of the movable input component into a power output current to the power output terminal that generates a second resultant magnetic field. A plurality of field line guides are positioned for field lines of the second resultant magnetic field to couple to the plurality of field line guides and are formed to guide the field lines into a helical shape. |
| US12100966B2 |
Biplane wireless power transfer pad
Described herein is a structure, the implementation of which may result in optimization of power transfer within a wireless power transfer pad. Such a structure comprises two planes in parallel that each comprise multiple windings. Additionally, the structure may include two magnetic structures that each pass through the centers of the multiple windings of one of the respective planes. In some embodiments, a magnetic structure may include a main section and two vertical sections. In some cases, the magnetic structure may further include at least one side section that connects with a vertical section. |
| US12100963B2 |
Method for grid impedance and dynamics estimation
Estimating components of a grid impedance, Z, of a power grid being coupled to a power generating unit at a point of interconnection is disclosed. A voltage, Vmeas, across the point of interconnection; an active current, IP, and/or an active power, P, delivered by the power generating unit to the power grid; and a reactive current, IQ, and/or a reactive power, Q, delivered by the power generating unit are determined. A parameter estimation vector is estimated using a recursive adaptive filter algorithm, and on the basis of Vmeas, IP, P, IQ and/or Q. A model representation of the power grid is created on the basis of the parameter estimation vector, and a system DC gain vector for the power grid is calculated, using the model representation. Finally, Z, and/or a resistance, R, of Z, and/or a reactance, X, of Z, is derived from the system DC gain vector. |
| US12100962B2 |
Black start of a wind farm by ramping up a converter voltage reference
Provided is a method of controlling at least one converter of at least one wind turbine connectable to a wind park grid of a wind park during black start or island mode of the wind park, the method including: ramping up a converter voltage reference unless a power related condition and/or a wind park grid frequency related condition or a converter current related condition is violated. |
| US12100959B2 |
Overcooling an edge device that uses electrical energy from a local renewable energy system
An edge device, method and computer program product may perform, include or cause performance of various operations. The operations include determining an amount of electrical energy that an edge device is expected to have available from a local renewable energy system during each of a plurality of time periods and determining an amount of electrical energy that the edge device is expected to use for operations during each of the plurality of time periods. The operations further include identifying a first one of the time periods for which the determined amount of electrical energy that the edge device is expected to have available from the local renewable energy system is greater than the determined amount of electrical energy that the edge device is expected to use for operations and causing a cooling system that cools the edge device to perform an overcooling operation during the identified first time period. |
| US12100958B2 |
Cloud-based hybrid state estimation
Systems, methods, techniques and apparatuses of power network state estimation are disclosed. One exemplary embodiment is a method for state estimation in a power network comprising receiving a set of supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) information including a power network topology; generating a SCADA state estimation using the set of SCADA information; receiving, with a cloud-computing architecture, a set of PMU phasors; aligning, with the cloud-computing architecture, a timestamp of the SCADA estimation and a timestamp of the set of PMU phasors; updating, with the cloud-computing architecture, the power network topology using the set of PMU phasors; generating, with the cloud-computing architecture, a hybrid state estimation using the updated power network topology, the set of PMU phasors, and the SCADA state estimation; and transmitting the hybrid state estimation to a local control system. |
| US12100957B1 |
Vector stabilizer for power electronic power system
Disclosed are a vector synchronization method and system, the method includes: converting a three-phase instantaneous value of a power grid voltage into a two-phase voltage vector component through employing a power grid voltage vector phase angle at a previous moment; subtracting the d-axis voltage vector component from the power grid vector amplitude to obtain a d-axis voltage component deviation; performing gain and integral operations on the d-axis voltage component deviation to obtain a power grid vector amplitude; performing gain, integral and proportional-integral operations on the q-axis voltage component deviation to obtain a power grid voltage vector phase angle; respectively converting the d-axis voltage component deviation and the q-axis voltage component deviation into a q-axis current compensation signal and a d-axis current compensation signal of the grid-connected inverter; and the small interference stability of the grid-connected inverter is enhanced by adopting d-axis and q-axis current compensation signals of the grid-connected inverter. |
| US12100954B2 |
Transient stability assessment method for an electric power system
A transient stability assessment method for an electric power system is disclosed. Transient stability tags and steady-state data of the electric power system before a failure occurs are collected from transient stability simulation data. Data sets under different predetermined failures are obtained based on a statistical result of the transient stability tags and a maximum-minimum method. A similarity evaluation index between different predetermined failures is constructed based on a Jaccard distance and a Hausdorff distance. Different predetermined failures are clustered based on a clustering algorithm. A parameters-shared siamese neural network is trained for different predetermined failures in each cluster to obtain a multi-task siamese neural network for the transient stability assessment. Transient stability assessment results of the electric power system under all the predetermined failures are obtained based on the statistical result of the transient stability tags and the multi-task siamese neural network for the transient stability assessment. |
| US12100951B2 |
System for estimating renewable energy generation quantity in real-time
A system for estimating a real-time renewable energy generation quantity according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes a site setting unit for setting a benchmarking group based on geographical locations of a plurality of renewable energy generation sites and setting a benchmarking site for each benchmarking group, a site generation quantity calculation unit for calculating a real-time generation quantity prediction value of each of sites except the benchmarking site among the sites included in the benchmarking group by using a preset prediction model based on a real-time generation quantity actual-measurement value of the corresponding benchmarking site, and a total generation quantity estimation unit for estimating a total real-time generation quantity of all the sites by summing the calculated real-time generation quantity prediction values for the respective sites and the real-time generation quantity actual-measurement value of the benchmarking site. |
| US12100945B2 |
Frequency-based distributed load disconnect
A method, apparatus, and system for disconnecting loads from the electrical grid based on a power line frequency are disclosed. An electricity meter may monitor a power line frequency of a source power line connected to the electricity meter, and in response to determining that the power line frequency is lower than a disconnect threshold frequency, may open an internal switch and disconnect a load side output of the electricity meter from the source power line. |
| US12100944B2 |
Controlling device and electronic atomization device
The present disclosure discloses a controlling device and an electronic atomization device, the controlling device includes an atomizing output circuit, a protecting circuit and a controller. The atomizing output circuit is configured to be electrically connected with the atomizer and apply a voltage to the atomizer. The protecting circuit includes a temperature sensitive unit, and the temperature sensitive unit is configured to sense a temperature of the atomizer. The controller is electrically connected with the atomizing output circuit, and configured to control the atomizing output circuit. The protecting circuit is configured to control the atomizing output circuit according to the temperature of the atomizer sensed by the temperature sensitive unit. In response to the temperature of the atomizer is higher than a predetermined value, the protecting circuit makes the electrical connection between the atomizing output circuit and the atomizer being disconnected. |
| US12100940B2 |
Device for fixing measuring devices perpendicularly on overhead linear objects, especially on overhead power transmission lines
A device for fixing measuring devices perpendicularly on overhead linear objects, especially on overhead power transmission lines, which comprises a fastening element (1) and a swinging element (10) which are permanently connected to each other in such a way that the fastening element (1) is permanently connected to an inner cylindrical element (2) with a longitudinal assembly slot (3), on which inner cylindrical element (2) an outer cylindrical element (4) with a longitudinal assembly slot (3) is permanently pivotally mounted, whereas at one of the edges of the longitudinal assembly slot (3) of the outer cylindrical element (4), a fixing measuring element (5) is fastened, wherein a socket for mounting the measuring device is formed, preferably longitudinally, in the fixing measuring element (5). |
| US12100939B2 |
Circuit breaker with terminal bushings having dynamic seal
A circuit breaker includes a frame having an interior compartment and an outer surface and a bushing opening. A circuit interrupter is mounted within the interior compartment. A terminal bushing is received within the bushing opening and has a lower terminal end extending into the housing and electrically connected to the circuit interrupter. An outer flange forms a bushing seat positioned adjacent the outer surface. An upper gasket is received against the outer flange. A seal pocket is formed by a bushing opening, upper gasket and outer surface of the terminal bushing. A dynamic seal is contained within the seal pocket and compressed an amount sufficient to provide elasticity and a compression height for dynamic loading of the upper gasket. |
| US12100938B2 |
Modular ion generator device
The present invention provides methods and systems for a modular ion generator device that includes a bottom portion, two opposed side portions, a front end, a back end, and a top portion. A cavity is formed within the two opposed side portions, front end, back end, and top portion. At least one electrode is positioned within the cavity, and an engagement device is engaged to the front end and/or an engagement device engaged to the back end for allowing one or more modular ion generator devices to be selectively secured to one another. |
| US12100930B2 |
Semiconductor integrated circuit and methodology for making same
Integrated circuitry is fabricated from semiconductor layers formed on a substrate, which include at least one n-type layer, an inverted p-type modulation doped quantum well (mod-doped QW) structure, a non-inverted n-type mod-doped QW structure, and at least one p-type layer including a first P+-type layer formed below a second P-type layer. An etch operation exposes the second p-type layer. P-type ions are implanted into the exposed second p-type layer. A gate electrode of a n-channel HFET device is formed in contact with the p-type ion implanted region. Source and drain electrodes of the n-channel HFET device are formed in contact with n-type ion implanted regions formed in contact with the n-type mod-doped QW structure. P-channel HFET devices, complementary BICFET devices, stacked complementary HFET devices and circuits and/or logic gates based thereon, and a variety of optoelectronic devices and optical devices can also be formed as part of the integrated circuitry. |
| US12100928B2 |
Semiconductor device, semiconductor device package, and manufacturing methods thereof
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: preparing a bottom plate having an upper surface and a lower surface, wherein the lower surface of the bottom plate comprises a reference part and one or more inclined surfaces that are inclined with respect to the reference part, an upper portion of the one or more inclined surfaces being positioned above the reference part, and wherein a thickness of the bottom plate at the reference part is greater than a thickness of the bottom plate at the upper portion of the one or more inclined surfaces; joining a frame member to the bottom plate, at least a part of the frame member being disposed directly above the one or more inclined surfaces, a linear expansion coefficient of the frame member being smaller than a linear expansion coefficient of the bottom plate; and fixing a semiconductor element to the bottom plate. |
| US12100925B2 |
Ultrasonic weld interconnection coaxial connector and interconnection with coaxial cable
A coaxial connector for interconnection with a coaxial cable with a solid outer conductor by ultrasonic welding is provided with a monolithic connector body with a bore. An annular flare seat is angled radially outward from the bore toward a connector end of the connector, the annular flare seat open to the connector end of the connector. An inner conductor cap is provided for interconnection with an inner conductor of the coaxial cable by ultrasonic welding. The ultrasonic welding of each of the inner and outer conductor interconnections may be performed via inner conductor and outer conductor sonotrodes which are coaxial with one another, without requiring the cable and or connector to be removed from their fixture. |
| US12100923B2 |
Connection structure and manufacturing method therefor
A connection structure including: a first circuit member having a plurality of first electrodes; a second circuit member having a plurality of second electrodes; and an intermediate layer having a plurality of bonding portions electrically connecting the first electrodes and the second electrodes, in which at least one of the first electrode and the second electrode that are connected by the bonding portion is a gold electrode, and 90% or more of the plurality of bonding portions include a first region containing a tin-gold alloy and connecting the first electrode and the second electrode and a second region containing bismuth and being in contact with the first region. |
| US12100920B2 |
Coaxial connector
A connector assembly and method of attaching the same to one or more biosensor module boards. The connector assembly includes a body portion defining a first surface and a second surface opposite the first surface. The connector assembly also includes a coaxial RF connector positioned in the body portion and extending between the first surface and the second surface. The coaxial RF connector includes a ground ring, an RF pin positioned within the ground ring, and dielectric therebetween. The connector assembly is configured to be coupled to an RF detection board such that the coaxial RF connector is operably coupled thereto. The connector assembly is also configured to be connected to a biosensor module board such that the coaxial RF connector is operably connected thereto. |
| US12100918B2 |
Rotary plug connector
A rotary plug electrical connector includes a plug and a socket, both of which include power contacts and signal contacts. The plug is rotatable within the socket between operable and inoperable positions. The power contacts of the socket include opposed surfaces which are engaged by resilient blade power contacts of the plug. The signal contact of the socket preferably includes a pair of contacts, and the signal contact of the plug preferably is a bridge contact that engages the socket signal contacts in the operable position and disengages the socket signal contacts in the inoperable position. When the signal contacts are disengaged, no power is transferred by the connector. |
| US12100911B2 |
Vibration resistant connector cap
One or more techniques and/or systems are disclosed for a vibration mitigation device. The vibration mitigation device can comprise a shell forming a hollow body that is configured to house a coupled wiring connector and a connector block. The shell can comprise first shell section and second shell section that are operably engaged with each other, and engaged with a vehicle component to which the connector block is engaged. The shape and sizing of the shell and its hollow body allow for a compressive force to be applied to the coupled connectors, to mitigate vibration between the two connectors during use. |
| US12100901B2 |
Antenna and antenna arrangement
An antenna comprises a coil element, a first metallic plate element, a second metallic plate element and terminals. The first metallic plate element and the second metallic plate element each have the shape of a triangle or an isosceles trapezoid. Further, the first metallic plate element and the second metallic plate element are mirror symmetric with respect to a symmetry plane that is perpendicular to the longitudinal direction. The antenna provides a wider area of use at small size and can thus be used for different transmission technologies, such as NFC and UWB. |
| US12100898B2 |
Antenna module and electronic device
An antenna module includes a feeding end, multiple first forked radiators, and multiple connecting parts. The first forked radiators are disposed side by side. The connecting parts respectively extend from the feeding end to the first forked radiators. The feeding end, the first forked radiators, and the connecting parts are located on a same plane. The antenna module resonates at a frequency band, and a path length from the feeding end to an end of each of the forked radiators through the corresponding connecting part is ¼ wavelength of the frequency band. |
| US12100897B2 |
Phase compensated power divider for a vertical polarized three-dimensional (3D) antenna
Aspects of the disclosed technology provide solutions for splitting power between different parts of a waveguide. Features inside of a waveguide may include an input and interconnected vertical and horizontal hollow spaces (i.e. channels). Other features may include structures (i.e. septum features) that reflect a portion of electromagnetic energy moving in a channel and may allow another portion of that electromagnetic (EM) energy to pass around those septum features. A horizontal channel of a waveguide may lead to several vertical channel of the waveguide and the septum features may reflect EM energy toward one particular vertical channel such that an amount of EM energy output from that particular vertical channel may be increased as compared to amounts of EM energy output from other vertical channels of the waveguide. Geometries of the waveguide features may focus emitted EM energy by splitting the EM energy into several different parts. |
| US12100895B2 |
Ultra-wide band antenna using wave-absorbing material and dielectric
Disclosed in the present disclosure is an ultra-wide band antenna using a wave-absorbing material and a dielectric, which relates to the technical field of antennas. The antenna includes an upper fixing plate and a lower fixing plate, a left side plate and a right side plate are fixed between the upper fixing plate and the lower fixing plate separately, and the upper fixing plate, the lower fixing plate, the left side plate and the right side plate are fixed together to form a cylindrical structure. A cavity is fixed at the left end opening of the cylindrical structure, a first wave-absorbing material block is fixed in the cavity, an upper ridge and a lower ridge are arranged in the cylindrical structure, and tail ends of the upper ridge and the lower ridge are inserted into the first wave-absorbing material block. |
| US12100894B2 |
Gradient index metamaterial lens for terahertz radiation
A lens for terahertz radiation, which can be used in an antenna arrangement, comprises a cylindrical lens body made of silicon having a planar front surface and a planar back surface. The lens body has a front body region which forms a silicon metamaterial with a relative permittivity that decreases in a lateral direction with increasing radial distance from a cylinder axis. A back body region is immediately adjacent to the front body region and extends to the back surface. It consists of bulk silicon having a laterally constant relative permittivity. The front body region comprises holes that are distributed on the front surface in rings that are concentric with respect to the cylinder axis. The holes extend from the front surface to respective hole bottoms at an equal bottom level in a depth direction. The hole bottoms interface with the back body region. |
| US12100889B2 |
Mobile terminal
The present disclosure provides a mobile terminal. A first housing includes a first insulation region, a second insulation region and a third insulation region. A second housing includes a fourth insulation region, a fifth insulation region and a sixth insulation region. In a closed state, the first insulation region is at least partially opposite to the fourth insulation region, the second insulation region is at least partially opposite to the fifth insulation region, the third insulation region is at least partially opposite to the sixth insulation region, and the first antenna radiation branch is capacitively coupled to the second antenna radiation branch. |
| US12100879B2 |
Adhesion layer for forming nanowires in anodic aluminum oxide layer
A method for forming anodic aluminum oxide (AAO) on a substrate includes disposing an Al layer on the substrate, there being a Cu layer between the substrate and the Al layer, and a TiW alloy layer between and in contact with the Cu layer and the Al layer, anodizing the Al layer to provide an AAO layer comprising nanopores extending into the AAO layer to a barrier layer of the AAO at a base of each nanopore and converting at least some of the TiW alloy layer to TiW oxide, over-anodizing the barrier layer to remove at least a portion of the AAO of the barrier layer at the base of each nanopore, and exposing the AAO layer, the TiW oxide, and the TiW to a chemical etchant sufficient to extend the nanopores through the AAO layer to a surface of the Cu layer. |
| US12100878B2 |
Fuel cell assembly with carbon diffusion layer
A method for making an improved fuel cell using a porosity gradient design for gas diffusion layers in a hydrogen fuel cell, a gas diffusion layer made by the method and a fuel cell containing the gas diffusion layer. |
| US12100877B2 |
Hydrogen fuel cell assembly
A method for making an improved fuel cell using a porosity gradient design for gas diffusion layers in a hydrogen fuel cell, a gas diffusion layer made by the method and a fuel cell containing the gas diffusion layer. |
| US12100876B2 |
Fuel cell for electricity generation
A method for making an improved fuel cell using a porosity gradient design for gas diffusion layers in a hydrogen fuel cell, a gas diffusion layer made by the method and a fuel cell containing the gas diffusion layer. |
| US12100875B2 |
Fuel cell method for generating electricity
A method for making an improved fuel cell using a porosity gradient design for gas diffusion layers in a hydrogen fuel cell, a gas diffusion layer made by the method and a fuel cell containing the gas diffusion layer. |
| US12100856B2 |
Battery thermal overload protection system
A vehicle includes an electric machine, a battery, a clamping fixture, and blades. The battery has a plurality of cells configured to deliver power to the electric machine. The clamping fixture has plates disposed on opposing ends of the plurality of cells and members secured to each of the plates. The members are secured to the plates under a tension force such that the plates apply a compression force to the plurality of cells to decrease the internal resistance of the plurality of cells. The blades are configured to sever the members to release the compression force to increase the internal resistance of the array of cells in response to a temperature of at least one cell of the array of cells exceeding a threshold. |
| US12100853B2 |
Pneumatic delivery system and method for use with unmanned vehicle systems
A pneumatic delivery system is used to facilitate delivery of canisters comprising delivery payloads by unmanned systems, such as unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs). The pneumatic delivery system comprises a tube having a channel within a tube wall, where a canister is configured to move through the tube. The tube comprises a tube opening and a transfer mechanism proximate the tube opening. The transfer mechanism engages a canister having a payload that is moved within the tube. The transfer mechanism moves the canister through the tube opening by extending from a first transfer position to a second transfer position. At the second transfer position, the transfer mechanism orients the tube and releases it to a UAV for delivery. |
| US12100850B2 |
Systems and methods for improved battery assemblies for eVTOL aircraft
This disclosure relates generally to an apparatus for organizing battery cells. The apparatus includes a block including: sleeves forming chambers, a first sheet configured to locate the sleeves, and a foam structure surrounding the sleeves. Each chamber is configured to accommodate a battery cell. The block is configured to: organize the battery cells into battery cell groups, separate each battery cell group from its adjacent battery cell groups using a thermally insulating material, and prevent gas from entering into each battery cell group from its adjacent battery cell groups. Each battery cell group includes a plurality of the battery cells, each of the battery cells in the battery cell group is adjacent to at least another of the battery cells in the battery cell group. Each battery cell group is adjacent to at least another battery cell group. |
| US12100840B2 |
Binder composition for non-aqueous secondary battery electrode, slurry composition for non-aqueous secondary battery positive electrode, positive electrode for non-aqueous secondary battery, and non-aqueous secondary battery
A binder composition for a non-aqueous secondary battery electrode contains a polymer A. The polymer A includes a nitrile group-containing monomer unit in a proportion of not less than 80.0 mass % and not more than 99.9 mass %, has a weight-average molecular weight (Mw) of not less than 700,000 and not more than 2,000,000, and has a molecular weight distribution (Mw/Mn) of less than 3.0. |
| US12100839B2 |
Electrode for secondary battery having improved fast charging performance, method of manufacturing the same, and secondary battery including the same
An electrode for a secondary battery, the electrode including a current collector and an electrode active material layer disposed on at least one surface of the current collector. The electrode satisfies t2≤t1≥8×t2, where t1 is a thickness of the electrode active material layer excluding the current collector on the side close to the current collector based on a separated position within the electrode active material layer when a 90° bending adhesive strength of the electrode is measured, and t2 is a particle size (D50) of an electrode active material included in the electrode active material layer. |
| US12100838B2 |
Energy storage device and method for manufacturing energy storage device
An aspect of the present invention is an energy storage device including an electrode assembly that has a negative electrode and a positive electrode, where the negative electrode contains a negative electrode substrate and a negative active material, and has a negative active material layer disposed in an unpressed shape along at least one surface of the negative electrode substrate, the negative active material includes solid graphite particles as a main component, and the solid graphite particles have an aspect ratio of 1 or more and 5 or less. |
| US12100837B2 |
Method of preparing positive electrode active material precursor and positive electrode active material precursor
A method of preparing a positive electrode active material precursor includes: providing a transition metal-containing solution including nickel, cobalt, and manganese; and introducing the transition metal-containing solution into a reactor, adding a basic aqueous solution and an ammonium cation-containing complex-forming agent, and performing a co-precipitation reaction to prepare a transition metal hydroxide in the form of a secondary particle formed by agglomerating primary particles. The co-precipitation reaction is performed under conditions satisfying Expression 1 described in the specification, and a positive electrode active material precursor whose crystalline grain has a controlled aspect ratio. A positive electrode active material prepared using the positive electrode active material precursor, a positive electrode for a lithium secondary battery, which includes the positive electrode active material, and a lithium secondary battery are also provided. |
| US12100834B2 |
Positive electrode active material, method for preparation thereof, positive electrode plate, secondary battery and electrical device containing the same
A positive electrode active material, a method for preparation thereof and a positive electrode plate, a secondary battery and an electrical device containing the same are provided. The positive electrode active material has a core-shell structure, comprising a core, a first cladding layer covering the core, a second cladding layer covering the first cladding layer, wherein the core has a chemical formula of LiaAxMn1-yByP1-zCzO4-nDn, the first cladding layer comprises a first polymer containing an electron withdrawing group, the second cladding layer comprises a second polymer, and wherein the second polymer comprises one or more of plant polysaccharides, marine polysaccharides and the derivatives thereof. The positive electrode active material of the present application enables a secondary battery to have a relatively high energy density, while further having a significantly improved rate performance, cycling performance and/or high-temperature stability. |
| US12100833B2 |
Hollow/porous silicon-based composite material and preparation method thereof
A hollow/porous silicon-based composite material includes a hollow/porous structure, a silicon-carbon composite layer and a carbon coating layer. The silicon-carbon composite layer is formed by uniformly dispersing nano silicon/silicon oxide in a conductive carbon mesh formed by high-temperature pyrolysis of a binder. The composite material is prepared by uniformly mixing nano silicon/silicon oxide, the binder and the salt, and then carrying out spray granulation, high-temperature sintering, water washing for desalination, and a coating treatment. The grain growth of the silicon material is slowed down during the heat treatment process, the pulverization of the material is effectively avoided, the volume expansion effect of the silicon-based material is alleviated, the cycle performance of the silicon-based material is improved, and the conductivity and rate performance of the material is enhanced. The silicon-based composite material is a silicon-carbon anode material for lithium ion batteries with high first-cycle efficiency, low expansion and long cycle. |
| US12100832B2 |
Positive electrode active substance for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery, and positive electrode for non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery
This positive electrode active substance for a non-aqueous electrolyte secondary battery contains: a lithium-containing transition metal oxide having secondary particles formed by aggregation of primary particles; and at least a tungsten compound and a boron compound that are present between primary particles. The present invention is characterized in that: the amount of tungsten element eluted when the positive electrode active substance is washed for 5 minutes with a 0.01 mol/L aqueous solution of sodium hydroxide is 60% or less of the amount of tungsten element detected when the positive electrode active substance is dissolved in a mixed acid containing hydrofluoric acid, nitric acid and hydrochloric acid; and the amount of boron element eluted when the positive electrode active substance is washed for 1 minute with ion exchanged water is 80% or more of the amount of boron element detected when the positive electrode active substance is dissolved in hydrochloric acid. |
| US12100830B2 |
Cathode additive and preparation method therefor, cathode electrode and preparation method therefor, and lithium ion battery
A cathode additive, comprising, in percentage by mass, 10% to 40% of carbon-coated lithium manganese iron phosphate and an organic solvent. The carbon-coated lithium manganese iron phosphate is dispersed in the organic solvent, and the median particle diameter of the carbon-coated lithium manganese iron phosphate is 30 nm to 100 nm. |
| US12100827B2 |
Apparatus for manufacturing electrode for secondary battery, electrode for secondary battery manufactured therethrough, and secondary battery
Discussed is an apparatus for manufacturing an electrode for a secondary battery, an electrode for a secondary battery which is manufactured therethrough, and a secondary battery. The apparatus notches a portion of a non-coating portion of an electrode collector, which is not coated with an electrode active material, in an electrode sheet coated with the electrode active material on the electrode collector to manufacture an electrode tab. The apparatus includes a notching roll that rotates to notch the portion of the non-coating portion, wherein the notching roll includes: a notching cutter provided on a portion of the notching roll, which faces the non-coating portion to notch the electrode sheet; and a roll pad provided on a portion of the notching roll, which faces the electrode active material, the roll pad contacting the electrode sheet when the notching roll rotates to prevent the electrode sheet from being slipped. |
| US12100825B1 |
Battery box having heat directing function, heat directing structure, and method
The present invention provides a battery box having a heat directing function, a heat directing structure, and a method. The battery box comprises: a box body, the inner space of the box body being divided, by a heat partition plate, into a battery compartment in an upper portion and a heat concentration and distribution area in a lower portion; and at least one cell, the cell comprising an upper end face and a housing, the upper end face being provided with cell pressure relief valve, the cell being provided in the battery compartment, and the upper end face being provided to face the heat partition plate. The heat partition plate is provided with a heat directing area. An outlet of the cell pressure relief valve corresponds to the heat directing area. A heat flow discharged by the cell pressure relief valve enters the heat concentration and distribution area through the heat directing area. When thermal runaway occurs in the cell, the heat flow discharged by the pressure relief valve flows from the pressure relief valve to the heat directing area, then to the heat concentration and distribution area, and then to the outside of the box, and the bulk density of the heat flow is reduced step by step, thereby achieving the purpose of heat directing. |
| US12100821B2 |
Bus bar module
A bus bar module includes a circuit body, a bus bar, a holder, and a cover configured to be assembled to the holder to protect the circuit body and the holder. The circuit body includes a belt-like main line that extends in a first direction, a belt-like branch line that extends from the main line so as to branch from the main line, and a connection portion provided in a position closer to a distal end of the branch line than a folded portion the branch line. The cover is structured so as to be stretchable and shrinkable in the first direction in accordance with a stretching and a shrinking of the holder in the first direction. |
| US12100819B2 |
Switch control device and method, motor controller, and battery pack heating control system
The present application provides a switch control device and method, a motor controller, and a battery pack heating control system. The switch control device includes: a processing module configured to select, when it is determined that a switch control cycle switches from a previous cycle to a current cycle, a target upper bridge arm switch module for the current cycle from upper bridge arm switch modules other than a target upper bridge arm switch module for the previous cycle and/or select a target lower bridge arm switch module for the current cycle from lower bridge arm switch modules other than a target lower bridge arm switch module for the previous cycle; wherein the processing module is further configured to: during each switch control cycle, control the target upper bridge arm switch module and the target lower bridge arm switch module to be turned on and off. |
| US12100817B2 |
Method for capacity recovery of lithium-ion secondary battery
This application provides a method for capacity recovery of lithium-ion secondary battery. The method includes the following steps: (1) providing a capacity-degraded lithium-ion battery; (2) providing a capacity recovery agent, the capacity recovery agent including a lithium iodide and an organic solvent, and the organic solvent being used to dissolve the lithium iodide; (3) injecting the capacity recovery agent into the capacity-degraded lithium-ion battery; (4) enabling the capacity recovery agent to react inside the lithium-ion battery; and (5) pouring out the liquid mixture inside the reacted lithium-ion battery and injecting an electrolyte into the lithium-ion battery. |
| US12100816B2 |
Systems and methods for minimizing and preventing dendrite formation in electrochemical cells
Embodiments described herein relate to electrochemical cells with dendrite prevention mechanisms. In some aspects, an electrochemical cell can include an anode disposed on an anode current collector, a cathode disposed on a cathode current collector, the cathode having a first thickness at a proximal end of the cathode and a second thickness at a distal end of the cathode, the second thickness greater than the first thickness, a first separator disposed on the anode, a second separator disposed on the cathode, an interlayer disposed between the first separator and the second separator, the interlayer including electroactive material and having a proximal end and a distal end, and a power source electrically connected to the proximal end of the cathode and the proximal end of the interlayer, the power source configured to maintain a voltage difference between the cathode and the interlayer below a threshold value. |
| US12100815B2 |
Metal ion battery having ionomer membrane separator and free-standing electrode
The present invention provides an energy storage device having high discharge capacity and high cycling ability. More particularly, the present invention provides Zn/V2O5 battery having cation selective ionomer membrane and free-standing electrode. |
| US12100813B2 |
Secondary battery, electrolyte, and apparatus comprising the secondary battery
The present application provides a secondary battery, an electrolyte, and an apparatus including the secondary battery. The secondary battery of the present application includes an electrolyte, characterized in that the electrolyte includes an organic solvent, and the organic solvent includes a cyclic carbonate and a chain carbonate; the mass ratio of the cyclic carbonate and the chain carbonate is from 25:75 to 32:68; the chain carbonate includes dimethyl carbonate; the mass percentage of the dimethyl carbonate in the chain carbonate is greater than or equal to 9 wt % and less than 50 wt %; wherein based on the total mass of the organic solvent, the mass percentage of a carboxylic acid ester is less than 5 wt %. The secondary battery of the present application can simultaneously obtain excellent low-temperature power, long service life and cycle performance. |
| US12100810B2 |
Secondary battery and battery module, battery pack and electrical device containing the same
The present application provides a secondary battery and a battery module, battery pack and electrical device containing the same. The secondary battery comprises a positive electrode plate and an non-aqueous electrolytic solution, wherein the positive electrode plate comprises a positive electrode active material with a core-shell structure, said positive electrode active material comprising an core and a shell covering said core, said core has a chemical formula of Li1+xMn1-yAyP1-zRzO4; said shell comprises a first cladding layer covering said core, a second cladding layer covering said first cladding layer and a third cladding layer covering said second cladding layer, said non-aqueous electrolytic solution comprises a first additive, said first additive comprises one or more of compounds as shown by Formula 1, Formula 2 and Formula 3. |
| US12100808B2 |
Compound, and lithium secondary battery electrolyte and lithium secondary battery which comprise same
A compound according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is represented by Formula 1. An electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include the compound, and a lithium secondary battery according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include the electrolyte. |
| US12100807B2 |
Additives for electrolytes in Li-ions batteries
Method of improving the performance and safety of a Li-ion battery. The method includes using a nitrile-based small organic compound of general formula I, V or IX outlined in the application in association with the electrolyte of the battery. An electrolyte including a nitrile-based small organic compound. A battery including the electrolyte. |
| US12100804B2 |
Alkali ION conducting plastic crystals
A solid electrolyte represented by general formula LiySiRx(MO4), where x is an integer from 1 to 3 inclusive, y=4−x, each R present is independently C1-C3 alkyl or C1-C3 alkoxy, and M is sulfur, selenium, or tellurium. Methods of making the solid electrolyte include combining a phenylsilane and a first acid to yield mixture including benzene and a second acid, and combining at least one of an alkali halide, and alkali amide, and an alkali alkoxide with the second acid to yield a product d represented by general formula LiySiRx(MO4)y. The second acid may be in the form of a liquid or a solid. The phenylsilane includes at least one C1-C3 alkyl substituent or at least one C1-C3 alkoxy substituent, and the first acid includes at least one of sulfuric acid, selenic acid, and telluric acid. |
| US12100795B2 |
Light-emitting element
A light-emitting element having high external quantum efficiency is provided. A light-emitting element having a long lifetime is provided. A light-emitting element is provided which includes a light-emitting layer containing a phosphorescent compound, a first organic compound, and a second organic compound between a pair of electrodes, in which a combination of the first organic compound and the second organic compound forms an exciplex (excited complex). The light-emitting element transfers energy by utilizing an overlap between the emission spectrum of the exciplex and the absorption spectrum of the phosphorescent compound and thus has high energy transfer efficiency. Therefore, a light-emitting element having high external quantum efficiency can be obtained. |
| US12100791B2 |
Method for producing a semiconductor component having an insulating substrate, and semiconductor component having an insulating substrate
A method for producing a semiconductor component may include applying a semiconductor chip over a first main surface of an insulating substrate, thinning a second main surface of the insulating substrate where the second main surface has a roughness of more than 300 nm after thinning, applying a smoothing metal layer over the second main surface of the insulating substrate, and smoothing the smoothing metal layer. A semiconductor component may include a semiconductor chip, an insulating substrate where the semiconductor chip is arranged over a first main surface of the insulating substrate and a second main surface of the insulating substrate has a roughness Ra of more than 300 nm, and a smoothing metal layer over the second main surface. |
| US12100790B2 |
Method of manufacturing light emitting device
A method of manufacturing a light emitting device includes: a resin layer disposition step including disposing, on a support, a resin layer in an A-stage state; a light emitting element mounting step including mounting a light emitting element on the resin layer such that a first surface faces an upper surface of the resin layer; a load application step including applying a load to the light emitting element so as to embed the semiconductor stack structure at least partly in the resin layer while a second surface of the light emitting element is exposed from the resin layer; a first heating step including heating the resin layer at a first temperature without applying the load, to lower a viscosity of the resin layer; and a second heating step including heating the resin layer at a second temperature higher than the first temperature to harden the resin layer. |
| US12100789B2 |
Display device
A display device, including a circuit substrate, a light-emitting layer, a quarter-wave plate, and a band-pass polarizing layer, is provided. The light-emitting layer is disposed on the circuit substrate and has light-emitting structures, which are electrically connected to the circuit substrate and include first light-emitting structures, which have a first main light-emitting wavelength. The quarter-wave plate is disposed in overlap with the light-emitting structures and is located between the band-pass polarizing layer and the light-emitting layer. The band-pass polarizing layer includes at least one first band-pass polarizing pattern, which have a first absorption axis. The first wavelength range is the first main light-emitting wavelength±10 nm. An average transmittance of the first band-pass polarizing patterns to light with a wavelength outside the first wavelength range and a polarization direction parallel to the first absorption axis is less than 20%. |
| US12100788B2 |
Phosphor substrate, light emitting substrate, and lighting device
A phosphor substrate of the present invention is a phosphor substrate having a plurality of light emitting elements mounted on one surface, and includes an insulating substrate, a first electrode group which is disposed on one surface of the insulating substrate and includes a plurality of electrodes bonded to the plurality of light emitting elements, a phosphor layer which is disposed on one surface of the insulating substrate and includes a phosphor in which a light emission peak wavelength, in a case where light emitted by light emitting element is used as excitation light, is in a visible light region, and a second electrode group which is disposed on the other surface of the insulating substrate and includes a plurality of electrodes. |
| US12100787B2 |
Vertical blue light emitting diode and method for manufacturing same
A vertical blue LED includes: a conductive substrate, the conductive substrate including a first surface and a second surface opposite to the first surface a nitride epitaxial layer; a metal reflective layer, positioned on the first surface; a nitride epitaxial layer, positioned on a surface of the metal reflective layer and including a P-type GaN layer, a quantum well layer, a preparation layer, and an N-type GaN layer that are sequentially stacked along a direction perpendicular to the conductive substrate, wherein a thickness of the nitride epitaxial layer is less than a wavelength of blue light; an N-type electrode, positioned on a surface of the N-type GaN layer; and a P-type electrode, positioned on the second surface. |
| US12100782B2 |
Optoelectronic semiconductor chip and method for producing an optoelectronic semiconductor chip
In an embodiment an optoelectronic semiconductor chip includes a semiconductor layer sequence with a first layer, a second layer and an active layer arranged between the first layer and the second layer, the semiconductor layer sequence having at least one injection region, wherein the first layer includes a first conductivity type, wherein the second layer includes a second conductivity type, wherein the semiconductor layer sequence includes the first conductivity type within the entire injection region, wherein the injection region, starting from the first layer, at least partially penetrates the active layer, wherein side surfaces of the semiconductor layer sequence are formed at least in places by the injection region, and wherein the injection region is configured to inject charge carriers directly into the active layer. |
| US12100774B2 |
Solar cells for a solar cell array
A solar cell for a solar cell array with one or more grid on a surface thereof, wherein electrical connections are made to the grids in a plurality of locations positioned around the solar cell; and the electrical connections extend to one or more conductors located under the solar cell. The conductors located under the solar cell are buried within a substrate, and each of the conductors comprises a low resistance conducting path that distributes current from the solar cell. The conductors are loops, U-shaped, or have only up or down pathways. The solar cell comprises a full cell that has four cropped corners and the locations are in the cropped corners. |
| US12100773B2 |
Avalanche photodiode structure
A germanium based avalanche photo-diode device and method of manufacture thereof. The device including: a silicon substrate; a lower doped silicon region, positioned above the substrate; a silicon multiplication region, positioned above the lower doped silicon region; an intermediate doped silicon region, positioned above the silicon multiplication region; a doped germanium interface layer, positioned above the intermediate doped silicon region; an un-doped germanium absorption region, position above the doped germanium interface layer; an upper doped germanium region, positioned above the un-doped germanium absorption region; and an input silicon waveguide; wherein: the un-doped germanium absorption region and the upper doped germanium region form a germanium waveguide which is coupled to the input waveguide, and the device also includes a first electrode and a second electrode, and the first electrode extends laterally to contact the lower doped silicon region and the second electrode extends laterally to contact the upper doped germanium region. |
| US12100772B2 |
Solar cell design that minimizes weld attrition and gridline shadowing losses
A solar cell design includes fabricating one or more gridlines for extracting photo-current on a front surface of the solar cell, wherein each of the gridlines is a metal grid and a cap layer, and at least a portion of the metal grid is deposited on the cap layer; and controlling an alignment of the metal grid relative to the cap layer, and a width of the cap layer relative to a width of the metal grid, so that a minimum cap edge offset distance value is about 1 μm or more. The alignment of the metal grid relative to the cap layer and the width of the cap layer relative to the width of the metal grid are controlled at areas on the front surface of the solar cell opposite where welding occurs on a back-side of the solar cell. The alignments and widths of the metal grid relative to the cap layer are controlled by a photomask. |
| US12100770B2 |
Field effect transistor with gate isolation structure and method
A device includes a substrate, a first semiconductor channel over the substrate, a second semiconductor channel over the substrate and laterally offset from the first semiconductor channel, and a third semiconductor channel over the substrate and laterally offset from the second semiconductor channel. A first gate structure, a second gate structure, and a third gate structure are over and lateral surround the first, second, and third semiconductor channels, respectively. A first inactive fin is between the first gate structure and the second gate structure, and a second inactive fin is between the second gate structure and the third gate structure. A bridge conductor layer is over the first, second, and third gate structures, and the first and second inactive fins. A dielectric plug extends from an upper surface of the second inactive fin, through the bridge conductor layer, to at least an upper surface of the bridge conductor layer. |
| US12100769B2 |
Semiconductor device
An object of the disclosure is to provide a semiconductor device with low-loss and suppressed leakage current, which is particularly useful for power devices. A semiconductor device including a semiconductor layer including an oxide semiconductor having a corundum structure as a main component, and a Schottky electrode including a first electrode layer and a second electrode layer having a higher conductivity than the first electrode layer, wherein an outer edge portion of the second electrode layer is electrically connected to the semiconductor layer at an electrical connection region through the first electrode layer, and an outer edge portion of the first electrode layer is located outside an outer edge portion of the electrical connection region. |
| US12100759B2 |
Semiconductor device, manufacturing method and electronic equipment
The present disclosure provides a semiconductor device, a manufacturing method, and electronic equipment. The semiconductor device including: a substrate; an interface, for generating two-dimensional charge carrier gas; a first electrode and a second electrode; and a first semiconductor layer of a first type doping formed on the substrate, wherein first regions and a second region are formed in the first semiconductor layer, wherein in the first regions, the dopant atoms of the first type do not have electrical activity, and in the second region, the dopant atoms of the first type have electrical activity; and the second region includes a portion coplanar with the first regions. |
| US12100756B2 |
High electron mobility transistor device having a barrier layer with a protruding portion
A high electron mobility transistor (HEMT) device including a substrate, a channel layer, a barrier layer, a p-type gallium nitride (GaN) spacer, a gate electrode, a source electrode, and a drain electrode is provided. The channel layer is disposed on the substrate. The barrier layer is disposed on the channel layer and has a protruding portion. The P-type GaN spacer is disposed on a side wall of the protruding portion. The gate electrode is disposed on the protruding portion and the P-type GaN spacer. The source electrode and the drain electrode are disposed on two sides of the gate electrode. |
| US12100755B2 |
Channel structures including doped 2D materials for semiconductor devices
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, a semiconductor structure suspending over the substrate and comprising a source region, a drain region, and a channel region disposed between the source region and the drain region. The channel region includes a doped two-dimensional (2D) material layer comprising a first portion on an upper surface of the channel region. The semiconductor device also includes an interfacial layer surrounding the channel region including the first portion of the doped 2D material layer, and a gate electrode surrounding the interfacial layer. |
| US12100753B2 |
Gated metal-insulator-semiconductor (MIS) tunnel diode having negative transconductance
Gated MIS tunnel diode devices having a controllable negative transconductance behavior are provided. In some embodiments, a device includes a substrate, a tunnel diode dielectric layer on a surface of the substrate, and a gate dielectric layer on the surface of the substrate and adjacent to the tunnel diode dielectric layer. A tunnel diode electrode is disposed on the tunnel diode dielectric layer, and a gate electrode is disposed on the gate dielectric layer. A substrate electrode is disposed on the surface of the substrate, and the tunnel diode electrode is positioned between the gate electrode and the substrate electrode. |
| US12100747B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device with favorable electrical characteristics is provided. A semiconductor device capable of high-voltage driving is provided. A semiconductor device in which a large amount of current can flow is provided. The semiconductor device has a structure including a semiconductor layer, a first insulating layer, a second insulating layer, a metal oxide layer, a conductive layer, and an insulating region. The metal oxide layer is positioned between the first insulating layer and the conductive layer. The insulating region is adjacent to the metal oxide layer and is positioned between the first insulating layer and the conductive layer. The semiconductor layer includes a first region in contact with the first insulating layer and overlapping with the metal oxide layer and the conductive layer with the first insulating layer therebetween, a second region in contact with the first insulating layer and overlapping with the insulating region and the conductive layer with the first insulating layer therebetween, a third region in contact with the first insulating layer, and a fourth region in contact with the second insulating layer. The insulating region shows a different permittivity from the first insulating layer. |
| US12100745B2 |
Dual metal capped via contact structures for semiconductor devices
The structure of a semiconductor device with dual metal capped via contact structures and a method of fabricating the semiconductor device are disclosed. A method of fabricating the semiconductor device includes forming a source/drain (S/D) region and a gate structure on a fin structure, forming S/D and gate contact structures on the S/D region and the gate structure, respectively, forming first and second via contact structures on the S/D and gate contact structures, respectively, and forming first and second interconnect structures on the first and second via contact structures, respectively. The forming of the first and second via contact structures includes forming a first via contact plug interposed between first top and bottom metal capping layers and a second via contact plug interposed between second top and bottom metal capping layers, respectively. |
| US12100741B2 |
Lateral double-diffused transistor and manufacturing method thereof
The present disclosure relates to a lateral double-diffused transistor and a manufacturing method of the transistor. The transistor comprises: a substrate; a well region and a drift region both located in the top of the substrate, a source region located in the well region, and a drain region located in the drift region; a first dielectric layer located on a surface of the drift region; a first field plate layer located above the drift region and covering a first portion of the first dielectric layer; a second dielectric layer covering a surface of part of the first field plate layer and stacked on a surface of a second portion of the first dielectric layer; a second field plate layer located on a surface of the second dielectric layer, comprising at least one contact channel. According to the present disclosure, the transistor increases breakdown voltage and reduces on-state resistance. |
| US12100732B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing same
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device includes forming a semiconductor substrate having a first protected circuit, and forming a first guard ring around the first protected circuit including: forming a first wall configured to provide a first reference voltage; and forming a second wall configured to provide a second reference voltage different than the first reference voltage. |
| US12100729B2 |
Apparatus and methods for assembling a display area
A method of assembling a display area includes selecting a first tile from a plurality of tiles, each tile of the plurality of tiles includes a predetermined parameter and a plurality of microLEDs defining a plurality of pixels. The selecting the first tile based on a value of the predetermined parameter of the first tile. The method includes selecting a second tile from the plurality of tiles based on a value of the predetermined parameter of the second tile. The method further includes positioning the first tile and the second tile into an array defining at least a portion of the display area. A first edge of the first tile facing a second edge of the second tile. A display device including the display area assembled by the method is also provided. |
| US12100724B2 |
Optical element, optical element array, lens group, electronic apparatus, and method of producing optical element
The present technology includes: a substrate, a stepped structure being formed on one surface of the substrate, the stepped structure having a stepped surface having a different height from the one surface; and a coating layer that continuously covers the stepped structure and the one surface on a periphery of the stepped structure and causes light to be transmitted therethrough or reflects the light. |
| US12100720B2 |
Wafer level image sensor package
A method for forming an image sensor package is provided. An image sensor chip is formed over a package substrate. A protection layer is formed overlying the image sensor chip. The protection layer has a planar top surface and a bottom surface lining and contacting structures under the protection layer. An opening is formed into the protection layer and spaced around a periphery of the image sensor chip. A light shielding material is filled in the opening to form an on-wafer shield structure having a sidewall directly contact the protection layer. |
| US12100718B2 |
Solid state image sensor having a grid-patterned inter-pixel isolation section separating the photoelectric conversion sections of each of the pixels from one another and provided with protruding sections
The present technology relates to a solid-state imaging element and electronic equipment that allow an increase in the signal charge amount Qs that each pixel can accumulate. A solid-state imaging element according to the first aspect of the present technology includes: a photoelectric conversion section formed in each pixel; and an inter-pixel separation section separating the photoelectric conversion section of each pixel, in which the inter-pixel separation section includes a protruding section having a shape protruding toward the photoelectric conversion section. The present technology can be applied to a back-illuminated CMOS image sensor, for example. |
| US12100716B2 |
Image sensor with tolerance optimizing interconnects
Embodiments of a hybrid imaging sensor that optimizes a pixel array area on a substrate using a stacking scheme for placement of related circuitry with minimal vertical interconnects between stacked substrates and associated features are disclosed. Embodiments of maximized pixel array size/die size (area optimization) are disclosed, and an optimized imaging sensor providing improved image quality, improved functionality, and improved form factors for specific applications common to the industry of digital imaging are also disclosed. Embodiments of the above may include systems, methods and processes for staggering ADC or column circuit bumps in a column or sub-column hybrid image sensor using vertical interconnects are also disclosed. |
| US12100715B2 |
Array substrate, display, and terminal device
Example array substrates are provided. One example array substrate includes an underlying substrate, an antenna and a component layer, where the antenna and the component layer are located on a same side of the underlying substrate, where the component layer and the antenna are disposed at intervals, where the component layer includes a plurality of metal laminates and a plurality of dielectric laminates that are stacked, and where the plurality of metal laminates and the plurality of dielectric laminates are alternately disposed to form a plurality of thin film transistors. |
| US12100707B2 |
S-contact for SOI
Systems, methods, and apparatus for an improved protection from charge injection into layers of a device using resistive structures are described. Such resistive structures, named s-contacts, can be made using simpler fabrication methods and less fabrication steps. In a case of metal-oxide-semiconductor (MOS) field effect transistors (FETs), s-contacts can be made with direct connection, or resistive connection, to all regions of the transistors, including the source region, the drain region and the gate. |
| US12100706B2 |
Semiconductor structure and method of forming thereof
A semiconductor structure and a method for forming a semiconductor structure are provided. The semiconductor structure includes a substrate, a gate electrode, a gate dielectric layer, first protection structures, a second protection structure and an insulating layer. The gate electrode is disposed within the substrate. The gate dielectric layer is disposed within the substrate and laterally surrounds the gate electrode. The first protection structures are disposed over the gate electrode. The second protection structure is disposed over the gate dielectric layer. The insulating layer is between the second protection structure and the gate dielectric layer. |
| US12100703B2 |
Electrostatic protection circuit and manufacturing method thereof, array substrate and display device
Provided an electrostatic protection circuit. The electrostatic protection circuit includes: at least one first transistor and at least one second transistor. A gate electrode and a first electrode of the first transistor are connected to a first signal line, and a second electrode of the first transistor is connected to a second signal line. A gate electrode and a first electrode of the second transistor are connected to the second signal line, and a second electrode of the second transistor is connected to the first signal line. Orthographic projection(s) of a channel and/or a first electrode of the first transistor on a main surface of the array substrate is/are within an orthographic projection of the first signal line on the main surface of the array substrate. |
| US12100696B2 |
Light emitting diode for display and display apparatus having the same
A light emitting diode pixel for a display including a first LED sub-unit, a second LED sub-unit disposed on a portion of the first LED sub-unit, a third LED sub-unit disposed on a portion of the second LED sub-unit, and a reflective electrode disposed adjacent to the first LED sub-unit, in which each of the first to third LED sub-units comprises an n-type semiconductor layer and a p-type semiconductor layer, each of the n-type semiconductor layers of the first, second, and third LED stacks is electrically connected to the reflective electrode, and the first LED sub-unit, the second LED sub-unit, and the third LED sub-unit are configured to be independently driven. |
| US12100695B2 |
Light emitting device including multiple light emitting parts
A light emitting device including a first light emitting part including a first n-type semiconductor layer, a first active layer, a first p-type semiconductor layer, and a first transparent electrode, a second light emitting part disposed over the first light emitting part and including a second n-type semiconductor layer, a second active layer, a second p-type semiconductor layer, and a second transparent electrode, and a third light emitting part disposed over the second light emitting part and including a third n-type semiconductor layer, a third active layer, a third p-type semiconductor layer, and a third transparent electrode, in which the light emitting device has substantially a quadrangular shape when viewed from the top, and has first to fourth corners. |
| US12100692B2 |
Display panel, preparation method thereof and display device
Provided are a display panel and a preparation method of the display panel. The display panel includes a first substrate and a second substrate which are disposed opposite to each other, a plurality of light-emitting elements arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate and a plurality of auxiliary structures arranged between the first substrate and the second substrate; where the plurality of auxiliary structures surround the plurality of light-emitting elements and each auxiliary structure is provided with a notch structure on a side of the each auxiliary structure close to a respective one of the plurality of light-emitting elements and on a side of the each auxiliary structure close to a light-emitting surface of the display panel. |
| US12100691B2 |
Light-emitting component and display device comprising the same
The invention relates to a light-emitting component comprising a light-emitting semiconductor chip, a transparent conductive layer, and at least two electrical connection points, wherein the transparent conductive layer covers the light-emitting semiconductor chip at least in places, and the electrical connection points are arranged on a side of the light-emitting semiconductor chip facing away from the transparent conductive layer. |
| US12100690B2 |
LED display unit group and display panel
Provided is an LED display unit group, comprising: an insulation substrate, a front circuit board, and a back circuit board. The front circuit board is divided into pixel areas arranged in an array of 2m rows and 2n columns. Each pixel area comprises three A-electrode pads, three LED light-emitting chips of different light emission colors, and B-electrode pads corresponding to the three LED light-emitting chips. In each pixel area, the electrode A of each LED light-emitting chip is electrically connected to a corresponding A-electrode pad, and the electrode B of each LED light-emitting chip is electrically connected to a corresponding B-electrode pad. In the same column of pixel areas, B-electrode pads corresponding to all LED light-emitting chips are electrically connected to each other. In the same row of pixel areas, A-electrode pads corresponding to LED light-emitting chips of the same light emission color are electrically connected to each other. |
| US12100686B2 |
Method for manufacturing semiconductor package structure and semiconductor manufacturing apparatus
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor package structure and a semiconductor manufacturing apparatus are provided. The method includes: (a) providing a package body disposed on a chuck, wherein the package body includes at least one semiconductor element encapsulated in an encapsulant; and (b) sucking the package body through the chuck to create a plurality of negative pressures on a bottom surface of the package body sequentially from an inner portion to an outer portion of the package body. |
| US12100681B2 |
Semiconductor package and method of fabricating the same
A semiconductor package including a first die, through electrodes penetrating the first die, a first pad on a top surface of the first die and coupled to a through electrode, a second die on the first die, a second pad on a bottom surface of the second die, a first connection terminal connecting the first pad to the second pad, and an insulating layer that fills a region between the first die and the second die and encloses the first connection terminal. The first connection terminal includes an intermetallic compound made of solder material and metallic material of the first and second pads. A concentration of the metallic material in the first connection terminal is substantially constant regardless of a distance from the first pad or the second pad. |
| US12100674B2 |
Embedded resistor-capacitor film for fan out wafer level packaging
A panel type fan-out wafer level package with embedded film type capacitors and resistors is described. The package comprises a silicon die at a bottom of the package wherein a top side and lateral sides of the silicon die are encapsulated in a molding compound, at least one redistribution layer connected to the silicon die through copper posts contacting a top side of the silicon die, at least one embedded capacitor material (ECM) sheet laminated onto the package, and at least one embedded resistor-conductor material (RCM) sheet laminated onto the package wherein the at least one redistribution layer, capacitors in the at least one ECM, and resistors in the at least one RCM are electrically interconnected. |
| US12100667B2 |
Apparatus for stacking substrates and method for the same
A substrate stacking apparatus that stacks first and second substrates on each other, by forming a contact region where the first substrate held by a first holding section and the second substrate held by a second holding section contact each other, at one portion of the first and second substrates, and expanding the contact region from the one portion by releasing holding of the first substrate by the first holding section, wherein an amount of deformation occurring in a plurality of directions at least in the first substrate differs when the contact region expands, and the substrate stacking apparatus includes a restricting section that restricts misalignment between the first and second substrates caused by a difference in the amount of deformation. In the substrate stacking apparatus above, the restricting section may restrict the misalignment such that an amount of the misalignment is less than or equal to a prescribed value. |
| US12100664B2 |
Semiconductor device with curved conductive lines and method of forming the same
An embodiment is package structure including a first integrated circuit die, a redistribution structure bonded to the first integrated circuit die, the redistribution structure including a first metallization pattern in a first dielectric layer, the first metallization pattern including a plurality of first conductive features, each of the first conductive features including a first conductive via in the first dielectric layer and first conductive line over the first dielectric layer and electrically coupled to the respective first conductive via, each of the first conductive lines comprising a curve in a plan view, a second dielectric layer over the first dielectric layer and the first metallization pattern, and a second metallization pattern in the second dielectric layer, the second metallization pattern including a plurality of second conductive via in the second dielectric layer, each of the second conductive vias being over and electrically coupled to a respective first conductive line. |
| US12100659B2 |
Power supply conductive trace structure of semiconductor device and power supply conductive trace layout method of semiconductor device
A power supply conductive trace structure of a semiconductor device includes a first power supply conductive trace in a mesh form provided in a first power supply conductive trace layer, and a second power supply conductive trace provided in a redistribution layer located on or above the first power supply conductive trace to correspond in position to a conductive trace area that is a portion of the first power supply conductive trace and to be connected to the first power supply conductive trace. |
| US12100657B2 |
Semiconductor device and method for forming semiconductor device
A semiconductor device and a method for forming a semiconductor device are provided. The method for forming a semiconductor device includes the following steps. A substrate is provided, in which the substrate has a periphery region, a jointing region and a device region adjoined in sequence. A metal layer is formed on an upper surface of the substrate. A dielectric layer is formed above the metal layer. An opening is formed in the dielectric layer, in which the opening is located above at least one of the periphery region or the jointing region so as to expose the metal layer to form a contact window, and a height of an upper surface of the metal layer exposed to the contact window is lower than a height of an upper surface of the metal layer located in the device region. |
| US12100652B2 |
Multilevel interconnection structure and method for forming the same
A semiconductor device includes a substrate, an active region, an isolation structure, a first metal line, gate structure, source/drain region, a source/drain contact, and a second metal line. The active region protrudes from a top surface of the substrate. The isolation structure is over the substrate and laterally surrounds the active region. The first metal line is in the isolation structure. The gate structure is over the active region. The source/drain region is in the active region. The source/drain contact is over the active region and is electrically connected to the source/drain region. The second metal line is over the gate structure and the source/drain contact, in which the second metal line vertically overlaps the first metal line. |
| US12100651B2 |
Semiconductor memory device and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor memory device, and a method of manufacturing a semiconductor memory device, includes a stacked structure including a plurality of conductive layers for local lines stacked on a semiconductor substrate defined by a cell region and a slimming region to be spaced apart from each other, wherein the plurality of conductive layers for local lines are stacked in a step structure in the slimming region. The semiconductor memory device also includes a plurality of contact plugs formed to penetrate the stack structure in the slimming region, the plurality of contact plugs corresponding to each of the conductive layers for local lines. Each of the plurality of contact plugs includes a protrusion part protruding horizontally, and the protrusion part is connected to a corresponding conductive layer for local lines among the plurality of conductive layers for local lines. |
| US12100650B2 |
Semiconductor device having a carbon containing insulation layer formed under the source/drain
An interconnection structure and a method of manufacturing an interconnection structure are provided. The interconnection structure includes a first dielectric layer, a first conductive via in the first dielectric layer, and a first metal line disposed on the first dielectric layer and electrically connected with the first conductive via. At least a portion of the first metal line is exposed to a first air gap. |
| US12100649B2 |
Package comprising an integrated device with a back side metal layer
A device comprising a package and a board. The package includes a substrate comprising a first surface and a second surface, a passive component coupled to the first surface of the substrate, an integrated device coupled to the second surface of the substrate, a back side metal layer coupled to a back side of the integrated device, a first solder interconnect coupled to the back side metal layer, and a plurality of solder interconnects coupled to the second surface of the substrate. The board is coupled to the package through the plurality of solder interconnects. The first solder interconnect is coupled to the board. |
| US12100646B2 |
3D semiconductor device and structure with metal layers
A semiconductor device including: a first silicon layer including a first single crystal silicon layer; first transistors with a single crystal channel and overlaid by a first metal layer; overlaid by a second metal layer; overlaid by a third metal layer; a second level with second transistors and including a metal gate, and then disposed over the third metal layer; the second level is overlaid by a third level with third transistors; and then overlaid by a fourth metal layer; fourth overlaid by a fifth metal layer; a via disposed through the second level; the device includes at least one temperature sensor; the fifth metal layer average thickness is greater than the third metal layer average thickness by at least 50%; at least one element within at least one of the second transistors has been processed independently of the third transistors. |
| US12100641B2 |
Electronic package and method for manufacturing the same
An electronic package is provided, which includes a plurality of electronic components encapsulated by an encapsulation layer. A spacer is defined in the encapsulation layer and located between at least two adjacent electronic components of the plurality of electronic components, and a recess is formed in the spacer and used as a thermal insulation area. With the design of the thermal insulation area, the plurality of electronic components can be effectively thermally insulated from one another to prevent heat generated by one electronic component of high power from being conducted to another electronic component of low power that would thermally affect the operation of the low-power electronic component. A method for manufacturing the electronic package is also provided. |
| US12100640B2 |
High efficiency heat dissipation using thermal interface material film
A method of forming a semiconductor structure includes: attaching a semiconductor device to a first surface of a substrate; placing a thermal interface material (TIM) film over a first side of the semiconductor device distal from the substrate, where the TIM film is pre-formed before the placing, where after the placing, a peripheral portion of the TIM film extends laterally beyond sidewalls of the semiconductor device; and attaching a lid to the first surface of the substrate to form an enclosed space between the lid and the substrate, where after attaching the lid, the semiconductor device and the TIM film are disposed in the enclosed space, where a first side of the TIM film distal from the substrate contacts the lid. |
| US12100638B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes a semiconductor chip, a heat sink, a resin package, heat transfer material and multiple spacers. The heat sink absorbs heat of the semiconductor chip. The resin package accommodates the semiconductor chip, and the resin package has a surface at which the heat sink is disposed. The heat transfer material has fluidity, and the heat transfer material is filled between the heat sink and the cooling plate. The spacers are dispersedly arranged in the heat transfer material, and the spacers are in contact with the heat sink and the cooling plate. |
| US12100635B2 |
Semiconductor package and method of fabricating the same
Disclosed is a semiconductor package comprising a lower substrate including a conductive line; a first semiconductor chip on the lower substrate; an under-fill layer between the first semiconductor chip and the lower substrate, the under-fill layer including a central part below the first semiconductor chip and an edge part isolated from direct contact with the central part in a first direction parallel to a top surface of the lower substrate, and a recess region between the central part and the edge part. The recess region may be defined by a sidewall of the central part, a sidewall of the edge part, and a top surface of the conductive line in the lower substrate. |
| US12100631B2 |
Semiconductor device
A semiconductor device includes first and second conductive parts, a first bonding wire connecting the first and second conductive parts and having a non-flat portion between opposite ends thereof so that a portion between the opposite ends is away from the first and second conductive parts, a case having a housing space to accommodate the first and second conductive parts, including a sidewall having first to fourth lateral faces surrounding the housing space to form a rectangular shape in a plan view, and a cover disposed on the sidewall, a sealing member filling the case to seal the first bonding wire, and a first stress relaxer for relieving a stress in the first bonding wire. The first bonding wire extends from the second lateral face toward the fourth lateral face, and the first stress relaxer is positioned between the first bonding wire and the first lateral face. |
| US12100628B2 |
Interconnect structure for fin-like field effect transistor
Interconnect structures and corresponding formation techniques for fin-like field effect transistors (FinFETs) are disclosed herein. An exemplary interconnect structure for a FinFET includes a gate node via electrically coupled to a gate of the FinFET, a source node via electrically coupled to a source of the FinFET, and a drain node via electrically coupled to a drain of the FinFET. A source node via dimension ratio defines a longest dimension of the source node via relative to a shortest dimension of the source node via, and a drain node via dimension ratio defines a longest dimension of the drain node via relative to a shortest dimension of the drain node via. The source node via dimension ratio is greater than the drain node via dimension ratio. In some implementations, the source node via dimension ratio is greater than 2, and the drain node via dimension ratio is less than 1.2. |
| US12100623B2 |
Vertically stacked finFETs and shared gate patterning
Stacked finFET structures including a fin having at least a first layer of semiconductor material stacked over or under a second layer of semiconductor material. The first and second layers may include a Group IV semiconductor material layer and a Group III-V semiconductor material layer, for example. A stacked finFET may include an N-type finFET stacked over or under a P-type finFET, the two finFETs may have channel portions within the different semiconductor material layers. Channel portions of the first and second layers of semiconductor material may be coupled to separate gate electrodes that are vertically aligned. Channel portions of the first and second layers of semiconductor material may be vertically separated by subfin portions of the first and second layers. Different layers of dielectric material adjacent to the subfin portions may improve electrical isolation between the channel portions, for example as a source of fixed charge or impurity dopants. |
| US12100620B2 |
Wafer processing method and machine
In a processing method for a wafer with a mark formed in an outer peripheral portion thereof, a frame unit having the wafer, a tape, and a ring frame is provided, a set of processing conditions for processing the wafer is selected, and a representative image associated with the set of processing conditions is displayed on a display unit. The ring frame includes a notch formed in an outer periphery thereof. In the frame unit, the mark and the notch are in a positional relationship set in accordance with the set of processing conditions. The positional relationship is presented in the representative image. |
| US12100616B2 |
Method of manufacturing semiconductor device
A method of manufacturing a semiconductor device includes: planarizing a surface of a substrate having a conductive material embedded in a first hole so as to expose the conductive material embedded in the first hole, wherein the first hole is formed in a region which is on an insulating film laminated on the substrate and is surrounded by a spacer film; laminating a mask film on the surface of the substrate; forming a second hole in the mask film such that at least a portion of an upper surface of the conductive material embedded in the first hole is exposed; embedding the conductive material in the second hole; and removing the mask film. |
| US12100613B2 |
Minimal contact packaging for process chamber components
Embodiments of packaged chamber components and methods of packaging chamber components are provided herein. In some embodiments, a packaged chamber component for use in a process chamber includes: an insert having an annular trench disposed about a raised inner portion, wherein the annular trench is disposed between the raised inner portion and an outer lip, wherein a ledge couples the raised inner portion to the outer lip, wherein the ledge includes a first portion and a second portion disposed radially outward of the first portion, and wherein the second portion includes a resting surface that extends upward and radially outward of an upper surface of the first portion; and a chamber component disposed in the annular trench of the insert and supported by the resting surface such that one or more critical surfaces of the chamber component are spaced apart from the insert. |
| US12100611B2 |
Methods for producing a 3D semiconductor device and structure with memory cells and multiple metal layers
A method for producing 3D semiconductor devices including: providing a first level including first transistors and a first single crystal layer; forming a first metal layer on top of the first level; forming a second metal layer on top of the first metal layer; forming at least one second level on top of or above the second metal layer; performing a lithography step on the second level; forming at least one third level on top of or above the second level; performing processing steps to form first memory cells within the second level and second memory cells within the third level, where the first memory cells include at least one second transistor, the second memory cells include at least one third transistor, second transistors comprise gate electrodes comprising metal, and then forming at least four independent memory arrays which include some first memory cells and/or second memory cells. |
| US12100610B2 |
Electrostatic chuck and processing apparatus
An electrostatic chuck includes a ceramic dielectric substrate, a base plate, a bonding part, a gas inlet path, a counterbore part, a ceramic porous part, and an elastic body. The base plate supports the ceramic dielectric substrate. The bonding part is located between the ceramic dielectric substrate and the base plate. The gas inlet path extends through the ceramic dielectric substrate, the base plate, and the bonding part. The gas inlet path includes a first hole part, a second hole part and a third hole part. The first hole part is positioned at the ceramic dielectric substrate. The third hole part is positioned at the bonding part. The counterbore part is located in the first hole part. The ceramic porous part is located in the counterbore part. The elastic body faces an end part of the bonding part at the third hole part side. |
| US12100609B2 |
Electrostatic chucking process
One or more embodiments described herein generally relate to methods for chucking and de-chucking a substrate to/from an electrostatic chuck used in a semiconductor processing system. Generally, in embodiments described herein, the method includes: (1) applying a first voltage from a direct current (DC) power source to an electrode disposed within a pedestal; (2) introducing process gases into a process chamber; (3) applying power from a radio frequency (RF) power source to a showerhead; (4) performing a process on the substrate; (5) stopping application of the RF power; (6) removing the process gases from the process chamber; and (7) stopping applying the DC power. |
| US12100600B2 |
Dry etching method, and dry etching agent and storage container therefor
A dry etching method according to one embodiment of the present disclosure includes plasmatizing a dry etching agent and etching a silicon oxide or a silicon nitride with the plasmatized dry etching agent, wherein the dry etching agent comprises CF3I and a C2-C3 fluorine-containing linear nitrile compound, and wherein the concentration of the C2-C3 fluorine-containing linear nitrile compound relative to the CF3I is higher than or equal to 1 vol. ppm and lower than or equal to 1 vol %. |
| US12100597B2 |
Method and system for forming patterned structures including silicon nitride
Methods of forming patterned structures suitable for a multiple patterning process are disclosed. Exemplary methods include forming a silicon nitride layer overlying the substrate by providing a silicon precursor to the reaction chamber for a silicon precursor pulse period, providing a nitrogen reactant to the reaction chamber, providing a hydrogen reactant to the reaction chamber, and providing a plasma power to form a plasma within the reaction chamber for a plasma pulse period. An etch profile of sacrificial features on the substrate can be controlled by controlling an amount of hydrogen provided to the reaction chamber and/or using other process parameters. |
| US12100593B2 |
Method for forming self-aligned double pattern and semiconductor structures
A method for forming a self-aligned double pattern and semiconductor structures are provided. The method for forming a self-aligned double pattern includes the following steps: providing a substrate; sequentially forming a first mask layer, a second mask layer and a third mask layer on an upper surface of the substrate, and etching downwards from an upper surface of the third mask layer in a direction perpendicular to the upper surface of the substrate until a first trench exposing an upper surface of the first mask layer is formed; removing the third mask layer, and partially removing the first mask layer, so as to deepen the first trench; forming a spacer layer on an inner wall of the first trench, and filling the first trench with a fourth mask layer; and partially removing the spacer layer to form a second trench exposing the substrate. |
| US12100592B2 |
Implantation mask formation
Implantation mask formation techniques described herein include increasing an initial aspect ratio of a pattern in an implantation mask by non-lithography techniques, which may include forming a resist hardening layer on the implantation mask. The pattern may be formed by photolithography techniques to the initial aspect ratio that reduces or minimizes the likelihood of pattern collapse during formation of the pattern. Then, the resist hardening layer is formed on the implantation mask to increase the height of the pattern and reduce the width of the pattern, which increases the aspect ratio between the height of the openings or trenches and the width of the openings or trenches of the pattern. In this way, the pattern in the implantation mask may be formed to an ultra-high aspect ratio in a manner that reduces or minimizes the likelihood of pattern collapse during formation of the pattern. |
| US12100591B2 |
Photoactive metal-based hard mask integration
A method of processing a substrate that includes: depositing a photoactive metal-based hard mask (photo-MHM) over an underlying layer, the underlying layer formed over a substrate, the photo-MHM including a metal; depositing a dielectric over the photo-MHM; etching a portion of the dielectric to form a first feature; depositing a spacer material over the first feature; etching the spacer material to expose top surfaces of the dielectric and a first portion of the photo-MHM; exposing the photo-MHM to a first ultraviolet light (UV) radiation through a first photomask, a first unmasked region of the photo-MHM being photoreacted due to the exposure to the first UV radiation; after the exposure, developing the photo-MHM to form a second feature in the photo-MHM; and etching the underlying layer using the photo-MHM as an etch mask. |
| US12100590B2 |
Vapor deposition method and vapor deposition device
Using the first robot, the carrier standing by in the load lock chamber is deposited into the reaction chamber without mounting the wafer before processing, and cleaning gas is supplied while the reaction chamber is maintained at a predetermined cleaning temperature, and the carrier that has been cleaned in the reaction chamber is transferred to the load lock chamber using the first robot. The carrier is cleaned at a predetermined frequency. |
| US12100587B2 |
Substrate cleaning apparatus and cleaning method of substrate
A substrate cleaning apparatus has: a substrate rotating part that rotates a substrate; an edge cleaning member for cleaning an edge part of the substrate; an edge rotating part that rotates the edge cleaning member around an edge rotary shaft that extends in a direction orthogonal to a substrate rotary shaft; a moving part that moves a position of the edge cleaning member with respect to the edge part of the substrate; and a control part that controls the moving part to move the position of the edge cleaning member with respect to the edge part of the substrate, and causes the edge cleaning member to clean a one-side edge area including a face on one side, a side face area including a side face, and an another-side edge area including a face on another side in the edge part of the substrate. |
| US12100583B2 |
Electrospray ion source for spectrometry using inductively heated gas
The invention relates to the generation of desolvated ions by electrospraying to be investigated analytically, e.g. according to the charge-related mass m/z and/or ion mobility. The cloud of highly charged droplets drawn from the spray capillary by a high voltage is usually focused and stabilized by a beam of nebulizing gas surrounding the cloud of tiny droplets. For a fast drying of the droplets, an additional desolvation gas is usually heated to a temperature of up to several hundred degrees centigrade and blown into the cloud of droplets. The invention particularly relates to the heating of the gas which is instrumental in the generation of desolvated ions as part of the electrospraying process without any mechanical or electrical contact between the heating power supply and the heater itself, but rather by heating the heater for the gas using electromagnetic induction. |
| US12100579B2 |
Deposition ring for thin substrate handling via edge clamping
Embodiments of process kits for use in a process chamber are provided herein. In some embodiments, a process kit for use in a process chamber includes: a deposition ring including a first portion having an first inner ledge and a second portion having a second inner ledge, wherein in a first position, the first portion is spaced from the second portion, and wherein in a second position, the second portion is configured to engage the first portion so that the first inner ledge is aligned with the second inner ledge along a common plane to form a clamping surface. |
| US12100572B2 |
Rotary x-ray anode having an integrated liquid metal bearing outer shell
A rotary x-ray anode with an integrated liquid metal bearing outer shell has an anode disc made of Mo or a Mo-based alloy formed with a hole, which is formed centrally in the region of the axis of rotation and extends in the axial direction at least through part of the anode disc, and a bearing bushing made of Mo or a Mo-based alloy. The bearing bushing is connected to the anode disc via a material bond and its inner wall extends the hole in the anode disc. At least an axial portion of an inner wall of the hole in the anode disc and at least an axial portion of an inner wall of the bearing bushing are formed circumferentially as a liquid metal bearing running surface and they form at least a part of a liquid metal bearing outer shell. There is also described a corresponding production method. |
| US12100571B2 |
X-ray tube device and X-ray CT apparatus
An X-ray tube device capable of preventing a holder holding a bearing from suffering damage, and an X-ray CT apparatus including the X-ray tube device are provided. The X-ray tube device includes: a cathode that produces an electron beam; an anode that produces X rays upon irradiation with the electron beam; a rotating portion that supports and rotates the anode; bearings that are placed at a predetermined distance from each other in a direction of a rotation axis of the rotating portion, each of the bearings having an outer ring and an inner ring between which rolling elements are sandwiched; and a holder that holds the outer rings. The holder has an inner wall that is spaced from an edge of the outer ring. |
| US12100564B2 |
Keyboard with a two-way rotating support frame
A keyboard with a two-way rotating support frame is provided. The keyboard includes a keyboard body, a mount arranged on the keyboard body, a first rotating member, and a second rotating member. The first rotating member is rotatably mounted on the mount and can be rotated around a first rotation axis; the second rotating member is rotatably mounted on the first rotating member and can rotate relative to the first rotating member around a second rotation axis. The second rotating member includes a support frame which includes a stand base, and a supporting main frame detachably connected to the stand base. The supporting main frame is used for supporting electronic device with a screen. |
| US12100558B2 |
Multilayer ceramic electronic component including multilayer external electrodes with diffused metal in an underlying electrode layer
A multilayer ceramic electronic component includes a multilayer body and external electrodes provided on opposing end surfaces of the multilayer body. Each external electrode includes an underlying electrode layer including metal components and ceramic components, and plating layers on the underlying electrode layer. A metal of the plating layer on the underlying electrode layer diffuses into the underlying electrode layer, and exists at an interface where the metal components included in the underlying electrode layer are in contact with each other and an interface where the metal component and the ceramic component included in the underlying electrode layer are in contact with each other. |
| US12100555B2 |
Multilayer ceramic capacitor
A multilayer ceramic capacitor includes first dielectric ceramic layers each with a thickness of about 0.48 μm or more and about 0.50 μm or less in the lamination direction, and additional dielectric ceramic layers each with a thickness of about 10 μm or more and about 15 μm or less in the width direction. A number of dielectric particles in each first dielectric ceramic layer in a thickness direction is three or more and six or less. A number of dielectric particles in each additional dielectric ceramic layer in a thickness direction is 100 or more and 150 or less. When the number of dielectric particles in each of first dielectric ceramic layer is NT, and the number of dielectric particles in each additional dielectric ceramic layer is NW, a ratio of NT to NW is about 1:23.08 or more and about 1:46.15 or less. |
| US12100554B2 |
Ceramic composition, ceramic sintered body, capacitor and method for manufacturing the same
The present invention provides a ceramic composition, comprising a primary mixture and a secondary mixture, wherein the primary mixture comprises a first primary ingredient powder and a second primary ingredient powder, and the first primary ingredient powder comprises BaTiO3, the second primary ingredient powder comprises any of SrTiO3, Ba0.95Ca0.05TiO3, BaZr0.1Ti0.9O3 or a combination thereof, and the secondary mixture comprises a rare earth oxide, a silicon oxide and an alkaline-earth metal oxide. The present invention further provides a ceramic sintered body obtained by sintering the ceramic composition, and a capacitor comprising the ceramic sintered body and a method for manufacturing the same; wherein the capacitor satisfies EIA-X8R specification, and has a high dielectric constant. |
| US12100542B2 |
Coupled inductor and power module
The present disclosure provides a coupled inductor and a power module. The coupled inductor includes a magnetic core, a first winding, a second winding, and an adjustment structure located in the magnetic core. At least part of the first winding and at least part of the second winding are in the magnetic core, a stacked portion of the first winding and a stacked portion of the second winding are stacked in a height direction, a non-stacked portion of the first winding and the second winding are not stacked in the height direction, and a non-stacked portion of the second winding and the first winding are not stacked in the height direction. The adjustment structure which is adjoining the non-stacked portion of the first winding and the non-stacked portion of the second winding and has a lower magnetic permeability than that of the magnetic core may adjusts leakage inductance. |
| US12100541B2 |
Embedded cooling channel in magnetics
An electronic package comprises, a package substrate, and a magnetic block, where the magnetic block passes through the package substrate. the electronic package further comprises a fluidic path from an inlet to the package substrate to an outlet of the package substrate. The electronic package further comprises a conductive winding in the package substrate, where the conductive winding wraps around the magnetic block, and where the conductive winding is tubular and the fluidic path passes through the conductive winding. |
| US12100538B2 |
Method for forming a magnetoelectric nanocomposite
A magnetoelectric multiferroic nanocomposite. The nanocomposite comprises a ferroelectric perovskite oxide and a rare-earth substituted mixed ternary transition metal ferrite of the formula A1−xBxRyFe2−yO4. The nanocomposite has a high dielectric constant, low dielectric loss, both stable over a wide frequency range. These properties may make the nanocomposite desirable for applications in microelectronic devices, sensors and antennas. |
| US12100534B2 |
Connecting element for functional parts of an electrical component and method
In an embodiment a connecting element includes a base configured to be fixed to a housing, an electrical conductor and a retainer for guiding and fixing the electrical conductor, the retainer being connected to the base, wherein the electrical conductor is in direct contact with the retainer, wherein the retainer is shaped such that a first contact face of the electrical conductor is configured to contact a first functional part of an electrical component and a second contact face of the electrical conductor is configured to contact a second functional part of the electrical component, the first functional part and the second functional part being located spatially distant from each other in an interior space of the housing, and wherein the connecting element is configured to connect the first functional part and the second functional part. |
| US12100533B2 |
Partial discharge-resistant paint, partial discharge-resistant insulating coating, electric wire, and rotating electric machine
There is provided a partial discharge-resistant paint that is excellent in the dispersibility of alumina particles, has an industrially suitable viscosity, and can form a coating that is excellent in partial discharge resistance and insulating properties. A partial discharge-resistant paint comprising at least one heat-resistant resin selected from the group consisting of a polyamide resin, a polyimide resin, a polyimide resin precursor, a polyamide-imide resin, a polyetherimide resin, and a polyester-imide resin; alumina particles having an aspect ratio of 2 to 99, and represented by the formula: Al2O3·nH2O; at least one selected from the group consisting of an organophosphorous compound, a sulfonic acid compound, an amic acid compound, a triazole compound, a compound represented by formula (A) below, a compound represented by formula (B) below, a compound represented by formula (C) below, citric acid, ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, and an ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid derivative; and a solvent, wherein the solvent comprises 90% by mass or more of a solvent having a boiling point of 100° C. or more at a pressure of 1 atm, the alumina particle content is 10 to 30% by mass relative to a total of 100% by mass of the heat-resistant resin and the alumina particles, and a total content of the heat-resistant resin and the alumina particles is 10 to 30% by mass. |
| US12100531B2 |
Connection structure for superconducting layer, superconducting wire, superconducting coil, and superconducting device
A connection structure for a superconducting layer according to an embodiment includes a first superconducting layer, a second superconducting layer, and a connection layer between the first superconducting layer and the second superconducting layer, the connection layer including crystal particles containing a rare earth element, barium, copper, and oxygen, the crystal particles having a major diameter distribution including a trimodal distribution. The trimodal distribution has first, second, and third distributions in which major diameter become small in this order. The aspect ratios of the crystal particles included in the first distribution and the second distribution include a bimodal distribution. The median value of the major diameters of the crystal particles included in the distribution on a higher aspect ratio side in the bimodal distribution is greater than the median value of the major diameters of the crystal particles included in the distribution on a lower aspect ratio side. |
| US12100526B2 |
Apparatus and methods for storing hazardous materials by encasing same in a fusible metal alloy
An apparatus is provided for storing hazardous waste material, which includes one or more of spent nuclear fuel, radioactive material, and fissionable material. The apparatus comprises a containment vessel that encloses the hazardous waste material. A fusible alloy material, for example, a eutectic material, resides within the containment vessel and surrounds the hazardous waste material. In the preferred embodiments, it is suggested that the fusible alloy material exhibits liquidus and solidus or melting temperatures that are between about 100 and 300 degrees Fahrenheit for facilities using the apparatus and methods for liquid storage pool loading applications. For facilities using the apparatus and methods for dry loading, the fusible alloy materials may exhibit liquidus and solidus or melting temperatures that are between about 100 and 650 degrees Fahrenheit. The fusible alloy material is introduced in a liquid phase and eventually solidifies into a solid phase as the temperature of the hazardous waste material and/or the local environment decreases. |
| US12100524B2 |
Dual-function radiation shielding for downhole tool
A downhole tool is provided that includes radiation shielding using a material that is lighter, stronger, less expensive, and/or more commercially available than tungsten radiation shielding. Such a down-hole tool may include an electronic radiation generator that emits photons to through a source window located on an outer surface of the downhole tool. A detector may detect at least some of the photons through a detector window. Radiation shielding of the downhole tool may attenuate photons that travel from the electronic radiation generator toward the detector without passing through the detector window. The radiation shielding may include a material that has a density less than 10.5 g/cc and an element of atomic number greater than 40. |
| US12100518B2 |
Generating ontology based on biomarkers
Techniques for generating an ontology based on biomarker information associated with persons to facilitate improving clinical predictions relating to medical conditions are presented. An ontology generator component (OGC) can extract clinical features associated with patients and their associated times from medical records or databases to develop clinical profiles associated with the patients and relating to a medical condition. OGC can develop an ontology relating to the medical condition, including progression and severity of biomarkers associated with the medical condition, based on the clinical profiles and domain knowledge information relating to the medical condition. OGC can determine global features relating to progression and severity associated with the medical condition based on the ontology. At a forecasting point, the global features can be extracted from the ontology and applied to a prediction model to enhance prediction of onset of, or progression of, the medical condition for a patient. |
| US12100503B2 |
Rescue performance metrics for CPR and traumatic brain injury
A system for providing a visual summary of a condition of a patient when traumatic brain injury (TBI) is suspected or diagnosed includes at least one patient condition sensor configured to sense data representative of a patient condition parameter of interest for a TBI patient; at least one airflow sensor configured to sense data representative of ventilations provided to the patient; at least one visual display for providing the visual summary to a user; and at least one controller. The at least one controller is configured to cause the visual display to provide the visual summary. The visual summary can include at least one visual representation of at least one patient condition parameter for each time interval of a plurality of time intervals, at least one visual representation of ventilation information, and a visual indication of when at least one patient condition parameter is outside of a target range. |
| US12100499B2 |
Method and system for using artificial intelligence and machine learning to create optimal treatment plans based on monetary value amount generated and/or patient outcome
A method is disclosed for generating treatment plans for optimizing patient outcome and monetary value amount generated. The method includes receiving a set of treatment plans that, when applied to patients, cause outcomes to be achieved by the patients, receiving a set of monetary value amounts associated with the set of treatment plans, receiving a set of constraints, where the set of constraints comprises rules pertaining to billing codes associated with the set of treatment plans. The method includes generating, by the artificial intelligence engine, optimal treatment plans for a patient, where the generating is based on the set of treatment plans, the set of monetary value amounts, and the set of constraints. Each of the optimal treatment plans complies with the set of constraints and represents a patient outcome and an associated monetary value amount generated. The method includes transmitting the optimal treatment plans to a computing device. |
| US12100490B1 |
De-identifying medical history information for medical underwriting
A computer-implemented method includes producing information that characterizes a group of individuals from a set of private data representing characteristics of the individuals. The identity of the individuals is unattainable from the produced information. The method also includes providing the produced information to report the characteristics of the group. |
| US12100488B2 |
Method and device for estimating value to be estimated associated with specimen
The present invention provides a method and a device for estimating a value to be estimated associated with a specimen, by performing machine learning of a relationship between a value of an estimation object and an output corresponding thereto, based on an output from a chemical sensor with regard to a plurality of specimens for which specific values to be estimated are known, and using the result of the mechanical learning to estimate a specific value to be estimated on the basis of an output from the chemical sensor with regard to a given unknown specimen. |
| US12100486B2 |
Identification of unknown genomes and closest known genomes
Provided is a deep learning algorithm that analyzes fragments of biological sequences. The input for the deep learning algorithm is a biological sequence fragment of unknown origin and the output is the closest known biological genome that could share phenotypic properties with the biological species of unknown origin. The workflow thus has application for genomic classification, identification of mutations within known genomes, and the identification of the closest class for unknown species. |
| US12100485B2 |
Machine learning and molecular simulation based methods for enhancing binding and activity prediction
Systems and methods for molecular simulation in accordance with embodiments of the invention are illustrated. One embodiment includes a method for predicting a relationship between a ligand and a receptor. The method includes steps for identifying a plurality of conformations of a receptor, computing docking scores for each of the plurality of conformations and a set of one or more ligands, and predicting a relationship between the set of one or more ligands and the plurality of conformations of the receptor. |
| US12100483B2 |
Base coverage normalization and use thereof in detecting copy number variation
Gene copy number variations are identified for genes in a targeted gene panel. For each gene, coverage at each base position across the gene is determined. The coverage at each base position can be influenced by the hybridization probes that are used to determine the base level coverage of the base position. The base level coverage for each base position is normalized to account for the characteristics of the hybridization probes. To determine whether a copy number variation exists for a gene, the base level coverage of base positions across the gene for a subject is analyzed to determine whether it deviates from the base level coverage of base positions across the gene for previously analyzed, healthy individuals. If a significant deviation exists, a copy number variation for the gene is called. |
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Systems and methods for metagenomic analysis
Provided are methods and systems for metagenomic analysis. Methods involve generating libraries and databases of taxonomic signatures informative of taxonomic information in a heterogeneous microbial sample. Methods also include identification of microorganisms and biochemical activities in the sample, including identification at a plurality of taxonomic levels. |
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Method for non-invasive prenatal testing using parental mosaicism data
Provided herein are methods for determining the ploidy state of one or more chromosome in a developing fetus. The subject methods provide for increased accuracy by utilizing information about the mosaicism level of one or more chromosomes of interest in the mother of fetus. The mosaicism level of one or more chromosomes of interest is determined for the maternal tissue that is used as the source of nucleic acid for genetic analysis that are used to determine the ploidy state of the fetal chromosome or chromosomes of interest. Utilization of the mosaicism data can be used to increase the reliability and accuracy of the determination of the ploidy state of a chromosome of interest. |
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Test mode security circuit
An apparatus includes a TM control circuit that is configured to receive address information corresponding to a TM function and compare the address information with an authorized TM list stored in a memory of the apparatus to determine if there is a match. If there is a match, a latch load signal pulse is output. A TM latch circuit programs one or more latches based on the address information and based on the latch load signal pulse. The TM latch circuit decodes information in the one or more latches and, based on the decoded information, outputs a test mode signal to turn on test mode operations in circuits associated with the TM function. The apparatus includes a plurality of TM functions for testing various features of the apparatus and the authorized TM list identifies which of the plurality of TM functions has been authorized for customer use. |
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Systems and methods for testing redundant fuse latches in a memory device
An electronic device includes multiple memory elements including multiple redundant memory elements. The electronic device also includes repair circuitry configured to remap data to the multiple memory elements when a failure occurs. The repair circuitry includes multiple fuse latches configured to implement the remapping. The repair circuitry also includes latch testing circuitry configured to test functionality of the multiple fuse latches. The latch testing circuitry includes selection circuitry configured to enable selection of a first set of fuse latches of the multiple fuse latches for a test separate from a second set of fuse latches of the multiple fuse latches that are unselected by the selection circuitry. |
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Repairable latch array
An integrated circuit includes a latch array including a plurality of latches logically configured in rows and columns, a plurality of repair latches operatively coupled to the plurality of latches and latch array built in self-test and repair logic (LABISTRL) coupled to the plurality of latches. In some implementations the LABISTRL configures latches in the array as one or more column serial test shift register, detects one or more defective latches of the plurality of latches based on applied test data, and selects at least one repair latch in response to detection of at least one defective latch. |
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Systems and methods of correcting errors in unmatched memory devices
Systems and methods are provided for correcting errors in unmatched memory devices. Various embodiments herein train a memory interface to determine a duty cycle timing for a clock signal in a data window formed by a data signal in a memory cell. The duty cycle timing identifies an initial trained timing in the data window at which a setup portion and a hold portion of the data window are approximately equal in length when the trigger signal is received at the initial trained timing. The embodiments herein also identify an event that shifts the duty cycle timing away from the initial trained timing, and triggers a retraining of the memory interface based on a determination that at least one of two points defined about the initial trained timing fails a two-point sampling. |
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Methods and systems for an analog cam with fuzzy search
Systems are methods are provided for implementing an analog content addressable memory (analog CAM), which is particularly structured to allow for an amount of variance (fuzziness) in its search operations. The analog CAM may search for approximate matches with the data stored therein, or matches within a defined variance. Circuitry of the analog CAM may include transistor-source lines that receive search-variance parameters, and/or data lines that receive search-variance parameters explicitly within the search input data. The search-variance parameters may include an upper bound and a lower bound that define a range of values within the allotted amount of fuzziness (e.g., deviation from the stored value). The search-variance parameters may program (using analog approaches) the analog CAM to perform searches having a modifiable restrictiveness that is tuned dynamically, as defined by the input search-variance. Thus, highly efficient hardware for complex applications involving fuzziness are enabled. |