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| US12121473B2 |
Air flow system with a proximal connector and a flow chamber
The air flow system includes a hose member having an exterior flow channel and an interior flow channel, a distal connector, a proximal connector, and a flow chamber. The air flow in the interior flow channel is separate from the exterior flow channel. Air flows from the exterior flow channel, through a flow chamber, around a treatment site of inflammation and back to the interior flow channel. The system for air circulation therapy also includes a connector to the hose member, an air pump supply in an inner chamber, and an air recovery unit in an outer chamber. The proximal connector includes a nozzle head, a tubular sleeve, a first set of slot openings, a second set of slot openings, a cover sleeve, and a locking ring. The system includes the flow chamber of a flexible polymeric material. |
| US12121462B2 |
Head support systems and methods for use
Systems and methods are provided for supporting a head of a user, e.g., while the user inclines their head downward, leans forward, and the like, for extended periods of time. In one example, a harness is provided that is configured to be worn on a body of a user, the harness including a shoulder harness configured to be worn over or around one or both shoulders of the user, and a head support. The head support may include a support bracket including a first end mounted to the harness, and a rest member coupled to a second end of the support bracket such that the rest member extends across a forehead of the user and/or at least partially around the user's head when the harness is worn for supporting the user's forehead. |
| US12121459B2 |
Self-expandable stent, method and device to produce the self-expandable stent
A self-expandable stent includes a folded cylindrical sheet wall, which is folded along axes parallel to the longitudinal axis of the sheet of the cylindrical wall creating three or more drop shaped loops having an inner diameter and an end portion where the sheet of the cylindrical wall contacts each other along an contact surface parallel to the longitudinal axis, wherein each of the at least three bending loops are rotated towards the end portion of an adjacent loop, wherein the end portion has a curvature describing a bending diameter. The improvement includes providing a stent within a fold and deploy structure being able to exert sufficient compression ratios as well as sufficient radial outward forces on the vessel wall, once deployed. |
| US12121458B2 |
Mating inserter and cannula for fusing a sacroiliac joint
An instrument set for installing a fusion implant into the sacroiliac joint. The apparatus comprises a working channel having an alignment means, an implant inserter having an inserter keying means for mating with the alignment means when the implant inserter is inserted into the working channel. The implant inserter has an insertion end with a pair of tines for releasably receiving a joint fusion implant. |
| US12121456B2 |
Graft material injector system and method
A graft material injector device and method are disclosed. The injector device includes an elongated injector tube and a side loading aperture for receiving graft material. A graft material loader and a cover for the side loading aperture may optionally be included. |
| US12121453B2 |
Dual wedge expandable implant with eyelets, system, and method of use
An expandable implant movable between a contracted position and an expanded position, is disclosed. In various embodiments, the implant may include a superior endplate and an inferior endplate having proximal ramps and distal ramps disposed on an interior surface thereof, respectively. In various embodiments, a proximal set screw and a distal set screw may be independently coupled to a proximal wedge and a distal wedge. Upon rotation of the proximal set screw, the proximal wedge may act against the proximal ramps of the superior and inferior endplates and cause the implant to expand at the proximal end. Upon rotation of the distal set screw, the distal wedge may act against the distal ramps of the superior and inferior endplates and cause the implant to expand at the distal end. In some embodiments, a first eyelet and a second eyelet for supporting a corresponding bone screw, respectively, may be included. |
| US12121450B2 |
Reverse shoulder prosthesis
Implant assemblies for reverse shoulder arthroplasty are disclosed. In one embodiment, the implant assembly comprises a humeral component, an adaptor fixed to the neck of the humeral component, and a glenosphere bearing component coupled to the adaptor. The glenosphere bearing component comprises a first bearing surface that interfaces with an articulating surface of the adaptor to allow the adaptor to rotate relative to the adaptor and humeral component. The adaptor and the glenosphere bearing component form a locking mechanism that prevents the adaptor from decoupling from the glenosphere bearing component while allowing the adaptor to remain rotatable relative to the glenosphere bearing component after the implant assembly is implanted in the patient The second bearing surface is configured to interface with a glenosphere component to allow the glenosphere bearing component to articulate relative to the glenosphere component. |
| US12121443B2 |
Implant and implant system
An implant system for implantation at a joint. The implant system includes an implant device with a body portion having first and second ends, and a first elongate member, extending from the first or second end of the body portion. The implant system has a corresponding fixation device with at least one latching element. The first elongate member has at least one cooperating element capable of cooperating with the at least one latching element of the fixation device in use. |
| US12121441B2 |
Bone void forming apparatus
A bone void forming assembly includes a support member having a head portion and an elongate portion extending therefrom. A guide member is connected to the support member and has a guide body including a channel extending therethrough. The channel defines an axis offset and obliquely angled relative to an axis of the elongate portion. The assembly also includes reamer having a cutting head and a stop member. A bushing is slidably connected to the reamer between the stop member and cutting head and is slidably connectable to the guide body via the channel. |
| US12121440B2 |
Bone graft system
The present invention relates to methods for bioresorbable and biodegradable casings having both micropores and macropores for providing shape, structure and containment to different bone grafting materials. Kits and methods of use are also described. |
| US12121437B2 |
Stationary intra-annular halo designs for paravalvular leak (pvl) reduction-passive channel filling cuff designs
A prosthetic heart valve may include a collapsible and expandable stent extending in a flow direction between a proximal end and a distal end, a cuff attached to an annulus section of the stent, a plurality of prosthetic valve leaflets each having a belly attached to the cuff between a first location and a second location downstream of the first location in a flow direction, and a sealing structure attached to the annulus section of the stent. The annulus section of the stent may be adjacent the proximal end. The stent may include a plurality of struts shaped to form a plurality of cells connected to one another in a plurality of annular rows around the stent. The sealing structure may have a deployed condition with a diameter greater than a diameter of the proximal end of the stent when the stent is in an expanded use condition. |
| US12121436B2 |
Prosthetic heart valve
A prosthetic heart valve is disclosed that is deformable between collapsed, radially uncompressed, and target conditions. The prosthetic heart valve includes an inner frame, at least one leaflet, and a braided wire mesh arranged outside and coupled to the inner frame by a coupling portion. The braided wire mesh includes a body portion between the coupling portion and a flared portion. In the radially uncompressed condition, the prosthetic heart valve forms a cavity surrounded by the braided wire mesh and the inner frame. In the target condition, only a part of the length of the body portion is radially compressed along an axis extending from an upstream side to a downstream side. In the collapsed condition, the inner frame and braided wire mesh are radially collapsed over their entire length. In the radially uncompressed condition, the body portion is tubular and the braided wire mesh has a rotationally symmetric circumference. |
| US12121435B2 |
Prosthetic heart valve leaflet assemblies and methods
Assembly methods for installing a leaflet assembly to an expandable frame of a prosthetic heart valve are described. The leaflet assembly comprises a plurality of leaflets coupled together at adjacent tabs, which form respective commissure tab assemblies. The commissure tab assemblies are inserted into corresponding windows of support members of the expandable frame. One or more wedge members are inserted into the commissure tab assembly, e.g., between the adjacent tabs or with the adjacent tabs therebetween, to restrain radial motion of the commissure tab assembly with respect to the window. The window can be a closed window, and the wedge member insertion can be after the commissure tab assembly is inserted into the window. Alternatively, the window can be an open window or channel, and the wedge member insertion can be before the commissure tab assembly is installed in the window. |
| US12121433B2 |
Progressive power intraocular lens, and methods of use and manufacture
Apparatuses, systems and methods for providing improved intraocular lenses (IOLs), include features for reducing side effects, such as halos, glare and best focus shifts, in multifocal refractive lenses and extended depth of focus lenses. Exemplary ophthalmic lenses can include a continuous, power progressive aspheric surface based on two or more merged optical zones, the aspheric surface being defined by a single aspheric equation. Continuous power progressive intraocular lenses can mitigate optical side effects that typically result from abrupt optical steps. Aspheric power progressive and aspheric extended depth of focus lenses can be combined with diffractive lens profiles to further enhance visual performance while minimizing dysphotopsia effects. The combination can provide an increased depth of focus that is greater than an individual depth of focus of either the refractive profile or the diffractive profile. |
| US12121432B2 |
Electrowetting ophthalmic devices including an elastic electrode
Ophthalmic devices having elastic electrodes are disclosed herein. An example ophthalmic device may be an intraocular lens that includes a support structure, two optical windows, two immiscible fluids, and an elastic electrode. The support structure may have an inner surface defining an aperture with first and second optical windows disposed on opposite sides of the support structure and spanning the aperture. The two immiscible liquids may be disposed in a cavity formed by the aperture and the first and second optical windows, and the elastic electrode may be disposed on the inner surface. The elastic electrode may be formed from an elastic metal alloy having a minimum yield strain of 0.25%. |
| US12121431B2 |
Durable underwear adapted for use with absorbent component
A durable underwear brief panty adapted to accommodate an absorbent component is disclosed. The panty may include a crotch portion that exhibits a crotch longitudinal Elongation of 5 percent to 100 percent and a crotch longitudinal Tensile Modulus of 20 gf/mm to 100 gf/mm; and a crotch lateral Elongation of 50 percent to 200 percent and a crotch lateral Tensile Modulus of 2 gf/mm to 20 gf/mm. A combination of a brief panty and an absorbent pad, and an array including a brief panty product and an absorbent pad product, are also disclosed. The products are useful for management of incontinence. |
| US12121428B2 |
Absorbent article having elastic members
An absorbent article (1) of the present invention includes a leg cuff (24). The leg cuff (24) has leg elastic members (25). The leg cuff (24) can be divided, by an imaginary line (IL) passing through the center (ct) between an outermost leg elastic member (25s) that is located farthest outward and an innermost leg elastic member (25i) that is located farthest inward, into a leg cuff first region (ST) that extends from the imaginary line (IL) up to and including the outermost leg elastic member (25s) and a leg cuff second region (IT) that extends from the imaginary line (IL) up to and including the innermost leg elastic member (25i). When the elongation amount of the leg cuff first region (ST) and the leg cuff second region (IT) in a natural state is defined as 0, and the elongation amount thereof in a maximally stretched state is defined as 100, the stress in the leg cuff first region (ST) is greater than the stress in the leg cuff second region (IT) when the elongation amount is 5. Moreover, the stress in the leg cuff second region (IT) is greater than the stress in the leg cuff first region (ST) when the elongation amount is 100. |
| US12121427B2 |
Disposable wearable article
A disposable wearable article has an elastic sheet stretchable structure in which a first and second sheet layer are bonded through joint holes penetrating an elastic sheet at a plurality of bonded portions arranged at intervals, wherein a part of the elastic sheet located in a stretchable region is printed with a first design, a part of the elastic sheet in the non-stretchable region is printed with a second design, the first design and the second design are the same when the stretchable and non-stretchable region are at an elongation at elastic limit, and a stretchable direction dimension of design elements of the first design when a stretch rate of the stretchable region is 130% or more is 80% or more of a stretchable direction dimension of design elements of the first design when the stretchable region is at the elongation at elastic limit. |
| US12121426B2 |
Method and apparatus for bonding elastic parts under tension to an advancing carrier
The present disclosure relates to methods and apparatuses for stretching, transferring, and bonding elastic parts under tension to an advancing carrier substrate during the assembly of absorbent articles. A continuous carrier substrate may be advanced in a machine direction at a first speed, and a discrete elastic part may be cut from a continuous elastic substrate having a direction of stretch in a cross direction. The speed of the discrete elastic part is changed from a second speed to the first speed, and the central region of the discrete elastic part is stretched in the cross direction. The discrete elastic part is bonded with the continuous carrier substrate such that the stretched central region extends in the cross direction between the first and second longitudinal edges of the continuous carrier substrate. The discrete elastic part may also be bonded with the carrier substrate with adhesive and/or mechanical bonds. |
| US12121421B2 |
Wound therapy device and method
A wound therapy device and method includes a skin contacting element, a reactor, and a reactor housing element. The skin contacting element is configured for covering an associated tissue site, the reactor for creating a pressure condition at the associated tissue site upon actuation thereof, and the reactor housing element for accommodating the reactor. The skin contacting element has a skin contacting side and an interface side, which is opposite the skin contacting side. The reactor housing element has a lower affixing side and an upper side, which is opposite the lower affixing side. |
| US12121417B2 |
Negative pressure wound treatment apparatus
A wound packing material is provided, suitable for use in negative pressure wound therapy, including a body of a porous material, the body including frangible regions defining a plurality of portions, the frangible regions allowing the portions to be selectively removed from the body. Methods of manufacturing the wound packing material, and methods of its use are also provided. |
| US12121407B2 |
Vein mapping devices, systems, and methods
A device, system, and method for printing a vein map onto a patient's skin may include a probe and a printer. The probe may be configured to identify a location of a target vein beneath the patient's skin. The printer may be configured to receive the location and, using the location, print the vein map onto the patient's skin to indicate the location. The vein map may comprise antimicrobial ink printed onto the patient's skin with one or more colors and/or one or more patterns. The vein map may be a two-dimensional vein map or a three-dimensional vein map that indicates the location of the target vein within the patient, a width of the target vein, and/or a depth of the target vein within the patient. |
| US12121404B2 |
Systems and methods for endoluminal valve creation
A device for manipulating tissue at a vessel includes an elongated member having a proximal end and a distal end, a guide member at the distal end of the elongated member, the guide member having a blunt distal tip for engagement against an interior wall of the vessel, and a tissue cutting device at the distal end of the elongated member, wherein the tissue cutting device has a sharp tip that is proximal to the blunt distal tip of the guide member. |
| US12121401B2 |
Ultrasound imaging system with a neural network for deriving imaging data and tissue information
An ultrasound system according to some embodiments may include an ultrasound transducer configured to transmit ultrasound pulses toward tissue and generate echo signals responsive to the ultrasound pulses, a channel memory configured to store the echo signals, a beamformer configured to generated beamformed signals responsive to the echo signals, a neural network configured to receive one or more samples of the echo signals or the beamformed signals and produce a first type of ultrasound imaging data, and a processor configured to generate a second type of ultrasound imaging data, wherein the one or more processors may be further configured to generate an ultrasound image based on the first type of ultrasound imaging data and the second type of ultrasound imaging data and to cause a display communicatively coupled therewith to display the ultrasound image. |
| US12121399B2 |
Ultrasound imaging system with automatic configuration management and hinge mechanism
Ultrasound imaging systems for automatically adjusting settings according to an position and/or orientation of one or more interfaces. The ultrasound imaging systems can include a probe configured to send and receive ultrasound signals for performing a medical exam, a medical procedure, or both; and a processor configured to: select a diagnostics mode or a procedural mode based on an operating orientation of the ultrasound imaging system or a portion thereof, and adjust one or more settings of the imaging system according to the selected diagnostics mode or the selected procedural mode. |
| US12121396B2 |
Probe holder
A probe holder includes a casing and an elastic structure including an inner cover and a retainer unit. The retainer unit includes an enclosing wall, and a rib array protruding from an inner face of the enclosing wall. The rib array holds a cable end with a rear end of a probe head being supported by a support face of the inner cover. |
| US12121388B2 |
Energy-based scatter fraction estimation and scatter correction
A method is provided for determining a scatter fraction for a radiation diagnosis apparatus. The method includes acquiring an energy spectrum from list mode data obtained from a scan performed using the radiation diagnosis apparatus; determining, from the acquired list mode data, a first number of events occurring in a first energy window spanning a first energy range; determining, from the acquired list mode data, a second number of events occurring in a second window, the second energy window spanning a second energy range different from the first energy range; calculating a singles scatter fraction based on the determined first number of events and the determined second number of events; and reconstructing an image based on the acquired list mode data and the calculated singles scatter fraction. |
| US12121387B2 |
Radiation detection device, and operation method and operation program thereof
An average offset image is acquired without irradiation of a radiation. A first image is acquired when a first time elapses from continuous irradiation with the radiation for imaging a subject on a pixel region. A second image is acquired when a second time longer than the first time elapses from an end of the continuous irradiation. The irradiation with the radiation for imaging the subject is performed on the pixel region after an elapse of the second time from the end of the continuous irradiation and a pixel signal from the pixel region is read out to acquire a radiographic image. An offset image representing an offset component and an afterimage representing an afterimage component according to a time of the continuous irradiation, the first time, the second time, and a defined time are generated based on the first image, the second image, and the average offset image. |
| US12121386B2 |
X-ray computed tomography apparatus, medical image display apparatus, and medical image display method
An X-ray computed tomography apparatus includes processing circuitry and a display. The processing circuitry is configured to perform reconstruction processing to raw data generated by a scan of a subject to reconstruct a medical image, and determine a posture of the subject at the time of the scan, according to an imaging condition reflecting an examination order for the scan. The display displays the medical image in association with information as to the posture. |
| US12121384B2 |
Systems and methods for x-ray imaging tissue specimens
An x-ray breast imaging system includes a breast support platform including an x-ray receptor, and an x-ray tube head. The x-ray tube head includes an x-ray source configured to emit an x-ray beam in a direction towards the x-ray receptor, and a collimator. A filter assembly including a plurality of filter slots selectively positionable adjacent to the collimator, and a specimen imaging filter disposed within a slot of the plurality of filter slots. The specimen imaging filter includes at least one aperture defined therein. The specimen imaging filter also blocks a portion of the emitted x-ray beam so that the at least one aperture defines a path of the emitted x-ray beam towards the x-ray receptor. |
| US12121377B2 |
Light source for an imaging system and methods of the same
An imaging system includes a gantry and a compression system coupled to the gantry and rotatable relative to the gantry. The compression system includes a compression paddle, a support platform, and an x-ray receptor disposed below the support platform. An x-ray tube head is coupled to the gantry and includes an x-ray source and a light source. The x-ray tube head is independently rotatable relative to the gantry and the compression system. The light source is configured to generate at least a first light type and a different second light type directed towards the support platform. The second light type being mapped to an x-ray field of the x-ray source, and the generated second light type is based on a tilt angle of the x-ray tube head relative to the support platform and a compression force of the compression paddle. |
| US12121375B2 |
Computed tomography apparatus and method using plurality of light sources
A computed tomography (CT) apparatus includes a gantry including a rotation device which has a ring shape and is rotatable about an axis of rotation, a plurality of light sources configured to emit X-rays to a subject, at least one detector provided on the rotation device and configured to detect X-rays passing through the subject, and one or more processors. The at least one processors are configured to rotate the rotation device in a first rotation direction by an angle of rotation determined based on a total number of the plurality of light sources, emit X-rays to the subject and detect X-rays passing through the subject during the rotation of the rotation device in the first rotation direction, and rotate the rotation device by the determined rotation angle in a second rotation direction. |
| US12121374B2 |
Convertible container
A container for dispensing and disposing supplies is disclosed. The container includes a receptacle having a base and a plurality of walls extended up from the base; one or more compartments formed in the receptacle, wherein the one or more compartments is configured to be fluid-tightly sealed from each other; and one or more insert members, each configured to convert one of the one or more compartments from exclusively dispensing unused supplies to exclusively receiving used supplies. |
| US12121373B2 |
Surgical trays, instruments and methods for implanting a hip replacement prosthesis
Surgical trays, tools and methods for use in hip replacement surgery wherein the hip replacement prosthesis is a reverse hip prosthesis. The trial components, specialized tools and methods of the invention enable a surgeon to identify the optimum components of the reverse hip prosthesis for implantation in a patient based on the sizes and angles best adapted to the patent's anatomy. |
| US12121371B2 |
Systems and methods for non-invasive blood pressure measurement
Systems and methods for non-invasive blood pressure measurement are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system comprises a wearable member configured to generate first and second signals (e.g., PPG signals), and a blood pressure calculation system. The blood pressure calculation system includes a wave selection module configured to identify subsets of waves of the signals, a feature extraction module configured to generate sets of feature vectors form the subsets of waves, and a blood pressure processing module configured to calculate an arterial blood pressure value based on the sets of feature vectors and an empirical blood pressure calculation model, the empirical blood pressure calculation model configured to receive the sets of feature vectors as input values. The blood pressure calculation system further includes a communication module configured to provide a message including or being based on the arterial blood pressure value. |
| US12121369B2 |
Chest-based physiological monitor
The invention provides a neck-worn sensor that is a single, body-worn system that measures the following parameters from an ambulatory patient: heart rate, pulse rate, pulse oximetry, respiratory rate, temperature, thoracic fluid levels, stroke volume, cardiac output, and a parameter sensitive to blood pressure called pulse transit time. From stroke volume, a first algorithm employing a linear model can estimate the patient's pulse pressure. And from pulse pressure and pulse transit time, a second algorithm, also employing a linear algorithm, can estimate systolic blood pressure and diastolic blood pressure. Thus, the sensor can measure all five vital signs along with hemodynamic parameters. It also includes a motion-detecting accelerometer, from which it can determine motion-related parameters such as posture, degree of motion, activity level, respiratory-induced heaving of the chest, and falls. |
| US12121368B2 |
Embedded oral sensor platform
Embodiments of the present invention provide an oral device. According to one embodiment of the present invention, a mouthpiece suitable to detachably engage teeth of an upper jaw is provided. The mouthpiece comprises an adhesive layer configured to attach a hermetically sealed chamber to the mouthpiece. The hermitically sealed chamber fits within a concave space created by the mouthpiece. The hermitically sealed chamber comprises two layers and embedded between those two layers are a pressure sensor, a microphone, an optical sensor, a temperature sensor, a communications module, a storage enclosure, and a biosensor. Each of the pressure sensor, the microphone, the optical sensor, the temperature sensor, the communications module, the storage enclosure, and the biosensor are operably connected within the hermetically sealed chamber. |
| US12121366B2 |
Sensorized shoelace-tensioning system and method
The present disclosure relates to systems and devices for measuring motion of a shoe and tension in the shoelace of the shoe. |
| US12121365B2 |
Thoracic garment of positioning electromagnetic (EM) transducers and methods of using such thoracic garment
A garment for bringing an EM transducer to contact with a thoracic skin surface area of a wearer is disclosed. The garment comprises a thoracic garment having a EM transducer placement portion and a pressure applying element associated with the EM transducer placement portion for applying a pressure on an EM transducer secured in an associated the EM transducer placement portion when the thoracic garment is worn by a wearer so that the EM transducer applies a respective pressure on a thoracic skin surface area of the wearer. |
| US12121360B2 |
Brain-computer interface for facilitating direct selection of multiple-choice answers and the identification of state changes
Methods, systems, apparatus, and non-transitory computer readable media are disclosed utilizing brain-computer interfaces (BCIs). Various embodiments are disclosed to allow a user to directly select multiple-choice answers, to provide motorized wheelchair controls, and to allow a user to play a game via the BCI. When used in a cognitive assessment test, embodiments include the administration of unmodified standardized tests with results in the same or a similar format as those taken without a BCI. Various embodiments are disclosed to improve the accuracy of BCI test administration using a three-step process for each test question, which includes determining whether the user intends to select an answer, monitoring user brain activity to determine a selected answer, and verifying the selected answer. In addition, the selected answer may be verified by monitoring user brain activity in accordance with a hold-release process to determine whether a user intends to initiate a state change. |
| US12121358B2 |
Signal processing system for brain machine interface and method performed by the system
Disclosed is a signal processing system for a brain machine interface (BMI) and a method performed by such a signal processing system. The method involves receiving and filtering input data comprising cortical signal samples, calculating a threshold for detection of spikes, identifying spikes in subsequently received samples, and outputting spike data corresponding to the identified spike or spikes. |
| US12121357B2 |
High density electrode mapping catheter
Various embodiments of the present disclosure can include a flexible catheter tip. The flexible catheter tip can comprise an inboard understructure that defines a tip longitudinal axis, wherein the inboard understructure is formed from a first continuous element that includes a first rectangular cross-section. In some embodiments, an outboard understructure can extend along the tip longitudinal axis, wherein the outboard understructure is formed from a second continuous element that includes a second rectangular cross-section. |
| US12121356B2 |
Electrode sheet
An electrode sheet is provided which can be flexibly adapted to the position where a signal is acquired. This electrode sheet 1, which is attached to a living body M and acquires a biological signal, is provided with a sheet-form biological signal acquisition unit 10 which is attached to a living body part where a biological signal is acquired, and a reference potential acquisition unit 20 which extends from the living body signal acquisition unit and which is attached to a living body part where a reference potential is acquired, wherein the reference potential acquisition unit 20 is provided with multiple electrodes 23 which are arranged at a prescribed interval along the direction of extension and each of which can attach to the living body part where the reference potential is acquired. |
| US12121354B2 |
Tubing system for use in a blood sampling-blood pressure monitoring system
Disclosed is a tubing system for use in a blood sampling-blood pressure monitoring system. The blood sampling-blood pressure monitoring system may include a control valve, a reservoir with a plunger, a sampling site, and a blood pressure transducer for measuring the blood pressure of a patient. The tubing system may comprise: a plurality of flexible tubing sections and a plurality of rigid tubing sections. The plurality of rigid tubing sections and flexible tubing sections may be interlinked with one another between the patient and the blood pressure transducer for the blood pressure measurement of the patient. |
| US12121351B1 |
Pluggable distal measurement interface
A controller and a distal sensor module are used to emit optical emissions to a liquid sample being tested in a human body and detect desired optical data which the controller uses to electronically calculate a concentration measurement of a targeted analyte (e.g., glucose). The distal sensor module is held in place by a retention mechanism while a clamping system applies clamping pressure to the liquid sample during a test period to maintain a specified sample height of the liquid sample. An optical cable is intermediate the controller and the distal sensor module and is pluggably connected to the controller. Continuous monitoring of the analyte is possible without disconnecting the controller from the optical cable or the distal sensor module from the patient while clamping pressure on the test sample is reduced outside of the test period. |
| US12121350B2 |
Multi-function analyte monitor device and methods of use
A medical system comprising: an analyte sensor for receiving an analyte signal corresponding to an analyte concentration of a user; a health monitor device comprising a display unit and in communication with the analyte sensor, the health monitor device comprising a processor and memory communicably coupled to the processor, the memory including instructions stored therein that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to: receive the analyte signal from the analyte sensor; determine the analyte concentration based on the analyte signal; calculate a recommended medication dosage based on the analyte concentration; associate a current parameter type with the recommended medication dosage; associate the current parameter type to at least one corresponding stored historical parameter type associated with a historical medication dosage; and display, on the display unit, the recommended medication dosage and the historical medication dosage. |
| US12121346B2 |
Dental bonded veneer identification device
A dental veneer is provided herein for supplying identification information. The dental veneer includes circuitry, memory, and an antenna. The circuitry reads and/or writes the identification information to the memory and causes the antenna to transmit the identification information. |
| US12121341B2 |
Systems and methods for tracking and imaging a treatment probe having an integrated sensor
A system includes an energy source configured to generate therapeutic energy, a treatment probe, an ultrasound imaging device configured to generate ultrasound images, a second tracking sensor configured to track a location of the ultrasound imaging device, and a tracking system configured to receive location information from the first and second tracking sensors and to overlay the ultrasound images with a graphical representation of the treatment probe on a display based on the location information. The treatment probe includes an antenna configured to treat tissue with the therapeutic energy and a first tracking sensor integrated in the antenna and configured to track a location of a distal tip of the antenna. |
| US12121340B2 |
Wireless radio frequency triggered signal acquisition device
A wireless radio frequency triggered signal acquisition device includes three orthogonal pick up coils in which voltages will be induced by a time varying, spatially varying magnetic field inside a chamber of an MRI scanner. A radio frequency detection circuit detects radio frequency pulses emitted by an MRI scanner and a wireless transmission circuit transmits data from the device. A 3-axis magnetometer is used for measuring magnetic flux in the chamber of the MRI scanner. A processor uses the detected radio frequency pulses to synchronize measurements taken by the magnetometer and pickup coils to a time frame of a gradient driver hardware, thereby matching the measurements to a pulse sequence waveform. The processor further combines measurements of induced voltages in the orthogonal pick up coils and the magnetic flux with the pulse sequence waveform in order to solve for the instantaneous position and orientation of the device. |
| US12121338B2 |
Heart monitoring system and method
A heart monitoring system (100) comprises an array of force-sensitive resistors (10) spanning a sensor surface (50). Each resistor (10) is configured to change a respective resistance value (R) in accordance with an amount of static pressure (P) exerted on the sensor surface (50) at a respective location of the force-sensitive resistor (10) by a subject (200). An array of piezoelectric transducers (20) is interspersed among the array of force-sensitive resistors (10). Each transducer (20) is configured to generate 10 a respective time-dependent electrical signal (S) in accordance with respective vibrations (F) exerted on the sensor surface (50) at a respective location of the transducer (20) by the subject (200). A controller (30) is configured to determine a heart rate (H1) of the subject (200) based on a combination of the measured resistance values (R) of the force-sensitive 15 resistors (10) and the time-dependent electrical signals (S) of the piezoelectric transducers (20). |
| US12121337B2 |
Apparatus and method for estimating bio-information
An apparatus for estimating bio-information of a user may include a first sensor configured to measure a first signal from the user; a second sensor configured to measure a second signal from the user; and a processor configured to obtain a first characteristic point from the first signal; obtain a second characteristic point from the second signal based on the first characteristic point and a pre-defined probability distribution function; and estimate the bio-information of the user based on the second characteristic point. |
| US12121335B2 |
Apparatus and method for estimating blood pressure
An apparatus for estimating blood pressure is provided. The apparatus for estimating blood pressure according to an example embodiment includes: a sensor configured to measure a photoplethysmogram (PPG) signal from an object; and a processor configured to detect a position of a dicrotic notch based on a local maximum point and a local minimum point of a second-order derivative signal of the PPG signal, to obtain a first value and a second value from a first section and a second section of the PPG signal divided based on the dicrotic notch of the PPG signal, to obtain a pulse pressure feature value based on the first value and the second value, and to estimate blood pressure based on a variation in the obtained pulse pressure feature value compared to a reference pulse pressure feature value. |
| US12121334B2 |
Advanced respiratory monitor and system
Disclosed is a bioimpedance measurement system: A stabilized high frequency current generator is connected to PadSet electrodes via a Patient Cable. Electrodes are connected to an adaptive circuit that conditions the resulting voltage signal and converts it to digital form. Firmware performs signal acquisition and relays data to the device. |
| US12121332B2 |
Performing one or more pulse transit time measurements based on an electrogram signal and a photoplethysmography signal
This disclosure is directed to devices, systems, and techniques for monitoring a patient condition. In some examples, a medical device system includes processing circuitry configured to determine a plurality of pulse transit time (PTT) intervals, determine, based on an accelerometer signal, a posture of a patient from a plurality of postures corresponding to each PTT interval of the plurality of PTT intervals, classify each PTT interval of the plurality of PTT intervals based on the respective posture of the patient corresponding to the respective PTT interval, and monitor, based on the classified plurality of PTT intervals, a patient condition. |
| US12121327B2 |
ECG-based cardiac ejection-fraction screening
Systems, methods, devices, and techniques for estimating a heart disease prediction of a mammal. An electrocardiogram (ECG) procedure is performed on a mammal, and a computer system obtains ECG data that describes results of the ECG over a period of time. The system provides a predictive input that is based on the ECG data to a predictive model, such as a neural network or other machine-learning model. In response, the predictive model processes the input to generate an estimated heart disease predictive characteristic of the mammal. The system outputs the estimated heart disease prediction of the mammal for presentation to a user. |
| US12121325B2 |
Lumen morphology and vascular resistance measurements data collection systems apparatus and methods
A method and apparatus of automatically locating in an image of a blood vessel the lumen boundary at a position in the vessel and from that measuring the diameter of the vessel. From the diameter of the vessel and estimated blood flow rate, a number of clinically significant physiological parameters are then determined and various user displays of interest generated. One use of these images and parameters is to aid the clinician in the placement of a stent. The system, in one embodiment, uses these measurements to allow the clinician to simulate the placement of a stent and to determine the effect of the placement. In addition, from these patient parameters various patient treatments are then performed. |
| US12121324B2 |
Animal detection
A detection apparatus for identifying the presence of a target warm blooded animal in a detection zone and a method of detecting a warm-blooded animal are disclosed. The detection apparatus utilizes a thermal imaging camera, a sensor, and a microcontroller to capture data on an array and interpret data, and a signaller for sending data indicating the presence of a target animal. |
| US12121321B2 |
Self-administered, non-invasive, transcutaneous viral detector
A non-invasive, transcutaneous, real-time viral detection device that is configured for self-administration, e.g., at a user's home. In one embodiment, and after positioning the device relative to the human body part (e.g., the user's finger), light sources in the device are activated (excited), and resulting data captured. In particular, a set of Raman spectra are collected from a configured set of emitters and detectors in the device and delivered to a nearby receiver, preferably wirelessly. The receiver filters and de-convolves the Raman spectra producing a data set representative of the constituent elements in the user's tissue of interest. The data set is applied against a statistical classifier, e.g., a neural network that has been trained to recognize and distinguish the absence or presence of viral components, e.g., C-19, or its associated blood-borne acute phase reactants. The classifier outputs an appropriate indicator, preferably in real-time, providing the user with an immediate indication of whether C-19 (or other virus of interest) is present. |
| US12121320B2 |
Method and device for label-free all-optical neural regulation and imaging
A method and a device for label-free all-optical neural regulation and imaging are provided. The method stimulates a neural activity through an infrared laser pulse, and acquires an optical scattered signal caused by the neural activity by optical coherence tomography (OCT) to realize label-free all-optical neural regulation and imaging. The method specifically includes: aiming an infrared laser at a target brain region, injecting a certain time series of laser pulses, synchronously scanning and imaging the target brain region by OCT, analyzing a relative change of an OCT scattered signal before and after laser stimulation, and acquiring a brain function signal based on OCT to realize synchronous neural regulation and imaging. The method and the device enable synchronous neural regulation and imaging without causing crosstalk between the regulation and imaging channels, and without the need for injection of a contrast agent or viral transfection. |
| US12121317B2 |
End tool for surgical instrument
The present disclosure relates to an end tool of a surgical instrument, and more particularly, to an end tool of a surgical instrument that is mountable on a robotic arm or manually operable for use in laparoscopic surgery or various other surgeries. |
| US12121316B2 |
Articulated tool positioner for robotic surgery system
In some embodiments, an insertion device for a robotic surgery apparatus can include one or more guides configured to receive and/or engage a plurality of control links. The one or more guides can each include a plurality of channels. The insertion device can include a tool interface configured to engage one or more surgical tools for performing a surgical procedure. At least one control link of the first, second, or third pluralities of control links can be overlapping, coaxially aligned, or otherwise placed in a nested configuration with respect to another control link of the first, second, or third pluralities of control links. One or more of the plurality of first, second, or third control links can be configured to be actuated to adjust spatial position of the tool interface to facilitate repositioning of the surgical tool. |
| US12121305B2 |
Methods and systems for controlling cooperative surgical instruments with variable surgical site access trajectories
Systems, devices, and methods for controlling cooperative surgical instruments with variable surgical site access trajectories are provided. Various aspects of the present disclosure provide for coordinated operation of surgical instruments accessing a common surgical site from different approach and/or separate body cavities to achieve a common surgical purpose. For example, various methods, devices, and systems disclosed herein can enable the coordinated treatment of tissue by disparate minimally invasive surgical systems that approach the tissue from varying anatomical spaces and must operate differently, but in concert with one another, to effect a desired surgical treatment. |
| US12121302B2 |
System for providing remote and rapid access to scanned image data
The invention provides a system, apparatus and method for providing remote and rapid access to image data. The invention can be employed during surgery to enable health care personnel, located away from a location where the surgery is being performed, to view and evaluate tissue excised from a patient during the surgery. Such health care personnel can provide feedback to the surgeon to enhance an outcome of the surgery. |
| US12121301B2 |
Line-scanning confocal inspection apparatus
The present invention relates to an apparatus for inspecting the ocular fundus that comprises: —an illuminator (1) adapted to provide an illuminating light beam (IL) to illuminate a portion of said biological tissue, said illuminating beam being shaped so that at least a portion of said illuminating beam has a line-shaped section; —one or more lenses (2, 4, 7) to focus said illuminating beam (IL) on said biological tissue, during operation of said apparatus said illuminating beam illuminating a line-shaped region (5B) of said biological tissue; —a scanning assembly (3) adapted to perform optical scans of said biological tissue by cyclically moving the illuminating beam (IL) projected by said illuminator on said biological tissue, along a scanning direction (DS) substantially perpendicular to a main extension direction (AE) of the region (5B) of biological tissue illuminated by said illuminating beam; —acquisition means (6) adapted to receive reflected light (R) from said biological tissue to acquire images of said biological tissue or to allow an observer to observe said biological tissue. Said scanning assembly (3) comprises: —a fixed support (33); —a first oscillating group (31) comprising a first mobile arm (312) and a minor (311) fixed to said mobile arm and adapted to receive said illuminating beam (IL), said first mobile arm being linked with said fixed support through one or more first joints (A1) that allow the rotation of said first mobile arm about a rotation axis (B1); —a second oscillating group (32) comprising a second mobile arm (323) and a first lens (322) and a diaphragm (321) comprising a slot-shaped opening (321A) fixed to said mobile arm and adapted to receive the reflected light (R) from said biological tissue, said second mobile arm being linked with said fixed support through one or more second joints (A2) that allow the rotation of the said first mobile arm about a rotation axis (B1); —mechanical transmission means (34) adapted to mutually link said first and second mobile arm, said mechanical transmission means being configured to synchronize the oscillating movements of said first and second arm. |
| US12121299B2 |
Thermal cooling ring for radiation therapy system
In some embodiments, an apparatus comprises a stationary frame and a thermal ring. The thermal ring may be rotatably coupled to the stationary frame and disposed relative to the stationary frame such that the thermal ring and the stationary frame define an enclosure. The thermal ring may include a thermally-conductive substrate configured to be in thermal contact with a heat-generating component. Heat from the heat-generating component may be transferred to the stationary frame via the enclosure. |
| US12121293B2 |
Neuromodulation catheters and associated systems and methods
Methods for treating a patient using therapeutic renal neuromodulation and associated devices, systems, and methods are disclosed herein. One aspect of the present technology, for example, is directed to a catheter apparatus including an elongated shaft defined by a braid embedded within a polymer. The braid can include one or more thermocouple assemblies intertwined with a braiding element. The thermocouple assemblies can be coupled to one or more electrodes at a distal portion of the shaft. |
| US12121292B2 |
Interatrial septum penetration
A method is provided including inserting a catheter into a right atrium and advancing a distal portion of the catheter toward a roof of the right atrium. A flexible longitudinal member is deployed from the catheter, such that a deployed portion of the flexible longitudinal member is loop-shaped. The deployed portion of the flexible longitudinal member is brought into contact with a single stabilization site located on the roof of the right atrium, between the roof and an interatrial septum, or on the interatrial septum superior to a fossa ovalis. A needle is deployed from the catheter and brought in contact with a hole site on a surface of the interatrial septum outside the fossa ovalis. A hole is formed through the interatrial septum at the hole site with the needle. The deployed portion of the flexible longitudinal member is withdrawn toward the catheter. Other embodiments are also described. |
| US12121290B2 |
Electrode assembly including expandable isolation member
An electrode assembly includes an electrode pair including a first electrode and a second electrode configured to be selectively energized for delivery of electroporation therapy. The electrode assembly also includes an expandable isolation member disposed axially between the first electrode and the second electrode. One of the first electrode and the second electrode is positioned proximally of a proximal end of the expandable isolation member and the other of the first electrode and the second electrode is positioned distal to a distal end of the expandable isolation member. The expandable isolation member is configurable between a collapsed configuration and an expanded configuration. The expandable isolation member includes a circumferential sealing surface configured for sealing engagement with tissue of a patient such that the expandable isolation member inhibits fluid and electrical communication between the first electrode and the second electrode when engaged with the tissue. |
| US12121288B2 |
Combination tumor treatment
In some aspects, the present disclosure pertains to methods of treating a tissue volume comprising (a) administering an implantable composition comprising a releasable membrane-active agent to a target site such that the membrane-active agent is locally released to the tissue volume and (b) performing irreversible, reversible and/or thermal treatment by application of a pulsed electric field to the tissue volume. In other aspects, the present disclosure pertains to embolic compositions that comprise releasable membrane-active agents. |
| US12121287B2 |
Drive shaft for a surgical instrument
An improved drive shaft for controlling an end effector of surgical instrument having advantages over the prior art, specifically, the drive shaft includes two separate elongate elements, each including a flange at its proximal end for restricting the lateral movement of the drive shaft when installed within an outer shaft of the instrument. The dimensions of the flanges are such that they fit within the outer shaft with minimal clearance. This allows the drive shaft to be moved longitudinally within the outer shaft to actuate an end effector whilst minimizing any lateral movement. This consequently prevents the end effector from tilting as it is actuated. The drive members are arranged so that the flanges extend in opposite directions perpendicular to the length of the drive shaft. This helps to improve ease of assembly and provides space within the outer shaft for features such as connection wires and the like. |
| US12121285B1 |
Flexible boot with active electrode monitoring shield for flexible-wristed surgical devices
A boot for an electrosurgical instrument has a conductive boot shield substantially enclosed by one or more insulating layers. The boot shield has a flexible conductive medium. The flexible conductive medium has a plurality of conductive components suspended in at least one of a first liquid or a first gel, whereby the boot is configured to bend with a bend radius of about 10 millimeters or less without a loss in conductivity of the boot shield. A related method and system are also provided. |
| US12121283B2 |
Ultrasonic medical instrument having variable focusing depth of ultrasonic wave generating unit
Embodiments of the inventive concept provide an ultrasonic medical instrument moving horizontally by adjusting a depth wise location of an ultrasonic wave generating unit while not influencing an internal volume of a cartridge and variously setting focusing depths of ultrasonic waves in skin. |
| US12121281B2 |
Systems and methods for cryogenic treatment of headache
Methods and related systems treating headache and migraine. The method may include producing an injury to a nerve at an identified location of hypersensitivity; wherein the identified location is a location of nerve hypersensitivity. The identified location may be within the anterior or frontal aspect of a nasal cavity, corresponding to a location of the V1 branch of the trigeminal nerve. Producing an injury may comprise providing cryotherapy to the identified location. The cryotherapy is supplied by a chilled probe, a cryo-balloon, a nasal spray device, or a gel applicator. |
| US12121280B2 |
Intramedullary nail extractor
An intramedullary nail extractor including a central body, a rotatable sleeve and a clamping member. The central body includes a proximal end for attachment to an extractor, a distal end having a hook for engaging an intramedullary nail, and a threaded intermediate portion between the proximal end and the distal end. The rotatable sleeve threadedly engages the threaded intermediate portion of the central body, and the clamping member is operatively engaged by the rotatable sleeve and moveable relative to the central body. |
| US12121274B2 |
Bone fracture fixation clamp
A bone fixation clamp includes a first arcuate clamp member conforming to a shape of a bone and extending between a first connection end and a first free end, a second arcuate clamp member conforming to a shape of the bone, a second connection end of the second clamp member being pivotally attached to the first clamp member, the second clamp member extending between the second connection end and a second free end and a driving member received in the first clamp member passing out of the first clamp member to abut an abutment portion of the second member so that, as the driving member is extended further out of the first member, the driving member pivots the second clamp member relative to the first clamp member to draw the first and second free ends toward one another to apply a radially compressive force to the bone. |
| US12121267B2 |
Orthopedic tethered implants and system
A clamp assembly for orthopedic use having a housing that includes a top surface, a recess, a distal base and a bottom surface, the recess defining a longitudinal axis and extending through the housing from the top surface through the distal base and toward the bottom surface, and at least two through slots, each one of being disposed at a bottom or a side a surface of the housing. The assembly including a securement assembly positionable within the recess in a co-axial relationship to a mating surface on the recess, and a band sized for travel along a predetermined path defined in part by the through slots in the housing, wherein at least one of the through slots is a starting point for travel of the band along the predetermined path. |
| US12121263B2 |
Foot operated traction device and method of using same for mechanical cervical ripening
A foot operated traction device for allowing a pregnant woman to selectively self-induce dilatation of her cervix via her foot and a method for doing the same, the device comprising a balloon catheter comprising an inflatable balloon insertable above the cervix of the pregnant woman and an elongate catheter tube comprising a catheter tube proximal end portion and a catheter tube distal end portion coaxially mounted to the inflatable balloon, the inflatable balloon inflatable with a fluid to apply dilatative pressure against the cervix, and an elongate stirrup connected to the catheter tube at the catheter tube proximal end at a stirrup proximal end and removably engageable with the foot of the pregnant woman at a stirrup distal end, wherein the stirrup distal end is movable by the movement of the foot to selectively vary a traction force of the inflatable balloon. |
| US12121261B2 |
Surgical access device including anchor with ratchet mechanism
A surgical access device including a cannula body and an anchor is disclosed. The cannula body includes a housing, and an elongated portion extending distally from the housing. The elongated portion defines a longitudinal axis and defines a channel extending therethrough. The anchor is disposed in mechanical cooperation with the elongated portion of the cannula body and is longitudinally translatable relative to the elongated portion. The anchor defines an aperture and includes a ratchet mechanism configured to selectively lock a size of the aperture. |
| US12121260B2 |
Cannula for percutaneous minimally invasive cannulation of the vena cava
A cannula comprising a plastic tube having three longitudinal chambers, including a main chamber, a first lateral chamber and a second lateral chamber, and at least one reinforced section ensuring constant internal diameter, wherein the cannula is equipped from the distal side with a round end narrowing towards the end, in which there are longitudinal holes of a size enabling free venous blood flow, and a balloon. A fragment of the reinforced tube section located below the balloon is bent under an angle α of approximately 90°. From the proximal side, the tube ends with a flexible cone, sealing the cannula tightly, inside which there is a valve closing the main chamber and a port for inflating the balloon connected to the first lateral chamber. |
| US12121254B2 |
Slide slot type multi-arm clamp
A slide slot type multi-arm clamp includes a handle, a catheter, a clamping portion, a spring tube and a control line. In practical applications, a surgical operator applies an axial thrust and a pulling force to the handle to drive the control line to move, so as to open/close and lock the clamping portion. Moreover, side clamp arms and a clamp base in the clamping portion can be easily separated from the catheter or the spring tube to stay in a human body so as to achieve the functions of hemostasis and tissue suture. The side slot type multi-arm clamp can achieve the effect of minimizing the length of the instrument retained in the human body by the cooperation between the side clamp arms and the clamp base. |
| US12121248B2 |
Patient-specific surgical devices, system, and methods
A surgical device includes a body having a first side with a first surface that is complementary to a surface of a foreign object disposed within a patient based on preoperative imaging of the patient. The body defines at least one hole positioned relative to the body to facilitate insertion of an elongate device at a predetermined location relative to the foreign object. |
| US12121239B2 |
Multiple open/close of reloadable clip
A system for treating tissue includes an applicator including a catheter and a control member extending therethrough, the control member longitudinally movable relative to the catheter and including an abutment structure proximate a distal end thereof, and a clip assembly releasably coupleable to a distal end of the applicator, the clip assembly including a pair of clip arms, a proximal end of each of the clip arms slidably received within a channel of a capsule and configured to be releasably coupled to the distal end of the control member so that the clip arms are movable relative to the capsule between a tissue receiving configuration and a tissue clipping configuration, the capsule including proximal tabs movable between a biased non-engaging and an engaging configuration, in which the proximal tabs engage an engaging portion of the lumen of the catheter, when the abutment structure is received within the capsule. |
| US12121236B2 |
Electric surgical stapler with state display
An electric surgical stapler with state display is provided, which includes a housing, an anastomosis bobbin, a jaw, a dynamic structure, a power supply structure, a control board, a state display screen, and an RF antenna. The dynamic structure, power supply structure, state display screen, and RF antenna are respectively electrically connected with the control board; the housing includes a display slot, an antenna slot, and a board slot. The state display screen is provided in the display slot, the RF antenna is provided in the antenna slot, the control board is provided in the board slot. The state display screen and RF antenna are arranged in parallel. In working state, the dynamic structure is controlled to drive the jaw to perform by the control board, thereby completing closing, firing, retraction and other operations, the state display screen synchronously displays an operation state and progress of the jaw. |
| US12121234B2 |
Staple cartridge assembly comprising a compensator
A staple cartridge assembly comprising a staple cartridge and a compensator is disclosed. The staple cartridge comprises a cartridge deck, a retention rail defining an aperture, a staple cavity defined in the cartridge deck, and a staple removably positioned in the staple cavity. The aperture receives a portion of the compensator to detachable secure the compensator to the cartridge deck. |
| US12121232B2 |
Tissue repair device and method
Embodiments of the invention include a tissue repair system and related components and associated methods that provide for suturing of tissue using three or more suture anchoring implants, including multiple pairs of connected implants in some embodiments, all of which may be deployed from a single device. Some embodiments achieve this by employing a push mechanism capable of being activated to advance the push mechanism incrementally to discrete positions within the device and deploy implants one at a time from the device. |
| US12121229B2 |
Soft-bodied apparatus and method for opening eyelid
A soft-bodied apparatus and a method for opening an eyelid are provided. The apparatus includes: a head support module, a real-time eyelid positioning module, a robot end-effector real-time positioning module, and an automatic eyelid opening operation module. The automatic eyelid opening operation module includes a robot body and a robot control system. The robot body is provided with a multi-axis rigid body mechanical arm and a soft-bodied end-effector. The robot control system takes the real-time poses of the upper and lower eyelids of the user as a motion target, and takes the real-time shape and the pose of the soft-bodied end-effector as feedback information to control motion of the robot body to automatically open the eyelid. |
| US12121227B2 |
Cardiac transseptal instruments, assemblies, and method of use of the same
A needle or stylet has a tip contour with a reverse back bevel curved toward the longitudinal axis of the needle or stylet. The needle has a flexible intermediate portion and/or a two-part construction in which a distal portion of the needle to crimped onto a proximal portion of the needle. The needle or a stylet is combined with a spring mechanism in the hub of the needle or stylet assembly. The spring mechanism positions the tip of the needle or stylet in a middle position extending from the distal end of the assembly, allows the needle or stylet to be moved into a spring loaded fully retracted configuration within the assembly as the septal wall is tented, and then releasing the spring loaded needle or stylet as the needle or stylet penetrates the septal wall. A method of using a needle or stylet with a spring mechanism is included. |
| US12121223B2 |
Multifunctional visualization instrument
A multifunctional visualization instrument is provided that, in certain embodiments, includes a body having a proximal end and a distal end. The multifunctional visualization instrument includes a display screen on the body and a camera stick at the distal end of the body and comprising an arm and a camera. The arm of the camera stick is sized to fit within a channel of a removable laryngoscope blade. The multifunctional visualization instrument includes a port on a surface of the laryngoscope, configured to mate with an introducer and a steering input for steering the introducer, displayed on the display screen simultaneously with an image of the patient captured by the camera. |
| US12121222B2 |
Physical assessment device
An instrument head for attachment to a plurality of instrument handles having different power sources is described. The instrument head includes at least one light-emitting diode, and a controller. When the controller detects an instability in a voltage input from a power source in an instrument handle attached to the instrument head, the controller transitions from a normal mode of operation to a mitigation mode of operation. The mitigation mode of operation prevents an increase in output of the at least one light-emitting diode for a predetermined period of time. |
| US12121215B2 |
Optically guided surgical devices with expandable optical window
A device for performing surgical procedures, such as intracardiac procedures or neurosurgical procedures, includes a solid optical window formed of a transparent, compliant material, wherein the solid optical window includes a proximal side and a distal side, wherein a distal face of the solid optical window is configured to approach tissue during a surgical procedure; an imaging system embedded into the solid optical window and positioned to obtain an image through at least a portion of the distal face of the solid optical window; and a tool channel formed through the solid optical window from the proximal side to the distal side of the solid optical window, wherein the tool channel is configured to receive a tool for performing the surgical procedure. |
| US12121211B2 |
Guidewire and catheter system for in-vivo forward viewing of the vasculature
A medical system comprising a guidewire that is connectable to a catheter is described. The guidewire has a housing connected to the distal end of a core wire. A printed circuit board (PCB) electrically connected to a camera chip resides in the housing. An atraumatic lens is supported by the housing with the camera chip residing between the atraumatic lens and the housing so that light rays entering the atraumatic lens are refracted to a focal plane aligned along a distal face of the camera chip. A proximal connector powered by a controller is wired to a visual display. With the proximal end of the guidewire connected to the proximal connector, the controller provides electrical power to the camera chip via a power cable extending along the core wire to the PCB. The catheter has an axially-extending primary lumen and a plurality of optical fibers extending to respective light-emitting lenses. During a medical procedure, the guidewire is first inserted into the vasculature of a patient. The guidewire is then received in the primary lumen of the catheter to connect the catheter to the guidewire. Then, the guidewire is connected to the proximal connector to enable the controller to provide electrical power to the camera chip. This provides the surgeon with a visual image of the vasculature illuminated by the light-emitting lenses of the catheter during the medical procedure. |
| US12121202B2 |
Cleaning device
A cleaning device includes a base member extending with a first distal end and a first proximal end. The first proximal end is at an angle relative to the first distal end. A support member extends between a second distal end and a second proximal end. At least one support flange couples the base member and the support member. An extension member extends from the second distal end. At least one teeth member comprises a contact surface and an attachment surface. The attachment surface is formed with an inner channel, and the inner channel is coupled with one of the first distal and proximal ends. The contact surface has outer flanges with an outer channel formed therein. The contact surface is adapted to come in contact with a cleaning surface such that the outer flanges penetrate the cleaning surface to dislodge and collect debris. |
| US12121201B2 |
Agitator for a surface treatment apparatus and a surface treatment apparatus having the same
An agitator for a vacuum cleaner includes an agitator body and a resiliently deformable flap. The resiliently deformable flap includes a front face, a rear face, and one or more protrusions extending outwardly from the front face. An agitator for a vacuum cleaner includes an agitator body and a bristle strip and/or a plurality of tufts arranged in one or more rows along the agitator body. The bristle strip and/or a plurality of tufts includes a first bristle group including a plurality of nylon bristles and at least a second bristle group including a plurality of para-aramid bristles. |
| US12121200B2 |
Vacuum-based method and apparatus for cleaning soiled articles
Disclosed herein, in certain embodiments, are vacuum-based systems, products, devices, and methods for de-odorizing, disinfecting, or cleaning articles such as clothing, shoes, toys, or dishes. A system or device can comprise a vacuum chamber comprising a housing defining an internal space having an internal pressure and an opening; a vacuum lid adapted to engage with the opening of the vacuum chamber; and a vacuum source connected to the vacuum chamber, wherein operation of the vacuum source reduces the internal pressure of the internal space of the vacuum chamber, wherein the lower internal pressure enhances the vaporization and removal of odors located on one or more articles disposed within the vacuum chamber. |
| US12121195B2 |
Systems for rack operability in dishwashing appliances
A dishwasher appliance includes a tub defining a wash chamber. A first rack assembly is slidably positioned within the wash chamber. A first spray assembly is positioned in the wash chamber and configured to direct wash fluids at the first rack assembly. A second rack assembly is slidably positioned in the wash chamber above the first rack assembly. A second spray assembly is positioned in the wash chamber and configured to direct wash fluids at the second rack assembly. A third rack assembly is slidably positioned in the wash chamber above the second rack assembly. A third spray assembly is positioned over the third rack assembly and configured to direct wash fluid at articles located in the third rack assembly. The third rack assembly includes a wire framework defining the perimeter of the third rack assembly. A wire insert is configured to removably couple to the wire framework. The wire insert includes a wire floor portion. The wire insert further includes a wire handle extending from the wire floor portion. |
| US12121192B2 |
Mobile device docking method and mobile device
A docking method executable by a mobile device is provided. The docking method includes obtaining a stored target location of a docking station, and navigating to the target location. The docking method also includes: during the navigation and/or at the target location, based on a determination that a guidance signal is not detected, performing a regional search. The docking method also includes: during the navigation, or at the target location, or during the regional search, based on a determination that the guidance signal is detected, moving, under the guidance of the guidance signal, to the docking station. Performing the regional search includes determining a basic search zone, searching for the guidance signal while moving along boundaries of the basic search zone, and based on a determination that the guidance signal has not been detected when a termination condition is satisfied, terminating the regional search. |
| US12121191B1 |
Skin cleaning device
The present disclosure provides a skin cleaning device, comprising a cleaning assembly, the cleaning assembly comprises a silicone sleeve, a foaming silicone brush, a fixed silicone brush, a rotating silicone brush, a rotating seat, a driving seat, three foaming protrusions, a driving shaft, a mounting seat, a cross block, a driving motor, a cross groove and an inner shell. The present invention adds facial cleanser to the surface of the rotating silicone brush, drives the driving shaft to rotate through the cooperation of the driving motor, the cross block and the cross groove, and the driving shaft drives the foaming protrusions and the rotating seat to rotate respectively through the driving seat. When the foaming protrusions rotate, they rub against the foaming silicone brush and move the foaming silicone brush, so that facial cleanser generates fine cleaning foam after friction between the foaming silicone brush and the foaming protrusions. |
| US12121189B2 |
Toilet
A toilet includes a base, a cover, and a seat. The seat is rotatably coupled to the base, and the cover is rotatably coupled to the seat. The cover and the seat define an angled axis that is oriented upward and forward toward a front end of the base. The cover and the seat are each configured to rotate about the angled axis between a lowered position in which the cover and the seat are located adjacent the base and a stowed position in which the cover and the seat are oriented in an upward direction. |
| US12121188B2 |
Toilet seat assembly
A toilet seat assembly including a toilet seat having a top surface and a bottom surface. The top surface is configured to support a user on a toilet bowl while the bottom surface engages a surface of the toilet bowl. The toilet seat assembly further includes a hinge post coupled to the toilet bowl via a fastener and having an elongated slot defining a longitudinal axis. The toilet seat assembly further includes a hinge assembly pivotably coupling the toilet seat to the hinge post about a pivot axis that is perpendicular to the longitudinal axis. The hinge assembly at least partially overlaps the elongated slot of the hinge post in a direction along the longitudinal axis of the elongated slot. |
| US12121186B2 |
Toilet paper covering device
A toilet paper covering device, including a base removably connected to at least a portion of an external surface, a roll rod angularly disposed away from the base with respect to a first direction to receive a roll of toilet paper thereon, a front wall angularly disposed away from the base with respect to the first direction to prevent access to the roll of toilet paper, and a rear wall angularly disposed away from the base with respect to the first direction to prevent access to the roll of toilet paper. |
| US12121185B2 |
Locking mechanism
A locking mechanism (104) for a kitchen device (101) having a vessel (105), the vessel (105) providing an interior space and having a rim (106) surrounding an opening (105a) of the space, and a lid (121) to engage the rim (106) to close the space, the locking mechanism (104) comprising: a retaining arm (107), the retaining arm (107) being attachable to the device (101) and movable between a free position, wherein the lid (121) is movable with respect to the vessel (105), and a retaining position, wherein the retaining arm (107) is engageable with the lid (121) to retain the lid (121) against the vessel (105) to at least partly close the opening (105a); a securing assembly (108), the securing assembly (108) being attachable to the device (101) to engage the retaining arm (107) and movable between a free position, wherein the retaining arm (107) may be moved between the free position and the retaining position, and a securing position, wherein the securing assembly (108) engages the retaining arm (107) to prevent movement of the retaining arm (107) from the retaining position; a processor; and an electric motor (157) operated by the processor to move the securing assembly (108) between the free position and the securing position. |
| US12121178B2 |
Double-bottom enamel pan with good thermal conductivity
A double-bottom enamel pan with good thermal conductivity, comprising a pan body and a double-bottom piece which is connected to an outer surface of a bottom of the pan body, wherein the double-bottom piece is provided with a plurality of annular bumps on one side matching with the pan body, the annular bumps are pressed into the pan body, and the double-bottom piece comprises at least one layer of enamel coating. The double-bottom enamel pan of the utility model has good thermal conductivity, so that heat and temperature distribution at the bottom of the pan body is uniform, which meets the user's requirements of excellent service effect and long service life, and has a broad market application prospect. |
| US12121172B2 |
Garment removing tool
The invention relates to a tool for assisting in the removal of clothing. In particular, the invention relates to a tool which can be used to help remove socks, stockings, leggings, compression stockings, wetsuits, dry suits and the like, which can be difficult to remove from the lower leg and foot. |
| US12121171B2 |
Ventilating hanger
Proposed is a hanger capable of being opened forward/rearward and, more particularly, to a ventilating hanger having a hanging part on which clothes can be hung and which can be opened toward front/back of clothes, so that the hanging part is in a narrow state to allow the clothes to ba easily hung thereon when the clothes are hung, and is opened to be wide forward/rearward in a state in which the clothes are hung thereon, so as to widen the space between the front and back of the clothes, and thus smooth ventilation is facilitated. |
| US12121169B1 |
Drinking cup and modified straw assembly
A drinking cup and modified straw assembly for facilitating drinking in a supine position includes a cup enclosing an interior space containing a fluid. The cup includes a base wall and a perimeter wall. A lid is mounted to the top edge of the cup and has a hole extending through there. A drinking straw is elongated from a first end to a second end and has an upper bend to define a first section and a second section. The first section extends through the hole such that the first end is positioned adjacent to the base wall. The drinking straw has a lower bend to define a third section. The lower bend forms an acute angle between the second and third sections such that the third section is angled upwardly away from a plane of the base wall. |
| US12121162B1 |
Collectable shelf system
The collectable shelf system is a display. The collectable shelf system is configured for use with a comic book. The collectable shelf system is configured for use with a hero figurine. The collectable shelf display incorporates a book mount and a figurine shelf. The book mount attaches to the figurine shelf. The book mount displays the comic book. The figurine shelf presents the hero figurine. The hero figurine is a character that is associated with the comic book. |
| US12121161B1 |
Collectable shelf system
The collectable shelf system is a display. The collectable shelf system is configured for use with a comic book. The collectable shelf system is configured for use with a hero figurine. The collectable shelf display incorporates a book mount and a figurine shelf. The book mount attaches to the figurine shelf. The book mount displays the comic book. The figurine shelf presents the hero figurine. The hero figurine is a character that is associated with the comic book. |
| US12121158B2 |
Baby incline sleeper
A sleeping device including an inclined mat or an inclination segment under a mat positionable under a baby for sleep. The inclined mat or the inclination segment includes a top surface area, a bottom surface area, and a thickness area lying therebetween. The bottom surface area is configured to lie against a sleeping surface and the top surface area is configured to lie against a baby. The top surface area of the inclined mat or the inclination segment includes an elevated surface, a downwardly surface, and a lower surface configured to receive a back of the head of the baby. The downwardly surface is configured to support a side of the head of the baby lying toward the downwardly surface to prevent the head from turning to a position wherein the side of the head lies planar with the sleeping surface. |
| US12121157B2 |
Child tray assembly
A child tray assembly adapted for a child seat is provided. The child tray assembly includes a first tray and a second tray. The first tray is slidably disposed on the child seat. The first tray includes a first tray body and at least one sliding track installed on the first tray body. The second tray includes a second tray body and at least one sliding latch slidably disposed on the second tray body, the second tray body being detachably combined with the first tray body by the at least one sliding latch. |
| US12121153B2 |
Hinge and electric bed using the same
A hinge includes identical first and second members each having a base portion with an end surface, a long arm with a pivot hole and a middle abutment surface and a short arm with a rear abutment surface both extending from the end surface, and a protrusion at a distal end of the long arm. Each protrusion has a front abutment. A pivot is inserted through the pivot holes to couple the first and second members in a way that the hinge is limited in a range of pivotal angle. |
| US12121150B2 |
Method and apparatus for dynamically mounting a camera in front of a display screen
A magnetic webcam mounting assembly apparatus and method of use are disclosed herein for positioning a movable webcam connected to a computer relative to a screen display of the computer while imaging a user in select, reciprocal viewing alignment with the screen display. The magnetic webcam mounting assembly comprises a magnetic base and a connector assembly. The magnetic base includes a magnetic base coupling assembly. The connector assembly includes a connector assembly body having a first end of the connector assembly body and a second end of the connector assembly body. The connector assembly further includes a base connector assembly attached to the first end of the connector assembly body and configured to couple with the magnetic base coupling assembly. The connector assembly finally includes a webcam connector assembly attached to a second end of the connector assembly body and configured to mount the movable webcam. |
| US12121138B2 |
Gear track system
Systems for holding tactical gear, such as firearm magazines, weapons, etc., and for connecting such holders to a harness are described and may include a carrier, and an accessory holder that is configured to attach to the carrier. The carrier and/or the accessory holder may be formed from substantially rigid materials, such as plastic or the like, and may be configured to be easily attached and detached from one another, using preconfigured, integral connectors. The connectors may be configured to resist rotation of the carrier and accessory holder with respect to each other, and/or to secure the accessory holder at a fixed angle with respect to the carrier. The accessory holder may also include flanges, surface treatments, or other features, that assist in holding the accessory in the holder. |
| US12121131B1 |
Rotatable cutter-integrated dispensing stick for hygienic and preservative product application
A dispensing stick designed for products such as lip balm, lipstick, or glue. The dispensing stick features a cylindrical body with an actuator mechanism at one end and an opening at the other for dispensing the product. Notably, the dispensing stick incorporates a rotatable disc-shaped cutter element, hinged to the cylindrical wall adjacent to the opening. This cutter element, equipped with a curved blade, is coupled to the body via a pin and operates in a plane parallel to the opening. The design allows for a cutting action as the product is pushed through the opening, thereby addressing issues related to product hygiene and longevity. |
| US12121129B2 |
Method of controlling a haircare appliance
Disclosed herein is a method of controlling a haircare appliance including a heater. The method includes measuring a temperature of output air of the haircare appliance to obtain a measured output air temperature. The method includes comparing the measured output air temperature to a desired output air temperature. The method includes determining a desired heater temperature based on the comparison of the measured output air temperature to the desired output air temperature. The method includes predicting a predicted heater temperature. The method includes comparing the predicted heater temperature to the desired heater temperature. The method includes outputting a control signal based on the comparison of the predicted heater temperature to the desired heater temperature. |
| US12121128B1 |
Hair curler
A hair curler is provided, which includes a grab handle, a control component, a bracket component, and a thermal conductive shell that are sequentially connected; a first heating sheet and a second heating sheet are respectively provided on inner sides of a first frame plate and a second frame plate, a sleeve cover is provided with a first slot portion, one end of a wire barrel is fixed on the sleeve cover. The sleeve cover is provided with a first guide pillar and a second guide pillar at interval. One end of a first wire is connected to the first heating sheet, the other end thereof passes through the first slot portion and is connected to the first guide pillar; one end of a second wire is connected to the second heating sheet, the other end thereof is connected to the first guide pillar. |
| US12121123B2 |
Collectible casing card
A collectible casing card can include a casing member, a card member that is engaged with the casing member to define a casing member interior, and a collectible that is positioned within the casing member interior. The card member and casing member can be engaged to form a flush or non-flush engagement. The collectible casing card can include a fastener that is secured to one of the casing member and the card member. The fastener can be positioned on a side wall of the card member. The collectible can include a ring. A method for manufacturing a collectible casing card can include the steps of engaging a card member and a casing member with one another to define a casing member interior and positioning the collectible within the casing member interior. The method can include the step of imprinting an image on a top surface of the card member. |
| US12121122B2 |
Umbrella case
An umbrella case configured to hold an umbrella having a rigid shaft with a handle at one end and a spike at the other end, the umbrella case comprising an umbrella holding assembly comprising a generally tubular sheath 106 having an open end and a spike-receiving portion 107 defining a spike-receiving aperture at the other end, and a fastening strap 100 having a first end coupled to an outer surface of the umbrella case, close to the open end of the sheath 106, and having a second, free end configured to be selectively moved to a fastening position in which it is connected to the umbrella case at a generally diametrically opposite location to the first end, the sheath, the spike-receiving portion and the fastening strap when in the fastening position, together, defining the effective length of the umbrella holding assembly, wherein at least one of the sheath, the spike-receiving portion and the fastening strap is selectively longitudinally extendible upon application of a force, in use, thereby to increase the effective length of the umbrella holding assembly to accommodate the length of an umbrella held therein. |
| US12121121B2 |
Band, watch, and band length adjustment mechanism
A band includes a clasp, wherein the clasp includes a cover member and an adjustment portion, the adjustment portion includes a pair of rail portions that are arranged along inner sides of two side walls of the cover member in a longitudinal direction of the cover member and have a plurality of grooves for length adjustment, a pressing portion that is disposed at an inner bottom surface of the cover member and includes an elastic member, and an engagement pin that is inserted through the one end of a adjustment piece and is configured to be engaged with the grooves of the rail portions, and the pressing portion is configured to press the engagement pin against the rail portions in a state where the engagement pin is engaged with the pair of grooves. |
| US12121119B2 |
Wearable accessory with integrated liquid container
A wearable accessory for storing and dispensing liquid and a method of using the same are provided. The accessory can include a housing having a loop structure with a through-hole configured to receive a hand of a user therethrough, and a liquid container enclosed within the housing. The through-hole can be sized for the user's lower arm. The liquid container can include a first end having a sealable opening for adding liquid for storing and dispensing, and a second end in fluid communication with a nozzle opening recessed in an external surface on the front side of the housing. The nozzle opening can be configured to receive and dispense a volume of atomized liquid from a sprayer coupled to the second end of the liquid container when the sprayer is activated by an actuator integrated into the housing. The recessed nozzle opening prevents the user from contacting the sprayer. |
| US12121118B2 |
Emergency alert bracelet assembly
An emergency alert bracelet assembly for inhibiting a user from being assaulted or kidnapped includes a bracelet that is wearable around a wrist of a user. A locking unit is integrated into the bracelet and the locking unit is actuated to lock the bracelet around the user's wrist to inhibit an unauthorized user from removing the bracelet from the user's wrist. A communication unit is integrated into the bracelet and the communication unit broadcasting an alert signal to contact emergency responders for assistance. A fingerprint scanner is integrated into the bracelet to scan a fingerprint. Furthermore, the locking unit is de-actuated when the fingerprint scanner scans a fingerprint of an authorized user thereby facilitating the bracelet to be removed from the user's wrist. |
| US12121116B1 |
Flat bottom resin zipper
The invention discloses a flat bottom resin zipper, which injects resin chain teeth onto a core wire or a chain cloth. Each resin chain tooth has a sewing thread slot on the top and a chain cloth embedding groove on the bottom. Then sew the entire resin chain teeth to the chain cloth, so that the sewing threads are tightened in the sewing thread slots, and the chain cloth is embedded in the chain cloth embedding grooves, forming a double fixed structure of injection molding and sewing thread sewing. Afterwards, the inner side of the chain cloth is folded back to form a flat bottom zipper with only the chain cloth on one side of the zipper without any protruding resin chain tooth, which can be used as an anti-pinch zipper or an invisible zipper. |
| US12121114B2 |
Two-stage clasp mechanism for a wearable device, and related systems and methods
Two-stage clasp mechanisms, and related systems and methods, are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, the clasp mechanism includes a first housing portion, a second housing portion configured to connect to the first housing portion, and a locking mechanism configured to secure the first and second housing portions together. The locking mechanism can include a first striker carried by the second housing portion, a second striker movably carried by the first housing portion, and a blocking component movably carried by the second housing portion. The second striker is moveable along a first direction between an engaged position and a disengaged position with the first striker. The blocking component is movable along a second direction at an angle with respect to the first direction between a first position that prevents the first striker from moving and a second position that allows the second striker to move. |
| US12121113B2 |
Buckle and pet restraint device containing the same
A buckle and a pet restraint device, wherein the buckle includes a male buckle portion and a female buckle portion, wherein the male buckle portion has a first through hole and a second through hole through which the webbing passes, the female buckle portion has a third through hole through which the webbing passes, and the inner walls of the first through hole and the second through hole are spaced with a plurality of anti-skid ribs; anti-skid stripes are arranged around the first through hole and the second through hole. The buckle can effectively prevent the webbing on the buckle from lateral deflection or slipping, so that the webbing can always fit on the pet's body, avoiding safety problems caused by the looseness of the webbing or scratching of the pet's skin caused by the overturning of the webbing due to the lateral deflection. |
| US12121112B1 |
Quick-release cam buckle assembly
A quick-release buckle with a main body, a plate, and a strap. The main body has a frame and a release lever that rotates about a shaft. The plate has two parallel and longitudinal slots, and the strap passes through the slots in the plate. The frame has two parts that are separated by an angled wall that extends laterally across the frame width. The shaft is secured to the first part of the frame. The second part of the frame is configured to form a seat for receiving the plate. The second part of the frame has two side walls and a channel on an inside surface of each side wall adjacent to the angled wall. Each channel is parallel to the angled wall and at least as wide as the thickness of the plate. The two channels together are configured to receive the width of the plate. |
| US12121111B1 |
Footwear stretcher apparatus
The invention pertains to a footwear stretcher apparatus comprising: two spacer blocs separated by a wedge-shaped gap and configured to be inserted inside walls of a footwear; an actuator; and a wedge, driven by the actuator, and configured to change a spacing of the wedge-shaped gap proportional to a stroke of the actuator, thus stretching the walls of the footwear. |
| US12121105B2 |
Footwear insert
Disclosed is a readily removable molded insert for footwear, including dress or casual shoes and sneakers. The insert may be manufactured from a variety of resiliently compressible, semi-rigid, and/or resiliently deformable materials and is designed for the purpose of maintaining the general shape and appearance of the upper section of a shoe. Embodiments of the insert are specifically designed to adapt to and conform to the shape of footwear and also to adapt to the contour of a user's foot while the footwear is being worn. The insert may be further cut, trimmed, or separated to fit a range of shoe sizes, by use of perforations along the outer rim of certain embodiments of the insert. Another embodiment of the insert may remain adhesively attached to the inside of the shoe, or it may be removed and repositioned within the shoe, as necessary. |
| US12121097B2 |
Sole system for an article of footwear incorporating a knitted component with a one-piece knit outsole and a tensile element
An article of footwear including a sole system, including an upper and the sole system. The sole system includes a knitted component incorporating a one-piece knit outsole. The knit outsole has a ground-facing side, a top side, an inlaid tensile element, and a ground-engaging cleat member protruding from the ground-facing side of the knit outsole. The tensile element may be adjacent a cleat member. The upper is connected at its bottom to the top side of the knit outsole. |
| US12121096B1 |
Rapid-entry footwear having a stabilizer and an elastic element
A rapid-entry shoe having an elastic element to enlarge a foot opening of the rapid-entry shoe and also having a stabilizer to prevent a rear portion of the rapid-entry shoe from collapsing downward. |
| US12121095B1 |
Helmet
A helmet which is to be worn on a head of a wearer. The helmet includes a shell adapted to surround a wearer's head with the inner surface of the shell being spaced from the wearer's head at an initial pre-impact relative position. A subliner in contact with the wearer's head when the helmet is worn prior to an impact and during an impact, includes at least one viscoelastic foam subliner element extending from the inner surface of the shell. The subliner element is radially partitioned into individual and independent panel-shaped segments nested with respect to each other and have major side surfaces. Some of the nested segments have double-sided nano tape positioned between the major side surfaces thereof in direct contacting engagement with the nano tape and at least some of the major side surfaces of the remaining nested segments are in direct facing relation without nano tape therebetween. |
| US12121092B2 |
Method of making article of apparel including thermoregulatory textile
An article of apparel and method of making the article of apparel for a wearer is disclosed herein. In at least one embodiment, the article of apparel comprises a fabric defining a first, inner surface facing the wearer, and a second, outer surface opposite the first surface. A plurality of compression areas are formed along the inner fabric surface, each compression area comprising compressed yarns. A sealing agent effective to reduce the air permeability of the fabric is applied to each compression area. The sealing agent secures the yarns in a compressed state. |
| US12121087B2 |
Head worn and swing arm mounted mask
A head mounted face mask assembly wherein the face mask is connected to a headmounted device via articulatable swing arms. The assembly is configured so that the weight of the face mask is borne entirely by the swing arms and, in turn, the headmounted device. The swing arms can pivot relative to the headmounted device, and also mid arm, and also where the lower arms connect with the face mask itself. |
| US12121082B2 |
Humanoid robot
A humanoid robot (1) includes a heat discharge garment (5) that covers the humanoid robot (1), and an air blower provided in the humanoid robot (1) or the heat discharge garment (5) to blow external air into the humanoid robot (1) or the heat discharge garment (5). An air blowing flow path (101) is provided between the heat discharge garment (5) and an outer shell of the humanoid robot (1). |
| US12121080B2 |
Waistband for a garment
Examples of a waistband for a garment are disclosed. The waist band includes a front portion for covering at least a portion of an abdomen of a wearer, a back portion for covering at least a portion of a lower back area of the wearer, a first inner panel extending from a front central line at the front portion to a back central line at the back portion, a second inner panel extending from the front central line at the front portion to the back central line at the back portion, and at least one bonding adhesive panel bonding together the back portion with the first and second inner panels. The inside of the disclosed waistbands are seamless. |
| US12121074B2 |
Tobacco bowl
A tobacco bowl includes a first member having a tobacco receptacle for receiving tobacco, a second member over the first member, and a coal plate for supporting a coal. The coal plate is on the second member, and the second member is moveable relative to the first member for adjusting a vertical distance between the coal place and the tobacco receptacle. The tobacco bowl may be part of a hookah. A method of using a hookah includes adjusting the distance between the coals and the tobacco. |
| US12121072B2 |
Accessory for electronic cigarette
An exemplary accessory for an electronic smoking article includes a hollow body having inner and outer surfaces and a sensor in the body. The sensor is configured to detect an emission of the electronic smoking article. A processor is embedded in the body, where the processor is configured to generate smoking topography data based on the emission. A display generates an output based on the smoking topography data provided by the processor. |
| US12121071B2 |
Vaporization device with horizontal heating element
A vaporization device includes a housing having a length. A heating element of the vaporization device is configured to be energized to produce vaporized aerosol from the liquid. The heating element includes first and second end portions in electrical communication with positive and negative terminals of a power source, as well as an intermediary portion disposed between the first and second end portions. The intermediary portion is oriented between the first and second end portions along an axis substantially perpendicular to the length of the housing. |
| US12121070B2 |
Vaporization device with seal fixation member
A vaporization device includes a housing, an absorbent reservoir, a battery, a heating component, a controller, a seal, and a seal fixation member. The seal is at least partially disposed through an end of the absorbent reservoir. The seal is configured form a seal between the absorbent reservoir and the battery to retard leakage of liquid toward the battery. The seal fixation member is configured engage and retain the seal to substantially constant dimensions. |
| US12121069B2 |
System and method for metered dosing vaporizer
Provided is a system and method for a dosing vaporizer. More specifically, an embodiment of the system includes a housing with a first end opposite from a second end. A mouthpiece disposed proximate to the first end, the mouthpiece structured and arranged to rotate about the first end. An attacher disposed proximate to the second end, the attacher structured and arranged for removable attachment to a power source. A reservoir of liquid concentrate is disposed within the housing. A vaporizer disposed proximate to the attacher and thermally isolated from the reservoir. A vapor conduit passes generally from the vaporizer through the housing to the mouthpiece. A metered rotation driven dispenser, coupled to the mouthpiece, applies a predetermined force upon the reservoir to dispense from the reservoir into the vaporizer a predetermined amount of liquid concentrate. |
| US12121064B2 |
Electronic atomization device and atomization assembly thereof, and manufacturing method of atomization assembly
Provided are an electronic atomization device and an atomization assembly thereof, and a manufacturing method of the atomization assembly. The atomization assembly includes a porous matrix and a heating body. The porous matrix includes an atomization face. The heating body includes a heating part and at least one fixing part connected to the heating part. The at least one fixing part is embedded in the porous matrix, such that the heating body is mounted on the porous ceramic matrix and the heating part is arranged to correspond to the atomization face. The beneficial effect is that mounting of the heating body is realized by having the fixing part embedded in the porous matrix to improve reliability of the atomization assembly. |
| US12121063B2 |
Aerosol generation device, and heating chamber therefor
A heating chamber for an aerosol generation device includes a chamber side wall and a chamber base. The chamber side wall and chamber base together define an interior volume of the heating chamber. A heater is provided in thermal engagement with the chamber side wall. An insulating member includes an insulating side wall and an insulating base, and is arranged so that a part of the heating chamber including the chamber base is nested inside the insulating member. There is also disclosed an aerosol generation device including an electrical power source, an outer casing, the heating chamber and control circuitry arranged to control the supply of electrical power from the electrical power source to the heater. |
| US12121061B2 |
Electronic cigarette and heating assembly thereof
The present invention relates to an electronic cigarette and a heating assembly thereof. The heating assembly comprise: a porous member for absorbing an e-liquid and at least one heating member for heating and atomizing the e-liquid absorbed by the porous member. The at least one heating member comprises an elongated sheet-shaped heating portion. At least part of the sheet-shaped heating portion is partially embedded in the porous member. The porous member comprises an atomization surface corresponding to the at least part of the sheet-shaped heating portion. In the present invention, a heating member of a heating assembly comprises a sheet-shaped heating portion embedded in a porous member, such that a majority of a surface of the sheet-shaped heating portion is in contact with the porous member, thereby improving heat dissipation efficiency, and ensuring secure connection. |
| US12121059B1 |
Vaporizer cartridge
A vaporizer cartridge includes: a body including a storage compartment configured to hold a vaporizable material, the body having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the body having a mouthpiece positioned at the first end and the second end being configured for insertion into a receptacle of the vaporizer device; a heating element configured to vaporize the vaporizable material; a vapor tube extending between the heating element and the mouthpiece; a seal insertable at the second end within the storage compartment of the body, the seal configured to retain the vaporizable material within the storage compartment and having interior surfaces inclined from a distal end of the seal toward the heating element for funneling the flow of the vaporizable material within the storage compartment towards the heating element. |
| US12121058B2 |
Vaporizer system
A vaporizer system has a cartridge section. The cartridge section has a cartridge connector connecting to a resistance heater formed as a coil, a resistance temperature detector, and a cartridge section cryptography chip. A battery section connects to the cartridge section at the cartridge connector. A battery is mounted within the battery section. The battery section further includes a microcontroller unit with a memory. The microcontroller unit is electrically connected to a resistance temperature detector converter. The resistance temperature detector converter is electrically connected to the resistance temperature detector when the battery section is connected to the cartridge section at the cartridge connector. A power board includes a coil power MOSFET. |
| US12121056B2 |
Hookah device
A hookah device (202) which attaches to a hookah (246). The hookah device (202) comprises a plurality of ultrasonic mist generator devices (201) for generating a mist for inhalation by a user. The hookah device (202) comprises a driver device (202) which controls the mist generator devices (201) to maximize the efficiency of mist generation by the mist generator devices (201) and optimize mist output from the hookah device (202). |
| US12121051B2 |
Method and system for optical analysis of a component of an aerosol generating article
The invention relates to a method for optical analysis of a component of an aerosol generating article, the method comprising: —providing a component of an aerosol generating article defining a first end and a second end, the component comprising: o an aerosol forming substrate; o a susceptor in thermal contact with the aerosol forming substrate; —providing a first polarized camera including a sensor to detect polarization information of electromagnetic radiation; —illuminating the component by electromagnetic radiation; —detecting transmitted, infected or refracted electromagnetic radiation from the component by the first polarized camera; —generating a first image of the first end of the component by the first polarized camera, the first image being formed by a plurality of pixels, each pixel of the plurality of pixels containing polarization information about the detected electromagnetic radiation; and—detecting in the first image a position of the susceptor. |
| US12121049B2 |
Electrostatic dispensing of an anti-microbial coating material
Methods and apparatus for electrostatic dispensing fluid onto food products are disclosed. An electrostatic dispense system includes a material supply, a voltage block, and a power supply to electrostatically charge a coating material. The electrostatic dispense system further includes a dispense assembly, a conveyor through or by which a food product is configured to be conveyed, and a support that supports at least one liquid outlet of the dispense assembly. The dispense assembly dispenses the electrostatically charged coating material from the at least one liquid outlet onto the food product. The voltage block provides electrical isolation, and includes a pump that pumps the electrostatically charged coating material to the dispense assembly. |
| US12121046B2 |
Systems and methods for deacidification of fluids
Provided herein are methods, systems, and computer-readable media for controlling a deacidification process for an aqueous fluid circulated through a deacidification column. A first pH value, indicative of a pH of the fluid before circulation through the column, is obtained from a first sensor located at an entry of the column. A second pH value, indicative of a pH of the fluid after circulation through the column, is obtained from a second sensor located at an exit of the column. The second pH value is compared to a target pH value for the fluid to determine a pH difference between the second pH value and the target pH value. Based on the first and second pH values, a deacidification capacity of the column is determined. A fluid flow rate of the fluid through the column is adjusted based on the pH difference and the deacidification capacity. |
| US12121042B2 |
Additive composition for ruminant feeds
Dispersion type feed additive compositions for ruminants, containing (A) at least one selected from hydrogenated vegetable oil and hydrogenated animal oil each having a melting point of higher than 50° C. and lower than 90° C., (B) not less than 0.01 wt % and not more than 6 wt % of a surfactant, (C) not less than 16 wt % and not more than 72 wt % of a biologically active substance (excluding L-lysine and a salt thereof), and (D) not less than 1 wt % and not more than 40 wt % of L-lysine or a salt thereof, contain a biologically active substance at a high concentration, show high protection in the rumen, and are also superior in dissolution in the intestinal tract. |
| US12121038B2 |
Method for producing a heat-treated concentrated dairy product
The present invention relates to a method (200) for producing a heat-treated concentrated dairy product (cdp). The method (200) comprising the steps of passing (210) the dairy product (dp) under a pre-determined pressure through a reverse osmosis, RO, filter (110) at a first temperature, the pre-determined pressure being sufficient to allow reverse osmosis, thereby concentrating the dairy product (dp). Preheating (230) the concentrated dairy product (dp) at a second temperature for a second period of time to stabilize the concentrated dairy product (dp). Homogenizing (240) the stabilized concentrated dairy product (dp) to reduce a size of particles in the stabilized concentrated dairy product (dp). Heating (250) the stabilized concentrated dairy product (dp) at a third temperature for a third period of time to reduce microorganisms in the stabilized concentrated dairy product (dp), thereby forming the heat-treated concentrated dairy product (cdp). |
| US12121033B2 |
Cutting machine and conveyor device
A cutting machine includes a cutting device and a co-operating conveyor device for conveying food products in a conveying direction. The conveyor device includes at least one conveyor unit having a conveyor belt which is guided by at least one deflection roll and which comes into contact with the food products in the contact area and having at least one guide means for guiding the conveyor belt. The at least one guide means has a first support portion for supporting the conveyor belt at a first height and a second support portion for supporting it at a second height, these heights being spaced apart in a direction extending perpendicularly to the conveying direction, and at least one recess arranged between the first height and the second height, in which the conveyor belt can give way at least partly due to contact with a food product. |
| US12121032B2 |
Plant growth promoter
The present invention is a plant growth promoter containing one or more seed shell components of plant selected from Palmae Elaeis, Leguminosae Faboideae, Juglandaceae, Rosaceae Prunus, and Oleeae. |
| US12121031B2 |
Magnetic biomass carbon-quaternary phosphonium salt sterilization material, preparation method therefor and usage thereof
The present invention provides a magnetic biochar-quaternary phosphonium salt bactericidal material, a preparation method therefor and usage thereof, and belongs to the field of water treatment. The preparation method comprises: 1) using corn straw biochar as a precursor to prepare magnetic biochar by a co-precipitation method; and 2) adding the magnetic biochar into deionized water, then adding a quaternary phosphonium salt, performing the magnetic stir at room temperature, raising the temperature after sufficient impregnation, carrying out a hydrothermal reaction, and then cooling to the room temperature to obtain the bactericidal material. The temperature is raised to 60° C.˜70° C. The recycling of the biochar material is effectively realized, the long-acting sterilization of the quaternary phosphonium salt bactericide and the magnetic recovery and recycling of the materials are realized, the residue of the bactericide is reduced, and a foundation is laid for the effective removal of microorganisms in wastewater. |
| US12121029B2 |
Antimicrobial products containing silver and copper particles
This invention relates to an antimicrobial product containing silver-copper particles and its preparation method. The product includes a substrate and positively charged silver particles with a particle size of 15 μm to 50 μm, and a positively charged copper particle with a particle size of 10 μm to 50 μm, wherein the copper particle size ratio to the silver particle is 0.8 to 1.2. The silver particle, the copper particle and the substrate are combined by means of semi-fused sintering, wherein the ratio of the silver particle to the copper particle is 40:60 to 95:5. The sum of the substrate, the silver particles and the total particles of the copper particles is less than or equal to 10%. |
| US12121025B2 |
Antimicrobial composition
Antimicrobial compositions and methods of use thereof are described. The antimicrobial compositions have an acid system, an anionic surfactant system and 2-phenoxyethanol and/or a fragrance. The acid system includes at least 30 wt % of octanoic acid and a secondary acid. The anionic surfactant system includes at least 60 wt % of octyl sulfate and a secondary surfactant having a moiety with a carbon chain length with at least ten carbon atoms. The antimicrobial composition has a pH of from about 1.5 to about 5 as measured at 20° C. |
| US12121023B1 |
System for hypothermic transport of samples
A system for the hypothermic transport of biological samples, such as tissues, organs, or body fluids. The system includes a self-purging preservation apparatus to suspend a sample in preservation fluid and perfuse a tissue with preservation fluid. The self-purging preservation apparatus is placed in an insulated transport container having a cooling medium. When assembled, the system allows for transport of biological samples for extended periods of time at a stable temperature. |
| US12121021B2 |
Decoy technology
A moving wing waterfowl or migratory bird decoy including a decoy body constructed of a predetermined material with exterior ornamentation to simulate a live waterfowl or migratory bird, the decoy body being arranged in a predetermined orientation to simulate a waterfowl or migratory bird, the decoy body having a top and a bottom. The decoy has at least one decoy wing connected to the decoy body, the decoy wing being constructed and arranged to simulate the wing of a waterfowl or migratory bird. The decoy body is constructed and arranged of a particular plastic material to hyper-realistically resemble a waterfowl or migratory bird. The control and power module is plug and play software controllable. The decoy is mountable on a male type member post via a female type receptacle on the decoy body. The decoy has a biased stabilizer cord that also mimics the legs of the waterfowl or migratory bird. |
| US12121018B2 |
Liquid lure dispenser
The herein described liquid lure dispenser is a closed chambered device, which is activated by the internal decrease in air pressure due to night-time cooling of ambient air. The enclosed reservoir is partially filled with a liquid. Expulsion of liquid and equalization of pressure within the device is controlled by two sensitive check valves. An upper check valve relieves excess air pressure as the ambient air warms during the day, which prevents fluid from being forced from the device due to increasing pressure build up. In the evening and night, when internal air pressure decreases in response to reduced ambient air temperature, the upper check valve closes. As internal air pressure begins to decrease, a lower check valve is biased to open. As internal pressure decreases, the lower check valve momentarily opens to equalize internal pressure. As the lower check valve opens, a small amount of liquid attractant is dispensed. When the internal pressure is equalized, the lower check valve closes. |
| US12121012B2 |
Fishing reel noisemaker
A baitcaster for retrieving a fishing line. The baitcaster includes a housing, a spool, and a noisemaker configured to alert a user in response to rotation of the spool. The spool is positioned at least partially within the housing, defines an inner volume, and includes a spindle. The noisemaker includes a sprocket having a plurality of teeth, a pawl positioned alongside the sprocket, and a set of arms abutting the pawl. The set of arms are positioned on opposite sides of the pawl. The pawl is positioned to engage with the plurality of teeth of the sprocket when the sprocket rotates. The noisemaker creates an audible alert when the pawl engages the plurality of teeth and thereafter disengages from the plurality of teeth of the sprocket. |
| US12121010B2 |
Animal feeders
Disclosed herein are devices and methods for livestock feeding and care. The livestock feeding devices include two horizontal bars adapted to be strung through a hay net, and further include at least two mounting brackets which each include a zigzag channel. One horizontal bar is fixed in place on the mounting brackets, and the other horizontal bar moves in and out of the zigzag channels of the mounting brackets. |
| US12121007B2 |
Method for determining biometric data relating to an animal based on image data
A method, device, and system for determining a body attribute of an animal may be provided. For example, a system may include a sensor configured to capture image data relating to the animal. One or more processors may be configured to receive the captured image data relating to the animal; identify portions relating to the animal depicted within the image data; input, into a machine learning model, the portions relating to the animal depicted within the image data; and determine, via the machine learning model, an ideal body weight (IBW), a body condition score (BCS) of the animal, a body fat index (BFI) of the animal, a weight or other attributes of the animal or part of the animal including height, width, length, depth, diameter, radius, circumference, and the like. |
| US12121005B2 |
Omnidirectional doorbell switch for pets
A swipe-activated self-canceling omnidirectional contact switch mechanism that provides felines and canines of any size, height, mass, or intrinsic pawing capabilities, with the means to send an electronically generated signal to their respective caretakers by applying, from any external direction, a natural non-linear swiping action of an arcing forepaw to an electrified outer semi-rigid, flexible, and hollow electrical conductor which, by being forced to come into contact with an axially aligned electrified inner electrical conductor, closes a previously open statically energized electrical circuit of an interconnected ancillary alerting system which actions culminate with the broadcast of an audible and/or visual alert. |
| US12121000B2 |
Soybean cultivar 13330102
A soybean cultivar designated 13330102 is disclosed. The invention relates to the seeds of soybean cultivar 13330102, to the plants of soybean cultivar 13330102, to the plant parts of soybean cultivar 13330102, and to methods for producing progeny of soybean cultivar 13330102. The invention also relates to methods for producing a soybean plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes and to the transgenic soybean plants and plant parts produced by those methods. The invention also relates to soybean cultivars or breeding cultivars, and plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 13330102. The invention also relates to methods for producing other soybean cultivars, lines, or plant parts derived from soybean cultivar 13330102, and to the soybean plants, varieties, and their parts derived from use of those methods. The invention further relates to hybrid soybean seeds, plants, and plant parts produced by crossing cultivar 13330102 with another soybean cultivar. |
| US12120998B2 |
Cannabis variety which produces greater than 50% female plants
According to the invention, there is provided a novel hemp Cannabis cultivar which produces a skewed ratio of female plants. This invention thus relates to the seeds of hemp Cannabis cultivar of the invention, to the plants of hemp Cannabis cultivar of the invention, to plant parts of hemp Cannabis cultivar of the invention, to methods for producing a Cannabis cultivar by crossing the hemp Cannabis cultivar of the invention with another Cannabis cultivar, and to methods for producing a Cannabis cultivar containing in its genetic material one or more backcross conversion traits or transgenes and to the backcross conversion Cannabis plants and plant parts produced by those methods. |
| US12120997B2 |
Purple baby broccoli
Purple baby broccoli plants and methods for producing purple baby broccoli plants are disclosed. The invention relates to the plants and seeds of purple baby broccoli and to methods for producing a Brassica oleracea plant having purple head and purple stems plant by crossing the purple baby broccoli with itself or another cultivar. The invention further relates to the parents of purple baby broccoli and for methods of producing purple baby broccoli. The invention also relates to methods for producing locus conversion plants of purple baby broccoli and its parent plants and to the plants produced by those methods. This invention also relates to Brassica oleracea cultivars or breeding cultivars and plant parts derived from purple baby broccoli, to methods for producing other Brassica oleracea cultivars, lines or plant parts derived from purple baby broccoli and to the Brassica oleracea plants, varieties, and their parts derived from the use of those methods. |
| US12120996B2 |
Induction method for improving yield and fertility of 2n pollen in Camellia oleifera
The present disclosure relates to an induction method for improving a yield and fertility of 2n pollen in Camellia oleifera, including: subjecting a flower branch of the Camellia oleifera to a high-temperature treatment when a style length L of the Camellia oleifera develops to 1.97 mm |
| US12120993B2 |
Reciprocating cutting blade apparatus
The reciprocating cutting blade apparatus includes: a pair of reciprocating cutting blades disposed to overlap one another in a thickness direction; a support member configured to reciprocably support the reciprocating cutting blades in a longitudinal direction; and an adjustment mechanism configured to adjust a gap between the reciprocating cutting blades on a lower surface side of the support member. The adjustment mechanism includes: a screw hole provided in the support member; an adjustment screw including an external thread configured to threadedly engage with the screw hole through long holes provided in the reciprocating cutting blades; and a nut configured to threadedly engage with the external thread protruding from an upper surface of the support member to fix the external thread to the support member. The external thread protruding from the upper surface of the support member includes an operated portion configured to be operated to turn the adjustment screw. |
| US12120991B2 |
Liquid flow controller for ancillary span zones
Aspects of the disclosure provide systems and methods for controlling the flow of water through zones of an ancillary span of an irrigation system to achieve optimal water distribution for each of a plurality of sections of a field-of-interest to be irrigated by the ancillary span. The disclosed systems and methods optimally turn control zones on and off to minimize the flow variability of water supplied to the ancillary span. The technology described herein runs a series of simulations to determine an optimal irrigation plan for the ancillary span. The instantaneous average flow at different points within a simulation may be calculated. The plurality of instantaneous average flows are used to determine a variance statistic for the plurality, which is used to determine the optimal plan. |
| US12120988B2 |
Plant cutting and clone-growth device and related methods
The present description relates to a plant cutting device for cutting or cloning a plant, and housing the plant for growth. The plant cutting device generally comprises two compartments that are operatively connected together and displaceable from an open position to a closed position defining an enclosure, a cutter mounted within at least one of the compartments and configured to cut a plant part when the first and second compartments are displaced to the closed position, a cut end of the plant part being accommodated within the enclosure; and a growth medium disposed in the first compartment and/or the second compartment for contacting the cut end of the plant part allowing for the growth of the plant. |
| US12120982B2 |
Electric work vehicle and mower unit
An electric work vehicle includes: a battery accommodating portion that is provided in the vehicle body and accommodates a battery; a first connector provided on the battery accommodating portion; a second connector provided on the battery; and an operating tool for moving the battery and the second connector, and switching from a pre-attachment orientation in which the second connector opposes the first connector to an attachment orientation in which the second connector is joined to the first connector. |
| US12120981B2 |
Reel assembly with removable tines and method of use
A reel assembly for a harvester head of an agricultural machine includes a carrier bar, standard tines coupled to the carrier bar, and gap tines removably coupled to the carrier bar and such that the gap tines do not penetrate an outer surface of the carrier bar. The gap tines contact the standard tines to prevent rotation of the gap tines relative to the carrier bar during operation of the work machine. |
| US12120980B1 |
Fruit picker
A two-piece fruit picker which includes a first basket portion and a second basket portion. The first and second basket portions may be selectively connected together to form the fruit picker. The second basket portion may be positioned in the first basket portion in a nested relationship for shipment, storage, transportation, or retailing purposes. |
| US12120979B2 |
Full-hydraulic chain reversing and remote control water-power harvesting equipment for lotus roots
A full-hydraulic chain reversing and remote control water-power harvesting equipment for lotus roots includes a main framework, a traveling module, an elevating module, and a working module. The main framework is of a two-cross-beam structure; the working module is of a skid-mounted structure; the working module is in transmission connection with the traveling module through the elevating module and is fixedly mounted on a top surface of the main framework; the traveling module includes caterpillar bands and a two-hydraulic-motor group; the two-hydraulic-motor group is in transmission connection with the caterpillar bands; the caterpillar bands and the two-hydraulic-motor group are fixedly mounted on a bottom cross beam of the main framework; and the working module includes a power driving module, a jet working module, a water suction pipeline module and a hydraulic power module. |
| US12120978B2 |
Wheel for lawn mower robot and lawn mower robot including the same
A wheel for a lawn mower robot includes a structure in which grass seeds can be discharged during a rotation of the wheel. Accordingly, grass seeds are shown as the lawn mower robot travels while performing a lawn mowing task. Therefore, a task of mowing the lawn and a task of sowing seeds can be performed in a unified manner. Thus, the lawn can be managed more efficiently. |
| US12120975B2 |
Method for determining setting recommendations
A method for determining setting recommendations for an agricultural spreader includes the steps of: determining an uneven spreading-material distribution in a usable agricultural area or an uneven nutritional status of plants in the usable agricultural area, determining an ideal balancing distribution of spreading material that balances out unevenness of the determined spreading-material distribution in the usable agricultural area or unevenness of the determined nutritional status of the plants in the usable agricultural area, and determining setting recommendations for the agricultural spreader for implementing a balancing distribution of the spreading material, wherein the balancing distribution approximates the ideal balancing distribution. |
| US12120974B2 |
Spread control mechanism
A broadcast spreader and methods of using the same. One method includes dispersing particulate material using a broadcast spreader having a hopper and an impeller by placing the spreader in a first configuration where a first set of through openings proximate a bottom portion of the hopper permit the particulate material to pass therethrough and fall onto the impeller to thereby be distributed in a first spread pattern, and shifting the spreader into a second configuration where a second set of through openings proximate the bottom portion of the hopper permit the particulate material to pass therethrough and fall onto the impeller to thereby be distributed in a second spread pattern. The first set of through openings includes a different number of through openings than the second set of through openings, and the first spread pattern is different than the second spread pattern. |
| US12120972B2 |
Agricultural machine control using work quality based on in situ operation sensing
A method of controlling a mobile agricultural machine that includes performing an agricultural operation during a given pass in a field using a first set of machine settings, obtaining in situ data representing the agricultural operation during the given pass, generating a performance metric based on the in situ data, identifying a second set of machine settings based on the performance metric, and outputting a control instruction that controls the mobile agricultural machine during a subsequent pass in the field based on the second set of machine settings. |
| US12127490B2 |
Gunn diode and method of manufacturing the same
A Gunn diode is disclosed which comprises a first contact layer, a second contact layer, and an active layer based on a gallium nitride (GaN) semiconductor material having a base surface and a side surface non-parallel thereto. Optionally, related materials such as aluminum indium gallium nitride (AlInGaN) materials may also be used as the active layer. The first contact layer electrically contacts the side surface to form a side contact. The second contact layer forms an electrical contact for the base surface, so that a maximum of the electric field strength is formed when an electric voltage is applied between the first contact layer and the second contact layer at the side contact. |
| US12127487B2 |
Low current RRAM-based crossbar array circuits implemented with interface engineering technologies
The present disclosure provides an apparatus, including: a substrate; a bottom electrode formed on the substrate; a first base oxide layer formed on the bottom electrode; a first geometric confining layer formed on the first base oxide layer, wherein the first geometric confining layer comprises a first plurality of pin-holes; a second base oxide layer formed on the first geometric confining layer and connected to a first top surface of the first base oxide layer via the first plurality of pin-holes; and a top electrode formed on the second base oxide layer. The first base oxide layer includes TaOx, HfOx, TiOx, ZrOx, or a combination thereof. The first geometric confining layer comprises Al2O3, SiO2, Si3N4, Y2O3, Gd2O3, Sm2O3, CeO2, Er2O3, or a combination thereof. |
| US12127485B2 |
Switching element and method for manufacturing same
A switching element that has reduced switching voltage and leakage current and that demonstrates high reliability and low power consumption is achieved as a result of comprising: a first insulation layer in which first wiring mainly consisting of copper is embedded in a first wiring groove that opens upward; a second insulation layer which is formed on an upper surface of the first insulation layer and the first wiring and has an opening that reaches the first insulation layer and the first wiring; a first electrode which is the portion of the first wiring that is exposed from the opening; an oxygen supply layer which is formed on an upper surface of the second insulation layer, generates oxygen plasma during etching to form the opening in the second insulation layer, and remains at least in the vicinity of the opening of the upper surface of the second insulation layer; an ion conducting layer which is formed on the upper surface of the first insulation layer and the first electrode that are exposed from the opening, an inner surface of the opening of the second insulation layer, and an upper surface of the oxygen supply layer; and a second electrode that is formed on an upper surface of the ion conducting layer. |
| US12127480B2 |
On-substrate mechanical stress sensing and compensation
In described examples, a circuit includes an analog frontend arranged to generate an analog stress compensating signal in response to a to-be-compensated analog signal and a first-axis stress sensing signal. The analog frontend can comprise a first precision component (e.g., 220) arranged on a piezoelectric material and arranged to generate the to-be-compensated analog signal that is affected by a stress exerted in the piezoelectric material and a directional stress sensor arranged on the piezoelectric material and coupled to the first precision component. The directional stress sensor is arranged to generate the first-axis sensing signal in response to a longitudinal resultant of a stress exerted in the piezoelectric material. A compensating circuit is arranged to generate a compensated output signal in response to the compensating analog signal and to-be-compensated analog signal. |
| US12127479B2 |
Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, electronic device, lighting device, and organic compound
To provide a light-emitting element with an improved reliability, a light-emitting element with a high current efficiency (or a high quantum efficiency), and a novel dibenzo[f,h]quinoxaline derivative that is favorably used in a light-emitting element which is one embodiment of the present invention. A light-emitting element includes an EL layer between an anode and a cathode. The EL layer includes a light-emitting layer; the light-emitting layer contains a first organic compound having an electron-transport property and a hole-transport property, a second organic compound having a hole-transport property, and a light-emitting substance; the combination of the first organic compound and the second organic compound forms an exciplex; the HOMO level of the first organic compound is lower than the HOMO level of the second organic compound; and a difference between the HOMO level of the first organic compound and the HOMO level of the second organic compound is less than or equal to 0.4 eV. |
| US12127476B2 |
Compound for organic electronic element, organic electronic element using the same, and an electronic device thereof
Provided is the compound represented by Formula 1, an organic electric element including a first electrode, a second electrode, and an organic material layer formed between the first electrode and the second electrode, and electronic device thereof, and by including the compound represented by Formula 1 and compound represented by Formula 2 in the organic material layer, the driving voltage of the organic electric element can be lowered, and the luminous efficiency and life time of the organic electric element can be improved. |
| US12127475B2 |
Light-emitting device including condensed cyclic compound and electronic apparatus including the light-emitting device
Provided are a light-emitting device including a condensed cyclic compound represented by Formula 1, and an electronic apparatus including the light-emitting device. The light-emitting device includes: a first electrode; a second electrode facing the first electrode; and an interlayer between the first electrode and the second electrode and comprising an emission layer, wherein the light-emitting device further comprises a second capping layer outside the second electrode, the second capping layer having a refractive index of equal to or greater than 1.6, and the emission layer comprises at least one condensed cyclic compound represented by Formula 1. |
| US12127474B2 |
Compound for organic optoelectronic device, composition for organic optoelectronic device, organic optoelectronic device, and display device
The present invention is related to a first compound for an organic optoelectronic device represented by Chemical Formula 1, a composition for an organic optoelectronic device including the same, an organic optoelectronic device, and a display device.In Chemical Formula 1, definitions of each substituent are the same as defined in the specification. |
| US12127471B2 |
Light-emitting element, light-emitting device, electronic appliance, and lighting device
A light-emitting element which includes a plurality of light-emitting layers between a pair of electrodes and has low driving voltage and high emission efficiency is provided. A light-emitting element including first to third light-emitting layers between a cathode and an anode is provided. The first light-emitting layer includes a first phosphorescent material and a first electron-transport material; the second light-emitting layer includes a second phosphorescent material and a second electron-transport material; the third light-emitting layer includes a fluorescent material and a third electron-transport material; the first to third light-emitting elements are provided in contact with an electron-transport layer positioned on a cathode side; and a triplet excitation energy level of a material included in the electron-transport layer is lower than triplet excitation energy levels of the first electron-transport material and the second electron-transport material. |
| US12127465B2 |
Systems, methods, and structures for OLED substrates
Systems, methods, and structures for improving the performance of thin-film electronic devices, in particular organic LEDs (OLEDs) used in lighting, are disclosed. Enhanced substrates, upon which OLED devices may be deposited, incorporate various structures for extracting light trapped in the device stack and substrate. The substrates provide an improved transparent electrode layer. Methods for forming planarized buried extraction structures to reduce disruption to the deposited device stack layers are disclosed, as are methods for providing smooth, planarized buried metal mesh conductors. |
| US12127464B2 |
Preparation methods of quantum dot light emitting device and quantum dot display panel using stacked sacrificial layer and photoresist layer
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a quantum dot light emitting device, a preparation method thereof and a quantum dot display panel, the method includes: forming a first function layer; forming a first sacrificial layer and a first photoresist layer; patterning the first photoresist layer; patterning the first sacrificial layer, the first function layer includes a first part and a second part, and the first sacrificial layer pattern and the first photoresist pattern are stacked on the first part, the second part is exposed by the first sacrificial layer pattern and the first photoresist pattern; forming a first quantum dot material layer; stripping the first sacrificial layer pattern to remove the first sacrificial layer pattern, the first photoresist pattern and the first quantum dot material layer on the first sacrificial layer pattern, retaining the first quantum dot material layer on the second part of the first function layer. |
| US12127462B2 |
Display device including electrically connected sensor electrode and oxide conductive layer
The display device includes a substrate, a display region arranged on the substrate and including a plurality of pixels, a first wiring provided on the substrate, an insulating layer overlapping a portion of the first wiring, an oxide conductive layer provided on the first wiring and electrically connected to the first wiring, a sealing layer overlapping the display region and at least an end of the oxide conductive layer and sealing the plurality of pixels, a sensor electrode provided on the sealing layer and overlapping the display region, and a second wiring passing over the at least end of the oxide conductive layer provided with the sealing layer and electrically connecting the sensor electrode and the oxide conductive layer. |
| US12127457B2 |
Display substrate and display apparatus
A display substrate includes a base substrate, a first light-shielding layer, a plurality of first sub-pixels and a first power line. The first light-shielding layer is disposed on a side of the base substrate, the first light-shielding layer is located at least in a first display area, and has a plurality of openings arranged in an array. The first sub-pixels are disposed at a side of the first light-shielding layer away from the base substrate and are located in the first display area, and orthogonal projections of the first sub-pixels on the base substrate are non-overlapping with orthogonal projections of the openings on the base substrate. The first power line includes a first power bus and a plurality of first power sub-lines, and the first light-shielding layer is electrically connected to the first power line. |
| US12127456B2 |
Display device having a plurality of connecting lines
A display device having a plurality of pixel structures, each of the plurality of the pixel structures including: a substrate; a first active pattern on the substrate; a first gate line on the first active pattern and extending in a first direction; a first connecting pattern on the first gate line and configured to transmit an initialization voltage; a second connecting pattern on the first connecting pattern and electrically connected to the first active pattern and the first connecting pattern; and a first electrode on the second connecting pattern and configured to be initialized in response to the initialization voltage. |
| US12127454B2 |
Display substrate including common initialization voltage signal line, display panel, and display apparatus
A display substrate includes: a base substrate, a plurality of pixel units and a plurality of initialization voltage signal lines. The pixel units are arranged in an array to form a plurality of rows of pixel units and a plurality of columns of pixel units, at least one pixel unit includes sub-pixels, and at least one sub-pixel includes a light-emitting element and a pixel driving circuit. The initialization voltage signal lines are configured to provide initialization voltage signals to the plurality of rows of pixel units respectively, and are arranged at intervals along a second direction. At least one initialization voltage signal line extends along a first direction. The plurality of rows of pixel units include a (2n−1)th row and a 2nth row and pixel driving circuits of the (2n−1)th row and pixel driving circuits of the 2nth rows share a common initialization voltage signal line. |
| US12127449B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: a substrate that includes an island portion, a first connector that extends in a first direction from the island portion and a second connector that extends from the island portion in a second direction that crosses the first direction; a display unit disposed on the island portion and that includes at least one thin film transistor and at least one display element connected to the at least one thin film transistor; and connecting wires disposed on the first connector and the second connector and connected to the display unit, wherein at least one of the connecting wires is disposed on a same layer as a semiconductor layer of the at least one thin film transistor. |
| US12127447B2 |
Display substrate and preparation method thereof, and display apparatus
A display substrate is provided, which includes a base substrate and a plurality of sub-pixels disposed on the base substrate. At least one sub-pixel includes a light transmittance region and a display region. The display region includes a circuit structure layer and a light-emitting element which are disposed on a base substrate, and the light-emitting element is connected with the circuit structure layer. The display substrate further includes a plurality of insulating layers disposed on the base substrate, and at least one insulating layer is hollowed out in the light transmittance region. |
| US12127445B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes: a substrate; a first semiconductor layer on the substrate, and including a silicon semiconductor; a second semiconductor layer on the first semiconductor layer, and including an oxide semiconductor; a first conductive layer on the second semiconductor layer; at least one metal layer between the first semiconductor layer and the first conductive layer; and a first contact hole to electrically connect the first semiconductor layer to the first conductive layer. An inner surface of the first contact hole includes a side surface of the at least one metal layer. |
| US12127440B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: a substrate comprising a display region including main pixels, and a sensor region including auxiliary pixels and transmission areas; first anodes arranged so as to correspond to the main pixels; first pixel defining layers for defining openings which partially expose the first anodes; spacers provided on the first pixel defining layers and protruding in the thickness direction; second anodes arranged so as to correspond to the auxiliary pixels; and second pixel defining layers for defining openings which partially expose the second anodes. The spacers and the second pixel defining layers are simultaneously formed of the same material. |
| US12127437B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: a substrate; a first bank including a first sub-bank and a second sub-bank spaced apart from each other on the substrate; a first electrode on the first sub-bank; a second electrode on the second sub-bank and spaced apart from the first electrode; and a light-emitting element between the first sub-bank and the second sub-bank. Each of the first and second sub-banks has a first area having a concave curved shape in a cross section and being adjacent to the light-emitting element. The first electrode has a first section extending beyond the first sub-bank toward the light-emitting element, the second electrode has a first section extending beyond the second sub-bank toward the light-emitting element, and a width of the first section of the first electrode is different from a width of the first section of the second electrode. |
| US12127435B2 |
Display device having insulating layer containing fluorine
A display device includes: a substrate; and a semiconductor layer disposed on the substrate, and including a first area, a second area, and a third area that are sequentially positioned by dividing the semiconductor layer into three areas in a thickness direction of the semiconductor layer, wherein the semiconductor layer includes polycrystalline silicon, a concentration of fluorine contained in the semiconductor layer has a first peak value in the first area and a second peak value in the third area, and the first peak value of the concentration of the fluorine in the semiconductor layer is about 30% or less of the second peak value of the concentration of the fluorine in the semiconductor layer. |
| US12127433B2 |
Display device and driving method thereof
A display device includes: a substrate; and a transistor on the substrate. The transistor includes: a semiconductor layer; a gate electrode overlapping with the semiconductor layer; a first gate contact overlapping layer overlapping with a channel region, and in contact with the gate electrode, the channel region being a region where the gate electrode and the semiconductor layer are overlapped with each other; and a semiconductor contact overlapping layer overlapping with the channel region, and in contact with the semiconductor layer. The first gate contact overlapping layer and the semiconductor contact overlapping layer are spaced apart from each other by a gap within the channel region. |
| US12127432B2 |
Display panel and display apparatus
The present application discloses a display panel and a display apparatus, where the display panel has a first display area and a second display area, and a boundary is provided between the first display area and the second display area, and the display panel comprises: a pixel unit layer comprising a first pixel group positioned in a first display area, a second pixel group positioned in a second display area and a third pixel group positioned in at least one of the first display area and the second display area and adjacent to a boundary, wherein the first pixel group comprises a plurality of first pixel units, and the first pixel unit comprises a first sub-pixel and a first virtual sub-pixel; the third pixel group comprises two third pixel units which correspond to one first pixel unit. |
| US12127430B2 |
Micro-OLED display module thermal management
A device includes a micro-organic light emitting diode (μ-OLED) display panel and an electronic component. An electrical connector electrically couples the μ-OLED display panel and the electronic component. A standoff is disposed between the electronic component and the μ-OLED display panel. The standoff physically couples the electronic component and the μ-OLED display panel with a gap therebetween. The gap thermally decouples the electronic component from the μ-OLED display panel. A U-shaped heat sink can be disposed in the standoff, and heat generated by the μ-OLED display can be mitigated by a system fan when a U-shaped heat sink is disposed in the standoff. |
| US12127429B2 |
Display panel, manufacturing method thereof and display apparatus
Provided is a display panel, including: a base substrate, a light emitting device layer provided on the base substrate and including light emitting devices, and a light adjustment structure layer provided at a side of the light emitting device layer facing away from the base substrate and including light adjustment units and a dielectric layer covering the light adjustment units. Each light adjustment unit has a smaller refractive index than the dielectric layer and includes a light adjustment sub-section and a through hole penetrating the light adjustment unit in a direction perpendicular to the base substrate. The through hole overlaps one light emitting device, and the light adjustment sub-section surrounds the through hole. For one light adjustment unit, a thickness of the light adjustment sub-section gradually increases in a direction from the through hole to the light adjustment sub-section. |
| US12127428B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: a substrate; a first electrode on the substrate; a bank layer on the first electrode; an organic light-emitting layer on the first electrode; a second electrode on the organic light-emitting layer and the bank layer; a high-refractive lens on the second electrode and having a refractive index higher than a refractive index of a material that overlaps the first electrode and contacts a side surface of the high-refractive lens; a display panel including an encapsulation member that is on the high-refractive lens; and an optical path adjustment film on the display panel. The optical path adjustment film includes a plurality of protruding patterns on the encapsulation member and a cover layer in spaces between adjacent protruding patterns from among the plurality of protruding patterns. A refractive index of each of the protruding patterns is smaller than a refractive index of the cover layer. |
| US12127427B2 |
Display device having a thin film glass layer
Provided is a display device. The display device includes a flexible display panel configured to display an image, and a window disposed on a display surface of the flexible display panel. The window includes a first protection layer, a thin film glass layer disposed on the first protection layer, and a second protective layer disposed on the thin film glass layer. |
| US12127425B2 |
Display apparatus
A display apparatus includes: a substrate; a display unit disposed on the substrate; a barrier unit disposed between the substrate and the display unit; and a buffer unit disposed between the barrier unit and the display unit, wherein a sum of a thickness of the barrier unit and a thickness of the buffer unit is in the range from 0.9 μm to 3 μm. |
| US12127423B2 |
Flexible display apparatus
A flexible display apparatus includes a substrate, a thin film encapsulation layer, a plurality of spacers, and at least one layer of a blocking dam in the non-display region. The substrate includes a display region having a plurality of pixels and a non-display region adjacent to the display region. The thin film encapsulation layer is over the substrate. The spacers are between the substrate and the thin film encapsulation layer and are arranged around a pixel region. A different arrangement of spacers are in a center region and an edge region of the display region. The different arrangement may correspond to at least one of a size and a number of the spacers. |
| US12127422B2 |
Display panel, packaging device, packaging method and display device
The present disclosure provides a display panel, a packaging device and a packaging method, relates to the field of display panel technology, solves the problem that the sealing effect of the display panel is poor. The display panel of the present disclosure includes: a panel body; a packaging layer located on a surface of the panel body; a cover plate located on a surface of the packaging layer away from the panel body, where the packaging layer includes a packaging adhesive layer and hydrophobic fibers, the packaging adhesive layer packages the panel body and the cover plate, and the hydrophobic fibers are located on peripheral sides of the packaging adhesive layer. The present disclosure is mainly used for packaging a display panel. |
| US12127421B2 |
Formation of a two-layer via structure to mitigate damage to a display device
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to a display device. The display device includes an isolation structure disposed over a reflector electrode, an additional electrode disposed over the isolation structure, and an optical emitter structure disposed over the additional electrode. A via structure includes a lower horizontal segment disposed on the reflector electrode, a vertical segment extending along a sidewall of the isolation structure, and an upper horizontal segment disposed over the isolation structure. The upper horizontal segment is connected to the lower horizontal segment by the vertical segment. |
| US12127420B2 |
Display device, method for manufacturing display device, and electronic apparatus
A display device includes: first electrodes formed to be arranged in a two-dimensional matrix on a substrate; a partition wall part provided between the first electrodes adjacent to each other and having a cross-sectional shape whose width decreases as it moves away from the substrate; an organic layer formed on an entire surface including surfaces of the first electrodes and the partition wall parts and formed by laminating a plurality of material layers; and a second electrode formed on an entire surface including a surface of the organic layer, in which among the plurality of material layers constituting the organic layer, a material layer arranged closest to the second electrode side is formed such that a resistance of a portion located on a slope of the partition wall part is higher than a resistance of a portion located on the first electrode. |
| US12127418B2 |
Light-emitting device with color conversion layers
A light-emitting device, an electronic device, and a display device each consume less power are provided. The light-emitting device includes a first light-emitting element, a second light-emitting element, and a third light-emitting element that share an EL layer. The EL layer includes a layer containing a light-emitting material that emits blue fluorescence and a layer containing a light-emitting material that emits yellow or green phosphorescence. Light emitted from the second light-emitting element enters a color filter layer or a second color conversion layer, and light emitted from the third light-emitting element enters a first color conversion layer. |
| US12127417B2 |
Sensor device
According to one embodiment, a sensor device includes an insulating base including a meandering strip-shaped portion and an island-shaped portion, a first inorganic insulating film on the island-shaped portion, a first wiring layer on the first inorganic insulating film, a second inorganic insulating film on the first wiring layer, a second wiring layer on the second inorganic insulating film, an organic insulating film on the second wiring layer, a barrier film covering the organic insulating film, a sensor element on the barrier film, and a sealing film covering the sensor element. The barrier film covers side surfaces of the organic insulating film, and the sealing film is in contact with the barrier film and the second inorganic insulating film. |
| US12127415B2 |
Manufacturing method for capacitor structure, capacitor structure and memory
A capacitor structure includes two electrodes arranged oppositely and a dielectric layer located between the two electrodes, wherein the dielectric layer includes at least two perovskite layers stacked; an amorphous layer is provided between every two adjacent perovskite layers; two outermost perovskite layers of the at least two perovskite layers are in contact with the two electrodes, respectively. |
| US12127411B2 |
Cocktail layer over gate dielectric layer of FET FeRAM
In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip that includes a gate electrode arranged over a substrate. A gate dielectric layer is arranged over the gate electrode, and an active structure is arranged over the gate dielectric layer. A source contact and a drain contact are arranged over the active structure. The active structure includes a stack of cocktail layers alternating with first active layers. The cocktail layers include a mixture of a first material and a second material. The first active layers include a third material that is different than the first and second materials. The bottommost layer of the active structure is one of the cocktail layers. |
| US12127409B2 |
Memory device and method for fabricating the memory device
Disclosed is a memory device and a method for fabricating the same, and the method may include forming an alternating stack in which dielectric layers and sacrificial layers are alternately stacked over a substrate, each of the sacrificial layers being a combination of porous and non-porous materials, forming a vertical opening penetrating the alternating stack, converting exposed surfaces of the sacrificial layers located on a side wall of the vertical opening into blocking layers through an oxidation process, forming a vertical channel structure contacting the blocking layers in the vertical opening, and replacing non-converting portions of the sacrificial layers with conductive layers, wherein each of the conductive layers comprises a round-like edge contacting each of the blocking layers. |
| US12127407B2 |
Memory device
According to one embodiment, a memory device includes: first and second memory areas each including conductive layers stacked in a first direction; a hookup portion between first and second memory areas in a second direction, the hookup portion including terraces; and interconnects provided in correspondence with the terraces above the hookup portion. First to fourth sub-staircases of the hookup portion are arranged in order of the first sub-staircase, the second sub-staircase, the third sub-staircase and the fourth sub-staircase in a direction from the first memory area toward the second memory area, and the first to fourth sub-staircases are arranged in order of the first sub-staircase, the second sub-staircase, the fourth sub-staircase and the third sub-staircase in a direction from the interconnects toward the terraces. |
| US12127405B2 |
3D and flash memory device having metal silicide source/drain pillars and method of fabricating the same
A three-dimensional AND flash memory device includes a stack structure, a channel pillar, a first conductive pillar and a second conductive pillar, and a charge storage structure. The stack structure is located on a dielectric substrate and includes gate layers and insulating layers alternately stacked with each other. The channel pillar extends through the stack structure. The first conductive pillar and the second conductive pillar are located in and electrically connected with the channel pillar. The first conductive pillar includes a first metal silicide pillar, and the second conductive pillar includes a second metal silicide pillar. The charge storage structure is located between the gate layers and the channel pillar. |
| US12127404B2 |
Semiconductor storage device with wall protions for isolatioing blocks
According to one embodiment, a semiconductor storage device includes a first stacked body, plate-shaped portions, and a wall portion. The first stacked body, in which electrically conductive layers and first insulating layers are stacked alternately one by one, includes pillar bodies that penetrate the electrically conductive layers in a stacking direction of the electrically conductive layers. The plate-shaped portions extend in a first direction intersecting the stacking direction and divide the first stacked body into blocks. The wall portion includes first and second portions. The first and second portions respectively extend in a second direction intersecting the first direction and the stacking direction and are arranged in the stacking direction. The second portion includes an outer edge connected to a side surface of the first portion and inclined with respect to the staking direction at an angle larger than an angle defined by the side surface and the stacking direction. |
| US12127401B2 |
Methods of forming microelectronic devices
A microelectronic device comprises a stack structure comprising blocks separated from one another by dielectric slot structures. At least one of the blocks comprises two crest regions, a stadium structure interposed between the two crest regions in a first horizontal direction, and two bridge regions neighboring opposing sides of the stadium structure in a second horizontal direction. A filled trench vertically overlies and is within horizontal boundaries of the stadium structure of the at least one of the blocks. The filled trench comprises a dielectric liner material on the opposing staircase structures of the stadium structure and on inner sidewalls of the two bridge regions, and dielectric structures on and having a different material composition than the dielectric liner material. The dielectric structures are substantially confined within horizontal areas of the steps of the stadium structure. Memory devices, electronic systems, and methods of forming microelectronic devices are also described. |
| US12127399B2 |
Array boundary structure to reduce dishing
A semiconductor structure including a semiconductor substrate and at least one patterned dielectric layer is provided. The semiconductor substrate includes a semiconductor portion, at least one first device, at least one second device and at least one first dummy ring. The at least one first device is disposed on a first region surrounded by the semiconductor portion. The at least one second device and the at least one first dummy ring are disposed on a second region, and the second region surrounds the first region. The at least one patterned dielectric layer covers the semiconductor substrate. |
| US12127398B2 |
Method for manufacturing memory using pseudo bit line structures and sacrificial layers
A method for manufacturing a memory includes the following steps. A substrate and bit line contact layers are provided. Pseudo bit line structures are formed at tops of the bit line contact layers. Sacrificial layers filling regions between adjacent bit line structures are formed, and the sacrificial layers are located on side walls of the pseudo bit line structures and side walls of the bit line contact layers. After forming the sacrificial layers, the pseudo bit line structures are removed to form through holes exposing the bit line contact layers. Bit line conductive parts filling the through holes and covering the bit line contact layers are formed. |
| US12127395B2 |
Semiconductor structure and semiconductor structure manufacturing method
Embodiments of the present application provide a semiconductor structure and a semiconductor structure manufacturing method. The semiconductor structure includes: a wordline; and a first bitline and a second bitline located on two sides of the wordline and a first memory structure and a second memory structure located on the two sides of the wordline. The first bitline and the second bitline are connected to the first memory structure and the second memory structure respectively through a transistor. An extension direction of the first bitline is perpendicular to an extension direction of the wordline. |
| US12127392B2 |
Semiconductor device
A method of fabricating the semiconductor device includes forming a bit line structure over a substrate, forming a spacer structure on a sidewall of the bit line structure, partially removing an upper portion of the spacer structure to form a slope on the spacer structure slanting to the bit line structure, forming a landing pad material to cover the spacer structure and contact the slope, and removing at least a portion of the landing pad material to form a landing pad against the slope. |
| US12127391B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
A semiconductor memory device includes: a first wiring; a first semiconductor layer connected to the first wiring, the first semiconductor layer; a first electrode, the first electrode being connected to the first semiconductor layer; a second electrode disposed between the first electrode and the first wiring, the second electrode being opposed to the first semiconductor layer; a third electrode disposed between the second electrode and the first wiring, the third electrode; a second semiconductor layer disposed between the third electrode and the first semiconductor layer, the second semiconductor layer being opposed to the third electrode; and an electric charge accumulating layer electrically connected to the first wiring via the second semiconductor layer, the electric charge accumulating layer being opposed to the first semiconductor layer. |
| US12127389B2 |
Semiconductor structure and manufacturing method thereof
A semiconductor structure manufacturing method includes: providing a substrate, the substrate having a plurality of discrete bit lines, and a capacitor contact hole being provided between adjacent bit lines; forming a fill film, the fill film being provided with a gap region; etching the fill film by using a first etch process to open the gap region, the remaining fill film acting as a first fill layer; sequentially stacking at least two base fill layers on a surface of the first fill layer, the base fill layer farthest from the substrate filling the remaining capacitor contact hole; decreasing a doping concentration of the base fill layer, layer by layer and etching the first fill layer and at least part of the base fill layers by using a second etch. |
| US12127388B2 |
Semiconductor storage device
Transistors N1, N5 corresponding to a drive transistor PD1 are formed in a cell lower part and a cell upper part, respectively, and transistors N2, N6 corresponding to a drive transistor PD2 are formed in the cell lower part and the cell upper part, respectively. A transistor P1 corresponding to a load transistor PU2 is formed in the cell lower part, and a transistor P2 corresponding to a load transistor PU1 is formed in the cell upper part. |
| US12127380B2 |
Active/passive cooling system
A cooling assembly includes an evaporator containing a primary cooling medium, a passive condenser, and a heat exchanger. When a secondary cooling medium is provided to the heat exchanger, the primary cooling medium in the gas phase switches from being received by the passive condenser to the heat exchanger without operating any valves located between the evaporator and the passive condenser and between the evaporator and the heat exchanger. The primary cooling medium circulates between the evaporator and the passive condenser and between the evaporator and the heat exchanger by natural circulation and gravity without a pump in the flow path of the primary cooling medium between the heat exchanger and the evaporator and between the passive condenser and the evaporator to circulate the primary cooling medium. |
| US12127379B2 |
Rack assembly for vertical airflow cooled devices
An assembly includes a lower sub-assembly containing a first fan, a middle sub-assembly supported above the lower sub-assembly, a bottom air flow control plane supported in the middle sub-assembly and having openings sized to fit multiple computers having vertical cooling air paths, and a top air flow control plane supported in the middle sub-assembly above the bottom air flow control plane and having openings sized to fit the multiple computers such that air is forced through the vertical cooling air paths. |
| US12127376B2 |
Heat sink, board, electronic device, and manufacturing method
A heat sink includes a heat sink fin (HSF), a first heat sink plate (HSP), and a second HSP that is opposite to the first HSP. The HSF is located on the first HSP. The second HSP is flexible. Further, an elastic component is disposed between the first HSP and the second HSP. The second HSP is in contact with a heat source component (HSC). Thus, when the heat sink is placed on the HSC, the second HSP contacts the HSC, the second HSP is deformed because the heat sink and the HSC are pressed against each other, and the elastic component between the first HSP and the second HSP is compressed such that heat generated by the HSC is transferred to the heat sink. |
| US12127370B2 |
Electronic equipment chassis with hybrid cooling compartments
An electronic equipment chassis comprises a chassis housing and two or more cooling compartments in the chassis housing. At least a first one of the two or more cooling compartments in the chassis housing utilizes a first type of cooling for a first set of electronic equipment housed therein, and at least a second one of the two or more cooling compartments in the chassis housing utilizes a second type of cooling for a second set of electronic equipment housed therein. The first type of cooling comprises liquid immersion cooling and the second type of cooling comprises non-liquid immersion cooling. |
| US12127367B2 |
Composite cooling system and data center
This application provides a composite cooling system. The composite cooling system includes an indoor air duct and an outdoor air duct that are independent of each other. The indoor air duct and the outdoor air duct intersect in a heat exchange area of the composite cooling system. A first-stage heat exchanger core, a second-stage heat exchanger core, and a first side air duct are disposed in the heat exchange area. The heat exchange area is constructed as a part of the outdoor air duct. The first-stage heat exchanger core, the first side air duct, and the second-stage heat exchanger core are sequentially arranged along a flow direction of the outdoor air duct. An inner cavity of the first-stage heat exchanger core and an inner cavity of the second-stage heat exchanger core each are further constructed as a part of the indoor air duct. |
| US12127365B1 |
Multi-position PDU mounting bracket
An apparatus is provided for connecting a power distribution unit (PDU) to a rack where the apparatus allows for re-positioning the PDU between a deployed position for normal use and a retracted position for shipping. The re-positioning may be accomplished without disconnecting the PDU from the rack, or from a power supply. The apparatus includes three hinged elements that are rotatable with respect to each other to attain the deployed or retracted position. |
| US12127363B2 |
Compression mounted technology (CMT) socket retention mechanisms to board or interposer
Embodiments disclosed herein include sockets and electronic packages with socket architectures. In an embodiment, a socket comprises a housing with a first surface and a second surface. In an embodiment, a plurality of interconnect pins pass through the housing. In an embodiment, an alignment hole is provided through the housing. In an embodiment, an alignment post extending out from the first surface of the housing is also provided. |
| US12127359B2 |
Electronic unit
An object is to provide a technique capable of increasing waterproofness of an electronic unit. An electronic unit includes: a case including an opening; a circuit board housed in the case through the opening; and a cover attached to the opening, wherein a protruding portion is provided on at least one side wall of the case, and the protruding portion includes a step that causes an opening side portion of the side wall to protrude further outward relative to a rear side portion of the side wall, and is provided so as to extend along the periphery of the opening. |
| US12127358B2 |
Middle frame, electronic device, and method for manufacturing middle frame
A middle frame includes an inner frame, a blocking member, and a covering member. The inner frame includes an outer surface and an inner surface opposite the outer surface. The inner frame further comprises at least one mounting hole penetrating the outer surface and the inner surface, the at least one mounting hole comprises an opening at the outer surface. The covering member covers the outer surface, and the blocking member is disposed between the covering member and the outer surface so as to cover the opening of the at least one mounting hole at the outer surface. An electronic device including the middle frame and a method for manufacturing the middle frame are also provided. |
| US12127354B2 |
Car module comprising tamper detection electronic control unit
The invention relates to a car module (10) comprising a tamper detecting electronic control unit (1), wherein the electronic control unit (1) is configured to control at least one electrically controllable function of a vehicle, for instance a light function such as low beam or high beam of a vehicle headlight, said electronic control unit (1) comprising—at least one carrier (2), in particular a printed circuit board, comprising an electric circuit (2a) for performing the controlling by the electronic control unit (1), —a housing (3) enclosing the at least one carrier (2), wherein the housing (3) comprises at least two parts (3a, 3b), wherein a first part (3a) of the housing (3) is holding the carrier (2), and wherein a second part (3b) of the housing (3) is attached to the first part (3a) in order to close the housing (3) and as such enclose the carrier (2) within the housing (3), and—a system (4) for detecting opening of the housing (3). |
| US12127353B2 |
Display apparatus
Provided is a display apparatus. The display apparatus includes: a display panel; a chassis supporting the display panel; a printed circuit board on which an electronic component is mounted; and a supporter inserted in the printed circuit board, wherein the printed circuit board includes a first surface facing the chassis, a second surface facing a direction opposite to the first surface, and a through hole penetrating the first surface and the second surface. The supporter includes: a head fixed on the second surface of the printed circuit board; a first body positioned inside the through hole, and extending from the head toward the chassis; and a second body extending from the first body, and protruding from the through hole toward the chassis. |
| US12127352B2 |
Bracket for mounting load control module to wall box
A mounting bracket for coupling a control device to a wall box is disclosed. The mounting bracket may include a body having an inner perimeter defining an opening. A plurality of flanges may extend into the opening. Each flange of the plurality of flanges may be configured to be engaged by an arm of a faceplate for coupling the faceplate to the mounting bracket. |
| US12127349B2 |
Method for transferring micro device on curved surface and apparatus for transferring micro device on curved surface
A method for transferring a micro device on a curved surface according to an exemplary embodiment of the present invention includes: coating an adhesive layer on an external circumferential surface of a tube; providing a micro device pattern on one side of a substrate; positioning an external circumferential surface of the tube to contact the substrate and allow a length direction of the device pattern to cross a radius direction of the tube, and rotating the tube with respect to an axis-direction of the tube and simultaneously moving at least one of the tube and the substrate in a rectilinear way to transfer the micro device pattern on the substrate to the adhesive layer; and fixing the transferred micro device pattern to the adhesive layer by curing the adhesive layer. |
| US12127348B2 |
Component adsorption nozzle and component mounting system
In a component adsorption nozzle, the nozzle can be attached to both of the in-line shaft and the rotary shaft by utilizing the outside (outer wall) of the nozzle body for attaching to the in-line shaft and utilizing the inside (inner wall) of the nozzle body for attaching to the rotary shaft. Therefore, for a user who owns each of the in-line type and rotary type component mounters, it is not necessary to prepare a nozzle dedicated to each type component mounter and it is possible to reduce the burden required for preparing the nozzle. |
| US12127345B2 |
Display apparatus and electronic device
The present disclosure relates to a display apparatus and an electronic device, relating to the technical field of display. The display apparatus may comprise a display panel, a main circuit board, a bridging circuit board, and a first shielding adhesive tape. The main circuit board may be provided on the back surface of the display panel; the bridging circuit board may be provided at the side of the main circuit board distant from the display panel, and may be connected to the main circuit board in a binding mode; and the first shielding adhesive tape may be provided at the side of the main circuit board distant from the display panel, and expose the bridging circuit board. |
| US12127344B2 |
Circuit board interconnection device and circuit board assembly
A printed circuit board connecting device (1) for connecting printed circuit boards (3, 5) includes a non-conductive plate (21) having a top side and a bottom side, and a plurality of interface connections (23) which are arranged in the plate (21) so as to be spaced apart from one another. Each interface connection (23) has grouped-together conductors (41) which extend through the plate (21) and which are laterally enclosed by the plate material and the end regions of which protruding on the top side and lower side from the plate (21) can be fixed to interfaces (13) of two printed circuit boards (3, 5) to be connected. Therefore, the conductors (41) form both a mechanical and an electrical connection between the interfaces (13) of the printed circuit boards (3, 5). |
| US12127340B2 |
Wiring substrate
A wiring substrate according to the present disclosure includes: an insulation layer disposed at an outermost layer; an electrode conductor disposed at a surface of the insulation layer with a seed layer being interposed therebetween; a nickel layer configured to cover at least one of the electrode conductors and include a contact portion that comes into contact with a surface of the seed layer; and a gold layer configured to cover the nickel layer. The nickel layer includes a plurality of gaps at the contact portion, at least a portion of the gaps includes an opening toward the contact portion, and a portion of the gold layer is disposed in at least a portion of the gaps. |
| US12127339B2 |
Stretchable mounting substrate
A stretchable mounting substrate that includes a first substrate including a stretchable base material and a stretchable wiring on the stretchable base material; a second substrate including a wiring for an electronic component, the second substrate overlapping at least a part of the first substrate in a plan view of the stretchable mounting substrate; and a connection member connecting the first substrate and the second substrate, the connection member including a connection base material and a connection wiring connecting the stretchable wiring of the first substrate and the wiring of the second substrate 20, wherein the connection member is configured to be deformed in accordance with an expansion/contraction direction of the first substrate so that an expansion/contraction ratio of a region of the first substrate overlapping the second substrate in the plan view is larger than an expansion/contraction ratio of the second substrate. |
| US12127338B2 |
Semi-flex component carrier with dielectric material surrounding an embedded component and having locally reduced young modulus
A semi-flex component carrier includes a stack with at least one electrically insulating layer structure and/or at least one electrically conductive layer structure. The stack defines at least one rigid portion and at least one semi-flexible portion. A component is embedded in the at least one rigid portion. A transition region between the at least one semi-flexible portion and the at least one rigid portion of the component carrier has a slanted sidewall. |
| US12127336B2 |
Wiring circuit board
A suspension board with circuit extending in a predetermined direction includes a base insulating layer, and a conductive layer disposed on one side in a thickness direction of the base insulating layer. The base insulating layer includes a first body base and a second body base disposed spaced apart from each other in a width direction, and a connection portion connecting a portion of the first body base in the longitudinal direction to a portion of the second body base in the longitudinal direction. The suspension board with circuit further includes a reinforcing portion disposed on the surface of the connection portion and reinforcing the connection portion. The reinforcing portion includes two or more resin layers laminated in the thickness direction, or a metal member. |
| US12127335B2 |
Electronic device
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a carrier, a first electronic component, a second electronic component, and an encapsulant. The first electronic component is disposed at a first side of the carrier. The second electronic component is disposed at a second side of the carrier opposite to the first side. The encapsulant encapsulates the first electronic component and has an uneven thickness. The encapsulant is configured to reduce a warpage of the carrier. |
| US12127334B2 |
Maintaining the shape of a circuit board
An example system for maintaining the shape of a circuit board includes metal balls that are configured not to collapse in whole or part in response to a force below a predefined force and a temperature below a predefined temperature. The metal balls are configured to support a substrate and are part of electrical connections between the substrate and a circuit board. The system includes a fixture configured to apply force to the substrate while the substrate is subjected to the temperature. The fixture is configured to distribute the force across a surface of the substrate that is not in contact with the metal balls such that the force applied by the fixture and the support of the substrate by the metal balls maintains a shape of the substrate at the temperature. |
| US12127332B2 |
Electronic equipment
Electronic equipment includes an option equipment attachment portion at a bottom portion of the electronic equipment. The electronic equipment includes an optional printed circuit board and a lower shield member covering the optional printed circuit board with a part of the optional printed circuit board exposed from the lower shield member. The lower shield member includes a recess including walls as inner walls. A region of the optional printed circuit board exposed from the lower shield member 34 is located at a bottom portion of the recess and is surrounded by the walls of the lower shield member. |
| US12127331B2 |
Circuit board for high frequency transmission and shielding method
The present disclosure provides a circuit board for high frequency transmission and a shielding method. The circuit board for high frequency transmission includes: a first shielding film, a second shielding film and a circuit board body. The circuit board body includes a first surface and a second surface that are arranged opposite to each other. The first shielding film covers the first surface, and the second shielding film covers the second surface. The circuit board body is provided with a wire region. The first shielding film and the second shielding film are in electrical connection at a lateral side of the wire region. Therefore, leaky waves at the lateral side of the circuit board body are effectively avoided, and the circuit board body is thin in structure. |
| US12127329B2 |
Flexible circuit board with thermally conductive connection to a heat sink
A flexible circuit board includes an electrically insulating cover layer, at least one electrical component arranged on the upper side of the cover layer with electrical contacts, a conducting track structure arranged on the underside of the cover layer and with contact regions, wherein the electrical contacts are each electrically conductively connected to one of the contact regions through one of a plurality of openings in the cover layer, a heat sink which is thermally conductively connected to each electrical component through the cover layer, and a layer with high conductivity. To create an improved cooling capacity of the electrical component, the heat arising in the electrical components is first dissipated effectively within the conducting paths of the conducting path structure and then dissipated out of the conducting paths directly into the heat sink by the layer with high heat conductivity. |
| US12127328B2 |
Electronic component with enclosure frame, circuit board with electronic component, and electronic device
This application relates to the field of electronic device technologies, and provides an electronic component with an enclosure frame, a circuit board with an electronic component, and an electronic device, to effectively protect the circuit board from being corroded, thereby prolonging a service life of the electronic device. This application is applied to a charging pile for charging a new energy electric vehicle. An electronic component with an enclosure frame includes an enclosure frame and an electronic component. The enclosure frame defines a cavity that is closed or that has one open end; when the electronic component with an enclosure frame is connected to a circuit board, the enclosure frame and the circuit board can define a cavity that is closed or that has one open end. |
| US12127325B2 |
Systems, devices, and methods for secondary particle suppression from a charge exchange device
Embodiments of systems, devices, and methods relating to a charge exchange system having one or more guard apparatuses are described. The guard apparatuses can include one or more guard electrodes, optionally with one or more screen electrodes. Also described are embodiments of beam systems incorporating one or more charge exchange systems. |
| US12127322B2 |
Cooking appliance
A cooking appliance including a cooking chamber configured to cook food therein and openable in a first direction, a shelf provided to be inserted into the cooking chamber in the first direction and on which food is placed, and a plurality of heaters configured to supply heat to the shelf and disposed at one side of the cooking chamber. Where the shelf includes a first area arranged at one side in a second direction perpendicular to the first direction and a second area arranged at another side in the second direction. The plurality of heaters includes a first heater disposed to correspond to the first area in a third direction perpendicular to the first and second areas and a second heater disposed to correspond to the second area in the third direction. The plurality of heaters configured to provide more heat to the first area than to the second area. |
| US12127320B2 |
Retrofit remote control device
Remote control devices may control electrical loads and/or load control devices of a load control system without accessing electrical wiring. The remote control device may be mounted over a mechanical switch that is installed in a wallbox. The remote control device may include a control unit and a faceplate assembly. The faceplate assembly may include a mounting frame, an adapter plate, and a faceplate. The mounting frame may be configured to abut a bezel of the mechanical switch such that that the faceplate is spaced away from the bezel of the mechanical switch to enable the mounting ring to extend through respective openings in the adapter plate and the faceplate. |
| US12127319B2 |
Method of resetting lighting device control apparatus by using wall switch
The present invention relates to a method of resetting a lighting device control apparatus by using a wall switch, capable of resetting an AP setting of the lighting device control apparatus more conveniently in a smart residential lighting device network system including: a plurality of lighting devices provided in an indoor space; a plurality of lighting device control apparatuses for individually or collectively controlling the lighting devices; a plurality of APs configured to perform WiFi communication with the lighting device control apparatuses, respectively; a user terminal for remotely controlling the lighting devices; a lighting device server configured to transmit a lighting device control signal generated by the user terminal to a lighting device control apparatus of a lighting device corresponding to the lighting device control signal; and a home gateway configured to perform relay between the APs and the lighting device server. |
| US12127317B2 |
Digital messages in a load control system
A load control system may comprise load control devices for controlling respective electrical loads, and a system controller operable to transmit digital messages including different commands to the load control devices in response to a selection of a preset. The different commands may include a preset command configured to identify preset data in a device database stored at the load control device and/or a multi-output command configured to define the preset data for being stored in the device database. The system controller may decide which of the commands to transmit to the load control devices in response to the selection of the preset. |
| US12127316B2 |
Current driving circuit providing nonlinear driving current to compensate for light-emitting device
A current driving circuit configured to drive a light-emitting device is provided. The current driving circuit includes a first current generating circuit, a second current generating circuit and a driver circuit. The first current generating circuit is configured to generate a reference current. The second current generating circuit includes at least one variable resistor, and may generate a compensation current according to the at least one variable resistor. The at least one variable resistor is selected from at least one of a positive TCR resistor and a negative TCR resistor. The driver circuit is coupled to the first current generating circuit and the second current generating circuit, and configured to receive the reference current and the compensation current to serve as a driving current. The driver circuit outputs the driving current to drive the light-emitting device. |
| US12127310B2 |
Multi-zone pedestal heater without vias
A support pedestal includes a substrate, a plurality of resistive heating elements disposed on the substrate and defining a plurality of heating zones, and electric terminals disposed at a central region of the substrate. At least one of the electric terminals is connected to at least two of the plurality of resistive heating elements. |
| US12127309B2 |
PTC heating element and warming device including same for use in a patient warming system
A heating element includes an electrically insulating layer; resistive layer formed of a positive temperature coefficient material; and an electrically conductive layer disposed between the electrically insulating layer and the resistive layer and including a first bus and a second bus that is spaced apart from the first bus, the resistive layer electrically connecting the first bus and the second bus. The electrically insulating layer, the electrically conductive layer, and the resistive layer are stacked to form a lamination and the lamination having a thickness and a width and length extending orthogonal to the thickness. The lamination may have slits extending through the thickness thereof and along a portion of the length thereof. Terminals may be connected to the buses and arranged to provide a counter current flow pattern across the lamination. The lamination may be used in a warming device and in connection with a patient warming system. |
| US12127300B2 |
Extended signaling for multi-subscriber identity module (MSIM) user-equipment (UE) for new radio (NR)
Certain aspects of the present disclosure are generally directed to extended signaling protocols for multi-subscriber identity module (MSIM) user-equipment (UE) for new radio (NR). For example, certain aspects provide a method for wireless communication by a UE. The method generally includes receiving a first message from a network entity enquiring regarding information associated with a multi-subscriber identify module (SIM) capability of the UE, determining the information associated with the multi-SIM capability of the UE in response to the inquiry from the network entity, and communicating one or more messages to indicate the information regarding the multi-SIM capability to the network entity. |
| US12127298B2 |
Method and system for sensor data type identification in a NB-IoT network
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to system and method for identifying at least one sensor on at least one user equipment [200] connected to a wireless network, comprising the a mobile management entity (MME) [101] transmitting an initial context setup request for at least one user equipment [200] to a network entity [300] of the wireless network. Next, the network entity [300] transmits a capability enquiry to the at least one user equipment [200] based on the initial context setup request received from the MME [101]. The network entity [300] receives a capability information from the at least one user equipment [200] in response to the capability enquiry, wherein the capability information comprises of sensor capability information of the at least one user equipment [200]. Thereafter, the network entity [300] transmits the capability information of the at least one user equipment [200] to the MME [101]. |
| US12127293B2 |
Methods for suspending inactive when resuming and resuming inactive when suspending
According to an aspect, a wireless device, operating in a wireless network, handles transitions from Radio Resource Control (RRC) connected state to an RRC inactive state. The wireless device receives, from the wireless network, a message indicating either that the wireless device is to enter the RRC inactive state or that the wireless device is to remain in the RRC inactive state. The wireless device, responsive to the message, uses, for inactive state operation, at least one previously stored inactive state parameter corresponding to a parameter omitted from the message. |
| US12127291B2 |
Wireless communication method, terminal device, and network device
A method for wireless communication includes: entering, by a terminal device, a second state from a first state; when the terminal device stores first measurement configuration information used by the terminal device in the first state, releasing, reserving or updating, by the terminal device, the first measurement configuration information; and/or when the terminal device does not store the first measurement configuration information, obtaining, by the terminal device, second measurement configuration information used by the terminal device in the second state, wherein the first state is an idle state or an inactive state, the second state is any one of an idle state, an inactive state or a connected state, and the measurement configuration information is used by the terminal device to obtain a measurement result. |
| US12127289B2 |
Methods and devices for handling requests after a radio connection loss
A method for operating a wireless device during a radio connection loss. The method includes establishing that the cause of the radio connection loss corresponds to an outage of a radio cell hosting the wireless device and determining, based at least on the established cause, a policy of applying a random time delay when transmitting a request to a radio network node in a target radio cell. A method for operating a radio network node in a first radio cell is also provided. The method includes obtaining information specifying that an outage of a second radio cell has occurred and broadcasting the obtained information together with information identifying the second radio cell to enable wireless devices hosted by the second radio cell to select a policy for transmitting a request to a radio network node in said first radio cell based on the broadcasted information. |
| US12127288B2 |
Self-healing wireless network using a robotic assistant
A portable electronic device that selectively performs a remedial action is described. During operation, the portable electronic device may measure wireless signals associated with communication with the second electronic device. Then, based at least in part on the measured wireless signals, the portable electronic device may diagnose a communication problem. Moreover, when the portable electronic device is able to correct the communication problem, the portable electronic device may automatically and selectively perform the remedial action based at least in part on the communication problem, where the remedial action corrects the communication problem. For example, the remedial action may include: re-establishing a connection between the second electronic device and a controller; changing one or more configuration parameters of the second electronic device; and/or upgrading software in the second electronic device. Otherwise, the portable electronic device may provide information specifying the measured wireless signals and/or the communication problem to a computer. |
| US12127284B2 |
On-vehicle device and control method of on-vehicle device
An on-vehicle device is connectable to a mobile terminal by a plurality of cooperation methods by use of a plurality of wireless connections, and includes a first connection control unit which performs connection to a first mobile terminal by a first cooperation method by use of a first wireless connection, a second connection control unit which performs connection to the first mobile terminal by a second cooperation method by use of a second wireless connection, and a display unit which displays a connected state to the first mobile terminal, the display unit displays a cooperation method selection image including a first selection part to execute connection by the first connection control unit, and a second selection part to execute connection by the second connection control unit, and the first selection part and the second selection part are displayed concurrently in the display unit. |
| US12127280B2 |
Communication apparatus, method and computer program for mapping a deactivated duplicate radio link control to an active cell
An apparatus comprises at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and the computer program code configured to, with the at least one processor, cause the apparatus at least to: responsive to deactivation of all of a plurality of active cells associated with a duplicate link, cause said duplicate link to be deactivated. |
| US12127278B2 |
Unicast session over a direct communication link
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for determining whether an active unicast session can be re-used. One apparatus includes a transceiver and a processor that receives, e.g., from an internal application or operating system, a first request to establish a unicast session over a direct communication link to a first UE. Here, the first request indicates a source application-layer identifier of the apparatus and a target application-layer identifier of the first UE. The processor determines whether an active unicast session between the source application-layer identifier and the target application-layer identifier already exists. If an active unicast session between the source application-layer identifier and the target application-layer identifier already exists, then the processor re-uses the already-existing active unicast session. Otherwise, the processor establishes a new unicast session between the apparatus and the first UE. |
| US12127276B2 |
Tunnel failure procedures
A session management function (SMF) sends, to a first user plane function (UPF), a request to establish a layer 2 tunneling protocol (L2TP) tunnel between the UPF and a L2TP server for a first protocol data unit (PDU) session of a wireless device. The SMF receives, from the first UPF, a message indicating a failure of the L2TP tunnel, the message comprising a tunnel failure cause information element indicating at least one of a L2TP tunnel failure of the L2TP tunnel or a L2TP session failure associated with the L2TP tunnel. |
| US12127275B2 |
Method for connection to equipment, associated device
A method for connecting to equipment by means of an electronic terminal, including an image sensor of the electronic terminal acquiring a visual indicator image displayed by the equipment, the visual indicator including connection identifiers for establishing a communication link with the equipment in coded form, a software application installed on the electronic terminal extracting the connection identifiers from the acquired image, and the connection identifiers establishing a local wireless communication link between a communication interface of the electronic terminal and a communication interface of an electronic controller of the equipment. |
| US12127272B2 |
Method for transmitting signal in wireless communication system
According to an aspect of the present disclosure, a method for transmitting, by a road side unit (RSU), a signal in a wireless communication system comprises: receiving, from another RSU, an infrastructure-to-infrastructure (I2I) signal for pairing; on the basis of the I2I signal for pairing, performing pairing with the other RSU; and on the basis of the pairing having failed, transmitting an infrastructure-to-vehicle (I2V) signal every preset period, wherein the I2I signal for pairing comprises information regarding a period change value associated with the preset period, and, on the basis of the pairing having succeeded, the I2V signal is transmitted every period into which the preset period has been changed on the basis of the period change value. |
| US12127271B2 |
PUSCH resource selection in 2-step random access
Methods and apparatuses are disclosed for PUSCH resource selection in 2-step random access (RA). In one embodiment, a wireless device is configured to receive a two-step RA configuration having: a first resource allocation for a PUSCH transmission of a first message, msgA, of the two-step RA procedure, the first resource allocation for the PUSCH transmission of the msgA being associated with a first set of preambles; and a second resource allocation for the PUSCH transmission of the msgA associated with a second set of preambles; select one of the first and second resource allocation and the associated one of the first and second set of preambles based on the two-step RA configuration and a payload size of the PUSCH transmission of the msgA; and transmit the PUSCH transmission of the msgA using the selected one of the first and second resource allocation. |
| US12127270B2 |
Recovery/fallback after unsuccessful 2-step random access attempt
A method, system, network node and wireless device for random access are provided. In one or more embodiments, a wireless device is configured to communicate with a network node. The wireless device includes processing circuitry configured to: trigger a random access (RA) process; select a first beam for the RA process, the selected first beam being associated with a two-step RA configuration, a characteristic of the selected first beam being determined to meet a predefined threshold; and perform the RA process associated with the two-step RA configuration using the selected first beam. |
| US12127264B2 |
Timing alignment procedure for a user equipment
A user equipment (UE) receives a timing advance medium access control (MAC) control element. The UE applies a timing advance command of the timing advance MAC control element and to start or restart a time alignment timer. The UE releases physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) resources and releases any assignment sounding reference signal (SRS) resources, when the time alignment timer expires. The UE flushes hybrid automatic request (HARQ) buffers, when the time alignment timer expires or is stopped. |
| US12127263B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving signal for RACH procedure by UE in wireless communication system
A method of transmitting and receiving a signal for a random access channel (RACH) procedure by a user equipment (UE) in a wireless communication system is disclosed. The method includes transmitting a message A including a physical random access channel (PRACH) and a physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH), and receiving a message B related to contention resolution in response to the message A. Transmission power for a retransmission of the message A is configured based on that a counter value related to the transmission power is incremented or maintained, the counter value is maintained based on that a transmission spatial filter related to the PRACH is changed for the retransmission of the message A, and the counter value is used for configuring the transmission power based on that the PRACH and the PUSCH are transmitted via the message A. |
| US12127258B2 |
Information transmission method for a random access process and terminal
An information transmission method for a random access process includes: obtaining a preset mapping relationship between a physical uplink shared channel resource and a physical random access channel resource; and sending a random access message on a random access resource according to the preset mapping relationship. The random access resource comprises the PUSCH resource and the PRACH resource. When a random access channel occasion corresponding to the PRACH resource is not associated with an SSB, the RO is not associated with the PUSCH resource. |
| US12127257B2 |
Communication method and related device
Embodiments of this application provide a communication method and a related device. The method includes: receiving, by a radio access network device, first information sent by a terminal device, where the first information includes an identifier of a beam used by the terminal device for random access and random access information of the terminal device on the beam; and optimizing, by the radio access network device, a random access channel based on the first information. |
| US12127254B2 |
Method and apparatus for multi-link communications
Embodiments of a method and an apparatus for multi-link communications are disclosed. In an embodiment, a method for multi-link communications involves announcing, by a non-access point (non-AP) multi-link device (MLD) to an access point (AP) MLD, a frame exchange restriction in an enhanced multi-link operation, receiving, by the AP MLD from the non-AP MLD, the frame exchange restriction, and transmitting, by the AP MLD to the non-AP MLD, an initial frame according to the frame exchange restriction. |
| US12127250B2 |
Improving operation of cellular communication networks on unlicensed frequency bands
According to an example aspect of the present invention, there is provided a method for a cellular wireless device, including, obtaining, from a cellular base station, a first opportunity for an uplink data transmission on an unlicensed frequency band, wherein the first opportunity is within a first period reserved for first transmission opportunities on a frequency channel, upon detecting that the frequency channel is occupied at a beginning of the first opportunity, determining a second opportunistic resource for the uplink data transmission or a downlink transmission and receiving or transmitting using the second opportunistic resource. |
| US12127249B2 |
Controlling the number of downlink-to-uplink and uplink-to-downlink switching points within a shared channel occupancy time in new radio systems operating on unlicensed spectrum
The present disclosure is directed to systems and methods for controlling a number of allowed downlink/uplink (DL/UL) switching points. For example, the method may include acquiring a shared channel occupancy time (COT) that includes one or more DL bursts and/or UL bursts. The method may also include utilizing one or more of the DL bursts or the UL bursts as a reference burst. The method may also include deriving a metric for controlling the number of DL/UL switching points in the shared COT based on the reference burst. The method may also include comparing the metric to a threshold value. The method may also include setting the number of DL/UL switching points in the shared COT based on the comparison of the metric to the threshold value. |
| US12127248B2 |
Wireless communication method and wireless communication terminal using multiple channels
Provided is a wireless communication terminal. The wireless communication terminal includes a transceiver and a processor. The processer performs a contention procedure based on a back-off counter, in each of a plurality of channel and accesses, by using the transceiver, at least one of the plurality of channels based on the contention procedure. |
| US12127239B2 |
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. |
| US12127236B2 |
Channel multiplexing in URLLC
Operating a wireless device in a wireless communication network, the wireless device being triggered for transmitting first signaling on a first resource structure associated to a first transmission quality and being triggered for transmitting second signaling on a second resource structure associated to a second transmission quality, the first resource structure and the second resource structure overlapping at least partly in time and/or being in the same transmission timing structure; the first signaling being communication signaling and representing first information, and the second signaling being control signaling representing second information, which is control information. Signaling is transmitted on the first resource structure, the signaling including second information mapped to the first resource structure, depending on the size of the first resource structure and the size of the resources within the first resource structure required by the mapping of the second information. The disclosure also pertains to related devices and methods. |
| US12127235B2 |
Method for processing CSI, terminal device, and network device
A method for processing channel state information (CSI) is provided. The method includes: a terminal device generates CSI indication information based on a CSI indication information type; the terminal device transmits information, where the information is used for a network device to determine the CSI indication information and the CSI indication information type. A method for processing CSI, an electronic device, and a storage medium are further provided. |
| US12127234B2 |
Payload size reduction for reporting resource sensing measurements
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. Generally, a user equipment (UE) may sense and report resource availability using a reporting pattern to manage a payload size of a reporting message. A sensing pattern may indicate a pattern of resources of a sidelink channel that is being reported in the reporting message (e.g., and one or more sidelink channel resources not being reported), and a resolution of resource availability statuses reported for a first subset of resources of a sidelink channel. A base station or another UE may indicate which reporting pattern (e.g., from a set of configured patterns) that a UE is to use for sensing and generating the sensing report. The UE may autonomously select the reporting pattern, and may transmit an indication of the pattern to the receiving UE. |
| US12127231B2 |
Communication control apparatus, communication control method and program
A communication control device that transmits a packet to be transmitted to a terminal to a base station that performs wireless communication with the terminal, includes: a terminal classification unit that classifies, on the basis of a magnitude of radio wave interference from a base station different from a neighboring base station, a plurality of the terminals into a first terminal set and a second terminal set that is relatively larger in the magnitude of radio wave interference than the first terminal set; and a transmission unit that transmits, in a case where packets destinations of which are terminals belonging to the first terminal set are to be transmitted to respective neighboring base stations of the terminals, the packets at the same timing and transmits, in a case where packets destinations of which are terminals belonging to the second terminal set are to be transmitted to respective neighboring base stations of the terminals, the packets at timings different from each other. |
| US12127227B2 |
Methods and devices of resource mapping for data transmission and of data receiving
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to methods, devices and apparatus of resource mapping for data transmission and of data receiving. In an embodiment of the present disclosure, a carrier frequency band for the data transmission is divided into a plurality of sub-bandwidths, and the method may include mapping resource elements for the data transmission in an order of sub-bandwidths and mapping, in each of the plurality sub-bandwidths, the resource elements first in an order of frequency domain and then in an order of time domain. With embodiments of the present disclosure, new radio access system with wider bandwidth could co-exist well with other communication on unlicensed band like WiFi. |
| US12127225B2 |
Resource allocation mode configuration method, terminal and network device
The present disclosure provides a resource allocation mode configuration method, a terminal and a network device, and relates to the field of communication technology. The resource allocation mode configuration method is applied to a terminal and includes: receiving a resource allocation mode for a sidelink interface configured by a network device; the resource allocation mode is configured by the network device for each target, the target includes at least one of the following information: a radio bearer of the sidelink interface SLRB; QoS parameters of the sidelink interface; a frequency band identifier; a RAT used by the sidelink interface, the frequency band identifier includes: a carrier, a frequency, or a BWP. |
| US12127221B2 |
Techniques in multicast and broadband services (MBS) HARQ feedback
This disclosure relates to apparatuses and methods for providing and managing reception feedback for multicast and broadcast services (MBS). A base station (BS) may select and communicate, to a group of user equipment devices (UEs), configuration parameters for MBS communications, such as an indication of an MBS retransmission procedure for an MBS service. The BS may also transmit, to the group of UEs, an MBS data communication. A first UE may receive the MBS data communication, but may determine that the received MBS data communication is corrupted. The first UE may respond by transmitting, to the BS, a negative-acknowledgement (NACK) message. The BS may retransmit the MBS data communication either as an MBS transmission or as a unicast transmission, based on the configuration parameters. The first UE may monitor the appropriate resources to receive the retransmitted MBS data communication, based on the configuration parameters. |
| US12127219B2 |
Base station, terminal apparatus, first terminal apparatus, method, program, recording medium and system
In order for a first terminal apparatus to transmit a physical uplink control channel to a base station without retuning regardless of a bandwidth part used by the first terminal apparatus, a base station 100 according to the present disclosure includes a communication processing unit 141 configured to communicate with the first terminal apparatus (terminal apparatus 200A) within a bandwidth part of an uplink system band, the bandwidth part being used by the first terminal apparatus (terminal apparatus 200A), wherein the bandwidth part includes a physical uplink control channel region used by the first terminal apparatus (terminal apparatus 200A). |
| US12127210B2 |
Method for transmitting and receiving downlink control information between terminal and base station in wireless communication system and device for supporting same
The present disclosure provides a method for transmitting and receiving downlink control information (DCI) between a terminal and a base station in a wireless communication system and a device for supporting same. According to an embodiment applicable in the present disclosure, a terminal can recognize/expect that multiple control resource sets (CORESETs) include identical DCI, on the basis of configuration information received from a base station, and on the basis thereof, can receive the DCI via at least one of the multiple CORESETs. |
| US12127209B2 |
Data transmission method and device
This application discloses a data transmission method and apparatus. A network device determines first information, where the first information is used to indicate transmission parameters required for a plurality of transmissions of to-be-transmitted data; the network device sends the first information to a terminal device; and the network device sends the to-be-transmitted data to the terminal device for a plurality of times based on the first information. |
| US12127207B2 |
User equipment, base station and wireless communication method
Provided are a user equipment, base station and wireless communication methods related to multiplexing of UCI in PUSCH in NR. A user equipment comprises: circuitry operative to process UCI bits to be transmitted according to the comparison of the number M of UCI bits generated based on DL assignment(s) before an UL grant from a base station and the number N of UCI bits generated based on DL assignment(s) after the UL grant with the number P of UCI bits indicated in the UL grant and/or the maximum number Q of bits determined based on at least a configured coding rate, wherein each of M, N, P, Q is an integer equal to or larger than 0; and a transmitter operative to transmit the processed UCI bits in PUSCH at a TTI indicated in the UL grant to the base station. |
| US12127206B2 |
Terminal and communication method
In a terminal, a control unit decides a sequence used for an uplink control channel, in accordance with uplink control information, and a transmission unit transmits the uplink control information using the sequence. Here, the sequence is calculated using cell identification information that identifies the cell to which the terminal belongs, and subcell-specific information relating to at least one subcell included in the cell. |
| US12127203B2 |
Method and device in nodes used for wireless communication
The present disclosure provides a method and a device in a node for wireless communications. A first node transmits a first signal in a first cell, and transmits a second signal in a second cell; a serving cell identity of the first cell is a first ID, and a serving cell identity of the second cell is a second ID, the first ID being smaller than the second ID; when the second cell is capable of scheduling a target cell, the second signal comprises first UCI; when the second cell is incapable of scheduling a target cell, the first signal comprises the first UCI. By associating whether a cell can piggyback UCI with whether a cell can schedule a PCell, the present disclosure manages to optimize UCI transmitting under Cross-Carrier Scheduling, hence improving the entire system's performance. |
| US12127200B2 |
Scheduling of a primary cell from a secondary cell
A wireless device may receive a first configuration parameter of a primary cell indicating that a first secondary cell is a scheduling cell for the primary cell. Based on the first secondary cell being deactivated, the wireless device may receive a first DCI based on monitoring one or more first search spaces of the primary cell and may transmit or receive a first TB via the primary cell based on the first DCI. Based on the first secondary cell being activated, the wireless device may receive a second DCI based on monitoring one or more second search spaces of the first secondary cell and may transmit or receive a second TB via the primary cell based on the second DCI. |
| US12127199B2 |
Message handling for device-to-device coordination messages
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may drop a first one or more device-to-device coordination messages for transmission, of a set of device-to-device coordination messages, according to a message dropping criterion in connection with a quantity of device-to-device coordination messages in the set of device-to-device coordination messages exceeding a threshold. The UE may transmit a second one or more device-to-device coordination messages of the set of device-to-device coordination messages, such that a quantity of transmitted device-to-device coordination messages, of the set of device-to-device coordination messages, does not exceed the threshold. Numerous other aspects are described. |
| US12127197B2 |
Acknowledgement transmissions associated with physical downlink control channel demodulation reference signal bundling
Example aspects include a method, apparatus, and computer-readable medium for wireless communication at a user equipment (UE) of a wireless communication network, comprising receiving, from a base station, configuration information indicating that physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) joint channel estimation (JCE) is enabled for a plurality of PDCCH monitoring occasions. The aspects further include receiving, from the base station, a plurality of PDCCH transmissions. At least one PDCCH transmission comprises a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARD) acknowledgement (ACK) request without a corresponding physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) grant. Additionally, the aspects further include identifying a base offset according to the at least one PDCCH transmission. Additionally, the aspects further include selecting an additional offset according to a processing time capability of the UE. Additionally, the aspects further include transmitting, at a timing offset in relation to the plurality of PDCCH transmissions, a HARQ-ACK. |
| US12127195B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving wireless signal in wireless communication system
The present disclosure relates to a wireless communication system and, more particularly, to a method and an apparatus therefor, the method comprising the steps of: detecting an SSB in an unlicensed band, the SSB including an index related to a CORESET configuration; determining, on the basis of the index, an RB offset used for identifying the position of a CORESET frequency associated with the SSB; and monitoring the CORESET in the unlicensed band on the basis of the RB offset. |
| US12127185B2 |
Method and device for performing sidelink retransmission in wireless communication system
A method by which a first device performs wireless communication is presented. The method can comprise the steps in which: a first device performs at least one sidelink transmission to a second device; negative acknowledgement (NACK) information related to the at least one sidelink transmission is received from the second device; and whether to transmit a message for requesting a retransmission resource is determined on the basis of a preset latency time threshold value and a remaining latency budget related to the at least one sidelink transmission. |
| US12127180B2 |
System and method for indicating wireless channel status
A method for operating a user equipment includes receiving a first frame on a first channel associated with a first beam identified during a beam failure recovery procedure, and determining that an assumed quasi-co-located relationship exists between the first channel and the first beam, and based thereon, decoding the first frame in accordance with a first reference signal on the first channel and using a first spatial domain receive filter that was used to decode the first beam. |
| US12127172B2 |
Periodic time slot scheduling method for wireless network
The present disclosure provides a periodic time slot scheduling method for a wireless network. The method includes: connecting a plurality of nodes by using a wireless network; constructing time slot parameter sets of nodes in the wireless network and an interval array between time slots of each of the nodes; calculating an acceptable total time interval of each of the nodes in the wireless network, selecting a node with a minimum acceptable total time interval in the wireless network as a time slot allocation node, allocating a time slot for each time slot request of the time slot allocation node, and allocating a time slot for each time slot request of a remaining node except the time slot allocation node in the wireless network; and detecting and determining a delay of time slot allocation. |
| US12127171B2 |
Method and apparatus for setting slot format for IAB node
In the present specification, settings for a link direction and link availability of a time resource for a DU child link may be referred to as DU setting. The resource types from an IAB node DU perspective are UL, DL, and F, and the settings for availability may be classified into NA, hard resources, and soft resources, respectively. Specifically, the IAB node may receive resource setting information, wherein the resource setting information may include link direction information and availability information. The link direction information may indicate whether the type of a specific resource is UL, DL, or F, and the availability information may indicate whether a specific resource is a hard resource, an NA resource, or a soft resource. Considering the feature of sharing resources in a TDM scheme between a MT and a DU in the IAB node, the present specification proposes a feature to be had by a slot format setting for the IAB node. |
| US12127167B2 |
Bi-directional sidelink resource selection with bi-directional resource allocation indication
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A first user equipment (UE) may receive a sidelink control indicator (SCI) from a second UE and selects resources and directions for communication. The SCI may include one or more resources and corresponding directions reserved by the second UE. The first UE may use the resources and directions indicated in the received SCI to select available resources with which to reserve forward direction transmissions, reverse direction transmissions, or both. For example, the first UE may avoid reserving resources and directions corresponding to the resources and directions indicated in the received SCI, or may reserve such resources despite receiving the SCI, such as if the received SCI has a relatively low reference signal received power (RSRP). The first UE may transmit an SCI indicating resources reserved by the first UE and associated directionalities. |
| US12127162B2 |
Communications device, infrastructure equipment and methods class
A method of operating an infrastructure equipment of a wireless communications network, the method comprising transmitting control information via a wireless access interface provided by the wireless communications network to a communications device to configure the communications device to receive paging messages as part of a group of one or more communications devices, the communications device being configured by the control information from a first state in which the communications device monitors a pattern of paging frames of the wireless access interface for receiving paging messages determined by the communications device to a second state in which the communications device is configured to monitor the same pattern of paging frames of the wireless access interface for receiving paging messages as the group of one or more communications devices. |
| US12127159B2 |
Technique for idle mode paging in a radio communication between a network node and a radio device
A technique for idle mode paging in a radio communication between a network node and a radio device is described. More specifically, and without limitation, methods and devices are provided for sending and receiving a power control signal (702) in a radio communication between a network node (100; 500) and a radio device (200; 600). According to a general aspect, the power control signal (702) for notifying a radio device which is being paged includes an indicator (704) that, according to a scheme (706; 708), uniquely identifies a subgroup of one or more radio devices comprising at least the radio device that is being paged within a group (710) of radio devices (600) sharing at least the same paging frame. |
| US12127158B2 |
Group-based positioning design in asynchronous vehicular networks
Disclosed are some examples of techniques for positioning of a user equipment (UE) using positioning reference signal (PRS). One or more units of messages may be communicated between an initiator UE and a responder UE. A unit of message may include a pre-PRS message, a PRS message and a post-PRS message. The pre-PRS message and the post-PRS message may be sent or received using a license spectrum. The PRS message may be sent or received using an unlicensed spectrum. The communication between the initiator UE and the responder UE may be initiated by the initiator UE identifying the responder UE from a plurality of UEs based on positioning properties of the responder UE. The positioning properties of the responder UE may include one or more of a direction, a velocity, a location confidence and a location of the responder UE. |
| US12127154B2 |
Aperiodic positioning signals for user equipment (UE)-specific positioning
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive, from an anchor node, control information that triggers a UE-specific aperiodic positioning signal. The UE may perform, to the anchor node, the UE-specific aperiodic positioning signal based at least in part on the control information. The UE may transmit, to the anchor node, a response based at least in part on the UE-specific aperiodic positioning signal. Numerous other aspects are described. |
| US12127152B2 |
Authorization for user equipment supporting ranging based services
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may receive a registration message including a decode key associated with a ranging service. The UE may receive, from a second UE, an encoded value and an identifier associated with the second UE. The UE may validate the identifier using the encoded value and the decode key. The UE may establish a ranging session associated with the second UE based at least in part on validating the identifier. Numerous other aspects are described. |
| US12127151B2 |
Method and system for transmission of SUSI in the NAS procedure
The present disclosure is related to sending of a one time identifier of a UE during the NAS procedure. Specifically, the present disclosure relates to determining whether to use same one time identifier or different one time identifier during registration retry procedure. |
| US12127149B2 |
API driven subscriber IMS registration status changes and IMS routing steering
A method for discerning single registration subscribers and dual registration subscribers, and routes single registration traffic as internal and routes dual registration traffic as external. |
| US12127148B2 |
Master information block decoding based on synchronization signal block timing
Methods, systems, and computer-readable mediums are configured to perform operations including detecting a plurality of synchronization signal blocks (SSBs) that are transmitted for a physical broadcast channel (PBCH), each of the SSBs having a SSB index comprising a set of bit values; detecting, from the plurality of SSBs, a first SSB received at a first time and a second SSB received at a second time that is different from the first time; decoding, for a first SSB of the plurality, first bit values of a first SSB index representing the first SSB and of a second SSB index representing the second SSB; determining, based on the first time and the second time, a receive time gap between the first SSB and the second SSB; and determining, based on the receive time gap and the first bit values of the first SSB index and the second SSB index, at least a second bit value of the first second SSB index representing the first SSB and the second SSB representing the second SSB. |
| US12127143B2 |
Consistent clock synchronization frequency offset estimation method based on sequential least squares
The present invention relates to a consensus-based clock synchronization skew estimation method based on sequential least squares, and belongs to the technical field of wireless sensor networks. The method is to establish a relationship model of clock information and time delay between nodes with respect to a bounded random communication time delay scenario subject to arbitrary distribution, fully consider all clock information received by a node from a neighbor, build a clock parameter estimation model and a cost function based on a least squares principle, iteratively estimate relative clock skew by a sequential least squares method, and update logical clock parameters of nodes by a consensus-based clock synchronization method, so as to achieve global clock consistency of all nodes in a network in a completely distributed way. The present invention improves accuracy of relative skew estimation, effectively reduces storage overhead of the nodes, and improves robustness of a consensus-based synchronization algorithm against communication time delay. |
| US12127141B2 |
Wireless communication method and terminal device
The implementations of the present disclosure relate to a wireless communication method and a terminal device, capable of effectively determining the QCL relationship of SSB. The wireless communication method includes: a terminal device receives first indication information and second indication information from a network device, the first indication information being used for indicating a first number Q1 and the second indication information being used for indicating a second number Q2; the terminal device determines target indication information from amongst the first indication information and the second indication information and, on the basis of the target indication information, determines the quasi co-location QCL relationship between the synchronization signal blocks SSB of a serving cell of the terminal device. |
| US12127140B2 |
Audio data transmission method using short-range wireless communication in wireless communication system and apparatus therefor
A method according to the present disclosure comprises determining a first synchronization value associated with a point in time at which reception of the audio data of each of a first device and a second device is completed; determining a second synchronization value for synchronizing points in time at which the audio data is output from the first device and the second device; determining a first synchronization reference time point based on the first synchronization value and the second synchronization value; performing a specific operation associated with transmitting the audio data; and transmitting, to each of the first device and the second device, the audio data on a specific channel associated with transmitting the audio data, wherein the audio data is transmitted based on the first synchronization reference time point and a second synchronization reference time point determined based on a specific time value for the specific operation. |
| US12127130B2 |
Method and device for determining sidelink transmission power in NR V2X
According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, provided is a method for a first device to perform sidelink communication. The method may include the steps of: determining sidelink transmission power, for transmission to a second device, as first transmission power on the basis of an OLPC parameter and at least one parameter pertaining to SL PL; transmitting a first PSCCH or a first PSSCH to the second device on the basis of the first transmission power; determining the sidelink transmission power as second transmission power on the basis of a transmission power control operation for the first transmission power being triggered; and transmitting a second PSCCH or a second PSSCH to the second device on the basis of the second transmission power. |
| US12127125B2 |
Sidelink communication method and apparatus, and storage medium
The present disclosure relates to a sidelink communication method and apparatus, and a storage medium. The sidelink communication method includes: determining to enter an energy-saving state; and canceling a conventional operation on sidelink control information (SCI) in the energy-saving state. |
| US12127120B2 |
Configured uplink grant
A wireless device receives one or more radio resource control messages comprising configuration parameters of a configured uplink grant Type 1 associated with a cell. The wireless device transmits one or more transport blocks based on the configured uplink grant Type 1. The wireless device transitions the cell to a dormancy in response to receiving a downlink control information (DCI). The wireless device suspends the configured uplink grant Type 1 associated with the cell in response to the transitioning the cell to the dormancy. |
| US12127117B2 |
Wake up signal for multicast group notification
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A user equipment (UE) may receive control signaling from a base station that indicates a multicast or broadcast wake up signal (WUS) format. The UE may receive a multicast or broadcast WUS from the base station during a WUS monitoring occasion of a connected mode discontinuous reception (C-DRX) cycle in accordance with the control signaling. The multicast or broadcast WUS may indicate upcoming transmissions for a set of multicast or broadcast services (MBSs). If, for example, the UE is subscribed to a first MBS from the set of MBSs and the multicast or broadcast WUS indicates an upcoming transmission for the first MBS, the UE may monitor for the upcoming transmission during an active duration of the C-DRX cycle. Otherwise, the UE may enter a sleep mode to conserve power. |
| US12127116B2 |
Power saving in a wireless communication network
Various example embodiments relate to power saving in a wireless communication network and, in particular, an apparatus and a method to determine a threshold to establish whether a cell of a group of cells supporting network coverage in an area of a wireless communication network should enter or exit a power saving mode. In particular, aspects may provide: prediction circuitry configured to predict a future load in a group of cells supporting network coverage in an area of a wireless communication network based on historical load data for the group of cells; and determination circuitry configured to determine, based at least on the predicted future load, at least one threshold load value for establishing whether a cell of the group of cells should enter or exit a power saving mode. |
| US12127114B2 |
Method for improving base station efficiency and power consumption
The present disclosure relates to a method of controlling power supply units (1-9) of a base station (10), and a device (20) performing the method. In an aspect, a method of a base station scheduling device (20) of controlling power supply units (1-9) of a base station (10) is provided. The method comprises acquiring (S102a-c) information indicating a value of voltage input to at least one of the power supply units (1-9) of the base station (10), determining (S103) from said value if the voltage input to said at least one of the power supply units (1-9) is sufficient, and if not determining (S104) power demand of the base station (10), and deactivating (S105) said at least one power supply unit, if remaining power supply units (1-9) is capable of supplying the demanded power. |
| US12127112B2 |
Integrated access and backhaul sidelink communications
Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. The described techniques provide for a first user equipment (UE) receiving, from an integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node, an indication that the IAB node supports sidelink communications. The indication may be broadcast by the IAB node or indicated via an established connection, such as a radio resource control (RRC) connection. The first UE may select the IAB node to relay communications between the first UE and a second wireless node based at least in part on the indication that the IAB node supports sidelink communications. The UE may communicate one or more data messages with the second wireless node via the IAB node in accordance the selecting of the IAB node to relay the communications. |
| US12127109B2 |
Efficient PLMN encoding for 5G
A method for decoding PLMN information comprises receiving a message comprising PLMN information for a plurality of cells and determining PLMN information from the message for a first group of cells that comprises at least one cell, each cell of the first group of cells associated with a first core network type. The method further comprises determining PLMN information from the message for a second group of cells that comprises at least one cell, each cell of the second group of cells associated with a second core network type. At least one cell is a part of the first group of cells and the second group of cells. The PLMN information for the at least one cell in the first group of cells and the second group of cells is provided only once. |
| US12127107B2 |
Method and apparatus for handling background data transfer
The present application generally relates to wireless communication technology. More particularly, the present application relates to a method and an for handling Background Data Transfer (BDT) for a User Equipment (UE). The present application also relates to computer program product adapted for the same purpose. According to one embodiment, a method for handling Background Data Transfer (BDT) for a User Equipment (UE) comprises: a) transmitting, from a node for Application Function (AF) to a node for Policy Control Function (PCF), a policy request indicating the BDT is UE trajectory-relevant; and b) at the node for AF, receiving from the node for PCF, a plurality of BDT policy groups, each of which is associated with a corresponding section of a trajectory. |
| US12127098B2 |
Restricted local operator services by base station for wireless network
A method may include sending, to a wireless device, a system information block (SIB) indicating that restricted local operator services (RLOS) are supported by a public land mobile network. The method may also include receiving, from the wireless device and after the sending of the SIB indicating support for the RLOS, a preamble. The method may further include sending, to the wireless device, a random access response to the preamble. The method may additionally include receiving, from the wireless device and after the random access response, at least one first radio resource control (RRC) message. The message may indicate that an RRC connection of the wireless device is for the RLOS and that an attach request of the wireless device is for the RLOS. The method may also include sending, to the wireless device, a second RRC message comprising an attach accept message indicating acceptance of the RLOS. |
| US12127097B2 |
User terminal and radio communication method
A user terminal includes a reception section that receives a synchronization signal block including a synchronization signal and a broadcast channel at a frequency to which channel sensing before transmission is applied and a control section that determines at least one of a configuration of a first signal including the synchronization signal block and a downlink control channel and a downlink shared channel which are quasi co-located (QCL) with the synchronization signal block and a configuration of a second signal including the first signal in a specific period based on the synchronization signal block. According to one aspect of the present disclosure, appropriate communication can be performed in an unlicensed band. |
| US12127093B2 |
Emergency services handling
In some examples, a user equipment (UE) is capable of dual registration with a first core network and a second core network. The UE receives a first indication during a first registration of the UE via a first access network with the first core network, determines based on the first indication that emergency services are not supported by the first core network, attempts a second registration via a second access network with the second core network, detects an emergency indication, and initiates a call in response to the emergency indication via a second access network different from the first access network. |
| US12127088B2 |
Over-the-top management in a communication network
A method for over-the-top, OTT, management in a communication network is presented. The method is performed in a packet data network gateway, PGW. The method comprises receiving (S200) a request for an application network interaction protocol, ANIP, service from an application client, sending (S210) the received request to a global ANIP server, wherein the request is extended with a public land mobile network, PLMN, identity, receiving (S220) an address to a local ANIP server from the global ANIP server, and sending (S230) the received address to the local ANIP server to the Send request for application client. Methods, a PGW, an application client, an ANIP server, computer programs, and a ANIP service computer program product for OTT management in a communication network are also presented. |
| US12127075B2 |
Method and apparatus for real time UAV connection monitoring and location reporting
In a method of real-time network monitoring and location updating, a location report is received by an unmanned aerial system application enabler (UAE) server from a location management (LM) server. The location report indicates location information of a user equipment (UE). A first network event notification associated with the UE is received by the UAE server from a network resource management (NRM) server. The first network event notification indicates a connection status of the UE with a network. In response to detecting a re-connected status of the UE, a second networking event notification is received by the UAE server from the NRM server. The second networking event notification indicates that the UE reconnects to the network. Further, (i) the second networking event notification, (ii) an identity of the UAE server, and (iii) most recently updated location information of the UE from the LM server are recorded by the UAE server. |
| US12127074B2 |
Generating unexpected location notifications
In some implementations, a first computing device can send notifications at times that the first computing device is not in an expected location. A user of a second computing device can remotely configure an expected location for the first computing device, which may be a particular location for a certain period of time. During that time, the first computing device can monitor its own location and check whether it is within the expected location. If the first computing device unexpectedly leaves or fails to enter the expected location, the first computing device may transmit a notification to the second computing device. Similarly, if the first computing device loses connectivity with other devices, a server device may notify the second computing device that the location of the first computing device cannot be determined. |
| US12127072B2 |
Positioning method and apparatus
Embodiments of this application disclose a positioning method and an apparatus, to reduce a quantity of transmission points needed to calculate a position of a terminal, thereby reducing positioning calculation complexity. The method for calculating the position includes: receiving, by a terminal, positioning assistance information sent by a positioning entity, where the positioning assistance information includes a cell identity of a cell in which a to-be-measured transmission point is located, an identity of the to-be-measured transmission point, and positioning reference signal configuration information of the to-be-measured transmission point; measuring, by the terminal, the to-be-measured transmission point based on the positioning assistance information, to obtain a measurement result, where the measurement result includes positioning reference signal information of the to-be-measured transmission point; and sending, by the terminal, the measurement result to a positioning entity. |
| US12127071B2 |
Methods and systems for detecting aggregation events
In general, embodiments of the present invention provide systems, methods and computer readable media for detecting aggregation events. |
| US12127070B2 |
Geofence tracking with device location privacy
A system for providing a geofence service is disclosed. The geofence service receives an encrypted geospatial index for a specified geofence based on application of a hash function to respective ones of a plurality of locations for the specified geofence in accordance with a secret key that is unknown to the geofence service. The geofence service stores the encrypted geospatial index to a data store according to a geofence identifier for the specified geofence. The geofence service receives an encrypted device location identifier generated based on application of the hash function to a representation of a current location of a user device in accordance with the secret key. The geofence service determines whether the user device is located in a location of the plurality of locations based on a query of the encrypted geospatial index according to the encrypted device location identifier. |
| US12127069B2 |
Geofence-based edge service control and authentication
Methods, systems, and use cases for geofence-based edge service control and authentication are discussed, including an orchestration system with memory and at least one processing circuitry coupled to the memory. The processing circuitry is configured to perform operations to obtain, from a plurality of connectivity nodes providing edge services, physical location information, and resource availability information associated with each of the plurality of connectivity nodes. An edge-to-edge location graph (ELG) is generated based on the physical location information and the resource availability information, the ELG indicating a subset of the plurality of connectivity nodes that are available for executing a plurality of services associated with an edge workload. The connectivity nodes are provisioned with the ELG and a workflow execution plan to execute the plurality of services, the workflow execution plan including metadata with a geofence policy. The geofence policy specifies geofence restrictions associated with each of the plurality of services. |
| US12127065B2 |
Electronic device for providing call continuity in weak electric field environment and control method
Provided are an electronic device and a control method for providing call continuity in a weak electric field environment. The electronic device according to various embodiments of the present document comprises: a processor; a memory operatively connected to the processor; and a wireless communication circuit operatively connected to the processor and the memory, wherein the processor can control the wireless communication circuit such that the electronic device receives a wireless signal for executing a call with an external electronic device through a first network, check the state of the wireless signal received through the wireless communication circuit, control, on at least a partial basis of a result of checking the checked state of the wireless signal, the wireless communication circuit such that an authentication request for performing the call is transmitted to a second network connected to the electronic device, and control, on at least a partial basis of a result of the authentication request, the wireless communication circuit such that the wireless signal, which is transmitted from the first network, for performing the call with the external electronic device is received through the second network. |
| US12127062B2 |
Timing advance for rach-less backhaul handover
A technique of performing a handover procedure involves providing a proper timing adjustment indication for the UE performing RACH-less HO. Even though the discussion herein is on IAB scenarios and the idea takes an advantage of IAB nodes being in fixed locations (i.e., not moving in the network), it can be applied to UEs in general. The timing adjustment provided in performing a HO in an IAB network according to the improved techniques involves computing a timing advance (TA) to be used by an IAB node prior to executing HO to an alternative serving node. Such a use of a TA may enable a bypassing of a RACH procedure when accessing a cell. |
| US12127059B2 |
Intelligence and learning in O-RAN for 5G and 6G cellular networks
A radio access network (RAN) intelligent controller (RIC) and corresponding method may be implemented within RAN and in next-generation cellular networks to improve performance. The RIC comprises an interface to a RAN and further comprises a data-driven logic unit. The data-driven logic unit (i) produces, based on data received from the RAN via the interface, a representation describing a state of the RAN and (ii) based on the representation describing the state, instructs an action associated with at least one network element. The interface transmits a message based on the action instructed. The message is to be routed to the at least one network element. The representation is based on a context of the RAN. The message transmitted enabling re-configuration of the at least one network element. The re-configuration improves performance of the at least one network element within the context. |
| US12127056B2 |
Machine-learning frequency layer management and handover parameter tuning
Machine-learning based techniques are described herein for determining and modifying handover parameters within multilayer wireless networks. Various communication session data, such as key performance indicators, may be analyzed and compared at multiple frequency layers to determine sets of custom parameters associated with one or more wireless networks. The sets of custom parameters and network performance data may be used to train one or more machine-learned models to improve and/or optimize the handover parameters used by the network nodes. In some examples, different trained models may be associated with different network performance metrics, such as throughput optimization, network speed, and/or dropped call minimization, etc. A trained machine-learned model may be used to analyze the session data from a set of network nodes, and to determine or tune the handover parameters used by the network nodes. |
| US12127053B2 |
Method for handover between access points, and terminal equipment
A method includes: when performing information transmission with a first access point AP on a first frequency band, determining, whether the terminal equipment needs to establish a connection with a second AP, which is a second frequency band; determining, by the terminal equipment, whether the first AP and the second AP are corresponding to a same dual-band radio access device; sending, by the terminal equipment, a connection request to the second AP when maintaining a protocol layer connection with the first AP; and if establishing, by the terminal equipment, the connection with the second AP when the second AP send feedback. |
| US12127052B2 |
Frequency band switching method, apparatus, terminal device, communication node and computer readable storage medium
The present disclosure provides a frequency band switching method, an apparatus, a terminal device, a communication node and a computer-readable storage medium. The frequency band switching method comprises: determining a need for switching a frequency band of an uplink operation according to transmission power information of a terminal device when the uplink operation of the terminal device is performed in a first frequency band; performing, by the terminal device, a beam scanning for a second frequency band to switched to; and switching, by the terminal device, to the second frequency band according to a beam scanning result. |
| US12127051B2 |
Device, method, apparatus and computer readable medium for inter-master node handover
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to for handover. In response to reception of a request for handover of a second device from a third device to a first device, the first device transmit to the third device an indication that a radio bearer for the second device is to be changed from a split bearer terminated in a fourth device to a Master Cell Group bearer terminated in the first device, the second device being in dual connectivity with the third and fourth devices. The first device receives from the third device a transmission status of data associated with the radio bearer. |
| US12127048B2 |
Communication method and communications apparatus and system
This application discloses a communication method, a communications apparatus and a communications system, to resolve a problem that a terminal cannot quickly resume a communication connection to a secondary node. The method includes: sending a first message to a first master node to request state transition of a terminal from a third mode to a connected mode; receiving a second message from the first master node, where the second message comprises a first security parameter and SCG configuration information, and completing, based on the first security parameter and the SCG configuration information, a communication connection to the secondary node. |
| US12127047B2 |
Access stratum (AS) security for a centralized radio access network (C-RAN)
Techniques for secure control plane communications between a User Equipment (UE) and a gNB are provided. A RAN network entity decides to handover a UE from a source base station (BS) to a target BS, wherein the RAN network entity controls a plurality of BSs including at least one of the source BS or the target BS, and wherein at least a portion of a control plane (CP) protocol layer is implemented at the target BS. The network entity generates at least one key specific to the target BS, based on a master key and a freshness parameter, the master key associated with the network entity. The network entity transmits an indication of the at least one key to the target BS, wherein the target BS exchanges control signaling with the UE based on the CP protocol layer using the at least one key. |
| US12127046B2 |
Vehicle-to-everything support of a cell via base stations
A first base station receives, from a second base station with a plurality of cells, a message that includes a served cell information element for each cell of the plurality of cells, where the served cell information element for each cell indicates whether a respective cell supports at least one vehicle-to-everything (V2X) service. The first base station makes a dual connectivity decision for a wireless device. The first base station sends, to the second base station, a secondary node addition request for the wireless device based on the dual connectivity decision and the message. |
| US12127042B2 |
Open radio access network neutral host
System, methods, and computer-readable media for validating and committing a shared O-RU configuration via a shared O-RU Operator. The shared O-RU Operator validates a partitioned configuration received from a tenant operator, with the ability to indicate to the tenant operator that the partitioned configuration is conformant to agreed-upon sharing rules and then commits the shared configuration to the shared O-RU. The shared O-RU operator shares the outcome of the commit operation to the tenant operator via defined operational-data that can be read by the tenant operator. A single radio in O-RAN is shared by multiple different operators and enables a neutral host to deploy a radio unit and then have that attached to different operators networks. |
| US12127041B2 |
Puncturing information indication method and communication apparatus
This disclosure discloses puncturing information indication methods and communication apparatuses. In an implementation, a method comprises generate a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) comprising a preamble, wherein the preamble comprises preamble puncturing information carried by a content channel and indicates preamble puncturing status of subchannels of a bandwidth of the PPDU, wherein the content channel is distributed on some subchannels of the bandwidth of the PPDU, and a bandwidth of the content channel is less than the bandwidth of the PPDU, and send the PPDU. |
| US12127040B2 |
Communication apparatus and method having data transmission sorting mechanism
The present invention discloses a communication method having data transmission sorting mechanism. Whether an object under process is a mobile terminated object is determined. When the object under process is the mobile terminated object, a processing priority is set to be the highest priority, a receiving process is performed and response content is generated when required. When the object under process is a mobile originated object, a transmission process is performed, the processing priority is set according to a processing priority setting of a related transmission entity and the mobile originated object is added to a transmission list. When an object transmission is not able to be performed, the response content is added to a response list. When the object transmission is able to be performed, the response content in the response list is transmitted first and the mobile originated object in the transmission list is transmitted subsequently. |
| US12127038B2 |
Remote operation system and remote operation server
According to the remote operation system or a remote operation server 20 included in the remote operation system, when the “environment information control process” is performed, a data amount of environment data is reduced such that the reduction in the information amount of one or a plurality of low environment information factors is greater than the reduction in the information amount of one or a plurality of high environment information factors (meaning the reduction in the information amount of the environment information due to a change in the environment information factor). The environment information control process is performed by classifying the environment information factors into the high environment information factor and the low environment information factor according to a difference in the operation state. |
| US12127034B2 |
Method for QoS control and apparatus
A method for quality of service (QoS) control and an apparatus are provided. The method includes the following. A first terminal device receives first information provided by a second terminal device, where the first information includes an end-to-end QoS requirement of a service which is initiated by the second terminal device and to be communicated to a data network via the first terminal device. According to the end-to-end QoS requirement, the first terminal device obtains first QoS information of communication between the first terminal device and the second terminal device and second QoS information of communication between the first terminal device and the data network, where the end-to-end QoS requirement is satisfied by the first QoS information and the second QoS information. |
| US12127033B2 |
Terminal, base station and communication method
A terminal includes a reception unit that receives, from a base station, a message for requesting to report a terminal capability, a control unit that configures information for reporting a parameter associated with a codebook based on information for indicating a range of the parameter associated with the codebook included in the message for requesting the report of the terminal capability, and that includes, in a message for reporting the terminal capability, the information for reporting the parameter associated with the codebook, and a transmission unit that transmits the message for reporting the terminal capability to the base station. |
| US12127030B2 |
Method and device for reporting beam failure, and storage medium
A method for reporting an antenna beam failure includes: determining, by a terminal, that a target secondary serving cell among n accessed secondary serving cells has a beam failure, where n is a positive integer; and transmitting, by the terminal, a first medium access control (MAC) control element (CE) signaling to a base station, the first MAC CE signaling including beam failure indication information for indicating that the target secondary serving cell has the beam failure. A device and a storage medium for reporting a beam failure are also disclosed. |
| US12127027B2 |
Early measurement reporting with RRC resume request message and indication of request for early measurements in association with paging
Systems and methods related to early measurement reporting are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method performed by a wireless device in a cellular communications system comprises transmitting measurements with a first message to a network node. The first message is a request to resume a connection of the wireless device with a target cell, and the measurements are measurements performed by the wireless device while in a dormant state. Corresponding embodiments of a wireless device are also disclosed. Embodiments of a method of operation of a wireless device for reception of a request for early measurements in association with a paging message and corresponding embodiments of a wireless device are also disclosed. Embodiments of methods of operation of a network node and corresponding embodiments of a network node are also disclosed. |
| US12127026B2 |
Information processing method, device, and system
Embodiments of this application disclose an information processing method, a device, and a system. A specific solution is as follows: The UE performs any one of the following processing in a case that IDC interference is present in the UE: transmitting first information, transmitting additional information, transmitting first information and additional information, transmitting first information, second information, and additional information, skipping transmitting first information, skipping transmitting second information, or skipping transmitting first information and second information, where the first information is the information provided by the UE and not affected by IDC interference, the second information is the information provided by the UE and provided by the UE and IDC interference, and the additional information is used to indicate that the UE is affected by IDC interference. |
| US12127024B2 |
Method and device for measuring sidelink channel in NR V2X on basis of HARQ feedback
Provided are: a method for a first device to perform wireless communication; and a device supporting same. The above method may comprise: a step for transmitting a first reference signal (RS) related to the measurement of a sidelink (SL) channel state to a second device; and a step for receiving, from the second device, the SL channel state between the first device and the second device and measured on the basis of the first RS. Here, for example, the transmission power of the first RS transmitted by the first device may be the same during a specific time period. |
| US12127023B2 |
Apparatus and a method for configurating and reporting of minimization of drive tests measurement and access network device
The present disclosure relates to a pre-5th-Generation (5G) or 5G communication system to be provided for supporting higher data rates Beyond 4th-Generation (4G) communication system such as Long Term Evolution (LTE). The present application provides a configuration method, a reporting method of a minimization of drive tests (MDT) measurement and an access network device, wherein the configuration method comprises: receiving, by a user node of an access network (CU-UP), a configuration information of MDT from an operation and maintenance node; transmitting, by the CU-UP, the configuration information of MDT to a control node of an access network (CU-CP); receiving, by the CU-UP, the configuration information of MDT for UE from the CU-CP. The MDT under a separate architecture is achieved by the present application. |
| US12127020B2 |
License based traffic management in hybrid networks
Systems and methods for managing traffic in a hybrid environment include monitoring traffic load of a local network to determine whether the traffic load exceeds or is likely to exceed a maximum traffic load, where the maximum traffic load is a traffic load for which a service can be provided by the local network, based on a license. An excess traffic load is determined if the traffic load exceeds or is likely to exceed the maximum traffic load. One or more external networks which have a capacity to provide the service to the excess traffic load are determined, to which the excess traffic load is migrated. The local network includes one or more service instances for providing the service for up to the maximum traffic load, and the service to the excess traffic load is provided by one or more additional service instances in the one or more external networks. |
| US12127018B2 |
Unified measurement configurations for cross-link interference, self-interference, and wireless sensing
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a measurement configuration that is associated with a common measurement object or a common resource pool for at least two of cross-link interference (CLI) measurements, self-interference (SI) measurements, or wireless sensing measurements. The UE may perform, based at least in part on the measurement configuration, one or more measurements that include at least one of a CLI measurement, an SI measurement, or a wireless sensing measurement. The UE may transmit, based at least in part on the measurement configuration, a measurement report indicating at least one measurement of the one or more measurements. Numerous other aspects are described. |
| US12127014B2 |
Protocol stack for analog communication in split architecture network for machine learning (ML) functions
A protocol stack architecture for processing machine learning (ML) data includes a ML layer to manage ML data communication with a network device. The ML layer is coupled to multiple ML training blocks, and ML and inference blocks for multiple neural networks, and an analog data communications stack coupled to the ML layer. The analog data communications stack has an upper media access control analog (MAC-A) layer coupled to the ML layer and configured to store data for each neural network, a lower MAC-A layer coupled to the upper MAC-A layer and configured to segment and reassemble analog ML data, and an analog physical layer coupled to the lower MAC-A layer and configured to communicate analog data with the network device. The architecture includes a digital data communications stack coupled to the ML layer and the lower MAC-A layer and configured to manage digital communications with the network device. |
| US12127008B2 |
System, method, and apparatus for providing optimized network resources
Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing optimization of network resources. The system is operable to monitor the electromagnetic environment, analyze the electromagnetic environment, and extract environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment. The system extracts the environmental awareness of the electromagnetic environment by including customer goals. The system is operable to use the environmental awareness with the customer goals and/or user defined policies and rules to extract actionable information to help the customer optimize the network resources. |
| US12127005B2 |
Minimal configuration synthetic eSIM profiles for wireless devices
Embodiments described herein relate to wireless communications, including methods and apparatus for configuring synthetic electronic subscriber identity module (eSIM) profiles for wireless devices based on user credentials. A synthetic eSIM profile is generated at a wireless device based on transformation of user credentials that include a user identity and user cryptographic information. The user identity can include an identifier for a user account, and the user cryptographic information can include a password for the user account. The wireless devices can use the synthetic eSIM profile to obtain and load one or more fully functional eSIM profiles to an embedded universal integrated circuit card (eUICC) to without requiring a bootstrap eSIM profile or non-cellular wireless access. |
| US12127004B2 |
SDN-based intrusion response method for in-vehicle network and system using same
Provided are an intrusion prevention system and a method for detecting and responding to a vehicle intrusion by means of an SDN support switch installed in an in-vehicle network (IVN) and an SDN controller communicating with the SDN-enabled switch, the method in which the SDN controller receives a flow table from the SDN-enabled switch, enables an intrusion detection system (IDS) to perform intrusion detection, and updates the flow table on the basis of the intrusion detection execution result. |
| US12126995B2 |
Secured communications in medical monitoring systems
In one embodiment, a method for secured communication between a medical sensor and a computing device includes receiving, by the medical sensor, an authentication request from the computing device. The method includes generating, based on values provided in the authentication request, a challenge-response message for the computing device. The method includes receiving, from the computing device, a responsive challenge-response message. The method includes verifying that the responsive challenge-response message includes an expected value and corresponds to an expected format. The method includes, in response to verifying the responsive challenge-response message, sending a sensor secret value to the computing device. |
| US12126992B2 |
Unauthorized tracking device detection and prevention
Unauthorized tracking devices, including those that change their identification information periodically, are detected to protect an individual's privacy. A mobile device of a user detects a first advertisement signal from an unknown wireless device, the first advertisement signal containing information representative of the unknown device. Multiple advertisement signals may be received as the mobile device moves a distance greater than a broadcast range away from the location where the first signal was detected. Responsive to detecting a second advertisement signal containing the same identity information after the mobile device has moved at least the distance greater than the broadcast range away from the location where the first signal was detected, the system generates an interface on the mobile device. The generated interface indicates to a user of the mobile device the presence of an unknown device. |
| US12126986B2 |
Apparatus and method for rendering a sound scene comprising discretized curved surfaces
An apparatus for rendering a sound scene having reflection objects and a sound source at a sound source position, includes: a geometry data provider for providing an analysis of the reflection objects of the sound scene to determine a reflection object represented by a first polygon and a second adjacent polygon having associated a first image source position for the first polygon and a second image source position for the second polygon, wherein the first and second image source positions result in a sequence including a first visible zone related to the first image source position, an invisible zone and a second visible zone related to the second image source position; an image source position generator for generating an additional image source position such that the additional image source position is placed between the first image source position and the second image source position; and a sound renderer for rendering the sound source at the sound source position and, additionally for rendering the sound source at the first image source position, when a listener position is located within the first visible zone, for rendering the sound source at the additional image source position, when the listener position is located within the invisible zone, or for rendering the sound source at the second image source position, when the listener position is located within the second visible zone. |
| US12126985B2 |
Methods, apparatus and systems for 6DOF audio rendering and data representations and bitstream structures for 6DOF audio rendering
The present disclosure relates to methods, apparatus and systems for encoding an audio signal into a bitstream, in particular at an encoder, comprising: encoding or including audio signal data associated with 3DoF audio rendering into one or more first bitstream parts of the bitstream, and encoding or including metadata associated with 6DoF audio rendering into one or more second bitstream parts of the bitstream. The present disclosure further relates to methods, apparatus and systems for decoding an audio signal and audio rendering based on the bitstream. |
| US12126984B2 |
Three-dimensional audio source spatialization
Techniques of delivering audio in a telepresence system include specifying a frequency threshold below which crosstalk cancellation (CC) is used and above which VBAP is used. In some implementations, such a frequency threshold is between 1000 Hz and 2000 Hz. Moreover, in some implementations, the improved techniques include modifying VBAP for more than three loudspeakers by forming an over-determined system to determine the amplitude weights for all loudspeakers at once. |
| US12126981B1 |
Force balanced acoustic transducer
An acoustic transducer comprising a plurality of acoustic diaphragms configured to vibrate in opposing directions in response to a received electrical signal, a frame assembly coupled to a first diaphragm and a second diaphragm of the plurality of acoustic diaphragms, a plurality of suspension elements coupled to the plurality of acoustic diaphragms, the plurality of suspension elements comprising at least two primary-suspension-elements and at least two secondary-suspension-elements, and a magnet assembly fixedly positioned within the frame assembly including a housing, at least two magnets, a first pole piece mounted on a first of the at least two magnets and a second pole piece mounted on a second of the at least two magnets, the housing having at least a first region for placement of a first magnet and a first vertical portion having a vertical height greater than a vertical height of the first magnet or a second magnet. |
| US12126980B2 |
Speaker device
The present disclosure relates to a speaker device. The speaker device may include a core housing, a circuit housing, an ear hook, and a housing sheath. The core housing may be configured to accommodate an earphone core. The circuit housing may be configured to accommodate a control circuit or a battery. The control circuit or the battery may be configured to drive the earphone core to vibrate to produce sound. The ear hook may be configured to connect the core housing and the circuit housing. The housing sheath may at least partially cover the circuit housing and the ear hook. The housing sheath may include waterproof material. The waterproof performance of the speaker device may be improved through sealed connections among various components of the speaker device in the present disclosure. |
| US12126978B2 |
Sound generating device
The present disclosure discloses a sound generating device, which comprises: a magnetic conductive yoke; a housing extending along an edge of the magnetic conductive yoke and having an annular shape, wherein a leakage opening is formed in a gap between the housing and the magnetic conductive yoke; and a metal mesh covering the leakage opening, wherein a portion of the metal mesh corresponding to the leakage opening is provided with a plurality of air holes. The sound generating device of the present disclosure can reduce the defective rate of products. |
| US12126977B1 |
Systems and methods for dynamically modifying audio content using variable field of view
An image capture device may capture multiple audio content during capture of visual content. The field of view of the visual content may be used to generate modified audio content from the multiple audio content. The modified audio content may provide sound for playback of the visual content with the field of view. |
| US12126975B2 |
Wearable device and method for controlling audio output using multi digital to analog converter path
A wearable device is provided and includes a plurality of speakers including a first speaker, a second speaker, and an Nth speaker, a plurality of digital to analog converter (DAC)s including a first DAC connected to the first speaker, a second DAC connected to the second speaker, and an Nth DAC connected to the Nth speaker, an audio signal processing module including N DAC output paths configured to filter an audio signal according to each frequency band and output the audio signal, a memory; and a processor electrically connected to the plurality of DACs, the audio signal processing module, and the memory, wherein the memory includes instructions causing the processor to, when the audio signal is reproduced, analyze a frequency component included in the audio signal, activate the N DAC output paths when the frequency component included in the audio signal has a full band range, activate only a DAC output path for processing a specific frequency band among the N DAC output paths when the frequency component included in the audio signal has only the specific frequency band, and output the audio signal through a speaker connected to the activated DAC output path. |
| US12126974B2 |
Belt-pack
The invention relates, among others, to a mobile terminal portable by a user (32) and designed as a belt pack (10) for use in an intercom network (17), comprising a housing (44) with a port (16) for a headset (11) with a headset microphone (13) and a headset loudspeaker (12), and further comprising a communication module (25a), with which audio information can be wirelessly transmitted to other users (19a, 19b) of the intercom network. The specialty consists, among others, in that a microphone (27) and a loudspeaker (28) are provided in or on the housing (44). |
| US12126973B2 |
Dynamic range compression with reduced artifacts
Methods for performing dynamic range compression (DRC) on audio in a manner intended to produce output audio for playback by systems or devices with limited power handling capabilities and preferably also to reduce or prevent undesirable artifacts (e.g., pumping and/or breathing) in the output audio. Some embodiments perform the DRC so as to maximize average loudness (while preventing loss of quieter elements) during playback, and also to reduce or prevent distortion. Other aspects are systems or devices configured to perform embodiments of the method. In some embodiments, reduced DRC is applied when average loudness of the input audio approaches (or matches or exceeds) a target (e.g., a knee point for DRC, or a signal level near to a maximum playback level of the intended playback system), since such input audio is assumed to have already been compressed, and otherwise applying full DRC to the input audio. |
| US12126971B2 |
Acoustic signal processing adaptive to user-to-microphone distances
Apparatus, systems, methods, and articles of manufacture are disclosed for acoustic signal processing adaptive to microphone distances. An example system includes a microphone to convert an acoustic signal to an electrical signal and one or more processors to: estimate a distance between a source of the acoustic signal and the microphone; select a signal processing mode based on the distance; and process the electrical signal in accordance with the selected processing mode. |
| US12126968B2 |
Hearing aid adjustment system and hearing aid adjustment method
A hearing aid adjustment system is provided that can efficiently improve hearing while alleviating excessive stress to be felt by a user after adjustment of a set value of a hearing aid at each phase is performed. An adjustment system S includes a target set value decision unit 3b which decides the target set value, a first set content decision unit 3c which decides the set value at each phase based on the target set value, a wearing time measurement unit 3e which measures a wearing time of a hearing aid 2 of a user after previous adjustment, and an adjustment processing unit 3d which performs adjustment of the hearing aid 2 based on the set value at each of the phases. In adjustment at each of the phases, the adjustment processing unit 3d corrects the present set value based on the measured wearing time. |
| US12126965B2 |
Buttonless on/off switch for hearing assistance device
A hearing assistance device may be turned on or off in response to a change in magnetic field or detection of a gesture. A magnetic sensor may be used to identify a change in a magnetic field. An inertial measurement unit or other force sensor may be used to detect a gesture. In response to the magnetic field change or gesture, a hearing assistance device may be caused to change a device function or change a device power mode. |
| US12126962B2 |
Hearing assistance system with automatic hearing loop memory
Disclosed herein, among other things, are apparatus and methods for an automatic hearing loop memory for hearing assistance systems. A method includes receiving an acoustic input at a microphone and receiving an inductive input at a magnetic sensor. The method further includes using an operatively connected processor of the hearing assistance system to process the acoustic input from the microphone using instructions stored in a first set of memory locations, and to process the inductive input from the magnetic sensor using instructions stored in a second set of memory locations, and to optionally discontinue processing the acoustic input when a demodulator circuit operatively connected to the processor detects a predetermined signal indicative of the presence of a hearing loop system. |
| US12126960B2 |
Parylene electret condenser microphone backplate
A backplate assembly for a condenser microphone. The backplate may be coated with a parylene configured to help reduce the flatness deviation of the backplate across the diameter of the backplate. A plurality of openings may extend from the top portion of the backplate to the bottom portion of the backplate. |
| US12126956B2 |
Hearing device comprising a controllable valve device and a method for controlling the valve device
The disclosure relates to a hearing device comprising a receiver module for insertion into an ear canal of a user of the hearing device, the receiver module comprising a signal processor, an output transducer, and a vent having a valve device, the valve device comprising at least one stationary valve coil, a movable magnet, and a movable valve element, the valve element being configured to open and close the vent, wherein the signal processor is configured to determine a current position of the valve element in the vent, and wherein the signal processor is configured to apply a drive signal to the valve coil to thereby move the valve element from the current position to a desired position. The disclosure further relates to a method for controlling a valve device of a hearing device and a binaural system. |
| US12126955B1 |
Dynamic cabin digital headphone jack
A cabin management system is described. The cabin management system includes a housing. The housing is configured to receive one or more modules. The modules may be detached and reattached to the housing. The modules may be rearranged to achieve a desired layout of touchscreens, audio converter, and input/output ports. The modules may include a geometry which provides a flush-mounting between the housing and the modules. The flush-mounting may prevent a passenger from accessing the cavity defined by the housing. The audio converter includes a digital-to-analog converter and an audio jack. The digital-to-analog converter converts an uncompressed digital audio signal to an analog audio signal. The audio jack receives a stereo analog signal and outputs the stereo analog signal to an audio plug. |
| US12126954B2 |
Method and apparatus for controlling headphones, headphones and storage medium
A method for controlling headphones. The headphones include a feedback microphone and a speaker. The method includes: obtaining an ear canal audio signal by collecting an audio signal in an ear canal by the feedback microphone; obtaining an audio signal feature parameter by conducting feature extraction on the ear canal audio signal; determining a tightness level of the headphones in a current wearing status; generating an audio feature to be identified according to the audio signal feature parameter and the tightness level; inputting the audio feature to be identified into a preset interactive operation identification model, and outputting an identification result, where the identification result includes an interactive operation identifier; determining a control instruction corresponding to the interactive operation identifier; and controlling a playback status of the speaker according to the control instruction. |
| US12126953B2 |
Acoustic output apparatus
The present disclosure discloses an acoustic output apparatus including at least one acoustic driver, a controller, and a supporting structure. The at least one acoustic driver may be configured to output sounds through at least two sound guiding holes. The at least two sound guiding holes may include a first sound guiding hole and a second sound guiding hole. The controller may be configured to control a phase and an amplitude of the sounds generated by the at least one acoustic driver using a control signal such that the sounds output by the at least one acoustic driver through the first and second sound guiding holes have opposite phases. The supporting structure may be provided with a baffle and configured to support the at least one acoustic driver such that the first and second sound guiding holes are located on both sides of the baffle. |
| US12126949B2 |
Conversion element member, and conversion element module and electronic device including conversion element member
The conversion element member of the present disclosure includes: a conversion element having an opening capable of functioning as a ventilation port and/or a sound-transmitting port; and a waterproof membrane. The conversion element has an outer surface provided with the opening. The waterproof membrane is joined, at a joining portion thereof, to the outer surface of the element so as to cover the opening, the joining portion having a shape surrounding the opening when viewed in a direction perpendicular to the outer surface. The waterproof membrane has a non-joining portion defined as a portion surrounded by the joining portion when viewed in the direction, the non-joining portion having a region overlapping the outer surface when viewed in the direction. A spacing distance D1 between the membrane and the outer surface in the region is 0.01 mm to X mm, where X represents, in an indentation test on the waterproof membrane. |
| US12126948B2 |
Method and apparatus for evaluating transmitter performance capabilities in a passive optical network
A method and apparatus is proposed for accurately evaluating the performance of optical transmitters under test conditions (such as high bit-rate modulation formats) that compromise the operability of standard test equipment used for this purpose. The proposed apparatus and method are similar to the elements associated with existing testing standards based on an optical eye diagram, with an important distinction that allows for accurate measurements of the transmitter's performance to be made. In particular, the sampling point for collecting eye diagram data samples in the inventive arrangement is shifted by half a period with respect to the conventional mid-eye sampling point, eliminating the need to include representative reference equalizer in the test equipment and providing an evaluation not influenced by the test equipment, resulting in a more accurate measurement of transmitter-related distortions. |
| US12126947B2 |
Method, device and computer readable storage medium implemented in an optical network
In response to a first channel associated with a first OLT and a second channel associated with a second OLT being enabled for target traffic, a traffic scheduler for scheduling the target traffic is determined by the first OLT. The first channel and the second channel correspond to a first wavelength and a second wavelength, respectively. The first OLT transmits channel configurations and offset information to an ONU, based on scheduling of a first group of data units and a second group of data units of the target traffic by the traffic scheduler on the first channel and the second channel, respectively. The channel configurations indicate channel identifications associated with the first channel and the second channel, and the offset information indicates timing information of the first group of data units and the second group of data units corresponding to physical frames transmitted on the first and second channels. |
| US12126939B2 |
Event recognition systems and methods
An event recognition system includes one or more processing circuits including one or more memory devices and one or more processors. The one or more memory devices are configured to store instructions thereon that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to: execute an algorithm that receives image data as an input and recognizes a first equipment object and a second equipment object in the image data; recognize an event involving the first equipment object and the second equipment object based upon the image data containing the recognized first equipment object and the recognized second equipment object; and execute an event procedure based upon the event where the event procedure includes controlling the first equipment object. |
| US12126937B2 |
Method and system for virtual 3D communications having multiple participants per camera
A method for conducting a three dimensional (3D) video conference between multiple participants, the method may include acquiring visual information, by a visual sensing unit related to a certain participant; identifying multiple persons that appear in the visual information; finding, out of the multiple persons, at least one relevant person; determining 3D entity representation information, for each of the at least one relevant person; and generating, for at least one participant, a representation of a virtual 3D video conference environment, based on the 3D entity representation information for each of the at least one relevant person. |
| US12126934B2 |
Transmission apparatus, transmission method, reception apparatus, reception method, and transmission/reception system
This technology is to enable high quality audio reproduction on the reception side without supplying a transmission clock using a clock signal line from the reception side to the transmission side. The transmission apparatus receives encoded data capable of clock recovery from a reception apparatus (external device), generates an audio clock on the basis of a carrier clock recovered from the encoded data, and transmits audio data to the reception apparatus in synchronization with the audio clock. The reception apparatus transmits the encoded data capable of clock recovery to the external device in synchronization with the carrier clock generated on the basis of an self-generating audio clock, receives the audio data from the transmission apparatus (external device), and processes the audio data on the basis of the self-generating audio clock. |
| US12126929B2 |
Electronic device applying bokeh effect to image and operating method thereof
According to certain embodiments, an electronic device comprises: a motion sensor; a first camera module including a lens assembly and a driving circuit configured to move the lens assembly in a direction substantially perpendicular to an optical axis, the first camera module having a first angle of view when the lens assembly is positioned in a reference position; a second camera module having a second angle of view, wherein the first angle of view is entirely in the second angle of view; and at least one processor electrically connected to the motion sensor, the first camera module, and the second camera module, wherein the at least one processor is configured to: control the driving circuit to move the lens assembly based on motion data received from the motion sensor, thereby causing the first camera module to have a third angle of view, offset from the first angle of view by an angle, acquire, from the first camera module, a first image corresponding to the third angle of view, acquire a second image corresponding to the second angle of view from the second camera module, acquire depth information for the first image based on the second image and the motion data, and apply a bokeh effect to the first image based on the depth information. |
| US12126927B2 |
Imaging device and electronic device
There is provided a column signal processing system including a successive approximation register analog-to-digital converter and an imaging device. The imaging device includes a pixel array unit including a plurality of pixels each including a photoelectric conversion element, a column amplifier unit that obtains a difference between a reset component and a signal component input from each pixel of the pixel array unit via a signal line, and outputs the difference as a pixel signal, a capacitance unit that holds the pixel signal input from the column amplifier unit, and a successive approximation register analog-to-digital conversion unit that converts an analog pixel signal input from the capacitance unit into a digital signal, in which the capacitance unit differentiates a single-phase pixel signal input from the column amplifier unit using a reference voltage that defines a zero voltage of the pixel signal. |
| US12126922B2 |
Virtual image display system, data processing method thereof and display apparatus
An embodiment of the present disclosure provides a virtual image display system, including: a photoelectric conversion part for receiving an optical image signal and converting the optical image signal into a current signal; a voltage conversion part electrically connected to the photoelectric conversion part, for receiving the current signal and converting the current signal into a voltage signal; and a display part electrically connected to the voltage conversion part, for receiving the voltage signal and displaying an image according to the voltage signal. |
| US12126920B2 |
Imaging apparatus, driving method of imaging apparatus, and program
The imaging element has a first and a second phase difference pixel region each including the plurality of phase difference pixels, and an imaging pixel region between the first and the second phase difference pixel region in the first direction. The processor is configured to cause the imaging element to perform imaging at a frame cycle, execute first readout processing of reading out a signal from the first phase difference pixel region during a first frame period, and execute second readout processing of reading out a signal from the second phase difference pixel region during a second frame period subsequent to the first frame period. A first exposure time, during which the first phase difference pixel region is exposed, and a second exposure time, during which the second phase difference pixel region is exposed, are different from an exposure time of the imaging pixel region. |
| US12126919B2 |
Methods for mitigating lag in image sensor devices
Implementations of a method of mitigating lag for an image sensor device may include reading a row of data from an Nth frame of image data from an image sensor device; correcting the row of data using truncated row data from an N−1th frame stored in a memory operatively coupled with the image sensor device to form a lag corrected row of data; outputting the lag corrected row of data; truncating the row of data to form truncated row data from the Nth frame; and storing the truncated row data from the Nth frame in the memory. |
| US12126911B2 |
Omnidirectional ghost imaging method and system based on the mechanism of bio-inspired retina-like
An omnidirectional ghost imaging system based on a mechanism of bio-inspired retina-like includes a projection system, a collimating lens, a spectroscope, a curved mirror, a bucket detector, a data acquisition card and an arithmetic system. According to the application, the logarithmic polar mapping characteristic of the bio-inspired retina-like structure is utilized to generate an annular pattern sequence of the bio-inspired retina-like, and the pattern sequence is utilized to modulate a light source. After being reflected by the target around the curved mirror, the light is projected onto the curved mirror and diffusely reflected. According to the reversible characteristics of the optical path, the light after diffuse reflection is reflected to the original light source by the half mirror and half lens, and the reflected light intensity with target information is received by the bucket detector. |
| US12126909B2 |
Camera module, electronic device, and method for controlling camera module
A camera module, an electronic device, and a camera module control method are provided. The camera module includes: a first bracket; a lens, where the lens is disposed on the first bracket; a camera assembly, where the camera assembly includes a camera and a second bracket, the camera is disposed on the second bracket, the second bracket is slidably sleeved on the first bracket, and an optical axis direction of the lens is parallel to an optical axis direction of the camera. |
| US12126908B2 |
Image capturing apparatus obtaining a plurality of images to be used for generation of a combined image and method for controlling the same, and non-transitory computer-readable storage medium
The disclosure provides an image capturing apparatus including an image capturing unit and configured to obtain a plurality of images to be used for generation of a combined image by performing continuous capturing using the image capturing unit, wherein the apparatus comprises a correction unit which detects a shake amount of the image capturing apparatus and performs image blur correction by changing a position of a correction member based on the shake amount; an acquisition unit which acquires a correctable amount representing a degree to which correction by the correction unit is possible from a current position of the correction member and the shake amount; and a decision unit which decides exposure time in next capturing based on a correctable amount acquired by the acquisition unit in a case where capturing for generating the combined image is being performed. |
| US12126906B2 |
Lens module with anti-shake and focus control and electronic device
Embodiments of the present disclosure disclose a lens module and an electronic device. The lens module includes a base, an elastic suspension component and a lens component. The base is provided with an anti-shake control circuit board and a first conductive member. The elastic suspension component is connected to the base. The lens component is connected to the base through the elastic suspension component. The lens component includes an anti-shake bracket connected to the elastic suspension component, a focus control circuit board and a second conductive member arranged on the anti-shake bracket. The focus control circuit board is electrically connect to the anti-shake control board through the second conductive member, the elastic suspension component and the first conductive member in sequence. The lens module and the electronic device can avoid the poor condition of electrical signal transmission during the movement of the lens component due to the use of FPC. |
| US12126904B2 |
Camera module, information processing method, and electronic device for image stabilization control
The present disclosure provides a camera module, an information processing method, and an electronic device. The camera module includes a casing and a lens assembly movably connected to the casing. The lens assembly includes a lens group including a plurality of lenses, and the lens group is fixedly arranged in a lens barrel. The camera module further includes a sensor assembly movably connected to the casing. The sensor assembly is located under the lens assembly. The camera module also includes a driving assembly, which drives the lens assembly and/or the sensor assembly to move based on a control signal. |
| US12126901B2 |
Electronic device and method for supporting deblurring of image data
An electronic device having a camera module for generating image data, a processor for receiving the image data and generating image data restored based on the image data. The electronic device also having a display module displaying the restored image data. The processor being configured to identify a class of the image data, select a filter corresponding to the class, and generate the restored image data by applying the selected filter to the image data. |
| US12126900B2 |
Camera device and portable electronic device with anti-shake mechanism comprising at least one coil, at least one magnetic steel, and at least one magnetic fluid body
A camera device and a portable electronic device are provided. The camera device includes a camera lens and an anti-shake mechanism. The anti-shake mechanism includes a base, a supporting frame, a driving member, and a supporting member. The camera lens is fixed to the supporting frame. The driving member includes at least one coil and at least one magnetic steel. The driving member is configured to drive the supporting frame to move relative to the base in a direction perpendicular to the optical axis, and the supporting member is arranged between the supporting frame and the base to support movement of the supporting frame. The anti-shake mechanism further comprises at least one magnetic fluid body arranged on at least one of the base and the supporting frame. |
| US12126897B2 |
Bandwidth saving for wireless camera using motion vectors
A system for bandwidth saving for wireless cameras using motion vectors includes wireless cameras disposed within the vehicle, and capturing input image data. A control module, having a processor, memory, and input/output (I/O) ports, executes control logic stored in memory. A first control logic receives, real-time input image data from the cameras. A second control logic processes the input image data to maintain (Wi-Fi) bandwidth utilization within the vehicle below a predetermined threshold and maintains and maximizes real-time image data streaming quality through semantic segmentation and background memorization. A third control logic generates an output including background and foreground image portions. The output is transmitted to a human-machine interface (HMI) within the vehicle and periodically replaces the background portion with a cached background scene that is transmitted to the HMI. |
| US12126896B2 |
2D digital image capture system and simulating 3D digital image and sequence
A system to capture a plurality of two dimensional digital source images of scene by user, a smart device having a memory device for storing an instruction, a processor in communication with the memory and configured to execute the instruction, a plurality of digital image capture devices in communication with the processor and each image capture device configured to capture a digital image of the scene, the plurality of digital image capture devices positioned linearly in series within approximately an interpupillary distance, wherein a first digital image capture devices is centered proximate a first end of the interpupillary distance, a second digital image capture devices is centered on a second end of the interpupillary distance, and any remaining the plurality of digital image capture devices are evenly spaced therebetween, a display in communication with the processor, display configured to display multidimensional digital image and add audio file thereto. |
| US12126890B2 |
Image processing method and image processing apparatus
An image processing method obtains a first input image from a camera, generates a background image based on the first input image, determines whether the first input image includes a specific object, determines whether the specific object satisfies a predetermined position condition in a case where the first input image includes the specific object, and replaces the specific object that satisfies the predetermined position condition with the background image. |
| US12126886B2 |
Camera module
A camera module includes first to third lens groups; a first mover configured to move the second lens group in the optical-axis direction; a second mover configured to move the third lens group in the optical-axis direction; a base accommodating the first mover and the second mover; a support ball disposed to be in rolling contact with the first mover, the second mover, and the base, the support ball supporting movement of the first mover and the second mover relative to the base; a driving magnet coupled to each of the first mover and the second mover; and a coil part coupled to the base, the coil part being disposed to face the driving magnet, and wherein an entirety of a surface of the driving magnet that faces the moving coil serves as a first pole. |
| US12126884B1 |
Substrate to place components for camera size reduction
A camera may include a substrate for placing components. An image sensor having a light-receiving side and an opposite non-light-receiving side may be attached to a first side of the substrate to receive light from one or more lenses of the camera to capture an image. The camera may also include one or more additional components separate and distinct from the image sensor. The additional components may be placed beneath the non-light-receiving side of the image sensor. The components may be attached to a second side of the substrate opposite the first side where the image sensor is mounted at least partially inside one or more recesses, or embedded at least partially inside the substrate. |
| US12126883B2 |
Portable information handling system peripheral camera with magnetic coupling and touch inputs
An information handling system having a display magnetically couples a peripheral camera to the display with a ferromagnetic material disposed behind the display and a magnet included in the camera housing. A capacitive touch sensor disposed at an inner surface of the magnet detects touches made by an end user at an outer surface of the magnet. For instance, a single tap at the magnet commands capture of a still image by the camera, which is stored locally until the camera docks to receive external power and then communicated to an information handling system. |
| US12126877B2 |
System and method for watermarking of media segments using sample variants for normalized encryption (SVNE)
A method and device for consuming watermarked media content includes generating a manifest request to access a watermarked media content asset, receiving a custom manifest and a watermarking signature including a unique sequence of segment variants relating to the media content asset, and generating a segment request to an origin server having a plurality of composite segments for the media content asset. The client device receives, from the origin server, a composite segment that includes an authorized watermarked segment variant. Using the unique sequence, the client device extracts the authorized watermarked segment variant and assembles a combination of the main ISOBMFF track and authorized watermarked segment variant to form an output composite segment that is assembled only from the main ISOBMFF track and the extracted particular watermarked segment variant, and decrypts and decodes the output composite segment for rendering by a player application of the client device. |
| US12126875B1 |
Systems and methods for generating immersive content fusing data from multiple sources
Systems and method of the present disclosure enable immersive experiences associated with live and/or recorded events. The immersive experience is created by generating a 3D model of the user. A presence of the user is detected at the live event via the software application. Upon detecting the presence, the software application controls the user's device to disable a function of the user device during the live event, and determine fusion points in the imagery to identify a particular position at which to integrate the 3D model into the imagery. The 3D model is inserted into the imagery at the particular position so as to integrate the 3D model into the imagery. The live event is recorded for the user to access, using the software application, after the live event, in which the 3D model is inserted into one or more of the same or different fusions points. |
| US12126873B1 |
Method and protocol for transmission of video and audio data
An improved backhaul protocol is provided, as well as computer-implemented systems and methods for autonomously broadcasting video data, audio data, or video and audio data during an event, wherein the broadcasting can be scheduled in advance and from a remote location (e.g., using a web browser), and wherein the video/audio data is streamed to a remote user over a network using the improved backhaul protocol. |
| US12126871B1 |
Interruption model
Devices and techniques are generally described for an interruption model for a user device. In various examples, first metadata related to first content executing on a user device may be determined. In some examples, second metadata related to second content for execution by the user device may be determined. In various examples, an output configuration for the user device may be determined using the first metadata and the second metadata. In some examples, the output configuration may result from identification of the second content to the user device during execution of the first content. |
| US12126867B2 |
Systems and methods for aggregating content identifiers in a super-interface
Systems and methods are described for generating a super-interface that aggregates content identifiers from different content sources. A super-interface is generated for display. The super-interface comprises a first interface that comprises a first plurality of content items available from a first content source and a second interface that comprises a second plurality of content items available from a second content source. The second content source is different from the first content source. The first interface and the second interface are simultaneously accessible to a first device. A user preference is detected based on a user interaction with the first interface. The second interface is automatically updated to comprise identifiers of a third plurality of content items that are available from the second content source. The third plurality of content items is selected based on the detected user preference from the user interaction with the first interface. |
| US12126862B2 |
Content delivery using distributed ledger and AI-based transcoding technologies
Examples of the present disclosure relate to content delivery using distributed ledger and AI-based transcoding technologies. In examples, content is received by a content distribution network (CDN) from a content source. The content may be in a lower-quality or different format than is distributed via the CDN. Accordingly, a transcoding model is identified and used to transcode the content. Multiple transcoding models may be used for different content parts to adapt to changing content types (e.g., a sports subpart, an advertising subpart, etc.). Transcoding may occur at edge nodes, such that the original content is transmitted within the CDN, thereby conserving resources. Additionally, transcoded content may be cached, such that the content need not be transcoded in response to every request. |
| US12126859B2 |
Server-side streaming content stitching
Disclosed herein are various embodiments for server-side scene change content stitching. An example embodiment operates by providing a stream of first content for display on a display device. Second content to be stitched into the stream is received. Metadata indicates a point in time in the stream into which the second content is to be stitched. A scene change is identified in the first content closest to the point in time. A first frame proximate to the scene change is identified. The stream is displayed on the display device, including the second content stitched into the first content. |
| US12126852B2 |
Methods and systems for providing content
Disclosed are methods and systems for causing display of alternative content. The alternative content may be determined by a computing device. The computing device may cause output of the alternative content. |
| US12126850B2 |
Methods and systems for supplementing set-top box processing with additional processor resources
Disclosed are methods for supplementing the processing capabilities of multimedia devices in a networked environment. A method can include providing a processing offloader module to physically connect to a first multimedia device in the networked environment. The offloader can be internal and/or external to the device. The method can include identifying the offloader, identifying a second multimedia device, and determining that a bandwidth of the second device falls below a threshold bandwidth. Instructions can be forwarded from the second device to the offloader when the bandwidth of the second device exceeds the threshold bandwidth. The offloader is configured to process the instructions and render multimedia information based on the instructions. A first communication can be transmitted to the second multimedia device indicating a request to enable a proxy configured to output received rendered multimedia information and the rendered multimedia information can be forwarded from the offloader to the second device. |
| US12126849B2 |
Systems and methods for encoding video content
Systems and methods for encoding a plurality of alternative streams of video content using multiple encoders in accordance with embodiments of the invention are disclosed. An encoding system includes multiple encoders. Each of the encoders receives a source stream of video content that is divided into portions. Each of the encoders generates portions of the plurality of alternative streams from the portions of the source stream. The portions of the alternative streams generated by a particular encoder are stored in a container for the particular encoder. Each encoder also generates index information for the portion of the alternative stream generated by the encoder that is stored in a manifest for the encoder. |
| US12126847B2 |
Rendering for electronic devices
Aspects of the subject technology relate to providing frame rate arbitration for electronic devices. Frame rate arbitration can include determining a global frame rate based on frame rate parameters from one or more animation sources, and providing the global frame rate to the animation sources. The frame rate parameters for various animations sources can have differing preferred, minimum, and/or maximum frame rates, and the global frame rate may be determined for concurrent display of multiple animations from the multiple animation sources. In one or more implementations, frame rate arbitration can also be performed based on frame rate parameters from an input source. |
| US12126843B2 |
Centralized streaming video composition
Media, methods, and systems are disclosed for processing composite streaming video in connection with a centralized service. A request is received to initiate mixing a composite video live stream having a constituent stream quantity, one or more streaming video assets, and one or more media providers. If needed, one or more subsequent media servers are provisioned. The one or more constituent video streams and the one or more streaming video assets are received at a mixing server. The composite video live stream is rendered based thereon. The rendered composite video live stream is encoded into a standardized encoded video stream, which may be stored in one or more shared memories. The standardized encoded video stream is encoded into a provider-specific encoded media stream, which is then transmitted to a corresponding media provider. |
| US12126839B2 |
Weighted downsampling and weighted transformations for signal coding
Techniques for encoding a signal are described. A signal is down-sampled to generate a version of the signal. This version of the signal is then encoded to produce a first encoded signal. The first encoded signal is then decoded to produce a first decoded signal. The second decoded signal is up-sampled to obtain a first up-sampled decoded signal. A first residual signal is obtained by taking a difference between the first up-sampled decoded signal and a first reference signal. The first reference signal corresponds to the signal prior to down-sampling. The first residual signal is encoded to produce a first encoded residual signal. The first encoded residual signal and the first encoded signal may be received and decoded by a decoder to reconstruct the signal. The signal may comprise a set of frames of video. |
| US12126836B2 |
Picture prediction method, encoder, decoder, and storage medium
Provided in the present application are a picture prediction method, encoder, decoder and storage medium. If a current block uses an MIP mode to determine its intra prediction value, the encoder sets a value of an MIP mode parameter as indicating use of the MIP mode and signals into a bitstream; determines the MIP mode of the current block and signals into the bitstream; determines, based on the MIP mode, prediction values for luma and chroma components of the current block. The decoder parses the bitstream and determines an MIP mode parameter of the current block; if its value indicates that the current block uses the MIP mode to determine its intra prediction value, parses the bitstream, determines the MIP mode of the current block and prediction values of luma and chroma components of the current block based on the MIP mode; decodes the current block based on prediction values. |
| US12126834B2 |
Parameter set signaling in digital video
A bitstream processing technique includes obtaining a first parameter set identifier from a data unit containing bits corresponding to a coded video region, obtaining a tool flag from a first parameter set corresponding to the first parameter set identifier, determining, from the tool flag, that a tool parameter of a tool corresponding to the tool flag is present or enabled for decoding the coded video region, wherein the tool corresponds to a video coding technique, obtaining, based on the determining, a second parameter set identifier, obtaining the tool parameter from a second parameter set corresponding to the second parameter set identifier, and decoding the video region using the tool parameter. |
| US12126832B2 |
Upsampling for signal enhancement coding
There is disclosed a method of encoding an input signal, the method comprising: receiving a base encoded signal, the base encoded signal being generated by feeding an encoder with a down-sampled version of an input signal; producing a first residual signal by: decoding the base encoded signal to produce a first decoded signal; and using a difference between the base decoded signal and the down-sampled version of the input signal to produce the first residual signal; producing a second residual signal by: correcting the base decoded signal using the residual signal to create a corrected decoded version; up-sampling the corrected decoded version; and using a difference between the up-sampled corrected decoded signal and the input signal to produce the second residual signal; wherein the up-sampling is one of bilinear or bicubic up-sampling. A corresponding decoding method is also disclosed. |
| US12126826B2 |
Method and apparatus for image coding/decoding
A method for decoding an image according to the present invention comprises the steps of: decoding a residual block by quantizing and inverse transforming an entropy-decoded residual block; generating a prediction block via motion compensation; and decoding an image by adding the decoded residual block to the prediction block, wherein on the basis of the maximum number of motion vector candidates of the motion vector candidate list related to the prediction block, a motion vector candidate list is adjusted by adding a particular motion vector candidate or by discarding a portion from among the motion vector candidates, and in the prediction block generation step, a prediction motion vector of the prediction block is determined on the basis of the adjusted motion vector candidate list. Accordingly, the complexity of arithmetic operations is reduced during encoding/decoding of an image. |
| US12126825B2 |
Block size restrictions for DMVR
Methods of enabling and disabling a decoder-side motion vector refinement (DMVR) video decoder and/or encoder are described. One example method includes determining a width (W) and a height (H) of a video block, making a determination, based on a condition of the video block, between enabling and disabling a decoder side motion vector refinement step for a conversion between the video block and a coded representation of the video block, in a case that the determination is enabling, performing the conversion by enabling the decoder side motion vector refinement step; and in a case that the determination is disabling, performing the conversion by disabling the decoder side motion vector refinement step, wherein the decoder side motion vector refinement step includes refining value of a motion vector signaled in the coded representation and using the refined value during the conversion. |
| US12126823B2 |
Support of mixed IRAP and non-IRAP pictures within an access unit in multi-layer video bitstreams
A method of decoding implemented by a video decoder is provided. The method includes receiving a bitstream including a coded video sequence start (CVSS) access unit (AU), wherein the CVSS AU contains a picture unit (PU) for each layer, and wherein a coded picture in each PU is a coded layer video sequence start (CLVSS) picture; identifying the coded picture from one of the layers based on a picture order count (POC) value; and decoding the coded picture to obtain a decoded picture. |
| US12126819B2 |
Video encoding device and video decoding device
A device is provided with: a first transformer which transforms an coding unit (CU); and a second transformer which transforms a part of first transform coefficients output from the first transformer, wherein the second transformer transforms at least any of the first transform coefficients for a region (first region) having different sizes in a horizontal direction and a vertical direction or the first transform coefficients for a non-rectangular region (second region). |
| US12126815B2 |
Inter-prediction method and apparatus for same
An inter-prediction method according to the present invention comprises the steps of: deriving motion information of a current block; and generating a prediction block for the current block on the basis of the derived motion information. According to the present invention, computational complexity can be reduced and encoding efficiency can be improved. |
| US12126811B2 |
Encoding and decoding using tiling
Video coding using tiling may include encoding a current frame by identifying a tile-width for encoding a current tile of the current frame, the tile-width indicating a cardinality of horizontally adjacent blocks in the current tile, identifying a tile-height for encoding the current tile of the current frame, the tile-height indicating a cardinality of vertically adjacent block in the current tile, and generating an encoded tile by encoding the current tile, such that a row of the current tile includes tile-width horizontally adjacent blocks from the plurality of blocks, and a column of the current tile includes tile-height vertically adjacent blocks from the plurality of blocks. Encoding the current frame may include outputting the encoded tile, wherein outputting the encoded tile includes including an encoded-tile size in an output bitstream, the encoded-tile size indicating a cardinality of bytes for including the encoded tile in the output bitstream. |
| US12126809B2 |
Systems and methods for spatially selective video coding
Encoded content is accessed. The encoded content includes an encoded first centrally located tile corresponding to a first centrally located tile of a first image, an encoded first peripherally located tile of the first image, and an encoded second peripherally located tile of a second image. The encoded first peripherally located tile is decoded to obtain a decoded first peripherally located tile. The encoded second peripherally located tile is decoded to obtain a decoded second peripherally located tile. The decoded first peripherally located tile and the decoded second peripherally located tile are stitched to obtain a stitched image portion. The stitched image portion is encoded to obtain an encoded stitched image portion. An encoded stitched image of the first image and the second image is obtained by combining the encoded first centrally located tile, and the encoded stitched image portion. |
| US12126808B2 |
Restrictions on motion vector difference
Restrictions on motion vector difference (MVD) are disclosed. In one example method of video processing, performing a conversion between a first block of video and a bitstream representation of the first block based on a constrained MVD component associated with the first block, wherein a value of the MVD component is constrained in a predetermined range of [−2M, 2M−1], where M=17. |
| US12126806B2 |
Arithmetic decoding device, image decoding apparatus, arithmetic coding device, and image coding apparatus
There is provided a terminal device capable of efficiently performing communication in a communication system in which a base station device and the terminal device communicate with each other. The terminal device that communicates with the base station device by using a plurality of aggregated cells recognizes that a serving cell is stopped in a first state, recognizes that the serving cell is started in a second state, and switches from the first state to the second state based on a received PDCCH. |
| US12126799B2 |
Method and device for picture encoding and decoding
A method for video decoding is disclosed. A first reconstructed version of an image block of an encoded video is accessed. The first reconstructed version of said image block is filtered by a first neural network to form a second reconstructed version of said image block to be used as reference. The second reconstructed version of said image block is filtered by a second neural network to form a third reconstructed version of said image block to be displayed. The first and second neural networks are trained jointly. |
| US12126798B2 |
Image encoding/decoding method, and transmitting method for bitstream based on intra prediction
The present invention relates to an image encoding/decoding method and apparatus. The image decoding method according to the present invention may comprise constructing N MPM lists for a current block, wherein N is equal to or greater than 1, deriving an intra prediction mode of the current block based on the N MPM lists, and performing intra prediction for the current block based on the intra prediction mode. |
| US12126797B2 |
Method and device for decoding images using CCLM prediction in image coding system
An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document comprises: a step for deriving the number of samples of upper peripheral chroma samples and left peripheral chroma samples of a current chroma block on the basis of a specific value and the width and height of the current chroma block; a step for deriving said number of upper peripheral chroma samples and said number of left peripheral chroma samples; and a step for deriving CCLM parameters on the basis of the upper peripheral chroma samples, the left peripheral chroma samples, and down-sampled peripheral luma samples, wherein, when the specific value is derived as 2 and the width and the height of the current chroma block are larger than the specific value, the number of samples is derived as the specific value. |
| US12126792B2 |
Displacement vector prediction method and apparatus in video encoding and decoding and device
This application provides a displacement vector prediction method and apparatus in video encoding/decoding and a device and relates to the field of video codec technologies. In this application, candidate displacement vectors are constructed by combining displacement vectors related to a plurality of prediction modes, and then a predicted displacement vector of a current unit is derived from the candidate displacement vectors. Information about an encoded/decoded unit having a same prediction mode as the current unit can be used and information about an encoded/decoded unit having different prediction modes from the current unit is also allowed to be combined to derive the predicted displacement vector of the current unit, so that the candidate displacement vector has a higher possibility to be selected as the predicted displacement vector, thereby improving the encoding performance of the displacement vector. |
| US12126787B2 |
Image data encoding/decoding method and apparatus
A method for decoding a 360-degree image includes: receiving a bitstream obtained by encoding a 360-degree image; generating a prediction image by making reference to syntax information obtained from the received bitstream; combining the generated prediction image with a residual image obtained by dequantizing and inverse-transforming the bitstream, so as to obtain a decoded image; and reconstructing the decoded image into a 360-degree image according to a projection format. Here, generating the prediction image includes: checking, from the syntax information, prediction mode accuracy for a current block to be decoded; determining whether the checked prediction mode accuracy corresponds to most probable mode (MPM) information obtained from the syntax information; and when the checked prediction mode accuracy does not correspond to the MPM information, reconfiguring the MPM information according to the prediction mode accuracy for the current block. |
| US12126783B2 |
Misaligned vantage point mitigation for computer stereo vision
Disclosed are systems, methods, and non-transitory computer-readable media for misaligned vantage point mitigation for computer stereo vision. A misaligned vantage point mitigation system determines whether vantage points of the optical sensors are misaligned from an expected vantage point and, if so, determines an adjustment variable to mitigate the misalignment based on the location of matching features identified in images captured by both optical sensors. |
| US12126781B2 |
Methods and system for ink limit adjustments to ICC profiles for color printing
A color printing system manages ICC profiles by controlling ink use without performing the ICC profile creation operations. To obtain an ink limit for an ICC profile, a table associated with the ICC profile is parsed to determine the ink limit. The ink limit is decreased or increased. For an ink limit decrease, a color over the decreased ink limit is adjusted to meet the new ink limit. The ICC profile is updated accordingly. For an ink limit increase, the combination of primary colors are boosted by a percentage amount. Checks are made with regard to the volume-based ink limit and an quality check operation to accepted the boosted amount. The ICC profile is updated accordingly. |
| US12126779B2 |
Image forming apparatus, method for controlling image forming apparatus, and storage medium
An image forming apparatus that dynamically and suitably switches login processing between a user who selects an icon and a user who is identified by reading of a card. The image forming apparatus searches user information of a user who logs in by selecting a user icon displayed on a display unit and a user who logs in using a card, and performs the login processing on a searched user. |
| US12126777B2 |
Image forming system that forms images on various types of sheets and controls whether or not to perform printing based on detection results indicating a sheet designated in a job is a different type than the sheet type detected by a sensor
An image forming apparatus includes a transporter to transport a sheet in a transport path, an image forming assembly to form an image on the sheet transported by the transporter, and a sensor to detect the sheet in the transport path. In addition, a controller obtains user designation information indicating a type of a sheet onto which an image is to be formed before the sensor detects the sheet, and controls the image forming unit to skip forming the image on the sheet if a condition for permitting image formation is not satisfied, in a case where a detecting result from the sensor indicates a type different from the type indicated by the user designation information. |
| US12126776B2 |
Image forming apparatus
An operation unit is provided on a front side of the image forming apparatus. A document feeding portion feeds a document supported by a document supporting portion in a document feeding direction from a front side of the image forming apparatus toward the rear side of the image forming apparatus. A document discharge portion discharges the document in a document discharge direction from the rear side toward the front side. The operation unit is disposed on one side with respect to an apparatus center of the image forming apparatus in a left-right direction orthogonal to a direction from the front side to the rear side. A conveyance center of the document feeding portion in the left-right direction is disposed on the other side with respect to the apparatus center in the left-right direction. |
| US12126771B2 |
Image forming device, method for providing notification regarding utilization status of image forming device, and user terminal
An image forming device includes a communicator, an image former, and a controller and when the communicator receives a remote access request from the user terminal, the controller determines whether the device is being used by a second user that is different from a first user having sent the remote access request, determines whether a utilization time of the device per use by the second user has exceeded a predetermined threshold value based on a utilization history of the second user when it is determined that the device is being used by the second user, and notifies the user terminal via the communicator that the utilization time of the image forming device per use by the second user has exceeded the threshold value when it is determined that the utilization time of the device per use by the second user has exceeded the threshold value. |
| US12126770B2 |
Routing incoming calls made to one or more unreachable numbers into a data client
A method and a call routing system (CRS) are provided for routing an incoming call made to one of multiple numbers of a user to a call receiving client application (CRCA) deployed on one or more user devices when the called number is not reachable. The CRS, in communication with the CRCA deployed on one or more user devices, sets up a user account using one or more of the user's multiple numbers. The CRS detects availability of the CRCA on one or more user devices over a data network to accept an incoming call. The CRS receives the incoming call made to one of the numbers, when the called number is not reachable. The CRS routes the incoming call to the CRCA on one or more user devices over the data network on detecting the availability of the CRCA on one or more user devices over the data network. |
| US12126766B2 |
Call screening service for inbound communications
One example method of operation may include receiving a call message intended for a call recipient, removing one or more portions of call message data included in the call message, identifying one or more of a trunk group and an entry point associated with the received call message, adding one or more of a trunk group identifier (TGRP) and a universally unique identifier (UUID) to the call message to create a modified call message, and forwarding the modified call message to a destination network associated with the call recipient. |
| US12126765B1 |
Designated agent for caller authentication and authorization
Methods and systems described herein are directed to verifying a caller's identity and/or authorizing a caller's access to an account using a third party designated agent. A caller verification system can register an agent in association with an account holder's user account with an organization. When a caller attempts to access the account holder's user account during a phone call with a representative from the organization, the caller verification system can automatically request that the agent verify the caller's identity. In some implementations, the caller verification system can bridge or conference in the agent to the phone call to allow the agent to verify the caller's identity and indicate to the representative that the caller's identity matches that of the account holder. The caller verification system can also receive verification messages from the agent via text message, email, HTTP request, or other digital means. |
| US12126760B2 |
Telecommunications technology
An inmate telecommunications system, apparatus and method. The system enables muting of the incoming audio of one of the call parties of a cell being monitored. A phone switch isolates the non-muted call channel and sends the audio to the monitoring individual. |
| US12126759B2 |
Systems and methods of creating records based on call data
Various embodiments concern a non-transitory computer readable medium having embodied instructions, which when executed by a processor, perform steps of a method for obtaining communication data and generating activity logs. More specifically, communication data such as contact information and call time associated with communications are obtained. The obtained data is then used to generate a report including the time, duration, and project or client associated with communication. Thus, an activity log is automatically generated using the communication data. |
| US12126757B2 |
Device, system, and process for wireless service optimization based on analyzed wireless device usage
Disclosed is a method for determining a most cost effective wireless service for a wireless device implemented at least in part in the wireless device. The method includes obtaining with a wireless device processor wireless service usage information for the wireless device. The method further includes determining with a processor a cost of various wireless service plans based on the wireless service usage information, determining with the processor the most cost effective wireless service in response to the determining with the processor the cost of various wireless service plans, and displaying a most cost effective wireless service information in a graphical user interface on a display of the wireless device. A device for implementing the method is disclosed as well. |
| US12126756B1 |
System and method for notifying and documenting situations in which a smartphone is on silent mode when is not answering a phone call
A computer method and system for notifying and documenting a situation in which a user's smartphone is on silent mode when a phone call from a caller's smartphone was not answered. The method and system includes the display on the screen of the user's smartphone a button to apply a silent-notifying-mode, the receive by the user's smartphone when is on the silent-notifying-mode the phone call, the send to the caller's smartphone a text message, the display of the message on the screen of the caller's smartphone, and the save of the message on the caller's smartphone. The message notifies the caller that the user's smartphone is on silent and serves as documentation that the user's smartphone was on silent when the phone call was not answered. The method and system notifies and enables the caller to make a repeated call to make the user's smartphone to ring. |
| US12126753B2 |
Emergency notifications during scheduled silent modes on mobile phones
A mobile phone configured to operate in a normal notification mode and an emergency notification mode. The mobile phone includes a memory adapted to maintain profiles relating to user contacts, an output device operable to emit audible notifications responsive to incoming communications, at least one input device operable to receive a user selection of a silent notification mode of the device and a user selection of a silent mode disabled setting associated with the profiles and a processor coupled to the memory, the output device and the at least one input device. When the device is in the silent notification mode, audible notifications are not emitted from the output device responsive to incoming communications from the user contacts having profiles without the silent mode disabled and audible notifications are emitted from the output device responsive to incoming communications from the user contacts having profiles with the silent mode disabled. |
| US12126751B2 |
Machine learning for determining communication protocols
Methods and systems are disclosed herein for using one or more machine learning models to determine whether a user is expected to complete a task or action by a deadline. The one or more machine learning models may be trained and/or used to recommend a communication protocol for sending a reminder to the user such that the user is predicted to be more likely to complete an action by the action's deadline. A computing system may use the one or more machine learning models to generate a recommendation for type of reminder to send, for example, if it is predicted that the user is not expected to complete the task by the deadline. A computing system may determine the message to send, the communication protocol to use, and/or the time to send the message. |
| US12126750B2 |
Voice application network platform
A distributed voice applications system includes a voice application rendering agent and at least one voice applications agent that is configured to provide voice applications to an individual user. A management system may control and direct the voice applications rendering agent to create voice applications that are personalized for individual users based on user characteristics, information about the environment in which the voice applications will be performed, prior user interactions and other information. The voice applications agent and components of customized voice applications may be resident on a local user device which includes a voice browser and speech recognition capabilities. The local device, voice applications rendering agent and management system may be interconnected via a communications network. |
| US12126746B2 |
Mobile terminal capable of maintaining display tension
A mobile terminal includes a first frame; a second frame coupled to be movable in a first direction from the first frame, and comprises a third rear unit moving along the back surface of the first frame, and a first roller on the end part in the first direction of the third rear unit; a flexible display having one end fixed to the front surface of the first frame, and covering the first roller; a drive unit moving the second frame in the first direction or moves same in a second direction opposite direction from the first direction; and a connection band covering the end part in the second direction of the third rear unit, has one end thereof connected to the end part in the first direction of the first frame, and has the other end thereof connected to the other end of the flexible display. |
| US12126739B2 |
Bot permissions
Permission control and management for messaging application bots is described. A method can include providing a messaging application, on a first computing device associated with a first user, to enable communication between the first user and another user, and detecting, at the messaging application, a user request. The method can also include programmatically determining that an action in response to the user request requires access to data associated with the first user, and causing a permission interface to be rendered in the messaging application, the permission interface enabling the first user to approve or prohibit access to the data associated with the first user. The method can include accessing the data associated with the first user and performing the action in response to the user request, upon receiving user input from the first user indicating approval of the access to the data associated with the first user. |
| US12126738B2 |
Providing a challenge to a device
A method for providing challenges to a device comprising (i) compiling a first challenge based on a first random value and a parameter; (ii) compiling a second challenge based on a second random value, the parameter and based on the first challenge or any intermediate result thereof; and (iii) providing the first challenge and the second challenge to the device. |
| US12126734B2 |
Cross-chain data transmission method and apparatus, computer device, storage medium, and computer program product
A computer device receives a cross-chain request carrying a cross-chain protocol data packet and a first electronic signature that is initiated by a first service application. The cross-chain protocol data packet is encapsulated with cross-chain data, permission information, and a service application public key address. The first electronic signature is obtained by performing a cross-chain signature on the cross-chain protocol data packet based on a service application private key. When the cross-chain signature verification succeeds, the device replaces the service application public key address in the cross-chain protocol data packet with an account public key address to obtain a target cross-chain protocol data packet. The device performs an indirect cross-chain signature on the target cross-chain protocol data packet to obtain a second electronic signature, and generates an updated cross-chain request. The device transmits the updated cross-chain request to a cross-chain node corresponding to a second service application. |
| US12126730B2 |
Peer node recovery via approximate hash verification
An example operation may include one or more of receiving, from a blockchain peer node, a sequence of blocks stored in a hash-linked chain of blocks on a distributed ledger, where each block in the sequence of blocks includes a reduced-step hash of block content from a previous block in the sequence, performing an approximate hash verification on the reduced-step hashes stored among the sequence of blocks, and determining whether the sequence of blocks has been tampered with based on the approximate hash verification on the reduced-step hashes. |
| US12126727B2 |
System and method for hash value confirmation of electronic communications
Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media for ensuring electronic communications have not been intercepted and manipulated. An exemplary device generates a public/private pair of keys, and transmits the public key to another device with information about the data to be shared. The second device encrypts associated data, while also executing a hash function on at least a portion of the data. The first device receives the encrypted data, decrypts it, and verifies its accuracy using a third party. The third party also executes the hash function on the data received from the first device, and transmits the output of that hash function to the first device. Both the first device and second devices and display the hash values, allowing users to visually determine if the data has been manipulated during the transaction. |
| US12126720B1 |
Signal protection and retrieval by non-linear analog modulation
A method is disclosed wherein an analog message signal is received with a finite length. An analog key signal is also received having a finite length at least as long as the analog message signal. An encryption carrier is generated and then an encryption operation initiated to encrypt the analog message. First, the encryption carrier is modulated with the analog key signal, generating an encryption dynamic carrier. Then, the analog message signal is mixed with the encryption dynamic carrier, with the mixing process initiated at an initial key starting point of the analog key signal and an initial message starting point. An encrypted message signal is output from the mixing process, which encrypted message signal has a starting point that coincides with both the message starting point and the key starting point and an encrypted message end point coinciding with the encrypted message signal end point. |
| US12126719B2 |
Utilizing encryption key exchange with access permissions to share passwords among devices via a shared folder
This disclosure describes methods, non-transitory computer readable storage media, and systems that provide secure password sharing across a plurality of users and client devices via a shared folder. For example, in one or more embodiments, the disclosed system retrieves a public key set including public encryption keys for client devices having access to the shared folder. The disclosed system provides the public key set to a client device requesting to share the shared folder. The disclosed system receives an encrypted payload for the shared folder and a shared encryption key that is utilized to encrypt the payload and is encrypted in the shared folder utilizing the public key set. The disclosed system also detects key rotation events and notifies one or more client devices to generate a modified shared encryption key and re-encrypt the payload for storage within the shared folder. |
| US12126713B1 |
Systems and methods for quantum computing threat detection
Systems, methods, and computer program products are provided for quantum computing (QC) detection. An example QC detection system includes QC detection data generation circuitry that generates QC detection data. The QC detection system also includes cryptographic circuitry that distorts the QC detection data via a first post-quantum cryptographic (PQC) technique and generates a pair of asymmetric cryptographic keys including a public cryptographic key and a private cryptographic key. The cryptographic circuitry further generates encrypted QC detection data based on the pair of asymmetric cryptographic keys and destroys the private cryptographic key. The QC detection system further includes data monitoring circuitry that monitors a set of data environments for electronic information related to the encrypted QC detection data. |
| US12126708B1 |
Proving interaction locality with time-based cyphertext by secure element
Systems and methods verify that a person's mobile device was presumptively in a vicinity of a secure element (SE) at a certain time. In a scenario where a collection of SEs is used, the systems and methods can verify that the person's mobile device was in a vicinity of at least one of the SEs in the collection. |
| US12126701B2 |
Compensating for interruptions in a wireless connection
A method of compensating for potential interruptions in a wireless spatially selective connection over which data at a first compression level is transmitted from a host device to a client device involves determining (S32) that an interruption to the wireless spatially selective connection over which data is being transmitted at a first compression level to a client device is starting or is due to start, compressing (S3Y3) the data at a second compression level that is higher than the first compression level, and forwarding (S34) the data compressed at the second compression level to a transmitting component for wireless spatially non-selective broadcast while the interruption to the spatially selective connection occurs. Determining that the interruption is due to start may involve analysing a historical record of previous interruptions to determine a periodicity of the previous interruptions or receiving information from the transmitting component that an interruption is expected to occur. Determining that the interruption is starting may involve determining that a buffer used for storing the data prior to transmittal is full, indicative that an interruption has commenced, or receiving information from the transmitting component that an interruption has commenced. |
| US12126697B2 |
Methods and apparatus to identify main page views
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed to identify main page views. An example apparatus includes at least one memory, machine readable instructions, and processor circuitry to at least one of instantiate or execute the machine readable instructions to: access a log of requests from a proxy, the log of requests including main page requests and embedded page requests, the log of requests including timestamps corresponding to the main page requests and the embedded page requests, identify, based on consecutive ones of the timestamps occurring within a time interval, at least one of the main page requests associated with the time interval, and credit the at least one of the main page requests as a main page view. |
| US12126695B1 |
Enhancing security of a cloud deployment based on learnings from other cloud deployments
Learning from other cloud deployments to combat security threats, including: identifying, for at least a portion of a first cloud deployment, one or more additional cloud deployments to utilize for cross-customer learning; receiving information describing a security threat to one or more of the additional cloud deployments; receiving information describing configuration settings used to combat the security threat; and identifying, based on the information describing configuration settings used to combat the security threat, one or more configurations to adopt for the first cloud deployment. |
| US12126689B2 |
System and method for improved SAP communications
A network device monitors communications between a server and a client. The network device simulates certain types of required responses from the client to the server to maintain a persistent session between a client and the server when the actual session may be intermittent. The network device condenses application screens from the server to streamline user interaction between the client and the server. The network device stores required records for a transaction and provides them to a client for offline processing and then synchronizes stored offline transaction data from the client with the server. |
| US12126687B2 |
Systems and methods for enhanced wireless communications between analyte sensor systems and display devices
Techniques and protocols for enhancing wireless communications between an analyte sensor system and one or more other devices are described. Such techniques may include, for example, dynamic adjustment of transmission power when transmitting invitations, transmitting invitations with alternate (or different) payloads during different invitation periods, a reduction of handshake messages (e.g., client characteristic configuration descriptor (CCCD) messaging), etc. The various enhancements described herein may relate to various aspects of wireless communication protocols, including, for example, authentication, connection protocols, invitation message structure and content, device pairing, data transmission, etc. |
| US12126686B2 |
Electronic device for controlling internet of things device and method of operating the same
An electronic device includes a communication circuit and a processor, The processor is configured to obtain a connection code related to an external electronic device through the communication circuit, discover the external electronic device through the communication circuit based on the connection code, establish a first secure channel with the external electronic device, based on the connection code, through the communication circuit, and transmit a control command for an internet-of-things (IoT) device to perform a designated action to the external electronic device through the first secure channel using the connection code. |
| US12126677B2 |
Edge configuration server, multi-access system, method, and computer-readable medium
An edge configuration server, a multi-access system, a method, and a computer-readable medium are provided that make it possible to relocate an application context between different multi-access edge computing systems. An edge configuration server according to the present disclosure is a server included in a multi-access edge computing (MEC) system, and includes: a reception unit configured to receive, from a source-edge enabler server (S-EES) in the MEC system, an inquiry about a relocation target of an application context; and a transmission unit configured to transmit, to another edge configuration server (ECS) in another MEC system, an inquiry about the relocation target. |
| US12126676B2 |
Multitenant cross dimensional cloud resource visualization and planning
A system for migrating a non-tenant-aware local application to a tenant-aware cloud application environment is disclosed to migrate individual modules of the application to instances of the cloud by grouping the modules via common characteristics in partition groups. By grouping modules together by partition group before migrating the modules to cloud instances, modules that share resources can be placed in closer logical proximity to one another in the cloud, modified, or deleted to optimize performance. The information from these modules is processed to create a visualization graph representing information on the cloud. The visualization graph is preferably multilayered so it can display information from different hierarchical layers of a cloud instance. |
| US12126675B2 |
Distributed computing system employing application slice overlay networks
A distributed computing system has one or more clusters each including compute nodes connected by a cluster network and executing microservices in respective containers organized into pods. The system includes application slice components (routers, slice gateways) distributed among the clusters to define and operate application slices each providing application slice services for respective sets of pods distributed among the clusters. Each slice gateway provides an interface between local pods of the application slice and remote pods of the application slice on a respective different cluster. Each slice is associated with namespaces, network policies and resource quotas for the applications onboarded on the slice. The slice routers and slice gateways for a given application slice form a respective slice-specific overlay network providing cross-cluster network services including service discovery and traffic forwarding with isolation from other application slices that co-reside on the clusters. |
| US12126674B1 |
Method for managing updates to a distributed network through an application management portal
The Distributed Software Defined Network (dSDN) disclosed herein is an end-to-end architecture that enables secure and flexible programmability across a network with full lifecycle management of services and infrastructure applications (fxDeviceApp). The dSDN also harmonizes application deployment across the network independent of the hardware vendor. As a result, the dSDN simplifies the network deployment lifecycle from concept to design to implementation to decommissioning. |
| US12126673B1 |
Distributed software defined networking
The Distributed Software Defined Network (dSDN) disclosed herein is an end to-end architecture that enables secure and flexible programmability across a network with full lifecycle management of services and infrastructure applications (fxDeviceApp). The dSDN also harmonizes application deployment across the network independent of the hardware vendor. As a result, the dSDN simplifies the network deployment lifecycle from concept to design to implementation to decommissioning. |
| US12126671B2 |
System and method for content retrieval from remote network regions
Systems and methods for retrieving regional content via remote access point servers are disclosed. In one embodiment, the disclosure relates to a network system for content retrieval from remote network regions. The network system may comprise a first device. The first device may be configured to receive a request for content. The content may be on one or more content servers located in a remote network region. The first device may be further configured to at least one of forwarding the request, via tunneling, to a destination access point server located in proximity to the one or more content servers and receiving the content from the destination access point server, obtaining the content from a cache of the first device. |
| US12126666B2 |
Providing transparent multicast content via mobile telecommunication network
A method for providing multimedia content as multicast packets in a mobile communications network. A client device and a multimedia server capable of performing said method. The multimedia server determines a current demand value for the multimedia content, the value being the number of clients which are being provided with said multimedia content and the number of clients from which the request has been received but which are not yet being provided with said multimedia content. If the determined current demand value of said multimedia content is below said pre-defined threshold, the multimedia server provides said multitude of clients with said multimedia content using a tunnel which is set up to each one of the clients using a tunnel protocol. The multimedia content is sent as multicast packets which are encapsulated by using said tunnel protocol. |
| US12126663B2 |
Recording conference application activity associated with a network conference
Certain aspects involve recording conference application activity associated with a network conference. A client application on a computing device is configured to receive a request to install a conference application, and install the conference application from a network server. The computing device is further configured to activate a recording of conference application activity to record activities associated with using installed conference applications by the client application including the installed conference application. The computing device is configured to receive a selection of a conference application from the installed conference applications, execute the selected conference application from the client application, and complete the recording of the conference application activity. |
| US12126661B2 |
System and method for configuring video watch parties with gesture-specific telemojis
Systems and methods for creating video watch parties are shown and described. Video and audio data indicative of the content being displayed on a plurality of smart TVs is compared to stored data in a content recognition database to determine what content is being viewed by each of a plurality of viewers at a given time. Viewers watching the same content are invited to become members of a watch party, and the televisions of those who accept the invitation are operatively connected to one another in a peer-to-peer network, enabling them to view the watch party content on a watch party screen that displays the watch party content and images or graphical icon representations of each other member of the watch party who is watching the content. Watch party participants can communicate with one another on the watch party display orally, using text messages in a text message area of the display, or by projecting emojis in the content region of other participants' displays. |
| US12126660B2 |
Set-up of media stream transmission and server and client for media stream transmission
A media stream is transmitted from a server device to a client device. The client device (10) transmits set-up request messages (43a), discovery messages (44b) and a play command message (45a). The server receives versions of the set-up request messages 43b), the discovery message (44b) and the play message (45b) with matching identifier in the payloads if the messages. The server device (12) receives the discovery messages (44b) on a predetermined port and stores information recording that the discovery messages (44b) have been received, at least when no corresponding set-up request message 43b has been received before. The server device (12) compares the identifiers from the received set up request message (43b) and the discovery message (44b) according to the information recording reception, at least when the discovery message (44b) has been received before the set-up request message (43b). The server device (12) selects transport parameters for transmission of the media stream responsive to detection that the first and second identifier have matching values, the selected transport parameters being based on data from said set-up request message (43b) and a port identification from a source field of the discovery message (44b). The media stream is transmitted in accordance with the selected transport parameters to the client device (10) addressed to the port determined from the source field of the discovery message (44b). |
| US12126659B2 |
Methods and apparatus for performing targeted lawful intercept in a system including content delivery networks
Methods and apparatus for filtering lawfully intercepted encrypted traffic are described. A communications service provider network includes a mediation device and a security device. The mediation device receives a provisioned intercept request including a target IP address and one or more unique identifies corresponding to the target. The security device acquires certificates and private keys corresponding to one or more content distribution networks of interest for which intercepted traffic is to be partially or fully discarded. The mediation device receives filtering requests specifying filtering rules to be applied. Intercepted traffic is processed by the mediation device operating in conjunction with the security device to attempt decryption and identify the corresponding CDN network for the intercepted traffic. The mediation devices filters the decrypted traffic in accordance with the filtering rules, discarding traffic that is not of interest to the law enforcement agency (LEA) and sending traffic of interest to the LEA. |
| US12126656B2 |
Enhanced learning and determination of security rules for data traffic
Security rules to apply to resources, including virtual machines (VMs), in the cloud and on network edges can be learned, determined, and tested. A security management component (SMC) can analyze information relating to data traffic associated with a group of resources associated with a tenant. The analysis can comprise an artificial intelligence analysis. Ingress/egress of the data traffic to/from resources of the group of resources initially can be controlled based on a group of security rules selected by the tenant. Based on a result of the analyzing, SMC can determine a modified group of security rules to apply to the group of resources to control ingress/egress of subsequent data traffic to/from the resources, wherein the result of the analyzing can indicate respective first relationships determined between respective resources and respective second relationships determined between the respective resources and respective network addresses associated with the cloud network. |
| US12126653B2 |
Detecting targeted data exfiltration in encrypted traffic
In one embodiment, a service that monitors a network obtains file characteristic data of a file stored on a first endpoint in the network. The service infers characteristics of encrypted content within encrypted traffic in the network between the first endpoint and a second endpoint, by applying a machine learning-based classifier to traffic data regarding the encrypted traffic session. The service compares the file characteristic data of the file to the inferred content characteristics of the encrypted content within the encrypted traffic, to detect the file within the encrypted traffic. The service enforces a network policy in the network, based on the detection of the file within the encrypted traffic. |
| US12126649B2 |
Scan engine extension for customizing application security testing behavior
Various embodiments include implementing an interceptor for application security testing. The interceptor may intercept traffic, including one or more traffic items, between a scan engine and a target application. The traffic item(s) may include a request directed to the target application from a scan engine implementing application security testing or a response from the target application responsive to request(s) from the scan engine. The interceptor may determine that a particular traffic item satisfies a particular traffic trigger associated with a particular traffic action comprising a manipulation to the traffic between the scan engine and the target application. The particular traffic action is one of a plurality of predefined traffic actions that the interceptor is configured to perform across different scan engine versions, different scan configurations, or both. Responsive to determining that the particular traffic item satisfies the particular traffic trigger, the interceptor may perform the particular traffic action. |
| US12126648B2 |
Utilizing trust tokens to conduct secure message exchanges
Embodiments of the invention are directed to the utilization of trust tokens to perform secure message transactions between two devices. A trust token transmitted in a message from one device may include first data that is digitally signed by a trust provider computer, and second data that is digitally signed by the device itself. Upon receipt of a message containing a trust token, the recipient may utilize the first data to verify with the trust provider computer that the sender of the message is a trusted party. The trust provider computer may provide the recipient device the public key of the sender. The recipient may utilize the second data and the provided public key to verify that the sender signed the message and that the message is unaltered. These techniques may increase detection of relay, replay, or other man-in-the-middle attacks, decreasing the likelihood that such attacks will be successful. |
| US12126645B2 |
Electronic control device, fraud detection server, in-vehicle network system, in-vehicle network monitoring system, and in-vehicle network monitoring method
A gateway that notifies a fraud detection server located outside a vehicle of information about an in-vehicle network system including an in-vehicle network includes: a priority determiner that determines a priority using at least one of: a state of the vehicle including the in-vehicle network system; an identifier of a message communicated on the in-vehicle network; and a result of fraud detection performed on the message; a frame transmitter-receiver that transmits and receives the message communicated on the in-vehicle network; a frame interpreter that extracts information about the in-vehicle network based on the message received by the frame transmitter-receiver; and a frame uploader that notifies the fraud detection server of notification information including the priority and the information about the in-vehicle network. |
| US12126639B2 |
System and method for locating DGA compromised IP addresses
A system and method for locating DGA compromised IP addresses is provided. A domain name system (DNS) stream is received. The DNS stream is classified into DGA generated domains using a machine learning classifier to generate a classification output. User behavior profiling is performed to enhance the classification output. A verdict is generated based on the user behavior profiling of the classification output including identifying a compromised source IP address associated with a detected DGA malware attack. |
| US12126632B2 |
Protocol state fuzzing method and system for security of distributed software-defined network control plane
A protocol state fuzzing method for security of a control plane of a distributed software-defined network is provided. The protocol state fuzzing method includes receiving input alphabets being abstract symbols of a protocol message in an ambusher of a distributed network operating system (NOS), converting the input alphabets into the protocol message, and sending the protocol message to a cluster, monitoring, by the cluster, intercommunication between instances in the distributed NOS, and selecting a set of sequences executable in the cluster and searching a cluster log for an output by executing the sequence to generate an attack result. |
| US12126631B2 |
Detecting compromised credentials in a credential stuffing attack
Techniques are provided for detecting compromised credentials in a credential stuffing attack. A set model is trained based on a first set of spilled credentials. The set model does not comprise any credential of the first set of spilled credentials. A first request is received from a client computer with a first candidate credential to login to a server computer. The first candidate credential is tested for membership in the first set of spilled credentials using the set model. In response to determining the first set of spilled credentials includes the first candidate credential using the set model, one or more negative actions is performed. |
| US12126630B2 |
Systems, methods, and devices for implementing security operations in a security platform
Systems, methods, and devices implement security operations in security platforms implemented across web servers and application servers. Systems include a first server including one or more processors configured to identify one or more patterns of malicious activity based, at least in part, on event information associated with a request and at least one of a plurality of custom parameters, and a second server including one or more processors configured to host an application accessed by the client device, wherein the first server is coupled between the client device and the second server and is configured to handle requests between the client device and the second server. Systems also include a database system configured to store application data associated with the application and the client device. |
| US12126627B2 |
Systems and methods for preventing fraud with intuitive, knowledge-based geolocation services
The disclosure herein relates to methods, apparatuses, and systems for improving authentication using geolocation data. In some examples, a user may be authenticated by comparing user provided geolocation data with a predetermined geolocation. The user input may be made on a map interface. In some examples, the user may be authenticated by comparing two geolocations together. A slope of a line intersecting the user inputted geolocation and the pre-defined primary geolocation may be computed. If the calculated slope value corresponds to an initial slope value, then the answer may be deemed valid. In some examples, the authentication system may authenticate the user by comparing three geolocations together. An angle between two lines may be computed, where each line is formed by intersecting one of two geolocation answers and an intersecting the primary geolocation. If the computed angle corresponds with a stored secret angle, the answer may be deemed valid. |
| US12126620B2 |
Account delegation via browser supplement module
Account delegation is provided. A request for access to a secure system using an owner's account is received from an applier via a browser supplement module on the applier's computing device. The request is communicated to the account owner via a browser supplement module on the account owner's computing device. Approval of the request is received from the account owner. The secure system is logged into using the account owner's credential. A connection to the applier's computing device is established to act as a proxy for communication between the secure system and the applier's computing device. Further provided herein are a computer system and a computer program product for performing the method. |
| US12126617B2 |
Method and system for granting remote access to an electronic device
Methods, systems, devices and computer-readable media for granting remote access to an electronic device are described herein. An electronic device obtains an encrypted password comprising a password encrypted with a public encryption key. The electronic device outputs the encrypted password for a device user computer to transmit the encrypted password to a support computer to have the encrypted password decrypted with a private encryption key corresponding to the public encryption key. The electronic device receiving an access request comprising the password from the support computer. The electronic device grants the support computer access thereto when the password of the access request from the support computer corresponds to the password at the electronic device. |
| US12126615B2 |
Systems and methods for passive multi-factor authentication of device users
A passive Multi-Factor Authentication (MFA) system includes a passive MFA server that receives, from a user computing device, passive biometrics data and device data collected during a current session on a remote site; submits the passive biometrics data to a user profile model, and in response receives a user authentication confidence score; and submits the device data to a device profile model, and in response receives a device authentication confidence score. The passive MFA server is also configured to receive a user authentication request for a current payment transaction associated with the current session on the remote site, and transmit the user authentication confidence score and the device authentication confidence score to an Access Control Server (ACS) configured to determine that the scores satisfy a predefined threshold for passively authenticating a user of the user computing device during the current session, without conducting an active authentication process with the user. |
| US12126611B2 |
Engineering control system, technical installation and method and system for awarding publicly trusted certificates
A technical plant, a system for issuing publicly trusted certificates for plant components of the technical plant, an engineering or control system for the technical plant, and a method for issuing publicly trusted certificates for plant components of the technical plant, wherein a) a certification module of a plant component, which is intended to receive a publicly trusted certificate, queries a component identifier; b) the certification module transmits the component identifier together with a certificate request for a publicly trusted certificate to a registration authority; c) the registration authority checks, based on the component identifier, whether the component belonging to the component identifier is assigned to an authorized person or an authorized company; d) if so, the registration authority requests a publicly trusted certificate for the component; and e) the requested publicly trusted certificate is issued and transmitted to the certification module. |
| US12126609B2 |
Cryptographically transmitting and storing identity tokens and/or activity data among spatially distributed computing devices
Aspects of the disclosure relate to a system and method for cryptographically transmitting and storing identity tokens and/or activity data among spatially distributed computing devices. The system may comprise a plurality of chains, such as an identity chain and an activity chain. In some aspects, identity data associated with a user may be used to generate an identity token for the user. The identity token may be transmitted to a plurality of computing devices for verification. Based on a verification of the identity token, the identity token may be stored in the identity chain. A request to perform an activity may also be received, and identity data associated with the user may be received in order to authenticate the user. The computing device may generate, based on the received identity data, an identity token for the user. |
| US12126605B2 |
Systems and methods for determining knowledge-based authentication questions
Systems and methods for authenticating a user may include transmitting a request for a first set of information after validation of authentication information; receiving a response comprising the first set of information; parsing the first set of information using one or more template-based algorithms by scanning one or more websites to determine publicly available information associated with a user; comparing compare one or more results of the parsing with a second set of information to yield compromised information associated with the user; eliminating one or more portions of the second set of information based on the comparison; presenting a third set of information to authenticate the user based on the elimination and by supplementing the first set of information with a fourth set of information; and presenting a fifth set of information to authenticate the user if the third set of information fails to reach a predetermined threshold number. |
| US12126599B2 |
Programmatic control channel for automated data distribution
Disclosed are apparatuses, systems, and methods for providing a programmatic control channel for granting or denying access to user data. In one embodiment, a method is disclosed comprising receiving an input stream of data including user data and a first regulatory control channel (RCC) data structure; building a final RCC data structure based on the first RCC data structure and a stored RCC data structure; retrieving a regulatory query context (RQC) from a data requestor; applying one or more Boolean operators to the final RCC data structure and the RQC to obtain an evaluation result; and executing the downstream processing if the evaluation result comprises a passing evaluation result. |
| US12126598B2 |
Managing exchanges between edge gateways in a cloud environment to support a private network connection
Described herein are systems, methods, and software to manage secure tunnel communications in multi-edge gateway computing environments. In one implementation, a control system identifies an edge gateway from a plurality of edge gateways to support a private network tunnel. The control system further identifies addressing attributes associated with communications directed over the private network tunnel and configures the plurality of edge gateways to forward packets associated with the addressing attributes to the identified edge gateway, wherein the edge gateway can process and forward the packets over the private network tunnel. |
| US12126597B2 |
Identifying virtual private network servers for user devices
A VPN servers request is received from a user device. An ISP of the user device is obtained. A geolocation of the user device is obtained. Respective server penalty scores of available VPN servers are obtained. The respective server penalty scores of the available VPN servers are adjusted using respective ISP data, where ISP data of a VPN server include data indicative of connections from devices in the geolocation to the VPN server. At least one VPN server is transmitted to the user device based on the adjusted respective server penalty scores. |
| US12126596B2 |
Configuring network security based on device management characteristics
Disclosed are various examples for configuring network security based on device management characteristics. In one example, a specification of a set of network resources on an internal network is received from an administrator client. The set of network resources are those network resources that a particular application executed in client devices on an external network should be authorized to access. A gateway from the external network to the internal network is then configured to permit the particular application to have access to the set of network resources. |
| US12126591B1 |
Sharing domain name service resources in a mesh network
The disclosure describes a mesh network including a first device and a second device, which acts as an exit device with respect to the first device such that communication between the first device and an external device, outside the mesh network, is communicated via the second device. The first device receives access information utilized by the second device to access a DNS server in a LAN that includes the second device, and transmits a meshnet query packet that includes a DNS query for domain information associated with the external device. The first device receives, based on transmitting the meshnet query packet, the domain information associated with the external device, and transmits a meshnet initiation packet that includes a network communication for communicating with the external device, the network communication including the domain information. Various other aspects are contemplated. |
| US12126587B2 |
Verification system for message delivery and processing
A verification system implements technical solutions for verifying the delivery of messages transmitted by mobile communication systems and the processing of those messages. The message verification system includes a model database and verification processing circuitry configured to receive transmitter route data, receive receiver route data, determine a viewshed for a message, and compare the viewshed to the receiver route data. |