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| US12138186B2 |
Automatically deployable intravascular device system
This document describes devices, systems, and methods for automatically deploying intravascular devices. For example, this document describes devices, systems, and methods for automatically deploying and controlling intravascular catheter-based devices for treating catastrophic bleeding from large and medium size vessels such as, but not limited to, the aorta or iliac arteries. In some embodiments, an operator/care giver will simply press the system against the patient's body proximate to a desired site of insertion, or will attach the system to the patient proximate to the desired site of insertion. The operator will then activate the system. Thereafter, the system will use built in imaging (e.g., ultrasound) to locate a proper insertion point and then deploy an access needle to attain vascular access. With that, the system will then automatically insert the intravascular device into the patient. |
| US12138181B2 |
Intelligent joint prosthesis
Medical devices coupled to a sensor, and systems including such devices, can generate data and analysis based on that data, which may be used to identify and/or address problems associated with the implanted medical device, including incorrect placement of the device, unanticipated degradation of the device, and undesired movement of the device. Also provided are medical devices coupled to a sensor, and devices and methods to address problems that have been identified with an implanted medical device. |
| US12138179B2 |
Expandable implant assembly with compression features
An expandable implant includes a base member, an adjustable member adjustably coupled to the base member and movable between a first, collapsed position, and a second, expanded position, a control assembly including a control shaft, wherein manipulation of the control shaft causes relative movement of the adjustable member relative to the base member, wherein the base member and the adjustable member are coupled together at least in part via the control assembly such that the control shaft is rotationally fixed relative to the base member and the adjustable member, and the adjustable member is resiliently compressible relative to the base member. |
| US12138178B2 |
Expandable implant assembly
An expandable implant. The expandable implant includes a base member having a top surface and a bottom surface opposite the top surface, and an adjustable member adjustably coupled to the base member and movable between a first, collapsed position, and a second, expanded position. The adjustable member has a top surface and a bottom surface opposite the top surface. The top surface of the adjustable member and the bottom surface of the base member form a first angle while the adjustable member is in the first, collapsed position, and the top surface of the adjustable member and the bottom surface of the base member form a second angle while the adjustable member is in the second, expanded position. The first angle is different from the second angle. |
| US12138177B2 |
Expandable intervertebral implant
An implant including first and second end plates, each of which defines at least one anterior ramped surface and at least one posterior ramped surface. A posterior actuator is positioned between the first and second end plates and has guiding ramp surfaces which correspond with the posterior ramped surfaces. An anterior actuator is positioned between the first and second end plates and guiding ramp surfaces which correspond with the anterior ramped surfaces. An actuator assembly extends between the posterior actuator and the anterior actuator and is configured to selectively move the posterior actuator and the anterior actuator simultaneously, move posterior actuator independently of the anterior actuator, or move the anterior actuator independently of the posterior actuator. |
| US12138170B2 |
Bone implant with struts
An implant includes a component for fixed attachment to a bone. An underpass layer of a porous material is disposed on a first side of the component for fixed attachment. At least one strut is provided on the underpass layer. The at least one strut has a first surface contacting the underpass layer and a second surface opposite the first surface. The at least one strut comprises a non-porous material. An additional layer of the porous material fills a respective volume adjacent the at least one strut. The additional layer extends from a first side of the underpass layer to a predetermined height at or above the second surface of the at least one strut. |
| US12138168B2 |
Adjustable annuloplasty devices and adjustment mechanisms therefor
An annuloplasty implant comprises a flexible member, helical anchors, and non-compressible portions. The helical anchors are configured to anchor the flexible member at least partway around the valve by being screwed into tissue of the heart of a subject. Each of the non-compressible portions comprises a helical coil having a plurality of turns, and at rest has a helix pitch that contacts each turn of the coil with an adjacent turn of the coil. The flexible member extends through the non-compressible portions. The implant is configured such that applying tension to the flexible member from one end thereof contracts the implant, thereby drawing the anchors closer to each other, the helical coil of each of the non-compressible portions inhibiting contraction of the implant at the non-compressible portion. |
| US12138167B2 |
Device for cardiac valve repair and method of implanting the same
A device for cardiac valve repair, the device comprising: a stent adapted to anchor to at least one tissue site, the tissue site located upstream with respect to a heart valve of a patient; and a neo-leaflet arranged to extend from the upstream anchoring means, the neo-leaflet comprising a free end, wherein the neo-leaflet is operable to extend across the heart valve via a commissure in between two heart valve leaflets of the patient's heart and locate the free end downstream from the heart valve and the neo-leaflet operable to coapt with the heart valve leaflets of the patient's heart to prevent and/or minimize a backflow of blood. The present invention is suitable for the treatment of heart valves using minimally invasive approaches. Additionally, the present invention is directed to a method of implanting a device for cardiac valve repair in a patient's heart. |
| US12138162B2 |
Method and apparatus for compressing/loading stent-valves
Apparatus (40) for compressing a transcatheter cardiac stent-valve (10) comprises: a first compressor stage (100) including a hollow channel (42) with a tapered interior surface configured for compressing a stent-valve in response to longitudinal advancement of the stent-valve within the channel; and a second compressor stage (102) comprising a crimper for compressing a portion of the stent-valve without longitudinal advancement. |
| US12138157B2 |
Atrioventricular valve replacement
Apparatus and methods are described including rotating at least a portion of a valve frame in a first direction and subsequently rotating the valve frame in a second direction. The valve frame includes chord-recruiting arms. An outer surface of each of the chord-recruiting arms has a smooth, convex curvature that extends along substantially a full length of the chord-recruiting arm, such that during the rotation of the portion of the valve frame in the first direction, the chords slide over the outer surface of the chord-recruiting arm without be recruited or caught by the chord-recruiting arm. An inner surface of each of the chord-recruiting arms has a concave curvature, such that during the rotation of the portion of the valve frame in the second direction, the chords are recruited within a space defined by the concave curvature. |
| US12138156B2 |
Prosthetic heart valve
The present invention concerns a prosthetic heart valve for supporting or replacing a non- or malfunctioning native heart valve, the prosthetic heart valve comprising an expandable generally tubular stent support, having an inner surface and an outer surface, and comprising a valve element, having an outer surface, an inner surface, and comprising a plurality of sealing elements, wherein the sealing elements are—spaced apart from one another—circumferentially attached to the outer surface of the valve element and form a lip-shaped element radially protruding from the outer surface of the valve element, wherein the valve element is mounted on the inner surface of the stent support. |
| US12138155B2 |
Crimping accessory device for a prosthetic valve
Embodiments are provided of an assembly having a prosthetic valve, the prosthetic valve having a radially expandable and compressible annular frame, and a crimping accessory device, and methods for using the assembly in compressing the prosthetic valve. The frame includes an outer surface and an inner surface. A leaflet assembly is supported inside the annular frame. The leaflet assembly includes a plurality of leaflets, each having an inner surface and an outer surface. The crimping accessory device has a plurality of axially-extending fingers. At least a first finger of the plurality of fingers is disposed between the outer surface of a first leaflet of the plurality of leaflets, and at least a second finger of the plurality of fingers is disposed radially-inwardly of the inner surface of the first leaflet. |
| US12138150B2 |
Methods and devices for minimally invasive transcatheter coronary artery bypass grafting
Systems and methods for performing transcatheter coronary artery bypass grafting procedures are provided. The methods generally involve passing the graft from the aorta to the coronary artery through the pericardial space. The systems include poke-out wires, a coring device, and devices for forming anastomoses at the proximal and distal ends of a vascular graft. |
| US12138149B2 |
Endovascular devices and methods with filtering elements
Methods for removing blockages and preventing thromboembolic injuries, by advancing to a blockage a first tubular, endovascular device receiving irrigating fluid through a proximal opening, having a circumferential wall, lumen, at least one distal side hole oriented angularly to a distal opening; ejecting fluid from the side hole(s) to irrigate a blockage; introducing a second catheter for aspiration, comprising a circumferential wall having a proximal and distal opening, a flared, semi-permeable filter at the distal end for removal of emboli through the second lumen; advancing the second device to a blood vessel receiving blood from the blocked vessel, aspirating the blockage, axially rotating the first endovascular device having at least one half-loop to macerate an obstruction, capturing and removing emboli from the blockage through the second endovascular device which prevents emboli from causing further blockage of blood vessels. Variants of said method including a third rotatable device. |
| US12138147B1 |
Urinary incontinence mitigator, “the mitigator”
A urinary incontinence device includes a cylindric section having a first end with a necklace, the necklace structured to hold in place at a base of a penis; an oval section extending from a second end of the cylindric section; and an internal valve at the second end of the cylindric section. All components are integrated together in one single, small, and easy “fit-and-go” device; keeps all components in one small area of the pelvic zone and does not need to alter the normal clothing dress. |
| US12138145B2 |
Absorbent article comprising an adhesive composition
Described herein is an absorbent article. The absorbent article includes an assembly of components and an adhesive composition joining at least two of the assembly of components together. The adhesive composition includes from about 50 wt. % to about 80 wt. % of one or more copolymers and a blend of one or more heterophase copolymers. The one or more copolymers include from about 30 mole % to about 70 mole % of monomer units selected from ethylene. 1-butene, and mixtures thereof. The one or more copolymers also include from about 30 mole % to about 70 mole % of propene monomer units. The adhesive composition is free of polyisobutylene and has a viscosity of from about 2,000 mPa·s to about 11,500 mPa·s at 150° C. |
| US12138143B2 |
Three-dimensional nonwoven materials and methods of manufacturing thereof
Three dimensional nonwoven materials and methods of manufacturing such materials are disclosed. An absorbent article can include an absorbent body and an outer cover. The absorbent article can also include a fluid-entangled nonwoven material. The absorbent body can be disposed between the fluid-entangled nonwoven material and the outer cover. The fluid-entangled nonwoven can include a first surface and a second surface. The nonwoven material can also include a plurality of nodes extending away from abase plane on the first surface towards the absorbent body. The nonwoven material can further include a plurality of openings extending from the first surface to the second surface through the fluid-entangled nonwoven material. Individual openings of the plurality of openings can be disposed between adjacent nodes of the plurality of nodes. |
| US12138139B2 |
Puncture wound dressing insertion process
A method for dressing a wound. The method includes introducing a chromic material via at least one article to the wound and stimulating the chromic material with a stimuli. The method also includes providing a color change in response to stimulating the chromic material and indicating via the color change of the chromic material how long the article has been at least partially in contact with the wound. In one or more embodiments, the method may also include measuring the color change from information including a plurality of colors corresponding to a plurality of time periods and, in response to measuring the color change, determining a length of time the article has been in contact with the wound. The method may also include manually crumpling a distal end of a portion of the article such that the distal end of the portion is sized to be received within the wound and then manually separating the crumpled distal end from the rest of the article. |
| US12138132B2 |
Method for generating dental models based on an objective function
A computer-implemented method of generating a dental model based on an objective function output, including creating an objective function including at least one quality estimation function which trains at least one machine learning method that generates quality estimation output, and an objective function output is the output of the objective function providing a model as an input data to the objective function and generating model-related objective function output; and modifying the model based on the model-related objective function output to transform the model to a generated model, wherein the generated model is the dental model. |
| US12138128B2 |
Ultrasound probe with integrated electronics
A hand-held ultrasound system includes integrated electronics within an ergonomic housing. The electronics includes control circuitry, beamforming and circuitry transducer drive circuitry. The electronics communicate with a host computer using an industry standard high speed serial bus. The ultrasonic imaging system is operable on a standard, commercially available, user computing device without specific hardware modifications, and is adapted to interface with an external application without modification to the ultrasonic imaging system to allow a user to gather ultrasonic data on a standard user computing device such as a PC, and employ the data so gathered via an independent external application without requiring a custom system, expensive hardware modifications, or system rebuilds. An integrated interface program allows such ultrasonic data to be invoked by a variety of such external applications having access to the integrated interface program via a standard, predetermined platform such as visual basic or c++. |
| US12138126B2 |
Detecting electromagnetic emissions on ultrasound systems
Systems and methods to detect electromagnetic (EM) emissions on ultrasound systems are described. In some embodiments, an ultrasound system includes an ultrasound scanner that is configured to generate ultrasound data based on reflections of ultrasound signals transmitted by the ultrasound scanner. An ultrasound machine is coupled to the ultrasound scanner and configured to generate an ultrasound image based on the ultrasound data. A circuit is coupled to the ultrasound machine and configured to make a determination whether the ultrasound image is corrupted by a noise process. |
| US12138122B2 |
Ultrasonic probe and ultrasonic detecting device provided with same
An ultrasonic probe and an ultrasonic detecting device provided with the ultrasonic probe. The ultrasonic probe includes: an ultrasonic transducer array configured to transmit and receive ultrasonic waves; a conducting device disposed at the front end of the ultrasonic transducer array, and the conducting device includes a fluid chamber filled with fluid. The fluid chamber has an opening and an energy receiving port which are in communication with each other, and the opening is disposed on a front surface of the conducting device and covered by an elastic film; an energy applying device, connected to the energy receiving port to apply energy to the fluid within the fluid chamber to make the elastic film vibrate so as to generate a shear wave. |
| US12138121B2 |
Device and method for intravascular imaging and sensing
An intravascular sensor device can be used to guide treatment of a diseased blood vessel in the body of a patient. In some examples, the intravascular sensor device includes a pressure sensor and an ultrasound transducer. The intravascular sensor device is used to measure a pressure within the diseased blood vessel and acquire an ultrasound image of the diseased blood vessel. The pressure may be measured during hyperemic blood flow that is caused by a pharmacologic vasodilator drug. The measured pressure can be used to calculate a fractional flow reserve value. The ultrasound image can be used to determine a physical dimension of the blood vessel, such as cross-sectional area. The fractional flow reserve value and physical dimensions of the blood vessel can be used to optimize patient treatment. |
| US12138118B2 |
Multi-sensor brain detecting apparatus
The invention concerns a multi-sensor brain detecting apparatus, the detecting apparatus being adapted to obtain two different physical values of a brain of a subject, the detecting apparatus comprising: a set of sensors comprising an ultrasound transducer adapted to produce ultrasound waves, a frame with a position with relation to the brain known with a stereotaxic precision, the frame being adapted to hold a sensor that can be positioned at a specific location by a user of the detecting apparatus without using a tool. |
| US12138117B2 |
One-dimensional position indicator
Disclosed herein is a medical system (100, 300, 500) comprising: a memory (110) storing machine executable instructions, at least one set of predetermined coordinates (124), and a position identifying algorithm (122). The position identifying algorithm is configured for outputting a set of current coordinates (128) for each of the at least one set of predetermined coordinates in response to receiving a current image descriptive of an object (306, 310). The execution of machine executable instructions (120) causes a computational system (104) to repeatedly receive (200) a current image (126) from a camera system (304). The execution of machine executable instructions (120) causes a computational system (104) to perform the following for the current image: receive (202) the set of current coordinates for each of the at least one set of predetermined coordinates in response to inputting the current image into the position identifying algorithm; calculate (204) a positional difference (130) between the at least one set of predetermined coordinates and its set of current coordinates; calculate (206) a one-dimensional value (134) from positional difference using an objective function; and provide (208) a one-dimensional position indicator (136, 314, 600, 602, 608, 800, 900, 1002) for each of and controlled by each one-dimensional value in real time using a user interface (108, 308, 416, 418). |
| US12138114B2 |
Apparatus and method to guide ultrasound acquisition of the peripheral arteries in the transverse plane
An ultrasound imaging system for guiding a user to acquire ultrasound image data sets that can be analyzed for the presence of atherosclerosis. In one embodiment, the processor is programmed to analyze ultrasound image data for a vessel of interest and to control a user interface that suggests how an operator should move a transducer to acquire ultrasound image data with the vessel of interest in a desired location. The processor stores multiple ultrasound image data sets taken along a length of the vessel of interest to be analyzed for the presence of an atheroma. |
| US12138109B2 |
Device and method for diagnosis of cardiac tamponade
The invention relates to a system for challenging the pericardial space, to provide an indication of the risk of cardiac tamponade in a patient, as well as methods for diagnosis of, and determination of the extent of, a tamponade, and treating a patient in whom there is a detected cardiac tamponade. |
| US12138107B2 |
System and method for ultrasound perfusion imaging
A perfusion imaging processing method comprising collecting a plurality of digital images comprising sequential B-Mode micro-ultrasound reflectivity data, calculating decorrelation trends of autocorrelated data to determine blood flow and perfusion level, reducing the noise content in the data using the decorrelation trends, and/or forming a visual representation based on the decorrelation trends. The present system and method provides an ultrasonic imaging system and method which provides perfusion data without requiring the use of an injected contrast agent. |
| US12138104B2 |
Respiration rate detection methodology for nebulizers
A method for determining respiratory rate from an audio respiratory signal comprising capturing the audio respiratory signal generated by a subject using a microphone. The method also comprises segmenting the audio respiratory signal into a plurality of overlapping frames. For each frame of the plurality of overlapping frames, the method comprises extracting a signal envelope, computing an auto-correlation function, computing an FFT spectrum from the auto-correlation function and computing a respiratory rate of the subject using the FFT spectrum. |
| US12138101B2 |
X-ray imaging apparatus
Provided is an X-ray image apparatus. The X-ray imaging apparatus include an imaging body and a control circuit. The image body acquires X-ray image data of an object and includes an X-ray generation device and an X-ray sensing device. The X-ray generating device and the X-ray sensing device are disposed to face each other with the object in between. The control circuit reconfigures an X-ray image of the object based on the X-ray image data, acquire size information of the object, rotate the X-ray generation device and the X-ray sensing device about a rotation axis between the X-ray generation device and the X-ray sensing device, and move the object along a direction of the rotation axis with respect to the X-ray generation device and the X-ray sensing device when acquiring the X-ray image data. |
| US12138100B1 |
Method for operating an x-ray imaging system, method for generating a database, control system, x-ray imaging system, control facility, computer program and electronically readable data storge medium
A method for operating an X-ray imaging system includes outputting first X-ray beams onto an X-ray detector by an X-ray source for acquisition of a first X-ray capture of an object under examination. The object under examination is arranged between the X-ray source and the X-ray detector and is passed through by the first X-ray beams. The X-ray detector acquires an entry dose of the first X-ray beams after passage through the object under examination. A parameter value of at least one parameter for output of second X-ray beams by the X-ray source for acquisition of a second X-ray capture of the object under examination is ascertained by a control system. The parameter value is ascertained by the control system according to a specified ascertainment method as a function of a foreground substance of a foreground object, a background substance of a background object, and the entry dose. |
| US12138099B2 |
X-ray digital tomosynthesis system and method
Alignment of tomosynthesis systems requires operator skill, particularly where regions of interest are internal structures with limited surface features. Reconstruction of an entire 3D tomosynthesis image may require seconds to minutes, and it can take this long before operators realize that subsequent scans are required. In this time, the patient may have moved and a second scan could also potentially miss the region of interest, requiring a third scan, etc. Multiple exposures are time-consuming and increase patient radiation dose. A digital x-ray tomosynthesis system comprises a static array of x-ray emitters and an x-ray detector and involves selecting a sub-set of x-ray emitters so no x-ray detector part is exposed to x-rays from more than nine of the sub-set and generating a composite image from non-overlapping portions of each respective image produced on the x-ray detector. A two-dimensional image of a subject may be produced using minimal radiation dose. |
| US12138093B2 |
Systems and methods for characterizing high risk plaques
A method for characterization of coronary plaque tissue data and perivascular tissue data using image data gathered from a computed tomography (CT) scan along a blood vessel, the image information including radiodensity values of coronary plaque and perivascular tissue located adjacent to the coronary plaque, the method comprising quantifying radiodensity in regions of coronary plaque, quantifying, radiodensity in at least one region of corresponding perivascular tissue adjacent to the coronary plaque, determining gradients of the quantified radiodensity values within the coronary plaque and the quantified radiodensity values within the corresponding perivascular tissue, and determining a ratio of the quantified radiodensity values within the coronary plaque and the corresponding perivascular tissue; and characterizing the coronary plaque by analyzing a gradient of the quantified radiodensity values in the coronary plaque and the corresponding perivascular, and/or the ratio of the coronary plaque radiodensity values and the radiodensity values of the corresponding perivascular tissue. |
| US12138092B2 |
Estimation device, estimation method, and estimation program
An estimation device includes at least one processor, in which the processor functions as a learned neural network that derives a result of estimation of at least one emphasis image in which a specific composition of a subject including a plurality of compositions is emphasized from a simple two-dimensional image acquired by simply imaging the subject. The learned neural network is learned by using, as teacher data, two radiation images acquired by imaging the subject with radiation having different energy distributions and an emphasis image for learning in which the specific composition of the subject is emphasized, which is derived from the two radiation images. |
| US12138090B2 |
Information processing method, medical image diagnostic apparatus, and information processing system for detecting a quiescent cardiac phase
An information processing method controls a CT scanner such that the method includes, but is not limited to, determining an X-ray irradiation period from an electrocardiogram acquired from an electrocardiography device attached to a living object to be imaged, by processing the electrocardiogram at multiple different cardiac phases; performing, by controlling a CT gantry including and rotatably supporting an X-ray source and an X-ray detector, a diagnostic CT scan in the determined X-ray irradiation period, of at least a part of the heart region, to obtain a CT image; and causing a display unit to display the obtained CT image. The method can be performed at least by an information processing apparatus including processing circuitry and/or computer instructions stored in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for performing the method. |
| US12138089B2 |
Spectral CT KV ripple detection and correction method
The present invention relates to spectral correction. A spectral correction apparatus is described that is configured to identify a voltage fluctuation in the X-ray tube and to parameterize the high voltage fluctuation to correct the effective X-ray spectrum per individual frame. |
| US12138087B2 |
Container system and method for forming a knob in a container
A container system and a method for forming a knob in a container. The container system includes a container, in particular a medical or surgical sterile container preferably having a tub-like container vessel and/or a container cover; at least one separate coupling element; and at least one coupling system for releasably connecting the coupling element to the container. The coupling system includes a male coupling portion formed on the container and a female coupling portion formed on the coupling element. The coupling portions can be coupled to and uncoupled from one another. The male coupling portion is integrally formed in a wall of the container and is designed as a protruding knob having an undercut. |
| US12138085B2 |
Expandable holder sleeve and tool set
A tool set includes an expander holder for plug-in holding of surgical tools and a retaining device. The expander holder includes fastening portions adapted for hook-in fastening to the retaining device such that the fastening portions pass through a hole of the retaining device and engage the material surrounding the hole axially against an insertion direction of the tool to be inserted as well as radially behind. |
| US12138083B2 |
Flattened organ display
A method for producing an image of a body tissue surface. The method includes transforming a source 3-D model of the body tissue surface into a flattened model comprising details of the body tissue surface represented visually on an unwrapped and flattened surface, wherein the flattened model represents transformed positions of the source 3-D model of the body tissue surface defined between a first edge and a second edge. The first edge is formed about a lumen defined by the body tissue surface, and the body tissue surface projects about the lumen to the second edge. The method further includes producing an image from the flattened model. |
| US12138073B2 |
Predicting body composition from user images using deep learning networks
Systems and methods for generating a prediction of a body composition of a user using an image capturing device are disclosed. The systems and methods can be used to predict body compositions such as body fat percentage, water content percentage, muscle mass, bone mass, and so on, from a single user image. The methods include the steps of receiving one or more user images and one or more user parameters, generating one or more key points based on the one or more user images, and generating a prediction of the body composition of the user based on the one or more key points and the one or more user parameters, using a body composition deep learning network (DLN). In one embodiment, the body composition DLN comprises a face image DLN, a body feature DLN, and an output DLN. |
| US12138069B2 |
Platform for identification of biomarkers using navigation tasks and treatments using navigation tasks
A cognitive platform is disclosed that is configured for either or both of assessing or enhancing the cognitive abilities of an individual based on implementing one or more navigation task(s) in an environment. A first task is rendered that requires the individual to rely on allocentric navigation capabilities to navigate in the environment based on a first set of views of portions of the environment rendered at the user interface. A second task is rendered that requires the individual to rely on egocentric navigation capabilities to navigate in the environment. An indication of a cognitive ability in the individual can be generated based on the difference in the individual's performance at the first task as compared to the second task. |
| US12138063B2 |
Method and system for monitoring a patient for atrial fibrillation and/or asystole
Methods and systems methods for continuously monitoring a patient for cardiac electrical abnormalities including atrial fibrillation, asystole, ventricular fibrillation and tachycardia. |
| US12138060B2 |
System and method for cardiac mapping
A method of generating a map of a portion of a patient's anatomy using an electroanatomical mapping system includes separating an anatomical region (e.g., the heart) into an inclusion region (e.g., the left atrium) and an exclusion region (e.g., the left ventricle) by defining a boundary surface (e.g., along the mitral valve). A label electrode carried by a multi-electrode catheter can be defined and used to determine whether or not to add an electrophysiology data point collected using the multi-electrode catheter to the map. In particular, electrophysiology data points can be added to the map of the portion of the patient's anatomy when they are collected with the label electrode within the inclusion region. Positions of the label electrode can also be used to define the boundary surface. Alerts can also be provided when the label electrode crosses the boundary surface and enters the exclusion region. |
| US12138055B2 |
Implantable electrode positioning
A method of surgically positioning an electrode array at a desired implantation location relative to a nerve. A temporary probe electrode is temporarily positioned adjacent to the nerve and at a location which is caudorostrally separate to the desired implantation location of the electrode array. The implanted position of the probe electrode is temporarily fixed relative to the nerve. During implantation of the electrode array, electrical stimuli are applied from one of the temporarily fixed probe electrode and the electrode array, to evoke compound action potentials on the nerve. Compound action potentials evoked by the stimuli are sensed from at least one electrode of the other of the temporarily fixed probe electrode and the electrode array. From the sensed compound action potentials a position of the electrode array relative to the nerve is determined. |
| US12138053B2 |
Methods, systems, and devices relating to open microfluidic channels
Various collection devices, systems and methods relating to the use of devices with open microfluidic channels disposed within a housing defining a lumen. These devices make use of microneedles passed through apertures to induce fluid flow into microfluidic channel networks for collection and analysis. The device can be actuated via button when placed on the skin of a patient to collect a fluid sample, such as a blood draw. |
| US12138052B1 |
Blood sample optimization device
Blood sample optimization systems and methods are described that reduce or eliminate contaminates in collected blood samples, which in turn reduces or eliminates false positive readings in blood cultures or other testing of collected blood samples. A blood sample optimization system can include a blood sequestration device located between a patient needle and a sample needle. The blood sequestration device can include a sequestration chamber for sequestering an initial, potentially contaminated aliquot of blood, and may further include a sampling channel that bypasses the sequestration chamber to convey likely uncontaminated blood between the patient needle and the sample needle after the initial aliquot of blood is sequestered in the sequestration chamber. |
| US12138051B2 |
Calibration system and method for spectroscopic devices
Transdermal optical sensing systems and methods of use and calibration are described. The systems include a master and secondary sensing device, an optical component arranged within the device, with an optical component surface exposed for contact with an epidermis of a subject, an optical emitter, an optical detector, and electronics including a controller configured to measure the light at the optical detector to determine the presence of one or more compounds within the epidermis, to perform a calibration of the sensing device including generating a master calibration curve, to detect a condition state of the sensing device, and to generate a biomarker correlation curve for a biomarker or combination of biomarkers. |
| US12138050B2 |
Electrochemical sensor including multiple work electrodes and common reference electrode
A biocompatible medical device may include an electrochemical sensor including a common reference electrode; at least one counter electrode; and a work electrode platform comprising a plurality of respective work electrodes, each respective work electrode electrically coupled to the common reference electrode and comprising a respective reagent substrate configured to react with a respective analyte to produce a respective signal indicative of a concentration of the respective analyte; and processing circuitry operatively coupled to the electrochemical sensor, and configured to receive from the electrochemical sensor a plurality of signals from the plurality of respective work electrodes; identify the respective signal corresponding to a respective selected work electrode; and process the identified signal to determine the concentration of the respective analyte associated with the respective selected work electrode. |
| US12138047B2 |
Micro models and layered prediction models for estimating sensor glucose values and reducing sensor glucose signal blanking
Methods, systems, and devices for improving continuous glucose monitoring (“CGM”) are described herein. More particularly, the methods, systems, and devices describe applying layered machine learning models to generate predicted sensor glucose values. The system may use the predicted sensor glucose values to display a sensor glucose value to a user. The layered models may generate more reliable sensor glucose predictions across many scenarios, leading to a reduction of sensor glucose signal blanking. The methods, systems, and devices described herein further comprise applying a plurality of micro model to estimate sensor glucose values under outlier conditions. The system may prioritize the models that are trained for certain outlier conditions when the system detects those outlier condition based on the sensor data. |
| US12138043B2 |
Medical camera assembly comprising range camera and thermographic camera
A camera assembly (3) for use in medical tracking applications, comprising a range camera (4) and a thermographic camera (5) in a fixed relative position. |
| US12138041B1 |
Mobile device case with satellite communication capability
A wireless hub includes a vehicle power connector that can draw power from a vehicle battery on a vehicle, a first wireless transmission circuit that can send or receive data with base stations in a long-range wireless network, a second wireless transmission circuit that can provide a short-range wireless network and to transfer data to and from electronic devices, and a network processor that can process data in the first wireless transmission circuit and the second wireless transmission circuit. The wireless hub has an antenna array for millimeter wave communications. Antenna array beamforming techniques can be applied in various wireless systems, including cellular networks, Wi-Fi, radar systems, and satellite communications, to improve coverage, capacity, and link quality. Using antenna arrays, the system can shape and direct the radiation pattern of the transmitted or received signal. Beam steering can steer the main lobe of the radiation pattern in a particular direction. This allows the system to focus the transmitted or received energy towards the intended target, resulting in improved signal strength and reduced interference from other directions. |
| US12138040B2 |
Lower limb muscle strength evaluation method, non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing lower limb muscle strength evaluation program, lower limb muscle strength evaluation device, and lower limb muscle strength evaluation system
A lower limb muscle strength evaluation device acquires an angle of at least one of left and right lower limbs of a user while the user stands up from a sitting state, detects at least one lower limb parameter from among a first lower limb maximum value indicating the angle when the lower limb is initially inclined the most in a first direction, a lower limb minimum value indicating the angle when the lower limb is inclined the most in a second direction, a second lower limb maximum value indicating the angle when the lower limb is again inclined the most in the first direction, a first lower limb elapsed time, a second lower limb elapsed time, and a third lower limb elapsed time, evaluates a lower limb muscle strength of the user using the at least one lower limb parameter, and outputs an evaluation result. |
| US12138039B2 |
Mechanisms and methods for the design and fabrication of a mechanical interface between a wearable device and a human body segment
The system includes an instrument for determining the anatomical, biomechanical, and physiological properties of a body segment that includes one or more force sensitive probes is provided. A human operator actuates one or more force sensitive probes, wherein the force sensitive probes are positioned at the surface of the body segment. The operator pushes on the force sensitive probes with varying force applied on the body segment to measure tissue deflection forces. The instrument may include one or more of gyroscopes, accelerometers, and magnetometers capable of measuring changes in tissue deflection caused by the force sensitive probes relative to a grounded reference frame in 3-D space, wherein the tissue deflection force data and the change in tissue deflection data are used to compute segment tissue viscoelastic properties. The instrument may also be untethered or wireless. |
| US12138038B2 |
Wearable gait start intention detection device
Disclosed is a gait start intention detection device for detecting a walker's gait start intention, including a plurality of left foot sole sensor units and a plurality of right foot sole sensor units to measure ground reaction force signals generated from foot soles while walking, and a calculation unit to receive and calculate the left ground reaction force signal and the right ground reaction force signal, wherein the calculation unit calculates a center of pressure (COP) location in a walking direction and a direction perpendicular to the walking direction using data of the ground reaction force signal measured from each sensor unit, and detects the walkers gait start intention when a ground reaction force of a swing foot heel of the walker increases, and at the same time, the COP location moves to a rear side of the walker. |
| US12138035B2 |
Method for counting coughs by analyzing sound signal, server performing same, and non-transitory computer-readable recording medium
A method for counting coughs is provided. The method includes acquiring a plurality of onset signals from the sound signal, wherein the onset signal has a predetermined time length; acquiring a plurality of spectrograms corresponding to each of the plurality of onset signals; determining whether each of the acquired plurality of spectrograms represents a cough using a cough determination model; and calculating a number of coughs included in the sound signal based on a time point of a cough signal. The cough signal is an onset signal corresponding to one spectrogram determined to represent the cough. When a time interval between a first time point of a first cough signal and a second time point of a second cough is within a reference time interval, the first cough signal and the second cough signal are regarded as one cough signal at the first time point. |
| US12138034B2 |
Gastroretentive articles for alcohol sensing
Drug delivery articles, resident articles, and retrieval systems e.g., for gram-level dosing, are generally provided. In some embodiments, the residence articles are configured for transesophageal administration, transesophageal retrieval, and/or gastric retention to/in a subject. In certain embodiments, the residence article includes dimensions configured for transesophageal administration with a gastric resident system. In some cases, the residence article may be configured to control drug release e.g., with zero-order drug kinetics with no potential for burst release for weeks to months. In some embodiments, the residence articles described herein comprise biocompatible materials and/or are safe for gastric retention. In certain embodiments, the residence article includes dimensions configured for transesophageal retrieval. In some cases, the residence articles described herein may comprise relatively large doses of drug (e.g., greater than or equal to 1 gram). |
| US12138030B2 |
System and methods for micro impulse radar detection of physiological information
A micro impulse radar (MIR) system includes art MIR transceiver circuit configured to transmit, towards a subject, at least one transmitted radar signal, and receive at least one radar return signal. The system includes a control circuit configured to generate a control signal defining a radar signal parameter of the at least one transmitted radar signal, provide the control signal to the MIR transceiver circuit to cause the MIR transceiver circuit to transmit the at least one transmitted signal based on the radar signal parameter, and determine, based on the at least one radar return signal, a physiological parameter of the subject. |
| US12138027B2 |
System for vascular assessment
Systems and methods are described for the compositing together of model-linked vascular data from a plurality of sources, including at least one 2-D angiography image, for display in a frame of reference of the at least one angiography image. In some embodiments, a linking model comprises a data structure configured to link locations of angiographic images to corresponding elements of non-image vascular parameter data. The linking data structure is traversed to obtain a mapping to the frame of reference of one or more of the angiographic images. |
| US12138026B2 |
Systems and methods for predicting perfusion deficits from physiological, anatomical, and patient characteristics
Systems and methods are disclosed for using patient specific anatomical models and physiological parameters to estimate perfusion of a target tissue to guide diagnosis or treatment of cardiovascular disease. One method includes receiving a patient-specific vessel model and a patent-specific tissue model of a patient anatomy; extracting one or more patient-specific physiological parameters (e.g. blood flow, anatomical characteristics, image characteristics, etc.) from the vessel or tissue models for one or more physiological states of the patient; estimating a characteristic of the perfusion of the patient-specific tissue model (e.g., via a trained machine learning algorithm) using the patient-specific physiological parameters; and outputting the estimated perfusion characteristic to a display. |
| US12138025B2 |
Blood pressure measurement device and cuff unit
A blood pressure measurement device that measures blood pressure, and relates to a cuff unit. |
| US12138016B2 |
Method to quantify the hemodynamic and vascular properties in vivo from arterial waveform measurements
Disclosed herein are in vivo non-invasive methods and devices for the measurement of the hemodynamic parameters, such as such as blood pressure, stroke volume, cardiac output, performance of the aortic and mistral heart valves, arterial blood velocity profile, blood viscosity and the blood flow induced arterial wall shear stress, hypertensive/hypotensive and vasodilation/vasocontraction state and aging status of a subject, and the mechanical anelastic in vivo properties of the arterial blood vessels. An exemplary method requires obtaining the peripheral pulse volume waveform (PVW), the peripheral pulse pressure waveform (PPW), and the peripheral pulse velocity waveform (PUW) from the same artery; calculating the time phase shift between the PPW and PVW, and the plot of pulse pressure versus pulse volume; and determining the blood pressures and power law components of the anelastic model from the waveforms PPW and PVW, the cardiac output and heart valves performances from the waveforms PPW and PUW, and the anelastic in vivo properties of the descending, thoracic and abdominal aorta. The disclosed methods and devices can be used to diagnose and treat cardiovascular disease in a subject in need thereof. |
| US12138013B2 |
Automatic generation of prosthodontic prescription
A processing device may receive a plurality of intraoral scans of the patient that were generated by an intraoral scanner, determine a three-dimensional surface of at least a portion of one or more dental arch of the patient using the plurality of intraoral scans, automatically determine whether a restorative dental object is represented in at least one of the three-dimensional surface or one or more intraoral scans of the plurality of intraoral scans, and automatically generate a prescription for treating the one or more teeth based at least in part on at least one of a) a presence or absence of a restorative dental object in at least one of the three-dimensional surface or the one or more intraoral scans or b) a location of the restorative dental object in the one or more dental arch of the patient. |
| US12138012B2 |
Systems and methods for medical procedures using optical coherence tomography sensing
A system for performing a minimally invasive procedure includes a flexible catheter, an elongate instrument, an optical coherence tomographic sensor, and a control system. The flexible catheter has a lumen extending therethrough. The elongate instrument is sized for passage through the lumen. The optical coherence tomographic sensor is coupled to the elongate instrument. The control system includes one or more processors and is configured to receive sensor data from the optical coherence tomographic sensor, profile a tissue based on the received sensor data, and determine a distance between the elongate instrument and the profiled tissue. |
| US12138002B2 |
Variable-length guide apparatus for delivery of a flexible instrument and methods of use
An apparatus for guiding a flexible instrument includes a first plurality of linkages forming a first side of a channel of a support assembly and a second plurality of linkages forming a second side opposite the first side. In an elongated configuration, each linkage of the first plurality of linkages is interlocked between two adjacent linkages of the second plurality of linkages. Each linkage of the first plurality of linkages is hingedly coupled to an adjacent linkage of the first plurality by a bridging element that maintains a spacing between each linkage of the first plurality of linkages and each respective adjacent linkage. The support assembly transitions from the elongated configuration to a separated configuration as the support assembly is advanced along a longitudinal axis defined by the channel. In the separated configuration, each linkage of the first plurality of linkages is unlocked from between the two adjacent linkages. |
| US12138001B2 |
Patient console 5-degree of freedom positioning systems
A patient console for a robotic surgical system can include a base, a vertical lift attached to a top of the base and configured to provide up and down motion in a vertical axis, a yaw rotation device attached to the top of the vertical lift and configured to provide a yaw rotation about the vertical axis, a pitch rotation device attached to the top of the yaw rotation device and configured to provide a pitch rotation about a pitch axis orthogonal to the vertical axis, a translation device attached to the top of the pitch rotation device and configured to provide sliding translation along a translation axis, and a roll rotation device attached to the translation device to roll relative to the translation device about a roll axis to provide a roll to an instrument controller assembly. An angle of the translation axis and the roll axis relative to horizontal can be a function of the pitch rotation provided by the pitch rotation device. A direction of the translation axis and the roll axis can be a function of the yaw rotation provided by the yaw rotation device. |
| US12138000B2 |
Surgical tool
A surgical tool includes a driven portion, a cord-shaped element, and a rotor. To the driven portion, a driving force is transmitted from an external portion. The cord-shaped element transmits a movement of the driven portion. The rotor has a circumferential surface around which the cord-shaped element extending from the driven portion is wound. The circumferential surface includes two or more grooves arranged side by side in a direction of a central axis of the rotor so that the cord-shaped element is windable therearound, and at least one cut-out portion connecting adjacent grooves among the two or more grooves so that the cord-shaped element is placeable through the adjacent grooves. |
| US12137998B2 |
Binding and non-binding articulation limits for robotic surgical systems
A robotic surgical system and method of selectively binding articulation limits to a surgical instrument includes detecting a proximal or a distal linear movement of the surgical instrument, calculating a distance between a tool center point of the surgical instrument after the proximal or the distal linear movement and a remote center of motion, assigning and binding an articulation limit to the surgical instrument based on the calculated distance when the detected linear movement is distal linear movement, and assigning a non-binding articulation limit to the surgical instrument based on the calculated distance when the detected linear movement is proximal a linear movement. |
| US12137997B2 |
Systems and methods for laser skin treatment
A system for performing a treatment procedure, comprising a robotic movement controller coupled to a treatment device, the robotic movement controller configured to control movement of the treatment device in three dimensions. A manual override system configured to interrupt the robotic movement controller to allow a user to manually control movement of the treatment device. The robotic movement controller is configured to resume operations when the user has completed manual movement of the treatment device. |
| US12137994B2 |
Interfacing a surgical robotic arm and instrument
An interface structure for detachably interfacing a surgical robot arm to a surgical instrument, the interface structure comprising: a base portion comprising a first surface for facing the surgical instrument and a second surface for facing the surgical robot arm; and a plurality of first fasteners supported by the base portion and protruding from the first surface, the plurality of first fasteners configured to engage the surgical instrument so as to retain the interface structure to the surgical instrument. The interface structure engages the surgical robot arm so as to retain the interface structure to the surgical robot arm, wherein the plurality of first fasteners and the remainder of the interface structure are shaped such that when the surgical instrument is detached from the surgical robot arm the interface structure is retained to the surgical robot arm. |
| US12137993B1 |
Advanced system and method for a deep tissue massager
A system, device, and method for therapeutic deep tissue massage is disclosed. The therapeutic deep tissue massage device includes an apparatus for use in therapeutic massage applications in which forces are provided to an outer surface of a user's body, whether human or animal, and subcutaneously within the user's tissues. |
| US12137988B2 |
System and method for noise tolerant cardiac localization, navigation and mapping
The present disclosure is directed to interleaving electrical noise generating operations with impedance measurements in a medical localization system. The systems and methods continuously and simultaneously provide unique frequency drive signals, which are harmonics of a common base frequency, across electrode patches to generate an electrical field. Response signals electrodes in the electric field are measured and synchronously demodulated. A demodulated data stream is then filtered (e.g., decimated) to generate impedance-based values proportional to the location of the electrode for each unique frequency. The demodulated data stream into the filter is paused to allow operation of an electrical noise generating device such a magnetic field-based localization system. More specifically, the data stream is paused for a time period equal to an integer multiple of a base period of the common base frequency. This allows resuming filtering of the demodulated data stream free of any frequency discontinuity. |
| US12137987B2 |
Ultrasound systems and methods for sustained spatial attention
Disclosed herein are ultrasound systems and methods for sustained spatial attention. For example, an ultrasound system can include a console and an ultrasound probe. A display of the console can be configured to display ultrasound images and one or more still or moving images of a procedural field. The ultrasound probe can include a camera integrated into the ultrasound probe for recording the one-or-more still or moving images of the procedural field with a depth of field including a distal end of a probe head and a field of view including a spatial region about the probe head. With the one-or-more still or moving images displayed along with the ultrasound images, a clinician need not switch his or her spatial attention between spatial regions such as the procedural field and the display quite as frequently as with existing ultrasound systems, thereby sustaining spatial attention in one or more spatial regions. |
| US12137986B2 |
Methods for controlling cooperative surgical instruments
Systems, devices, and methods for controlling cooperative surgical instruments are provided. Various aspects of the present disclosure provide for coordinated operation of surgical instruments accessing various surgical sites from different or shared surgical approaches to achieve a common or cooperative 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. |
| US12137981B2 |
Surgical systems and methods for facilitating tissue treatment
A system for treating tissue of a patient's anatomy at a target site. A localizer generates location data associated with the anatomy. A display unit overlays visual content on the anatomy within a field of view observable by a user. A visualization program on a computing device generates a virtual reference frame, identifies viable and non-viable approaches for fixation elements to engage tissue and secure a stabilizer relative to the target site based on patient-specific imaging data, arranges a virtual viability model within the virtual reference frame based on the location data and comprising viable portions associated with viable approaches and non-viable portions associated with non-viable approaches, and renders the virtual viability model in the visual content displayed by the display unit overlaid onto the anatomy within the field of view to assist the user in visualizing at least one of viable approaches and non-viable approaches. |
| US12137980B2 |
Systems and methods for determining leg length change during hip surgery
Systems and methods facilitate the planning and performance of hip and other surgeries. A computer model of a hip may be generated and displayed. A template of a hip component that replaces a native portion of the hip may be superimposed on the model. Changes in leg length, offset, or anterior-posterior (AP) position as well as a virtual distance between a landmark on the model and a location on the template may be determined. During surgery, a physical distance corresponding to the virtual distance may be obtained. The template may be moved relative to the model to match the physical distance, and new change values in leg length, offset, or anterior-posterior (AP) position may be determined. The new change values may be evaluated, and the surgery may proceed, or the process may be repeated using templates corresponding to alternative components. |
| US12137969B2 |
Heated vapor ablation systems and methods for treating cardiac conditions
Cardiac ablation catheters include an outer balloon positioned at a distal end of the catheter and configured to have an inner balloon disposed therein. The outer balloon is inflated with a first fluid that has a temperature less than 100 degrees Celsius, while the inner balloon is inflated with heated vapor. An area of contact between the two balloons, comprising a surface area less than the total surface area of either balloon, creates a hot zone for ablating cardiac tissue through the transfer of thermal energy from the contact area to the cardiac tissue. |
| US12137966B2 |
Arthroscopic devices and methods
A system for mechanical cutting and radiofrequency (RF) treatment of bone and soft tissue includes a probe and an RF power supply. The probe includes an elongated sleeve having a longitudinal axis, a proximal end and a distal end. A cutting member formed of a dielectric material is mounted on the elongated sleeve, and a metal electrode is attached to a surface of the cutting member and configured to deliver RF current. The RF power supply generates current having a pulsed RF waveform and may be connected to the metal electrode to deliver the current having the pulsed RF waveform to the tissue. The use of a pulsed RF waveform reduces a thermal stress on the dielectric material at the interface of the metal electrode and the dielectric material of the cutting member. |
| US12137965B2 |
Medical RF apparatus and a method for controlling the same
A medical RF apparatus using an RF pulse and a method of controlling the medical RF apparatus are provided. The medical RF apparatus includes an RF generator, which generates a test pulse for detecting characteristics of tissue, a monitoring unit, which monitors the change in the information on the tissue state while the test pulse is transmitted to the tissue, and a measurement unit, which determines the tissue characteristics of a patient by comparing the values monitored in the monitoring unit with the reference data. |
| US12137960B2 |
Surgical system with adaptive aspiration flow control
An adaptive flow rate control system for a surgical device, whereby the control system includes one or more nonintrusive sensors configured to be positioned on an aspiration conduit extending downstream from a handheld surgical device to measure flow and reduce clogging within the aspiration conduit is disclosed. The nonintrusive sensor may provide data to a controller of a handheld surgical device system to enable it to control operation of the handheld surgical device based at least in part on the data from the adaptive flow rate control system to prevent clogging of the aspiration system. The adaptive flow rate control system may also include a clog tracking module and a clog prediction module. The adaptive flow rate control system may include a wireless communication system configured to communicate with other components of a surgical device system and may communicate with a external network and resources on the internet. |
| US12137950B2 |
Bone nail
Bone nail (1) with a front portion (2), suitable for insertion into the bone and having a free end (3), a rear portion (5) having a free end (6), an outer surface (4); and a nail axis (7); wherein the rear portion (5) has a through hole (8) with a central axis (12) and with an inlet opening (9) located at the rear free end (6) and an outlet opening (10) located on the outer surface (4) of the rear section (5) whereby the through hole (8) is formed for receiving a polyaxial bone screw (11). |
| US12137947B2 |
Expandable spinal jack for installation between upper and lower succeeding superior articular processes
A spinal jack adapted for installation between first and second vertebral processes, including first and second inter-expandable jack halves arranged between retracted and expanded positions. Each of the jack halves further includes gripping portions adapted for engaging the vertebral processes. A worm gear mechanism provides for expanding or retracting the jack halves in order to establish a corrected adjusted orientation between the processes and includes each of stationary rotatable slave gears along with support stems with integrated worm gear interfaces for expanding the jack halves relative to each other. |
| US12137944B2 |
Bone anchor assembly having a tool deployable insert in compressive overlapping engagement with a retainer
A bone anchor assembly includes a shank having a head and an anchor portion, and a receiver having a first channel to receive a rod and an axial bore with an upper internal thread, interference abutment surfaces below the upper internal thread, and a bottom opening. The assembly also includes an insert having a second channel to receive the rod and opposite lateral protrusions positioned above the interference abutment surfaces upon loading into a first position within the axial bore. The assembly further includes a resiliently expandable retainer positionable within the axial bore adjacent the bottom opening to capture and hold the head in the receiver. After the head is uploaded into the axial bore, the insert is downwardly deployable by tooling into a second position with the opposite lateral protrusions being forced below the interference abutment surfaces and with lower portions of the insert entering into compressive overlapping engagement with the retainer to hold down the retainer within the axial bore. |
| US12137940B2 |
Suction device for foreign substances from body
The present invention relates to a suction device for foreign substances from the body, which may comprise: a suction body that has an internal space, extends a predetermined length, and is brought into contact with the skin; a gripping tube body that extends from the suction body so as to be able to slide up and down along the outer circumferential surface of the suction body, and which can be wrapped and gripped by hand; and a piston body that is connected to the gripping tube body to be provided in the internal space of the suction body and selectively generates a negative pressure in the internal space while interlocking with the up-and-down motion of the gripping tube body. According to the present invention, foreign substances that penetrated the skin can be quickly sucked and removed through a simple operation. |
| US12137938B2 |
Biofilm protection implant shield
Apparatus, systems, and methods for inserting prosthesis implants into surgically-created implant pockets in a subject and for preventing capsular contracture resulting from surgical insertion of prosthesis implants. The apparatus includes a base having an upper surface and a lower surface and having an aperture formed therein which extends through the upper surface and the lower surface of the base. The apparatus also includes a tubular member that is coupled to the base. The inner bore of the tubular member is operable to receive the implant and has a substantially uniform cross-sectional width over the predetermined length. The apparatus is capable of shielding the implant from microbial contamination, including contamination by the endogenous flora of the subject, during insertion of the implant into the surgically-created implant pocket. |
| US12137937B2 |
Insertion tool with a dissector
An insertion tool for creating a subcutaneous pocket and implanting a device in the pocket. The tool may include a cannula extending from a handle, a dissector tip disposed at a distal end of the cannula, and a rod. The cannula and dissector tip may create the pocket. The cannula may include a passage and an opening into the passage, and the cannula may be disposed in the passage and move along the passage between a retracted position and an extended position. The rod and the cannula may be configured such that, when the rod is at the retracted position, the cannula holds the device in the passage, and as the cannula moves from the extended position to the retracted position, the rod forces the device through the opening at the distal end of the cannula, at least partially out of the cannula, and at least partially into the pocket. |
| US12137936B2 |
Multiple port instrument access device
An instrument access device of a teleoperated surgical system includes an envelope, a clamp, and a plurality of ports. The envelope includes a distal opening and a cavity. The clamp is in the distal opening of the envelope. The plurality of ports are coupled to the envelope. The plurality of ports are proximal to the clamp and the distal opening of the envelope. Each of the plurality of ports includes a seal, which is sized and shaped to seal an outer surface of a cannula and to fix a position of the cannula relative to the port and the envelope. |
| US12137933B2 |
Tools and methods for vaginal access
An access port for sealing an opening of a natural orifice and supplying access to a body cavity through the natural orifice including: a sealing unit; an unobstructed single lumen cannula extending to the body cavity; a connector connecting the cannula to the sealing unit; an access opening through the sealing unit to the single lumen; a cap including a plurality of cap openings configured to seal between medical instruments inserted into the openings and the access opening. |
| US12137928B2 |
Method and system for controlling rotational speed of an agitator or catheter
A method and device handle having a slide assembly are disclosed for controlling rotational speed of a catheter assembly under various rotational loads. The method includes setting a first current limit in a processor, activating the catheter assembly to rotate, calculating a current value in rotational period of a first current limit, updating a second current limit from the first current limit, and wherein the second current limit is lower than the first current limit. |
| US12137922B2 |
Patient-specific guides for Latarjet procedure
Patient-specific guides for the Latarjet procedure, as well as surgical systems and methods of performing the Latarjet procedure to treat glenohumeral instability using such patient-specific guides are disclosed. A patient-specific coracoid guide and a patient-specific glenoid guide may be configured based on preoperatively generated three-dimensional models of the patient's shoulder anatomy. Guides may be configured for coracoid graft preparation and glenoid decortication. The coracoid graft may be placed in the desired position based on three-dimensional (3D) preoperative planning. |
| US12137921B2 |
Surgical bone preparation instrument and assembly comprising such an instrument
This surgical bone preparation instrument (1) comprises a main body (5) terminated by a contacting surface (50) adapted to abut on a bone (B), and a sliding body (7) equipped with a cutting element (3) and which is movable in translation with respect to the main body (5). The bone preparation instrument (1) includes a cutting depth control ring (11) that is adjustable by a single hand, which forms an abutment surface (110) against the movement of one of the main body (5) and the sliding body (7) when the sliding body (7) reaches an adjusted cutting depth (D) corresponding to an adjustment position of the control ring (11). |
| US12137919B2 |
Rotary oscillating bone, cartilage, and disk removal tool assembly
A bone, cartilage, and disk removal tool assembly is provided with a motor mounted in a housing. A spindle is mounted for rotation to the housing. A rack-and-pinion mechanism is operably driven by the motor and connected to the spindle to oscillate the spindle for providing a rotary oscillating cutting operation. According to at least another embodiment, a plurality of cams is supported in the housing and driven for rotation by the motor. A plurality of followers is mounted for rotation to the housing, in engagement with the plurality of cams so that one rotation of the plurality of cams oscillates the plurality of followers more than once while preventing over-rotation of the plurality of followers. A peak angular acceleration of the spindle is less than nine million radians per second squared. |
| US12137917B2 |
Methods and devices to reduce the likelihood of injury from concussive or blast forces
A system includes a first device, a second device, and garment. The garment has an elastic region that is configured to receive the first and second devices so that, when the garment is worn by a subject, the first and second devices are positioned at a respective one of a pair of neck veins of the subject. The first and second devices and/or the elastic region apply a compressive pressure to the pair of neck veins while the garment is worn. |
| US12137915B2 |
Elongating wires for inhibiting premature implant detachment
Various systems and methods of deploying an implant to a target location of a body vessel are disclosed. A delivery system can include a tubular body having a lumen extending therethrough. A pull wire can extend through the lumen with the pull wire including a distal portion. An elastic loop wire can include a loop opening which is positioned approximate a distal end of the tubular body and can include a proximal attachment point that is affixed to the pull wire. The elastic loop wire and the pull wire can be positioned to secure the implantable medical device to the delivery system. The elastic loop wire can be effective to inhibit premature detachment of the implantable medical device from the delivery system by inhibiting proximal translation of the pull wire with respect to the loop opening of the elastic loop wire. |
| US12137911B1 |
Surgical device for controlled anchoring in the intestine
A surgical anchor device for being anchored on the mucous membrane of the inner wall of the intestine, the device having a temporary anchor element presenting anchoring that can be modified in a controlled manner and having a first substantially cylindrical multiply-perforated wall presenting properties of radial elasticity whereby the first wall presents an outer diameter that can be varied in controlled manner, wherein a portion of the inner surface of the first wall is lined with an independent leakproof inner sheath having only its longitudinal ends fastened to the anchor element to define a suction chamber between the inner sheath and the first wall, the temporary anchor element being coupled to a flexible or semi-rigid tube extending outside the anchor element, an open end of the injection-suction tube opening out into the suction chamber enabling air to be injected into or sucked out from the suction chamber. |
| US12137909B2 |
Grasping for tissue repair
The invention provides improved devices, systems, and methods for tissue approximation and repair at treatment sites. The invention provides devices, systems, and methods that may more successfully approximate and repair tissue by improving the capture of tissue into the devices. The invention may be a one-way mechanism that allows tissue to enter the mechanism but not easily exit, such as a leaf-spring, a protrusion, a pivoting arm and one or more frictional elements. |
| US12137908B2 |
Anvil buttress loading system for surgical stapling apparatus
A surgical buttress loading system includes an anvil having a spring assembly biased against a tissue facing surface of an anvil body and a loading tool including a cavity configured to receive the anvil therein, a buttress cartridge including a surgical buttress releasably disposed thereon, an actuator, and a handle operably coupled to the buttress cartridge. When the anvil is positioned within the cavity of the loading tool and the handle is moved to from an unactuated position to an actuated position, the handle moves the actuator to from a retracted position to an extended position and into engagement with the spring assembly of the anvil to lift the spring assembly off of the tissue facing surface and then slides the buttress cartridge towards the spring assembly to move a proximal end portion of the surgical buttress between the spring assembly and the tissue facing surface. |
| US12137904B2 |
Impact mechanism for grasp clamp fire
A surgical system is disclosed including an end effector and a drive system configured to effect at least one function of the end effector. The end effector includes a first jaw, a second jaw rotatable relative to said first jaw between an open configuration and a closed configuration, and a staple cartridge comprising staples removably stored therein. The drive system includes a motor and an impact mechanism including a rotary input drivable by the motor and a rotary output drivable by the rotary input. Rotation of the rotary output is configured to effect the at least one function of the end effector. The impact mechanism is configurable between a coupled state, wherein rotation of the rotary input causes corresponding rotation of the rotary output, and a slipped state, wherein the rotary input rotates relative to the rotary output. |
| US12137901B2 |
Surgical staples having compressible or crushable members for securing tissue therein and stapling instruments for deploying the same
A staple having a crown, a deformable leg extending from the crown, and a spring extending from the crown configured to compress tissue between the spring and the deformable member. Owing to the flexibility of the spring, the staple can accommodate a wide range of tissue thicknesses while still compressing the tissue captured therein. As a result, a single staple design can be used in a wide variety of surgical procedures thereby reducing the amount of staple designs that must be provided to the surgeon. In at least one embodiment, the staple includes a crushable member. This crushable member can include a plastically deformable first portion and an elastically deformable second portion. The present invention can also include, in various embodiments, a crown, a first deformable member extending from the crown, and means for compressing the tissue against the first deformable member. |
| US12137899B2 |
Multiple suture placement system
A suturing system including apparatus and methods for disposing sutures in a substrate. |
| US12137897B2 |
Device for suture attachment for minimally invasive heart valve repair
Disclosed herein are minimally invasive systems and methods for intravascularly accessing the heart and performing a transcatheter repair of a heart valve by inserting a suture as an artificial chordae into a heart valve leaflet. In various embodiments, such systems and methods can be employed in other heart valve repair procedures such an edge to edge repair to coapt leaflets by inserting one or more sutures that retain the leaflets in a coapted positioned or inserting a suture to repair a tear in a leaflet, for example. |
| US12137894B2 |
Knotless anchor inserter tool extraction
Various exemplary devices, systems, and methods for knotless anchor inserter tool extraction are provided. In general, an inserter tool is configured for knotless anchor insertion in a soft tissue repair surgical procedure. The inserter tool is configured to insert an anchor into a bone of a patient to secure a soft tissue relative to the bone. The inserter tool includes a retraction mechanism configured to cause the inserter tool to be removed from within the anchor. |
| US12137889B2 |
Expansion device for opening valve perimeter in cardiac surgery
A tissue expander/retractor tool works within a narrow cavity/tunnel to access a deeper structure (e.g., the mitral valve) without consuming a significant amount of space either within the small through-hole or in the vicinity of the entrance to the port. The tool provides the user with direct control of the expansion and separation of a target area. The moving parts of the tool have a closed configuration with a narrow profile for insertion/removal and an open configuration obtained using a remotely-controlled, compact pivot mechanism that provides a broad enlargement capability for the retraction jaws. A pantograph mechanism with input pivots and output pivots is coupled between the retraction jaws and a compound cable (e.g., Bowden cable). A handle is coupled to the other end of the compound cable for displacing the inner wire along the outer tube. |
| US12137886B2 |
Lung biopsy devices, systems and methods for locating and biopsying an object
According to embodiments, a substantially coaxial arrangement of a camera, a light source, and an ultrasonic sensor can be positioned in an housing of a system that can be deployed from the tool port of a standard bronchoscope. Illumination from the light source facilitates positioning of the system by an operator using information from the camera. The ultrasonic system can determine when an object to be biopsied is adjacent to a biopsy needle. |
| US12137882B2 |
Systems and methods for treating cancer using brachytherapy
Systems and methods are provided for treating cervical and/or uterine cancers in brachytherapy with an intracavitary brachytherapy applicator. The system comprises a tandem adapted for insertion into a cervix of a patient. An ovoid assembly comprises first and second inflatable ovoids and an ovoid support mechanism. The first and second inflatable ovoids are adapted for insertion within fornices of a patient. First and second retractors are adapted to be coupled to the ovoid assembly. The first retractor is adapted to be positioned to retract the bladder of a patient during treatment. The second retractor is adapted to be positioned to retract the rectum of a patient during treatment. The tandem and the first and second inflatable ovoids are adapted to be coupled to a radioactive source to deliver an implant radiation dose suitable for cancer treatment at a cancerous cervical treatment site in a patient. |
| US12137880B2 |
Cleaning devices for instruments, and related methods
In accordance with at least one embodiment of the present disclosure, a system includes an imaging instrument with a shaft including a proximal end, a distal end, and a lens at a distal end portion of the shaft. The system also includes a collar at a proximal end portion of the shaft. A cleaning device coupled to the imaging instrument includes a tubular member sized to receive the shaft of the imaging instrument. The cleaning device also includes a latching element coupled to the tubular member and configured to couple to the collar to retain the tubular member on the shaft of the imaging instrument and maintain a relative rotational relationship between the tubular member and the shaft of the imaging instrument. Devices and methods relate to cleaning devices for imaging instruments. |
| US12137879B2 |
Image processing apparatus, image processing method, and endoscope apparatus
An image processing apparatus includes an inference part which is capable of inference by using a first inference model for finding of a specific target object and by using a second inference model for discrimination about the specific target object and a control unit to which a first picked-up image obtained under a first image pickup condition and a second picked-up image obtained under a second image pickup condition different from the first image pickup condition can be inputted and which performs control such that in a case where the first picked-up image is inputted, the inference part is caused to execute inference by using the first inference model, and in a case where the second picked-up image is inputted, the inference part is caused to execute inference by using the second inference model. |
| US12137874B2 |
Connector assembly with a radio frequency communication device and with an induction coil for a surgical instrument and a corresponding receiver assembly
An exemplary connection system includes a connector assembly and a receiver assembly. The connector assembly includes a hermetically-sealed housing, a first RF communication device within the housing and communicatively coupled to a surgical instrument and a first induction coil within the housing and electrically coupled to the surgical instrument. The receiver assembly includes a second RF communication device communicatively coupled to a controller of the surgical instrument, a second induction coil electrically coupled to a power source and a receptacle configured to receive the connector assembly such that the first RF communication device is aligned with the second RF communication device, the first induction coil is aligned with the second induction coil, the first RF communication device may wirelessly communicate with the second RF communication device, and the second induction coil may inductively couple to the first induction coil to wirelessly transmit power to the first induction coil. |
| US12137871B2 |
Machine learning for otitis media diagnosis
Disclosed herein are systems and methods for classifying a tympanic membrane by using a classifier. The classifier is a machine learning algorithm. A method for classifying a tympanic membrane includes steps of: receiving, from an interrogation system, one or more datasets relating to the tympanic membrane; determining a set of parameters from the one or more datasets, wherein at least one parameter of the set of parameters is related to a dynamic property or a static position of the tympanic membrane; and outputting a classification of the tympanic membrane based on a classifier model derived from the set of parameters. The classification comprises one or more of a state, a condition, or a mobility metric of the tympanic membrane. |
| US12137869B2 |
Image processing apparatus, endoscope system, and image processing method
An image processing apparatus includes a processor. The processor is configured to output second and third images corresponding to a continuous first image respectively to first and second routes, analyze the second image and output an analysis result, and generate a fourth image based on the third image and the analysis result and continuously output the fourth image. When acquiring the third image, the processor completes the generation of the fourth image before acquiring an analysis result by the second image generated based on a same first image as the first image, which is a generation source of the third image. |
| US12137868B2 |
Electronic device controlling light sources according to optical variation
An electronic device, comprising: a first light source, configured to emit first light; a second light source, configured to emit second light; an optical sensor, configured to sense optical data generated according to reflected light of the second light or according to reflected light of the first light; and a control circuit, configured to analyze optical information of the optical data. If the control circuit determines variation of the optical information is larger than a variation threshold, the control circuit controls the first light source to be non-activated and the second light source to be activated. |
| US12137860B2 |
Dishwasher with improved detergent dispenser
A dishwasher having a water pump, a water conduit connected to the water pump for distributing water in the dishwasher tub, a door for closing and opening the dishwasher, and a detergent dispenser located on the inside of the door. The detergent dispenser comprises a closeable cavity for receiving a detergent, an outlet into the tub, and a sealed dispenser water inlet configured to be detachably connected to the water conduit when the door is closed. Operation of the pump causes pressurized water to be directed directly to the inside of the detergent dispenser while the detergent dispenser is in a closed state. |
| US12137856B2 |
Trajectory-based localization and mapping
An autonomous robot is maneuvered around a feature in an environment along a first trajectory. Data characterizing the first trajectory is stored as a trajectory landmark. The autonomous cleaning robot is maneuvered along a second trajectory. Data characterizing the second trajectory is compared to the trajectory landmark. Based on comparing the data characterizing the second trajectory to the trajectory landmark, it is determined that the first trajectory matches the second trajectory. A transform that aligns the first trajectory with the second trajectory is determined. The transform is applied to an estimate of a position of the autonomous cleaning robot as a correction of the estimate. |
| US12137851B2 |
Interactive display device
The invention provides a bathroom fixture in the form of an electronic mirror with a touchlessly operated fluid dispenser. The device provides visual cues to assist in the touchless operation thereof. |
| US12137849B2 |
Multi position foot rest
An apparatus for use by a seated person includes a pad for each leg, having a base and an end and, in use: a first position exists that has the base is proximal and the end is distal to the seat and the pad extends horizontally from base to end; a second position with the end is proximal to and the base is distal to the seat and the pad extends horizontally from base to end; a third position with the base is proximal and the end is distal to the seat and the end is elevated above the base; a fourth position with the end is proximal to and the base is distal to the seat and the end is elevated above the base, the pads being positioned such that when similarly positioned, the pads are spaced apart in the direction between the ischial bones of the person. |
| US12137845B2 |
Box for dispensing pre-cut wiping material which can be unwound in a strip, and use of such a dispensing box
A box for dispensing pre-cut wiping material. The box includes: a body delimiting a space for receiving the wiping material, which can be unwound in a strip on a front side of the body; a lid hinged on a rear side of the body; and a roller which is pivotably mounted on the front side of the body, which includes at least two sections of different diameters, including a first diameter and a second diameter smaller than the first diameter, and which is provided to support the strip with the lid mounted thereon. The sections of different diameters are configured to pull the strip with a speed differential, so as to tear the strip at a pre-cut line, when a user pulls on the strip from the front side of the body. |
| US12137843B2 |
Multi-stage cooking systems
A cooking system comprising two or more cooking apparatuses, each capable of cooking a food from one or more foods and/or one or more food ingredients. A semi-cooked food is produced in a first cooking apparatus and is used as an ingredient in a second cooking apparatus. The cooking apparatuses work together to produce cooked food from food or food ingredients. A computer system is used to control the cooking system. |
| US12137838B2 |
Cooking device and components thereof
A cooking system includes a housing having a first cooking zone and a second cooking zone and at least one heating element associated with said first cooking zone and said second cooking zone. The cooking system is operable in a synchronized mode, and in said synchronized mode a first cooking operation performed in said first cooking zone and a second cooking operation performed in said second cooking zone are synchronized to be completed simultaneously. |
| US12137835B1 |
Automatic cooking machine having a blocking element for magnetically attaching on a moving arm
An automatic cooking machine includes: a first rotating shaft; a first motor for driving the first rotating shaft to rotate; a moving arm having: a first magnetic element, arranged on one of surfaces of the moving arm; and a blocking element having: a blocking plate; a tail portion; a connecting portion, positioned between the blocking plate and the tail portion; and a second magnetic element, arranged on one of surfaces of the connecting portion; wherein when the blocking element approaches the moving arm, the first magnetic element and the second magnetic element magnetically attract each other, causing the blocking element to detachably attach on the moving arm. |
| US12137833B2 |
Devices and methods for filtering a liquid
Embodiments of an liquid filtering device are provided including a plunger to be inserted into an container containing a liquid that can have vertical inner walls oriented parallel to a vertical axis of the container. In some implementations, the plunger includes a first surface with a seal situated at an edge of the surface. The seal is adapted for sealing against the inner walls of the infusing container as the plunger moves within the container. The plunger also includes a second surface extending from the first surface and defining a second chamber. |
| US12137831B2 |
Bracket for surface mounting
A bracket for mounting objects to a wall includes a base defining mounting holes for fasteners. An arm extends from the base and has a top, a bottom and a maximum width at the interconnection with the base. The mounting holes includes at least two that are spaced from another by a distance greater than a maximum width of the arm so that one of the mounting holes is outside the arm on one side of the arm and another of the mounting holes is outside the arm on the other side of the arm. At least a portion of the mounting holes is located above the top of the arm. |
| US12137828B1 |
Decorative light frame device
A decorative light frame device used for accommodating and supporting decorative string lights to give a resemblance to, for example, a Christmas tree. The device includes a base ring and a base plate for support, a center post having at least two columns wherein the bottom column is attached to a tilting means such as a pivoting bar or a tapered pin for swiveling to stabilize the frame when the frame is positioned on a slope. A pair of arms attached to the base ring is fastened to the center post for supporting the post. A plurality of different sized rings is detachably positioned on the post. A plurality of decorative lights are woven across the hooks of the rings to resemble, for example, a Christmas tree for decoration and illumination. |
| US12137826B1 |
Glove cartidge assemblies for touchless glove application systems
A glove application system includes a glove application module providing a housing that defines an install cavity and an access aperture providing access into the install cavity, a pressure system operable to generate negative pressure in the install cavity, and a glove cartridge assembly mounted to the housing and including a cartridge belt having a plurality of glove cartridges spaced along the cartridge belt, each glove cartridge having a glove releasably secured to the cartridge belt with a fastening system that includes a raised section protruding from the cartridge belt and defining an internal aperture, and a lip laterally protruding from the raised section and sized to receive a wrist bead of the glove, wherein negative pressure generated by the pressure system causes the glove of an aligned glove cartridge to inflate into the install cavity. |
| US12137825B1 |
Underwear donning device, system and method
A device, system and method for assisting in putting on a lower body garment on a user is disclosed herein. The device includes an annular body, which in some embodiments includes an accordion-like configuration, that is adapted to be inserted within a waistband of the lower body garment and expanded to temporarily widen the waistband of the underwear or lower body garment. As such, a user (or caregiver) is able to easily pull the underwear over the widest and/or the lowest part of the lower body of the user (for example, the buttocks or the feet). |
| US12137824B2 |
Housing body
The present invention provides a housing body that is to house a container on which a food and/or beverage item is to be placed and that is to be transported along a transport path, the housing body including: a placement table having a placement position where the container is to be placed; a lid body that is attached to the placement table so as to be openable and closable; an opening/closing mechanism for causing the lid body to transition to a closed state when the container is placed at the placement position of the placement table, and causing the lid body to transition to an open state when the container is moved away from the placement position; and an operation portion for moving the container away from the placement position. |
| US12137820B2 |
Illuminated shelf assemblies
A shelf assembly for an enclosure includes a shelf panel having an upper surface, a lower surface, and an edge extending between the upper and lower surfaces. The edge includes front, rear, and side edges. A light housing is coupled to the shelf panel and includes one or more walls defining an interior. The light housing includes front, rear, and side portions disposed adjacent to the front, rear, and side edges of the shelf panel, respectively. A plurality of light sources received within the light housing to project light outwardly therefrom. |
| US12137818B2 |
Adjustable child carrier with multiple carry orientations
An adjustable child carrier includes an adjustable bucket seat that can be adjusted to accommodate children of a wide range of sizes. The child carrier includes one or more adjustments that work alone or in cooperation to adjust the depth and width of the bucket seat area provided by the child carrier. The carrier is capable of supporting children of various sizes in an ergonomic position appropriate for the child's size. The child carrier is adjustable for multiple carrying positions and orientations. |
| US12137816B2 |
Rearrangeable mattress with covered layers
Systems and apparatuses include a mattress assembly including a tub including vertically extending rails and a base and defining an interior cavity bound by the rails and the base, a plurality of non-laminated and rearrangeable layers positioned within the interior cavity to provide both support and comfort levels within the mattress assembly, each layer including a layer cover and a layer foam, and a cover system that includes a removable cover allowing selective access to the plurality of layers and the interior cavity and selectively compressing the plurality of layers within the tub. |
| US12137815B2 |
Seat cushion
According to one embodiment, a seat cushion comprises a second air cell section that is located on the rear side of a seat surface and a third air cell section that is located rearward of the second air cell section. The second air cell section and the third air cell section are adjacent to each other and have a common boundary extending diagonally in the front-rear direction of the seat surface such that the ischial region of a user fits in the boundary. |
| US12137813B2 |
Pocketed spring assembly having dimensionally stabilizing substrate
A pocketed spring assembly comprises a plurality of parallel strings of individually pocketed springs. A dimensionally stabilizing substrate is secured to at least some of the strings on one of the top and bottom surfaces of the strings. A scrim sheet is secured to at least some of the strings on an opposed surface of the strings to maintain the positions of the strings. The dimensionally stabilizing substrate is thicker and more rigid than the scrim sheet. |
| US12137812B2 |
Mattress assembly and method
A mattress assembly includes a chassis having top and bottom walls and first and second sidewalls that each extend from the top wall to the bottom wall. Inner surfaces of the walls and the sidewalls define an interior cavity. The top and bottom walls each include a first section that is connected to the first sidewall and a second section that is connected to the second sidewall such that the first sections are pivotable relative to the first sidewall and the second sections are pivotable relative to the second sidewall. The first section of the top wall is pivotable relative to the second section of the top wall and the first section of the bottom wall is pivotable relative to the second section of the bottom wall. A spring assembly is configured to be positioned within the interior cavity. |
| US12137807B1 |
Image capturing foot care apparatuses and camera mounting devices therefor
A foot care apparatus suitable for imaging a foot of a user may include a support stand. A footrest may be supported by the support stand. The footrest may be configured to support the foot of the user. A tray may extend from the footrest. A camera mount device may be supported by the tray. The camera mount device may be configured to hold an electronic device having a camera with the camera facing the footrest. The footrest, the tray and the camera mount device may be disposed within an imaging plane. The support stand may be adjustable such that the imaging plane coincides with a horizontal plane or slopes with respect to the horizontal plane upwardly from the footrest to the camera mount device. |
| US12137805B2 |
Floating shelf bracket with threaded rods
A bracket for a floating shelf comprises a solid plate with a planar back side to abut to a wall. A plurality of circular apertures extends through the solid plate and have internal screw threads. A plurality of rods is secured to the solid plate and extending therefrom, with each rod having a proximal end received within a different one of the plurality of circular apertures. The plurality of rods has external screw threads on the proximal end mating with a respective Internal screw thread of respective circular apertures. The proximal ends of the plurality of rods are flush with the planar back side of the solid plate and the wall. |
| US12137795B2 |
Portable magnetic holder
Exemplary embodiments of a portable accessory holder are provided. The apparatus can include a housing having a top portion, a bottom portion, a front portion, a rear portion, a first side and a second side, and a hinge provided on the front portion. The hinge can include a first leaf secured to the front portion of the housing, the first leaf having a first side and a second side opposite the first side, a second leaf rotatably secured to the first side of the first leaf, the second leaf including a magnet, the second leaf being configured to rotate away from the first leaf and against the front portion of the housing, and a third leaf rotatably secured to the second side of the first leaf, the third leaf including a magnet, the third leaf being configured to rotate away from the first leaf and against the front portion of the housing. |
| US12137794B2 |
Armband fastening assembly for a wearable accessory arm strap
An example fastening assembly for attaching a wearable accessory arm strap device holder is provided. An example fastening assembly may include a tab defining a distal end and a proximal end, the proximal end connected to a portion of an outer body. The tab may have a first material. The example fastening assembly may further include an inner body having a second material. The inner body and the tab may receive a cord therebetween. At least a portion of the inner body may deform during insertion of the cord between the tab and the inner body. In another example, a wearable accessory arm strap device holder including a fastening assembly is provided. An example method of attaching a device to the arm of a user, utilizing a fastening assembly, is further included. |
| US12137791B2 |
Refillable device for packaging a cosmetic product
A refillable device for packaging cosmetic product, comprising a removable container containing cosmetic product, an outer casing defining a housing for receiving the removable container, the housing for receiving the removable container being open at an outlet in the outer casing, and a lid adapted to seal closed the outlet of the housing in the outer casing. The removable container is attached to the outer casing by the elastic interlocking of complementary reliefs. The removable container can be reversibly removed from the outer casing. The lid is adapted to be attached to one among the lid and the removable container so as to lock in place the elastic interlocking of the complementary relief portions. |
| US12137790B2 |
Cosmetic auto dropper
Disclosed is a cosmetic auto dropper. The cosmetic auto dropper of the present disclosure includes a container body provided with a container body in which a cosmetic liquid is stored and a pipette member which is disposed in the container body to suck or discharge the cosmetic liquid; a cap part provided with an inner cap coupled to the container body and an outer cap coupled to the inner cap; a pumping part which is elevated from the inner cap and the outer cap to suck or discharge the cosmetic liquid in the container body into or from the pipette member; and an elastic part which has one side connected to the pumping part and the other side supported by the inner cap to elastically support the pumping part, wherein the lower end of the elastic part is supported by an extension of the inner cap. |
| US12137788B2 |
Device for packaging and dispensing a product having inclined elastically deformable teeth
Device (10) for packaging at least one product and dispensing at least said product on a surface and comprising at least one container (14) delimiting a product cavity (24a) containing said at least one product and having a dispensing closure (26) designed to be separated from the container (14) for first use of said device in order to open a first dispensing orifice (24b) in flow communication with the product cavity (24a). Said device comprises an application member (40) mounted on the at least one container (14) having at least two rows (44b, 44d) of elastically deformable application teeth (44) arranged on both side of the dispensing closure (26) and extending outwardly from said at least one container (14), said application teeth (44) being each inclined towards the longitudinal axis (X-X′) of the first dispensing orifice (24b), and at least a plurality of teeth of the said rows (44b, 44d) of teeth are deformed in a stressed position by the contact with the dispensing closure (26) and configured to return elastically in a rest position when the dispensing closure (26) is removed, in said rest position, the teeth are more inclined towards the longitudinal axis (X-X′) of the first dispensing orifice (24b) then in the stressed position. |
| US12137787B2 |
Cosmetic container in which application means having air storage space is embedded
This application relates to a cosmetic container. In one aspect, the cosmetic container includes a container including a containing portion for containing contents of cosmetic products, and a lid functioning not only as a lid for the containing portion but also as a house for an application member, which includes an application member accommodating portion where an application member is accommodated, and a blocked bottom plate. A plurality of protrusions protruding upwards are provided at the application member accommodating portion of the lid. The application member is placed to be in contact with an upper surface of the protrusions in the application member accommodating portion. A first air storage portion is formed between the application member and a bottom surface of the lid. |
| US12137786B1 |
Rotating hair styling and drying device
A hair styling device having a rotatable body portion, the body portion comprising a longitudinal axis about which the body rotates. The device has a plurality of projections extending outwardly from the body portion and two or more divider elements extending from the body portion. The device also has a handle attached to the body portion and a blower supported by the handle. The device has a first gas flow conduit in gas flow communication with the blower, the first conduit having a proximal portion supported by the body portion and a distal portion away from the body portion and a first nozzle in gas flow communication with the first conduit and oriented to blow air from the distal portion of the first conduit toward the body portion. Methods for using the hair styling device are described. |
| US12137782B2 |
Laptop lift case
The present disclosure provides various embodiments of cases for lifting portable electronic devices (PEDs) from a compartment of the case. Such a case may comprise a compartment with a rear wall and a front wall coupled to the rear wall with a space disposed between the walls. A lift member may be at least partially disposed within the compartment with an end of the lift member coupled to the front wall. The lift member may comprise a handle and a cradle portion. The cradle portion may support the PED within the compartment and upwardly lift the PED relative to the compartment when the handle is upwardly displaced by a user. Accordingly, a larger portion of the PED is exposed outside of the compartment allowing for easy removal of the PED from the compartment. |
| US12137778B2 |
Systems and methods for a connection device with magnetic alignment of a lip and ridge
A key chain includes a bisected hollow cylinder, one side of the bisected hollow cylinder forming a first side and another side forming a second side. The key chain further includes a first holder, the first holder having a first half cylindrical body, the first holder located inside of the first side of the bisected hollow cylinder, such that a first outer radius of the first holder is coextensive with a first inner radius of the second side when interconnected. The key chain further includes a second holder, the second holder having a second half cylindrical body, the second holder located inside of the second side of the bisected hollow cylinder, such that a second outer radius of the second holder is coextensive with a second inner radius of the first side when interconnected. The key chain further includes a first magnetic material and second magnetic material, the first magnetic material located in the first holder and the second magnetic material located in the second holder, the first magnetic material and the second magnetic material oriented such that when the first side and the second side are proximate to forming a complete cylinder, the first holder is guided to the second holder through magnetism between the first magnetic material and the second magnetic material. |
| US12137771B2 |
Article of footwear with dynamic support
An article of footwear with a dynamic support system that controls arrays of tiles in the upper of the footwear to adjust the level of support provided in different regions of the upper. Sensors in the sole of the footwear, in the upper of the footwear and/or in an article worn by the wearer of the footwear measure the level of stress or other characteristics and provide input to one or more microprocessors that control motors located in the sole or in the upper of the footwear. When the motors are activated, they may compress or loosen arrays of tiles to adjust the stiffness of the upper in one or more regions of the upper. |
| US12137770B2 |
Width-and length-adjustable boot
A length- and width-adjustable boot including: a forward base component (BA), a rearward base component (BP), a right side (LR), a left side (LL), and a locking system for said components. The four components (BA, BP, LR, LL) are linked together by rails. The slope of the rails of one of the bases (BP or BA), with regard to the axis of symmetry of the base of the boot, is determined by the length/width ratio of the foot. The movement of any of the four components causes a movement proportional to the width and length of the foot in the other three. The locking system locks the four components of the boot to be worn. |
| US12137768B2 |
Particulate foam stacked casings
An article of footwear includes an upper, a midsole attached to the upper, and an outsole. The midsole has a footbed and a bottom surface disposed on an opposite side of the midsole than the footbed. The outsole has a ground-engaging surface, an inner surface disposed on an opposite side of the outsole than the ground-engaging surface, and a wall extending from the ground-engaging surface and surrounding the outsole. The article of footwear also includes at least two casings each containing particulate matter and having a thickness extending substantially perpendicular to a longitudinal axis of the outsole. The at least two casings are arranged in a layered configuration and received within a cavity bounded by the wall of the outsole and between the bottom surface and the inner surface. |
| US12137767B2 |
Layered foam sole for an article of footwear
A method of making a midsole for an article of footwear includes forming a plurality of foam layers, arranging the plurality of foam layers in a mold to form the midsole, piercing the plurality of foam layers with pins, and introducing heat with the pins to bond the plurality of layers together. |
| US12137764B2 |
Protective band for ballistic helmets
A protective circular band assembly for helmets. The assembly includes a front portion, two side portions and one back portion as a single structure, wherein the front portion and back portion are curved from a top surface to form a curve wherein the two side portions are configured to adjust circumference of the assembly for different size helmets. |
| US12137763B2 |
Hair retainer for a helmet
Disclosed herein is a hair retainer for a helmet. The hair retainer comprises a helmet mounting portion configured for mounting the hair retainer to a back edge or an underside of the helmet and a hair retaining portion locatable at an underside of the helmet in a hair retaining configuration for retaining hair thereat whilst a user is wearing the helmet. |
| US12137761B1 |
Belt including a belt strap free of through holes configured to prevent inadvertent disengagement from a belt buckle
A belt to secure an article worn by an individual. The belt includes a strap having a plurality of belt strap abutment portions configured to engage at least one buckle abutment portion of a corresponding buckle to prevent the strap from being inadvertently loosened. Preferably, the buckle abutment portion(s) is fixed and does not move. The belt strap includes an inadvertent disengagement prevention member (“IDPM”) for preventing a corresponding belt strap abutment portion from inadvertently disengaging from the at least one buckle abutment portion of the belt buckle to prevent the inadvertent loosening of the adjustable belt strap when worn. The IDPM can take the form of one, two or more metal strips or plates. Preferably, one or more metal strips has a length no greater than 12″, width of 0.5″ and thickness of 0.007″. The metal strips may be removable. |
| US12137758B1 |
Knee protection assembly
The knee protection assembly includes a knee pad, a pair of leg straps, and a pair of boot straps. The knee pad may be adapted to be worn by a user to protect a user's knee. As a non-limiting example, the knee pad may be worn by a worker who must kneel to perform a work task. The knee pad may be adapted to cover the front of the user's knee. The knee pad may be held in place by the pair of leg straps. The pair of boot straps may be adapted to couple the knee pad to a work boot in order to prevent the knee pad from riding up a user's leg when working on a pitched roof. Two of the knee pads may be worn as a pair—one for each of the user's knees. |
| US12137755B2 |
Adaptive apparel with support control system
An article of apparel providing dynamic support for an appendage of a person is discussed herein. The article of apparel can include a support garment control device configured to provide dynamic support. The support garment control device can include a control lace coupled to a support portion of the article of apparel. In an example, the support garment control device configured to apply a first tension on the control lace, lock the support garment control device at the first tension to inhibit movement of the control lace in response to detecting a change in movement of the person, and unlock the support garment control device after a pre-determined event subsequent to the change in movement of the person. |
| US12137738B2 |
Aerosol generating device with movably coupled cartridges
An aerosol generating device includes a first cartridge configured to accommodate a first smokable material and comprising a delivery hole through which an aerosol generated from the first smokable material is delivered; a second cartridge comprising a plurality of chambers for accommodating a second smokable material through which the aerosol delivered from the first cartridge passes, and movably coupled to the first cartridge such that a position of the second cartridge with respect to the first cartridge is changeable; a magnetic body arranged in one of the second cartridge and the first cartridge; and an electromagnet arranged in the other of the second cartridge and the first cartridge to face the magnetic body, and configured to generate magnetism toward the magnetic body such that one of the plurality of chambers is aligned with the delivery hole to form a flow path to a mouthpiece. |
| US12137734B2 |
Package for a tobacco-containing material and related packaging method
A package that may be employed to store a tobacco-containing material is provided. The package may include a container including a body portion and a cover configured to engage the body portion. The body portion may define an internal space therein configured to receive a product. An internal surface of one or both of the body portion and the cover may include a wood liner. The wood liner may be a wood veneer. |
| US12137730B2 |
Cooling cigarette filter and smoking product
A cooling cigarette filter and a smoking product are provided. The cooling cigarette filter comprises a cooling section. The cooling section is provided with one or more channels connecting two ends of the cooling section, and an inner surface of each channel is coated with a cooling material. The cooling material comprises an inorganic phase change material and PEG, and the inorganic phase change material comprises at least one of Na2CO3·10H2O, CH3COONa·3H2O, CaCl2·4H2O, and Na2SO4·10H2O. The cooling cigarette filter has the advantages of ensuring the amount of smoke and lowering the temperature of the smoke entering the mouth, especially in the cooling section. Through the combination design of the structure of the cooling stick and the type and amount of the cooling material, the smoke can flow out of a smoke generation section rapidly and smoothly. |
| US12137727B2 |
Aerosol generating article and aerosol generating device comprising same
The present invention provides an aerosol-generating article including a first aerosol-generating substrate portion, a second aerosol-generating substrate portion, and a filter portion containing nicotine, and an aerosol-generating device comprising the same, wherein the second aerosol-generating substrate portion includes an absorber impregnated with a liquid aerosol-generating composition. |
| US12137726B2 |
Non-combustible tobacco vaping insert, and cartridge with non-combustible tobacco vaping insert
The non-combustible tobacco vaping insert includes a filter having a first diameter, and a tobacco element with a first end contacting the filter, the tobacco element having a second diameter that is smaller than the first diameter of the filter. The cartridge includes a housing, where the cartridge defines an air passage within the housing, and a vaping insert is positioned in at least one first portion of the air passage. The vaping insert is non-combustible and is configured to allow vapor to pass through the vaping insert prior to exiting the cartridge. The vaping insert includes a filter having a first diameter, and a tobacco element with a first end contacting the filter, the tobacco element having a second diameter that is smaller than the first diameter of the filter. |
| US12137725B2 |
Pouched smokeless oral product comprising at least one flavour capsule
The present invention is directed to a pouched smokeless oral product comprising a pouch containing the filling, said filling comprising or consisting of at least one of tobacco, non-tobacco plant material and a combination thereof; and one or more flavour capsules, wherein said flavour capsule is composed of a core material comprising NaCl as a carrier and at least one flavour component being in contact with the carrier; and a shell material coating the core, wherein said shell material comprises or consists of a hydrophobic polysaccharide. |
| US12137722B2 |
Steam peeling pressure vessel
A steam peeling vessel for rotation about an internal axis of rotation, including at least one internal lifter having a longitudinal axis oriented at an oblique angle to the internal axis of rotation of the vessel. The vessel may include at least two internal lifters. The vessel may include a first lifter oriented at a first oblique angle to the axis of rotation, and at least a second lifter oriented at a second oblique angle to the axis of rotation. |
| US12137718B2 |
Instant fried noodles
[Problem to be Solved]An object of the present invention is to provide instant fried noodles having a lower fat or oil content than general instant fried noodles.[Solution]Instant fried noodles having a porous structure including a smaller number of pores and having a lower porosity are provided by inhibiting formation of a layered gluten network structure within noodle strings. Thus, a fat or oil content of the fried noodles can be lowered. |
| US12137717B2 |
Nutritional compositions showing phase separation under gastric conditions and methods for preparing the same
The invention relates to the field of nutritional compositions, methods for providing them and uses thereof. More in particular, it relates to ready-to-feed and powdered infant or growing up milk formulas showing desirable gastric digestion properties. Provided is a nutritional composition comprising casein, whey proteins comprising α-lactalbumin (aLAc) and β-lactoglobulin (bLac), and protein-coated fat droplets, wherein (i) the protein content of the composition is 5 to 20% (w/w), preferably 7-16 w %, based on total solids; (ii) the aLac+bLac content is at least 25% (w/w) based on the total protein level; (iii) the fat content is in the range of 10% to 50% (w/w) based on total solids; and (iv) the fat droplets are coated with an average protein load of 2-10 mg/m2 and wherein the weight ratio of casein:(aLac+bLac) on the fat droplets is at least 4 times higher, preferably at least 4.5 times higher, than the weight ratio of casein:whey protein in the total composition. |
| US12137714B2 |
Systems and methods for receiving the output of a direct steam injector
A system includes a vacuum chamber, a vacuum source, and a mixture flow path adapted to be connected to receive the output of a direct steam injector. The vacuum source is operatively connected to a vacuum port of the vacuum chamber, while a product outlet port from the vacuum chamber is adapted to be connected to an arrangement for removing treated product from the vacuum chamber. The mixture flow path includes a flow path segment outside of the vacuum chamber volume and a flow path segment within the vacuum chamber volume. At least some of a surface defining the flow path segment within the vacuum chamber is in substantial thermal communication with one or more cooling structures. |
| US12137713B2 |
Devices and methods for the preparation of a nutritional formula
Exemplary embodiments of the disclosure may be drawn to a device having an inlet and a chamber. Immobilized lipase, immobilized protease, and immobilized amylase may be contained within the chamber. The device may also include an outlet, wherein a flow path extends from the inlet, through the chamber, and to the outlet. |
| US12137712B2 |
Composition, its use for the preparation of sweetening syrups and beverages, and preparation of beverages
A sweetening or sweetened composition includes sucrose, rubusoside or a rubusoside derivative, and a tannin which may be used in a process for preparing a beverage. Further disclosed is the use of the composition for sweetening beverages as well as for preparing a syrup as a precursor in the preparation of beverages and also as flavoring substance with modifying properties and for reducing the sucrose content in beverages without essentially exhibiting a reduced sweetness sensation. Also disclosed is the use of a combination comprising rubusoside or a rubusoside derivative and a tannin for shortening the lingering sweetness of artificial sweeteners and for shifting the onset of the temporal sweetness sensation of said artificial sweetener towards that of natural sugars. |
| US12137709B2 |
Method for producing a fermented food product based on a protein- and oil-yielding plant
The present invention relates to a method for manufacturing a proteo-oleaginous-based fermented food product and to the product obtained by means of this method. The product is characterized by an origin that may be 100% plant-based, and in particular free of dairy or animal product and therefore perfectly suitable for individuals on a lactose-free or vegan diet. The method comprises steps of grinding and/or homogenizing, of mixing with ferments, of incubating, and optionally of salting. |
| US12137708B2 |
Modification of feed consumption patterns in beef cattle rations
The present invention relates to feed compositions that can modify the feeding behavior of animals. Supplements can be added to no or low roughage rations that improve the performance of animals. In particular, the addition of calcium chloride to a low or no roughage ration can increase the number of feedings but decrease the amount of feeding per meal. This can result in promoting enhances feed conversion and better cost of feed to weight gain. |
| US12137706B2 |
Micro-encapsulated aquaculture feed
To provide a feed that does not pollute rearing water, improves the immunity activity of leptocephalus larvae, is capable of directly feeding eel leptocephalus, and is capable of effectively inducing the growth of said larvae into glass eels. This micro-encapsulated aquaculture feed includes: an oil phase 11 having an oil-soluble nutrient component; a water phase 13 which is present inside the oil phase 11, and which includes a water-soluble nutrient component; and a film 15 which includes the oil phase 11 and the water phase 13. The water-soluble nutrient component includes at least one hydrolysate from among hydrolysates of amino acids, oligopeptides, and proteins. |
| US12137702B2 |
Print head for printing a food product layer-by-layer and a system comprising a print head
The invention relates to a print head comprising a nozzle for printing a food product layer-by-layer and a conveyor for conveying food. The invention further relates to a system comprising such a print head and a container containing food in solid state and having a supply line for providing food in solid state to the reservoir of the print head. |
| US12137699B1 |
Food preparation disinfection treatment methods
The present invention relates to food preparation disinfection treatment methods that disinfect fruits or vegetables, and food preparation surfaces during the preparation of food items in a restaurant environment. The methods include steps such as creating an ozonated concentrate liquid by way of an aqueous ozone generator, disinfecting fruit or vegetables by immersion in the ozonated concentrate liquid, disinfecting one or more of a food preparation surface by misting the ozonated concentrate liquid onto the food preparation surface, neutralizing the odor of the plant tissue by misting the ozonated concentrate liquid onto the plant tissue at periodic mist intervals, and other steps and features including being able to disinfect and oxygenate lettuce in prepackaged produce packaging. |
| US12137693B2 |
Method and machine for aging a noodle strip
When a sheet of plastic wrap is wound around noodle strips, a folded portion of the sheet of plastic wrap is held between layers of the noodle strip and is double wound on an outer side of the noodle strip. The sheet of plastic wrap covers an entirety of the wound noodle strip. The sheet of plastic wrap on an outer peripheral side of the folded sheet of plastic wrap extends from and is wound around a next noodle strip. Next, another folded portion of the sheet of plastic wrap is held between layers of the next noodle strip and is double wound on an outer side thereof. The sheet of plastic wrap sequentially covers an entirety of the next noodle strip. |
| US12137692B2 |
Method of preparation of antimicrobial porous material
The present invention also provides two methods of preparing the antimicrobial preparation comprising the steps of submerging the porous material in vacuum vessel containing a solution comprising 1% to 4% of silver-chitosan dissolved in an organic acid; applying a vacuum to the vacuum vessel to displace air from the porous material; removing the vacuum from the vacuum vessel to return it to atmospheric pressure and then either drying the material and coating the material with a crosslinking solution or heating the material to between 120° C. and 140° C. |
| US12137689B2 |
Herbicidal mixtures comprising L-glufosinate and their use in soybean cultures
The present invention relates to herbicidal mixtures and their methods and uses for controlling undesirable vegetation in soybeans, wherein the herbicidal mixtures comprise L-glufosinate and at least one herbicidal compound II selected from clethodim, cycloxydim, fenoxaprop, fenoxaprop-ethyl, fenoxaprop-P, fenoxaprop-P-ethyl, fluazifop, fluazifop-butyl, fluazifop-P, fluazifop-P-butyl, haloxyfop, haloxyfop-methyl, haloxyfop-P, haloxyfop-P-methyl, propaquizafop, quizalofop, quizalofop-ethyl, quizalofop-tefuryl, quizalofop-P, quizalofop-P-ethyl, quizalofop-P-tefuryl, sethoxydim, chlorimuron, chlorimuron-ethyl, nicosulfuron, oxasulfuron, thifensulfuron, thifensulfuron-methyl, tritosulfuron, imazamox, imazamox ammonium, imazapie, imazapic ammonium, imazapyr, imazapyr isopropylammonium, imazaquin, imazethapyr, imazethapyr ammonium, cloransulam, cloransulam-methyl, diclosulam, flumetsulam, atrazine, metribuzin, linuron, monolinuron, bentazone, bentazone-sodium, acifluorfen, acifluorfen-sodium, carfentrazone, carfentrazone-ethyl, flumiclorac, flumiclorac-pentyl, flumioxazin, fluthiacet, fluthiacet-methyl, fomesafen, lactofen, oxyfluorfen, saflufenacil, sulfentrazone, tiafenacil, trifludimoxazin, nortlu-razon, picolinafen, bicyclopyrone, clomazone, isoxaflutole, mesotrione, pyrasulfotole, tembotri-one, topramezone, fenquinotrione, glyphosate, glyphosate-isopropylammonium, glyphosate-potassium, glyphosate-trimesium (sulfosate), pendimethalin, trifluralin; acetochlor, alachlor, bu-tachlor, dimethenamid, dimethenamid-P, metazachlor, metolachlor, S-metolachlor, pethoxamid, pyroxasulfone, 2,4-D and its salts and esters, clopyralid and its salts and esters, dicamba and its salts and esters, quinclorac, quinclorac dimethylammonium, quinmerac, diflufenzopyr, diflufenzopyr-sodium, tepraloxydim, cinmethylin and other compounds. |
| US12137686B1 |
Termite trailing and recruitment product and process
Termite trailing and recruitment compositions, systems, devices, and methods for using a trail of a percentage 2 phenoxyethanol (2-PE) dissolved in water to form a trail to lead the subterranean termites to termite bait or monitoring stations located about a perimeter of a wood containing structure. The termite bait or monitoring stations can be located up to approximately 20 feet apart from one another, and the trail of a percentage 2 phenoxyethanol (2-PE) dissolved in water. The percentage 2 phenoxyethanol (2-PE) dissolved in water range from approximately 0.1% to approximately 2% depending on the different soil types and localized conditions. The types of soil can commonly include sand, sandy & silty soil, loam and clay soil. |
| US12137685B2 |
Antimicrobial laminates and coatings indicating efficacy
Disclosed is an antimicrobial coating and antimicrobial laminate that can be used on surfaces to prevent the spread of bacteria and viruses. Spray-on techniques can be used with antimicrobial agents mixed with an air-drying antimicrobial coating and a heated liquid plastic antimicrobial coating. Efficacy of the antimicrobial coating can be monitored by detecting changes in texture, color, opaqueness, fluorescence, and other techniques. Soft plastics and acrylics can be used to suspend the antimicrobial agents to provide better efficacy in the release of antimicrobial agents over time. |
| US12137683B2 |
Systems and methods for ex-vivo organ care
The invention provides, in various embodiments, a method comprising placing an ex-vivo heart in a chamber of an organ care system; connecting the ex-vivo heart to a perfusion fluid circuit of the organ care system; starting a pump configured to provide, via the perfusion fluid circuit, a perfusion fluid to the ex-vivo heart; synchronizing at least one maximum output of the pump with an r-wave of the ex-vivo heart; testing the ex-vivo heart or the organ care system; adjusting a setting of the organ care system in response to a result of the testing; and after adjusting the setting of the organ care system in response to the result of the testing, re-testing the ex-vivo heart or the organ care system. |
| US12137682B2 |
Compositions and methods for reducing ice crystal formation
The present invention provides peptoid polymers capable of reducing or inhibiting the formation of ice crystals at sub 0° C. temperatures. Also provided are peptoid-peptide hybrids comprising the peptoid polymers provided herein. The peptoid polymers and peptoid-peptide hybrids provided herein are useful for making cryoprotectant solutions. The peptoid polymers, peptoid-peptide hybrids, and cryoprotectant solutions provided herein are useful for making antifreeze solutions, frozen food products, and cosmetic care products. Also provided herein are methods for preserving a tissue, an organ, a cell, or a biological macromolecule using the compositions described herein. |
| US12137678B2 |
Indicator with internal attachment mechanism
A strike indicator and strike indicator tooling assembly for use in fishing. The strike indicator comprises two hemispheres that may form a substantially spherical outer dimension around fishing line. The two hemispheres may fit frictionally together to prevent movement or slipping of the fishing line between the two hemispheres once assembled. The hemispheres may be disassembled to replace the fishing line, and reuse the strike indicator. The tooling assembly comprises a top insert, and a bottom insert. The top insert and bottom insert compress around a foam sheet to form the spherical outer form figures of the two hemispheres. |
| US12137676B2 |
Self-cleaning pre-filter for a water circulation pump
An exemplary water circulation pump pre-filter unit (PFU) comprises a backwash pipe in fluid communication with an outer nozzle outside a screen cage and an inner nozzle within the screen cage. The PFU may simultaneously spray inside and outside the screen cage using an inner nozzle and an outer nozzle configured with an axial jet perpendicular to a plurality of radial jets. The inner nozzle may have a restriction chamber with diameter decreasing in flow direction to a full cone nozzle outlet, concentrating dual streams from a plurality of inlets swirled through a plurality of helical channels. Pairs of inner nozzles may be angled to each other, increasing the inner surface area cleaned. Exemplary implementations may simultaneously clean the screen cage bottom and top using the outer nozzle and inner nozzles in backwash mode and in a separate pre-filter mode ingest water through multiple filter pipe inlet apertures. |
| US12137674B2 |
Underwater feed movement detection
Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for underwater feed movement detection. In one aspect, the method may include the actions of obtaining images captured at different time points, where the images are captured by a camera and indicate feed that has been dispersed by a feeder for aquatic livestock inside an enclosure; determining, for each image, respective locations of the feed indicated by the image; determining, from the respective locations of the feed, a respective movement of the feed over the different time points; determining, based on the respective feed movement of the feed over the different time points, water current movement within the enclosure for the aquatic livestock; and outputting an indication of the water current movement. |
| US12137672B2 |
Frame for portable panel assembly
A portable livestock corral is configured to be operably attached to a vehicle for advancement in a forward direction. The portable livestock corral includes a wheeled chassis and opposed sets of corral panels. The wheeled chassis includes an elongated corral frame and a ground-engaging transport wheel operable to support the corral frame above ground. The corral frame includes a spine extending longitudinally along the forward direction and at least partly defining opposed storage areas to receive corresponding corral panels, with the transport wheel being longitudinally spaced from the storage areas. The corral panels are positioned to extend longitudinally along respective sides of the spine in a stored condition. |
| US12137666B2 |
Method and apparatus for optimizing energy and water used for cooling livestock
Systems and methods are provided for controlling heat stress and accumulations in livestock using the application of water sprays onto the animal in conjunction with fan induced airflow. The system has a controller with sensor inputs of the ambient environment including temperature, humidity, wind speed, and surrounding surface temperature sensors and fan and spray control outputs. To achieve savings in water and electricity, a transient, one-dimensional simultaneous heat and mass transfer model of evaporation within the wetted fur layer of a dairy cow is used to estimate drying time and heat rejection rate based on ambient conditions along with a control algorithm to predict the fan speed and sprinkler operation frequency needed to meet specified cooling load thresholds given the outdoor conditions. Estimated savings demonstrated that the model-based controller could reduce annual electricity and water consumption by 20% and 40%, respectively. |
| US12137665B2 |
Method and device for laminating layers of cheese
An inventive solution directed to the production and lamination of pasta filata type cheese ribbons, such as mozzarella, provolone and blends thereof by concurrently and continuously pulling, stretching, cooling, and molding cheese through a series of channels, preferably elongated in nature, having enclosed cavities of particular negative dimension for molding purposes. The cheese is cooled by indirect heat transfer through thermal conductive walls of the elongated channels. The cheese is allowed to set as it is formed within the cooling and molding channels. As the cheese is pulled through and out of the distal end of the elongated channels, the series of released cheese ribbons are combined and pulled through a second series of compression channels by which multiple ribbons are compressed together to form larger laminated strips ready for immediate packaging, storage or further processing. |
| US12137663B2 |
Tomato hybrid SVTH2909 and parents thereof
The invention provides seeds and plants of tomato hybrid SVTH2909 and tomato line FIR-A818-0160. The invention thus relates to the plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTH2909 and tomato line FIR-A818-0160 and to methods for producing a tomato plant produced by crossing such plants with themselves or with another plant, such as a tomato plant of another genotype. The invention further relates to seeds and plants produced by such crossing. The invention further relates to plants, seeds, plant parts, and tissue cultures of tomato hybrid SVTH2909 and tomato line FIR-A818-0160 comprising introduced beneficial or desirable traits. |
| US12137662B2 |
Hybrid tomato variety ‘H2123’
Hybrid tomato variety ‘H2123’ is described. The tomato variety is a ground-culture hybrid processing tomato variety suitable for machine harvest and is adaptable to humid climactic regions such as the Northeastern USA, Portugal and Italy. It is an early variety with resistance to verticillium wilt, fusarium wilt races 1 and 2, root knot nematode, tomato spotted wilt virus, bacterial speck and moderate tolerance to bacterial spot. |
| US12137661B2 |
Cotton variety 11PNEB90
The disclosure relates to a cotton variety, designated 11PNEB90, the plants and seeds of the cotton variety 11PNEB90, methods for producing a cotton plant, either varietal or hybrid, produced by crossing the cotton variety 11PNEB90 with itself or with another cotton plant, hybrid cotton seeds and plants produced by crossing the variety 11PNEB90 with another cotton variety or plan, methods for producing a cotton plant containing in its genetic material one or more transgenes, and the transgenic cotton plants produced by that method. This disclosure also relates to cotton varieties derived from cotton variety 11PNEB90, to methods for producing other cotton varieties derived from cotton variety 11PNEB90, and to the varieties derived by the use of those methods. |
| US12137650B2 |
Methods for promoting production of viable seeds from apomictic guayule plants
Described herein are methods for producing guayule seeds, guayule plants, and products generated therefrom. More specifically, the disclosure provides methods for the production of viable seeds from apomictic guayule plants, seeds produced by such methods, plants grown from such seeds, plant parts, biomass, and biomaterials derived therefrom. |
| US12137649B2 |
Greenhouse luminaire with minimal daylight interception
A light generating device (100) comprising a plurality of solid state light sources (10) and a housing (120) comprising side wall elements (20). The light sources (10) are enclosed by the side wall elements (20), and the light generating device (100) generates >=90% of light source light (11) within a triangular prism having a top angle (α)<=180°. The side wall elements (20): —each have a first side (21) directed inwards facing the light sources (10) and a second side (22) which is directed outwards and is reflective for visible light;—are configured at both sides of a housing plane (110), under an angle (β1) between 0-45° relative to the housing plane (110);—have a projection with height H1 on the housing plane (110)—define a largest width (W1) of the light housing 120), wherein H1/W1>1. |
| US12137648B2 |
Self-cooling greenhouse for hot climate
Facades, roofs, and greenhouses that may capable of self-cooling are provided. For example, a façade for a greenhouse may include an internal glass wall and an external glass wall in a parallel plane to the internal glass wall and separated from the internal glass wall by a first distance. The distance may be configured to permit passage of a heat transfer liquid. The internal glass wall can include a first face, facing the external glass wall. The first face of the internal glass wall can include a reflective surface configured to reflect solar radiation into the heat transfer liquid when in operation. |
| US12137643B1 |
Vertical farming apparatus
A tower garden for vertical farming includes a vertical column with a plurality of vertical growth modules. The plurality of vertical growth modules are stacked over and connected to each other in a vertical direction and are configured to grow plants in the vertical direction. The tower garden further includes a base positioned below the vertical column. The base is configured to receive a reservoir including an agricultural medium. The tower garden further includes a perforated hose extending from the base of the vertical column in the vertical direction. The perforated hose is configured as a conduit for the agricultural medium to flow upwards and cascade over roots of the plants. Each growth module includes a plastic pocket with a hole. |
| US12137640B2 |
Sustainable residential yard flood irrigation valve system with controller
A sustainable residential yard flood irrigation valve safety system includes a lower bracket configured to couple to a water flood irrigation feed pipe, a mounting post extends from the lower bracket, a driver support arm pivotally attaches to the mounting post and supports a driver motor. The driver motor rotatably drives an arm through a universal joint pivotally attached to the driver motor and includes a slot configured to receive a manual twist handle of the water flood irrigation feed pipe's flood irrigation valve. An electronic controller associated with the driver motor regulates start and stop times for opening and closing the flood irrigation valve. A camera captures an image as evidence that the valve is open or closed and a water alarm notifies the electronic controller if either the valve does not close or the water level is too high. The electronic controller and drive motor are powered through solar power. |
| US12137638B2 |
Plant cover device with upper end and lower tubular end and related methods
A plant cover device may include an enclosure having an upper end, a lower tubular end opposite the upper end, and a medial seam coupling the upper end and the lower tubular end. The upper end may include panels coupled together to partially define a plant-receiving cavity therein. Each of the panels may have a major mesh surface, and a panel seam extending along a peripheral edge of the major mesh surface, adjacent panels being coupled together at respective panel seams. The lower tubular end may include a major mesh surface and having a first end and a second end opposite the first end, the first end being coupled to the medial seam. The lower tubular end may also partially define the plant-receiving cavity therein. The enclosure may have a curved flexible support carried by the medial seam, and a pole extending vertically from a surface to an apex of the enclosure. |
| US12137637B2 |
Panel compression system for baler implement
A baler implement includes an upper compression panel and a first side compression panel. A compression frame is disposed around the upper compression panel and the first side compression panel. A panel support structure includes a top portion positioned proximate the upper compression panel, and a first side portion attached to the top portion and positioned proximate the left side compression panel. An actuator interconnects the compression frame and the panel support structure. The actuator is operable to extend to move the panel support structure and the upper compression panel in a first vertical direction along a first compression axis. A first wedging system includes a wedge for converting movement of the first side portion in the first vertical direction along the first compression axis into movement of the first side compression panel in a first horizontal direction along a second compression axis. |
| US12137636B1 |
Implement for moving plant material in a field
An implement for moving plant material lying in a field including a frame, a plurality of rake wheels rotatably mounted on the frame, and a plurality of support wheels to support the frame in an elevated condition. The implement may have a plurality of configurations, and may include a merge configuration configured to merge windrows of plant material on the field surface by lateral displacement of the plant material on the field surface. The plurality of configurations may include a turn configuration configured to turn the plant material on the field surface with a degree of lateral movement of the plant material on the field surface. The plurality of configurations may include a fluff configuration configured to lift plant material off of the field surface without lateral displacement of the plant material on the field surface. |
| US12137635B1 |
Lawnmower tool receiver apparatus and methods
The present disclosure provides for a tool receiver apparatus for a lawnmower. The apparatus may include a base, a post, an arm, and a sleeve. The base may include a magnet configured for magnetic engagement with a surface of the lawnmower. The post may be disposed on the base and extend upwardly from the base. The arm may extend laterally from the post. The sleeve may be disposed on the arm. The sleeve may include an upper end forming an upper opening, a lower end forming a lower opening, and a passage extending between the upper opening and the lower opening. The sleeve may be configured to receive a tool with a jaw assembly. |
| US12137632B2 |
Residue management control system for harvester
A harvester movable along a support surface. The harvester includes an inlet configured to receive crop, a blade configured to cut the crop into billet and extraneous plant matter, and a cleaning system configured to distinguish between billet and extraneous plant matter. Billet is directed toward a conveyor configured for discharging billet to a vehicle and extraneous plant matter is directed toward a hood. The hood includes a debris director defining an outlet configured to eject extraneous plant matter as residue onto the support surface. The outlet is disposed at an angle of residue ejection with respect to the support surface. The debris director is configured to adjust the angle of residue ejection with respect to the support surface. |
| US12137630B2 |
Sensor assembly for an agricultural header
A sensor assembly for an agricultural header includes a sensor configured to detect features of an unharvested crop field. The sensor is mounted to a bracket that is coupled to a reel arm or to a frame of the agricultural header. The sensor assembly is configured to position and/or to orient the sensor such that the sensor detects only the features of the unharvested crop field within a detected area that is completely within a lateral extent of the agricultural header. |
| US12137625B2 |
Work vehicle and control system for work vehicle
A control system for a work vehicle that performs auto-steer driving includes a storage to store a target path for the work vehicle, and a controller configured or programmed to control steering of the work vehicle so that the work vehicle travels along the target path based on a position of the work vehicle identified by a position identifier and the target path stored in the storage. The target path includes parallel main paths and one or more turning paths interconnecting the plurality of main paths. When the work vehicle is turning along one of the turning paths via automatic steering, if the position of the work vehicle becomes deviated from the turning path by more than a reference distance, the controller is configured or programmed to cause an alarm generator to output an alarm. |
| US12144271B2 |
Back end of line embedded RRAM structure with low forming voltage
A semiconductor structure may include a resistive random access memory device embedded between an upper metal interconnect and a lower metal interconnect in a backend structure of a chip. The resistive random access memory may include a first electrode and a second electrode separated by a dielectric film. A portion of the dielectric film directly above the first electrode may be crystalline. The semiconductor structure may include a stud below and in electrical contact with the first electrode and the lower metal interconnect and a dielectric layer between the upper metal interconnect and the lower metal interconnect. The dielectric layer may separate the upper metal interconnect from the lower metal interconnect. The crystalline portion of the dielectric film may include grain boundaries that extend through an entire thickness of the dielectric film. The crystalline portion of the dielectric film may include grains. |
| US12144258B2 |
Suspension design with improved microactuator sensitivity and microactuator configurations
A piezoelectric (PZT) actuator assembly having a fixed-end and a hinged-end is provided. The assembly includes a first side electrode at the hinge-end, and a second side electrode at the fixed-end. The assembly includes a third piezoelectric layer including a top surface and a bottom surface disposed over the top surface of the second PZT layer. A fourth electrode is at least partially disposed on the top surface of the third PZT layer. The fourth electrode is connected to the second side electrode at the fixed-end. |
| US12144257B2 |
Heat dissipation composite, lower panel sheet, and display device including the same
A heat dissipation composite for a display device includes: a heat absorber; an electricity generator disposed on the heat absorber to convert heat from the heat absorber into electricity; and a vibrator disposed on the electricity generator to convert the electricity provided from the electricity generator into vibration. |
| US12144254B2 |
Dynamic equivalent circuit of combined heat and power system, and working method thereof
The present disclosure discloses a dynamic equivalent circuit of a combined heat and power system, and a working method thereof. Controlled sources are used to represent a thermoelectric coupling source; equivalent inductance is used to represent a delay of a heat transmission pipeline; equivalent resistance is used to represent a heat load and a heat loss of the heat transmission pipeline; and equivalent capacitance is used to represent a heat storage water tank. A circuit model is used to uniformly represent two thermoelectric heterogeneous energy sources, and a single power simulation tool may be used to simulate a combined heat and power system, so that the simulation system has a simple structure and is easy to develop and maintain. |
| US12144252B2 |
Organic electroluminescence device
An organic electroluminescence device includes a first electrode, a second electrode facing the first electrode, and an emission layer between the first electrode and the second electrode, wherein the emission layer includes a first host, a first dopant, and a second dopant different from the first dopant, the first dopant and the second dopant are compounds each independently exhibiting thermally activated delayed fluorescence, the first dopant has a delayed fluorescence lifetime (τ) value of about 2.6 μs to about 5.0 μs, and the first host, the first dopant, and the second dopant satisfy Equation 1 defined in the detailed description, thereby exhibiting increased efficiency and lifetime characteristics. |
| US12144249B2 |
Compound for organic optoelectronic device, composition for organic optoelectronic device, organic optoelectronic device and display device
A compound for an organic optoelectronic device, a composition for an organic optoelectronic device including the same, an organic optoelectronic device, and a display device, the compound being represented by Chemical Formula 1: |
| US12144248B2 |
Compound, display panel and display apparatus
The present disclosure relates to the technical field of OLED, and provides a compound having TADF property. In an embodiment the compound has a structure according to Formula (1), in which X1-X5 are each independently selected from a carbon atom and a nitrogen atom, and at least one of X1-X5 is a nitrogen atom; R11-R20 are each selected from the group consisting of a hydrogen atom, a fluorine atom, alkyl, alkoxy, cyano, trifluoromethyl, an electron-accepting group, and an electron-donating group; at least one of R11-R15 is an electron-donating group or an electron-accepting group, and at least one of R16-R20 is an electron-donating group or an electron-accepting group; when each of R11-R15 is an electron-accepting group, at least one of R16-R20 is an electron-donating group, and each of R11-R15 is an electron-donating group, at least one of R16-R20 is an electron-accepting group. |
| US12144246B2 |
Compounds, infrared absorbers, infrared absorbing/blocking films, photoelectric devices, sensors, and electronic devices
A compound is represented by Chemical Formula 1. In Chemical Formula 1, R1 to R4, R11a to R14c, and n are the same as defined in the detailed description. |
| US12144243B2 |
Organometallic compound, light-emitting device including same, and electronic apparatus including the light-emitting device
Provided is an organometallic compound, a light-emitting device including the same, 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 including an emission layer, wherein the light-emitting device includes at least one organometallic compound represented by Formula 1. |
| US12144240B2 |
Flexible panel
In a display device including a flexible display panel, the risk of disconnection of a wiring due to bending is reduced. A display panel includes a display function layer including display elements and a wiring on one major surface of a base material having flexibility. The display panel includes, on the one major surface of the base material, an organic-film-covered wiring area where the surface of the wiring is covered with an organic planarization film that is an organic insulating film in direct contact with the wiring. The display panel includes, in the plane thereof, a display area where the display elements are arranged and a component mounting area that is a peripheral area located outside the display area. As the organic-film-covered wiring area, a curved area is provided in the peripheral area. |
| US12144239B2 |
Substrate for flexible device
A substrate for flexible device, including a stainless steel sheet, an oxide layer formed on a surface of the stainless steel sheet, and a glass layer of electrically-insulating bismuth-based glass formed in a form of layer on the surface of the oxide layer. Also disclosed is a sheet for flexible device, including a stainless steel sheet, and an oxide layer on a surface of the stainless steel sheet, the oxide layer having a thickness of not less than 30 nm. |
| US12144238B2 |
Display apparatus and method of manufacturing the same
A method of manufacturing a display apparatus includes separating a mother substrate that includes a plurality of connected unit display apparatuses into a plurality of separated unit display apparatuses. Each separated unit display apparatus includes a display panel and at least one supporting unit attached below the display panel. The display panel includes a display substrate that has a pad area on which are disposed a plurality of pads and a thin film encapsulation layer on the display substrate. The method further includes consecutively cutting the display panel and the at least one supporting unit of each separated unit display apparatus along cutting lines in the pad area, where a first cut surface of the pad area of the display substrate and a second cut surface of the at least one supporting unit are respectively cut at different angles. |
| US12144236B2 |
Display substrate having photosensitive sensing unit located in visible light signal receiving region
Provided are a display substrate and a manufacturing method thereof, and a visible light communication apparatus. The display substrate includes a substrate, and the substrate includes a display region and a peripheral region surrounding the display region; the peripheral region includes a visible light signal receiving region surrounding the display region; the display substrate further includes a photosensitive sensing unit, the photosensitive sensing unit is located in the visible light signal receiving region and is configured to receive a visible light signal and convert the visible light signal into an electrical signal to achieve visible light communication. |
| US12144232B2 |
Display panel and display device with improved shrinkage performance of curved regions
The present application provides a display panel and a display device. The display panel comprises a first curved region located between two second curved regions and corresponding to a corner area of a planar region. The display panel comprises a supporting layer and a panel main body, and the supporting layer comprises a first portion being bent and within the first curved region and a second portion being bent and within the second curved region; the panel main body is disposed on the first portion and the second portion and bent along with the first portion and the second portion. a shrinkage rate of the first portion is greater than a shrinkage rate of the second portion. |
| US12144231B2 |
Display substrates, display panels, and display devices
The present application provides a display substrate, a display panel, and a display device. The display substrate includes a substrate layer. The substrate layer includes a first substrate portion and a second substrate portion joined to each other. The first substrate portion is made of a first substrate material and configured to be disposed opposite to a photosensitive element. The second substrate portion is made of a second substrate material. A light transmittance of the first substrate material is larger than or equal to a light transmittance threshold, and a light transmittance of the second substrate material is smaller than the light transmittance threshold. |
| US12144230B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a substrate having a first region and a second region, a first array unit in the first region and including at least one subpixel having a first light emitting part, and a second array unit in the second region. The second array unit can include a plurality of subpixels, where each of the plurality of subpixels can include a second light emitting part having a smaller area than an area of the first light emitting part. A first driving thin film transistor of at least one subpixel in the first array unit and a second driving thin film transistor of each of the subpixels of the second array unit can include a first active layer and a second active layer, respectively. |
| US12144229B2 |
Display device having a bent portion
A display device includes a display area and a peripheral area. A display layer includes a plurality of display elements arranged thereon. A thin-film encapsulation layer is arranged on the display layer and includes first, second, and third encapsulation layers. The second encapsulation layer is on the first encapsulation layer. The third encapsulation layer is on the second encapsulation layer. A touch sensing layer is arranged on the thin-film encapsulation layer and includes touch electrodes and trace lines. The display area is partially bent about an axis, and the third encapsulation layer is bent along the axis and has a structure in which a first layer and a second layer are alternately stacked. The first layer includes an inorganic insulating material, and the second layer includes a silicon carbon compound material. |
| US12144228B2 |
Transparent display device with touch sensor
A transparent display device is provided, which may reduce or minimize loss of light transmittance due to a touch sensor and a touch line, and may detect a defective touch sensor in a touch block. The transparent display device with a touch sensor comprises a plurality of transmissive areas and a non-transmissive area disposed between the transmissive areas adjacent to each other, a plurality of pixels provided in the non-transmissive area, including a plurality of subpixels, a touch block including a plurality of touch sensors disposed in the plurality of transmissive areas, a plurality of touch connection portions respectively connected to the plurality of touch sensors, transferring a touch sensing voltage to the connected touch sensor and including a first high resistance area, and a plurality of sensing transistors respectively connected to the plurality of touch sensors, sensing a voltage of the connected touch sensor. |
| US12144222B2 |
Display device
Provided is a display device. The display device includes a substrate having a pixel area including a first sub-pixel area, a second sub-pixel area, and a third sub-pixel area, a first control layer on the substrate, a second control layer on the first control layer, an intervening layer disposed between the first control layer and the second control layer on the first sub-pixel area and the second sub-pixel area, first quantum dots on the intervening layer of the first sub-pixel area, second quantum dots on the intervening layer of the second sub-pixel area, and an organic layer configured to cover a top surface and a side surface of the intervening layer between the first control layer and the second control layer. |
| US12144220B2 |
Display panel
A display panel having a first display region and a second display region is provided. The display panel includes sub-pixels. Light transmittance of a non-light-emitting region in the second display region is greater than light transmittance of a non-light-emitting region in the first display region. For a first sub-pixel of the sub-pixels located in the first display region and a second sub-pixel of the sub-pixels located in the second display region that emit a same color, the first sub-pixel corresponds to a first pixel circuit, and the second sub-pixel corresponds to a second pixel circuit, and a width-to-length ratio of a driving transistor in the second pixel circuit is greater than a width-to-length ratio of a driving transistor in the first pixel circuit. |
| US12144218B2 |
Display substrate and display device with display uniformity
Provided is a display substrate. In the display substrate, a base substrate includes a display region, a bending region and a pad region. A length of the display region in a first direction is greater than a length of the display region in a second direction. Since the pad region, the bending region and the display region are arranged along the second direction, the pad region is arranged on a side where a long boundary line of the display region is located, such that each signal line led into the display region from the pad region has a relatively short length in the display region. |
| US12144216B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display module. A support layer is disposed below the display module. A plurality of support bars is disposed inside the support layer and extends outside of the support layer. Each of the plurality of support bars includes first and second ends that are disposed outside of the support layer. A plurality of joints are configured to receive the first and second ends of the plurality of support bars. The plurality of joints are coupled to each other. The coupled plurality of joints are configured to rotate with respect to each other. |
| US12144211B2 |
Display apparatus including metal pattern overlapping with conductive line at bending area and method of manufacturing the same
A display apparatus includes: a substrate including a display area, a peripheral area, a pad area, and a bending area, the peripheral area being outside the display area, the pad area being within the peripheral area, and the bending area being between the display area and the pad area; a first organic insulating layer at the bending area; a first conductive line on the first organic insulating layer; a second organic insulating layer on the first conductive line; a third organic insulating layer on the second organic insulating layer; and a metal pattern on the third organic insulating layer, and overlapping with at least a portion of the first conductive line. |
| US12144208B2 |
Display panel, manufacturing method thereof and display apparatus
A display panel, a manufacturing method thereof and a display apparatus are provided. The display panel is divided into a display region and at least one light transmission region at least partially surrounded by the display region, including a base substrate; a driving circuit layer; an anode layer; a first insulating layer over the anode layer and including a first insulating sub-layer in the display region and a second insulating sub-layer in the at least one light transmission region; a functional film layer in the at least one light transmission region, the functional film layer has a first thickness so that a height difference between a height of a surface of the first insulating sub-layer and a height of a surface of the second insulating sub-layer is less than a first threshold; and an encapsulation leveling layer arranged on surfaces of the first and second insulating sub-layer. |
| US12144202B2 |
Method of manufacturing display device
According to one embodiment, in a manufacturing method of a display device, a first lower electrode, a second lower electrode and a third lower electrode are formed. A rib having first aperture overlapping the first lower electrode, a second aperture overlapping the second lower electrode, and a third aperture overlapping the third lower electrode is formed. A first thin film including a first light emitting layer is formed on the first lower electrode. A second thin film including a second light emitting layer is formed on the second lower electrode. An area of the first aperture is larger than an area of the second aperture. |
| US12144201B2 |
Display device
A display device includes a display panel including a first region and a second region, and a sensing module on a rear side of the display panel. The first region includes a first pixel area to display an image. The second region includes a second pixel area to display the image and a transmission area to transmit light output by the sensing module. The second region overlaps the sensing module. The second pixel area overlaps a first layer that blocks light output by the sensing module. The transmission area does not overlap the first layer. |
| US12144199B2 |
Display device having a tapered low refractive index layer and a high refractive index layer
A display device includes a substrate. A first electrode is disposed on the substrate. A pixel definition layer is disposed on the substrate. A second electrode is disposed on the first electrode and the pixel definition layer. An organic emission layer is disposed between the first electrode and the second electrode. A planarization layer is disposed on the second electrode. A low refractive index layer is disposed on the planarization layer and overlaps the pixel definition layer. A high refractive index layer is disposed on the planarization layer and overlaps the second electrode. The high refractive index layer has a higher refractive index than that of the low refractive index layer. |
| US12144194B2 |
Display apparatus, module, and equipment
A display apparatus includes a display device and a light transmission plate overlapping the display device. The display device has a display region. A void is provided between the display region and the light transmission plate. Between the display region and the light transmission plate, a distance G from a front surface of the display device facing the void to a main surface of the light transmission plate facing the void is greater than a height difference H of the front surface in the display region. The height difference H is greater than 1 μm. |
| US12144193B2 |
Display device including anode electrode that includes first, second and third anode electrode layers, and method of manufacturing the same
An embodiment of a display device comprises a base substrate; an anode electrode disposed on the base substrate; a cathode electrode facing the anode electrode; and an organic light emitting layer disposed between the anode electrode and the cathode electrode, wherein the anode electrode includes: a first anode electrode disposed between the base substrate and the organic light emitting layer, a second anode electrode disposed between the first anode electrode and the organic light emitting layer, and a third anode electrode disposed between the second anode electrode and the organic light emitting layer, wherein a width of the first anode electrode is equal to or greater than a width of the second anode electrode. |
| US12144192B2 |
Imaging element, stacked imaging element and solid-state imaging device, and method of manufacturing imaging element
An imaging element includes a photoelectric conversion section 23 including a first electrode 21, a photoelectric conversion layer 23A including an organic material, and a second electrode 22 that are stacked. An inorganic oxide semiconductor material layer 23B including a first layer 23C and a second layer 23D, from side of the first electrode, is formed between the first electrode 21 and the photoelectric conversion layer 23A, and ρ1≥5.9 g/cm3 and ρ1−ρ2≥0.1 g/cm3 are satisfied, where ρ1 is an average film density of the first layer 23C and ρ2 is an average film density of the second layer 23D in a portion extending for 3 nm from an interface between the first electrode 21 and the inorganic oxide semiconductor material layer 23B. |
| US12144190B2 |
3D semiconductor device and structure with bonding and memory cells preliminary class
A 3D semiconductor device, the device including: a first level including a first single crystal layer, the first level including first transistors, where each of the first transistors includes a single crystal channel; a first metal layer; a second metal layer overlaying the first metal layer; and a second level including a plurality of second transistors and at least one third metal layer, where the second level overlays the first level, where at least one of the second transistors includes a transistor channel, where the second level includes a plurality of memory cells, where each of the plurality of memory cells includes at least one of the second transistors, where the device includes at least one Phase-Lock-Loop (“PLL”) circuit or at least one Digital-Lock-Loop (“DLL”) circuit, where the second level is directly bonded to the first level, and where the bonded includes metal to metal bonds. |
| US12144188B2 |
Multitier arrangements of integrated devices, and methods of forming sense/access lines
Some embodiments include an arrangement having a memory tier with memory cells on opposing sides of a coupling region. First sense/access lines are under the memory cells, and are electrically connected with the memory cells. A conductive interconnect is within the coupling region. A second sense/access line extends across the memory cells, and across the conductive interconnect. The second sense/access line has a first region having a second conductive material over a first conductive material, and has a second region having only the second conductive material. The first region is over the memory cells, and is electrically connected with the memory cells. The second region is over the conductive interconnect and is electrically coupled with the conductive interconnect. An additional tier is under the memory tier, and includes CMOS circuitry coupled with the conductive interconnect. Some embodiments include methods of forming multitier arrangements. |
| US12144184B2 |
Tunnel junction selector MRAM
A magnetoresistive random access memory (MRAM) cell includes a bottom electrode, a magnetic tunnel junction structure, a bipolar tunnel junction selector; and a top electrode. The tunnel junction selector includes a MgO tunnel barrier layer and provides a bipolar function for putting the MTJ structure in parallel or anti-parallel mode. |
| US12144183B2 |
Arithmetic operation circuit and neuromorphic device
An arithmetic operation circuit including: a variable resistance element that includes three terminals that are a first terminal, a second terminal, and a third terminal and is configured to be able to change a resistance value; a first electrode connected to the first terminal; a second electrode; a third electrode; a first switching element connected between the second electrode and the second terminal; a second switching element connected between the third electrode and the third terminal; and a capacitor connected between a transmission line connecting the second terminal and the first switching element and the ground. |
| US12144180B2 |
Semiconductor memory device
According to an embodiment, a semiconductor memory device comprises: a stacked body that includes a plurality of control gate electrodes stacked above a substrate; a memory columnar body that extends in a first direction above the substrate and configures a memory string along with the stacked body; and a source contact that extends in the first direction and is electrically connected to one end of the memory string. Moreover, this source contact is adjacent to the stacked body via a spacer insulating layer. Furthermore, a spacer protective layer including a nitride or a metal oxide is provided between these source contact and spacer insulating layer. |
| US12144178B2 |
Three-dimensional semiconductor memory device and method of detecting electrical failure thereof
Disclosed are three-dimensional semiconductor memory devices and methods of detecting electrical failure thereof. The three-dimensional semiconductor memory device includes a substrate with a first conductivity including a cell array region and an extension region having different threshold voltages from each other, a stack structure on the substrate and including stacked electrodes, an electrical vertical channel penetrating the stack structure on the cell array region, and a dummy vertical channel penetrating the stack structure on the extension region. The substrate comprises a pocket well having the first conductivity and provided with the stack structure thereon, and a deep well surrounding the pocket well and having a second conductivity opposite to the first conductivity. |
| US12144176B2 |
Integrated assemblies having one or more modifying substances distributed within semiconductor material, and methods of forming integrated assemblies
Some embodiments include a method of forming an integrated assembly. A stack of alternating first and second materials is formed over a conductive structure. The conductive structure includes a semiconductor-containing material over a metal-containing material. An opening is formed to extend through the stack and through the semiconductor-containing material, to expose the metal-containing material. The semiconductor-containing material is doped with carbon and/or with one or more metals. After the doping of the semiconductor-containing material, the second material of the stack is removed to form voids. Conductive material is formed within the voids. Insulative material is formed within the opening. Some embodiments include integrated assemblies having carbon distributed within at least a portion of a semiconductor material. |
| US12144175B2 |
Three dimensional NAND memory device with novel support structures
Aspects of the disclosure provide a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a first stack of layers including a source connection layer and a second stack of layers including gate layers and insulating layers. The gate layers and the insulating layers are stacked alternatively upon the first stack of layers. Further, the semiconductor device includes channel structures that are formed along the first direction in the first stack of layers and the second stack of layers, and a gate line cut structure having a trench that cuts through the first stack of layers and the second stack of layers. The trench is filled with at least an insulating layer. The semiconductor device includes a support structure having a first portion that is disposed at a side of the gate line cut structure and extended from the side of the gate line cut structure and underneath the second stack of layers. |
| US12144171B2 |
Semiconductor device including select cutting structure, method for manufacturing the same and electronic system including the same
A semiconductor device of the disclosure includes a peripheral circuit structure including a peripheral transistor, a semiconductor layer on the peripheral circuit structure, a source structure on the semiconductor layer, a gate stack structure on the source structure, the gate stack structure including a word line, a gate upper line and a staircase structure, a memory channel structure and a dummy channel structure extending through the gate stack structure, a cut structure extending through the gate upper line, and a bit line overlapping with the memory channel structure. The cut structure includes a narrow section, and a wide section nearer to the staircase structure than the narrow section. A width of the narrow section is less than a width of the wide section. |
| US12144169B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of manufacturing the same
Provided is a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a floating gate disposed on a substrate; a memory gate disposed on the floating gate; a first spacer disposed sidewalls of the floating gate and the memory gate, and an upper surface of the substrate; a second spacer disposed on the first spacer; a select high-k film disposed on a first portion of a sidewall of the first spacer between the substrate and the second spacer; and a select gate disposed on a second portion of the sidewall of the first spacer between the substrate and the second spacer. A width of a portion of the first spacer is reduced as a distance to the substrate decreases, and the portion of the first spacer is disposed between the substrate and the second spacer. |
| US12144167B2 |
Semiconductor device and method of fabricating the same
A method of fabricating a semiconductor device. A cell area and a core area is defined in a substrate. A bit line structure disposed in the cell area is provided. A gate structure disposed in the core area is provided, and a core capping film disposed on the gate structure is provided. A height of the core capping film is greater than a height of the bit line structure. A first contact film is formed on the bit line structure. A second contact film is formed on the core capping film. A mask is formed on the first contact film. An upper surface of the core capping film is exposed using the mask. The first contact film is etched until a height of the first contact film becomes less than a height of the bit line structure using an etching process. In the etching process, an etching rate for the first contact film is greater than etching rates for the bit line structure and the core capping film. |
| US12144166B2 |
Semiconductor structure and method of manufacturing the same
A method for manufacturing a semiconductor structure includes: a substrate is provided, and Shallow Trench Isolation (STI) structures are formed in the substrate, the STI structures isolating a plurality of Active Areas (AAs) spaced in the substrate; word line trenches are formed in the substrate; an etch protection layer is formed on a surface of the first protruding structure; the STI structure is partially removed to form a second protruding structure based on the first protruding structure; the lower portion of the second protruding structure is etched to make a width of the lower portion of the second protruding structure smaller than a width of an upper portion of the second protruding structure; and a word line structure is formed in the word line trench. |
| US12144163B2 |
Selective double diffusion break structures for multi-stack semiconductor device
A multi-stack semiconductor device includes: a plurality of lower transistor structures arranged on a lower stack and including a plurality of lower fin structures surrounded by a plurality of lower gate structures, respectively; a plurality of upper transistor structures arranged on an upper stack and including a plurality of upper fin structures surrounded by a plurality of upper gate structures, respectively; and at least one of a lower diffusion break structure on the lower stack and a upper diffusion break structure on the upper stack, wherein the lower diffusion break structure is formed between two adjacent lower gate structures, and isolates two lower transistor structures respectively including the two adjacent lower gate structures from each other, and the upper diffusion break structure is formed between two adjacent upper gate structures, and isolates two upper transistor structures respectively including the two adjacent upper gate structures from each other. |
| US12144161B2 |
Flexible display module and electronic device comprising the same
A flexible display apparatus can include a flexible substrate including a display portion, a bending portion and a pad portion; a first back plate configured to support the display portion of the flexible substrate; a second back plate configured to support the pad portion of the flexible substrate; a bending maintenance member disposed between the first back plate and the second back plate and configured to support the bending portion of the flexible substrate; and a conductive heat dissipating portion disposed to a rear surface of the first back plate. |
| US12144158B2 |
Power electronics assemblies having embedded power electronics devices
A power electronics assembly includes a circuit board assembly including a first electrically insulating layer, an electrically insulating substrate, a laminate panel provided between the first electrically insulating layer and the electrically insulating substrate, and one or more electrically conductive layers provided within the electrically insulating substrate. The laminate panel includes a power electronics device assembly including an S-cell and a power electronics device. The S-cell includes a graphite layer and a metal layer encasing the graphite layer. A recess is formed in an outer surface of the metal layer and the power electronics device is disposed within the recess of the outer surface of the S-cell. |
| US12144157B2 |
Converter
A converter for an air conditioner includes a substrate, an inductor that is disposed in one side of the substrate and includes a core and a coil wound around the core, a switching element that is disposed in one side of the substrate and selectively controls a flow of a circuit, and a heat sink for absorbing heat generated from the switching element by contacting the switching element. A lead-in hole is formed in one side of the substrate, and at least a portion of the inductor is disposed in the lead-in hole, thereby quickly discharging the heat generated by the inverter and more efficiently using a space. |
| US12144156B2 |
Cooling for power distribution systems
In accordance with at least one aspect of this disclosure, a power distribution system having integrated cooling includes a chassis defining an interior cavity, an electronics bus structure housed within the interior cavity, and an electrical contactor operatively connected to the electronics bus structure to receive a voltage therefrom. One or more heat dissipation fins can be included extending away from the chassis and configured to dissipate heat from the electronics bus structure to an ambient environment external to the chassis. In embodiments, the electronics bus structure can be sealed within the interior cavity. |
| US12144153B2 |
Electronic control of a compressor, compressor and cooling equipment
The present invention refers to an electronic control (1) of a compressor (2), the electronic control (1) disposed in an encasement 5 (3), wherein the electronic control (1) comprises: a main board (4) associated to at least an auxiliary board (5,6,7), wherein one of the auxiliary boards (5,6,7) is a heat-generating board (7), wherein the heat-generating board (7) is disposed at a first distance (D1) in relation to a first wall of the encasement (P1), wherein the other auxiliary boards 0 (5.6) are disposed at least at a second distance (D2, D3) in relation to the first wall of the encasement (P1), wherein the first distance (D1) is less than the second distance (D2). A compressor (2) and a cooling equipment are also described. |
| US12144151B2 |
Systems and methods for vapor-compressed cooling
A fluid cooling system includes a boiling plate, a compressor, and a condenser. The boiling plate contacts a heat-generating electronic component. The boiling plate receives a liquid such that the liquid absorbs heat from the electronic component and evaporates into a vapor. The compressor is fluidly connected the boiling plate and receives the vapor of the boiling plate. The compressor increases the pressure of the vapor such that the temperature of the vapor increases, and such that a saturation temperature of the vapor increases. The condenser is fluidly connected to the compressor and the boiling plate. The condenser receives the vapor from the compressor and removes heat from the vapor such that the vapor condenses back into the liquid. The boiling plate receives the liquid from the condenser. The system can include a pump that circulates the liquid and the vapor between the boiling plate, the compressor, and the condenser. |
| US12144149B2 |
Cooling apparatus for electronic element
A cooling apparatus for an electronic element includes a first chamber in a non-vacuum state, the first chamber being configured such that a printed circuit board equipped with a heat-generating element is disposed in the first chamber, a second chamber in a vacuum state, the second chamber being configured such that a spray unit configured to spray a refrigerant and a refrigerant supply unit configured to supply the refrigerant to the spray unit are disposed in the second chamber, and an evaporation unit disposed between the first chamber and the second chamber, in which the spray unit sprays the refrigerant, which is supplied by the refrigerant supply unit and condensed in the second chamber, into the second chamber, and in which the evaporation unit evaporates the refrigerant, which is sprayed into the second chamber by the spray unit. |
| US12144140B2 |
Server, electronic device assembly thereof and electronic device fixing mechanism thereof
A server includes a chassis and an electronic device assembly. The electronic device assembly includes a holder and a fixing member. The holder accommodates an electronic device and includes a limiting slot and a positioning hole. The fixing member includes a hook set. The hook set includes a first hook and a second hook. The first hook is connected to the limiting slot to be limited in a first direction. The second hook is connected to the positioning hole to be limited in a second direction. The first direction is substantially different from the second direction. The fixing member and the holder sandwich a connector connected to the electronic device. |
| US12144137B2 |
Tool-free unlocking mechanism
The present invention relates to a tool-free unlocking mechanism including a connecting member and a mounting member, wherein the connecting member has at least one mounting hole that can be placed on the mounting member, and the tool-free unlocking mechanism can be quickly positioned on a bracket. |
| US12144136B2 |
Modular surgical energy system with module positional awareness with digital logic
A modular surgical system for use in a surgical procedure is disclosed. The modular surgical system includes a header module, a first surgical module, a second surgical module, a first backplane connector configured to detachably connect the header module to the first surgical module, and a second backplane connector configured to detachably connect the first surgical module to the second surgical module. The first surgical module is arrangeable in a stack configuration with the header module and the second surgical module. The first backplane connector is configured to yield a first bit pattern identifying the first surgical module in the stack configuration. The second backplane connector is configured to yield a second bit pattern identifying the second surgical module in the stack configuration. The first bit pattern is different than the second bit pattern. |
| US12144131B2 |
Display device
A display device includes: a first display unit; a second display unit; a first support part under the first display unit; a second support part under the second display unit; a first housing which accommodates the first support part and the first display unit; a second housing into or from which the second support part and the second display unit are inserted or withdrawn; and a guide groove defined in the second housing and which guides the second support part during the inserting or withdrawing. The inserting or withdrawing is performed along a first direction, the second support part includes support bars extending along a second direction, each support bar includes a first part not inserted into the guide groove and a second part inserted into the guide groove, and a width of the second part is smaller than a width of the first part in the first direction. |
| US12144118B2 |
Embedded system module thermal installation verification
Systems and methods for detecting an incorrectly attached heat sink component on an electronic device. The system includes one or more temperature sensors secured to the electronic device and a controller unit comprising one or more processors and one or more computer-readable media, the computer-readable media having stored thereon executable instructions that are executable by the one or more processors to perform a method for detecting incorrectly attached heat sink components. The method includes receiving temperature data, calculating a thermal ramp rate, comparing the thermal ramp rate to a predetermined threshold ramp rate, and transmitting a fault signal when the calculated thermal ramp rate exceeds the predetermined threshold ramp rate. |
| US12144113B2 |
Circuit board structure
A circuit board structure includes a substrate, a first build-up structure layer, first and second external circuit layers, at least one first conductive via, and second conductive vias. The first build-up structure layer is disposed on a first circuit layer of the substrate. The first external circuit layer is disposed on the first build-up structure layer. The second external circuit layer is disposed on a second circuit layer and a portion of a third dielectric layer of the substrate. The first conductive via is electrically connected to the first external circuit layer and the second external circuit layer to define a signal path. The second conductive vias surround the first conductive via, and the first external circuit layer, the second conductive vias, the first circuit layer, the outer conductive layer, and the second external circuit layer define a first ground path. The first ground path surrounds the signal path. |
| US12144105B2 |
Wiring board
A wiring board according to the present disclosure includes a core layer including core electrical conductor layers on upper and lower surfaces of a core insulating layer, a first build-up portion, a second build-up portion, a first mounting region, and a second mounting region. The first build-up portion includes a first build-up insulating layer and a first build-up electrical conductor layer connected to the first mounting region. The second build-up portion includes a second build-up insulating layer and a second build-up electrical conductor layer connected to the second mounting region. The second build-up insulating layer includes a margin for adhesion between the second build-up insulating layers or between the second build-up insulating layer and the core insulating layer. The second build-up electrical conductor layer includes an electrical conductor layer for grounding, a first opening, and a signal pad located inside the first opening. |
| US12144103B2 |
Printed circuit board and camera device comprising same
A printed circuit board according to an embodiment comprises: a substrate comprising at least two insulating layers; pads arranged on the substrate; heat dissipation vias arranged to pass through the substrate in a region of the substrate which vertically overlaps the pads; and through vias arranged to pass through the substrate in a region of the substrate which does not vertically overlap the pads, wherein each heat dissipation via includes a plurality of via parts which are spaced apart from each other in at least one of the at least two insulating layers, the upper surface of each of the plurality of via parts has a first horizontal width in a first direction that is smaller than a second horizontal width thereof in a second direction different from the first direction, and the plurality of via parts have a surface area corresponding to 10% or greater of the surface area of the pads. |
| US12144100B2 |
3D high speed RF beam scanner for hadron therapy
A hadron therapy system that provides 3D scanning and rapid delivery of a high dose. Such systems can include a hadron source and accelerator with an RF energy modulator and an RF deflector that operate in combination to provide 3D scanning of a targeted tissue. The systems can include a permanent magnet quadrupole for magnification of the beam. The systems can include high energy hadron sources that utilize a multi-cell, multi-klystron design that achieves scanning of high energy hadron beams, for example a fixed energy of 200 MeV protons. Such systems can provide full irradiation of a liter scale tumor within one second or less. |
| US12144094B2 |
Microwave suppression tunnel and related features
A continuous asphalt mix system for using a microwave heating vessel at the point of production that includes a microwave energy suppression tunnel with one or more mesh flaps for substantially reducing or preventing the leakage of microwave energy from a microwave system, while having a continuous flow of product through the vessel and suppression tunnels. The suppression tunnels are installed on the inlet and/or the outlet side of the system and are sized to suppress leakage. |
| US12144091B2 |
High-frequency heating apparatus
A high-frequency heating apparatus includes: a heating chamber for accommodating a load; a microwave source; at least one radiator; a temperature detector; and a controller. The microwave source generates a microwave and adjusts the frequency and output of the microwave. The at least one radiator radiates a microwave into the heating chamber. The temperature detector detects the temperature in the heating chamber. The controller causes the microwave source to adjust the output of the microwave based on the temperature profile that defines the temperature change in the load, and the temperature in the heating chamber. According to this aspect, food can be heated in accordance with the temperature profile appropriate for the cooking recipe, thereby ensuring the quality of cooked food. |
| US12144089B2 |
Induction heating type cooktop with reduced thermal deformation of thin film
An induction heating type cooktop includes a cover plate that is coupled to a top of a case and that includes an upper plate configured to seat an object to be heated, a working coil disposed inside the case and configured to heat the object, an insulator disposed between a bottom surface of the upper plate and the working coil, and a thin film that is disposed on at least one of a top surface of the upper plate or the bottom surface of the upper plate and that includes a plurality of sub-films that are arranged about a central portion of the thin film. An outer boundary of one of the plurality of sub-films is positioned radially outward of an outer boundary of another of the plurality of sub-films relative to the central portion of the thin film. |
| US12144088B2 |
Induction cooktop
An induction cooktop includes: a cover plate with at least one cooking point; a retaining plate; at least one inductive heating coil arranged in an intermediate space between the cover plate and the retaining plate; at least one electronics housing fastened to a side of the retaining plate facing away from the at least one heating coil and having electronics for the at least one heating coil; and a lower box closing off the induction cooktop at a bottom of the induction cooktop, the lower box being open at a top of the lower box. The at least one electronics housing with the electronics is arranged in the lower box. The retaining plate covers the lower box at the top of the lower box. The induction cooktop includes a fan for generating a primary cooling air flow for cooling the electronics in the lower box. |
| US12144087B2 |
Induction heating circuit, protection circuit and cooling system for an appliance
An induction heating circuit for an appliance, the induction heating circuit comprising: an AC power supply with an AC monitoring output connected to the active line of the AC power supply, the AC monitoring output providing an indication of current being drawn from the AC power supply; a control circuit comprising at least one processor and a semiconductor current sensor, the semiconductor current sensor arranged to i) detect the current being drawn from the AC power supply and ii) output an output voltage based on the detected current; and an induction driving circuit for driving an inductor of the appliance comprising a semiconductor switch, wherein the semiconductor switch is controlled by the processor based on, at least, the output voltage. |
| US12144082B2 |
Load control device having internet connectivity
A load control device for controlling the power delivered from an AC power source to an electrical load is able to receive radio-frequency (RF) signals from a Wi-Fi-enabled device, such as a smart phone, via a wireless local area network. The load control device comprises a controllably conductive device adapted to be coupled in series between the source and the load, a controller for rendering the controllably conductive device conductive and non-conductive, and a Wi-Fi module operable to receive the RF signals directly from the wireless network. The controller controls the controllably conductive device to adjust the power delivered to the load in response to the wireless signals received from the wireless network. The load control device may further comprise an optical module operable to receive an optical signal, such that the controller may obtain an IP address from the received optical signal and control the power delivered to the load in response to a wireless signal received from the wireless network that includes the IP address. |
| US12144081B2 |
Commissioning load control systems
A load control system may include load control devices for controlling power provided to an electrical load. The load control devices may include a control-source device and a control-target device. The control-target device may control the power provided to the electrical load based on digital messages received from the control-source device. A user device may discover load control devices when the load control devices are within an established range associated with the user device. The user device and the load control devices may communicate via a wireless communications module. The established range may be adjusted based on the configurable transmit power of the user device or the wireless communications module associated with the user device. A discovered control-target device may be associated with a control-source device to enable the control-target device to control the power provided to the electrical load based on digital messages received from the control-source device. |
| US12144080B2 |
UV LED product automatic lifespan increaser
An apparatus for extending the lifetime of an LED device is provided. In some embodiments, the apparatus includes an LED printed circuit board (PCB) having two or more LED circuits thereon, where each of the two or more LED circuits includes a plurality of LED emitters. The apparatus further includes a module electrically coupled to the LED PCB that has a selector configured to move between two or more positions, each position activating one of the one or more LED circuits and a relay configured to control a movement of the selector between the two or more positions based on a received input. Additionally, the apparatus includes a power supply that is electrically coupled to the relay. |
| US12144072B2 |
All-optical laser-driven light source with electrodeless ignition
An electrodeless laser-driven light source includes a laser source that generates a CW sustaining light and a pump laser that generates a pump. An optical beam combiner combines the CW sustaining light and the pump such that the CW sustaining light and the pump propagate co-linearly. A Q-switched laser crystal generates pulsed light in response to the pump. A gas-filled bulb is configured such that the pulsed light ignites a pulse plasma in a breakdown region of the gas bulb and the sustaining light sustains a CW plasma in a CW plasma region of the gas bulb, thereby emitting a high brightness light from the gas bulb, where the gas-filled bulb is positioned between the output of the pump laser and the pump input of the Q-switched laser crystal such that the CW plasma absorbs the pump light quenching the pulsed light generated by the Q-switched laser crystal. |
| US12144070B2 |
Electric heater
An electric heater includes a substrate and an inner plane heating element formed on one surface of the substrate. The inner plane heating element includes an inner pattern portion connecting a start point with an end point. The inner pattern portion includes a first track, a second track located outside the first track and spaced part from the first track, a first bridge connecting the first track with one end of the second track, a third track located outside the second track and spaced apart from the second track, and a second bridge connecting the other end of the second track with the third track. A first gap G1 between the first and second tracks is shorter than a second gap G2 between the second and third tracks along a virtual line crossing the first, second and third tracks and closer to the first bridge than the second bridge. |
| US12144061B2 |
Clustering of user entities in a cellular network
The invention relates to a method for grouping a plurality of user entities connected to a cellular network into different clusters, the method comprising: —collecting, for each of the plurality of user entities, activity information comprising different activity parameters, each activity parameter describing an activity of the corresponding user entities in the cellular network, —generating, for each of the plurality of user entities, a user profile comprising the activity parameters for the corresponding user entity, —grouping the plurality of user entities into the different clusters based on a similarity of the activity parameters of the user profiles. |
| US12144060B2 |
Cellular signal mesh network
Methods and devices related to a cellular signal mesh network are described. In an example, a method can include determining, via a processing resource of a first computing device, whether a cellular signal of the first computing device is below a threshold cellular signal, transmitting from the first computing device to a second computing device first signaling including data representing a request for operational data of the second computing device in response to determining that the cellular signal of the first computing device is below the threshold cellular signal, receiving from the second computing device second signaling comprising the operational data of the second computing device, and transmitting from the first computing device to the second computing device third signaling including data representing at least one of: a voice call, a video call, or a message in response to receiving the second signaling comprising the operational data. |
| US12144059B2 |
Roaming signaling message sending method, related device, and communications system
A roaming signaling message sending method, where after receiving a roaming signaling message, a visited core network device adds an identifier of a home core network device and an identifier of a visited SEPP into the roaming signaling message, and then sends a roaming signaling message including the identifier of the home core network device and the identifier of the visited SEPP to the visited SEPP, such that the visited SEPP can forward the roaming signaling message to a home network based on the identifier of the home core network device. |
| US12144054B2 |
Handling of idle measurement results in RRC_connected
In one aspect, a wireless device is adapted to perform idle mode measurements. The wireless device performs and stores one or more radio signal measurements while in an idle mode or inactive state. The wireless device also deletes the stored radio signal measurements in response to any one of a number of events, such as receiving a RRC release message that does not include an idle mode measurement configuration, receiving an RRC release message while in RRC Connected state, receiving a handover message, or receiving a reconfiguration message adding a secondary cell for carrier aggregation. |
| US12144052B2 |
Methods of type 1 UL gap triggering in FR2
Triggering an uplink (UL) gap at a base station may include decoding a user equipment (UE) UL gap capability report received from a UE. A radio resource control (RRC) UL gap configuration for transmission to the UE may be encoded. The RRC UL gap configuration may include configuration information associated with at least one of a periodicity, offset, or length. Measurement information received from the UE may be decoded. The measurement information may include at least one of a power headroom value, a PCMAX,f,c value, or a P value. Based on the power headroom value, the PCMAX,f,c value, or the P value, the UL gap configuration may be activated by encoding a medium access control (MAC) control element (MAC CE) for transmission to the UE. |
| US12144049B2 |
Failure detection and recovery for multiple active resources
Wireless communications using multiple active resources (e.g., bandwidth parts (BWPs)) are described. A wireless device may perform failure event detection, such as radio link monitoring (RLM) and/or beam failure detection (BFD), jointly or separately for multiple active resources (e.g., BWPs) based on one or more criteria. |
| US12144046B2 |
Systems and methods for improving wireless mesh networks
Disclosed herein is a first wireless communication node comprising a first communication module that includes a first baseband unit configured to handle baseband processing for the first communication module, a first RF unit configured to define a frequency range of radio signals for the first communication module, and a first antenna unit configured to generate a first extremely-narrow beam that facilitates exchange of radio signals with at least one other wireless communication node. The first wireless communication node may also comprise a second communication module that includes a second baseband unit configured to handle baseband processing for the second communication module, a second RF unit configured to define a frequency range of radio signals for the second communication module, and a second antenna unit configured to generate a second extremely-narrow beam that facilitates exchange of radio signals with at least one other wireless communication node. |
| US12144045B2 |
Methods providing dual connectivity for redundant user plane paths and related network nodes
A method may be performed by a network entity of a wireless communication network. A first PDU session may be established for a wireless terminal (UE) using a first NodeB base station (MgNB) and a first user plane function entity (UPF1). A second PDU session may be established for the wireless terminal (UE) using a second NodeB base station (SgNB) and a second user plane function entity (UPF2). The first and second PDU sessions may be established for the wireless terminal (UE) using the first and second NodeB base stations so that the first and second PDU sessions are provided concurrently using dual connectivity DC to provide redundant data paths for communication of data for the wireless terminal (UE) through the wireless communication network. |
| US12144043B2 |
Concurrent communications in a network
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a wireless node may determine a first communication configuration for another wireless node. The wireless node may determine a second communication configuration, for the other wireless node, that is different from the first communication configuration, wherein the first communication configuration is a first timing reference and the second communication configuration is a second timing reference that is different from the first timing reference. The wireless node may communicate, with the other wireless node on a downlink, on an uplink, or on a sidelink, using the first communication configuration and the second communication configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided. |
| US12144030B2 |
Sharing of physical random channel resources among different radio access technologies
A method, system and apparatus for sharing of physical random access channel (PRACH) resources between New Radio (NR) and Long Term Evolution (LTE) radio access technologies (RATs) are disclosed. According to one aspect, a network node is provided. The network node includes processing circuitry configured to: receive a physical random access channel, PRACH, signal from a wireless device; correlate the PRACH signal with one of at least two orthogonal sequences from a common set of sequences shared among a first radio access technology, RAT, and a second RAT; and determine whether the wireless device is operating according to one of the first RAT and the second RAT based at least in part on the correlation. |
| US12144024B2 |
Method and apparatus for determining reference time domain unit
A method for determining a reference time domain unit in a wireless communications network includes determining the number of pieces of target information included in each time domain unit within a target channel occupation time. The target channel occupation time is a first channel occupation time just before a target device initiates channel detection. The method further includes determining a reference time domain unit according to the number of pieces of target information. |
| US12144020B2 |
Bandwidth part switching due to LBT failure
Embodiments of the present disclosure relate to a device, a method, an apparatus and a computer readable storage medium for bandwidth part (BWP) switching. In example embodiments, a method is provided. The method comprises determining, at a terminal device, whether continuous Listen-Before-Talk (LBT) failures occur on a first bandwidth part (BWP), the terminal device operating on the first BWP. The method further comprises in response to the continuous LBT failures occurring on the first BWP, switching to a second BWP different from the first BWP. Instead of triggering a re-establishment procedure once continuous LBT failures are detected, switching to another BWP on different LBT sub-channels can be much more efficient than going through the whole re-establishment and reconfiguration procedures. |
| US12144019B2 |
Method and device for transmitting PUCCH
According to one embodiment of the present disclosure, provided is a method for a first device to transmit a PUCCH to a base station. The method may comprise: a step for generating multiplexing information including at least one among HARQ feedback information for DL transmission, UL PSR for UL transmission, or SL PSR for SL transmission; and a step for transmitting the multiplexing information to the base station on a single slot through the PUCCH. |
| US12144018B2 |
Dynamic configuration of devices using encumbered shared spectrum
Various embodiments comprise systems, methods, and apparatus for enabling dynamic configuration of devices using encumbered shared spectrum (e.g., CBSDs using CBRS) so as to operate these devices in accordance with a most preferred operator preference of a plurality of operator preferences currently available in view of current wireless operating conditions, such as impacted by overlapping/proximate incumbent or priority users of the shared spectrum, or other changes in spectrum available conditions. Various embodiments further provide for an efficient return of these devices to a most preferred operator preference or steady-state configuration. |
| US12144017B2 |
Method and device for configuring radio bearer , apparatus, and computer-readable storage medium
The present disclosure provides in some embodiments a method and a device for configuring an RB, an apparatus, and a computer-readable storage medium. The method includes receiving a first message transmitted by a network device. The first message at least includes resource allocation information, and the first message is used to configure an SLRB. |
| US12144015B2 |
Wireless communication device, method, and system for wireless connection using a packet including transmission number
A wireless communication device that transmits data to another wireless communication device that performs wireless connection using a packet including a transmission number, the wireless communication device includes, a controller configured to classify the data as first data when a transmission condition indicating a condition related to transmission of the data is a first transmission condition and classifies the data as second data when the transmission condition of the data is a second transmission condition different from the first transmission condition, and a transmitter configured to transmit the data in a first transmission mode in a layer related to the wireless connection when the data is the first data and transmits the data in a second transmission mode in a layer related to the wireless connection when the second data is second data. |
| US12144009B2 |
Control unit and method for assisting side-link communication
The present disclosure relates to the fields of mobile communication, connected driving, Internet of vehicles (IoV), self-driving car, and autonomous car. More specifically, the present disclosure relates to side-link communication and network slicing. The present disclosure provides a control unit for assisting side-link communication for at least one slice of a communication network, wherein the control unit is configured to obtain at least one of an upper layer requirement, and a session requirement; and to configure, for the at least one slice, at least one side-link resource pool based on the upper layer requirement and/or session requirement. |
| US12144008B2 |
Method and apparatus for performing position-based sidelink communication in wireless communication system
Proposed is a method for operating a first device (100) in a wireless communication system. The method may comprise the steps of: receiving, from a second device, a sidelink service and at least one ID associated with the sidelink service; and determining a communication range associated with the second device on the basis of mapping information and the at least one ID associated with the received sidelink service. |
| US12144003B2 |
Method and apparatus for transmitting data
The present disclosure provides a user equipment and a method for performing data transmission. The method includes receiving at least one of downlink control information (DCI) or higher layer signaling from a base station; determining a transmission format of the data transmission based on at least one of the DCI or the higher layer signaling; and performing the data transmission based on the determined transmission format. The present disclosure also provides a base station and a method for performing data transmission. |
| US12143999B2 |
Communication method, apparatus, and system
Embodiments of this application provide a solution for network and terminal devices that have inconsistent understandings of retransmission scheduled by using downlink control information (DCI). The solution includes: A network device sends first DCI to a terminal device, and the terminal device receives the first DCI from the network device, where the first DCI includes a first field and a second field, the first field indicates that a retransmitted transport block (TB) exists in a TB scheduled by using the first DCI, and the second field indicates an index of a retransmitted first TB in the TB scheduled by using the first DCI; and the terminal device receives the retransmitted first TB from the network device based on the first field and the second field; or the terminal device sends the retransmitted first TB to the network device based on the first field and the second field. |
| US12143995B2 |
Multiplexing uplink control information (UCI) on physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH)
Some aspects of this disclosure relate to apparatuses and methods for implementing techniques for a user equipment (UE) to transmit a configured grant (CG) physical uplink shared channel (PUSCH) including an uplink control information (UCI) without transmitting a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH). The UE determines, based on a configuration received from the base station, a first set of CG PUSCHs. Each CG PUSCH of the first set of CG PUSCHs overlaps with the PUCCH, and is configured to transmit data from the UE to the base station. The UE further determines a second set of CG PUSCHs by excluding a third set of CG PUSCHs from the first set of CG PUSCHs. and select a CG PUSCH from the second set of CG PUSCHs to carry the UCI contained in the PUCCH. The UE further transmits the selected CG PUSCH including the UCI without transmitting the PUCCH. |
| US12143992B2 |
Downlink scheduling and hybrid automatic repeat request feedback
A wireless device receives a first downlink control information (DCI) scheduling transport blocks (TBs) via physical downlink shared channels (PDSCHs) in slots, wherein the first DCI comprises a hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback timing indicator indicating an inapplicable value and a first PDSCH group index for the PDSCHs. After receiving the TBs in the slots, the wireless device receives a second DCI indicating a second PDSCH group index; and transmits HARQ feedback information for the TBs in response to: the HARQ feedback timing indicator, of the first DCI, indicating the inapplicable value and the first PDSCH group index of the first DCI being equal to the second PDSCH group index of the second DCI. |
| US12143990B2 |
Downlink control information and bandwidth part switching in a wireless device
A base station transmits radio resource control (RRC) messages having configuration parameters indicating a first bandwidth part (BWP) and a second BWP. The base station also transmits a first downlink control information (DCI) scheduling one or more first uplink resources for a first reception of a first uplink transport block (TB) from a wireless device via the first BWP. Before the first reception of the first uplink TB, the base station may transmit a second DCI indicating a switching from the first BWP to the second BWP and one or more second uplink resources for a second reception of a second uplink TB from the wireless device via the second BWP. In response to the transmitting the second DCI before the first reception of the first uplink TB, the base station may cancel the first reception of the first uplink TB from the wireless device. |
| US12143988B2 |
Systems and methods for QCL-typed collision handling
A UE may receive multiple signals causing a Quasi co-location TypeD (QCL-TypeD) collision. To determine which of the multiple signals to select, the UE may use a certain option based on a type transmission scheme associated with each of the multiple signals. The options may include one of a priority rule for signal reception, a scheduling restriction, or a priority rule for QCL-TypeD selection. |
| US12143985B2 |
Data transmission method and apparatus
This application provides a data transmission method and apparatus. A terminal: receives a first uplink grant from a network device; sends first uplink data in to-be-sent data to the network device by using the first uplink grant; receives a second uplink grant from the network device; and sends second uplink data to the network device by using the second uplink grant, where the second uplink data is at least a part of uplink data in the to-be-sent data except the first uplink data, where the terminal is in a first state, and where the first state includes an idle state or an inactive state. The embodiments of this application help reduce a latency in a data transmission process. |
| US12143982B2 |
Apparatus and information processing method
An apparatus and an information processing method are provided. The method includes determining, by a user equipment, a cyclic shift sequence comprising N cyclic shifts according to a hybrid automatic repeat request acknowledgement (HARQ-ACK) information to be transmitted and/or a scheduling request (SR) to be transmitted, wherein a resource in a frequency domain used for transmitting the HARQ-ACK information to be transmitted and/or the SR to be transmitted is a target interlace, the target interlace comprises N physical resource blocks (PRBs), the N cyclic shifts have a one-to-one correspondence with the N PRBs, and N is an integer and greater than 1; generating, by the user equipment, a target physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) based on PUCCH format_0 according to the cyclic shift sequence; and transmitting, by the user equipment, the target PUCCH on the target interlace. This can maintain a low peak-to-average power ratio (PAPR) property. |
| US12143973B2 |
Timing advance offset for uplink-downlink switching in new radio
The embodiments herein relate to timing advance offset for uplink/downlink switching in New Radio (NR). In one embodiment, there proposes a method in a wireless communication device, comprising: determining a timing advance (TA) offset for uplink/downlink switching, wherein the TA offset is at least based on the time offset requirement for uplink/downlink switching in different scenarios used in communication between the wireless communication device and a network node; applying the determined TA offset in the uplink communication from the wireless communication device to the network node. With embodiments herein, uplink/downlink switching time for NR is defined. |
| US12143972B2 |
Apparatus and method of scheduling Multi-TTI transmissions
An apparatus and method for scheduling Multi-TTI transmissions, for PDSCH and PUSCH. 1. The disclosure provides an apparatus having: a receiver that receives downlink control information (DCI) scheduling a plurality of data channels, wherein the DCI contains a first indicator indicating a first time domain resource allocation pattern selected from a set of predefined time domain resource allocation patterns for time domain resources of the plurality of data channels; a processor that performs a channel access procedure for each of the plurality of data channels; and a transmitter that transmits the plurality of data channels in the time domain resources in response to the channel access procedure for a corresponding data channel being successful. |
| US12143970B2 |
Configured grant resource configuration for new radio-unlicensed
Configurations for configured grant (CG) in new radio unlicensed (NR-U) systems is disclosed. CG configurations may, based on a periodicity, be provided either using a bitmap, shorter periodicity, or resource indicator value (RIV) signaling of start/end symbols, longer periodicity. Such CG configurations configure M sets of time division resource allocations. CG configuration may include common start/end symbols from for all contiguous allocations in one configuration. Common LBT starting points may be defined for all configured slots as indicated through a bitmap. The CG configuration allows for mini- and full slot configurations, in which the mini-slots are configured within the already configured CG slots. Repetition configurations include a type 1 for coverage and a type 2 for faster retransmission and reduced downlink feedback information (DFI) overhead. With multiple UEs, a UE identifier is added to the uplink control information (UCI). UEs may further ramp up power in the absence of DFI. |
| US12143969B2 |
Compact data and reference signal representation with modulation compression
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for wireless communication by a first network entity. The techniques may generally involve generating a message having a section with entries that represent time and frequency resources for transmitting data and reference signals over a fronthaul interface using modulation compression, transmitting the message to a second network entity via the fronthaul interface, and processing data and reference signal transmissions on the fronthaul interface in accordance with the section. |
| US12143968B2 |
Wireless communication apparatus and wireless communication method
To suppress concentration of channel quality information requests and reports in a case of discontinuously transmitting reference signals at specific resources in a time domain, and thereby preventing degradation in throughput. A transmission apparatus transmits an instruction of CSI request distributed for each reception apparatus in a subframe concurrently with or earlier than a reference signal CSI-RS to each of reception apparatuses. Each of the reception apparatuses detects the CSI request from the transmission apparatus and calculates CSI from a channel estimation value of CSI-RS received thereafter. Then, the reception apparatus identifies CSI report subframe of the own apparatus from CSI report interval information of a given time interval notified in advance, the subframe in which the CSI request is detected and transmission timing of CSI-RS, and transmits a feedback signal including CSI report value by using PUSCH at the timing of the CSI report subframe. |
| US12143966B2 |
Method and apparatus for inter-user equipment coordination signaling
Methods and apparatuses for inter user equipment (UE) coordination signaling. A method of operating a UE includes determining a first set of first sidelink (SL) resources based on SL sensing and resource exclusion; selecting a first one or more SL resources within the first determined set for reservation, transmitting information about the first one or more SL resources, and receiving inter UE co-ordination information indicating whether a SL resource in the first one or more SL resources has a conflict. The method further includes transmitting on one of the first one or more SL resources, when the one SL resource does not have a conflict; and determining a second set of SL resources based on SL sensing and resource exclusion, and selecting a second one or more SL resources within the second set for transmission and reservation, when all of the first one or more SL resources have a conflict. |
| US12143961B2 |
Assignment of a second UE identity to adjust paging timing for UE for wireless network
A method includes receiving, by a user equipment (UE), at least a first UE identity assigned to the user equipment for a wireless network, the first UE identity associated with a first paging timing; and receiving, by the user equipment, a second UE identity that has been assigned to the user equipment at least for paging purposes that adjusts a paging timing from a first paging timing associated with the first UE identity to a second paging timing associated with the second UE identity, wherein the second paging timing is different from the first paging timing. |
| US12143956B2 |
Communication method and apparatus
Example communication methods and apparatus are described. In one example method, a terminal receives a first information by using a serving beam, where the first information indicates a delay compensation parameter corresponding to a target beam. The target beam and the serving beam are different beams. The terminal determines, based on a full timing advance and the delay compensation parameter corresponding to the target beam, a differential timing advance corresponding to the target beam. |
| US12143954B2 |
Method and device for determining reference timing, storage medium, and electronic apparatus
Provided are a method and device for determining a reference timing, a storage medium and an electronic device. The method comprises: a second node determining a reference timing of the second node by using at least one of the following modes: an open-loop mode, a closed-loop mode and an external synchronization source mode. By means of the present disclosure, the problem in the related art that there is no technical solution for setting a reference timing between each-hop links yet exists is solved. |
| US12143953B2 |
Techniques for power reduction in single subscriber identity module (SSIM) and multi-sim (MSIM) 5G new radio (NR) standalone (SA) user equipment (UE) devices
This disclosure provides systems, methods and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer storage media, relating to synchronization signal block (SSB) selection for paging occasions (POs). In an example, a UE may identifying a first SSB overlapping with or after a PO. The UE may further identify that a distance between the first SSB and the PO is less than a distance between a second SSB the PO, the second SSB located before the PO. The UE may further select the first SSB associated with loop operations based on identifying that the distance between the first SSB and the PO is less than a distance between the second SSB the PO. |
| US12143952B2 |
User equipments, base stations, and methods
Detection circuitry configured to detect a SS/PBCH block with time index Y, the time index Y being ascending order in time domain for SS/PBCH block candidates in a half radio frame, beam index Z being determined by remainder of the time index Y divided by a Q, or given by remainder of a DMRS index for a PBCH in the SS/PBCH block divided by the Q, the Q being indicated by a MIB, reception circuitry configured to monitor at least the type-0 PDCCH common search space set which corresponds to SS/PBCH block index Z+j*Q, the j is any non-negative integer to satisfy Z+j*Q is smaller than a number of usable SS/PBCH block candidates in a half radio frame indicated by system information. |
| US12143950B2 |
Timing alignment handling for configured grant based small data transmissions in inactive mode
This disclosure relates to techniques for handling timing alignment for configured grant based small data transmissions in inactive mode in a wireless communication system. A wireless device may establish a radio resource control connection with a cellular base station. The wireless device may receive an indication to release the radio resource control connection. The indication to release the radio resource control connection may configure resources for performing uplink transmissions while in the radio resource control inactive mode. A timing advance may be maintained while in the radio resource control inactive mode. An uplink transmission may be performed using resources configured for performing uplink transmissions while in the radio resource control inactive mode. The uplink transmission may be performed using the timing advance. |
| US12143949B2 |
Methods and apparatuses for an access procedure
An access node may provide synchronization information to a UE. The access node may further provide one or more information blocks, which may include basic network configuration information. Based on the synchronization information and/or the information block(s), the UE may transmit a message to the access node that includes a random access preamble, an identifier of the UE, and/or a buffer status report. Based on the message from the UE, the access node may determine that the UE should remain active and, therefore, may transmit a response to the first message to the UE indicating that the UE should remain active. Thereafter, the UE may receive a connection setup or connection reconfiguration message. The connection setup or reconfiguration message may be received from the same or different access node from which the UE received the synchronization information and/or the one or more information blocks. |
| US12143948B2 |
Method and apparatus for indication and transmission of downlink signal/channel for initial access
A synchronization signal block (SSB) including a primary synchronization signal (PSS), a secondary synchronization signal (SSS), a physical broadcast channel (PBCH) is transmitted using first and second beams. One or more symbols adjoining the first and second synchronization signals are configured to accommodate a beam switching time. At least one signal indicates a beam index for the first beam transmitting the first synchronization signal, and the beam index for the second beam transmitting the second synchronization signal is either signaled or determined based on a predetermined relationship between a resource for the first synchronization signal and a resource for the second synchronization signal. The beam indices may comprise first and second numbers of bits and/or may be jointly encoded. The beam indices may be indicated by one of the PSS, the SSS, the PBCH, a demodulation reference signal (DMRS), or a synchronization or reference signal designated for that purpose. |
| US12143946B2 |
Beam-specific virtual power headroom reporting
Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may transmit, to a base station, a virtual power headroom report (PHR) that is based at least in part on a beam-specific pathloss reference signal (PLRS). The UE may receive, from the base station, a downlink transmission based at least in part on the virtual PHR. Numerous other aspects are described. |
| US12143940B2 |
Massive MIMO beamforming mode control to combat remote interference due to tropospheric ducting
Systems and methods provided for controlling a signal power level of a beam at a cell site of a telecommunications network during an atmospheric condition include a user device and a cell site. The cell site includes a beam control system communicatively coupled to the user device. The beam control system is to determine whether a rise of interference is greater than a threshold during an atmospheric condition, determine a power increase status of the directional signal if the rise of interference is greater than the threshold, generate a secondary signal power level based on an increase of a first signal power level in response to the power increase status of the directional signal associated with an active state, and determine whether the secondary signal power level of the directional signal is greater than a target signal power level. |
| US12143938B2 |
Radio frequency (RF) exposure compliance
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques and apparatus for determining a transmit power based on a pattern and/or future conditions for a transmission while maintaining radio frequency (RF) exposure compliance. An example method generally includes obtaining a pattern associated with one or more first transmissions, determining a transmit power for one or more second transmissions based at least in part on the pattern and an RF exposure limit, and transmitting the one or more second transmissions at the determined transmit power. |
| US12143936B2 |
Method and device in node for wireless communication
The disclosure provides a method and a device in a node for wireless communication. A first node first receives a first bit field and Q second-type bit field(s), and then transmits L radio signal(s) at a first power value; the first bit field is used for determining a first reference signal resource set; each of the Q second-type bit field(s) indicates one power offset; the first power value is only related to power offsets indicated by all second-type bit fields among the Q second-type bit field(s) that correspond to a first index, and the first index is one of K1 indexes associated to the first reference signal resource set; and the first index is related to the L reference signal resource set(s). Multiple times of repetition based uplink transmissions employ a uniform power control mechanism under multiple beams, which reduces hardware requirements at terminal side and improves transmission performance. |
| US12143933B2 |
Selective cross-slot scheduling for NR user equipment
Embodiments include methods, performed by a user equipment (UE), for communication with a network node in a radio access network (RAN). Such methods include receiving, from the network node, an indication that a minimum scheduling offset, between a scheduling physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) and a signal or channel scheduled via the scheduling PDCCH, will change after a first duration. Such methods also include subsequently monitoring, during the first duration, for a scheduling PDCCH based on a first operating configuration; and in response to the end of the first duration, monitoring for a scheduling PDCCH based on a second operating configuration. The first duration can be related to time required, by the UE, to switch from the first to the second operating configuration. Embodiments also include UEs configured to perform such methods. |
| US12143930B2 |
Signal-repeater device operable in low-power repeater-operational mode
The invention relates to a signal-repeater device (308) being operable in a regular repeater-operation mode and in a low-power repeater-operation mode requiring less operational power than the regular repeater-operation mode, and that comprises a signal processing unit (316) which performs, in the regular repeater-operation mode, a signal receiving function and a signal repeating function, and an operation control unit (318) configured to determine status information indicative of associated external transceiver devices being respectively operated in a low-power transceiver-operation mode, operate the signal processing unit in the low-power repeater-operation mode by switching off the signal repeating function upon determining, based on the determined status information, that each of the associated external wireless transceiver devices is being operated in the low-power transceiver-operation, thus reducing the power consumption of the signal-repeater device, and switch to operation of the signal processing unit in the regular repeater-operation mode upon reception of a predetermined repeater-wake-up signal. |
| US12143929B2 |
Wireless network allocation in television content receiver systems
Various arrangements for facilitating digital content in multi-network television receiver communication systems are provided. A general network access point can provide access to a general network. A private network access point can provide access to a private network. Credentials for accessing the private network are distributed by a primary television receiver configured to determine that a secondary television receiver is connected to the general network via the general network access point. In response, the primary television receiver transmits, via the general network, credentials configured to enable the secondary television receiver to access the private network via the private network access point to the secondary television receiver. The primary television receiver is further configured to transmit, via the private network, digital media content to the secondary television receiver. |
| US12143928B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing device to device communications
A method and apparatus for providing discovery within a D2D communications is provided herein. During operation, a first device will determine an identification of its own network slice, and an identification of a network slice other devices operate on. Only devices operating on the same network slice as the first device are allowed for D2D communication with the first device. |
| US12143926B2 |
Control method for automatic cleaning equipment
The present disclosure provides a control method for an automatic cleaning equipment, wherein the automatic cleaning equipment includes a mobile device and a self-propelled cleaning device, in which the mobile device is used as a wireless network device to enable the self-propelled cleaning device to communicate with a hotspot function of the mobile device through a wireless network technology, the self-propelled cleaning device is connected to the cloud server through a mobile communication signal of the mobile device, and also the mobile device is connected to the cloud server by using a mobile communication technology. |
| US12143919B2 |
Wireless communication method and wireless communication terminal using multi-basic service identifier set
Provided is a wireless communication terminal that communicates wirelessly. The terminal includes: a transceiver; and a processor. The processor is configured to receive a frame through the transceiver, determine whether the frame is classified into an Intra-Basic Service Set (BSS) frame or an Inter-BSS frame according to a BSS from which the frame is transmitted, and access a channel according to whether the frame is an Intra-BSS frame or an Inter-BSS frame. |
| US12143918B2 |
Wireless communication system, base station, and wireless communication method
A wireless communication system includes a base station to which a plurality of terminal stations are connectable and a control unit that controls the base station. The base station includes a collection unit that collects terminal station information indicating terminal stations each having issued a connection request to the base station, an information processing unit that causes a storage unit to store connected terminal station information indicating, among the terminal stations indicated by the terminal station information, the terminal station currently being connected to the base station, a network communication unit that receives, from the control station, base station control information for controlling a response to the connection request from the terminal station that is not indicated by the connected terminal station information, and a connection determination unit that determines, based on each of the connected terminal station information and the base station control information, whether or not the connection request from the terminal station that is not indicated by the connected terminal station information is to be refused. The control station transmits, when a predetermined condition is satisfied, to the base station, the base station control information indicating that the connection request from the terminal station that is not indicated by the connected terminal station information is to be refused. |
| US12143910B2 |
Systems, devices and methods for edge node computing
Some embodiments are directed to a session manager, a cloud service system, and a mobile device. The session manager may be configured for managing an edge computing resource in a mobile network, wherein the mobile network comprises edge nodes which are configurable to provide edge computing resources to mobile devices. The session manager may generate a session identifier for the mobile device and associate the session identifier with the mobile device. Later, the session manager may receive a request from the cloud service system for deployment of an edge computing resource for the mobile device on an edge node. |
| US12143909B2 |
Service plan design, user interfaces, application programming interfaces, and device management
Disclosed herein are methods, systems, and apparatuses to enable subscribers of mobile wireless communication devices to view, research, select and customize service plans; to create and manage device groups, share and set permission controls for service plans among devices in device groups; to manage communication services through graphical user interfaces; to sponsor and promote service plans; and to design, manage, and control communication services through application programming interfaces. |
| US12143907B2 |
Method for exchanging data between a trailer and a road user, trailer communication module and trailer
A method for transmitting data between a trailer and a road user in a vehicle environment is provided, wherein the data are transmitted according to a V2X standard with low latency via a wireless V2X data connection between a trailer communication module of the trailer and a subscriber communication module of the road user. The wireless data connection is between the trailer communication module and the subscriber communication module, or indirectly via a distribution station. The distribution station forwards the transmitted data directly, wherein the trailer communication module autonomously selects and activates an operating mode depending on the respective road user. As a function of the activated operating mode, trailer data relating to the trailer are selected and autonomously transmitted according to the V2X standard via the wireless V2X data connection and/or subscriber data provided by road users are received and autonomously processed. |
| US12143902B2 |
Wireless network access to wireless network slices over a common radio channel
A wireless access node serves wireless communication devices over a radio channel that is allocated into subchannels for wireless network slices. The wireless access node determines the wireless network slices used by the wireless communication devices. The wireless access node schedules resource blocks in the subchannels for the wireless network slices to the wireless communication devices based on the wireless network slices used by the wireless communication devices. The wireless access node wirelessly exchanges user data with the wireless communication devices over the scheduled resource blocks in the subchannels for the wireless network slices. The wireless access node re-sizes the subchannels for the wireless network slices based on time-of-day. |
| US12143900B2 |
Sending or receiving SMS by internet messaging application without using internet
The present disclosure provides a system and method of sending and receiving messages from a first device or sender to a second device or receiver through the internet messaging application in the absence of internet connectivity is the first-of-its-kind feature that ensures ‘delivery of messages’ at all times. When the user is temporarily disconnected from the internet, still they can send the message by selecting the ‘SMS’ option and the message will be delivered instantly to the recipient's message folder. Once the internet is resumed, the same message will he automatically sent also to the recipient's Internet message folder. This device independent application allows the users to access this feature from a smart mobile phone, a tablet computer, a laptop computer and a desktop computer etc. Incorporating the feature of sending internet messages without the net connectivity by using the internet messaging application in the absence of internet connectivity ensures a smooth flow of communication. |
| US12143898B2 |
Digital radio system based on mobile terminal
A digital radio system based on a mobile terminal according to an embodiment of the present disclosure includes: an analog radio transceiver configured to, while changing a used frequency band at any time, communicate with another analog radio transceiver through the used frequency band, and the mobile terminal configured to allow connection of the analog radio transceiver, and then decode a signal received through the analog radio transceiver and reconstruct and reproduce at least one of audio data, image data, and metadata, or encode at least one audio data, image data, and metadata generated by a user and wirelessly transmit the encoded data through the analog radio transceiver. |
| US12143897B2 |
Method and electronic device for smart home control
A method for remote control of at least one non-ultra wide band (nUWB) device in a space by an electronic device is provided. The method includes identifying a position using at least one ultra wideband (UWB) anchor in the space, determining a field of view based on the position of the electronic device in the space, identifying the at least one nUWB device within the field of view, and establishing communication with the at least one nUWB device. |
| US12143896B2 |
Systems and methods for providing a vehicle-and drone-based tracking system
The disclosure generally pertains to systems and methods for providing a vehicle- and drone-based tracking system. In an example method, a tracker system associated with a vehicle may be initiated. At least one parameter associated with a route may be received via the tracker system. A first notification may subsequently be received from a device, and the first notification may be associated with a first location of the device. After a first predetermined period of time since the first notification is received, a second notification may be received from the device. The second notification may be associated with a second location of the device. The tracker system may then determine, based on the second notification, that the second location of the device is within the at least one parameter associated with the route. |
| US12143892B2 |
Method, device, and computer program for determining a change in position and/or orientation of a mobile apparatus
The present disclosure relates to methods, devices, and computer programs for determining a change in a position and/or orientation of a mobile apparatus. In an aspect, described is a method of determining a change in a position and/or orientation of a mobile apparatus that includes: acquiring a first data stream indicating a first estimated change in at least one of a position or an orientation of the mobile apparatus in respective ones of a plurality of time frames; acquiring a second data stream indicating a second estimated change in the at least one of the position or the orientation of the mobile apparatus in the respective ones of the plurality of time frames; and determining a change in the at least one of the position or the orientation of the mobile apparatus using the first estimated change or the second estimated change. |
| US12143889B2 |
Technique of determining a measure of proximity between two devices
Disclosed is a technique of determining a measure of proximity between two devices (4, 6). A method implementation of the technique comprises obtaining a first device signature comprising an indication of a first point in time and a first parameter characteristic of a first measurement performed by a first sensor (10) comprised in the first device (4); obtaining a second device signature comprising an indication of a second point in time and a second parameter characteristic of a second measurement performed by a second sensor (12) comprised in the second device (6); and determining, based on the first device signature and the second device signature, the measure of proximity between the first device (4) and the second device (6). |
| US12143887B2 |
System to track visitation metrics
A visitation tracking system tracks user visitation to locations of interest to generate and report visualizations of the user visitation data. The visitation tracking system may be or include a group of one or more server machines configured to receive a user input specifying a location of interest, cause display of a presentation of a set of proximity borders within a region in response to the user input specifying the location of interest, wherein the region is based on the location of interest, receives a selection of a region to monitor (e.g., proximity borders, geo-fences), detects entries of client devices to a geo-fence represented by the region to monitor, and causes display of a notification in response to the detection of the entries. |
| US12143886B2 |
Systems, methods and apparatus for geofence networks
Systems, methods and devices for location-based services are disclosed in the present invention. A multiplicity of network devices, a database, and a server platform in network-based communication. The database stores a space-network model binding IP addresses and physical locations. The server platform is operable to generate at least one geofence in the space-network model and specify entitlements for the location-based services within the at least one geofence. The at least one geofence and specific entitlement are stored to the database. The multiplicity of network devices is configured to learn the space-network model and the at least one geofence and perform tasks based on the entitlements specified for the location-based services within the at least one geofence. |
| US12143884B2 |
Inference pipeline system and method
A system to infer place data is disclosed that receives location data collected on a user's mobile electronic device, recognizes when, where and for how long the user makes stops, generates possible places visited, and predicts the likelihood of a user to visit those places. |
| US12143880B2 |
Throughput and wireless channel interference mitigation for mobile systems
In one embodiment, a mobile system scans wireless channels for any upcoming access points using a dedicated monitor radio of the mobile system. The mobile system identifies a particular wireless channel in use by an upcoming access point. The mobile system notifies a second radio of the mobile system of the particular wireless channel. The mobile system performs a handoff between a current access point and the upcoming access point in part by switching the second radio of the mobile system to the particular wireless channel of the upcoming access point. |
| US12143874B2 |
Core network apparatus, communication control method, non-transitory computer readable medium, and radio communication system
A core network apparatus in which a communication terminal is connected to an appropriate service network without depending on network identification information is provided. A core network apparatus includes: a reception unit configured to acquire, when a service network that provides a service for a communication terminal and the communication terminal are connected to each other, identification information of the communication terminal and identification information of a base station included in a connection request message transmitted from the base station connected to the communication terminal; a control unit configured to determine whether a first service associated with the identification information of the communication terminal coincides with a second service associated with the identification information of the base station; and a transmission unit configured to transmit connection information of a service network that provides the second service to the base station when the first service coincides with the second service. |
| US12143873B2 |
Mobility robustness implementation method, device, and apparatus
Embodiments of the present application provide a mobility robustness implementation method, a device, and an apparatus, used to detect unnecessary handover from a 5GS to an EPS. The method comprises: a first network-side apparatus determining first measurement information after a terminal has performed inter-system handover; and sending the determined first measurement information to a second network-side apparatus, such that the second network-side apparatus notifies, according to the first measurement information, the terminal to continue measuring a cell signal under a source system of the inter-system handover. In the method, when inter-system handover occurs, the first network-side apparatus enables the terminal to continue measuring the cell signal under the source system by means of the first measurement information, thereby determining whether the terminal has performed an unnecessary handover. |
| US12143871B2 |
Random access skip configuration
Apparatuses, methods, and systems are disclosed for random access skip configuration. One method includes receiving a handover command message from a first cell, wherein: the handover command message includes first information that indicates a configuration of a second cell, random access channel resources on the second cell, and a first reference signals associated with the second cell; each of the first reference signals is associated with a random access channel resource; second information indicates skip configurations and second reference signals are associated with the second cell; and each of the second reference signals is associated with a random access skip configuration. The method includes receiving a first set of downlink reference signals and a second set of downlink reference signals. The method includes, selecting a first downlink reference signal and determining whether to perform a random access procedure. |
| US12143869B2 |
Communication method and apparatus
This application provides a communication method and apparatus, to help a terminal device obtain a better service. The method includes: sending, by an access network device, an initial user equipment UE message to a core network device; and receiving, by the access network device, an initial context setup request message sent by the core network device, where the initial context setup request message includes first information, and the first information is used to indicate at least one network slice preferentially used by a terminal device. |
| US12143866B2 |
Preemptive handover preparation and tracking/paging area handling and intelligent route selection in a cellular network
A concept for handovers in cellular networks, a concept for improved handling of tracking/paging areas for, for instance, user entities in inactive modes and a concept for enabling intelligent route selection in cellular networks are presented. |
| US12143862B2 |
Method, apparatus, and system for managing background data transfer policy
A method, an apparatus, and a system for managing a background data transfer policy, such that a policy control function network element can obtain a background data transfer policy corresponding to a terminal. The method includes: A first policy control function network element receives a first message. The first message carries a first identifier, and the first identifier may be a background data transfer reference identifier or an application function identifier. Then, the first policy control function network element sends a second message to a first data storage network element, facilitating obtaining of a background data transfer policy. The second message carries the first identifier. Finally, the first policy control function network element receives a third message from the first data storage network element. The third message includes a first background data transfer policy corresponding to the first identifier. |
| US12143859B2 |
Slice level load reporting and balancing in wireless communications
Methods, apparatus, and systems for providing effective slice-level load metrics reporting and load balancing are disclosed. In one example aspect, a wireless communication method includes transmitting, by a first network element, a request to a second network element requesting resource status at a slice level of a slice. The slice represents a logical network of a physical network infrastructure. The method also includes receiving, by the first network element, load information at the slice level from the second network element in response to the request. |
| US12143858B2 |
Method and apparatus to switch uplink transmission on uplink split bearer
A user equipment (UE) configured for dual connectivity with a split bearer configuration may transmit uplink data packets to one or both a master cell group (MCG) and a secondary cell group (SCG). The UE may transmit an uplink transmission from a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) entity over one or both of a first radio link control (RLC) entity associated with the MCG and a second RLC entity associated with the SCG. The configuration including a transmit buffer threshold. The UE may receive, at the PDCP entity, an uplink switch start indication. The UE may activate the second RLC entity in response to receiving the uplink switch start indication. The UE may transmit a buffer status report according to a current transmit buffer level plus the transmit buffer threshold. Accordingly, the UE may communicate with the SCG based on the uplink switch start indication. |
| US12143856B2 |
Method and apparatus for wireless communication in wireless communication system
Methods and apparatuses are provided in a wireless communication system. Packet data convergence protocol (PDCP) configuration information that configures a PDCP entity of the terminal to use an uplink data compression (UDC) is received from a base station. The PDCP entity generates a UDC header and a UDC data block, based on the PDCP configuration information. The PDCP entity ciphers the UDC header and the UDC data block. The PDCP entity generates PDCP data including a PDCP header, the ciphered UDC header and the ciphered UDC data block. The generated PDCP data is transmitted to the base station. A header compression is not configured in case that the UDC is configured. |
| US12143850B2 |
Method for processing relax measurement parameter update, and terminal device
Disclosed by embodiments of the present disclosure are a method for processing a relax measurement parameter update, a terminal device, and a computer-readable storage medium. When a network device changes a relax measurement configuration parameter in system information, the terminal device may still independently determine the use of a new relax measurement configuration parameter according to its own conditions, which perfects protocol implementation and allows the terminal device to have more reasonable performance. The method in the embodiment of the present disclosure includes: receiving, by the terminal device, the system information sent by the network device, the system information including a current relax measurement configuration parameter; under the condition that the current relax measurement configuration parameter is different from a previous relax measurement configuration parameter, when current information of the terminal device meets a preset condition, performing, by the terminal device, first parameter update processing. |
| US12143848B2 |
Measurement reporting
According to a first embodiment, a method may comprise transmitting, by a user equipment, at least one RRCConnectionSetupComplete message comprising at least one reporting indication to a network entity. The method may further comprise receiving, by the user equipment, RRCConnectionReconfiguration message from the network entity. The method may further comprise transmitting, by the user equipment, at least one RRCConnectionReconfigurationComplete message to the network entity. |
| US12143841B2 |
Signal analysis device and signal analysis result display method
The base station simulator 10 as a signal analysis device performs communication with the UE 70 by simulating a base station to test the operation of the communication function of the UE 70, and includes a reception unit 21a that receives a signal to be measured modulated by an OFDM method from the UE 70; an analog signal processing unit 22 that calculates signal data of the signal to be measured received by the reception unit 21a; a data analysis unit 27c that calculates power of the signal data for each frequency in each time, based on the signal data; and an analysis result display unit 28c that displays a distribution of the power of the signal data on a time axis and a frequency axis. |
| US12143840B2 |
Method for analysing a wireless link of a Wi-Fi node, respective circuit performing the method, and application
A method for analyzing a wireless link (3) of a wireless node of a customer premises equipment (CPE) device (1) during operation of the CPE device comprises: performing an active test, during which a data transmission is forced through the wireless link, to obtain a first set of parameters, and performing before or after the active test a passive test, which is a monitoring mode during which a data transmission of the CPE device is monitored, to obtain a second set of parameters. In particular, based on the first set of parameters, it is determined whether and to which extent the wireless link is in an uncertainty zone, and based on the second set of parameters, the decision is made to assign an observed decrease in a measured data rate to physics effects or to interference effects. |
| US12143834B2 |
Data collection reporting for non-terrestrial network cells
Certain aspects of the present disclosure provide techniques for data collection for non-terrestrial networks (NTN). One aspect provides a method for wireless communications by a user equipment (UE). The method generally includes transmitting an indication of a capability of the UE to connect to a network via both terrestrial network (TN) cells and non-terrestrial network (NTN) cells and transmitting one or more data collection reports in accordance with the indicated capability. |
| US12143827B2 |
Communication control apparatus, communication apparatus, and proxy apparatus
A communication control apparatus includes: an acquiring section that acquires information related to usage of one or more frequency resources of a second wireless system, the one or more frequency resources being included in part or all of a frequency band used by a first wireless system, the second wireless system desiring use of the one or more frequency resource; a processing section that performs a process related to the frequency resource on the basis of the information related to the usage of the frequency resource; and a notifying section that reports a result of the process related to the frequency resource. |
| US12143825B2 |
Method of secondary device real-time utilization, transience, and data movement in THZ-enabled devices
One example method includes an optimized approach to real-time utilization, data transfer, data storage, and transience in a T Hz-enabled zone that may be implemented in edge networks, data management, and machine learning. Multiple policies can be enforced based on new sets of attributes such as data type, location, and device movement within a zone or between zones. |
| US12143819B2 |
Lattice mesh
A system comprises an interface and a processor. The interface is configured to provide a request to join a publish group from a client or a point to point communication link of a lattice mesh; and receive a group key or a host public key. The processor is configured to determine whether a message has been received; in response to the message having been received, determine whether the message is to be sent on; in response to the message being determined not to be sent on, decode the message using the group key or the host public key; determine whether to store the message in a backfill database; in response to determining to store the message in the backfill database, store the message in the backfill database. |
| US12143818B2 |
Electronic device and method for performing peer to peer service in electronic device
An electronic device and a method for performing a peer to peer (P2P) service in the electronic device are provided. The electronic device includes a communication module, a processor, a memory, and a security module, wherein the memory may be configured to store instructions that, when executed, enable the processor to receive a public key from an external electronic device as a P2P service is requested, transmit, to the external electronic device, an authentication certificate chain generated on the basis of the received public key via the security module, verify an authentication certificate chain received from the external electronic device by using a root authentication certificate stored in the security module, receive encrypted information of the external electronic device from the external electronic device, decrypt the encrypted information of the external electronic device by using a shared key generated according to a result of the verifying of the received authentication certificate chain, and perform the P2P service with the external electronic device via the communication module, on the basis of the decoded information of the external electronic device. |
| US12143816B2 |
Self-sovereign identification via digital credentials for identity attributes
Disclosed are example methods, systems, and devices that allow for the generation and provisioning of digital credentials, which may demonstrate that a trusted entity has validated individual identity attributes, or sets of attributes, of a user. Digital credentials may also demonstrate one or more extrapolations resulting from deductions or inductions from validated identity attributes. A receiver device may indicate which identity attributes or extrapolations are sought by displaying a QR or other code and/or via a transmission using NFC or other wireless communication, and a user device may access corresponding digital attributes in an ID wallet to be provisioned via code or transmission. Digital credentials may restrict uses and usability of identity attributes. Cryptographic keys and/or distributed ledger records may allow recipients to verify authenticity of digital credentials. The same identity attribute may be proven by showing validation by multiple selectable trusted entities. |
| US12143814B2 |
MEC authentication between edge enabler client and edge configuration or enabler server based on AKMA
Disclosed are embodiments of a user equipment (UE) configured to communicate in a 5G network and to perform authentication between an edge enabler client (EEC) of the UE and an edge configuration server (ECS) or an edge enabler server (EES) based on an architecture for authentication and key management for applications (AKMA). The techniques include performing primary authentication with the 5G network to obtain a KAUSF; generating a KAKMA and an A-KID; providing to the EEC the KAKMA and an EEC identifier (ID) for the EEC to generate a Kedge, the KAKMA and the EEC ID being used by the EEC to compute a MACEEC; and sending to the ECS or the EES an application registration request, the application registration request including the EEC ID, the MACEEC, and the A-KID. |
| US12143808B2 |
Displaying a location of binaural sound outside a field of view
A method or apparatus provides binaural sound that originates to a person at a location inside a field of view (FOV) provided to the person by an electronic device. The electronic device determines when the location of the binaural sound moves outside the FOV and assists the person in determining the location of the binaural sound. A display of the electronic device displays a visual indication that shows a direction to the location of the binaural sound outside the FOV. |
| US12143807B2 |
Spatial audio
An apparatus comprising means including circuitry configured for: applying equalization to a sub-set of a plurality of spatial sound sources, included in a sound scene, to modify the sound scene, wherein spatial sound sources are associated with respective locations in the sound scene, wherein equalization includes frequency-dependent level adaptation, and wherein the sub-set includes multiple spatial sound sources but does not include all of the plurality of spatial sound sources. |
| US12143793B2 |
Diaphragm for high pressure waterproof microspeaker and high pressure waterproof microspeaker including the same
Provided are a diaphragm for a high water pressure waterproof microspeaker and a high pressure waterproof microspeaker including the same. The diaphragm for a high pressure waterproof microspeaker, which is provided in a microspeaker to reproduce sound, includes a center diaphragm and a side diaphragm, includes a center diaphragm attachment portion having a ring shape with a perforated center overall and attached to an outer periphery of the center diaphragm, a frame attachment portion attached to a frame, and a dome portion located between the center diaphragm attachment portion and the frame attachment portion and protruding upwardly or downwardly. The center diaphragm attachment portion of the side diaphragm includes an upper attachment portion attached to an upper surface of the center diaphragm and a lower attachment portion attached to a lower surface of the center diaphragm. |
| US12143785B2 |
Systems and methods of distributing and playing back low-frequency audio content
Multichannel audio playback devices and associated systems and methods are disclosed herein. In some examples, a first playback device is configured to receive a source stream of audio content comprising left, right and center input channels. In a first mode, the first playback device is configured to play back audio via a plurality of transducers based on the left, right, and center input channels. In a second mode, in which the first playback device is bonded to second and third playback devices, the first playback device is configured to (i) play back audio via the plurality of transducers based on at least the center input channel, (ii) cause audio to be played via the second playback device based on at least the right input channel, and (iii) cause audio to be played via the third playback device based on at least the left input channel. |
| US12143782B2 |
Microphone system
A microphone system is disclosed, comprising: a microphone array and a processing unit. The microphone array comprises Q microphones that detect sound and generate Q audio signals. The processing unit is configured to perform operations comprising: spatial filtering over the Q audio signals using a trained model based on at least one target beam area (TBA) and coordinates of the Q microphones to generate a beamformed output signal originated from ω target sound source inside the at least one TBA, where ω>=0. Each TBA is defined by r time delay ranges for r combinations of two microphones out of the Q microphones, where Q>=3 and r>=1. A dimension of a first number for locations of all sound sources able to be distinguished by the processing unit increases as a dimension of a second number for a geometry formed by the Q microphones increases. |
| US12143781B2 |
Spatial audio correction
Example techniques may involve performing aspects of a spatial calibration. An example implementation may include detecting a trigger condition that initiates calibration of a media playback system including multiple audio drivers that form multiple sound axes, each sound axis corresponding to a respective channel of multi-channel audio content. The implementation may also include causing the multiple audio drivers to emit calibration audio that is divided into constituent frames, the multiple sound axes emitting calibration audio during respective slots of each constituent frame. The implementation may further include recording the emitted calibration audio. The implementation may include causing delays for each sound axis of the multiple sound axes to be determined, the determined delay for each sound axis based on the slots of recorded calibration audio corresponding to the sound axes and causing the multiple sound axes to be calibrated. |
| US12143780B2 |
Portable calibration system for audio equipment and devices
A portable calibration system is disclosed that calibrates an audio equipment without using a dedicated sound level meter. The calibration system comprises a coupler configured to couple a transducer to an energy sensor, where an output of the transducer is provided to the energy sensor via the coupler, an analyzer module configured to receive information from the energy sensor regarding the output of the transducer, a processor, in the analyzer module, configured to process the information to provide a result of a calibration for the audio equipment with respect to expected results, and a display configured to display the result of the calibration. |
| US12143779B2 |
Airflow sensors for speakers
Aspects of the subject technology relate to electronic devices having speakers and airflow sensors for the speakers. In one or more implementations, the airflow sensor may be formed, in part, by a mesh structure that spans a port in a housing of the electronic device. In one or more implementations, the airflow sensor may be formed, in part, by an exposed portion of a conductive trace of the speaker. |
| US12143776B2 |
External device of prosthesis connector
An external device of a prosthesis, including an electronics component, which can be a sound processor of a hearing prosthesis, and a power component, which can be a battery, the power component being removably attached to the electronics component, wherein the BTE device is configured with electrostatic discharge protection between the electronics component and the power component. |
| US12143775B2 |
Hearing device comprising a detector and a trained neural network
A hearing device comprises an input transducer comprising a microphone for providing an electric input signal representative of sound in the environment of the hearing device, a pre-processor for processing electric input signal and providing a multitude of feature vectors, each being representative of a time segment thereof, a neural network processor adapted to implement a neural network for implementing a detector configured to provide an output indicative of a characteristic property of the at least one electric input signal, the neural network being configured to receive said multitude of feature vectors as input vectors and to provide corresponding output vectors representative of said output of said detector in dependence of said input vectors. The hearing device further comprises a transceiver comprising a transmitter and a receiver for establishing a communication link to another part or device or server, at least in a particular adaptation-mode of operation, and a selector for—in said particular adaptation—mode of operation—routing said feature vectors to said transmitter for transmission to said another part or device or server, and—in a normal mode of operation—to route said feature vectors to said neural network processor for use as inputs to said neural network, a neural network controller connected to said neural network processor for—in said particular adaptation-mode of operation—receiving optimized node parameters, and to apply said optimized node parameters to said nodes of said neural network to thereby implement an optimized neural network in said neural network processor, wherein the optimized node parameters have been selected among a multitude of sets of node parameters for respective candidate neural networks according to a predefined criterion in dependence of said feature vectors. A method of selecting optimized parameters for a neural network for use in a portable hearing device is further disclosed. The invention may e.g. be used in hearing aids or headsets, or similar, e.g. wearable, devices. |
| US12143770B2 |
Acoustic receivers with multiple diaphragms
Sound-producing acoustic receivers are disclosed. The acoustic receiver includes a receiver housing with a first internal volume and a second internal volume, a first diaphragm separating the first internal volume into a first front volume and a first back volume such that the first front volume has a first sound outlet port, a second diaphragm separating the second internal volume into a second front volume and a second back volume such that the second front volume has a second sound outlet port, a motor disposed at least partially inside the housing such that the motor including an armature mechanically coupled to both the first diaphragm and the second diaphragm, an acoustic seal between the first front volume and the second back volume such that the acoustic seal accommodates the mechanical coupling of the armature to one of the first diaphragm or the second diaphragm. |
| US12143761B2 |
Adjustable headphone
The present disclosure provides an adjustable headphone including a head band assembly and two earpieces attached to two ends of the head band assembly, respectively. The head band assembly includes first and second elongate pieces each extending over a portion of the length of the head band assembly. At least one of the first and second elongate pieces is movable along the length of the head band assembly and including a first length portion and a second length portion having a larger bending strength than the first length portion. |
| US12143757B2 |
Cable free networking device stacking system
A cable free networking device stacking system includes networking devices that are each configured to operate as part of a networking device stack, and at least one LiFi device included on each of the networking devices. A first LiFi device on a first networking device in the plurality of networking devices transmits networking device stack data communications by receiving first electrical data communications from the first networking device, converting the first electrical data communications to first optical data communications, and wirelessly transmitting the first optical data communications to a second LiFi device included on a second networking device in the plurality of networking devices. The first LiFi device also receives networking device stack data communications by wirelessly receiving second optical data communications from the second LiFi device, converting the second optical data communications to second electrical data communications, and transmitting the second electrical data communications to the first networking device. |
| US12143756B2 |
Multi-camera person re-identification
A system may track a person at a location across multiple cameras in real time, while maintaining identification of the person through their visit. The person may not be personally identified; however, the person's presence in video frames captured by different cameras may be linked together. The linked frames may be evaluated by one or more analytics applications. For example, an analytics application may determine a trajectory of a person through a location and plot an overlay of that person's trip through the location on the map. This information may be used, for example, to optimize store layout, asset protection purposes, for counting a number of people at the location at a given time (e.g., for understanding busy hours of the location), determining whether social distancing or other health and/or safety measures may be in compliance, etc. |
| US12143754B2 |
Video monitoring apparatus, control method thereof, and computer readable medium
A position and pose determination unit (103) is configured to determine a position and an pose of the video acquisition unit (110) in such a way that a level of hiding caused by overlapping of objects becomes low based on environmental object information indicating an environmental object including a structural object present in the monitored area and a placed object placed in the structural object, and staying characteristic information indicating a staying characteristic of the object determined depending on the environmental object. The analysis and display unit (111) is configured to perform at least one of analyzing a video captured by the video acquisition unit (103) at the position and the pose determined by the position and pose determination unit (110) and displaying the video. |
| US12143751B2 |
System and method for social platform implemented timed one-on-one video conference calls
A method for facilitating a timed video call performed by a user account associated with a social media platform server designed to support communication among a defined group of users, the social media platform server being coupled to a communication network. The method includes receiving over the communication network a request from a host user on a first user device to initiate a timed video call with a guest user on a second user device, the timed video call having a predefined duration, the request including a typed command following a predetermined syntax. The method further includes parsing the typed command to identify the guest user and second user device and transmitting the request over the communication network to an application programming interface of a communication server. Transmission of the request causes the application programming interface to transmit over the communication network to the user account a first and second unique meeting link to participate in the timed video call. The method further includes transmitting the first unique meeting link to the first user device and the second unique meeting link to the second user device, wherein a response to at least one of the first or second unique meeting link by at least one of the host user or the guest user is received by the communication server over the communication network. Based at least in part on the received response, the response being configured to redirect the at least host user or the guest user to the communication server which initiates the timed video call to stream video and audio between the first user device and the second user device, the streamed video and audio rendered on a call interface on the first user device and the second user device, the call interface including a timer corresponding to a length of time used in or remaining from the predefined duration of the timed video call. The method ends when the end of the predefined duration causes the termination of the timed video call by the communication server. |
| US12143744B2 |
Signal processing device and video display device having same
The present invention relates to a signal processing device and a video display device having same. A signal processing device according to one embodiment of the present invention comprises: a decoder for decoding first video data from a first video source and second video data from a second video source to output decoded first video data and decoded second video data; a video quality processing unit for, when a common frame rate is set on the basis of a first frame rate of the first video data and a second frame rate of the second video data, outputting the first video data on the basis of the common frame rate; and a graphic processing unit for outputting the second video data on the basis of the common frame rate. Thereby, it is possible to process a plurality of video data in synchronization. |
| US12143742B2 |
Solid-state imaging element
Solid-state imaging elements are disclosed. In one example, a solid-state imaging element includes a plurality of pixels. A pixel signal line transmits a pixel signal of a pixel, a reference signal line transmits a reference signal to be compared with the pixel signal, a first comparator outputs a first output signal according to the pixel signal on the basis of a voltage difference between the pixel signal and the reference signal, a second comparator outputs a second output signal according to the pixel signal on the basis of the voltage difference between the pixel signal and the reference signal, a first capacitor unit between the pixel signal line or the reference signal line and the first comparator and set to a first gain, and a second capacitor unit between the pixel signal line or the reference signal line and the second comparator and set to a second gain. |
| US12143739B2 |
Image sensor including pixel array
An image sensor may include a pixel array a pixel array including an active pixel and an optical black pixel, the active pixel configured to generate a first pixel signal, and the optical black pixel configured to generate a second pixel signal, a first biasing circuit configured to bias the first pixel signal based on a first bias voltage, a first analog-to-digital converter configured to convert the biased first pixel signal into a first digital signal, a second biasing circuit configured to bias the second pixel signal based on a second bias voltage, and a second analog-to-digital converter configured to convert the biased second pixel signal into a second digital signal, the second digital signal configured to generate smaller random noise than the first analog-to-digital converter. |
| US12143736B2 |
Method, apparatus and system providing a storage gate pixel with high dynamic range
A method, apparatus and system are described providing a high dynamic range pixel. An integration period has multiple sub-integration periods during which charges are accumulated in a photosensor and repeatedly transferred to a storage node, where the charges are accumulated for later transfer to another storage node for output. |
| US12143731B1 |
Highlight recovery for image sensors
Techniques are generally described for highlight recovery for image sensors. In some examples, a first frame of image data comprising a first pixel may be received. The first pixel may include a value Ci,c where c∈(R, G, B, IR). A white balance gained value Ci,cwb may be determined using Ci,c·WBc, where WBc represents a per-color channel white balance gain. A color-corrected value Ciccm may be determined based at least in part on Ci,cwb and a color correction matrix. An interpolation coefficient α may be determined based at least in part on a clipped representation of the color-corrected value Ciccm. A second value Ciout may be determined for the first pixel by interpolating between an unclipped representation of the first pixel and an unclipped representation of Ciccm using α. |
| US12143729B2 |
High precision color processing for wide dynamic range sensors
A technique for image processing, comprising: receiving input image data, wherein the image data is companded into a first bit depth, wherein the image data includes incomplete color values for pixels of the image data, and wherein the image data is associated with a first color space, interpolating the image data to generate color values for the incomplete color values for pixels of the image data, expanding the image data from the first bit depth to a second bit depth, wherein the color values of the expanded image data have a linear dynamic range, and wherein the second bit depth is higher than the first bit depth, converting the color values for pixels of the expanded image data from the first color space to a second color space, and compressing the color values for pixels of the image data to a third bit depth, the third bit depth lower than the second bit depth, and wherein the compressed color values have a nonlinear dynamic range. |
| US12143727B2 |
Composite reception/emission apparatus
A composite reception and emission apparatus comprises: a plurality of first-type devices that receives or emits energy; a plurality of second-type devices whose type is different from a type of the first-type devices; and a base body. The first-type devices and the second-type devices measure a full solid angle, and are arranged on the base body such that a device closest to each of the first-type devices in an orientation space is at least one of the second-type devices, and a device closest to each of the second-type devices in the orientation space is at least one of the first-type devices. |
| US12143725B2 |
Range measurement apparatus, storage medium and range measurement method
In order to provide a range measurement apparatus which enables an accurate distance measurement while an anti-vibration mechanism is operated, the range measurement apparatus includes an image information acquisition unit configured to acquire an image captured by an image pickup optical system having an anti-vibration optical system, a distance information acquisition unit configured to acquire distance information regarding a distance to a subject based on the image, and a distance correction unit configured to correct the distance information based on aberration information according to a driving amount of the anti-vibration optical system. |
| US12143722B2 |
Image stabilization control apparatus, imaging apparatus, lens apparatus, and control method
An image stabilization control apparatus includes at least one processor or circuit which functions as an obtaining unit configured to obtain resolving power of an imaging system, a control unit configured to control a correction unit configured to correct an effect of shake acting on an imaging apparatus to which the lens apparatus is attached on the captured image, and a setting unit configured to set responsiveness of the correction unit controlled by the control unit based on the resolving power of the imaging system and an imaging condition, wherein the setting unit is configured to, in a case where the imaging condition satisfies a predetermined condition and the resolving power of the imaging system has a first value, set the responsiveness of the correction unit to be higher than in a case where the resolving power has a second value less than the first value. |
| US12143716B2 |
Autofocus accuracy and speed using thermal input information
An imaging device includes an image sensor, a lens assembly, a temperature sensor, and a processor. The lens assembly includes a lens whose distance from the image sensor is adjustable from a minimum stroke distance to a maximum stroke distance. The temperature sensor determines a temperature of the imaging device. The processor instantiates auto focus tables that are each correlated to a temperature, receives at temperature from the temperature sensor, selects an auto focus table associated with the temperature, and provides an auto focus for the object based upon the auto focus table. Each auto focus table provides a temperature compensated correlation of a first stroke distance associated with the object at the maximum distance from the imaging device, and a second stroke distance associated with the object at the minimum distance from the imaging device. |
| US12143702B2 |
Imaging apparatus with nested image sensors and actuators in an inactive position
The imaging apparatus comprises a retractable structure with active and inactive positions. An outermost lens group and a lens group actuator are movable along an optical axis. In the inactive position the lens group and the lens group actuator reside close to an image sensor. The lens group actuator is positioned to the same level as the image sensor. In the active position the outermost lens group and the lens group actuator are further from the image sensor along the optical axis. The retractable structure may protrude from the device, covering the imaging apparatus. In one example the structure is reversed, the image sensor protrudes from the device while the outermost lens group is fixed to the device body. |
| US12143694B2 |
Systems and methods for dynamically extending or shortening segments in a playlist
Systems and methods are disclosed herein for dynamically modifying a playlist for reviewing highlights of a media event. A playlist comprising highlights of a media event may be generated by a media guidance application. A user command may be received by the media guidance application to extend or shorten the currently-playing segment of the playlist. To generate a longer version of the segment, the media guidance application may access the media asset from which the playlist was originally generated at a position corresponding to the currently-playing segment, and generate a longer version of the segment. To generate a shorter version of the segment, the media guidance application may remove a portion of the currently-playing segment. The media guidance application may replace the currently-playing segment with, and begin playing back, the modified version of the segment. |
| US12143693B2 |
Multimedia data publishing method and apparatus, and device and medium
A method and apparatus for publishing multimedia data, and a device and a medium are provided. The method includes: acquiring to-be-published multimedia data; in response to acquiring a multimedia publishing request from a first multimedia platform, sending the multimedia publishing request to a second multimedia platform indicated by the multimedia publishing request, where the multimedia publishing request is configured to request the second multimedia platform to publish to-be-published multimedia data; and publishing the to-be-published multimedia data on the first multimedia platform and sending the to-be-published multimedia data to the second multimedia platform. |
| US12143688B2 |
Rendering a dynamic endemic banner on streaming platforms using content recommendation systems
Disclosed herein are system, apparatus, article of manufacture, method and/or computer program product embodiments, and/or combinations and sub-combinations thereof, for utilizing a content recommendation system powering a streaming media publisher channel to enhance an ad creative being shown to the user via awareness or performance campaigns. This method allows the platform to present the most relevant Machine Language (ML) personalized in-channel content to the publisher platform users in endemic banners that run on the platform which then correspondingly helps drive user reach. An example embodiment operates by implementing personalized content banners that may act as a hook for channel users opening their streaming device, both active and lapsed, to enter back into the channel. |
| US12143686B2 |
Systems and methods for managing content distribution to an in-transit media system
Systems and methods for dynamically multiplexing requested linear media channels and network data on forward link traffic streams of a communication link to a craft media delivery system are provided. Furthermore, systems and methods for receiving dynamically multiplexed requested linear media channels and network data on forward link traffic streams of a communication link by a craft media delivery system are also provided. |
| US12143683B2 |
Optimizing timing of display of a video overlay
The timing for displaying an overlay a video is optimized using a system that includes an engagement component that receives information regarding frames of a video at which respective users of a plurality of users stop engaging with the video and an analysis component that calculates user engagement scores for the frames based on the information, wherein the user engagement scores reflect a percentage of the plurality of users that stop engaging with the video at the respective frames, and wherein the higher the percentage the lower the user engagement score. The system further includes an identification component that identifies a subset of the frames associated with relatively lower user engagement scores in comparison to other frames of the video and an overlay component that configures an overlay for displaying over the video near at least one of the frames included in the subset. |
| US12143677B2 |
Pull notifications for applications
In some embodiments, a method selects an account associated with an application that is displaying content. A plurality of contact options is retrieved where the contact options in the plurality of contact options are able to receive pull notifications for the account. The method ranks the plurality of contact options based on information associated with the account and generates a plurality of pull notification options using the ranking of the plurality of contact options. The plurality of pull notification options is output to the application for display on the application. A pull notification option in the plurality of pull notification options is associated with information to cause an associated contact option to be contacted upon selection of the pull notification option. |
| US12143670B2 |
Methods, systems, articles of manufacture and apparatus to remap household identification
An example apparatus includes a distance matrix generator to determine a number of remapping combinations corresponding to a first and a second household demographic model, generate (a) a first age-based household demographic model and a second age-based household demographic model and (b) a third age-based household demographic model and a fourth age-based household demographic model, generate a first distance matrix corresponding to the first and the third age-based household demographic model, and generate a second distance matrix corresponding to the second and the fourth age-based household demographic model, a distance matrix identifier to determine a first and a second reassignment distance and a person identification assigner to assign a person identification number of a first person corresponding to the first household to a second person corresponding to the second household based on the first distance matrix or the second distance matrix. |
| US12143668B2 |
Audience attendance monitoring through facial recognition
In accordance with some implementations, a method for measuring viewership of media content is disclosed. The method is performed on a client system. The client system obtains identification information for individuals who have agreed to participate in a media viewership totals measurement study, detects a first user of the client system, determines media content being presented in proximity to the first user, automatically determines if the first user is an individual who has agreed to participate in the media viewership totals measurement study; and generates viewership data according to the determination. |
| US12143666B2 |
Multimedia device and related method for a video mute mode
A multimedia device is configured to process video data via a related method. The multimedia device includes a processor in communication with a panel. The processor is configured to output the video data to the panel when being switched into a video unmute mode, and further to not output the video data to the panel when being switched into a first video mute mode. The processor is further configured to execute media retrieval and visual processing in response to the first video mute mode. |
| US12143664B2 |
Dynamically creating and playing a scenario replication for an activity on visual and audio devices
Provided are techniques for dynamically creating and playing a scenario replication for an activity on one or more visual and audio devices. One or more patterns and one or more contexts are stored. One or more goals are stored for a user. A current context is identified from data from a plurality of data sources. The current context is matched to a stored context of the one or more contexts. A pattern associated with the matched context is identified. A recommendation of an activity is provided based on the pattern and based on a goal of the one or more goals. A scenario replication is created with at least one of visual elements and audio elements for the recommendation. One or more visual and audio devices are identified. The scenario replication is played on the one or more visual and audio devices. |
| US12143660B2 |
Mixed reality virtual reverberation
A method of presenting an audio signal to a user of a mixed reality environment is disclosed, the method comprising the steps of detecting a first audio signal in the mixed reality environment, where the first audio signal is a real audio signal; identifying a virtual object intersected by the first audio signal in the mixed reality environment; identifying a listener coordinate associated with the user; determining, using the virtual object and the listener coordinate, a transfer function; applying the transfer function to the first audio signal to produce a second audio signal; and presenting, to the user, the second audio signal. |
| US12143654B2 |
Method for dynamic selection of a content delivery network
A method includes, at a first time: receiving a request for video content from a first user; generating a fingerprint for the first user; associating the first user with a first user population—assigned to a first CDN and receiving the video content from the first CDN during the first time period—based on the fingerprint; and accessing a first metric for distribution of video content from the first CDN to users of the first user population. The method also includes, at a second time: selecting a second user within the first user population; identifying a second CDN distinct from the first CDN; reassigning the second user to the second CDN; and accessing a second metric for distribution of the video content from the second CDN to the second user; and, in response to the second metric exceeding the first metric, reassigning the first user to the second CDN. |
| US12143649B2 |
System and method for capturing and distributing a live audio stream of a live event in real-time
Systems and methods for capturing and distributing a live audio stream of a live event in real-time to a plurality of mobile computing devices are described. The system comprises at least one memory configured to store computer-executable instructions and processing device(s) coupled to the at least one memory and at least one audio input device configured to receive the live audio stream. Upon receipt of the live audio stream, the processing device(s) generate, in real-time, a plurality of discrete audio data packets from the live audio stream, and transmit that respective discrete audio data packet over a first network for receipt by the mobile computing devices. In respect of each one of the discrete audio data packets, a copy of the discrete audio data packet is transmitted for receipt by each one of the mobile computing devices prior to transmitting another one of the discrete audio data packets. |
| US12143645B2 |
Sample adaptive offset (SAO) parameter signaling
A method for sample adaptive offset (SAO) filtering and SAO parameter signaling in a video encoder is provided that includes determining SAO parameters for largest coding units (LCUs) of a reconstructed picture, wherein the SAO parameters include an indicator of an SAO filter type and a plurality of SAO offsets, applying SAO filtering to the reconstructed picture according to the SAO parameters, and entropy encoding LCU specific SAO information for each LCU of the reconstructed picture in an encoded video bit stream, wherein the entropy encoded LCU specific SAO information for the LCUs is interleaved with entropy encoded data for the LCUs in the encoded video bit stream. Determining SAO parameters may include determining the LCU specific SAO information to be entropy encoded for each LCU according to an SAO prediction protocol. |
| US12143643B2 |
Video coding method and apparatus utilizing group of encoding units
The present invention relates to a block partitioning structure from among the video coding schemes, and a method and apparatus for encoding and decoding the block partitioning structure. The video encoding and decoding method comprises the steps of: combining two or more encoding units of maximum size into a single encoding unit group; acquiring encoding data corresponding to the combined single encoding unit group; and decoding, according to a decoding order, the two or more encoding units of maximum size contained in the single encoding unit group. |
| US12143640B2 |
Avoidance of redundant signaling in multi-layer video bitstreams
A method of decoding is provided. The method includes receiving a video bitstream including a plurality of layers having sublayers and a video parameter set (VPS) including a first flag having a first value, wherein the first flag having the first value specifies that temporal identifiers (IDs) of a highest sublayer representation for level information, decoded picture buffer (DPB) parameters, and hypothetical decoder refresh (HRD) parameters are not present in the VPS and are inferred to be equal to a maximum number of the sublayers that may be present in a layer of the plurality of layers specified by the VPS; obtaining the level information, the HRD parameters, and the DPB parameters corresponding to the temporal ID of the highest sublayer representation from the VPS; and decoding a picture from one of the plurality of layers to obtain a decoded picture. A corresponding method of encoding is also provided. |
| US12143639B2 |
Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method
An encoder includes memory and circuitry coupled to the memory. The circuitry stores a total number of temporal sub-layers in a bitstream into either a picture timing supplemental enhancement information (SEI) message or a buffering period SEI message, and encodes the total number of the temporal sub-layers. |
| US12143638B2 |
Three-dimensional data encoding method, three-dimensional data decoding method, three-dimensional data encoding device, and three-dimensional data decoding device
A three-dimensional data encoding method includes: generating pieces of encoded data by encoding subspaces obtained by dividing a current space including three-dimensional points; and generating a bitstream including the pieces of encoded data and pieces of first information each of which corresponds to a corresponding one of the subspaces. Each of the pieces of first information indicates whether the bitstream includes second information indicating a structure of the corresponding one of the subspaces. |
| US12143636B2 |
Method and apparatus for performing primary transform based on filtering of blocks
A method of video encoding for an encoder includes generating first information included in prediction information for a current block, the first information indicating whether a filtering process is applied on the current block. The filtering process adjusts inter prediction samples of the current block based on neighboring reconstructed samples of the current block. The method further includes generating second information included in the prediction for the current block, the second information corresponding to a primary transform for a transform block that is partitioned from the current block. The method further includes generating a bitstream including the prediction information for the current block, the prediction information including the first information and the second information, the prediction information being indicative of the inter prediction mode. |
| US12143633B2 |
Method and apparatus for depth encoding and decoding
Methods, device and data stream format are disclosed in the present document for the encoding, the formatting and the decoding of depth information representative of a 3D scene. Compression and decompression of quantized values by a video codec leads to a value error. This error on values is particularly sensitive for depth encoding. The present invention proposes to encode and decode depth with a quantization function that minimize an angle error when a value error on quantized depth creates a location delta between the projected point and the de-projected point. The inverse of such a quantization function has to be encoded in metadata associated with the 3D scene, for example as a LUT, to be retrieved at the decoding, as such functions are not tractable. |
| US12143631B2 |
Systems and methods for performing an adaptive resolution change in video coding
This disclosure relates to video coding and more particularly to techniques for an adaptive resolution change. According to an aspect of an invention, a motion compensation interpolation filter is selected based on a value of a scaling factor, wherein the motion compensation interpolation filter is specified by 16 fractional sample positions and 8 interpolation filter coefficients corresponding to each of the fractional sample position. |
| US12143630B2 |
Image decoding method and apparatus based on motion prediction using merge candidate list in image coding system
An image decoding method performed by a decoding apparatus according to the present document includes constituting a candidate list for deriving motion information of a sub-block unit for a current block, wherein the merge candidate list includes constructed candidates; deriving control point motion vectors (CPMVs) for control points (CPs) of the current block based on the merge candidate list; deriving prediction samples for the current block based on the CPMVs; and generating a reconstructed picture for the current block based on the derived prediction samples, wherein the constructed candidates are derived based on combination of at least two of a first neighboring block in a first group, a second neighboring block in a second group, a third neighboring block in a third group and a fourth neighboring block, and the first neighboring block, the second neighboring block and the third neighboring block and the fourth neighboring block constituting the combination have the same reference picture index. |
| US12143628B2 |
Prediction image correcting device, image encoding device, image decoding device, and program
A prediction image correcting device comprises a predictor (108) configured to predict a target image block obtained by dividing a present image frame by using a plurality of reference images to generate a prediction image corresponding to the target image block a prediction accuracy evaluator (109) configured to evaluate prediction accuracy of the prediction image based on a degree of similarity between the plurality of reference images used for generating the prediction image and a corrector (110) configured to perform correction processing on the prediction image by using a decoded neighboring block adjacent to the target image block, wherein the corrector is configured to control the correction processing based at least on an evaluation result of the prediction accuracy evaluator. |
| US12143620B2 |
Filtering methods for angular intra prediction
The present disclosure provides intra prediction methods for video or image coding. An exemplary method includes: performing an intra predicting process for a target block, wherein performing the intra predicting process comprises: determining an intra prediction mode for the target block; in response to the intra prediction mode is an angular mode, determining a filtered value by applying an N-tap interpolation filter to a plurality of reference samples surrounding the target block based on the angular mode, wherein N is an integer greater than 4; and determining a predicted value of a sample of the target block based on the filtered value. |
| US12143617B2 |
Method and device for encoding/decoding image using sub-picture, and bit stream transmission method
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus are provided. An image decoding method performed by an image decoding apparatus may comprise obtaining, from a picture parameter set, a first signaling flag specifying whether an identifier of a subpicture splitting a current picture is signaled using the picture parameter set, obtaining identifier information of the subpicture from the picture parameter set, based on the first signaling flag specifying that the identifier of the subpicture is signaled using the picture parameter set, and decoding the current picture by decoding a current subpicture identified based on the identifier information. |
| US12143615B2 |
Method and device for processing video signal by using affine motion
Disclosed are a method for processing a video signal by using an affine motion prediction and an apparatus thereof. A method for processing a video signal according to the present disclosure may include: adding, to an affine candidate list, an affine coded block coded in an affine prediction mode among neighbor blocks of a current block; obtaining a syntax element indicating a candidate used for the affine motion prediction of the current block in the affine candidate list; deriving a control point motion vector predictor of the current block based on an affine motion model of the candidate indicated by the syntax element; deriving a control point motion vector of the current block by adding a control point motion vector difference to the control point motion vector predictor; and generating a prediction block of the current block by using the control point motion vector of the current block. |
| US12143612B2 |
Context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding decoder capable of decoding multiple bins in one cycle and associated decoding method
A context-based adaptive binary arithmetic coding (CABAC) decoder includes a bin decode circuit and a context update circuit. The bin decode circuit supports decoding of multiple bins in one cycle. The multiple bins include a first bin and a second bin. The bin decode circuit generates a bin value of the first bin according to a first set of multiple contexts, a first range and a first offset, and generates one bin value of the second bin according to a second set of multiple contexts, a second range and a second offset. The context update circuit updates the first set of multiple contexts in response to the bin value of the first bin, to generate a first set of multiple updated contexts, and updates the second set of multiple contexts in response to said one bin value of the second bin, to generate a second set of multiple updated contexts. |
| US12143611B2 |
Subpicture entity group signaling in coded video
Systems, methods and apparatus for encoding or decoding a file format that stores one or more images are described. One example method includes performing a conversion between a visual media file and a bitstream of a visual media data according to a format rule, wherein the format rule specifies a characteristic of a syntax element in the visual media file, and wherein the format rule specifies that the syntax element that has a value indicative of a level identification is coded in any one or both of a subpicture common group box or a subpicture multiple groups box using eight bits. |
| US12143609B2 |
Video data transmission method, video data decoding method, and related apparatuses
The present application discloses method for transmitting video data, applied to chip for substrate management control. The method includes: respectively storing video compression data into first storage space and second storage space according to ping-pong operation structure; reading data of the same byte length from the first storage space and the second storage space; determining whether similarity between first data to be transmitted and second data to be transmitted is greater than or equal to preset value; if yes, setting the first data to be transmitted added with first transmission identifier as the current frame of data, and setting a second transmission identifier corresponding to the first transmission identifier as the next frame of data; and sending the current frame data and the next frame data to video data receiving end. |
| US12143607B2 |
Method and apparatus for signalling flags related to chroma transform blocks
A method comprising obtaining a bitstream, the bitstream comprises a transform unit syntax and a coding unit syntax, the transform unit syntax includes a value of a first flag and a value of a second flag related to, respectively, a first chroma transform block and a second chroma transform block of a current transform unit or a current sub-transform unit within the current transform unit, the first or second flag specifies whether the first or second chroma transform block contains at least one transform coefficient levels not equal to 0, the coding unit syntax includes a value of a third flag specifying whether a transform tree structure is present or not; and deriving a value of a fourth flag based on the values of the first, second, and third flags, the fourth flag specifies whether a luma transform block contains at least one transform coefficient levels not equal to 0. |
| US12143606B2 |
Methods and apparatus for improved intra chroma encoding and decoding
Methods and apparatus are provided for improved chroma encoding and decoding. An apparatus includes an encoder for encoding picture data for at least a block in a picture. Multiple partition types are supported for intra chroma coding of the block. The multiple partition types include a set of chroma partition types and a set of luma partition types. The set of chroma partition types are different than the set of luma partition types. |
| US12143605B2 |
Inter-prediction mode-dependent transforms for video coding
Transform modes are derived for inter-predicted blocks using side information. A prediction residual is generated for a current video block using a reference frame. Side information associated with one or both of the current video block or the reference frame is identified. A trained transform is determined from amongst multiple trained transforms based on the side information, in which each of the trained transforms is determined using individual side information types and combinations of the individual side information types and the side information represents values of one of the individual side information types or one of the combinations of the individual side information types. The prediction residual is transformed according to the trained transform, and data associated with the transformed prediction residual and the side information are encoded to a bitstream. |
| US12143604B2 |
Level indicator for sub-picture entity group
A mechanism for processing video data is disclosed. A level indicator for a set of subpictures is determined. The set of subpictures is included in one or more subpicture tracks. The subpicture tracks are included in a subpicture entity group. When the level indicator is included in a sample group, an indication is signaled in an entity to group box to indicate the track that contains the sample group. A conversion is performed between a visual media data and a media data file based on the level indicator. |
| US12143598B2 |
Image encoding/decoding, method for an inter-component prediction of a chroma block
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for performing intra prediction mode based intra prediction are provided. An image decoding method may comprise decoding an intra prediction mode of a current block, deriving at least one intra prediction mode from the decoded intra prediction mode of the current block, generating two or more intra prediction blocks using the intra prediction mode of the current block and the derived intra prediction mode, and generating an intra prediction block of the current block based on the two or more intra prediction blocks. |
| US12143597B2 |
Methods and devices for lossless coding modes in video coding
Methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums are provided for decoding a video signal. A decoder partitions a video picture into a plurality of coding units (CUs) comprising a lossless CU. The decoder may further receive a high-level syntax. The high-level syntax may include, for example, a first flag that indicates whether a residual coding scheme is switchable. |
| US12143590B2 |
Affine estimation in pre-analysis of encoder
An affine motion estimation (ME) is performed on a current block to determine affine parameters of the current block in a pre-analysis stage. The affine ME is performed based on at least one of (i) a down-scaled current picture and one or more down-scaled reference pictures of the down-scaled current picture, (ii) a simplified configuration, or (iii) a fixed block size of the current block being equal to or larger than a threshold. The affine parameters of the current block determined in the pre-analysis stage are stored. Affine parameters of the current block are determined based on the affine parameters stored in the pre-analysis stage. The current block is reconstructed based on the determined affine parameters of the current block. |
| US12143589B2 |
Weighted sample prediction for geometric partitioning mode
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods, apparatuses, and non-transitory computer-readable storage mediums for video encoding/decoding. An apparatus includes processing circuitry that partitions a current block of a current picture based on a geometric partitioning mode (GPM). The current block is partitioned into two partitions in the GPM mode. Each of the partitions is associated with a respective predictor. A weighting index for a sample of the current block is determined based on a position of the sample. A weighting factor is calculated based on the weighting index of the sample according to an equation that converts the weighting index to the weighting factor. The sample is encoded based on the weighting factor and the predictor corresponding to the sample. |
| US12143587B2 |
Single layer high dynamic range coding with standard dynamic range backward compatibility
A method for transforming high dynamic range (HDR) video data into standard dynamic range (SDR) video data and encoding the SDR video data so that the HDR video data may be recovered at the decoder includes generating a tone map describing a transformation applied to the HDR video data to generate the SDR video data. The generated tone map describes the transformation as the multiplication of each HDR pixel in the HDR video data by a scalar to generate the SDR video data. The tone map is then modeled as a reshaping transfer function and the HDR video data is processed by the reshaping transfer function to generate the SDR video data. The reshaping transfer function is then inverted and described in a self-referential metadata structure. The SDR video data is then encoded including the metadata structure defining the inverse reshaping transfer function. |
| US12143586B2 |
Usage of DCT based interpolation filter and enhanced bilinear interpolation filter in affine motion compensation
A method related to adaptive usage of pixel-based and block-based affine motion compensation and includes performing sub-block-based affine transform prediction on an affine block with a first sub-block size if the first sub-block size is greater than or equal to a first sub-block size threshold. If the first sub-block size is less than the first sub-block size threshold, it is determined whether a pixel-based motion vector field is not applied for performing motion compensation for the affine block. If the motion vector field is not applied, a sub-block-based affine motion prediction is performed with a second sub-block size that is based on the first sub-block size. If the pixel-based motion vector field is applied, motion compensation is performed for a sub-block of the affine block using the pixel-based motion vector field. |
| US12143585B2 |
Video coding method based on secondary transform, and device therefor
A video decoding method according to the present document comprises the steps of: deriving transform coefficients by performing de-quantization on the basis of quantized transform coefficients for a target block; deriving modified transform coefficients on the basis of an inverse reduced secondary transform (RST) of the transform coefficients; and generating a reconstructed picture on the basis of residual samples for the target block on the basis of an inverse primary transform of the modified transform coefficients, wherein an inverse RST using a transform kernel matrix is performed on transform coefficients of an upper-left 4×4 region of an 8×8 region of the target block, and modified transform coefficients of the upper-left 4×4 region, an upper-right 4×4 region, and a lower-left 4×4 region of the 8×8 region are derived through the inverse RST. |
| US12143583B2 |
Encoder, decoder, encoding method, and decoding method
An encoder includes circuitry and memory. Using the memory, the circuitry: performs a transform process of (i) applying a first transform to a prediction residual signal indicating a difference between a current block to be encoded and a prediction image of the current block and (ii) further applying a second transform to a transform result of the first transform; and in the second transform, selects one transform basis (i) from a first group of candidates when a size of the current block is a first block size and (ii) from a second group of candidates when the size of the current block is a second block size different from the first block size, the first group including one or more candidates for a transform basis, the second group being different from the first group. |
| US12143579B2 |
Method and apparatus for offset in video filtering
Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. In some examples, an apparatus for filtering in video decoding includes processing circuitry. For example, the processing circuitry determines first reconstructed sample values of reconstructed samples of a first color component within a filter support region of a to-be filtered sample of a second color component. The to-be filtered sample is at a center position of the filter support region. Based on a mapping that associates offset values with reconstructed sample values within the filter support region, a first offset value of the offset values in the mapping that is associated with the first reconstructed sample values is determined. The first offset value is applied on the second color component for the to-be filtered sample to determine a filtered sample value of the second color component for the to-be filtered sample. |
| US12143578B2 |
Neural network based filter in video coding
In one implementation, to perform in-loop filtering of a version of reconstructed samples of a block, only a single offset parameter is signaled in the bitstream. Based on the version of reconstructed samples, a pixel-wise weight mask is generated using a neural network. Because the neural network parameters are known at both the encoder and decoder, these parameters need not to be signaled in the bitstream. The single offset parameter scaled by the weighted mask is used to adjust the samples in the block. Thus, even though only a single offset parameter is used, the samples are adjusted by pixel-wise offsets. The neural network may also take other parameters, such as quantization parameters and picture types as input. Further, there can be multiple neural networks that generate different weight masks, where different offsets are signaled and one or more of the neural networks are to be selected for filtering. |
| US12143576B2 |
Method and device for encoding/decoding image, and recording medium in which bitstream is stored
An image encoding/decoding method and apparatus for performing intra prediction using a plurality of reference sample lines are provided. An image decoding method may comprise configuring a plurality of reference sample lines, reconstructing an intra prediction mode of a current block, and performing intra prediction for the current block based on the intra prediction mode and the plurality of reference sample lines. |
| US12143572B2 |
Device for deriving affine merge candidate
Technology for improving coding efficiency by performing a block split suitable for picture coding and decoding is provided. A moving-picture coding device for performing an affine transform in units of coding blocks includes an affine inheritance merging candidate derivation unit configured to derive an affine inheritance merging candidate for inheriting an affine model of blocks neighboring a coding target block in a space domain, an affine construction merging candidate derivation unit configured to derive an affine construction merging candidate from a plurality of motion information elements of blocks neighboring the coding target block in a space or time domain, and an affine fixation merging candidate derivation unit configured to derive an affine fixation merging candidate in which motion information of an affine control point is fixed. A motion vector of each affine control point is fixed to (0, 0) in the affine fixation merging candidate. |
| US12143571B2 |
Method and device for video signal processing
A method and device for video signal processing are provided. The method includes: an intra prediction mode of a current block is determined, a reference sample for intra prediction of the current block is determined, a predetermined matrix is determined based on the intra prediction mode, and the current block is predicted based on the reference sample and the matrix. The operation of predicting the current block based on the reference sample and the matrix includes a prediction block is generated by applying the matrix to the reference sample. |
| US12143566B2 |
Method and device for processing video signal
Provided is a method for decoding a video signal. The method includes generating a first prediction sample by performing intra prediction on a current block, determining an intra prediction pattern of a current block, partitioning the current block into a plurality of sub-blocks based on the determined intra prediction pattern, generating a first prediction sample for a sub-block by performing intra prediction, determining an offset for the sub-block to obtain a second prediction sample, and generating the second prediction sample for the sub-block by using the first prediction sample and the offset. |
| US12143563B2 |
Scaling factor detection for compressed images and videos
Detection of scaling of compressed videos or images is provided. A frequency domain transformation is applied along both horizontal and vertical directions of input video or images to generate frequency domain data. Statistics in the frequency domain data are computed for each of the horizontal and vertical directions to extract features. The features are modeled to scores along each of the horizontal and vertical directions. An original resolution of the input video or images in the horizontal and vertical directions is identified according to the scores. |
| US12143561B2 |
Image generation system and method
An image generation system comprising an image rendering unit operable to render a first image for display to a first one of a user's eyes, an image obtaining unit operable to obtain a second image for a second one of the user's eyes, the obtained image having been rendered for display at an earlier time, an image reprojection unit operable to reproject the first image from a viewpoint associated with the first one of the user's eyes to a viewpoint associated with the second one of the user's eyes, and an image generation unit operable to generate an output image for the second one of the user's eyes in dependence upon the reprojected first image and the obtained second image. |
| US12143559B2 |
Providing a contiguous virtual space for a plurality of display devices
Disclosed herein are system, method, and computer program product embodiments for rendering a contiguous virtual space for a plurality of display devices. An embodiment operates by identifying a projection of a virtual camera onto a virtual plane and determining a display plane area based on an intersection of the projection of the virtual camera onto the virtual plane. Thereafter, a position for a plurality of virtual windows correlating to a plurality of real-world display devices on the display plane area is calculated based on (i) properties of the display devices and (ii) a focal length of the virtual camera. After placing the virtual windows their respective display plane area positions, content behind a virtual window is identified and provided to the corresponding real-world display device. |
| US12143558B2 |
Automatic calibration of intraoral 3D scanner
An intraoral scanner comprises one or more structured light projectors and two or more cameras, where each structured light projector projects a pattern of light onto an intraoral three-dimensional (3D) surface and the two or more cameras capture one or more sets of images, wherein each image includes at least a portion of the projected pattern of light. A processor solves a correspondence problem within a set of images of the one or more sets of images such that points in 3D space are determined based on correspondence of captured features in the set of images to projected features of at least the portion of the projected pattern, wherein said points in 3D space form a solution to the correspondence problem. The processor calibrates the intraoral scanner by performing an adjustment to stored calibration data associated with the intraoral scanner based on the solution to the correspondence problem. |
| US12143557B2 |
Phase-sensitive compressed ultrafast photography systems and methods
Compressed ultrafast photography (CUP) techniques that produce spatially encoded images from a first series of images where each spatially encoded image has first and second views of an image of the first series of images superimposed with a pseudo-random binary spatial pattern, that transform the first view and/or the second view such that the first view is rotated 180° relative to second view, that deflect each spatially encoded image by a temporal deflection distance that varies as a function of time-of-arrival, and that integrate the spatially encoded images into a CUP image. |
| US12143553B2 |
Method and machine for digital printing with neutral colours
A method and machine for digital printing with neutral colors, wherein the method uses a digital printing machine which has a print head which in turn has an ejector; providing a substrate for receiving digital printing; providing a printing product which has at least one light black (LK) printing ink having a concentration of black pigment that is lower than that of a black (K) ink; arranging the ejector with the printing product such that it is arranged for ejecting the printing product on the substrate; and performing digital printing on the substrate by means of ejecting the printing product according to a predefined design having at least one neutral color. |
| US12143541B2 |
Systems and methods for crosstalk reduction for audio communications
Systems and methods for operating a multi-channel intercom system for audio communications between users, with reduced crosstalk, are disclosed. Exemplary implementations may: receive, by a first user station, a modulation carrier signal; capture a first audio signal from a first user, wherein the first audio signal has a first phase; at a rate based on the modulation carrier signal, invert the first phase of the first audio signal to generate a phase-flipped audio signal; transfer the phase-flipped audio signal to a second user station; at a second rate based on the modulation carrier signal, invert a phase of the phase-flipped audio signal to generate an intermediate audio signal; and present a second audio signal based on the intermediate audio signal to the second user. |
| US12143534B2 |
Chat bot asynchronous agent escalation
A system comprising one or more processors and one or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing computing instructions that, when executed on the one or more processors perform: receiving, by a chat bot and from a user, an indication to talk to a live agent; calling, by the chat bot, an automatic call distribution server to initiate a live-agent session for the user; storing metadata for the live-agent session in a distributed table and a distributed queue; pulling, from an automatic call distribution connector, one or more messages from a conversation between the user and the chat bot based on the metadata; and connecting the live agent to the user in the live-agent session, wherein the user communicates with the live agent in the live-agent session through a same interface for the chat bot. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US12143531B2 |
Method and apparatus for threat identification through analysis of communications signaling, events, and participants
Aspects of the invention determining a threat score of a call traversing a telecommunications network by leveraging the signaling used to originate, propagate and terminate the call. Outer-edge data utilized to originate the call may be analyzed against historical, or third party real-time data to determine the propensity of calls originating from those facilities to be categorized as a threat. Storing the outer edge data before the call is sent over the communications network permits such data to be preserved and not subjected to manipulations during traversal of the communications network. This allows identification of threat attempts based on the outer edge data from origination facilities, thereby allowing isolation of a compromised network facility that may or may not be known to be compromised by its respective network owner. Other aspects utilize inner edge data from an intermediate node of the communications network which may be analyzed against other inner edge data from other intermediate nodes and/or outer edge data. |
| US12143530B2 |
System and method for classifying and handling voice over IP traffic
A system and method for handling Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) traffic flows on a computer network, and, in particular, encrypted VoIP traffic flows. The method including: collecting traffic flow data with respect to an IP session; collecting parameters associated with the IP session; determining whether the IP session is a VoIP session; correlating IP sessions having similar parameters to the collected parameters; and creating at least one Internet Protocol Detail Record (IPDR) or Call Detail Record (CDR) based on the correlated IP sessions. The system including: a collection module configured to collect traffic flow data; an analysis module configured to determine parameters and determine whether the IP session is a VoIP session; and a correlation module configured to correlate IP sessions having similar parameters; and create at least one Internet Protocol Detail Record (IPDR) or Call Detail Record (CDR) based on the correlated IP sessions. |
| US12143527B2 |
Computer messaging analytics systems and methods
Described herein is a messaging analytics system for automatically capturing, analyzing, and displaying messaging data. The messaging analytics system includes a processor configured to: receive form definitions from an admin computer device; generate a form based on the form definitions; receive messaging data; extract, from the messaging data, the at least one messaging data element specified by the form definitions; store the at least one extracted messaging data element in the form; generate, the at least one type of messaging analytics specified in the form definitions; store the generated at least one type of messaging analytics in the form; generate, based on the at least one messaging data element and the at least one type of messaging analytics, the at least one messaging display specified in the form definitions; store the generated at least one messaging display in the form; and display the form on a user computing device. |
| US12143525B2 |
Electronic device with curved surface structure display
The present application provides an electronic device, including a cover plate, a display screen, and a support, where the cover plate and the display screen are stacked and disposed around the support, the cover plate includes a first region and a second region, the second region is located between an edge of the cover plate and the first region, the display screen is located between the first region and the support, elastic convex portions are disposed between the second region and the support, and the elastic convex portion each elastically abut between the second region and the support. In the present application, through the arrangement of the elastic convex portions between the second region of the cover plate and the support, a problem that the support impacts on the cover plate in a process of assembling the electronic device is resolved, and an assembly yield of the electronic device is improved. |
| US12143524B2 |
Mobile terminal
Provided is a mobile terminal comprising: a first frame; a second frame which slidingly moves with respect to the first frame in a first direction to switch to an extended mode and includes a ground metal, a first side metal, and a second side metal; a display part which includes a fixed portion coupled to the front surface of the first frame and a variable portion bent to surround the second frame; a rolling hinge which is coupled to the rear surface of the variable portion and comprises a conductive material; and a ground pin which is coupled to the rolling hinge, wherein the ground pin is brought into contact with the ground metal in the extended mode to electrically connect the rolling hinge to the ground metal. |
| US12143523B2 |
Recycled aluminum with glass fiber reinforced polylactic acid (PLA) bioplastic for an information handling system
Disclosed is a covering for an information handling system. The covering includes a first layer and a second layer. The first layer is a polylactic acid layer that can be reinforced with a reinforcing component, such as glass fibers. The second layer is an aluminum layer, and can include at least 50% recycled aluminum. The outer surface of the first layer may be provided with a graphene-containing coating that can help improve thermal management. |
| US12143522B2 |
Electronic device including display
An electronic device is provided. The electronic device includes a display, a display driver integrated circuit (IC) that controls the display, a camera disposed in a display area, and a processor connected with the display driver IC and the camera. The display includes a normal area having a first pixel density, a camera light-receiving area where the camera is disposed and at least one pixel is disposed, the camera light-receiving area having a second pixel density lower than first pixel density, and a circuit area provided between the normal area and the camera light-receiving area and having a third pixel density, and a circuit that transfers a drive voltage to the pixel disposed in the camera light-receiving area is disposed in the circuit area. The third pixel density is lower than or equal to the first pixel density, and the third pixel density is higher than the second pixel density. |
| US12143521B1 |
Single version of secured customer record using block chain
Systems and methods for securing and adding sensitive information in a block chain are disclosed. One disclosed method includes receiving private user information, validating the private user information, generating a user block on a block chain, generating a private user key and an enterprise key, receiving a request from a user for a service, authenticating the private user key and enterprise key through consensus, hashing a block with service information, and linking the service block to the user block. |
| US12143518B1 |
Systems and methods for secure networks
Systems and methods are provided utilizing a consensus protocol that assesses a trust factor of one or more nodes, and which executes a block creation process by selecting and assigning trusted nodes, based on the trust factor assessment. |
| US12143515B2 |
Systems and methods for transaction card-based authentication
A method is provided for communicating with a transaction card having a card data processor, a near card field communication (NFC) interface, and a card memory having a unique card identifier stored therein. In this method, a user communication device establishes an NFC session with the transaction card and transmits to the transaction card an NFC data exchange format (NDEF) WRITE TAG command including session-specific challenge information. The user communication device transmits to the transaction card an NDEF READ TAG command and receives from the transaction card, card-specific challenge response information. The challenge response information is then used to authenticate the transaction card. |
| US12143507B2 |
Secure tenant-based chaos experiments using certificates
Techniques for implementing secure tenant-based chaos experiments using certificates are disclosed. In some embodiments, a computer system may receive an indication of a scope of execution for a chaos experiment from a tenant of a multitenancy environment, identify a public key from a certificate chain based on the received indication of the scope of execution, and transmit the identified public key to the tenant. Next, the computer system may then receive an encrypted version of the chaos experiment from the tenant, where the encrypted version of the chaos experiment has been encrypted with the identified public key, and then transmit the encrypted version of the chaos experiment to one or more software agents. |
| US12143504B2 |
System and apparatus for providing authenticable electronic communication
The present disclosure provides generally for systems and methods of authenticating one or more aspects of electronic communication. According to the present disclosure, authenticable communications may allow for authentication of at least a portion of the content of the electronic communication, which may limit potential damage caused by fraudulent communications. In some aspects, an authenticable communication may allow a recipient to confirm that the indicated source is the actual source of the authenticable communication. In some embodiments, the authentication may not require an exchange of encrypted communications or an exchange of communications solely within the same communication system. Authenticable communications may provide a separate layer of security that may allow a recipient to review the contents with confidence that the communication is not fraudulent. Further, authenticable communications may provide the additional security without requiring specialized software. |
| US12143500B2 |
System and method for content storage and ownership verification
A method that ensures validity, reliability, preservation, and accessibility of data and its related metadata for an underlying asset or project using blockchain technology, specifically non-fungible tokens, the modern cloud, and cryptography. |
| US12143497B2 |
Trusted video streaming method developed using blockchain technology on mobile devices
A reliable video streaming method using blockchain technology resisting cyber-attacks such as external and DDOS, malware, virus, and bandwidth reduction during video streaming of mobile devices connected over a same network is provided. The reliable video streaming method enables mobile devices connected to each other over a network to stream video over a reliable network. |
| US12143495B2 |
System and method for providing service related to the user based on biometric authentication of the user
An authentication system includes an authentication apparatus to perform user authentication in the background and an information processing device including first pair key generation means for generating a first pair key including a first public key and a first secret key, the information processing device being configured to provide a service. The authentication apparatus generates a biometric key from biometric information of the user when background authentication is successful, generates a second pair key including a second public key and a second secret key, based on the biometric key and random information, acquires the first public key, generates a common key, based on the acquired first public key and the second secret key, and then generates specification information, based on the random information and the common key. The information processing device acquires the generated specification information and provides a service related to a user specified by the specification information. |
| US12143493B2 |
Authentication of communication session participants using blockchain
Disclosed in some examples are methods, systems, devices, and machine-readable mediums which utilize authentication tokens recorded to a blockchain to identify and/or authenticate participants of a network-based communication session such as a network-based meeting. When joining the meeting, the participant may provide a token recorded on a blockchain to the communication service from the blockchain. The communication service may then identify and/or authenticate the user based upon the provided token. Various user-specific customizations and settings may then be applied and the user may be admitted to the meeting without having to enter a waiting room and be explicitly let in. |
| US12143492B2 |
Method and apparatus for providing strong mutual authentication, encryption, and integrity for constraint devices without secure storage and PKI support
A zero-touch deployment (ZTD) manager receives a first request to issue a first cryptographic token to a constrained device for establishing a communications session between the constrained device and a secured resource. The ZTD manager evaluates identity information corresponding to the constrained device and determines whether the identity information is valid. If so, the ZTD manager returns the first cryptographic token to the constrained device, where it is stored in cache memory. The ZTD manager receives a second request to obtain a second cryptographic token from the secured resource. When the second cryptographic token is provided to the secured resource, the secured resource uses this second cryptographic token to validate the first cryptographic token and to facilitate the communications session with the constrained device. |
| US12143490B1 |
Method, software and apparatus for computing discrete logarithms modulo a prime
A decoding apparatus having a non-transient memory in which is stored an electromagnetic signal representative of data which were encrypted relying on the difficulty of computing discrete logarithms. The decoding apparatus has a computer in communication with the memory that decodes the encrypted data in the memory by computing the data's discrete logarithm. The decoding apparatus has a display on which the decoded encrypted data are displayed by the computer. A method for decoding. |
| US12143488B2 |
Secure orbit communication
A system enables secure communication between a first and a second communicator on a communication channel. The system can use multiple rotating cryptographic keys that are rotating according to a predetermined schedule to encrypt the communication between the first and the second communicator. The system can record the authority associated with the communication channel on a block chain. To determine whether the first and the second communicator have the authority to access the communication channel, the system can compute the authority of the first and the second communicator by checking the block chain from an initial block to a last block. The system can encrypt multiple communications sent via the communication channel using the multiple rotating cryptographic keys and can send the communications via the communication channel. |
| US12143486B2 |
Machine-to-machine cryptographic material rotation
Automatic rotation of materials such as cryptographic materials prevents downtime in computer systems through a method in which the business logic of a DLN, such as a smart contract, receives a request from a given machine to access a resource such as a stream of chained identifiers. The logic checks the stream for a status marker that says the materials need rotation. If so, the business logic replies that rotation is required. When the marker is not there, the logic retrieves the expiry information on the cryptographic material and calculates how long until expiration. If the remaining validity is not enough, the business logic forces a rotation of the cryptographic material by storing the status marker in the stream and notifying the machine. The machine responds by working with the business logic to do the rotation. |
| US12143483B2 |
Split processing of biometric data
In an embodiment, processing of biometric data is split between a processor on a peripheral device and a processor of a host device that is coupled with the peripheral device. One embodiment provides a method comprising, on a peripheral device coupled with a host device, capturing biometric data using a biometric sensor of a peripheral device and pre-processing the captured biometric data using a processor of the peripheral device. The processor of the peripheral device is separate from a processor of the host device and resides within a chassis or housing of the peripheral device. The method additionally includes pre-validating the pre-processed biometric data to determine whether the pre-processed biometric data meets a minimum quality threshold and transmitting the pre-validated biometric data to the host device for validation. |
| US12143481B2 |
Method and system for key generation
Systems and methods for key generation between a first user computing device and a second user computing device without requiring direct communication during key generation. The method using a plurality of third-party providers and a first private table and a second private table. The method including: performing by the second user computing device: receiving indexes each associated with a value in the second private table, each index received from the respective third-party provider sharing those values, each index associated with a value that matches an indexed value in the first private table received by the respective third-party provider from the first user computing device; and generating a common key by combining the indexed values of the second private table. |
| US12143478B2 |
Public key exchange with authenicated ECDHE and security against quantum computers
Elliptic Curve Cryptography (ECC) can provide security against quantum computers that could feasibly determine private keys from public keys. A server communicating with a device can store and use PKI keys comprising server private key ss, device public key Sd, and device ephemeral public key Ed. The device can store and use the corresponding PKI keys, such as server public key Ss. The key use can support all of (i) mutual authentication, (ii) forward secrecy, and (iii) shared secret key exchange. The server and the device can conduct an ECDHE key exchange with the PKI keys to mutually derive a symmetric ciphering key K1. The device can encrypt a device public key PK.Device with K1 and send to the server as a first ciphertext. The server can encrypt a server public key PK.Network with at least K1 and send to the device as a second ciphertext. |
| US12143477B2 |
Secure cryptographic transfer using multiparty computation
Methods and systems are disclosed herein for cryptographically secured transfer of an item. In some embodiments, the system may cause generation of multiple key shares of a private key from which a blockchain address on a blockchain is derived. The system may generate a cryptographic representation of a physical item to be transferred from the first user to the second user, the physical item corresponding to the first item. The system may cause a first amount of the first item to be transferred to the blockchain address. The system may obtain a candidate cryptographic representation from the second user. The system may generate, based on the candidate hash matching the hash of the feature vector representing the physical item, a signed message using a partial signature of the second user and another partial signature derived from the third key share. |
| US12143475B2 |
Enabling using external tenant master keys
The present application discloses a method, system, and computer system for managing data using keys. The method includes receiving a request to access data, wherein the data is encrypted based on a tenant service encryption key (TSEK) corresponding to the tenant database, determining a wrapper key used in connection with encrypting the TSEK based on a TSEK metadata, determining a top-level key used in connection with encrypting the wrapper key based on wrapper key metadata stored in association with the encrypted version of the wrapper key, obtaining the data stored within the tenant database, comprising decrypting at least part of the data based on (i) the TSEK, (ii) the wrapper key, and (iii) the top-level key, and providing the data in response to the request. The TSEK metadata is stored in the tenant database. An encrypted version of the wrapper key is stored in a key management service. |
| US12143472B2 |
Systems and methods for securing communication channels for new user onboarding
Systems and methods for securing communication channels for new user onboarding are disclosed. According to one embodiment, a method may include an onboarding application executed on a new user mobile electronic device: generating a new user cryptographic key pair using secure hardware on the new user mobile electronic device; protecting a new user private key of the new user cryptographic key pair with a new user biometric or passcode and storing the protected new user private key on the new user mobile electronic device; communicating new user information and a new user public key of the new user cryptographic key pair to a backend computer program for an organization; receiving encrypted new user credentials from the backend computer program; retrieving the protected new user private key and unlocking the new user protected private key using the new user biometric or passcode; and decrypting the encrypted new user credentials. |
| US12143471B2 |
Pairing devices for enhanced security
A system and method to tie a removable component to a host device. A first pairing key is stored into a security module on a host device such as a server rack. A removable component is inserted into the server rack for the first time. In response to this first insertion the first pairing key is burned into the removable component using a plurality of physically modifiable internal components. The server rack/security module receives a request form the removable component to operate on the server rack, the request includes a burned in pairing key. The security module compares the received pairing key with the first pairing key and permits operation of the removable component in response to a match between the received pairing key and the first pairing key. |
| US12143470B2 |
Handling of machine-to-machine secure sessions
The present techniques generally describe a computer implemented method for establishing a secure communication session between a client device and a first server, the method performed by the client device comprising: obtaining, from a second server, credential data comprising a session identifier and cryptographic key data; performing a connection handshake with the first server to establish the secure communication session; creating a security state record defining one or more parameters used to establish the secure communication session, and associating the session identifier with the security state record; performing a first resumption handshake with the first server using the session identifier to re-establish the secure communication session. |
| US12143469B2 |
Digital signature enhancement
A computerized process is described for improving a computer's digital signing capabilities that results in digital signatures that are substantially more secure with enhanced proof of data integrity, signatory authentication, and signatory non-repudiation without modification to underlying signature algorithms. The process utilizes computing resources, plaintext to be signed, and eight asymmetric cryptography digital signature algorithms each utilizing a specified hash algorithm and different private key from a public-private key pair. A novel mechanism is described that copies bit values from common bit positions of plaintext bytes into eight partitions. Each partition of bytes is independently signed using a signature algorithm and the resulting partitions of signed bytes are combined to form a digital signature. As the digital signature verification requires eight signature algorithms each utilizing a specified hash algorithm and a public key from the public-private key pair used for signing, such digital signature is significantly improved over signing with a single signature algorithm utilizing a hash algorithm and key. |
| US12143465B2 |
Searching over encrypted model and encrypted data using secure single-and multi-party learning based on encrypted data
ML model(s) are created and trained using training data from user(s) to create corresponding trained ML model(s). The training data is in FHE domains, each FHE domain corresponding to an individual one of the user(s). The trained machine learning model(s) are run to perform inferencing using other data from at least one of the user(s). The running of the ML model(s) determines results. The other data is in a corresponding FHE domain of the at least one user. Using at least the results, it is determined which of the following issues is true: the results comprise objectionable material, or at least one of the trained ML model(s) performs prohibited release of information. One or more actions are taken to take to address the issue determined to be true. Methods, apparatus, and computer program product are disclosed. |
| US12143463B2 |
Method and apparatus for guaranteeing quality of service between a public network and a non- public network
An application function (AF) in a first network and a method for providing a service by the AF via a second network including: requesting quality of service (QoS) related information to a network exposure function (NEF) of a second network different from the first network in which the AF is located, wherein the QoS related information is used to guarantee the QoS of a service to be provided to a terminal; and receiving the QoS related information from the NEF of the second network are provided. |
| US12143457B1 |
Usage-based network connection management
A computing device is described that includes at least one processor, a network interface, and a storage device that stores instructions executable by the at least one processor to obtain a usage profile generated by at least applying a machine learning model to historical feature usage information of the computing device collected while the computing device was wirelessly connected to a companion computing device. The instructions may further cause the one or more processors to determine a timeout value based on the usage profile. The instructions may further cause the one or more processors to initiate a connection to a network using the network interface responsive to determining that the computing device is no longer wirelessly connected to the companion computing device and after an amount of time specified by the timeout value has elapsed. |
| US12143451B2 |
Method for routing data of a session initialized between a terminal and a server
A method for routing data of a session initialized between a terminal and a server, over a first network slice corresponding to a set of data-processing functions of a communication infrastructure, implemented by the terminal. This method includes receiving from the server at least one routing identifier determined as a function of at least one communication parameter of the session, configuring session information as a function of the at least one identifier received, and emitting to the server subsequent data routed over at least one second slice corresponding to the configured information. |
| US12143450B1 |
Mutual face recognition communication channel establishment
Determinations are made to associate end-user devices to specific locations at specific times. Each device is associated with at least one photograph. When a user desires to establish a communication channel with another end-user, the first end-user device sends a query to a server, which then sends a photograph of each other end-user who was present at the queried location during at least a part of the queried time window to the first end-user. The first end-user selects a photograph of an end-user with whom the establishment of a communication channel is desired. The end-user associated with the photograph is prompted to accept or decline the proposed establishment of a communication channel. If the selected end-user accepts the request, a communication channel is established between the first end-user and the selected end-user. If the request is denied, the first end-user selects another end-user with whom to establish a communication channel. |
| US12143445B2 |
Resilient distributed storage system
A distributed data storage system that includes endpoint nodes, gateway nodes, and one or more gateway name servers. A gateway name server receives from clients resolution requests to resolve to a gateway node and resolves the resolution requests to a gateway node address of a gateway node. A gateway node receives client requests to access an endpoint node and redirects the requests to endpoint nodes identified by a gateway node whose address was resolved to by a gateway name server. An endpoint node receives from a client a retrieval request to retrieve data based on being redirected to the endpoint node. When a retrieval request is received and the endpoint node stores the data, the endpoint node sends the data to the client. When a retrieval request is received and the endpoint node does not store the data, the endpoint node forwards the retrieval request to another endpoint node. |
| US12143444B1 |
Systems and methods for creating synchronized data structures for synchronized groups
Described herein are systems and methods for creating synchronized data structures for synchronized groups. The system can receive a request from a first client device to create a contest for a synchronized group. The system can generate the contest within the synchronized group. The contest may define criteria for participation, including at least the interaction type. The system can receive an indication that a second player profile identified in the synchronized group performed an interaction having the interaction type. The system can update a data structure corresponding to a feed of the synchronized group to include data corresponding to the interaction and the second player profile. The system can receive a second request from the first client device to view the feed of the synchronized group. The system can provide the feed of the synchronized group, including a content item generated based on the data, to the first client device. |
| US12143442B1 |
Multi-access edge computing for federated neutral host cellular networks
Systems and methods for providing multi-access edge computing and content delivery. At least one cloud platform and at least one server node are provided. The at least one cloud platform includes a domain name system (DNS) service, an edge DNS device, at least one cloud platform application programming interface (API), a router, at least one database, and a cloud platform storage component. Hypertext Transfer Protocol (HTTP) requests are operable to be send between the at least one cloud platform and at least one edge device. The at least one server node is operable to create at least one cellular network and provide cellular network services to the at least one edge device. |
| US12143437B2 |
Establishing a communication channel between computing nodes with different operating systems
A system can receive a request for establishing a communication channel between a first node executing a first operating system and a second node executing a second operating system, the second operating system being different from the first operating system. The system can obtain specification data configured for deploying a container that includes the first operating system and communication software. The system can, in response to receiving the request, transmit the specification data to the second node. The second node can deploy the container with the first operating system and the communication software based on the specification data. The communication software can establish the communication channel between a first instance of the first operating system executing on the first node and a second instance of the first operating system executing in the container. |
| US12143428B2 |
Enabling a wideband codec audio call between a mobile device and a wireless telecommunication network support center
The disclosed system enables a wideband codec audio call between a mobile device and a wireless telecommunication network support center by ensuring that multiple components of the network participating in the call and multiple legs that make up the call all communicate using the same wideband codec. A leg among the multiple legs is a connection between two components participating in the call. While all the legs making up the call between the caller and the callee have to be wideband, the system can enable any branching legs in the call, for example, those directed to a third party, to be either wideband or narrowband. |
| US12143426B2 |
Heuristic model to self-manage and auto-update containerized services
An apparatus includes a network interface and a processor. a network interface that receives a call report including an application programming interface (API) name of an API, a service name of a security service, and an identifier of a customer apparatus; and a processor configured to build a first first-order model, at least in part based on the API name, to perform a determination that an update for the security service is available, and to produce an update request, at least in part based on the first-order model and the determination, wherein the network interface transmits the update request to the customer apparatus. |
| US12143424B1 |
Rapid predictive analysis of very large data sets using the distributed computational graph
A system for predictive analysis of very large data sets using a distributed computational graph has been developed. Data receipt software receives streaming data from one or more sources. In a batch data pathway, data formalization software formats input data for storage. A batch event analysis server inspects stored data for trends, situations, or knowledge. Aggregated data is passed to message handler software. System sanity software receives status information from message handler and optimizes system performance. In the streaming pathway, transformation pipeline software manipulates the data stream, provides results back to the system, receives directives from the system sanity and retrain software. |
| US12143423B2 |
Consistent monitoring and analytics for security insights for network and security functions for a security service
Techniques for providing consistent monitoring and analytics for security insights for network and security functions for a security service are disclosed. In some embodiments, a system/process/computer program product for providing consistent monitoring and analytics for security insights for network and security functions for a security service includes receiving a flow at a software-defined wide area network (SD-WAN) device; inspecting the flow to determine whether the flow is associated with a split tunnel; and monitoring the flow at the SD-WAN device to collect security information associated with the flow for reporting to a security service. |
| US12143420B2 |
Shuffling shares among nodes to detect incorrectness or frauds
Among four secure computation nodes, one secure computation node is selected as a receiving node. Two of three remaining secure computation nodes among the four secure computation nodes are operated as resharing nodes, and a remaining secure computation node is operated as a verifying node. The resharing node(s) performs a mini-shuffle for resharing share(s) held therein by using a permutation that the receiving node does not know and transmits a result(s) of the mini-shuffle to the receiving node. The verifying node computes data to verify the result(s) of the mini-shuffle performed by the resharing node(s) by using a permutation that the receiving node does not know and transmits the data to the receiving node. Shuffling of shares is achieved by repeatedly performing a round as described above so that each of the four secure computation nodes is selected as the receiving node at least once. |
| US12143417B2 |
Autonomous vehicle dos resistant communication system using acoustic communications
A method includes determining, by a vehicle, a failure with a computer or telecommunications system operating in the vehicle and when a failure is detected, activating an acoustic system on the vehicle, detecting a vibration by the vehicle; and transmitting an audible signal responsive to the detecting step. The audible signal may include words in a human vocabulary. |
| US12143415B1 |
Large scale asset evaluation and probing
Systems and techniques for detecting vulnerabilities and exploits within network assets in a near real-time manner. The systems provide for scanning and probing assets within an organization network based on determined or disclosed exploits from the wild. The system provides for digital risk protection that actively and passively hunts for potential organizational threats and vulnerabilities and generates alerts in real-time related to the detected exploits. The systems provide a platform for generating plugins to scan for the detected exploits and fingerprint assets for services hosted and potential vulnerabilities. |
| US12143412B2 |
Automatic generation of vulnerability metrics using machine learning
Techniques, methods and/or apparatuses that enable generation of vulnerability vectors of newly identified vulnerabilities (e.g., Common Vulnerability Exposures (CVEs)). Based on the textual description of the vulnerability, vulnerability vectors are generated. The generated vulnerability vectors may represent a prediction of how a third-party vulnerability scorer (e.g., United State National Vulnerability Database (US NVD)) would score the identified vulnerability. |
| US12143411B2 |
On-demand and proactive detection of application misconfiguration security threats
Disclosed embodiments relate to systems and methods for dynamically and proactively scanning a computing environment for application misconfiguration security threats. Techniques include identifying an application configured for network communications; analyzing a network security configuration of the application; identifying, based on the analyzing, a target network address that the application is configured to use to redirect a network device to a target network resource; comparing the target network address to a whitelist of trusted target network addresses; assessing, based on the comparing, whether the network security configuration is misconfigured; and determining, based on the assessment, whether to provide a configuration validation status for the application. |
| US12143410B1 |
Incremental cloud infrastructure detection for data security posture management
The technology disclosed relates to analysis of security posture of a cloud environment. In particular, the disclosed technology relates to a system and method for analysis of infrastructure posture of a cloud environment, that include detecting a triggering criterion corresponding to initiation of an update scan of the infrastructure posture of the cloud environment, and invoking an incremental change detector based on the triggering criterion. The incremental change detector is configured to scan the cloud environment and return a scan result that identifies one or more changes to a set of infrastructure assets in the cloud environment within a selected time period. A cloud infrastructure graph is updated based on the one or more changes to the set of infrastructure assets, wherein the cloud infrastructure graph defines nodes that represent resources in the cloud environment and edges, between the nodes, that represent relationships between the resources. |
| US12143407B2 |
Anomaly and ransomware detection
Some examples relate generally to computer architecture software for information security and, in some more particular aspects, to machine learning based on changes in snapshot metadata for anomaly and ransomware detection in a file system. |
| US12143405B2 |
Malicious computing attacks during suspicious device behavior
There are provided systems and methods for injecting computing code for detection of malicious computing attacks during suspicious device behavior. A service provider, such as an electronic transaction processor for digital transactions, may detect activities of a computing device when using computing services. The service provider may determine that those activities are suspicious or high risk. In order to determine if the computing device is being used by a malicious user, such as to perform an automated computing attack against the service provider, the service provider may determine one or more probes that may be inserted to a corresponding user interface displayable by the computing device. The probe may attempt to differentiate between real human users and automated and/or malicious users. Computing code for the probe may be injected into the computing code for the user interface and may be provided when the user interface is output. |
| US12143403B2 |
Computer security and methods of use thereof
Described herein are various methods of securing a computer system. One or more methods include starting a security process after basic functionality on a computer is initiated at startup. The security process performs one or more reviews, such as audits, of the computer to verify that there have not been unauthorized changes to the computer, such as to any settings or executable files. |
| US12143402B2 |
Systems and methods for accelerating a disposition of digital dispute events in a machine learning-based digital threat mitigation platform
A system and method for accelerating a disposition of a digital dispute event includes routing a digital dispute event to one of a plurality of distinct machine learning-based dispute scoring models; computing, by the one of the plurality of distinct machine learning-based dispute scoring models, a preliminary machine learning-based dispute inference based on one or more features extracted from the digital dispute event, wherein the preliminary machine learning-based dispute inference relates to a probability of the subscriber prevailing against the digital dispute event based on each piece of evidence data of a service-proposed corpus of evidence data being available to include in a dispute response artifact; and generating the dispute response artifact based on the digital dispute event, wherein the generating includes installing one or more obtainable pieces of evidence data associated with the digital event into one or more distinct sections of the dispute response artifact. |
| US12143399B2 |
Email certification system
A central computer system enables a sender to certify a message, such as an email, and a recipient to verify the validity of the certified message. As a result of the certification, users of messages can avoid ransomware attacks and many other types of fraud caused by fraudulent messages. |
| US12143396B2 |
Injecting risk assessment in user authentication
In a method for authenticating a user, a processor receives a login request for an application. A processor directs the login request to a collection page. The collection page may include an authentication script. A processor receives a risk assessment based on an identity authenticated through the authentication script. A processor grants a level of access to the application based on the risk assessment. |
| US12143394B2 |
Method, apparatus, and computer program product for installing and updating third party applications requiring variable host address identification in a group-based communication system
Embodiments of the present disclosure provide methods, systems, apparatuses, and computer program products that enable client devices to install integrations of a third party application that supports variable host address identification. |
| US12143391B2 |
Internet of things security system
In one embodiment, a device including a processor, and a memory to store data used by the processor, wherein the processor is operative to run a manufacturer usage description (MUD) controller operative to obtain a MUD profile of an Internet of Things (IoT) device from a MUD server, the MUD profile of the IoT device including: access rights of the IoT device, and any one or more of the following a default device username and/or a default device password of the IoT device, a recommended/required device password complexity of the IoT device, at least one service that should be enabled/disabled on the IoT device, and/or allowed security protocols and/or ciphers for communication to and/or from the IoT device, enforce security of the IoT device according to the MUD profile of the IoT device. Related apparatus and methods are also described. |
| US12143390B2 |
Third-party access-control support using role history analysis
Various aspects of the present disclosure involve computing environments that provide third-party access-control support. For instance, an access-control computing system can access a secure identity repository having role history data from various contributor computing systems. The access-control computing system can compare an identified set of roles with a set of roles described by role history data for a target entity. The access-control computing system can determine, from the comparison, whether the target entity poses a security risk based on inconsistencies between the sets of roles, durations associated with the roles, or both. The access-control computing system can provide a client computing system with a dynamic access-control data structure that is generated based on the comparison. The dynamic access-control data structure allows the client computing system to output the security assessment to an end user or to otherwise facilitate further security measures with respect to the target entity. |
| US12143389B1 |
3rd party data explorer
Systems and methods for managing third party data are provided. A third party data management system includes a processing circuit. The processing circuit is configured to receive first third party activity data from a source computing system and via a cybersecurity correlation and analytics computing system, determine a computing entity external to the third party data management system associated with the third party activity data based on at least one item extracted from the first third party activity data, periodically monitor third party activity associated with the computing entity, comprising operations to collect second third party activity data, and correlate the monitored second third party activity data to an entity profile. |
| US12143381B2 |
Multiple host web authentication on the same port using segment security
In general, embodiments relate to a method for managing a network device, including receiving an incoming frame originating from a host, where the incoming frame includes IP address of the host and a payload specifying information associated with an external server. The further includes determining, using the IP address of the host and an IP address to segment identifier (ID) mapping, that the host is associated with a first segment, in response to the determining, forwarding the incoming frame towards a redirection server executing on the network device, where the first segment is associated with a first policy and where the first policy specifies that the incoming frame is to be forwarded to the redirection server. The method further includes receiving a redirection frame including a uniform resource locator (URL) of a captive portal, transmitting the redirection frame towards the host, wherein the user of the host is authenticated by the captive portal based, at least in part, on the redirection frame, and associating, after the user of the host has been authenticated by the captive portal, the host with a second segment, where the segment second permits the host to access the external server. |
| US12143378B2 |
Multimedia message (MMS) object sequences as multi-factor authentication (MFA) for user identification in 5G
Systems and methods for providing multi-factor authentication based on visual objects associated with an out of band shared secret delivery channel and at least one user device of a telecommunication network include an access point communicatively coupled to an authentication system. The authentication system is structured to generate a set of visual objects, cause the set of visual objects to be output by a first user device, transmit, via an out of band shared secret delivery channel, a visual object request to cause a secondary user device to output one or more out of band visual objects, receive an indication of object selection from the set of visual objects, determine that the indication of the object selection is associated with a visual selection match among the set of visual objects, and based on the visual selection match, authenticate access to an application associated with the authentication system. |
| US12143375B2 |
Systems and methods for tracking, authenticating, and generating resource distributions to trusted entities in a network environment
The present invention is configured to track a resource input distribution to a first user account; receive a third party distribution request from the first user account, the third party distribution request comprising at least a portion of the resource input distribution; and authenticate a third party associated with the third party distribution request, the authentication of the third party comprising a comparison of the third party against a trusted third party distribution set, wherein, in an instance where the third party matches at least one trusted third party of the trusted third party distribution set, allow a third party distribution associated with the third party distribution request. |
| US12143371B2 |
Secure synchronization of data
A method including configuring, by an infrastructure device, a first user device to select an encryption key, from among a plurality of encryption keys available to the first user device, for encrypting a metadata key that is utilized to encrypt metadata associated with a file; receiving, by the infrastructure device from the first user device, an encrypted metadata key; transmitting, by the infrastructure device to a second user device, the encrypted metadata key; and configuring, by the infrastructure device, the second user device to select a decryption key, from among a plurality of decryption keys available to the second user device, for decrypting the encrypted metadata key, the decryption key being associated with the encryption key is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated. |
| US12143366B2 |
Controlled-access encrypted-communications system
The invention is a method of use for a VPN, customized via programming, that controls access without requiring any personal user information, and conveys only files encrypted using Diffie-Hellman AES-256-GCM encryption processes. Conveyed files are stored only in encrypted form and can only be displayed in real time by a user, and once viewed, only the encrypted file remains. The method also includes a means of end-to-end file deletion that leaves no remnants of the deleted file behind. |
| US12143363B2 |
CANBUS cybersecurity firewall
A method to create a serial wire speed firewall that can monitor and enforce security policy on a CAN buy network and prevent cyber-attacks. |
| US12143361B2 |
Methods, systems, and devices for software defined network monitoring
Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, determining a group of coefficients for a digital filter, and configuring the digital filter according to the group of coefficients. Further embodiments can include processing a group of statistics associated with a first data flow utilizing the digital filter, and determining a first statistic from the group of statistics does not satisfy a statistical threshold resulting in a first determination. Other embodiments are disclosed. |
| US12143359B2 |
DNS resolver-assisted domain name-based access control
A domain name system (DNS) resolver includes a processor and a non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, causes the processor to perform operations including receiving, from a client device, a request for an internet protocol (IP) address associated with a domain name, determining the IP address associated with the domain name, sending first data defining the IP address associated with the domain name to the client device, and sending second data defining the IP address associated with the domain name to a firewall device, the second data including an identification of the client device. |
| US12143358B2 |
System and method for creating a signature of a spam message
A method for generating a signature of a spam message includes determining one or more classification attributes and one or more clustering attributes contained in successively intercepted first and second electronic messages. The first electronic message is classified using a trained classification model for classifying electronic messages based on the one or more classification attributes. The first electronic message is classified as spam if a degree of similarity of the first electronic message to one or more spam messages is greater than a predetermined value. A determination is made whether the first electronic message and the second electronic message belong to a single cluster based on the determined one or more clustering attributes. A signature of a spam message is generated based on the the identified single cluster of electronic messages. |
| US12143351B2 |
Unified content feed
Systems and methods herein describe generating a unified content feed accessible from within a conversation thread. The systems and methods access a chat session between a first user and a second user, access user data, activity data and personalized media content associated with each user, the media personalized content comprising public media content that is related to each user's user data and activity data, generates a shared dataset based on identifying common aspects between each user's user data and activity data, generates shared content comprising public media content that is related to shared dataset, and causes display of a unified content feed comprising the shared content and personalized content to each user's computer device. |
| US12143343B1 |
Artificial agent generator
A system receives one or more transcripts of communications between entities. The system identifies a requested action in the communications based at least in part on a mapping between the requested action and an application programming interface. The system identifies one or more statements eliciting information, based on parameters to the application programming interface. The system generates a definition of an artificial agent based, at least in part, on the requested action and the one more statements eliciting information. |