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US12150160B2	Wireless communication terminal device, wireless communication base station device, and resource region setting method A terminal capable of reducing the resource regions in an uplink component band without increasing signaling even if a plurality of acknowledgment signals to downlink data transmitted respectively in a plurality of downlink component bands are transmitted from one uplink component band. A terminal (200) for making communication using the plurality of downlink component bands, wherein a PCFICH reception section (208) obtains CFI information indicating the number of symbols used for a control channel to which resource allocation information relating to downlink data addressed to a device is allocated for each of the downlink component bands, a mapping section (214); sets a resource region to which an acknowledgment signal to the downlink data is allocated for each of the plurality of downlink component bands according to the CFI information of each of the downlink component bands in an uplink component band set to the device, and maps the acknowledgment signals into the resource regions corresponding to the downlink component bands used for the allocation of the downlink data.
US12150159B2	Radio in-device coexistence in wideband system In some wireless systems (e.g., 5G new radio (NR) systems), a user equipment (UE) may experience coexistence interference when using collocated radio transceivers to simultaneously communicate using different radio access technologies (RATs). To mitigate the coexistence interference, the UE may transmit a configuration request to a base station, where the configuration request may identify that the UE is operating on multiple RATs and identify that the UE is experiencing coexistence interference. Aspects of the present disclosure may further provide techniques for coexistence interference mitigation in wideband systems by allowing the UE to indicate the specific bandwidth parts (BVVPs) that are impacted by IDC interference to the base station such that the network can resolve the IDC interference by reconfiguring the bandwidth, instead of performing inter-frequency handover or removing/deactivating affected SCells.
US12150153B2	Transmission configuration indicator (TCI) acquisition mechanism for secondary cell activation of a frequency range 2 (FR2) unknown cell A method and apparatus of a device that acquires transmission configuration indicator (TCI) information for secondary cell (SCell) activation is described. device determines, during secondary cell (SCell) activation, that beam information to enable a user equipment (UE) to make a reliable layer 1 (L1)-Reference Signal Received Power (RSRP) measurement report is unavailable. The device is to perform the L1-RSRP measurement using pre-configured information during the SCell activation.
US12150149B2	Method and device for setting maximum number of MIMO layers for each bandwidth part in next-generation mobile communication system The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for converging IoT technologies with a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transfer rate beyond the 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services (for example, smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail businesses, security and safety related services, etc.) on the basis of 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies. Further, the present disclosure provides a method and device for setting the maximum number of MIMO layers for each bandwidth part in a next-generation mobile communication system.
US12150142B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving wireless signal in wireless communication system According to an embodiment of the present the UE may receive a plurality of physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) including a first PDCCH carrying first DCI for unicast scheduling and a second PDCCH carrying second DCI for multicast scheduling; receive one or more downlink signals including a unicast physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH) scheduled by the first DCI, and a multicast PDSCH scheduled by the second DCI; and transmit a single physical uplink control channel (PUCCH), based on uplink control information (UCI) including hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback information for the one or more DL signals including at least one of first HARQ feedback information for the unicast PDSCH, and second HARQ feedback information for the multicast PDSCH.
US12150138B2	Receiving control information in NR-U A WTRU may receive a plurality of monitoring configurations. The plurality of monitoring configurations may be associated with a plurality of sub-bands. The WTRU may apply a monitoring configuration based on the location of a slot inside or outside of a COT. For example, the WTRU may apply (e.g., use) a first monitoring configuration outside a COT. The WTRU may apply a second monitoring configuration in a first slot of a COT. The WTRU may apply a third monitoring configuration to the slots of a COT subsequent to the first slot of the COT. The WTRU may switch back to the first monitoring configuration on a condition that the COT ends.
US12150137B2	Method for transmitting and receiving plurality of physical downlink shared channels in wireless communication system, and device therefor Presented in the present specification are a method for transmitting and receiving a plurality of PDSCHs in a wireless communication system, and a device therefor. Particularly, a method performed by a user equipment (UE) comprises the steps of: transmitting UE capability information related to the number of reception beams that can be supported simultaneously; receiving a plurality of physical downlink control channels (PDCCHs) including information for scheduling a PDSCH; and receiving a plurality of PDSCHs on the basis of the plurality of PDCCHs, wherein each of the plurality of PDSCHs can be received, on the basis of the UE capability information related to supporting one receiving beam, in resources set on the basis of a requirement time for applying quasi co-location (QCL) information about a spatial parameter.
US12150136B2	Scheduler for power-efficient time slotted protocol A network includes a parent node and at least one child node configured to communicate with the parent node via a wireless network protocol. The parent node includes a broadcast coordinator to transmit a broadcast message from the parent node to the child node at predetermined time intervals according to the wireless network protocol. A scheduler generates a scheduling packet that is communicated in the broadcast message. The scheduling packet includes a data field to instruct each child node to activate and receive data communicated from the parent node in a prescribed time slot following the broadcast message that is defined by the scheduling packet.
US12150132B2	Method and apparatus for uplink transmission and reception in wireless communication system Disclosed are a method and an apparatus for uplink transmission and reception in a wireless communication system. A method of performing uplink transmission initiated by a terminal in a wireless communication system according to an embodiment of the present disclosure may include receiving, from a base station, configuration information including multiple uplink transmission resources related to a triggering event; and based on the triggering event for the uplink transmission, performing the uplink transmission to the base station in a transmission occasion, based on a first uplink transmission resource or a second uplink transmission resource of the multiple uplink transmission resources, wherein the first uplink transmission resource is related to a first control resource set (CORESET) group, and the second uplink transmission resource is related to a second CORESET group.
US12150126B2	Method and terminal equipment for HARQ feedback The embodiments of the application disclose a method and terminal equipment for HARQ feedback. The method includes steps as follows. The terminal equipment determines a semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook according to a candidate transmission occasion. The semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook is used to indicate the feedback information corresponding to the candidate transmission occasion, the candidate transmission occasion comprises a transmission occasion scheduled by a DCI and/or a transmission occasion of a PDSCH scheduled by a SPS, and the transmission occasion scheduled by the DCI comprises a transmission occasion of the PDSCH scheduled by the DCI and/or a transmission occasion corresponding to SPS PDSCH deactivation information scheduled by the DCI. The terminal equipment performs HARQ feedback according to the semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook. The method and terminal equipment of the embodiments of the application can determine the semi-static HARQ-ACK codebook and accordingly perform feedback.
US12150125B2	Transmission block processing method and apparatus, electronic device and computer-readable storage medium A method of processing transmission blocks, applied to user equipment, includes: receiving a scheduling signaling from a base station, wherein the scheduling signaling is configured to schedule a plurality of transmission blocks; and performing a transmission on the plurality of transmission blocks with the base station, wherein two adjacent transmission blocks of the plurality of transmission blocks are spaced by a preset time interval; and the transmission is one of an uplink transmission or a downlink transmission.
US12150123B2	User equipments, base stations, and methods A user equipment (UE) is described. The UE may comprise high-layer processing circuitry configured to acquire a first RRC parameter and transmission circuitry configured to transmit a PUSCH in multiple slots. If the first RRC parameter is set to a first value, conditions in a slot format procedure may not be used for determination of the multiple slots. If the first RRC parameter is set to a second value, the conditions in the slot format procedure may be used for the determination of the multiple slots.
US12150117B2	Base station apparatus, terminal apparatus, and communication method A terminal apparatus includes a reception circuitry configured to receive a DCI format, and a transmission circuitry configured to repeatedly transmit, on a PUSCH, a transport block scheduled by the DCI format, wherein a first number of repetition transmissions, a second number for a symbol number of a start symbol, and a third number of consecutive symbols are given based on the DCI format, and the number of slots used for repetition transmission of the transport block is determined based on the first number, the second number, the third number, and the number of symbols per slot.
US12150114B2	Method and device for performing HARQ feedback in NR V2X Provided are a method for a first device to perform wireless communication, and a device for supporting same. The method may include: a step for receiving a first source ID and a destination ID from a second device; a step for receiving a Physical Sidelink Shared Channel (PSSCH) from the second device; a step for determining a Hybrid Automatic Repeat Request (HARQ) feedback option on the basis of at least one among the first source ID or the destination ID; and a step for transmitting a Physical Sidelink Feedback Channel (PSFCH) in response to the PSSCH on the basis of the HARQ feedback option. Here, the HARQ feedback option may be one of a first HARQ feedback option or a second HARQ feedback option.
US12150108B2	Transmission method and apparatus, device, system and storage medium Provided are a transmission method and apparatus, a device, a system and a storage medium. The transmission method includes: allocating to-be-transmitted information to at least one resource subset of a target transmission resource, where the target transmission resource is divided into a plurality of resource subsets; and transmitting corresponding to-be-transmitted information on the allocated at least one resource subset.
US12150100B2	Communication device, control method, and storage medium A communication device that supports first and second communication standards using an OFDMA (Orthogonal Frequency Division Multiple Access) technique allocates, based on a frequency resource that has been allocated for a first other communication device in accordance with the first communication standard that uses a first pattern for allocating a frequency resource, a frequency resource for a second other communication device that conforms to the second communication standard that uses a second pattern for allocating a frequency resource. The communication device specifies, from among frequency resources in the second pattern, a second frequency resource that partially or entirely overlaps with a first frequency resource that has been allocated to the first other communication device, and allocates a frequency resource that are not included in the second frequency resource in the second pattern to the second other communication device.
US12150098B2	MPDU padding for HARQ operation In a wireless local area network system, a station (STA) generates a physical (PHY) protocol data unit (PPDU) including at least one subframe and information related to a subframe length, wherein the subframe may include a medium access control (MAC) protocol data unit (MPDU) and a padding bit. The length of the padding bit may be determined such that the length of the subframes is an integer multiple of a codeword length. The information related to the subframe length may be information on the number of codewords related to the subframe length. A step in which the STA transmits the PPDU may be comprised.
US12150095B2	Dynamic RSFP Systems and methods for dynamic Radio Access Technology (RAT)/Frequency Selection Priority (RFSP) selection for a User Equipment (UE) are disclosed. In some embodiments, a method of operation of a core network entity in a core network of a cellular communications system comprises selecting a RFSP index for a UE during setup of a packet data session for the UE where the RFSP index is an index to a specific Radio Resource Management (RRM) configuration for the UE and sending a message comprising the selected RFSP index to another core network entity. In some other embodiments, a method of operation of a core network entity comprises detecting an application that is using a packet data session of a UE, selecting a RFSP index for the UE based on the detected application, and sending a message comprising the RFSP index to another core network entity.
US12150094B2	Wireless communication method and apparatus A wireless communication method and apparatus are provided. One example method includes: receiving first PEI by a first terminal device, using, by the first terminal device, at least one of the first subgroup ID or the second subgroup ID.
US12150093B2	Telecommunications apparatus and methods for paging of a mobile device A method of communicating data between a radio network infrastructure and a terminal device in a wireless telecommunications network. The method comprises establishing at a radio network infrastructure element there is data available for communication between the radio network infrastructure and the terminal device and transmitting a paging message for the terminal device from the radio network infrastructure element. The paging message comprises an indication of an identifier for the terminal device and an indication of a network allocated resource for use in subsequently communicating the data between the radio network infrastructure element and the terminal device. In response to receiving the paging message the terminal device transmits to the radio network infrastructure element a paging response indicating the terminal device received the paging message, after which the data is communicated between the radio network infrastructure element and the terminal device using the network allocated resource.
US12150083B1	Methods and apparatus for power-efficient positioning in wireless communication systems Method, apparatus, and systems for determining and transmitting positioning information in a wireless communication network are provided. For example, a method for wireless communications comprises receiving configuration information related to a set of positioning configurations and a small data transmission (SDT), determining, based on the configuration information, that at least one positioning configuration of the set of positioning configurations satisfies a positioning requirement and is associated with a payload size being less than a data volume threshold (DVT) associated with the SDT, selecting, from the at least one positioning configuration, a positioning configuration associated with a payload size being closest to the DVT, performing a positioning measurement based on the selected positioning configuration, and sending, using an uplink resource for the SDT, a measurement report based on the selected positioning configuration and the positioning measurement.
US12150079B2	Method for indicating timing advance, and communication device and storage medium A method for indicating a timing advance (TA) is provided. The method includes when a terminal includes at least two subscriber identification modules (SIMs), providing a TA of a first SIM of the at least two SIMS to at least one second SIM of the at least two SIMS for using.
US12150076B2	Synchronisation signaling for integrated access and backhaul nodes There is disclosed a method of operating an Integrated Access and Backhaul (IAB) node (200, C, N3) in a wireless communication network, the IAB node being in a communication link with a second IAB node using a signaling beam, the IAB node further being scheduled to perform beam sweeping with a plurality of synchronisation beams, one of the synchronisation beams corresponding to the signaling beam; wherein a synchronisation beam is scheduled to carry synchronisation signaling; and wherein the method comprises performing beam sweeping such that the synchronisation beam corresponding to the signaling beam carries information signaling replacing the synchronisation signaling at least in part. The disclosure also pertains to related methods and devices.
US12150073B2	Transmit power control method and apparatus, node device, and storage medium The present disclosure relates to a transmit power control method and apparatus for a node device, a node device, and a storage medium. The method includes: upon receipt of a first physical layer protocol data unit which is sent to an access point by a station of an overlapping basic service set and which can be ignored, obtaining spatial reuse parameters of a basic service set where a node device is located; calculating a first transmit power limit value according to the spatial reuse parameters; obtaining a path loss value from the access point to the node device; obtaining a minimum signal detection threshold of the access point; calculating a second transmit power limit value according to the path loss value and the minimum signal detection threshold; and adjusting the maximum transmit power according to the first transmit power limit value and the second transmit power limit value.
US12150072B2	Maximum power reduction In order to solve the aforementioned problem, one disclosure in the present specification provides a wireless communication device. The wireless communication device may comprise: at least one transceiver; at least one processor; and at least one memory that stores an instruction and is operatively electrically connected to the at least one processor. An operation performed on the basis of an execution of the instruction by the at least one processor may comprise the steps of: receiving a network signal related to AMPR; determining uplink transmission power by applying a preset A-MPR value; and transmitting an uplink signal on the basis of the determined transmission power.
US12150067B2	Preferred device selection Disclosed are methods, systems, and computer-readable medium to perform operations for selecting a device to prioritize for a high power link. The operations include detecting, in proximity of a mobile device, a first and second available devices. The operations also include establishing a respective connection with each of the first and second available device using a first radio access technology (RAT). Further, the operations include determining, using the respective connections, one or more metrics associated with first available device and the second available device, where the one or metrics comprise a respective angle of arrival at the mobile device corresponding to the first available device and the second available device. Further, the operations include determining, based at least on the one or more metrics, to establish a high power link with the first available device using a second RAT, where the second RAT utilizes more power than the first RAT.
US12150064B2	Adaptive access point configuration based on available power Methods, systems and devices for controlling an operating configuration of a network device such as a wireless access point include detecting power supplied to the access point. Operating parameters of the access point, neighboring access points, and client devices wirelessly connected to the access point are determined. The access point is placed in a reduced-capability operating configuration in response to detecting the power supplied is less than a power threshold. The reduced-capability operating configuration is based on the determined operating parameters of the access point, neighboring access points, and client devices.
US12150061B2	Aviation connectivity gateway module for remote data offload An aviation connectivity gateway module for remote access to an aircraft's systems and remotely offloading its aircraft data. The module broadly comprises a CPU, a first set of communication elements, a second set of communication elements, a memory, a battery, an IMU, a GPS module, and a number of antennas. The module responds to remote prompts and offloads aircraft data when the aircraft is powered off. An aviation connectivity gateway module for complete BVLOS cellular network connectivity broadly comprises a CPU, a set of electronic connectors, a memory, an IMU, a GPS module, a first cellular connectivity element, a second cellular connectivity element, and a number of antennas. The module switches between the first cellular communication element and the second communication element based a status of the aircraft.
US12150057B2	Iterative wake up signaling for power saving Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A vehicle user equipment (VUE) may transmit an iterative wake-up signal (WUS) to a first roadside unit (RSU). The iterative WUS may include location information associated with an expected path of the VUE and may instruct the first RSU to transmit one or more other WUSs to at least a second RSU that supports communication along a portion of the expected path of the VUE. In some cases, the first RSU may transmit an iterative WUS to the second RSU, the second RSU may transmit an iterative WUS to a third RSU, and so on until the final RSU along the expected path is woken up with a normative (e.g., non-iterative) WUS. An RSU may provide safety information to the VUE, and after the VUE leaves a service area associated with an RSU, the RSU may activate a low power mode.
US12150056B2	Communication method and related device Example communication methods and apparatus are described. One example method includes receiving a first parameter by a terminal device from a first device, where the first parameter corresponds to first wake-up signal (WUS) configuration information in at least one piece of WUS configuration information, and the first WUS configuration information includes information about a first WUS time-frequency resource. The terminal device determines the first WUS time-frequency resource based on the first parameter, and receives a first WUS from a second device on the first WUS time-frequency resource, where the first WUS is used to wake up the terminal device. In this method, the terminal device can determine the first WUS time-frequency resource based on the first parameter received from the first device, and then receive the first WUS from the second device on the first WUS time-frequency resource.
US12150054B2	Power saving for mobile devices in wireless communication systems Methods, systems, and devices for power savings in mobile devices operating in mobile communication technology are described. An example method of wireless communication includes transmitting, by a first network node to a wireless device, a block of system information, wherein the block of system information is a block of system information of a first type, a block of system information of a second type, or a block of system information of a third type, wherein the block of system information of the first type comprises cell-specific parameters for cell selection or cell reselection by the wireless device, wherein the block of system information of the second type comprises parameters for connection setup or service setup, and wherein the block of system information of the third type comprises parameters associated with a change in system information.
US12150053B2	Connected mode discontinuous reception enablement and parameter adaptation Techniques for dynamically adjusting Connected Mode Discontinuous Reception (CDRX) parameters are discussed herein. For example, a base station may receive information associated with downlink data to be sent to a user equipment (UE) and/or information associated with the UE itself. The base station may adjust CDRX parameters to be implemented on the UE based on the received information in order to maximize performance of the UE. In some examples, the base station may adjust CDRX parameters based on a traffic type (e.g., voice traffic, video traffic, data traffic, etc.) associated with the downlink data, UE state parameters associated with the UE, and/or Received Signal Strength Indicator (RSSI) data associated with the UE.
US12150052B2	Power efficient beam recovery procedures A user equipment (UE) is configured to determine a probability metric for a likelihood of a beam failure event at the UE, implement a beam management power saving scheme based on the probability metric and process a portion of network scheduled beam recovery resources within a time window. A UE may also be configured to generate a radio link monitoring (RLM) block error rate (BLER) metric associated with a beam, determine that the RLM BLER metric is below a threshold value and disable beam failure detection (BFD) and candidate beam detection (CBD) procedures at the UE in response to determining that the RLM BLER metric is below the threshold value.
US12150051B2	Integrated circuit Disclosed is a wireless communication base station device capable of reducing the power consumption of a terminal when broadband transmission is performed with only an uplink. With this device, a setting unit sets mutually different terminal IDs per a plurality of uplink unit bands for a terminal that communicates using a plurality of uplink unit bands and prescribed downlink unit bands which are fewer in number than the uplink unit bands; a control unit that respectively allocates resource allocation information per a plurality of uplink unit bands to a PDCCH arranged in a prescribed downlink unit band; and a PDCCH creation unit that creates a PDCCH signal by respectively masking the resource allocation information per a plurality of uplink unit bands with the terminal ID that has been set per a plurality of uplink unit bands.
US12150047B2	Apparatus and method for network automation in wireless communication system Disclosed is a 5th generation (5G) or a pre-5G communication system provided to support a higher data transmission rate than that of post-4th generation (4G) communication systems, such as long term evolution (LTE). A method of operating a network node in a wireless communication system is provided. The method includes receiving, from a plurality of first network nodes, network data, generating first recommendation operation information for a second network node based on the network data, and transmitting, to the second network node, a first analysis result message including the first recommendation operation information.
US12150045B2	Profile selection for CBRS communication The present disclosure describes one or more aspects for selecting a Citizens Broadband Radio Service (CBRS) profile for communicating with an associated CBRS network. Such aspects may include providing a plurality of CBRS profiles associated with respective CBRS network cells, receiving contextual information surrounding current and past network connections of a user device and/or other user devices, selecting one of the CBRS profiles based on the contextual information, and configuring a modem of the user device to communicate with an associated CBRS network.
US12150041B2	Network access method and apparatus, network device, and computer readable storage medium Provided are a network access method and apparatus, a network device, and a storage medium. The network access method includes: a current integrated access and backhaul (IAB) node acquiring information about cell access from an upstream IAB node; and the current IAB node determining a candidate cell and/or executing an access attempt according to the information about the cell access.
US12150039B2	Downlink reception signal collision avoidance An approach is described for a user equipment (UE) that includes radio front end circuitry and processor circuitry. The front end circuitry receives an indication from a network entity node, wherein the indication is indicative of a first fraction for a first radio resource management (RRM) procedure and a second fraction for a second RRM procedure. The processor circuitry performs a first measurement of the first RRM procedure in a first fraction of a measurement period. The processor circuitry further performs a second measurement of the second RRM procedure in a second evaluation period, wherein the second evaluation period is the second fraction of the measurement period.
US12150038B2	Gateway-based voice calls via a base station Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communications are described. A UE may establish a wireless communication link with a base station in accordance with a radio access technology (RAT), and an internet connection with the base station. The UE may identify a lack of support by a network that includes the base station for a type of voice calls associated with the RAT. The UE may transmit a discovery query for a gateway to a core network, and the UE may establish a connection with the gateway via the internet connection. The UE may initiate a voice call via a call path from the UE to the core network, where the call path may include the wireless communications link with the base station in accordance with the RAT and also may include the internet connection with the gateway.
US12150037B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting and receiving system information block in wireless communication system The present disclosure relates to a communication technique for combining, with IoT technology, a 5G communication system for supporting a higher data transmission rate than a 4G system, and a system therefor. The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services, such as smart homes, smart buildings, smart cities, smart cars or connected cars, health care, digital education, retail, and security and safety related services, on the basis of 5G communication technologies and IoT-related technologies. According to the present disclosure, in a method for obtaining a system information block (SIB) of a terminal in a wireless communication system, a base station may obtain a transmitted synchronization signal block (SSB), obtain a master information block (SIB) from the SSB, obtain a master information block (MIB), and obtain an SIB related to machine type communication (MTC) on the basis of information obtained from at least one of the MIB or SSB related resource.
US12150036B2	Data and connectivity management systems and methods thereof A system and method for processing a resource identifier request in a vehicle that includes receiving an application data access request from at least one of an in-vehicle device and a portable device. The system and method also include retrieving and analyzing an electronically stored allow list that is stored and updated based on a wireless data plan that is associated with the vehicle and determining accessibility of the application based on analysis of the allow list. The system and method further include assigning a router port of at least one router of a telematics communication unit of the vehicle to allow or disallow accessibility of the application based on determined accessibility of the application.
US12150034B2	Radio frequency signal prioritization and selection Prioritization and selection of signals and associated cells can be managed. User equipment module (UEM) of user equipment (UE) can determine a context associated with a communication session based on analyzing usage behavior information relating to usage behavior, and profile information relating to a profile, associated with the UE. The profile information can be determined by a core module based on information relating to the network or previous communication sessions. Based on analysis results, including context, UEM can determine a characteristic, other than signal strength, that can be more heavily weighted over other characteristics associated with UE or network to facilitate determining which cell, of a cell group, the UE is to connect to for the communication session. UEM can determine and select the cell of the cell group to which the UE is to connect, based on the context and the highest weighted characteristic.
US12150032B2	Multi-router wireless communication system with client balancing A wireless communication system for a moving vehicle, said wireless communication system comprising: a plurality of routers, each router being configured to receive and transmit wireless data communication to and from a stationary communication server outside the moving vehicle through at least one exterior mobile network via at least one antenna; receive and transmit data packets to and from at least one client onboard the moving vehicle; and communicate with every other router in said moving vehicle in order to receive and transmit data packets to and from said every other router, thereby forming an onboard router network. Each router is arranged to receive a media access control address (MAC address) from any client connecting to the onboard router network, and wherein each router is provided with a set of MAC address representations, representing MAC addresses to accept or to ignore, and wherein each router is arranged to analyze said received MAC address and compare it to its set of MAC address representations, and to determine, based on said analysis whether to accept or ignore said client. Hereby, a very efficient and scalable client balancing is obtained, which also provides redundancy.
US12150026B2	Community-based response system A community based response system for providing lay responders to cardiac arrest emergencies is configured to receive a notification of a cardiac arrest emergency including a location of a cardiac arrest victim, provide an automatic alert to portable devices in a vicinity of the victim, the automatic alert including a selectable control that enables user interoperation with the system, receive an indication from a lay responder, via a respective portable device, that the lay responder will proceed to the location of the victim, and in response to the indication that the lay responder will proceed to the location of the victim, provide at a display screen of the portable device associated with the lay responder a map including the victim's location relative to the lay responder, and a navigational route to guide the lay responder to the victim, and a dispatch text message notification.
US12150022B2	Method, information processing device, and non-transitory storage medium A method that is performed by an information processing device that communicates with a plurality of vehicles includes identifying any vehicle located in a disaster area out of the plurality of vehicles, sending a first message asking a user of the identified vehicle whether the vehicle is being used as an evacuation spot for spending the night, and determining whether the vehicle is being used as the evacuation spot, based on a first response to the first message.
US12150015B2	Data retransmission method and apparatus, and terminal device A data retransmission method includes a terminal device determining a correspondence between a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) monitor occasion and a synchronization signal block (SSB) and the terminal device receiving at least one multimedia broadcast multicast service (MBMS) service transmission within a first time range based on the correspondence between the PDCCH monitor occasion and the SSB.
US12150009B2	Detecting device movement and/or device usage within a vehicle Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving and transmitting accelerometer data and/or usage data, and analyzing the data to detect movement or usage of the device within a vehicle. A device, such as a mobile device, may detect a device movement event or a device usage event associated with the device. Based on the detection of the device movement event or the device usage event, a time associated with the event may be stored. The device may determine whether another event associated with the device occurs within a threshold amount of time from the time associated with the event. Based on a determination of whether the other event occurs within the threshold amount of time, the device may determine an event session associated with the device. The event session may comprise an instantaneous event or a continuous event. Data indicative of the event session may be transmitted to a server.
US12150008B1	Location clustering and routing for 5G drive testing A computer system obtains information describing a geographical area segmented into multiple first clusters serviced by a telecommunications network. Multiple test locations are identified within the first clusters. Each test location is located within a grid of the geographical area. Each first cluster is recursively segmented into multiple second clusters until a difference between a number of test locations within each second cluster and a target number of test locations is less than a threshold number of test locations. A route is generated connecting test locations within each second cluster, using a routing application programming interface for performing drive testing of the telecommunications network. The computer system sends the route to one or more computer devices for performing the drive testing at the test locations in a sequence corresponding to the route.
US12150001B2	Method and device for triggering cell reselection, storage medium, and user terminal A method and device for triggering cell reselection, a storage medium, and a user terminal are provided. The method comprises: when a request to establish or resume an RRC connection is initiated, determining whether the number of consecutive LBT failures exceeds a preset threshold; and if the number of consecutive LBT failures exceeds the preset threshold, performing cell reselection in response.
US12149999B2	Multiple link access system and method Methods and devices for operating a wireless communication device that can communicate with at least two different co-located APs are described. The device may receive, from a first AP, information corresponding to a second AP of the co-located APs. The information corresponding to the second AP may include state information of the second AP. The device may establish a first wireless link with the first AP using a first frequency of the first AP and establish a second wireless link with the second AP using a second frequency which is different than the first frequency. The device may simultaneously receive first data from the first AP and second data from the second AP.
US12149997B2	Relay user equipment switching after beam failure Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a relay user equipment (UE) may detect a beam failure on an access link. The relay UE may transmit, to a network entity and responsive to the beam failure, information indicating that a UE, that uses the relay UE for relaying communications with the network entity, is to use a different relay UE. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12149993B2	Method to provide hanover processing The present disclosure provides a cell handover processing method and device and an apparatus. The method includes: obtaining configuration information of a target handover cell and at least one of the following information: valid time of cell configuration information or a quantity of valid access times; performing cell handover according to the configuration information of the target handover cell within the valid time of cell configuration information and/or the quantity of valid access times.
US12149991B2	Method and apparatus for providing MEC service Provided is a method, performed by a source edge data network, of providing a service in a wireless communication system includes identifying a target edge data network and a handover terminal handed over to the target edge data network among a plurality of terminals provided with the service from the source edge data network; transmitting information about the identified target edge data network to a server; synchronizing status information of an application for providing the service with the target edge data network; and synchronizing user information for each of the plurality of terminals with the target edge data network.
US12149987B2	Super slot for new radio sidelink over millimeter wave operating frequencies This disclosure provides systems, methods, and devices for wireless communication that support a super slot configuration for new radio (NR) sidelink over millimeter wave (mmW) operating frequencies. In a first aspect, a method of wireless communication by a user equipment (UE) includes obtaining a sidelink resource pool configuration including configuration of one or more super slots, wherein each super slot includes a plurality of slots contiguous in a time domain The UE may select one or more sidelink resource slots for sidelink transmissions in a sidelink resource pool and transmit an enhanced sidelink control information (eSCI) message in a first slot of a first super slot, wherein the eSCI message indicates a reservation of slots corresponding to the one or more sidelink resource slots. The UE may then send the sidelink transmissions on at least one slot of the reserved slots. Other aspects and features are also claimed and described.
US12149982B2	Methods and apparatuses for transmitting and receiving data in an NR system Method and apparatuses for low-latency transmission of sensor data and wireless modem data are described herein. A method may comprise associating, by a Wireless Transmit/Receive Unit (WTRU), a first Unique Data Identifier (UDI) with the sensor data and a second UDI with the wireless modem data. The method may further comprise generating, by the WTRU, a mapping between the first UDI and a first network Quality of Service (QoS) Flow Identifiers (QFIs) and a mapping between the second UDI and a second network QFI. The method may further comprise transmitting, by the WTRU, the sensor data and the wireless modem data to a network node.
US12149981B2	Method and apparatus for mapping backhaul channels in a wireless system In an exemplary embodiment, a method of a distributed unit (DU) in a wireless communication system is provided. The method comprises receiving information from a central unit (CU), identifying a bearer or group of bearers based on the information, and assigning the bearer or group of bearers to a backhaul channel.
US12149979B2	Reporting of information related to sounding reference signals (SRS) timing adjustments Disclosed are techniques for wireless communication. In an aspect, a UE transmits, at a first time during a measurement window for positioning purposes, a first uplink reference signal in accordance with a first timing adjustment parameter, wherein the first time is offset from a downlink frame time of a base station by an amount of the first timing adjustment parameter, determines whether to use a second timing adjustment parameter, transmits, in response to the determination to use the second timing adjustment parameter, at a second time during the measurement window, a second uplink reference signal in accordance with a second timing adjustment parameter, wherein the second time is offset from the downlink frame time of the base station by an amount of the second timing adjustment parameter, and transmits a report indicating that the second timing adjustment parameter has been applied to at least the second uplink reference signal.
US12149970B2	Percentile floor link qualification Devices of a control system may communicate with each other via a network. The control devices may be configured to form the network by joining the network and each attempt to attach to another device on the network. Attachment may be performed using one or more link quality thresholds. For example, the control device may measure background values and the link quality threshold may represent an Nth percentile value of the recorded background values measured at the control device. During a router optimization mode, the control devices may measure and store a communication quality metrics that may be used to assign the role of router devices and/or the role of leader device to control devices on the network.
US12149968B2	Method and apparatus for transmitting/receiving wireless signal in wireless communication system According to an embodiment of the present disclosure, a user equipment (UE) may determine at least one monitoring search space (SS) set to be monitored by the UE in a specific slot having configured therein two or more SS sets based on a first threshold related to a physical downlink control channel (PDCCH) blind detection limit of the UE and a second threshold related to a control channel element (CCE) processing limit of the UE; and receive at least one PDCCH signal in the specific slot based on PDCCH candidates included in the determined at least one monitoring SS set.
US12149966B2	Symbol level beam sweeping capability reporting Apparatuses, systems, and methods for beam indication latency reduction via symbol level beam sweeping capability reporting. A wireless device may transmit, to a base station, a report associated with symbol level beam sweeping. The wire wireless device may receive, from the base station, a symbol level beam sweeping configuration. The symbol level beam sweeping configuration may be based, at least in part, on the report. The wireless device may perform synchronization signal block (SSB) measurements according to the report and the symbol level beam sweeping configuration.
US12149965B2	Testing a base station Methods and apparatus for base station conformance testing are disclosed. Two wireless carriers that are based on different radio technologies and dynamically share a radio spectrum are received from a base station. Frequencies and timings of the two wireless carriers are measured and a frequency difference between the measured frequencies and a timing difference between the measured timings of the two wireless carriers are then determined. It can then be determined whether the frequency and timing differences satisfy predefined criteria for acceptable frequency and timing differences.
US12149962B2	Early measurement configuration and minimization of drive test measurement report According to an example embodiment, a method of operating a node of a wireless communication network. An early measurement configuration is transmitted to a communication device. The early measurement configuration includes a received signal threshold for early measurement reports. A logged MDT measurement configuration is transmitted to the communication device. A release message is transmitted to the communication device. After transmitting the release message, a resume/setup message is transmitted to the communication device. After transmitting the resume/setup request message, a logged MDT measurement report is received from the communication device. The logged MDT measurement report includes a plurality of signal measurements for a respective plurality of frequencies, and the logged MDT measurement report includes the early measurement configuration. Related methods of operating a communication device, nodes, communication devices, and computer program products are also discussed.
US12149956B2	Method for terminal to transmit and receive feedback signal in wireless communication system supporting sidelink, and device for same Disclosed are a method for a first UE to transmit a feedback signal in a wireless communication system supporting sidelink, and a device for same, according to various embodiments. The method for the UE to transmit a feedback signal includes the steps of: receiving a sidelink signal from a second UE; and determining whether to transmit the feedback signal for the first sidelink signal on the basis of the sidelink signal, wherein the sidelink signal includes angle information pertaining to the transmission of the feedback signal, and whether to transmit the feedback signal is determined on the basis of the angle information.
US12149955B2	Method for transmitting uplink signal in wireless communication system, and apparatus therefor A method for transmitting, by a terminal, an uplink signal in a wireless communication system, according to one embodiment of the present specification, comprises the steps of: receiving an upper layer message related to setting of resource groups for a plurality of panels; receiving a lower layer message related to whether the resource groups are activated; and transmitting an uplink signal on the basis of the lower layer message. The uplink signal is transmitted on the basis of an activated resource group from among the resource groups.
US12149951B2	Dual band LTE small cell A dual band LTE small cell base station communicates on both licensed bands and unlicensed bands. The small cell base station modifies the communication protocol utilized by the licensed band to enable communication over an unlicensed band. This modification involves replacing the physical (PHY) layer of the licensed band communication protocol with the PHY layer of a to-be-used protocol in an unlicensed band.
US12149948B2	System, method, and apparatus for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum management and utilization Systems, methods, and apparatuses for providing dynamic, prioritized spectrum utilization management. The system includes at least one monitoring sensor, at least one data analysis engine, at least one application, a semantic engine, a programmable rules and policy editor, a tip and cue server, and/or a control panel. The tip and cue server is operable utilize the environmental awareness from the data processed by the at least one data analysis engine in combination with additional information to create actionable data.
US12149947B2	Wireless telecommunications network reconfiguration based on zone properties at different time instances This disclosure provides a method of configuring a wireless telecommunications network, the wireless telecommunications network having a first transceiver serving a first plurality of User Equipment (UE) in a first coverage area.
US12149943B2	Distributed private location verification and enhancement Methods and devices for privately verifying and enhancing location data by a distributed ledger system are disclosed. A location-based services server receives a possible location of a mobile device. A location verification system determines a detected location of the mobile device. A distributed ledger system uses a private set intersection technique to determine whether the possible location corresponds to the detected location without the possible location or detected location being shared. Probabilities associated with the possible and detected locations can also be combined to enhance the accuracy of the possible location.
US12149942B2	Systems and methods for network access security A method may include receiving an attach request that includes an international mobile equipment identity (IMEI) and an international mobile subscriber identity (IMSI), and determining whether the IMEI is associated with a user device that is not allowed to attach to the network. The method may also include determining whether the IMSI included in the attach request is stored in a database, and determining whether an IMEI associated with the IMSI is stored in the database. The method may further include determining whether the IMEI stored in the database matches the IMEI included in the attach request and denying the attach request in response to determining that the IMEI stored in the database does not match the IMEI included in the attach request.
US12149941B2	Cross-carrier digital ledger for subscriber identification module (SIM) related data A system can detect a change associated with a subscriber identity module (SIM) of a wireless device and generate a data record indicative of the change. In one example, the data record is stored on a digital ledger residing on a cryptographically secured and distributed peer-to-peer network (e.g., blockchain) that stores multiple data records of changes to SIMs of wireless devices. The system can determine whether a wireless device is impacted by malicious activity based on an age of its data record stored on the distributed ledger. For example, an aged data record indicates a lower probability that the wireless device was the subject of a SIM swap fraud whereas a newer data record indicates a higher probability of a SIM swap fraud.
US12149935B1	Attesting for geographic locations of communication devices Techniques for a location service to determine geographic locations (or “geolocations”) of user devices connected to a telecommunications network, and provide signed certificates that attest to the user devices being at geolocations at particular times. The location service may calculate, or receive, geolocations of user devices that have been determined using network-based localization techniques for telecommunications networks where the network infrastructure is used to determine the geolocations. Because user devices cannot fake or spoof these geolocations, the location service may populate certificates with indications of geolocations of user devices at different times. Additionally, the location service may act as a certificate authority by digitally signing these certificates and issuing digitally signed certificates that attest to geolocations of user devices. These digitally signed certificates can be presented with the guarantee that they have not been modified since they were issued, and that the information in the signed certificate is trustworthy.
US12149934B2	Identity layer for IOT devices It is recognized herein that capabilities are lacking related to how different users can be authenticated on top of an existing subscription authentication. In some examples, a user-centric authentication layer may be supported on top of an existing subscription authentication, such that different users may use the same user equipment (UE) with customized services, and different users of devices can be identified behind a gateway with a 3GPP subscription (without the devices having a dedicated 3GPP subscription). Further, a user identifier may be linked to a subscription to access 3GPP services via non-3GPP access.
US12149933B2	Distributing service information Service information (e.g., enhanced broadcast service (eBCS) information) may be distributed. Service (e.g., eBCS) capabilities may be advertised (e.g., by an access point (AP)), for example, by broadcasting a public action frame. A public action frame may include per-service information. A public action frame may be transmitted on a per service basis. A public action frame may combine authentication information and service information. Enhanced broadcast service origin authentication may be performed on a per service basis (e.g., using origin authentication information to authenticate broadcast data frames for a consumed service). Origin authentication information may be common to frames associated with different services. Services may be consumed without querying a service originating device. Stations (e.g., with and without association with an AP) may report consumption or usage of services, Reporting may be unsolicited or solicited (e.g., in response to a request from an AP).
US12149930B2	Internet protocol (IP) multimedia subsystem session (IMS) slicing-enabled IMS voice sessions between autonomous machines and voice support services Apparatuses and methods for IMS slicing-enabled IMS voice sessions between autonomous machines and/or voice related services. A method for a first user equipment, UE, for authenticating the first UE is provided. An alert voice call is communicated to a second UE for initiating authentication of the first UE. A voiceprint of a user for the authentication of the first UE is communicated, via an IMS slice, and based at least in part on an analysis of the voiceprint, an authentication success message or an authentication fail message is received. A method for an Application Server includes receiving, via an IMS slice, a voiceprint of a user. The voiceprint is compared to a voiceprint sample. The voiceprint sample is associated with the first UE. Based at least in part on the comparison, an authentication success message or an authentication fail message is communicated.
US12149929B2	Communication apparatus, control method, and storage medium In a case where a predetermined operation is received from a user, if a signal compliant with the DPP standard is received, a communication parameter sharing process is executed by a method compliant with the DPP standard, whereas if a signal compliant with another standard is received, the communication parameter sharing process is executed by a method compliant with the other standard.
US12149928B2	Vehicle communication system, communication method, and storage medium storing communication program A vehicle communication system, including plural control devices configured to carry out communication with one another, wherein a transmitting device and a receiving device each include a memory and a processor. The processor at the transmitting device generates first authentication information based on a message and the encryption key, and in a case in which there is an abnormality at the encryption key, transmits the predetermined authentication information and the message to the receiving device. The processor at the receiving device generates second authentication information based on the encryption key and the received message, collates the first authentication information and the second authentication information, and authenticates the message, and in a case in which, after starting-up of the receiving device, authentication has not succeeded even once, and the received first authentication information and the predetermined authentication information match, accepts the received message.
US12149925B2	Communication method and device Provided in the present disclosure are a communication method and device. The method comprises: sending discontinuous reception (DRX)-related information of a second network device to a first network device; receiving a time interval configured by the first network device, wherein the time interval is obtained by the first network device according to the DRX-related information of the second network device; and carrying out an operation for the second network device according to the time interval, wherein the first network device serves a first type network of a first operator, and the second network device serves a first type network of a second operator.
US12149922B2	Communications device, infrastructure equipment, wireless communications network and methods A method is performed in a first infrastructure equipment for a handover of a wireless device from the first infrastructure equipment as a source to a second infrastructure equipment as a target. The method comprises maintaining a mapping between a plurality of packet bearers and a data radio bearer for the wireless device, each of the plurality of packet bearers being configured to provide a specified quality of service, determining that the wireless device should handover from the first infrastructure equipment to the second infrastructure equipment, determining that the second infrastructure equipment does not support the mapping of the plurality of packet bearers to the data radio bearer, and providing an indication of a mapping of the plurality of packet bearers for the second infrastructure equipment after handover to one of a core network equipment and the second infrastructure equipment.
US12149920B2	Calling method, storage medium, and terminal A calling method includes steps of sending a verification request to a verification server based on an IP multimedia subsystem (IMS) network when a terminal receives a call instruction, triggered by a communication identification from a user input, under a voice over long-term evolution (VoLTE) network or a voice over WIFI (VoWIFI) network, and the communication identification is not a communication identification supported by a current terminal; receiving a response message returned by the verification server based on the verification request; determining a type of the communication identification according to the response message; and according to the communication identification and the type of the communication identification, switching a network mode of an operator network to which the terminal is currently connected to a target network mode to initiate a call process.
US12149912B2	Display device and operating method thereof A display device according to an embodiment of the present disclosure is to provide a display device for automatically configuring an audio channel suitable for a location of each of a plurality of external speakers when the plurality of external speakers are connected, and an operating method thereof, which establish each of the plurality of external speakers and transmit audio signals to the plurality of external speakers according to the established roles.
US12149908B2	Sound device The present disclosure discloses a sound device includes a frame, a magnet system, and a first vibration system and a second vibration system arranged on two sides of a magnet system. The magnet system includes a first central yoke, a central magnet mounted on the first central yoke, a side yoke surrounding the central magnet and fixed to the frame, and a connection portion connecting the first central yoke and the side yoke. The side yoke includes a first side yoke fixed to the frame and a second side yoke bending and extending from an edge of the first side yoke towards the central magnet; the connection portion connects the first central yoke and the second side yoke. The sound device in the present disclosure has higher magnetic ability and miniaturization ability.
US12149907B2	Sound-producing device and electronic terminal Disclosed are a sound-producing device and an electronic terminal. The sound-producing device comprises: a voice coil, the voice coil including a bobbin and a voice coil body wound outside the bobbin; the voice coil is configured to be able to be input an electrical signal; a first damper group and a second damper group, each of the first damper group and the second damper group comprising a first connecting part connected with the voice coil, a second connecting part fixed to the sound-producing device and an elastic part connected between the first connecting part and the second connecting part; the first damper group is configured to be in electrical communication with the voice coil to input the electrical signal to the voice coil; the first damper group and the second damper group are fixed to the voice coil in parallel at different heights.
US12149905B2	Speaker device A speaker device includes: a main body part mounted at a predetermined position; a first actuator that is housed in the main body part and generates vibration corresponding to an audio signal that is input; a vibrating body; and vibration transmitting member. The vibrating body vibrates with vibration transmitted from the outside to generate sound. The vibration transmitting member is a string-shaped or rod-shaped member that transmits the vibration generated by the first actuator to the vibrating body. The vibrating body is placed for hanging from the first actuator by the vibration transmitting member.
US12149903B2	Device for detecting sound in the surroundings of an automobile A device for detecting sound in the surroundings of an automobile, including a first structure-borne noise sensor, which is acoustically coupled to a first oscillating body at an outside of the automobile and provides a first audio signal, including a second audio signal, which represents sound from an interior of the automobile, and including a processing unit, which is configured to subtract at least the second audio signal from the first audio signal.
US12149902B2	Personal sound system combining bone conduction and directional speakers for passenger seats A sound system includes a seat, a bone conduction system configured to be disposed within the seat, and at least one directional speaker configured to provide audio through directional acoustic delivery contemporaneously with the bone conduction system. The bone conduction system configured to provide audio through bone conduction sound.
US12149896B2	Reverberation fingerprint estimation Examples of the disclosure describe systems and methods for estimating acoustic properties of an environment. In an example method, a first audio signal is received via a microphone of a wearable head device. An envelope of the first audio signal is determined, and a first reverberation time is estimated based on the envelope of the first audio signal. A difference between the first reverberation time and a second reverberation time is determined. A change in the environment is determined based on the difference between the first reverberation time and the second reverberation time. A second audio signal is presented via a speaker of a wearable head device, wherein the second audio signal is based on the second reverberation time.
US12149895B2	Methods, apparatus and systems for biometric processes A method in a biometric authentication system, generating an acoustic stimulus for application to a user's ear; receiving an audio signal representing a response of the user's ear canal to the acoustic stimulus; adapting an ear canal response estimate of the user's ear canal to the acoustic stimulus to reduce an error between the audio signal and the ear canal response estimate; calculating one or more quality metrics, the quality metrics comprising one or more of: an ear canal response estimate quality metric comprising one or more energy characteristics of the ear canal response estimate; an error quality metric derived from the error; an audio response quality metric comprising one or more statistical characteristics of the audio signal; and determining a validity of the audio signal for use in a biometric process based on the quality metrics.
US12149892B2	Method and system for streaming a multichannel audio signal to a binaural hearing system There is provided a method for streaming a multichannel audio signal comprising a first channel (L) and a second channel (R) from an audio source device to a binaural hearing system comprising a first hearing device worn at first ear of a user and a second hearing device worn at a second ear of the user.
US12149891B2	Hearing aid with dual coil components for noise cancellation Disclosed is a hearing aid configured to be worn at a user's ear. The hearing aid comprises an input transducer for generating one or more input signals based on a received audio signal. The hearing aid comprises a signal processor configured for processing the one or more input signals. The hearing aid comprises an output transducer for providing an audio output signal based on an output signal from the signal processor. The hearing aid comprises a switched-mode power supply (SMPS) for providing electric power to the hearing aid. The switched-mode power supply (SMPS) comprises a first coil component and a second coil component. The first coil component and the second coil component are arranged to provide electromagnetic noise reduction in the hearing aid.
US12149890B2	Neural network-driven frequency translation Disclosed herein, among other things, are apparatus and methods for neural network-driven frequency translation for hearing assistance devices. Various embodiments include a method of signal processing an input signal in a hearing assistance device, the hearing assistance device including a receiver and a microphone. The method includes performing neural network processing to train a processor to identify acoustic features in a plurality of audio signals and predict target outputs for the plurality of audio signals, and using the trained processor to control frequency translation of the input signal.
US12149889B2	Actuator testing systems and methods Technologies disclosed herein can be used to test vibrating actuators, such as those found in auditory prostheses. An example test system includes a trigger signal generator that emits a trigger signal, a test frequency generator that operates in a test mode responsive to receiving a trigger signal, and a diagnostic tool comprising a vibration sensor. The diagnostic tool can measure an output of the vibration sensor.
US12149885B2	Speaker device A device including a speaker and a housing, in which the speaker is configured to generate sound and includes a diaphragm and the housing encloses the speaker and includes a plurality of openings within one portion of the housing. The speaker is positioned within the housing to define a front chamber between the diaphragm and the one portion, and the plurality of openings are sized to collectively generate, with the front chamber, an increased output of the device within a frequency range of an output of the speaker corresponding to an alarm tone. Also provided are methods for assembling a device including a speaker and a housing.
US12149884B2	Audio generating arrangement and electronic device comprising such arrangement An audio generating arrangement for an electronic device, the arrangement including at least one loudspeaker, a first body, and a second body at least partially enclosing the loudspeaker. At least one of the first body and the second body is moveable with respect to the other body. An acoustic cavity is formed by the loudspeaker and at least one of the first body and the second body. A volume of the acoustic cavity is configured to increase or decrease in response to movement of the first body or the second body. The arrangement in an electronic device enables increasing the volume of the acoustic cavity without also increasing the outer dimensions of the device.
US12149881B2	Automatic active noise reduction (ANR) control to improve user interaction A method performed by a wearable audio output device worn by a user is provided for controlling external noise attenuated by wearable audio output device. A speech is detected from a user wearing the wearable audio output device, wherein the audio output device has active noise reduction turned on. It is determined, based on the detecting, that the user desires to speak to a subject in the vicinity of the user. In response to the determining, a level of noise reduction is reduced to enable the user to hear sounds external to the audio output device. It is determined that the user desires to speak to the subject by detecting at least one condition of a plurality of conditions.
US12149879B2	Wireless sound device and method for controlling the same A wireless sound device capable of effectively receiving a command that meets a user's intention without an error despite a user input unit having a limited size, and a method for controlling the same. The wireless sound device includes a wireless communication unit for wireless communication with an external device, a touch sensor for sensing a touch input of a user in a touch standby mode, a force sensor for sensing a force based on the touch input, a sound output unit for outputting an audio signal received from the external device, and a controller that controls a touch mode of the wireless sound device to be switched to a touch accepting mode or a touch ignoring mode in response to the touch input, and, when a touch validity of the touch input is positive, the controller controls the touch mode to be switched to a touch accepting mode or a touch ignoring mode based on a force validity of the touch input.
US12149875B2	Method for parameter adjustment of liquefied natural gas (LNG) distributed terminal based on internet of things (IOT) and system The present disclosure discloses a method for method for parameter adjustment of a liquefied natural gas (LNG) distributed terminal based on Internet of Things and a system. The method includes: based on at least one transmission node on a transmission link, obtaining terminal information of at least one set of terminals and transmission status information of the at least one transmission node; in response to the transmission status information satisfying a preset status condition, predicting a malfunction risk coefficient of the at least one set of terminals at at least one set of future time points; and based on the malfunction risk coefficient and in combination with a device parameter of the at least one set of terminals, judging whether to adjust a control parameter of the at least one set of terminals in advance.
US12149874B2	Network control method, apparatus, and system This disclosure provides a network control method, an apparatus, and a system, to manage an IP network and an optical network together, thereby properly controlling use of resources of an entire network. The method includes: obtaining first link state information and second link state information, where the first link state information is used to indicate a link state of an Internet Protocol IP network, and the second link state information is used to indicate a link state of an optical network; determining third link state information based on the first link state information and the second link state information, where the third link state information includes the link state of the IP network and the link state of the optical network; and computing a path based on the third link state information.
US12149872B2	Camera module, imaging method, and imaging apparatus This application provides a camera module, an imaging method, and an imaging apparatus. The camera module in this application includes a filter module and a sensor module. The filter module is configured to output target optical signals of different bands in optical signals incident on the filter module to a same pixel on the sensor module at different times. The sensor module is configured to: convert the target optical signals incident on the sensor module into electrical signals, and output the electrical signals.
US12149866B2	Interactive videoconferencing system A videoconferencing system receives audio and/or video signals (“AV”), information, and control signals from meeting participants. The videoconferencing system processes and routes the received AV and information, based on the received control signals, to provide AV and information to meeting participants. The videoconferencing system enables participants to know details about breakout room (e.g., what breakout rooms are available, how many people are attending each breakout room, who is attending each breakout room, the topics of the breakout rooms), hear audio, see video, and receive information corresponding breakout rooms that they have not joined, join a breakout room, leave a breakout room, create breakout rooms, invite other participants to join a breakout room, and make a breakout room private.
US12149863B2	Arrangement for controlling power consumption A network element of a cable television (CATV) network, comprising an input for upstream signal transmission; one or more diplex filters (210, 212, 214) connectable to said input, the diplex filters (210, 212, 214) comprising bandpass filters for different upstream and downstream frequency bands; a plurality of components arranged to form an upstream signal path, wherein at least one of said components is an upstream amplifier (206c); means (216) for detecting a type of the diplex filter connected between said input and the upstream signal path; means (216) for determining a control signal for adjusting bias current of the upstream amplifier (206c), wherein the control signal is based on at least a type of the diplex filter; and means for adjusting the bias current of the upstream amplifier (206c) based on the control signal.
US12149862B2	Method and system for using matrix code to display content A method includes receiving, at one or more processors, a content description and a matrix code. The content description includes data describing one or more computer-readable files. The matrix code is encoded with a link to the one or more files. The method includes the one or more processors determining a condition indicative of a first computing device being unable to display the file with at least a minimum quality level. The determination is based, at least in part, on the content description. The method includes the processor outputting the matrix code to a first display operatively coupled to the one or more processors. Outputting the matrix code occurs in response to determining the condition indicative of the first computing device being unable to display the one or more files with at least the minimum quality level. Furthermore, the method includes displaying, on the first display, the matrix code.
US12149856B2	Photoelectric conversion device and method of driving photoelectric conversion device A photoelectric conversion device includes a plurality of pixels arranged to form a plurality of columns, a plurality of comparison circuits provided corresponding to the plurality of columns and including a first input node to which a pixel signal output from a pixel of a corresponding column is input and a second input node to which a reference signal is input, a plurality of buffer circuits provided between a reference signal line to which the reference signal is supplied and each of the second input nodes of the plurality of comparison circuits, and a first switch circuit configured to set a connection state between output nodes of the plurality of buffer circuits.
US12149855B2	Light receiving device, electronic apparatus, and light receiving method to reduce a load current in a processing circuit An increase in a load current in a processing circuit is reduced. A light receiving device includes an imaging unit that photoelectrically converts light received in a plurality of pixels to acquire an analog image signal, a conversion unit that converts the analog image signal acquired by the imaging unit into digital image data, and a data processing unit that executes data processing on the digital image data and reduces a load of the data processing in a period in which the conversion unit executes conversion as compared to a period in which the conversion unit does not execute conversion.
US12149854B2	Photoelectric conversion device The photoelectric conversion device includes a pixel including a photoelectric conversion unit that outputs a pulse in response to incidence of a photon and a pulse counting unit that counts the pulse. The pulse counting unit includes first and second counters, a selection circuit for selecting a signal input to the first and second counters, and a control unit. The control unit controls the selection circuit to perform a first connection mode in which a counter of a first number of bits is configured by the first and second counters, and a second connection mode in which a counter of a second number of bits smaller than the first number of bits is configured by at least one of the first and second counters. The second connection mode includes a third connection mode in which pulses are counted in parallel by the first and second counters.
US12149851B2	Memory usage configurations for integrated circuit devices having analog inference capability An integrated circuit device having a memory cell array with first layers of memory cells configured for operations of multiplication and accumulation. Each pair of closest layers among the first layers are configured to be separate by at least one layer in second layers of memory cells, where access to, or usages of, the second layers can be restricted or limited to prevent activities in the second layers from corrupting the weight programming in the first layers.
US12149846B2	Time delay integration (TDI)-based image sensor and imaging method thereof Disclosed are a time delay integration (TDI)-based image sensor and an imaging method thereof. The TDI-based image sensor includes: a multi-stage linear array including a plurality of single-stage linear arrays arranged along a scanning direction of the image sensor. Each single-stage linear array includes a plurality of pixels arranged along the linear array direction. Each single-stage linear array enters a count mode in response to a first control signal, and enters a transfer mode in response to a second control signal. In the count mode, each single-stage linear array counts optical signals incident on the pixels and obtains a count value, and in the transfer mode, each single-stage linear array stops counting, except for the last single-stage linear array, other single-stage linear arrays each output the obtained current count value to the next single-stage linear array, and the last single-stage linear array outputs the obtained current count value.
US12149843B2	Imaging device and electronic equipment A selection pixel where signal readout is performed and a reference pixel where signal readout is not performed are arranged in a pixel array section, and an amplification transistor of the selection pixel and an amplification transistor of the reference pixel each source electrode of which is connected in common to a common wire are connected with a constant current source via the common wire to form a differential amplification circuit. Then, a bypass control section which selectively establishes connection between the constant current source and a differential output node of the differential amplification circuit and limits a voltage of the differential output node to a predetermined voltage by causing a bypass current to flow between the constant current source and the differential output node, and a current path for bypass current that supplies the bypass current to the constant current source through the pixel array section are included.
US12149839B2	Solid-state imaging device with transistor drain connected to sense node of logarithmic conversion circuit Suppressing a dead period at the time of mode switching. A solid-state imaging device includes: a plurality of pixels (300) that each outputs a luminance change of incident light; and a detection circuit (305) that outputs an event signal based on the luminance change output from each of the pixels, in which each of the pixels includes: a photoelectric conversion element (311) that generates a charge according to an incident light amount; a logarithmic conversion circuit (312, 313) that is connected to the photoelectric conversion element and converts a photocurrent flowing out of the photoelectric conversion element into a voltage signal corresponding to a logarithmic value of the photocurrent; and a first transistor (318) having a drain connected to a sense node of the logarithmic conversion circuit.
US12149837B2	Auto white balance adjusting method and auto white balance adjusting system by using dynamic window allocations An auto white balance adjusting method includes acquiring an image, allocating N windows inside the image according to color information of the image, filtering out M windows from the N windows for generating N-M windows according to feature information of the N windows, grouping the color temperatures of the N-M windows for generating at least one color temperature group according to a standard color temperature curve, setting a first weighting of the at least one color temperature group according to a correlation between the at least one color temperature group and the standard color temperature curve, setting a second weighting of the at least one color temperature group according to spatial information of the at least one color temperature group of the image, and adjusting a white balance of the image according to color information, the first weighting, and the second weighting.
US12149833B2	Apparatus, method thereof, and storage medium for adjusting an image quality of an image for live view display An apparatus includes a control unit that executes exposure control by adjusting a shutter speed, an aperture value, and a sensitivity, and a setting unit that switches on/off a simulation function for adjusting an image quality of an image for live view display to match an image quality depending on an aperture opening for acquiring a still image for recording. If the simulation function is on, the control unit controls a difference amount between an aperture value for acquiring the image for live view display and an aperture value for acquiring the still image depending on an aperture value for acquiring the still image for recording such that the difference amount when the aperture value for the still image is a second value larger than a first value is larger than that when the aperture value for the still image is the first value.
US12149832B2	360 degree camera apparatus and monitoring system Systems and methods include a camera apparatus. The camera apparatus includes a mounting base and a plurality of sensors. The mounting base is adapted to mount to a structure. The plurality of sensors includes an array of image sensors arranged to simultaneously capture a combined 360 degree view around the camera apparatus.
US12149830B2	Dynamic flex circuit for camera with moveable image sensor Various embodiments include a dynamic flex circuit that may be used in a camera with a moveable image sensor. The dynamic flex circuit may include one or more fixed end portions, a moveable end portion, and an intermediate portion. In some embodiments, the fixed end portion may be connected to another flex circuit of the camera. The moveable end portion may be coupled with the moveable image sensor. The intermediate portion may be configured to allow the moveable end portion to move with the moveable image sensor. Some embodiments include a reinforcement arrangement that reinforces one or more portions of the dynamic flex circuit.
US12149827B2	Camera actuator including balls disposed in a mover and camera module including same An embodiment of the present invention discloses a camera actuator comprising: a housing; a mover on which an optical member sits and which is disposed inside the housing; a ball part including a first ball and a second ball and disposed between the housing and the mover; and a driving unit that is disposed inside the housing to drive the mover, wherein the mover includes a first protrusion extending toward the housing and including a recess. The recess includes: a side surface on which the ball part sits and on which at least a portion of the recess is spaced apart from the ball part; and a bottom surface in contact with the side surface.
US12149826B2	Image processing method and device, electronic device, and computer-readable storage medium An image processing method includes a step for converting current posture information of a camera into target posture information, where the current posture information includes current angular velocity information. The method also includes a step for acquiring first depth information of each pixel point in an image to be processed under a current posture. The method also includes a step for determining second depth information of each pixel point under a target posture according to the first depth information. The method also includes a step for obtaining a target image according to the current posture information, the first depth information, the target posture information, the second depth information, and first internal parameter information of the camera.
US12149824B2	Examination apparatus, control method thereof, and ophthalmic apparatus An ophthalmic apparatus is provided with an image capturing optical system and an image capturing apparatus, and optically examines an eye to be examined by performing focus detection using image capturing surface phase difference AF. A focus detection unit calculates data for a focus detection precision map from a defocus amount based on the phase difference detection. In a case in which the focus detection precision of a first subject is less than an established precision, a region determining unit determines a circle or concentric circle region that passes through the first subject, and determines a region that includes a second subject on the focus detection precision map included on the circle or inside of the concentric circle region, and that also has a focus detection precision that is higher than a predetermined precision. The focus detection unit then performs focus detection on the second subject.
US12149823B2	Optical apparatus and camera system An optical apparatus capable of detecting an origin or the like even in a retracted state is provided. The optical apparatus includes a holding frame holding an optical system, an intermediate member, a driving unit moving the intermediate member in a direction along an optical axis of the optical system, a biasing member biasing the holding frame in a direction along the optical axis with respect to the intermediate member, and a detection unit detecting the intermediate member, and the optical apparatus also includes a first state in which a part of the holding frame is brought into contact with a part of the intermediate member according to a biasing force of the biasing member, and a second state in which the holding frame is separated from the intermediate member against the biasing force of the biasing member, in which the driving unit is able to move the intermediate member in a direction along the optical axis in either the first state or the second state, and the detection unit can detect the intermediate member at least in the second state.
US12149819B2	Autonomous media capturing A media capture device (MCD) that provides a multi-sensor, free flight camera platform with advanced learning technology to replicate the desires and skills of the purchaser/owner is provided. Advanced algorithms may uniquely enable many functions for autonomous and revolutionary photography. The device may learn about the user, the environment, and/or how to optimize a photographic experience so that compelling events may be captured and composed into efficient and emotional sharing. The device may capture better photos and videos as perceived by one's social circle of friends, and/or may greatly simplify the process of using a camera to the ultimate convenience of fill autonomous operation.
US12149816B2	Information processing apparatus and non-transitory computer readable medium An information processing apparatus includes a processor configured to display an image taken by an imaging device in each of plural regions provided within a display surface and set, for each of the plural regions, which information is to be displayed in association with a position of a subject within the image.
US12149810B2	Imaging device An imaging device includes an imaging unit that captures an object, a first housing, a second housing that supports the imaging unit and is rotatably supported in a tilt direction with respect to the first housing in order to change an imaging direction of the imaging unit, and a tilt stopper that is in contact with both the first housing and the second housing to regulate rotation of the second housing in the tilt direction with respect to the first housing.
US12149808B2	Video camera including body and stand Disclosed is a video camera, including a body, a camera module installed in the body, and a stand located under the body to support, the stand including a leg bracket coupled to the body, a first leg rotatably coupled to the leg bracket through a first hinge, and a second leg rotatably coupled to an end portion of the first leg through a second hinge, wherein an angle and height of the body are adjustable by adjusting angles of the first and second hinges. Accordingly, the video camera can be installed not only on a floor, but also on a monitor or a wall, thereby being easily installed in various places.
US12149807B2	Image capturing apparatus capable of swinging image sensor An image capturing apparatus includes an image sensor unit having an image sensor in a state swingable within a plane orthogonal to an image capturing optical axis, a cooling plate connected to the image sensor unit, and a heat dissipation unit attached to a rear side plate. The heat dissipation unit includes a heat dissipation rubber movable in the image capturing optical axis direction between a contact position in contact with the cooling plate and a spaced position spaced from the cooling plate, and a graphite sheet that connects between the heat dissipation rubber and a heat dissipation plate. In the contact position of the heat dissipation rubber, heat from the image sensor is transferred to the rear side plate via the cooling plate, the heat dissipation rubber, the graphite sheet, and the heat dissipation plate.
US12149801B2	Symbology reader with multi-core processor This invention provides a vision system camera, and associated methods of operation, having a multi-core processor, high-speed, high-resolution imager, FOVE, auto-focus lens and imager-connected pre-processor to pre-process image data provides the acquisition and processing speed, as well as the image resolution that are highly desirable in a wide range of applications. This arrangement effectively scans objects that require a wide field of view, vary in size and move relatively quickly with respect to the system field of view. This vision system provides a physical package with a wide variety of physical interconnections to support various options and control functions. The package effectively dissipates internally generated heat by arranging components to optimize heat transfer to the ambient environment and includes dissipating structure (e.g. fins) to facilitate such transfer. The system also enables a wide range of multi-core processes to optimize and load-balance both image processing and system operation (i.e. auto-regulation tasks).
US12149800B2	Method and apparatus for storing and signaling predictively coded image items A method, apparatus and computer program product are provided to include information within a container that also includes a video bitstream as to whether individual image items corresponding to the video frames of the video bitstream bitstreams are self-decodable or, alternatively, are dependent upon one or more other image items. In an instance in which a respective image item is dependent upon one or more other image items, the method, apparatus and computer program product also include dependence information within the container identifying the other image item(s)upon which the decodability of the respective image item is dependent. As such, the method, apparatus and computer program product permit decoding relationships to be defined in the container between a predictively coded frame and other image item(s)upon which the predictively coded frame is dependent, thereby facilitating the decoding of the frame and, in turn, the video bitstream.
US12149799B2	Streaming assistance system and computer-implemented method A streaming assistance system may be provided which may be connected to at least two network links, for example via respective network interfaces. Both network links may have different characteristics, e.g., in terms of throughput, utilization, latency, etc. The streaming assistance system may assist in the streaming of media content to a client device by identifying a media fragment which is likely to be requested by the client device in the (near) future, selecting a network link to be used for the streaming of the media segment, and effecting a prefetching of the media segment via the selected network link. In some embodiments, the streaming assistance system may be a DASH Aware Network Element (DANE).
US12149795B2	Method and apparatus for presenting audiovisual work, device, and medium This application provides a method and apparatus for presenting an audiovisual work, a device, and a medium, and belongs to the field of artificial intelligence. The method includes: displaying a map control of the audiovisual work, the map control displaying a map associated with a plot of the audiovisual work; determining a marker point on the map in response to a location marking operation on the map; and presenting a plot clip in the audiovisual work that corresponds to the marker point.
US12149787B2	Video notification system Systems and methods are provided for notifying users about videos in a playback sequence. The systems and methods determine that a video that meets a criterion is currently available on a video server associated with a messaging client. In response to determining that the video that meets the criterion is currently available, the messaging client on the client device prefetches a sequence of videos from a recommendation engine that match a profile of a user associated with the messaging client. The recommendation engine is being used to provide sequence of videos to a video playback graphical user interface (GUI) that automatically plays back the videos in the sequence. The systems and methods determine that the video that meets the criterion is in a first position in the sequence of videos and, in response, present a notification that indicates the availability of the video on the video playback GUI.
US12149786B2	Cable modem and method thereof, computer readable medium and apparatus A cable modem in communication with a cable modem termination system, configured to perform at least the following: during an operation phase of the cable modem, acquiring and storing damaged channel information indicating a damaged channel among a plurality of channels between the cable modem and the cable modem termination system which is detected during the operation phase; during an initialization phase of the cable modem, adjusting a scanning sequence of the plurality of channels according to the stored damaged channel information so as to cause the damaged channel to have the latest scanning order; and scanning the plurality of channels according to the adjusted scanning sequence to determine, among the plurality of channels, a channel for performing communication between the cable modem and the cable modem termination system.
US12149785B2	Issue reporting by a receiving device A technique is described for improved issue reporting by a receiving device such as a set-top boxes for satellite and cable television services. In an example embodiment, the receiving device generates an issue report based on internal operational logs, captured screens and/or video of a visual output, and a recording of the user's voice that includes a description of the issue they are experiencing. This issue report can be generated as an object file that can then be transmitted, via a communications network, to an issue reporting platform for processing, for example, by a technical support representative or an automated troubleshooting system.
US12149783B2	Methods and apparatus to create candidate reference signatures from signature fragments Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture to create a reference signature asset from matched signature fragments are disclosed. Example apparatus disclosed herein form a group of matched signature fragments corresponding to a same piece of media. Disclosed example apparatus also select a subset of matched signature fragments from the group to form a path of matched signature fragments that collectively represent a continuous segment of the piece of media, the continuous segment identified by a segment start time and a segment end time, the segment start time corresponding to a fragment start time associated with an initial matched signature fragment in the path, and the segment end time corresponding to a fragment end time associated with a last matched signature fragment in the path. Disclosed example apparatus further use the path to combine the subset of matched signature fragments and create a new reference signature asset.
US12149781B2	Methods and systems for detecting audio output of associated device Systems and methods for determining whether a first electronic device detects a media item that is to be output by a second electronic device is described herein. In some embodiments, an individual may request, using a first electronic device, that a media item be played on a second electronic device. The backend system may send first audio data representing a first response to the first electronic device, along with instructions to delay outputting the first response, as well as to continue sending audio data of additional audio captured thereby. The backend system may also send second audio data representing a second response to the second electronic device along with the media item. Text data may be generated representing the captured audio, which may then be compared with text data representing the second response to determine whether or not they match.
US12149779B2	Advertisement user interface Systems and methods for a media content system. A media content provider includes storage for storing and serving video content to subscribers. The media content provider records and or otherwise stores video content from around the world. Subscribers are provided a user interface that provides context sensitive hints to assist the viewer. The system further enables viewers skip, view, and interact with advertisements.
US12149778B2	System and method for classifying recorded content for deletion Systems and methods are disclosed herein for classifying, based on most recent information associated with recorded content, the recorded content to an appropriate deletion classifier. A media guidance application may receive information about an event that is associated with a recorded media asset. The media guidance application may determine, based on the event and a current deletion classifier associated with the recorded media asset, whether the current deletion classifier associated with the recorded media asset needs to be updated to a new deletion classifier. The media guidance application may make this determination by accessing a deletion classification database containing rules for classifying recorded media assets into a variety of deletion classifiers. Upon determining that the current deletion classifier associated with the recorded media asset needs to be updated to a new deletion classifier, the media guidance application may update the current deletion classifier to the new deletion classifier.
US12149777B2	Method, apparatus, electronic device, and storage medium for presentation of a matching scheme The present disclosure relates to a method, apparatus, electronic device and storage medium for presentation of a matching scheme. The method comprises: acquiring a set of matching schemes; transmitting, to a first terminal, attribute information of matching schemes in the set of matching schemes, so that the first terminal displays attribute information of matching schemes comprised in the set of matching schemes; in response to a selection request for one of matching schemes transmitted by the first terminal, determining the selected matching scheme as a matching scheme to be explained; in response to a presentation request for the matching scheme to be explained that is transmitted by a second terminal, transmitting attribute information of the matching scheme to be explained to the second terminal, so that the second terminal presents a target information streaming page comprising at least a part of attribute information of the matching scheme to be explained.
US12149770B2	Information processing apparatus, display element display method, and management server A sharing processing section uploads a content image recorded in an image recording device to a distribution server. A display processing section displays a display element indicative of the updated content image. The sharing processing section acquires past distribution record data regarding the uploaded content image. The display processing section displays information regarding past distribution records in association with the display element indicative of the uploaded content image.
US12149769B2	Self-driven adaptive upload A method and system for uploading a media file container from a first device to a second device are described herein, including receiving an instruction to upload the media file container and in response, reading a metadata box of the media file container to locate a track box containing information about video data in a media data box, identifying sample frames of the video data throughout a duration of the video data in the media data box using information from the track box, packaging the identified sample frames, and uploading the packaged sample frames of the video data prior to completing upload of the media file container.
US12149761B2	Systems and methods for controlling device configuration in a networked environment A system and method uses a first device fingerprint for a set-top box (STB) installed within a home theater environment which includes an over-the-top (OTT) device to cause a one a plurality of original equipment manufacturer (OEM) remote control setup procedures to be selected for use to configure an OEM remote control for the STB and the selected one of the plurality of OEM remote control setup procedures uses a second device fingerprint for the OTT device to cause the OEM remote control to be configured to transmit one or more commands to control functional operations of the OTT device.
US12149758B2	Dynamic digital object placement in video stream Techniques and mechanisms described herein facilitate providing dynamic digital object placement in a video stream. An exchange network for engagements within video streaming content is maintained, and a number of engagement entities and content providers are connected to the exchange network. An engagement proposal is received from an engagement entity in the exchange network, containing media assets for an engagement and proposed engagement information. Content provider requirements are also received from a content provider in the exchange network, containing content provider requirements and one or more engagement surfaces associated with a video stream. The exchange network determines that the received engagement proposal matches the received content provider requirements. Once the exchange network matches the two entities, the media assets from the engagement entity are dynamically inserted into the video stream published by the content provider by mapping the media assets to the one or more engagement surfaces.
US12149755B2	Streaming proxy service Embodiments disclose a system that allows for improved generation of web requests for scraping that, because of the nature of the requests and time and manner they are sent out, appear more organic, as in human generated, than conventional automated scraping systems. The system then manages how a client request to scrape a target website is made to the site, masking the request in a manner that makes it appear to the Web server as if the request is not generated by an automated system. In this way, by appearing more organic, Web servers may be less likely to block requests from the disclosed system or may take longer to block requests from the disclosed system. By avoiding Web servers blocking requests and extending the lifetime of IP proxies before they are blocked, embodiments can use a limited IP proxy address space more efficiently.
US12149751B2	Transform-based image coding method and apparatus therefor A point cloud data processing method according to embodiments may comprise a step of encoding and transmitting point cloud data, wherein said encoding comprises encoding a geometry indicating the positions of one or more points of the point cloud data, the step of encoding a geometry further comprises a step of generating an octree of the geometry, and a step of encoding attributes of the one or more points comprises the steps of: generating Morton codes of the one or more points; and rearranging the one or more points on the basis of the octree to generate one or more levels of detail (LOD). The point cloud data processing method according to embodiments may comprise receiving and decoding point cloud data.
US12149745B2	Encoder that generates a bitstream including a common header for one or more layers in a group of layers An encoder includes circuitry and memory coupled to the circuitry. In operation, for a group of layers including at least one output layer, the circuitry generates a bitstream including a common header for one or more layers in the group of layers, in which when a total number of layers in the group of layers is 1, (i) performance requirement information indicating a performance requirement for a decoder is signaled in the common header, and (ii) a hypothetical reference decoder (HRD) parameter is not signaled in the common header. The bitstream includes the common header and encoded data of at least one image in the at least one output layer. The common header does not include the HRD parameter.
US12149737B2	Image encoding/decoding method using prediction block and apparatus for same According to the present invention, an image encoding/decoding method comprises the steps of: performing an intra prediction on a current block so as to generate a prediction block; performing filtering on a filtering target pixel in the prediction block on the basis of the intra prediction mode of the current block so as to generate a final prediction block; and generating a reconstructed block on the basis of a reconstructed differential block corresponding to the current block and on the final prediction block. According to the present invention, image encoding/decoding efficiency can be improved.
US12149735B2	Image decoding device, image encoding device, and image decoding method Memory required during decoding is reduced.A video image decoding device (1) is equipped with main direction deriving means (1453A) that references a prediction mode definition DEFPM(1), and from a prediction mode number, derives a main direction of a prediction direction corresponding to a prediction mode, and a gradient deriver (1453B) that references a gradient definition table DEFANG(1), and derives a gradient of the prediction direction.
US12149734B2	Generalized bi-prediction for video coding with reduced coding complexity Exemplary embodiments include systems and methods for coding a video comprising a plurality of pictures including a current picture, a first reference picture, and a second reference picture, where each picture includes a plurality of blocks. In one method, for at least a current block in the current picture, a number of available bi-prediction weights is determined based at least in part on a temporal layer and/or a quantization parameter of the current picture. From among available bi-prediction weights a pair of weights are identified. Using the identified weights, the current block is then predicted as a weighted sum of a first reference block in the first reference picture and a second reference block in the second reference picture. Encoding techniques are also described for efficient searching and selection of a pair of bi-prediction weights to use for prediction of a block.
US12149727B2	Image/video coding method and apparatus based on inter prediction A video decoding method performed by a video decoding apparatus, according to the present document, comprises the steps of: parsing a flag for weighted prediction from a bitstream; parsing a prediction weighted table syntax from the bitstream on the basis of the flag; generating prediction samples by performing weighted prediction on a current block within a current picture on the basis of the prediction weighted table syntax; and generating reconstructed samples for the current block on the basis of the prediction samples, wherein the prediction weighted table syntax may be parsed from a picture header or slice header of the bitstream on the basis of a value of the flag.
US12149725B2	Video encoding and decoding using adaptive color transform Disclosed is a method for video encoding and decoding using adaptive color transform on a residual signal. In particular, the maximum memory size required for adaptive color transform is limited by: controlling whether to allow color space conversion on a sequence level according to a syntax element indicating the maximum conversion size allowed for a sequence of pictures; or controlling whether to apply color space conversion on a block level according to the size of a coding block.
US12149722B2	PDPC unification Aspects of the disclosure provide methods and apparatuses for video encoding/decoding. An apparatus for video decoding includes processing circuitry that decodes prediction information for a current block in a current picture that is included in a coded video sequence. The prediction information indicates an intra prediction mode of the current block. The processing circuitry determines a position dependent prediction combination (PDPC) process according to the intra prediction mode of the current block indicated by the prediction information. Further, the processing circuitry reconstructs the current block based on the determined PDPC process. A same PDPC process is applied to intra prediction modes adjacent to diagonal intra prediction modes.
US12149719B2	Concept for picture/video data streams allowing efficient reducibility or efficient random access A video data stream is rendered reducible in a manner so that the reduction leads to a restriction of pictures of the reduced video data stream to merely a predetermined subarea of the pictures of the original video data stream and in a manner so that transcoding, such as re-quantization, may be avoided and a conformance of the reduced video data stream relative to the codec underlying the original video data stream be maintained. This is achieved by providing the video data stream with information including an indication of the predetermined subarea and replacement indices for redirecting the indices included by the payload portion so as to refer to, and/or replacement parameters for adjusting the first set of coding parameter settings so as to result in, a second set of coding parameter settings.
US12149716B2	Contrastive object representation learning from temporal data A computer-implemented method for contrastive object representation from temporal data using an artificial neural network (ANN) includes receiving, by the ANN, a video. The video comprises a temporal sequence of frames including images of one or more objects. The ANN generates object representations corresponding to the one or more objects based on temporal data of multiple frames of the temporal sequence of frames. The object representations are communicated to a receiver.
US12149713B2	Method for scanning transform coefficient and device therefor Provided is a transform coefficient scan method including: determining a reference transform block for a decoding target block; deriving a scanning map of the decoding target block using scanning information of the reference transform block; and performing inverse scanning on a transform coefficient of the decoding target block using the derived scanning map. According to the present invention, picture encoding/decoding efficiency may be improved.
US12149707B2	Intra block copy prediction restrictions in video coding An example method includes determining, for each respective coding block of a plurality of coding blocks of a current coding tree unit (CTU) of video data in a current picture of video data, a respective search area of a plurality of respective search areas, wherein at least one of the plurality of search areas includes samples of the current picture located outside of the current CTU, and wherein at least one of the plurality of search areas does not include samples of the current picture located outside of the current CTU; selecting, for each respective coding block and from within the respective search area for the respective coding block, a respective predictor block of a plurality of predictor blocks; and reconstructing samples of each respective coding block based on samples included in a corresponding predictor block in the plurality of predictor blocks.
US12149706B2	Signaling of gradual decoding refresh and reference picture lists Examples of video encoding methods and apparatus and video decoding methods and apparatus are described. An example method of video processing includes performing a conversion between a current picture of a video and a bitstream of the video according to a rule. The rule specifies that responsive to a picture being referred to by an inter-layer reference picture (ILRP) entry in a reference picture list of a slice of the current picture, the picture is allowed to have a gradual decoding refresh (GDR) type and a syntax element specifying a recovery point of the picture in an output order is 0.
US12149702B2	Method and apparatus for video signal processing using sub-block based motion compensation A video signal processing method and apparatus for encoding or decoding a video signal is disclosed. More particularly, a video signal processing method and a video signal processing apparatus using the same are disclosed, wherein a method for processing a video signal comprises the steps of: obtaining a set of control point motion vectors for prediction of a current block; obtaining the motion vector of each sub-block of the current block using control point motion vectors of the set of control point motion vectors; obtaining a predictor of the each sub-block of the current block using the motion vectors of the each sub-block; obtaining a predictor of the current block by combining predictors of the each sub-block; and restoring the current block using the predictor of the current block.
US12149701B2	System and method for video coding An image encoder or decoder includes circuitry and a memory coupled to the circuitry. The circuitry, in operation, predicts a first set of samples for a first partition of a current picture with one or more motion vectors including a first motion vector and predicts a second set of samples for a first portion of the first partition with one or more motion vectors from a second partition different from the first partition. The samples of the first set of samples of the first portion of the first partition and of the second set of samples of the first portion of the first partition are weighted. A motion vector for the first portion of the first partition is stored which is based on one or both of the first motion vector and the second motion vector. The first partition is encoded or decoded using at least the weighted samples of the first portion of the first partition.
US12149700B2	Video decoding method and apparatus, and video encoding method and apparatus involving sub-block merge index context and bypass model Provided are a video decoding method and apparatus, in which, during video encoding and decoding processes: in which a first bin of a sub-block merge index indicating a candidate motion vector of a sub-block merge mode is obtained, the first bin being arithmetic-encoded using a context model, a second arithmetic-encoded in a bypass mode is obtained based on a first value obtained by arithmetic-decoding the first bin by using the context model, a second value is obtained by arithmetic-decoding the second bin in the bypass mode, and prediction on a current block is performed in the sub-block merge mode, based on the first value and the second value.
US12149699B2	Content adaptation for streaming Techniques are disclosed by which a coding parameter is determined to encode video data resulting in encoded video data possessing a highest possible video quality. Features may be extracted from an input video sequence. The extracted features may be compared to features described in a model of coding parameters generated by a machine learning algorithm from reviews of previously-coded videos, extracted features of the previously-coded videos, and coding parameters of the previously-coded videos. When a match is detected between the extracted features of the input video sequence and extracted features represented in the model, a determination may be made as to whether coding parameters that correspond to the matching extracted feature correspond to a tier of service to which the input video sequence is to be coded. When the coding parameters that correspond to the matching extracted feature correspond to the tier of service to which the input video sequence is to be coded, the input video sequence may be coded according to the coding parameters.
US12149698B2	Methods and devices for prediction dependent residual scaling for video coding Methods and devices are provided for reducing the decoding latency introduced by LMCS. In one method, during decoding of a coding unit (CU), a plurality of reconstructed luma samples is selected from a first pre-determined region neighboring to a second pre-determined region where the CU is located, an average of the plurality of reconstructed luma samples is calculated, and the average of the plurality of reconstructed luma samples is used directly, without any clipping, in deriving a chroma residual scaling factor for decoding the CU.
US12149697B2	Encoding method and encoder This application provides example encoding methods and example encoders. One example method includes performing bit truncation on a to-be-encoded block when a bit rate control condition is satisfied. A first cost value corresponding to the bit truncation can then be calculated. The to-be-encoded block can then be predicted to determine a prediction residual of the to-be-encoded block when the bit rate control condition is satisfied. A second cost value corresponding to the prediction can then be calculated based on the prediction residual. The first cost value can then be compared with the second cost value to determine an encoded bit.
US12149696B2	Apparatus and method for coding image on basis of signaling of information for filtering An image decoding method according to embodiments of the present document may comprise the steps of: acquiring, via a bitstream, image information including residual information; generating reconstruction samples on the basis of the residual information; and performing an in-loop filtering procedure for the reconstruction samples so as to generate modified reconstruction samples. The step of generating of the modified reconstruction samples may comprise a step of determining whether the in-loop filtering procedure is performed across virtual boundaries. In an example, wherein the image information includes an SPS, and on the basis of whether reference picture resampling is available, whether the SPS includes additional virtual boundary-related information may be determined.
US12149694B2	Encoding device, decoding device and program The encoding device includes: a predictor configured to generate, for each component, a prediction block corresponding to an encoding-target block; a residual generator configured to generate, for each component, a prediction residual representing a difference between the encoding-target block and the prediction block; a mode selector configured to select one mode either an individual encoding mode performing a transform process and a quantization process on a prediction residual of the first component and a prediction residual of the second component for each single component, or a joint encoding mode performing a transform process and a quantization process on a joint prediction residual generated from the prediction residual of the first component and the prediction residual of the second component; a quantization controller configured to determine a quantization matrix to be applied in the quantization process based on the mode selected by the mode selector.
US12149690B2	Explicit address signaling in video coding A video coding mechanism is disclosed. The mechanism includes receiving a sub-bitstream including: a sub-picture of a picture partitioned into a plurality of slices including a first slice, a parameter set associated with the picture and the sub-picture, and a slice header associated with the first slice. The parameter set is parsed to obtain an identifier and a length of a slice address of the first slice. A slice address for the first slice is determined from the slice header based on the identifier and the length of the slice address. The sub-bitstream is decoded to create a video sequence of sub-pictures including the first slice. The video sequence of sub-pictures is forwarded for display.
US12149684B2	Encoder, a decoder and corresponding methods for intra prediction Devices and methods for Intra prediction are provided. The method includes: obtaining a value of an indication information of a current block. When the value of the indication information indicates the intra prediction mode of the current block is not comprised in the set of most probable modes, deriving the intra prediction mode IntraPredModeY of the current block by the following ordered steps: i. IntraPredModeY is set equal to intra_luma_mpm_remainder[xCb][yCb], ii. The value of IntraPredModeY is incremented by one. The method can improve the efficiency to determine the intra prediction mode of the current block.
US12149683B2	Method for encoding/decoding image signal and device for same An image decoding method according to the present invention includes: a step for determining a reference sample line of a current block; a step for determining whether candidate intra-prediction modes identical to the intra-prediction mode of the current block exist; a step for deriving the intra-prediction mode of the current block on the basis of the determination; and a step for performing intra-prediction on the current block on the basis of the reference sample line and the intra-prediction mode. Here, at least one of the candidate intra prediction modes may be derived by adding or subtracting an offset to or from the maximum value among the intra-prediction mode of a neighboring block that is above the current block and the intra-prediction mode of a neighboring block that is to the left of the current block.
US12149681B2	Inter prediction method and encoder The inter prediction method comprises: determining a prediction mode parameter of a current block; determining a GPM parameter of the current block in response to that the prediction mode parameter indicates that a GPM is used to determine inter prediction of the current block; determining a first prediction value of a first partition of the current block and a second prediction value of a second partition of the current block; determining a weight index of a sample in the current block based on the GPM parameter of the current block; determining a first weight value and a second weight value of the sample in the current block based on the weight index of the sample in the current block; performing weighted combination of the first prediction value and the second prediction value to obtain the inter prediction of the current block.
US12149679B2	Intra prediction method and apparatus based on multi-reference line in image coding system An image decoding method performed by a decoding device according to the present document comprises the steps of: obtaining reference line index information and prediction information for a current block; determining an intra prediction mode of the current block on the basis of the prediction information; deriving a reference sample of the current block on the basis of the intra prediction mode and the reference line index information; and generating a prediction sample of the current block on the basis of the reference sample, wherein the intra prediction mode includes a non-directional intra prediction mode, and the reference sample is derived from among surrounding samples of the current block on the basis of the non-directional intra prediction mode and the reference line index information.
US12149678B2	Image encoding device, image decoding device, and program thereof An image encoding device 1 of the present disclosure includes a neighboring pixel non-reference predictor 11 configured to generate a predicted image by a predetermined neighboring pixel non-reference prediction for each pixel signal of an original image in a block unit, a filter processor 12 configured to perform a low-pass filter process on a prediction signal located at a boundary of a block of the predicted image by using a decoded neighboring signal neighboring to the predicted image under a predetermined control, a prediction residual signal generator 55 configured to generate a prediction residual signal of the block unit by using the predicted image, an orthogonal transformer 14 configured to perform an orthogonal transformation process on the prediction residual signal of the block unit under the predetermined control, and an orthogonal transformation selection controller 25 configured to control the filter processor 12 and the orthogonal transformer 14 and generate a predetermined transformation type identification signal. An image decoding device 5 of the present disclosure performs a decoding process based on a transformation type identification signal at the time of the predetermined neighboring pixel non-reference prediction.
US12149669B2	Printing device including controller controlling each of a plurality of measuring members to measure color of each patch The printing device includes a print head, a plurality of measuring members, and a controller. The print head is configured to print a patch chart on a print medium. The patch chart includes a plurality of patches including a plurality of first patches and one or more second patches. Each first patch has a predetermined color. Each second patch has a user specified color represented by an input color value. Each of the plurality of measuring members is configured to measure a color of a patch. The controller is configured to perform: a second-patch measurement process to control each of the plurality of measuring members to measure a color of each second patch to acquire a plurality of color values for the each second patch.
US12149666B2	Printing system executing two or more target jobs in response to completion of settlement of total fee A printing system includes a printing mechanism. The printing mechanism is configured to perform printing. The printing system stores a plurality of print jobs in a storage, and receives selections of two or more print jobs to be executed as two or more target jobs from among the plurality of print jobs stored in the storage. The printing system determines a total fee to be charged for executing the two or more target jobs, and performs a settlement related process related to settlement of the determined total fee. The printing system executes the two or more target jobs to print images by using the printing mechanism in response to completion of settlement of the total fee.
US12149659B2	Image forming apparatus A print image generation unit performs a first rasterization process for printing and thereby generates print image data. A print unit performs printing based on the print image data and thereby produces a print product. An image scanning unit performs image scanning of the print product and thereby generates scan image data. Further, the print image generation unit performs a second rasterization process for inspection and generates reference image data of plural reference images that have plural slant angles in a predetermined range, respectively; and an inspection processing unit determines a skew angle of the scan image data, selects a reference image corresponding to the slant angle among the plural reference images, and compares the reference image data of the selected reference image and the scan image data and thereby performs inspection of the print product.
US12149656B2	Systems and methods for processing calls Methods and systems are described for processing calls. An example method may comprise receiving a message for establishing a call. Identification information in the message may be compared to screening data. If a match is found, the message may be forwarded to a screening server. The screening server may establish a call based on the session and provide information indicative of a level of trust associated with the call.
US12149655B1	System and method for contact center test automation A system and method may test a contact center or other entity by causing, by a computer processor, a number of computerized processes (e.g. a simulated caller or customer) to each initiate a telephone call to a contact center, each telephone call associated with a customer identification and intent and determine, for each telephone call if the contact center system data is correct. A number of computer processes (e.g. a simulated agent or other process) may each connect to a CRM system and connect to one of the telephone calls. A centralized process may organize and cause to be initiated a number of different such interactions, and afterwards check various components of the contact center to validate if the interaction data as known by the centralized process matches the data as recorded by the contact center.
US12149653B2	Smart screen rotation based on facial analysis Methods and systems for rotating elements displayed by computing devices are described herein. At least one image of a user of a computing device may be captured by a camera of the computing device. An angle of the eyes of the user with respect to the computing device may be determined. Based on that determined angle, at least one element of content displayed by the computing device may be rotated so as to allow for display of that element in an orientation consumable by the user. For example, the element might be rotated at an angle corresponding to the angle of the eyes of the user with respect to the orientation of the computing device.
US12149647B2	Roll-slide mobile terminal In a roll-slide mobile terminal having a flexible display in which a front area is expanded or reduced, in order to solve a problem that the flexible display is not stably supported when expanded, there is provided a roll-slide mobile terminal comprising a first frame, a second frame configured to slidably move in a first direction with respect to the first frame, a display part configured to be flexible, having a front surface provided on a front surface of the first frame, wound at an end portion in a first direction of the second frame, and provided over a rear surface of the second frame, wherein a front surface area is expanded or retracted in response to a movement of the second frame, and an expansion support part configured to expand in the first direction in response to an expansion of the front surface area of the display part to support the front surface area of the display part.
US12149643B2	Device signature based on trim and redundancy information The present disclosure describes embodiments of a device with memory and a processor. The memory is configured to store integrated circuit (IC) trim and redundancy information. The processor is configured to extract bits from the IC trim and redundancy information, perform a hashing function on the extracted bits to generate hashed bits, and in response to statistical properties of the hashed bits meeting one or more criteria, output the hashed bits. In some embodiments, the memory that stores the IC trim and redundancy information can be different from other memory used by the device for other operations (e.g., accessing user data and program data that have been written into system memory).
US12149640B2	Technique for protecting secret information of authentication-target apparatus An authentication system for authenticating an authentication-target apparatus by transmitting challenge data from an authenticating apparatus to the authentication-target apparatus and transmitting response data from the authentication-target apparatus to the authenticating apparatus. The authentication-target apparatus updates ae secret key and an encrypted original key stored in a memory using a new secret key and a new encrypted original key, derives an authentication key based on an original key, and generates the response data based on a challenge data received from the authenticating apparatus and the authentication key. The authentication apparatus derives an authentication key based on identification information of the authentication-target apparatus and an authentication original key, generates response data for verification based on the challenge data and the authentication key, and obtains an authentication result.
US12149636B2	Computer-implemented system and method including public key combination verification A computer-implemented method is disclosed. The method includes providing a blockchain transaction comprising a public key combination verification function. The blockchain transaction is configured to be redeemable to permit access to, or transfer control of, a resource by providing to the blockchain transaction an input comprising: a plurality of public keys; a gradient value (λ) related to two of the plurality of public keys; and a group public key derived from a combination of the public keys and the gradient value (λ). The blockchain transaction is configured to apply the public key verification function to the input to verify, upon successful redemption of the transaction, that the group public key is derived from the combination of the plurality of public keys.
US12149634B2	Methods and devices for compressing signed media data A signed media bitstream comprises data units and signature units. Each signature unit is associated with one or more nearby data units and include at least one fingerprint derived from the associated data units and a digital signature of the at least one fingerprint. A storing method comprises: receiving a segment of the media bitstream; identifying N≥2 instances of a repeating data unit in the received segment; pruning up to N−1 of the identified instances of the repeating data unit; and storing the received segment after pruning. A validation method comprises: receiving a segment of the media bitstream stored in accordance with the storing method; and validating a signature unit using a digital signature contained therein. Despite the pruning of the repeating data unit, the received associated data units can be successfully validated, either directly or indirectly, by means of different embodiments herein.
US12149628B2	Self-authorizing identification and applications therefor Various embodiments are disclosed for self-authorized identification and services, and applications therefor. A computing device may generate a public-private key pair and a self-authorizing identifier (SAID), a byte string that is globally unique and immutable to the computing device. A remote service implementing a blockchain protocol may store a public key of the public-private key pair in a distributed blockchain ledger, which is used to authenticate the computing device in various network-based communications, and encrypt or decrypt such communications. An enclave service may be employed to asynchronously send messages between computing devices. The computing device may have an isolated environment that permits collaboration applications to execute therein, as well as an actallet that permits distribution applications not executing in the isolated environment to access the SAID or data pertaining thereto.
US12149627B2	Systems and methods for out-of-band authenticity verification of mobile applications Example embodiments of systems and methods for application verification are provided. An application may generate a cryptographic key, and encrypt the cryptographic key with a predefined public key. A server, in data communication with the application, may include a predefined private key. The application may transmit the cryptographic key to the server. The server may receive, from the application, the cryptographic key; decrypt the cryptographic key using the predefined private key; encrypt an authorization token using the decrypted key; and transmit, to the client application, the authorization token via an out-of-band channel. The application may receive, from the server, the authorization token via the out-of-band channel; and decrypt the authorization token to obtain access to one or more services associated with the server.
US12149625B2	Binding web components to protect accessing of resources Presented herein are systems and methods for binding web components to protect accessing of resources. A first server may receive, from a second server, a request to provide access to content for a first web component on a web application of a customer device. The first server may determine whether to issue an identifier to the customer device responsive to validating the request. The first server may generate, responsive to the determination, the identifier to bind the first web component with a second web component to permit access to the content for the first web component on the web application. The first server may transmit, to the second server, a response including the identifier and the content. The first server may communicate, via the second server, data associated with a user interaction with the content on the first web component bound with the second web component using the identifier.
US12149622B2	User state tracking system and operating method thereof A user log information output system includes a first user device configured to generate first user information by encrypting a unique identification (ID) of a first user according to a scheduled time; a first user server configured to generate first server information including a server group code of a hierarchical server group; a second user device configured to receive real-time token information through communication with the first user device, the real-time token information being generated based on the first user information and the first server information; and a second user server configured to generate proximity log information regarding the first user by reading the first user information and the first server information of the real-time token information received from the real-time token information from the second user device.
US12149618B2	Method and apparatus to facilitate transmission of an encrypted rolling code An encrypted rolling code, a plurality of differing data bit order patterns, and a plurality of differing data inversion patterns are provided. Based on the encrypted rolling code, patterns are selected from one or more of the plurality of differing data bit order patterns and the plurality of differing data inversion patterns. At least a part of the encrypted rolling code is transmitted to a movable barrier operator using the selected patterns as transmission characteristics.
US12149606B2	Methods and systems for encrypting rational numbers and adding randomness to RSA cryptosystems using P-ADIC numbers Disclosed are methods and systems to use p-adic numbers to permit a RSA cryptosystem to send rational numbers or to add randomness to the RSA cryptosystem. An embodiment may convert at the source device a rational number to an integer as p-adic based Hensel code representation of the rational number at the source device and then recover the rational number at the destination device by reversing the Hensel code back to the original rational number. Another embodiment may use a g-adic inverse of a message value together with a random number to obtain a different rational number to encrypt for each different random number resulting in different ciphertexts representing the same message value while still recovering the original message value despite having a different ciphertexts for the same message value. The various embodiments further retain the multiplicative homomorphism of the RSA cryptosystem since the p-adic Hensel codes are also multiplicative homomorphic.
US12149604B2	Practical sorting on large-scale encrypted data Disclosed is a calculation device. The present calculation device includes: a memory for storing a plurality of homomorphic ciphertexts for an approximate message including an error; and a processor for sorting the plurality of homomorphic ciphertexts by using a 5-way sorter which can sort five homomorphic ciphertexts in a single stage.
US12149602B2	Method and system for optimizing dynamic user experience applications Systems and methods may be provided for generating and modifying dynamic user experience (UX) applications that may be agile, personalized, quickly delivered, and capable of being seamlessly integrated across an organization. The behavior and functionality of the applications (e.g., user interfaces therein) may be tailored specifically to individual users in response to learned user preferences or tendencies, for example. Consequently, these dynamic UX applications may be rapidly deployed and capable of providing a satisfactory yet pliable user experience across applications.
US12149600B2	Differentiating controllers and reconcilers for software operators in a distributed computing environment A technique for differentiation controllers and reconcilers for software operators in a distributed computing environment is described herein. In one example of the present disclosure, a system can include a node of a distributed computing environment that includes a container configured to execute a controller associated with a software operator. The controller can determine a reconciler that is associated with the container, detect an event that is associated with the reconciler, and invoke the reconciler via a selected communication protocol. The system can include the reconciler configured to process the event in response to being invoked by the controller and to provide a response associated with the event to the controller via the selected communication protocol.
US12149596B2	QUIC and anycast proxy resiliency Techniques for managing migrations of QUIC connection session(s) across proxy nodes, data centers, and/or private application nodes are described herein. A global key-value datastore, accessible by proxy nodes and/or application nodes, may store mappings between a first QUIC connection, associated with a proxy node and a client device, on the frontend of the proxy node and a second QUIC connection, associated with the proxy node and an application node, on the backend of the proxy node. With the global key-value datastore being accessible by the proxy nodes, when a proxy node receives a QUIC packet on the front end or the back end, the proxy node may determine where to map this connection to on the opposite end. Additionally, with the global key-value datastore being accessible to the application nodes, when an application node receives a QUIC packet, the application node may determine the client device associated with the connection.
US12149595B2	Local alerts on non-local channels Devices, systems and processes for providing local alerts to users via non-local channels are described. A process may include receiving, by a content distributor system, an alert message. The alert message includes a first alert condition and a second alert condition. The first alert condition and the second alert condition are identified in the alert message, and an alert notice is generated, based on the identified alert conditions, and transmitted to a user device coupled to the content distributor system. The first alert condition specifies an alert type. The second alert condition specifies a time period. The alert message may include a third alert condition specifying an action for a user of the user device to take or refrain from taking during the time period and the alert notice may identify the action. The alert message may include a target condition and the alert notice identifies actions to be performed.
US12149593B2	Communication apparatus, server, communication system, and communication method In a communication apparatus communicating with a server based on connection information and firmware for connecting to the server, in order to appropriately communicate with various servers, the communication apparatus is configured to communicate with a first server based on first connection information and first firmware for connecting to the first server, and acquire, from the first server, second firmware for connecting to a second server different from the first server.
US12149592B2	System and method for contextual communication A system and method for facilitating contextual communications that includes creating a contextual resource that is initially associated with at least at first communication session; receiving an incoming communication request and establishing a second communication session; associating the second communication session with the contextual resource; setting contextual information of the contextual resource; performing at least one contextual communication action.
US12149588B2	Cloud defined storage Storage processing units or SPUs (120) operate backend storage (150) to provide scalable storage services, redundancy, and disaster recovery to an enterprise. Each SPU (120) may reside in a host server (110) and may include an processor domain (490) with backup power (440) and isolation from a host domain (480) to allow the SPU (120) to operate after the host (110) fails or otherwise stops providing power. A cloud-based management system (180) may assess the storage needs of the enterprise, identify a storage style suited to the enterprise, and direct the SPUs (120) to create virtual volumes (122, 124, 128) having characteristics according to the storage style identified. The cloud based management system (180) may eliminate the need for the enterprise to have expertise in storage management.
US12149587B2	Synchronizing nodes in a network A first node may transmit a first multicast beacon to one or more nodes of a squad that form a network. The first node may receive a unicast synchronize request from a second node of the squad. The unicast synchronize request initiates a synchronization process between the first node and the second node and includes a first node list of nodes in the squad. The first node may compare the first node list in the unicast synchronization request to a second node list stored by the first node. The first node may determine one or more node information differences based on the comparison. The first node may transmit a second multicast beacon with the one or more node information differences to the one or more nodes of the squad.
US12149582B2	Dynamic allocation of platform-independent machine learning state machines between edge-based and cloud-based computing resources Implementations are disclosed for dynamically allocating aspects of platform-independent machine-learning based agricultural state machines among edge and cloud computing resources. In various implementations, a GUI may include a working canvas on which graphical elements corresponding to platform-independent logical routines are manipulable to define a platform-independent agricultural state machine. Some of the platform-independent logical routines may include logical operations that process agricultural data using phenotyping machine learning model(s). Edge computing resource(s) available to a user for which the agricultural state machine is to be implemented may be identified. Constraint(s) imposed by the user on implementation of the agricultural state machine may be ascertained. Based on the edge computing resource(s) and constraint(s), logical operations of some platform-independent logical routines may be dynamically allocated to the edge computing resource(s), and logical operations of other platform-independent logical routines may be dynamically allocated to a cloud computing resource.
US12149580B2	Adaptive progressive downloading of a content broadcast in real time on a mobile radiocommunication network, associated computer program and multimedia-stream player terminal The adaptive progressive downloading of a content broadcast in real time on a radiocommunication network, implemented by a multimedia stream player terminal connected to the radiocommunication network is disclosed. A method implements, before playing the content, a configuration, according to at least one characteristic of the radiocommunication network, of a depth of buffer dedicated to the temporary storage of the content before playing, in the multimedia stream player terminal.
US12149579B2	Point cloud data transmission device, point cloud data transmission method, point cloud data reception device, and point cloud data reception method A point cloud data transmission method according to embodiments may include acquiring point cloud data, encoding the point cloud data, and transmitting a bitstream including the encoded point cloud data and signaling information.
US12149577B2	Methods and systems for routing media A system for routing media comprises a cloud computing device, networked device(s) placed on a local network deployed at a location being surveilled, the networked device(s) comprising media device(s) each configured to generate media stream data as the location is being surveilled, and a gateway device placed on the local network and having network connectivity to the cloud computing device, the gateway device configured for detecting the networked device(s), obtaining, based on the detecting, rule(s) indicative of when the media stream data is to be routed via the gateway device and when the media stream data is to be routed directly to the cloud computing device, monitoring parameter(s) associated with the local network and/or an environment of the location to determine whether the rule(s) is satisfied, and, when the rule(s) is satisfied, instructing at least one of the networked device(s) to route the media stream data according to the rule(s).
US12149574B2	Data collaboration application in a networked environment One example operation may include receiving, via a collaboration server, objects from respective client devices, providing the objects to a common virtual workspace, receiving one or more modifications to the objects from one or more of the client devices, forwarding the one or more modifications to each of the plurality of client devices, and updating a master version of the common virtual workspace to include the one or more modifications.
US12149573B1	Method of providing secure ad hoc communication and collaboration to multiple parties Systems and methods for facilitating communication between users of a collaboration service on a private network are presented. A first server is configured to host the collaboration service. A first client device corresponds to a registered user of the collaboration service. The first client device is in direct communication with the first server to use the collaboration service. An application portal instance is configured and deployed by a second server. The application portal instance is configured to directly connect to the first server. The application portal instance provides an indirect connection to the first server. The indirect connection is hidden from users of the system. A second client device corresponds to a non-registered user of the collaboration service. The second client device connects directly to the application portal instance. The first client device and the second client device communicate over the private network using the collaboration service.
US12149570B2	Access control of audio and video streams and control of representations for communication sessions The disclosed techniques provide features for managing conference user interfaces and access rights to content teams for event subgroups. Movement of an avatar or a user representation in a user interface and selective audio streaming can be achieved in response to a selection of a command, e.g., a “listen” command, corresponding to a specific subgroup from a list on a side panel. The disclosed techniques include a number of types of commands that are used to control the movement of an avatar and control access to a number of select audio streams for a computer of a user. The system moves the avatar from an original position to a second position near or within a graphical representation of the subgroup in response to the command. Access to audio streams can be modified to be bidirectional or unidirectional in response to the command.
US12149566B1	Call Session Control Function (CSCF) reselection in wireless communication networks Various embodiments comprise a wireless communication network to support Internet Protocol Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) voice calling. In some examples, the wireless communication network comprises Call Session Control Function (CSCF) circuitry and E.164 Number Mapping (ENUM) circuitry. The CSCF circuitry receives a Mobile Originating Session Initiation Protocol (MO IMS) invite message from an originating User Equipment (UE). The CSCF circuitry performs an ENUM query for the destination number to route the invite to the terminating UE network. The ENUM circuitry responds with routing information and realm information for the terminating UE. The CSCF circuitry stores the realm type in association with the MO SIP invite and transfers the MO SIP invite. The CSCF circuitry receives an error response from the peer network for the SIP invite. The CSCF circuitry determines if retry is allowed based on the realm type. If retry is allowed, the CSCF circuitry transfers a retry request.
US12149557B2	Security model utilizing multi-channel data Systems, methods, and computer-readable storage media are utilized to analyze multi-channel data based on a security model in a computer network environment. One system includes a plurality of data channels configured to access entity data and a processing circuit communicatively coupled to a data channel of the plurality of data channels, the processing circuit configured to identify at least one vulnerability, determine an impact of the at least one vulnerability, assign the first property to a first cybersecurity dimension, generate a cybersecurity risk score based at least on the impact of the at least one vulnerability, and generate a multi-dimensional score for a target computer network environment based on the cybersecurity risk score.
US12149553B1	Visibility into security Security event data from each of a plurality of security data sources is received, each unit of the security event data being associated with a security event involving one or more human users included in a monitored set of human users. The security event data is used to generate for each of at least a subset of the monitored set of human users a user-specific security risk score that is determined based at least in part on: a level of access to protected resources that a user has; an attack type that has been attempted with respect to the user; and an action taken by the user, as reflected in the security event data associated with the user from two or more of said security data sources.
US12149545B2	Security model Embodiments are disclosed for a method for a security model. The method includes identifying a plurality of primary semantic relationships between a plurality of initial incident artifacts for a security domain based on a plurality of historical incidents. The method further includes identifying a plurality of parsed incident artifacts from a security encyclopedia based on the initial incident artifacts. Additionally, the method includes determining a plurality of secondary semantic relationships between the parsed incident artifacts based on a natural language processing of the security encyclopedia. Also, the method includes determining a plurality of influence directions corresponding to the secondary semantic relationships based on the secondary semantic relationships and the historical incidents. Further, the method includes generating an influence network based on the initial incident artifacts, the primary semantic relationships, the historical incidents, the parsed incident artifacts, and the secondary semantic relationships.
US12149544B2	Edge-based polymorphic network with advanced agentless security Aspects of the present application comprise an edge-based polymorphic network and associated agentless security solutions. Present systems and methods may effectively shapeshift the network through network topology management, node templates, link templates, and network packet manipulation. Using agentless techniques, the network may be reshaped when attacks are detected in a manner that impacts only the attacker, and an agentless color theory security solution may be used to dynamically protect network traffic.
US12149543B1	Crowdsourced Bayesian packet analysis for detecting anomalies in network packet header data associated with a user's smart device Anomalies are detected in network packet header data associated with a user's smart device that is in communication with one or more external sources via an electronic network. The user's smart device has one or more device classifications. Bayesian priors are stored of network traffic obtained from crowdsourced network packet header data for a plurality of smart devices having one of the same device classifications as the user's smart device. Network traffic obtained from network packet header data for the user's smart device is captured. The network traffic for the user's smart device is compared with the Bayesian priors and any anomalies are identified. The anomalies indicate potential abnormal data communication behavior regarding the user's smart device.
US12149540B2	Systems and methods for identifying security requirements in a ZTNA system Various embodiments provide systems and methods for providing security in a ZTNA system.
US12149538B2	Techniques for deployment of deceptive decoy elements in computing environments A system and method for the deployment of deceptive decoy elements in a computerized environment to increase user compliance with a cyber security policy. A method includes: deploying a deceptive decoy element in a folder stored in a computerized environment, wherein a user is associated with a dataset indicating a user permission, the folder having a sensitivity level, wherein the deceptive decoy element is a data element deployed based on the sensitivity level of the folder in which the deceptive decoy element is deployed, wherein each deceptive decoy element is configured to provide an indication of a trigger event when triggered by the user; generating a customized electronic message for the user when the indication of the trigger event is provided by the deceptive decoy element, wherein the customized electronic message is generated based on the dataset associated with the user; and sending the customized electronic message for display.
US12149537B2	Resource access control in cloud environments Access control management to shared resources in a common resource directory between different users of cloud data centers can be implemented as computer-readable methods, media and systems. A resource managing service receives a request to access resources of a resource directory managed by the resource managing service. The request includes a token for identity authentication. The resource managing service determined a container membership associated with the token, where the container membership is associated with a container from a set of containers for the resource directory. The container includes one or more resources in a tree data structure of the resource directory. The resource managing service filters access rights defined in authorization primitives associated with the container membership based on container policy rules for the set of containers in the resource directory. The resource managing service provides access to a set of resources from the resource directory.
US12149533B2	Graphical user interfaces for authentication to use digital content In one aspect, at least one device may include at least one processor and storage accessible to the at least one processor. The storage may include instructions executable by the at least one processor to access an image and to execute object recognition using the image to identify at least a first object from the image. The instructions may also be executable to access a database indicating whether use permissions are grantable for various objects and to determine, based on accessing the database, that use permissions are grantable for the first object. The instructions may then be executable to control a display to present a graphical user interface (GUI) on the display, where the GUI may indicate the use permissions for the first object and include a selector that is selectable to initiate secure communication to authenticate an entity as being granted the use permissions for the first object.
US12149524B1	Load balancing network for dynamically adapting and communicating data The disclosed method includes: receiving first and second user requests; executing, using a traffic security system, a first security operation associated with a network; executing, using the traffic security system, a second security operation associated with the network; determining, using an API authorizer, whether the first user request associated with the first user originates from a first approved application; and determining, using the API authorizer, whether the second user request associated with the second user originates from the first approved application or a second approved application. In response to the API authorizer determining the first user request and the second user request originate from the approved applications, the method includes: directing, an API entry point, to activate APIs for responding to the first and second user requests; and coordinating or distributing, using a network load balancer, execution of the first and second user requests.
US12149523B2	Event based authentication A method and system for determining a custom personal identification number (PIN) for a user based on an ordered series of events are disclosed, comprising generating the custom PIN for the user based on a set of stored events of the user, each event associated with a point in time and authenticating the user responsive to receiving information that matches the custom PIN. A chronological order of a selected subset of events can be determined. A chronological identifier can be assigned representative of a position of the respective event in the determined chronological order. The custom PIN can be determined as an arrangement of the chronological identifiers. The selected subset of events can be presented to the user in the arranged order. The user can be authenticated responsive to determining that a received indication of a chronological arrangement matches the determined PIN.
US12149517B2	Management of identifications of an endpoint having a memory device secured for reliable identity validation A server system stores data associating a secret of the memory device configured in an endpoint, a first identification, and device information of the endpoint. After receiving a request to bind a second identification to the endpoint, the server system can tie identity data of the endpoint to the second identification. For example, after receiving a validation request containing identity data generated by the memory device, the server system can verify a verification code in the identity data based at least in part on the secret of the memory device. The verification code is generated from a message presented in the identity data and a cryptographic key derived at least in part from the secret. Based on validating the identity data, the server system can provide a validation response to indicate that the identity data is generated by the endpoint having the second identification.
US12149516B2	System and methods for tokenized hierarchical secured asset distribution In one aspect, the present disclosure relates to a method comprising: receiving an input from a user; verifying the security clearance level in accordance with a user of the user interface; analyzing at least one security clearance level associated with each portion of the data request; locating a data element located in at least one external database, the data element being associated with the data request; parsing the data element, the parsing comprising: determining an allowance of access to at least a portion of the data element in accordance with the following: relevance to the data request, and the verified security clearance level of the user, generating a token, the token being configured to allow access data element, the token comprising a security layer in accordance with the parsing of the data element; and transmitting the token to the user device.
US12149515B2	Distributed key secret for rewritable blockchain A system includes circuitry for rewriting blockchains in a non-tamper-evident or tamper-evident operation using a key secret held in portions by multiple individually untrusted parties. The blockchains may include a series of blocks secured by integrity codes that may prevent non-tamper-evident rewrites by non-trusted parties that are not in possession of the key secret or individually-untrusted parties in possession of only a portion of the key secret. In some cases, multiple individually-untrusted parties may combine their portions into the key secret. As a group, the multiple individually-untrusted parties may perform non-tamper-evident operation with respect to at least one integrity code within the blockchain.
US12149513B2	Protecting data transfer between a secure application and networked devices An apparatus to facilitate protecting data transfer between a secure application and networked devices is disclosed. The apparatus includes a processor to provide a trusted execution environment (TEE) to run an application, wherein the processor is to utilize the application in the TEE to: generate encrypted data of the application; copy the encrypted data to a local shared buffer; interface with a source network interface controller (NIC) to initiate a copy over a network of the encrypted data from the local shared buffer to a remote buffer of a remote platform, wherein the source NIC operates outside of a trust boundary of the TEE; and communicate at least one message with the remote platform to indicate that the encrypted data is available and to enable the remote platform to verify integrity of the encrypted data, wherein the one least one message comprises an authentication tag.
US12149507B2	Proxy network with self-erasing processing elements Systems and methods are provided for maintaining data privacy in a communication system. The method includes: providing a proxy network which creates a plurality of ingress processing elements and a plurality of egress processing elements, wherein the ingress processing elements and the egress processing elements each include at least a private processing unit and a private memory area; receiving a request at a selected ingress processing element from a first server; routing the request from the selected ingress processing element to a selected egress processing element; forwarding the request from the selected egress processing element to a second server; and erasing both the selected ingress processing element and the selected egress processing element.
US12149505B2	Utilization of multiple exit internet protocol addresses in a virtual private network A method including configuring a VPN server to receive, from a user device during an established VPN connection between the VPN server and the user device, a data request for the VPN server to retrieve data of interest; configuring the VPN server to transmit, during the established VPN connection, a query to retrieve the data of interest based on utilizing a first exit IP address; configuring the VPN server to determine, based on transmitting the query, that the first exit IP address is blocked; configuring the VPN server to retrieve, during the established VPN connection and based on determining that the first exit IP address is blocked by the host device, the data of interest based on utilizing a second exit IP address; and configuring the VPN server to transmit, to the user device during the established VPN connection, the data of interest is disclosed. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US12149504B2	Firewall drift monitoring and detection The present application relates to embodiments for detecting firewall drift. In some embodiments, a first set of firewall rules of a first firewall for a first instance of a distributed application, a second set of firewall rules of a second firewall for a second instance of the distributed application, and a mapping of IP addresses to identifiers of services from amongst a first set of services of the first instance and a second set of services of the second instance may be obtained. First connectivity data and second connectivity data may be generated indicating, for each of IP address associated with the first and second set of firewall rules, a respective port number over which communications between a respective IP address are transmitted, and generating comparison data indicating whether firewall drift is detected based on a comparison of the first connectivity data and the second connectivity data.
US12149500B2	Alias configuration management Implementations are described herein for reconciling alias configuration files. In various implementations, networking information may be retrieved from an alias server. The networking information may correspond to registered aliases of a plurality of data sources made accessible by a plurality of distributed control nodes (DCNs) of a process automation facility. The plurality of DCNs may be interrogated based on the networking information corresponding to the registered aliases. Based on responses to the interrogating, an updated alias configuration file may be generated and compared with a previously utilized alias configuration file.
US12149498B2	Updating meshnet internet protocol maps in a mesh network A method including receiving, by a first device in communication with a second device in a mesh network, communication information indicating a meshnet address associated with the second device to be utilized for communicating meshnet data with the second device; and updating, by the first device, a meshnet address map to indicate an association of the second user device with the meshnet address. Various other aspects are contemplated.
US12149496B2	Electronic device, server, and control method and location information providing method for the electronic device Provided is an electronic device which periodically transmits current location information to the location information service providing server in case of executing grouping applications, produces group including at least one member, selected by a user, of address list information received from the location information service providing server, requests messages requesting group participation to the member included in the group through the social network service providing server in case of generating predetermined events, and periodically receives the location information from the member accepting the group participation and displays the received location information on a map.
US12149495B2	Providing a system with access to a resource using a disposable email address One or more computing devices, systems, and/or methods for providing a system with access to resources associated with a user account using a disposable email address (DEA) are provided. A request to provide a system with access to a first set of resources may be received. The first set of resources may be associated with a first email account associated with a first email address. A first DEA associated with the first email account may be generated. The first DEA may be transmitted to the system. A first set of modified emails may be generated based upon a first set of emails of the first email account. A first modified email of the first set of modified emails may comprise an indication of the first DEA. Access to the first set of modified emails may be provided to the system. The first DEA may be deactivated.
US12149494B2	User identification display method and apparatus in mail sharing, and storage medium An information display method and apparatus, an electronic device, and a storage medium are provided. The method includes: on the basis of an email sharing operation triggered by a sharer, sharing, according to sharee information, a target email to a sharee corresponding to the sharee information; obtaining a first identifier corresponding to the sharee; and displaying, on an email display interface of the target email on an email client of the sharer, the first identifier corresponding to the sharee. The technical solution can simplify user viewing operations, thus increasing information viewing efficiency and improving user experience.
US12149493B1	Automatic poll generation based on user communications A method, computer system, and computer program product are provided for automatically generating polls. A message of a plurality of messages is received corresponding to a conversation between a plurality of users. One or more candidate polls are generated using a natural language processing model and determining a poll type for each of the one or more candidate polls based on the message and a context of the conversation. It is determined that at least one candidate poll of the one or more candidate polls is relevant according to the context of the conversation. In response to determining that the at least one candidate poll is relevant, the poll of the poll type is generated based on the message for presentation to the plurality of users.
US12149487B2	Sidelink resource pool configuration for sidelink communications A wireless device receives a first configuration message comprising a cell specific time division duplex (TDD) uplink (UL)-downlink (DL) pattern indicating a number of uplink slots. A size of a sidelink resource pool bitmap based on the number of the uplink slots is determined. The wireless device receives, based on the size of the sidelink resource pool bitmap, a second configuration message comprising a sidelink resource pool bitmap. One or more sidelink slots are determined by applying the sidelink resource pool bitmap to the uplink slots. The wireless device transmits one or more transport blocks via the one or more sidelink slots.
US12149484B2	Variable high throughput control field The present disclosure provides for methods, systems and apparatus related to Variable High Throughput (HT) Control Field. An aspect of the disclosure provides for a method performed by a station (STA). The method includes sending, to a second STA, a message including a frame, the frame including a variable high throughput (HT) control field. The variable HT further includes a first subfield indicating an N number of control IDs, wherein N is equal to or more than one. The variable HT further includes N additional subfields. Each of the N additional subfield includes: a control identifier (ID) field and a control information field associated with the Control ID field. The method further includes receiving, from the second STA, a response.
US12149482B2	Code block grouping and feedback that support efficient retransmissions Methods, systems, and devices for wireless communication are described. A wireless device may transmit feedback, such as hybrid automatic repeat request (HARQ) feedback for groups of code blocks rather than for an entire transport block or individual code blocks. The wireless device may transmit an acknowledgement (ACK) or negative-acknowledgement (NACK) to provide feedback for each code block group of a set of code block groups. An ACK may indicate that code blocks in a code block group were successfully decoded, and a NACK may indicate that at least one code block in a code block group was not successfully decoded. Wireless devices may support several techniques for grouping code blocks for feedback reporting to allow for efficient retransmissions and limited overhead. Different grouping schemes may be employed depending on system constraints, device capability, link conditions, or the like.
US12149476B2	Method for sending beam failure request, and electronic device A method for sending a beam failure request and an electronic device are provided. The method includes: determining a first resource for sending a beam failure request in a physical uplink control channel (PUCCH) in response to a beam failure occurring in a secondary cell of a server cell; determining whether a second resource occupied by another signaling to be sent through the PUCCH is overlapped with the first resource; and sending the beam failure request at least on the first resource in response to determining that the second resource is overlapped with the first resource.
US12149475B2	Method for channel state information measurement and computation for high mobility A method of downlink channel state information (DL CSI) computation and reporting is proposed to support high velocity in new radio (NR) systems. In a first novel aspect, two CSI reference slots are defined. CSI reference slot for CSI measurement is defined for determining which CSI-RS/SSB occasion(s) is used for computing CSI. CSI reference slot for CSI computation is defined for determining the slot where UE assumes the CSI computation should be based upon the channel at that time onwards. In a second novel aspect, UE can be configured with a CSI computation period consisting of one or N slots and can be divided into multiple sub-periods without overlap. UE can be configured to compute and report wideband CSI and subband CSI for the whole CSI computation period and/or for each sub-period.
US12149474B2	Solutions for enhancement of inter-cell operation for multi-TRP Configuring non-zero-power channel state information reference signal (NZP-CSI-RS) may include encoding a channel state information (CSI) configuration communication for transmission to a user equipment (UE) that is in connected mode with both a first transmission and reception point (TRP) associated with a serving cell and a second TRP associated with a neighbor cell. The NZP-CSI-RS configuration communication may establish a plurality of parameters for NZP-CSI-RS in the serving cell and the neighbor cell.
US12149470B2	Device-to-device periodic signal configuration Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may transmit a first set of periodic signals associated with a first set of spatial relationships in a first set of periodic signal transmission occasions associated with a first periodicity; and transmit one or more second sets of periodic signals with a second set of spatial relationships in one or more second sets of periodic signal transmission occasions associated with a second periodicity, wherein the one or more second sets of periodic signal transmission occasions occur before a next first set of the periodic signal transmission occasions. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12149468B2	Method performed by user equipment, and user equipment A method performed by user equipment, including: step A of acquiring time-domain configuration information and/or time-domain indication information; and step B of determining timing-related information according to the time-domain configuration information and/or the time-domain indication information and/or other information.
US12149467B2	Spatial relation in new radio A wireless device activates one or more transmission configuration indicator (TCI) states for decoding physical downlink shared channel (PDSCH). A wireless device transmits a sounding reference signal (SRS) with a spatial domain transmission filter determined based on a reference signal in an activated TCI state, of the one or more TCI states, with the lowest TCI state index among one or more TCI state indexes of the one or more TCI states.
US12149465B2	Reference signal configuration and quasi co-location mappings for wide bandwidth systems Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a user equipment (UE) may receive a configuration that indicates a set of frequency components for carrier aggregation and that indicates multiple sets of channel state information reference signals (CSI-RSs) or sounding reference signals (SRSs), wherein different sets of CSI-RSs or SRSs, of the multiple sets of CSI-RSs or SRSs, correspond to different subsets of frequency components included in the set of frequency components. The UE may monitor for one or more CSI-RSs or SRSs, corresponding to a subset of frequency components included in the set of frequency components, based at least in part on the configuration. Numerous other aspects are provided.
US12149462B2	Positioning reference signal The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system with a technology for Internet of Things (IoT). The present disclosure may be applied to intelligent services based on the 5G communication technology and the IoT-related technology, such as smart home, smart building, smart city, smart car, connected car, health care, digital education, smart retail, security and safety services. A method is provided for mapping Position Reference Signals (PRS) in a wireless communication system comprising a first User Equipment (UE) and a second UE. The method comprises identifying a first Bandwidth Part (BWP) for the first UE and a second BWP for the second UE, and mapping PRS to one or both of the first BWP and the second BWP.
US12149460B2	Wireless communication method, network device, and terminal device Embodiments of the present disclosure provide a wireless communication method and a device. The method includes sending, by a network device, configuration signaling to a terminal device. The configuration signaling includes multiple sets of configuration information for a first type of channel, and/or a correspondence between the multiple sets of configuration information for the first type of channel and at least one set of configuration information for a second type of channel.
US12149458B2	Sidelink primary component carrier for carrier aggregation Various aspects of the present disclosure generally relate to wireless communication. In some aspects, a first user equipment (UE) may obtain an indication of a primary component carrier for a sidelink communication using carrier aggregation. The first UE may transmit the sidelink communication to a second UE using the primary component carrier. Numerous other aspects are described.
US12149454B2	Virtual computing services deployment network A virtual computing services deployment network provides a consistent user experience from a variety of locations via a connection fabric for accessing a virtual desktop. The connection fabric identifies a user profile defining the virtualized desktop resources required for a particular user. The connection fabric includes distributed data and processing in nodes distributed throughout a public access network accessible from a user access device. Each of the fabric nodes is operable to provide an identifier (such as an IP address) of a computing resource adapted to provide the user specific desktop. A user access device accesses a local fabric node in the connection fabric, and the fabric node determines a computing resource matching a user profile of expected computing resources. The fabric node associates the user access device with the computing resource and sends the user access device an identifier for directly accessing the computing resource.
US12149451B2	Avoiding jitter in a communication system Avoiding jitter in a communication network. A method for avoiding jitter includes receiving, an ingress point of the communication network, a packet, wherein the packet is received at the ingress point at a time within a particular time slot. The method also includes the ingress point creating a modified packet that includes the received packet and a slot identifier indicating the particular time slot in which the packet was received, the ingress point transmitting (s406) the modified packet towards an egress point of the communication network.
US12149446B2	Message matching table lookup method, system, storage medium, and terminal Disclosed are a method for message match table lookup, a system, a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium and a terminal. The method for message match table lookup includes: performing on-demand data bit width compression on information of a specified part of an input message; extracting N groups of data from compressed data, performing intra-group data comparison to obtain N groups of comparison results, and performing true value splicing on the N groups of comparison results, where N is an integer greater than 1; performing match searching of a ternary content addressable memory (TCAM) by using the true value splicing result as a keyword; and searching, according to a match hit result of the TCAM, for an Action Random Access Memory (Action RAM), and outputting, by the Action RAM, a table lookup request.
US12149445B2	Packet tracing mechanism in a network leveraging SRv6 The present disclosure provides a packet tracing mechanism will be described that provides packet tracing information to a mobile network controller. In one aspect, a method includes receiving a data packet sent from a source node to a destination node; determining if the data packet is to be updated with packet tracing information; and upon determining that the data packet is to be updated, updating the packet tracing information of the data packet to include identification of the network device and an ingress timestamp of the data packet at the network device for a corresponding network controller to determining network routing policies.
US12149444B2	Routing rule management method and communications apparatus A routing rule management method and a communications apparatus, where after a first user plane function network element receives, through a protocol data unit (PDU) session, a first data packet, from a terminal, whose source address is a first address, the first user plane function network element generates a first routing rule corresponding to the PDU session when determining that the first address is an unknown media access control (MAC) address, and where the first routing rule is used to forward, to the PDU session, a data packet sent to the first address. After detecting the unknown MAC address, the first user plane function network element may generate a routing rule corresponding to the unknown MAC address without involvement of a session management function network element.
US12149437B1	Auto load balancing Automatic load-balancing techniques in a network device are used to select, from a multipath group, a path to assign to a flow based on observed state attributes such as path state(s), device state(s), port state(s), or queue state(s) of the paths. A mapping of the path previously assigned to a flow or group of flows (e.g., on account of having then been optimal in view of the observed state attributes) is maintained, for example, in a table. So long as the flow(s) are active and the path is still valid, the mapped path is selected for subsequent data units belonging to the flow(s), which may, among other effects, avoid or reduce packet re-ordering. However, if the flow(s) go idle, or if the mapped path fails, a new optimal path may be assigned to the flow(s) from the multipath group.
US12149431B2	Network devices with hardware accelerated table updates A network device can include a main processor and a packet processor. A method is provided that includes storing a table of values in the packet processor, using the packet processor to receive from the main processor a value that can be used to update the table of values, and using acceleration hardware in the packet processor to update the table of values based on the value received from the main processor without any additional interaction with the software running on the main processor.
US12149430B1	Method and apparatus for providing network situational awareness Network route control plane data, advertised by one or more routers on a network, is received from a passive discovery module. The passive discovery module is configured to communicate with the routers using one or more routing protocols, but not to advertise route data. The received network route control plane data is compared to network element data stored in a network element database. If the received network route control plane data is not contained in the network element database, the received network route control plane data is stored in the network element database. If the received network route control plane data is contained in the network element data database, the received network route control plane data is compared to target asset data stored in a target asset database. If the received network route control plane data is not contained in the target asset database, the received network route control plane data is stored in the target asset database. The target asset database is analyzed for unscanned targets. Data describing unscanned targets is delivered to an active discovery module.
US12149427B2	Methods and systems for polling devices Systems and methods are described for adjusting an operating characteristic associated with a premises device. The premises device may receive one or more communications that indicate an adjustment to the operating characteristic associated with the premises device.
US12149425B2	Adjustable keepalive timer Keepalive packets are transmitted between a sender node and a receiver node at an interval that varies depending on the transit times of previously transmitted keepalive packets. The transit time is based on when a keepalive packet is transmitted to the receiver node and when a corresponding feedback packet is received from the receiver node. The transmission interval varies depending on the path conditions between the sender node and the receiver node, which may be reflected in the transit time.
US12149424B2	Internet of things event management systems and methods Internet of Things (IoT) event objects can be tailored to specific device types and capabilities. An IoT event object can use a flexible definition of an event that can be reconfigured. An IoT event object allows for the ability to set different triggering conditions and priorities. Individual event definitions can be extended to create more complex events. A Notification Handler supports sending a request or command in response to an event that requires action.
US12149419B1	Benchmarking and prediction of cloud system performance Computer-implemented methods selecting a cloud computing system for deployment of a workload are provided. Aspects include obtaining an input function that characterizes the workload and obtaining a plurality of performance models, wherein each of the plurality of performance models corresponds to one of a plurality of cloud computing systems including the cloud computing system. Aspects also include applying the input function into each of the plurality of performance models, calculating one or more of a gain, a phase shift, and a stability margin for each of the plurality of performance models, and selecting the cloud computing system from the plurality of cloud computing systems based at least in part on the one or more of the gain, the phase shift, and the stability margin.
US12149416B2	Hybrid graph-based representation Network traffic is monitored over a period of time (e.g., network traffic of a corporate network). Based on the monitored network traffic: an abstract temporal graph of the network traffic is generated; graph-based node embeddings of the abstract temporal graph are learned; edge tabular embeddings for edges of the abstract temporal graph are learned; and hybrid embeddings are computed. The computed hybrid embeddings are based on the learned graph-based node embeddings for the abstract temporal graph and the learned edge tabular embedding for the edges of the abstract temporal graph. This process is then repeated over multiple time periods and temporal trajectories are computed using the computed hybrid embeddings for each time period. The temporal trajectories are then used for analysis of the network. For example, the temporal trajectories are used to identify anomalies for prevention of security breaches of the network.
US12149411B2	Method and system for locating micro-service fusing anomaly, device and medium The present disclosure discloses a method and system for locating a micro-service fusing anomaly, a device and a medium. The method includes: creating a micro-service application including a plurality of components, and determining whether a component configured with a fusing protection strategy is present in the micro-service application; in response to the presence of the component configured with the fusing protection strategy in the micro-service application, monitoring the component configured with the fusing protection strategy, and collecting data of all nodes under the component; in response to detecting the presence of a node which triggers fusing, in the component, screening out data within a preset time period; and matching a preset anomaly keyword according to the data within the preset time period, and associating the anomaly keyword with the node, so as to locate an anomaly.
US12149409B2	Electronic device for supporting access to wireless media using target wake time (TWT) defined in IEEE 802.11 standard An electronic device is provided, which includes a housing, at least one wireless communication circuit located inside the housing and configured to: receive, from an AP device through a wireless medium, a target wake time (TWT) element indicating a TWT service period and a type of traffic that is associated with latency of the traffic; in response to receiving the TWT element, generate data frame associated with the type of traffic indicated by the TWT element; and transmit, to the AP device through the wireless medium, the data frame associated with the type of traffic during the TWT service period indicated by the TWT element.
US12149408B2	Device oriented edge deployment According to one embodiment, a method, computer system, and computer program product for managing application deployment among edge devices is provided. The embodiment may include identifying respective computing characteristics of all edge devices of a network. The embodiment may include categorizing the edge devices into one or more categories based on identified respective computing characteristics. The embodiment may include classifying a type of a computing task to be deployed to one or more of the edge devices. The embodiment may include mapping the computing task to a category of the one or more categories. The embodiment may include calculating a respective computing score for each edge device of the category. The embodiment may include ranking edge devices of the category based on their respective computing scores. The embodiment may include deploying the computing task to a top-ranked edge device of the category.
US12149404B1	Network records for detecting impairments within a service provider network Systems, methods, and apparatuses can detect whether an impairment is present within a service provider network. The impairment can cause a service provided by the service provider network to not perform as expected. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can develop multiple network records to record the performance of the service provider network at various instances in time. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can compare these network records among each other to detect for the presence of the impairment within the service provider network. These systems, methods, and apparatuses can thereafter diagnose and/or remedy the impairment when present within the service provider network.
US12149403B2	Switch monitoring system and method of use A system is disclosed that monitors endpoints such as video cameras and audio devices for malfunction through a novel TDMA device allocation format. The system isolates and analyzes a set of groups of video streams in a rotating and recurring fashion and generates alerts and remedial commands based on the analysis. The system also provides endpoint management functions such as password analysis and firewall functions.
US12149402B2	Method and system for evaluating peer groups for comparative anomaly Example aspects include techniques for implementing peer group evaluation for comparative anomaly. These techniques may include determining a candidate group including a plurality of component metrics, and determining that the plurality of component metrics are a peer group based at least in part on a cluster profile of the candidate group and the candidate group exhibiting peer-like behavior of a period of time. In addition, the techniques may include detecting anomalous activity based at least in part on first performance information of a component metric deviating from second performance information for the peer group, and providing a notification of the anomalous activity.
US12149401B2	Identifying persistent anomalies for failure prediction A computer-implemented method and a computer system for identifying persistent anomalies for failure prediction. The computer system receives a time series data stream. The computer system received a predetermined number N and a predetermined number M which is a fraction of N. The computer system segments the time series data stream into N consecutive sliding windows. The computer system performs supervised persistent anomaly detection to determine whether anomalies across the N consecutive sliding windows are persistent, by using a binary classification model. The computer system performs unsupervised persistent anomaly detection to determine whether the anomalies across the N consecutive sliding windows are persistent. The computer system combines results of the supervised persistent anomaly detection and results of the unsupervised persistent anomaly detection to determine persistent anomalies.
US12149400B2	Systems and methods for self-correcting network equipment A system and method for mitigating anomalies in a network device. One or a combination of mitigation actions may be pre-programmed into a plurality of customer premises equipment (CPE) devices. The mitigation actions may be available as temporary or permanent work arounds as problems are detected that match known or discovered patterns of log events. Unsupervised machine learning techniques may be used to identify and correlate new patterns of log events with device anomalies or malfunctions. When a new pattern of log events is discovered and correlated to an anomaly or malfunction in a group of CPE devices, the discovered pattern may be written to the group of CPE devices with instructions to use particular ones of the mitigation actions. The CPE devices can then, in examples, monitor their own logs to detect the patterns and implement one or more of the mitigation actions.
US12149398B2	System and methods for accurately synchronizing an event monitoring application and a cloud-based event monitoring service Example implementations include a method, apparatus and computer-readable medium for synchronizing an event monitoring application with an event monitoring service, comprising receiving, from the event monitoring service, based on subscribing to a control panel, a current state of the control panel. In addition, the implementations further include receiving, based on the subscribing, a first event message from the control panel. Further, the implementations further include determining, in response to a conflict between the first event message and the current state of the control panel, an updated state of the control panel based on comparing a first attribute of the first event message to a second attribute of a second event message of the current state of the control panel. Additionally, the implementations further include displaying the updated state of the control panel.
US12149397B2	Multi-parameter fault detection and mitigation in 5G and 6G messaging Message reliability is a key requirement of 5G/6G communications. In many challenging network environments, two successive retransmissions of a message can both be corrupted, greatly reducing reliability. Therefore, methods are disclosed for identifying faulted message elements according to a metric that includes the waveform or SNR of the message element, its modulation quality, and a consistency check between the received versions. The receiver can then assemble a merged message version by selecting the higher quality version of each message element from the two (or more) corrupted versions, and thereby avoid requesting yet another retransmission. In addition, the receiver can monitor the background level and, if it is above a predetermined limit, can request that the receiver store the message for a predetermined time, or until the background level subsides below the limit.
US12149394B2	Apparatus and method for extended range communication A second apparatus for wireless communication includes: a transceiver; and a processing circuit configured to receive, from a first apparatus via the transceiver, a physical layer protocol data unit (PPDU) including a first signal field having a fixed length and a second signal field having a variable length. The second signal field includes an orthogonal frequency-division multiplexing (OFDM) symbol block including at least one OFDM symbol, and one or more repetitions of the OFDM symbol block.
US12149384B2	Methods and apparatuses for uplink channel sounding between BWPs Methods and apparatuses for uplink (UL) channel sounding between bandwidth parts (BWPs). A method for operating a user equipment (UE) includes receiving first information for a set of UL BWPs of a serving cell, wherein the set of UL BWPs includes more than one UL BWP and receiving second information, for each UL BWP from the set of UL BWPs, for sounding reference signal (SRS) resource sets. The method further includes determining, for each UL BWP from the set of UL BWPs, corresponding first SRS resources from the SRS resource sets and transmitting a SRS, in each UL BWP from the set of UL BWPs, using the corresponding first SRS resources.
US12149383B2	SRS sending method, SRS receiving method, and device Embodiments of this application provide an SRS sending method, an SRS receiving method, and a device. A manner of determining an antenna used to send an SRS is provided. In addition, a case in which one subframe includes a plurality of symbols is considered by using a quantity of first time units that are used by a terminal device to send an SRS in one uplink subframe and a case in which one antenna is enabled to implement continuous sending as much as possible is also considered by using a quantity of first time units that are consecutively used to send the SRS in one subframe by using a same antenna.
US12149381B2	Removing virtual machine identifiers from packets A server, includes a virtual machine identifier assigning section to assign an identifier of a virtual machine operating on the server; and a network interface to transmit a packet including a Layer 2 header information which includes the identifier of the virtual machine and a first packet field for a VLAN-Tag, wherein the network, interface transmits the packet to a packet encapsulate section which encapsulates a second packet field including the Layer 2 header information with a virtual network identifier representing a virtual network to which the virtual machine belongs.
US12149378B2	Data communication method and device A data communication method includes: acquiring a data subscription list for defining a data transmission relationship between each first device and each second device in the vehicle; establishing, according to the data subscription list, an association between a transmission protocol of a first device and a transmission protocol of a second device having a data transmission relationship with the first device to generate a data distribution list for defining a data transmission requirement between the first device and the second device having the data transmission relationship with the first device; and when data transmitted from at least one first device is received, transmitting data of each of the at least one first device to a second device having a data transmission relationship with the respective first device according to a corresponding data transmission requirement of the data distribution list.
US12149372B2	Methods and apparatus for coordination between wireline backhaul and wireless systems Methods and apparatus for enhancing communication and performance for a device backhauled by a wireline communication network. In one embodiment, the device comprises a small-cell or other wireless base station that is backhauled by a DOCSIS system within a managed HFC network, and the method and apparatus enable enhanced communication between the small cell/base station and the backhaul network so as to support “rate matching” between the device to mitigate packet overflow or other issues. In one implementation, enhanced cable modem (CM) and base station devices coordinate to inform the base station of the modulation order (and/or other parameters related to transmission of the data destined for the base station on the backhaul) so that the base station can selectively invoke utilization of higher-order modulation and/or coding schemes, as well as spatial multiplexing or beamforming.
US12149371B2	MRB deactivation and activation A user equipment (UE) is configured to deactivate/activate a point-to-multipoint (PTM) link of a multicast radio bearer (MRB). The UE receives, from a base station of a wireless network, a multicast radio bearer (MRB) configuration, wherein the MRB includes configuration of a split MRB including a point to multipoint (PTM) link and a point to point (PTP) link, deactivates or activates the PTM link based on the MRB configuration, reestablishes a radio link control (RLC) associated with the PTM link and recovers a packet data convergence protocol (PDCP).
US12149367B2	Feedback information transmission method, terminal, and storage medium The present disclosure relates to the technical field of communications, particularly to a feedback information transmission method. The method comprises: sending, by a first terminal, a sidelink hybrid auto repeat request ACK (HARQ-ACK) codebook via a physical uplink channel within a target time unit for sending sidelink HARQ-ACK information within the target time unit, the sidelink HARQ-ACK codebook including sidelink HARQ-ACK information corresponding to at least one sidelink data.
US12149354B2	Wireless communication method and wireless communication terminal for coexistence with legacy wireless communication terminal A wireless communication terminal for wireless communication is disclosed. The wireless communication terminal includes: a transceiver; and a processor. The processor is configured to transmit a non-legacy physical layer frame including a legacy signaling field including information decodable by a legacy wireless communication terminal by using the transceiver.
US12149348B2	Fast clock domain crossing architecture for high frequency trading (HFT) A fast clock domain crossing architecture for high frequency trading includes a receiver that recovers data and a clock of a first clock domain from a communication from an exchange, functional circuitry that generates and a buy/sell command based on the recovered data and the recovered clock, format circuitry that formats the command in a second clock domain, and a transmitter that transmits the formatted command to the exchange. The architecture further includes error detection circuitry that detects bit errors that arise from an asynchronous boundary of the clock domains without increasing a round-trip latency, and/or synchronization circuitry that synchronizes the clock domains, where the synchronization circuitry includes a cleanup PLL that filters input jitter and a phase detector and variable delay line that compensate for latency within the architecture.
US12149337B2	Upstream resource grant method, related device, and computer-readable storage medium An upstream resource grant method, a device, a passive optical network, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The upstream resource grant method includes: obtaining, by an optical line terminal, an upstream grant message on which transformation processing has been performed, wherein a transformation parameter used for the transformation processing includes a physical identity of an optical network unit (ONU); and sending, by the optical line terminal, the upstream grant message on which the transformation processing has been performed, wherein the upstream grant message carries an upstream resource grant indication of the optical network unit, and the upstream resource grant indication indicates an upstream resource granted to the optical network unit. According to this application, an occurrence probability of a rogue ONU phenomenon is reduced, thereby improving service running stability of a PON system.
US12149331B2	Satellite communication method for performing orchestration of satellite communication assets and apparatus therefor A satellite communication device and a method therefor are disclosed. The satellite communication device includes a first processor that generates schedule data about a satellite communication asset, a second processor that is located on a mobile vehicle spaced apart from the first processor and generates a control signal based on the schedule data, and a mediator that dynamically switches a link between at least one antenna and at least one modem based on the control signal.
US12149330B2	Transmission control method and apparatus, device, and storage medium In the method for transmission control, a terminal device receives indication information from a network device, where the indication information indicates that a satellite in communication with the terminal device performs feeder link switch between a first non-terrestrial network (NTN) gateway and a second NTN gateway, and the first NTN gateway and the second NTN gateway are connected to a same cell corresponding to the network device. The terminal device suspends UL transmission and/or DL transmission with the network device according to the indication information during the feeder link switch.
US12149321B2	Partial beam failure report A user equipment (UE) may perform a beam failure procedure per beam of multiple beams and transmit, to a base station, a partial beam failure (BF) report. The base station may transmit, to the UE, a configuration of the partial BF report, and the UE may generate and transmit the partial BF report for the base station to perform the beam management. The parameters of the aperiodic partial BF report may be configured with the same or different parameters for each beam. The partial BF report may include at least one of a current beam failure indication (BFI) count or a channel measurement for each beam. The partial BF report may be transmitted periodically or aperiodically.
US12149318B2	Link recovery and sidelink beamforming Methods, systems, and devices are used to implement BFR, SL-RS for BFD, radio link monitoring, or frequency assisted beam failure recovery, among other things.
US12149311B2	Spatial thermal density reduction for MMWAVE antenna arrays An apparatus, method and computer readable medium for special thermal density reduction by antenna thinning. A system comprises N transmit/receive (TX/RX) chains, where each TX/RX chain comprises an RFFE and each RFFE comprises one or more thermal sensors configured to measure heat in the RFFE. An antenna array coupled to the plurality of TX/RX chains. A codebook that comprises a plurality of code words configured to respond to real-time heat measurements from the thermal sensors in each TX/RX chain is configured to switch off selected TX/RX chains to reduce thermal density at the antenna array while maintaining M RFFEs switched on, where M
US12149302B2	Surface wave generator attachable on ship metal body for communication A surface wave generator is proposed. The generator may include a radiator configured to generate an electromagnetic field based on a signal externally applied. The generator may also include a first dielectric substrate on a top of the radiator and a second dielectric substrate on a bottom of the radiator. The generator may further include a first surface wave generation member on a bottom of the second dielectric substrate, a first geometric pattern being deposited on a top of the first surface wave generation member. The generator may further include a third dielectric substrate on a bottom of the first surface wave generation member. The generator may also include a second surface wave generation member between the third dielectric substrate and a metal surface, a second geometric pattern different from the first geometric pattern and being deposited on an upper surface of the second surface wave generation member.
US12149300B2	Information processing device, information processing system, information processing method, and program An information processing device is configured to receive a test signal related to a content. Accordingly, the information processing device can discriminate the status of a transmission path based on the state of the received test signal.
US12149296B2	Method and apparatus for estimating electromagnetic environmental effects on RF dependent systems The described systems and related test methods provide significant improvement in test accuracy, as well as reduction of test time for Electromagnetic Environmental Effects (E3) system level testing. Systems may include a real time spectrum analyzer, a network analyzer, and a switching/filtering/coupling network controlled by an information processing device, such as a general purpose computer. These systems can scan all frequencies at each receiver.
US12149291B2	Coherent receiver having low VOA-induced phase changes A coherent receiver includes a receive signal path including i) an input configured to connect a receive signal, ii) one or more signal paths connected to the input and to one or more optical hybrids, and iii) a variable optical attenuator (VOA) in each of the one or more signal paths; and a local oscillator (LO) signal path including i) an input configured to connect to an LO and the one or more optical hybrids, and ii) one or more complementary VOAs located between the input and the one or more optical hybrids, wherein the one or more complementary VOAs are configured to cancel any phase changes from the VOA in each of the one or more signal paths. The VOA in each of the one or more signal paths and the one or more complementary VOAs can be p-i-n junctions.
US12149288B2	Methods, systems, and devices for integrating wireless technology into a fiber optic network The present disclosure relates to a fiber optic network configuration having an optical network terminal located at a subscriber location. The fiber optic network configuration also includes a drop terminal located outside the subscriber location and a wireless transceiver located outside the subscriber location. The fiber optic network further includes a cabling arrangement including a first signal line that extends from the drop terminal to the optical network terminal, a second signal line that extends from the optical network terminal to the wireless transceiver, and a power line that extends from the optical network terminal to the wireless transceiver.
US12149286B1	Systems, devices, and methods for secure communications Systems, devices, and methods for secure communications are provided. An electronic device includes at least one wired communication port, a processor, a plurality of fiber optic communication ports, and a microcontroller. Each of the plurality of fiber optic communication ports includes an opto-electric signal converter. The microcontroller is configured to select one opto-electric signal converter by controlling power supplied to the selected opto-electric signal converter and removing power from the non-selected opto-electric signal converters. The processor is configured to route at least one of voice or data from the at least one wired communication port to the selected opto-electric signal converter.
US12149285B2	Optical wireless communication system and optical wireless communication method In an optical wireless communication system including: an optical wireless communication apparatus that moves along with a first optical wireless station; and a second optical wireless station opposed to the first optical wireless station, the optical wireless communication apparatus includes at least one reference light transmitting unit that transmits reference light to the second optical wireless station with a position in front in a moving direction of the first optical wireless station defined as a transmission position, the second optical wireless station includes a reference light receiving unit that receives the reference light transmitted from the at least one reference light transmitting unit, an estimation unit that estimates an influence of atmospheric air on transmission of signal light based on a reception state of the reference light received by the reference light receiving unit, a compensation unit that performs compensation processing on the signal light based on the influence of the atmospheric air estimated by the estimation unit, and a signal light transmitting unit that transmits the signal light on which the compensation processing has been performed by the compensation unit in an arrival direction of the reference light.
US12149284B2	Analyzing performance of fibers and fiber connections using long-term historical data Systems, methods, and computer-readable media are provided for logging long-term data and analyzing the long-term data with short-term data to determine the health of fiber connections in an optical network. A method, according to one implementation, includes a step of obtaining data associated with performance of fiber connections of an optical network. The fiber connections include at least an inter-node fiber connecting two adjacent network nodes and an intra-node fiber connection connecting two photonic devices within each of the two adjacent network nodes. The method further includes the step of logging the data over time as historical data and then analyzing the health of the fiber connections based on the historical data and newly-obtained data. Also, the method includes displaying a report on an interactive user interface, whereby the report is configured to show the health of the fiber connections.
US12149283B2	Identifying and segmenting performance issues over optical networks and inpremises interfaces with integrated workflows Disclosed are an apparatus and testing methods for performing testing operations over multiple types of links and through multiple potential points of failure to segment sources of problems, which may relate to reported or actual instances of service disruption in a network communication environment. The apparatus may perform service layer testing directly via an optical link, in addition to via Ethernet service layer testing. The apparatus may further conduct tests on other layers as well, including the physical layer, the network layer, and the link layer. To facilitate efficient testing, the apparatus may integrate programmable workflow profiles that specify tests to be conducted, and may interface with a cloud platform for sharing results of the tests, providing end-to-end testing of various components and types of links (whether optical or electrical, including wired and wireless links). Results of the tests may provide guidance to resolve detected problems.
US12149277B2	Antenna apparatus, communication product, and antenna pattern reconstruction method An antenna apparatus having an antenna. The antenna comprises a first radiator section and a second radiator section coupled to each other, and a third radiator section, a fourth radiator section, and a fifth radiator section that are distributed on a same side of the first and second radiator sections, wherein the third radiator section is coupled to a junction of the first and second radiator sections and is grounded, and the fourth and fifth radiator sections are separately disposed on two sides of the third radiator section, wherein the fourth radiator section is grounded by a first switch, and the fifth radiator section is grounded by a second switch.
US12149275B1	Universal flotation devices for portable phones Devices, buoys, kits, systems and methods for preventing small objects, such as but not limited to portable phones, money and keys from sinking in the water. A foam block buoy molded about a t-shaped plastic insert with an eyelet in a stem extending therefrom for attaching to a tether line. A phone foldable ring stand can be included with a peel and stick backing for being attached to a portable phone, that is attachable to the end of the tether line, wherein the float prevents the portable phone from sinking and becoming lost in water. A dry bag can be included to also be attachable to the tether line for keeping items from becoming wet and damaged. Additionally, a battery powered fishing lure, can be attached to the float or the line to allow the float buoy to be found in the dark.
US12149271B2	System and method implementing soft-decision based excision cancellation technology Systems and methods for mitigating the effect of in-band interference. The methods comprise: receiving a signal comprising at least one interfering signal component; generating a soft value for each symbol in at least one interfering signal component; and using the soft values to cancel at least one interfering signal component from the signal to mitigate the effect of interference. The soft value represents a most likely value for the symbol which is obtained by: determining a probability metric between an actual value of the symbol and each of a plurality of possible symbol values using a scaling value representing an estimate of the noise level in the signal received by the device; generating current local probabilities for the plurality of possible symbol values using the probability metric; and using the current local probabilities to determine the soft value.
US12149268B2	Terahertz full-duplex co-local oscillator solid-state front-end transmitting circuit A terahertz full-duplex co-local oscillator solid-state front-end transmitting circuit is disclosed, which belongs to the technical field of terahertz communication. The overall structure of the solid-state front-end transmitting circuit adopts a new system, wherein the circuit comprises two branches that are parallel and driven by a local oscillator source. A branched waveguide directional coupler is configured to output two driving signals provided by the same local oscillator source respectively to two branch circuits with required powers. Two transmission signals generated from the two branches are combined into one signal for transmission through an orthogonal mode coupled duplexer, so as to fulfill the construction of a full-duplex co-local oscillator solid-state front-end transmission circuit.
US12149267B2	T-switch with shunt for improved receiver sensitivity Aspects of the disclosure relate to devices, wireless communication apparatuses, methods, and circuitry for a t-switch with gate shunting. One aspect is an apparatus including a first differential switch having a control input. The apparatus further includes a second differential switch coupled to the first differential switch, the second differential switch a control input. A shunt capacitor is coupled between a first output and a second output of the first differential switch, and a first input and a second input of the second differential switch. A first shunt switch having a control input, an input, and an output has the input and the output coupled to the control input of the first differential switch. A second shunt switch having a control input, an input, and an output, has the input and the output coupled to the control input of the second differential switch.
US12149266B2	Exploiting locality of prime data for efficient retrieval of data that has been losslessly reduced using a prime data sieve An amount of memory needed to hold prime data elements during reconstitution may be determined by examining the creation and usage of prime data elements and their spatial and temporal characteristics during data distillation.
US12149265B2	Efficient update of cumulative distribution functions for image compression Updating cumulative distribution functions (CDFs) during arithmetic encoding can be a challenge because the final element of the CDF should remain fixed during the update calculations. If the probabilities were floating-point numbers, this would not be too much of a challenge; nevertheless, the probabilities and hence the CDFs are represented as integers to take advantage of infinite-precision arithmetic. Some of these difficulties may be alleviated by introducing a “mixing” CDF along with the active CDF being updated; the mixing CDF provides nonlocal context for updating the CDF due to the introduction of a particular symbol in the encoding. Improved techniques of performing arithmetic encoding include updating the CDF using two, one-dimensional mixing CDF arrays: a symbol-dependent array and a symbol-dependent array. The symbol-dependent array is a sub array of a larger, fixed array such that the sub array selected depends on the symbol being used.
US12149260B2	Method and apparatus for decoding low-density parity-check (LDPC) code A method and apparatus for decoding a Low-Density Parity-Check (LDPC) code whereby the apparatus comprises an LDPC decoder comprising variable-node calculation circuitry and check-node calculation circuitry: the check-node calculation circuitry is arranged operably to perform a modulo 2 multiplication on a codeword and a parity check matrix to calculate a plurality of first syndromes in a first-stage state. The variable-node calculation circuitry is arranged operably to perform a bit flipping algorithm to generate variable nodes, and calculate soft bits for the variable nodes in a second-stage state. The check-node calculation circuitry is arranged to perform the modulo 2 multiplication on the variable nodes and the parity check matrix to calculate second syndromes in the second-stage. When second syndromes indicate that the previously generated variable nodes are incorrect, a third stage state is repeated until decoding succeeds or a total number of iterations exceeds a threshold.
US12149258B2	Methods and apparatus to write data to registers Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus includes interface circuitry to receive an analog signal. The example apparatus also includes sequencer circuitry to: determine whether the apparatus is to operate in a single transfer state or a multiple transfer state; access a configuration from a control register in a plurality of control registers; initiate a conversion of the analog signal to a digital value based on the configuration; and write the digital value to a result register in a plurality of result registers based on the determination.
US12149257B2	Data sensing circuit with parallel digital filter processing A data sensing circuit includes one or more drive sense circuits operably coupled to a plurality of data sources. The one or more drive sense circuits produces a plurality of digital sense signals regarding the plurality of data sources at an oversampling rate. The data sensing circuit further includes a digital filtering circuit operably coupled to receive, in parallel, at least some of the plurality of digital sense signals and generate, in a serial manner, a plurality of affect values from the least some of the plurality of digital sense signals.
US12149255B2	Generating divided signals from phase-locked loop (PLL) output when reference clock is unavailable Clock generation circuit generating multiple divided signals satisfying respective desired offsets. A phase locked loop (PLL) is used to generate a PLL output having a frequency which is a desired multiple of that of a reference clock. The circuit divides the PLL output by a corresponding divisor to generate a corresponding divided signal, wherein each divided signal is offset from a common reference by at least an associated desired time offset. The common reference is timed with respect to the reference clock when the reference clock is available and with respect to a time reference signal otherwise. This arrangement is extended to use the internal time reference signal even for the cases where the reference clock is present by blocking the reference clock while the output systems across PLLs are aligned using the internal time reference signal to ensure desired offsets across different PLLs with a small uncertainty.
US12149253B2	Period error correction in digital frequency locked loops In some examples, a digital frequency locked loop (DFLL) device includes a phase frequency detector (PFD) configured to receive a reference clock signal and an indicator of a primary clock signal and to determine differences between periods of the reference clock signal and the indicator. The DFLL also includes a controller coupled to the PFD. The controller is configured to store digital signals indicating a first and a second of the differences determined by the PFD, determine a period error by subtracting the second difference from the first difference, and compare the period error to a programmed threshold. The DFLL also includes a digitally controlled oscillator (DCO) coupled to the controller, the DCO configured to provide the primary clock signal having a frequency adjusted based on the comparison.
US12149252B2	Delta-sigma modulator with modified quantization error shaping A digital phase-locked loop (DPLL) may include a delta-sigma modulator (DSM). The DSM may include a delay component configured to perform noise shaping of a quantization error introduced by the DSM. The DSM may include a noise transfer function (NTF) component configured to perform filtering of the quantization error introduced by the DSM. The DSM may include an adjustment transfer function (ATF) component configured to cause the filtering of the quantization error to be applied on top of the noise shaping such that an impact of the NTF component on the noise shaping is reduced.
US12149251B2	Frequency multiplier equipped with adaptive voltage control block and method therefor The present disclosure relates to a communication method and system for converging a 5th-Generation (5G) communication system or a 6th-Generation (6G) communication system for supporting higher data rates beyond a 4th-Generation (4G) system. A frequency multiplier of a wireless communication system is provided. The frequency multiplier includes an input circuit to which a local oscillator (LO) signal is input, a multiplier circuit having one end connected to the input circuit and another end connected to a lower terminal of a load circuit, a load circuit having an upper terminal connected to a voltage controller, and a voltage controller configured between the upper terminal of the load circuit and an input power source, wherein the voltage controller may be configured to drop a voltage between the input power source and the upper terminal of the load circuit and reinput a feedback voltage based on an upper terminal voltage of the load circuit to the voltage controller, and a method of multiplying a frequency using the same.
US12149249B2	Flip flop and design method for integrated circuit including same A flip-flop includes a first master latch in a first row, a second master latch in a second row, a first slave latch in the first row, and a second slave latch in the second row. The first master latch and the second master latch are adjacently disposed in the second direction, and the first slave latch and the second slave latch are adjacently disposed in the second direction.
US12149248B2	Ultra-low energy per cycle oscillator topology In described examples of an integrated circuit (IC), an oscillator includes Schmitt trigger delay cells connected in a ring topology. The Schmitt trigger delay cells have a high input threshold approximately equal to Vdd and a low input threshold approximately equal to Vss to increase delay through each cell. An output buffer receives a phase signal from an output terminal of one of the Schmitt trigger delay cells and converts a transition phase signal to a faster transition clock signal. The output buffer has control circuitry that generates non-overlapping control signals in response to the phase signal, to control an output stage to generate the fast transition clock signal while preventing short circuit current in the output stage.
US12149247B2	Frequency divider and memory device including the same Disclosed is a frequency divider which includes a frequency dividing core circuit that includes a plurality of transistors and is configured to generate at least one division clock signal based on a clock signal and an inverted clock signal, a controller that is configured to generate a body bias control signal based on clock frequency information, and an adaptive body bias (ABB) generator that is configured to generate at least one body bias based on the body bias control signal and configured to apply the at least one body bias to a body of one or more of the plurality of transistors.
US12149245B2	Interface circuit and interface device An interface circuit includes: a plurality of signal transmitter circuits each receiving an input signal and outputting an output signal responsive to a first power supply voltage based on the input signal; an operation control circuit controlling operation/suspension of the signal transmitter circuits; and an amplitude control circuit exerting control so that the first power supply voltage be greater with increase in the number of operating circuits among the signal transmitter circuits and thereby the amplitude of the output signals of the signal transmitter circuits become greater.
US12149243B2	Level shifting circuit manufacturing method A method of manufacturing an IC structure includes forming first through fourth PMOS transistors in an n-well, constructing a bias circuit including the first and second PMOS transistors, constructing a level shifter including the third and fourth PMOS transistors, building a first power distribution structure including electrical connections to each of the first and third PMOS transistors, and building a second power distribution structure including electrical connections to each of the second and fourth PMOS transistors.
US12149229B2	Filter using transversely-excited film bulk acoustic resonators with two frequency setting layers Acoustic filters are disclosed. A substrate includes a base and an intermediate layer. A piezoelectric plate is attached to the intermediate layer, portions of the piezoelectric plate forming one or more diaphragms spanning respective cavities in the intermediate layer. A conductor pattern on a front surface of the piezoelectric plate includes interdigital transducers (IDTs) of a plurality of resonators, interleaved fingers of each of the IDTs disposed on a respective diaphragm of the one or more diaphragms. A first frequency setting dielectric layer having a first thickness is disposed over the fingers of the IDTs of a first subset of the plurality of resonators. A second frequency setting dielectric layer having a second thickness greater than the first thickness is disposed over the fingers of the IDTs of a second subset of the plurality of resonators, wherein the first subset and the second subset are not identical.
US12149217B2	Transmission/reception module A transmission/reception module includes a substrate including a transmission signal input terminal, a reception signal output terminal, and an antenna terminal, an antenna switch circuit provided on the substrate and configured to output a transmission signal input from the transmission signal input terminal to the antenna terminal and configured to output a reception signal input from the antenna terminal to the reception signal output terminal, and a first inductor included in an input/output filter circuit provided between the antenna switch circuit and the antenna terminal. The first inductor includes a conductor whose winding axis direction is orthogonal to the substrate.
US12149214B2	Vacuum tube for amplifier circuit, and amplifier circuit using same A vacuum tube for amplifier circuit includes: a light incidence window that transmits signal light; a photoelectric conversion unit that converts the signal light transmitted through the light incidence window into photoelectrons; an output unit that has an anode, on which the photoelectrons are incident, and outputs a signal corresponding to the incident photoelectrons; and a grid electrode that is disposed in a path of the photoelectrons from the photoelectric conversion unit to the anode and controls the amount of photoelectrons incident on the anode.
US12149213B2	Wideband multi gain LNA architecture Circuits and methods for a multi-gain mode amplifier, particularly an LNA, that achieves wideband output impedance matching and high gain while maintaining low power and a low NF in a highest gain mode, and which can switch to one or more lower gain modes that achieve higher linearity with lower power. In a highest gain mode, an inductor is selectively inserted between the amplified-signal terminal of an amplification core and an output LC output matching network. The inductor, when inserted, provides wideband output impedance matching, functioning as a series peaking inductor; accordingly, the inserted inductor delays current flow to the output capacitor and lowers the rise time of signal changes across the output capacitor. In addition, higher gain can be achieved compared to a conventional LC output impedance matching topology due to a higher impedance at the amplified-signal terminal of the amplification core.
US12149210B2	Amplifier linearization using magnetically coupled feedback An amplifier circuit includes an amplifier having an amplifier input and an amplifier output. A transformer disposed to provide a signal for driving a load includes a primary winding in series with the amplifier output. A secondary winding of the transformer is coupled to the amplifier input where the primary winding and the secondary winding are arranged such that a portion of a magnetic field generated by the primary winding couples to the secondary winding so as to establish a magnetically coupled feedback loop from the amplifier output to the amplifier input. A loop gain of the magnetically coupled feedback loop is substantially independent of an impedance of the load and is defined at least in part by a coupling factor and turn-ratio of the transformer. The load may be included within an output load arrangement including a balun.
US12149205B2	Failure diagnosis device for solar battery string, solar power generation system equipped with same, and failure diagnosis method for solar battery string A failure diagnosis device for a solar battery string includes a plurality of solar battery modules having solar power generation parts and conductive frames, wherein the plurality of solar battery modules are electrically connected in series, and the frames of the plurality of solar battery modules electrically have common connection. The failure diagnosis device includes: a voltage supply part applying DC voltage between a positive electrode and a negative electrode of the plurality of solar battery modules connected in series; a measurement part measuring potential, generated by applying the DC voltage, between the positive electrode or the negative electrode of the plurality of solar battery modules connected in series and each of the frames; and a failure determination part determining a position of a faulty solar battery module in the solar battery string based on the potential measured by the measurement part.
US12149204B2	Heat sink and associated solar panel The present invention refers to a heat sink (5) for bi-facial photovoltaic modules (3) configured to be secured to the back side (3b) of at least one bi-facial photovoltaic module (3) wherein the heat sink (5) comprises a plurality of rods (11) having a thermal conductivity higher than 10 W·m−1·K−1 and arranged as a mesh configured to be in contact with the back side (3b) of the bi-facial photovoltaic module (3).
US12149200B1	Railless mounting system and devices for attaching solar modules to roofs Devices, systems, and methods for attaching solar modules to roofs. The devices may include a module hook clamp with a clamp body with clamp body arms extending upward from a clamp body base. The clamp body arms may include downward-facing hooks that engage a portion of the solar module's return flange and the outward-facing surface of the solar module. A spacer may optionally be positioned between the clamp body arms. The spacer may seat the solar module. A hook arm with a generally curve-shaped seating surface may extend below the clamp body base. The devices may further include a module attachment bracket that secures a second solar module in a similar manner as the module hook clamp. The module attachment bracket may include a platform that seats the hook arm of the module hook clamp, and a hook arm receiver that receives and secures the open end of the hook arm.
US12149198B2	Method of adaptively controlling brushless DC motor A method of adaptively controlling a brushless DC motor includes steps of: controlling the brushless DC motor rotating at a first speed according to an operation curve, accumulating a running time of the brushless DC motor, estimating a remaining used time of a bearing of the brushless DC motor according to the accumulated running time, executing an alarm operation when the remaining used time is less than a predetermined time, and decreasing the speed of the brushless DC motor to run at a second speed to prolong the used time of the bearing.
US12149190B2	Power tool, impact wrench, and tool control method A power tool includes a motor, an output shaft, a commutation detection device, and a controller. The commutation detection device is connected to the motor and used for obtaining commutation information of the motor. The controller is capable of outputting a control signal to control the motor to rotate. When the commutation information does not match a preset commutation condition, the control signal is adjusted based on the commutation information such that a rotational speed of the motor is maintained to be a target rotational speed.
US12149189B2	Devices with multiple electrical converters for synchronized electrical charge extraction A method includes converting an electrical output provided by an energy generator with a first voltage converter; and, subsequent to converting the electrical output provided by the energy generator with the first voltage converter, activating, with a microprocessor, a second voltage converter for converting the electrical output provided by the energy generator with the second voltage converter. An electrical device with a microprocessor for selecting one of two or more voltage converters is also described.
US12149188B2	Device for recovering or damping the vibratory energy of a resonant mechanical element A device for recovering or dampening vibratory energy from a mechanical resonator, comprising: an electrical generator comprising an element for converting mechanical vibration energy into electrical charges coupled to the resonator, the electrical generator periodically transferring a portion of the electrical charges from one terminal of the conversion element to the other; a frequency variation to phase variation conversion device, comprising an injection-locked oscillator of which the free-running oscillation frequency is equal to the resonance frequency of the resonator, and supplying to the electrical generator a control signal of frequency equal to that of the signal outputted by the conversion element and of which the phase shift depends on the difference between the frequency of the signal outputted by the conversion element and the resonance frequency of the resonator.
US12149187B2	Vibration wave motor and imaging apparatus and electronic apparatus including vibration wave motor A vibration wave motor, includes a vibrator including an electro-mechanical energy conversion element and an elastic body, and a contact body, wherein the elastic body includes a flat plate portion on which the electro-mechanical energy conversion element is fixed, and a protruding portion, wherein the protruding portion includes a contact portion, a side wall portion, and a coupling portion that is configured to couple the contact portion and the side wall portion, and wherein a predetermined inequality is satisfied, where a thickness of the side wall portion in a direction orthogonal to the pressure direction is t1, and a distance in the pressure direction from a second surface of the flat plate portion to the coupling portion is h1, the second surface of the flat plate portion facing a first surface of the flat plate portion on which the electro-mechanical energy conversion element is fixed.
US12149185B2	Power conversion device A power conversion device includes an inverter that generates an inverter voltage, a filter that receives the inverter voltage and outputs an output voltage, a detector that detects a DC component of the output voltage, a feedback controller that receives an AC voltage command and the DC component and determines an inverter voltage command such that the DC component is equal to a target value which is zero or a value corresponding to an offset error of the detector, and a PWM controller that receives the inverter voltage command and performs pulse width modulation control of the inverter. The feedback controller computes a compensation amount for compensating for the DC component and determines, as the inverter voltage command, the AC voltage command on which a product of an absolute value of a sine wave synchronized with a period of the AC voltage command and the compensation amount is superimposed.
US12149183B2	Inverter control device and electric vehicle system A deviation between a detection result of an output current of an inverter and an actual current is suppressed. A current detection unit 7 detects a three-phase AC current output from an inverter 3 or input to the inverter 3. An inverter control device 1 controls the inverter 3 based on a current detection value based on a detection result of the three-phase AC current by the current detection unit 7 and a predetermined current command value. The inverter control device 1 corrects the current detection value so as to correct a detection error of the three-phase AC current generated due to a delay time of a filter 72 which is a filter element provided in the current detection unit 7.
US12149181B2	Generator system based on high-frequency isolated matrix converter and regulation method thereof A generator system includes a permanent magnet synchronous generator, a high-frequency matrix converter, a center-tapped high-frequency transformer and a full-bridge converter. An output port of the permanent magnet synchronous generator is connected to a three-phase input of the high-frequency matrix converter. Positive and negative output poles of the high-frequency matrix converter are connected to a primary side of the center-tapped high-frequency transformer, The primary side of the high-frequency transformer is connected to a center tap and then connected to the middle pole of the center-tapped high-frequency matrix converter, and the secondary side of the center-tapped high-frequency transformer is connected to the midpoint of the bridge arms of the full-bridge converter. A midpoint of the input bridge arm of the full-bridge converter is connected to the secondary side of the center-tapped high-frequency transformer, and an output side of the full-bridge converter is connected with a DC load.
US12149179B2	Power converter with controller alternately turning on switches A power converter includes a full-bridge circuit, power converting circuit, transformer, and controller. The full-bridge circuit includes a series-connected unit made of first and second switches and a series-connected unit made of third and fourth switches and is connected to power transmitting terminals. The power converting circuit is connected to power receiving terminals. The transformer includes power transmitting coil and power receiving coil. The power transmitting coil is connected to full-bridge circuit. The power receiving coil is connected to power converting circuit. The controller turns on the first and second switches alternately and also the third and fourth switches alternately. A resistive load is connected to the power receiving terminals. The controller serves to determine a phase difference between the time when first switch is turned on and the time when third switch is turned on to decrease with a decrease in measured voltage developed at the power receiving terminals.
US12149176B2	LLC power supply current-sharing and frequency locking mechanism A multiphase current-sharing configuration may include at least two power supplies providing respective output-currents in the current-sharing configuration. One or more of the power supplies may itself be a multiphase power supply. A first power supply of the current-sharing configuration may detect a phase difference between an external control signal provided to the first power supply to control the output voltage of the first power supply, and an internal control signal provided by a VCO of the first power supply. The phase difference may be provided to an integrator to cause the internal control signal to track the external control signal when the external control signal is available, and maintain a present operating frequency of the internal control signal in case the external control signal is lost, in which case the internal control signal may be used to uninterruptedly control the output voltage of the first power supply.
US12149172B2	Lighting system comprising a multi-phase interleaved power converter A motor vehicle lighting system includes a light source, a multi-phase interleaved power converter having a plurality of selectively activatable elementary converters, each of which is configured to generate an electrical signal having its own phase. The power converter is designed to supply electrical power to the light source, and controller is designed to selectively control each of the elementary converters of the power converter. The controller is designed to receive an emission command for the emission of a desired light beam by the light source and to activate a strictly necessary number of elementary converters of the power converter such that the power converter supplies, to the light source, an electrical power needed to emit the desired light beam.
US12149171B2	Switching power supply including wiring layer A switching power supply is mounted on a printed circuit board. A first wiring layer of the printed circuit board includes a DC line through which a DC voltage is supplied, and a first ground region and a second ground region formed at a distance from the DC line and with the DC line interposed between them. A lower-layer ground region is formed in a second wiring layer. An insulating layer includes multiple first through holes provided along one side of the first ground region so as to electrically connect the first ground region and the lower-layer ground region, and multiple second through holes provided along one side of the second ground region so as to electrically connect the second ground region and the lower-layer ground region.
US12149167B2	Methods, systems, and devices for fault handling in a power converter Disclosed embodiments may include a power converter system with fault handling. Embodiments may include first and second power converters each including an output terminal and a control terminal, the first and second power converters to regulate voltage or current at their respective output terminals based on a voltage at their respective control terminals, the output terminals coupled to each other, and the control terminals coupled to each other; wherein the first power converter comprises: a circuit to detect a fault condition associated with the first power converter and to generate a first fault signal at the control terminal of the first power converter after the detecting the fault condition associated with the first power converter; wherein the second power converter comprises: a circuit to change an operating mode of the second power converter after generating the first fault signal at the control terminal of the first power converter.
US12149166B2	DC-DC converter having control unit for intermittent charging a capacitor A DC-DC converter includes a first capacitor and a second capacitor provided between one of a first conductive path and a second conductive path and a reference conductive path, a first switch and a second switch interposed between a first external power source and the first capacitor and between a second external power source and the second capacitor, and a control unit configured to switch the first switch and the second switch between an ON state and an OFF state, whereby the control unit, in the case of switching from shut-off control in which the first switch and the second switch are kept in the OFF state to energization control in which the first switch and the second switch are kept in the ON state, performs intermittent control in which the first switch and the second switch are intermittently switched to the ON state prior to the energization control.
US12149164B2	Control circuit and power supply circuit of DC/DC converter, and electronic equipment Disclosed herein is a control circuit of a boost DC/DC converter having a high-side transistor and a low-side transistor. The circuit includes an input pin that receives an input voltage of the boost DC/DC converter, a pulse modulator that generates a pulse signal pulse-modulated in such a manner that output of the boost DC/DC converter comes close to a target state, a logic circuit that generates a control signal of the high-side transistor and a control signal of the low-side transistor on the basis of the pulse signal, and a switch driving circuit that drives a load switch that is a PMOS transistor connected to the high-side transistor and a load between them. When stopping the boost DC/DC converter, the switch driving circuit applies a voltage corresponding to the input voltage of the boost DC/DC converter to a gate of the PMOS transistor.
US12149160B2	Converter having multi-stage high-side driving mechanism A power converter having a multi-stage high-side driving mechanism is provided. A control circuit outputs a first high-side control signal. A high-side driving circuit, according to the first high-side control signal and a first input voltage signal, outputs a first stage high-side driving signal to a control terminal of a high-side switch. As a result, a voltage of the control terminal of the high-side switch is pulled up to a first stage voltage from zero. Then, the control circuit outputs a second high-side control signal. A charge pump outputs a charging signal. The high-side driving circuit, according to the second high-side control signal and the charging signal, outputs a second stage high-side driving signal to the control terminal of the high-side switch. As a result, the voltage of the control terminal of the high-side switch is pulled up from the first stage voltage to a target voltage.
US12149158B2	Power system having multi-trigger all-phase activation A multi-phase power system configured to add and remove phases according to a plurality of states can increase the efficiency of the power system, which can increase a battery life in mobile applications. After phases are shed, a load may quickly change requiring all phases to be activated before an over current protection triggers a shutdown. The response of the power system to these load transients may be improved through the use of multiple triggers, which can provide an early warning of the changing load requirements more accurately and consistently than a single trigger.
US12149157B2	Controller applied to a power converter and operational method thereof A controller applied to a power converter is installed in a primary side of the power converter. The controller includes a capacitor, an adjustment signal generation circuit, and a discharge circuit. The capacitor is used for generating a tracking voltage. The adjustment signal generation circuit is used for generating an adjustment signal according to a feedback voltage and the tracking voltage. The discharge circuit is used for discharging the capacitor according to the feedback voltage and the adjustment signal. The tracking voltage is used for tracking a state of a magnetizing current of a magnetizing inductor of the primary side of the power converter, and when the tracking voltage consists with the state of the magnetizing current, the tracking voltage is applied to at least one of zero-voltage switching (ZVS) control and quasi-resonant (QR) control of the power converter.
US12149141B2	System for an electrical motor with coil assemblies and external radial magnetic elements One variation of a system for an electric motor includes a set of coil assemblies defining: an inner radial facet, an outer radial facet, a first axial facet, and a second axial facet opposite the first axial facet. Additionally, each coil assembly in the set of coil assemblies includes a receiving member arranged at the outer radial facet of the coil assembly. Furthermore, the system includes a rotor comprising a set of magnetic elements: encompassing the inner radial facet, the outer radial facet, the first axial facet, and the second axial facet of the set of coil assemblies; and defining a radial magnetic tunnel. The system also includes a housing: engaging the receiving member of each coil assembly, in the set of coil assemblies to couple the housing to the set of coil assemblies; and includes a shaft coupled to the set of magnetic elements.
US12149140B2	Electric motor assembly An electric motor assembly includes a stator and a rotor configured to rotate relative to the stator. The stator includes a stator core including a yoke that has a ring shape and a plurality of teeth radially coupled to an inner surface of the yoke, a stator coil that is wound around the stator core, and an insulator disposed between the stator core and the stator coil. The insulator includes a yoke insulator that is coupled to the yoke with a first coupling tolerance defined between the yoke insulator and the plurality of tooth insulators, and a plurality of tooth insulators that are coupled to the plurality of teeth, respectively, with a second coupling tolerance defined between the yoke and the plurality of teeth. The first coupling tolerance is less than the second coupling tolerance.
US12149133B2	Rotor assembly system employing central multi-tasking robotic system A rotor assembly system includes a central robotic system, which itself includes a conveyor platform and a multi-axial central robot arranged on the conveyor platform. The multi-axial central robot is configured to perform a set of manufacturing processes from among a plurality of rotor manufacturing processes related to at least one rotor component. The conveyor platform is operable to move the multi-axial central robot within the manufacturing cell to transfer the at least one rotor component between one or more rotor manufacturing processes from among the plurality of rotor manufacturing processes.
US12149131B2	Motor position sensing system for rotating electric machines An electric machine includes a rotor structure disposed within a motor housing, wherein a second rotor end has a plurality of axially stacked laminations. The electric machine further includes a motor position sensor system which includes a first plurality of cutouts defined in the plurality of axially stacked laminations, wherein the first plurality of cutouts have a progressively smaller cross-sectional area at each lamination. The motor position sensor system also includes a second plurality of cutouts defined in the plurality of axially stacked laminations, wherein the second plurality of cutouts have a progressively smaller cross-sectional area at each lamination. The motor position sensor system further includes a plurality of motor sensors axially spaced from the second rotor end, and a plurality of sensor magnets axially spaced from the second rotor end and the plurality of motor sensors.
US12149130B2	Arrangement of an electric motor having an encoder In order to reduce the cabling complexity of an electric motor having an encoder, an electric motor which can be connected to a control unit in order to receive an actuating signal from the control unit has an encoder port which is designed to receive an encoder signal from an encoder. Furthermore, the electric motor has a signal port which is designed to transmit the encoder signal to the control unit.
US12149127B2	Rotor for electric motor In an example, a rotor for an electric motor includes an inner hub, an outer rim, and a plurality of slats. Each slat of the plurality of slats has a first end at the inner hub and a second end at the outer rim. The rotor is configured to drive a plurality of propeller blades that provide force for an aerial vehicle. Additionally or alternatively, a rotor for an electric motor includes a housing that includes a first retaining structure and a second retaining structure that are configured to apply a force that is directed radially outward against a magnet to hold the magnet against the housing. The rotor is configured to drive a plurality of propeller blades that provide force for an aerial vehicle.
US12149126B2	Surface permanent magnet motor A surface mounted permanent magnet motor includes a stator having poles and windings. A rotor includes magnets fixed to an outer surface of a support assembly. The stator poles face the outer surface of the rotor. The support assembly has magnetically conductive magnet carriers spaced from each other and supporting two magnets of opposing polarity. The magnet carriers have a central region of low permeability that blocks q-axis flux flowing from the stator radially towards the rotor axis surrounded by regions of high permeability. A first high permeability region defines a continuous flux path on the side of the barrier region closest to the rotor axis and links central regions of the two magnets carried by the magnet carriers. A second high permeability region is located on the side of the barrier nearest the stator that defines a flux path linking the end regions of the magnets.
US12149122B2	Stator for rotary electric machine and associated rotary electric machine The stator for rotary electric machine comprises a stator frame and a cylindrical magnetic mass inserted in the stator frame, the magnetic mass including a plurality of stacks of compacted magnetic sheets and longitudinal channels uniformly distributed over at least one diameter of the magnetic mass, the channels leading to each side of the magnetic mass.At least three bundles of compacted magnetic sheets are separated by spacers forming two discharge pipes extending circumferentially and radially between the stator frame and a central housing of the stator intended to receive a rotor of the rotary electric machine and communicating with the channels, the stator frame comprising at least two discharge openings connected to different pipes such that a fluid injected on either side of the magnetic mass escapes from the stator via the discharge pipes, the fluid passage section of the discharge pipes being configured to modify the temperature distribution in the magnetic mass.
US12149117B1	Energy-saving operation and control method for UPS An energy-saving operation and control method for a UPS. The method includes performing a concomitant detection on a self-discharge condition of the UPS without any further processing before the concomitant detection, to obtain an automatic discharging amount per unit of time when the battery is in an un-operating state; determining a replacement timing among three kinds according to a value of the discharging amount; and generating a replacement signal at a corresponding time point according to the replacement timing; according to the generated replacement signal, performing a process of power charging and power discharging on the battery.
US12149114B2	Battery control apparatus An appropriate upper limit voltage is set to enable maximum charging performance of a secondary battery to be exhibited while effectively suppressing degradation of the secondary battery. An assembled battery control unit determines an upper limit voltage during charge of the secondary battery and calculates chargeable power of the secondary battery based on the upper limit voltage. The assembled battery control unit has an upper limit voltage calculating unit which calculates a voltage history of the secondary battery based on time series data of a voltage of the secondary battery and which calculates the upper limit voltage based on the voltage history.
US12149110B2	Battery cell monitoring systems, battery packs, and methods of operation of the same Battery cell monitoring systems comprising a flexible substrate and components integrated onto the flexible substrate, and methods of operating the same are disclosed. The components comprise a computing device and at least one sensor, where the at least one sensor is configured to generate sensor signals indicative of a physical state of the battery cell. The computing device is configured to hold characteristic data values which have been generated based on prior sensor signals. The computing device is configured to receive the sensor signals from the at least one sensor and to generate battery cell status data in dependence on the sensor signals and the characteristic data values.
US12149107B2	System and method using wireless latching relay for vehicle fleet management inventory A system and method for system for controlling power supplied to electronic components (12) powered by a battery (11) of a vehicle (10), the system comprising: a vehicle control unit (14) including a controller (16) and a transmitter (18) for transmitting wirelessly vehicle control signals (20); a wireless latching relay (22) including a receiver (24) configured for receiving the vehicle control signals (20) from the transmitter (18), and a latching relay (26); wherein the relay (26) is connected in series with the negative terminal (25) or positive terminal (29) of the battery (11).
US12149103B2	Secondary cell system The present invention provides a high reliability secondary cell system in which a power supply is multiplexed without using a lead storage battery. This secondary cell system 10 has two or more battery groups comprising a plurality of cells 21 connected in series, each of the battery groups 11, 12, 13 is connected in parallel. Disposed in each battery group 11, 12, 13 are open/close switches 31a, 31b, 32a, 32b, 33a, 33b that disconnect the battery group from a circuit of the secondary cell system 10. This secondary cell system 10 can comprise an active balancer 14 connected in parallel with the battery groups 11, 12, 13.
US12149100B2	Wireless power transmission device and electronic apparatus A wireless power transmission device comprises a plurality of transmission coils having different inductances and a controller. The controller wirelessly transmits a first transmission power to the electronic apparatus through a first transmission coil among the plurality of transmission coils, obtains whether it is an under-coupling mode or an over-coupling mode, when receiving power shortage information from the electronic apparatus, changes from the first transmission coil to a second transmission coil according to the obtained mode, and wirelessly transmits a second transmission power to the electronic apparatus through the changed second transmission coil. The second transmission coil is one of the remaining transmission coils except for the first transmission coil among the plurality of transmission coils.
US12149096B2	Active electromagnetic shielding for high power dynamic wireless charging and related systems, methods, and devices Active electromagnetic shielding for dynamic high power wireless charging and related electrified roadway systems, method, and wireless power transmitters is disclosed. A wireless power transmitter includes a first canceling coil offset from a power transmission coil, a second canceling coil offset from the power transmission coil, and circuitry electrically connected to the first canceling coil and the second canceling coil. The circuitry is configured to deliver canceling currents to the first canceling coil and the second canceling coil to destructively interfere with portions of electromagnetic fields generated by the power transmission coil.
US12149095B2	Parallel tuned amplifiers The disclosed technology provides a system for transmitting wireless power for charging electronic devices, e.g., smartphones, medical appliances, industrial equipment, and robotics. Some embodiments include parallel tuned resonant LC networks, load networks, and impedance matching networks for Class D and E, single-ended or differential, amplifier topologies for wireless power transfer in resonant inductive systems.
US12149091B2	Energy management system An energy management system for an energy environment, including a photovoltaic panel and a power supply configured to store energy generated by the photovoltaic panel, may include a plurality of subsystems and an energy management platform for monitoring and controlling each of the plurality of subsystems. The plurality of subsystems may include a first subsystem, and a second subsystem. The platform may include a user interface, and a controller communicatively coupled to each the plurality of subsystems. The controller may receive the data from the first subsystem and adjust, based on the received data, operation of the second subsystem.
US12149088B2	Power management system and power management method A power management system including a management apparatus configured to assign divided computation processing constituting at least a part of predetermined computation processing to a distributed computing device placed in a facility, wherein the management apparatus includes a controller configured to perform assignment processing configured to assign the divided computation processing to the distributed computing device based on at least one of a prediction value of an output power of a distributed power supply placed in the facility, a prediction value of power consumption of the facility, and a prediction value of a surplus power of the facility.
US12149087B1	Power conversion device and maximum power point tracking control method A power conversion device for a photovoltaic system includes a first boost isolation DC/DC converter and a controller. The first boost isolation DC/DC converter includes a transformer, an input terminal of the first boost isolation DC/DC converter is connected to a first photovoltaic component, and an output terminal of the first boost isolation DC/DC converter is connected to a DC bus. The controller is configured to receive a bus voltage of the DC bus and a bus output current output by the first boost isolation DC/DC converter, and output, based on the bus voltage and the bus output current output by the first boost isolation DC/DC converter, a switch control signal that controls the first boost isolation DC/DC converter to perform maximum power point tracking control of the first photovoltaic component.
US12149085B1	Bipole power transmission schemes A bipole power transmission scheme includes at least a first converter station that is positioned in-use separate from at least a second converter station. The bipole power transmission scheme also includes at least first and second transmission conduits and a first return conduit to in-use interconnect the first converter station with the second converter station and thereby permit the transfer of power between the first and second converter stations.
US12149083B2	Controller and method for balancing discharge or charge of battery packs in energy storage system A controller, a system including such a controller, and a method for controlling or managing discharge or charge of a plurality of battery packs are provided. The controller includes one or more processor and at least one tangible, non-transitory machine readable medium encoded with one or more programs configured to perform steps to determine a respective power discharge or charge for each battery packs based on characteristic data of each battery pack, a power demand, and the first weighting factor (a) and the second weighting factor (b) for power assignment based on voltage and state of charge of each battery pack. The controller provides signals with instructions to the plurality of battery packs and/or the one or more power converters for discharging power from or charging power to the plurality of battery packs.
US12149081B2	Reactive power supplier control device and reactive power supplier control method Current information is information on a current time step for a power system including a reactive power supplier. A plurality of pieces of future information are a plurality of pieces of information on a plurality of future time steps for the power system. Power installation information is information on installations constituting the power system. An optimal power flow problem is formulated by an objective function and a plurality of constraint expressions based on the current information, the plurality of pieces of future information, and the power installation information. The control command is set based on a variable determined by the optimal power flow. In at least one of the objective function and the plurality of constraint expressions, amounts of variation of an input of the reactive power supplier at the current step and the plurality of future steps of the reactive power supplier are accumulated.
US12149080B1	Systems and methods for fault tolerant energy management systems configured to manage heterogeneous power plants An energy management system and methods of using the same are disclosed. The energy management system is configured to distribute power plant tasks. Energy management system tasks are received at the energy management system. At least a portion of the received tasks are passed over a network from the energy management system to a power plant lead controller in a cluster of nodes, the cluster of nodes comprising electronic devices configured to control power plant equipment, the cluster of nodes comprising the power plant lead controller and a plurality of power plant follower controllers, the cluster of nodes configured to provide a plurality of combinations of redundancy to control power plant equipment. The power plant lead controller delegates, in real time, tasks to the plurality of power plant follower controllers. At least one of the cluster of nodes is configurable to be in hot standby mode.
US12149078B2	Method for intelligently adjusting power flow based on Q-learning algorithm A method for intelligently adjusting a power flow based on a Q-learning algorithm includes: converting a variable, an action, and a goal in a power grid to a state, an action, and a reward in the algorithm, respectively; selecting an action from an action space, giving an immediate reward based on a result of power flow calculation, and correcting a next state; forwardly observing a next exploration action based on a strategy in the Q-learning algorithm; updating a Q value in a corresponding position in a Q-value table based on the obtained reward; if a final state is not reached, going back to step 2; otherwise, increasing the number of iterations by 1; if the number of iterations does not reach predetermined value K, that is, Episode
US12149076B2	Energy supply device and construction machine An energy supply device for supplying electric loads with electric energy, includes a DC link; a first mains connection to which a first AC voltage grid can be connected as intended; a first rectifier which is designed to rectify an AC voltage corresponding to an AC voltage across the first mains connection or based thereon and to feed the rectified voltage into the DC link; a second mains connection to which a second AC voltage grid can be connected as intended; a second rectifier which is designed to rectify an AC voltage corresponding to an AC voltage across the second mains connection or based thereon; a controllable DC-to-DC converter to a first side of which a voltage rectified by means of the second rectifier is applied, and a second side of which is connected to the DC link; a first current converter which is fed from the DC link and is designed to supply a first electric load with electric energy; a power measuring apparatus which is designed to measure electric power consumed at the first mains connection; and a control apparatus which has a data link to the power measuring apparatus and which is designed to control the DC-DC converter according to the electric power consumed at the first mains connection.
US12149073B2	Dynamic capability region for electric power system protection This disclosure discusses systems, methods, and techniques for producing and utilizing a capability region of one or more monitored equipment. To do so, an intelligent electronic device (IED) may access a data set of one or more known performance characteristics of the monitored equipment. The known performance characteristics are based on, or dependent of, one or more variables. The IED may also access a constraint library with geometric primitives. Then, the IED may analyze the data set and may produce the capability region using the geometric primitive. The IED may compare an operating point of the monitored equipment to the capability region of the monitored equipment. Based on the comparison, the IED may implement a control action.
US12149072B2	Photovoltaic system, rapid shutdown device (RSD) and photovoltaic system detection method A rapid shutdown device (RSD) includes: a logic-and-analog circuit; an RSD ID storage for storing an unique RSD ID; a control command receiving circuit for receiving and decode a control command including a combination of an all-RSD turn-on command, a single-RSD turn-on command and a to-be-tested RSD ID; a switch circuit connected to the logic-and-analog circuit; and a bypass circuit connected between two output terminals of the RSD. When the switch circuit is turned off, the bypass circuit is turned on. The logic-and-analog circuit controls the on/off state of the switch circuit according to a decoding result of the control command receiving circuit and the unique RSD ID stored in the RSD ID storage. When the switch circuit is turned on, an output voltage received from a photovoltaic module coupled to the RSD is outputted via the RSD.
US12149071B2	High-frequency signal-based power consumer relative position identification apparatus, method and device A device, a method for determining relative positions of power consumers based on a high-frequency signal, and a computer-readable storage medium are provided. The device is applied to a distribution transformer supply zone. The device includes a resonance or signal generator and a direction detector, the resonance or signal generator is disposed in a user electricity meter, the direction detector is disposed on a power line, the resonance or signal generator is configured to transmit a high-frequency signal or generate resonance in response to the high-frequency signal; the direction detector is configured to monitor a voltage and a current of the high-frequency signal flowing into the user electricity meter, and determine, based on a phase difference between the voltage and the current, a relative position relationship of two adjacent user electricity meters on the power line.
US12149066B2	DC power distribution system The present disclosure suppresses increase in device cost in a DC power distribution system that can disconnect a distribution line on which a short-circuit failure has occurred, from an output path. This DC power distribution system includes: a plurality of power conversion devices; one DC busbar; a plurality of distribution lines; a plurality of first current interruption portions respectively connected to input sides of the power conversion devices; a plurality of second current interruption portions connected between the power conversion devices and the DC busbar; and a plurality of third current interruption portions respectively provided on the distribution lines. Interruption current values of the third current interruption portions are set to smaller values than a maximum allowable current value of the power conversion device in which short-circuit current will reach the maximum allowable current value in a shortest time.
US12149064B2	Power supply system, ground fault detection method and program A feeding system that feeds power to a load includes only a single device configured to have neutral point high-resistance between a feeding line and the earth. The device functions as a ground fault overvoltage detection type of ground fault detector. The feeding system further comprises a control device. When the ground fault overvoltage detection type of ground fault detector detects a ground fault, the ground fault overvoltage detection type of ground fault detector transmits, to the control device via a signal line, a signal indicating that the ground fault has occurred. The control device instructs a breaker corresponding to the specific distributed unit in which it is determined that the ground fault has occurred to perform breaking.
US12149062B2	Arc detection device, indoor power line system, solar power generation system, and storage battery system An arc detection device is used in a system including one or more power sources, a plurality of converters, and a plurality of load devices. The one or more power sources and the plurality of converters are connected to each other by a plurality of power lines. The plurality of converters and the plurality of load devices are connected to each other by a plurality of power lines. The arc detection device includes: an electric current detector that includes a magnetic core through which two or more power lines included in the plurality of power lines extend, and detects combined currents flowing through the two or more power lines according to the magnetic field produced at the magnetic core; and an arc determiner that determines, on the basis of the combined currents detected by the electric current detector, whether an electric arc has occurred.
US12149057B2	Fish stick assembly A fish stick includes a light emitting component, such as a lighted tip, near the leading end of the fish stick. The lighted tip includes a curved lens that directs some light around an attachment piece at the end of the fish stick and generally in the forward direction parallel to the longitudinal axis of the fish stick. The fish stick may be made of a phosphorescent material and stored in a lit container with an LED and reflective surfaces. The fish stick may be made of multiple rods that are threadably engaged with each other and include a spring biasing element that increases the coefficient of friction between the threads of the rods. The fish stick may also be made of multiple rods that are threadably engaged with each other via collars.
US12149055B2	Voltage sensing assembly Assembly (1) of a busbar (20), a cable termination (40) (or an insulating element (300) or a bushing (400)) and a voltage sensor (10) in a high-voltage or medium-voltage power network. The cable termination (or the insulating element or the bushing) and the voltage sensor are mechanically and electrically connected to the busbar.
US12149050B2	Low divergence vertical cavity surface emitting lasers, and modules and host devices incorporating the same The disclosure describes VCSELs operable to produce very narrow divergent light beams. The narrow divergent beam can be obtained, in part, by incorporating an additional epitaxial layer so as to increase the cavity length of the VCSEL. The increased cavity length can result in higher power in fewer larger diameter transverse modes, which can significantly reduce the output beam divergence. The additional epitaxial layer can be incorporated, for example, into a top-emitting VCSEL or bottom-emitting VCSEL.
US12149045B2	Light source with integrated monitor photodetector and diffuser A light source includes a substrate with a first surface and an opposite second surface. An epitaxial layer is positioned on the first surface of the substrate. The light source also includes at least one light generator in the epitaxial layer positioned such that an optical signal transmitted thereby is directed toward the substrate. A diffuser is positioned on the second surface of the substrate, and at least one monitor photodetector is positioned in the epitaxial layer in an arrangement configured to receive a portion of the optical signal which is reflected by the diffuser. In one form, the light generator may include a vertical cavity surface emitting laser (VCSEL).
US12149044B2	Flip-chip optoelectronic device An optoelectronic device includes a semiconductor die that includes a substrate layer, a laser diode, first and second conducting pads, a cathode pad, an anode pad, and a passivation layer. The laser diode and the conducting pads are formed on the substrate layer. The formation of the conducting pads directly on the substrate layer offers an increased area for heat dissipation. The cathode pad is formed on the first conducting pad whereas the anode pad is formed above the second conducting pad. The passivation layer is formed above the laser diode. The attachment of the semiconductor die to a submount of the optoelectronic device occurs by way of the cathode pad and the anode pad. After the attachment, a free space is created directly between the passivation layer and the submount to reduce the impact of solder bonding stress on the laser diode.
US12149043B2	Phase stabilization system and phase stabilization method using the same Disclosed is a technology for stabilizing a phase using a modulator bias controller and a laser that emits a beam with a frequency fixed.
US12149040B2	Multi-wavelength mid-infrared laser pulse train cavity dumped laser based on Nd:MgO:APLN crystal A multi-wavelength mid-infrared laser pulse train cavity dumped laser based on Nd:MgO:APLN crystal is disclosed. In response to the needs in the field of differential absorption lidar, it is necessary to introduce multi-fundamental frequency light pulse accumulation and superposition, and parametric light synchronization pulse compression technology in the multi-wavelength mid-infrared laser operating mechanism. To this end, a splayed parametric light oscillation cavity formed in conjunction with a Nd:MgO:APLN crystal is disclosed, wherein it is possible to obtain multi-wavelength mid-infrared laser pulse train output with narrow pulse width and high peak power, meeting the needs of differential absorption lidar for mid-infrared lasers.
US12149039B2	Wide gain bandwidth C-band optical fiber amplifier A fiber amplifier that is particularly configured to provide gain across a large extent of the C-band spectral range (i.e., a gain bandwidth of at least 42 nm, preferably within the range of 46-48 nm) utilizes a specially-designed discrete Raman amplifier in combination with a high inversion level EDFA to extend the gain bandwidth of a conventional EDFA C-band optical amplifier, while maintaining the gain ripple below an acceptable value. The EDFA provides operation at a highly-inverted level and the specialized discrete Raman amplifier (sDRA) element has particular parameters (dispersion, length, effective area) selected to maintain operation within a “small gain” regime while also extending the long wavelength edge of the gain bandwidth and reducing the gain ripple attributed to the EDFA component.
US12149035B2	Electrical connection assembly and electrical apparatus An electrical connection assembly includes a first electrical connection module configured to be mounted on a fixed member and a second electrical connection module configured to be mounted on a moving member. The first electrical connection module has a first terminal and a second terminal. The first electrical connection module has a normally open switch. The second electrical connection module has a first contact pad and a second contact pad configured to be electrically connected with the first terminal and the second terminal, respectively. The second electrical connection module has a switch controller adapted to drive the normally open switch to a closed state when the first contact pad and the second contact pad are moved to a contact position in which the first contact pad and the second contact pad are in electrical contact with the first terminal and the second terminal, respectively.
US12149034B2	Wearable device for sensing motion parameter of user having motion The wearable device for sensing a motion parameter of a user includes a first protection cover, a module connector, a wire connecting member, a circuit board and a plurality of spring connectors. The wire connecting member has a plurality of first electrical contacts. The first protection cover is connected to the module connector. The circuit board has a plurality of second electrical contacts corresponding to the plurality of first electrical contacts. The plurality of spring connectors are electrically connected to the plurality of first electrical contacts and the plurality of second electrical contacts correspondingly to form a plurality of first electrical connections and a plurality of second electrical connections respectively, and are configured between the module connector and the circuit board to form a plurality of first pre-deformations.
US12149030B2	Electrical connector and electrical connector set An electrical connector includes an insulating member, plural signal terminals to be fixed and held to the insulating member, and plural ground terminals to be elastically held to the insulating member. The signal terminals and the ground terminals are disposed in a first direction of the insulating member. Regarding the ground terminal and the signal terminal adjacent to each other as viewed from the first direction, the signal terminal length of the signal terminal in a second direction, which is perpendicular to the first direction, is shorter than the ground terminal length of the ground terminal in the second direction. The signal terminal includes a signal terminal contact engaging portion. The signal terminal contact engaging portion is positioned within a range of the ground terminal length of the ground terminal as viewed from the first direction.
US12149026B2	Subsea connector handle A subsea wet-mateable connector handle has a handle part, a bushing support ring, a resilient bushing, a connector mount and a securing pin. A method of manufacturing a subsea wet-mateable connector handle includes cutting a handle part from a sheet of inherently corrosion resistant metal plate by a two-dimensional cutting process. A bushing support ring and a bushing are assembled onto a limb extending from the handle part. A connector mount is mounted to the bushing and the connector mount and bushing are fixed to the handle part with the securing pin.
US12149025B2	Connector set and connector A connector set comprises: a first connector having a first housing; a second connector having a second housing; and a slide member slidably held in one housing out of the first housing and the second housing. The slide member comprises a main body part. The main body part is disposed so that, in a state where the slide member is held by the one housing, part of the main body part overlaps with an operation part of a lever part when viewed along a sliding axis of the slide member. Furthermore, a recess part recessed in an operation direction of the operation part is formed in the main body part.
US12149023B2	Wet mateable hybrid subsea connector A subsea wet mateable connector plug part includes a plug body, a plurality of data conductor contacts arranged in the plug body and a plurality of power conductor contacts arranged in the plug body. The data conductor contacts include an even number of pairs of data conductor contacts, each pair being aligned orthogonally with respect to an adjacent pair of data conductor contacts. The pairs of data conductor contacts are so arranged as to form a data cluster. The data cluster includes an outer earth screen adapted to maintain an electrical contact with an earth screen of a cable. The power conductor contacts are spaced from one another in the plug body, outside of and remote from the outer earth screen of the data cluster.
US12149022B2	Subsea connector A subsea wet mateable connector includes a plug and a receptacle. The plug includes a plug body and a shuttle pin moveably mounted in a socket contact. The receptacle includes a receptacle body and a receptacle pin. The connector further including a secondary diaphragm mounted to the plug body and a primary diaphragm mounted to the plug body outside the secondary diaphragm. The primary diaphragm and secondary diaphragm are spaced from one another in a demated state, allowing fluid flow in the space formed therebetween. The primary diaphragm and secondary diaphragm are sealingly engaged in a mated state, forming a continuous protective layer over the receptacle pin in a mated state.
US12149021B2	Removable terminal pin connector for an active electronics circuit board for use in an implantable medical device A hermetic feedthrough terminal pin connector for an active implantable medical device (AIMD) includes an electrical insulator hermetically sealed to an opening of an electrically conductive ferrule. A feedthrough terminal pin is hermetically sealed to and disposed through the insulator, the feedthrough terminal pin extending outwardly beyond the insulator on the inside of the casing of the AIMD. A circuit board is disposed on the inside of the casing of the AIMD. A terminal pin connector includes: an electrically conductive connector housing disposed on the circuit board, wherein the connector housing is electrically connected to at least one electrical circuit disposed on the circuit board; and at least one electrically conductive prong supported by the connector housing, the at least one prong contacting and compressed against the feedthrough terminal pin, the at least one prong making a removable electrical connection.
US12149020B2	Cable interface device and mounting assembly Cable interface devices and mounting assemblies are provided for data storage assemblies. A data storage assembly can include media, such as a solid-state drive, a cable interface housing, and a cable interface housing locating feature. A cable interface device is mounted within the cable interface housing. The cable interface device includes a body extending in a first direction that defines an opening at the front side with a protruding connector of a solid-state drive extended through the opening. The cable interface device further includes electrically conductive contacts at least partially disposed inside the body and exposed to the opening. The cable interface device also includes a cable interface device locating feature positioned on, or defined by, the body and complementary in shape to the cable interface housing locating feature, to collectively locate the cable interface device within the cable interface housing.
US12149015B2	Connector A housing having terminals held thereon is positioned within a shell in island form. The shell is formed of a single metal plate, and includes a peripheral wall surrounding the housing, bottom plates, a pair of first retaining pieces, and two pairs of second retaining pieces. The first retaining pieces respectively include raised portions to conform to side surfaces of the housing, extension portions positioned on upper surfaces of the housing, and press-fitting portions. The press-fitting portions are press-fit into holes formed in the upper surfaces. Each pair of the second retaining pieces are positioned on the opposite sides of the first retaining piece, and fitted in step portions which are at the opposite ends, in the width direction, of the side surfaces of the housing. The second retaining pieces protrude from the upper surfaces and, in the width direction, protrude from the housing.
US12149014B2	Terahertz mixer, method of manufacturing terahertz mixer, and electronic device including terahertz mixer The present disclosure provides a terahertz mixer, a method of manufacturing the terahertz mixer, and an electronic device including the mixer. The terahertz mixer includes: a cavity for forming a radio frequency input waveguide and a local oscillator input waveguide, and for accommodating a microstrip line; the microstrip line formed on at least a part of an inner surface of the cavity by using a semiconductor growth process, wherein the microstrip line extends into a portion of the cavity where the radio frequency input waveguide is located so as to form a microstrip antenna for receiving a radio frequency input signal, and into a portion of the cavity where the local oscillator input waveguide is located so as to form a microstrip antenna for receiving a local oscillator input signal.
US12149009B2	Antenna module Disclosed herein is an antenna module that includes solder balls provided on a surface of the element body having an antenna element. The solder balls include a signal ball disposed at an intersection between the second row virtual line and the second column virtual line and first to fourth ground balls disposed, out of a plurality of intersections between the first to third row virtual lines and the first to third column virtual lines, at any of intersections other than those at which the signal ball is disposed. No solder ball is disposed, out of the intersections between the plurality of row and column virtual lines, at least at some of the plurality of intersections other than those at which the first signal ball or first to fourth ground balls are disposed.
US12149007B2	Information handling system docking station glass housing having an integrated antenna A portable information handling system or docking station glass ceramic housing integrates antenna conductive wires in a first glass ceramic piece and a director conductive wire in a second glass ceramic piece coupled to the first ceramic glass piece, such as with optically-clear adhesive. A conductive contact interfaces the antenna conductive wire by exposure at the glass ceramic housing interior where pogo pins of a printed circuit board assembly bias against the conductive contacts to communicate the radio signals. The director conductive wire provides a parasitic element for directional control of the wireless signal. Ground conductive wires may integrate in the exterior side of the second glass ceramic piece and interface with the radio to provide a dipole antenna.
US12149000B2	Antenna module having a miniaturized size and electronic device including the antenna module Disclosed is an electronic device including a housing, a wireless communication module, and an antenna module operatively connected to the wireless communication module and disposed inside the housing, wherein the antenna module includes a first substrate comprising at least one feed line, a first surface disposed in a first direction, and a second surface disposed in a second direction opposite the first surface, a second substrate disposed on the first surface of the first substrate and having a first antenna array and a second antenna array disposed on the second substrate, and a third substrate disposed in a portion of the second surface of the first substrate and having a third antenna array and a fourth antenna array disposed on the third substrate, wherein the second substrate and/or the third substrate is formed of a material having a higher permittivity than the first substrate.
US12148993B2	Scattering film and electronic device with scattering film Provided are a scattering film and an electronic device with the scattering film. The scattering film includes: a carrier layer configured to emit microwave signals and/or receive microwave signals and a first protruding structure arranged on the surface of the carrier layer; and when passing through the first protruding structure, microwaves are reflected. According to the solution, a first protruding structure is provided, and microwaves can be reflected when passing through the first protruding structure, so that the transmitting and/or receiving space range for the microwaves which are originally only directionally transmitted is enlarged, and the coverage range of microwave signals is increased.
US12148991B2	Antenna assembly having a helical antenna disposed on a flexible substrate wrapped around a tube structure An antenna assembly is provided. The antenna assembly includes a tube structure disposed on a circuit board. The antenna assembly further includes a helical antenna comprising a plurality of conductive traces disposed on a flexible substrate wrapped around the tube structure.
US12148986B2	Radiator for antenna and base station antenna A radiator for an antenna comprises a feed board and a metal radiating arm The feed board comprises an electrically conductive segment, through which the feed board feeds the metal radiating arm by means of capacitive coupling. The radiating arm includes a first arm segment extending in a first direction, and a second arm segment extending from an outer side region of the first arm segment in a second direction different from the first direction.
US12148982B2	Touch sensor and integrated antenna integrated film A disclosed apparatus may include at least one touch sensor and an integrated film that includes at least one antenna, wherein the integrated film is at least partially disposed on the at least one touch sensor such that the at least one touch sensor operates as a radiating element for the at least one antenna. Various other apparatuses, systems, and methods are also disclosed.
US12148973B2	Device for transmitting a signal to a waveguide The present invention relates to a device for transmitting a signal between a waveguide and a printed circuit board, the device comprising a first access means and a second access means for the signal to be transmitted, a conductor track forming the first access means, a printed circuit board comprising a substrate, and a transition element. The element comprises an upper ground plane and a lower ground plane that is intended to be in direct contact with the waveguide, the lower ground plane comprising a slot forming the second access means of the transmission device, one of the upper ground plane and the lower ground plane being connected to the conductor track.
US12148972B2	RF device comprising plural transition units arranged in two or more offset rows for coupling differential transmission line pairs to hollow waveguides A transition unit of a radio frequency device provides a transition between a planar differential pair transmission line and a hollow radio frequency waveguide. A substrate layer arrangement with a planar differential pair transmission line is arranged on one or more surfaces of at least one substrate layer. An end section of the transmission line is configured as a radio frequency signal emission pattern. The transition unit has an end section of a waveguide for electromagnetic waves that is attached to the substrate layer arrangement and superposes the radio frequency signal emission pattern. The waveguide is directed perpendicular to the substrate layer arrangement. An open end of the end section of the waveguide is attached to a first outer surface or a second outer surface of the substrate layer arrangement. Opposite to the end section a back cavity is attached with an open end towards the substrate layer arrangement.
US12148970B2	Waveguide assembly comprising a transition between an end face of a dielectric waveguide and an electric circuit including a conductive plate in contact with the end face A waveguide assembly, comprising an electrical circuit assembly, a dielectric waveguide with a longitudinal axis (A), and a waveguide transition lying therebetween for transmitting an electromagnetic wave between the electrical circuit assembly and the dielectric waveguide. The waveguide transition has a first electrically conductive plate and a second electrically conductive plate which are arranged between the electrical circuit assembly and the dielectric waveguide in an offset manner to each other in the direction of the longitudinal axis (A) of the dielectric waveguide.
US12148969B2	Cable having a dielectric medium with plural dielectric waveguides disposed therein which are oriented at preferred polarizations A cable is provided which has a dielectric medium forming a chamber which can also be filled by the dielectric medium. The cable additionally has a first dielectric waveguide element and a second dielectric waveguide element. The first dielectric waveguide element is arranged at a distance from the second dielectric waveguide element. The first dielectric waveguide element runs along a longitudinal direction of the cable through the chamber formed by the dielectric medium, and the second dielectric waveguide element runs along the longitudinal direction of the cable through the chamber formed by the dielectric medium. The polarization direction of the first dielectric waveguide element differs from the preferred polarization direction of the second dielectric waveguide element.
US12148965B2	Fuel cells A fuel cell assembly includes an CCM layer with a sub-gasket frame around it to provide gas manifolds and sealant. A flow path is integrated on the sub-gasket in vicinity of the inlet and outlet manifolds that provides a passage for the gases to/from the active area. The flow path provides a rigid path without deforming or clogging the passage.
US12148964B2	Composite polymer electrolyte membrane, electrolyte membrane with catalyst layer, membrane-electrode assembly, and solid polymer fuel cell A composite polymer electrolyte membrane including a polymer electrolyte and a porous substrate, and having a dry tensile modulus of 100 N/cm or more per width and a wet tensile modulus of 35 N/cm or more per width. Enhancing the mechanical characteristics of the electrolyte membrane results in providing an electrolyte membrane that achieves good dry-wet cycle durability.
US12148962B2	Modular fuel cell system architecture and a control system for distributing power to the modules Systems and methods are provided for modularizing a system. Parallel power systems having electronically isolated high voltage systems facilitate modulization. A control system is provided that optimizes the distribution of a power demand and/or a torque request so as to keep the efficiency, durability, drivability and/or safety of the system within an optimum range. In some cases, the distribution of power is uneven, so as to extend the battery life, while in other cases, the power draw on battery systems are kept equal and constant so as to properly manage the state of charge of the parallel power systems. In still other cases, the chosen power distribution keeps the power demand and/or torque request between minimum and maximum levels/capacity, and the power distribution avoids on/off of an individual power system.
US12148956B2	Battery pack detection and battery discharge mode selection A power tool including a battery pack interface configured to receive a battery pack. The battery pack interface includes one or more power terminals and one or more communication terminals. The power tool further includes a controller having an electronic processor. The controller is configured to receive, via the one or more communication terminals, a plurality of signals indicating a plurality of temperatures of the battery pack. The controller is further configured to determine, based on the signals, a battery pack type. The controller is further configured to control discharge of the battery pack based on the battery pack type.
US12148955B2	Secondary battery A secondary battery herein disclosed includes a power generating element, a battery case, and an electrode terminal. The electrode terminal includes a terminal part, an external connection part, and a molding resin part. The terminal part is connected to the power generating element. The external connection part contacts with the terminal part. The molding resin part covers the periphery of the connection surface between the external connection part and the terminal part in a state where a part of the external connection part is exposed to outside. The external connection part includes a step part between an outer circumferential portion of a connection surface between the external connection part and the terminal part, and an exposed part exposed from the molding resin part to the outside. The molding resin part covers both the outer circumferential portion of the connection surface and the step part.
US12148954B2	HV busbar made of dissimilar metals and method of manufacturing the same An HV busbar configured to connect a plurality of battery modules to each other, has a conductor including a first metal plate and a second metal plate and an insulative resin coating layer on the outer circumferential surface of the conductor, wherein a first metal constituting the first metal plate and second metals having a lower melting temperature than the first metal are mixed in the second metal plate in the state in which the second metals are dispersed.
US12148952B2	Multilayer separator including polyolefin based substrate layer stacked with polyolefin resin layer and cellulose fibers based outer layer, and lithium ion battery including the same A multilayer separator (200) for a lithium-ion battery having a structure including at least a polyolefin based substrate layer (204) forming the inner layer of the multilayer separator (200); a resin layer (203) stacked on both surface of the polyolefin substrate layer (204), the resin layer (203) being formed from a polyolefin; a cellulose fibers based outer layer (202) stacked on the surface of each resin layer (203).
US12148947B2	Degassing apparatus of pouch for secondary battery and degassing method using the same A degassing device of a pouch for a secondary battery and a degassing device using the same are provided. The degassing apparatus includes a separation unit including an adsorption plate adsorbing at least one surface of the pouch, and forming a space inside of the pouch by pulling the adsorption plate, and a gas removal unit installed on the adsorption plate, piercing the pouch with a needle having a gas discharge path therein, and removing gas from the pouch through the gas discharge path.
US12148946B2	Immersion cooling system for battery systems of electric vehicles An immersion cooling system for a battery system includes a battery enclosure and G battery cell groups arranged in the battery enclosure. Each of the G battery cell groups include C battery cells, where G and C are integers greater than one. A plurality of dividers are arranged between each of the G battery cell groups. A gas manifold removes vent gases from each of the G battery cell groups.
US12148945B2	Operating device An operating device (1) having a housing (3) is provided, and the housing (3) is equipped with a housing body (4), a lid member (7) that slides in a first direction with respect to the housing body (4) to be mounted to the housing body (4) and slides in the direction opposite to the first direction to be separated from the housing body (4), and a locking member (8) that is provided to the housing body (4) and that locks the lid member (7), and the locking member (8) has a mounting portion (81) attached to the housing body (4), a hinge portion (82) connected to the mounting portion (81), an operating portion (84) that is connected to the hinge portion (82) and that moves around the hinge portion (82) so as to be insertable into and projectable from the housing body (4), and a regulating portion (853) that comes in contact with the lid member (7) so as to restrict sliding of the lid member (7) in the direction opposite to the first direction, and upon insertion of the operating portion (84) into the housing body (4), the regulating portion (853) is moved together with the operating portion (84) and separated from the lid member (7).
US12148943B2	Battery assembly A method for assembling a battery module, the method comprising: providing a cell tray defining a plurality of cell holes for holding cells; inserting cells into respective cell holes so that the cells each protrude from the cell tray at each end of the cell; attaching a first casing to a first side of the cell tray to enclose the cell ends protruding from the first side; and attaching a second casing to a second side of the cell tray to enclose the cell ends protruding from the second side.
US12148941B1	Battery module and battery pack A battery module includes a plurality of cells and a first fireproof layer. The cells are arranged in sequence. The first fireproof layer is arranged on the plurality of cells. The first fireproof layer is attached to top surfaces of the cells. A battery pack includes at least two battery modules stacked vertically.
US12148935B2	Electrochemical device An electrochemical device includes an electrolyte membrane, an anode disposed on a first main surface of the electrolyte membrane, a cathode disposed on a second main surface of the electrolyte membrane, an anode separator disposed on the anode, and a cathode separator disposed on the cathode. At least one of the anode separator or the cathode separator includes a metal substrate sheet and a conductive layer disposed on the metal substrate sheet and containing a metal oxide and a metal hydroxide.
US12148932B2	Electrode plate, electrochemical apparatus, battery module, battery pack, and device This application relates to the battery field, and specifically, to an electrode plate, an electrochemical apparatus, a battery module, a battery pack, and a device. The electrode plate in this application includes a current collector and an electrode active material layer disposed on at least one surface of the current collector, where the current collector includes a support layer and a conductive layer disposed on at least one surface of the support layer, a single-side thickness D2 of the conductive layer satisfies 30 nm≤D2≤3 μm, and a conductive primer layer including a conductive material and a bonding agent is further disposed between the current collector and the electrode active material layer. The electrode plate in this application has good machinability. An electrochemical apparatus including the electrode plate has high energy density, good electrical performance, and long-term reliability.
US12148930B2	Negative electrode and secondary battery including the same The present invention relates to a negative electrode including a current collector and a negative electrode active material layer disposed on the current collector, wherein the negative electrode active material layer includes a negative electrode active material, a conductive agent, and a binder, wherein the negative electrode active material includes silicon particles having an average particle diameter (D50) of 4 μm to 10 μm, the conductive agent includes carbon nanotubes and a graphite-type conductive agent, and the binder includes a copolymer containing a polyvinyl alcohol-derived unit and an ionized substituted acrylate-derived unit.
US12148929B2	Binder solution having lithium ion conductivity for all-solid-state battery and electrode slurry comprising same The present disclosure relates to a binder solution having lithium ion conductivity for an all-solid-state battery and an electrode slurry including the same. Specifically, the binder solution includes a first binder having high binding force, a second binder having higher lithium ion conductivity than that of the first binder, a lithium salt, and an organic solvent that dissolves the lithium salt.
US12148923B2	Method for preparing silicon by using gas-phase electroreduction The present invention relates to a method for preparing silicon by using gas-phase electroreduction and, more specifically, to a method in which a silicon-based compound is gas-phase supplied, without a liquid medium, onto the surface of a base metal having a potential applied thereto, and thus silicon is reduced and applied onto the surface of the base metal.
US12148921B2	Multi-shell structures and fabrication methods for battery active materials with expansion properties Battery electrode compositions are provided comprising core-shell composites. Each of the composites may comprise, for example, an active material, a collapsible core, and a shell. The active material may be provided to store and release metal ions during battery operation, whereby the storing and releasing of the metal ions causes a substantial change in volume of the active material. The collapsible core may be disposed in combination with the active material to accommodate the changes in volume. The shell may at least partially encase the active material and the core, the shell being formed from a material that is substantially permeable to the metal ions stored and released by the active material.
US12148920B2	Positive electrode material and preparation method therefor, and lithium ion battery A cathode material, a preparation method thereof, and a lithium ion battery are provided. The cathode material comprises cathode material particles comprising a central area, an intermediate layer, and a surface layer, wherein the intermediate layer is located between the central area and the surface layer; and the central area comprises a lithium oxide, the intermediate layer comprises elemental sulfur, and the surface layer comprises elemental sulfur and elemental carbon, in which the lithium oxide comprises δLiNimConX(1-m-n)O2·(1−δ)Li2MO3, where 0≤δ≤1, X includes at least one selected from Mn, Al, Nb, and Fe, M includes at least one selected from Mn, Al, Nb, Fe, Co, and Ni, 0≤m<1, and 0≤n<1.
US12148916B2	Metal-doped sodium vanadium fluorophosphate/sodium vanadium phosphate (Na3V2(PO4)2F3/Na3V2(PO4)3) composite for sodium-ion storage material The present disclosure relates to a sodium-ion storage material including a doped compound, and an electrode material for a sodium-ion battery, an electrode for a sodium-ion battery, and a sodium-ion battery, which include the sodium-ion storage material. Specifically, the sodium-ion storage material may include a compound consisting of an Na3V2-xMx(PO4)2F3/Na3V2-yMy(PO4)3 composite (M=Fe, Mn, Cr, Cu, Zn or Ti, 0
US12148912B2	Vehicle thermal management system, heat transfer medium and method for cooling vehicle driving battery A vehicle thermal management system mounted in a vehicle includes a vehicle driving battery, a liquid heat transfer medium, a heat receiver, and a radiator. The heat receiver causes the heat transfer medium to receive heat through heat exchange with the battery. The radiator causes the heat transfer medium to release the heat through heat exchange with an air outside of the vehicle. The heat transfer medium includes a liquid base material including water and an orthosilicic acid ester compatible with the liquid base material and does not include an ionic rust inhibitor. The orthosilicic acid ester is present, as a concentration of silicon, relative to a total mass of the heat transfer medium within a range between 2000 mass ppm, non-inclusive, and 10000 mass ppm, inclusive.
US12148907B2	Battery pack The present disclosure provides a battery pack, including: a battery box, a plurality of battery modules, a cooling plate, and a buffering member. Each battery module includes a plurality of battery cells and a plurality of busbars. Each battery cell includes an electrode assembly and a battery housing. The battery cells are laid flat. When the electrode assembly is of a wound structure and is flat, and outer surfaces of the electrode assembly include two flat surfaces. The two flat surfaces are opposite to each other in a vertical direction. Alternatively, when the electrode assembly is of a laminated structure, a first electrode plate, a separator, and a second electrode plate are stacked in a vertical direction. Therefore, the electrode assembly of the battery cells applies a greatest expansion force in the vertical direction during charge and discharge.
US12148905B2	Battery module cell carrier and method of assembly A cell carrier for a battery module, a battery module, and a method for assembling a battery module. The battery module includes a plurality of pairs of battery cells and the cell carrier. The cell carrier includes a plurality of recesses, each including a first recess portion including a first sidewall portion and a first bottom portion, and a second recess portion including a second sidewall portion and a second bottom portion. The first bottom portion and the second bottom portion of each recess include a shared cutout. For each pair of battery cells, a first end of a first battery cell is coupled to the first recess portion and a first end of a second battery cell is coupled to the second recess portion of a respective recess.
US12148904B2	Battery module, and battery pack and vehicle comprising same A battery module, and a battery pack and a vehicle including the battery module, includes a battery cell stack in which a plurality of battery cells are stacked, a case configured to accommodate the battery cell stack, a circuit board disposed at the case, a mounting hole formed in the circuit board so that a fastening member is inserted therein to fix the circuit board, and an expansion hole configured to extend from the mounting hole.
US12148903B2	Battery case The invention is directed to a battery case (1) comprising a compartment (2) for at least one battery module (3). Two first outer beams (4) extending in a first spatial direction (x) and two second outer beams (5) extending in a second spatial direction (y) are arranged essentially perpendicular to the first spatial direction. The first and second beams (4, 5) are forming a frame-like support structure (6). A tub-shaped insert (7) is connected to the grid like support structure (6) from a third direction (z) arranged essentially perpendicular to the first and the second direction (x, y). A closure (8) closes the tub-shaped insert (7) to form the closed compartment (2) for the at least one battery module.
US12148902B2	Energy reclamation and carbon-neutral system for critical mineral extraction The presently disclosed concepts relate to green battery recycling systems and critical mineral reclamation and refinement. Alkali metal extraction (and in particular lithium extraction) is accomplished using a solid electrolyte membrane in combination with electrodes in a redox configuration. The energy used to initially extract lithium from a feed solution is stored as electrochemical energy, which electrochemical energy is reclaimed in subsequent reclamation processing steps. This reclamation may further allow for lithium to be converted to lithium carbonate or lithium hydroxide, or purified to a minimum purity of 99.9% lithium by mass. These extraction and reclamation steps may performed in continuous ultra-efficient ongoing cycles. Since irrecoverable energy losses incurred in each cycle are limited to negligible amounts of joule heating of the system components and feed solution, the system can be sustainably powered using locally-generated renewable energy, which in turn, provides for a green and sustainable solution for lithium recycling.
US12148896B2	Solid electrolyte three electrode electrochemical test device A solid electrolyte three-electrode electrochemical test device comprises a housing, a working electrode, a counter electrode, a reference electrode, a first conductive structure, a second conductive structure, a third conductive structure, and a solid electrolyte layer. The housing comprises a groove and a first through hole located at a bottom of the groove. The reference electrode is insulated from the counter electrode. The first conductive structure and the working electrode are stacked with each other, and the working electrode and at least a part of the first conductive structure are located in the first through hole. The solid electrolyte layer, the counter electrode, the reference electrode, the second conductive structure and the third conductive structure are located in the groove, and the first conductive structure, the working electrode, the solid electrolyte layer, the counter electrode, and the second conductive structure are sequentially stacked and located coaxially with each other.
US12148892B2	Method for recovering lithium battery cell by heat treatment and method for manufacturing lithium battery cell comprising the same The present disclosure relates to a method of recovering a degenerated lithium battery cell, with the lithium battery cell being configured so that an electrode assembly including a positive electrode, a negative electrode and a separator interposed therebetween is impregnated with a non-aqueous electrolyte and embedded in a battery case, the method including: subjecting a lithium battery cell degenerated by 5% or more to a high temperature treatment for 1 to 6 hours at a temperature ranging from 60° C. to 100° C. in a fully discharged state.
US12148891B2	Polymer electrolyte for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery including the same A polymer electrolyte for a lithium secondary battery that may include: a fluorine-based solvent; a lithium salt; and a flame retardant polymer containing phosphorus and fluorine, wherein the polymer electrolyte has a fluorine content of 35 to 60% by weight and a phosphorus content of 2.3 to 7.5% by weight. Lithium secondary batteries containing the polymer electrolyte exhibit improved flame retardancy and ionic conductivity as well as enhanced high-voltage stability.
US12148888B2	Electrolytes for electrochemical energy storage An electrochemical device includes an electrolyte having a hydroxamate or N-hydroxyamide compound.
US12148887B2	Non-aqueous electrolyte solution for lithium secondary battery and lithium secondary battery including the same A non-aqueous electrolyte solution for a lithium secondary battery and a lithium secondary battery including the same are disclosed herein. In some embodiments, a non-aqueous electrolyte solution includes a compound represented by Formula 1 having an excellent effect of scavenging a decomposition product generated from a lithium salt in the electrolyte solution, as a first additive, and lithium difluorophosphate as a second additive. The lithium secondary battery include the non-aqueous electrolyte solution has improved high-temperature durability.
US12148881B2	Composite electrolyte membrane and all-solid-state battery comprising the composite electrolyte membrane A composite electrolyte membrane according to the present disclosure includes a phase change layer on a surface in contact with an electrode, for example, a positive electrode. The phase change layer includes a filler, and a physically isolated area between the positive electrode and the composite electrolyte membrane, known as a dead space, is filled with the filler that is liquefied by heat resulting from the increased internal temperature of the battery, thereby reducing the interfacial resistance between the electrolyte membrane and the electrode.
US12148878B2	Lithium ion conductive solid electrolyte material, and battery using same The present disclosure provides a solid electrolyte material having high lithium ion conductivity. A lithium ion conductive solid electrolyte material according to the present disclosure comprises Li, La, O, and X. X is at least one element selected from the group consisting of Cl, Br, and I.
US12148877B2	Rolled alkali metal batteries and production process Provided is a rolled alkali metal battery wherein the alkali metal is selected from Li, Na, K, or a combination thereof. The battery comprises an anode, a cathode, an alkali metal ion-conducting separator electronically separating the anode and the cathode, and an alkali metal ion-containing electrolyte in ionic contact with the anode and the cathode, wherein the anode contains a wound roll of an anode active material having an anode roll length, an anode roll width, and an anode roll thickness and/or the cathode contains a wound roll of a cathode active material having a cathode roll length, a cathode roll width, and a cathode roll thickness and wherein the anode roll width and/or the cathode roll width direction is substantially perpendicular to the separator plane.
US12148875B2	Lithium secondary battery A lithium secondary battery including a positive electrode, a negative electrode comprising a negative electrode current collector, and an electrolyte disposed between the positive electrode and the negative electrode; and a lithium metal layer on the negative electrode current collector in the negative electrode. The electrolyte includes a first electrolyte layer and a second electrolyte disposed on the first electrolyte layer, wherein the first electrolyte layer faces the negative electrode, and the second electrolyte layer faces the positive electrode. The first electrolyte layer has higher ion conductivity than the second electrolyte layer, and wherein the lithium metal layer is formed by migration of lithium ions from the positive electrode after charging.
US12148870B2	LED package and integrated light emitting device An LED package includes a light source, a light transmissive member, and a light reflecting layer. The light source includes a resin package, a light emitting element and a wavelength conversion material. The resin package includes first and second leads and a resin member. The resin package defines a recess having a bottom face defined by portions of the first and second leads, and a portion of the resin member, and a lateral wall defined by a portion of the resin member. The light emitting element is disposed on or above the bottom face in the recess. The wavelength conversion material is disposed in the recess. The light transmissive member is disposed on or above the light source. The light reflecting layer is disposed on or above the light transmissive member at least on an upper side along an optical axis of the light emitting element.
US12148869B2	Guided light extraction in trenches A micro-light emitting diode (micro-LED) device includes semiconductor mesa structures, and waveguides and grating couplers in regions of a semiconductor layer between the semiconductor mesa structures. At least some light emitted in the active region of each semiconductor mesa structure can be coupled into and guided by a waveguide towards a grating coupler. The grating coupler is configured to diffract the guided light out of the micro-LED device, for example, in a direction substantially perpendicular to the light-emitting surface of the micro-LED device, through regions between the semiconductor mesa structures.
US12148868B2	Light emitting diode constructions and methods for making the same Light emitting diode (LED) constructions comprise an LED having a pair of electrical contacts along a bottom surface. A lens is disposed over the LED and covers a portion of the LED bottom surface. A pair of electrical terminals is connected with respective LED contacts, are sized larger than the contacts, and connect with the lens material along the LED bottom surface. A wavelength converting material may be interposed between the LED and the lens. LED constructions may comprise a number of LEDs, where the light emitted by each LED differs from one another by about 2.5 nm or less. LED constructions are made by attaching 2 or more LEDs to a common wafer by adhesive layer, forming a lens on a wafer level over each LED to provide a rigid structure, removing the common wafer, forming the electrical contacts on a wafer level, and then separating the LEDs.
US12148866B2	Method of manufacturing an electronic device and an electronic device An electronic device including a first substrate, an isolating layer, a porous structure, and a light conversion unit is provided. The isolating layer is disposed on the first substrate and has an opening. The porous structure is disposed in the opening and has a plurality of pores arranged irregularly. The light conversion unit is disposed in the pores of the porous structure. The electronic device of the disclosure has ideal quality.
US12148864B2	Display device A display device includes a light emitting diode LED element having a horizontal length in an X-axis direction and a vertical length in a Y-axis direction, a driving element connected to the LED element, and a reflective functional layer positioned to overlap an upper portion or a lower portion of the LED element, wherein the reflective functional layer includes a central area overlapping the LED element, an outer area including a graduation smaller than the horizontal length or the vertical length of the LED element, and a peripheral area between the central area and the outer area. Accordingly, it is possible to reduce a contact defect of the light emitting diode and the driving element by checking a position where the light emitting diode is attached on a substrate and a degree of misalignment.
US12148863B2	Directional light extraction from micro-LED via localization of light emitting area using mesa sidewall epitaxy A micro-light emitting diode includes a semiconductor mesa structure that includes at least a portion of an n-type semiconductor layer, an active region configured to emit visible light, and a p-type semiconductor layer. The micro-LED device also includes an insulator layer that includes an undoped semiconductor passivation layer grown on sidewalls of the semiconductor mesa structure, and a dielectric passivation layer characterized by a refractive index lower than a refractive index of the undoped semiconductor passivation layer. The micro-LED device further includes a reflective metal layer deposited on the dielectric passivation layer, and a micro-lens configured to collimate the visible light emitted by the active region, where a ratio between a width of the micro-lens and a width of the active region may be greater than about 1.5.
US12148859B2	Light-emitting diode and backplane and LED display including the same A light-emitting diode (LED) includes a first semiconductor layer, an active layer, and a second semiconductor layer that are sequentially stacked, and includes a first electrode pad, a second electrode pad and a third electrode pad disposed on the second semiconductor layer in a direction from a corner of the second semiconductor layer to an opposite corner of the second semiconductor layer. An LED includes a first electrode pad disposed at a center of the LED and in contact with a P-type semiconductor layer and a second electrode pad in contact with an N-type semiconductor layer, wherein the second electrode pad is disposed a maximum distance away from the first electrode pad on the same surface.
US12148856B2	Solar cell, method for manufacturing the same, and photovoltaic module A solar cell, a manufacturing method therefor, and a photovoltaic module are provided. The solar cell includes a substrate having a front surface and a rear surface, a passivation stack disposed on the front surface, and a tunneling oxide layer and a doped conductive layer disposed on the rear surface. The passivation stack includes an oxygen-containing dielectric layer, a first passivation layer and a second passivation layer. The first passivation layer includes a first interface adjacent to the oxygen-containing dielectric layer and a second interface adjacent to the second passivation layer, the second passivation layer includes a third interface opposite to the second interface, a nitrogen content and a silicon content at the second interface are higher than those at the first interface and the third interface, respectively, and an oxygen content at the second interface is lower than that at the first interface and the third interface, respectively.
US12148849B2	Obtaining a PV film structure by means of a room temperature method and room temperature method for producing a PV film structure The invention provides a suitable method and an appropriate, PV film structure. This aim is achieved by a room temperature method in which aqueous dispersions are printed onto a substrate and cured by an accompanying reaction. The accompanying reaction forms gradients and also nanoscale structures at the film boundaries, which produce a PV active film having standard performance and a higher stability. At around 10% efficiency, stability and no initial loss in performance in the climatic chamber test can be obtained and over a 20 year test period, consistently less fluctuation can be achieved. The method is free from tempering or sintering steps, enables the use of technically pure, advantageous starting materials and makes the PV film structure available as a finished, highly flexible cell for a fraction of the typical investment in production or distribution.
US12148847B2	Solar cell and production method thereof, photovoltaic module Embodiments of the present disclosure relates to the field of solar cells, and in particular to a solar cell and a production method thereof, and a photovoltaic module. The solar cell includes: a N-type substrate; a P-type emitter formed on a first surface of the N-type substrate and including a first portion and a second portion, a top surface of the first portion includes a first pyramid structure, and at least a part of at least one inclined surface of the first pyramid structure is concave or convex relative to a center of the first pyramid structure, a top surface of the second portion includes a second pyramid structure, and inclined surfaces of the second pyramid structure are planar; and a tunnel layer and a doped conductive layer located on a second surface of the N-type substrate. The present disclosure can improve the photoelectric conversion performance of solar cells.
US12148845B2	Photodetectors, preparation methods for photodetectors, photodetector arrays, and photodetection terminals A photodetector, a preparation method for a photodetector, a photodetector array and a photodetection terminal. The photodetector comprises a substrate (11) and an optical resonant cavity (10) formed on the substrate (11). The optical resonant cavity (10) may comprise: a light absorption layer (13) having a light-entrance outer surface and a bottom outer surface which are opposite to each other, and an outer sidewall located between the light-entrance surface and the bottom surface; a light-strap structural layer (14) covering the light-entrance surface; and a light-reflection structural layer (12) covering the bottom outer surface and/or the outer sidewall of the light absorption layer (13), wherein the light-reflection structural layer (12) is configured to reflect external light entering the optical resonant cavity (10) by means of the light-trap structural layer (14) to increase a light propagation distance of the external light in the light absorption layer (13), thereby effectively improving the photon absorption efficiency of the photodetector.
US12148839B2	Semiconductor device and electronic device The present application provides a semiconductor device and an electronic device. In the semiconductor device, a metal layer is provided on the side of the active layer facing the buffer layer, and the metal layer includes at least one metal block, so that the metal block is in direct contact with at least part of the active layer, then when the active layer is converted from amorphous silicon to polycrystalline silicon, due to the catalytic effect of the metal block, the size of the crystal grains in the polycrystalline silicon becomes larger, which reduces the crystal grain boundaries in the polycrystalline silicon and improves the mobility of the semiconductor device.
US12148832B2	Method of forming finFET with low-dielectric-constant gate electrode spacers A method includes forming a gate stack over a fin of a substrate; sequentially depositing a first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer, a third dielectric layer, and a filling dielectric over the gate stack, wherein the second dielectric layer has a lower dielectric constant than dielectric constants of the first and third dielectric layers; forming a dielectric cap over the first, second, third dielectric layers and the filling dielectric; etching the dielectric cap, the first, second, third dielectric layers, and the filling dielectric simultaneously, to form gate spacers on opposite sidewalls of the gate stack and expose a top surface of the fin; and after the gate spacers are formed, forming an epitaxy source/drain structure in contact with one of the gate spacers and the top surface of the fin.
US12148831B2	Semiconductor device and a method for fabricating the same A semiconductor device includes a substrate provided with an electronic device, an interlayer dielectric (ILD) layer formed over the electronic device, a wiring pattern formed on the ILD layer and a contact formed in the ILD layer and physically and electrically connecting the wiring pattern to a conductive region of the electronic device. An insulating liner layer is provided on sidewalls of the contact between the contact and the ILD layer. A height of the insulating liner layer measured from a top of the conductive region of the electronic device is less than 90% of a height of the contact measured between the top of the conductive region and a level of an interface between the ILD layer and the wiring pattern.
US12148826B2	Lateral diffused metal oxide semiconductor device A lateral diffused metal oxide semiconductor (LDMOS) device includes a first fin-shaped structure on a substrate, a second fin-shaped structure adjacent to the first fin-shaped structure, a shallow trench isolation (STI) between the first fin-shaped structure and the second fin-shaped structure, a first gate structure on the first fin-shaped structure, a second gate structure on the second fin-shaped structure, and an air gap between the first gate structure and the second gate structure.
US12148825B2	Methods of reducing the electrical and thermal resistance of SiC substrates and device made thereby A power semiconductor device includes a silicon carbide substrate and has at least a first layer or region formed above the substrate. The silicon carbide substrate has a pattern of pits formed thereon. The power semiconductor device further includes an ohmic metal disposed at least in the pits to form low-resistance ohmic contacts. Each pit of the pattern of pits has a depth that extends short of the first layer.
US12148823B2	Double-channel HEMT device and manufacturing method thereof An HEMT device, comprising: a semiconductor body including a heterojunction structure; a dielectric layer on the semiconductor body; a gate electrode; a drain electrode, facing a first side of the gate electrode; and a source electrode, facing a second side opposite to the first side of the gate electrode; an auxiliary channel layer, which extends over the heterojunction structure between the gate electrode and the drain electrode, in electrical contact with the drain electrode and at a distance from the gate electrode, and forming an additional conductive path for charge carriers that flow between the source electrode and the drain electrode.
US12148822B2	Integrated circuit structure of group III nitride semiconductor, manufacturing method thereof, and use thereof The present disclosure provides an integrated circuit structure of a group III nitride semiconductor, a manufacturing method thereof, and use thereof. The integrated circuit structure is a complementary circuit of HEMT and HHMT based on the group III nitride semiconductor, and can realize the integration of HEMT and HHMT on the same substrate, and the HEMT and the HHMT respectively have a polarized junction with a vertical interface, the crystal orientations of the polarized junctions of the HEMT and the HHMT are different, the two-dimensional carrier gas forms a carrier channel in a direction parallel to the polarized junction, and corresponding channel carriers are almost depleted by burying the doped region.
US12148821B2	Semiconductor layer structure Apparatuses and methods relating to semiconductor layer structures are disclosed. A method for producing a semiconductor layer structure ay involve providing a Si substrate comprising a top surface, forming a first semiconductor layer on the substrate, the first semiconductor layer comprising a plurality of vertical nanowire structures, arranged perpendicularly to the top surface of the substrate, the first semiconductor layer comprising AlN, and epitaxially growing a second semiconductor layer which laterally and vertically encloses the plurality of vertical nanowire structures thereby encapsulating dislocations in shells around the nanowires, wherein the second semiconductor layer comprises AlxGa1-xN, wherein 0≤x≤0.95.
US12148815B2	Fin field effect transistor device structure A fin field effect transistor device structure includes a substrate, an isolation structure, a first fin structure, a fin top layer, a first oxide layer, and a first gate structure. The first fin structure is disposed in the substrate and includes a base portion, a top portion, and a joint portion. The base portion is surrounded by the isolation structure. The top portion is exposed from the isolation structure. The joint portion connects the top portion and the base portion. The fin top layer is disposed over the top portion of the first fin structure. The fin top layer and the top portion of the first fin structure are made of different materials. The first oxide layer covers the fin top layer, the first fin structure, and the isolation structure. The first gate structure is disposed over the first oxide layer.
US12148814B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes first to fourth semiconductor fins, a first gate structure, and a second gate structure. The first and second semiconductor fins are substantially aligned along a first direction. The third and fourth semiconductor fins are substantially aligned along the first direction. The third and fourth semiconductor fins have a conductivity type different from that of the first and second semiconductor fins. The first gate structure extends across the first and third semiconductor fins substantially along a second direction. The second gate structure extends across the second and fourth semiconductor fins substantially along the second direction. The first and fourth semiconductor fins are substantially aligned along a third direction crossing the first and second directions, and the third direction is substantially parallel with a <100> crystallographic direction.
US12148812B2	Nano-sheet-based devices having inner spacer structures or gate portions with variable dimensions A device includes a first channel layer over a semiconductor substrate, a second channel layer over the first channel layer, and a third channel layer over the second channel layer. The channel layers each connects a first and a second source/drain along a first direction. The device also includes a first gate portion between the first and second channel layers; a second gate portion between the second and third channel layers; a first inner spacer between the first and second channel layers and between the first gate portion and the first source/drain; and a second inner spacer between the second and third channel layers and between the second gate portion and the first source/drain. The first and second gate portions have substantially the same gate lengths along the first direction. The first inner spacer has a width along the first direction that is greater than the second inner spacer has.
US12148803B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes a first electrode, a second electrode, a semiconductor part located between the first electrode and the second electrode, a third electrode located in the semiconductor part, an insulating film located between the third electrode and the semiconductor part, an insulating member located in the semiconductor part at a position separated from the insulating film, a fourth electrode located in the insulating member, and a compressive stress member located in the fourth electrode. The compressive stress member has compressive stress along a first direction. The first direction is from the first electrode toward the second electrode.
US12148802B2	Vertical string driver with channel field management structure A driver circuit for a three-dimensional (3D) memory device has a field management structure electrically coupled to a gate conductor. The field management structure causes an electric field peak in a vertical channel of the 3D memory device when a voltage differential exists between the source conductor and the drain conductor and the gate conductor is not biased. The electrical field peak can adjust the electrical response of the driver circuit, enabling the circuit to have a higher breakdown threshold voltage and improved drive current. Thus, the driver circuit can enable a scalable vertical string driver that is above the memory array instead of under the memory array circuitry.
US12148799B2	Semiconductor device, method for manufacturing semiconductor device, inverter circuit, drive device, vehicle, and elevator A semiconductor device according to an embodiment includes: a silicon carbide layer; a silicon oxide layer; and a region disposed between the silicon carbide layer and the silicon oxide layer and having a nitrogen concentration equal to or more than 1×1021 cm−3. Nitrogen concentration distribution in the silicon carbide layer, the silicon oxide layer, and the region have a peak in the region, a nitrogen concentration at a position 1 nm away from the peak to the side of the silicon oxide layer is equal to or less than 1×1018 cm−3, and a carbon concentration at the position is equal to or less than 1×1018 cm−3.
US12148798B2	SiC semiconductor device An SiC semiconductor device includes an SiC semiconductor layer of a first conductivity type having a main surface, a source trench formed in the main surface and having a side wall and a bottom wall, a source electrode embedded in the source trench and having a side wall contact portion in contact with a region of the side wall of the source trench at an opening side of the source trench, a body region of a second conductivity type formed in a region of a surface layer portion of the main surface along the source trench, and a source region of the first conductivity type electrically connected to the side wall contact portion of the source electrode in a surface layer portion of the body region.
US12148797B2	Gate air spacer protection during source/drain via hole etching A semiconductor device includes a gate disposed over a substrate. A source/drain is disposed in the substrate. A conductive contact is disposed over the source/drain. An air spacer is disposed between the gate and the conductive contact. A first component is disposed over the gate. A second component is disposed over the air spacer. The second component is different from the first component.
US12148795B2	Increasing device density and reducing cross-talk spacer structures In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip including a first transistor and a second transistor arranged over a substrate. The first transistor includes first and second source/drain regions over the substrate and includes a first channel structure directly between the first and second source/drain regions. A first gate electrode is arranged over the first channel structure and is between first and second air spacer structures. The second transistor includes third and fourth source/drain regions over the substrate and includes a second channel structure directly between the third and fourth source/drain regions. A second gate electrode is arranged over the second channel structure and is between third and fourth air spacer structures. The integrated chip further includes a high-k dielectric spacer structure over a low-k dielectric fin structure between the first and second channel structures to separate the first and second gate electrodes.
US12148793B2	High voltage semiconductor device comprising a combined junction terminal protection structure with a ferroelectric material The present invention provides a high voltage semiconductor device comprising a combined junction terminal protection structure, the device comprises: an active area formed with the high voltage semiconductor device; a combined junction terminal protection structure having a RESURF (Reduced Surface Field) structure, the RESURF structure comprising a first biasing field plate electrically connecting to the active area and a ferroelectric material layer positioned below the first biasing field plate and in contact with the first biasing field plate. The high voltage semiconductor device structure may further assist in raising breakdown voltage (BV) of the device and meanwhile effectively reduce on-resistance (Ron) of the device compared with current junction terminal protection structure, and then miniaturization of the device structure may be fulfilled more easily. Further, the process may be performed easily because only common deposition and patterning processes of Hf-oxide ferroelectric layer should be added to current process.
US12148789B2	Stacks of electrically resistive materials and related systems and apparatuses Stacks of electrically resistive materials and related apparatuses, electrical systems, and methods are disclosed. An apparatus includes one or more resistor devices including a substrate, first and second electrically resistive materials, and an electrically insulating material between the first and second electrically resistive materials. The substrate includes a semiconductor material. A stepped trench is defined in the substrate by sidewalls and horizontal surfaces of the semiconductor material. The first electrically resistive material and the second electrically resistive material are within the stepped trench. A method of manufacturing a resistor device includes forming a stepped trench in the substrate, forming an etch stop material within the stepped trench, disposing an electrically resistive material within the stepped trench, disposing an electrically insulating material on the electrically resistive material, and repeating the disposing the electrically resistive material and the disposing the electrically insulating material operations a predetermined number of times.
US12148788B2	Display device and tiled display device including the same A display device includes: a first substrate including a first contact hole and a dam spaced from the first contact hole, a conductive line including a first portion in the first contact hole and a second portion on the dam, a second substrate on the first substrate and the conductive line, the second substrate including a second contact hole overlapping the dam in a thickness direction of the display device, a pad electrode on the second substrate and including a portion in the second contact hole, and a display layer on the second substrate and the pad electrode.
US12148787B2	Image sensor and electronic apparatus A first substrate having a plurality of photoelectric transducers formed on the first substrate, a second substrate having a pixel transistor for each of sets of two or more of the photoelectric transducers as a constituent unit, the pixel transistor being shared by the set and formed on the second substrate, and a second wiring which is connected to a first wiring formed on the second substrate via one contact, and is connected to a plurality of first elements, the first wiring leading to a second element shared by a plurality of first elements among a plurality of elements formed on the first substrate, each of the plurality of first elements being formed for each of the photoelectric transducers are included.
US12148784B2	Image sensor An image sensor including a variable resistance element is provided. The image sensor comprises first and second chips having first and second connecting structures; and a contact plug connecting the first and second chips. The first chip includes a photoelectric conversion element. The second chip includes a first variable resistance element. The contact plug extends from the first surface of the first semiconductor substrate to connect the first and second connecting structures.
US12148782B2	Composite BSI structure and method of manufacturing the same Various embodiments of the present application are directed towards image sensors including composite backside illuminated (CBSI) structures to enhance performance. In some embodiments, a first trench isolation structure extends into a backside of a substrate to a first depth and comprises a pair of first trench isolation segments. A photodetector is in the substrate, between and bordering the first trench isolation segments. A second trench isolation structure is between the first trench isolation segments and extends into the backside of the substrate to a second depth less than the first depth. The second trench isolation structure comprises a pair of second trench isolation segments. An absorption enhancement structure overlies the photodetector, between the second trench isolation segments, and is recessed into the backside of the semiconductor substrate. The absorption enhancement structure and the second trench isolation structure collectively define a CBSI structure.
US12148781B2	Image sensor device The present disclosure relates to a method of forming an integrated chip. The method includes forming a gate stack over a front surface of a substrate. A mask layer is formed over at least a portion of the gate stack and a portion of the front surface. A plurality of dopants are implanted into one or more regions of the substrate that are not covered by the mask layer to form one or more doped isolation features in the substrate. The one or more doped isolation features are formed to have a convex portion at least partially under the gate stack.
US12148777B2	Image sensor with spectral-filter-based crosstalk suppression A crosstalk-suppressing image sensor includes a semiconductor substrate, an opaque layer, and a spectral filter. The semiconductor substrate includes a photodiode therein and is located beneath a light-exposure region of a back surface of the semiconductor substrate. The opaque layer is on the back surface, partially covers the light-exposure region, and has an opaque-layer thickness perpendicular to an image-plane direction parallel to the back surface. The spectral filter is adjacent to the opaque layer in the image-plane direction, and partially covers the light-exposure region.
US12148772B2	Light detection device including an avalanche diode There are provided a light detection device and a photoelectric conversion system including the light detection device including an avalanche diode including a first semiconductor region of a first conductivity type disposed at a first depth, a second semiconductor region of a second conductivity type disposed at a second depth deeper than the first depth with respect to the first surface, a third semiconductor region that is disposed at a third depth deeper than the second depth with respect to the first surface and is in contact with the second semiconductor region, and first and second separation regions each extending from the first depth to the third depth. The second semiconductor region and the third semiconductor region each extend from the first separation region to the second separation region. The first semiconductor region, the second semiconductor region, and the third semiconductor region have portions overlapping one another in planar view.
US12148771B2	Photoelectric conversion apparatus and optical detection system An apparatus includes a layer that has a light incident surface and includes elements, and a wiring structure. Each of the elements includes a photodiode. The photodiode includes first and second regions of first and second conductivity types. A voltage is supplied to the second region through a second-conductivity-type region. The wiring structure includes a first wiring positioned closest to the layer among wirings to supply the voltage to the second-conductivity-type region, a plug connecting the first wiring and the second-conductivity-type region, and a second wiring supplying a voltage to the first region. The second wiring covers the first region when viewed in plan, and a distance between the second wiring and the layer is shorter than a distance between the first wiring and the layer.
US12148766B2	High-K dielectric materials comprising zirconium oxide utilized in display devices Embodiments of the disclosure generally provide methods of forming a capacitor layer or a gate insulating layer with high dielectric constant as well as low film current leakage and desired film qualities for display applications. In one embodiment, a thin film transistor structure includes a dielectric layer formed on a substrate, wherein the dielectric layer is a zirconium containing material comprising aluminum, and gate, source and drain electrodes formed on the substrate, wherein the gate, source and drain electrodes formed above or below the dielectric layer.
US12148765B2	Array substrate and display device An array substrate and display device are provided. The array substrate includes a base substrate, and gate lines, data lines, compensation blocks and sub-pixels located on the base substrate. Two gate lines are arranged between two adjacent rows of sub-pixels. The data lines are provided with multiple first extensions and second extensions arranged alternately. The extending direction of the first extensions intersects with the extending direction of the second extensions.
US12148761B2	Display device By applying an AC pulse to a gate of a transistor which easily deteriorates, a shift in threshold voltage of the transistor is suppressed. However, in a case where amorphous silicon is used for a semiconductor layer of a transistor, the occurrence of a shift in threshold voltage naturally becomes a problem for a transistor which constitutes a part of circuit that generates an AC pulse. A shift in threshold voltage of a transistor which easily deteriorates and a shift in threshold voltage of a turned-on transistor are suppressed by signal input to a gate electrode of the transistor which easily deteriorates through the turned-on transistor. In other words, a structure for applying an AC pulse to a gate electrode of a transistor which easily deteriorates through a transistor to a gate electrode of which a high potential (VDD) is applied, is included.
US12148756B2	Selective polysilicon growth for deep trench polysilicon isolation structure In some embodiments, the present disclosure relates to an integrated chip that includes a semiconductor device, a polysilicon isolation structure, and a first and second insulator liner. The semiconductor device is disposed on a frontside of a substrate. The polysilicon isolation structure continuously surrounds the semiconductor device and extends from the frontside of the substrate towards a backside of the substrate. The first insulator liner and second insulator liner respectively surround a first outermost sidewall and a second outermost sidewall of the polysilicon isolation structure. The substrate includes a monocrystalline facet arranged between the first and second insulator liners. A top of the monocrystalline facet is above bottommost surfaces of the polysilicon isolation structure, the first insulator liner, and the second insulator liner.
US12148754B2	Integrated circuit structure with hybrid cell design A method includes placing, in a layout, a plurality of first cells each having a first NFET fin number. The first cells are swapped with a plurality of second cells each having a second NFET fin number less than the first NFET fin number. After swapping the first cells with the second cells, a timing critical path in the layout is identified. Some of the second cells in the identified timing critical path are swapped with a plurality of third cells each having a third NFET fin number greater than the second NFET fin number. After swapping some of the second cells in the identified timing critical path with the third cells, an integrated circuit is fabricated based on the layout.
US12148747B2	Gallium nitride (GAN) three-dimensional integrated circuit technology Gallium nitride (GaN) three-dimensional integrated circuit technology is described. In an example, an integrated circuit structure includes a layer including gallium and nitrogen, a plurality of gate structures over the layer including gallium and nitrogen, a source region on a first side of the plurality of gate structures, a drain region on a second side of the plurality of gate structures, the second side opposite the first side, and a drain field plate above the drain region wherein the drain field plate is coupled to the source region. In another example, a semiconductor package includes a package substrate. A first integrated circuit (IC) die is coupled to the package substrate. The first IC die includes a GaN device layer and a Si-based CMOS layer.
US12148737B2	Semiconductor device An object of the present disclosure is to facilitate thermal design in a semiconductor device in which MOSFETs and SBDs are connected in antiparallel. The semiconductor device includes a MOSFET chip provided on a first pattern, whose drain electrode and source electrode are electrically connected to the first pattern and a second pattern, respectively, an SBD chip provided on a third pattern, whose cathode electrode and anode electrode are electrically connected to the third pattern and fourth pattern, respectively, a drain main terminal connected to the first pattern, a source main terminal connected to the second pattern, a cathode main terminal connected to the third pattern, and an anode main terminal connected to the fourth pattern. At least one of between the drain main terminal and the cathode main terminal and between the source main terminal and the anode main terminal is not electrically connected.
US12148733B2	Shift control method in manufacture of semiconductor device A shift control method in manufacture of semiconductor device includes at least the following step. A plurality of semiconductor dies is encapsulated with an insulating encapsulation over a carrier, where at least portions of the plurality of semiconductor dies are shifted after encapsulating. A lithographic pattern is formed at least on the plurality of semiconductor die, where forming the lithographic pattern includes compensating for a shift in a position of the portions of the plurality of semiconductor dies.
US12148725B2	Bonding structures and methods for forming the same A bonding structure is provided, including a first substrate; a second substrate disposed opposite the first substrate; a first bonding layer disposed on the first substrate; a second bonding layer disposed on the second substrate and opposite the first bonding layer; and a silver feature disposed between the first bonding layer and the second bonding layer. The silver feature includes a silver nano-twinned structure including parallel twin boundaries. The silver nano-twinned structure includes 90% or more [111] crystal orientation. A method for forming a bonding structure is also provided. Each of steps of forming a first silver feature and second silver feature includes sputtering or evaporation coating. Negative bias ion bombardment is applied to the first silver feature and second silver feature during sputtering or evaporation.
US12148720B2	Detection substrate and manufacturing method thereof, flat panel detector and manufacturing method thereof A detection substrate and manufacturing method thereof, a flat panel detector and manufacturing method thereof. The detection substrate includes: a substrate including a detection region, a binding region, a controllable on-off region, and a cutting region; a plurality of detection units including transistors and photosensitive devices located in the detection region, a transistor includes a gate, a first electrode and a second electrode; a photosensitive device is connected to the first or second electrode; a plurality of conductive wires, one end is connected to the gate, and the other end is extended to the binding region; a conductive ring disposed in the cutting region; a plurality of detection wires, one end is connected to the conductive ring, the other end is connected to the conductive wires, the detection wires are passed through the controllable on-off region; the detection wires located in the controllable on-off region can have a disconnected state.
US12148717B2	Through wafer trench isolation between transistors in an integrated circuit In described examples of an integrated circuit (IC) there is a substrate of semiconductor material having a first region with a first transistor formed therein and a second region with a second transistor formed therein. An isolation trench extends through the substrate and separates the first region of the substrate from the second region of the substrate. An interconnect region having layers of dielectric is disposed on a top surface of the substrate. A dielectric polymer is disposed in the isolation trench and in a layer over the backside surface of the substrate. An edge of the polymer layer is separated from the perimeter edge of the substrate by a space.
US12148714B2	Three-dimensional memory devices and methods for forming the same Three-dimensional (3D) memory devices and methods for forming the same are disclosed. In certain aspects, a 3D memory device includes a stack structure containing a core region and a staircase region, a channel structure extending through the stack structure in the core region, and a first support structure extending through the stack structure in the staircase region. The first support structure includes a first portion extending along a first direction and a second portion protruding from the first portion along a second direction perpendicular to the first direction.
US12148706B2	Substrate loss reduction for semiconductor devices Various embodiments of the present disclosure are directed towards an integrated circuit (IC) chip comprising a semiconductor device that is inverted and that overlies a dielectric region inset into a top of a semiconductor substrate. An interconnect structure overlies the semiconductor substrate and the dielectric region and further comprises an intermetal dielectric (IMD) layer. The IMD layer is bonded to the top of the semiconductor substrate and accommodates a pad. A semiconductor layer overlies the interconnect structure, and the semiconductor device is in the semiconductor layer, between the semiconductor layer and the interconnect structure. The semiconductor device comprises a first source/drain electrode overlying the dielectric region and further overlying and electrically coupled to the pad. The dielectric region reduces substrate capacitance to decrease substrate power loss and may, for example, be a cavity or a dielectric layer. A contact extends through the semiconductor layer to the pad.
US12148704B2	Electrical interconnect bridge Electrical interconnect bridge technology is disclosed. An electrical interconnect bridge can include a bridge substrate formed of a mold compound material. The electrical interconnect bridge can also include a plurality of routing layers within the bridge substrate, each routing layer having a plurality of fine line and space (FLS) traces. In addition, the electrical interconnect bridge can include a via extending through the substrate and electrically coupling at least one of the FLS traces in one of the routing layers to at least one of the FLS traces in another of the routing layers.
US12148696B2	Methods for reducing dual damascene distortion An integrated circuit structure includes a first low-k dielectric layer having a first k value, and a second low-k dielectric layer having a second k value lower than the first k value. The second low-k dielectric layer is overlying the first low-k dielectric layer. A dual damascene structure includes a via with a portion in the first low-k dielectric layer, and a metal line over and joined to the via. The metal line includes a portion in the second low-k dielectric layer.
US12148694B2	Semiconductor device with patterned ground shielding Semiconductor devices and methods of formation are provided herein. A semiconductor device includes a first inductor, a patterned ground shielding (PGS) proximate the first inductor comprising one or more portions and a first switch configured to couple a first portion of the PGS to a second portion of the PGS. The semiconductor device also has a configuration including a first inductor on a first side of the PGS, a second inductor on a second side of the PGS and a first switch configured to couple a first portion of the PGS to a second portion of the PGS. Selective coupling of portions of the PGS by activating or deactivating switches alters the behavior of the first inductor, or the behavior and interaction between the first inductor and the second inductor. A mechanism is thus provided for selectively configuring a PGS to control inductive or other properties of a circuit.
US12148692B2	Semiconductor package and manufacturing method thereof A semiconductor package and a manufacturing method thereof are provided. A package substrate of a device includes a functional circuit structure in a central region of the package substrate and a seal ring structure in a peripheral region of the package substrate and electrically isolated from the functional circuit structure. The seal ring structure includes a via pattern including outer discrete features arranged in an outer loop and inner discrete features arranged in an inner loop between the outer loop and the functional circuit structure. In a top view, ends of adjacent two of the inner discrete features are spaced apart from each other by a non-zero distance, and one of the outer discrete features overlaps the non-zero distance.
US12148689B2	Semiconductor device with interconnectors of different density The present application discloses a semiconductor device. The semiconductor device includes a package structure including a first side and a second side opposite to the first side; an interposer structure positioned over the first side of the package structure; a first die positioned over the interposer structure; a second die positioned over the interposer structure; and a plurality of middle interconnectors positioned between the first side of the package structure and the first die and between the first side of the package structure and the second die. The plurality of middle interconnectors topographically aligned with the first die include a first density. The plurality of middle interconnectors topographically aligned with the second die include a second density different from the first density.
US12148683B2	Semiconductor device A semiconductor device includes: a first transistor provided with an electron transit layer made of a nitride semiconductor, a first gate electrode, a first source electrode, and a first drain electrode; and a second transistor that includes a second gate electrode, a second source electrode, and a second drain electrode. The first gate electrode and the second drain electrode are electrically connected to each other, while the first source electrode and the second source electrode are not electrically connected to each other.
US12148681B2	Fan-out package structure and method for manufacturing the same The present invention provides a fan-out package structure and a method for manufacturing the same. The fan-out package structure includes at least one chip and at least one redistribution layer on a functional surface side of the chip, and the redistribution layer includes a dielectric layer and a metal wiring layer distributed within the dielectric layer. The fan-out package structure further includes at least one dummy wafer on the redistribution layer, and the dummy wafer is insulated from the chip and in contact with the metal wiring layer. By providing the dummy wafer on the redistribution layer and configuring the dummy wafer to connect to the metal wiring layer, the dummy wafer can not only function to support the structure and suppress the warpage, but also form a continuous heat dissipation channel, thereby improving thermal management capability of the fan-out package structure.
US12148679B2	Semiconductor device including an exposed solderable element A semiconductor device, a semiconductor package, and a method of manufacturing the same are provided. The semiconductor device includes an electronic component, a first thermal conductive layer, a second thermal conductive layer, and a solderable element. The first thermal conductive layer is disposed adjacent to a surface of the electronic component. The second thermal conductive layer is disposed on the first thermal conductive layer and exposes a portion of the first thermal conductive layer. The solderable element is disposed on the second thermal conductive layer.
US12148677B2	Semiconductor device and method of forming ultra high density embedded semiconductor die package A semiconductor device has a plurality of semiconductor die. A first prefabricated insulating film is disposed over the semiconductor die. A conductive layer is formed over the first prefabricated insulating film. An interconnect structure is formed over the semiconductor die and first prefabricated insulating film. The first prefabricated insulating film is laminated over the semiconductor die. The first prefabricated insulating film includes glass cloth, glass fiber, or glass fillers. The semiconductor die is embedded within the first prefabricated insulating film with the first prefabricated insulating film covering first and side surfaces of the semiconductor die. The interconnect structure is formed over a second surface of the semiconductor die opposite the first surface. A portion of the first prefabricated insulating film is removed after disposing the first prefabricated insulating film over the semiconductor die. A second prefabricated insulating film is disposed over the first prefabricated insulating film.
US12148670B2	Method for manufacturing fin field effect transistor The present application discloses a method for manufacturing fin field effect transistors, comprising: step 1: performing first time etching to form top portions of fins, each of the top portions is divided into a first section and a second section; step 2: forming sacrificial sidewalls on the side surfaces of the second section but not on the side surfaces of the first section; step 3: forming a doped dielectric layer to coat the side surfaces of the first section; step 4: performing a dopant drive process to diffuse dopants of the doped dielectric layer into the first section; step 5: removing the doped dielectric layer and the sacrificial sidewalls; step 6: performing second time etching to form bottom portions of the fins; and step 7: forming a dielectric isolation layer between adjacent fins.
US12148669B2	Semiconductor device with S/D bottom isolation and methods of forming the same Semiconductor device and the manufacturing method thereof are disclosed. An exemplary semiconductor device comprises first semiconductor stack over a substrate, wherein the first semiconductor stack includes first semiconductor layers separated from each other and stacked up along a direction substantially perpendicular to a top surface of the substrate; second semiconductor stack over the substrate, wherein the second semiconductor stack includes second semiconductor layers separated from each other and stacked up along the direction substantially perpendicular to the top surface of the substrate; inner spacers between edge portions of the first semiconductor layers and between edge portions of the second semiconductor layers; and a bulk source/drain (S/D) feature between the first semiconductor stack and the second semiconductor stack, wherein the bulk S/D feature is separated from the substrate by a first air gap, and the bulk S/D feature is separated from the inner spacers by second air gaps.
US12148664B2	Semiconductor device and method having a through substrate via and an interconnect structure An embodiment is a method including forming a first interconnect structure over a first substrate, the first interconnect structure comprising dielectric layers and metallization patterns therein, patterning the first interconnect structure to form a first opening, coating the first opening with a barrier layer, etching a second opening through the barrier layer and the exposed portion of the first substrate, depositing a liner in the first opening and the second opening, filling the first opening and the second opening with a conductive material, and thinning the first substrate to expose a portion of the conductive material in the second opening, the conductive material extending through the first interconnect structure and the first substrate forming a through substrate via.
US12148662B2	Semiconductor element, semiconductor element group, and method of manufacturing semiconductor element A semiconductor element separated from an original substrate includes: an element substrate; and an element constitution part formed on the element substrate, wherein a pattern indicating a position of the semiconductor element before separating the semiconductor element from the original substrate is formed on at least one of the element substrate and the element constitution part.
US12148658B2	Method for manufacturing an electronic device The present disclosure discloses a method for manufacturing an electronic device, including: setting a basic working area; a photoresist coating process; a development process; an etching process; an exposure process; a metal plating process; and a polishing process, wherein the photoresist coating process, the development process, the etching process, the exposure process, the metal plating process and the polishing process respectively have a maximum optimized process area, and a smallest one of the maximum optimized process areas is selected as the basic working area.
US12148657B2	Semiconductor structure and method for forming the same A semiconductor interconnect structure includes a conductive line electrically coupled to an active semiconductor device, a first etch stop layer formed over the conductive line, a first dielectric layer formed over the first etch stop layer, a second etch stop layer formed over the first dielectric layer, a second dielectric layer formed over the second etch stop layer, and an interconnect structure electrically coupled to the via and extending through the first etch stop layer, the first dielectric layer, the second etch stop layer, and the second dielectric layer. The interconnect structure includes a via extending through the first etch stop layer, the second etch stop layer, and the first dielectric layer and a trench extending through the second dielectric layer.
US12148653B2	Method of manufacturing semiconductor devices In accordance with an aspect of the present disclosure, in a pattern forming method for a semiconductor device, a first opening is formed in an underlying layer disposed over a substrate. The first opening is expanded in a first axis by directional etching to form a first groove in the underlying layer. A resist pattern is formed over the underlying layer. The resist pattern includes a second opening only partially overlapping the first groove. The underlying layer is patterned by using the resist pattern as an etching mask to form a second groove.
US12148639B2	Correcting target locations for temperature in semiconductor applications Methods and systems for determining information for a specimen are provided. One system includes an output acquisition subsystem configured to generate output for a specimen at one or more target locations on the specimen and one or more temperature sensors configured to measure one or more temperatures within the system. The system also includes a deep learning model configured for predicting error in at least one of the one or more target locations based on at least one of the one or more measured temperatures input to the deep learning model by the computer subsystem. The computer subsystem is configured for determining a corrected target location for the at least one of the one or more target locations by applying the predicted error to the at least one of the one or more target locations.
US12148638B2	Abnormality detection system An abnormality detection system includes a waveform acquisition unit configured to acquire waveform data that changes over time; an abnormality degree calculation unit, and an abnormality determination unit. The abnormality degree calculation unit is configured to calculate an abnormality degree based on a cumulative value obtained by accumulating absolute values of differences in data values for each unit time from the waveform data acquired by the waveform acquisition unit. The abnormality determination unit is configured to determine whether the waveform data is normal or abnormal based on the abnormality degree calculated by the abnormality degree calculation unit.
US12148635B2	Cleave systems having spring members for cleaving a semiconductor structure and methods for cleaving such structures Cleave systems for cleaving a semiconductor structure are disclosed. The cleave systems may include a cleave arm that is moveable from a starting position to a raised position in which a cleave stress is applied to the semiconductor structure. Spring members store energy as the cleave arm is raised with the stored spring energy causing the structure to cleave into two pieces upon initiation of the cleave across the structure.
US12148632B2	Substrate processing apparatus and cleaning method of mist guard A substrate processing apparatus includes a holder configured to hold a substrate; a driving unit configured to rotate the holder; an inner cup body provided in the holder to surround the substrate held by the holder; a mist guard, surrounding the holder and the inner cup body, configured to be moved up and down; a cleaning liquid supply configured to supply a cleaning liquid; and a controller. The controller is configured to perform: supplying a processing liquid to the substrate from a processing liquid supply, in a state that the substrate is held by the holder and the mist guard is raised; and dispersing, after the supplying of the processing liquid, the cleaning liquid supplied from the cleaning liquid supply to an entire inner peripheral surface of the mist guard, in a state that the substrate is carried out from the holder and the mist guard is raised.
US12148631B2	Semiconductor module, method for manufacturing semiconductor module, and level different jig A method for manufacturing a fin-integrated semiconductor module includes: clamping a fin-integrated heat-dissipation base using a level different jig while making the heat-dissipation base vary in height; and soldering a semiconductor assembly onto the heat-dissipation base. A semiconductor module includes a fin-integrated heat-dissipation base and a semiconductor assembly provided on the heat-dissipation base. A bending width of the heat-dissipation base is 200 μm or less.
US12148628B2	Semiconductor device and corresponding method A leadframe includes a die pad and a set of electrically conductive leads. A semiconductor die, having a front surface and a back surface opposed to the front surface, is arranged on the die pad with the front surface facing away from the die pad. The semiconductor die is electrically coupled to the electrically conductive leads. A package molding material is molded over the semiconductor die arranged on the die pad. A stress absorbing material contained within a cavity delimited by a peripheral wall on the front surface of the semiconductor die is positioned intermediate at least one selected portion of the front surface of the semiconductor die and the package molding material.
US12148623B2	Deposition of tungsten on molybdenum templates Provided herein are low resistance metallization stack structures for logic and memory applications and related methods of fabrication. The methods involve forming bulk conductive films on thin low resistivity transition metal layers that have large grain size. The bulk conductive films follow the grains of the low resistivity transition metal films, resulting in large grain size. Also provided are devices including template layers and bulk films.
US12148619B2	Manufacturing method for semiconductor structure, and semiconductor structure A manufacturing method for a semiconductor structure includes: a substrate is provided, the substrate including a first region and a second region; a dielectric layer is formed on the substrate; a first diffusion film layer having a first metal oxide layer is formed on the dielectric layer; the first diffusion film layer corresponding to the second region is removed; a second diffusion film layer is formed on the dielectric layer corresponding to the second region, the second diffusion film layer including a second metal oxide layer interfacing with the dielectric layer; and an annealing treatment is performed to diffuse a first metal element in the first metal oxide layer into the dielectric layer corresponding to the first region and diffuse a second metal element in the second metal oxide layer into the dielectric layer corresponding to the second region.

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